Question of the day- GK Quiz - by Gokul Panigrahi

By Gokul Panigrahi
At BCQC
3PM, Sunday, October 9th 2016
- General Knowledge Quiz with a current affairs flavor.

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 Conducted in Talentica, between 25-Mar-2016 and 01-Oct-
2016
 Also ran at Boat Club Quiz Club, Pune on 09-Oct-2016
 General Knowledge, some current affairs inspired questions.
 43 questions and answers follow
 (Custom Slideshow with only questions is also available)
 Infinite bounce and pounce.
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 In which super fast train is Indian Railways expected to
introduce rail hostesses ?
 (As of a Feb 2016 announcement)
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 “Imagine being ushered into a train by a hostess who presents you a
rose bud as soft music plays in the background.”
 It will soon be a reality, with the Railways deciding to introduce train
hostesses on soon to be launched Delhi-Agra Gatiman Express, the
first train in India to run at a speed of 160 kmph.
 Gearing up to launch the Gatiman Express next month, Railway
Minister Suresh Prabhu will announce special features of the first
semi-high speed train in the country when he presents the Rail
Budget on February 25.
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 in this old Complan ad.

 Identify this island nation
 It is so small and remote that a substantial amount of its
government revenues come from the lease of its popular
TLD(domain name) to video related sites.

 What is the most abundant metal in the human body?
 There is approximately 1 Kg of it in the average human body.

 It is a soft gray Group 2 alkaline earth metal, fifth-most-
abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust.
 It is essential for living organisms, particularly in cell physiology
where movement of the calcium ion into and out of the
cytoplasm functions as a signal for many cellular processes.
 As a major material used in mineralization of bone, teeth and
shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many
animals.

 In programming, what’s the term for a software bug that seems
to disappear or alter its behaviour when one attempts to study
it?
 This term is a play on the name of a prominent quantum
physicist.

 Uncertainty Principle
 Observer effect- the act of observing a system inevitably
alters its state.
 Are these two the same?

 The search engine Ask.com had a different name when
founded in 1996 and is still sometimes referred to by this
name.
 A fictional male servant was part of the name and logo.
 Name the search engine or the servant

 From the delightfully humorous stories by PG Wodehouse.
 Reginald Jeeves

 In the world of music, what is common to these artists?
 Brian Jones(Rolling Stones)
 Jimi Hendrix
 Janis Joplin
 Jim Morrison(The Doors)
 Kurt Cobain(Nirvana)
 and recently Amy Winehouse

 Involuntary members of the "27 club"
 Set of musicians that died at an age of 27 years
 Statistical studies, however, have failed to find any unusual
pattern of deaths at this age.
 Popular with conspiracy theorists, nevertheless.

 A publisher had a bet that an author could not complete an
entire book using just 50 (distinct) words.
 The author won the bet using the below 50 words in a widely
popular book. Identify the author and the book.
 "a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do,
eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let,
like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so,
thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with,
would, you."

 One of Seuss's “Beginner Books”
 Written in a very simple vocabulary for
beginning readers.
 It follows what earlier book written in a
limit of 236 words?

 Hidden in a popular software are these passages:
Hint: Most of us have used this software, some using it every day. The hidden
word corresponds to "the beast" in the text. Mammon(corporate greed) slept is
a sly reference to the then market leader losing their share. Did I mention the
software is Free and open source(FOSS)?

 The Book of X, 8:20-
And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.
 The Book of X, 11:9 (10th Edition)-
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew
legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the
cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by
the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke,
and lo! it was naught but a follower.
 The Book of X, 15:1-
The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new
darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and
grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire
and light to the darkness.

 The Book of Mozilla, an Easter egg in Firefox browsers.
 Try this on Firefox by browsing to about:mozilla
 Mozilla is the beast( like Godzilla, also see bugzilla) arising from the
ashes of Netscape.
 The 2nd line "crops unto the fire, cunning of foxes" refers to Firefox.

 Identify the logo in news in May, 2016.
 Shows the earth, a peacock and a human figure using seven colours, represents
people from all sections of society. Symbolizes development for all without
obstructions. It was judged the best in a public competition as it depicts
connectivity, beauty, environment and growth. It also attempts a fusion of
technology and nature, has a sense of joyousness and the feeling of a happy
city.
Designed by Prof. Ramesh Pawar for the happy city
which was placed 2nd in a public list of 20 cities,
released around March end after 2 stages of
evaluation.

 Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL)
 Pune was 2nd on the list of 20 cities selected by the Ministry of
Urban Development for the Smart City program.

 What starts with
 "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
 and ends with
 "Mischief managed." ?
An advanced and impressive tracking device
incorporating the Homonculous Charm

 An advanced and impressive tracking device,
uses the Homonculous Charm with anti-Snape
abilities.
Mr Moony presents his compliments to Professor
Snape and begs him to keep his abnormally large
nose out of other people's business.
Mr Prongs agrees with Mr Moony and would like to
add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that
an idiot like that ever became a Professor.
Mr Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and
advises him to wash his hair, the slime-ball.
 Know of any muggle versions?

 "Fascination-Slave Action-Moon Grocer"
 Whose name was translated as such by the late novelist G. V.
Desani (1909-2000)?
Try translating the first 4 words into Hindi. That should remind you of
someone.
The bloke is so popular that you see his face every day, if you pay attention.
Many have also called him a great soul. (Tagore started this)

 In other news: http://www.indialivetoday.com/students-protest-
remove-statue-racist-gandhi-university-ghana/33065.html

 Identify the song, movie from this poster. Easy!
The movie takes
its title from a
section in the
Indian penal code
for cheating.

 Mera juta hein Japani…
 Shree 420
 What other movie title does the song inspire?

 recently claimed to be the true identity of
"Satoshi Nakamoto"
 Promised extraordinary proof for an extraordinary
claim and did not follow up, generating a wave of
controversy.
 What is Satoshi Nakamoto's claim to
fame?
This is Craig Wright, an Australian “computer scientist/entrepreneur”
Released a system which led to a gold rush of sorts to mine this "new
resource“
Anonymous writer of 2008 whitepaper(BC) 10^8 Satoshi= ABC?

 Satoshi Nakamoto was the anonymous author who shared the
influential whitepaper on blockchains in 2008 and released the
software as open source in 2009.
 It was hailed as the first of its kind(Cryptocurrency). One of these
would fetch you ₹30241.39 on May 24, 2016
 However, there have been less popular predecessors.
 In honor of Satoshi's contribution, the smallest unit was named as Satoshi with 10^8
Satoshi=1 B.
 Since 2010, there has been a gold rush of sorts as people rushed to mine this "new
resource" going so far as creating dedicated machines to do so.

 Where in the world will you find a village with no locks and no
doors? It also claims to have the first lock-less bank branch in
the world.

 Famous for the fact that no house in the village has doors, only
door frames.
 Despite this, no theft was reported in the village until 2010.
 Though there has been reports of thefts in Oct 2010, Feb 2011 and Jan 2012.
 Villagers believe that the god Shani punishes anyone attempting theft.

 In 1888, the Swedish inventor X had the unpleasant
surprise of reading his own obituary.
 It was titled "The merchant of death is dead" referring
to his most famous invention D. The paper was
mistaken as it was X’s brother who had died instead.
 Something good did come out of this incident. The
thought of death prompted X to think about his legacy
and inspired him to rewrite his will. It specified that his
vast fortune would be used to reward those who
confer the "greatest benefit on mankind".

 Chemist, engineer, and inventor.
 He amassed a fortune during his lifetime, with most of his
wealth from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most
famous.
 Connect Nobel with Indian politics?
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 A month back, Google released an English language parser
named Parsey McParseface (bundled with its neural network
framework SyntaxNet).
 What inspired Google to name the parser in this comic
fashion?

 The UK govt. held an online poll to
name a new polar research ship.
Someone proposed the name
which went viral.
 The final poll result was 120000+ votes for
this against 30000 for the 2nd popular
name. So much for the British stiff upper
lip :D
 While the ship itself was named for
Attenborough, they did name a
submersible robotic explorer as Boaty.

 What was named by Ward Cunningham in1995, who
remembered a Honolulu Airport employee telling him to take
the shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals?

 Cunningham: "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for
'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.”
 Ironically, there have been complaints about the hot, slow, outdated buses.

 Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler was a prominent Swedish
mathematician with contributions in Theory of Functions and a
successful businessman.
 But most people know of him for his association with a certain
popular rumour which is?
 It may involve a triangle.

