A General Quiz as part of Experiment Labs’ Saturday Quiz Night. Experiment Labs is a community platform that helps learners develop vision, holistic personality, observation skills and a career oriented approach through community run courses and ideation sessions.

2. Quiz Rules
1. +10 on each correct direct question.
2. +10 on each correct bounce question.
3. No Negatives.
4. For direct questions we will move alphabetically, Starting from letter A.
5. In case of an incorrect response, the question will pass to the next person
who has not pounced for the question.

3. General Rules
1. Since there is no negative on a direct, take a guess.
2. Use of Google or any sort of a search engine is discouraged
3. In-built tie breakers
4. The Quiz Master is always right.
5. In case you find the QM wrong, refer to point 4.
Neither cheating, nor thoughts
about cheating are entertained!
Just like the audience of this film!

4. Warm-up
Jog for five minutes on a treadmill
Light stretching of the neck, arms, legs, and back
Strength Exercises
Front planks: 2 sets for 30 seconds
Side planks: 1 set/15-30 seconds on each side
Wall Squat with Exercise Ball: 3 sets/10-12 reps
Medicine Ball Push-Ups: 1 set/10-12 reps each hand
Knee Lifts: 1 set/10-12 reps each leg
Bench Sit and Stand with Medicine Ball: 3 sets/8-10 reps
Chest Press: 3 sets/10-12 reps
Cool Down
Repeat light stretching of the neck, arms, legs, and back
This is an hour long routine designed by Bryant
Johnson, a US Army veteran. Johnson uses the
trademark ‘Body Justice’ for the establishment
that he owns.
Name the famous workout programme.
1.

7. According to a Mira Nair interview, during her time at Harvard, she only knew two
other Indian students; one of them was Sooni Taraporevala and other was X.
Cinestaan Film Company (CFC) is a boutique film studio co-promoted by X. It is
committed to championing stories that resonate with global audiences. ‘Cold War’
a 2018 film co-promoted by the company was nominated for 3 Academy Awards
including 'Best Foreign Film'.
X’s student film 'Yatra' is buried deep in the archives of Harvard, much to his relief.
ID. X
2.

9. Anand Mahindra

10. ID. the poet whose life events can also be described by these lines by him.
Zafar aadmi us ko na jāniyegā vo ho kaisā hi
sāhab-e-fahm-o-zakā
jise aish meñ yād-e-ḳhudā na rahī jise taish meñ ḳhauf-e-
ḳhudā na rahā
3.

12. Bahadur Shah Zafar

13. Ghaziyoñ meñ bū rahegī jab tak imān kī, Takht London tak chalegī tegh Hindostān kī.
As long as there remains the scent of faith in the hearts of our Ghazis, so long shall the
Talwar of Hindustan flash before the throne of London.
(Dubious source)

14. If Newell’s Old Boys is a Sports club in Rosario, Argentina, X is a Swiss Sports
Club based in Bern. X was named to mimic a Basel based club which shares its
name with the Argentine club.
ID X.
*Joke Answers Allowed*
Bonus Question: Some NOB players to represent Argentina in the World cup are
Gabriel Batistuta, Éver Banega, Gabriel Heinze, Mauricio Pochettino etc. Identify
the person after whom their home Stadium is name.
4.

16. BSC Young Boys

17. One of the earliest depictions of the use of X in literary fiction is found in James
Joyce's famous novel Ulysses, but the adoption of it was low before World War II.
During the war, a nylon variant was developed by physician Charles C. Bass.
Nylon was found to be better than silk because of its greater abrasion resistance
and because it could be produced in great lengths and at various sizes.
How is X related to an SNL performance by 14-year-old Russell Horning, known
as "the backpack kid", and Katy Perry?
What is X?
5.

19. Floss

20. John Cleese in a late night talk show mentioned that when Monty Python were
looking for funding to make Life of Brian, Eric Idle had the idea of phoning X, the
richest person he knew. X had to remortgage his mansion to fund the film under
the banner of HandMade Films.
He later described it as “the most expensive cinema ticket ever issued”.
ID X.
6.

22. George Harrison

23. Yuksom Breweries is a brewery based in Sikkim, India. The brewery sells three
million cases of beer every year and is the third largest beer brand in India. It also
owns the Rhino Breweries operations in Assam.
Who is the promoter of Yuksom Breweries?
7.

25. Danny Denzongpa

26. Steven Davies is a former England wicketkeeper who made his international debut
in 2009. He had a brief stint in the team only to be replaced by Matt Prior.
Davies is part of a small group which includes other cricketers like England’s
Katherine Brunt, Nat Sciver, New Zealand's Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu,
South Africa's Dane van Niekerk, Marizanne Kapp etc.
What connects all these cricketers?
8.

