The 4th quiz of Thirsty Crows League 4.0 Theme: TYTW - The Year That Was 2017

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QUIZ 4

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The 21st edition of National Youth Festival
(NYF) was organized in Rohtak, Haryana from
January 12 and continued till January 16, 2017.
The 2017 theme of festival was “Youth for
Digital India”. The 5-day festival organizes every
year to commemorate the birth anniversary of
which famous Indian philosopher?

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Swami Vivekananda

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2017!
• International Year of Sustainable Tourism for
Development logo
• UN sustainable development goals
• Year of the Fire Rooster (Chinese zodiac)
• Youthquake, Fake News – Word of the year 2017 –
Oxford, Collins dictionary

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Which award did they receive
together in 2017 and whom or
what were they representing?

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The person in this picture was
declared elected for a fresh term at an
organization, after Britain withdrew its
candidate Christopher Greenwood on
November 20, 2017. Which
organization?
His predecessors include B.N Rau,
Nagendra Singh and R.S. Pathak.

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Justice Dalveer Bhandari

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Why was this place in the news in 2017?

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Google doodle on January 16, 2017.

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“On August 11, 1973, an 18-year-old, Jamaican-
American DJ who went by the name of Kool Herc
threw a back-to-school jam at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in
the Bronx, New York. During his set, he decided to do
something different. Instead of playing the songs in
full, he played only their instrumental sections, or
‘breaks’ – sections where he noticed the crowd went
wild. During these ‘breaks’ his friend Coke La Rock
hyped up the crowd with a microphone. And with that,
X was born.”

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Clarence Darrow was a famous American lawyer known
for the Leopold and Loeb trials. Which famous case did he
lose at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, which
could be seen at the background?

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Fifty years ago, in the fictional world of Mad Men, Don
Draper pitched a daring ad campaign to ….. executives,
for the brand’s ….., that proposed not showing the product
at all. Instead, the ads would show close-ups of foods that
go great with ketchup—french fries, a cheeseburger, a
slice of steak—but without any ….. in sight. In March
2017, the company finally turned the suggestion into a
real ad. Which company/product?

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In 2017, this cartoon character’s
Wikipedia article had to be ‘locked
down’, or in other words, editing of
the page was prevented because
the non-human character's gender
was in question. The matter was
finally settled by the cartoonist
himself - Jim Davis. Which
character?

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The Chief Minister of an Indian state, on 19 January
2017, declared a second capital for his state, making it
the third Indian state to have more than one capital.
(While Maharashtra has Mumbai and Nagpur as its
capitals, Srinagar and Jammu are the respective
summer and winter capitals of Jammu and Kashmir.)
Which state?

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Himachal Pradesh! The capitals are Shimla and
Dharamshala.

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Put Funda.
22 June 2017

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The above picture shows the effect of an attack which
happened initially between 12 May – 15 May 2017.
What attack?

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WannaCry Ransomware attack.

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Given above is the logo of a geopolitical forum, a high-
profile meeting of which was held in May 2017 and
didn't see participation by India. Which forum?

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What did a certain Stephanie Del Valle present on
November 18 in Sanya, China, that made headline
news around India?

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On 5th September 2017, to
which spacecraft did NASA
beam the message – “We offer
friendship across the stars, you
are not alone”?

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It lost four letters in 1949, temporarily changed another
two in celebration of a new State law(decriminalizing
marijuana) in 1976. It then lost another, temporarily, in
honour of a state visit by a visiting religious dignitary in
1978. The sign was altered again on New Years Day in
2017, possibly done as a homage to a new California law
(making recreational marijuana legal) that was passed
during the 2016 election. What am I talking about?

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The Hollywood Sign

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The man lifting the Indo-Canadian actress, is
Yamamotoyama Ryūta. He is the heaviest Japanese-
born sumo wrestler in history, and is also thought to be
the heaviest Japanese person ever.
He entered a different field of work
in 2017 (which has nothing to do
with the actress in the picture!), and
it did receive wide critical and
commercial success. What piece of
Art was he part of, in 2017?

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The first time India was represented here was in the
30th edition by a mother - the result was an agonizing
loss by one vote. Since then, other representatives
include – a tourism professional, an underworld don, a
female gangster, a couple of amateur board game
players, an Indian, a son of Adam, an ex-magician's
production place, and a Mumbai judicial hearing. What
is this list, and who/what was the entry for 2017 in this
list?

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India's official representatives to the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film; "Newton" is India's entry to the 2017
Oscars.
The films indicated through hints are, respectively:
Mother India, Guide, Nayakan, Bandit Queen, Shatranj Ke Khiladi,
Indian, Adaminte Makan Abu, Harischandrachi Factory, and
Court.

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“Many years ago, during a visit to Washington DC, my wife's cousin
pointed out to us a crypt on a hill and mentioned that, in 1862, while
Abraham Lincoln was president, his beloved son, Willie, died, and
was temporarily interred in that crypt, and that the grief-stricken
Lincoln had, according to the newspapers of the day, entered the
crypt "on several occasions" to hold the boy's body. An image
spontaneously leapt into my mind…. I carried that image around for
the next 20-odd years, too scared to try something that seemed so
profound, and then finally, in 2012, noticing that I wasn't getting any
younger…, decided to take a run at it.. X is the result of that attempt..”

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The Man Booker Prize winning novel of 2017

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The Leonardo DiCaprio foundation was started in 1998
and was aimed at protecting the environment. They hold
events and the funds from these events are directed to a
specific cause. A specific theme is chosen for each year.
In 2017, he partnered with Kate Winslet to save what?

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Icebergs!

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This bank commenced its operations on
February 1, 2017 and received the
Scheduled Bank status by Reserve Bank of
India in August 2017. Which bank?

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In November 2017, what did Prince Badr
Bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Farhan
finally decide to buy for $450 million?

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The Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo Da Vinci,
making it the most expensive painting ever
sold.

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If Gopal Swarup Pathak was the 4th;
Mohammad Hidayatullah the 6th, Kocheril
Raman Narayanan the 9th and Bhairon
Singh Shekhawat the 11th, who became the
13th, on 11th August 2017?

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Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu

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Christopher Clive Froome is the
reigning Tour de France and Vuelta a
España champion and one of the most
successful riders in the history of the
Tour, having won it four times – in
2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In the 2017 edition, in how many of the
21 individual stages was he the victor?

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None!