Sathaye College Synergy 2014 World Quiz - Final. Researched and conducted by QuizLabs

1. World Quiz
RESEARCH – QUIZLABS

2. Rules of the game
- Round 1: 12 questions clockwise. +10 on direct, +10 on pass
- SYNERGY written round
- Round 2: 12 questions anti-clockwise. +10 on direct, +10 on pass
- Infinite written pounce. +10/-10 on pounce. Complete answer expected
on pounce.

3. Round 1
Clockwise

4. Question 1
Pankaj Ghemawat is economist, global strategist, speaker and author. In his
2012 TED talk titled ‗Actually, the ___A___ is not ___B___‘ he said:
And what‘s interesting about this view is, again, it‘s a view that‘s held by
pro-globalizers like ______C______ from whose book this quote is
obviously excerpted, but it‘s also held by anti-globalizers, who see this giant
globalization tsunami that‘s about to wreck all our lives if it hasn‘t already
done so…
______C______ is an American journalist, columnist and author who is
best known for writing the book: The ___A___ is ___B___ (2005)

6. Answer 1
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

7. Question 2
Mosi-oa-Tunya (meaning the Smoke that Thunders) also known as Victoria
Falls is a waterfall on the at the border of _________ and _________.
Fill in the blank.

9. Answer 2
Zambia and Zimbabwe

10. Question 3
The scientific name of this is harpadon nehereus. There are different
etymologies for the term which is normally used to refer to this fish.
There is an urban legend about harpodon nehereus. When Lord Rama was
building a bridge across the sea to get to Lanka, all the fish except
_________ helped him. This enraged Lord Rama who twisted it in his
hands and tossed it away. From that time on, its bones have been crushed
and it has become soft. Devoid of a backbone, it is as soft as cotton when
fresh.‖

12. Answer 3
Bombay duck
As per a story, when people started importing fish via railways or the mail
train; the Bombay Mail (or Bombay Daak) began to reek of the fish smell
and ―You smell like the Bombay Daak‖ became a common term. It got
corrupted into ―Bombay duck‖.

13. Question 4
This is the current premier championship in this category. Competitors
perform the expected task in 15 minutes for four judges. The format was
created in Norway in the year 2000, and was dominated by Scandinavians in
early years. The next event will happen in 2015 in Seattle.

15. Answer 4
World Barista Championship
Each year, champions representing more
than 50 countries each prepare 4 espressos,
4 cappuccinos, and 4 original signature
drinks in a 15-minute performance set to
music.

16. Question 5
The ______ has done for _________ what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris,
which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look
back down on it. Not just specialists or rich people, but everybody. That‘s
the beauty of it: it is public and accessible, and it is in a great position at
the heart of _________.
- Sir Richard Rogers, winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize,
writing about this structure in a book. What is being described?

18. Answer
The London Eye. A giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River
Thames in London.

19. Question 6
Identify the person and the country. On what would have been her 73rd
birthday, 1 April 2013, she was posthumously honored with a Google
Doodle.

21. Answer 6
Wangari Maathai, Kenya
In 2004, she became the first African
woman to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize for ―her contribution to
sustainable development, democracy
and peace‖

22. Audience Question
Identify the group. What is the funda behind their name?

24. Answer
Penn Masala
A group formed in 1996 by students at the University of Pennsylvania,
who wanted to represent their sub-continental heritage and music through
a cappella

25. Question 7
The four children are: Gopalkrishna, Rajmohan, Ramchandra and Tara.
Identify their father and the person on the right.

27. Answer 7
Gopalkrishna, Rajmohan, Ramchandra and Tara with Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari.
Children of Devdas Gandhi (youngest son of M. Gandhi) who was
married to Lakshmi (Daughter of C. Rajagopalachari)

28. Question 8
Identify the film. Guest appearance by?

30. Answer 8
Midnight in Paris. Guest appearance by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

31. Question 9
US President Ronald Reagan in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate on June
12, 1987 said:
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and
security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen
the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that
would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of
freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you
seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek
liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr.
Gorbachev, _____ _____ _____ _____!
What did he ask Gorbachev to do?

33. Answer 9
―Tear down this wall!‖

34. Question 10
The Ig Nobel Prizes are given each year in early October by Annals of
Improbable Research. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual,
honor the imaginative – and spur people‘s interest in science, medicine and
technology. In 1998, Ig Nobel Prize for Peace was presented to Shri Atal
Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif. Why?

36. Answer 10
Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime
Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, for their aggressively peaceful
detonations of atomic bombs
In 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran in
Rajasthan. Soon after Indian nuclear tests, Sharif vowed that his country
would give a suitable reply to the Indians and Pakistan did five
underground nuclear tests on 28 May 1998.

37. Question 11
Identify the dictator who was described in a Time magazine article as a
―killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet‖. Forest
Whitaker won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his portrayal in a
2006 film.

39. Answer 11
Idi Amin
Third President of Uganda, ruling from 1971 to 1979. The number of
people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international
observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000.

40. Question 12
Two words that connect following:
- A variety of rose, bred in France in 1875, and originally named ‗Madame
Ferdinand Jamin‘
- The official flower of the District of Columbia
- Sixth album by the rock band Grateful Dead
- A 1999 American drama film

42. Answer 12
American Beauty

43. Audience Question
What does this map indicate?

44. Answer
Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International

45. SYNERGY Round

46. S
This book is titled How the _______ invented the modern world: The true
story of how Western Europe‘s poorest nation created our world and
everything in it.
Description as mentioned in the book: Who formed the first literate
society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market
capitalism? The _____. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ________ made crucial
contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine,
commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the
modern West ever since. This book is not just about ________: it is an
exciting account of the origins of the modern world.

