The document outlines a quiz event held by cadets and alumni featuring 57 questions spanning historical events from 1962 to 2018, with a specific scoring system based on correct and incorrect answers. It covers a wide range of topics, including cultural references, significant historical events, and notable personalities. The quiz's rules emphasize teamwork and competitive play, with a humorous anecdote about a quizmaster always being correct.

1. Cadets vs Alumni Quiz
04 August 2018
Flt Lt Pranjal Gupta

2. Rules
• 1962 to 2018= 57 questions
• All Questions on Buzzers: +10 for correct, -5 for getting
it wrong
• Wrong Answer- Passes to the team on the left
for +10/0, no negatives
• Infinite Rebound Left to Right, as you face the stage
• In case nobody buzzes, question- pass to the left of the
team that answered last for +5, no negatives
• Combined score of both the alumni/students teams
will decide the winner.
• Senior Quizmaster is always correct

4. 1962
The team of Chile had a series of bizarre pre
game rituals at the 1962 world cup. For
example:
- Eating swiss cheese ahead of their clash with
Switzerland
- Having Spaghetti before their match against
Italy
What did the players have before their match
against the Soviet Union?

6. Vodka Shots

7. 1963
• Although this term has been used various
times in pop culture, the actual event took
place in the early hours of 8 August 1963, at
Bridego Railway Bridge in Buckinghamshire,
England.
• A 15 membered team led by Bruce Reynolds
was involved.
• What ‘event’ am I talking about?
• Picture of the bridge follows

10. The Great Train Robbery

11. 1964
• Which small island nation achieved its
independence on 21 September 1964?

13. Malta

14. 1965
• This 1965 movie is credited as the film that
saved Twentieth Century Fox, after the
debacle of Cleopatra (1963).
• It won 5 academy awards including best
picture and best director
• Which movie, that is an adaptation of a 1959
stage musical?

16. The Sound of Music

17. 1966
• A massive demonstration was held outside
Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi on 7 November
1966.
• When the demand was not met with, a mob
of 10,000 advocates tried to storm the
parliament.
• What were they demanding, which might
remind you of the current times?

19. Ban on slaughter of cows

20. 1967
• Harold Holt disappeared while swimming near
Portsea, Victoria on 17 December 1967.
• A number of conspiracy theories surfaced,
most famously the suggestion that he had
been collected by a Chinese submarine
• Why did a case of an accidental drowning
draw so much attention?

22. Harold Holt was the Prime Minister of
Australia
• He was eventually declared dead in absentia

23. 1968
• This campaign was a coordinated series of North
Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and
outposts in South Vietnam.
• It was an attempt to foment rebellion among the
South Vietnamese population and encourage the
United States to scale back its involvement in the
Vietnam War.
• News coverage shocked the American public and
eroded support for the war effort.
• What was the name of this campaign, which
started on the Vietnamese new year?

25. Tet offensive
• Tet holiday being the Vietnamese new year

26. 1969
• Some theories about the origin of which term:
• Possibly coined during Led Zeppelin’s first US tour
in 1969.
• Lemmy said that the term might have originated
from his band’s name
• Ian Gillan, frontman of Deep Purple, when asked
if he invented it, said: "That’s a definite
possibility", although he claimed that "it was not
really __________ — more hair floating“
• What term/practice am I talking about?

28. Headbanging

29. 1970
• This organization, although made news due to
events in 1972, was formed in 1970.
• The conflict from which this organization gets
its name is popularly known by the timeframe
in which it took place.
• Which infamous organization am I talking
about?

31. Black September Organization

32. 1971
• In early 1971, eight Osa-I missile boats were
shipped to India from the Soviet Union. Since
there were no heavy cranes in Mumbai, the boats
were offloaded in Kolkata and towed along the
coast to Mumbai.
• This led to the idea that the short range feature
of these boats can be overcome by towing them
nearer to the target.
• This idea proved useful in which successful Indian
campaign in December 1971?

34. Operation Trident

35. 1972
• Which iconic dialogue in the movie Amar
Prem is followed by “Inhein Ponch daalo”?

36. Pushpa, I hate tears

37. 1973
• It is well known that Marlon Brando boycotted
the 1973 academy awards in protest of
Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans.
• But what was the reason behind Al Pacino
boycotting the Oscars that year?

39. He felt insulted at being nominated for
Best Supporting Actor in The
Godfather and not the best actor

40. 1974
• The first use of what happened at a Marsh
supermarket in Troy, Ohio in 1974 involving a
pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum?

42. Barcode

43. 1975
• The 1975 Haicheng earthquake is known for
being one of the few earthquakes to be
successfully predicted throughout history.
• Almost whole of the city was evacuated and
close to 1,50,000 lives were saved.
• In addition to scientific data, what led
authorities to successfully predict the
earthquake?

45. Unusual Animal Behaviour
• Cows and horses looked restless and agitated.
Rats appeared "drunk", chickens refused to
enter their coops and geese frequently took to
flight.

46. 1976
• These conflicts were a series of confrontations
between the United Kingdom and Iceland in
the North Atlantic
• The popular name is due to the commodity
involved in these ‘wars’.
• What name was given to these conflicts?

48. Cod Wars
• These were related to the fishing rights.
• Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic
victory.

49. 1977
• In early 1977, Aerosmith band members had
refused to rent a Convair CV-240 due to
concerns over safety of the plane and
seriousness of the crew.
• Later in October the same plane crashed
leading to the death of three members of
which band?

51. LYNYRD SKYNYRD

52. 1978
• Georgi Markov was a Bulgarian author who
got into trouble with his home authorities
over his anti-communist views.
• He was assassinated in London with the help
of a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin.
• How was he exactly poisoned?
The method might remind you of a similar
instance in a 2018 bollywood movie.

54. The ricin pellet was fired into his leg
using an umbrella

55. 1979
• The man in the image on
the right brought an end
to 2500 years of
continuous monarchy in
which country?

57. IRAN

58. 1980
• The cover of the March 3, 1980, issue of
Sports Illustrated did not feature any
explanatory captions or headlines because
“Everyone in America knew what happened”
• The cover featured the final moments from
which iconic match?

60. Miracle on Ice

61. 1981
1._________________________
2. Pat Benatar - "You Better Run“
3. Rod Stewart - "She Won't Dance With Me“
4. The Who - "You Better You Bet“
5. Ph.D - "Little Susie's On Top“
FITB.

63. Video Killed The Radio Star
• List is of the first five music videos aired on
MTV.

64. 1982
• Ciabatta is an Italian
white bread which was
created in 1982 by a baker
in Verona,Italy, in
response to the popularity
of French baguettes.
• The bread is elongated,
broad and flat.
• What does the word
Ciabatta mean in Italian?

66. Slipper

67. 1983
• This took place in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh
before the portraits of Gandhi and Goddess
Durga.
• The onlookers included a crowd of around
10,000 people and 300 policemen, apart from
the then chief minister of Madhya Pradesh,
Arjun Singh.
• What event am I talking about?

69. The Surrender of Phoolan Devi

70. 1984
Identify the blanked out
part.

72. Macintosh
• Steve Jobs presenting
the newly launched
Macintosh to the public

73. 1985
• The title of this book has
been derived from the case
study of one of the patients
of the author who has
visual agnosia.

76. 1986
• In January 1986, Neelim Kumar Khaire created
an unusual world record which involved
staying in a glass cage in the B.J. Medical
College sports ground for 72 hours.
• What was the record exactly about?
Later that year, Neelim Khaire became the first
director of a famous location in Pune.

78. The record was staying with snakes in
a glass cabin for the longest duration
He became the first director of the
Katraj snake park

79. 1987
• In 1989 Mathias Rust stabbed a female co
worker who had rejected him
• In 2001, he was convicted of stealing a
cashmere pullover
• Why was he all over International news on 28
May 1987?

81. Landing a plane in Red square,
Moscow

82. 1988
• The X revolution is a commonly used name for
events between 1987-91 that led to the
independence of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
• This term was coined by an Estonian activist
and artist, Heinz Valk, in an article published a
week after spontaneous mass night X
demonstrations on 10-11 June 1988.

