Mechnius

2012 present

Mechnius Quiz

Total 6 rounds

Round 1 – Direct Clockwise (12)

Round 2 – Clues !!!

Round 3 – Direct Anti clockwise (12)

Round 4 – Long Visual Connect (11)

Round 5 – Your Choice

Round 6 – Rapid Fire

Decision of Quiz master will be final

Round I

Total 12 questions

Bounce Clockwise

10 points for right answer

No negatives

By what name this is known ?

1

Vitruvian Man

The name of this structure is derived from two Greek

words which means “on both sides” and “place for

viewing”. These were used for chariot races, gladiator

combats and executions in ancient Rome.

Some of the natural examples are found

in Drakensberg, South Africa; Slane Castle in Ireland; The

Gorge, The Red Rocks in USA.

What are we talking about ?

2

Amphitheatres

This regiment which was formed in 1815 in the British

Indian Army still exists in Indian Army and British Army.

Name it

3

Gurkha Regiment

In 2006 a commemorative Coin set was issued to mark

the 50th anniversary of the founding of X, making it only

the second Indian company alongside State Bank of India

to have such a coin issued in its honour.

Name the company ......

4

ONGC

This word was coined by Georges Herpin in 1864. He

took the Greek root word which means an attraction or

affinity for something, and another word meaning "exempt

from duties and taxes" to form this word. The alternative

terms considered were "timbromania", "timbrophily" and

"timbrology“. Identify the word.

5

Philately

When the ships São Gabriel and São Rafael reached India,

a new history was created. Why?

6

These are the ships which carried Vasco da Gama to

India

David Leavitt suggested this about the death of Alan Turing

that he was re-enacting a scene from a 1937 film , his

favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially

keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch

immerses her apple in the poisonous brew.“

Name the film ?

7

Snow White

For every year there is a pre-approved list of names for X

which are generated by National X Center. Since 1979, the

name list alternate between male and female. Xs are

named alphabetically for the list in a chronological order

i.e. the first X of the year will be given a name that starts

with „A‟ , second one starts with „B‟ and so on. The list

contains name that begin from A to W, but exclude name

that begin with “Q” or “U”. There are six lists that

continue to rotate.

What list…….

8

Hurricanes

The 1968 Olympics marked the debut of Dick Fosbury

and his famous “______” jumping style. Till then, all high

jumpers cleared the bar by straddling it. But his technique

began by racing upto the bar and twisting his body while

taking off. He went over the bar head first with his back to

the bar. This style is adopted by most jumpers today.

Name the jumping style.

9

Fosbury Flop

Gokul Rajaram, a former Google employe is known to us

by the name “Godfather of X” . X played a major role in

increased amount of blog writers and similar websites. In

fact it is one of the thing that most of the bloggers love of

Google.

Id X….

10

Google Adsense

Flag of ___________________

11

English East India Company

This was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United

States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic

National Committee headquarters which eventually led to

the resignation of Richard Nixon from the post of U.S

president. The FBI connected the payments to the

burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the

Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the

Nixon campaign.

Why was the scandal named so ????

12

Because the Democratic National Committee

headquarters was situated in Watergate complex in

Washington D.C

Round II

Total 6 questions

Each question consist of 3 clues with points 20,15

and 10.

Negative 20,15 and 10 for wrong answers

20

19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938

His famous quote, "the future is in the skies", is

embossed today on the façade of Etimesgut Airport and

his surname was presented to him by the Parliament of his

country in 1934.

15

He was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer,

revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of

Turkey

10

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

He is an 8 time academy award winner.

He also won Palm d‟Or in 2002.

His first wife was Polish actress, Barbara Lass who

also acted in his 1959 film “When Angels Fall.”

20

He then married Sharon Tate, the upcoming actress

of that time.

On 11 March 1977, he was arrested in Los Angeles for

the sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during

a photo shoot for French Vogue magazine.

15

10

His famous movies are…

The Pianist (2002)

Oliver Twist (2005)

The Ghost Write (2010)

Carnage (2011) etc……..

Roman Polanski

Alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Worked for companies such as Standard

Chartered, DBS Bank and IDBI Federal Life Insurance

before turning to writing.

20

At the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2011 he said that “He

believes that religiosity and liberalism go hand-in-hand in

India”.

He targeted social media websites for promoting his

debut novel, and made a trailer film with a background

score reportedly by Taufiq Qureshi and uploaded it

on YouTube.

15

His third book, The Oath of the Vayuputras is expected

to release in 2012

10

Amish Tripathi

In 2004, Art Silverblatt and Nikolai Zlobin described it as

a "muckraking site" in their book "International

Communications: A Media Literacy Approach"

20

It carried out an investigation on defence procurement,

called Operation Westend, received international attention,

and led to the resignation of Indian Defence Minister in

2001

15

The first issue of the magazine was published in 2000 as

a news website. It transitioned through a printed

newspaper format until it became a magazine in 2007.

