Freshers' Quiz 2k19 Mains

RULES
• This Quiz consists of 4 rounds.
• The marking scheme is +20/-10 unless mentioned otherwise.
• Part points up for grabs as per the discretion of QM.
• Every round has its own set of rules.

ROUND-I : DIRECT ROUND
• EACH TEAM GETS ONE DIRECT QUESTION.OTHER TEAMS ARE FREE TO POUNCE.
• SCORING: +20/0 FOR THE TEAM QUESTION IS DIRECTED TOWARDS AND +20/-
10 FOR TEAMS POUNCING.

1. GIVE X.
• X is a coupling reagent used in solid phase peptide synthesis. It shows resistance
against racemization and is used because of its mild activating properties.
• We all know about X and it has been very popular since September 1st,2016.

2. GIVE X.
• A true example of perseverance and fair play, X is someone whom we all know
about.
• It took X 22 years and failures in 6 major tournaments before he could finally
achieve his childhood dream.
• Hint: X is still a 10 year old!

3.
• Widely cultivated in Africa, Northern Parts of South America and Southeast Asia.
People cultivate X because of its leaves that are source of psychoactive alkaloids.
• Its leaves are used to manufacture tea, granola bars, candies, and cookies in the
Andean region. But most importantly it finds its heavy use in medication.
• X leaves contain 14 different types of alkaloids. The best known,
benzoylmethylecgonine alkaloid, is used for the manufacture of Y, a psychoactive
substance which produces euphoric effects.
Id X and Y.

4.
• First published in 1953, F is set in a bleak, dystopian future where keeping a
printed book is considered to be illegal and firemen start fires rather than putting
it off.
• The peculiar title of Ray Bradbury’s work relates to the temperature at which the
book paper catches fire, and burns.
• Give F.

5. GIVE XY.
• XY is a spaceflight company within the X Group that develops commercial
spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and
suborbital launches for space science missions.
• Z founded the famous X group back in the 1970’s as a chain of record stores that
later expanded into aviation sector.
• Z is a celebrity around the world and has guest appeared in several television
shows like Baywatch and Friends.

6.
• X is a two word term that is used to denote developing countries in modern
times.
• However, it was originally used to refer to the countries that didn’t ally with any of
the two power blocs during the Cold War.
• In medieval France, a term similar to X was used to refer to the common folk.
• Identify X.

7. IDENTIFY THE COMPANY.
• It started as the husband and wife team of founders, who tried to develop the
technology to connect their own computers. While they did not invent the router,
they pioneered the first commercially successful router supporting multiple
network protocols.
• The company’s name is a shortened version of the name of the city in which it
was founded and its logo represents city’s world famous attraction.
• Give the company name.

CISCO, short for San Francisco.
Logo represents Golden Gate
Bridge.

8.GIVE X
Player Goals
1 Cristiano Ronaldo 93
2 X 72
3 Lionel Messi 68
4 David Villa 59
5 Luis Suarez 58

ROUND-II : POUNCE ONLY
Scoring: +20/-10

1. GIVE R.
• A stake in this brand of distilled spirit (image on next slide) was acquired by the
famous actor R.
• R is one of the few actors who’ve had the opportunity to play both Marvel and DC
superhero.

2. This symbol is designed by NID, Ahmedabad and every adult of
this country should be able to recognise it.
Identify the symbol.

3.WHICH CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSER?
• Steinway and Sons is a well known manufacturer of grand pianos. The company’s
shares are traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange using the ticker
symbol of LVB. Expand LVB.

The first X, was J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven which was released only in Japan for the
PlayStation in 1995, and featured only the 14 clubs that played in 1995 J.League. The following
three games in the series were also produced by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and they
were released under the name of ISS Pro for the European market and Winning Eleven for the
rest of the world.
The 1st instalment in the series of X games was released in October 2001. It was released under the
name World Soccer: Winning Eleven 5 in Japan and North America.
First Instalment Tagline: "We are the Football Tribe“
Current Tagline: "The Power of Football"
4. Who’s the Pro here?
Give X.

• Parivartan (Change) is a grass-roots activism organisation based in the Sundar Nagari
area of New Delhi, India. During the 2000s, Parivartan used Right to Information (RTI) to
address citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution System (PDS), public works,
social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity.
• X, who was the leader of Parivartan has received Ramon Magsaysay Award.
• Recently, a famous news anchor Y was also awarded the same.
• Give X and Y.
5.

