General Quiz....

1. BY BANESWAR SARKER
3RD JULY,2012

2. 1st BOUNCE AND POUNCE 1
2ND THEME
3RD LVC 1
4th BOUNCE AND POUNCE 2
5TH PICK YOUR POISON
6TH LVC 2

3. 1st round……

4. The owner of this
patent was working
in P&G when
designed it and
received the patent.
It is the patented
design of which
thing?

5. Packing of Pringles Chips.

6. She is the inspiration
behind a very famous
character though you
might not have seen
the character
entirely…
ID the character

7. THE BLACK LADY OF TOM AND JERRY….

9. THE ALIAS of AGENT VINOD

10. X was invented by George de Mestral in 1941.
The idea came to him after he took a close
burrs which kept sticking to his clothes and his
dog’s fur when walking in the Alps.
Although he met with resistance and even
laughter, he stuck to the idea.
He named his invention X after the french
words for VELVET and HOOK.
ID X?

11. VELCRO

12. The word originates from Armaic, morphed
into Hibrew, Latin, Greek and finally found
itself in Jewish and Christian culture.
Ususally uttered in an exclamatory manner, it
is a cry of worship and help.
The word was in the centre of an unseemly
controversy due to its usage in a film, having
offended the sentiments of a religious forum.
The word?

13. HOSANNA

15. SHOLAY ROCKS

17. All played Bob Dylan
in the movie

18. Why is the lady
famous?

19. OLA RAY…..the lady in the music video
Michael Jackson’s THRILLER.

20. What is happening here?

21. DAVID NALBANDIAN who lost the match
because he injured the LINE UMPIRE by kicking
the advertisement board which hit him and
made him bleed

23. THE T20 BIG BASH TEAMS…..

24. X is floating down the
river on a world tour to
meet as many fans and
sign as many
“OTTER-graphs”. But the
“PHOT-HOGS” will stop
at nothing to get a photo
of X when he least
expects it.
HELP X navigate the river
and the knock PHOT-
HOGS into the river with
his lance.

26. JOUSTIN’ BEAVER

27. DB-07 is an in-house brand of children
clothing from Mark & Spencer.
What is DB-07?

28. DAVID BECKHAM JERSEY NO.7

29. Doodle showing what?

30. LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

31. MINIMAL POSTER FOR???

33. While doing shows in England they realized
that they were mistaken for another English
group of the same name. So they changed the
name of the their band to the name of a movie
being played at the cinema across the street to
the band’s rehearsal room. One of the
members of the band noted that it was
"strange that people spend so much money to
see scary movies.“
ID the band?

35. BLACK SABBATH

36. 2nd round

37. • 10 questions
• INEXHAUSTIVE LIST
• Points indicated at each slide

38. NAME THE ROLLER COASTER……..

39. The term began to appear in the American press in
the early 1940s, describing the largest of aerial
bombs: single bombs capable of destroying a city
block, also known as "cookies" during the
firebombing of Hamburg. Later figurative use
referred to anything making a public impact:
"Broadway reacted to the request of War
Mobilization Director Byrnes to close all places of
entertainment by midnight Feb. 26 as if a ________
had landed on Manhattan" (Chicago Tribune,
February 2, 1945).
THE TERM?

40. FILL IN THE BLANKS
______________,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of _____________.

41. Name Locale/Language
Fugleskræmsel Danish
Vogelverschrikker Dutch
Epouvantail French
Vogelscheuche German
Bijuka Hindi
Spaventapasseri Italian
Kakashi Japanese
Nokku Kuthi Malayalam
Nuffara Maltese
Matarsack Persian
Tao-tao Philippines
Espantalho Portuguese
Espantapájaros Spanish
Sola Kolla Bommai Tamil
X English

42. Norman Whitten was the first man to portray
this character(in a silent movie).
The other actors who have played this role on
the big as well as small screen includes Leslie
King, Sir Robert Helpmann, Ed Wynn, Martin
Short and Andrew Lee-Potts.
Johny Depp was the last man to portray this
role.
Which role?

43. ID THE POEM?
Who beheads thistles,
On oak-trees and mountain-tops;
You still must leave
my Earth to me,
And my hut, which you did not build,
And my stove,
Whose glow
You envy me.
I know no poorer creatures
Under the sun, than you, Gods!
You barely sustain yourself
From sacrificial offerings
And exhalated prayers
Your Majesty
And would wither, were
Not children and beggars
Hopeful fools.
When I was a child,
And did not know where from or to,
I turned my seeking eye toward
The sun, as if beyond there was
An ear to hear my complaint,
A heart like mine,
To have mercy with the embattled one.
Who helped me
Against the Titans' might?
Who saved me from Death,
From Slavery?
Did you not accomplish it all yourself,
Holy glowing Heart?
And glowed, young and good,
Deceived, thanks for salvation
To the sleeping one up there?

44. Shall I honour you? What for?
Have you softened the pains,
Ever, of a burdened one?
Have you silenced the tears,
Ever, of an anguished one?
Was I not forged into a Man
By almighty Time
And eternal Fate,
My masters and yours?
Do you imagine
I should hate life,
Flee to the desert,
Because not every
Flowering dream bloomed?
Here I sit, forming humans
In my image;
A people to be like me,
To suffer, to weep,
To enjoy and to delight
themselves,
And to not attend to you –
As I.

45. In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed
either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks
were available, but their poor production generally tended to
mirror the quality between the covers.
X paperbacks were the brainchild of Allen Lane, then a
director of The Bodley Head. After a weekend visiting Agatha
Christie in Devon, he found himself on a platform at Exeter
station searching its bookstall for something to read on his
journey back to London, but discovered only popular
magazines and reprints of Victorian novels.
Appalled by the selection on offer, Lane decided that good
quality contemporary fiction should be made available at an
attractive price and sold not just in traditional bookshops,
but also in railway stations, tobacconists and chain stores.
ID X?

46. Toxicodendron radicans, better known as X(older synonyms
are Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus radicans), is a poisonous
North American plant that is well known for its production of
urushiol, a clear liquid compound found within the sap of
the plant that causes an itching, or sometimes painful rash
in most people who touch it.
X can be found growing in any of the following three forms:
as a trailing vine that is 10–25 centimetres (3.9–9.8 in) tall.
as a shrub up to 1.2 m tall (4 feet)
as a climbing vine that grows on trees or some other
support
ID X???

47. The plot for which movie?
In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn,
an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn’t find a
place in either country. The village had the distinction of housing
the largest mental asylum in the region and in the melee that
ensued during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose, drove
away the villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur.
And that’s how it stayed for the next 60 years! While the world
outside changed, Paglapur remained isolated, with no electricity,
television or sanity! Now, decades after the world forgot this
village, a NASA scientist of Indian origin, Raj and his beautiful
wife, Manali find themselves on the road to Paglapur. Raj is
working on a top secret project for creating a device to
communicate with aliens. So why is he in a village whose colourful
inhabitants include a man who speaks in gibberish, another who
thinks he is a lamp post and everyone else who think Mahatma
Gandhi is still around, fighting for independence?

48. One of the probable root of the expression X
comes from Greek God Janus (who was X) even
though the expression has nothing in similarity
in meaning with its root.
The meaning of X in OXFORD DICTIONARY is
insincere and deceitful.
ID X?

50. NAME THE ROLLER COASTER……..

51. MR. FREEZE

52. The term began to appear in the American press in
the early 1940s, describing the largest of aerial
bombs: single bombs capable of destroying a city
block, also known as "cookies" during the
firebombing of Hamburg. Later figurative use
referred to anything making a public impact:
"Broadway reacted to the request of War
Mobilization Director Byrnes to close all places of
entertainment by midnight Feb. 26 as if a
blockbuster had landed on Manhattan" (Chicago
Tribune, February 2, 1945).
THE TERM?

53. BLOCKBUSTER

54. FILL IN THE BLANKS
______________,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of _____________.

55. SOLOMON GRUNDY

56. Name Locale/Language
Fugleskræmsel Danish
Vogelverschrikker Dutch
Epouvantail French
Vogelscheuche German
Bijuka Hindi
Spaventapasseri Italian
Kakashi Japanese
Nokku Kuthi Malayalam
Nuffara Maltese
Matarsack Persian
Tao-tao Philippines
Espantalho Portuguese
Espantapájaros Spanish
Sola Kolla Bommai Tamil
X English

57. SCARECROW

58. Norman Whitten was the first man to portray
this character(in a silent movie).
The other actors who have played this role on
the big as well as small screen includes Leslie
King, Sir Robert Helpmann, Ed Wynn, Martin
Short and Andrew Lee-Potts.
Johny Depp was the last man to portray this
role.
Which role?

59. MAD HATTER

60. ID THE POEM?
Who beheads thistles,
On oak-trees and mountain-tops;
You still must leave
my Earth to me,
And my hut, which you did not build,
And my stove,
Whose glow
You envy me.
I know no poorer creatures
Under the sun, than you, Gods!
You barely sustain yourself
From sacrificial offerings
And exhalated prayers
Your Majesty
And would wither, were
Not children and beggars
Hopeful fools.
When I was a child,
And did not know where from or to,
I turned my seeking eye toward
The sun, as if beyond there was
An ear to hear my complaint,
A heart like mine,
To have mercy with the embattled one.
Who helped me
Against the Titans' might?
Who saved me from Death,
From Slavery?
Did you not accomplish it all yourself,
Holy glowing Heart?
And glowed, young and good,
Deceived, thanks for salvation
To the sleeping one up there?

61. Shall I honour you? What for?
Have you softened the pains,
Ever, of a burdened one?
Have you silenced the tears,
Ever, of an anguished one?
Was I not forged into a Man
By almighty Time
And eternal Fate,
My masters and yours?
Do you imagine
I should hate life,
Flee to the desert,
Because not every
Flowering dream bloomed?
Here I sit, forming humans
In my image;
A people to be like me,
To suffer, to weep,
To enjoy and to delight
themselves,
And to not attend to you –
As I.

62. PROMETHEUS

63. In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed
either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks
were available, but their poor production generally tended to
mirror the quality between the covers.
X paperbacks were the brainchild of Allen Lane, then a
director of The Bodley Head. After a weekend visiting Agatha
Christie in Devon, he found himself on a platform at Exeter
station searching its bookstall for something to read on his
journey back to London, but discovered only popular
magazines and reprints of Victorian novels.
Appalled by the selection on offer, Lane decided that good
quality contemporary fiction should be made available at an
attractive price and sold not just in traditional bookshops,
but also in railway stations, tobacconists and chain stores.
ID X?

64. PENGUIN

65. Toxicodendron radicans, better known as X(older synonyms
are Rhus toxicodendron and Rhus radicans), is a poisonous
North American plant that is well known for its production of
urushiol, a clear liquid compound found within the sap of
the plant that causes an itching, or sometimes painful rash
in most people who touch it.
X can be found growing in any of the following three forms:
as a trailing vine that is 10–25 centimetres (3.9–9.8 in) tall.
as a shrub up to 1.2 m tall (4 feet)
as a climbing vine that grows on trees or some other
support
ID X???

66. POISON IVY

67. The plot for which movie?
In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an
oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn’t find a place in
either country. The village had the distinction of housing the
largest mental asylum in the region and in the melee that ensued
during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose, drove away the
villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur. And that’s
how it stayed for the next 60 years! While the world outside
changed, Paglapur remained isolated, with no electricity, television
or sanity! Now, decades after the world forgot this village, a NASA
scientist of Indian origin, Raj and his beautiful wife, Manali find
themselves on the road to Paglapur. Raj is working on a top secret
project for creating a device to communicate with aliens. So why is
he in a village whose colourful inhabitants include a man who
speaks in gibberish, another who thinks he is a lamp post and
everyone else who think Mahatma Gandhi is still around, fighting
for independence?

68. JOKER

69. One of the probable root of the expression X
comes from the Greek God Janus (who was X)
even though the expression has nothing in
similarity in meaning with its root.
The meaning of X in OXFORD DICTIONARY is
insincere and deceitful.
ID X?

70. TWO-FACED

71. LIST OF BATMAN VILLAINS…….

72. 3rd round

73.  10 clues
 Inexhaustive
 Points indicated on each slide

84. DANCE FORMS…….

85. 4TH ROUND

86. The first appearance of the word X is from 1784 and means
an odd person.
But the current sense did not appear until 1867 and then it
was in the United States.
There is a well-known myth about the word X, which says
that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made
a bet that he could introduce a word into the language
within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a
group of street urchins to write the word X, which was a
nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a
day, the word was common there is no evidence to support
the story, and the term was alcurrency and had acquired a
meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone
thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra
cash in his pocket. However, there is no evidence to support
the story, and the term was already in use before the alleged
bet in 1791.
. What is X?

87. QUIZ

88. Print ad showing which incident (need to name
the people involved?)

89. The longest set/match between John Isner and
Nicolas Mahut at the Wimbledon2010

90. Funda please?

91. KOLAVERI DI……

92.  IDENTIFY THE OLD MAN receiving the
Oscar….

93. CHARLIE CHAPLIN RECEIVING THE HONORARY
OSCAR…..

95.  Roles played by ANDY SERKIS

96. The painter please?
The painting is
by a certain
“Ofey”.

97.  Richard Feyman

99.  Names of fever

100. ID the man on the right…

101. Mohammed Yunus

102. The famous musician Ustad Allauddin Khan
created the “Maihar Band” by teaching music to
a group of orphans.
Among the many instrument plaued by the
band was the “NAL TARANG” invented by the
Ustad himself.
What are these instruments reportedly created
from?

104.  GUN BARRELS

105. This is a ripe fruits of Elaeocarpus ganitrus. Its
seeds are used for which purpose?

106. Rudraksha seeds

107. Under the presidentship of VC Shukla the only
time this association entered the “competition”
was in the year 1985.They soon withdrew.
There was talk of entering the same
“competition” in the year 2013, but has faced a
lot of criticism because of the controversies the
association was facing?
Which “competition”?

