Saavishkar School quiz 2017

SAAVISHKAR SCHOOL
QUIZ 2017
RAJAGIRI SCHOOL OF ENGG & TECH
BY SHIBIN AZAD

 Prelims
 25 questions
 Top 6 teams into the finals

 1)* Which will become the first Indian breed of dog to
serve in the Indian Army? It was called Caravan Hound as
it was used by traders on the Silk Route. They were also
called Maratha hounds as they were also used by the
army of Shivaji. This dog variety was initially bred by
Ghorpade kings of the erstwhile Kingdom of ______ (now
in Bagalkot, North Karnataka).

 2) The stamp shows ‘War-paroe’, a small craft manned by 30-40 men
which could be rowed through lagoons and narrow waters. To
commemorate, which group of individuals did India post release this
stamp?

 3) India is planning to send a solar mission to study and
image the sun. The 1500 kg satellite will be developed by
ISRO with collaboration from Indian Institute of
Astrophysics in Bengaluru. What is the name of this
mission?

 4) In the GI list of Directorate General of Patents, state of
Karnataka has the highest number of GI products. Which
Indian state do not have a single entry in the list? It was
one of the more recent states to have been formed.

 5) Lotte was founded in June 1948 in Tokyo, by Korean
businessman Shin Kyuk-ho. He named the company after
a character, Charlotte from a novel that he read. The
company recently bought Havmor’s icecream business to
expand in India. Which is their most famous brand in India
that has 90 percent of the market share in its segment?

 6)* Who wrote this book in
1889? He later went on to
become the 26th President
of US from 1901-1909.

 7) This was originally used to store pocket watches by
cowboys. Although, they are now no longer used for that
purpose, they are still a part of something that we use
very regularly. What am I talking about?

 Small pocket in jeans
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-0GgbWvsAQ

 8) After the US Congress passed the federal Food, Drug
and Cosmetic Act, Adams thought he could sell a lot more
extracts and dyes, and figured that a specifically coloured
cake would be the way to do it. This was popularized by
the 1989 film Steel Magnolias and saw a surge in
popularity in Kerala after the release of a 2015 film.
What?

 Red Velvet Cake
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-G1o0mSCJo

 9) Known as Ernie for short - he was launched at MCC’s Spirit of Cricket
day. He is the mascot of which ongoing bilateral tournament?

 10) Kanthalloor Shala or Sarva Chattanamadam, arguably,
in the vicinity of Valiyasala, beside the Killi river, is the
oldest educational institution in South India. It was known
as X of the south. X is situated in Modern day Bihar and
was granted the status of an UNESCO World Heritage site
in 2016. X?

 11) Hrithik Roshan is seen with the man, whose life he will portray on the
silver screen and will be directed by Vikas Behl. Identify the man in the
picture or what has the movie been tentatively titled?

 12) Which upcoming film’s first look is being launched by
Jytohika and Suriya?

 13) What is this contraption on display at a museum in Washington DC?

 14)* This term in Italian means ‘all fruits’. In India, it refers to candied raw
Papaya, always cubical and brightly coloured. What am I talking about?
This range of jewellery by Cartier is named after it.

 15) This is the cover of
the autobiography of film
star Upendra and is titled
“Idanna Odbedi”. What
does the title mean? If
people took it in a literal,
it would not augur well
for the sale of the book.

 16)* Which American robotics company manufactured this bipedal
humanoid robot named Atlas?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRj34o4hN4I

 17) Panna is a street soccer game played between two people as shown in
the video featuring Kevin de Bruyne. A game lasts for 3 minutes and
players can score goals in the meantime. But, doing a particular trick
before that will end the game and the person who has successfully
executed it will be declared the winner. What trick should one do to win?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yNeBuDaO8

 18) She won gold in the 75 kg category at the 2016 South Asian Games.
Id her or tell me what first did she went on to achieve recently?

 Kavita Devi, First woman from India to sign for WWE

 19)* What is the name of this art form? According to legend, it was performed at
the request of Bhadrakali who could not witness Ravana's killing as she was
fighting the demon Darika. It is a combination of three words.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYh1fzsmgE

 20) Which species of Shark found in the Arctic waters, was found to be the
longest living vertebrate? It beat the bowhead whale, one of which was
found to have reached 211 years.

 21) During its inauguration in 1968, youth from 124
different nations and 23 Indian states, deposited a
handful of their native soil into the Urn, a marble-clad
structure in the form of a symbolic lotus bud.
 One of its charter says that “it will be the place of an
unending education, of constant progress, and a youth
that never ages”.
 Which is this place?

