NUJS Open Quiz 2017 Finals

NUJS Open Quiz Finals
Round 1
Infinite Pounce and Bounce

Q. Amul Ad in the tribute of and
identify any of the two movies
depicted in the doodle?

A.
1. Ardh Sathya
2. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Q
• ‘X’ was an ancient Roman goddess, wife and
sister of ‘Y’, daughter of Saturn, and mother of
Mars. According to mythology, she kept watch
over Rome, but in particular women. ‘Y’, though,
wasn’t exactly the model husband. He had
several mistresses that he would hide from ‘X’,
often using clouds, while she tried to uncover
evidence of this adultery.
• Why did this snippet of mythology become a
nerd joke on July 5, 2016?

A
• NASA’s Spacecraft Juno (‘X’) entered the orbit
of Jupiter (‘Y’) on July 5, 2016.

Q. A Quora answer to the explanation of this very internet phenomenon is:
“Basically, employing ______ outside of a very small use-case
(i.e. comic dialog bubble, children's poster) is thought to betray a
lack of typographical forethought.”

Q
• A team of European neurologists says in a study that ‘X’
walks with a peculiar “gunslinger’s gait”.
• The study, published by the British Medical Journal,
notes that ‘X’ has shown a “clearly reduced right-sided
arm swing”, possibly related to weapons training he
received when he was part of ‘Y’.
• The Prime Minister, two former Defence Ministers and
a highly ranked Military Commander of the same
country as ‘X’ all stride out in similar style.
• Identify ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

A. X – Vladimir Putin & Y - KGB

Q
• Coined by the character Nigel Tufnel of this extremely
quotable 1984 rockumentary ‘X’, this phrase was entered
into Shorter English Dictionary with the definition “up to
maximum volume”.
• The primary implication of the reference in the original
scene is one in which things that are essentially the same
are seen as differentiated due to the user's
misunderstanding of the underlying operating principles.
• Give me the phrase and brownie points for identifying ‘X’.
• NB: QM’s discretion is fine with almost accurate phrases
also

A: ‘These go to Eleven’; X – This is
Spinal Tap

Q
• At the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen
Summit 2015, Susan Wojcicki claimed this to be her
favourite video.
• Uploaded in 2006, this video of two Chinese boys
outrageously lip-synching to Backstreet Boys while
their roommate did homework in the background was
hilarious enough for Wojcicki to realize, “Wow, people
all over the world can create content, and they don't
need to be in a studio.”
• What did Wojcicki do after her above mentioned
encounter with the video?

A
• This video convinced her, who was then
overseeing Google video and was in charge of
its acquisitions, to buy YouTube. She is
currently the CEO of YouTube.

Q
• She accused many foreign dignitaries as well as Indian
film personalities including Amitabh Bachchan, Bill
Clinton, Robert Redford, Prince Charles, Al Gore, US
government, British government, French government,
BJP government, Roman Catholic Church, CIA, CBI,
KGB, Mossad of conspiring to kill her but her petition in
court was dismissed for lack of evidence.
• She again hit the headlines when she filed an affidavit
in the special court hearing the 1993 serial bomb blasts
case, claiming that she had gathered clinching evidence
against actor Sanjay Dutt showing his involvement in
the case, but she did not turn up in court after being
summoned saying that she was afraid of being killed.

Q
• The Cloth Hall (Laken Halle) is a large cloth hall, a medieval
commercial building, in Ypres, Belgium. It was one of the
largest commercial buildings of the Middle Ages, when it
served as the main market and warehouse for the Flemish
city's prosperous cloth industry. (image of the building next
slide)
• An iconic building in major city in India was designed by
then government architect Walter Granville, was modelled on
Cloth Hall and constructed in 1862. However, in the early
1900’s the mayor of the city in which this building was
erected received a letter requesting for a blueprint of the
building and thus the blueprint was sent.
• What iconic building in India are we talking about and why
did Belgium need the blueprint of this building in the first
quarter of 1900’s? (No Part Points)

A
• Calcutta High Court.
• Due to a fire caused by German shelling
during the World War 1 the Cloth Hall of was
destroyed. Hence, the blueprint was required
to rebuild it.

