The document discusses an interbatch quiz from 2018 that includes 10 questions clockwise and 10 anticlockwise with no pounces. It provides information on several topics in bullet points including Clair Patterson's discovery of the effects of leaded gasoline, the estimation of Earth's age as 4.5 billion years, and an unfinished Mark Twain manuscript.

1. Interbatch Quiz 2018

3.  Infinite rebound
 10 questions clockwise and 10 anticlockwise
 No pounces

4.  Clair Patterson was a geologist who
recognised the harmful effects of leaded
gasoline, when during his studies he
discovered that there was only negligible
amount of lead in the air before 1923.
 However, the objective of his study was quite
different and yielded another equally iconic
result.
 What?

6.  Estimation of earth’s age as 4.5 billion years
 Calculated by assessing the radioactive
decay of uranium into lead

7.  A 152 page illustrated
fairy tale for children.
 Published by Doubleday
in 2016.
 Whose name has been
blanked out?

9.  Mark Twain
 The unfinished
manuscript was found
in the Twain Archive at
University of California
in 2015.

10.  Hitler:
 Whoever wants to understand National Socialist
Germany must first know …..
 This egotistical anti-Semite established a
ten-day long annual festival to celebrate his
own works in the city of Bayreuth.
 Nietsche used to see him as his rival
because he was too sympathetic with the
Christian ideal.
 Who?

12.  Richard Wagner

13.  Testify by Rage Against The Machines
 Ministry of Love by Eurythmics
 California Über Alles by Dead Kennedys
 One Brick by Aesop Rock
 2+2=5 by Radiohead
 Standards by The Jam

15.  Inspired by Orwell’s 1984

16.  D W Griffith is most famous for his 1915
movie The Birth of a Nation.
 However his next movie, lesser known, is
actually one of the most influential movies
ever made and introduced techniques such
as
 Close-up shot
 Dissolves between the scenes
 Fade-outs
 Cross cutting and editing
 Name the movie.

18.  Intolerance

19.  This person had osteomyelitis left femur when he
was 7 yrs old which left him with a shorter left
leg.
 He was a brilliant academician, earning his PhD
at the age of 24 yrs.
 His literary works include the autobiographical
novel ‘Michael’ and two plays called ‘The
Wanderer’ & ‘The Lonesome Guest’ all of which
were written between 1921 and 1924. The plays
found their way to stage over a decade after
being written.
 Who?

21.  Paul Joseph Goebbels

22.  Vimy Ridge in northern France was one of
the famous battlefields of WW I. Germans
had long held this area and defeated the
British and French Forces who had tried to
seize the ridge.
 On Apr 9,1917, which nation’s army finally
managed to capture the ridge in a bloody
battle?

24.  Canada

25.  Sakura is an annual event occurring in
spring. A team of government employees in
various parts of …. Conducts the necessary
tests/examination to check whether Sakura
has begun.
 The formal announcement of Sakura leads to
festivities all over …. known as ‘Hanami’
 What is Sakura?

27.  Blooming of Cherry Blossoms in Japan
 Sakuro= Cherry Blossoms
 Hanami= Looking at flowers

28.  This all rounder was the first to score 1000
runs and take 100 wickets in test cricket.
 His name was used by the Aussie media to
describe the bowler running out the non-
striker for backing down before delivery, after
he did this during his team’s tour of Australia
in 1947-48.
 Who?

30.  Vinoo Mankad
 ‘Mankading’

31.  The book Sirr-e-Akbar (The Greatest
Mystery) was published in 1665 after long
years of effort by Dara Shukoh and his
‘team’. Francois Bernier took the book to
France and it was later translated to French
and Latin by Anquetil Duperron.
 Schopenhauer used to call it the solace of
his life.
 What was the book about?

33.  Persian Translation of Upanishads

35.  Which author said this of his most famous
work:
 All I wanted to do was to leave a literary picture
of the world of my childhood which was spent in a
large, very sad home with a sister who ate earth,
a grandmother who prophesied the future and
countless relatives of the same name who never
made much distinction between happiness and
insanity.’

37.  Marquez on One Hundred Years of Solitude

38.  As per different versions, the following two
historical anecdotes are said to be the basis
of origin of what?
 Exhuming of Oliver Cromwell’s body and then
hanging them after Charles II ascended the
throne
 Burning of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas
Cranmer and Anglican Bishops Hugh Latimer &
Nicholas Ridley during Bloody Mary’s reign

40.  The rhyme ‘Three Blind Mice’

41.  Which treaty, mediated by Pope Alexander
VI, signed on 04 June 1494 between Spain
and Portugal settled the territorial claims of
Spain and Portugal?
 The treaty decreed that all lands west of a
line around 1200 miles west of the Azores
could be claimed by Spain and towards the
east by Portugal.

43.  Treaty of Tordesillas

44.  Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (BND 4201) is a
bar measuring 35 mm x 15 mm x 1.5 mm
and weighing 20 g. It has been developed by
a collaboration between BARC and CSIR-
National Physical Laboratory.
 This is the first Indian standard of which
item?
 Up till now, the standards had to be imported
by the Indian companies in this field.

46.  Purity of gold

47.  In 2017, the organisers of Cannes
introduced a new rule stating that
‘every film wishing to be in the
competition category at Cannes
must be shown in French cinemas
afterwards’.
 This angered the person shown in
the image.
 Why?

49.  Co-founder and CEO of Netflix
 Reed Hastings

50.  In 1927, one Mr Sid Grauman leased the
former home of the actor Francis Bushman
and converted it into a theatre called TCL
Chinese.
 During its construction, actress Norma
Talmadge accidentally did something which
has since been immortalised.
 What?

