Quiz Finals

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Round One

Question One

• Richard Daly, a proprietor of a Dublin theatre, in 1782,

made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours,

introduce a nonsense word into language that the whole

city would know about, and the people themselves would

supply a meaning for it.

• The original meaning, supposedly supplied by the public,

referred to a yo-yo like toy, which was popular in those

days.

But by the 19th century, the meaning of this word

changed completely to what we know today.

Which word?

• Quiz

Question Two

• This is a coding scheme used by which critically

acclaimed organisation, the largest of it’s kind in

the world?

• Mumbai Dabbawalas

Question Three

• The initial days of Delhi Sultanate witnessed water shortage as

the population of Mehrauli was mushrooming. Sultan Shams-ud-

din Iltutmish of the Slave Dynasty wanted to build a water

reservoir for the city. Legend has it, in 1230 AD, Iltutmish dreamt

of the Islamic Prophet, ridding a winged-horse, instructing the

Sultan to dig a water tank at the spot he had appeared in.

• Next morning, Iltutmish went to inspect the area and found hoof

prints of the Prophet's horse engraved at that same location.

Around that, he constructed a domed platform and excavated the

tank and it appeared as a God send answer to the water problems

that was surviving in that region for years.

• Name the tank.

• Hauz-i-shamsi

Question Four

• It is a game popular in India and Pakistan. Sachin

Tendulkar loved playing it and its governing body

is headquartered in Gorakhpur. This game has a

league called the 'Tennis Cricket League' in the

U.S.A.

• Which game?

• Hint: Read the question properly.

• Tennis Ball Cricket

Question Five

• A Beretta M1934, with serial number 606824 was

used for the first time to fire 3 shots at X. Give me

X.

• Mr. M.K. Gandhi

Question Six

• X is a Hindu sub-caste found in Gujarat. The people

belonging to X migrated from Rajasthan to Gujarat,

settling down at Dhaneti before spreading to other parts

• Also called Kadias, they were artisans employed in

architecture and building of forts, before they diversified

into other fields like carpentry, and bridge-building.

• Another community that immigrated to India, got into

similar vocations and adopted X as their surname, with a

slightly different spelling. Identify X

• Mistry / Mistri

Round Two

Question One

• Dan Povenmire was an artistic prodigy who grew up in

Alabama, and was often found doing nothing. Once, his

mother told him to "never waste a day of summer". To

occupy himself, he started taking up projects like movie-

making and digging.

Jeff Marsh, another student in his college, contacted

Povenmire after seeing his comic strip, and soon the two

started working together.

• Once, while having dinner in Pasadena, California,

Povenmire drew a sketch of a "triangle boy" on tissue

paper. What did this sketch lead to?

Question Two

• Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd. is the only

manufacturer of inedible ink in India which is used

in the elections.

• During 2014 General Elections if they sent the

maximum ink bottles to Uttar Pradesh then where

did they send the minimum number of bottles?

• Lakshadweep

Question Three

• Which word comes from Latin word maening

'Robbed in White" as in Ancient Rome speakers

were required to wear white togas and robes?

• Candidate

Question Four

• Simply Identify.

• M Satyavathy

Question Five

• Shown here is a customs

form filled by three people

in March 1969, because

they were temporarily

leaving the borders of the

United States for a

duration of twelve days

that year, with equipment

worth billions of dollars.

Identify any one of them.

• Neil Armstrong / Edwin Aldrin / Michael Collins

Question Six

• During the time of the British Raj, the children of

British officers studied in Indian schools build by

the Englishmen. With the lack of quality books

available by Indian authors on the subject, X and Y

wrote this book and published it in 1935.

• This book was widely adapted by Indian and

Pakistani schools in the post-British era, and by

missionary schools in Burma, and still is the gold-

standard for that subject.

Give me X and Y or name the book

Round ThreeOnly on pounce

+10/-10

Question One• Connect

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• Justice League

• Flash

• Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman

• Superman

• Batman

• Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern

Question Two

• This man was the chief structural engineer of the

Eiffel Tower, and was the managing director of

“Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel”, Gustave

Eiffel’s company. He was a civil engineer by

practice, and he revolutionised the French railway

system before working on the Eiffel Tower.

• One of his descendants, his great-great-grand

daughter has recently found fame in a completely

unrelated field. Name the descendant.

• Kalki Koechlin.

The man was Maurice Koechlin

Question Three

• Thomas Adams was an American who was

experimenting with the sap from a South

American tree, as an alternative to rubber. While

extracting it, some of it fell into his mouth, which

fascinated him.

He went back to New York in 1870, and made a

significant (although sometimes incredibly

irritating) contribution to the world. What did he

invent?

• Chewing Gum

Question Four

• X is an Indian cricketer and was primarily a right-handed batsman.

He holds the world record for the highest-ever score by a player

on his first-class debut.

• He also holds the record for the most runs scored in the Ranji

Trophy, India's premier domestic first-class cricketcompetition,

breaking the record held by Amarjit Kaypee. However, despite his

success at domestic level, he was never selected for the Indian

national team.

