The legacy quiz finals-General Quiz By Lakshya Raj

RULES:
18 Questions on Infinite Bounce
 Bounce: +10/0
 Pass: +5/0
 Pounce: +20/-10

1.
In 1976, Sharon Burns and Tom Porter founded and organized 32
teams in three leagues in southern England. Burns and Porter then
travelled the country for the next few years, presenting these to
breweries as a marketing strategy. What activity did they start which
continues to this day and often has pints of beer as awards?

2.
Originally supposed to be launched on the supposed occasion of
victory of Hillary Clinton in 2016 Presidential Elections, these limited
edition products “X” could not be launched due to obvious reasons.
They were finally launched by Johnny Walker only in USA, on 27
February 2018 as a run up to the ad campaigns for Y. What were
these limited products, exactly 250,000 in number. Y for bonus
points.

3.
Already an inspiration for hit films like Joh Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Kuch
Kuch Hota Hai and acclaimed TV series Riverdale to name a few, with
its formulae of rich girl, girl next door and boy next door love
triangle being incorporated in many other mediums, it was a treat for
the Indian fans for this legendary comic series when it was
announced earlier this month that the series shall be adapted in to a
live-action, Bollywood Style movie, by character entertainment
company Graphic India, which was a logical move according to the
CEO of the comic strip.
Name this very legendary comic strip.

4. WHAT WAS THE TERM COINED
BY NARINDER SINGH KAPANY?
When Charles Kuen Kao was awarded
the 2009 Nobel Physics prize for his
contributions in the field of advanced
communications, many of the scientific
community were surprised that
Narinder Singh Kapany, an Indian
engineer, scientist and entrepreneur
now based in USA, was snubbed, since
he was the one who published the first
papers in this field and was the first
person to coin the term now being used
to describe it. Due to his contributions,
he was offered the position of scientific
advisor in the Ministry of Defence by
PM Nehru. What was the field of interest

5.
One of the most surprising moments in
“March For Our Lives” rally held in DC
was the appearance of a 9 year old girl
named Yolanda, who invoked phrases
from a legendary speech given on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial on 28th
March 1963. She ended the speech with
a rallying cry: “Spread the word, have
you heard? All across the nation we are
going to be a great generation.”,
reminiscent of the ones given by the
original speaker. Which speech is being
referred to and what is the relation
between Yolanda and the original
speaker?

MARTIN LUTHER KING’S “I HAVE A
DREAM SPEECH”

6. FUQ: WHY WAS THIS PERSON
MARCHING?

PAUL MCCARTNEY MARCHED IN
NEW YORK IN THE MEMORY OF
JOHN LENNON

7. WHAT IS THE LASTING IMPACT
TONG ACHEW IN THE INDIAN
CULTURE?
In the late 18th century, Tong Achew, a
Chinese trader was granted 650 bighas of
land near the present day municipality of
Budge – Budge by Governer General Warren
Hastings, against an annual rent of Rupees
45. He set up a sugar cane plantation and the
first sugar mill in that region. The plantation
and the mill employed Chinese migrants, thus
setting up the first Chinese settlement in
India. Today, the present day area has come
to be known as Achipur, with a Chinese
temple and memorial in Achew’s memory. But
more importantly the industry set up by
Achew had a lasting impact on the Indian
culture.

SUGAR IS CALLED CHINI IN HINDI

8. IDENTIFY THIS FAMOUS AUTHOR
Among the various possible inspirations for James Bond, one of the
obscure and surprising ones is this celebrated children book author,
who had also written the screenplay of one of the Bond movies,
1967’s “You Only Live Twice”. Conscripted as an ace pilot in RAF with
numerous achievements in his belt, he was injured in a plane crash in
a WW2 battle and was invalidated back to home. His achievements
got him recruited into MI6 and he was sent to Washington to work
under the tutelage of Spymaster William Stephenson (Bond inspiration
a/c to Fleming), where his job was to woo and bed the wives and
girlfriends of various high level American officials and important
industrialists, such as Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine, in
order to gain intelligence and promote British interests. It was during
this period that our spy interacted with other writers such as Ian
Fleming and CM Forrester working in MI6, which helped him discover
his passion for writing.

9. WHICH ANTHEM IS BEING
TALKED ABOUT?
There had been efforts to recognise this
popular war song, whose lyrics were
penned by Francis Scott Key and the
music was given by John Stafford Smith,
as a national anthem but it was only after
Ripley’s Believe It or Not newspaper
column had published the fact that there
was no official anthem of the nation that
led the public to conduct a mass
campaign to recognise this song as the
national anthem. It was officially
recognised as the national anthem in a
bill signed on March 4, 1931, nearly 152
years since it was used by the naval
forces of the nation as their anthem.

