QM: Ayush Singh, Shambhavi Gupta and Akhil Sachan

1. Co-created by:
AKHIL SACHAN
SHAMBHAVI GUPTA
AYUSH SINGH
FUZZY FAMILIAR FRESHER’S QUIZ

2. 7 COMMANDMENTS
•21 questions, open to all.
•Each question carries equal marks.
•No negative marking.
•Part points as per discretion of Quiz Master.
•Questions 5,10,15,20 are star marked(*).They
will be used as tie breakers.
•Use of cellphones or will lead to immediate
disqualification.
•QM is God . End of Debate.

3. LET’S ROLL

4. 1. Identify this not so revolutionary
smartphone that was in the news a
couple of years ago.

5. 2. The term X was coined in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The
Selfish Gene, but Dawkins later distanced himself from the
resulting field of study.
• X was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of
behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more
individuals, and which can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from
mind to mind. Thus, what would otherwise be regarded as one
individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-
replicator reproducing itself in a new host.
•Proponents theorize that X are a viral phenomenon that may
evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of
biological evolution.

6. 3. V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon)
is a red variable star in the
constellation Monoceros about
20,000 light years from the Sun,
and possibly one of the largest
known stars for a short period
following the outburst. Recently
some of its images taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope went
viral due to the similarity in its
appearance to the logo of X, a
popular free and open source
software which is used in
conjunction with a system of
interlinked hypertext documents
which was the brainchild of Sir
Tim Berners-Lee. What?

7. 4. Give context.

8. *5 .
X is the brainchild of a person or a group of people
known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto.
X allows digital information to be distributed but not
copied, X created the backbone for a new type of
internet. It was originally devised for the
cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
X is basically a growing list of records which are
linked using cryptography.
Identify X.

9. 6. X is a non-alcoholic concentrated squash.
It was formulated by Naqi in 1906
in Ghaziabad, India and is manufactured by
the companies founded by him and his
sons, Hamdard (Waqf) Laboratories, Pakistan
and Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, India.
Since 1948, the company has been
manufacturing the product
in India, Pakistan as well as in Bangladesh.
Id X.

10. Q7
Although no more , she was in the news
recently. The only Indian to be awarded
Tamga-e-Pakistan, her last job was as a purser
in the PAN American Airways. Who?

11. 8. Identify this product.

12. 9. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night is an
annual commemoration observed on _________ (date
– day and month), primarily in Great Britain. Its history
begins with the events of _________ (date) 1605,
when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot,
was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters
had placed beneath the House of Lords. It was a failed
assassination attempt against King James I of England
and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English
Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
This day is also an important part of a 2005 Hollywood
Mystery/Thriller movie X, starring Natalie Portman and
Hugo Weaving. Identify X.

13. *10. Touch and Go.
Recently appointed as the Ambassador of
Sports for the state of Assam, identify the
national sensation popularly known as “Dhing
Express” who is the only Indian to win a track
event at IAAF World U-20 Championships.

14. 11.This is a faux ad by ‘The Postillon’
on behalf of X about Y. ID X and Y.

15. What Mirror is being talked
about? Why is it relevant to
the image below?
12.

16. 13. Identify the popular product launched by
this company in December,2017.

17. 14.
Billboard magazine ranks this all-girl music group Destiny’s Child
as one of the greatest musical trios of all time, the ninth most
successful artist/band of the 2000s. They were "defined by a
combination of feisty female empowerment anthems”.
Out of its final line-up of 3 members, X went on to receive
critical acclaim and musical success. She has won 22 Grammy
Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's
history.
Her studio album Y was the most commercially successful album
of 2016. It is also named after a beverage.
Identify X and Y.

18. *15.
The phrase “lead balloon” has commonly been used to
describe an ill conceived idea, or one whose failure is both
predictable and inevitable. The name then allegedly arose
when Keith Moon, after being invited to drum for the band,
thought the idea would go over like a “X”—Moon.
Y was the guitarist of the band and he liked X so much that
he adopted it for the band’s name.
It was misspelled because they thought Americans would be
stupid enough to mispronounce the word “lead”.
Identify the band name X and guitarist Y.

19. 16.
Prithvi Shaw became the 4th Indian Captain to
lift the U19 WC in cricket.
Apart from him, Unmukt Chand(2012), Virat
Kohli (2008) and X (2000) have achieved this
feat before.
Identify X who hails from Allahabad and is
associated with one of the most iconic
moments of Indian Cricket.

20. 17.
In 2017, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
was revealed as having harassing and abusing
several women over the years. In an attempt to
measure his power in the film industry, Quartz
magazine wrote that he was #3 on the list of most
entities thanked by Oscar winners in the last 50
years.
If God was 2nd, who was 1st on this list? He is one
of the most celebrated directors of all time.

21. 18.
“It was quite the most significant event that
has ever happened to me in my life. It was
almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch
shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came
back and hit you.”
Who said this about which science
experiment?

22. 19. Identify this blockbuster Bollywood
movie by its minimal poster.

23. *20.
This anime X based on a manga has a protagonist who
is constantly infatuated with women much older than
him and in a bid to impress them, he asks them
whether they like Green Bell Peppers.
Many say that the manga X was inspired from a real
life boy who died saving his sister from a car accident.
This boy’s mother “Misae” was shocked and depressed
on losing her children and started portraying a happy
story of her compete family, which was later illustrated
as the manga by Yoshita Usui.
Identify X.

24. 21.
What do you mean by Spermology?
(Hint: things are not always as they seem.
Also, there is a big reason that this question is
in this quiz)

25. ANSWERS

26. 1. Identify this not so revolutionary
smartphone that was in the news a
couple of years ago.

