Inquizzitive @Manthan '14

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MANTHAN ’14 Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sur Degree Engineering College Inquizzitive

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Inquizzitive General Quiz, held at Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sur Degree Engineering College

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  • 1. MANTHAN 14 Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sur Degree Engineering College Inquizzitive

2. Eduard Poln (1861-1930), founded this company in 1865. It began as a paper mill. In the latter half of the 19th century, it moved into producing rubber and also started a footwear section in 1990. In the 1900's it began producing telegraph and telephone cables and is now a frontrunner in telecommunication devices. Can you guess which company ? 3. Founded in 1916, the logo of this automobile company is said to be a homage to the State Of Bavaria. Others speculate it resembles a spinning airplane propeller. Which company are we talking about ? 4. Id the show 5. ANSWER True detective 6. At 6.14-metre (20.1 ft) tall, 6.6-metre (22 ft) diameter bell with a weight of 433,356 pounds (196,567 kg), making it the largest and heaviest bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. Name this largest and heaviest existing bell in the world 7. The Tsar Bell, also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell 8. The character Barsad, Bane's right- hand-man played by Josh Stewart, is a sniper and heavy arms expert. He is always shown wearing a bulletproof vest which has large bullets on it and a red scarf. This character is a take on which DC comics super villain ? 9. DeadShot, a character which co-writer David S. Goyer had expressed interest in bringing to the big screen 10. CONNECT: 1 P versus NP 2 The Hodge conjecture 3 The Poincar conjecture (Upto November 2002) 4 The Riemann hypothesis 5 YangMills existence and mass gap 6 NavierStokes existence and smoothness 7 The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture 11. ANSWER Millennium Prize Problems 12. CrixusDeathstroke 13. ANSWER Azog, the defiler (Role played by Manu Bennett) 14. Put Funda!! 15. ANSWER Punnett Square 16. Identify the company from the logo 17. What method well-known to sports fans was used for the first time in a rugby union match in the Heineken Cup semi-final which saw the Leicester Tigers beat the Cardiff Blues 27-26 on May 3, 2009? 18. ANSWER Penalty shootout 19. X was inspired by and gets his famous nickname from Adam Worth, a Jewish born German who moved to the USA at the age of 5. When 17, Worth enlisted in the Union army during the civil war, was injured in the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, 1862 and was shipped to a Georgetown Hospital in Washington DC. In the hospital, Worth learned he had been listed as "killed in action" and left. Worth then became a criminal, starting as a bounty jumper, joining regiments under false names, taking pay, and deserting. After the war, Worth became pickpocket, forming his own gang of pickpockets. Later Worth partnered up with a safecracker he had broken out, and after stints in Liverpool and Paris, he reached London. Here Worth formed his own criminal network and organized major robberies and burglaries through several intermediaries. Those who worked in his schemes never knew his name. In 1876, Worth personally stole Thomas Gainsborough's recently rediscovered painting of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, from a London gallery of Thomas Agnew & Sons with the help of two associates. He was taken with the painting and did not try to sell it. Scotland Yard detective, Robert Anderson nicknamed Worth __________________________________ , from which X gets his nickname. ID X and FITB. 20. ANSWER X- Professor Moriarty The Napoleon of crime 21. This is a meme about the meaning of a very popular website with comic content! ID. 22. ANSWER XKCD 23. A selfie, taken way before selfies became cool.. ID this true visionary in the literal meaning of the word 24. ANSWER Satyajit Ray 25. What has been blanked out here ? 26. Proposed worlds highest statue in Gujarat, that of Sardar Vallabhai Patel 27. Vibranium (Captain Americas Shield) 28. Born on February 13, 1966 into a Jewish family in Chicago, he is the founder of Freeloader Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. In April 2007 he founded his most famous company under the name Presidio Media, which was then changed to X in July 2007 in memory of his deceased pet. ID him and give me X 29. ANSWER Mark Pincus X- Zynga 30. Mathematician known for his brilliant contributions to contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. Identify him. 31. Srinivasa Ramanujan 32. This film takes its title from one of Kabeers Dohas. Pothi pad pad jag moha, pandit bhaya na koye, ---- ------ ---- -- pade, so pandit hoye. The sub-title, Love is the only inspiration echoes Kabeer's sentiments that without love life is meaningless. FITB! 33. ANSWER Dhai Akshar Prem Ke 34. EinsteinRosen bridge popularly known as wormhole 35. ID Voice 36. ANSWER Rabindranath Tagore 37. Dry Round - 1 Infinite bounce and pounce rule will be followed. Bounce: +10 for correct answer, no negative marking. Pounce: +20 for correct answer, -10 for incorrect. Quizmasters decision is final. 