X- Arvind Kejriwal.
Y- Ravish Kumar.

6. Which album is being mimicked here?

• X, son of Ghatotkach, was such a mighty warrior that defeating him was
impossible.
• X was blessed with 3 arrows from Agni which gave him the power to wipe out
an entire race.
• However, X was to always fight for the losing side meaning his participation in
Mahabharata would've led to total destruction.
• Finally Krishna came to the rescue by demanding X’s head as Guru-dakshina.
• Khyatu Shyam temple is dedicated to X.
7. Identify X.

• C was an exhibition Twenty20 cricket series took place in the United
States in 2015. The series features two line-ups of renowned retired
cricket players from around the world, led by the two Greats of the
game.
• C became very famous when a player hit multiple boundaries while
singing on air.
• Identify C.
8. Nostalgic, eh?

• 1729 is the smallest number representable in two ways as a
sum of two cubes.
• 1729 is popularly known as X-Y number, named after the two
mathematicians who discovered it.
• Y is an Indian upon whom a famous Hollywood movie has been
made.
• Give both X and Y.
9

X- Hardy
Y- Ramanujan
Hardy Ramanujan number.

10. What are these companies collectively called?

11.
• "If we look up at the scoreboard, we change the 'G' and add a 'D', did you think
for a second there that it was Y?," asked the interviewer.
• "No!" was X’s prompt reply. “But may be for you guys and social media it is," said
the maestro with a massive grin on his face.
• Identify the event post which this conversation appeared.

Roger Federer vs Sumit Nagal, US OPEN 2019 first round.

12.
• On January 9,2007, a call was made to Starbucks and an order 4000 lattes was
given followed by "No, just kidding. Wrong number. Goodbye.”
• Identify the famous tech occasion being talked about/person who made the call.

13.
• X is a series of short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
• Its 103rd Episode is considered to be the Darkest Episode. This episode showed
that how one of the main character gets into depression after getting rejected by
a female and goes onto the railway tracks with the other main character. And that
is where they both commited suicide,.
• Although this was never the last episode of the series.
• Identify X

14. GIVE X.
• X is a 2019 thriller film set in 1981 and based on the life of Arthur Fleck, a failed
stand-up comedian who turns to a life of crime and chaos.
• Directed by Todd Phillips, X premiered at the 76th Venice International Film
Festival where it won the Golden Lion, the festival's highest prize.

15
X was born as Mahesh Das in 1528, in a village near Kalpi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He
was given the name X which is derived from Vir Var which means courageous and
great, quite contrary for him since he was not known for his bravery or for his
military skill.

16.ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?
• On 11 September 2015, while doing construction work in the Grand Mosque in
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the Group's cranes collapsed due to high winds
causing 118 deaths and almost 400 injuries. As a result, the Saudi king banned the
firm from taking new projects while having its current projects reviewed. The ban
was removed in May 2016.
• The Group's internet domain name was registered on September 11, 2000 and
was valid for a period of one year.
• Give the name of the group.

PICK YOUR POISON (ROUND 3)
• Literature I II
• Mythology I II
• Music I II
• Science and Technology I II
• Business I II
• Sports I II
• India I II
• History I II

LITERATURE 1
• ‘Bored of the _____’ is a parody of X.
• This short novel was written by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, who later
founded National Lampoon.
• Names and words in the various languages are parodied with brand names that
mimic their sounds. There are many topical references, including once-popular
brand names. Some of the characters are : Goodgulf Greyteeth, Dildo Bugger of
Bag Eye, Frito Bugger and Spam Gangree. Simply identify the original work that
has been parodied.

LORD OF THE RINGS
Pick your Poison

LITERATURE 11
• When X admitted that Y was “loosely based on a teacher I myself had,” the press
tracked down John Nettleship, who taught X Chemistry at Wyedean School near
Chepstow. When first approached, he was surprised, explaining, “I was horrified
when I first found out. I knew I was a strict teacher but I didn’t think I was that
bad.” In retrospect, however, he admitted that he was “a short-tempered
chemistry teacher with long hair…[and a] gloomy, malodorous laboratory”.
• Identify X and Y.

