2. The “Kashipur Kit-Kat” Quiz
By
Ashwin Murali

3. About Me
• From Coimbatore
• Quizzing since 1996 ;-)
• Been to all major quizzes in Tamilnadu and have
won prizes in a lot of them.
• Tata Crucible Campus Edition – Regional Finalist
in 2009.
• One of the founding members of the Coimbatore
Quiz Circle.
• To put it in a nutshell, I’m a Quizzer and
everything else comes next.

4. Rules

5. • 1. The gesture first appears 4000 years ago, found in
clay tablets of the Indus Valley Civilization
• The gesture is also known as Hrdayanjali Mudra
meaning "reverence to the heart seal" (from hrd,
meaning "heart") and Atmanjali Mudra meaning
"reverence to the self seal"
• It is performed as part of a physical yoga practice with
an aim to achieving several benefits. It is a centering
pose which helps to alleviate mental stress and anxiety
and is therefore used to assist the practitioner in
achieving focus and coming into a meditative state.
• The physical execution of the pose helps to promote
flexibility in the hands, wrists, fingers and arms.
• What is this gesture?

6. Namaste / Anjali Mudra

7. 2. One for you Tennis fans. Apart from
Tennis, which is the only other sport allowed
to be played on the Wimbledon Courts?

8. Croquet

9. 3. Identify this pair from
the 19th Century who
became very famous or
rather infamous in
2008.

10. Lehmann Brothers

11. 4. In 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) came
up with a list of 100 Best Heroes and 100 Best
Villain characters in the History of American
Cinema till then. Only one character featured in
both the lists. Which character?

12. Terminator

13. 5. Who’s the Author of these books?
• Break with a Banshee
• Gadding with Ghouls
• Holidays with Hags
• Magical Me (autobiography)
• Marauding with Monsters
• The Travel Trilogy
• Travels with Trolls
• Voyages with Vampires
• Wanderings with Werewolves
• Who Am I?
• Dancing with the Wailing Widow
• Year with the Yeti

14. Gilderoy Lockhart

15. 6. Raj Narain was an Indian politician who was a
candidate for the Janata Party in various Lok Sabha
elections. He was the minister of health during
Morarji Desai’s ministry.
Raj Narain was the principle person who set off a
snowball effect when he filed a case against a
certain personality for manipulation and fraud of
the elections. When the Allahabad high court
upheld the accusation, the infamous event came
into effect.
What was Raj Narain responsible for?

16. The Emergency.
He filed a case against Indira Gandhi and when
the High Court ordered her not to stand in the
general elections, she declared a state of
Emergency in the country.

17. 7. All mountain peaks over 6000 m in height
have been scaled or conquered except one.
Name that peak.

18. Mt. Kailash

19. 8. It was said that before the event Y, X called a
press conference and urged all journalists to
take as many photographs and interviews of
him as after Y, he would be mobbed by
journalists from all over the world and they
would be forced to wait for him. The
journalists laughed off his suggestion and
thought that he was a fool. But after Y, X
managed to achieve what was thought to be
impossible for him and indeed the same
journalists were forced to wait for him.
Identify X & Y.

20. X – Muhammad Ali ( Cassius Clay then)
Y – 1960 Rome Olympics

21. 9. It is often asked to actors that what they
would have become if they hadn’t become an
actor/actress.
When this question was asked to a certain
actress, she spontaneously replied
“I’d have become a Naxalite.”
Who?

22. Silk Smitha

23. 10. Mithali Raj is the first woman cricketer to
endorse a product. Which product does she
endorses?

24. Iodex

25. 11. X is a Sumerian rendering of a foreign word into
Sumerian syllables, and then by modern scholars into
English. These people were found somewhere to the
south east of Sumer, the Sumerian capital. X lies within
25 degree to 35 degree N latitude.
• In the book, “History of Civilizations of Central Asia
(vol.1)”, by A.H. Dhani and B.K.Thapar, X is derived from
a Sanskrit word meaning “A Stranger of ill‐pronounced
speech”.
• X is supposed to have traded carnelian, ivory, shell, lapis
lazuliand jewels with Sumeria.
• X came back into prominence in India recently. X?

26. Meluha

27. 12. Albert Korda took a photograph of a certain
person in 1960. Later Jim Fitzpatrick, an Irish
artist created a portrait based on this
photograph in 1968. This portrait became very
iconic in the 20th century and it was featured
on everything from magazine covers to T-
Shirts to bags to every other article carrying
an image. This image was also voted as “the
image of the 20th century” in an online poll.
Who was the person who featured in this
image?

28. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

29. 13. Which is the only team apart from
Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and
Manchester City to win an EPL title?
(EPL era started in 1992)

30. Blackburn Rovers in 1995

31. 14. Olivia Debrowska is a current University student
who was initially appalled with the work she did years
ago. But now that she understood the significance of
the work, she says that she has been a part of
something which she is proud of.
Where have we seen her?

32. Schindler’s List

33. 15. X was a fictional character created in January
1952 by a British journalist while on holiday in
Jamaica who once said in an interview, "I
wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-
sounding name I could find, 'X' was much
better than something more interesting, like
'Peregrine Carruthers.' Exotic things would
happen to and around him, but he would be a
neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt
instrument wielded by a government
department.“ X?

