2017 Defence Quiz at Kozhikode - Finals

 4 ROUNDS
 1 Infinite Bounce/Pounce – 12 questions
 1Written Round – 8 questions
 1 Infinite Bounce/Pounce – 12 questions
 1Written Round – 8 questions

 INFINITE BOUNCE/POUNCE
 12 questions
 10/-5 on Pounce

 The term has been used for centuries to describe a
fast-paced battle between two or more opponents.
The term gained popularity during WorldWar II
although its origin in air combat can be traced to the
latter years ofWorldWar I.
 The first written reference to the modern day usage
of the word comes from Fly Papers, by
A. E. Illingworth, in 1919, “The battle develops into a X
small groups of machines engaging each other in a
fight to the death.”
 Identify the term.

 Admiral Sergey Gorshkov was a Soviet naval
officer during the ColdWar who oversaw the
expansion of the Soviet Navy into a global
force.He was appointedCommander-in-Chief of
the Soviet Navy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956,
and under Leonid Brezhnev oversaw a massive
naval build-up of surface and submarine forces,
creating a force capable of challengingWestern
naval power by the late 1970s.

 Formerly named as AdmiralGorshkov before
India purchased it.

 It is a giant sequoia tree located in the Giant
Forest of Sequoia National Park inTulare County,
in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the
largest known living single stem tree on Earth.
 It was named after theAmericanCivilWar general
WilliamTecumseh _______ , in 1879 by naturalist
JamesWolverton, who had served as a lieutenant
in the 9th IndianaCavalry under the namesake.
 Name the tree.(Just his surname will do)

 These animals are used in military applications
by the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program.
These include detecting underwater landmines
and equipment recovery.They can be highly
useful as they can reach places inaccessible to
human divers.They can dive to 1,000 feet and
swim up to 25 miles per hour in short bursts.
They can also swim silently in the water.
 What animals?

 It was invented to be part of Military uniform (American air-
combat-wear).Then it went through phases-hipster to
street.Now it has sneaked into corporate wear because of
changing mindsets and open work environments.
 What is it called?

 They include several groups of indigenous people of
the Pacific Northwest in the United States and in the
early 19th century they resided along the lower and
middle Columbia River, now areas of present-day
Oregon and Washington. In 1805 the Lewis and Clark
Expedition encountered the tribe on the lower
Columbia.
 Lends their name to an entity designed and initially
produced by BoeingVertol in the early 1960s; it is now
produced by Boeing Rotorcraft Systems.
 What am I talking about?

 Introduced in 1941,X’s period advertising called it “The
World’s MostWanted Pen,” a slogan alluding to
restrictions on production of pens for the civilian
market in the United States duringWorldWar II. X's
continued advertising during the war created a
demand that took several years to fulfill after the end
of the conflict.
 The pen was not named after the ___ Mustang fighter
plane; but X took advantage of the coincidence by
comparing the pen and the plane in its advertising.

 The traditional explanation of the source of the
metal from which the medals are struck is that it
derives from Russian cannon captured at
the Siege of Sevastopol. Some research has
suggested a variety of origins for the
material.Research has established that the
metal for most of the medals made since
December 1914 came from two Chinese
cannonsthat were captured from the Russians
in 1855.

 This was a military action by the British Sutherland Highlanders
93rd (Highland) Regiment at the Battle of Balaklava on 25
October 1854, during the Crimean War.In this incident, the 93rd,
aided by a small force of 100 walking wounded, 40 detached
Guardsmen, and someTurkish infantrymen, led by Sir Colin
Campbell, routed a Russian cavalry charge.

 The phrase was further popularised by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem "Santa
Filomena":
 Lo! in that house of misery
 A _____ ___ __ _____ I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
 And flit from room to room.

 Florence Nightingale for her services during
the CrimeanWar.

 Carl Diem devised the idea when a particular event
was organized by the Nazi Party under the guidance
of Joseph Goebbels.The process was ratified by the
chief organizing body and is continued ever
since.Diem and the organizing team realized that
there would need to be very detailed plans in order to
successfully complete the process to a standard that
would satisfy both themselves and the rulingThird
Reich.. Research was therefore required into the
specialist technologies that would be needed.
 What was thus devised by Carl Diem?

 8 questions
 10 points each
 10 points bonus for 7-8 right answers.
 Topic :- Films

 According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in human
geography at the Royal Holloway University of
London, the word 'first' appears in the Domesday
Book in the late 1000's to describe parcels of land
that lie just beyond the London city walls.
 The name is shared by a 1987 film and it basic
plotline (undercover policeman falls in love with
prime suspect's sister and cannot bring himself to
make an arrest) is frequently cited as inspiring the
film The Fast and the Furious.

 Bomber jacket sales increased and Ray-Ban
Aviator sunglasses jumped 40%, due to their use
by characters in the film.
 The film also had boosted Navy recruitment.The
Navy had recruitment booths in some theaters
to attract enthusiastic patrons.
 Which film?

 X is a 2016 American
comedy-drama film
written and directed by
Dan Kwan and Daniel
Scheinert, starring Paul
Dano, Daniel Radcliffe,
and Mary Elizabeth
Winstead.