28. FREEDOM 251

29. 2. The term X was coined in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The
Selfish Gene, but Dawkins later distanced himself from the
resulting field of study.
• X was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of
behaviour, etc.) which is "hosted" in the minds of one or more
individuals, and which can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from
mind to mind. Thus, what would otherwise be regarded as one
individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an idea-
replicator reproducing itself in a new host.
•Proponents theorize that X are a viral phenomenon that may
evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of
biological evolution.

31. MEMES

32. 3. V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon)
is a red variable star in the
constellation Monoceros about
20,000 light years from the Sun,
and possibly one of the largest
known stars for a short period
following the outburst. Recently
some of its images taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope went
viral due to the similarity in its
appearance to the logo of X, a
popular free and open source
software which is used in
conjunction with a system of
interlinked hypertext documents
which was the brainchild of Sir
Tim Berners-Lee. What?

34. MOZILLA FIREFOX

35. 4. Give context.

37. Elon Musk announces that Falcon
Heavy Rocket will carry Tesla
Roadster in space.

38. *5 .
X is the brainchild of a person or a group of people
known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto.
X allows digital information to be distributed but
not copied, X created the backbone for a new type
of internet. It was originally devised for the
cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
X is basically a growing list of records which are
linked using cryptography.
Identify X.

40. BLOCKCHAIN

41. 6. X is a non-alcoholic concentrated squash.
It was formulated by Naqi in 1906
in Ghaziabad, India and is manufactured by
the companies founded by him and his
sons, Hamdard (Waqf) Laboratories, Pakistan
and Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, India.
Since 1948, the company has been
manufacturing the product
in India, Pakistan as well as in Bangladesh.
Id X.

43. ROOH AFZA

44. 7.
Although no more , she was in the news
recently. The only Indian to be awarded
Tamga-e-Pakistan, her last job was as a purser
in the PAN American Airways. Who?

46. NEERJA BHANOT

47. 8. Identify this product.

50. 9. Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night is an
annual commemoration observed on _________ (date
– day and month), primarily in Great Britain. Its history
begins with the events of _________ (date) 1605,
when Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot,
was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters
had placed beneath the House of Lords. It was a failed
assassination attempt against King James I of England
and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English
Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
This day is also an important part of a 2005 Hollywood
Mystery/Thriller movie X, starring Natalie Portman and
Hugo Weaving.

52. V FOR VENDETTA

53. *10. Touch and Go.
Recently appointed as the Ambassador of
Sports for the state of Assam, identify the
national sensation popularly known as “Dhing
Express” who is the only Indian to win a track
event at IAAF World U-20 Championships.

55. Hima Das.

56. 11. This is a faux ad by ‘The Postillon’
on behalf of X about Y. ID X and Y.

58. X-IKEA and Y-Trump Wall

59. What Mirror is being talked
about? Why is it relevant to
the image below?
12.

61. THE MIRROR OF ERISED.
When Harry asks him what he sees in The Mirror of Erised,
Dumbledore says that he sees himself holding woollen socks.

62. 13.
Prithvi Shaw became the 4th Indian Captain to
lift the U19 WC in cricket.
Apart from him,Unmukt chand(2012),Virat
Kohli (2008) and X (2000) have achieved this
feat before.
Identify X who hails from Allahabad and is
associated with one of the most iconic
moments of Indian Cricket.

64. MOHAMMED KAIF

65. 14.
Billboard magazine ranks this all-girl music group Destiny’s Child
as one of the greatest musical trios of all time, the ninth most
successful artist/band of the 2000s. They were "defined by a
combination of feisty female empowerment anthems”.
Out of its final line-up of 3 members, X went on to receive
critical acclaim and musical success. She has won 22 Grammy
Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's
history.
Her studio album Y was the most commercially successful album
of 2016. It is also named after a beverage.
Identify X and Y.

67. X – Beyonce Knowles Carter
Y - Lemonade

68. *15.
The phrase “lead balloon” has commonly been used to
describe an ill conceived idea, or one whose failure is both
predictable and inevitable. The name then allegedly arose
when Keith Moon, after being invited to drum for the band,
thought the idea would go over like a “X”—Moon.
Y was the guitarist of the band and he liked X so much that
he adopted it for the band’s name.
It was misspelled because they thought Americans would be
stupid enough to mispronounce the word “lead”.
Identify the band name X and guitarist Y.

70. LED ZEPPELIN

71. 16. Identify this blockbuster bollywood
movie by its minimal poster.

73. GANGS OF WASSEYPUR

74. 17.
In 2017, Hollywood producer Harvey
Weinstein was revealed as having harassing
and abusing several women over the years.
In an attempt at a measure of his power in
the film industry, Quartz magazine wrote
that he was #3 on the list of most entities
thanked by Oscar winners in the last 50
years.If God was 2nd, who was 1st on this
list?

76. STEVEN SPIELBERG

77. 18.
“It was quite the most significant event that
has ever happened to me in my life. It was
almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch
shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came
back and hit you.”
Who said this about which science
experiment?

79. RUTHERFORD
GOLD FOIL EXPERIMENT
It discovered that every atom contains a
nucleus.

80. 19. Identify the popular product launched by
this company in December,2017.

82. PUBG

83. *20.
This anime X based on a manga has a protagonist who
is constantly infatuated with women much older than
him and in a bid to impress them, he asks them
whether they like Green Bell Peppers.
Many say that the manga X was inspired from a real
life boy who died saving his sister from a car accident.
This boy’s mother was shocked and depressed on
losing her children and started portraying a happy
story of her compete family, which was later illustrated
as the manga by Yoshita Usui.
Identify X.

85. CRAYON SHIN-CHAN

86. 21. What do you mean by Spermology?
(Hint: things are not always as they seem.
Also, there is a big reason that this question is
in this quiz)

88. Study of Trivia