47. Answer
Scots

48. Y
Who/What was selected by TIME
magazine as Person of the Year in 2006?

49. Answer
You
It recognized the millions of people who
anonymously contribute user-generated
content to wikis (including Wikipedia),
YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and the
multitudes of other websites featuring
user contribution.

50. N
This variety of tea is dark, intensely aromatic, fragrant and is grown in the
southern portion of the Western Ghats mountains in Southern India.
It is grown in the hills of the ______ district of Tamil Nadu. In November
2006, in the first ever tea auction in Las Vegas, this fetched a record price
of $600 per kg.
Identify.

51. Answer
Nilgiri tea

52. E
One word for
- A song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s The Sound of Music (1959)
- A financial services company
- A Swiss Airline
- Name of the German plan to capture the oil fields of Baku during the
second world war

53. Answer
Edelweiss

54. R
Identify the person.

55. Answer
Rosa Parks
called ―the first lady of civil rights‖ and ―the mother of the freedom
movement‖.

56. G
The official name for this is Archipelago de Colon. The first recorded visit
to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when the Bishop of Panamá
Fray Tomás de Berlanga went to Peru to arbitrate in a dispute between
Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro.
These islands first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and
Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. The islands were named ―Insulae de los
________‖ (Islands of the Tortoises) in reference to the giant tortoises
found there.
Fill in the Blanks.

57. Answer
Galápagos Islands
The islands were studied by
Charles Darwin during the
voyage of the Beagle.
His observations and
collections contributed to the
inception of Darwin‘s theory
of evolution by natural
selection.

58. Y
From Friends episode ―The One With All The Rugby‖
Attendant: This is the final boarding call for Flight 664 to ______.
Chandler: Well, I-I guess I gotta go.
Janice: Oh, my Bing-a-ling. I‘ll wait for you. Do you even know how long
you‘re going to be gone?
Chandler: Well, just until we find an energy source to replace fuel.
Janice: Oh. Well, I‘ll write you everyday. (Reading the address) 15 _____
Road, ______.

59. Answer
Yemen

60. Round 2
Anti-clockwise

61. Question 13
What‘s written in the hidden part?
(Exact answer expected)

63. Answer 13
Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
A protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in New York
against social and economic inequality worldwide.

64. Question 14
Connect to a place.

66. Answer 14
Sochi, Russia

67. Question 15
Whose update on social media describing whom? The English FA charged
the person in question for this controversial post last week.

69. Answer 15
Mario Balotelli and Mario

70. Question 16
Identify the Airline Company from this advertisement

72. Answer 16
Air New Zealand

73. Question 17
The Hindi movie Fanaa was originally planned to be shot in Kashmir but
due to the continuing insurgency in the region, the Kashmir segment was
moved to the ______ Mountains.
These mountains lend their name to a Czech automobile company which
was caught in a controversy involving AK Anthony and General VK Singh.
Identify.

75. Answer 17
The Tatra Mountains
a natural border between Slovakia and Poland.

76. Question 18
What? Where?

78. Answer 18
India’s research stations, Antarctica
Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri, Bharati

79. Question 19
This is a picture from Stockholm, Sweden on 3rd September, 1967 which
was called ‗H Day‘ due to a certain rule/law which became effective on that
day. What?

81. Answer 19
Sweden changed from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the
right-hand side

82. Question 20
More than 3500 babies born in a certain country were named ‗Aoyun‘.
Not only that, a lot of mothers wanted to deliver babies on the 8th day of
a certain month in a certain year.
Which country, which day, and why?

84. Answer 20
Aoyun means Olympics in Chinese. The Olympics took place in Beijing
on the 8th day of the 8th month of the 8th year of the millennium.

85. Question 21
Identify the country from postage stamps

87. Answer 21
Belgium.
honoring The Adventures of Tintin,
the comics series by Belgian cartoonist
Hergé about Tintin, a young Belgian
reporter.

88. Question 22
The Museum of Innocence is a museum
created by a Nobel laureate in conjunction
with his eponymous novel.
In 2014, the museum was announced as the
Winner of the 2014 European Museum of
the Year Award.
Where will you find this? (Image on the
next slide)

91. Answer 22
Istanbul, Turkey
Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of
the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The museum allows free entry to those who bring a copy of the book. A
ticket placed in the 83rd chapter of the book.

92. Question 23
What‘s the Indian connection?

94. Answer 23
Former names of Indian Navy‘s Aircraft Carriers
HMS Hercules - INS Vikrant
HMS Hermes - INS Viraat
Admiral Gorshkov - INS Vikramaditya

95. Question 24
It is said that the title of this Tamil film is inspired by the story of
__________, an ancient invader of India. This person was so persistent in
invading India that he continued trying after several failures. During his
rule, he invaded parts of Hindustan 17 times and destroyed Somnath
Temple in one such attempt.
In the film too, the protagonist is persistent in his objective and keeps
attempting repeatedly, even after failing several times.
Identify.

97. Answer 24
Mahmud of Ghazni (971 – 1030)

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