November Finals Food + General Quiz

November Finals
Food + General Quiz

HURRY - ಬರಿ FORMAT
● 5 List - it Questions.
● 10 points for each right answer, bonus 10 if you get all right for a particular
question.
● No negative points.
● 2 minutes per Question.

HURRY - ಬರಿ 1
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will see 4 new sports added.
List all 4.

HURRY - ಬರಿ 2
List all 5 teams that played in the Bombay Pentangular Tournament.

HURRY - ಬರಿ 3
List all 6 Grand Slam winners in Men’s tennis (singles) - since 2010

HURRY - ಬರಿ 4
List all 4 movies for which Amitabh Bachchan has won the national film
award in the best actor category.

Please exchange sheets
HURRY - ಬರಿ answers coming up….

Answer to HURRY - ಬರಿ 1
1. Karate
2. Skateboarding
3. Sport Climbing
4. Surfing

1. Europeans
2. Hindus
3. Muslims
4. Parsees
5. The Rest

1. Novak Djokovic
2. Rafael Nadal
3. Roger Federer
4. Andy Murray (US Open 2012, Wimbledon 2013, 2016)
5. Marin Cilic (US Open 2014)
6. Stanislas Wawrinka (US Open 2016, Aus 2014, French 2015)

HURRY - ಬರಿ 4
List all 4 movies for which Amitabh Bachchan has won national film awards
for best actor.

1. Agneepath
2. Black
3. Paa
4. Piku

1. Viv Richards
2. Joel Garner
3. Andy Roberts
4. Colin Croft
5. Lawrence Rowe

GENERAL ROUND QUESTIONS
COMING UP…

Format
● +10 for a direct, +5 for an indirect.
● Questions are around food AND general topics
● 5 Stage Two questions (+50/-50, +40/-40, +30/-30. +20/-20, +10/-10).
● Please wait till the question is read out, before answering.
● Winning team also get a chocolate bar each!

1.
In November 2017, India Post released a set of 24 Stamps
covering prominent Indian cuisines, which were bunched
under the following four categories:
Festive Cuisine
Popular Cuisine
Regional Cuisine
and
X?

Answer to Q1.
“Bhog Prasad” or Temple Cuisine -
(Modak,Mahaprasad Rice Dal,Chhappan Bhog,Peda,Sandesh,Tirupati Ladoo)

Stage Two - Question 1 of 5 (+50/-50 for the Stage 2
Answer).
Who/What connects these images?

Answer to Q2.
Artists Rifles - 21 SAS - Bear Grylls’ Regiment
Jim Corbett National Park - Man vs Wild

Elements for Stage Two.
1. Bear
2.
3.
4.
5.

3.
Until the early 80s, some high end restaurants in the West had two menus -
A “Regular Menu” and a “Ladies’ Menu”.
How was the latter different?

Answer to Q3.
A “Ladies’ Menu” did not have the price listed.

4.
Colonel X , a railway engineer was assigned the work of Tunnel No. 33. He made
his calculations and as per practice, his crew started drilling from both sides of the
mountain.
The crew kept drilling, but due to X’s miscalculations, diverged.
X was fined Rs 1 for causing loss to the exchequer and wasting government
resources.
Humiliated, X shot himself at the mouth of the tunnel.
Identify X.

5. A bunch of stuff acquired by ____X____ , including this
custom made chef’s knife, is being auctioned off. A significant
portion of the proceeds will benefit the ___X___ Legacy
Scholarship at his alma mater, The Culinary Institute of
America. Who is X?

6. Give me a one-word connect.

Answer).

Elements for Stage Two (Now at +40/-40).
1. Bear
2. Caravan
3.
4.
5.

8.
Namma Betta: Our Crags is a short documentary by Sanath
Reddy.
His goal of the work was “to document a growing community,
its history and the implication of outdoor activities in the
current environmental context…”
Which outdoor activity?

9.
X , chef, was also India’s first star culinary writer, who discovered new worlds
of food right in our backyard and gentrified street food much before it became the
fashionable thing to do.
Among the delicacies that X introduced were the kebabs served in the erstwhile
royal kitchens of India, most notable being the Galouti.
His guru Khushwant Singh described X as the ‘Czar of Indian Cuisine’ and ‘Taste
maker to the nation’.
X?

10.
The “X food movement” is taking off around the world, particularly in Europe and
Australia, as an answer to the problem of food waste.
X foods are those that sellers and buyers reject because of their appearance.
X ?

11.
In the 19th century, after the abolition of slavery, roughly 2 million Indians were
brought by the British to Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa and the Caribbean. These
Indians worked mainly in sugarcane plantations.
They were called “X” , derived from the English word Y ..
X,Y?

Answer to Q11.
X- Girmitiya
Y - Agreement

Answer).
X are often informally grouped into 4 types.
Fish X
Booted X
Snake X
Harpy X
X?

1. Bear
2. Caravan
3. Eagles
4.
5.

13.
The reason that this movie was titled X on Y, instead of Y on X is because of
superstition.
Golden Harvest had produced two movies beginning with “M” and both those
movies were major flops.
So, the company execs changed the title hoping this movie would avoid the same
problems, which it did!
Which movie?

14.
"X climbing a Y" is a traditional Sichuan dish.
The “X” are actually little pieces of ground meat, the “Y” is bean thread
noodles. The heat in the recipe, provided by chili paste.
X, Y?