52.  Stepped on wet cement giving Grauman the
idea for Hollywood Walk of Fame

53.  A US policy, declared in 1823,
stated that further efforts by
European nations to take control
of any independent state in the
Americas would be viewed as
"the manifestation of aggression
towards the United States.”
 How is this policy better known
as?

55.  Monroe Doctrine
 After James Monroe

56.  Which country is the only country in the
world where divorce is illegal?
 This country has 95% Christian population
who can’t legally divorce, though annulment
is possible after a lengthy legal process.
 The minority Muslims can legally divorce as
can Christians married to foreigners, in
certain circumstances.

58.  Philippines

59. John Wainwright

64.  Bibiana Steinhaus-First Female referee in
Europe’s top domestic leagues

66.  4 successive images
 Points
 +25/-10
 +20/-10
 +15/-5
 +10/-5
 Will be used for tie breaks

73.  A 2013 painting to commemorate

80.  Pounces open
 -5 if pounce is wrong

81.  For the first time in its history, Oxford
University is considering to open a satellite
campus outside UK in Paris.
 What prompted the university to make this
consideration?

83.  Brexit
 To continue to receive funding from EU

84.  This ‘practice’ or custom began in Germany in
19th century. However, nowadays, it is more
popularly practised in Australia.
 Australian surf gang ‘Mad Hueys’ have been
instrumental in popularising it in the recent
years.
 In F1, Daniel Ricciardo was the first person to
do it, sharing it with Mark Webber.
 In Moto GP, Jack Miller was the first to do it.
Valentino Rossi has also done it once.
 What is being described?

87.  ‘ What the king conquered, the prince shaped,
the Field Marshal defended, the soldier saved
and unified.’

89.  King- Frederick The Great
 Prince- Otto von Bismarck
 Field Marshall- Hindenburg
 Soldier- Hitler

90. Surviving in the woods through self reliant living; seeking
inspiration in the woods through attention to animals,
sounds, solitude and books; and exploration and discovery
of the social and personal context leading to …….

92. Surviving in the woods through self reliant living; seeking
inspiration in the woods through attention to animals,
sounds, solitude and books; and exploration and discovery of
the social and personal context leading to Thoreau's
experiment

93.  …. is Guangzhou Automobile
Group’s leading car brand and
the name means ‘the best of
China’.
 They plan to enter the US market
by 2019. However, it is being
speculated that they are going to
change their name in the US
market.
 Why/what is the name?

96.  ‘The ….. Is Missing’ is a thriller set to be
released in June 18. It will be jointly
published by the firms ‘Alfred A Kuopf’ and
‘Little Brown & Co’. A statement by the
publishers says this: A unique amalgamation
of intrigue, suspense and behind the scenes
global drama from the highest corridors of
power. It will be informed by details only a
will know.’
 Who are the authors of this novel?

98.  James Patterson and Bill Clinton
 The President is Missing

99.  This conqueror of Aztecs came to the
Americas with 600 men, 16 horses and 10
small cannons. After arriving, he ordered all
the ships to be burned at the coast.
 His conquest was greatly aided by a
smallpox epidemic among Aztecs and one of
their neighbour clans (Tlaxcaden) who had to
donate people for Aztec sacrifice.

101.  Hernan Cortes

102.  Democratic Senator Mike Quigley of Illinois
recently proposed an Act called
‘Communications over various feeds
electronically for engagement’.
 What is this Act concerned about?

104.  Covfefe Act
 Amendments of Presidential records to make
National Archives store presidential tweets
and other social media interactions

105.  After his retirement from the Navy in 2001,
he established a small business in Chabahar
Free Trade Zone in Iran. He used to have a
mechanised boat called Kaminda.
 Identify.

107.  Cdr Kulbushan Jadhav

117. Ahmed al Maadheed

119.  Shaikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thami

120.  Chris Felt, a Norwegian, recently published a
collection of poetry made out of the quotes of
a person over the past couple of years.
 The basis of this project was, as Chris Felt
said, this: ‘What says is closer to
fiction and poetry than to reality.’
 What is the name of the collection/whose
quotes are the poems based on?

123.  Charlie Craig &
David Mullins
 Jack Philips

125.  Charlie Craig & David Mullins- Protection
against discrimination
 Jack Philips-Religious Freedom

128.  George Melies

129.  In the late 17th century, which nation
established a colony named ‘Caledonia’ at
the isthmus of Panama in its attempt to
bolster its status as a major trading power?
 Their project was called the Darien Scheme
based on the Gulf of Darien and ran into
problems due to the sabotaging attempts by
other colonial powers in the vicinity and was
finally abandoned in 1700.

131.  Darien Scheme

132.  Beginning in 1956 at Lugano (Switzerland),
this televised programme is one of the
longest running TV programmes in the world.
It is also one of the most watched non-sports
events.
 The Irish have won the event maximum
times (7 times till date).
 Which event?

134.  Eurovision song contest

137.  Minutes to midnight/Doomsday Clock
 1953- 2 minutes to midnight when hydrogen
bomb tests began
 1991- 17 minutes from midnight when USSR
ceased to exist

140.  John Cage’s 4’33’’
 To encourage the audience to listen to
environmental sounds

142.  4 successive images
 Points
 +25/-10
 +20/-10
 +15/-5
 +10/-5
 Will be used for tie breaks

156.  Name the five great artists associated with
the following video.
 5 points for each artist.
 No negative points.

159.  Short film called Crows as part of
Kurasowa’s Dreams
 Van Gogh’s art
 Scorcese as Van Gogh
 Music- Chopin’s Raindrop (Prelude no. 15 in
D-Flat Major
 Visual effects- George Lucas’s Industrial
Light & Magic