2003

  1. Hirak Fall '03
  2. Sid Quiz 1

 

Quiz by Hirak Parikh

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  1. What started as an indirect consequence of Dev Anand’s refusal to accept a particular role since there were no songs for the hero in 1973?

    Amitabh Bacchan was given the lead role in Sholay. The rest is history.

  2. He traveled from ___ to ___, exclaimed, "Be joyful! We win!' and dropped dead. Fill in the first blank
    Hint: Boston??

    Marathon to Athens. The runner was Phiddipides who ran to inform the Greeks of their victory. The Boston Marathon is the oldest extant Marathon.

  3. What originated when typhoons swept down Kublai Khan’s invading armada in Kyushu (1274) and Fukuoka (1281)?

    Kamikaze or Divine Wind. The word was borrowed as name for used for the Japansese suicide planes in WW II.

  4. What did the Times of London use first on October 3, 1923?

    Times New Roman

  5. King George's visited India during the Winter of 1911. One consequence was building of the Gateway of India in Bombay. What a more significant consequence in Calcutta?

    Rabindranath Tagore composed Jana Gana Mana in his honour. Interesting how a such a song was later adopted as the National Anthem of India, considering it original composition.

  6. What is this?

    The HIV virus

  7. What is this?

    The Ten Commandments. Read from right to left since it is in Hebrew

  8. Connect the following cities
    Hikone, Japan;
    Tuebingen, Germany;
    Juilagapa, Nicaragua;
    Belize City, Belize;
    Dakar, Senegal;
    Peterborough, Canada.

    Sister cities of Ann Arbor. You see this list when entering Ann Arbor from any major highway.

  9. What so unique about the state of Michigan and Lake Ontario.
    Hint: HOMES ??

    The only Great Lake that the State of Michigan does not border with.

  10. XXX (born 1959), of Bay City, Michigan, is a singer, dancer and actress
    Attended the UM school of Dance before dropping out to continue her music career.
    Identify XXX?

    Madonna.

  11. Birthday: X was 5 on September 7, 2003
    Nicknamed by parents as BackRub
    So far this year X has been mostly X except for the following descending order
    Hitchcock, Independence, M C Escher, father, mother, Watson & Crick, Earth, Einstein. Michaelangelo, Earth, China, and Martin Luther King

    Google. Parents were of course Larry Page and Sergey Brin

  12. Supposed you received a letter from X and it sealed with a with a representation of St. Peter in a boat, fishing, and the name of the X around it.
    You know who X is cause he can afford a gold ring to seal his letter with. Who is X?
    Hint: Polish?

    Pope John Paul II. The ring is the famous Fisherman's Ring.

  13. What is this?

    Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace, before the invasion.

  14. X was born in Kenya, and grew up in Southall, London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, directed several award winning documentaries for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Channel Four. In 1990, Set up her own production company: Umbi Films
    Married to American Japanese Paul Mayeda

    Gurinder Chhadha of Bend it Like Beckham fame.

  15. By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. Regarding the circumstances of my studies at Carnegie (now Carnegie Mellon U.), I was lucky to be there on a full scholarship, called the George Westinghouse Scholarship. But after one semester as a chem. eng. student I reacted negatively to the regimentation of courses such as mechanical drawing and shifted to chemistry instead

    Mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash