The document discusses a quiz fest in Guwahati with various questions touching on topics from cultural phenomena to scientific discoveries. It includes notable contributions by participants and highlights unique trivia, such as the origins of the term 'narcissistic numbers' and the first stamps featuring real rock. Additionally, it explores historical events and their societal impacts, such as the economic liberalization in India and the Chernobyl disaster.

2. Rituraj Kashyap, for reviewing the set and
giving some valuable inputs.
Bibhuti and his team for organising such a
wonderful quiz fest in Guwahati.
All of you for turning up on a lazy Sunday
afternoon.

3.  20 questions in the prelims.
 All the even numbered questions are starred which
are to be used to resolve ties both in prelims .
 If tie still persists, sudden death will be used
starting from the first question.
 Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
 In case of tie in the finals, marks of prelims would
be considered.
 Test yourself, not Google.
 NO arguments with the QM at any stage of the
Quiz. Dispute or errors, if any can be settled over a
cup of coffee after the quiz.

5. The scientific explanation for this “godly
miracle” was that the offerings in the bowl
were pulled up by capillary action and
hence looks to have “disappeared”.
Which incident is this that caused much
hullabaloo in India in 1995 and also had
references in movies like “Oh my God”
starring Paresh Rawal?

6. The Deadly Assassin, a 1976 episode of
Doctor Who is about the good doctor who
enters a vast neural network to track the
master(his nemesis) and thwart off his
plans, the only catch being that if he dies
in the network, he also dies in real life.
Close to two decades later, how did a
similar concept resurfaced into the world of
pop-culture?

7.  Economic liberalisation came to India in 1991 with
the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao.
BJP and the Left were one in opposing a
liberalised economic and industrial regime.
 Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, the BJP “ideologue”
coined the slogan “FDI for X chips Yes! Y chips
No!”
 But the Congress argued that main reason why a
country like India with clearly inadequate capital
resources wanted foreign investment was to create
jobs and generate value addition for the
economy(which was possible more with Y than X)
 X and Y please.

8. Dominique Jean Larrey was a famous
French military surgeon who published the
first description of trench foot in 1812.
However his greatest contribution is
something that he appropriately called
“flying hospitals”. What am I talking about?

9. Which earlier feature depicted with a
yellow outline inside the red disc on the
flag of Bangladesh was subsequently
deleted owing to difficulty in rendering it
correctly on both sides of the flag?

10. This word (X)is commonly used to refer to
a bus(even train) station serving as an end
station.
The same name is also shared by a
Roman deity who acted as boundary
markers during ancient times.
A famous UNESCO world heritage site in
India which is said to have undergone one
of the biggest “sex change” shares a part
of its name with X.

11.  The relationship between theoretical and
experimental physicists have been strained for
long as most of the theoretical ones were guilty of
being involved in horrible experimental errors.
 This particular physicist who won the Nobel prize
in Physics in the year 1945 (for his work involving
spin theory)was often involved in laboratory
mishaps including violent explosions, mismatch
between theoretical and practical values , improper
handling of apparatus etc.
 Who is this famous physicist whom you cannot
“exclude” from your list of guesses?

12.  A few years back, scientists revealed more
than 200 new species of life that they
discovered in a remote region of Papua New
Guinea which included new mammals, frogs,
insects and plants.
 Most photogenic of the discovered animals is
a tube-nosed fruit bat that bears a startling
resemblance to somebody from the world of
popular culture.
 Take a proper look at the animal on the next
slide and tell me its popular nickname.

14. This “one-eyed” predecessor of Hawkeye
was the first technological umpiring aid
used in Tennis, making its debut at
Wimbledon in 1980. There was once a
famous instance when Illie Nastase went
down on his knees infront of it and
screamed “Were you made in Russia?”
What am I talking about?

15.  Since there are technically no last names, the people of this
country refer to each other simply by first name. All directories
such as the telephone directory are alphabetized by first
name. To reduce ambiguity, the telephone directory goes
further by also listing professions. For example, their President
will be addressed as Ólafur, whether formally or casually and
same goes with the PM Jóhanna.
 But probably the most peculiar tradition is that the women
here don't take their husbands' names upon marriage as they
believe that a woman cannot suddenly become somebody
else’s daughter.
 Which country is this that came recently into news for their
technique and superior skills in a different field?

16. Kirron Kher has a credit for a specific
reason in DDLJ though she doesn't appear
in the film.
What was her small yet significant
contribution that would definitely prove one
of the popular Shakespeare’s quote to be
wrong?

