Preliminary round - TEDx Christ University 2017 General quiz

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The Quiz! (Prelims)

Rules! (for the rite of passage)
 Rule No. 1 : Quizmaster is GOD. Don’t mess around with him.
 Rule No. 2 : The usual, usage of mobile phones is strictly prohibited.
 Rule no. 3 : Please make sure you write the question numbers against each answer, and and
denote a star against each star marked question.
Not exactly a rule, but this quiz will have 20 questions. Each question carries one mark, with no
negatives. Intelligent guesses are welcome.
There will be a few star marked questions. These do not carry extra points, but will be used to
resolve tie-breakers.

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Question 1. **
 “_ ______ __ _________ is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther
King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on this very day, the 28th of
august, 1963. In his famous speech, he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called
for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights
Movement.
 Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and
Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America".
 The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of
public address.
 Give me that phrase, which is also the title of the speech.

Question 2
It is said the Hindi name of this fruit is a corruption of the country of origin of this fruit, as Indians
were not able to pronounce its complicated name.
Give me the fruit and/or country.

Question 3
 Angus Wall is a film editor who has won The Academy Award for ‘The social Network’ & ‘The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo’. He has won two Emmy awards too. One of them was for the television
series Carnival`e.
 The second Emmy is for an effort that involves 3D models of fortresses, cities and buildings that
are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs. This conceptual art involves a map at its
core. Using only pencil and paper, the artist gives the map a life of its own through gears.
 For what did he win his second Emmy?

Question 4**
This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market built by a king for his favorite daughter in 1650 AD, so
that she could shop for all she wanted to. This market place derives its name from the canals filled
with water that sparkled like silver in the moonlight.
What place in contemporary Asia is this ?

Question 5
X was developed in Delhi by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed in 1906 as a refreshing herbal tonic. It’s
translation means “nourishment for the soul” in Urdu. It is manufactured by Hamdard Waqf Labs in
India.
Which iconic thing are we talking about ?

Question 6
The story of this legendary race car goes like this…
“In the mid-1960’s, Henry Ford II, angry over a deal to buy Ferrari, opened wide his corporate coffers
and ordered engineers to build a rig to beat the Italian Stallion at Le Mans, the super bowl of
motorsport where Ferrari dominated.”
“Two years later, the _______ did just that. It swept the podium in 1966 and kept winning for the next
three years. It was the first model to win the 24 hour competition 4 successive times. Its point being
made, Ford scrapped the ______ and didn’t build another car like it for 34 years.”
Name this legendary racecar, which was reintroduced a couple of years back.

Question 7
The mythology has it that Gandaberunda and Sharaba (elephant headed lion) adjoining it are a
union of a strength of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. When Lord Vishnu took Narasimha Avatar to kill
Hiranyakashyap, father of his devotee Prahlad, his anger simmered even after Hiranyakashyap’s
death. The entire universe, including the Gods and Goddesses went into a tizzy and wanted Lord
Shiva to intervene.
Shiva came in the form of Sharaba(elephant headed lion) to cool Narasimha. In the effort, Lord
Shiva lost his cool and Lord Vishnu had to take the form of Gandaberunda, a bird with huge feathers
and two heads opposite to each other. The sharp beaks controlled the Sharaba.
Where can we find Gandaberunda today?

Question 8
X Y was invented in the kitchens of Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV by a palace cook named
Kakasura Madappa.
X was the name of the kingdom ruled by the King.
Y means sweet in local vernacular.
Story holds that on being unable to come up with a name for the sweet, Madappa named it X Y.
Been in news recently because of Nationalism debate.
Give me X Y

Question 9
Apart from the most recent one, this strategy had already been tried by the Indian government on
two prior occasions—once in 1946 and then again in 1978.
In all these cases, the goal was the same. In 1946, it was the pre- independence government and in
1978, it was the Janata Party coalition government.
What is being talked about here?

Question 10
 Mr Ajay Singh is co-founder of Spicejet. He was in news few years back for investing 500 crores in
Spicejet, thus giving it a new life.
 He was also in news for a “crappy yet famous” creation of his which became extremely popular
and created ripples in the country.
 Identify the creation.

Question 11
 This pie chart depicts the
proportion of a certain
activity that these banks
partake in Hong Kong.
 Hint: This activity is
something children think
banks do.

