The Final Showdown round of the Good Friday Quiz organized by Inquizzitive, NIT Rourkela on Good Friday 2014.

1. THE FINALS
Presented by
ANURAG & SAGNIK
INQUIZZITIVE
GOOD FRIDAY QUIZ

2. THE
SHOWDOWNNext up, you will be having 30 questions going on
infinite bounce. Pounce is open for all questions.
+10 for a direct question
+15 and -10 for a pounced question

3. “X” IS OFTEN SERVED AT CARNIVALS OR
CIRCUSES. FOOD COLORING CAN BE USED TO CHANGE
THE NATURAL WHITE COLOR. A SIMILAR
CONFECTIONERY IS THE PERSIAN PASHMAK, AND THE
TURKISH PIŞMANIYE.
ALSO CALLED COTTON CANDY, THIS SPUN SUGAR
CONFECTIONARY WAS FIRST RECORDED IN EUROPE IN
THE 18TH CENTURY. MACHINE-SPUN COTTON CANDY
WAS INVENTED IN 1897 BY THE DENTIST WILLIAM
MORRISON AND CONFECTIONER JOHN C. WHARTON
AND FIRST INTRODUCED TO A WIDE AUDIENCE AT
THE 1904 WORLD'S FAIR WITH GREAT SUCCESS,
SELLING 68,655 BOXES AT $0.25 PER BOX .
ID “X”.
1.

4. CANDY FLOSS

5. “HE WAS EDMOND DANTES
AND HE WAS MY FATHER
…AND MY MOTHER. MY
BROTHER.
MY FRIEND. HE WAS YOU
…AND ME.
HE WAS ALL OF US.”
These lines are spoken by the leading lady in a backdrop of colourful
fireworks flying up into the dark night sky. Identify the movie.
2.

6. V FOR VENDETTA

7. A set of research results indicates that listening to X's
music may induce a short-term improvement on the
performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as
“spatial-temporal reasoning”.
Popularized versions of the hypothesis suggest that
listening to X makes you smarter.
The term “X effect” was first coined by Alfred A.
Tomatis who used X's music as the listening stimulus in his
work while trying to cure a variety of disorders.
ID X
3.

8. MOZART

9. 4.

10. HEARTBLEED
THE BUG THAT AFFECTED
MILLIONS OF WEBSITES,
GOOGLE AND YAHOO
BEING THE LARGEST.

11. THE VEDAS DECLARE, "NO". I AM A SPIRIT LIVING IN A BODY. I AM
NOT THE BODY. THE BODY WILL DIE, BUT I SHALL NOT DIE. HERE AM I
IN THIS BODY; IT WILL FALL, BUT I SHALL GO ON LIVING. I HAD ALSO
A PAST. THE SOUL WAS NOT CREATED, FOR CREATION MEANS A
COMBINATION WHICH MEANS A CERTAIN FUTURE DISSOLUTION. IF
THEN THE SOUL WAS CREATED, IT MUST DIE. SOME ARE BORN HAPPY,
ENJOY PERFECT HEALTH, WITH BEAUTIFUL BODY, MENTAL VIGOUR
AND ALL WANTS SUPPLIED. OTHERS ARE BORN MISERABLE, SOME
ARE WITHOUT HANDS OR FEET, OTHERS AGAIN ARE IDIOTS AND
ONLY DRAG ON A WRETCHED EXISTENCE. WHY, IF THEY ARE ALL
CREATED, WHY DOES A JUST AND MERCIFUL GOD CREATE ONE
HAPPY AND ANOTHER UNHAPPY, WHY IS HE SO PARTIAL?
WHO SAID THESE LINES?
5.

12. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
IN HIS CHICAGO SPEECH

13. In 2007, Pharmaceutical and biotechnology
major X bought the fourth largest
independent, integrated pharmaceutical group
in France, Y Laboratories. At a deal of $265
million, X became the largest Indian
pharmaceutical company in Europe with more
than 1500 employees based in the continent.
Identify X and Y.
6.

14. X = WOCKHARDT
Y = NEGMA LABORATORIES

15. Following are excerpts from one of the most famous
acceptance speeches made by one of the finest actresses of the
century. You need to identify BOTH the actress and the
occasion.
“When they called my name I’d had this feeling I could hear
half of America going “Oh no. Oh c’mon.
Why…her…again?” But whatever. First I’m going to thank
Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the
speech they play him out with the music…”
“…I look out here and I see my life before my eyes, my old
friends, my new friends and really this is such a great honour
but the thing that counts the most with me is the friendships
and the love and the sheer joy we have shared making movies
together…”(sic)
7.

