This is the presentation of a General Quiz conducted at TD Medical Colege ,Alappuzha during the Arts Fest 2016

1. ARTS FEST QUIZ 2016

2. RULES
• 4 Rounds - 32 Questions
Round 1– 7 Questions
Round 2 – 9 Questions
Round 3 – 8 Questions
Round 4 – 8 Questions

3. PLEASE NOTE ..
 The Quiz Master does not know
everything !!!
( But he certainly knows most of the
things about his questions. So Respect
the Decisions of the Quiz Master)
 The Decision of the Quiz Master is
Final.

5. Round 1
Amul Ads

6. RULES
• Written Round
• 7 Questions (All are Amul Ads released in
2016) – Identify the personality and/or the
incident.
• 10 points for each correct answer .
• No negative points .
• If all the 7 are correct ,a bonus of 10 more
points will be gifted !!

7. Q1.

8. Q2.

9. Q3.

10. Q4.

11. Q5.

12. Q6.

13. Q7.

14. EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS

15. Q1.

16. ANSWER
Martin Crowe

17. Q2.

18. ANSWER
Johann Cryuff

19. Q3.

20. ANSWER
Harsha Bhogle ( The IPL contract was
terminated)

21. Q4.

22. ANSWER
Dipa Karmakar (The 1st Indian female
gymnast to qualify for Olympics)

23. Q5.

24. ANSWER
PRINCE

25. Q6.

26. ANSWER
Tony Cozier

27. Q7.

28. ANSWER
Raghuram Rajan (Extension of his
term as the RBI Governor)

29. Round 2

30. RULES
• 8 Questions
• Pounce & Bounce Format
• +10/-10 on Pounce .

31. Q1.
• The Gowda Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) community is a
religious & linguistic minority in Kerala.
• In 1963,the Community started an institution which was the
1st of its kind in the state. The Institution was run by a Trust.
• But due to its financial constraints ,it couldn’t run the
institution on its own –the State Govt then intervened &
took charge of the Institution for a 5 year period.
• After 5 years, the Govt demanded a sum of Rs 40 lakh for
running the institution (for the last 5 years)- but the Trust
couldn’t pay it. So the Govt took over it.
• The community is planning for a legal battle against the state
for claiming the institution.
• The Institution still bears the name of the Trust .
• The Institution is ?

32. ANSWER
• Thirumala Devaswom Medical College (TDMC)

33. Q2.
• X is a Chinese multinational manufacturer of smart
phones headquartered in Dongguan, Guandong
Province, China.
• Founded in 1995 ,the Company entered the
telecommunication & electronics industry with
landline phones & wireless phones . From 2011,the
company started its smartphone business.
• At present, it is the 5th leading smartphone brand
in China & the 10th globally.
• The Company ?
• What is the reason for its popularity at present ?

34. ANSWER
VIVO
VIVO IS THE TITLE SPONSOR
OF IPL 2016

35. Q3.
• X is a Novel written by Y, published in 1880.
• X is regarded as “ the most influential christian
book of the 19th century“ .
• The book was blessed by Pope Leo XIII ,and it was
the 1st work of fiction so honoured.
• The sales of the book increased multifold owing
to an event in 1959.
• Identify X & Y.
• What happened in 1959 that resulted in the
increase in sales of X ?

36. ANSWER
• X – Ben Hur : A Tale
of the Christ
• Y – Lew Wallace
• The 1959 event
was the release of
the film Ben Hur
which bagged 11
Academy Awards

37. Q4.
• The etymological root of this word X is ‘Jagannatha’ (Lord of the
Universe).
• As the story goes , every year in mid summer ,Lord Jagannatha with his
elder brother Balabhadra & sister Subhadra goes on vacation, travelling
on grand chariots ,from his temple in Puri to his garden palace in the
country side. This belief of the Hindus has given rise to one of the biggest
religious festivals in India -The Rath Yatra .
• When the British first observed the Rath Yatra in the 18th century ,they
were so amazed that they sent home shocking descriptions which gave
rise to the term ‘X’ meaning ‘huge , powerful, unstoppable, destructive
force ‘.
• The connotation may have originated from the occasional but accidental
death of some devotees under the chariot wheels caused by the crowd
and commotion.
• Identify the word X.