17. How did Patricia Highsmith’s novel ‘The
Price of Salt’ (the inspiration for the new
Cate Blanchett movie ‘Carol’) held a rather
unique or odd position when it came to
Lesbian literature of the mid-to-late 20th
century?

19. Why did the producers of the movie
“Planet of the apes” spent a considerable
amount of money buying the items (shown
in the next slide) though it was never
shown on screen?
These items catered to a certain “group” of
people who are also found in abundance in
engineering colleges across the country.

21.  If it's
 Rashid in Malaysia
 Bilal in Arabic
 Jose in Spanish
 Qodos in Pashto
 And the female version is Emily
 Then what is the equivalent name in English
that had stormed the social media few
months back and whose name can be
cryptically connected to one of the aspiring
Presidential candidates in US?

22.  In her book "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg says her
career has not been like a traditional 'ladder', but
compares it to something else, given the number
of different lateral moves she's made.
 The object of her analogy was patented by
Sebastian Hinton, whose mathematician father
built a wooden version to teach children 3-
dimensional spaces and this object has probably
been an integral part of our childhood(seen
commonly in schools and parks).
 So what did Mr. Hinton patent?

24. If the building on the hill top of the
Mashobra in Shimla and another in
Bolarum, Hyderabad(taken over from the
Nizam of Hyderabad) are the lesser known
“glorified residence”, than what is their
most famous equivalent?

25.  Numbers like 8208 which can be written as 8^(4) +
2^(4) + 0^(4) + 8^(4) are named after the Greek
mythological character who probably fell in love
with the wrong person( at least from biological
point of view).
 In the 2006 Simpson episode called “Merge and
Homer turn a couple play” , this number is shown
on a giant screen display during a baseball match.
It also finds mention in the Simon Singh book “The
Simpsons and their mathematical secrets”.

26. What is remarkable(first ever stamps of
this kind ) about these stamps that shows
different views of the “Rock of
Gibraltar”(shown in the next slide).

28. The medal that you see on the next slide
were given by a certain country’s
government to those firemen, civilians and
Army personnel who shed blood to prevent
something , which by far is one of the
darkest chapters in its history.
Go back to your high school Physics to
recall what symbols on the medal could
mean and hence give me the infamous
event.

33. The scientific explanation for this “godly
miracle” was that the offerings in the bowl
were pulled up by capillary action and
hence looks to have “disappeared”.
Which incident is this that caused much
hullabaloo in India in 1995 and also had
references in movies like “Oh my God”
starring Paresh Rawal?

35. The Deadly Assassin, a 1976 episode of
Doctor Who is about the good doctor who
enters a vast neural network to track the
master(his nemesis) and thwart off his
plans, the only catch being that if he dies
in the network, he also dies in real life.
Close to two decades later, how did a
similar concept resurfaced into the world of
pop-culture?

37.  Economic liberalisation came to India in 1991 with
the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao.
BJP and the Left were one in opposing a
liberalised economic and industrial regime.
 Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, the BJP “ideologue”
coined the slogan “FDI for X chips Yes! Y chips
No!”
 But the Congress argued that main reason why a
country like India with clearly inadequate capital
resources wanted foreign investment was to create
jobs and generate value addition for the
economy(which was possible more with Y than X)
 X and Y please.

38. X: Computer chips
Y: Potato chips

39. Dominique Jean Larrey was a famous
French military surgeon who published the
first description of trench foot in 1812.
However his greatest contribution is
something that he appropriately called
“flying hospitals”. What am I talking about?

40. Ambulances

41. Which earlier feature depicted with a
yellow outline inside the red disc on the
flag of Bangladesh was subsequently
deleted owing to difficulty in rendering it
correctly on both sides of the flag?

42. The map of Bangladesh.

43. This word (X)is commonly used to refer to
a bus(even train) station serving as an end
station.
The same name is also shared by a
Roman deity who acted as boundary
markers during ancient times.
A famous UNESCO world heritage site in
India who is said to have undergone one of
the biggest “sex change”shares a part of
its name with X.

44. Terminus
The UNESCO world heritage site being
talked about is “Chhatrapati Shivaji
Terminus(CST)” which was previously
known as “Victoria Terminus”.

45.  The relationship between theoretical and
experimental physicists have been strained for
long as most of the theoretical ones were guilty of
being involved in horrible experimental errors.
 This particular physicist who won the Nobel prize
in Physics in the year 1945 (for his work involving
spin theory)was often involved in laboratory
mishaps including violent explosions, mismatch
between theoretical and practical values , improper
handling of apparatus etc.
 Who is this famous physicist whom you cannot
“exclude” from your list of guesses?

