2015 Jan Quiz : SBG Quizzards Round 2 : Anything goes

1. January 2015 Quiz
Anything goes…
QM: Sridhar Babu

2. Anything goes
• 10 questions regarding any topic at all (mixed bag)
• 10 points for correct answer for direct question
• 5 points for passed question
• No negative marks
• Sequence of passing: anti-clockwise
• Direct question will be addressed to the person
next to whoever answered the previous one
• If nobody answers, direct question will be
addressed to the next person in sequence

3. Anything goes…Question 1
• The first one was for an astonishing new method
and apparatus discovered in the production of
potash and pearl ash
• The second for a special process of making candles
• While there were just 3 in the first year (1790),
there 3,02,948 in 2013
• What is being talked about? Keep in mind, there
are veritable wars fought over these
• Patents

4. Anything goes…Question 2
• Back in the day, animation was an artist’s job, and not a
computer’s. Every tiny detail of a cartoon had to be drawn
painstakingly and meticulously some 30 to 40 thousand
times, and omitting some small details or altering them to
make things ‘easier to draw’ would not only make cartoonists
breathe a sigh of relief but also potentially saved millions of
dollars in man hours
• This is the norm rather than the exception even now, when
animation is computer dominated. So much so, that in “The
Simpsons”, God is the only character not to share this
characteristic.
• What is being talked about?
• Cartoon characters are drawn with 4 fingers

5. Anything goes…Question 3
• 74 sculptors and architects are rumoured to have
competed for designing this tomb
• Which Victoria Cross recipient’s tomb is this?
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

6. Anything goes…Question 4
• Shown here is the cover of “Psmith,Journalist”,
a novel by PG Wodehouse, which continues the
adventures of his much loved character, Psmith
• Famous in its own right, what is perhaps its
(probably inadvertent) most famous impact on
popular culture?
• “Elementary, my dear Watson”

7. Anything goes…Question 5
• P and Q are a complex example of a tool set (some
extremely basic complementary tool sets: needle
and thread, fishing rod and line, hammer and chisel)
• Their making requires no less than 22 raw
materials like glue, wood, etc and 10 different tools
• This set was one of the earliest examples of tools
being used to create tools, and is often credited
with being key to humans aggregating in colonies
• What are P and Q?
• Bow and Arrow

8. Anything goes…Question 6
• ________ is a black comedy that turns into a
tragedy that emerged from the Second World War
• Interestingly, a specific situation was named after
the book
• To accomplish task A, one needs object B. However
the only reason one needs to complete task A is to
obtain object B
• This is an example of a ________ situation
• Fill in the Blanks
• Catch 22

9. Anything goes…Question 7
• Guglielmo Marconi missed it as he had some
paperwork to do
• William Hershey missed it due to personal reasons
• JP Morgan missed it because he wanted to spend
some more time in a French resort
• They all missed something in the early 1900s. Had
they not missed this thing, their business and for
that matter, the course of their lives would have
been completely different
• What did they all miss?
• Titanic

10. Anything goes…Question 8
• In 2008, Turkey’s 3rd largest town planned to sue Warner
Bros. for using the town’s name without prior permission
• According to Hussain Kalkan, the mayor of this town “There
is only one X in this world. The American producer used the
name without informing us.”
• The town in Turkey takes it’s name from a unit of weight in
Turkish and is way older than the character of the same
name who debuted in 1939
• Identify X and hence name this famous character
• BATMAN

11. Anything goes…Question 9
• The pictures above are of US patent 5255452.
Identify the patent holder and the function of the
invention
• Michael Jackson : Methods and Means for Creating
the "anti-gravity illusion"

12. Anything goes…Question 10
• This is the only movie on IMDb.com wherein the
rating goes upto 11
• Which movie and why is it so?
• “This is Spinal Tap” - A nod to the fact that the
band's amps go up to 11