X – J.K. Rowling
Y – Severus Snape
Pick your Poison

MYTHOLOGY 1
• The origin of the word X lie in Greek mythology, namely the legend of the Greek demigod Pan. Pan
was a mischievous forest sprite, inhabiting the lonely stretches of wilderness that separated the Greek
city-states.
• One of Pan’s favourite diversions was to torment ancient Greek travellers traversing the byways of that
once-forested land. Pan would lie in wait, concealed in the bushes, awaiting his unwitting victims.
When a traveller passed by his hiding place, Pan would gently rustle the bushes, engendering a sense
of apprehension in the person. The traveller would pick up his pace, and Pan would then scurry ahead
through the forest to intercept him. There, he would rustle some more vegetation, and the traveller
would make even greater haste as Pan’s amusement grew.
• By this time, the traveler would begin to breathe heavily, and his heart would begin to pound, and the
sounds of his own quickening footsteps would be magnified in the stillness of the forest to resemble
those of a pursuing wild animal. The traveller would be hurtling as fast as he could run along the dark
forest path. Never would the unsuspecting traveler re-enter the forest without experiencing a wave of
apprehension.
• Identify X.

MYTHOLOGY 11
• Rejecting his loving wife and growing tired of the gods, X decided to
venture into Jotunheim and take a giantess as his bride. He chose the grim
Angrboda.
• Dwelling in a dark cave with his hideous giant-bride, X fathered three
children - Fenrir, Hela and Jormungand.
• X has a complicated relationship with the gods and is often portrayed as a
mischievous shapeshifter.
• Identify X.

HISTORY 1
• X Tiwari was born on 23 July 1906 in Bhavra village, in the present- day Alirajpur
district of Madhya Pradesh. His forefathers were from Badarka village near Kanpur
(in present-day Unnao District). In December 1921, when Mohandas K. Gandhi
launched the Non- Cooperation Movement, X, then a 15-year-old student, joined.
As a result, he was arrested.
• On being produced before a magistrate, he gave his name as “Y", his father's
name as "Swatantrata“ and his residence as "Jail". From that day he came to be
known as XY among the people.
• ID XY.

CHANDRASHEKHAR AZAD
Pick your Poison

HISTORY 11
• An example of the fatal effects of procrastination, the defeat of the Mughals by the
Persians in this battle X, fought just 110 kms from Delhi resulted in a plunder of the
city of Delhi by the victorious Persians who under the command of their leader Y killed
30000 civilians.
• The Persians took the Peacock throne, the kohi-noor and darya-e-noor diamonds. The
plunder seized from India was so rich that Y stopped taxation in Iran for a period of
three years following his return. The Mughal ruler, Muhammad Shah kept delaying the
Mughal response to Y’s approach towards Delhi and acted only when he was 110 kms
away.
• This delay in action is often cited as the main reason for Mughal defeat. When asked
to act, Muhammad Shah repeated the phrase Z. Identify X,Y,Z?

X= Battle of Karnal
Y= Nadir Shah
Z= Abhi Dilli duur hai
Pick your Poison

SPORTS 1
• In the 2014 Asian Games, the women’s basketball team of Qatar withdrew from
the competition after refusing to make what change to their personal condition?

Removing Hijabs
Pick your Poison

SPORTS 11
• The stadium was built in 1933 as a gift for Delhi from the Maharaja of Bhavnagar,
it was originally multipurpose stadium and named the Irwin Amphitheatre. It was
renamed National Stadium before the 1951 Asian Games. What was added to the
name in 2002?

DHYAN CHAND STADIUM
Pick your Poison

MUSIC 1
• Gazzy Garcia (born August 17, 2000), is an American rapper and record producer. He
is best known for his song X, which peaked at number three on the
U.S. Billboard Hot 100, as well as other songs such as "D Rose" and "Boss“. The song
X has been certified platinum.
• In July 2018, he released a music video which features Charlie Sheen.
• X had a certain feature that led to its achievement of a certain record in 42 years.
Earlier, the record was held by “Mr. Jaws”.
• With Diplo and French Montana, he recorded “Welcome to the party” for album Y.
• Id X, Y and the record being talked about?

