The finals of the Induction Quiz for PGP 2014-16 batch of IIM Kashipur held on 7/7/2014. Quiz Master: Ashwin Murali

1. The Induction Quiz
for PGP 2014-16 batch
Finals
By
Ashwin Murali

2. Rules
20 Questions on Infinite Bounce
10 Clockwise & 10 Anti-clockwise
10 points for all right answers

4. Clockwise

5. 1. The following is an excerpt from a Cricinfo
article published on April 1, 2011:
“Sir Alex Ferguson is a huge admirer of X. He
says, “X will certainly have a positive impact
on van der saar’s successor. Goalkeepers
often find themselves in similar situation
where they’ve to guess the path of the ball,
use their footwork and agility. Hence, X will
be of immense help to the Manchester
united team as a Goalkeeping advisor.”

7. Who else but Him!!

8. • The exact location of X, however, is a matter of
speculation. Many are of the opinion that it
may be Coimbatore,
• . It is also speculated that it may be located
somewhere along the river Kaveri
• Some believe that it could be near Yadavgiri in
the erstwhile state of Mysore.
• What is X ?
2.

10. Malgudi – a fictional town from
RK Narayan. It had some places like Lawley
road which say that Malgudi is partly based
on Coimbatore, which also has a Lawley
Road

11. 3.

13. Mammy Two Shoes aka Tom’s owner
from Tom & Jerry. This is her sole
appearance with her face shown. Else
its only 2 shoes.

14. 4. Gimme X
X is an African Philosophy focusing on people's
allegiances and relations with each other.
Nelson Mandela explains X as follows :
“A traveller through a country would stop at a village
and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once
he stops, the people give him food, entertain him.
That is one aspect of X, but it will have various
aspects. X does not mean that people should not
enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you
going to do so in order to enable the community
around you to be able to improve?”

17. 5.ID X
• X is a 1988 computer phenomenon by John
Romero. It was developed for the Apple II
and DOS. Romero explains that a famous
Nintendo’s creation inspired him to create
X.
The well known versions of X are..
1. X
2. Double X
3.X in the Haunted Mansion
4.X's risky rescue
5.X goes nutz.

19. Dangerous Dave and the inspiration
being Mario.

20. 6. Where? What existed in this
place?

22. The Bamiyan
Buddha Statues in
Afghanistan. It was
destroyed by the
Taliban in 2001.

23. 7. X again?
• X is a dark ride at the Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo
Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris theme parks.This was
the last attraction which Walt Disney himself
participated in designing; it opened three months after
his death, in the spring of 1967. It is located within the
New Orleans Square portion of Disneyland, its facade
evoking antebellum era New Orleans, topped by a 31-
star United States flag (which would indicate the 1850s).
An overhead sign at the boat dock names it Jean Lafitte
(although his name is misspelled Laffite), who fought
alongside the U.S. Army at the Battle of New Orleans in
the War of 1812. The second floor of the facade was
originally designed to be a private Disney family
apartment.

25. Pirates of the Caribbean
• The movie is based on this ride at
the Disneyland.

26. 8. Poster for which
movie?

28. • Alam Ara - India’s first talkie

29. 9
• X is a car based on Morris Oxford III model
first made by the Morris motor company at
Cowley, Oxford in the UK. It is manufactured in
India by Y a subsidiary of the business house Z
• X,Y & Z?

31. • X – Ambassador
• Y – Hindustan motors
• Z – The Birla group

32. 10.
• X ,a successful tractor manufacturer went to
meet Y ,a car manufacturer, at his factory to
complain about the quality of the clutch in the
car he owned. Y sent him away telling him to go
and drive tractors because he was not able to
drive cars. X went back to his factory, had his
clutch dismantled and realized that the clutch
manufacturer was the same who supplied the
clutches for his tractors! X promised himself
never to go back to Y for another car but rather
beat him at his own game by creating a superior
sports car. Identify X and Y.

34. Ferrucio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari

35. Anti-Clockwise

36. 11. Complete the list. What are they
called?
• Brown University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• ________________
• Princeton University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Yale University

38. Harvard University; The Ivy league

39. 12. The first X was formed on sand at a beach
when Norman Joseph Woodland moved into
his father's apartment in Florida. His inspiration
came from Morse code.
• The Technology for X was adapted from optical
soundtracks in movies using a 500W light bulb.
• In 1949 Woodland and his friend filed a patent
application for X ("Classifying Apparatus and
Method“).
• The patent was eventually bought by Philco in
1962.
• ID X.

41. Barcode

42. 13. Identify X
• X’s first work was a humor book, “187 Men to
Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically
Frustrated Woman”, 1995, Berkley Publishing
Group.
• X’s novels usually feature themes of
conspiracies and treasure hunts.

44. Dan Brown

45. 14. Identify X
• Research begins at Roke Manor Research Ltd.,
a company with over thirty years of vision
processing expertise. Led by Dr. Paul
_____and funded by The Television
Corporation, the concept of ‘X'' is born.
• In the spring of 2001 X won the BAFTA award
for best sporting innovation
• In 2003 X won an Emmy award for
outstanding innovative technical achievement.

47. Hawkeye

48. 15. NY Times Book review of which book?
“We see this lot of pretentious literary folks through the
eyes of regular-guy Strike, who, after reading some of
Owen Quine’s perverse work, wonders if the novelist was
mentally unwell. Quine, we’re told, specializes in gothic,
surreal stories in an ornate and florid style; “Bombyx
Mori” is described as “a perverse ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ set
in a folkloric no-man’s land” and featuring a
hermaphrodite hero, who has a series of strange
encounters with predatory women and assorted monsters.
The characters sport names like the Tick, Succuba and the
Cutter, and there is lots of mumbo-jumbo about a “bloody
sack” and a “dwarfish female creature.”

50. Answer
• The Silkworm, by Robert
Galbraith (JK Rowling)

51. 16. Collar, choker, princess, matinee,
opera, rope and lariat. These are
the seven major classifications by
length. Of what?

53. Necklaces

54. 17.
• This Indian was the one who advised John
D.Rockefeller to spend his wealth on
philanthropy. He was the one who inspired
Nikola Tesla to think about the cosmic forces
of the Universe and work on the Unified Force
theory. He was the one who inspired
Jamshedji Tata to start the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc). Which Indian am I talking
about?

56. Swami Vivekananda

57. 18.
• Which popular game was invented by the
former British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain while he was serving in the army
in India?

59. Snooker. Chamberlain was playing Billiards at
the Club House in Ooty, when he came up
with a new variant of that game and named it
Snooker.

60. 19.
What term is associated with the
phenomenon where a product sells more
because the price of it has been increased ?

62. Chivas Regal

63. 20. What famous phrase did the person in the
picture coin, which also became his epitaph?

65. That’s All Folks!!
The person in the picture is Chuck Jones, the creator of
Looney Toons.