20170106 Indian Social Club - Grand Finale

1. INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHAR
THE GRAND FINAL
GUIDELINES/RULES:
1. 3 rounds of quizzing. Total 30 questions
2. Round 1 - Current Affairs/General round (10 questions). 5
clockwise and 5 counterclockwise.
3. Round 2 - Specialized topic round (10 questions). 5 clockwise
and 5 counterclockwise. A choice of 15 subjects shall be
displayed
4. Round 3 - Buzzer round (10 questions). Open to all teams on
the buzzer. Whoever hits the buzzer first, gets to answer.
No passing (except that it would go to the audience)

2. INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHAR
THE GRAND FINAL
5. Round 1 will not have negative marking. No passing as well to the
next team. Unanswered questions will go to the audience.
6. For round no. 2 (Specialized topics), on a direct question, a correct
answer would fetch 10 points, while an incorrect/pass answer will
not fetch any negative points. However, there is the option of a
pounce for the other teams. If there is a claim of pounce, the
concerned team shall raise a card (to alert the QM), write the
answer in the sheet provided and hand it over to the QM. On a
pounce, if the answer is correct, the team gets 10 points. However,
an incorrect/pass answer on a pounce shall attract -10 points.
Unanswered questions will go to the audience.

3. INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHAR
THE GRAND FINAL
7. For round no. 3, negative marking shall be applied. +10 for
a correct answer and -10 for an incorrect/pass answer.
8. Intermittently, audience questions would be posed to
audiences, where the first preference is given to children
and later, if unanswered, to the adults.

6. QUESTION 1
This is the photograph of a lady
called Sharmila Thakur. She was all
over the news channels for a very
peculiar reason, which she
recorded, during January/February
2016.
What was her claim to fame?

8. QUESTION 2
How does the world know the real name
of the author of these novels?

9. QUESTION 3
Identify the logo (picture is in
the next slide) of this
organization?

11. QUESTION 4
Whose titular
name is
blanked out
here?

12. QUESTION 5
Merriam-Webster Inc., were approached by Selchow and
Righter, the manufacturers of a particular brain game
(generally played indoors) to assist them in making
something, which is popularly coined as the OSPD, which
would be of extreme help for the players of this game, be it
referring or disputes.
The most recent edition of the OSPD was published on
August 6, 2014.
For which indoor game does this utility find extreme
importance and significance?

13. QUESTION 6
The Shanghai World Financial Center (pictures in the next
slide) is a supermall skyscraper located in the Pudong
district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn
Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company
with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural
engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corp
and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main
contractor.
How does this financial center be, more popularly, known
to the general public in the world?

15. QUESTION 7
Listerine Zero is one of the
variants from Listerine, which
is used specifically for this
market.
Why this variant and which
markets does this specifically
cater to?

16. QUESTION 8
Which fictional planet was first introduced thus,
in a particular issue (No. 246) of Action Comics

17. QUESTION 9
Robert Cornelius was an American pioneer and a lamp
manufacturer. He worked as a silversmith before opening a
lamp manufacturing company. Extremely fond of chemistry,
he worked for his father's business, specializing in silver
plating and metal polishing.
With his own knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy and
with the help of chemist Paul Beck Goddard, Robert
attempted to perfect the daguerreotype.
From the world we live in currently, what is this man (picture
overleaf) credited with the first of its kind?

19. QUESTION 10
The picture of this deity (next slide) was
taken at a place by name Kootanur, which
is located in the temple town in
Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu.
Identify this deity and what is so
special/unique about this statue in the
world?

21. AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

22. AUDIENCE QUESTION #1
This is a photograph
of Lord Pethick
Lawrence and
Gandhiji, taken on
April 18, 1946. Why
is it significant even
to this day?

24. ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #1
The obverse of the
photograph of the
Mahatma is used on
the Indian currency
notes, even till today

25. AUDIENCE QUESTION #2
According to University of Maryland:
It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed
of sound continuously for 31 hrs. from east to west and
carries a payload of 353,430 tons which is four times the
weight of the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner.
What are we talking about, whom we recollected around
the month of December?

27. ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #2
Santa Claus’ sleigh

28. AUDIENCE QUESTION #3
A "surveyor's chain” is a measuring device,
whose form will be familiar to students of civil
engineering even today.
It was first used in England in the late 17th
century primarily to help landowners measure
land. It has 100 metal links of equal length,
each of 7.92 inches. The legacy of this chain is
still preserved in a very different field.
How is it preserved, even to this date?

30. ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #3
To measure the length of cricket pitches.
792 inches = 66 feet = 22 yards.

34. On June 11, 1888, Lord Frederick Arthur _____________
was sworn in as the sixth Governor General of this
country, appointed by then England's reigning monarch,
Queen Victoria.
The sport, under subject, was in its very earliest stages of
its development, when Lord and Lady Frederick Arthur
and their children observed their first game on Feb. 4,
1889, which was a moment of epiphany for the royal
family.
Capt. Charles Colville, a former aid to Lord Frederick, was
instructed to use 10 guineas (US$50) to purchase this
trophy, which was a beautiful punchbowl (picture in the

36. The Great Charter of Liberties is a document agreed by
King John of England on June 15, 1215. It was first
drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace
between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons
(royal family members). However, since neither side
stood by the commitments due to which the First Barons'
War started. After the death of King John, his young son
Henry III, reissued the document in 1216, stripped (from
the old document) some of its more radical content to
suit to both sides, with an intention of historical peace.
How do we, better know this document, which celebrated
its 800th anniversary, back in November 2016?