38. ANSWER
• JUGGERNAUT

39. Q5.
• X was born in East Africa in 1860 .
• He stayed at Germany for some years ,then was
taken to Paris and then to London.
• He lived in London for 16 years.
• In 1882, X left for USA – he had by then acquired
International stardom and a huge crowd was
present when he reached the American shores.
• In 1885,he passed away in a train crash.
• Who is X ?

40. ANSWER

41. Q6.The description given below is about of
the logo of which famous organisation ?
• Hamsa, the swan, is the symbol of the pursuit of
knowledge. The intertwined swans symbolize the
integration of the three major aspects of the work of
…………. :
 Research and Development,
 Training, and
 Extension and Dissemination.
• The design has been adapted from an Ashokan period
relic of the third century B.C.E. found in excavations near
Maske in the Raichur district of Karnataka. The motto is
taken from the Isavasya Upanishad and means ‘life eternal
through learning’.

42. ANSWER

43. Q7.
• The image is that of Dr. Theodore Howard
………..
• He was an English surgeon , mountaineer
( A member of 2 expeditions to Mt.Everest
in the 1920s ) and a painter .
• He spent about 40 years working as a
doctor in India.
• In 1924 ,he was awarded an Olympic gold
Medal by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the
founder of Modern Olympics for his
achievements in mountaineering.
• A popular Medical Institution in South India
established in 2002 is named after him.
• FITB.

44. ANSWER
• Dr.Somerwell Memorial CSI Medical College ,
Karakonam

45. Q8.
• An ordinary 6V alkaline battery is used to power
this device ,manufactured by Bharat Electronics
Ltd , Bangalore & Electronics Corporation of
India Limited, Hyderabad.
• This design enables the use of this device
throughout the country without interruptions
because several parts of India do not have power
supply and due to low voltage , there is
absolutely no risk of getting an electric shock
from the device.
• Which is the device mentioned here ?

46. ANSWER
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES

47. Round 3

48. RULES
• 8 Questions
• All the Questions have some Medical
Connection.
• Pounce & Bounce Format .
• +10 /-10 on Pounce .

49. Q1.FITB
• Global Public Health Days offer great potential to raise awareness
and understanding about health issues and mobilize support for
action, from the local community to the international stage.
• WHO focuses particular attention on the 7 days and 1 week that
WHO Member States have mandated as "official" global public
health days. These are:
• World TB Day, 24 March
• World Health Day, 7 April
• World Immunization Week, last week of April
• World Malaria Day, 25 April
• …………………………………………
• World Blood Donor Day, 14 June
• World Hepatitis Day, 28 July
• World AIDS Day, 1 December

50. ANSWER
• May 31 – Anti Tobacco Day

51. Q2.
• The Chapter about Malaria in the 19th edition
of “Harrison’s Principles of internal Medicine”
begins with a famous saying by William Osler ,
a Canadian Physician who is regarded as “The
Father of Modern Medicine”.
• Humnity has but 3 great enemies : ……….. ,
Famine & War ; Of these by far the greatest ,
by far the most terrible , is ……..
• FITB

52. ANSWER
• Fever

53. Q3.
• Jim Boysen ,a 56 year old software developer from
Austin, Texas, was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of
5 years .
• In 1992 ,he received a kidney pancreas transplant and
was on immunosuppressive drugs since then.
• In 2006,he was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma . He
was on treatment for it by a combination of
chemotherapy & radiotherapy .
• A surgery was performed upon him on May 22 ,2015 at
MD Anderson Cancer Centre & Houston Methodist
hospital ,Texas . The surgery lasted nearly a day and it
was the 1st of its kind in the world .
• What was the surgery performed ?

54. ANSWER
• World’s 1st partial skull & scalp transplant
surgery

55. Q4.
• The Union Health Ministry has issued an order recently
to be implemented in 19 major hospitals including
AIIMS , JIPMER, PGIMER as a part of its Kayakalp
programme launched to promote cleanliness, hygiene
& infection control practices in public health facilities.
• After assessing the program’s run at these hospitals, it
will be extended to other hospitals also.
• The program has a colour code to be practiced on
every day of the week.
• What is the programme ?

