A general quiz at St Thomas College of Engineering and Technology in 2014

3. Rules of the Game
• 20 questions
• Questions 1,5,10,15 & 20 are starred and
would be used to break ties
• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals

4. 1*
• According to their official website, which
organization's stated vision is “Protect the
powerless from abuse and fight corruption to
ensure basic rights of the poor in rural areas
and discourage traditions like child-marriages”
?

5. 2
• Which unit of measurement originally
referred to the amount of land a team of oxen
could plow in one day?

6. 3
• Who recently became the fourth Mexican born
actress to be nominated for an Oscar after Katy
Jurado, Salma Hayek and Adriana Barazza?

7. 4
• Which are the only two sides to have won a 50
over Cricket World Cup, a T20 World Cup and
a Champions Trophy?

8. 5*
• The Naitik Party of Uttar Pradesh filed a
petition in the Allahabad high court in Jan
2014 seeking to use an election symbol in the
2014 general elections, which it had been
allotted in 2012. Which symbol?

9. 6
• CEO of ?

11. 7
• Identify this character from the Mahabharata

13. 8
• This painting shows the attack on which fort in 1799?

15. 9
• In November 2013, Amar Chitra Katha
released a comic about “The man with the
‘Billion Litre’ idea”. Who?

16. 10*
• Stamp dedicated to?

18. 11
• Connect
– NYSE ticker symbol of the company Olympic steel
– The name of the world’s tallest dog
– Name of a rollercoaster at Mt Olympus theme park in
Wisconsin

19. 12
• The name of which US state comes from the
Aleut word for mainland or peninsula?

20. 13
• Which sport is thus described in John
Newberry’s ‘A Little Pretty Pocket Book’ ?
– The Ball once struck off,
Away flies the Boy
To the next destin’d Post,
And then Home with Joy

21. 14
• The slogan of the Ukranian Democratic
Alliance for Reform is From personal success to
the success of the country. Who is its leader?

22. 15*
• On which occasion was this coin issued?

24. 16
• Identify this marine scientist who presided over
something very unique in October 2009.

26. 17
• Google doodle on whose birthday?

28. 18
• It was originally known as a raised, wooden
framework used sometimes for sleeping upon.
The Indians of Guiana called it a babracot.
• Which modern day word associated with
cuisine?

29. 19
• Where would you find this map?

31. 20*

33. 1
• Four collections of mantras and hymns
emerged out of the four heads of Brahma
when he saw Saraswati. What did the Rishis
sitting around Brahma at that point of time
compose out of it?

34. 2
• Which trust runs an e-services website called
www.ttdsevaonline.com, which also offers a
service known as e-hundi?

35. 3
• Which national memorial bears the names of
more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers
killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the
Afghan war of 1919 ?

37. • The Vedas
• Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam
• India Gate

39. 1*
• According to their official website, which
organization's stated vision is “Protect the
powerless from abuse and fight corruption to
ensure basic rights of the poor in rural areas
and discourage traditions like child-marriages”
?

42. 2
• Which unit of measurement originally referred
to the amount of land a team of oxen could
plow in one day?

44. • Acre

45. 3
• Who recently became the fourth Mexican born
actress to be nominated for an Oscar after Katy
Jurado, Salma Hayek and Adriana Barazza?

48. 4
• Which are the only two sides to have won a 50
over Cricket World Cup, a T20 World Cup and
a Champions Trophy?

50. • India
• West Indies

51. 5*
• The Naitik Party of Uttar Pradesh filed a
petition in the Allahabad high court in Jan
2014 seeking to use an election symbol in the
2014 general elections, which it had been
allotted in 2012? Which symbol?

54. 6
• CEO of ?

57. • Ahmad Jauhari Yahya- CEO of Malaysian
airlines

58. 7
• Identify this character from the Mahabharata

61. • Barbarik

62. 8
• This painting shows the attack on which fort in 1799?

65. • Srirangapatnam

66. 9
• In November 2013, Amar Chitra Katha
released a comic about “The man with the
‘Billion Litre’ idea”. Who?

69. 10*
• Stamp dedicated to?

72. • Raja Ravi Varma

73. 11
• Connect
– NYSE ticker symbol of the company Olympic steel
– The name of the world’s tallest dog
– Name of a rollercoaster at Mt Olympus theme park in
Wisconsin

75. • ZEUS

76. 12
• The name of which US state comes from the
Aleut word for mainland or peninsula?

78. • ALASKA

79. 13
• Which sport is thus described in John
Newberry’s ‘A Little Pretty Pocket Book’ ?
– The Ball once struck off,
Away flies the Boy
To the next destin’d Post,
And then Home with Joy

82. 14
• The slogan of the Ukranian Democratic
Alliance for Reform is From personal success to
the success of the country. Who is its leader?

85. 15*
• On which occasion was this coin issued?

88. • On the occasion of Julius Caesar’s
assassination which was done on the Ides of
March- March the 15th

89. 16
• Identify this marine scientist who presided over
something very unique in October 2009.