84. Singing Revolution

85. 1989
• “Here’s this guy who is obviously just out
shopping, and finally he’s just had enough ”
• “I assume he thinks he’s going to die. But he
doesn’t care because for whatever reason—
either he’s lost a loved one or he’s just had it
with the government, or whatever it is—his
statement is more important than his own life.
• This is Jeff Widener’s description of whom?

87. Tank man

88. 1990
• In 1980, Martin Scorsese made what may be
the finest film of the 80s, Raging Bull, but lost
Best picture and director to a matinee idol
directing his first film(Robert Redford, with
Ordinary People)
• Ten years later, he again lost(Goodfellas) in a
similar fashion to which western classic?

90. Dances With Wolves

91. 1991
• In 1991, McVities defended its classification of
Jaffa Cakes as cakes, against the ruling that Jaffa
cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape,
and the fact that they were often eaten in place
of biscuits.
• McVities insisted that the product hardens when
stale, in the manner of a cake, and allegedly
produced a giant Jaffa cake in the court.
• Why all this fuss about Jaffa Cakes being cake or
biscuit?

93. To save tax
In UK, VAT is payable on chocolate-
covered biscuits, but not on chocolate
covered cakes

94. 1992
• In November 1992, Pope John Paul II, before
the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, officially
apologised for something that happened more
than 350 years ago.
• Whom was he apologising to?

96. Galileo Galilei

97. 1993
• The ‘Velvet Divorce’ occurred between which
two entities?

99. Czechoslovakia split into Czech
Republic and Slovakia

100. 1994
• This F1 driver was killed during qualifying for
the San Marino Grand Prix at the Imola circuit
on April 30, 1994.
• He went off-track on the previous lap,
damaging his front wing, but rather than
come into the pits, he continued, since he was
competing for the final grid spot.

102. Ayrton Senna
Roland Ratzenberger
• Senna died the following day.

103. 1995
The Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the
Black Brant Scare, occurred when a Norwegian
rocket reached an altitude resembling a U.S. Navy
submarine launched Trident missile.
As a result, Russian nuclear forces were put on high
alert, and the nuclear weapons command suitcase
was brought to Russian president Boris Yeltsin.
The rocket was launched to study which natural
phenomenon over Svalbard?

105. Aurora Borealis

106. 1996
• The FBI pushed for the publication of
“Industrial Society and Its Future”, which led
to his brother David recognizing his style of
writing and beliefs and tipped off the FBI.
• Who was caught finally with the aid of his
brother?

108. Unabomber
• Industrial Society and Its Future being the
Unabomber Manifesto

109. 1997
• Which prominent industrialist was abducted
in a car from the outskirts of Ahmedabad and
released after payment of Rs 15 crore?

111. Gautam Adani

112. 1998
• Ahead of the FA cup final, Newcastle
supporters planned a stunt to honour their
talismanic captain Alan Shearer.
• Using catapults and fishing wire, they
managed to host a giant replica of Shearer’s
number nine Newcastle United onto which
sculpture?

114. Angel of the North

115. 1999
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee presented a copy of the
literary work ‘Sarhad’ as a gift to Nawaz Sharif
during the historic Lahore summit in February
1999.
• Sarhad was the last anthology of which
prominent Urdu author?

117. Ali Sardar Jaffri

118. 2000
• X, beheaded in 1535 for defying Henry VIII and
canonised as a martyr 400 years later, was
declared as the patron saint of politicians by
the Pope.
• Id X

120. Thomas More

121. 2001
• When Yuri Usachov ordered a Pizza from Pizza
Hut, the pizza was seasoned with extra spices,
specially salt. And although pepperoni is the
chain’s most popular topping, the company
settled for salami.
• Why were these changes made by Pizza Hut?

