Weekly Quiz #4 !

The penultimate quiz of the decade is here ! Put on your thinking caps and indulge in this week’s set of The Quizzington Post !

Questions :

1. Since the list began, every serving president of the United States has been a X at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge (in office at time of the first issue), Herbert Hoover (the subsequent U.S. president), and Gerald Ford. Most were named X either the year they were elected or while they were in office; the only one to be named X before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election. He subsequently received the title again in 1959, while in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only person to have named X three times, first as president-elect (1932) and later as the incumbent president (1934 and 1941). Identify X.
2. The Scaptia _ _ _ _ _ _ _ae, a rare species of horse fly found in Queensland, Australia, was named after the American singer X. Scientist Bryan Lessard said it was “the unique dense golden hairs on the fly’s abdomen that led me to name this fly in honour of the performer”. Given below is the image of the horse fly described above. Identify X, the personality after whom the horse fly has been named.

3. Which celebrity’s twitter profile has been shown below, who has been in the news recently for some reasons? (the bio speaks more about the person 😉)

4. In science fiction circles, “X” is a genre that often features countercultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanizing high-tech future. Its roots extend back to the technical fiction of the 1940s and ’50s, but it was years before it matured. The word X was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, who wrote a story with that title in 1980. He created the term used to refer to the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones, and “Y,” the raucous music and nihilistic sensibility that became a youth culture in the 1970s and ’80s. Identify X and Y.

5. Shown below are the derived logos of which organization?

6. The below picture illustrates the difference between which two entities?

7. On 18 March 1965, the gentleman whose picture has been shown below performed a highly risky task. It took him 12 minutes to create history. In the process, he was overheated by 1.8° C and the discomfort made him forget to activate his chest-mounted camera. ID the person, and what did he do?

8. In 1872, the former governor of California, Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, hired Muybridge for some photographic studies. He had taken a position on a popularly debated question of the day — whether all four feet of a horse were off the ground at the same time while trotting. The same question had arisen about the actions of horses during a gallop. What did Edward Muybridge do to prove his stance?

9. “My absence in Delhi has been discussed rather too much. I don’t mean to disrespect any institution. When I came back from England , there was a medical emergency in my family ; certain things I want to keep private” , X informed a large gathering at Vigyan Bhawan. “But just to let you know , my elder brother Ajit had to undergo a bypass surgery and I had to be by his side”, X added. X is talking about his poor attendance in the Y , sometime during 2014. ID X and Y.

10. When X told Y about the campaign, Y’s concern was for those who weren’t comfortable with a ‘chemical compound’ Z present in an item. Y suggested the company X to send these items that did not involve Z to those who followed a particular religion, as well as one person (kept anonymous) who he knew to be recovering of Z addiction. ID X, Y and the funda - ( P.S : Current Affairs!)

ANSWERS :

1. ‘TIME’ Person of the Year

2. X- Beyonce Knowles. Scaptia Beyonceae.

3. Tom Cruise

4. X- Cyberpunk, Y- Punk

5. Hydra

6. Disk and Disc

7. He is Alexei Leonov and he performed the first ever spacewalk.

8. He took the famous photograph, ‘The Horse in Motion’

9. X- Sachin Tendulkar ; Y- Rajya Sabha

10. X- Budweiser ; Y- Messi ; Budweiser’s campaign of sending (alcoholic and non-alcoholic ) beers to all the goalkeepers who Messi scored against to commemorate scoring the most goals for a club in football history. (644)