General Quiz Final round held at Agarpara on December 3rd,2017 by Gopal Chakraborty with a bit help from Debapriya!!!

2. Thanks to all those people who
helped us in different ways to make
the QUIZ possible!!!
We are grateful to…

4. And These People…
• Nirmal Chakraborty
• Ashis Chatterjee
• Jhuma Chakraborty
• Riya Chakraborty
• Santapriya Chakraborty
• Moonmoon Chakraborty
• Avijit Malakar
• Joy Acharya
• Prasanta Mahato
• Pallab Dutta
• Raja Chatterjee
• Pradipta Chatterjee
• Bipul LIC

5. Gopal with 1st
Infinite
Pouncel!!!

6. (1)
• This 1984 Hindi language Telefilm directed by
Tapan Sinha gained widespread media
attention due to only Hindi language movie
by “X”. To get full marks, Id the movie along
with the actress.

8. Ans - Aadmi Aur Aurat & Mahua Roy
Chowdhury.
• Director: Tapan Sinha
• Starring: Amol Palekar, Mahua Roy Chowdhury,
Kalyan Chatterjee, Nirmal Ghosh
• Genre: Drama
• Released on: N/A
• Writer: Prafulla Roy (story), Tapan Sinha

9. (2)
• The project began by a small group of
intellectuals in London in 1857 under the
leadership of Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert
Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall as they were
dissatisfied with the existing one & expressed
there interest by forming an “unregistered
committee”. It was in 1844 the project finished
under a different name. The present title as we
know “It” better was first used in 1895. What is
being talked about?

11. Ans -
• The Oxford English
Dictionary .

12. (3)
• According to legend, When “X” asked
for a boon from Brahma. Indra, on
the other hand, was jealous of “X”’s
wit and velour and thought that “X”
would ask for Indra’s Kingdom of
Heavens. Fearing this, Indra
requested Goddess Saraswati to tie
“X”,s tongue, compelling him to ask
for something else. Brahma granted
the boon & rest is history.
• What result come out after this
story?

14. Ans -
• Instead Indra’s
Indrasan, Kumbhakarna
ask for eternal
Nindrasan for eternal
sleep.

15. (4)
• In January 1914, someone was stood for trial for the
murder of “X”, took place in London which was
organized by the G. K. Chesterton as the judge, George
Bernard Shaw as the foreman of the jury, J.Cuming
Walters led the prosecution, while Cecil
Chesterton acted for the defence. George Bernard
Shaw & G. K. Chesterton, both protested and
demanded that the jury should be discharged on the
grounds that there was not enough evidence to convict
the suspect person.
• Id “X” along with the reason for organizing such a
“Trial”.

17. Ans - Mock trial in which John Jasper
was prosecuted for the murder of his
nephew, Edwin Drood.
• The London branch of the Dickens
Fellowship sponsored a Mystery of
Edwin Drood–inspired mock trial in
which John Jasper was prosecuted for
the murder of his nephew, Edwin
Drood.
• When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he
had only completed the first six of
twelve planned installments for his
latest novel, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood. For the last 142 years, both
amateur and professional sleuths
have attempted to solve this literary
mystery.

18. (5)
• Born on 1978, he is the great grandson of the
famous Late Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostafa,
currently worked as a software engineer, was in
headline in 2007 for his contribution to the
development of the fluid Simulation System for the
movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At world’s End.
• Id the man with the best known reason for Which
we still remember him?

20. Ans - Nafees Bin Zafar ,first
Bangladeshi to win an Oscar.
• Nafees Bin Zafar (born 1978) is
a Bangladeshi software engineer who
received a Scientific and Technical
Academy Award (OSCAR) in 2007 for
his contribution to the development of
the fluid simulation system for the
movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At
World's End, thus becoming the first
Bangladeshi to win an Oscar.[3][4] He is
a great grandson of the famous late
Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostofa and
grand nephew of the famous
Bangladeshi artist and puppeteer
Mostofa Monowar.

