Veda Intra College Quiz Session

1. An effort by –
Naman Jain (
B.B.A. (G) )

2. • 20 Questions
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• Pass +10
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Rules

3.  X was born many years prior to 1935, somewhere in the British
Isles, into a pure-blood family. X was a pure-blood wizard and
a Ministry of Magic official for the Department of Magical
Law Enforcement in the 1950s.
• Sometime after his seventeenth birthday, X joined the Ministry of
Magic and had risen to a senior office in the Department of
Magical Law Enforcement by the 1950s.
• Under X, McGonagall was a most efficient and gifted
employee, and the two were very fond of each other.

4. Safety Slide

5. ANSWER
X- Elphinstone Urquart

6.  Connect the following: (Also fill the blank)
• Alfheim
• Asgard
• Hel
• Jotunheim
• Midgard
• Muspelheim
• Nidavellir
• Vanaheim
• __________

7. Safety Slide

8. ANSWER
Nine Worlds
Svartalfheim

9.  X is an indoor non-chlorinated fresh water facility
in Brussels, Belgium. It held the record as the deepest indoor
swimming pool in the world between its opening on May 1, 2004,
and the completion of Y in Montegrotto Terme, Padua, Italy on
June 5, 2014.
• X was designed by Belgian diving expert John Beernaerts as a
multipurpose diving instruction, recreational, and film production
facility in 2004. Popular Mechanics rates X as one of the top 18
strangest pools in the world.
• Y first opened on 5 June 2014 and was designed by architect
Emanuele Boaretto. Name both X and Y.
• (Bonus 5 marks for giving the depth of both X and Y.)

10. Safety Slide

11. ANSWER
X- Nemo 33 (34.5 metres or
113 ft.)
Y- Y-40 “The Deep Joy”
(42.5 metres or 138 ft.)

12. X initially called themselves as “Starfish”. Now, since there was
already a band named Starfish, they named themselves after a part
of the name of the book “Child’s Reflections, __________ ” by
Philip Horky.
• For their 2001 Mylo Xyloto tour, the band spent a reported
4.22 million to give out wristbands which changed color in
time with the music. Name the band (X).

13. Safety Slide

14. ANSWER
X- Coldplay

15. Mayank Bhaskar of Daily Bhaskar rated the film 4/5 saying that,
“This is India’s equivalent of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time
In America (1984), or Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon A Time In
Mexico (2003), though I suppose it could possibly be better than
both.”
• On the other hand, Martin D’Souza of Glamsham gave the movie
1.5/5 stars, concluding that, “In short, the movie does not have a
perpendicular rise. It is off tangent!”
Name the movie.

16. Safety Slide

17. ANSWER
Gangs Of Wasseypur (Part
2)

18. X is a picture of an egg posted by the account Y on the social
media platform Instagram, notable for becoming a global
phenomenon and an internet meme within days of its creation. It
holds the world record for both the most-liked Instagram post
and most liked online post on any media platform in history.
• The creators of the egg and the website are subject to intense
searches to discover their identity. On 17 January 2019, TooFab
revealed that a marketing expert named Z was responsible for
taking the post viral. Name X, Y, Z.

19. Safety Slide

20. ANSWER
X- Instagram egg
Y- world_record_egg
Z- Ishan Goel

21. Connect the following:
• House Rosby
• House Thorne
• House Blount
• House Rykker
• House Gaunt
• House Stokeworth
• House Swyft
• House Crakehall
• House Lefford
• House Marbrand

22. Safety Slide

23. ANSWER
Vassals of House Lannister

24. X is an upcoming science fiction film written by John Malkovich
and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Advertised in 2015 with the
tagline Y, it is due to be released on November 18, 2115,
matching the 100 years it takes for a bottle of Louis XIII
Cognac to be released to consumers.
• The film stars an international ensemble, with American
actor John Malkovich, Taiwanese actress Shuya Chang, and
Chilean actor Marko Zaror. Name X and Y.

25. Safety Slide

26. ANSWER
X- 100 Years
Y- “The Movie You Will
Never See”

27. X was the king of eastern kingdom Pundra. He tried to imitate
Lord Krishna and attached two extra arms, painted himself blue,
and carried the conch, lotus, and the chakra. He had enmity
with Lord Krishna. He imitated the attire of Krishna. Later he was
killed by Krishna in battle.
• He was an ally of Jarasandha, the king of Magadha. Name X.

