Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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Cricket Quiz 1

This is the first edition of Cricket Quiz. Only Men's Cricket has been reffered to here.

Questions

1. In which year the International Cricket Council was founded ?
2. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in Test Cricket ?
3. Who holds the record for highest individual score in the World Cup ?
4. Who was the first player to be declared out by the third umpire in an international match ?
5. Sunil Gavaskar has taken only one wicket in Test Cricket. Who was his victim ?
6. Which player was known as Black Bradman ?
7. Which player scored century in his debut match, debut match as capain and the final match in Test Cricket ?
8. Who is the only player to have hit 6 sixes in an over in ODI ?
9. 'Straight from the Heart' is the autobiography of which Cricketer ?
10. Which company sponsored the first three world cup trophies ?
11. Who was the Player of the Tournament in 1999 World Cup ?
12. Which is the largest Cricket stadium in the world ?
13. Which Cricketer was called Big Cat ?
14. Which was the first country to win by 10 wickets in a One-day match ?
15. Which English king banned Cricket in 1365 ?
16. Who is the only player to have won 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs ?
17. Which country holds the record for highest team total in both Test and ODI Cricket ?
18. Who scored the fastest double hundred in Test Cricket ?
19. Which umpire is known for his 'slow death' style of indicating a batsman is out ?
20. Which stadium hosted the first international Day-Night match ?

Answers

1. 1909
2. S R Spolforth
3. Gary Kirsten, 188* v/s UAE, 1996
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan
6. George Headley
7. Greg Chappel
8. Herschelle Gibbs, v/s Netherlands
9. Kapildev
10. Prudential Insurance
11. Lance Klusner, South Africa
12. Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia
13. Clive Lloyd
14. India, in 1975 v/s East Africa
15. Edward III
16. Sourav Ganguly
17. Sri Lanka
18. Adam Gilchrist
19. Rudi Koertzen, South Africa
20. Sydney Cricket Ground

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Music Quiz 1

1. Who is considered the father of Orchestra ?
   
2. Which music band has won the most number of Grammy awards till date ?


3. Who was the first Indian musician to do a symphony ?


4. Who composed the ballet Swans in the Lake ?


5. Who edited the book The Pelican History of Music ?


6. Which musical instrument was invented by Italian Bartolommeo Christofori ?


7. Which musician scored for the film Chariots of Fire to win an Oscar ?


8. Who are known as the trinity of Carnatic Music ?


9. Singer Harry Rodger Webb became popular in what name ?


10. Bouzouki is a string instrument from where ?


11. The song "Horst-Wessel-Lied" was the anthem of which infamous political party ?


12. Which instrument is known as the King of Orchestra ?


13. The word Music was formed from the Greek for Muses' Art. Who are the Muses ?


14. Whom did Ringo Starr replace to join the Beatles ?


15. Which jazz trumpeter was called the 'Prince of Darkness' ?


16. Which Beethoven symphony was a tribute to Nepoleon Bonaparte ?


17. Graceland was the home of which Rock N Roll legend ?


18. Which Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government during apartheid ?


19. Who composed the background score of the Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali ?


20. The Salzburg Music Festival commommorates which music legend ?

Answers

1. Joseph Haydn
2. U2
3. Ilaiyaraja
4. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens
6. Piano
7. Vangelis
8. Thyagaraja Swamikal, Mutthuswami Dikshithar and Shyama Shastrikal
9. Cliff Richard
10. Greece
11. Nazi Party
12. Violin
13. Muses are the 9 sons of Greek god Zeus
14. Pete Best
15. Miles Davis
16. Eroica
17. Elvis Presley
18. Another Brick in the Wall
19. Pandit Ravishankar
20. Wolfgang Mozart

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Wildlife Quiz 1

1. What is the colour of Hippoppotamus sweat ?
2. The extinct bird Dodo had lived in which country ?
3. What is Ornithology a study of ?
4. What type of creature is a Bombay Duck ?
5. Which is the first National Park in the world ?
6. Which are the two egg laying mammals ?
7. Which is the only animal with chlorophyll ?
8. Which is the smallest flightless bird ?
9. Name the only kind of apes found in India.
10. In which country the bird Kiwi is found ?
11. In which class of deers both male and female have horns ?
12. Which is the largest fish in the world ?
13. Which Indian National Park is famous for One Horned Rhinos ?
14. Which type of Turtles have the longest lifespan ?
15. Where are the headquarters of World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) ?
16. What is the meaning of the word Dinausur ?
17. Expand IUCN.
18. Which is the largest carnivore living on the land ?
19. Which bird can fly backwards ?
20. What is the scientific name of Peacock ?

