General Quiz, themed around all things 2017. Conducted at Ahmedabad Quiz Club in December'17.

1. There and Back Again
The Year in Review Quiz - 2017
Ahmedabad Quiz Club
Prelims/Pounce+Bounce
Siddharth Srivastava

2. Q1
‘Big Baller Brand’ is an American company that designs,
manufactures, and sells clothing and shoes. It was founded and
currently run by someone who is mostly known for his bold
statements in the American Sports fraternity?

3. LaVar Ball

4. Q.2
Identify the Institution, expected to facilitate cultural exchange
between the West and the East

7. Louvre Abu Dhabi

8. Q.3
Which recurring 2017 phenomenon does this contraption seek to
tackle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvoghTfFSY&t=30s

9. Prints and Burns Trump’s tweets

10. Internet fad inspired by a spooky scene from which movie?
Q.4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21WXwWfnDLg

11. #GetOut Challenge

12. Some specimens of artworks present at sydweiler.com
Which particular piece of art brought the artist to public notice?
Q.5

14. In this still from S2, Stranger Things – in order to make Eleven blend
in to the school, Mike and his friends make her dress up with a
golden wig and peach dress.
This scene pays a homage to
a blockbuster movie in which a
little boy needs to hide a certain
someone from the outside world
Q.6

16. These are the opening two
stanzas of Logic’s superhit track
from his 2017 album Everybody,
which tackles the issue at hand in
a very unique way. Put funda
I've been on the low, I been taking my time
I feel like I'm out of my mind,It feel like my life
ain't mine
Who can relate?, I've been on the low
I been taking my time
I feel like I'm out of my mind
It feel like my life ain't mine
I don't wanna be alive, I don't wanna be alive
I just wanna die today, I just wanna die
I don't wanna be alive, I don't wanna be alive
I just wanna die, And let me tell you why
Q.7

18. Towards the end of Justice League, the Flash and Superman are
engaged in saving civilians who are caught in the ordeal. Upon
saving this girl’s family, she
thanks the Flash to which the
Flash responds with the only
Russian word he knows, the
last name of a prolific writer
Q.8

19. Dostoevsky

20. Lagos-born Adetomiwa Edun
serves as the model for which
virtual avatar?
Q.9

21. Alex Hunter, the story mode character in FIFA 17, 18

22. Identify the gentleman in this Super Bowl advertisment
Q.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKYE2ba53Y

23. Tom Brady

24. In what can be termed as an evolved method of product
placement, Old Forester distilleries partnered with this 2017 movie,
the second instalment of the franchise to come up with a product
which is instrumental in providing continuity from the first part.
Q.11

26. His lesser known investments include
- 3M India (1.5%)
- Jubilant Foodworks (1.1%)
- Gati (1.8%)
- India Cement (1.4%)
- Blue Dart Express (5.4%)
Which veteran investor’s portfolio is this?
Q.12

28. Put Funda – If you were to reach
‘http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/hannahsreasons’, what
would you find there?
Q.13

29. The Audio Tapes

30. Company spokesperson said that “..The new name reflected the
company's history and the fact that many brands will be
interwoven to create one product..”. They have already acquired
Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade over the past two years
However for the general public, the new name reminded them
of the 1971 Carole King classic that now shares a name with the
fashion house. For others, the name sounded "musty" or "old”.
.
Q.14

32. If the most recent one meant ‘the Eye’, the previous one meant the
‘Star of the Sea’ and the next one will mean ‘the Sea’ – What
method of nomenclature is being talked about?
Q.15

33. Cyclones in North Indian Ocean

34. Initially, the name was rumored to be a reference to a certain NBA
legend. However, when asked about his stage name A-B , he
clarified that A is his actual last name and B came through a rap
name generator.
Q.16

35. Post Malone

36. Located in Sonipat, identify the most prominent alumni of this
college
Q.17

38. Favoring ‘National unity’ and opposed (ironically) to caste-centric
positive discrimination and ‘Corruption’.
Based out of Jaipur, their past projects include
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Veer (2010)
Q.18

40. Amongst his other achievements, he
holds the Guinness world record for
- Largest display of oil lamps
- Largest finger painting
- Largest vegetable mosaic
Identify this fine gentleman pictured
here
Q.19

42. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was
jointly awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W.
Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the
circadian rhythm
They used what as the model organism, later jokingly credited as the
‘Fourth awardee’ by this group?
Q.20

44. When the Kannada musical Taayavva, written and directed by renowned theatre
artist and social activist Prasanna was released, special invitations were sent to Arun
Jaitley and Narendra Modi to watch the play.
In the opening scene,the audience meets the central character Taayavva.
Taayavva rues how difficult it is to convert her watery saaru or rasam into something
delicious for her son.
‘See, what I have again is this watery concoction,” she says. “Doesn’t my son, one
who toils day and night, deserve at least a piece of fish in his saaru, or some
vegetables, perhaps? Don’t ask! Thankfully, at least we can avail subsidised rice.
Else, even that would be elusive.’
Q.21

