The Indrayani Express Quiz Round 3 A General Quiz

1. The Indrayani Express Quiz
Round 3
Research and QM: Aditya Kendki

2. Question 1
Whose recruitment Ads?

3. Indian Air Force

4. Question 2
In the field of HR and recruitment, candidates are always found to be
falsely or cosmetically enhancing their skillsets and experience on their
profiles. This is mainly an attempt to align oneself with the
requirements of the position. What is this tendency termed as?

5. Resume Padding

6. Question 3
Identify

7. Ole Gunnar Solskjær

8. Question 4
This is Shibam in Yemen. It
has been declared as a
UNESCO world heritage
site. Look closely, you will
notice that it has the
oldest Xs (Plural) in the
world. It has thus been
popularly eulogized as the
Y of the desert. Identify X
and Y.

9. X - Skyscrapers, Y -Manhattan

10. Question 5
Who 2 entities are not getting along if we say that the North Block and
Mint Street are not getting along?

11. Finance Ministry and the RBI

12. Question 6
Which Espoo based Finnish company’s tagline reads “Improving the flow of Urban Life”?
One of its old taglines was “Dedicated to People Flow”
In addition to its ubiquitous products, it also manufactures cranes.
Identify the company.

13. Kone

14. Question 7
In the Marathi Movie franchise Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai, what is the
inherent contradiction in the casting of the Lead Actors

15. In real-life, Swapnil Joshi is from Mumbai and
Mukta Barve is from Pune

16. Question 8
X is a place in the Tinsukia district of Assam. It boasts of India’s first Oil
Well and Refinery, built as early as in 1901. During the early oil
explorations during the late 1800s in the region by the English, they
have said to have stumbled across Elephants with their legs soaked in
oily mud. As per a popular legend, the name of the place is derived
from what instructional phrase that the lead English Engineer gave in
excitement to the labourers when he zeroed in on the place the
elephants came from. X is a single word while the instruction is made
up of 2 words. But they are homophones. Identify X or the instruction.

17. Digboi derived from Dig-Boy-Dig

18. Question 9
What is this type of design in
architecture better known as?
It can be clearly seen in these
cases that it’s purpose to
prevent loitering or squatting
around. It’s popular in the
uber-rich areas in global
metropolitan cities.
X design or X architecture.
Identify X

19. Hostile Architecture

20. Question 10
This song was composed by and first used by Netaji’s Indian National
Army. It was banned by the British after World War II, who considered
it seditious. The ban was lifted after Independence and the song/tune
has been the regimental quick march of the Indian Army till today.
Which song?

21. Kadam Kadam Badhaye Jaa

22. Question 11
Abdel Fatah-al-Sisi won the Mrach 2018 Egyptian Presidential Elections.
Moussa Mostafa Moussa stood 3rd with 6,53,354 votes
The runner-up received over a million votes. But all of them were
considered invalid. Why?

23. They were for Mohammad Salah

24. Question 12
In Season 1 Episode 3 of BBC’s Top Gear, five 70 plus years old ladies
were invited to the show to perform a certain stunt manoeuvre. Quite
surprisingly, each and every one of them pulled it off in style. This
special section of the show was called Grannies doing Xs (plural) where
X is the name of the manoeuvre they performed.

25. Grannies Doing Donuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVCcHFam7Q

26. Question 13
In the spring of 1944, while the formidable fleet which would land in
Normandy was being organized in England, the Allied Forces feared
that their progression would be delayed in French cities where all
signage had been taken down or destroyed. Hundreds of detailed, up-
to-date copies of the 1939 ________- _____, were printed in
Washington, DC, and distributed amongst the officers. The only
difference from the 1939 French edition was the mention on the cover
stating 'For official use only'. So it was that on D-Day the troops which
would liberate Bayeux, Cherbourg, Caen, St. Lo and France itself landed
with the ________- _____ in hand. Most of these have been lost or
destroyed in the bombings, others were taken back to the USA by
soldiers returning home; there are very few known originals left in
Europe. FITB

27. The Michelin Guide

28. Question 14
• In August 2015, this fake news
was tweeted by author and
columnist Anant Ranganathan.
It successfully baited major
media houses and left them
embarrassed. It also set off a
twitter war between Kannadigas
and Tamilians. It was about the
origin of X. The giveaway words
have been blanked out as
required. Identify X

29. Mysore Pak

30. Question 15
The person starts on a beep and needs to get to the cone at the other end before the second beep
goes. He then turns back and returns to the starting cone before the third beep. That is one
"shuttle".
It starts at speed level 5, which consists of one shuttle. The next speed level, which is 9, also
consists of one shuttle. Speed level 11, the next step up, has two shuttles, while level 12 has three
and level 13 four. There are eight shuttles per level from 14 upwards. Level 23 is the highest speed
level. What is being described here?

31. The Yo-Yo Test or the Intermittent Recovery
Fitness Test

32. Thank You