28. Cricketers who are openly gay

29. A film produced by Andrew Wakefield was withdrawn from New York's 2016
Tribeca Film Festival after the festival's founder Robert De Niro reversed his
decision to include it. A critic of the film argued that if the film had been submitted
as science fiction, it would merit attention for its story line, character development
and dialogue, but as a documentary, it misrepresents science.
What is the film about?
9.

31. Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
Claims of a link between the MMR(Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine and
autism

32. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental
satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by
NASA and the ISRO. The project made available informational television
programs to rural India. The main objectives of the experiment were to educate
the financially backward and academically illiterate people of India on various
issues via satellite broadcasting, and also to help India gain technical experience
in the field of satellite communications. As part of the experiment, 2400 villages,
in 6 selected States of India, were provided with TV sets and its impact was
observed for a year.
One such TV set was also present in Sri Lanka. ID the person to whom this one
set was given.
10.

34. Arthur C Clarke

35. ID. the two people in white
11.

37. Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in Cuba

38. Times Internet Group has a short format video app called X. According to a
brandpost in HT Mint, ‘Having emerged as the number 1 short video platform in
India, X has shown huge growth in terms of users, usage time and its large
community of content creators amongst other metrics.’ In December 2020, the app
started a 1 Billion INR fund for Indian creators on the platform.
ID the app.
12.

40. MX TakaTak

41. ‘Rahimi’, believed to be the largest Indian vessel
trading in the Red Sea was seized and subsequently
burned by the Portuguese in 1613. The whole affair
was meant to gain leverage at a time when the
Portuguese were threatened by competition for other
European companies. The move misfired, Jahangir
immediately had Daman besieged, blocked all
Portuguese trade in Surat and seized all their goods.
He even sealed their church doors and halted their
religious practices. This event is known to have
tipped the scales in favour of the English to conduct
their operations in India.
Who was the owner of this large vessel?
13.

43. Mariam uz-Zamani/Harkabai
Often erroneously called Jodhabai

44. Aatank Hi Aatank is a 1995 Indian action crime
film written, edited and directed by Dilip
Shankar. It stars Rajinikanth, Aamir Khan, Juhi
Chawla and Archana Joglekar in the lead.
It is only movie where Aamir and Rajnikanth
have shared screen space.
What is this movie based on?
14.

46. The Godfather

47. Chorley FC is a football club which competes in the
National League-North, the 6th tier of English Football.
In a giant killing spree, they recently defeated Derby
County in a FA cup tie to advance to the 4th round of
the competition. Chorley FC have a post match
tradition after every win where the team performs a
sing-along.
What song do they sing?
15.

49. Someone Like You by Adele

50. On the first day of the Sydney Pink
Test(a.k.a. The Hanuma Vihari* Test)
on 7th Jan 2021, the Aussie Cricket
team became the first at something
not directly related to Cricket.
This was in line with the decision that
came into effect from the New Year’s
Day.
What is this historic feat?
16.

52. They sang the National Anthem with the altered word.

53. X is the efficient Covid-19 detection test developed by a research team at the
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. It employs the cutting-edge
CRISPR-Cas9 technology which earned the Emmanuelle Charpentier and
Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Earlier, Cas9’s cousins – Cas12 and Cas13 – were used to develop COVID-19
detection kits in the US, they are called ‘Detectr’ and ‘Sherlock’.
ID X
17.

55. Feluda

56. The "mayday" procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s
by Frederick Stanley Mockford, a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport, London.
He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily
be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the
air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he
proposed the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aider (from
venez m'aider, "come [and] help me"). This was incorporated for cross Channel
flights in Feb 1923.
What was the previously used distress call which didn’t seem appropriate for voice
communication. (Hint: Think ABBA/Rihanna )
18.

58. SOS

59. MN Roy had a very eventful life. As part of the Indian freedom struggle, he found himself
moving from Kolkata to Java to Beijing. When being chased by British spies, he
managed to get himself on a ship to San Francisco. He spent some time in Palo Alto and
when bothered by the spies again, he moved to Mexico.
In June 1938, in Pune he formed his League of Radical Congressmen. Disillusioned with
both bourgeois democracy and communism, he devoted the last years of his life to the
formulation of an alternative philosophy which he called Radical Humanism.
He finally spent his last years in Dehradun till his death in 1954.
What did MN Roy establish during his stay in Mexico?
19.