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER: USA
ANTHEM

10.
In 1877, Swede Lars Olsson Smith found a revolutionary
way to distil liquor without creating fusel alcohol, and
came up with a drink which in his native language was
completely pure and sold in a container resembling a
medicine bottle. By what name do we know this
particular brand of alcohol?

11. GIVE THE NAME OF THIS
BATTLE
On November 11th Google
honoured Anasuya with a doodle on
her birth Anniversary. She was a
Trade Union Leader who headed
Ahmedabad’s Textile Labour
Association and led a strike against
Mill Owners Association, headed by
her own brother Ambalal. This led
to a ___ vs ___, reminiscent of
frequent arguments in a beloved
Indian Sitcom

SARABHAI V SARABHAI IN REAL
LIFE!!

12. WHICH PRACTISE BEING
TALKED ABOUT?
Though this practise had been
conceptualised and implemented since way
back in Ancient Egypt, historians agree that
the modern form of this practise started in
1799 by the order of British Prime Minister
William Pitt The Younger, to support the
battles in the French Revolutionary War. It
was abolished in 1802 by Henry Addington
after the end of the war, to be reinstated in
1803 when hostilities with the French
reemerged, to again be abolished in 1816,
an year after the battle of Waterloo. It was in
1842 that this practise was reinstated, and it
had remained a fixture in the government
ever since, and has inspired similar practices
in all the other governments round the
world, barring a few.

13. GIVE ME X.
X was a Greek
Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica(church),
later an imperial mosque, and is now a museum
(Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey.

15. GREEK - ROMAN - DOMAIN
Aphrodite - Venus - Goddess of Love
Eros - A - God of Love
Ares - Mars - B
C - Pluto - God of the Underworld
Poseidon - D - God of the Sea
E - Victoria - Goddess of Victory
Zeus - F - King of Gods

GREEK - ROMAN - DOMAIN
Eros - Cupid - God of Love
Ares - Mars - B

Ares - Mars - God of War

Hades - Pluto - God of the Underworld

Poseidon - Neptune - God of the Sea

Nike - Victoria - Goddess of Victory

Nike - Victoria - Goddess of Victory
Zeus - Jupiter - King of Gods

16. PROMINENT ROLE SHE ACTED?
Alice Patten (born 28 August 1980) is an English
actress, and the daughter of Chris Patten, Baron
Patten of Barnes, a prominent
British Conservative politician and the
last Governor of Hong Kong.

S U E I N R A N G D E
B A S A N T I

17. NAME THE CHARACTER
While this beloved TV character
metamorphosed from a good guy trying to
provide for his family to an antihero who
enjoys the shady nature of his sidejobs,
one thing that does not change during the
course of the six seasons of the show is
the choice of his footwear. The character is
shown to wear a pair of suede shoes called
Wallabees, marketed by Clarks in almost all
the scenes filmed, even in the one where
he famously strips to his undergarments.
His overall look changed but he stuck to
his shoes. Who is he?

18. NAME THE MOVIE
In a poignant scene of this movie in which the
old man, who suffers from dangerous seizure
bouts bonds, with the 11 years old Laura, scenes
from the 1950 movie “Shane ”play in the
background, on the TV they are watching. This
classical western was one of the muses of the
movie directed by James Mangold, and was even
adapted into the 2nd act of the film. Which 2017
film, hugely influenced by the westerns is being
talked about?

RULES:
•THIS IS A WRITTEN ROUND
•10 QUESTIONS. SCORE +10/0
•FOR 8 CORRECT +30

TEACHER’S DAY(ANYWHERE
AROUND THE WORLD)

MOHAMMED RAFI’S 93RD BIRTHDAY
(24/12/2017)

JAMINI ROY’S 130TH BIRTHDAY
(11/4/2017)

FEARLESS NADIA’S 110TH BIRTHDAY
(8/1/2018)

MIRZA GHALIB’S 220TH BIRTHDAY
(27/12/2017)

SITARA DEVI’S 97TH BIRTHDAY
(8/11/2017)

SUBRAMANIAM
CHANDRASHEKHAR’S 107TH
BIRTHDAY (19/10/2017)

RULES
Each question is dedicated to the members of the quiz club. If you
don’t see a question dedicated to you, please don’t think I have
forgotten you, it may have been that I had been unable to gather
appropriate funda.
Infinite Bounce +10/0
Pounce +10/-5

1.
Disney had bid for the rights to create tourism attractions in the spirit
of the world created by these 2’s favourite author. But the author,
notorious for having creative control upon all the adaptations of her
works, had demanded the same from Disney’s big honchos. Disney
being the evil corps that it is, refused. So the author approached the
other guys, who acceded to her demands. Who were the other guys
and what did it lead to the creation of?

THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY
POTTER BY UNIVERSAL PARKS AND
RESORTS

2.
They are found in the entrances of
graveyards but there has been no proven
symbolical connection between them and
graveyards, they are actually more
romantic. They are more useful in farms
where they are made of a semi-circular,
square or V-shaped enclosure on one
side and a hinged contraption that swings
between two shutting posts, allowing
only one person to pass through at a
time. Thus it helps to keep the livestocks
out. They are called so since the hinged
part touches or “______” both the shutting
posts, albeit one at a time, rather than
being securely latched to one. Name

3.
Considered by critics to be the ultimate guerrilla
film, indie psychological flick “Escape from
Tomorrow” was secretly shot using Canon DSLR
cameras and edited in South Korea, all done in
secrecy since the film incorporated various elements
which would have gotten the creators in a heap of
copyright and intellectual property infringement
lawsuits by the biggest heavyweight in the
entertainment industry. It’s premiere in Cannes was
rife with speculations that the company shall freeze
the premiere and distribution of the film anytime,
since it’s offerings were showcased in the movie in
an unpleasing manner.
Which organization is this and why might have it
been offended by this movie?

DISNEY. THE MOVIE WAS SHOT IN
DISNEYLAND AND PORTRAYS IT AS
A MURDEROUS WORLD.

4. NAME THE CULT CLASSIC
Lone Wolf and the Cub is a manga series
by Kazuo Koike, which chronicles the
story of Ogami Otto, a shogun’s
executioner, who after falsely being
accused and disgraced by the Yagyu
clan, had to take up the path of an
assassin in order to provide for his 3-
year old son Daigaro. The manga was
adapted into 6 live action movies, the
first 2 being compiled together and
dubbed over to be released as a 90-
minute flick into the British and
American markets in 1980. Audio clips
of this movie are sampled in various
songs of GZA and also showcased in the

5.
What was the controversy being
addressed by this Mexican American
political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, during
the development of the latest feather in
the cap of Disney, for which Alcarez
himself was later recruited as the culture
consultant?

DISNEY TRIED TO TRADEMARK DAY OF
THE DEAD CELEBRATIONS DURING THE
PRODUCTION OF COCO.

6. GIVE FUNDA BEHIND THIS
AWESOME CEASE-AND-DESIST
LETTER

THE 2 GUYS LAUNCHED A
STRANGER THINGS POPUP BAR

7.
According to Liam Cunningham, the shooting of this scene was
particularly impactful due the events that had happened the previous
day. That speech that the lead gave about the nature of lies and
what’s been said, and what happens if we don’t stick to our word,
had incredible resonance during filming, as everyone in the set was
affected by the events that took place the previous night in Pacific
State Time. Which scene and which event is being discussed here, one
which has repercussions in the real world?

JON SNOW’S SPEECH WAS FILMED
AFTER TRUMP GOT ELECTED

8.
The One Piece character Fujitora is based on a classic
character in a long running series of 26 films and
television series set in late Edo Period, portrayed by
late actor Shintiro Katsu. Both of these characters are
blind, humble people with a penchant of gambling,
who use cane swords to aid in their movements and
fights. Who is Fujitora based on?

ZATOICHI, CREATED BY KAN
SHIMOZAWA

9.
When Carl Weathers was approached by the producers of this 2006
movie for permission to use old footage of his in the first 4 movies of
the series in the movie being produced (which was 6th in the series),
he instead demanded to have a role in the movie. Since the character
he portrayed had already been killed off in the 4th movie, there was
no logical way to fulfil his demands. So the creators instead shot the
required scenes using an actor bearing his likeliness to be included in
the dream sequence of the movie. Which movie is being talked about,
whose sequel in 2015 had to use the archival footage of Weathers
from the 4th previous instalments of the franchise?

10. WHICH FOOTBALL CLUB
Stallone, who is a huge fan of the club,
having visited and played a bit in the home
grounds on a match in 2007. During the
promotion of his movie, he alleged that he
actually wanted to have an ownership
stake in the club. His passion for the club
was shared by Anthony Bellew, who had
portrayed the villain in the movie being
discussed, and whose showdown with the
hero was shot in the home grounds of the
club. Which football club? (For 5 marks,
name the movie)

11. WHICH ACCOMPLISHMENTS DO
THESE 2 WOMEN CLAIM?
It is logical to agree upon the fact that Isha Basant Joshi (born 1908)
and Anna Rajam Malhota (born 1927) can both lay claim to this
accomplishment. While the exact year for Ms. Joshi’s achievement is
not known (it was before India became independent), Mrs. Malhotra
had done so in the year 1950. What are the achievements of these 2
women in the history of Indian bureaucracy?

INDIA’S FIRST WOMEN IAS
OFFICERS(BEFORE AND AFTER
INDEPENDENCE)

12. HOW WAS THIS SCENE FROM NARUTO
SHIPPUDDEN ADAPTED INTO THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL MOVIE OF RECENT TIMES?

KILLMONGER KILLS HIS
GIRLFRIEND IN ORDER TO GET TO
KLAUE IN BLACK PANTHER

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