X – Gucci Gang
Y – Deadpool 2
Gucci Gang was the shortest song to reach
in Hot 100 top 10.
Pick your Poison

MUSIC 11
• What is considered to be X’s magnum opus, Y makes use of voices throughout the album.
These voices were generated by questions Roger Waters had written up on cue cards and were
subsequently asked to roadies, doormen, members of the band Wings, and anyone available at
Abbey Road. The approximately twenty questions ranged from “When was the last time you
were violent and were you in the right?” to “What does the phrase ‘Y’ mean to you?” The
laughter that can be heard on ________ and ________ is that of Peter Watts, a road manager for X.
• In addition to the voices, at the end of the album, faint music can be heard, which is presumed
to be an instrumental version of Ticket to Ride by the Beatles in the background. It has been
proposed that while recording doorman Jerry Driscoll’s response that somewhere in Abbey
Road, Ticket to Ride was playing and was picked up by the microphones.
• Id X and Y.

PINK FLOYD
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Pick your Poison

BUSINESS 11
• X is a casino hotel near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. On
February 2, 2006, the weekend of Super Bowl XL, X officially opened its doors with
a large orange carpet welcoming not only the public but many stars
including KISS bass player Gene Simmons. In August 2019, Y partnered with New
York-based investment and management company Highgate to purchase the
property for $135 million.
• Y, is South Asia's largest hospitality company, one of China’s top two, and the
world’s third-largest and fastest-growing chain of leased and franchised hotels,
homes & living spaces founded in 2013.
• Identify X and Y.

X – HOOTERS
Y – OYO ROOMS
Pick your Poison

INDIA 1
• “A variety of writers and thinkers have found X an exciting figure for reflection and
exploration, notably, feminists and participants in New Age spirituality who are
attracted to goddess worship. [For them], X is a symbol of wholeness and healing,
associated especially with repressed female power and sexuality. It is hard to import
the worship of a goddess from another culture: religious associations and
connotations have to be learned, imagined or intuited when the deep symbolic
meanings embedded in the native culture are not available.”
• -Rachel Fell McDermott, Columbia University
• Following the suggestion by band leader Mick Jagger, Designer John Pasche created
the famous ____________ design logo of the band Y inspired by X.
• Give X and Y.

INDIA 11
• In 1970, Raj Kapoor released his ‘Mera Naam Joker’. He took loans in order to produce this film and
devoted all his wealth but the film flopped on the Box Office and was on the verge of Bankruptcy.
Later, as a last battle, he produced another film X in 1973 which broke many records and was a
nationwide hit, mostly due to its content. This was a time when movies were not generally telecasted
on television but on one Sunday before the 1977 elections, X was telecasted all over the nation.
(Sanjay Gandhi, of course!)
• This was an attempt to divert the public from turning up on Ramlila Maidan for a historical public
meeting of opposition parties against Indira Gandhi. Babu Jagjivan Ram was the man behind this event
who had recently resigned from congress and gave a boost to the Opposition Parties Union. The
meeting is remembered for the iconic speech of Y, which gave a boost to his popularity across the
nation.
• However, despite the attempts of the government and heavy rains, a large number of people collected
in the ground and newspapers next day read, “______ beats ________”.
• Give X, Y and FITB

X – Bobby
Y – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Babu beats Bobby
Pick your Poison

SCIENCE AND TECH 1
• The result of a famous scientific experiment was announced on February 22, 1997.
• It was originally code-named "6LL3“ and later came to be known as “X”.
• The name “X" came from a suggestion by the stockmen who helped with the
process/experiment, in honor of Y, because it was a mammary cell that was used for the
experiment.
• The technique that was made famous by this experiment is somatic cell nuclear transfer, in which
a cell is placed in a de-nucleated ovum, the two cells fuse and then develop into an embryo.
• Many of the similar experiments after this one failed but it proved a milestone for it boosted
stem cell research.
• Id X and Y.

DOLLY; DOLLY PARTON
Pick your Poison

SCIENCE AND TECH 11
• In 2018, Too Many T's, a hip hop group from London received international
media attention by being the first artists to feature ___________ as rapper and
singer.
• The initial version provides connectivity to Facebook Messenger,
with Slack and Twilio integration to follow.
• Identify what we are talking about.

SHORT CONNECT(ROUND 4)
Question consists of 3 slides.
Marking scheme for each slide is written on top.

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