21. (6)
• Born in Toulouse, France on
1838, after passing his law
exams he became an ‘Acrobatic
Performer’ & developed the art
of Trapeze, was immortalized as
the subject of the 1867 popular
song “ The man on the Flying
Trapeze by George Leybourne.
• What garment, originally called
Maillot, made famous after his
death in 1886 now bears his
name?

23. Ans -
• Jules Leotard. “Leotard”-the
one piece costume worn by
acrobats, gymnasts,
dancers, figure skaters.

24. (7)
• A city in the south Indian state , known as the
"Rice bowl of ___ ____“, derived from a
legendary demon in Hindu mythology who was
killed by the Hindu god Neelamegha Perumal, a
form of Vishnu.
• Famous for a style of painting which
depict classical dance, music as well as literature
and has been recognized as a Geographical
indication by the Government of India in 2007-
08.
• Id the city which is an important centre of South
Indian religion, art and architecture?

26. Ans – Thanjavur
• Thanjavur painting is a
classical South
Indian painting style.
Thanjavur is derived
from "Tanjan", an asura.

27. (8)
• Leonard _____, a gym teacher
at Robert E. Lee High school in
Florida, was notorious for
enforcing the school’s policy
against boys having a long hair.
Once a certain Gary Rossington
dropped out from this high
school by this man for having a
long hair. Later in 1969, he gave
a mocking tribute to this
physical education teacher by a
unique way. How?

29. Ans - Lynyrd Skynyrd rock band.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd is an
American rock band best known for
popularizing the Southern rock genre
during the 1970s. Originally formed in
1964 as My Backyard in Jacksonville,
Florida.
• teenage friends Ronnie Van Zant, Bob
Burns, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington,
and Larry Junstrom formed it.
• The band gained worldwide
recognition for its live performances
and signature songs "Sweet Home
Alabama" and "Free Bird“.

30. (9)
Hem Sundari Tagore was the daughter
of Rabindranath Tagore's younger
brother. After she became a widow at an early
age, her own family, along with her in-laws,
compelled her to give up all her rights to their
family name and property. Later she left for
Meerut, became a nurse, and married an
journalist named Pyare Lal Shankar Meeruti,
who was a Christian. Who is her famous
grand-daughter born on 1 August 1933?

32. Ans – Meena Kumari
Hem Sundari had two
daughters. one of these
was Prabhawati laterIqbal
Begum.Who was Meena
Kumari's mother. Meena
Kumari's grandmother,
Hem Sundari Thakur
(Tagore) was the daughter
of Rabindranath Tagore's
younger brother.

33. (10) Id “X” and “Y” both.
• “X” met with “Y” in 1973 &
built a “powerful
partnership for raising
funds for HIVAIDS”. Later
“X” with Bernie Taupin
wrote this song &
dedicated it to his friend Y.

35. Ans – X = Elton John
Y = Billy Jean King
• "Philadelphia Freedom" is a
song sung by Elton John in 1975.
• The song was written by Elton
John and Bernie Taupin as a
favour to John's friend, tennis
star Billie Jean King. King was
part of the Philadelphia
Freedoms professional tennis
team.

36. (11)How these three men enlisted
their name in Cricket’s record book?
(Related with Kolkata)

38. Ans – First ever wickets taken by these
bowlers in Test, ODI & T20I respectively at
Eden Gardens.
• First Test played at Eden Gardens 5-8 January
1934 India v. England. Wicket taken by Amar
Sing.
• First ODI played at Eden Gardens on 18th
February 1987 India v. Pakistan. Wicket taken by
Wasim Akram.
• First T20 played at Eden Gardens on 29th
October 2011 India v. England. Wicket taken by
Tim Bresnan.
• Batsman CF Walters, K. Srikanth, V. Kohili.