 X is a small-arms projectile consisting of a
soft core (often lead) encased in a shell of
harder metal, such as gilding metal,
cupronickel, or less commonly a steel alloy. In
military nomenclature, it is often labeled ball
ammunition.
 Lends its name to this 1987 film.

 Many WorldWar II veterans stated that the film
was the most realistic depiction of combat they
had ever seen.The film was so realistic that
combat veterans of D-Day andVietnam left
theaters rather than finish watching the opening
scene depicting the Normandy invasion.Their
visits to posttraumatic stress disorder counselors
rose in number after the film's release, and many
counselors advised "'more psychologically
vulnerable'" veterans to avoid watching it.

 The filming of the bridge explosion was to be done
on 10 March 1957, in the presence of S.W.R.D.
Bandaranaike, then Prime Minister of Ceylon, and
a team of government dignitaries. However,
cameraman Freddy Ford was unable to get out of
the way of the explosion in time, and Lean had to
stop filming.The train crashed into a generator on
the other side of the bridge and was wrecked. It
was repaired in time to be blown up the next
morning.

 Eddie Ray Routh was a 25-year-old U.S. Marine
Corps veteran from Lancaster,Texas.
 X and his friend Chad Littlefield had reportedly
taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help
him with his post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Routh had been in and out of mental
hospitals for at least two years and had been
diagnosed with schizophrenia.
 Later X and Littlefield, were shot and killed by
Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Ranch-
Lodge-Resort shooting range.

 In India, the Bhartiya Janata Party demanded a ban
on the film, accusing it of showing falsehood and
indulging in character assassination of X. As an
example, the BJP spokesman stated that the film
shows X visiting the house of a prostitute.[
 The Samajwadi Party leader Uday Pratap Singh
called in the Rajya Sabha for the movie to be
banned for its "inaccurate portrayal" of X.
 The Uttar Pradesh government criticised the film
for "distortion" of historical facts, and considered
banning it.

 SAME RULES AS FIRST ROUND.

 A two worded term coined to describe the reaction of
some soldiers inWorldWar I to the trauma of battle. It is
reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting
that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic
and being scared, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep,
walk or talk.

 He was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously
awarded with the ParamVir Chakra,India's highest and
prestigious award for valour, for his actions during the
1999 KargilWar in Kashmir between India and
Pakistan. He led one of the toughest operations in
mountain warfare in Indian history. He was often
called as ‘'Sher Shah'’ in the intercepted messages of
the Pakistan army.

 An FUQ :The slogan has its origins as a commercial
slogan for Pepsi advertisement in 1998,at JWT by
Anuja Chauhan who eventually becameVice
President and Executive Creative Director at JWT,
Delhi, and author of books like,The Zoya Factor
(2008).Thereafter it soon gained mass popularity,
and became a battle slogan and rallying cry, first
used by Capt.Vikram Batra, an officer of the Indian
Army, during the 1999 KargilWar and widely
reported in the media.
 What slogan?

 In mid-1918, he attempted to join the United
States Army to fight against the Germans,
but he was rejected for being too young.
After forging the date of birth on his birth
certificate, he joined the Red Cross in
September 1918 as an ambulance driver.
 Who?

 The Rajput Regiment (war cry: “Bol Bajrang Bali ki
jai!”)
 The Punjab Regiment (“Boley so nihaal, Sat Sri Akal!”)
 The Madras Regiment (“Veer Madrassi adi kollu, adi
kollu, adi kollu!”)
 The Maratha Light Infantry (“Bol Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj ki jai!”)
 The Dogra Regiment (“Jawala Mata ki jai!”)
 Gorkha Rifles (“Ayo Gorkhali!”)
 Jat Regiment (“Jat balwan, jai Bhagwan!”)
 The Kumaon Regiment’s (“Kalika Mata ki jai!”)
 How does the war cry of the Mahar regiment stand
out in perspective of all the above war cries?

 General KSThimayya was a distinguished soldier of the
Indian Army who served as Chief ofArmy Staff from 1957
to 1961 in the crucial years leading up to the conflict with
China in 1962. Gen.Thimayya was the only Indian to
command an Infantry brigade in battle during the Second
WorldWar and is regarded as the most distinguished
combat officer the Indian Army has produced.
 After his retirement from theArmy, he was appointed
Commander of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force
in X from July 1964 to December 1965 and died in X while
on active duty on 18th Dec 1965.

 He was one of the passengers in Air India's first
ever flight – toTokyo – in November 1960. On 8
November 1960, he was having a meal in a
restaurant inTokyo with a friend, an officer in the
Indian Navy. A piece of food lodged in his
windpipe, choking him to death.The next day his
body was flown to PalamAirport, New Delhi, and
on 10 November 1960 he was cremated with full
military honours. He was paid a final tribute with a
fly-past of forty nine aircraft, one for each of his
forty nine years.

 An X is a sweet, hard tack biscuit, popular in
Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled
oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking
soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated
coconut.
 It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by
wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients
do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well
during naval transportation.Todaym they are
manufactured commercially for retail sale.

