GenQ, part of session held at IGIT SARANG on 14 February 2018. QM- Prateek Mohanty

1. GenQ
QM- PRATEEK MOHANTY
14 February 18
IGIT SARANG SESSION

2. 20 questions
Infinite pounce and bounce
+10 on direct/pass
Part points where applicable and at my
discretion.
No negatives. Take your best guess!
+10/-10 on pounce
Good Luck

4. 1.
 X is a central counter terrorism law enforcement
agency in India, born through the enactment of
an act on 31-12-2008 and deals with militancy,
insurgency, left wing extremism, bomb blast,
infiltration, complex cross border linkages,
smuggling of arms, drugs, fake currencies and
other terrorism related activities.
Gimme X that is mostly always in
news.

6. NIA
National Investigation Agency

7. 2.
 The practice began in Sydney in 2007 in the
evening time with about two million
participants. This voluntary activity has since
grown into an international event as a sign of
action against global warming. While cities and
famous landmarks get the most attention,
families and individuals are responsible for
much of this activity’s momentum. What
practice, observed in the month of march?

9. Earth Hour

10. 3.
The name X is a portmanteau of
Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The two
states united in 1964 to form the
UNITED REPUBLIC OF X.
Give me the country X.

12. Tanzania

13. 4.
 Established in 1506, Swiss Guards is one of the
oldest military units in the world. Swiss Guards
are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at
foreign countries since the late 15th century.
Foreign military service was outlawed by the
revised Swiss Federal Constitution of 1874, with
the only exception being the Swiss Guard for X.
The modern Swiss Guard serve as ceremonial
unit, as bodyguards and as watchmen of the villa
Castel Gandolfo belonging to X.
 Gimme X

15. X- The POPE

16. 5.
 Created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austinat
Forethought, it was released on April 20, 1987, for
Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired X
for $14 million three months after it appeared.
This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition.
The first X edition (Macintosh 1987) was used to
produce overhead transparencies, the second
(Macintosh 1988, Windows 1990) could also
produce color 35mm . The third edition
(Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video
output concept. Give me X and FITB.

18. X= PowerPoint and slides

19. 6.
 In 1992, X became the first overseas-born player
to represent Yorkshire, which prior to X joining
the team, never selected players even from other
English counties. Selected for Yorkshire as a
replacement for the injured Australian fast
bowler Craig McDermott, X played 16 first-class
matches for the county and scored 1070 runs at
an average of 46.52 & took 4 wickets.
Who?

21. SACHIN TENDULKAR

22. 7.
The word has probable cognates in Germanic, such as
German ficken, Dutch fokken.This points to a possible
etymology where it comes from an Indo-European root
meaning "to strike", cognate with non-Germanic words such
as Latin pugno(I fight) or pugnus (fist). By Grimm's law, this
hypothetical root has the form *pug–. There is a theory
that ____ is most likely derived from Flemish, German or
Dutch roots, and is not derived from an English root. It
appeared in English lexicographer John Ash's 1775 A New and
Complete Dictionary, with several definitions such as low &
vulgar, ____did not appear in any widely consulted
dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1965. Its first
appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1972.
FITB.

24. FUCK

25. 8.
 The call was recorded in England in the beginning of
the 19th century in connection with making a toast.
It has been suggested that X stems from a medieval
Latin acronym, “Hierosolyma Est Perdita”, meaning
“Jerusalem is lost”, a term that gained notoriety in
the German hep riots. Another claim is that the
Europeans picked up the Mongol exclamation of X as
an enthusiastic cry of bravado and mutual
encouragement, according to Jack Weatherford’s
book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern
World. It used to be a Nazi war cry.
 Give me X.

27. HIP HIP HOORAY

28. 9.
 China used X diplomacy in the 1950s and became
known for this practice. One highlight of X
diplomacy was the Chinese government's gift of
two Xs, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, to the
United States in 1972 after President Richard
Nixon's historic visit to China. From 1958 to 1982,
it gave 23 Xs to nine different countries.
 China owns all of the X in the world & rents them
out for about $1 million a year for a loan period of
10 years.
 What is X ?

30. PANDAS

31. 10.
 Her name is Arabic and means “sweet basil”. She served
as an army cadet in a sub-military program in her native
Barbados. Singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill
sergeant and ordered her around. “That’s what drill
sergeants do. We boss cadets around, we make them do
push-ups, especially when they show up on the parade
square late. We were both cadets together, it wasn’t
compulsory or anything. Picture us in combat boots
and fatigues crawling through mud and things like
that,” Shontelle told the BBC in 2009. In 2007, Gillette
insured her legs for $1 million.
 Who is thus being described?