123. Because the Pizza was being delivered
to space
• Yuri Usachov was aboard the ISS(International
Space Station)
• Extra salt because taste buds become a little
dulled in space and Pepperoni grew mold in
space

124. 2002
• Toronto’s Asian population suddenly faced
increased discrimination. Local advocacy
groups reported Asians being passed over by
real-estate agents and taxi drivers and
shunned on public transportation.
• What was the reason behind the sudden
increase in hostility towards the Asian
population in late 2002?

126. SARS outbreak in China

127. 2003
• Which bowler became the first cricketer to
take a hat trick on the first three balls of an
ODI during the 2003 world cup?

129. Chaminda Vaas
against Bangladesh

130. 2004
• Tuned mass damper is a device designed to
counter the effects of wind and seismic activity
on a skyscraper.
• TMDs are present in tall buildings around the
world, particularly those in earthquake-prone
zones
• X is unique in that its TMD is accessible to the
public. In fact, it’s marketed as a big attraction,
complete with a “Damper Baby” character that
serves as the building’s mascot
• Identify the skyscraper X(image follows)

133. Taipei 101

134. 2005
• After more than 30 years, Mark Felt
acknowledged that he was X, after being
persuaded by his daughter to reveal his
identity.
• What is X/ What did he do?

136. Deep Throat
• The whistleblower who provided Woodward
and Bernstein information about the
watergate scandal.

137. 2006
• The main reason behind this demotion was
that It has not cleared its neighbouring region of
other objects
What am I talking about?

139. Pluto no longer being a planet
• Pluto was unable to meet the criteria for a full
sized planet as laid down by the IAU

140. 2007
• Concert for _____ was a
benefit concert held at the
newly built Wembley
stadium in London.
• FITB/In whose memory
was this concert held?

142. Concert for Diana
(10th Anniversary of her death)

143. 2008
• Stephen Greenspan wrote a book called
Annals of Gullibility: Why we get duped and
how to avoid it. This book came out in
December 2008. Ironically enough, he had
invested more than a third of his retirement
savings with whom?

145. Bernie Madoff
(who pulled off the biggest ponzi scam
in history)

146. 2009
• Identify this structural
biologist of Indian origin
who shared the 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for studies of the structure
and function of the
ribosome

148. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

149. 2010
• Kasubi Tombs, the only UNESCO World
Heritage Site of this African country were
destroyed by fire.
• The cause of the fire is yet unknown.
• The Kasubi Tombs are found in which African
country?

151. UGANDA

152. 2011
• Who was the TIME magazine’s person of the
year?
• The choice was made keeping in mind that
this was the year of the Arab Spring, the
Indignants movement, the Occupy movement
and the Tea party movement among others.

154. The Protester

155. 2012
• The skeletal remains of whom(killed in 1485)
were found during an archaeological dig in
Leicester beneath a car parking?

157. King Richard III
• He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in
1485

158. 2013
• India decided to wind up the telegram service
in July 2013.
• The first telegraph message in India was
transmitted between what two points?

160. Between Calcutta and Diamond
Harbour

161. 2014
• Protestors from which group inflicted
irreversible damage to the Nazca Lines in Peru
when they laid out banners ironically decrying
the destruction of the environment?
• Image follows

164. Greenpeace

165. 2015
• X first appeared in 1970 as a companion to the
monthly Hara-Kiri magazine, after a previous
title was banned for mocking the death of
former French President Charles De Gaulle.
• The events involving this satirical weekly
magazine generated a global outcry.

167. Charlie Hebdo

168. 2016
• Abraham Munoz ran the Chicago marathon in
5 hours, 41 minutes, 52 seconds.
• Why was this achievement special?

170. He ran the marathon while juggling a
football the whole time

171. 2017
• Brian Brown, an entomologist at the Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles discovered the
tiniest parasitic fly in the world near Manaus,
Brazil in 2017. Interestingly whom did he
name this fly after, due to one set of legs
being disproportionately strong?

173. Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The tiniest parasitic fly in the world is named
after Arnold Schwarzenegger.

174. 2018
2018 edition of these games
were held in the city of
Tarragona, Italy.
What games are these which
include select group of athletes
from Europe, Asia and Africa?

176. Mediterranean Games

177. SCORES?