Question 12
After completing his B.Tech in IT, he used to work for Cognizant Technology Solutions. He later
revealed, one of his major regrets was not being able to represent his school at the ESPN School
Quiz.
Identify this person who is well known in a different field altogether.

Question 13**
The Vestal Virgins were in Ancient Rome the priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth
(fire place) and home. The Vestals were selected at a very young age and were spared the
burden of getting married and having children in favor of pureness. They had to remain
chaste for thirty years for service. After their service, they were free to marry and love.
One of their main tasks was to keep the sacred fire lit and they also participated in numerous
rituals and public ceremonies. Letting this fire extinguish was a cardinal offence.
How has this ritual of lighting the fire been immortalised and survives to this day?

Question 14
X is word that shall always be associated with a certain TV series, an essential part of our childhood,
which has started airing new episodes once again.
Although to the minority of scholars, X is actually a certain Hawaiian King who was the first to unite
the islands of Hawaii and laid down a set of laws. How Akira Toriyama decided to use this name to
describe the release of latent energy all at once from the protagonists body is for us to speculate.
Gimme the word X.

Question 15**
The Arabic name for the meat dish ‘X’ originally comes from the Turkish name for "turning”, possibly
a reference to the process of preparing such dish.
The dish and its variants is also known as Döner in Turkey and gyros in Greece.
The sale of this food item had supposedly spiked in USA after 2012, after a blockbuster Hollywood
movie mentioned it in passing in its after credits.
Identify the dish and the movie.

Question 16
A particular adult website was forced to put up a notification in 2014 stating : “Please stop uploading
videos of X ….. Our Public Humiliation category is full”
What event was being referred to here ?
You most probably must’ve read it , it was THAT big a news .

Question 17**
The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of this temple is 20 feet in height and weights a ton. It is
said to be visible from every corner of the city and is installed in such a way that it makes you feel
that it is facing towards you, irrespective of the place you are in.
The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago. Take any place on earth, on daytime the breeze
from sea comes to land and the opposite occurs in the evening.
But, In this city it is observed to be just the reverse.
Where exactly can you find this structure?

Question 18**
 Identify the movie from the movie poster.
 Picture follows

Question 19
Quite recently, the Supreme court of India released a landmark judgement that abolished a 1400
year old Islamic practice in India.
This practice allowed the husband to ‘whimsically or capriciously end the marriage without taking
any effort in moving towards reconcialitation’
Name this practice that was abolished by the supreme court.

Question 20
Created in 1996 by a grant of the Qatari Royal family, this News channel has been in a lot of news
lately due to the diplomatic blockade imposed upon Qatar by Saudi Arabia, The United Arab
Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.
This blockade was imposed as Qatar was accused of supporting and sponsoring terrorism in the
Middle east.
Amongst the 13 demands set by these 4 nations, Qatar was asked to shut down this ‘News Channel’,
which it promptly refused, as that meant questioning its sovereignty.
Name the News channel.

That’s about it!
And here are the answers.

Question 1. **
 “_ ______ __ _________” is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther
King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on this very day, the 28th of
august, 1963. In his famous speech, he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called
for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights
Movement.
 Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and
Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America".
 The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of
public address.
 Give me that phrase, which is also the title of the speech.

The famous “I Have a dream” speech.

Question 2
It is said the Hindi name of this fruit that is a corruption of the name of the country of origin of this
fruit, as Indians were not able to pronounce its complicated name.
Give me the name of the fruit and/or country.

Mosambi-fruit/Mozambique-country

Question 3
 Angus Wall is a film editor who has won The Academy Award for ‘The social Network’ & ‘The Girl
with the Dragon Tattoo’. He has won two Emmy awards too. One of them was for the television
series Carnivale.
 The second Emmy is for an effort that involves 3D models of fortresses, cities and buildings that
are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs. This conceptual art involves a map at its
core. Using only pencil and paper, the artist gives the map a life of its own through gears.
 For what did he win his second Emmy?

The Title sequence in each episode of GoT

Question 4**
This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market built by a king for his favorite daughter in 1650 AD so
that she could shop for all she wanted to. This market place derives its name from the canals filled
with water that sparkled like silver in the moonlight.
What place in contemporary Asia is this ?

