General quiz-Intra IIT Culturals 2019-IIT Tirupati

1. General Quiz
Quizzing Club – IIT Tirupati
Quizmaster : Siddhant Mohan

2. Instructions
• 10

3. 1
• The English word 'barn' is derived from the local term for the quick-
growing crop Hordeum vulgare and attests to the centrality of this
crop to agriculture in some parts of Europe. Individual grains of this
were once used as units of length, and three such were said to make
up an inch. How do we know Hordeum vulgare?
• Also give the most well-known product made from this crop.

4. 2
• This phrase in recent years has evolved to mean extreme dedication
to a cause or purpose, along with a refusal to even consider alternate
opinions.
• It derives from the November 1978 Jonestown deaths in Guyana in
which over 900 members of the Peoples’ Temple, a fundamentalist
religious cult, died by consuming a powdered drink mix laced with
cyanide. Which phrase?

5. 3
• Identified and named by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business
School, Daniel Mochon of Yale, and Dan Ariely of Duke in 2011, the X
effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a
disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
What is X?
• "The price is low largely because they take labor out of the equation.
Consumers can very literally create products on a very tight budget.
But what happens when they do? They “fall in love” with their
creations. Even when they are incorrectly created, customers still
loved the fruits of their labors.”

6. 4
• According to historians, the transition to Christianity in Scandinavia
was very gradual and fairly gentle compared to most other countries.
For a long time, Scandinavians believed in both. To them the Christian
cross looked similar to an object from their own mythology when
turned upside down, so they wore it like that as an amulet that
provided protection from deities in both faiths. What religious object?

7. • What unusual method of serving, made possible thanks to the beans
being ground to a very fine powder, distinguishes this coffee of a
Middle Eastern country from most other types of coffee-based
beverages throughout the world?
• Give the country and the coffee.

8. • Dada Hira Singh Markam heads a small political party that seeks to set
up a separate state for tribal people in Central India, comprising
regions from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Give
the name proposed by him for this state, familiar to us from the work
of Alfred Wegener?

9. • Upon the death of noted mathematician and Fi Maryam Mirzakhani,
several Iranian newspapers, broke a certain taboo and published
photos of Mirzakhani with _______, a gesture that was widely noted
in press and media. What taboo was broken?

10. • _______ Montes is a mountain on the planet Venus named in tribute
to the Edinburgh-born physicist whose work proposed the existence
of radio waves that made it possible to study the surface of the
planet. Name this physicist, and tell us what makes this act of naming
exceptional in its context.

11. • In spite of having a martial name, it also comprises of acrobats,
musicians and imperial officials. Found at a spot, that was chosen in
246 BCE because of the abundance of gold on its northern side and
jade on its southern side, what are we talking about?

13. • Most Jewish communities; North America tribes like Cherokee,
Choctaw, Iroquois etc.; the Minangkabau people of SE Asia; the Bunts
and Billava of Karnataka; the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo of Meghalaya;
the Karen of Myanmar; the Basques; the Akan of west Africa. Some
examples of what system?
• Bonus : Most famously, this system was implemented by an Indian
royal family. Give the name of the state they hail from.

14. • In novelist Fred Saberhagen’s ‘Empire of the East’ sci-fi and fantasy
series, they are a political unit in relation to the eponymous Empire.
Deriving from the Old Persian word for ‘protector of the province’,
what word crossed over to the English speaking sphere meaning
individuals or entities heavily influenced by powerful political and
business groupings?

15. • X was abandoned as a child and adopted by a childless couple. He
grew up and carried out an act with which his name is synonymous
now.
• Electra visited the tomb of her father and was inspired to carry out
this act, with the connivance of her brother, with which her name is
synonymous now.
• Y created two complex terms based on the actions of X and Electra.
Give X & Y. Image of Y in the next figure.

17. • The term was popularized by University of Chicago archaeologist
James Henry Breasted in his 1914 and 1916 European-World History
books. It reads, “The westernmost extension of Asia...included within
the circuit of waters marked out by Caspian and Black seas on the
north, Mediterranean & Red seas on the west, and by the Indian
Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the south and east....region chiefly of
mountains in the north and desert in the south. The earliest home of
men here...is a borderland between the desert and the mountains, a
kind of cultivable fringe of the desert, a ____________ having the
mountains on one side and the desert on the other.”
• What term?

18. • In the last 5 years UP followed by WB, Maharashtra and Kerala
accounted for 50% of this that is decided based on the population
figures. While the actual beneficiaries are decided by Qurrah, the
President, VP, PM and External Affairs Minister together can allot 300
of these every year. What numbers are we talking about?