Intro Quiz

Rules:

- Type your answers in the 'Comments' section
- Mention your name, your roll no and your division

Question 1:

Identify this famous atheist:




Question 2:

Identify the entity (think Bollywood)




Question 3:

Print Ad for what?






Question 4:

Originally a talisman against evil, this symbol was used in the courts of Vikramaditya and Akbar. Now it is also used to classify specific Public Sector Undertakings. What?

Question 5:

This crystalline form of Aluminium Oxide is 9.0 on the Mohs scale. It is used largely as an abrasive. Name this rock forming mineral which gets its name from a word in Tamil.

Question 6:

Used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics, this word has its origins in the French military and was used to refer to a small troop of highly skilled soldiers that would explore terrain ahead of a large advancing army and plot the course for the army to follow. What hyphenated word is this?


Question 7:

Published as an international standard ISO 2108 in 1970, it used to be 10 digits before 1st January 2007 and 13 digits since then. In the 10-digit version, the last digit must range from 0 to 10 (the symbol X is used instead of 10). In the 13-digit version, the last digit must range from 0 to 9. In both cases the last digit is a "check" digit. What is this describing?


Question 8:

He has translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Clandestine in Chile into Bengali, is said to be able to quote from memory 500 songs of Tagore, lives in a two-bedroom flat in south Kolkata with his librarian wife and daughter, doesn't have a cellphone, and is addicted to cigarettes. He is usually clad in white dhoti and kurta. Who?