46. Wolfgang Pauli, famous for his exclusion
principle.

47.  A few years back, scientists revealed more
than 200 new species of life that they
discovered in a remote region of Papua New
Guinea which included new mammals, frogs,
insects and plants.
 Most photogenic of the discovered animals is
a tube-nosed fruit bat that bears a startling
resemblance to somebody from the world of
popular culture.
 Take a proper look at the animal on the next
slide and tell me its popular nickname.

49. Yoda bat, Yoda being inspired from the
Star Wars series due to its similar looks
with the Jedi master.

50. This “one-eyed” predecessor of Hawkeye
was the first technological umpiring aid
used in Tennis, making its debut at
Wimbledon in 1980. There was once a
famous instance when Illie Nastase went
down on his knees infront of it and
screamed “Were you made in Russia?”
What am I talking about?

51. Cyclops, which was a one-eyed monster
from Greek mythology.

52.  Since there are technically no last names, the people of this
country refer to each other simply by first name. All directories
such as the telephone directory are alphabetized by first
name. To reduce ambiguity, the telephone directory goes
further by also listing professions. For example, their President
will be addressed as Ólafur, whether formally or casually and
same goes with the PM Jóhanna.
 But probably the most peculiar tradition is that the women
here don't take their husbands' names upon marriage as they
believe that a woman cannot suddenly become somebody
else’s daughter.
 Which country is this that came recently into news for their
technique and superior skills in a different field?

53. Iceland

54. Kirron Kher has a credit for a specific
reason in DDLJ though she doesn't appear
in the film.
What was her small yet significant
contribution that would definitely prove one
of the popular Shakespeare’s quote to be
wrong?

55. The name/title Dilwale Dulhania Le
Jayenge was the brainchild of Kirron Kher.

56. How did Patricia Highsmith’s novel ‘The
Price of Salt’ (the inspiration for the new
Cate Blanchett movie ‘Carol’) held a rather
unique or odd position when it came to
Lesbian literature of the mid-to-late 20th
century?

58. Only well-known lesbian novel with a
happy ending.

59. Why did the producers of the movie
“Planet of the apes” spent a considerable
amount of money buying the items (shown
in the next slide) though it was never
shown on screen?
These items catered to a certain “group” of
people who are also found in abundance in
engineering colleges across the country.

62.  If it's
 Rashid in Malaysia
 Bilal in Arabic
 Jose in Spanish
 Qodos in Pashto
 And the female version is Emily
 Then what is the equivalent name in English
that had stormed the social media few
months back and whose name can be
cryptically connected to one of the aspiring
Presidential candidates in US?

64.  In her book "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg says her
career has not been like a traditional 'ladder', but
compares it to something else, given the number
of different lateral moves she's made.
 The object of her analogy was patented by
Sebastian Hinton, whose mathematician father
built a wooden version to teach children 3-
dimensional spaces and this object has probably
been an integral part of our childhood(seen
commonly in schools and parks).
 So what did Mr. Hinton patent?

66. Jungle gym/Monkey bars/Climbing frame.

67. If the building on the hill top of the
Mashobra in Shimla and another in
Bolarum, Hyderabad(taken over from the
Nizam of Hyderabad) are the lesser known
“glorified residence”, than what is their
most famous equivalent?

69.  Numbers like 8208 which can be written as 8^(4) +
2^(4) + 0^(4) + 8^(4) are named after the Greek
mythological character who probably fell in love
with the wrong person( at least from biological
point of view).
 In the 2006 Simpson episode called “Merge and
Homer turn a couple play” , this number is shown
on a giant screen display during a baseball match.
It also finds mention in the Simon Singh book “The
Simpsons and their mathematical secrets”.

70. Narcissistic numbers, named after Greek
mythology character Narcissus, who fell in
love with himself.

71. What is remarkable(first ever stamps of
this kind ) about these stamps that shows
different views of the “Rock of
Gibraltar”(shown in the next slide).

73. The Rock of Gibraltar stamps are the first
ever stamps in the world to be produced
with actual rock incorporated on the
stamps.

74. The medal that you see on the next slide
were given by a certain country’s
government to those firemen, civilians and
Army personnel who shed blood to prevent
something , which by far is one of the
darkest chapters in its history.
Go back to your high school Physics to
recall what symbols on the medal could
mean and hence give me the infamous
event.

76. The infamous event talked about is the
“Chernobyl nuclear radiation leak”.
The medals were designed to depict the
blood shed due to the radiation leak and
the symbols alpha, beta, gamma refers to
the types of nuclear radiation.