39. (12)
• Also known as the “Tailor’s” Muscle, this long,
thin, superficial muscle in the human body
comes from the Latin word meaning “Tailor”
due to cross-legged position in which tailors
used to sit when pinning hems.
• Which muscle am I talking about?

41. Ans - Sartorius Muscle
• The sartorius muscle is the
longest muscle in the human
body. It is a long,
thin,superficial muscle that runs
down the length of the thigh in
the anterior compartment.
• The sartorius muscle originates
from the anterior superior iliac
spine and part of the notch
between the anterior superior
iliac spine and anterior inferior
iliac spine. It runs obliquely
across the upper and anterior
part of the thigh in an
inferomedial direction.[2]

42. (13)Connect with a single word.

44. Ans - Nahanyate
• Naw Hanyate is a novel written in 1974
by Maitreyi Devi, wrote the novel in response
to Romanian philosopher Mircea Eliade's book La
Nuit Bengali which related a fictionalized account
of their romance during Eliade's visit to India.
• The 1999 Bollywood film Hum Dil De Chuke
Sanam, directed by Sanjay Leela Bansali, takes its
inspiration from Devi's novel.
• In 2010, Rupam released his second solo album
called Na Hanyate from SaReGaMa.

45. (14)
• This is a 1956 adaptation of a certain novel.
Directed by John Huston the movie was in the
headline for its screenplay which was written by
John Huston and ”X”. Who?

47. Ans – Ray Bradbury
• Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit
451(1953).
• Moby Dick is a 1956 film
adaptation of Herman Melville's
novel Moby-Dick. It was directed
by John Huston with a screenplay
by Huston and Ray Bradbury. The
film starred Gregory Peck, Richard
Basehart, and Leo Genn.

48. (15)
• If he was the first to hold
a respective post then
who is the present one
to hold the same post?(
Bigger Image in next
slide)

51. Ans - Stephen Constantine, coach of
Indian national Football team.
• Balaidas Chatterjee was a former
Indian football player and was the
very first head coach the India
national football team during the
1948 Summer Olympics.
• Sarangapani Raman .He is best
known for playing in the Indian
national football team's first ever
match and scoring the first ever
Indian international goal ever in
the 1948 Olympics against France.
The match ended 2-1 in favor of
France. This was also noted as
India's first ever official match.

52. It’s Turn for Debapriya now…

53. • (16)Bengal & Odisha had a great fight
over Rasgula’s Geographical Indication
where Bengal became the deserving
winner.
• Same kind of tussle happened in 2008
between two Bengals. Several protests
continued in Bangladesh when
controversially West Bengal was given
the GI tag. Though it belongs to
Bangladsh mainly. These are produced
throughout Bangladesh, but the
greater Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Faridpur
and Jessore are the main producer of it.
• This person’s name came to the mind
when we talk about this product.
• Id this product.

55. Ans – Nakshi Kantha.
• The man on the image was Palli Kabi Jasimuddin
who wrote ‘Nakshi Kanthar Math’.

56. • (17)X is one of the most controversial
Nobel Prize winner ever. He won the
award for inducing of cancer in healthy
rats using Spiroptera Carcinoma.
• In 1926 he was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine along
with Katsusaburo Yamagiwa. However,
they were considered undeserving, and
the 1926 prize was not given. In the next
year X alone was retrospectively chosen
for the 1926 Nobel Prize.
• His experimental results were later
proven to be a case of mistaken
conclusion. Erling Norrby, Permanent
Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences declared X's Nobel Prize as
“One of the biggest blunders”.
• Id X.

58. Ans - Johannes Fibiger (Denmark).

59. • (18)Two countries in the world are named
after Equator. One of them is Ecuador. Which
is the other one?
• Flag of the country

61. Ans - Equatorial Guinea

62. • (19)Id this great
devotee of lord Shiva
for whom Shiva
himself fought with
Yama for his life.

64. Ans - Markandeya

65. • (20)This the national fruit of China. But it’s
name is related to some other country. It is
native to north-central and eastern China. The
first recorded description of this fruit dates
back to the 12th century China during
the Song dynasty. Name the fruit.