16. MERYL STREEP
ACADEMY AWARDS, 2012

17. The above picture symbolizes a match made in cartoon
heaven. Identify the PARTIES INVOLVED and the YEAR.
8.

18. •DISNEY (Pinocchio)
•PIXAR (Toy Story)
•January 25, 2006

19. The following is a chronological exhaustive list.
Identify the connection.
• Channel Intelligence
• DNN research
• Talaria technologies
• Behavio
• Wavii
• Makani Power
• Waze
• Bump
• Flutter
• FlexyCore
• SCHAFT Inc.
• Industrial Perception
• Redwood Robotics
• Meka Robotics
• Holomni
• Bot & Dolly
• Autofuss
• Boston Dynamics
• Bitspin
• Nest Labs, Inc.
• Impermium
• DeepMind
Technologies
• SlickLogin
• spider.io
• GreenThrottle
9.

20. Firms acquired by since 2013

21. THE INGREDIENTS ARE:
CALCIUM 1.6 MG/L
MAGNESIUM 2.8 MG/L
SODIUM 3.0 MG/L
POTASSIUM 0.2 MG/L
CHLORIDE 9.7 MG/L
NITRATE 0.2 MG/L
FLUORIDE 0.0 MG/L
TDS 10 MG/L
PH 7.5
ID THE PRODUCT.
10.

22. MINERAL WATER

23. In the movie “SOUND OF MUSIC”, it is shown that the
Von Trapp family escapes the Nazis by crossing the
border at Salzburg to Switzerland.
Identify the factual inaccuracy.
11.

24. CROSSING THE BORDER WOULD
TAKE THEM TO GERMANY
One of the most ridiculous mistakes ever made in a movie, Salzburg is
on the German border of Austria.
Below is the snapshot from the IMDB page of the movie.

26. COMPLETE THE NEXT TWO NAMES TO MAKE
THIS LIST EXHAUSTIVE
• Hot Studio
• Spaceport
• Parse
• Monoidics
• Jibbigo
• Onavo
• SportStream
• Little Eye labs
• Branch
12.

27. FIRMS ACQUIRED BY FACEBOOK
IN THE PAST ONE YEAR
• WhatsApp
• Oculus VR

28. IDENTIFY THE LINK :
• Roseanne
• Grace Under Fire
• Cybill
• Dharma & Greg
• The Big Bang Theory
• Mike and Molly
• Mom
13.

29. CHUCK LORRE

30. CONNECT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
• Yao Ming
• Barack Obama
• Sean Bean
• Philip J. Fry
• Jonathan Goldsmith
• Kyle
14.

31. INTERNET MEMES
• Yao Ming – Bitch Please
• Barack Obama – Not Bad
• Sean Bean – One does not simply
• Philip J. Fry – Not sure if
• Jonathan Goldsmith – I don’t always
• Kyle – Bad luck Brian

32. IDENTIFY X
X is a psychological response sometimes seen in an
abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows
signs of sympathy, loyalty or even voluntary
compliance with the hostage taker, regardless of the
risk in which the hostage has been placed. The
movie “Highway” is a perfect depiction of this case.
15.

33. STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
The syndrome is named after a bank robbery in Stockholm,
Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees
hostage from august 23 to august 28 in 1973. In this case, the
victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and
even defended their captors after they were freed from their
six-day ordeal, refusing to testify against them.

34. WHAT DOES THIS MAP DEPICT ?16.

35. LIST OF PLACES FROM WHERE AIRCRAFTS HAVE
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED SINCE 1948. NOTICE
THE HIGH DENSITY IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE.

36. CONNECT !MATTUR VILLAGE, KARNATAKA
17.

37. Couple of years back, an advertisement of
Bajaj Discover showed a village where people
converse in Sanskrit as an every day language.
The village in question is Mathur, Karnataka. It is
one of the couple of villages in India where
people still speak in Sanskrit.

38. “If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a
single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for
her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder
because no on likes to be second choice. But what if
none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each
other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the
only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.”
Identify the famous mathematician who describes one
of the most revolutionary mathematical principles in
the above speech. He’s the subject of a very famous
Hollywood movie released back in 2001.
18.

39. JOHN NASH, PROTAGONIST OF
THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED MOVIE
“A BEAUTIFUL MIND”

40. Karenjit Kaur Vohra, born on May 13, 1981, spent
her early life in Sarnia, Ontario before moving to Fort
Gratiot, Michigan at the age of 13. Her father was
from Tibet, raised in Delhi and her mother was from
Himachal Pradesh. Despite being Sikh, she had most
of her education in Catholic Missionary schools. She
also received formal education to become a paediatric
nurse. Her first job was at a German bakery followed
by Jiffy lube, and later a tax and retirement firm.
How is this famous personality commonly known ?
19.