 22) Siberian, Sumatran, Bengal, South China, Malayan and
Indo China are different species of which animal?

 23) On 22 November, Aakash Institute brought out front
page ads in major newspapers across the country,
congratulating a 2015 batch student for becoming an
inspiration to millions of students and has reinstated the
hope that if you believe you can, you will. Who was this
student?

 24) Aero Spacelines, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer which made
a name for itself by converting Boeing 377 solely for transporting oversized
cargo such as space exploration vehicles. They produced 3 types of such
airlines-Pregnant, Mini and Super. After which fish was they named after?

 25) What tongue-twisting name has been given to the
latest film of Vineeth Srinivasan, after ‘Oru Cinemakaran’?
It will see him feature alongside Anu Sithara. Vineet
Srinivasan revealed that ‘someone’ named Sekharankutty
is the hero the movie.

 Infinite Pounce and Bounce
 Clockwise
 12 Questions
 +10 on bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

 1) When the Bonn
Conference on climate
change was held recently, a
Danish artist by the name
Jens Galschiot set up the
sculpture called
‘Unbearable’, which
showed a polar bear
impaled on a steel oil
pipeline. What did the
curvature of the steel pipe
in the sculpture signify?

 CO2 graph curve from 1950 to 2017

 2) Which company has build a drone by the name ‘Aquila’, which means
Eagle in Latin to beam internet from the sky?

 3) The image shows
Mohammed Kaif and
Virender Sehwag promoting
an upcoming Ice Cricket
tournament to be held in
Switzerland. What has been
blanked out in the image?
The blanked out part is the
name of a city which has
been called ‘cradle of winter
sports’ and is one of the three
cities to have hosted the
Winter Olympics twice, once
in 1928 and then again in
1948.

 4) This site houses the Satgraha, a group of seven ancient temples, remains of a
Buddhist stupa, five other temples and havelis scattered around a pond
considered holy by Hindus. The pond is believed to have been formed after lord
Shiva wept upon the death of his wife Satti. The name of the site itself is derived
from Kataksha, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘tearful eyes’. What is the name of the
temple?

 Katas Raj Temple, in Pakistan

 5) Who in 1772 showed that Diamond was comprised solely of
Carbon? He used an instrument that focused the Sun’s rays using
lenses which had a diameter of about four feet, to burn diamond in a
glass jar. He was sentenced to death on a guillotine during the French
Revolution.

 6) Which Dutch artist
draw this image of
Jahangir receiving an
envoy based on some
Mughal miniature
paintings that he saw?

 Clue
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQGnVrTsAM

 7) Gruen Transfer or Gruen effect is the name of ‘scripted disorientation’
wherein places are intentionally designed to make people lose track of
time by removing clocks and windows. The lack of windows prevent views
of the outside world. The name is given after Victor Gruen, an architect.
What is he credited with first designing or tell me, where will we
encounter this effect?

 8) Which upcoming movie’s teaser spoofed this video on painting by
Bob Ross?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n4f-VDjOBE

 Deadpool 2
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvFjyAwHxI

 9) Ram V Sutar is an Indian
sculptor who was awarded the
Padma Bhushan in 2016 and is the
one who designed the Unity statue
of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He
also made the statue of Mother
Chambal along with her ‘two sons’
near Gandhi Sagar dam. Who are
these two sons?

 Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh

 10) Filmmaker Jan van Ijken’s documentary, The Art of Flying, captures the
hypnotic movements of hundreds of thousands of these birds flying
in massive flocks that appear to be completely random and chaotic, but
miraculously, not a single mid-air collision ever occurs. How are they
known as?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY

 11) A survey by the local government authorities found that there
2224 of them were left in the city. Many of them were stolen and
sold at auctions at different places across the globe. In which city
will you find this manhole covers and what is the design on the
manhole covers based on?

 Chandigarh
 The design is based on the master plan for Chandigarh

 12) A patch of trash in the Pacific Ocean has grown to the size of France. So the
environmental charity Plastic Oceans Foundation has paired up with the news
and entertainment publication LadBible to campaign for it to be recognized as an
official country. Who signed up as the country’s first citizen? The country ‘Trash
Isles’ has submitted an application to be recognized as the 196th country to the
United Nations. The person in question won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for
his work as an environmentalist.

 6 Questions based on Google Doodles
 Scientists and Mathematicians
 10 for each correct answer

 When Google decided to honour Shakuntala Devi, they
used the upside down image of numbers on a calculator
to spell Google. What was the number?