34. The character of James Bond – 007 as
revealed by Ian Fleming- his creator.

35. 16. In 1999 SAAB purchased Celsius Group,
parent group of X. In September 2000 United
Defense purchased X Weapon Systems from
SAAB (the heavy weapons business), while
SAAB retained the missile interests. X’s most
famous owner was Alfred Nobel who owned
the company from 1894 until his death in
December of 1896. He had the key role in
reshaping the iron manufacturer to a modern
Cannon manufacturer and Chemical industry.

36. Bofors

37. 17. X is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and IIM
Ahmedabad. His mother was an Anganwadi
worker, who used to sell idlis to fund his
studies. In 2006, he gave up his high paying
job with Polaris and started Food King
Catering Services. Today, the company has a
turnover of Rs. 8 crore. He has won numerous
awards like Pepsi-MTV youth icon – 2008,
CNN-IBN Award for Young Indian Leader –
2011, Example to Youth Award – 2008, etc.
Identify X.

38. E. Sarath Babu, the founder and CEO
of Food King

39. 18. Amar Chitra Katha comic series, after
publishing over 150 titles, stopped publishing
new titles. Later after a gap of ten years, they
came out with a new title on a French Soldier.
Whom did they feature in this comeback
edition?

40. J.R.D.Tata
He was part French and part Indian. He was
born in Paris. He served in the French Army
for a brief period. He is buried at Paris.

41. 19. X once interviewed Pete Sampras in the
court. When asked about his idol, Sampras
replied that it was Rod Laver. When asked
about his favourite match, Sampras replied
that it was a thrilling 5 setter in 1972, in which
Rod Laver lost and the victor was none other
than X. Even today, X recalls this moment as
the most memorable of his career as an
interviewer. Who is X?

42. Vijay Amritraj

43. 20. "Yeh dil maage more" was one of the most
famous Ad slogans ever. Infact it was so
popular that Pepsi retained that slogan for
more than 5 years, something that they had
never done previously. It was also voted as the
best ad slogan in various awards. My question
is who framed that iconic slogan, though the
person was in no way associated with Pepsi
and Pepsi did not take permission from him to
use it.
(Hint if everyone agrees)

44. Hint
The person in question has achieved
something that only 4 men have achieved
before him and none since. He was the reason
why a certain person achieved immense fame
in his/her career and managed to become one
of the foremost in his/her field.

45. Capt. Vikram Batra

46. 21. So far only 3 movies have won the Oscar for
all of the top five categories – Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best
Screenplay. Name them.

47. 1934 – It Happened One Night
1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

48. 22. X is a printed material which is distributed free
of cost. It became so popular that at one point in
the 2000s, it became the most distributed printed
material in the world, surpassing the Free Bible
distributed by Gideon's International. It was said
that the Church and Gideon's did not take it
favourably and they had a talk with the person
responsible, who it is said agreed to lessen his
distribution in order to give the lead back to
Bible. But it is still the most printed material in
the world twice more than the no. of Bibles
printed every year. Identify X.

49. IKEA Catalogue

50. • 23. Born in Allahabad, UP, X was initially named
Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase
Inquilab Zindabad, during the Indian
independence struggle. However, at the
suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant,
his father changed the name to X which means,
"the light that would never go off”
In 1984, He contested Allahabad's seat of 8th Lok
Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, former Chief
Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the
highest victory margins in general election history
(68.2% of the vote)
Identify X

51. Amitabh Bachchan

52. 24. He received his powers from seven gurus who
trained and blessed him with "yogic shakti". He was
the chosen warrior against evil by the siddha gurus
of a cult named Suryanshi. They are the followers of
Sun.As a part of his training he was trained with
Kundalini Yoga to awaken the 7 chakras of body and
gain super power from them. But it was not easy. To
gain complete control over his powers he had to
perform a ritual of death. He was to perform a Yajna
in which he entered the fire himself and dissolved
his body in the fire. Then the Five Elements of life
revived his body giving special powers from them.
Thus after leaving his mortal body he was given a
super human form to fight against the evil in the
world. Who?

53. Shaktimaan

54. 25. X enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, graduating with a BS in Electrical
Engineering in the early 1950s. He spent a year
in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in the research labs
at NV Philips Electronics. He enrolled as a
professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT while
at the same time he started researching keenly
on Acoustics. He came up with an invention
related to acoustics, which all of us have come
across/used. What was the invention?

55. The Bose speakers, the inventor being
Amar Gopal Bose.

56. 26. This place is named so because of a lake
situated there which is in the shape of an eye.
Which famous place am I talking about?

57. Nainital

58. 27. X holds the record for having won the
Maximum no. of Oscars (26) and the
maximum no. of nominations (64). Identify X.

59. Walt Disney

60. 28. Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyuktha
Sangha in Hubli is the only organization
authorised to produce what?

61. Mysore Sandal Soap

62. 29. X became the Chief Minister of a State, just 8
months after X entered politics and launched
a party. One of the main reasons for his
victory was the historic Rath Yatra that he
undertook. He was the first person to
undertake a Rath Yatra in the country. In fact,
X is credited with the introduction of Rath
Yatra into Indian Politics. Identify X.

63. N.T.Rama Rao

64. 30. The following is an excerpt from a Cricinfo
article published on April 1, 2011:
“Sir Alex Ferguson is a huge admirer of X. He
says, “X will certainly have a positive impact
on Van Der Saar’s successor. Goalkeepers
often find themselves in similar situation
where they’ve to guess the path of the ball,
use their footwork and agility. Hence, X will
be of immense help to the Manchester
United team as a Goalkeeping advisor.”

65. X-His Holiness, the Almighty, The GOD

66. Thank You !!