42. "ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ“
Translation from Greek: “Truth to your own spirit”.
His body is buried in Père LaChaise cemetery of Paris alongside
the likes of Balzac, Moliere and Oscar Wilde. ID the person.
20.

43. MORRISON

44. THIS IS A NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT IS
GOING TO BE USED IN FIFA 2014 WC
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN INTERNATIONAL
FOOTBALL. EXPLAIN.
21.

45. VANISHING SPRAY
IT WILL USED BY THE REFEREE TO MARK THE
SPOT FROM WHERE THE FREE KICK IS
GOING TO BE TAKEN AND ALSO TO MARK
THE LINE 10 YARDS FROM THE BALL
BEYOND WHICH THE PLAYERS OF THE
OPPOSITE TEAM ARE ALLOWED TO STAND.

46. “IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY
ACKNOWLEDGED, THAT A SINGLE
MAN IN POSSESSION OF A
GOOD FORTUNE, MUST BE IN
WANT OF A WIFE.”
ID THE AUTHOR OR THE BOOK.
22.

47. JANE AUSTEN, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

48. COMPLETE THE LIST
• BUICK
• GMC
• HOLDEN
• VAUXHALL
• WULING
• BAOJUN
• JIE FANG
• Uz DAEWOO
• OPEL
23.

49. CHEVROLET
The Link :
Answer:

50. 24. CONNECT:
>FRANÇOIS ENGLERT
>PETER W. HIGGS
>MARTIN KARPLUS
>MICHAEL LEVITT
>ARIEH WARSHEL
>JAMES E. ROTHMAN
>RANDY W. SCHEKMAN
>THOMAS C. SÜDHOF
>ALICE MUNRO
>ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL
WEAPONS (OPCW)
>EUGENE F. FAMA
>LARS PETER HANSEN
>ROBERT J. SHILLER

51. NOBEL LAUREATES OF 2013

52. 25.
The adjacent poster is of a movie
that is third in a series of three
extraordinary movies that
completely redefined the
Horror/Crime Thriller genre. The first
movie of this legendary trilogy has
the protagonist winning the
Academy Awards for Best Leading
Actor (Male) for a screen time of
barely 16 minutes. The movies were
released back in 1991, 2001 and
2002. Identify the poster.

53. RED DRAGON
The Hannibal Lecter trilogy:
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Red Dragon (2002)

54. X acquired Y on 15 August 2011 for $12.5 billion in
cash. This largely affected the sale of Z’s devices that
primarily use customised products designed by X. Z
now had to cut down on the heavy customisations.
On 27 January 2014, X and Z signed a wide ranging
patent that will last a decade. Just a couple of days
later, X announced the sale of Y to Lenovo Systems.
Identify X, Y and Z.
26.

55. X – Google
Y – Motorola
Z – Samsung

56. The man shown in the adjacent
picture is one of India’s original bluff
masters who single-handedly took
the Indian Banking system for a ride
back in 1991. Hoarding up crores of
rupees in a span of a single year,
he was charged with 27 cases of
which he was ultimately convicted
of only one. He caused the resignation and suicide of several
Bank managers. The Enforcement Directorate still has no clue
about the exact amount or whereabouts of the money hoarded
by him. A movie called “Gafla” was made on this entire scam.
Identify him.
27.

57. HARSHAD MEHTA

58. After completing his matriculation, this son of a petty trader from
a remote village in India moved to Aden in order to seek his
fortune. While in Aden, he realised a strange discrepancy that the
Real-Sterling exchange rate and the intrinsic value of silver
content in Aden’s coinage offered a great avenue for making
money. He started hoarding silver coins, melting them and then
earning quite a profit from selling the silver. This continued for a
year before the Rial authorities stepped in to stop the
disappearance of coins. This adventure however provided the
young lad with a seed money of $ 3000 that helped him set up his
own firm when he returned to Bombay in 1958. Identify him.
28.

59. DHIRUBHAI AMBANI

60. X is a private company based in US
notable for being one of the top five
owners of US patents. It has a
business model to acquire multiple
patents to create a patent portfolio
that is ultimately licensed to third
parties. It has been nicknamed
“PatentTroll”.The most recent of its
29.

61. INTELLECTUAL VENTURES

62. X & Y have been arch-rivals for ages. In the last
decade of the 20th century, X had been struggling to
survive and was almost on the verge of closure.
However, in 1997, X announced that it would be
entering into partnership with Y in return for a
lifetime investment of $ 150 million. Analysts suggest
that this is arguably the worst deal ever made by Y.
This is because by 2013, the market value of X had
soared to $ 505 billion while that of Y had fallen to $
320 billion. Identify X and Y.
30.

63. X – APPLE
Y - MICROSOFT