Answers

1. Red
2. Mauritius
3. Birds
4. Fish
5. Yellowstone National Park, Canada
6. Platypus and Echidna
7. Euglena
8. Island Rail
9. Gibbon
10. New Zealand
11. Reindeer
12. Whale Shark
13. Kaziranga National Park, Asom
14. Galapagos Turtles
15. Gland in Switzerland
16. Giant Lizard
17. International Union for Conservation of Nature
18. Polar Bear
19. Bee Humming Bird
20. Pavo Christatus

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History Quiz 1

1. Who is called the Father of History ?
2. Who is the first Pharao king to be reffered in Bible ?
3. Twelve Tables was the first book on the law system of which empire ?
4. Which British Prime Minister presented the Act of Union in Parliament in 1800 that recommanded a common parliament for Britain and Ireland ?
5. In what name the aids of Garibaldi, who led the Italian unification in 1800s, were known as ?
6. Who named Greenland, the largest island in the world ?
7. Who led the drafting of the Declaration of American Independence ?
8. Which peace treaty ended the First World War ?
9. The Pacific War during 1879-84 was fought between which Latinamerican countries ?
10. Who was the first Secretary General of United Nations ?
11. Which fascist leader used to be called El Cadillo ?
12. After which liberator is Bolivia named ?
13. Which dynasty was overthrown in the Chinese revolution in 1912
14. Who was the only British king who never talked English ?
15. Which nation was formed on 14 May, 1948 ?
16. Whose followers are called Rastafarians ?
17. Who is known as the founder of Modern Turkey ?
18. Whose assassination by Gavrilo Princip triggered the First World War ?
19. Who was the first Republican president of USA ?
20. The Battle of Waterloo was what determined the fall of Napoleon. Where is Waterloo ?

Answers

1. Herodotus
2. Necko
3. Roman empire
4. William Pitt
5. Red Shirts
6. Erik the Red
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Versailes Treaty
9. Chile and Bolivia
10. Trigvey Li of Norway
11. General Franco of Spain
12. Simon Bolivar
13. Manchu dynasty
14. King George I
15. Israel
16. Haile Selassie, former Ethiopian ruler
17. Mustafa Kamal Pasha Attaturk
18. Duke Ferdinand of Serbia
19. Abraham Lincoln
20. Belgium

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Literature Quiz 1

1. 'Frailty, thy name is woman.' in which Shakespeare play do these words appear ?
2. Who was the first African writer to win a Literature Nobel ?
3. How do we better know Charles Dodgson ?
4. Who was the first winner of Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary honor ?
5. Who was the author of The Godfather ?
6. 'Call me Ishmael', which classic novel begins with this line ?
7. Which famous poet wrote the preface to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali ?
8. What is the other name of Geethagovindam by Jayadeva ?
9. Sir Nigel and The White Company are the lesser known romance novels by which author ?
10. Who is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar Award ?
11. What is the real name of the character who people know as the 'hunchback of Notre Dame' ?
12. Who created the character Lolita ?
13. Lago is the antagonist of which famous literary work ?
14. On whose novel of the same title is the Oscar winning film The English Patient based ?
15. Which literature Nobel laureate was once the Mexican ambassador to India ?
16. Which famous novel ends with the line 'After all, tomorrow is another day' ?
17. Whose autobiography is titled The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian ?
18. Which author played a village girl in the film Massey Saahib ?
19. Which Soviet author had to reject the Nobel prize in 1958 due to the government pressure ?
20. The Hugo Award for detective fiction is named after whom ?

Answers

1. Hamlet
2. Wole Soyinka
3. Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland
4. G Shankarakkurup, Malayalam poet
5. Mario Puzo
6. Mobydick by Herman Melville
7. WB Yeats
8. Ashtapadi
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. George Bernard Shaw
11. Quasimodo
12. Vladimir Nabokov
13. Othello
14. Michael Ondaatje
15. Octavio Paz
16. Gone With the Wind
17. Nirad C Chaudhari
18. Arundhati Roy
19. Boris Pasternak
20. Hugo Gernsbach

