ADITYA MEMORIAL SCHOOL QUIZ FINALS 2017

QMs - ANIRUDHA & BIVASH
GRAND FINALE

RULES
• SPOT YOUR NUMBER
Take your pick from a grid of 20 questions; divided into to
halves by two other rounds
• OH THE ODDS!!
Pick the correct choices from a given list.
• RAPID FIRE
5 questions to be answered in 30seconds. 10 points for each
correct crack

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8
Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12
Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16
Q17 Q18 Q19 Q20
QZ1 OH THE ODDS TIE BREAK QZ2

Q1
• The movement for Gorkhaland is gearing up and this region is a major region
in the proposed Gorkhaland.
• The name of this place is believed to mean
"Assembly (or Stockade) of the King's
Ministers" in Tibetan. It may be derived
from the translation "ridge where we play”
from Lepcha, as it was known to be the
place for traditional tribal gatherings for
summer sporting events. Another possible
derivation points to Kaulim, a fibrous plant
found in abundance in the region.
• Give us the name of the region.

Q2
• Satyananda was born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., in an American
Quaker family. In 1904, aged 22, Samuel came to India to work at a
leper colony in Shimla. In 1912, he married a local Rajput girl,
purchased a chunk of farmland and settled there.
• Samuel applied himself to improving the farmland he had
purchased. In the year 1916, he realised the climate of the region
could help the cut exports, promote indigenisation nad in turn
bolster the economy of the local people.
• What did he do which helped the people and later became a
symbol of the Nation’s pride?

Introduced Apples to Himachal Pradesh
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Q3
• Gal Potha or the Stone Book – Polonnaruwa is actually a long inscription but
from a distance looks like a giant book.
• It talks about the X origins of King Vijaybahu and his story of his becoming
the king. And then it talks about the taxes he reduced along with tax rates.
Taxes reduced with the distance of fields from the water tank – interesting!
• It talks about the virtues of the king. His hefty donations, the repair works
carried out at various stupas, his friendly alliance with many kingdoms of
India.
• In the end, it says: X are the rightful heirs of the throne of Sri Lanka.
Therefore, non-Buddhist kings like Cholas and Pandyas shall not be
consecrated in Sri Lanka.
• What is X ?

Q4
• A synchrotron is a large machine that accelerates electrons to almost the
speed of light. There are about a hundred synchrotrons in the world but only
one in the Middle East.
• In a rare show of solidarity Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan
and Palestine came together 20 years ago to build the only such facility and
succeeded recently. It is named Synchrotorn –light for Experimental Science
and Applications in the Middle East. The reason for choosing such a name
apart from the scientific connotations is that it signals a new era of
collaborative science wherein the potential treasure and “richness” of science
is “unlocked” , “discovered” and utilised.
• So what serves as the inspiration for naming it thus?

SESAME – Synchrotorn for Experimental
Science and Applications in the Middle East
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Q5
• These paintings were created in most schools of India painting,
starting in the 16th and 17th centuries and are today named
accordingly, as Pahari, Rajasthan or Rajput, Deccan , and Mughal .In
these painting each X is personified by a colour, mood, a verse
describing a story of a hero and heroine (nayaka and nayika), it also
elucidates the season and the time of day and night in which a
particular X is to be demonstrated or performed; and finally most
paintings also demarcate the specific Hindu deities attached with
the X, like Bhairava or Bhairavi to Shiva, Sri to Devi etc.
• What are these styles of paintings known as?

Q6
• The medal was issued in Gold for the highest dignitaries who were
associated with the campaign as well as select officers on general
duty, Silver for other dignitaries, field officers and other staff
officers,in Copper-Bronze for the non-commissioned officers and
in tin for the privates.
• On the reverse it had a fresco of the storming of the fort while the
obverse showed, in the words of a nineteenth century work on
medals, the following words 'ASSUD OTTA-UL GHAULIB', signifying
the Lion of God is the conqueror, or the conquering Lion of God.
• Who were the two parties involved in this war?

BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY & KINGDOM OF MYSORE
SERINGAPATTAM MEDAL
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Q7
• The X agency was established in 1851 by Paul Julius
X in Britain at the London Royal Exchange.
• He worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and
was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the
beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These
publications caught his attention.
• He later developed a prototype news service in 1849
in which he used electric telegraphy and very ancient
yet effective form of message sending by aviary
means.
• The company initially covered commercial news,
serving banks, brokerage houses and business firms.
• Id X.

Q8
• These were banned in New York in 1961 and the city claimed that
there was an outbreak of Hepatitis B, while others suspected it was
because the city wanted to clean up before the 1964 World’s Fair.
• However these had been a very coherent part of the nation’s culture
even before the settlement of Europeans. Even the sailors of the
place used it for personal identification certification in case a dispute
rose. When the government launched the social security numbers
and asked the people to keep it safe people again used this to keep it
safe with them at all times?
• Finally the ban on these was lifted in 1997.What are we talking of ?