67. Ans - Kiwifruit

68. Debapriya continues with ‘Infinite
Bounce II’!!!
• It’ll go anticlockwise…

69. • (1)The Archaeological Survey of India has permitted
the excavation in Barnawa, Uttar Pradesh.
Historians have made several appeals to the ASI to
obtain permission for the excavation. According to
ASI officials, the excavation will begin in the first
week of December and will continue for three
months. Students of the Institute of Archaeology
will also participate in the excavation. What’s the
reason for this excavation?

71. Ans – ‘Lakshagriha’ of the epic
Mahabharata is believed to be there (The
palace where Duryodhana had planned the murder of the
Pandavas).

72. • (2)This child was the reason to
appoint a committee by
Gandhiji on November,1935.
Gandhiji appointed this
committee of 15 prominent
people, including
parliamentarians, national
leaders, and members from the
media.
• Who is this little girl & what was
the reason to form this
committee?

74. Ans – Shanti Devi & Reincarnation of her
(The committee’s report is probably the only proved,
researched,documented & justified reincarnation incident in India).

75. • (3)He solved the Geometric solutions of cubic
equation, Google celebrated his birthday with a
Doodle on 18th May.
• Id him (On left the original manuscript of his work).

77. Ans – Omar Khayyam

78. • (4)This movie became the first film to be banned
in India. The film came just after Rowlatt Act was
passed in India. The main character of the movie,
X was reportedly portrayed imitating Mahatma
Gandhi, his personality. There were scenes in the
film where X appeared like Gandhi
wearing Gandhi cap, Khaddar etc. Many more
contemporary political events of India were
shown as reference in the film. As a result, the
film was restricted, as the censor board
concluded– "We know what you are doing, it is
not X, it is Gandhiji, we won't allow it." It was also
written in the censor's report– "It is likely to
excite dissatisfaction against government and
incite people to non co-operation“.
• Id the movie.

80. Ans – Bhakta Vidur (Dharma Vijay will also
work)

81. • (5)X's application for FIFA membership was
denied, with president Sepp Blatter stating
that X is ineligible because it is not an
independent country. This was despite FIFA at
the time including 22 members that are not
independent countries. X Football Association
appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport
against this verdict. On 2nd May,2016 CAS
ordered FIFA to grant full membership to X as
early as possible. And on 13th May,2016 X was
accepted as the 211th member of FIFA. They
also played the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers.
• Id X.

83. Ans - Gibraltar

84. (6)Where’ll you find these characters?

86. Ans – Memory Game in Ray’s ‘Aryaner
Dinratri’ movie.
• Rabindranath
• Karl Marx
• Cleopatra
• Atulya Ghosh
• Helen of Troy
• Shakespeare
• Mao Tse-Tung
• Don Bradman
• Rani Rasmoni
• Bobby Kennedy
• Tek Chand Thakur
• Napoleon
• Mumtazmahal

87. Gopal with the last few
Questions…

88. (7)Connect…

90. Ans - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter & his friend John Artis (May 6, 1937 – April 20,
2014) was a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of
murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after
spending almost 20 years in prison.
• The 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane“. Carter also appeared as himself in
Dylan's 1978 movie Renaldo and Clara.
• In 1975, Nelson Algren was commissioned to write a magazine article
about the trial of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the prize fighter who had been
found guilty of double murder. While researching the article, Algren visited
Carter's hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. Algren was instantly
fascinated by the city of Paterson and he immediately decided to move
there. In the summer of 1975, Algren sold off most of his belongings, left
Chicago, and moved into an apartment in Paterson. The article about
Carter had grown into a novel, The Devil's Stocking, which was published
posthumously in 1983.
Norman Jewison's 1999 feature film The Hurricane, starring Denzel
Washington in the lead role.

