Session hosted by me on 06.12.14

1. Mixed Bag Quiz
By
Rahil Sur
2nd year EEE
#Session 18

2. RULES
+10 ON DIRECT
+10/-5 ON POUNCE
+5 PASS

3. 1)Chinni Krishnan was in the pharma business, and he
was his youngest son. After his father’s death in 1982,
the business was taken over by his elder brothers. He
went his own way, founded a new company to compete
with his brothers, naming the first product as well as
the company (the changed name in 1998) after his
father. In 1992, he overtook his brothers to become the
largest player in South India. Name the company and
the first product it launched.

4. ANSWER
• Cavin Kare and Chik Shampoo

5. 2) This painting by Georg von Rosen represents a certain mythological figure.
This manifestation of this character was acknowledged by a literary giant as
the inspiration for his own character. Identify both the mythical figure and the
character thus inspired

6. ANSWER
• Gandalf and Odin

7. 3)When Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned
by the British, he was made to shift to Kolkata
and live on a meagre pension from the
British. Accustomed to a regal lifestyle, he
found it difficult to maintain his eating habits
and as the story goes he made a modification
to his favourite dish, which explains its
current form. What aspect of Kolkata food
can be thus explained?

8. ANSWER
• Nawab’s favourite dish was Biriyani. Since it was difficult for him to
maintain his lifestyle he introduced Potatoes in the Biriyani and till
date biriyani of Kolkata has Aaloo in it

9. 4) Mother India was India’s submission to the
Oscars in 1958. Apart from making the film
shorter to satisfy the world audience, there
was also another change made to the pre-title
sequence of the movie, because the film
makers thought it would increase the chance
of their winning the Oscar. So what the
change that was made?

10. ANSWER
The hammer and sickle logo of Mehboob Studios was removed. They
didn’t want the judges to biased due to perceived communist leanings.

11. 5) This temple in Devadhanam, a locality in Trichy, is
dedicated to the deity shown below. This deity, however, is
also installed in a separate shrine close to the sanctum
sanctorum in a more well known form. The deity holds an axe,
symbolizing the destruction of all desires, a rope to indicate
his willingness to rescue anyone from the mire of vasanas,
and the lotus symbolizing that all can achieve the supreme
state of self-realization. This is the only temple, to the best of
our knowledge, where the faithful can worship this deity in
this form. ID this deity or the other form
PS: Picture in Next Slide

13. ANSWER
• Adivinayaka - The deity is Vinayaka (Ganesha) prior to getting his
elephant head

14. 6) In an electric guitar, a vibrating string is magnetized by a
fixed magnet within the pickup, inducing an alternating
voltage across its coils. However, wire coils pick up
electromagnetic interference and this is reproduced by the
pickups as a constant hum or buzz. This is eliminated by
another coil wound in the opposite direction. When the
signals from both coils are summed together, usually by
connecting the coils in series, the hum cancels out. What
have we just described, in layman terms?

16. ANSWER
• Humbucker or Humbucking Pickup

17. 7) On June 30, 1959, he landed at Delhi on an official tour, but
was received only by a Protocol officer since he had no official
government position.
His meeting with Nehru at Teen Murti Bhavan was warm but
peppered with conversational nuggets such as these: “Mr Prime
Minister, what is your opinion of Communist China?” Nehru
listened with an absent expression, and answered, “Mr
Comandante, have you tasted one of these delicious apples?”
“Mr Prime Minister, have you read Mao Tse-tung?” “Ah, Mr
Comandante, how pleased I am that you have liked the apples.”
The rest of his India travels were uneventful, but he is recorded
to have been gifted a Khukri by Nehru, to which he reciprocated
with a box of ______ _____. Who? What gift

18. ANSWER
• CUBAN CIGARS,CHE GUEVARA

19. 8) Whose debut film was an English Language film
“Epistle” released in 1961 ?
The film was produced by Shankar Giri, son of former
president of India V V Giri

20. ANSWER
• JAYALALITHA

21. 9) Names that came up were Neeru Deshpandey and Gunjan
Gundaniya, but Mayank Shah put all the folklore to rest.
“It's actually an illustration by an Everest creative back in the
60s. People have created their own stories about ______
and assigned names of their own accord and others just
caught onto them, a lethal combination of rumour and
grapevine.”
What is this all about?
It’s one of the largest selling products of the world, if the
number equivalent to its annual sales is kept end to end, 192
is the number of times it can go around the world. What ?

22. ANSWER
• PARLE-G KID

23. 10) It’s 45 foot tall and 350 feet long. It
was originally created in 1923 as an
advertisement for a local real estate
development company “_________”
Land, it was one of the largest
advertisement boards of that era. How
do we know it better ?

24. ANSWER
• HOLLYWOOD

25. 11)Name this tributary of Zaire river in Congo

26. ANSWER
EBOLA RIVER

27. 12) In 1938, Hungarian-born ____ László József
patented his invention for the first time in Paris, which
was named '___', after him. He filed a second patent
along with his brother György in 1943 for a newer,
improved version. These newer instruments were
widely distributed to pilots of of the Royal Air Force by
the British government. Argentina celebrates
Inventor's Day on September 29 every year in honor of
the inventor's birth anniversary. How do we know his
invention?

28. ANSWER
• Biro, inventor of ball point pens

29. 13)This is how it looks like from inside. What is it ?

30. ANSWER
• Darth Vader’s Mask

31. 14)The aviator you see was known to have pioneered first combat aircrafts which
had forward firing machine gun fitted to the aircraft’s wing called “Interrupter
Gear”.
How is the aviator immortalized in the world of sports.

32. ANSWER
• ROLLAND GARROS OR FRENCH OPEN

33. 15) Connect

34. ANSWER
• "PayPal Mafia" is a term used to indicate a group of
former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and
developed additional technology companies such as Tesla
Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp,
and Yammer.

35. THANK YOU