Monday, March 23, 2009

Our First Step:Hostel-7

Then we started our journey of quizzing and our first step was ‘Inter Hostel Quiz’.
NIST ISTE Students’ Chapter introduces…
NIST QUIZZARDS…the community of quiz fanatics of the college
Aiming to create general knowledge awareness in the campus, it will hold you in good stead for the competitive future lying ahead .It will make sure that you remain well aware of happenings around. It will encourage participation in quizzing events throughout the country.
The inaugural event is the ‘INTER-HOSTEL QUIZ’ for which the preliminaries will be held in all the hostels as per the given schedule.

1.Hostel-7 on March 01,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
2.Hostel-3 & 5 on March 02,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
3.Hostel-4 on March 03,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
4.Hostel-1C,Mermaid & 2 on March 08,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
5.Hostel- Sagar on March 08,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
6.Hostel-1 on March 15,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM

We set our foot in Hostel 7.The response was tremendous and very heart soothing.

Questions of the preliminary round as follows:
1. Who was the guest at the republic day celebrations this year?
Ans:
Nicholas Sarkozy
2. What is the name of the world’s cheapest car.
Ans:Tata Nano

3. Name the venue for 2010 football world cup?
Ans: Republic of South Africa

4. Who won the Formula one championship last year?
Ans: Kimi Raikkonan

5. Who is known as the "Payolli express"?
Ans: P.T. Usha

6. What is the name of David Beckham's present football club?
Ans:
LA Galaxy
7. Whose tagline is "High Performance. Delivered."?
Ans: Accenture

8. Who owns the "Virgin" group of companies?
Ans: Richard Branson

9. Who is the governor of Orissa?
Ans: M.C. Bhandare

10. The lead character in the novel 'Da Vinci Code' and "angels and demon"?
Ans: Robert Langdon

11. Which is the all time international best seller in the world?
Ans: Bible

12. From which country is Linus Torvalds ,writer of the Linux kernel?
Ans: Finland

13. Which city is known as 'The Windy City'?
Ans: Chicago

14. What is the name of the cell phone that was launched by Apple Inc. not so long back?
Ans: Apple I Phone

15. Which eminent pop performer is also called "Slim Shady"?
Ans: Eminem

16. Which Indian sports legend's autobiography is titled 'Goal'?
Ans:
Dhyan Chand
17. Which state advertises itself as 'God's Own Country'?
Ans: Kerala

18. Aditya Birla Group is currently chaired by which person?
Ans: Kumar Mangalam Birla

19. Who invented the elevator?
Ans: Elisha Otis

20. Which Muslim ruler raided india 17 times between 1000 and 1026 AD?
Ans: Muhammad Ghazni

21.Who was the 'Man of the series ' in the recently concluded Twenty20 world cup?
Ans: Shahid Afridi

22.Who was the first indian to become Miss World?
Ans: Rita Faria

23. Who is the supreme commander of the armed forces of India?
Ans: The President of India

24.Napolean was defeated in which famous battle?
Ans:
Battle of Waterloo
25.In which year did the the ship titanic sink on her maiden voyage?
Ans: 1912 AD

The Preliminary was conducted successfully and was a great experience and inspiration for our team to move ahead.

Till then Keep Quizzing!!
Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt+919861683855

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