28. Safety Slide

29. ANSWER
X- Paundraka Vasudeva

30. Connect the following: (Exhaustive List)
• Adam Zampa
• Malinda Pushpakumara
• Shadab Khan
• Imad Wasim
• Todd Astle

31. Safety Slide

32. ANSWER
All these bowlers have been
hit for 3 consecutive sixes in
an over by Indian cricketer
Hardik Pandya.

33. Upon the onset of the Kali yuga and the departure of Krishna,
Yudhishthira and his brothers retired, leaving the throne to their
only descendant to survive the war of Kurukshetra, Arjuna's
grandson, Parikshit. Giving up all their belongings and ties, the
Pandavas, accompanied by a dog, made their final journey of
pilgrimage to the Himalayas. Among the Pandavas and Draupadi,
one-by-one died on the way to reach the top, starting from
Draupadi. Finally, it was Yudhisthira who was able to reach the
top, with the dog accompanying him.
• In reality, the dog was Yudhishthira’s god-mother X. Name X.

34. Safety Slide

35. ANSWER
X- Dharma Devatha

36. Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero
film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America,
produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney
Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's Captain
America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The
Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe (MCU).
• The film had a different title named after its antagonists: a team
of Marvel Comics villains who shared a common snake motif.
Most of them were Captain America villains anyway, and he
often squared off with them. Name the other title.

37. Safety Slide

38. ANSWER
Captain America: Serpent
Society

39. Jack Cover used to work as a nuclear physicist in NASA.
However, in 1970, he started diverting funds for his research
towards a weapon X that would incapacitate assailants. He named
it after an invention by Tom Swift, a fictional character that
inspired him.
• Because X used gunpowder to launch the darts, the federal
government considered it a firearm, a classification that ruled out a
civilian market and also discouraged police and military sales.
Name X. (Book cover on next slide.)

41. Safety Slide

42. ANSWER
X- Taser (Tom A. Swift’s
Electric Rifle)

43. X is used in the food industry as a flavour enhancer with an umami
taste that intensifies the meaty, savoury flavour of food and soups.
As a flavour enhancer it balances, blends and rounds the
perception of other tastes. A popular belief is that large doses of X
can cause headaches and other feelings of discomfort, known as
“Chinese restaurant syndrome”, but double-blind tests fail to find
evidence of such a reaction. In 2015, X was the cause of a major
controversy in India. Name X.

44. Safety Slide

45. ANSWER
X- Monosodium glutamate
(MSG)

46.  X was a failed "luxury music festival" created with the intent of
promoting a music booking app of the same name. It was
scheduled to take place from April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on
the Bahamian island of Great Exuma.
• The event was promoted on Instagram by "social media
influencers" including socialite and model Kendall Jenner,
model Bella Hadid, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, many
of whom did not initially disclose they had been paid to do so.
• Two documentaries about the events of the festival were released
in 2019. Hulu released an original documentary, Y, on January
14, 2019. On January 18, Netflix released Z. Name X, Y, Z.

47. Safety Slide

48. ANSWER
X- Fyre Festival
Y- Fyre Fraud
Z- Fyre: The Greatest Party
That Never Happened

49. Lata Mangeshkar had the following to say about the English band,
X:
“People say that X are a fad. But I don’t think so…If you listen to the
X properly, you get a feel of old Roman music. Sometimes, you get a
feel of Indian music, sometimes you get a feel of Assamese folk
songs. On the face value you may feel it as a bad thing but, no, there
is inner soul to their music. Moreover, they are more experimental.”
Name X.

50. Safety Slide

51. ANSWER
X- The Beatles

52. X is a Marvel character created by Stan Lee who first appeared in
Tales to Astonish #13 (November, 1960) as an invader who
intended to capture human beings for experimentation.
• This character was reintroduced as a heroic, noble being in 2006,
and appeared in the crossover comic book storyline "Annihilation:
Conquest".
• As of late X has been a major pop culture figure because of his
ever increasing popularity after his film debut. Name X.

53. Safety Slide

54. ANSWER
X- Groot

55. Identify the
character. (TV
Series)

56. Safety Slide

57. ANSWER
X- Lisa McAllister (Sherlock)

58. Connect the
following:

59. Safety Slide

60. ANSWER
The concealed identities assumed by the
Pandavas in their 13th year of exile in the
kingdom of Virata.
• Yudhishthira- Game entertainer
• Bhima- Cook
• Arjuna- Eunuch
• Nakula- Looks after the horses
• Sahadeva- Herds cows

61. The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of
Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours,
make up a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the
public would supply a meaning for it. After a performance one
evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X written on them,
and told them to write the word was the talk of the town, and
within a short time it had become a part of the language.
• The most detailed account of this supposed exploit (in F. T.
Porter’s Gleanings and Reminiscences, 1875) gives it’s date as
1791. The word, however, was already in use by then. Give the
word X.

62. Safety Slide

63. ANSWER
X- Quiz