Kolstylz General Quiz conducted on May 21st, 2017

1. Welcome to the Workoutable
#kolstylz General Quiz
Research and Conducted by
Bedbyas Datta
Somasish Ghosh

2. 4 Rounds
•Infinite Pounce – 18 Questions
•Short Connect – 20 points
•Infinite Pounce – 18 Questions

3. Connect
•Kolkata Knight Riders
•Magneto
•Boba Fett

5. Corinthian Helmet

6. What is friggatriskaidekaphobia?
Also, explain each part.

8. Fear of Friday the 13th
•Frigga – Old Norse God for whom Friday was
named.
•Tris – 3, kai – and, deka – 10 i.e., 13

9. What is a Poor Man’s bible?

11. Artworks in Churches esp.
Stained Glass windows

12. Whose biography?
•My Name Is Charles _______ And I Am An
Artoholic. Subtitled "Everything You Need To
Know About Art, Ads, Life, God And Other
Mysteries And Weren't Afraid To Ask"

14. Charles Saatchi

15. Which party takes its name from the
maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, in
the 1920s: “El Marxismo-Leninismo
abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la
revolución?”

17. Shining Path

18. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist
who is also known as “The Princess
of _____ ____ ?

20. Polka Dots

21. Historians refer Cleisthenes
as “the father of Athenian
democracy”. He may have been the
founder what practice?

23. Ostracism

24. What is the word for Frugal
innovation in India? Looking for a
6-letter word.

26. Jugaad

27. If it is Spazio Vitale in Italy, what
is it in Germany?

29. Lebensraum

30. Sindonology is the study of what? It
studies Sindone di Torino

32. Shroud of Turin

33. Hugh Jackman will be portraying
whom in the movie The Greatest
Showman?

35. PT Barnum

36. Dis(connect) - Blood O and
Patient Zero.

38. O and 0 being mistaken for the
another.

39. What happened where the Red,
Yellow and Green lines meet?

41. Mutiny on the Bounty

42. Whose 300 crore sales achievement
increased the heart beat of
competitor companies?

44. Pulse candy

45. Definition of what?
A fictional, nonphysical place where
people out of touch with reality live
and where nonsensical ideas come
from

47. La-La land

48. Inside the Red Border is a book
which tells the history of the world
by what/whom?

50. TIME magazine

51. Which car company’s first
independent design is Bellel and
why did they choose this name?

53. Isuzu, which means 50 bells in
Japanese, Bell L(roman numeral)

54. FITB.

56. Breast Cancer

57. Connect
•3 questions carrying 10 points
•Connect 10 points
•Write down the connect

58. Exchange Sheets

59. •The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and
Madness at the Fair That Changed America which
juxtaposes the life’s two men. One of them is
Daniel Burnham, who is the other?

61. H. H. Holmes

62. •Which 1934 work takes its title from Somerset
Maugham’s retelling of a tale involving a
merchant and death?

64. Appointment in Samarra

65. •Three of four Anemoi are Zephyr, Boreas and
Notos. Who is the fourth?

67. Eurus

68. Sherlock Season 4 is the connect

69. According to Vladimir Bukovsky, this
is the definition of what?
I write it myself, edit it myself,
censor it myself, publish it myself,
distribute it myself, and spend jail
time for it myself.

71. Samizdat

72. To which genus does the giant
girdled lizard belong?

74. Smaug

75. Abyssinian Tea, Somali Tea,
Bushmen’s Tea, Flower of Paradise
are various names given to which
flowering plant?

77. Qat or Khat

78. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success is
a book by which sports personality?

80. Phil Jackson

81. Connect
•A recent Palme d’Or award winning movie
•A collection of short stories by Issac Asimov
•A historical novel by Robert Graves

83. All have their title in first person
•I, Daniel Blake
•I, Robot
•I, Claudius

84. What is the title of the book?
•_____ ____: Andy Grove and the Rise of the
World's Most Powerful Chip Company

86. Inside Intel

87. Connect

89. 12.
•Duodenum – twelve fingers width
•Dodecanese – twelve isalnds

90. Name the app.
•This app lets you prank your friends by tricking
them that you are replying by showing typing
indicators while you are offline. It also tells you
the time they have been Waiting for.

92. Godotify

93. Arab sources referred him as
Rudriq, Ludriq al-Kanbiyatur but he is
better known by a name which
derives from the Arabic word sayyid
meaning Lord. Who is he?

95. El Cid

96. Baker’s would arrange their bread in this fashion
and keep the corners empty because the
breads/buns will be subjected to uneven baking.
This might be one of the explanations for what ?

98. Baker’s Dozen = 13.

99. FITB

101. Venn Diagrams, Euler Diagrams

102. Who? Which event?

104. Katie Ledecky, 800m Freestyle

105. Who is the ‘artist’?

107. Ramon y Cajal

108. •In front of which property would you find these:
•Flay Otters
•Warty Towels
•Watery Fowls
•Fatty Owls
•Flowery Twats
•Farty Towels

110. Fawlty Towers

111. •Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is a movie by
Hana Makhmalbaf. The story follows the life of a
girl living where?

113. Remains of Bamiyan Buddhas

114. •The subphylum of Medusozoa belongs to which
kind of creatures in Animal Kingdom?

116. Jellyfish

117. •What word is borrowed from Pali and
means “which goes on or is
customary”?
( A word very familiar among tourists. )

119. Wat