 What word has been blanked out?
 This is a pun on the founding director of RAW’s
name and aAmerican group of people.

 The administrative headquarters of the NDA was
named the _____ _____, in honour of the sacrifices of
Indian soldiers in the _____ theatre during the East
African Campaign. It was inaugurated by then
Ambassador of _____ to India, Rahmatullah Abdulla,
on 30 May 1959.The building is a 3-storey basalt and
granite structure constructed with Jodhpur red
sandstone. Its architecture features an exterior
design comprising a blend of arches, pillars and
verandahs, topped by a dome.

 Savitri Khanolkar thought of the sage Dadhichi – a
vedic rishi who made the ultimate sacrifice to the
Gods. He gave up his body so that the Gods could
fashion a deadly weapon – aVajra, or thunderbolt,
from his spine. Savitribai gave Major General Hira
Lal Atal, the design of the doubleVajra, common
inTibet. It is a myth that it also carries images of
the fearless warrior king Shivaji's sword Bhavani
but this is a popular perpetuated myth.

 Major Somnath Sharma - was the first
recipient of the ParamVir Chakra (PVC),
India's highest military decoration.
 Coincidentally, the first PVC was awarded to
her elder daughter's brother-in-law Major
Som Nath Sharma.

 The obverse of the medal depicts the head of a
young QueenVictoria and bears the inscription
Victoria Regina.The reverse shows a helmeted
Britannia holding a wreath in her right hand and a
union shield on her left arm. She is standing in front
of a lion.The words "India 1857-1858" are inscribed
on the reverse of the medal.The ribbon is white with
two scarlet stripes.
 Identify the medal.
 Which is the only School to have received this
honour?This is the only school in the world to have
been awarded royal battle honours.

 X is a method of warfare whereby an attacking
force spearheaded by a dense concentration of
armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry
formations with close air support, breaks through
the opponent's line of defence by short, fast,
powerful attacks and then dislocates the
defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle
them.
 X means ‘LightingWar’ in German.

 8 questions
 10 points each
 Topic :-Weapons

 X is an explosive charge placed within one or
several connected tubes. It is used by combat
engineers to clear obstacles that would
otherwise require them to approach directly,
possibly under fire.
 X is named after an Indian city.

 IT is a brass musical instrument several feet in
length which incorporates telescopic tubing
like the trombone. From its start within a
lipreed mouthpiece the air column expands
into a wide length of pipe which slides freely
around a narrower length of pipe which itself
terminates in a widely flaring bell.
 Which weapon is named after this musical
instrument?

 He never claimed to have invented the X; his design
was a more practical adaption of Collier's earlier
revolving flintlock incorporating a locking bolt to
keep the cylinder in line with the barrel.The invention
of the percussion cap made ignition more reliable,
faster, and safer than the older flintlock design. His
great contribution was to the use of interchangeable
parts. Knowing that some parts were made by
machine, he envisioned that all the parts on every X
to be interchangeable and made by machine, later to
be assembled by hand.

 Expanding bullets were given the name X, after an
early British example produced in the X Arsenal,
near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville Bertie-
Clay.There were several expanding bullets
produced by this arsenal for the .303 British
cartridge, including soft point and hollow point
designs.These were not the first expanding bullets,
however; hollow point expanding bullets were
commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in
express rifles as early as the mid-1870s.

 He began designing the gun shortly after the
founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab-IsraeliWar. In
1951, it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense
Forces and was named after its creator. He did not
want the weapon to be named after him but his
request was ignored. In 1955, he was decorated
withTzalash HaRamatkal and in 1958, he was the
first person to receive the Israel Security Award,
presented to him by Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion for his creation.

 _____ is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by
James Black in the early 19th century for Jim _____ who
had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel
known as the Sandbar Fight. Since the first incarnation, the
_____ knife has come to incorporate several recognizable
and characteristic design features, although in common
usage the term refers to any large sheath knife with a
crossguard and a clip point.

 The term dates back to the end of the 16th
century, but it is not clear whether at the time
they were knives that could be fitted to the ends
of firearms, or simply a type of knife. For
example, Cotgrave's 1611 Dictionarie describes it
as "a kind of small flat pocket dagger, furnished
with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle".
Likewise, Pierre Borel wrote in 1655 that a kind of
long-knife was made in a certain French city and
hence the name.

 Expanding bullets were given the name X, after an
early British example produced in the Dum Dum
Arsenal, near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville
Bertie-Clay.There were several expanding bullets
produced by this arsenal for the .303 British
cartridge, including soft point and hollow point
designs.These were not the first expanding bullets,
however; hollow point expanding bullets were
commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in
express rifles as early as the mid-1870s.

 He began designing the gun shortly after the
founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab-IsraeliWar. In
1951, it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense
Forces and was named after its creator. He did not
want the weapon to be named after him but his
request was ignored. In 1955, he was decorated
withTzalash HaRamatkal and in 1958, Gal was the
first person to receive the Israel Security Award,
presented to him by Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion for his creation.

 The first Uzi submachine gun was designed
by Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s.

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