45. Defy GST

46. LA Based Brian Cullinan was at the heart of which early 2017
controversy?
Q.22

47. Moonlight <> La La Land being awarded the best Picture at Oscars
’17

48. Trump, when it comes to givin' a s---,
you're stingy as I am,
Except when it comes to having the balls
to go against me, you hide 'em,
'Cause you don't got the f---ing nuts, like
an empty asylum,
Racism's the only thing he's fantastic for,
'Cause that's how he gets his f---ing
rocks off and he's orange,
Yeah, sick tan,
That's why he wants us to disband,
'Cause he can not withstand,
In October, Eminem released a
freestyle rap attack, filmed in a
Detroit car park.
From the excerpt provided here,
identify what comic character did
he compare Trump to?
Q.23

50. "It’s natural, it’s colorful, it’s hedonistic, there’s an indulgence aspect to
it, but it keeps the authenticity of chocolate. It has a nice balance that
speaks a lot to millennials.” CEO, Barry Callebaut AG, the world’s largest
cocoa processor commenting on which 2017 discovery?
Q.24

51. Ruby Chocolate

52. Although this belief has been around for a long time, 2017 is when it
came into popular consciousness with several celebrities claiming to be
followers. The most well known believers are below
- Shaquille O’Neal
- Kyrie Irving
- The rapper B.O.B
- Andrew Flintoff
Q.25

53. Flat Earth society

54. Catherine Hettinger is credited
with being the inventor of this tool,
something she had created to
entertain her grand daughter. She
held the patent for this from 1997-
2005 but had to surrender it since
she was unable to afford the
renewal fee
Q.26

55. Fidget Spinners

56. Commissioned by State Street Global Advisors via McCann New York
and measuring approximately 50 inches tall, and weighing about 250
pounds, what ‘exercise in corporate imaging’ as per a New Yorker
columnist is being talked about here?
Q.27

57. Fearless Girl

58. Located about 4,000 miles west of Hawaii in the western Pacific Ocean
and covering roughly 210-square miles, this location is of strategic
importance to the Pacific defence capabilities of the US, precisely why it
is under the imminent threat of attack by North Korea. Identify this
Pacific Island
Q.28

59. Guam

60. This widely debated topic throughout 2017 always garners mixed
responses, with Jimmy Kimmel declaring that ‘X do not belong on Y. I
don’t care where you're from. Any Y that tastes better with X wasn’t a
good Y.’ while Justin Bieber comments ‘X on Y is good, you guys don't
like that?’
Q.29

61. Pineapple on Pizza

62. While at at the La Providence High School in Amiens, at the age of 15 he
fell in love with his teacher, 24 years his senior. They started dating
when he turned 17.
His parents initially attempted to separate the couple by sending him
away to finish the final year of his schooling, but the couple stayed
together even after he graduated, and eventually they married in 2007.
Which 2017 newsmaker are we talking about?
Q.30

63. Emmanuel Macron

64. Originally called USS Diablo (SS-479), it was leased from the United
States by Pakistan in 1963. Mostly deployed to defend East Pakistan,
why was it in news in 2017?
Q.31

66. Q.32
Connect the next set of images to this mid-2017 event that brought with
it a wave of nostalgia

70. From Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express – What has
this shot been inspired by?
Q.33

72. Identify and complete the list
2007 – Toni Kroos
2009 – Sani Emmanuel
2011 – Julio Gomez
2013 – Keleichi Ilheanacho
2016 – Kelechi Nwakali
2017 –
Q.34

73. Phil Foden – U17 FIFA WC Golden Ball winners

74. By instituting and presenting Emma Watson with the award, what first
did the MTV Movie and TV Awards ceremony achieve in May this year?
Q.35

75. First Gender Neutral Acting Awards

76. In an attempt to amuse travelers, what seemingly nonsensical lyrics
were chosen as Thought for the Day by Transport for London at the
Paddington Tube Station?
Q.36

77. The Ting goes Skkraa – Big Shaq

78. Identify the product from this 2017 Super Bowl advertisement
Q.37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=530CN430IkQ

79. Skittles

80. There and Back Again
The Year in Review Quiz - 2017
Connect Round

81. While preparing for this role, Robert De Niro entered three genuine
Boxing matches at the Brooklyn Arena and won two of them.
Whose life was the movie based on ?
+50/-25

82. Jake LaMotta

83. +40/-20
Who is Sachin getting interviewed by?

84. Tom Alter

85. Who is the only female recipient of the Fields medal?
+30/-15

86. Maryam Mirzakhani

87. The Anna Politkovskaya Award, currently instituted by the Reach All
Women in War (RAW in WAR) organisation, was established to
remember and honor the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in
order to silence her courageous reporting about the second war in
Chechnya. Who has been the most recent Indian recipient of this
award?
+20/-10

88. Gauri Lankesh

89. If Sher Khan was voiced by Nana Patekar, Kaa by Priyanka Chopra,
Raksha was voiced by Shefali Shah – Then who lent his voice to the
character of Bagheera in the Hindi version of the Jungle Book (2016) ?
+10/-05

90. Om Puri

91. Trump was a glossy magazine, aimed at satire and humor in the forms of
comic features and short
stories. Edited by Harvey Kurtzan, which
colorful personality was its publisher?
+5/-0

92. Hugh Hefner

93. Notable Deaths in 2017

94. Thank you