56. ANSWER
BEDSHEETS
• White bed sheets
would be used on
Mondays, Pink on
Tuesdays, Green on
Wednesdays, Yellow on
Thursdays, Violet,
Lavender or Purple on
Fridays, Blue on
Saturdays and Peach or
Light grey on Sundays.

57. Q5.
• Rififi is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's
novel of the same name . The centerpiece of the film is an
intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in
near silence, without dialogue or music. The fictional burglary has
been mimicked by criminals in actual crimes around the world.
• In 1957 , at the Lepetit Pharmaceuticals research lab in Milan, a
research group led by Piero Sensi & Maria Teresa Timbal ,
discovered a new bacterium and isolated a new class of
molecules from the it .
• Because Sensi, Timbal and the researchers were particularly fond
of the French Film Rififi , they decided to call these compounds
……………..
• After two years of attempts to obtain more stable semisynthetic
products, a new molecule with high efficacy and good tolerability
was produced in 1959 and was named X .

58. ANSWER

59. Q6.
• For at least two thousand years of European
history until the late nineteenth century ,
………… was thought to be particular
to women and caused by disturbances of
the uterus , such as when a newborn child
emerges from the birth canal.
• It was supposedly caused by the movement of a
woman's uterus to various locations within her
body as it became light and dry due to a lack of
bodily fluids .
• FITB .

60. ANSWER
• Hysteria

61. Q7.What is X ?
• On 26th April 1986, explosions at reactor number four of the nuclear
power plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine led to huge releases of radioactive
materials into the atmosphere.
• A large increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has occurred among
people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the
accident and lived in the most contaminated areas of Belarus, the
Russian Federation and Ukraine. This was due to the high levels of
radioactive iodine released from the Chernobyl reactor in the early
days after the accident.
• The Polish Govt acted soon – they formed a committee -The Chernobyl
Committee –and after discussions , gave a solution of X to all Polish
children to prevent the accumulation of radioactive iodine in the
thyroid .
• X was a commonly used drinking water decontaminant in the country.
• The swift action taken by the Govt helped to prevent the incidence of
thyroid cancer among its exposed population.

62. ANSWER
Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol

63. Q8. What is X & FITB .
• The logo of X is conceived from the latest trends and current
developments in the …………. sector. The new logo came into place
during March 2006. It was developed by Stark Communications,
Thiruvananthapuram . The logo is basically consists of 3 X
• The red one in the middle international symbol of ……… awareness. It is
a simple way in which we can, as individuals or in groups, declare our
support for people living with and affected by ………...
• The one on the left indicates the acceptance and care given to people
living with ………….. in their family.
• The one on the right indicates the acceptance and care given to people
living with …………. in the society.
• The three together indicate social responsibility to work together for
combating ………….
• Independently, the one on the left represents Kerala through its
greenery and the one on the right represents Kerala through its
backwaters.

64. ANSWER
• X – RIBBON
• HIV AIDS
SECTOR
• The logo of
KSACS

65. Round 4

66. Round 4
• 8 questions
• Open to all teams
• Bids available are 20 ,10 & 5.
• If the team gets it wrong , equal number of
points will be reduced .
• If no team bids , Bounce Format

67. Q1.
• In the early first decade of the 20th Century the
then Viceroy of the Indian Empire, X made a visit
in the State to Alleppey ( now Alappuzha) .
• Fascinated by the Scenic beauty of the place, in
joy and amazement, he said, “Here nature has
spent up on the land her richest bounties”.
• In his exhilaration, it is said, he
exclaimed, Alleppey, …………….
• Who is X and the blank ?

68. ANSWER
• X – Lord Curzon
• Venice of the East

69. Q2.
• The King of Sweden ,Gustav V ,told Jim Thorpe
, an American athlete ,
• “You , Sir , is the World’s Greatest Athlete”
after Thorpe won an Olympic event in the
1912 Stockholm Olympics .
• Since then, this title of “The World’s greatest
athlete “ is given to the winner of this event.
• Which event ?