37. Identify the amateur cricket team from this picture

38. This is the picture of a German
physicist, engineer and a glass
blower, by name Daniel Gabriel
__________.
What path-breaking invention,
which finds a wide range of
applications in the field of health,
weather, chemical reactions etc,
did he give to the world?

39. As far as world history is
concerned, back in 1952,
what is the significance of
this commemorative
plaque (Picture in the
next slide)?

41. This photograph
was taken at
Estadio Milton
Correa (Brazil),
popularly known
as Zerao. What is
its significance in
World Geography?

42. Identify the Nobel
Laureate (Pen
name: Andrew
Belis), in whose
memory, this coin
was issued

43. This is the photograph (next slide) of a
shipwreck involving Sea Venture on the
islands of Bermuda, which set sail from
Plymouth in June 1609. It is widely
believed that this shipwreck heavily
influenced a superb creation by a
litterateur-par-excellence.
What creation are talking about?

45. The Bollywood semi-blockbuster movie
Bombay to Goa, was a 1972 movie starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Aruna Irani in the lead
roles, while Shatrughan Sinha donning the
role of the antagonist.
Before NC Sippy approached Amitabh for
the lead role, which iconic personality,
known to Indians in a completely different
field, was offered the lead role?

46. What is the significance of this picture, from
the world of Hollywood?

47. Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your
Hands.
Which company’s tagline is this?

48. From the world of games
and gadgets, where would
one find the application
of this formula?

49. Considered as one of the most important financial
hubs in Eastern Europe, this capital city became a
single city occupying both banks of Danube (after
the unification of the East and West banks). This
city also boasts of the world's second oldest metro
in the world, after Moscow. It also has around 80
geothermal springs, the world's largest thermal
water cave system, world's first known bombing of a
hospital during a civil war and the third largest
Parliament building in the world.
Which capital city are we describing here?

50. In the past, politics have sometimes gotten in
the way of the Olympics. The games were
cancelled in 1940 because of World War II, and
the US boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
However, during the 2000 Sydney Olympics,
saw the athletes from these two neighboring
countries, marched together as a single nation
under one flag (Picture overleaf), even though
they split in half following a civil war in the
early 50s.
Which two Asian nations are we referring to?

52. This brand (which produces an edible item - loved by
children), was originally developed by P&G, who sold the
first product in 1967. Back in 2012, P&G sold the brand
to Kellogg's for $2.7 billion. There are varieties of
slogans, which are used to market this product, which
include:
Once you pop, the fun don't stop; Once you pop, you
can't stop.
The logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a
male figure (officially known as Julius), which was
designed by Louis R. Dixon, with a large moustache and
parted bangs. Which brand am I looking for?

53. QUESTION 21
Which world-famous organization created this
advertisement?

54. QUESTION 22
John Hargrove and his wife Rosalea started
Southern Maid Donuts in Dallas, Texas, in 1937.
Quickly, the donut craze spread throughout Texas
with stores opening all over the state.
Beginning in 1954, a young man from Memphis,
Tennessee, started playing his guitar at the Hayride
and was quickly introduced to Southern Maid
Donuts.
From the music world, who was this guitarist (Who
had an aircraft named after him)?

55. QUESTION 23
Which country had this currency in the past?

56. QUESTION 24
This edible flower plant derives its English name
from the eastern classical Arabic name
"Isfanakh". This edible flower plant was
introduced by the Arabs to Spain around 10th
century, from where it spread to the rest of
Europe and the rest of the world.
What edible flower plant are we describing
which has Arabic roots?

57. QUESTION 25
What is the particular significance of this postal
stamp, issued by the Govt. of Malaysia?

58. QUESTION 26
Back in mid-2013, the Manly library in
Sydney were moving books, of a
particular sportsperson, from facts
section to fiction section.
Which sportsperson are we referring to
and what was the main reason for such
a move?

59. QUESTION 27
Amongst all the sports in
the Olympics discipline,
which is the longest time-
taking event, in terms of
distance covered?

60. QUESTION 28
This is the photograph (next slide) of a Swedish inventor by
name Nils Bohlin, who was a mechanical engineer (1939).
He began his professional career (in 1942) with the aircraft
maker Saab, as an aircraft designer.
A recipient of the Ralph Isbrant Engineering Award (1974)
and a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering (1995), he was inducted to the Hall of Fame in
a particular field in 1999.
For what specific invention was he credited/recognized,
which we come across everyday in our lives?

62. QUESTION 29
What is the significance of this recent post in a social media page?
I came home
A little late
Someone had a bag packed for me
And a carriage awaited
Destination: Rome
To escort me to my very own "charming"
Back to where our stars first collided
And now it was full circle
At the same table we first met by chance
This time he made it not by chance
But by choice
Down on one knee
He said 4 words

63. QUESTION 30
This was a stamp issued
in his name by East
Germany, back in 1975.
Which world-famous
Frenchman whose,
164th death
anniversary, are we
remembering today?