General Quiz conducted by the Quiz Society in January 2019

1. Recruitment 2.0
The Quiz Society

2. Credits-
Medha Sharma
Avantika Bunga
Agrani Gaur
Maanassee Sharma
Debapriya Chanda
Devanshi Sarin
Disha Rawal
Gayatri Giri

3. Rules
● All questions carry one point, and have to be answered in written.
● Use of cell phones is prohibited.
● A minimum of two people is required to block hints.
● Mention your name, email address and phone number on the top of the
sheet.
● Kindly check your emails by tomorrow morning for invite links to the
society WhatsApp group.

4. General
By Medha Sharma, Disha Rawal

5. 1.

6. X was in 1999, in a shambles, with its once-pioneering wares on
sale for $19 at countless gas stations and convenience stores.
And the quality was awful. It was at that rock-bottom point that
Italian eyewear giant Y bought Bausch & Lomb’s eyewear brands,
with X as the deal’s crown jewel, for $640 million in 1999. And
thanks to an aggressive turnaround plan, X staged a remarkable
comeback. X now commands 5% of the global eye wear market,
and is the largest sunglasses brand, according to Euromonitor
International data.
Identify X and Y
2.

7. X was a fictional creature introduced by CS Lewis in his 1872 novel
Through the Looking-Glass, a follow-up to his Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1865). The character has since been referenced several
times in popular culture and was also the title of a short-lived video
game released in United Kingdom in 1984. Making video games turns
out to be a dangerous profession in the 1980s-set, the first standalone
feature film based on Y’s dystopian science-fiction Netflix series.
Identify X and Y.
3.

8. This morning, the Hindustan Times reported that Tihar Jail sees a
surge in the number of crimes every year around this time. The jail,
equipped to house 10000 people houses more than 16000 at the
moment. What is the reason behind this increase in inmates in these
months?
4.

9. Stephen Fry, the comedian of Fry and Laurie fame teamed up with
This is America choreographer Sherrie Silver for a 90
promotional/social advertisement titled Rock the X , which seeks to
build awareness around a certain issue. The mesmerizing
advertisement features Sherrie dancing with an X, which is a symbol
directly associated with the issue in question. According to a press
release, “With this film, Sherrie will be building on her philanthropy
work over the past five years, particularly in Rwanda, where she has
been working to improve the lives of women and children – from
providing basic amenities to vocational training and even hosting
dance workshops.”
What is X?
5.

10. Popular Culture
By Gayatri Giri, Maanasee Sharma

11. This photo was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake who
won a grammy award in 1967 for it. The image is described as a
giant birthday party or an irish wake showing a new troupe,
surrounded by fans after a performance.
X were provided a list to choose any person, dead or alive, real
or fictitious, to fill the crowd in the picture. There were only two
of X’s contemporaries on the cover, Bob Dylan and Dion
DiMucci, and controversial figures like Hitler, Gandhi and Jesus
had to be covered by palm trees.
The cover photo played a large role in changing the popular
perception of X to a more avant garde, hipster identity.
Who is X and where was this image featured
6.

12. Preparations for the photo

13. The term ‘decimation’ originated in the era of the Roman legions
where army units that mutinied or under-performed in combat
could be singled out for group punishment. A body of troops
would be divided into sections of 10 men where one soldier from
each group would be chosen at random and be beaten to death by
his comrades. The sentences were carried out immediately
regardless of the victim’s rank or involvement in the
transgression. The method provided a pragmatic way to give out
mass punishment without wasting the army’s assets. Why has this
term seen a surge in popularity recently?
7.

14. A self-described ‘history nut’ who wanted to be a history teacher, when
he grew up, X was talking to a 21 year old who thought the world was
an unfixable mess, and confessed he felt the same way at that age. The
person waved him off by saying that X had it easy since nothing
significant happened in the 50’s anyway.
This became the inspiration behind X’s most popular song and it was
quickly picked up in schools by history teachers as a tool to engage kids
to study the subject when it was released. X admits he has a hard time
remembering all the words when he performs the song in a concert due
to the rapid-fire lyrics. The song has inspired many fan versions of it
with updated lyrics and remains relevant as ever, even though X has
revealed he has no intention to create a sequel.
ID X and the song
8.