70. ANSWER
• DECATHLON
DECATHLON

71. Q3.
• The expression “......... ......... “ was rarely used before 1945.
• Some writers credit the 14th century Spaniard, Don Juan Manuel for
first using the term (in Spanish), when dealing with the conflict
between Christianity and Islam as a “......... ......... “ . However he
used the term “tepid” not …….. The ………. word first appeared in a
faulty translation of his work in the 19th century .
• George Orwell used this term in the essay “You and the Atomic
Bomb” published October 19, 1945, in the British
newspaper Tribune. He also used this term in an article in March
1946.
• Bernard Baruch, an American financier and presidential advisor used
this term in its present meaning at a speech he delivered in South
Carolina in April 1947 saying, “Let us not be deceived: we are today
in the midst of “......... ......... “
• Newspaper reporter-columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide
currency, with the book “......... ......... “ (1947).

72. ANSWER

73. Q4.
• Suresh Thampanoor is a head load worker at
Thampanoor.
• He rose to stardom after his appearance in
2016 Film in which he wrote ,composed and
sang a beautiful song which became very
popular .
• Name the Film & the song .

74. ANSWER

75. Q5.
• This company was established in 2011 with the vision
to provide better connectivity to the world through
technology innovation and devotion to users .
• The mobile application they developed was originally
released in China with the name Shan Chuan in 2012
and was known as ……………. outside China. In 2013, it
supported more languages and its name was changed
to its present name.
• The Company recently launched a new application
named WeLine .
• Which is the Company /mobile application ?

76. ANSWER
• XENDER

77. Q6.
• He was a Greek slave. After he was set free, he travelled to
several countries & met many wise men.
• Once he was asked by the King to distribute a large sum of
Gold amongst the citizens of Delphi.
• However , he found them to be very greedy & unworthy of
such a gift , so he sent back the gift. This enraged the citizens
of Delphi,and they publicly executed him like a criminal.
• The Gods punished Delphi for their crime. Many calamities
befell them until they were forced to repent.
• From this , the phrase , “ Blood of…….” came into existence .
(deeds of those who do wrong will surely be punished )

78. • Aesop

79. Q7.
• Every day , at the Wagah (the border between
India & Pakistan),a flag lowering ceremony is
held 2 hours before Sun Set.
• It is conducted by the military forces of both
the countries.
• For India,it is the Border Security Force (BSF).
• Name the military force of Pakistan that take
part in the ceremony.

80. ANSWER
• Pakistan Rangers

81. Q8.
• The word X is a derivative of the Latin word ……..
meaning "bright, shining, glistening white.“
• In ancient Rome , the Office-seekers would
usually wear white togas ( a garment)
at speeches , debates, conventions , and other
public functions .
• The Latin word ………. Is also the root of the word
Y meaning ‘expressing opinions & feelings in an
honest and sincere way ‘.The word Y is also a
commonly used word in photography.
• Identify the words X & Y .

82. ANSWER
• X –CANDIDATE
• Y - CANDIDUS

84. Q20
• This Park, spread over 50 acres , is one among the
oldest in the state in which it is located .
• It was designed in 1841 & is named after the
sisters of Lord Auckland (his family name),the
then Governor General of India.
• The park is most famous for a structure , built in
1864 – its name is the same as that of the Park.
This structure is the largest of its kind in India
(and the second largest in the world ,the 1st being
in Australia).
• Name the Park/structure .

85. Q28.
X may have different meanings depending on the
field & judiciary system.All of the meanings
originated from the French word ,meaning “
(spoken) word ” .
Following its use in the late medieval Anglo French
chivalric practice,the term became associated with
the judiciary system with the meaning ‘giving word
of honor to abide by certain restrictions’.
Identify the word X.

86. Q36.
• In the late 1940s & 1950s, one common technique
used by the ….. industry to reassure a worried public
was to incorporate images of physicians in their ads.
The none-too-subtle message was that if the doctor,
with all of his expertise, chose to use a particular
brand, then it must be safe.
• RJ Reynold Company promoted the ads and their
brand Camel was advertised as the most commonly
used brand by doctors.
• The response of the organized medical community
was to do nothing, because the ads showed doctors
looking wise.
• RJ Reynolds Company is at present the second largest ……….
company in the US.

87. • Tobacco Industry