91. (8)
• This song is taken from a
1952 movie Nau Bahar
directed by Anand Kumar &
starring Ashok Kumar &
Nalini Jawanti. The lyrics of
this song was given by a
unknown person whose
wife is more famous to us.
• Id the lyrists?

93. Ans - Satyendra Athaia, husband of
Bhau Athaiya.

94. (9)
• Construction started in 1935 and completed
in 1938 it was originally known as Hi-Catoctin
and was built for federal government agents
and their families. In 1942, Franklin D.
Roosevelt renamed it "Shangri-La" after
the fictional Himalayan paradise in the 1933
novel Lost Horizon by British author James
Hilton. Received its present name from Dwight
D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father
and grandson. Which place?

96. Ans – Camp David.
• The Catoctin
Mountain Park does
not indicate the
location of Camp
David on park maps
due to privacy and
security concerns,
although it can be
seen through the use
of publicly accessible
satellite images.

97. (10) Id “X” and “Y” both.
• A dynamic young Parsi named
Pestonji Edulji Dalal had opened the
most advanced dairy plant ‘X’ in India
in 1915 and dominated the business
& named it after his nickname. As he
was the sole producer of something,
angered by the unfair trade practices,
the farmers
approached Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
under the leadership of local farmer
leader Tribhuvandas K. Patel. And the
result we get a big name “Y” in the
world of bussiness?

99. Ans – X=Polson Girl & Y = Amul Butter Girl
• Polson is the name of a Dairy
products brand that was started in
India by Pestonjee Eduljee in 1915
in Mumbai.
• Amul is an Indian dairy
cooperative, based at Anand that
is situated on 1946 in the state of
Gujarat, India.
• Government had given monopoly
rights to Polson to collect milk
from Kaira and supply it to Bombay
city.
• The Amul girl was created as a
response to Amul's rival brand
Polson's butter-girl.

100. (11)
• This area is located in
Wendover Woods,
Buckinghamshire, England
where “X”(In the pic) was a
specialist in Car racing. Later in
1913, he founded a company
along with Robert Bamford &
named “It” after putting
together the name of this area
& his surname. Name it.

102. Ans – Ashton Martin
Aston Martin is a British
manufacturer of luxury sports
cars and grand tourers. It was
founded in 1913 by Lionel
Martin and Robert Bamford.
it became associated with
expensive grand touring cars in
the 1950s and 1960s, and with
the fictional character James
Bond following his use of
a DB5 model in the 1964
film Goldfinger.

103. (12)
• This is a 1987 Latin Rock album
produced by Pete Gavankar
Where “X” Partnered with Jose
Flores as music composer.
• Id the genius in his field.

105. Ans – RD Burman
• Pancham's non-film music
comprises a few albums,
including Pantera (1987),
a Latin Rock album
produced by Pete
Gavankar (father
of Janina Gavankar). The
album was an
international
collaboration, for which
Burman partnered with
Jose Flores in San
Francisco.

106. (13)
• William Leonard Laurence, born in a
small city in the Russian Empire, was a
Jewish born American journalist,
emigrated to the United States in
1905 after participating in the Russian
Revolution. Known for his science
writing in the New York Times won
Pulitzer prizes during 1937.
• He is still remembered to us as being
the only journalist to witness What?

108. Ans
• Trinty Test and the atomic
bombing of Nagasaki.
• Born as Leib Wolf Siew.

109. (14)
• This Silver Chariot in the
Durban Hall of Qila
Mubarak at Patiala was
originally owned by the
Maharaja of Patiala
Bhupinder Sing, who got it
made from Calcutta in 1909,
used only in ceremonial
procession by the Maharaja.
Driven by six horses it has a
great historical significance
due to its last uses in New
Delhi after independence?

111. Ans -
• The first president of
India, Dr. Rajendra
Prasad entered the
Rashtrapati Bhawan on
the silver chariot
owned by the
Maharaja of Patiala.

