The Excel X General Quiz

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Total prize money worth Rs 6000 to be won !!

Why is it that the buttons appear always on the right side of a shirt? Did you know that Lakme gets its name from Lakshmi,a character in an Indian play??Did you ever wonder why the Statue of Liberty is Green??

Do you pay attention to detail?Is Wikipedia your Online Bible?Does trivia provide the adrenaline rush??

Then we, The Illuminati, the Official Quiz Club of MEC invite you for the ultimate battle of wits and intellect.

The Quiz will be General in nature.
There will be a written preliminary round and from this the top 4 teams make it to the On-stage Finals.
Prelims will consist of 30 questions, including audio-visual questions.
Tie Breakers will be employed in the event of a tie-both in the Prelims and The Finals.
Plenty of Audience Prizes to be won!!

1.A team can have 2 members. Cross college teams are allowed.
2.Any number of teams can attend per college.
3.Participants must be pursuing a full degree course.
4.Any team found to be using unfair means to gain any sort of upperhand during the prelims/finals will be immediately disqualified.
5.The Quizmaster's word is final and binding in all matters pertaining to the Quiz.

Nidhun Thankachan
Ph:+91-9995139105
email: nidhunthankachan@gmail.com

Gomathy A
Ph:+91-9995524152
email: gomathy.aiyer@gmail.com

Shawn Varghese Rajan
Ph:+91-9995405991
email: shawnrajan7@gmail.com

1.His initial inclusion into the cabinet, was an accident, having gone to witness the swearing in of ministers at Rashtrapathi Bhavan, when the number to be sworn in was found inauspicious, the spectator X was added on to make it auspicious.
He was known as '#2' next to Indira Gandhi. After her assassination, controversy followed when X was not made PM. This was followed by a 6 year long hiatus.Was selected as the Best Finance Minister of the World in 1984
WHO?

2.On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at a Government Complex in Washington D.C noticed tape covering the locks on several doors in the complex. He took the tape off, and thought nothing of it. An hour later, he discovered that someone had retaped the locks. He called the police and five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) office.The five men were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis. The five were charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications. On September 15, a grand jury indicted them and two other men (E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy) for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws”. What major event was this the prelude to???

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