Bqc 2016 june

June 19 Quiz at BQC
By Kaushik Saha
Helped by Aditya Kulashri of QTM
Mostly #kolstylz and hence pounce will be
there. 3 strike pounce (for each of clockwise
and anti clockwise rounds
+10 all around

Who is the lady, the author of “If Democrats Had Any
Brains, They'd Be Republicans”?

• Ann Coulter, Republican and a major Trump
supporter, allegedly the first person who
publicly said she would want Trump as
President

Where was this ad used in 2008?

• Delhi state elections 2008

• In Indian football, who are given the Kamla
Gupta trophy?

• Runner up in Santosh Trophy

• The national team is nicknamed “The
Penguins”. The team plays mostly at the
McMurdo but sometimes at the Palmer when
at home. Which team?

• The Antarctica Football / Cricket / Hockey
teams

• X’s international record – matches played – 74,
goals scored -8. A remarkable player, he was
also infamous for his temper, and faced
several suspensions for incidents like spitting
on Roberto Carlos and fighting on field with
Faustino Asprilla. In 2005, X was sentenced to
six months in prison in France for the use of
false documents about the compensation for
the end of his contract with Racing Club de
Strasbourg. Who is X?

• On 11th April 2001, Nicky Salapu, a little
known footballer otherwise and known more
for his exploits in table tennis, created a
unenviable record that still stands. What
record?

• He conceded 31 goals to Australia in a World
Cup qualifying match

• In 1905, a British team of touring amateurs
nicknamed the "Pilgrims" toured X, with their
match against the club champions of X billed as
the "championship of the world". The match was
played in front of almost 4000 fans in the clubs
home ground, and ended in a 3-3 draw. X played
over 300 unofficial “international matches”
between 1885 (first one vs their Southern
neighbors) and 1924 when they played Australia
for their first official match?

Exhaustive list as of now of
participants in which tournament?
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Greenland
• Tibet
• Zanzibar
• Gibraltar,
• Republic of St. Pauli

• The FIFI Wild Cup
• An alternative Football World Cup, held from 29
May to 3 June 2006 in Germany. It was run by
Federation of International Football
Independents (FIFI). FIFI was a body made up of
countries not recognized by FIFA, and those
whose logistics preclude them from playing
representative football. The Millerntor-Stadion, in
Hamburg, hosted all the tournament match

• Bhaiching Bhutia,Chuni Goswami, Sailen
Manna, Jarnail Singh, Peter Thangaraj, Inder
Singh, PK Banerjee, Sahu Mewalal and Sunil
Chhetri – where would one find all these
legends together?

• Names of stands at Ambedkar stadium in
Delhi

25.
• X was a member
(guitars, vocals) of the
Gypsies, releasing two
albums Woodland and
Jet Lag, and opening
eight shows for “Hootie
& the Blowfish” on
their 1998 European
tour. He released a solo
album Ginger and
single Goodnight Moon
in 1998 on CMC
International records.
Who is X?

• A 2006 commercial of Guarana Antarctica (a
Brazil based soft drink company) caused a
huge controversy in Argentina. Why?

• One of its 2006 commercials featured Diego
Maradona finding himself wearing the yellow
jersey of the Brazilian team and singing
the Brazilian national anthem before waking
up and proclaiming it was a nightmare,
because he had drunk too much Guaraná the
day before

• Clubs in this league have almost complete
freedom to sign whatever number and category
of players they wish. There is no team or
individual salary cap, no squad size limit, no age
restrictions other than those applied by general
employment law. However teams are restricted
to not more than 2 foreign players in the squad
for the season. There are currently 16 clubs in the
league, although the competition started in
2004–05 with 14 teams. Which league?

This is a gentleman named Hiralal Sen.
What first is he associated with in
entertainment in India?

• First ad filmmaker. Credited to have directed
Rabindranath Tagore in a hair oil ad (which
was never released)

What’s the sporting connection?

• X was an English language weekly
newsmagazine that started publication in
1880 and ceasing publication in 1993. X was
edited by A.S. Raman, Khushwant Singh, M. V.
Kamath, and Pritish Nandy among others.
What is X?

• X was given the name because it’s remains
was discovered in the year that saw 100th
birth anniversary celebrations of a famous
Indian. However, poor quality of the
discovered remains have failed to determine
its food habits. What is X?

• Baropasaurus Tagori (discovered in Orissa in
1961)

• In 1948 made his England debut against
Switzerland; he went on to captain his country
three times. His last game for England was the
6-3 defeat by Hungary in November 1953, in
which he scored a penalty. Who is this general?