38. Method used to hold a computer mouse 39. This chemist discovered two new elements by careful distillation of 40 tons of water. He is also associated with the invention of a necessary equipment used in every chemistry lab. Name this chemist. 40. Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811 16 August 1899), a German chemist 41. Founded by AMAR GOPAL BOSE (1929-2013) 42. ALBERTO FALCONE, SON OF CARMINE FALCONE, WAS CAUGHT BY BATMAN WHO ADMITTED OF COMMITTING ALL OF THE HOLIDAY MURDERS EVEN THE ONES COMMITTED BEFORE HIM BY GILDA DENT, WIFE OF HARVEY DENT. 43. JOHN CONSTANTINE, AS PLAYED BY KEANU REEVES 44. Before Android announced that its latest version would be code named Kit Kat, Indians had launched an online campaign saying that the version should be code-named with something related to India as Android was growing big time in India. What was the codename they suggested? 45. A 1970 feature film based on a 1968 novel by Richard Hooker was televised into an American television series by Larry Gelbart. The series premiered in the U.S. on September 17, 1972, and ended February 28, 1983 (11 seasons), with the finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" becoming the most watched television episode in U.S. television history at the time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the fifth best written TV series ever and TV Guide ranked it as the eighth greatest show of all time. Name this highly acclaimed television series. 46. M*A*S*H 47. It started with the set designer peppering several scenes of The Godfather with certain items to give the somber sets a dash of colour. But because of the events of these scenes, the coincidence took on a new meaning entirely. Since then, this symbologism has been used in other series and movies such as Requiem For a Dream, Family Guy, Lost, Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. PUT FUNDA! 48. The presence of oranges or the colour Orange signifying the death of a character/characters 49. In the early minutes of each movie in The Dark Knight trilogy, there is a significant similarity between the movies concerning the main villain. Can you guess the funda ? 50. In the early minutes of each film in the trilogy the main villain (Ra's Al Ghul, Joker, Bane) disguises himself as one of his own henchmen and there is a conversation about said villain in each scene. 51. A loanword from the Japanese (), X can be translated as "pleasant savory taste". This particular writing was chosen by Professor Kikunae Ikeda from ____() "delicious" and ___ () "taste". People taste X through receptors for glutamate, commonly found in its salt form as the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG). For that reason, scientists consider X to be distinct from saltiness. Name X. 52. UMAMI - A.K.A THE FIFTH TASTE 53. A stylised portrayal of Guy Fawkes face with an over-sized smile and red cheeks, a wide moustache upturned at both ends, and a thin vertical pointed beard, designed by illustrator David Lloyd, came to represent broader protest after it was used as a major plot element in V for Vendetta, published in 1982, and its 2006 film adaptation. After appearing in Internet forums, the mask became a well- known symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous, used in Project Chanology, the Occupy movement, and other anti-government and anti-establishment protests around the world. What is Guy Fawkes famous for ? 54. Guy Fawkes is the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London in 1605. in 1605 55. This body in space is named Chariklo. It belongs to a family of large space bodies known as Centaurs. What is so special about Chariklo? 56. Chariklo is the first asteroid with rings. 57. Old Logo of what? 58. Windows 1 59. WHO THE FIRST NON EUROPEAN FOOTBALLER TO WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE MONTH AWARD? 60. Tony Yeboah who played as a striker from 1981 to 2002. Yeboah won the player of the month award during his second season with leeds united 61. LORD NELSON! LORD BEAVERBROOK! SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL! SIR ANTHONY EDEN! CLEMENT ATTLEE! HENRY COOPER! LADY DIANA! MAGGIE THATCHER - CAN YOU HEAR ME, MAGGIE THATCHER! YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING! YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEATING! BJORGE LILLELIEN A TV COMMENTATOR SAID THESE HISTORIC WORDS. WHAT WAS THE OCCASION ? 62. On Norway's 2-1 victory against England in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo on 9 September 1981. At the end of the match, he proclaimed (in Norwegian) "We are best in the world! We have beaten England! England, birthplace of giants", before taunting a roll call of famous English people. 63. Devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor, this invention was used to avoid jams when neighbouring arms were pressed at the same time. In 1873 Sholes's backer, James Densmore, successfully sold the manufacturing rights to E. Remington and Sons. Name this famous invention still very much in use today 64. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation has an estimated net worth of US $ 41 billion dollars. The majority of this wealth is from the 22.5 percent shares that he owns in his company. Who was the official photographer for the wedding of Larry Ellison and Malanie Craft ? 65. Apple founder, Steve Jobs. 66. X, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for the work on Y's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Xs notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, X is often described as the world's first computer programmer. Identify both X and Y. 67. Ada Lovelace Charles Babbage 68. The above Google Doodle was created to celebrate the birthday of which famous scientist ? 69. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 70. Tite Kubo, of Fuchu Aki District, Hiroshima never took drawing seriously until he was 17, after reading the manga Saint Seiya, which influenced him to become a manga artist. He wrote his first manga Zombiepowder, which was also published in Weekly Shnen Jump in 1999. It ran a short 27 chapters before being canceled in 2000. His next series was a huge success, which became popular not only in Japan but also in the US too. The anime version holds a rating of 8.1 in IMDB. Name the manga series. 71. CONNECT 72. FIRST MOVIES TO BE RELEASED ON BLUE RAY 73. Who has been hidden in this picture ? 74. Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary, the famous Indian cricket fan 75. Coined by programmer Ward Cunningham (1949), from Hawaiian word for quick-quick. This word is used as a reference to websites that provide information on various subjects. It is now used as a portmanteau for a very famous website. Guess the word. 76. Wiki-Wiki or simply Wiki 77. India thought that China was operating spy drones and started an investigation. The Indian army had documented 329 sightings of the unidentified object from August 2012 to February 2013, with 155 of those times being in violation of the Line of Actual Control that separates India from China. The Indian army eventually approached astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore to figure out what exactly the mysterious flying objects were. What were they identified as ? 78. Jupiter and Venus 79. +10 for every correct answer +20 bonus for a full-house 80. CAN YOU GUESS WHICH MOVIE AND QUOTE ? WHAT I CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO AMOUNT OF DAMN 0% DAMN 81. MOVIE : GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) 82. The Prison Theory ~By A. Dufresne 83. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. - Shawshank Redemption 84. Usual Suspects 85. Round up the usual suspects - Casablanca 86. IDENTIFY THE MOVIE AND THE QUOTE GOOD BAD WORK TAKE MONEY FREE 87. THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) IF YOU ARE GOOD AT SOMETHING, NEVER DO IT FOR FREE 88. X- Where you had me. 89. You had me at hello - Jerry Maguire 90. TRUTH Identify the movie and the quote 91. A Few Good Men (1992) 92. LEVEL OF LUCKY FEELING HIGH LOW EARLIER NOW CAN YOU GUESS WHICH MOVIE IT IS AND ALSO THE QUOTE ? 93. You've got to ask yourself one question DIRTY HARRY (1971) 94. Art of fighting without fighting Enter the Dragon (1973) 95. Dry Round 2 96. Just ID the blanked out portion! 97. ANSWER Uncyclopedia 98. FITB 99. ANSWER Karnaugh Map 100. The origin of this phrase is from the debate at the the First Ecumenical Council regarding the best language to use concerning the Holy Trinity. One of the entries under consideration was Homoousios, a Greek word meaning "same substance" or "same essence." It is used in the Nicene Creed to say that Jesus Christ is of one essence with the Father. The corresponding source of debate was Homoiousios meaning "similar essence"; it was favored by the Arians. ID the phrase that thus originated. 101. ANSWER Iota of difference 102. This is an album cover of a iconic band, designed by a Swiss/Swedish artist known for his distinctive horror art style. ID the band and the artist. 103. ANSWER Abba, Hans Arnold 104. .Most accounts date the invention of this dish to the 1960s in the region of Veneto, Italy, at the restaurant "Le Beccherie" in Treviso. . Accounts by Carminantonio Iannaccone (as investigated by The Washington Post) claim the creation of this dish by him on 24 December 1969 in Via Sottotreviso while he was head chef at Treviso, near Venice . Other sources claim that the dish was first created in Treviso in 1967 by a baker named Roberto Linguanotto and his apprentice, Francesca Valori . Alternatively, it may have originated as a variation of another similar item, the Zuppa Inglese. .The main ingredient of this dish, originated in the late 15th century at the court of the Duchy of Savoy, and were created to mark the occasion of a visit by the King of France. Later they were recognized as an "official" court cookie. They were particularly appreciated by the young members of the court and offered to visitors as a symbol of the local cuisine. .Other ingredients include egg yolks, sugar, coffee, mascarpone cheese and cocoa powder. In the original recipe however, there is no liquor or egg whites. ID this dish that also shares its name with a 2002 Chinese movie!! 