 The unsubstantiated rumour is Mittag-Leffler had an affair with
Alfred Nobel's love interest because of which Nobel hated
mathematicians.
 There may have been friction between the two, but definitely
no love triangle.

 Located in Jharkand, this mining town achieved fame among
radio listeners.
 Because of a large number of song requests and the town's
unusual name, many people used to doubt its existence.
 Thus the name came to be associated with any less-known or
insignificant place. This reference is found in several Hindi
movies and songs.

 Once a major mica mining center with a booming business.
 Its fame rests on the basis of its song request letter writers.
 The trend started in the early 1950s, when a mica businessman named Rameshwar Prasad Barnawal
started mailing 20-25 song requests (farmaish) to Radio Ceylon daily. Regularly hearing Barnwal's name
on the radio inspired the paan-shop owner Ganga Prasad Magadhiya to similarly mail a large number of
song requests. The growing fame of these two Jhumri Telaiya residents led to the emergence of a song-
request fad among the people of the town. Young listeners from the town would compete among
themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month
 What is the African equivalent?

 In June of 2003, a group of more than 100 people gathered at
the Macy Department Store in Manhattan, under the pretext of
buying a "love rug". When approached by any sales assistant,
the gatherers said that they lived in a Warehouse and that they
made all the their purchase decision as a group.
 Right there, these people went on to do something which was
the first recorded instance of a popular social phenomenon.

This is not a flash mob, btw

 Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe launched by
NASA in December 1998 to study the red planet.
 The mission with a cost upwards of 300 million USD ended in
failure. Why?
Hint- It was a Silly issue.

 Software bug due to confusion between SI vs imperial units.
 The USA, along with Liberia and Myanmar is one of only 3
countries which do not use the metric/SI system.
 Lockheed Martin did not follow the NASA specs for a ground
control software, using Pound-seconds instead of Newton-
seconds for thrust calculations.

 You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by
the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a
sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your
own verbosity.
 You see such extenuating circumstances coerce me to
preclude you from such extravagance.
 You see the coefficient of the linear is juxtapositioned by
haemoglobin of the atmospheric pressure in the country.

 These great lines, written by lyricist Anand Bakshi were said by Mr Anthony
Gonsalves while addressing a crowd from an Easter egg seat.

 Identify X who is a co-founder of TENVIC which is a sports
training and consulting firm. (The name celebrates an
achievement of X)
 X is a recipient of Arjuna Award and Padma Shri awards and
was in the news(Jun,16) as a serious candidate for a national
position.

 Anil Kumble became coach of the indian cricket team, despite
his late nomination.
 Tenvic refers to his ten wicket haul in a test innings, one of only
2 such people. Who is the other?

 Id the person who was the 2nd governor
of Portuguese India. He was considered
a military genius and one of the greatest
naval commander of his age, having
conquered Goa and Malacca.
 He introduced something with his
journeys to India which gave his name to
the item.
 You may not have heard of the man, but
you would have heard of the item.

 Portuguese general, a "great conqueror," a statesman, and an
empire builder.
 His actions as the second governor of Portuguese India were
crucial to the longevity of the Portuguese Empire.
 Namer for Alphonso mango.

 Identify the illustrated object and where you
would find this most prominently?
 It is the origin of an English word for an
unstoppable force which will destroy
anything in its way.
 The object and its place will be in the news
in Jul, 2016)

 It is a "Rath"(chariot) from the annual event in Puri, Orissa.
 Lakhs of devotees pull the chariots of the deity Jagannath, his
brother Balaram and sister Subhadra and take them out on a
vacation..
 Juggernaut: an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars of Jagannath
Temple in Puri, which apocryphally were reputed to crush devotees under their
wheels.

 North Sailing is a tourism firm in Europe.
 In Jun-2016, they had offered 23 individuals free tickets for a
whale watching trip depending on a particular outcome which
they predicted.
 The tickets were suggested as a bandage for wounded pride,
to be polite and hospitable and provide a temporary sanctuary
for them. The prediction was true and hence the firm printed
these tickets.
 Who were these recipients and what was predicted?