• X is an American amateur soccer club, founded
in the late-1980s by a group of British
expatriates who frequented the Cat & Fiddle
pub. They have a over 40s team called Dad’s
army, and a over-30s team called Tabo’s army.
What is X?

*1 point
• Whose career (partial) (from 1993 onwards):
Peterborough United -> Grimsby Town ->
Torquay United -> Sogndal IL -> Ikast FS ->
Viborg FF (Hint: India connection)

*Wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, she has a football
tournament named after her. Who is she? (1 point)

These are 2 out of 6 abodes of a Hindu
God. Which God and why are these 2
significant?

• Left pic - Thiruthani Murugan Temple. Right -
Thirupparamkunram Murugan Temple. These
are 2 of the 6 abodes of Lord Murugan /
Karthikeya. However, at these 2 places, Lord
Murugan is said to have married his 2
“consorts” (Valli at Thiruthani and Deivanai at
Thirupparamkunram)

• According to Diodorus Siculus, a historian
contemporary of Alexander, when Porus was
defeated, his nephew fled to X. King of X,
Xandrammes, had an army of 20,000 horse
200,000 infantry, 2,000 chariots and 4,000
elephants trained and equipped for war. Also,
X’s elephants were the largest in size in the
world. What is X?

• Present day Bengal and Bangladesh

• This place, formerly known as Hafizabad,
manufactures and exports nearly 90 percent
of India’s flutes. A tiger reserve is close to this
place, and it is classified both as a seismic
zone and a high risk flood zone. However, in
mid-2009, this place came into the news due
to something controversial related to its MP
hopeful. Which place?

• This organization was initially known as
Bicholam before being acquired by their
current owners and given their current name.
Subhash Sinari, Bernard Olivera, Tolentino
Serrao, Bhaskar etc. were the earliest big
names associated with the organization.
Which organization?

• X is generally recognized as the first major
poet of the Punjabi language. His descendents
mostly carry the name Fārūqī. A city in
Pakistan bears his name. His descendants
include the Sufi saint Salim Chishti, whose
daughter was Emperor Jehangir's foster
mother. Who is X and what is the city in
Pakistan?

• Fariduddin Mas'ud Ganjshakar or Baba Farid.
City in Pakistan - Faridkot

The orange area shows the kingdom of
a local chieftain who fought the
Mughals. Who was the chieftain?

• Maharaja Pratapaditya, the King of Jessore
and one of the “Baro Bhuniyas” or “12
landlords of Bengal”. Manas Bhuniya, the
present LoP in Bengal assembly, is a
descendent

• “Mautam” and “Thingtam” together
constitute what periodic tragic event in a
North Eastern State in India?

• The famines in Mizoram when Bamboo has
flowers.
• The famines are called after the name of the
bamboo that flowers. Meloccana baccifera is
called "Mautak" in mizo and the famine that is
caused by its flowering is named "Mautam".
When Bambusa Tulda flowers, called
"Rawthing" in mizo, the consequent famine is
known as "Thingtam".

An educational institute in
Northern India is named
after him. The institute was
shown in the movie “Bunty
aur Babli” . Classes of IIT
Kanpur were held here till
their building was build in
Kalyanpur in 1965. Who is
he and what’s the name of
the institute?

• Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, Harcourt-Butler
Technical Institute

• X is one of the eleven schools of Sanskrit
grammar mentioned in Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi. It is
named after an Indian God. Arthur Coke Burnell,
a renowned orientologist, in his 1875 book
details this school. Kātyāyana was one of the
prominent mathematicians of this school. Burnell
believed that most non-Pāṇinian systems of
Sanskrit grammar were traceable to this school of
grammar, believed to be the oldest and reputed
to be founded by the God himself Which school?

• Aindra School of Grammar after Indra

• Many of the Buddhist texts which were taken to
China along the Silk Route were written using a
version of the X script. It was also used to write
Sanskrit during the period ca 600-1200 CE. In
Japan the writing of mantras and copying of
Sutras using the X script is still practiced in the
esoteric Buddhist schools of Shingon and Tendai.
It is descended from the Brahmi script via the
Gupta script, which gave rise to Tirhuta, the
Assamese alphabet, the Bengali alphabet and the
Tibetan alphabet. What is X?

• What curious event occurred from July 25 to
September 23, 2001 in which the popular media
reported that researchers Godfrey Louis and
Santhosh Kumar proposed a controversial
hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings were
involved (though a later study commissioned by
the Government of India concluded that the
rains had been colored by airborne spores from
a locally prolific terrestrial green alga from the
genus Trentepohlia)?