Editor in chief is Tarun Tejpal

10

Tehelka

He made his first significant impact in tennis in 1990 by

knocking Boris Becker out of the first round of the French

Open men's singles where he went on to reach the

quarter-finals.

He helped Yugoslavia win the World Team Cup in 1991.

20

He lost to Andre Agassi in 1992 and to Pete Sampras in

94 and 98 Wimbledon Single‟s finals.

He won bronze at Barcelona Olympics in 1992

15

He is the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard in 2001 after a tough and emotional 5 set match against Patrick Rafter.

10

Goran Ivanisevich

Featured in India Today's list of '100 People Who Shaped India'. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956, and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1967.

20

She was instrumental for the legislation for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,1960 and for later setting up of the Animal Welfare Board of India, under her chairmanship in 1962. In 1977, Morarji Desai offered to nominate her for the post of President of India.

15

In January 1994, an Act of the Indian Parliament recognised the Kalakshetra Foundation which she started as an 'Institute of National Importance.‘ She is considered the most important revivalist in the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam from its original 'sadhir' style

10

Rukmini Devi Arundale

10

Round III

Total 12 questions

Pounce with bounce anti clockwise

10 for direct

+10/-10 for pounce

It is a Russian nesting doll which is a set of

wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the

other. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in

1890 from a design by a folk crafts painter ,Sergey

Malyutin. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed

in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian

peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either

gender; the smallest, innermost doll is typically a

baby lathed from a single piece of wood.

Name it

1

Pic in next slide

Contd….

Matryoshka Dolls

X started its actual operations in India in the summer of

1888, when crates full of Y soap bars, embossed with the

words "Made in England by X" were shipped to the

Kolkata harbour and it began an era of marketing branded

Fast Moving Consumer Goods.

Id X & Y ?

2

X – Lever Brothers

Y – Sunlight

He was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality

from Bengal. He became a member of the Indian People‟s

Theatre Association, a left-leaning group of artists who aimed at

reflect the suffering of the poor in their work, so as to make a

social impact for the betterment of that section of society.

Name his wife who is more famous

in another field…..

3

Mahasweta Devi

They are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian

ethnic group. The name of this tribe derives from the

word ”bādiyah” which means semiarid desert.

Id this group….

4

Bedouin

X is a volcano in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. It erupted

thousands of years ago resulting in the formation of a crater.

Subsequent lava flows sealed the bottom allowing it to be filled

with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water from rainfall and

snow melt, consequently forming Y, the world‟s seventh deepest

lake in the world. The entire mountain range is located in the Y

National Park. A small volcanic island, Wizard Island appears on

the west of this lake creating a „volcano in a lake in a volcano‟.

Id X and Y ………….

5

Pic in next slide

Contd……

X – Mt.Mazama

Y – Crater Lake

With which invention related to one of the natural disaster can

you connect A ?????

B is his invention.

6

A B

Seismograph

Name of this Indian state is derived form the Sanskrit for

“without flatness or plains” or “unequal”. It is also believed that

the name is derived from one of the kingdom which ruled there.

7

Assam

For which Indian newspaper did they work for?

8

The Pioneer

This art form is similar to the European dramatic version, Opera.

It has a history of about 400 years and is closely related with

Latin Catholics.

A Malayalam film which is closely related with this art form was

released in 2010, which became the first Malayalam movie from

Reliance Big Motion Pictures.

Identify the art form and film.

9

Art form – Chavittu nadakam

The 1939 Tripura session of Congress saw Gandhiji and Netaji in

opposite sides. Netaji & X were the candidates for the

presidential post of Congress. X was supported by Gandhiji, but

lost to Netaji by 95 votes. A book written by X is considered as

the History of INC .

Find X …

10

Pattabhi Sitharamayya

Charles Darwin described it as "ugly animals, of a yellowish

orange beneath, and of a brownish-red colour above: from their

low facial angle they have a singularly stupid appearance.“

Identify it.

11

Galapagos Iguana

He was an Indian international footballer and first class cricketer.

His club career started and ended at Mohun Bagan despite

offers from clubs like Tottenham.

He was the captain of Indian football team which won the Asian

Games gold in 1962.

He won the Arjuna award in 1963 and Padmashri in 1983.