Q
• The Birth of Adam painting (image next slide) by
Michelangelo on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel is
supposedly when God infused h is just-created figure of
man with the spirit of life.
• However, there was a outcry against him by the Vatican
Clergy as a certain error in the painting contradicted the
basic Christian theology.
• He was rescued by the Pope and theologically, a reason
was found to account for a supposed “error” in the
painting.
• What was the “Error” they identified in the painting?

A
• The presence of a navel on Adam’s body. If
Adam was created directly by God in His own
image – then where does his umbilical cord
come from? Also, does this mean God has a
navel too? In which case, who is God’s
mother?

Q
• Ariel Zev "Ari" Emanuel is an American talent agent and co-
CEO of William Morris Endeavor (WME), an entertainment
and media agency. Emanuel has been described as a "21st
century Hollywood mogul" and “the pre-eminent power
player” in Hollywood.
His working style and persona is supposed to have inspired the
character Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven on the HBO
television show Entourage.
Which “other famous lawyer” from the world of Pop Culture
is supposedly has taken inspiration from Ari Emanuel?

Round 2: Differentials
• Theme: Sports

Q1. Australia is the only team, and Bradman the only captain, to
win a five-match test series after losing the first two Tests which
happened during the 1936-1937 Ashes.
In the third test of the series which is known for Bradman’s 270
(375), a performance that Wisden rated in 2001 as the best Test
match innings of all time. , Australia who were 2-0 down started
off bad despite playing on a batting conducive pitch. On Day 2 due
to heavy rains the pitch turned very sticky and damp favouring
bowling so Bradman declared so as to get England to bat. England
too declared early on the same after conceding a lead.
However, Bradman came up with a unique solution to counter
England’s early declaration and to tackle the damp pitch which was
a major success.
What solution did Bradman come up with?

• Bradman reversed the batting order.

Q3. This is the list of the three centres accredited by
ICC to conduct tests on a specific activity.
1. Cardiff Metropolitan University,
2. Cricket Australia’s National Cricket Centre in
Brisbane
3. X in India.
Identify X and what is tested here?(No Part Points)

• Sriramachandra University
• Tests done to check bowling action.

• Q4. In 1981, when he was 17, X (person) became the youngest winner of the World Open, beating
Australia's Geoff Hunt, the dominant player of Y (sport) in the late-1970s) in the final. That
tournament marked the start of an unbeaten run which lasted for five years and eight months
which ended up making place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest winning
streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports. The hallmark of his play was his incredible
fitness and stamina, which his coach helped him build up through a punishing training and
conditioning regime. X was quite simply the fittest Y player in the game, and would wear his
opponents down gruelling tactics and pace.
• In 1982, X astonished everyone by winning the International Y Players Association Championship
without losing a single game.
• The unbeaten run finally came to end in the final of the World Open in 1986 in Toulouse, France,
when X lost to New Zealand's Ross Norman. Norman had been in pursuit of X's unbeaten streak,
being beaten time and time again. "One day X will be slightly off his game and I will get him", he
vowed for five years.
• Speaking about his unbeaten streak, X said: "It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did
was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until
my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986."
• "The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I
could be beaten. In that World Open final, Ross got me. It was exactly five years and eight
months. I was unbeaten for another nine months after that defeat.“
• Id. X and Y.

• Q5. X was a most exciting cricketer, perhaps the more so for the
hint of an almost Olympian aloofness. He was also - and the two do
not always go together - a naturally-gifted athlete who could excel
at any game he cared to play; today he would be brought up as a
rising football star.
• His career was nearly cut short when he was struck down by a
particularly nasty illness (probably syphilis) contracted on the non-
Test tour of the West Indies in 1926. After a hard-fought recovery,
and the stupendous feat of a thousand runs in May 1927, he
received his Test baptism in South Africa that winter, and a year
later he drove his way to immortality in Australia. His 905 runs
(113.13) remains the second-highest Test series aggregate to this
day. Yet, to his dying day, X always remained spitefully envious of
Y’s 974 runs at an average of 139.14 two years later.
• Id. X and Y. No part points.(Should be a sitter)

• X-Wally Hammond; Y-Donald Bradman

• Q6. This legendary coach was credited with
the invention of the concept of ‘Total Football’
and has coached teams like Ajax and
Barcelona, besides winning a UEFA European
Championship with Netherlands. Which
legendary coach is being talked about?