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Business Quiz 1

1. Which company was founded by Hans Wildorf ?
2. In business regard, what is LUP ?
3. The Aura brand of mobile phones are from which company ?
4. Whose tagline reads as 'Life Well Shared' ?
5. Who is the author of the book Inside Intel ?
6. Which was the first commercial symbol to be featured at Madame Tussaud's ?
7. Fill with a famous liquor brand. Facundo da _______?
8. Jubilant Food Works is the Indian franchisee of which food chain ?
9. Which Bollywood actor owns Monarch Group ?
10. Which daily used word was coined by Deepak Mohani ?
11. Simple Filler Pen Company is the former name of which penmaker ?
12. Where is Tata Archives is located ?
13. The Nissan GTR is nicknamed what ?
14. Which was the first public company to be listed on Bombay Stock Exchange ?
15. Who founded the firm Corbis in 1989 ?
16. Which is the largest search engine in China
17. The Smartest Guys in the Room is a book on which firm ?
18. Sanjiv Bikchandani is the CEO of which job search website ?
19. Which famous logo was designed by Charles Sykes ?
20. Which term means 'free of care' in Latin ?

Answers

1. Rolex
2. Low Unit Packaging
3. Motorola
4. Readers' Digest
5. Tim Jackson
6. Singapore Girl of Singapore Airlines
7. Bacardi
8. Domino's
9. Mithun Chakraborthy
10. Sensex
11. Mont Blanc
12. Pune
13. Godzilla
14. HPCL (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd)
15. Bill Gates
16. Baidu
17. Enron
18. Naukri.com
19. Spirits of Ecstasy
20. Security

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Film Quiz 1

1. Which was the first colour movie to win a Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Which Hollywood actress became the queen of Monaco later after her marriage to King Rainier ?
3. Which production company was founded in 1919 by David Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford ?
4. Which great Tamil actor was known as Nadigar Tilakam ?
5. Who adapted the classic novel Dr. Zhivago into film ?
6. Whose autobiography is titled Magic Lantern ?
7. Who has won the maximum number of Oscar awards ?
8. Which film directed by Akira Kurasowa was an adaptation of Shakespearean play King Lear ?
9. Bloodstone is the only Hollywood film of which Indian superstar ?
10. The Orsen Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane was allegedly based on the life of which media tycoon ?
11. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando recieve his first Academy Award ?
12. Who was the first person to be awarded the Phalke Award, the highest film honour in India ?
13. The Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire was based on the book by which Indian diplomat ?
14. Who directed the film Cinema Paradiso ?
15. Who is considered as the father of Documentary films ?
16. The recent Hollywood film Dam 999 has been inspired by which disaster ?
17. Which Football legend appeared in the film Hot Shot ?
18. Which was the first Indian cinemascope film ?
19. Which renowned Italian director made the movie Blow Up ?
20. Which was the first X-rated movie to win Oscar ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind
2. Grace Kelly
3. United Artists
4. Sivaji Ganesan
5. David Leen
6. Ingmer Bergman
7. Walt Disney, 26 times
8. Ran
9. Rajnikanth
10. William Randolph Hearst
11. On the Waterfront
12. Devika Rani
13. Vikas Swarup
14. Giuseppe Tornatore
15. Robert Flaharty
16. Banqiao dam disaster
17. Pele
18. Kaagaz Ke Phool
19. Michaelangelo Antonioni
20. Midnight Cowboy, 1969

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Technology Quiz

1. What is the expansion of SMTP ?
2. Who developed the Linux operating system while being a University student ?
3. Which wireless data transfer technology is named after a 10th century Viking King ?
4. Which company produces the BlackBerry model phones ?
5. In 2010, which country became the first in world to make access to broadband service a basic right ?
6. What does the word 'Wiki' mean in Hawaiian ?
7. Which social networking website was founded by Ramu Yalamanchi in 2003 ?
8. Where was the first Cyber Court in India was insituted ?
9. Who is considered as the father of Nanotechnology ?
10. Which science fiction auther wrote the three laws of robotics ?
11. What is the word used for 4 bits ?
12. Which day is observed as the World Computer Literacy Day ?
13. Who called internet 'Information Super Highway ?
14. Which e-mail service was founded by Sabir Bhatia ?
15. Who wrote the book Computer Liberation and Dream Machine ?
16. Which computer company was founded by Stan Shih in Taiwan ?
17. Ego is the range of laptops from which firm ?
18. Who is the founder of Scribd.com ?
19. Expand CDMA ?
20. Which author used the word Robot for the first time ?

