Word Origin
TV Shivi
Kuch Kuch Hota hai
General Trivia
Pehchan kaun?
100
This is a word coined by Milton Sirota, nine year old nephew of mathematician Edward Kessner. It is used to describe a number equal to 1 followed by hundred zeroes.
Googol
Do you know:
When you do a Google query, 1000 computers are used to find the answer in 0.2 seconds.
100
Identify all characters and the TV series:
CID
ACP Pradyuman
Inspector Daya
Senior Inspector Abhijeet
100
Identify the movie:
KKHH
100
Identify the movie:
UP
100
Aloo, kanda
200
The Rath yatra at Puri, Orissa has led to the creation of an English word, which means, 'any large, overpowering, destructive force or object.' What word, and from what exactly has it been coined?
Juggernaut, from Jagannath
Devotees are said to have thrown themselves to be crushed under the wheels of Rath, hence the word.
200
Song translation:
Oh your dot, oh oh oh, your dot
Lover, the dot will take away your sleep
Oh oh oh, your dot
stuck on your head, like moon and stars
Teri bindiya re, re aay haay, teri bindiya re
Sajan bindiya le legi teri nindiya
Re aay haay, teri bindiya re
Tere maathe lage hain yu, jaise chanda taara
200
France’s longest land border is in X.
Brazil
No, it’s not that we’re bad at geography, but perhaps there’s a bit of a catch with this fun fact about the world. Brazil and France share a 673-kilometre border thanks to French Guiana – something you probably didn’t know about these countries!
200
What does Hakuna Matata means?
No worries
200
Which character becomes a wanted fugitive during the final season of The Office?
Creed
300
If progenitor means 'an ancestor or a forefather', what is the word for the earliest ancestor?
It is derived from the Latin word for first + genitor (begetter)
Primogenitor
Latin for first is primo
300
Identify:
Captain Vyom
300
X and Y produce over 40% of all wine in the world.
Italy and France
300
Identify countries, which have Hindi as an official language.
India and Fiji
UAE identifies Hindi as minority language.
300
The country of X does not have a capital city
Nauru
400
What is singular for the word 'Opera'?
Opus
FYI, the diminutive form of Opus is Opuscule. It's what we call a minor novel or symphony. A great work is, yes, a magnum opus.
400
Leave my lapel, era will say what all
your manners are making the era crazy
Chod do aanchal zamaana kya kahega
in aadaon ka zamana bhi hai deewana
400
Identify X.
The world is full of strange laws that may surprise you if you’ve never heard of them before. Did you know that cheating on an exam in X is punishable by imprisonment?
Bangladesh
400
How many countries are completely surrounded by other country?
Name them
3
Vatican City (Italy)
San Marino (Italy)
Lesotho (South Africa)
400
The happiest language in the world is X - containing the largest number of positive words
Spanish
500
Spell it right or no marks:
This word comes from the Tamil word paraiyan, meaning drummer, considered to be lower in the caste system in India.
Pariah. Noun, meaning 'an outcast'.
500
Identify marvel character:
Rogue
200 Marks for telling her powers.
500
Although most of the country has only one capital, but there are some countries with more capitals.
Which country has highest number of capitals? Name them.
South Africa
Capital: Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein
500
The national flag with the most colors in it is X (1981), with 12 colors.
Belize
500
Idemtify the movie
The Lunchbox
600
X means 'a low-paying, non-challenging job with few benefits or opportunities, typically in the service sector.' Coined by Douglas Coupland in his 1991 novel ' Generation X' after a famous food chain.
McJob
600
Who wrote the screenplay of Rocky?
Sylvester Stallone
600
do you know how many countries Russia borders?
Name them
No less than 16 states. Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Japan, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, the United States, Mongolia and North Korea.
600
The X Calendar, also called “Ge’ez,” is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar.
A year in the X calendar is 13 months long, with 12 months of 30 days each. The last month has 5 days in a common year and 6 days during leap year.
Ethiopian
600
X is the only country in the world to straddle all four hemispheres.
Kiribati
700
Athanaeum (ath-us-NEE-yum) or atheneum, is noun derived from the Greek word Athenaion (a temple for Athena, the goddess of wisdom.)
Athanaeum is actually a lesser known synonym of a common everyday word. What word?
Library
FYI: It is also used to refer to a literary or knowledge based clubs.
700
Complete lyrics and identify X:
X ki kahaani, ye maana hai poorani
ye poorani hookar bhi, lagti hai badi soohani
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Chandrakanta
Naugadh Vijaygadh me thi takrar, naugadh ka tha ek rajkumar
Chandrakanta se karta tha pyar, Chandrakanta se karta tha pyar
700
Which country is known as Rainbow Nation?
South Africa
The term was intended to encapsulate the unity of multi-culturalism and the coming-together of people of many different nations, in a country once identified with the strict division of white and black under the Apartheid regime.
700
Disney Trivia:
Who said: “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it”?
Rafiki
700
Pind vich ______ kardi hundi si
Ni tu sheher aa ke _____ kardi rehndi eh
babe babe
baby baby
800
Before J.K. Rowling, there were muggles, although in a very different sense. For which of these terms was "muggle" in use in the 20th century?
A. Magical Wand
B. Sweetheart
C. Marijuana Joint
D. Milk and Sugar Drink
a 'marijuana-joint'
800
Identify:
HIMYM, Carl, bartender at McLarens.
800
Identify the movie:
“Koi pyaar kare to tumse kare, tum jaise ho waise kare. Koi tumko badal kar pyaar kare to woh pyaar nahin, sauda hai”
Bobby
800
Identify the movie:
“It is so simple to be happy ... but it is so difficult to be simple”
Bawarchi
800
Complete the lyrics:
Saya.. jab se mila tera saya
Bhaya.. mujhe har baar tu bhaya
Laya.. sapne hazaar tu laya
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Aise aise haan aise aise aise jaise
Aaya.. jabse hai yaar tu aaya
Chhaya.. ban ke hai pyaar tu chhaya