• Kerala red rain phenomenon

What is unique
about this cave
painting from
Bhimbetka?

• The only painting in the caves showing, "a
man being hunted by a beast”

• The Dasakuta and Vyasakuta were the 2
prominent groups of which prominent cultural
movement?

• The Haridasa devotional movement, which is
said to be the starting point of Carnatic music

• Khushwant Singh mentions an incident in his
book “Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on
Life, Death and Most things In-between”
where after being defeated in a Lok Sabha
election, X immediately returned the 2 lakh he
had borrowed from the writer for hiring taxis.
Who is X?

• X represented India at the Bretton Woods
Conference on July 1–22, 1944. A Ramon
Magsasay award winner, X was a Finance
Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950-56),
Chairman of U.G.C.(1956–61) and Vice-
Chancellor of University of Delhi (1962–67).
He was also President of I.S.I.(Indian Statistical
Institute)from 1945 to 1964. Who is X?

What’s the most famous product of
this company?

• What was started by Juan Carlos Ceriani 1930
in Montevideo , when he observed that
youngsters were practicing on basketball
courts because of shortage of actual pitches?

• In October 2008, which Indian boxer claimed
she was unfairly eliminated from the Asian
games squad to accommodate Mary Kom and
threatened to quit?

• With respect to cricket, where would you find
the ’268 Bar’ and who/what is it a tribute to ?

• It’s at the Oval, dedicated to Ali Brown’s knock
of 268 – the highest in one day/list A cricket

• During the French riots in November 2005, X
took a position against Nicolas Sarkozy. On 6
September 2006, X sparked controversy when
he invited 80 people, who were expelled
Sarkozy from a flat where they lived illegally,
to a football match between France and Italy.
He acted in his cousin Admiral T’s music video
Fos A Peyi La. Who is X?

• The media phrase "real X stuff" is often used
by football writers, commentators and fans
when describing displays of great skill, or
results that go against the odds. What is X?

• X's father's name was a slang that sailors used
to describe X with. Initially, he was trained by
the legendary Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who
saw some potential in him, but felt X was too
lazy. His initial poor performances made X the
butt of jokes. His new coach, Tom Smith, with
his unorthodox training methods, gradually
brought X out of his lethargy. Partnering Red
Pollard, a Canadian, X got his first major
successes. Who is X?

• SeaBiscuit (father's name - HardTack)

• In the 90s-early 2000s, the Chinese long and
middle distance runners made a huge impact
on the world stage, winning several medals in
the Olympics and Athletics Grand Prix. The
credit went to a large extent to their coach
who supposedly followed a rigorous training
method. However, he also was controversial,
as many alleged he used performance
enhancing drugs. Who is the coach?

• The US basketball team over the years have
consisted of the greatest players in the history
of the game and has been called the Dream
Team on a number of occasions. However, on
one occasion, they were called, rather
ingloriously, “The Nightmare Team”. Which
occasion?

• The Athens Olympics 2004 Bronze-winning
team

• In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Reebok was the
official sponsor and all athletes had to wear
the Reebok Logo on their vests / shorts.
However, in those days, Linford Christie, the
British Sprinter, was sponsored by rival Puma.
He managed to sport the Puma Logo, leading
to huge controversy. What did he do?

• He wore the Puma Logo on his contact lenses

• Polo + Lacrosse = Polocrosse

• Arguably the greatest or most successful male
gymnast of all time, he is the only male
gymnast ever to have won a world or Olympic
title on all 8 events conducted for male
gymnasts: at the 1992 Olympics, he won 6 of 8
events (team, all-around, and 4 of 6 event
finals - more golds at a single Olympics than
any other gymnast in Olympic history); and at
various World Championships throughout his
competitive years, he collectively won every
event. Who is he?

What does the other child say?

• "Micheal Phelps Lives Here?"

• The Harald Schumacher foul on Frenchman
Patrick Battinson in the 1982 Soccer WC semi-
final

• An advertising agent who was born on 25th
June 1983, at the exact moment that India
won the Cricket World Cup and lives in Karol
Bagh in Delhi with her father and his three
brothers' family. Whenever she eats breakfast
with the Indian Cricket Team they win the
following match. This prompts the board to
send her to Australia with them for the Cricket
World Cup. Who?

• Zoya Solanki of "The Zoya Factor"

• Charl Langeveldt is the first South African to
take a ODI hattrick. What was his profession in
his youth which involved him interacting with
a well known person on a regular basis?