 English national football team
 ‘When Iceland knock England out on Monday, they can come here’
 23 free whale-watching tickets have been printed: ‘It is only polite’

 …events occurred which created ripples in the fabric of space-time.
 One of its echoes was detected in 2016 with the apparatus X,
validating a 100 year old prediction.
 The prediction by Y was a result of his MASSively revolutionary work,
Z.
 Y's name has become the sarcastic word for geniuses everywhere.
Identify:
 X(apparatus shown in simplified diagram),
 Y(genius),
 Z(MASSive work)

 Einstein hypothesized the presence of gravitational waves as
a consequence of his Theory of General Relativity(geometric
theory of gravitation).
 I was quoting Star Wars in the first line, it seemed fitting.
 LIGO's working is comparable to knowing that a storm
occurred across the worlds by observing the flapping of a
butterfly's wing. It is very exciting for India to also build its own
version of LIGO!

 In Roman mythology, X was a philandering god
who preferred to have his fun on the down-low,
hiding it from his jealous wife(Y).
 Referring to this, an organization sent out a press
release about a mission 5 years back which
contained this quote:
"The god X drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his
mischief, and his wife, the goddess Y, was able to peer through
the clouds and reveal X's true nature.“
 The mission reached its objective last week.
Identify X, Y and the organization.

 In the painting, Jupiter(the chief Roman God) is romancing Io
as a tall, dark and handsome cloud.
 Unfortunately for Io, Juno finds out and turns her into a cow as
revenge!
 NASA hopes the Juno space probe will reveal some mysteries
of the planet Jupiter.

 This is an exhaustive list of names. Identify what is the list
about?
 Also, if you generalize a bit and go in the opposite direction,
you will get a single name. Name it.

 First 3 are all Indian research stations in Antartica. Antarctic
bases are permanent settlements by India for scientific
research.
 The polar opposite of these bases: in the North is Himadri
(named for the Himalayas). It is located in Svalbard, Norway.

 What can be expressed with this formula:
 alternately representing one half side as: (2.1.2.3)/(2.1.2.3)
 Most of us would be conforming to this.

 ICPM = Incisors, Canines, Premolars & Molars with the
frequency of these teeth mentioned above and below for a
quadrant.
 If no one got it, I should point out that the numbers in the
formula work out to 32. :)
 Hopefully, no one gets misled into thinking I was talking about 4
Bytes or IP addresses :P
 The reference was a throwback to Biblical quotes: "there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (about sinners not making it
to heaven).

 The city’s name has been interpreted
as mound of the dead men. It had
remarkably sophisticated civil
engineering and urban planning as
evidenced from the layout.
 Situated on the banks of a river, it is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first
in South Asia in fact.
 Identify the city, it was in the news around Aug, 2016.

 Mohenjo-daro on the banks of the Indus.
 The city is incredible when you consider
their drainage systems 5000 years back
were way better than current systems in
the same region.
 From whatever I read so far, the coming
film will likely be is a disappointment.

 Identify this MNC conglomerate named after its founder.
 Its logo reflects its origins as a manufacturer of musical
instruments (incorporating a set of tuning forks).
 It was originally named Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha.
 The company is well known in India, albeit for a different set of
products.

 Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer
by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited
 As music fans will no doubt know, it is the world's largest musical instrument
manufacturer.
 After World War 2, it diversified into the motorcycles business.
 Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha translates to Japan Musical Instrument
Manufacturing Corporation. Nippon is the Japanese term for Japan.

 Where in Pune will you find this
statue and who does it represent?

 The Common Man , a legendary cartoon
character by R.K. Laxman.
 The statue is at Symbiosis Institute.
 The Common Man is a cartoon character created by
Indian author and cartoonist R. K. Laxman. For over a half
of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes,
aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the
average Indian, through a daily comic strip, "You Said It"
in The Times of India. The comic was started in 1951.

 "It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an
interrogator (C) who may be of either sex.
 The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the
other two is the man and which is the woman.
 The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two.
 He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says
either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A."
 So that tones of voice may not help the interrogator the answers should
be written, or better still, typewritten and passed between the rooms."
 Identify: (1)the game, (2) who came up with it and (3) a variant of this applied in
your daily life.

 Alan Turing's classic article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
begins with the words: I propose to consider the question, 'Can
machines think?"
 He then rejected this question as absurd and redefined this in terms
of the imitation game in which either A or B are replaced with a
machine.
 He suggested any machine that could win this game regularly by
pretending to be a person could be considered intelligent.
 The 2015 movie sadly had no reference to this, choosing to
(over)dramatize his story.
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell
Computers and Humans Apart) is a reverse Turing test in which a
computer determines if the other party is a machine or a human.