108.  Bidding to host the Olympics.
In the wake of a very successful Asian Games in
1982 and encouraged by the then IOC
president, India entered the bidding process.
But they had to withdraw because of other
problems the government was facing.

109. The blank part please?

110. IIT

111. The word derived from the Arabic “yuwaly”( to
depend) to describe the non-Arabs who had
converted to Islam such as the Turks and the
Persians.They were treated as 2nd class citizen
by the ruling Arab elite and were forced to pay
Jaziya.
This word is also used in Persian and Urdu(also
Hindi) to mean a vagabond or an uncivilized
person?
The word please?

112. Mawali

113. What has 519,024,039,293,878,272,000
arrangements but only one in twelve solutions?

114. Rubik’s cube

115. ID the person…

116. Sir Richard Attenborough

117. 5th round

118. *HOLLY COW *BOLLY bachchan
*COMIXOLOGY *TOON-TOONI
*OLYM-PIX *MOOOZZZZIIIKKK
*MINI-MAAL *PLAY-BOY
*SCIENTIFICALLY SCINTILLATING
*BREAKING NEWS *DOODLE-E-DUM
*AD-MANIA *BIZZ-BUZZ
*TECH-EN *INDI-MYTH
*AMAR MARZI

119. What common unique achievement can you
connect actors James Coco and Amy Irving?

120. The only 2 actors to have been nominated for
the Oscar as well as the Razzies for the same
role….

121. Probably one of the most expensive song ever
made the lyrics of the songs were re written
105 times by the lyricist Shakeel Badayuni
until they were approved by the music
Director.
Shot in a part of the Lahore Fort,this song was
recorded in the studio bathroom in order to
get the desired reverberation.
Which lengendary song am I talking about

122. Jab Pyaar kiya to Darna Kya….(Mughl-e-Azam)

123.  X is a comic book series based on
the character of the same name. X
was created by Gotham Chopra
and Jeevan Kang and the series is
part of the Shakti line of comics
published by Virgin Comics.
 The plot revolves around a British
soldier by the name of James
Jensen who finds himself to be the
reincarnated form of a “powerful
Indian sage” from the past. The
story primarily deals with the
lessons that he has to learn so as
to remove his connection with his
current life.
 The comic book series is the first
series from the Virgin line to have
been confirmed for a film
adaptation with Nicolas Cage in
the lead role.
 ID X……

124. THE SADHU

125. ID the CARTOON SERIES?

126. BATMAN BEYOND….

127. The Royal Mint of the
United Kingdom has
issued this
commemorative coin as
part of a set issued for
the upcoming 2012
London Olympics. This
particular design was
sent in by sports
journalist Neil Wolfson.
Wolfson thought this
design might serve as a
handy guide to anyone
trying to demystify a
particular sporting rule.
What rule?

128. THE OFFSIDE RULE

129. THE MUSIC
DIRECTOR

130. SNEHA KHANWELKAR

131. ID THE MOVIE?

132. JAANE TU YA JAANE NA

133. ID THE SCIENTIST?

134. MARCONI WITH HIS RADIO

135. Which board game has the following numbers associated with the corresponding
virtues and evils:
Faith (12),
Reliability (51)
Generosity (57)
Knowledge (76)
Asceticism (78)
and
Disobedience (41)
Vanity (44)
Vulgarity (49)
Theft (52)
Lying (58)
Drunkenness (62)
Debt (69)
Rage (84)
Greed (92)
Pride (95)
Murder (73)
Lust (99).

136. SNAKES AND LADDER

138. SATYAMEVA JAYATE

139. Google doodle for what?

140. SAMUEL MORSE’S birthday

143. Collection and Distribution flow chart of?

144. SHRI MAHILA GRIHA UDYOG LIJJAT PAPAD

145. Funda please?

146. Wikipedia celebrates 10 years.

147. Funda or what does it signify?

148. CHAKRAVYUH

149. *Described in the Old Testament as the “City of
Palm Trees”, this city is located on the banks of
Jordan in the West bank region in Palestine.
*It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited
cities of the world dating back to 9000 BC.
• Many of us knows it to be the ring name of the
WWE wrestler Christopher Keith Irvine whose one
of the finishing move shares its name with the
high defensive walls surrounding the city from
ancient times.
• The city?

150. JERICHO

151. 6TH ROUND

152.  10 CLUES
 INEXHAUSTIVE LIST
 POINTS INDICATED ON EACH SLIDE

163.  MILEY SUR MERA TUMHARA….THE ORIGINAL
VIDEO