• He was a cook and prison guard at
Drakenstein prison when Mandela was a
prisoner there

This is a starring Neetu
Chandra, Rohit Roy and
Tanushree Dutta released
in 2010. What is its claim
to fame?

• First movie to be released on Youtube instead
of movie theater

• In the 1960-61 season to 1963-64 season, for
4 consecutive seasons, the Ranji Trophy final
featured the same 2 teams with the same
winner. Name both the teams

• He served with the British Army in World War
II in North Africa, Assam, Burma, and South
East Asia. He was present at the Japanese
surrender at Singapore in 1945. His first
marriage took place privately in1949 to Nancy
Valentine of New York, a former screen
actress. He captained the Bengal cricket team
in the late 30s. However, he is more well
known as the last king of a particular province.
Name his well known sister

• Jagaddapindra Narayan, elder brother of
Gayatri Devi and last Maharaja of Cooch Behar

• X’s column holds the distinction of being the
longest-running column in the history of Indian
journalism (1935-1987). He is one of only 2
directors ever to win the Nargis Dutt Award for
National Integration twice. He was also one of
the best ever scriptwriters in India –his scripts
include “Neecha Nagar”, “Bobby” and “Mera
Naam Joker” among others. Who is X?

These are the stills from a 2010 movie not allowed
to be released on the big screen because of its
pornographic content. Name

• As an all-rounder, his first-class cricket career
spanned from 1899 to 1921 and as an opening
batsman, holds the record of being the first
Indian to score a double century in first-class
cricket. He was a member of the Indian team
that toured England in 1911, under the
captaincy of the Maharaja of Patiala. He was
the Vice-President of the Board of Control for
Cricket in India from 1936 to 1945.He was also
the Chairman of the All India Selection
Committee from 1932-33 to 1939-40.
• How has his memory been in Mumbai?

• Dr. HD Kanga and Kanga League

• The all Patel cricket team

• In a test match in Faislabad in 1997-98,
Mushtaq Ahmed was bowling to Pat Symcox.
Symcox missed the ball which went between
the stumps knocking back middle stump.
However, still Symcox continued to bat on and
scored 81 - his second highest test score!
• What happened?

• The bails and top of stumps melted in the heat
and merged, and bails didn’t move

At whose feet is Ashok Kumar sitting as shown in
the movie?

• Netaji SC Bose in movie Samadhi (an urban
legend states Netaji once met Ashoke Kumar
when Dadamoni was active in the Kolkata
theater scene in the 1920s)

• Dada Saheb Phalke's silent movie
Kaliamardhan in the year 1919 is supposed to
be the first Indian movie to introduce a
primitive version of what?

• Mother Babita also acted in two movies of the
same name

• Lokesh Rahul now has the record of highest
average by an Indian after at least 1 dismissal
in ODIs. Whose record did he break?
• 3 Indians have a 50+ average in ODIs with a
cut off of at least 25 innings. 2 are Dhoni and
Kohli. Name the 3rd

• Gagan Khoda
• Ambati Rayudu

• Of all the top 50 fastest recorded serves in
tennis, only 1 has come before the onset of
modern racquets, ie before the 1990s. Who is
credited with the serve?

• Who connects the following gentlemen – Rishi
Gautam, Sant Tukaram, Dashrath Manjhi and
Paritala Ravi (the former AP MLA and
minister)?

• Radhika Apte – played their wives on various
occasions in movies (Ahalya, AwwaliBai,
Phaguniya Manjhi and Paritala Sunita)

• This gentleman, an alumnus of KC College and
IIM Ahmedabad, named the company he
founded in the mid 2000s after a song in his
wife’s favorite movie. The company,
headquartered in Mumbai, is now the largest
in terms of market capitalization in India in its
category. Who and which song / movie?

• Rashesh Shah, Edelweiss (The Sound of Music)

• Its not about the bra
• Its not about the bike

• Chandra, an English Professor from Indore, is
often considered to be the first ever women
commentator in cricket (she did the
commenting duties in a England vs. Mumbai
tour match in 1977 and a few other women’s
matches on All India Radio). Who is her well
known father?

Name the two Indian Olympians
• A - From Barshi near Nanded, Maharashtra.
Coached by a Hyderabadi. Broke the record of
most second tier tournaments won in a year in
2015 (earlier held by another student of the
Hyderabadi coach)
• B - Currently being supported by JSW Sport under
the Sports Excellence Programme. Won India's
sole medal at the 2015 World Championships in
his sport. A resident of Jogeshwari in Mumbai,
employed by Mumbai Police force

• A – Prarthana Thomare
• B – Narsingh Yadav

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