112. (15)
• Born in a small town in Apolda,
served in the dangerous role of
local tax collector in the 19th
century. During his tax
collections, he passes through
many dangerous bandit-infected
area & used “X” for protecting
him during his tax collection. As
a tribute to him, after his death
in 1894 “X” was named in his
honor.
• You need not to identify the man
am I talking about simply Id “X”?

114. Ans -
• Karl Friedrich Louis
Doberman. Doberman
Pinscher.

115. (16)
• Mentioned briefly in Homer’s
Illiad,he was a herald of the
Greek forces during the Trojan
war, believed to have died
after losing a shouting contest
with Hermes though Homer
says “ his voice was as
powerful as fifty voices of
other men”.
• Story of this Greek hero has
now became a part of English
dictionary. Who and How?

117. Ans – Stentor & Stentorian
• Stentor. Stentorian. Meaning- loud-voiced. In Greek
mythology, Stentor was a herald of the Greek forces
during the Trojan War. He is mentioned briefly
in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera tells Stentor to
encourage the Greeks to fight; Homer says his "voice
was as powerful as fifty voices of other men".
• Elsewhere, Stentor is said to have died after losing a
shouting contest with Hermes.
• Stentor's story is the origin of the term "stentorian",
meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous.

118. (17)
• “X” is a fictional character and the main
antagonist in a 1945 allegorical Novella by “Y”
Where he described as a “large, rather fierce-
looking Berkshire common pig” based on “Z”
who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to
1953.
• Id “X”, “Y” and “Z”?

120. Ans -
• X- Napoleon. Pig.
• Y- Animal Farm BY George
Orwell.
• Z- Joseph Stalin.
• Owner of the Animal Farm
Mr. Jones.

121. (18)
• This ‘Beautiful’(!!!)
smiling faced lady has
never done any crime
yet her name has
enlisted in the crime
record books for a
particular reason.
Who? (Bigger Image)

124. Ans - Enola Gay Tibbets
• Enola Gay Tibbets for whom the B-29 A-bomber was
named by son, Col. Paul Tibbets.
• Built by the Glenn L. Martin Company was an
American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing
company that was founded by the aviation
pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company
produced many important aircraft for the defense of
the United States and its allies, especially during World
War II and the Cold War. Also, during the 1950s and
60s, the Martin Company moved gradually out of the
aircraft industry and into the guided missile, space
exploration, and space utilization industries.

125. (19)
• Psmith, Journalist is a 1915 novel by
P.G Woodhouse released in the
United Kingdom as a serial in The
Captain Magazine. It continues the
adventure of the Silver tongue Psmith
who accompanying his fellow
Cambridge student Mike to New York
on a cricketing tour. One of the best
known phrases that ever said was first
used in this novel in 1915.
• Id the phrase which is somehow very
popular to us?

127. Ans - Elementary My dear Watson
• Elementary My dear Watson. Well the first known, or
at least recorded use of the phrase was in the 1915
novel, Psmith, Journalist written by P.G. Wodehouse.
• In fact the line doesn't appear in the Conan Doyle
books, only later in Sherlock Holmes' films. He does
come rather close at a few of points. Holmes says
"Elementary" in 'The Crooked Man', and "It was very
superficial, my dear Watson, I assure you" in 'The
Cardboard Box'. He also says "Exactly, my dear Watson,
in three different stories. For example in His Last Bow.
• The phrase was first used by P. G. Wodehouse,
in Psmith Journalist, 1915.

128. (20)Connect with a big name.

130. Ans – Manoj Kumar
• Harikrishna Giri Goswami. As a young,
he admired Dilip Kumar & decided to
name himself Manoj Kumar after Dilip
Kumar’s character in 1949 movie
Shabnam by Bibhuti Mitra.
• Born in Abbottabad.
• Quit acting after his last appearance in
the 1995 film Maidan-E-Jung by
K.C.Bokaria.
• In 2004, he joined the ranks of the Shiv
Sena.