• Q7. The 3rd most successful Indian Test Wicket-
keeper after Dhoni and Kirmani, ‘X’ still holds the
Test record for most stumpings in an innings (five)
and in a match (six).
• ‘X’s’ never say die attitude was symbolised by the
two fours in two balls that he swept off Tom
Moody in the last over against Australia at the
Gabba in the 1992 World Cup to bring India
closer to an improbable victory.
• His more recent achievements include a cameo as
himself in M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story movie.

• Q8. In a recent Serie B match between Vicenza
and Vitrus Entella, Vicenza’s Galano helped
the referee Marco Mainardi in making a
decision whether his (Galano’s) shot touched
a defender or not, when a corner was given
after a shot from a tight angle.
• What happened as a result of this act by
Galano, becoming the first of such instance in
the history of Football?

A: First Green card in Football history

• Q9. During this commentary an act which has
since gained iconic status was being
performed in the television screen which the
commentators curiously omit to refer in this
extract. What?

• Ganguly shirt off Natwest final 2002

Round 3
Infinite pounce and bounce

Q. Connect(Exhaustive list) and Identify the missing
person in the list.

• Donald Trump ; List of 10 men who Have Been On
The Cover Of Playboy Magazine

Q
• Here are few tweets from the official Sweden
twitter handle. Curators of Sweden started
this campaign on twitter on December
10th,2011.
• How is this campaign unique/Why did they
start this campaign?

A
• In 2011, Sweden was the first country in the
world to hand over its official Twitter account
to its citizens in order to represent their
democracy.

Q
• Charles John Joughin (3 August 1878 – 9
December 1956) was the chief baker aboard the
RMS Titanic. He survived the ship's sinking, and
became notable for having survived in the frigid
water for an exceptionally long time before being
pulled onto the overturned Collapsible B lifeboat
with virtually no ill effects.
• According to his testimony, how was he able to
survive for long hours in water?

A
• Just when he heard that Titanic was about to
sink, he started consuming large quantities of
whiskey which increases the blood flow to the
skin making the person feel warmer.

Q
• The Arabic name for the meat dish ‘X’ originally
comes from the Turkish name for "turning”,
possibly a reference to the process of preparing
such dish. The dish and its variants is also known
as Döner in Turkey and gyros in Greece.
• The sale of this food item has supposedly spiked
in USA after 2012 after a blockbuster Hollywood
movie mentioned it in passing in it’s after credits.
• Identify the dish and the movie.

A
• X- Shawrama
• Movie- Avengers

Who is missing in this exhaustive list?

A: Gulzar – Indian Oscar Winners

Q
• ‘Namo Namo Matha’, the National anthem of Sri Lanka composed by
Ananda Samarakoon (many say inspired by Tagore) is one of the longest in
the world extending to almost 180 seconds. Significantly, it is also a part of
a very exclusive group, which includes only six other national anthems:-
Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Suriname and Switzerland.
• In 2010, just after the then President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa led
the country to an emphatic (and brutal) victory over the LTTE, he took a
highly politicised and controversial decision which could have potentially
removed Sri Lanka from the above list.
• Later owing to outcry from specific groups in the country, this move was
stalled and later cancelled by Maithripala Sirisena, who defeated Rajapaksa
in to become President in 2015 .
• What is this exhaustive list the Sri Lanka National anthem belongs to and
what controversial decision was taken by President Rajapaksa?

A
• National anthems to be sung in more than one
language
• Scrapping the Tamil version of the Sri Lankan
National Anthem and keeping only the Sinhala
one.

Q
• Established on 25th January, 1950, this constitutional body X has been
famed to be one of the most impartial and robust bodies of the Indian
State. It was first headed by a Bengali ICS officer Y. Ashoke Kumar Sen,
Union Minister of Law and noted barrister was his more famous brother.
• Little known during his time, Y served as the founding Vice Chancellor of
Burdwan University after his retirement from X, and was instrumental in
building the University in its nascent years.
• Recently, he is receiving much needed attention from the likes of
Ramachandra Guha who called him ‘an unsung hero of Indian democracy’.
• According to Guha, “It is a pity we know so little about Y. He left no memoirs
and, it appears, no papers either. ...
It was perhaps the mathematician in him, which made him ask the prime
minister to wait. No officer of State, certainly no Indian official, has ever had
such a stupendous task placed in front of him.”
Identify the organisation X and the person Y.