92. • Mohammed Nasheed

93. 17
• Google doodle on whose birthday?

96. • Charles Dickens

97. 18
• It was originally known as a raised, wooden
framework used sometimes for sleeping upon.
The Indians of Guiana called it a babracot.
• Which modern day word associated with
cuisine?

100. 19
• Where would you find this map?

103. • Bharat Mata Temple, Varanasi

104. 20*

108. Rules of the Game
• 12 questions
• Questions pass clockwise
• Infinite Bounce, Infinite Pounce
• Infinite Bounce
– Next question goes to the team who has answered
the previous question
– If no one answers next question goes to the same
team
– 10 points for each correct answer
• Infinite Pounce
– If a team is very sure of an answer, they can call the
quizmaster and show him the answer in writing
– + 10 for a correct answer, -5 for a wrong answer

109. 1
• Excerpts from his biography on
incredible-people.com
• In 1952, he was elected M.L.A. from
Nainital constituency.
• In 1976, he became the Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh
• He became Foreign Minister in the
Central Government in 1986.
• Who is this incredible man?

112. 2
Which English word comes from the
Greek word for messenger?

115. 3
• The part of the showgirl was originally written
for the director and lead actor’s new wife, but
later she was replaced by Georgia Hale.
Location filming proved too problematic so the
director shot the entire film on the backlot and
stages of his Hollywood studio. Couple of the
working titles for this movie were “Lucky Strike”
and “Northern Story”. Which famous movie am
I talking about?

118. 4
• They are 5m (length) x 1m (standard width)
and made of semi transparent cotton fabric
like Rubia Fine or Mulmul. Small children may
wear a smaller version referred to as X, which
varies from sizes such as 18 inch x 18 inch to
27 inch x 27 inch. Name the item of clothing
and its smaller version.

121. 5
• It causes severe environmental damage. The
land where it is used becomes barren for
eons, and all life in and around that area
ceases to exist. Women and men become
infertile. There is severe decrease in rainfall
and the land develops cracks, like in a drought.
It was once used to attack Parikshit. What am I
talking about?

124. 6
• This savoury is made from ground moth
lentils, a crop abundant in the city of its origin.
More than 60,000 kgs of this are produced
every day. It was given GI status in 2010. The
city, known for this product was named after a
son of Rao Jodha, founder of Jodhpur.
• Name the product

127. 7
• The last time this trophy was contested, Delhi
beat Sui Northern Gas Pipelines at the
Ferozeshah Kotla, with Virat Kohli being
awarded the man of the match. Amongst the
winners of which tournaments was this trophy
contested? And after which legendary cricketer,
is this trophy named?

129. • Ranji Trophy and Quaid-I-Azam trophy of
Pakistan
• Mohammed Nissar

130. 8
• From October 2013:- "This weekend, instead
of wasting your time and money on
Hollywood propaganda, why not get all your
friends around and spend your time
watching Mediastan instead?“ This was X,
asking people to watch Mediastan, instead of
a Hollywood movie Y starring Benedict
Cumberbach. Mediastan was made by the
organization Z, on whom the movie Y is based.
Name X, Y and Z.

132. • Julian Assange
• The Fifth Estate
• Wikileaks

133. 9
“By definition one can call the X as a five
stringed electric Y. Unlike Y, which works on
physics of resonance created by the
sympathetic strings, in X there are no such
sympathetic strings. To further cut the
resonance I have painted the instrument. Just
like an electric guitar, the pick up on the X
helps me amplify the sound”- Who about the
instrument he pioneered? (X is the
instrument, Y is the instrument on which it is
based)

136. 10

138. • The Thinker- Rhodin
• "The Lacoon" by Polydoros and Athanodoros
• "The Discus Thrower" by Myron

140. 11

143. 12

147. 1

148. 2

149. 3

151. • Roger Federer
• Virat Kohli
• Rahul Gandhi

153. Rules of the Game
– 9 visuals connected by a single theme
– Written round
– +25 for getting the theme in the 1st 2 visuals
– +20 for getting the theme in the 3rd/ 4th visual
– +15 for getting the theme in the 5th/ 6th visual
– +10 for getting the theme in the 7th/ 8th visual
– +5 for getting the theme in the 9th visual
– -5 for each incorrect guess

164. 2014 Oscar best picture nominees
• Philomena (St Philomena’s Church, Mysore)
• Her (Picture of Spike Jonze, director of the movie)
• Nebraska (map shown)
• American Hustle (Poster of 2007 movie of same name)
• Captain Philips (picture of Captain Richard Philips)
• 12 years a slave (based on memoirs of Solomon Northup)
• Gravity (picture of Isaac Newton on Apple Logo
• Wolf of Wall street (picture of Jordan Belfort)
• Dallas Buyers Club (Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders shown)

166. Rules of the Game
• 12 questions
• Questions pass anticlockwise
• Infinite Bounce, Infinite Pounce
• Infinite Bounce
– Next question goes to the team who has answered
the previous question
– If no one answers next question goes to the same
team
– 10 points for each correct answer
• Infinite Pounce
– If a team is very sure of an answer, they can call the
quizmaster and show him the answer in writing
– + 10 for a correct answer, -5 for a wrong answer

167. 1
• The earliest known use of the phrase in
English is in William Congreve’s 1693 play The
Old Batchelour
• That’s one of Loves ---- -----, is always upon
some errand that’s to no purpose.
• Nowadays, this phrase refers to an annual
practice, which phrase?