15. List all the movie references
9.

16. The movie was supposed to be an adaptation of its predecessor
with a contemporary city setting and had thus gained a lot of
attention from media pre-release.
A problem while creating the sequel was that one of the crucial
characters had been killed, and some of the actual cast like Amjad
Khan had passed away in the real world. To fix this, a special role
was weaved in for Jackie Chan, owing to the runaway success of
Rush Hour at the time, but was later removed.
The film also went through a huge copyright infringement lawsuit
for deliberately mentioning and using characters of the original
film as it wasn’t a legitimate sequel. Being the director’s second
flop of 2007 after ‘Nishabd’, the movie cemented its place as a cult
classic of bollywood.
Id the remake film.
10.

17. India
By Avantika Bunga, Agrani Gaur

18. The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at
Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It has a collection of sculptures,
paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic
artifacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan, China,
Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe, and North
America. The museum's collection was sourced from the
property of the Salar Jung family, after whom it is named. It is
one of the largest museums in the world.
The most-photographed sculpture at the Salar Jung Museum
is known as the “Double Statue of Mephistopheles &
Margaretta”, which is carved out of a single log of Sycamore
wood.
What makes this sculpture unique?
11.

19. X is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel comics as the
stepbrother of professor X (X-Men).The name of the character is the
anglicised name of Hindu God_______________--"The lord of the
Universe".The word in its current usage means "a literal or metaphorical
force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable."
Name the character that embodies the meaning.
12.

20. https://youtu.be/yyJtX ,a prominent poet and songwriter from
Assam sang the Indian version of this song in Bengali and Hindi.
Identify the name of the song as well as the singer.
Old man river -Paul robenson
13.

21. Legend has it that Alauddin Khilji beheaded 8000 Mongols living
in the settlement and built the foundation of his City on these
heads. Thus the first Muslim city of Delhi was built in 1303 and
called ____ (Using the Hindi word for head) as a homage to all
the severed heads.
It now consists of a small part in Delhi.
FITB.
14.

22. Earlier known as Moksha Patamu, the game was initially
invented as a moral lesson about karma to be taught to
children. It was later commercialized and has become one of
the most popular (and common) board games in the world.
What game?
15.

23. Film, Art, Lit
By Debapriya Chanda, Devanshi Sarin

24. The first movie adaptation of the 1868 novel X, which traces the
lives of four sisters and their mother in 19th century America
struck by a civil war, released in 1917. The eighth adaptation is
set to release this year, featuring Meryl Streep, among other
eminent actors.
ID X.
16.

25. The Greek name X derives from 'helpful, aid, advantage’. It is
also the name of a moon of Uranus.
X is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, depicting
X, a character from a very famous literary piece. It is widely
acclaimed for its beauty and its accurate representation of a
natural landscape. It is presently held at Tate Britain, London,
and valued at £30 million.
ID X.
17.

26. This book contains account of a two-week boat trip on Thames from
Kingston to Oxford. It was intended to be a serious travel guide with
accounts of local history along the route, but it turned into a
humorous and satirical piece by the time it was finished.
Identify this book.
18.

27. X cared so deeply about protecting his art that he spared no
expense making sure they were viewed in the correct manner by
their audiences, buying the rights to five of his most famous films
(The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, Rope, The
Trouble with Harry and Vertigo) so they could not be screened in
movie theatres for after their initial run. Subsequently, they were
not seen by a cinema audience for 30 years.
ID X.
19.

28. While the reality show Y has nothing to do with X or his book,
the idea of a Y state comes directly from his tale. X’s concept
of Y is an all-seeing government that keeps intimate tabs on
everything that citizens do and think. There is no privacy
because of constant government surveillance.
ID X and Y.
20.