62. Mexican Communist Party

63. This is a NY Times headline from May 2020 when they noticed a trend after going
through a bunch of interviews, broadcasts, webinars etc.
The trend was captured by a parody Twitter handle with a similar name which puts
out snarky remarks. For ex. This about Guardian Columnist Owen Jones.
“This a power credibility grab. The double shoulder presentation combines with the upward angling to give Owen the look of
a gang boss flanked by a couple of heavies explaining the facts of life to someone.”
20.

65. Credibility Bookshelf

66. Excellent Art is a stallion of
prime pedigree and a winner
of multiple prestigious
derbies.
The owners of this horse
comes from a family of horse
breeders but have been
recently in news for other
reasons.
ID. the owners
21.

68. The Poonawallas

69. A Gilly Box or Scully Box is an
object used in film production.
What purpose does it serve?
Why is it called that?
22.

71. Named after Gillian Anderson and her character Dana Scully in The X-files.

72. As the popular story goes, KL Rahul was named
so because his father mistook it to be the name
of Sunil Gavaskar’s son, who is, in fact, named
Rohan. (Rahul, naam to suna hoga?)
Rohan Gavaskar, himself is named after 3
cricketers that his father liked.
ID. these 3 cricketers.
Name the only International ground where
Rohan Gavaskar claims to have scored more
First Class runs than his father.
(Part Points allowed)
23.

74. Rohan JaiVishwa Gavaskar
Rohan Kanhai
M. L. Jaisimha
Gundappa Vishwanath
The Eden Gardens

75. The 1832 Bombay Riots are said to be the first recorded riot in the history of
modern Mumbai.
The rioting occurred when the Parsi population of the city was not pleased with a
decision taken by the British administered Magistrate of Police. Before this, the
British and the Parsis were noted as having gotten along well with each other.
By what other name are these riots more well known?
24.

77. Bombay Dog Riots
When you google search ‘Parsi man with dogs’

78. Brian Acton is a tech billionaire who started his career working for companies like
Apple, Adobe Systems and Rockwell International before spending 9 years at
Yahoo. He is now known for a service that he co-founded in 2009. In 2017, he was
extremely critical of how the service was being run and decided to walk out of it.
In the same year, he set up a non profit foundation, of which he is board member,
with a 50 million USD loan. The foundation also provides the same service as his
earlier venture.
ID. the foundation
25.

80. Signal Foundation

81. This is an exhaustive list for what?
● Ulysses S. Grant
● Grover Cleveland
● Herbert Hoover
● Lyndon B. Johnson
● George H.W. Bush
● George W. Bush
● Barack Obama
26.

83. Presidents against whom impeachment resolutions were introduced, but no action
was taken.

84. 27
Hans Zimmer- the famous German film score composer and record producer has
worked on blockbusters like Rain Man, Interstellar, Gladiator, Inception, Blade
Runner 2049, Dark Knight trilogy etc.
He has been nominated for the Academy Awards 11 times but has only won it
once.
Which film did he win it for?

87. 28
In 1846, The Times of India reported an order from the Bombay garrison that
whenever native troops were to be transported by ship, “the commissariat
department will supply only grain parched, and X, for their use on the voyage.” In
1878, the paper reported that a troop of sepoys was detained at Cyprus for want of
‘X’ for their journey back home.
In 2019, a co-operative union demanded a GI tag for X along with some other
products from the Malwa region. It can be contested that X is not limited or native
to the region thus denying the need for a GI tag. Neighbouring regions and states
have had their own variants of X.
ID X.

89. Poha or Indori Poha

90. 29
• XY exhibited a gift for mathematics from an early age and excelled in the subject under the tutorship
of her father. She is credited with developing a form of the pie chart now known as the polar area
diagram, or occasionally the Y rose diagram, equivalent to a modern circular histogram, to illustrate
sources of mortality in a military field hospital. XY called a compilation of such diagrams a "coxcomb",
but later that term would frequently be used for the individual diagrams.
• She made extensive use of coxcombs to present reports on the medical care in the Crimean War to
MPs and civil servants who wouldn’t have understood the stats without it. In 1859, XY was elected the
first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and later became an honorary member of the
American Statistical Association.
• XY later made a comprehensive study of sanitation in Indian rural life and was the leading figure in the
introduction of public health service in India. In 1858 and 1859, she successfully lobbied for the
establishment of a Royal Commission into the Indian situation.
• She was portrayed in The Lady With the Lamp by Anna Neagle and appeared on the reverse of £10
banknotes from 1975 until 1994.
• XY?

92. Florence Nightingale

93. 30
This is the
filmography of
someone with a far
more successful TV
career.
ID. the blanked out
film. The lead of the
film isn’t too
pleased with it.

95. Home Alone 2

96. Fin.