Answer to Q14.
ANTS CLIMBING A TREE

15.
Kulwant Roy was the head of an agency named "Associated Press
Photographs", he was responsible for several iconic images of the Indian
Independence movement and the early years of the Republic of India.
A bunch of photos were unearthed by his family friend, Aditya Arya, over 20 years
after his death.
One of them received attention not only for capturing a moment in history but also
foreshadowing the conflict between X and Y.
Who were X and Y?

Answer).
Excluding continental landmasses, which is the most populated Island in the
world?

1. Bear
2. Caravan
3. Eagles
4. Java
5.

17.
In 1996, “Babloo” had to be enticed back home with the temptation of X in an Ad
for A.
In a similar situation 22 years later, he was tempted back home by the dish Y, in
an Ad for B.
X,Y,A,B?

18.
X is a Kannada movie made in 1962, based partly on a land reform movement
initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
Name X.
The movie was also a kinda-sorta casting coup by the filmmakers.
How so?

Answer to Q18.
First and Only time the “Kumara Trayaru” were cast in a lead role in a movie.*

19.
X , when asked to rate his test century in Perth (2001), against his Y
achievement (in 2011), didn't hesitate: "I think Y is pretty hard to go past. That
innings was sort of the defining sports moment of my life I would say but my
memory is pretty foggy on some of that cricket stuff,"
Who is X?
What was his Y achievement?

Answer to 19.
ADAM PARORE
Climbing Mt.
Everest

20.
The #KuToo campaign is a movement in Japan against the X Y policy in
workspace.
Campaigners said wearing X Y was considered to be near obligatory when job
hunting or working in many Japanese companies.
X Y ?

Answer to Q20.
High Heels
The KuToo campaign – a play on words from the Japanese kutsu, meaning
shoes, and kutsuu, meaning pain.

Answer).
Photographer Frank Liu was on the search for rhinos recently when he noticed the
eye-catching plains X, likely about a week old.
“At first glance he looked like a different species altogether,” Liu says.
This X has a condition called pseudo melanism, a rare genetic mutation in which
animals display some sort of abnormality on their skin.
X?

1. Bear
2. Caravan
3. Eagles
4. Java
5. Zebra

Answer to Stage 2 Coming up...

Q23.
X is a city in North India and was made famous by a song about Y.
Because X had no connection in selling or making Y when the song became a
rage, the city never made any attempt to capitalise on that popularity.
Now, after 53 years of that song, authorities are working towards giving X a Y. The
civic authorities are seeking NHAI’s approval to install a replica of the said Y at the
entrance to the city X .
Reportedly, the proposed Y will be 2.43 m in diameter and 12 to 14 ft in height.
City X?
What is Y?

Q25.
The current Olympic Equestrian disciplines are -
Show Jumping
Dressage
And
X

Q26.
Looking for a one word connect:

Answer to Q26.
CONCUSSION
● The ICC’s Medical Advisory Committee which was established in 2017, provides
expert advice in sports medicine issues in international cricket. The four-member
Committee which is chaired by Dr Peter Harcourt formulated the ICC guidelines on
concussion management.
● Marnus Labuschagne - 1st Concussion Sub
● Will Smith - 2015 sports drama movie Concussion

Q27.
In a Japanese restaurant, what is “Omakase”, as opposed to “Okonomi”?

Answer to Q27.
Omakase - The customer leaves it up to the chef to choose and serve food.
Okonomi - The customer chooses what to order.

Q28.
Chris Schonberger editor in chief, FIRST WE FEAST…
“Anything that a world leader does in a photograph is politicized...but while these
moments tend to be staged for the press, what I love about this photo of X is how
candid it is. He’s caught eating a very American meal of Chinese food with a
bottle of Coke, yet he looks unmistakably happy…”
Whose iconic photo is this editor talking about?

Q29.
In October 2018, the American fast food chain - Arby’s, introduced a sandwich
based on something represented in the map below. What kind of sandwich and
what does this map represent?

Q30.
The term became popular in 1978 when the American food writer MFK Fisher
wrote a story for Bon Appétit magazine. The headline read “Exclusive: MFK Fisher
on X Foods.” Fisher used the term in a specific context: to describe foods that she
found soothing while eating alone.
By 1998, the phrase turned up in the Oxford English Dictionary and was defined
in terms of childhood nostalgia, family and reassurance.
X ?

Q31.
At the Sydney International Food Festival, an Ad agency designed flags .
The concept was that each nation’s flag was created from the food associated
with that particular country. The Indian flag was created from curries, rice and
papad. The Japanese flag from tuna and rice.
Which country’s flag was created from Lokum?

Q32.
Anthony Bourdain said he noticed the show X was popular in the Middle East
and that troubled him. “The show confirms their worst suspicions — that
Americans are fat, lazy, slothful, wasteful," said Bourdain. He then spoke on
behalf of an imaginary goat herder in Afghanistan, watching as the show X’s
host devoured more animal protein than his family would eat in years. Said
Bourdain: "I know what he’s thinking, 'America is a terrible place. I want to join
ISIS.' "

SCORES……….
AND
CHOCOLATES……….

Q33.
Missing Ingredient from Five Spice Powder?
● Cinnamon
● Cloves
● Fennel Seeds
● Sichuan Pepper
And
X?

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