FRESHER's QUIZ FINALS IIITDMJ Conducted on 26/8/17 By Anuj Tiwari sir and Manish Pradhan

1. WELCOME! TO THE NEXT
LEVEL OF CRAZYNESS

2. ROUND 1 : INFINITE BOUNCE AND POUNCE

3. Audience question 1
This is the geological version of
which popular game?

4. STONE ,PAPER AND SCISSOR

5. Audience question 2
How do we more popularly know “Yuvraj Singh Dheesi” ?

6. JINDER MAHAL “THE MODERN DAY MAHARAJA”

7. Q1 On whose tombstone is it written “he lies
here somewhere “ ?

8. WERNER HEISENBERG

9. Q 2 Connect
Snow
Pyke
Rivers
Stone
Hill
Flowers
Storm
Sand

10. THESE ARE THE SURNAMES THAT BASTARDS FROM VARIOUS PLACES HAVE TO
KEEP IN GAME OF THRONES
SNOW : NORTH
PYKE : IRON ISLANDS
RIVER : RIVERLANDS
STONE : VALE
HILL: WESTERLANDS
FLOWERS: REACH
SAND : DORNE
And STORM: STORM ISLANDS

11. Q 3

12. SEVERUS SNAPE

13. Q 4

14. BUBBLE WRAP

15. Q5

16. X : ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Y : SHERLOCK HOLMES

17. Q6

19. ROUND 2
VISUAL ROUND

20. To whom is this letter
addressed?
Audience Question 1

21. HARRY POTTER

22. Guess a famous
English proverb by
this picture.
Audience Question 2

23. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE

24. Q 1 Id the TV show from this
minimalistic poster?

26. Q 2 Id these two
famous statisticians
from the field of
cricket.

27. DUCKWORTH AND LEWIS

28. Q 3 Put funda .

29. R.I.P CHESTER BENNINGTON

30. Q 4 Id the person to
whom this
programming language
is dedicated?

32. Q 5 Id this
beautiful
monument from
the Mughal period

33. BIWI KA MAKBARA

34. Q 6 IDENTIFY THIS BRAND FROM IT’S INNOVATIVE AD

36. ROUND 3 DIFFERENTIAL WRITTEN ROUND

37. Q 1 During the World War II, it was on this date that the
Japanese Army had surrendered before him(he was the
commander of the allied forces).So Mr. A choose this date.
When this date of was decided in “June 3 plan” and
announced to public, there was an outrage among
astrologers across the country because this date was an
“unfortunate & unholy” date according to astrological
calculations. Alternative dates were suggested but Mr A
was adamant on this day (since it was his lucky date). As
a workaround, the astrologers suggested the midnight hour
between that day and previous day due to the simple
reason that the day according to English starts at 12 AM,
but according to Hindu calendar, starts at sunrise.

38. CELEBRATION OF INDIAN INDEPENCE DAY ON 14th MIDNIGHT

39. Q 2 During the Mughal period , it was used like a cloth to wipe off
excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil rich food
laden with meat and fat.
It also occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty of
Oudh under the control of Mughals.
What is being talked about?

41. Q3 Students from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay fell prey to
one of the most classic April fools prank .At the midnight on March
31,2011 the students received an e-mail stating that the institute had
M.The mail asked applications from students to write a 250 word essay
on why they deserved M. In less than an hour ,around 700 of the
country’s brightest scholars sent in detailed requests. “I have secured
AIR 30 in IIT-JEE and state rank one in MP-PET . “My CPI is 9.36” said
and applicant’s essay . The techies boasted “ I have designed three add-
ons for Firefox, which has over 60,000 downloads so far” said an essay.
Explain the prank or id M.

43. Q 4 M is a tag sport from the Indian subcontinent. It is played by teams of
twelve players, of which nine enter the field, who try to avoid being
touched by members of the opposing team. The man of the tournament
gets the Eklavya award while the woman of the tournament gets Rani
Laxmibai Award. Each team consists of 12 players, but only 9 players take
the field. A match consists of two innings with each inning consisting of
chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each. One team sits on knees in the
middle of the court, in a row, with adjacent members facing opposite
directions. The runners play in the field, 3 at a time and the team that takes
the shortest time to touch all the opponents in the field, wins. Id M

44. KHO-KHO

45. Q 5 The possible reason for occurrence of this phenomenon in
Assam in the month of June are given as:
Excess of iron ore and growing Iron industries in Assam,
Presence of Cinnabar (HgS) in the nearby mountains,
According to myth and local belief the reason being annual
Ambubachi Mela held in the month of June in nearby Temple as
the deity has her natural yearly course.
Which phenomenon and why is the mela celebrated?

46. Bhramhaputra water turning red

47. Q6 When the then princess Elizabeth learned of the
death of her father King George 6 during her visit to
Kenya ,she
did all necessary preparations and boarded the Royal
plane with her husband and took off to London.
Before they were departing , a problem was discovered
which could only be resolved when they reached
London and a
decision was taken to land in North Africa where a
special message was relayed to London informing their
staff of the
problem. A car was immediately dispatched from
Clarence House ,the then home of the Windsor queen
to meet them
at the airport and a bag was given to them,ten minutes
after which the family emerged from the plane .
What was the problem ? What was in the bag?

48. The queen forgot her mourning dress

49. ROUND 4 DRY ROUND

50. Q 1 After the failed 1857 rebellion, Bal Gangadhar Tilak felt the
need to unite Indians more . He popularized M to bridge the
gap between the elit brahmins and non brahmins and thus the
first modern version of it’s kind was organized in 1893.It served
as a meeting place for common people of all kinds irrespective
of caste differences at a time when public gatherings were
banned by British.
FITB with M.

52. Q2

53. BHUVAN BAM

54. Q 3

56. Q 4 Who is blanked out in this R.K.Laxman poster?

57. INDIRA GANDHI HERSELF

58. Q 5 M is a German automobile manufacturer that designs,
engineers, produces, markets and distributes luxury vehicles. M
is a member of the Volkswagen Group and has its roots
at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. The company M was formed
by merger of 3 other companies namely Horch, DKW, and
Wanderer that is reflected in it’s logo. ID this luxurious brand

60. In the mid – 19th century, India produced a large quantity of raw cotton. However, India was
not the main supplier of cotton to British textile mills, most of their cotton came from the deep
south in North America . However , the failure of the American cotton crop in 1846 followed
by the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 created an urgent need for an alternative supply ,India was
the answer .
Which famous organization resulted from this?