A
• X- Election Commission of India
• Y- Sukumar Sen

Q
• X was born in 1936 in Rachuonyo District on the shores of Lake Victoria just
outside Kendu Bay, British Kenya, at the time a colony and protectorate of
the British Empire. He was raised in the village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya
District, Nyanza Province. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group.
As a young man, X travelled widely, enlisting in the British colonial forces
and visiting Europe, India, and Zanzibar. There, X converted from Roman
Catholicism to Islam and took a Muslim name in addition to his Kenyan one.
He became a cook for missionaries and a local herbalist in Nairobi.
• In his life, he was married 4 times, one of them to Stanley Ann Dunham, an
American from the State of Kansas. The marriage lasted only 3 years from
1961 to 1964, after which Dunham went on to marry Lolo Soetoro, an
Indonesian government servant.
• X had conflicts with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, which adversely
affected his career. He was fired and blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly
impossible to get a job. He was involved in three serious car accidents
during his final years; he died as a result of the last one in 1982.
• Although he was a very respected Kenyan economist, he is better known
today for a completely different reason. What?

• Father of Barack Hussain Obama

Q
• Mt. Suribachi a 169 m high mountain at the southwest end of
the island now known as Iō-tō in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
This otherwise obscure island was the venue of one of the
most iconic photographs ever taken. The photograph was first
published in Sunday newspapers on February 25, 1945. It was
extremely popular and was reprinted in thousands of
publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its
publication. A huge controversy had once been raised about
whether the photograph was staged or if it actually was
captured real. Joe Rosenthal, the photograph denied
throughout his life that it was staged, but demands were
made to revoke his Pulitzer. Which photograph are we talking
about? (image next slide)

A: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Q
• The first academic work on the theory of X
was done in 1949 by John von Neumann who
gave lectures at the University of Illinois about
the "Theory and Organization of Complicated
Automata". The work of von Neumann was
later published as the "Theory of self-
reproducing automata“. Von Neumann's
design for a X is considered the world's first,
and he is considered to be the theoretical
"father" of the study of X. Id. X

Round 4
PICK YOUR POISON (As Suggested by
Lord Abhinav)

Entertainment
• Warner Bros owns a catalog of about 6,000 feature films in a library that
last year helped generate nearly $4 billion in licensing fees from television,
home video and electronic delivery, according to SEC filings.
The shortlist of films that drive much of the library's value include "The
Wizard of Oz," "A Christmas Story," "Caddyshack" and another film that
had an unsuccessful run at the box office when released, but has over the
years proved to be like an insurance against unemployment for everyone
involved in the film. Apparently, In the days of videocassettes, this was the
top rental of 1995.
Why the film didn't make any money during it's theatrical run is attributed
to a variety of reasons. Lack of female roles, it's title with a religious
connotation or probably being overshadowed by three of the biggest hits/
most iconic films of the decade releasing in the same year.
What film?

Art
• Google doodle in memory of which artist?

Pop Culture
• The following events/incidents have a common link
which first originated on 4chan in the /v/ (videogame
board) circa May, 2007 and capitalized on the
popularity of the then recently released trailer of GTA
IV.
1. YouTube's 2008 April Fools' Day Prank
2. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 2008
3. ‘Best Act Ever’ award for the MTV Europe Music Awards
in November 2008
4. Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention Speech
in July, 2016

International Relations
• Identify/Give funda

A
• Shell and Ken-Saro-Wiwa. Shell was
responsible for the perpetration for atrocities
against the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria and later
made to pay compensation for his execution
in 2009.