He also acted in a Bengali movie “Prothom Prem”

12

Chuni Goswami

Round IV

Total 10 slides

5 pts for identifying each slide

10 pts bonus for getting all 10 correct

Slides 1-2 :: +50/-25

Slides 3-4 :: +40/-20

Slides 5-6 :: +30/-15

Slides 7-8 :: +20/-10

Slides 9-10 :: +10/-5

+50/-25 1

+50/-25 2

+40/-20 3

+40/-20 4

+30/-15 5

+30/-15 6

+20/-10 7

+20/-10 8

+10/-5 9

+10/-5 10

All are known as “Gandhi” of their respective areas

A T Ariyaratna 1

Sri Lankan Gandhi

Ibrahim Rugova 2

Balkan Gandhi

Ahmed Sukarno 3

Indonesian Gandhi

Jomo Keniyatta 4

Kenyan Gandhi

Aang San 5

Burmese Gandhi

K Kelappan 6

Kerala Gandhi

Baba Amte 7

Gandhi of Modern World

Dr. Rajendra Prasad 8

Orissa Gandhi

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 9

Frontier Gandhi

Martin Luther King 10

American Gandhi

Round V

Select your topic

Each topic contains 3 questions with points in the

order 10,15,20.

For wrong answer you will lose your just previous

point in this round.

Sports

Politics

Literature

Entertainment

History

Business

Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, it was too painful for him

to show his index finger raised above the head and this led to

the "crooked finger of doom".

Other signals include “crumb-sweeping” wave of the arm,

double crooked finger six-phase hop etc.

Who is the creator of these signals who is referred as

“Bozo the Clown” ??

S1

Billy Bowden

Starting from 1928 Olympics, the gold medal winning

Indian hockey team holds another unique record which

was broken in 1968 Olympics. What is that ?

S2

None of the teams scored more than 1 goal against

India in Olympics

S2

The evolution of this was believed to be from the colour

of the event organizing newspaper after the journalists had

asked the event director, Henri Desgrange, to make it

easier for them to find the leader in the peloton.

What are we talking about ?

S3

Evolution of Yellow Jersey in Tour de France

Founding member of the Communist Party of India.

Founder of Socialist the first socialist weekly in India

Played an important role in the formation of Maharashtra.

Remained the Chairman of the CPI till 1978, was removed in

that year because the majority of party workers were against his

political line of supporting Indian National Congress & Indira

Gandhi.

Was in news some months ago in Kerala.

Who is he ?

P1

Sripad Amrit Dange

Co founded the Penguin Books and also created the

Sainik schools. He is considered as the prime architect of

Third Bloc policy. He was described as the 2nd most

powerful man after Nehru by Time magazine.

Who is he ?

P2

V k Krishnamenon

He was a key figure in the Islamic revolution in Iran and

a close confidant of Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1981, after the

assassination of Mohammad-Ali Rajai, he was

elected President of Iran by a huge margin. Founded

the Islamic Republic Party, along with like-minded clerics

such as Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Javad Bahonar

Who is this great leader ?

P3

Syed Ali Khameni

By what name these 3 are known ???? L1

Lake Poets

He believed that his most enduring contributions would

be his "Three Laws of Robotics" and the Foundation

Series.

He was credited for introducing the words

“Robotics”, “positronic” and “psychohistory”.

His other famous works are Galactic Empire series,

Nightfall, Black Widowers series etc

Identify the Russian born author ……

L2

Issac Asimov

The plot for this film was based on a story by Samuel

Hopkins Adams. Which is that story ?

Night Bus

Identify the director of this movie

E1

Santhosh George Kulangara

X stars in Disney Mobile‟s IOS game “Where‟s My Water?”.

It was created to aim at the Angry Birds‟ empire in mobile games

world and soon to enter into film world.

Identify X….

E2

Swampy

It is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš

Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same

name by Ken Kesey.

The title is derived from an American children's folk

rhyme.

Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield played

major roles.

A Malayalam version of this was also made by a

leading director.

E3

One flew over the Cuckoo‟s

nest

They met first on 1955 April @ Bandung to lay the foundation of

X. Then in July 1956, they again met @ Briyoni to form the

practical skeleton of X. In 1961 September they met @ Belgrade

in which representatives from 25 countries participated and

finally X came into existence.

Identify X.

H1

Non Alignment Movement

Connect to a dynasty H2

Eastern Ganga Dynasty

He was an archaeologist who is famous for some special

discovery in Egypt. What is that special discovery ?

H3

Tomb of Tutankhamun

Identify the company ………

B1

Sum Zero

The group that develops X was originally called the

"Portable Systems" team. X is a 32-bit operating system

released on July 27, 1993, which makes it a strategic

business platform that supports high-end engineering and

scientific programs.

B2

Windows NT

It was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by

three partners:

English teacher Jerry Baldwin,

history teacher Zev Siegl, and

writer Gordon Bowker.

The name is taken from Moby-Dick after Pequod was rejected

by one of the co-founders, the company was named after the

first mate on the Pequod.

Id the company……..

B3

Starbucks

Round VI

One minute time

5 points for correct answer

No negatives

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