General Quiz

1. FRESHERS QUIZ 2014
Prelims

2. GROUND RULES
• 25 Questions
• Each question carries 1 point (Sub-parts have equally divided points)
• No cross-talking !
• No nosepicking !!
• Read questions carefully. We have left more than enough hints !!
• *ed questions resolve ties.
• And of course, Quizmaster is God

3. 1. Old logo of which famous company ?
This logo was controversial for its alleged hidden
references to Satan and 666.

5. 2. What is the significance of this photo ?

6. Gandhiji’s face on currency notes comes from here

7. 3. Clever ad campaign for ?

8. FedEx

9. 4. Dialogue from ‘The Social Network’
Divya Narendra: And Mark became the biggest thing on a campus with
19 Nobel prize winners, 15 Pulitzer prize winners, 2 future Olympians
and a Movie star.
Who were the Olympians and the Movie star ? (No part points)

10. Olympians: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
Movie Star: Natalie Portman

11. 5* What is happening here ?

12. Warne-Muralidaran Trophy

13. 6. Minimalist posters: Bollywood

14. Answer
• 3 Idiots
• Mr India

15. 7.
• The first was held in 1810, in honor of the Bavarian Crown Prince
Ludwig’s marriage to princess Therese Von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
Upto 7 Million people attend it each year. Most of it takes place at the
tents sitting next to one-another on the huge fairgrounds. There are
14 tents in all, some of which hold upto 10,000 people.
• What am I talking about?

16. Answer
• Oktoberfest

17. 8*
• The origins of this company go back to 1927 when designer Ferdinand
Porsche, who had created a number of expensive state-of-the-art
cars, turned his attention to a simpler low end vehicle. In 1933, Adolf
Hitler took an interest in Porsche’s ideas. In 1937, a company was set
up by the German govt. to achieve a single purpose-create a cheap
automobile for the masses. Id the brand created by Ferdinand and
the car.

18. Answer
• Volkswagen Beetle

19. 9. Really Simple. Think Science. Who/What?

20. Answer
• Schrodinger’s Cat

21. 10*
• Which characters are named Uys and Buys in Afrikaans, Tik and Tak in
Arabic, Hernandez and Fernandez in Spanish, and Dupont and
Dupond in the original French?

22. Answer
• Thomson and Thompson

23. 11.
• In 1983, Eiji Toyoda summoned a secret meeting of company
executives, to whom he posed the question, “Can we create a luxury
vehicle to challenge he world’s best?” This question prompted the
company to embark on a top-secret project, codenamed F1 (Flagship,
and NO 1 vehicle). The name has bee attributed to the combination
of the words- luxury and elegance, while another theory claims it is
an acronym for “luxury exports to the US”.
• Id the automaker and the brand.

24. Answer
• Lexus

25. 12* iPhone’s ancestor, same company. The name?

26. Answer
• Apple Newton

27. 13* Reserved Parking spots in UC Berkeley.
For who?

28. Answer
• Nobel Laureates (NL) Parking lot in UC Berkeley.

29. 14.
• What did Outlook magazine humorously describe as “The biggest sex
change operation in independent India” in 1995/96?

30. Answer
• The renaming of VT to Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)

31. 15. Print ad
for what?

32. Answer

33. 16. This is a photo of the construction of a famous
structure. Which?

35. 17* This is a flash mob that meets once a year. The
message is spread solely via digital means – mails,
messages etc... And these are their rules
1. “Don’t talk about X”
2. Don’t be in location until the exact minute.
3. Hide your ______s.
4. Rush in screaming “X!!!!!”
5. After 15mins of excruciating fun, leave.
6. Stay off the road and sidewalk. (don’t make this a
police issue)
7. Do NOT hit anyone with out a ______! (this
includes but is not limited to people with cameras,
bystanders, civic authorities, cars, use common
sense!!)
8. “If this is your first [time] at X, you have to fight.”
Identify X (three words) NOT THE MOVIE

36. Pillow Fight Club

37. 18. This term originated in American Civil War times. To
check escapees in prisons, there was a line drawn,
around 20 feet from the stockade or the wall of the
enclosure. If any inmate was found crossing over the
line, they would be shot.
Which familiar term?

38. Deadlines are sacrosanct

39. 19*. Legend has it that this pizza was invented in 1889,
when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned
Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honour of the
visiting Queen X. The queen preferred a certain
‘charm’ to her dishes, so the pizzaiolo used tomatoes,
basil and mozzarella cheese to make this popular dish.
Name it.

40. Margherita Pizza

41. 20. Statue of a famous literary character. Name him/the
book

42. The Little Prince

43. 21. What did Stan Ulam claim was named in memory of an uncle who
often borrowed money to play the "well known generator of random
integers between zero and thirty-six in the Mediterranean
principality"?

44. Monte Carlo

45. 22*. These are known as Lichtenberg figures. You will
get these only in a certain type of situation. How?

46. You get them if struck by Lightning

47. 23. Two players who shared a fierce rivalry during the
90s. The two of them competed against each other
again, this year at Wimbledon, though not directly.
How?

48. Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg were coaches
of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer this
Wimbledon

49. 24*. Who as whom
In an upcoming
biopic?

50. • Alan Turing

51. 25. Over the years, there has been tremendous debate
in Germany whether November 9 should be made a
national holiday. The reasons given by proponents
include that 9th Nov was the end of the 1848
revolution and the date of the 1918 abdication of
Kaiser Wilhelm II and the declaration of the Weimar
republic.
However, 9th Nov is also the anniversary of the 1923
Beer Hall Putsch and the infamous Kristallnacht
attacks of the Nazis in 1938. Finally, as a compromise,
Oct 3rd was chosen as a national holiday.
What was the major reason given by those who wanted
Nov 9th to be made a national holiday?

52. Fall of the Berlin Wall