Lifestyle quiz conducted at IIT Guwahati, during Quizweek-2017, by Soumitra Agarwal

1. Health and Lifestyle quiz
Q.M. : Soumitra Agarwal
Visiting Q.M. : Utkarsh
Kumar

2. RULES :
1. Please don’t use any electronic devices
during any round of the quiz.
2. Brownie points for punny answers (but
no actual points if they are incorrect).
3. 24 questions (12 clockwise, 12
anti-clockwise) .
4. +20/-5 on pounce.
5. 10 on bounce.
6. Infinite bounce.
7. Blame me for the poor design of the
slides.

4. Q1. Connect

6. Man purse

7. Q2. Put funda!

10. Q3. “Fish and chips” is a popular take-away food
in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada. It consists of battered fish
which is deep-fried and served with chips.
The Oxford English Dictionary notes as its earliest
usage of "chips" in this sense the mention in
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (published in 1859).
How do we better know these “chips” today?

12. French fries

13. ● Q4. A convention that particularly began being
practiced in fashion in the late 1700s was the
result of the fact that women were dressed by
maids or servants whereas men dressed
without any external aid.
● This practice is still very prevalent as a relic of
an old tradition that we have ported into the
contemporary world. Which practice am I
talking about?

16. Q5. Perhaps they are names for their
resemblance to a fungus, this is a type of
chocolate confectionery that is traditionally made
with a chocolate ganache center coated in
chocolate or cocoa powder, usually in a spherical,
conical, or curved shape. Other fillings may
replace the ganache.
What?

18. Chocolate Truffle

19. Q6. Connect

21. The deerstalker!

22. Q7. _____ Alexandrovna of Russia married Prince
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and became
Duchess of Edinburgh and Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. From 1893 until her
death, she had the distinction of being a Russian
grand duchess (by birth), a British royal duchess
(by marriage), and the consort (and later widow)
of a German sovereign duke. Something was
prepared for her wedding to the Prince and
named after her, which has now become a
household name.
What?
Image (unhelpful) on the next slide.

25. Marie biscuit

26. Q8. Identify this pop culture
reference in the field of lifestyle.

28. Pubic hairstyles for women
1. The Brazilian
2. The Landing Strip
3. The big bush
4. The Bermuda Triangle
5. The Vajazzle

29. Q.9 Called Schwarzwälderkirschtorte in German.
The origin of ____ is unknown, but historians
believes it originated in the late 16th century in the
____ Region (Der Schwarzwald in German)
located in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
The name, Schwarzwald, evokes darkness and
mystery coming from the romantic woods in
Germany. It contains whipped cream, extract from
sour Morello cherries and chocolate. The
confectioner Josef Keller claims to have invented
_____ in its present form in 1915 in the then
prominent Café Agner in Bad Godesberg. This
claim, however, has never been substantiated.

31. Black Forest cake

32. ● Q10. A good fact about X would be that it was
evolved for use in the sport tennis rather than Y
it is confused to be.
● While playing the sport Y players often
complained about the design problem in X and
how it hindered their performance. This led to a
very famous trend Z in the feild of fashion.
● Identify X, Y and Z
●

34. X- Polo shirts
Y - Polo
Z – Button down collar

35. Q.11 Connect
(2 images
on the next
pg.)

38. Margarita

39. Q12. In the late 1700s, this fruit was considered
poisonous due to the fact that many aristocrats
would get sick and die after eating it. In fact, the
fruits weren't poisonous, but they were eaten from
pewter plates which contained lead, and the acidic
juices from the fruit would cause the lead to be
leached out from the plates and be consumed,
hence causing lead poisoning. Which popular
fruit am I talking about?

41. Tomato

42. Q 13. Its creation is generally attributed to an
Italian immigrant who operated restaurants in
Mexico and the United States. He was living in
San Diego but also working in Tijuana where he
avoided the restrictions of Prohibition. His
daughter recounted that her father invented the
dish when a Fourth of July 1924 rush depleted the
kitchen's supplies. He made do with what he had,
adding the dramatic flair of the table-side tossing
"by the chef."
Julia Child said that she had eaten this at the
original restaurant when she was a child in the
1920s. The first documentation of this dish dates
to 1946, when the newspaper columnist Dorothy
Kilgallen wrote:

44. Caesar Salad

45. ● Q14. The first convincing evindence of use of
this wearable dates back to 500 A.D. in caves
of france.
● It was made out of animal intestines, linen, silk
and questionably leather.
● There have been reportedly used in
roadbuilding and to protect guns from damage
and water transportation, none of which was it’s
primary purpose.

47. Condoms

48. Q 15. XY consists of a whole roasted nut encased
in a thin wafer shell filled with chocolate and
covered in milk chocolate. Its ingredients are milk
chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk powder,
butteroil palm oil, wheat flour and lowfat cocoa
powder.
It is named as XY, where X is the surname of the
inventor and Y is comes from French and means
rock or boulder. What?

50. Ferrero Rocher

51. Q 16.When Mughals invaded India, they brought
along their own cuisine. They did not take to any
Indian food items except one item. They adopted
the Indian tradition with respect to this item and
decided that no feast is complete without this
item.
Which item that is an integral component of any
feast in India am I talking about?

53. Paan

54. ●
● Q.17 Christian Louboutin is a person who has
made his career by designing high end heels.
He said :
● “My sketches were not reproduced exactly as I
had designed them and I couldn’t figure out
why. The two dimensional sketch was so
powerful on paper, but when turned into a
three-dimensional object, it was somehow
lacking energy. Frustrated after having tried
different things to liven up the design, I
spontaneously grabbed my assistant’s red nail
polish and _________. I instantly knew that this
would be a success!”.

56. Red soled shoes

57. Q.18 In 1985, a certain Carmela Vitale patented a
plastic tripod stool that would sit in the middle of a
certain box. It would be used in food packaging to
prevent the box from touching the food itself.
What food item and what is the tripod called?
(Half points each)

59. Pizza, Pizza tent

60. Q. 19 : According to the 1986 Oxford Dictionary
supplement, the term was coined in Britain to
describe a “Sunday meal for Saturday night
carousers (late nighters)”.
Today, it is a rage in the western world in a
different sense. Which term?

62. Brunch

63. Q.20 X is a town near Lucknow, UP. It is infamous
for a train robbery that took place between X and
Alamnagar in 1925 under the British rule. X is also
famous for its delicious Kebab that is made with
minced meat and often considered the softest
Kebab in the world.
What is X kebab?

65. Kakori Kebab

66. Q 21. In the second movie of the Lord of the
Rings franchise, Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin)
wishes for taters. When Smeagol (later Gollum)
asks what they are, he says, “_______! Boil ‘em,
mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.”
Taters are actually slang for what?

68. Potatoes

69. Q 22. According to a legend, when Napolean and
his army were travelling through southern France,
they decided to rest for the night at a town called
Bessieres. The local innkeeper greeted Napolean
and offered him a feast of Q. Q was so new and
delicious to Napolean, that he ordered for a huge
Q to be made for his soldiers. This is how Q came
to be known as an easy and tasty dish.
What is Q?

71. Omelettes

72. Q 23.Recipe
for what?

75. Q 24. Connect

76. (More images on the next pg.)