 Apparently it was love at first sight, when he saw her selling silk
and glass beads. In the 19 years of their marriage, Arjumand
Banu Begum gave birth to 14 children of whom seven survived
infancy.
 The multiple pregnancies took a heavy toll on her. The 14th
birth proved her undoing, causing her death at the age of 39
due to postpartum haemorrhage and other complications.
 Apart from the 14th child who survived, what else came into
being as a result?

 From this tragedy arose an enduring wonder of the
world and a monument of love. The death of
Mumtaz Mahal led Shah Jahan to build the Taj
Mahal.
 Although, one wonders if her death was not
avoidable?
 This thought-provoking article covers the issue
nicely, comparing this story against a similar one in
Sweden where the queen inspired the founding of
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 Identify this passenger jet airliner.
 Jointly developed by the UK and France, its name reflects its
cooperative origin.
 This plane could cross the Atlantic in a mere 3.5 hours then as
compared to the typical 7 hours taken by others now.
 Although considered an aviation icon and an engineering marvel, it
was retired in 2003 after 27 years of service as it proved quite
uneconomical.

 It was named to signify agreement, harmony or union and was
the only successful commercial passenger plane in the world
with a certain capability.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12195452/concorde-supersonic-
flight-fail
 Now there are a bunch of projects competing to be the next
successful supersonic commercial plane, like http://boom.aero/

 Identify the iconic island creature X which gives its name to a
nationality as well as a fruit.
 Since the creature is only found there, hence it has become
their popular symbol.
 Local fruit growers successfully marketed the fruit Chinese
gooseberry as X-fruit, since shortened to X.

 New Zealanders are also called kiwis.
 NZ has unveiled plans to eliminate introduced predators by 2050.
Island birds usually discard flight due to the lack of endemic predators.
However when humans recolonize an island, they usually bring pests and pets along which quickly
wipe out such birds. Hopefully, popularity will ensure their survival, or else it will also go the way of
the dodo.

 Identify the author and his book
series which is accompanied by
this flowchart which determines
how you might read it.
 The author is also known to mail
people $2.56 for any new error
reported in the content.

 It is Donald Knuth with his
seminal series: The Art Of
Computer Programming.
 Bill Gates had this to say about
it: "If you think you’re a really
good programmer… read it…
You should definitely send me a
resume if you can read the whole
thing."

 As a young aspiring singer, his performance
was complimented by Lokmanya Tilak who
called him __ ______.
 The name stuck and it is how we know him
popularly. He was famous for his roles of
female characters in Marathi plays.

 "Bal Gandharva", actual name is Narayan Shripad Rajhans

 Easy Q, from the world of business.
• The founder named it after a famous literary character for its universal
appeal:
• One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking X is a
good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about X?"
And she said yes. I said, "What do you know about?", and she said, "Open
Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the name!"
• Then I went on to the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you
know X?" People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and
China … they all knew about X.

 It is Alibaba, from the 1001 Arabian Nights tale, who opens the
gateway to riches with the invocation of "Khul ja sim sim" or
"Open Sesame".
 The founder in question is Jack Ma.
 He is a kind, smart business person, and helped the village. So
easy to spell, and globally known. Opens sesame for small- to
medium-sized companies.

 September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's day in India in
whose memory? He did
 Civil Engineering from COEP,
 designed the Khadakwasla sluice gate system,
 was the Diwan of Mysore and
 recipient of Bharat Ratna among other honors and achievements.

 NIT Nagpur is named VNIT in his honour.

 From the world of entertainment, where would you find these
and what do these signify?
 N 11º 33' 0" E 104º 51' 00"
N 9º 2' 0" E 38º 45' 0"
S 22º 40' 26" E 14º 31' 40"
N 10° 46' 0" E 106º 41' 40"
N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28"
N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28"
 Also present (but not mentioned here given current affairs) is a
7th one.

 A set of coordinates that leads to the
place where a member of her family
was born.
 Seventh one is for Brad Pitt, this is
reportedly coming off soon.

By Gokul Panigrahi
At BCQC, COEP, Shivajinagar
3PM, Sunday, October 9th 2016
- General Knowledge Quiz with a current affairs flavor.

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