Answers

1. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2. Linus Torvalds
3. Bluetooth, after Harald Bluetooth
4. RIM(Research In Motion)
5. Finland
6. Quick
7. Hi5
8. New Delhi
9. Richard Feynman
10. Isaac Asimov
11. Nibble
12. December 2
13. Al Gore, former US Vice President
14. Hotmail
15. Ted Nelson
16. Acer
17. Wipro
18. Trip Adler
19. Code Division Multiple Access
20. Karel Capek

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Places Quiz

1. Which is the largest island among the Lakshadweep Islands ?
2. In which country do you find the Cave of Letters ?
3. What does the word Sahara, as in the name of world's largest desert, mean in the native language ?
4. Which is the largest fresh water lake in the world ?
5. Which country was earlier called Upper Volta ?
6. Which is the largest mountain peak outside Asia ?
7. Which strait separates Africa and Europe ?
8. Horse Shoe Falls and American Falls are the two parts of which famous water falls ?
9. In which city is the famous Copacabana beach ?
10. Which famous canal was opened for passage on 15 August, 1914 ?
11. Which country's capital is Caracas ?
12. Which country has the lengthiest sea coast in the world ?
    
13. Which country is named after the Earth equator ?
14. Which is the most populous island in the world ?
15. Rapa Nui is the native name of which island ?
16. On the banks of which river, most number of capital cities are situated ?
17. Which European country is called the land of thousand lakes ?
18. Who wrote the book 'The Origin of Continents and Oceans' ?
19. In which country do you find Ayer's rock, world's largest monolith ?
20. On which mountain the faces of four American presidents are carved ?

Answers

1. Aanthroth
2. Israel
3. Desert!
4. Lake Superior
5. Burkinafaso
6. Mt. Aconcagia
7. Strait of Gibraltar
8. Niagra Falls
9. Rio de Janeiro
10. Panama Canal
11. Venezuela
12. Canada
13. Ecuador
14. Java
15. Easter Island
16. Danube
17. Finland
18. Alfred Wegner
19. Australia
20. Mount Rushmour

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Sports Quiz 1

1. In which sport, the referee is called President ?
2. Which is the national game of Scotland ?
3. Which sport is known as King of Sports ?
4. Who was the first Indian woman to win a gold at Asian Games ?
5. Which country hosted the first Football World Cup ?
6. Who was the first Cricketer to win Arjuna Award ?
7. In which Olympics, 26 world records were broken in Swimming ?
8. Who was the first person to complete a Tennis Grandslam ?
9. Which two nations competed in the first ever International Handball match ?
10. How many times India have won gold in Olympic Hockey ?
11. Which martial art was earlier called Ji-jitsu ?
12. In 1988 who became the first boxer to have won world championships in five different weight categories ?
13. Which was the first Asian country to hold a F1 Grand Prix ?
14. Which footballer's autobiography was titled '1966 and All That' ?
15. The Sam McGuire Trophy is awarded in which sport ?

Answers

1. Fencing
2. Rugby
3. Horse Racing
4. Kamaljith Sandhu
5. Uruguay
6. Salim Durani
7. Montreal, 1976
8. Donald Budge, 1938
9. Germany and Belgium, 1925
10. 8 times
11. Judo
12. Sugar Ray Leonard
13. Japan
14. Geoff Hurst
15. Gaelic Football

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India Quiz 1

This is the first of the India Quiz series. Some general knowledge questions and answers on India are given here.

1. Who was the first foreigner to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour ?
2. In which space vehicle did Rakesh Sharma go to space ?
3. Who was the first Indian to cross the English Channel ?
4. What is the southernmost point of India called ?
5. Which is the only Indian state to have English as its official language ?
6. In which year the Indian constitution was amended for the first time ?
7. What is the strait that separates India and Sri Lanka called ?
8. Who was the first Governor General in India ?
9. Where is India's only volcano situated
10. What was the other name of Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper published from India ?
11. Who has been called Indian Machiavelli ?
12. For which film did Pandit Ravisankar compose music for the first time ?
13. What is the headquarters of Life Insurance Corporation of India is called ?
14. Which is the largest Mosque in India ?
15. Who was the first Indian musician to compose a symphony ?
16. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a Cricket world cup
17. Which writer's real name was Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava ?
18. In which year the Kendra Sahitya Academy was instituted ?
19. Who was the founder of Swaraj Party ?
20. Where was the first medical college in India started ?

Answers

1. Khan Abdul Jaffer Khan
2. Soyuz T-11
3. Mihir Sen
4. Indira Point
5. Nagaland
6. 1951
7. Palk strait
8. Warren Hastings
9. Barron Island
10. Calcutta General Advertiser
11. Chanakya
12. Anuradha
13. Yogakshema Bhavan
14. Jama Masjid, Delhi
15. Ilaiyaraja
16. Chetan Sharma
17. Munshi Premchand
18. 1954
19. Mothilal Nehru
20. Kolkata

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