Question 6
The story of this legendary race car goes like this…
“In the mid-1960’s, Henry Ford II angry over a deal to buy Ferrari, opened wide his corporate coffers
and ordered engineer to build a rig to beat the Italian Stallion at Le Mans, the super bowl of
motorsport where Ferrari dominated.
Two years later, the _______ did just that. It swept the podium in 1966 and kept winning for the next
three years. It was the first model to win the 24 hour competition 4 successive times. Its point being
made, Ford scrapped the ______ and didn’t build another car like it for 34 years.”
Name this legendary racecar, which was reintroduced a couple of years back.

The Iconic Ford GT40.
Or simply, the Ford GT

Question 7
The mythology has it that Gandaberunda and Sharaba (elephant headed lion) adjoining it are a
union of a strength of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. When Lord Vishnu took Narasimha Avatar to kill
Hiranyakashyap, father of his devotee Prahlad, his anger simmered even after Hiranyakashyap’s
death. The entire universe, including the Gods and Goddesses went into a tizzy and wanted Lord
Shiva to intervene. Shiva came in the form of Sharaba(elephant headed lion) to cool Narasimha. In
the effort, Lord Shiva lost his cool and Lord Vishnu had to take the form of Gandaberunda, a bird
with huge feathers and two heads opposite to each other. The sharp beaks controlled the Sharaba.
Where can we find Gandaberunda today?

The Karnataka
State government
emblem.

Question 8
X Y was invented in the kitchens of Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV by a palace cook named
Kakasura Madappa.
X was the name of the kingdom ruled by the King.
Y means sweet in local vernacular.
Story holds that on being unable to come up with a name for the sweet, Madappa named it X Y.
Been in news because of Nationalism debate.
Give X Y

Mysore Pak.
Yep, it caused a nationalism debate.

Question 10
 Mr Ajay Singh is co-founder of Spicejet. He was in news few years back for investing 500 crores in
Spicejet, thus giving it a new life. He was also in news for a “crappy yet famous” creation of his
which became extremely popular and created ripples in the country. Identify the creation.

Question 11
 The pie chart depicts the
proportion of a certain
activity that these banks
partake in Hong Kong.
 Hint: This activity is
something children think
banks do.

The Function of Printing Currency
notes.

Question 12
After completing his B.Tech in IT, he used to work for Cognizant Technology Solutions. He later
revealed, one of his major regret was not being able to represent his school at ESPN School Quiz.
Identify this person who is well known in a different field altogether.

Question 13**
The Vestal Virgins were ,in Ancient Rome the priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth
(fire place) and home. The Vestals were selected at a very young age and were spared of the
burden of getting married and having children in favor of pureness. They had to remain
chaste for thirty years for service. After their service, they were free to marry and love. One of
their main tasks was to keep the sacred fire lit and they also participated in numerous rituals
and public ceremonies and letting this fire extinguish was a cardinal offence.
How has this ritual of lighting the fire been immortalised and survives to this day?

Question 15**
The Arabic name for the meat dish ‘X’ originally comes from the Turkish name for "turning”, possibly
a reference to the process of preparing such dish.
‘The dish and its variants is also known as Döner in Turkey and gyros in Greece.
The sale of this food item has supposedly spiked in USA after 2012 after a blockbuster Hollywood
movie mentioned it in passing in it’s after credits.
Identify the dish and the movie.

Question 17**
The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of temple is 20 feet in height and weights a ton. It said to
be visible from every corner of the city and it is installed in such a way that it makes you feel that it is
facing toward you irrespective of the place you are in.
The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago. Take any place on earth, on daytime the breeze
from sea comes to land and the opposite occurs in the evening but In this city it is observed to be
just the reverse.
Where exactly can you find this structure?

The Puri
Jagannath
temple,
Odisha

Question 20
Created in 1996 by a grant of the Qatari Royal family, this ‘News channel’ has been in a lot of news
lately due to the diplomatic blockade imposed upon Qatar by Saudi Arabia, The United Arab
Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.
This blockade was imposed as Qatar was accused of supporting and sponsoring terrorism in the
Middle east.
Amongst the 13 demands set by these 4 nations, Qatar was asked to shut down this ‘News Channel’,
which it promptly refused, as that meant questioning its sovereignty.
Name the News channel.

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