A short quiz at the quiz club's weekly meet/

1. BVCOE Quiz Club
Weekly Quiz
Quizmasters: Surabhi Garhwal and Karthikeya Ramesh

2. Format :
• Pens and paper round
• All questions in AV
• +1/-0 for right/wrong.
• Part points depending on the Q and your A.
Rules :
1. The QM is always correct.
2. Remember Rule 1.

3. 1. Famous hoarding held up at whose funeral?
• “Maradona good, Pele better, ____________”

4. “George Best”

5. 2. Which word has been blanked out?
And who/what is it a reference to?

6. Mario Miranda

7. #3
• The company name is based on the surname
of the founder August Horch, his surname
meaning 'listen' in German - which, when
translated into Latin, becomes _______. FITB

8. • Audi

9. #4
• AV question : Identify the singer
• (Track played : Revival from AR Rahman’s
Vande Mataram album)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRPpSgR
qtRc

10. • AR Rahman himself, voice modulated to sound
like a female singer.

11. #5
• Which aircraft manufacturer has been
awarded the contract for the Indian Air Force’s
Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft? Also
name the specific make of aircraft.

12. Dassault Rafale

13. 6.Exhaustive connect. Chronologically
placed when taken clockwise.

14. Title Sponsors of Cricket ODI World
Cups
• Prudential : 1975-1983
• Reliance : 1987
• Benson & Hedges : 1991
• Wills : 1995
After 1995, the tournament has been known
simply as the ICC Cricket World Cup; they have
not had a title sponsor since.

15. #7
X, generally regarded as having been invented
in India by British Army officers, is popular in many of the
English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, with top
professional players attaining multi-million pound career
earnings from the game. The sport is now increasingly
popular in China.
The word X also has military origins, being a slang term for
first-year cadets or inexperienced personnel. One version of
events states that Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain of the
Devonshire regiment was playing this new game when his
opponent failed to ________ and Chamberlain called him a X.
It thus became attached to the ________ game now bearing
its name as inexperienced players were labelled as X.
Identify X.

16. Snooker

17. #8
Awards:-
• British House of Commons Shield, 1998
• Voted Homecoming San Dieguito High School, Class of
1999
• Named as one of 20 Asian Heroes by the Asia edition
of Time in 2004
• Nominated for a Grammy award in 2003 in the World Music
category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall. She was
the youngest-ever and first woman nominee in this category.
• In 2005 she was nominated for another Grammy, in the Best
Contemporary World Music category for her fourth album
RISE.
Identify the person who has been awarded as mentioned above.

18. Anoushka Shanker

19. #9
The show was first launched on radio in 1972. It
was anchored by Hamid Sayani, a well-known talk
show host. Four years later, his brother Ameen
took over upon Hamid's death. It was launched on
Zee TV in 1992, completing a transition from radio
to the visual medium. In 2000, the show shifted to
Sony TV. After a few years of waning viewer
interest, the show was taken down briefly; only to
make a comeback to the small screen in 2011.
This followed an intense public campaign, largely
organized on Facebook, to bring the programme
back on TV (pic on next slide).
Which programme?

20. (contd) The online campaign poster.

22. #10
• "A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life - that's me"
that is how he used to introduce himself.
• He is the second Indian to get his doctorate in English literature from
Cambridge.
• Nominated to the Indian Rajya Sabha in 1966 and received the Sahitya
Akademi award three years later.
• In 1976 he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan for his immense
contribution to Hindi literature.
• He was also honoured with the Saraswati Samman, the Sovietland Nehru
Award and the Lotus Award of the Afro-Asian writers’ conference, for his
unique contribution to the world of letters.
• His next generation became even more famous, but in a different field.
• Who are we talking about?

23. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

24. 11. Ad for?

25. Monster.com
‘Caught in the wrong job?’

26. 12. Who is awarded the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup?

27. The winner of the Australian
Open women’s singles title.

28. #13
• The very first company to offer ___________ was the St.
Lawrence Agency in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The
company says that it has paid out at least two claims. The
company pays the claimant $1 per year until their death or
for 1 million years, whichever comes first.
• Over 20,000 people have purchased the insurance. The
insurance is normally purchased by the "feeble-
minded", according to Simon Burgess. Prominent
policyholders have included Shirley MacLaine.
• On a more bizarre note, the Heaven's Gate religious group
had purchased ___________ before their mass suicide.
• “Let’s face it,” said Burgess, “insurance is so tedious that if
I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humour every
now and again, I will."
• What?

29. Alien Abduction Insurance

30. 14. This panel has been photoshopped.
What is the significance of the edited part?

31. How Bruce Wayne ended up choosing the Bat as his symbol

32. 15. Group of forty five youth recruits of the Indian National
Army who were sent to the __________ to train as fighter
pilots in 1944. What were they known as?

33. The Tokyo Boys