BEST OF MAHAQUIZZER 2007:

Mahaquizzer 2007 was one of the quizzes in 2007 i wish i had attended.Conducted by Professor Arul Mani,it is one of the most looked for annual quizzes in the kqa calendar.Recently i stumbled upon the quetions on the net.Here are some of the best ones.

1)___ ___ is a term coined by Desmond Tutu to describe post -1994 South Africa when apartheid rule officially ended after South Africa's first fully -democratic election. The phrase was elaborated upon by President Nelson Mandela in his first month of office, when he proclaimed: "Each of us is as intimately attached t o the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous trees of Pretoria and the trees of the bushveld . a ___ ____ at peace with itself and the world."Give the term.

2)Which trophy, still in use and nicknamed .The Holy Grail. , is the only one in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, m anagement, and club staff engraved upon it? Each winning player and team management member gets to take it home for a day to share with family and friends , thus being used as a baptismal font once.

3)This town in Belgium once attracted visitors anxious about their health from all over Europe. Its name is now a noun in English. The town is also famous for its association with an F1 circuit which used to host the Belgian Grand Prix. Identify town.

4)The European system (which is followed in Ind ia too) of labelling what item uses a degree scale from H (for .hardness.) to F (for .fine point. ) to B (for .blackness.)?

5)Islam holds that the end of the world will be caused by a terrible earthquake. The Arabic term for this climactic event is the title of the 99 th Sura in the Koran. This term is also the title of a cheesy Bollywood flick from 1988, directed by Harish Shah, and starring Dharmendra, Karan Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Kimi Katkar, Vijayeta Pandit and Rati Agnihotri. What is the term?

6)Whats the missing element in this otherwise exhaustive list of African countries that have something in common: The Gambia, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Democra tic Republic of the Congo and Zambia?

7)Federico Borrell Garcia died at the age of 24 on 5 September 1936 at the Cordoba front near Cerro Muriano. How has this been immortalised?

8)What four-letter word connects a feminist publishing house from India, a river in the Himalayas, the abbreviation u sed for Potassium in homeopathy, a river in Karnataka, the asteroid that menaces Earth in Arthur C. Clarke.s Hammer of God, the character played by Christine Anu in Matrix Reloaded and a painting by Tyeb Mehta that made headlines in 2005?

9)He shares pride of place with the serpent -god Gucumatz in the Quiche Indian narrative Popal Vuh. Often referred to as the .Heart of Heaven., he vented the anger of the gods upon the first humans by causing a deluge and a thick resino us rain that destroyed them utterly. Identify this deity whose name is familiar to us for other reasons.

10)From which spoken language have the fol lowing words entered English: bagel, chutzpah, klutz, maven, schmuck and shtick?

11)The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World is the title of a book by Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs, published in 2004. It recounts his attempt at something which has been done by very few people. The earliest recor ded instance was by Fath Ali, the Shah of Persia in 1797. What did A. J. Jacobs do?

12)Special mobile units of doctors sent out to remote places in China are commonly known as .______ Teams. in honour of which personality?

13) He was one of the nominees for the .Best Beard of th e Year. in 2006. The award was eventually won by Monty Panesar. He had earlier made his fortune by launching an adult site called BOMIS in 1996. The money earned thus helped him set up his pet project. That project is a household name tod ay. Who are we talking about/what is this project?

14)The velocity of light, represented by .c., is 299,792,458 meters per second. A mnemonic used to remember this is .A Way We Remember What Constant Is Light's Velocity.. How does one arrive at the sequence using the mnemonic?

15)Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a ._______ Muscle. in medical circles because the muscle is more pronounced than normal. Fill in the blank.

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