170. 2
• -----’s number is the number of stars in the
observable universe. A ------ is also used as a
humorous unit of measurement to denote any
large quantity, in reference to the phrase
“billions of billions” associated with him.
• Fill in the blanks

173. 3
• William Staub’s life and career turned after he
read Kenneth Cooper’s 1968 bestseller,
“Aerobics.”
• “The book said if you could run a mile in eight
minutes four or five times a week, you’d
always be in good shape and healthy,”
• What was William Staub’s most famous
invention?

176. 4
• "It was a great plug for the Samsung brand,"
Allen Adamson, managing director at Landor
Associates, a branding firm owned by WPP
PLC told the Journal. “---- ----- is going to be
more impactful than their commercials. You
can't buy that magic of going viral.“
• About what is Allen Adamson talking about?

179. 5
• He was buried in a tomb that resembles a
jewel box and set in a garden. The tomb is also
justly famous for the glorious pietra dura
(stone inlay) decoration depicting cypresses,
wine glasses, and an amazing variety of
geometrical arabesque. Four small minarets
rise at the four corners of the small tomb
structure. Whose tomb built in the 1620’s and
located on the banks of the Yamuna is being
described here?

182. 6
• He compared his physique in the film to that
of a Buddha statue and said that his
colleagues would rub his belly for luck and
even some of the extras, despite being
complete strangers to him, would do the
same. His character is very loosely based on
convicted swindler Melvin Weinberg, whose
story is told in the book "The Sting Man”.
Which actor and movie are being referred to?

185. 7

188. 8
• It was formed sometime around 1996 and still
active until the early 2000s. The official website
vaguely describes it as “the largest nonprofit
security team in the world,”
• ----- is, at its core, a social collective of people
who are, or were at one time, interested in
computer security,” as per founder member
Jonathan Bowie
• One of its members was a former Yahoo
employee and an entrepreneur who incorporated
his most famous venture on Feb 24, 2009.
• Name this group and the famous member.

190. • w00w00
• Jan Koum of Whatsapp fame

191. 9

193. • Adolf Hitler’s gifts
– Maybach given to Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of
Patiala
– Mercedes presented to King Rana of Nepal
– Mercedes presented to King Farouk of Egypt on
the occasion of his wedding

194. 10
• This was made by Mackay Cunningham &
Company of Edinburgh and was hallmarked
1873. The first to receive the trophy was Tom
Kidd, but Tom Morris Junior’s name was the
first to be engraved on it as the 1872 winner.
• Which trophy?

197. 11
• Wandering around central Oviedo, you'll run
into a growing array of grand open-air
sculptures, such as Fernando Botero's Culis
Monumentalibus on Calle Pelayo and a statue
of a famous personality on Calle de las
Milicias Nacionales. This statue has been
repeatedly vandalised, with signs such as “I
am a pedophile” written in Spanish, stuck on
the sculpture. Whose statue?

200. 12
• Identify the instrument Ranbir Kapoor is playing

202. • Thavil

204. 1

206. 2

208. 3

211. Rules of the Game
• A story would be given with some missing
elements from A- H
• Written round
• +5 for a correct answer, +10 for getting all
correct

212. Q
• As per A’s autobiography, In preparation for
her wedding to A, B embarked on an exercise
regimen and hung a photo on the refrigerator
door. The photo was of C who B thought had the
perfect figure. C was later to be A’s second wife. A
was coached by D, who authored a book called
“Winning Ugly”. Identify A, B, C and D. A won his
1st & only Olympic gold medal beating E in the
final. In the same tournament F was the bronze
medalist, the first individual Olympic medalist
from his country, since G. F starred in a movie H,
released in January 2013

214. • Andre Agassi
• Brooke Shields
• Steffi Graf
• Brad Gilbert
• Sergei Bruguera
• Leander Paes
• KD Jadhav
• Rajdhani Express

216. Rules of the Game
• 6 questions
• All questions on the buzzer
• +10 for a correct answer, -5 for a wrong
answer

219. • Jane Mcgrath day, during the Sydney Test
Match of the last Ashes series

222. • Yoshinoro Sakai, the athlete who lit the torch
at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he was born on
6th August 1945, the same day the bomb was
dropped at Hiroshima.

225. • Bhisma’s oath

228. • Baz Luhrmann directed the Great Gatsby

231. • David Karp, CEO of Tumblr

234. • Election Commission of India

236. 1
• What is this trophy named?

238. 2
• Identify the deity

240. 3

243. • Daphne Akhurst Memorial Trophy given to
winner of Australian Open women’s singles
champion
• Sudarshan Chakra
• Copenhagen