Q9
• When you hear patent you might think “invention,” but there is also a
design patent, which serves to allow the owner to “exclude others
from making, using, or selling the design.”
• A very famous design patent USD11023 was granted on Feb 18 , 1879
which expired after 14 years, and included a beautiful and poetic
description of the then-unfinished design. The patent contained a
“slew of possible ways to reproduce the design. It covered replicating
the design as a statue or statuette, in relief, in pictures and even in a
variety of materials: “metal, stone, terracotta, plaster-of-paris, or
other plastic composition

Q11
• Transylvania, located in Romania is regarded as the home of the Dracula
and therefore attracts many tourists. However the large tourist influx is
supported by sauna springs and bear spotting treks.
• The Carpathian Mountains are home to wolves, lynx and Europe’s
largest population of brown bears. Around 5000 bears roam the oak and
beech forests. Strangely, the population flourished during the 1970s to
1980s.
• Strange because most of the world’s animals were threatened by the
expansive and rapid human extension into forest habitats and rampant
hunting was prevalent during the period.
• Why this strange trend?

ROMANIAN DICTATOR WAS ONLY PERMITTED
TO HUNT
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Q12
• These are some findings of 2014 from a temple presumably built
before eighth century. The temple is believed to be Padmaseni temple
dates back to the reign of Somvamshi kings. The temple is on the
verge of losing its identity however, the rock edicts are intact.
Photographs of the rock edicts were sent to several historians and
researchers. Till date there has been no news on the progress.
• Why is this temple and some other temples in the vicinity on the
verge of losing their identity and disappearing forever?

TEMPLES SUBMERGED UNDER THE
HIRAKUD DAM
GRID

Q13
• A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to
reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could
provide access.
• The oceanic pole of inaccessibility , is named as Point Nemo and is 2,688
km (1,670 mi) from the nearest landmass. Point Nemo is relatively
lifeless; its location within the South Pacific Gyre(system of circulating
currents) blocks nutrients from reaching the area, and being so far from
land it gets little nutrient run-off from coastal waters.
• Based on the almost lifeless surrounding and the far off distance from
any inhabited land, Point Nemo is selected for a very specific cause. What
?

Q14
The following clip contains the words of a Nobel
Laureate, Identify the Nobel Laureate

BOB DYLAN (KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOORS)
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Q15
• Overall, the funfair accommodates 400 to 700 children and employs around 50
people in the local area.
• Project supervisor Yasin al-Boushi said that one of the obstacles was finding a
suitable and safe location. They settled on two cellars under separate buildings
that they then linked together to create the space for the funfair.
• "The next problem we faced was how to find the necessary construction
materials. Due to the lack of cement in East Ghouta, we were forced to use mud
with straw for interior cladding. The metals used in the project were brought
from local landfills and recycled,” al-Bushi told Anadolu Agency.

Q16
• The _______ were a tribe of Native Americans living in the
Connecticut and Rhode island area. They inspired the naming of the
ship _______, which was originally built in 1832 to trade with China
but was later converted into a whaling vessel.
• During the California gold rush, it brought people to California but
was deserted by its crew. Today its location is a California historic
landmark.
• The ship inspired the name of something. What?

Q17
• The Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas, rather surprisingly, hosted this event in
1981 and 1982. It was chosen as a replacement for an earlier venue in the state
of New York.
• The venue was quite well
equipped despite being only a
temporary arrangement.
• However, the participants were
quite dehydrated due to the
high heat and it has not been
used since then.
• Which famous sporting event
was held here in 1981 and 1982?

What was that a proof of ?
• The proof uses modal logic, which distinguishes between necessary truths
and contingent truths.
• For modal logic, many "possible worlds" are considered. A truth is necessary
if it is true in all possible worlds. But a truth is contingent if it just happens to
be a single case. If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is false in
another world, then it is a contingent truth. A statement that is true in some
world (not necessarily our own) is called a possible truth.

Scientists used mathematical calculations to PROVE the existence of God
SCIENTISTS and have ‘confirmed’ the existence of God after proving a
mathematician’s theory which suggests that there is a higher power.
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Q19
• In early January 1942, a series of anonymous letters to The Daily Telegraph
had claimed that the paper’s crossword wasn’t hard enough. It could be
solved in a matter of minutes, they said; so a 100 pound challenge was set
up to complete the task in 12 minutes.
• Five people beat the 12-minute deadline.
• Several weeks later, four of them received a letter marked 'Confidential’
inviting them, as a consequence of taking part in 'The Daily Telegraph
Crossword Time Test’, to make an appointment to see a Col Nichols of the
General Staff on a matter of national importance.
• What happened to these four people as a consequence?

THEY BECAME CODE BREAKERS AT
BLETCHLEY PARK TO BREAK THE GERMAN
ENIGMA CODES
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Q20
• In 1729, about two years after this famous scientist’s
death, a book containing some of his theories was
published.
• In one such theory a cannon on top of a high mountain
fires shots parallel to the ground. Each time it is fired,
more gunpowder is used and the shot goes farther
before striking the ground. However the shots curve
around due to Earth’s spherical shape. With enough
gunpowder, a shot could eventually be fast enough to
circle the earth completely and come back to the top.
• Who was the scientist and what in the modern world is
derived from it?

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