• Another known fact about him is that he was the one next to bat

when Tendulkar and Kambli were batting in a record partnership.

• Identify X.

• Amol Muzumdar

Question Five

• A person who is too big for his suffering-"big

shotism" is called X.

• X was Akbar's brother-in-law and was constantly

trying to upstage Birbal in his court but always

falling on his face, thus, the term.

• X?

• Phanne Khan

Question Six

• The current market value of this immensely popular

product is only due to an incredible marketing campaign

by De Beers, an American company, in 1938.

It has only been able to keep the price high by carefully

controlling the supply and demand, but the product is

otherwise fairly abundant.

• It's price prior to the De Beers campaign used to be a

hundredth of the current price, despite the fact that the

only known source of this product till 1870s was India.

• HINT: The marketing campaign was "A X is forever"

• Diamond

Round Four

Question One

X is a replica of Y of Sarnath, near Varanasi, Uttar

Pradesh. It is symbolic of contemporary India's

reaffirmation of its ancient commitment to world

peace and goodwill. The motto inscribed below X in

Devanagri script means, 'Truth alone Triumphs'.

• The National Emblem

Question Two

• X is a term used to refer to South Asian Americans

born in the United States, in contrast to those who were

born overseas and later settled in the USA.

• X has become a polarizing factor in the South Asian

diaspora in the US, with first-generation immigrant

parents and young South Asians of second or latter

generations. Though the term was originally coined in

reference to Indian-Americans, it has been adopted by

the South Asian community at large

• Identify X

• ABCD, or American-Born Confused Desi

Question Three• Sunil X Mittal founded the X Group. In 1983, Mittal was in an

agreement with Germany's Siemens to manufacture push-

button telephone models for the Indian market. In 1986,

Mittal incorporated X Telecom Limited, and his company

became the first in India to offer push-button telephones,

establishing the basis of X Enterprises

• By the early 1990s, Sunil Mittal had also launched the

country's first fax machines and its first cordless telephones.

X entered into a joint-venture with SoftBank Inc. of Japan to

become one of the largest cellular operators in India, in the

1990s.

Identify X or name the cellular operator

• Bharti / Bharti Airtel

Question Four

• Neeraj Arora is the vice

president of business and

development at X, and almost

entirely responsible for the

explosive growth of X around

the world.

His career started off with

Google, but he left after some

time to join X, which was a

startup at that time.

Identify X

• Whatsapp

Question Five

• Soviet War in Afghanistan lasted for 9 years from

December 1979 to February 1989. However, in

month of February in 1988 ceasefire was

declared by both the sides. Why?

• Death of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Question Six• The ship was built under the name Hercules for the British Royal Navy

during World War II, but construction was put on hold after the war's end,

and she never entered British service. India purchased the incomplete

carrier from the United Kingdom in 1957, and construction was completed

in 1961. After years of distinguished service, she was decommissioned in

January 1997.

• From 1997 to 2012, she was preserved as a museum ship in Cuffe Parade,

Mumbai, until it was closed in 2012 due to safety concerns. At the end of

January 2014, she was sold through an online auction to a Darukhana ship-

breaker, where she underwent preparations to be broken up. Although a

PIL was filed and heard by the Supreme Court of India challenging its sale

and scrapping, on 14 August 2014, the Supreme Court rejected the PIL and

cleared the way for the warship to be scrapped.

• Which ship?

• INS Vikrant, India's first Aircraft Carrier.

Question Seven

• This song, and a couple of others irritated quite a

lot of people around the world in 2014.

• Either identify the band, or give the reason for the

sudden hatred for the immensely popular band.

• U2

They released an album in collaboration with

Apple called "Songs of Innocence" which was

delivered to all Apple devices automatically,

making users feel that their privacy was

breached.

Question Eight

• This is an electric guitar cover version of the

theme of an extremely popular TV show. The

theme was composed by David Arnold and

Michael Price.

Identify the TV show.

• Sherlock

Question Nine

• This song shot to top of the iTunes chart, the

Rolling Stones magazine, and practically every

other music billboard within a week of release.

Identify the singer. Name the album for brownie

points.

• Taylor Swift

Question Ten

• Identify the singer

• Daler Mehndi

TIE BREAKERS

• Asteroid 2004 BL86 was discovered in 2004 by

the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

(LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico. In

2015, the asteroid missed Earth quite closely as it

passed within 3.1 times the distance between the

Earth and the moon.

• What was the unusual characteristic about this

asteroid, that only 16% of asteroids larger than

655 ft possess?

• It has it’s own moon

• Fairlife is a new milk brand advertises itself as "cold-

filtered" milk with less sugar and fat and more protein

and calcium than its competitors. It is also ‘lactose-

free’, and claim to be an ultra-healthy variety of milk.

• Fairlife has honed its pitch as a healthy, natural dairy

product. Its marketing sheet contains phrases like

"We grow our own crops," "We fill our own trucks,"

and it describes its cows as “spoiled."

• Fairlife is a brand by which company?