QM : Prabhanjan and Shivam

1. 12th October 2011
IMQC Proudly Presents
Prabhanjan B.
Shivam B.

4.  30 questions
 1 point each, unless specified
 Sudden death tie-breaker
 No mobiles/ wallets/ laptops to be used

6.  This popular format of a game was started in 2010,
with the first season having 12 matches, in various
venues. As many as 250 teams registered for various
matches in the inaugural season, with a person born
in the decade of 8o’s and another in 90’s walked
away with the title.
 The second season is expected to be bigger, better
and more interesting with cut-throat competition.
 What competition are we talking about ?

7.  IISER Quizzing League (IQL)
 IQL 2.5 today

8.  Who currently holds the office for the following
posts :
 Convener, IMQC- The Brighter Lamp
 Co-Convener, IMQC- The Brighter Lamp

9.  Convener : Achyut Priya ‘Big Daddy’Shukla
 Co-Convener : Abhishek (wiki) Mishra ‘G’
 Where G maane Genius

10.  Heidi Klum
 Cameron Diaz
 Piers Morgan
 Jessica Biel
 Katherine Heigl
 Mila Kunis
 Anna Paquin
 Adriana Lima
 Scarlett Johansson
 Emma Stone, Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams

11.  Most Dangerous google search

12.  Id the Duo.

13.  Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

15.  Team Rocket
 Jessie, James and Meowth

16.  Identify the artist.

17.  Nek Chand
 Rock Garden, Chandigarh

18.  This phrase originated in the Shakespearean era,
when mattresses were secured on bed frames by
ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the
mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to
sleep on. Guess the phrase.

19.  Good Night, Sleep Tight

20.  According to Hindu mythology, this village was
gifted by the Pandavas and Kauravas to
Dronacharya as gurudakshina, and is therefore
named after this incident. Which idyllic village?

21.  Gurgaon

22. Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &
1 Northern
Kashmir
2 Northern Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand
3 Western Rajasthan and Gujarat
4 Western Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
5 Southern Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
6 Southern Kerala and Tamil Nadu
7 Eastern West Bengal, Orissa and North Eastern
8 Eastern Bihar & Jharkand

23.  Divisions for PIN CODE

24. Q9. We know a lot about him through
Hiuen Tsang’s accounts. Who?

25.  Harsvardhan

26.  This city is one of the four in India that hosts
the massive Kumbh Mela. It is believed that it
got its name from the Ramayana period.
Shurpanakha, the sister of the demon Ravana
had proposed to marry Rama. Hearing this
Rama ordered Laxmana to cut off her nose.
Identify the place.

27.  Nasik

28.  When Robert Clive wished to pay thanks for his
victory in the Battle of Plassey, he was unable to
do so in a Church because the only church in
Calcutta at that time was destroyed by Siraj-ud-
Daulah. What was organised for the first time by
Raja Nabakrishna Deb of the Shobhabazar
Rajbari of Calcutta in honour of Lord Clive in the
year 1757?

29.  Durga Pooja

30.  Albert Brocolli founded everything or nothing,
often abbreviated to EON. The studio has
produced 23 films, the least known of which is
Call me Bwana. The studio however is bankrupt,
which effectively means that their signature films
will no longer be made.
 Which series of films were they famous for ?

31.  007
 Bond
 James Bond

32.  This place earlier covering parts of Andhra and
Karnataka meant to mean the boundary of lands
ruled by Krishna Deva Raya.
 What?

33. A13.
RayalSeema

35.  Rs. 1000 note

36.  Just connect

37.  Caster Semenya
 Santhi Soundarajan
 Both failed Gender Tests

38.  What does this graph depict???

39.  Sir Don Bradman’s Career Graph

40.  For what cricketing achievement does the ICC
award the “Gold bails” and the “Bronze bails”
awards?

41.  Golden bails: 100 test appearances as umpire
 Bronze Bails: 100 ODI appearances as umpire.

42. 18. Identify the lady whose writing has always
created a lot of controversy. Her most famous work is a
“fictional” narrative on the post Babri Masjid issue.
Identify the book.

43.  Tasleema Nasreen
 Lajja/ Lazza

45.  US Presidential Elections

46.  Bollywood-Hindi film industry
 Dallywood- ?
 Kaliwood- ?
 Kollywood- ?

47.  Dallywood - Bangladesh
 Kaliwood - Nepal
 Kollywood - Tamil Nadu

48.  Id the music composer.

51.  This mineral (sodium
lithium boron silicate
hydroxide) attracted a lot
of media attention when
it was first found in Serbia
around 2006.
 Why and what is its
name?

53.  It is known as “ acetaminophen” in US & Canada.
It was first marketed in the United States in 1953
by Sterling-Winthrop Co. The best known brand
in US is “Tylenol” , owned by McNeil Consumer
Healthcare which is a subsidiary of Johnson &
Johnson. How do we know it?

54.  Paracetamol

55.  Which festival connects :
 Augustinerbräu
 Hacker
 PschorrBräu
 Hofbräu
 Löwenbräuaulanerbräu
 Spatenbräu

56.  Oktoberfest
 official beers of the festival


57.  Sometime in July this year, Agnello Dias, chairman and co-founder of TapRoot
India, a Mumbai-based ad agency telephoned director Ram Madhvani."Are
you free? What's up?" he asked.Dias is a former JWT man and has worked on
the famous Nike ad, and the AmankiAasha and Lead India campaigns among
others. Madhvani is an award-winning director who made the Happydent ad
that won a bronze and a silver lion at Cannes in 2006.And yet when the two
met up, neither had the slightest idea that they were about to create what is
arguably one of the most talked-about commercial of the year. By the second
week of August they had shown it to the X, the founder, chairman and Group
CEO of ______________. The ad had a catchy score, a great script and a bunch
of 70 young actors -- some of them still students -- exuding tremendous
energy from shot one. After watching the video, X said, "Let's take it on air."
There were no cuts, no changes, no extra suggestions. So just like that, on
August 18, __________'s latest commercial was launched. Within days, the ad
featuring practically no known face, went viral.

58.  Airtel’s har ek friend zaroori hota hai campaign


59.  “Other kids' games are all such a bore!
 They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
 _______ is better by far!
 It's never the same!
 It's always bizarre!
 You don't need a team or a referee!
 You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!”
 No sport is less organized than ________.
 Sooner or later, all our games turn into ________.
 The only permanent rule in ________is that you can never play it the same
way twice!

60.  CALVINball

61.  When the Kaurava princes failed to defeat the
Panchala army, Drona sent Arjuna and his brothers
for the task. The five Pandavas attacked Panchala
without an army. Arjuna captured Drupada as
ordered. Drona took half of Drupada's kingdom, thus
becoming his equal. He forgave Drupada for his
misdeeds, but Drupada desired revenge. He
performed a yagna to have a son who would slay
Drona and a daughter who would marry Arjuna. His
wish was fulfilled and thus was born X, the slayer of
Drona, and Y, the consort of the Pandavas.

62. X-Dhristhadhyumna
Y- Draupadi

63.  Who won the 2011 Rugby World Cup??

64.  ?????