 Please exchange your answer sheets

 Infinite Bounce and Pounce Anti-Clockwise
 +10 on the bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

 1) Under what name does Richard Handler writes book for children?
 Some of the books he has written under that pseudonym are
 Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012)
 When Did You See Her Last? (2013)
 Shouldn't You Be In School? (2014)
 Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015)

 2) What item from a town that gets its name from
Narasimha Pallavan(AD 638-668), who was also known as
Maha Mallan(a great wrestler), got a GI tag along with
Rosogolla in 2017?

 3) What is this species of apes called?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdnwLX5m3G8

 4) What is the title of this song by Nirvana? It is the same as the
lightest metal and lightest solid metal.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg

 5) Since the architect was concerned about the protests
against his creation, he inscribed the names of 72 people
on it. The list includes Scientists, Engineers and
Mathematicians including Ampere, Coulumb, Laplace etc.
Which is this creation, that is third in a certain list headed
by Milla Viaduct and a Military Communication tower?

 6) Identify the actress from the clip or tell me why is she in news
now?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-jveh7yj5E

 7) Norphel, is known as the Ice Man or The Glacier man of
India. He has inspired many people to make artificial
glaciers. The Ice Stupa Project undertaken in 2013 by
another Ladakhi engineer, Sonam Wangchuk, at Phyang
village, where the frozen water takes the shape of a
conical stupa before melting for disbursal during the
cultivation season, is one such. Which character from a
2009 Hindi movie did Sonam inspire?

 Phunsuk Wangdu from 3 idiots

 8) Which subatomic particle gets its name from the Greek
word meaning ‘first’?

 9) Giant African pouched variety of this animal is being
trained by a non-profit group Apopo to help the army as
well the doctors for two entirely different purposes. The
animal makes use of its very acute sense of smell for both
the purposes. Which animal is this and what are the
purposes for which it is used?

 Rats, to detect landmines and tuberculosis
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH5h4wsaaGI

 10) In addition to being a
genius, he was a bit of a
fashionista, coming up with a
'new, original and
ornamental' shirt. A
sleeveless, sort-of-waistcoat
affair, it has two sets of
buttons so you can adjust its
size around the girth – handy
if you’ve just eaten a big
meal. Who patented this
invention?

 11) Amol Yadav, a resident of Mumbai, sold his house and
spent Rs. 4 crore to build a six-seater airplane on a
rooftop of a building in Kandivali. In 2016, it was put on
display at an exhibition under the Make in India scheme.
But the permission for a test flight eluded him. He
eventually got the permission and named it VT-NMD after
two persons, which he felt were the most instrumental in
realizing his dream. Who were these two persons?

 Narendra Modi and Devendra Fadnavis

 12) What nickname did Sarojini Naidu gave Mahatma
Gandhi because of his ‘larger than usual’ ears?

 Differential Scoring Round
 If only 1 team gets it, +15
 2-3 teams, 12.5
 4-5 teams, 10
 All 6, 5 points each

 Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conducted this
test using dolls and a tiny recreation of a board. This effort
led the dolls to sink. But, when they themselves subjected
them to the test, they found that if one of them had taken
their life vests off and use it for extra buoyancy, then they
both could have survived. What were they trying to
prove?

 That Jack died needlessly in Titanic
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgkvaDHmto

 Identify the occasion for which these images were projected on
to the Louvre museum in France.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyKGxpyZSFQ

 Opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi

 On the promotion tour after the
launch of his new book, Satya
Nadella asked of the people
present there "Don't Be a
Know-It-All, Be a Learn-It-All“.
What is the title of his latest
book?

 After watching the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. in
London, who called Satyajit Ray to inform him that the
there were many similarities between the movie and ‘The
Alien’, a script written by Satyajit Ray? Ray had taken the
script to Hollywood on his recommendations. The person
discovered the underwater ruins of the
ancient Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

 Max Deutsch is a 24 year old who challenged himself to a series of monthly tasks
that were ambitious bordering on absurd. He memorized the order of a shuffled
deck of cards. He sketched an eerily accurate self-portrait. He solved a Rubik’s
Cube in 17 seconds. He developed perfect musical pitch and landed a standing
back-flip. He studied enough Hebrew to discuss the future of technology for a
half-hour. Max, a self-diagnosed obsessive learner, wanted his goals to be so
lofty that he would fail to reach some. At that, he failed. Max was 11-for-11.
What was his 12th task, in which he eventually failed?

 Thank You
 Shibin Azad
 shibinazad@gmail.com
 9847282247

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