Maximus Indiucs Quiz -Mixed Bag-II

Pretty good response for this Quiz. The Answers and scores are as follows.

1) If your wedding ceremony is Anand Karaj, and the laava phere are the hymns sung during your marriage, to which community would you belong to?

SIKH COMMUNITY

2) In August 1836, two real estate promoters, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, were seeking a location where they could found a " great city for commerce". They found the ideal location near the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou, and named the city after the man in the picture, whom they admired and idolized, especially after his exploits in the Battle of Jacinto. Name the person in the pic, and the city. ( 2 points)

THE PERSON IN THE PIC IS SAM HOUSTON, AND IT WAS CITY OF HOUSTON

3) Identify the woman in the picture , and which famous institution was founded by her( 2 Points).

RUKMINI DEVI ARUNDALE AND SHE FOUNDED THE KALAKSHETRA

4) Name the ship shown in the painting. A famous Hollywood movie has been made around it.

THE SHIP WAS THE AMISTAD, ON WHICH SPIELBERG MADE THE MOVIE.

5) Born in New Zealand to a farmer, he graduated from Canterbury College and did his post graduation from Cambridge. While investigating radiocativity he coined the terms Alpha and Beta to identify the type of radiation. From 1900 to 1903 he conducted research at Mc.Gill university in Montreal along with Frederick Soddy, on the transmutation of elements. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, for his discovery of structure of atom. Element No 104 is named in his honor. Name this famous scientist.

ERNST RUTHERFORD

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Connect the 2 images above.( A very simple one).

THE TITLE ALL THE KINGS MEN IS TAKEN FROM A LINE IN HUMPTY DUMPTY.

7) This company was started in 1876 by John.M.________ and Isaac _________. In 1881 Moses ________ and his wife Endel begin to start sewing shirts and selling them to local coal miners in Pennsylvania. It later becomes a succesful business in NYC, and the first ever shirt ad is placed in the Saturday Evening Post. Izod, Arrow, Speedo, Calvin Klein are some of the more famous brands owned by it. In 2008 it will start to manufacture men's apparel under the name Timberland.

PHILIPS VAN HEUSEN

8) This comic character was created by Jean De Brunhoff in 1931, based on a story told by his wife Cecile, which she made up for her kids. His associates are a monkey called Zephir, his old elephant counsellors Cornelius and Pompadour and his children Pom, Flora and Alexander. Which one?
BABAR THE ELEPHANT

9) It is reported that this multi billionaire does not own a cell phone or computer, and drives his own car. When he purchased a private jet, he jokingly called it "The Indefensible", as he was against any kind of extravagant living. At the age of 13 he filed his first Income Tax return. Turned down at Harvard, he joined Columbia and was mentored by Benjamin Graham. He remains an avid bridge player and in 2006 he auctioned his 2001 model Lincoln Town Car on E-Bay.
WARREN BUFFET

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Identify the organization to which the flag belongs. Its name in Arabic means "Party of God".

HEZBOLLAH


Scores

Thirusai-9
Ramakarthy-5
Anand Sivakumar-8
Hussain-1
Srinivasan- 2
John Kong-10
Shrinidhi-1
Sriram Shankar-11
Anand Shankar-5
Swarun-4
Kuldeep-12
Ashish- 5
Aishwarya-11
Pradeep-7
Cintom Kasyap-9
Arun Thulasi-5
Rekha-10