School Quiz at DAV Nov2014 by Bivash Rath on behalf of the Odisha Quiz Association

1. Er B.C. Pattnaik
Memorial
Quiz Contest 2014
DAV School Pokhariput
Bhubaneswar
QM - Bivash Rath

3. Special Thanks to…
ODISHA QUIZ ASSOCIATION
DAV PUBLIC SCHOOLPOKHARIPUT
ABANIS NAYAK
KAMAL RATHI
RASHMI RANJAN SWAIN
PRATYASHA RATH

4. Round 1
Easy one to begin with
• List of revolutions “socio-economic” of India since
Independence.
• Five have been left out
• Provide the five missing ones
• 5points for each i.e. 20points
• Answer all for bonus 5points

5. Revolution Name Product
Blue Revolution BLUE
Brown Revolution Leather
Green Revolution GREEN
White Revolution WHITE
Yellow Revolution Oil Seed
Black Revolution BLACK
Golden Fibre Revolution Jute
Grey Revolution Fertilizer
Red Revolution RED

6. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

7. Revolution Name Product
Blue Revolution Fisheries ***
Brown Revolution Leather
Green Revolution Agriculture ***
White Revolution Dairy Development ***
Yellow Revolution Oil Seed
Black Revolution Petroleum ***
Golden Fiber Revolution Jute
Grey Revolution Fertilizer
Red Revolution Meat & Tomato Production ***

8. Dry Questions Round 2
• 6 questions
• 10 for a correct answer , 5 for one on the pass
• No Negative
• Infinite Bounce [No Pounce]

9. 1
• The Prophet Mohammed died in AD 632 without naming a
successor. Some of his followers believed the role of the Caliph,
or Viceroy of God, should be passed down Mohammed’s
bloodline, starting with his cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Ali
Talib. But the majority backed the Prophet’s friend Abu Bakr, who
duly became the Caliph. Ali eventually became the fourth Caliph
before being murdered in AD 661 and The succession was once
again disputed. The majority backed the claim of Mu’awiyah,
Governor of Syria and his son Yazid. Ali’s supporters agitated for
his son Hussain. What did this difference of opinion lead to?

10. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

11. The Muslim world was divided in to Sunnis and Shias

12. 2
• Post IIT Arunabh Kumar came to Bombay to work in a US Air Force
project. And as the level of discomfort and mental turmoil increased ,
Arunabh quit his job. It was during the same time Arunabh started
meeting a lot of creative minds in IIT Mumbai and did a few short
films, so people started encouraging him to become an assistant
director. Finally Arunabh got an opportunity to assist Farah Khan in
Om Shanti Om which he considers his pedigree.
• In 2009 Arunabh came up with a pilot for a show called Engineer’s
diary, he approached MTV and other youth channels for it. Everyone
liked the idea but the show was rejected. The rejection fuelled his
anger and disappointment to form what highly popular , entertaining
rib-tickling resource?

13. • ANSWER FOLLOWS…

14. The Viral Fever

15. 3 Long story
• In the 13th century, Tugan Khan decided to attack this place, the then ruling king, decided to use
subterfuge against the Muslims..
• Tugan had by that time overrun Bengal and claimed that he had put the fear of death in the heart of
the locals and could overrun the entire country in a single campaign.
• But the king of the palce had other ideas and decided send word to Tugan that he was ready to
surrender to the Muslims without a fight. Tugan accepted surrender proposal with other conditions
like the embracing of Islam by the entire population in the central square in front of the iconic local
temple or agreeing to pay Jazia and to convert the temple into a Mosque as an acknowledgement of
submission.
• On the orders of king, the city had been completely evacuated of its pilgrims and inhabitants and was
filled with soldiers from all over the kingdom hidden away inside the closely built houses across the
narrow winding lanes.
• Once the Muslim army was inside the city, it had to disperse itself into the maze of narrow lanes and
had to dismount from their horses and advance single file.
• When the Muslim army was so dispersed, at a prearranged signal the temple bells started ringing, and
this was the signal for the Hindus to pounce on the Muslims. The battle lasted one whole day and
went into the night. While the Hindus took many losses, the entire Muslim army was caught and
annihilated.

16. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

17. JAGANNATH PURI
KING NARASIMHADEVA

18. 4
• Initially, Gandhi's choice of this path was met with incredulity by
the Working Committee of the Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru was
ambivalent; Sardar Patel had suggested something else.
• The Statesman, a prominent newspaper of the time, wrote about
the choice: "It is difficult not to laugh, and we imagine that will be
the mood of most thinking Indians."
• The British establishment too was not disturbed by these plans of
resistance. The Viceroy himself, Lord Irwin, did not take the threat
of the protest seriously, writing to London, "At present the
prospect of a X campaign does not keep me awake at night."

19. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

20. DANDI MARCH
protest against
Salt taxation

21. 5
• MgFeTi2O5 is a mineral named Armalcolite. Where
was it first discovered? How does it get its name?

22. ANSWER FOLLOWS

23. • Mineral first discovered on the moon by the Apollo 11
• ARMstrong, ALdrin, COLlins

24. 6
This is a sample from a “A Thousand Suns” album by Linkin Park which features the voice
of a prominent and a most important humanitarian and civil rights leader of the century.
Identify.

25. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

27. ROUND 3
List It!
• There are 14 letters of the English alphabet that are
also (single-letter) symbols of elements on the
Periodic Table
• List these 14 elements (Symbol, and element name)
• (5 points per correct answer)
• List all correctly for a bonus of 10 points

28. ANSWER FOLLOWS

29. H – Hydrogen B – Boron
C – Carbon N – Nitrogen
O – Oxygen F – Fluorine
P – Phosphorous S – Sulphur
K – Potassium V – Vanadium
Y – Yttrium I – Iodine
W – Tungsten U - Uranium

30. ROUND 4
• 8 Questions on Infinite Pounce
• Teams can buzz out of turn to pounce on an answer. On
Buzzing +10/-5
• For Direct you can double for +20/-5 or answer for +10
and no negative
• On passing also doubles rule apply
• If a team buzzes and answers wrong then it loses its
chance to answer while passing for that particular
question.

31. 1
• This idea was first envisioned by Sun Yat Sen in 1931 in The International
Development of China, in 1919.
• Mao Zedong dreamt of it and wrote a poem titled “Swimming” in 1962.
“Great plans are afoot:
A bridge will fly to span the north and south,
Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare;
Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west
To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain
Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.
The mountain goddess if she is still there
Will marvel at a world so changed.”
• What was this which these people dreamt of ?

32. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

33. THREE GORGES DAM

34. 2
• The book Footlights was released
in Feb 2014.
• Footlights is the only book
authored by this celebrated
personality and serves the basis of
1952 movie Limelight. It has been
reconstructed by his biographer,
David Robinson.
• Drafts of the work were uncovered
in an archive at the Cineteca di
Bologna in Italy.
• Footlights is 70 pages long and
contains around 34,000 words
• It tells the story of a clown who
saves a dancer from suicide and
helps her resume her dancing
career.

35. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

37. 3
• IDENTIFY THE LOCATION AND THE DANCE FORM.
• NO PART POINTS ON BUZZING

38. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

39. Dumhal Dance & Martand Sun Temple

40. 4
• If SRK sir’s bunglow in Mumbai is named Mannat,
What is KRK sir’s bunglow in Dubai named?

41. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

43. 5
• In the 17th century, when Mughal emperor Aurangzeb
was said to be on temple-demolition spree, his soldiers
caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in a
village. It was a unique as the main deity Lord Hanuman
was black in colour. It is for this reason that the temple is
still known as "Kale Hanuman ka temple“.
• However, not ready to give up, the villagers not only put
up a brave fight before the Mughal soldiers, they even
forced them to beat the retreat.
• This village has been in news recently. For what reason?

44. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

45. Jayapur, the village adopted by PM Narendra Modi on
Saturday

46. 6

47. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

49. 7
• Yesterday PM Narendra Modi spoke at the
memorial of Shri Eknath Ranade. There he
mentioned “people of this country would
surely remember the donation drive and the
campaign by Shri Eknath Ranade and would
likely to have contributed to it. He asked for
funds from all state governments and a token
amount of Re1 form the public for a this cause
and the reason he wanted a public donation is
so that no one can lay claim for the work and
that every citizen should feel his/her own
involvement and hence identify it as ours”
• What was this campaign by Ranade which was
aimed at honouring a towering personality and
achieving national integrity ?

50. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

51. VIVEKANANDA ROCK
MEMORIAL

52. 8
• British mathematician Godfrey Hardy –
I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had
ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number
seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an
unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number;
it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two
different ways.“
This led to the number being called as TAXICAB numbers among
mathematician circles.
Who is this famous mathematician(1887-1920) who observed this
wonderful feature of 1729 and died young of illness.

53. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

54. 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

55. ROUND 5
• Four topics to choose from, one for each team
• “Score Big” +35/-15
• “Double” +20/-10
• “Normal” +10

56. Take your pick…
FINAL ROUND

57. Something native
• The premises spreads over 88 acres on a hillock
known as the Bhalu Mundia and is perhaps one of
the most beautiful and magnificent of its kind in the
country.
• On top of the hillock stands the main building and
below it various sections like the administrative
sections, dispensary , an annexe ,etc exist.
Score Big

58. Double
• The library here consists of about 7000 books in different
languages such as English, Oriya, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit,
and Urdu. The collection includes books on the
Constitution, religion, philosophy, history, culture, yoga,
literature, economics, management and computer science.
The library is used by the chief occupant, the staff of the
place and their families. Guests, who visit stay there, also
use the library. The present library hall was inaugurated by
His Excellency Shri M. M. Rajendran on 9th October
2002.