Food
• This English dish with Indian origins derives its name from the Tamil word for ‘pepper water’.
The recipe for the dish varied greatly over the years that there is no single original version.
Later versions included British modifications that included meat but the local Indian recipe
on which it was based most definitely did not. Early references to it in English go back to
1784.
• British author Arthur Robert in his book ‘Culinary jottings’ talks about the preparation of the
dish in these words:
"a dessert-spoonful of tamarind, six red chillies, six cloves of garlic, a tea-spoonful of mustard
seed, a salt-spoonful of fenugreek seed, twelve black peppercorns, a teas-spoonful of salt, and
six leaves of karay-pauk. When worked to a paste, he adds a pint of water, and boils the mixture
for a quarter of an hour. While this is going on, he cuts up two small onions, puts them into a
chatty, and fries them in dessert-spoonful of ghee till they begin to turn brown, when he strains
the pepper-water into the chatty, and cooks the mixture for five minutes, after which it is ready.
The pepper-water is, of course, eaten with a large quantity of boiled rice, and is a meal in itself.
The English, taking their ideas from this simple composition, added other condiments, with
chicken, mutton, etc., thickened the liquid with flour and butter,and by degrees succeeded in
concocting a soupe grasse of a decidedly acceptable kind.“
Identify the dish.

Cricket
• Connect the following Indian cricketers to a
feat in ODI cricket.

A
• Only Indian captains to have a 100% win
record in ODI matches as captain.

India
• Contrary to popular belief, The phenomenon is an
optical illusion in which the layouts of the surrounding
land make a slight downward slope appear to be an
upward slope. The lack of a horizon is said to be the
most contributing factor, without which judging the
slope of a surface is difficult as a reliable reference is
missing. Objects one would normally assume to be
more or less perpendicular to the ground such as trees
may actually be leaning, offsetting the visual reference.
• Which place in India we see this phenomenon?

Round 5
Infinite Bounce and Pounce

Q
• In July, 2015 the location shown in this video
became famous (especially in India) for
reasons entirely disconnected from James
Blunt’s musical ‘extravaganza’. Identify the
venue and the event.

A
• Shashi Tharoor, Colonial Reparations speech

Q
• X is an affluent district in West London, located
north of Kensington within the Royal Borough of
Kensington & Chelsea as well as Westminster. X is
known for being a cosmopolitan neighbourhood,
hosting an annual festival led by members of
the British West Indian community, and attracts
around one million people annually, making it
one of the world's largest street festivals.
• Id. X

Q
•Named after Joseph Stalin’s favourite playwright, X
[name of Park] located at Krymsky Val and situated just
across the Y River from Park Kultury Metro station,
opened in 1928. The park followed the plan of Konstantin
Melnikov, a world-famous Soviet avant-garde and
constructivist architect, and amalgamated the extensive
gardens of the old Golitsyn Hospital and of the Neskuchny
Palace, covering an area of 300 acres (120 ha) along the
river.
[Hint: Both X and Y have been featured in an iconic
Scorpions song]
Part points for each; Both to pounce

A
• X-Gorky Park
• Y-Moskva River

Q
• The image shows a Time Magazine Cover from
April, 1971. The phrase “Whole New Game” is
a pun related to an event that took place at
that time. Give Funda. Image next slide.
• [To pounce you need to identify both aspects
of the pun envisaged by the given phrase]

A
• The U.S. Table Tennis team was in Nagoya,
Japan for the 31st World T.T. Championships
when they received an invitation to visit
China. The team, along with the
accompanying journalists were the first to set
foot in PRC since 1949

Q
• Believed to be named after a famous eighteenth
century slave-trader, X [name of location] is a street
near Y [name of person]’s residence, 9 Newcastle Road,
Liverpool. As a child, Y would often catch a bus from X
in order to get the centre of the city.
• During the 1960s, X was a significant bus terminus for
several routes, and buses with “X” displayed were
common throughout Liverpool.
• In 1967, Y immortalised X and made it a household
name across the globe. Identify X and Y.

A
• X-Penny Lane; Y-John Lennon

Q
• X was a cricketer who has played Ranji Trophy
for Rajasthan, but is now renowned in a
different field altogether. He also acted in the
2013 political thriller Madras Cafe. His claim to
fame to fame lies in something he
accomplished in 2014.
• Who is X and what did he do?

A
• Piyush Pandey, Mastermind behind BJP’s 2014
advertising campaign

Q
• Identify the legendary person who is standing
(marked in a blue arrow). Also, give the funda
for him standing in this picture. (Image next
slide).

A
• Nani Palkhivala; He was the then-Indian
Ambassador to the United States of America.

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