33. Rihanna

34. 11.
 The term comes from them having been shown at the
end of a feature film screening. This practice did not last
long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the
shows ended, but the name stuck.
 have now become popular on DVDs and Blu-ray discs,
as well as on the Internet. Of some 10 billion videos watched
online annually, they rank third, after news and user-
created video. The format has been adopted for television
shows, video games, books, and theatrical events/concerts.
 The first was shown in an American theater in
November 1913, produced by Nils Granlund, for the
musical The Pleasure Seekers, opening at the Winter Garden
Theatre on Broadway.
 FITB

36. TRAILERS

37. 12.
 The police chief hit upon the idea of in exchange of
cash after a seminar attended by district policemen and local
people. “Response is growing, are improving the
personalities of our constables. They are creating a positive
impression on the local people and getting a lot of respect,”
Jhabua district (Madhya Pradesh) police chief Mayank Jain
told BBC News Online.
 "There were two or three ed constables in the
gathering and I saw people were looking at them very
respectfully and pleasantly. That is when I thought of the
idea," he was keeping a watch so that they did not look too
intimidating, and so have the opposite effect on people, Mr
Jain said.
 FITB

39. MOUSTACHE

40. 13.
 X, was once upon a time Julius Caesar's mistress. She began
her legendary love affair with the Roman general Y, eventually
marrying him(X had also married her two brothers and had
them murdered) & had three children with him, but their
relationship spawned a massive scandal in Rome. Y’s rival
Octavian portrayed him as a traitor under the sway of a
scheming seductress, and in 32 B.C., the Roman Senate
declared war on X. The conflict reached its climax the
following year in a famous naval battle at Actium. X
personally led several dozen warships into the fray alongside
Y’s fleet, but they were no match for Octavian’s navy. (Image
follows)
 ID the famous lady X.

43. X = CLEOPATRA
Y = Mark Antony

44. 14.
1) Dowry Prohibition Bill , 1961
2) Banking Service Commission
(Repeal) Bill , 1978
3) Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 2002
Only Instances of what or why are
these bills special?

46. BILLS PASSED IN
JOINT SESSION
OF
PARLIAMENT

47. 15.
 Benjamin Careathers, a regular consumer of the fizzy drink,
sued , arguing that after 10 years of drinking he neither
had X nor any enhanced athletic or intellectual performance.
 According to the complainant, the Austria-based firm
deliberately misled unsuspecting customers to spend
millions of pounds.
 was forced to settle the case out of court, pledging to
refund $10 to any US customer who bought the drink since
2002 and agreeing to amend future advertising.(IMAGE ->)
 FITB & gimme X and what was X changed to?

50. RED BULL
X= WINGS
and it was changed to wiiings

51. 16.
 ___________ is an internet media and news company, that
creates and curates India specific stories. Initially started as a
viral content generating and sharing agency, now it also
serves as a news portal and acts as a channel for sharing and
remedying social concerns. It was founded in August 2013 by
Sattvik Mishra, Sriparna Tikekar, Rishi Pratim Mukherjee,
Debarshi Banerjee, Saransh Singh and Suparn Pandey. All of
the founders are alumni of Indian Institute of Mass
Communication.
 Apart from more than 21 million unique views, the site also
garners 45 million page views and has been consistently
getting over 3 million social shares monthly across articles.
 Which entity is thus described?

54. 17.
 Initial design of the logo was created by Paul Stansifer, a then
17-year-old in 2003. Another user David Friedland, improved
the logo by changing the styling of the jigsaw pieces so
that their boundaries seemed indented and simplified
their contents to be a single multilingual glyph per
piece. In the process, some errors were introduced. One piece
of Devanagari script and one piece of Japanese katakana were
incorrectly rendered. The current logo, a modified 3D model
developed by Taiwan, from a 3-inch diameter spherical
puzzle, came up in 2007.
 Thus the logo of a very much used organization came up.
 Which Organization?

56. WIKIPEDIA LOGO

57. 18.
In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen off the walls of the Louvre,
in one of the “greatest heists of modern times.” Newspapers
worldwide covered the story. Sixty police agents pursued the
case, till it was recovered in 1913. This incident made the
painting as famous as it is now.
The SUSPECT LIST:-
LOUIS BÉROUD
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
PABLO PICASSO
VINCENZO PERUGGIA
EDUARDO DE VALFIERNO
ALFREDO GERI
GIOVANNI POGGI
Which famous persons name has been blanked out from the
suspect list?

59. PABLO PICASSO

60. 19.
 On a flight, Dilip Kumar was seated next to an old man dressed in
simple clothes. Even as people kept staring at Dilip, the old man
continued to look outside the window, read his newspaper and
calmly sip his tea not taking much notice of Kumar’s presence.
Dilip Kumar obviously noticed this nonchalant attitude and got
very curious. Trying to strike a conversation Dilip Kumar said to
him, “Do you watch films?”
 “Oh, very few. I did watch one many years ago,” the man replied.
 Dilip Kumar mentioned that he worked in films.
 “Oh, that’s nice. What do you do?”, the man asked. “I am an actor”,
Kumar said. “Oh, wonderful” the man replied with a smile.
 Later after landing, Dilip Kumar shook hands with the man to bid
goodbye. “It was good to travel with you. By the way, my name is
Dilip Kumar,” he said.
 The man replied, “Thank you. I am X”.
 Till this date, the event has stayed with Dilip Kumar and finds
mention in his autobiography. Who is X?

62. JRD TATA

63. 20.
 _______ ____ featured in a commemorative postage
stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th
anniversary of the Times of India in 1988. It became one of the
most recognised feature on The Times of India the largest-
circulation English language daily broadsheet newspaper in the
world.
 _______ ____ was the mascot for the low budget airline Air
Deccan.
 Salman Rushdie, who grew up in Bombay on a daily fare of
Laxman's pocket cartoons, mentions _______ ___ in two of his
books, his 1995 novel The Moor's Last Sigh and his 2012
autobiography, Joseph Anton.
 A statue of _______ ___, created by the sculptor Suresh Sakpal,
was installed in 2007 along the sea face on Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan road, Worli seaface, Mumbai.
 FITB.

65. THE COMMON MAN