59. Normal
The sprawling white mansion was designed by Julius Vaz.
It also has a very famous garden which won the Annual
Flower Show and Garden Competition organized by Plant
Lovers' Association in 2008. It houses an in house deer park,
some images of the fountain of the premises are…

60. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

61. Take your pick

62. SPORTS
• This sports body was formed in 1927 with Sir
Dorabji Tata as its first president and since that year
the body has been given the status of the
international arm’s country representative. Dorabji
was replaced by Maharaja Bhupindra Singh in 1928
who stayed on the position till 1938.
SCORE BIG

63. Double
• It was been banned by the international arm in 2012 and its
office bearer’s elections were declared "null and void", claiming
government interference in a vote that could result in a tainted
official taking over as secretary-general.
• The de-recognition came as a shocker to numerous athletes who
were preparing for the most important event in 2012.

64. Normal

65. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

66. Take your pick

67. Literature
• The phrase “____ ____" is a reference to an ancient belief
that the Cygnus olor is completely mute during its lifetime until
the moment just before it dies, when it vocalizes one beautiful
tune.
• Aesop's fable of "The _______ Mistaken for a Goose"
incorporates the ______ ______legend thus: "The one which
had been caught by mistake instead of the goose, began to
sing as a prelude to its own demise. Its voice was recognized
and the song saved his life.
SCORE BIG

68. Double
• “____ ____" has become an idiom referring to a final
theatrical or dramatic appearance, or any final work or
accomplishment. It generally carries the connotation that the
performer is aware that this is the last performance of his or
her lifetime, and is expending everything in one magnificent
final effort

69. Normal
• The most familiar Cygnus olor, although not actually mute,
is neither known for musicality nor to vocalize as it dies.
This has led some to criticize _______ ________ beliefs.
• However, the Cygnus cygnus, a winter visitor to parts of the
eastern Mediterranean, does possess a 'bugling' call, and
has been noted for issuing a drawn-out series of notes as
its lungs collapse upon expiry, both being a consequence
of an additional tracheal loop within its sternum. Its
nearest relatives, the Trumpeter and the Tundra variant,
share its musical tracheal loop.

70. ANSWER FOLLOWS

71. Take your pick
SWAN SONG
In Shakespeare's The
Merchant of Venice, Portia
exclaims "Let music sound
while he doth make his
choice; Then, if he lose, he
makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music.”

72. BOLLYWOOD
• This 1953 movie by BR Chopra
starring Ashok Kumar lent
something to a phenomenon which
started on the eve of Independence
day of 1975.
• The later phenomenon also got an
important fillip from Marlon Brando
*ing flick “One Eyed Jack”. The idea
was of a faulty economic instrument
which was to be used by the
protagonist to his own advantage.
SCORE BIG

73. Double
• The director's original cut has a different ending in which the villain
is killed, along with some additional violent scenes. The villain’s
death scene was cut from the film by India's Censor Board, as was
the scene in which a family is massacred.
• The Censor Board was concerned about the violence, and that
viewers may be influenced to take the law into their own hands.
Although the director fought to keep the scenes, eventually he had
to re-shoot the ending of the film, and as directed by the Censor
Board, have the police arrive just before the villain was to be
slaughtered.
• The censored theatrical version was the only one seen by audiences
for fifteen years. The original, unedited cut of the film finally came
out in a British release on VHS in 1990.

74. Normal
• The film was loosely styled after Akira Kurosawa's 1954
film Seven Samurai,and drew heavily from the conventions
of Westerns, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns
such as Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and John
Sturges' film The Magnificent Seven (1960).Sholay was also
influenced by the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, such asThe
Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and
by George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1969).A scene depicting an attempted train robbery was
inspired by a similar scene in North West Frontier (1959)

75. ANSWER FOLLOWS…

76. Take your pick

77. FINAL ROUND
Written Round
Each correct entry gives 5 points
All correct +25
Identify the scientists ( 10 pictures )

78. 1 and 2

79. 3 and 4

80. 5 and 6

81. 7 and 8

82. 9 and 10

83. • 1 RICHARD FEYNMAN
• 2 HOMI J BHABHA
• 3 NIKOLA TESLA
• 4 JAGDISH CHANDRA BOSE
• 5 MARIE CURIE
• 6 FRANCIS CRICK of Watson and Crick of DNA
• 7 MAX PLANCK
• 8 NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON
• 9 ALFRED NOBEL
• 10 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

84. FINAL SCORES!!