GK Quiz - July 2014- Medal Round -QnA

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July Medal Round, 2014

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Gokul Panigrahi | Pune DC Quiz Club

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• Written Solo Quiz

• Please write down your Employee ID and Name on top of your sheet.

• Run Custom Slideshow Questions for questions only. • Continue reading for Questions followed by Answers.



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• Id the element with the highest melting point? In liquid form is so hot, if you dropped it into a lava flow, the lava would freeze it.



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1A

• Tungsten



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2.

• Connect the images to something that may revolutionize the food industry.


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2.1



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2A. Soylent • Soylent is a food substitute intended to supply all of a

human body's daily nutritional needs, made from powdered starch, rice protein, olive oil, and raw chemical powders.[1][2]

• Designed by software engineer Rob Rhinehart as a way to get all the nutrients needed by the body without the time, money, and effort that usually goes into preparing food.[3]

• Lacking background in chemistry or nutrition, Rhinehart developed the formula by reading web sites, textbooks, and papers in scientific journals, and by self-experimentation.[4][5] He named it after a fictional food from the novel Make Room! Make Room![6]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_protein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_vitamin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_vitamin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food_substitute)





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!


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3.

• Elon Musk said “Ford is killing SEX”. Why?



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3A

• Elon Musk led car company Tesla has model S and X. And they can't name their next model E as Ford will sue them if they do so as they have the same name for their car model.



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4.

• We recommend a good swish after grabbing a bite of Italian,” X tweeted during the Italy-Uruguay World Cup match. Id X



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4A.

• Listerine promoting proper oral hygiene while biting Italians.



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• Identify the religion from its symbolism. Infosys accepts it in its list of religions.



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5A. • Pastafarianism -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

• The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or, a movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools.[3] Although adherents describe Pastafarianism as a genuine religion,[3] it is generally seen by the media as a parody religion.[4][5]





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_religion



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6.

• What’s the missing phrase?



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6A.

• WOLOLO

• The sound effect used by any Monk trying a conversion in Age Of Empires .



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7.

• Which golfing term means "look ahead", and

is believed to come from the military "beware

before", which was shouted when a battery

fired behind friendly troops?



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7A.

• Fore!



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8. • In July 2014, Germany indicated its interest in

helping cleaning up something in India, based on its past success in cleaing up the German equivalent.

• The proposed Indian project has been one of the major priorities of the new Indian government.

• What are the Indian and German entities in question?



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8A.

• The rivers Ganga and the Rhine.



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9. • Id the problem type or scientist X.

• Sample: “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?”.

• This is an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis, approximation, and the importance of clearly identifying one's assumptions.

• Named after physicist X. • X estimated the strength of the atomic bomb detonated at

the Trinity test, based on the distance travelled by pieces of paper dropped from his hand during the blast.



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9A. • Enrico Fermi

• Fermi question, or Fermi estimate

• typically involve making justified guesses about quantities that seem impossible to compute given limited available information.

• Fermi was known for his ability to make good approximate calculations with little or no actual data, hence the name.

• Fermi's estimate of 10 kilotons of TNT was remarkably close to the now-accepted value of around 20 kilotons.



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10.


• Id the dog breed.


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10A.

• Scottish Terrier

• What else can we expect with the CWG being held in Scotland.



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11. • ID the 4 word phrase.

• Warhol superstars - a clique of New York City personalities promoted by Andy Warhol in the 70s.

• These personalities appeared in Warhol's artworks and accompanied him in his social life. Warhol would simply film them, and declare them "superstars".

• This corresponded to Warhol’s quote-In the future, everyone will be _ _ _ _.



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11A.

• 15 minutes of fame



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12.

• Who is the Mother of all Devas in Hindu mythology?



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12A.

• Aditi



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13.


Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was a British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset, a county in Southwest England on the coast of the English Channel, where she lived.[2] Her work contributed to fundamental changes that occurred during her lifetime in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.

Id a twisted sentence associated with the lady.


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13A.

• She sells seashells on the seashore

• The shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure

• So if she sells seashells on the seashore

• Then I'm sure she sells seashore shells.



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14.

• Id the poet.

• He had been described by a lady as – “mad, bad and dangerous to know”

• His name lends itself to a type of character: • a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a

scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection

• Interestingly, he attempted such a turn in his own life when he joined the Greek War of Independence, with fatal results.



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14A.

• Lord Byron

• Byronic Hero



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15.

• The Ministry of Textiles in India has instituted an award since 2009 to encourage handloom weavers to carry on the tradition. Awards, each with a financial assistance of Rs. 10 lakhs, are given to 10 outstanding weavers. Who is this award named after?



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15A.

• Sant Kabir, who is believed to have been a weaver by profession.



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16. • What comes next?


Quetzal Ringtail Salamander ?


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16A. • Trusty Tahr



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17. • CereProc is a Scottish company that specialises in

text to speech technology. They have catalog voices (mainly for Scottish Accents) but they do have custom built software for clients who had the foresight to record their voices at length before they lost them. Recently, Cereproc have been mining DVD commentaries of Citizen Kane,Sunset Boulevard and Vertigo for one of their customers. Who?



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17A.

• Roger Ebert



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Medal Round Scores

Rank #

Quizzes Sum of Best

6 Scores Average points

1 Mehul Jain 6 117 19.50

2 Abhishek Pratap Singh

6 116 19.33

3 Gokul Panigrahi 7 109 16.86 4 Gaurav Parab 5 85 17.00 5 Pratyush Srivastava 5 78 15.60


The July medal round scores have been updated at 2014_Medal_Round_Scores.xlsx. You can go through the July medal round quiz on our site now. Leading the 45 participants in the medal rounds so far are the following quizzers: * Note that the final rankings will be determined by the average of your best 6 points.

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