105. ANSWER Tiramisu 106. . In Scandinavian folklore, This phenomenon is caused by a mare, a supernatural creature related to incubi and succubi. The mare is a damned woman, who is cursed and her body is carried mysteriously during sleep and without her noticing. In this state, she visits villagers to sit on their rib cages while they are asleep, causing them to experience nightmares. . In Fiji, the experience is interpreted as kana tevoro, being "eaten" by a demon. In many cases the demon can be the spirit of a recently dead relative who has come back for some unfinished business, or has come to communicate some important news to the living. Often persons sleeping near the afflicted person say kania, kania, "eat! eat!" in an attempt to prolong the possession for a chance to converse with the dead relative or spirit and seek answers as to why he or she has come back. The person waking up from the experience is often asked to immediately curse or chase the spirit of the dead relative, which sometimes involves literally speaking to the spirit and telling him or her to go away or using expletives. .In Pakistan, this phenomenon is considered to be an encounter with evil djinns who have taken over one's body. In Iran, this ghoul is known as 'bakhtak' or Ifirit. It is also assumed that it is caused by the black magic performed by enemies .People, especially children and young girls, wear Taawiz to ward off the evil eye. Some homes and places are also believed to be haunted by supernatural beings and they could haunt people living there especially during the night. . In Tamil Nadu and Sri Lankan Tamil culture, this particular phenomenon is referred to as 'Amuku Be' or 'Amuku Pei' meaning "the ghost that forces one down. Which phenomena, characterized by complete muscular weakness is being talked about here? 107. ANSWER 108. This phrase has its origins in the small value of these copper coins, weighing one tolah, eight mashas and seven surkhs, being the fortieth part of a rupee in value. These were first introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his rule of India between 1540 and 1545, along with Mohur, the gold coin and Rupiya, the silver coin. WHICH PHRASE? 109. ANSWER I dont give a damn. Those coins were called daams. 110. Map of? 111. ANSWER Tamriel (Elder Scrolls Universe) 112. .This song commemorates one of the major victories of a major character of this series over his rebellious vassals, the Reynes and Tarbecks. This event takes place about 40 yrs prior to the plotline of the series. .The song starts with memories of the vassals defiance, and continues to their subsequent obliteration. .In the published printed tracklist of the TV adaptation of this series, the title of this song was misspeled . However it was corrected on the printed listing on the liner notes that come with the disc. Just ID the track Im talking about! 113. ANSWER The Rains of Castamere 114. Born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, X grew up in New Hyde Park and attended Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park. X began his career at the age of 15 when a _______ landed at his feet and his reaction to that. X began his Olympic career at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He was not considered the favorite but he felt a rush during the competition and he unleashed a career best performance that was enough to win him the medal by a margin of more than 5 inches(130 mm). It seemed Xs career would be over at the age of 20, when in 1957, an automobile accident nearly killed him. He recovered in time to compete at the 1960 Summer Olympics at Rome, where he was the slight favorite over teammate and world record holder Rink Babka. Babka was in the lead for the first four of the six rounds. He gave X advice before his fifth; and X set an Olympic record. Babka was not able to beat it and finished with silver. During the early 1960s, X continued to have success, setting his first world record in 1962. In the process, he was the first to break a barrier in his field. Bothered by a torn rib cartilage and neck injury before the 1964 Tokyo games and competing in great pain, he won the gold, despite not being able to complete all the rounds. X returned to the Olympics in 1968 at Mexico City but he had yielded the position of favorite to teammate Jay Silvester due to his age of 32. At the Olympics, however, X released another Olympic record performance in the 3rd round. His record held and he became the first track and field athlete to win four consecutive gold medals. Give me X And who later equaled his record. 115. ANSWER X-Al Oerter Carl Lewis 116. +100/-50 117. +90/-45 118. +80/-40 119. +70/-35 120. +60/-30 121. +50/-25 122. +40/-20 123. +30/-15 124. +20/-10 125. +10/-5