This document contains a list of 17 quiz questions for a freshers' quiz hosted by Samridh and Shivangi. It includes questions about the Academy Awards hosts, XKCD comics, cricket players, driving directions on maps, Marmite, Roald Dahl and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, popular Bollywood ads, movie posters, Google domains, Sodexo, Facebook campus celebrities, Ultimate Frisbee, JK Rowling pronunciations, Steve Jobs' background, candle wax channels, Chetan Bhagat novels, and Dan Brown/Robert Langdon. The questions cover topics in films, books, sports, food, technology companies and more.

1. Freshers’ Quiz
Ashoka University
Hosted by Samridh and Shivangi

2. • 17 questions
• 20 points
• * = tiebreakers
• 5 teams advance to finals

3. What is this a list of?
2009 Hugh Jackman
2010 Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
2011 James Franco, Anne Hathaway
2012 Billy Crystal
2013 Seth McFarlane
2014 Ellen Degeneres
2015 X
Who is X?
1

4. Warning: this _____ occasionally contains strong language (which
may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be
unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be
unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Where would you come across this?
2

5. 3
Who was the first person to score a double century
in a one-day international cricket match?

6. What does this map show?
4

7. • Invented in the late 19th century by German scientist
Justus von Liebig, X was included in soldier's rations
along with spam and condensed milk during World War I.
Sadly, toast was not provided.
• In 2009, it was reportedly banned from prisons as inmates
were using it to create an alcoholic drink called X Mule as
the yeast helps with the fermentation process.
• Madonna's worst nightmare is eating a(n) X sandwich as
she thinks that it is “vile".
What is X?
5*

8. As a young lad, X attended Repton School in
Derbyshire. During X’s days at Repton, Cadbury, the
chocolate company would often send boxes of
chocolate to be tested by the school’s pupils. X
would dream of inventing a new chocolate that would
impress Mr Cadbury himself. This inspired him to
create Y, which almost all of us have enjoyed in
different forms. Identify X and Y.
6*

9. Around Feb-March 2015, this production house got an
opportunity to come up with something, and
what they came up with became insanely popular with
the Indian youth.
What did they create, which became a rage among
Indians?
7

10. Minimalist poster for?
8

11. Google recently had an institutional re-organization,
which now places it under an umbrella corporation
named Alphabet.
If you go to the URL abc.xyz, you will land on the
home page of Alphabet.
However, the URL abc.wtf will lead you to a very
different location.
Where does abc.wtf redirect to?
9

12. The company was launched in 1966 by Pierre Bellon in
Marseille, France, initially serving company restaurants,
schools and hospitals under the name Société
d'Exploitation Hotelière. Today it is on the Fortune Global
500 list and the second largest employer among all
French multi-national corporations.
How do we know this company better?
10

13. During one of the depositions, it is mentioned that the
invention of Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg "the biggest
thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates,
fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a
movie star." One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the
movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?”
Who is the movie star?
11

14. This sport, which does not have a referee and instead
relies on "sportsmanship and fair play“, was recently
recognised by the International Olympic Committee in
August 2015.
“175 grams” is a short movie on the popularity of this sport
in Indian circles.
Which sport are we talking about?
12

15. The author gets pissed off whenever people pronounce the name of the
antagonist of a series incorrectly. Recently the author had to clarify on
Twitter that the final letter is silent while pronouncing the character’s
name. Name the author and the mispronounced character.
13

16. Geneva-based tech entrepreneur David Galbraith had
tweeted a photograph which was re-tweeted thousands of
times. This is what he said after he was asked about his
tweet:
"A small child, was washed up on the sea shore like a
discarded object of no value, when a child with a parent of
the same nationality, given opportunity had created the
________________".
Who is being referred to here?
14

17. 15
Also derived from the Latin word for "a furrow caused
by running water", what is the name of the "channel"
that forms as the molten wax flows off in a candle ?

18. Ramesh Srivats being Ramesh Srivats about what?
16

19. Talking of Mohur, Tamga
and other such seals,
symbols and what not, one
is reminded of John L. John
teaches courses on
Corporate Identity at Drexel
University, and he inspired
X to create Y.
Identify X and Y.
17*

20. Answers

21. What is this a list of?
2009 Hugh Jackman
2010 Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
2011 James Franco, Anne Hathaway
2012 Billy Crystal
2013 Seth McFarlane
2014 Ellen Degeneres
2015 X
Bonus points for identifying X
1

22. The hosts of the Academy Awards ceremony.
(X: Neil Patrick Harris)
1

23. Warning: this _____ occasionally contains strong language (which
may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be
unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be
unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
Where would you come across this?
2

24. The XKCD footer
2

25. 3
Who was the first person to score a double century
in a one-day international cricket match?

26. Belinda Clark
3

27. What does this map show?
4

28. Left-side driving
Right-side driving
4

29. • Invented in the late 19th century by German scientist
Justus von Liebig, X was included in soldier's rations
along with spam and condensed milk during World War I.
Sadly, toast was not provided.
• In 2009, it was reportedly banned from prisons as inmates
were using it to create an alcoholic drink called X Mule as
the yeast helps with the fermentation process.
• Madonna's worst nightmare is eating a(n) X sandwich as
she thinks that it is “vile".
What is X?
5*

30. X: Marmite
5*

31. As a young lad, X attended Repton School in
Derbyshire. During X’s days at Repton, Cadbury, the
chocolate company would often send boxes of
chocolate to be tested by the school’s pupils. X
would dream of inventing a new chocolate that would
impress Mr Cadbury himself. This inspired him to
create Y, which almost all of us have enjoyed in
different forms. Identify X and Y.
6*

32. X: Roald Dahl
Y: Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
6*

33. Around Feb-March 2015, this production house got an
opportunity to come up with something, and
what they came up with became insanely popular with
the Indian youth.
What did they create, which became a rage among
Indians?
7

34. 7
The Mauka Mauka ads

35. Minimalist poster for?
8

36. Deewaar
8

37. Google recently had an institutional re-organization,
which now places it under an umbrella corporation
named Alphabet.
If you go to the URL abc.xyz, you will land on the
home page of Alphabet.
However, the URL abc.wtf will lead you to a very
different location.
Where does abc.wtf redirect to?
9

38. 9

39. 10
The company was launched in 1966 by Pierre Bellon in
Marseille, France, initially serving company restaurants,
schools and hospitals under the name Société
d'Exploitation Hotelière. Today it is on the Fortune Global
500 list and the second largest employer among all
French multi-national corporations.
How do we know this company better?

40. 10

41. During one of the depositions, it is mentioned that the
invention of Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg "the biggest
thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates,
fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a
movie star." One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the
movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?”
Who is the movie star?
11

42. 11
Natalie Portman

43. This sport, which does not have a referee and instead
relies on "sportsmanship and fair play“, was recently
recognised by the International Olympic Committee in
August 2015.
“175 grams” is a short movie on the popularity of this sport
in Indian circles.
Which sport are we talking about?
12

44. 12
Ultimate Frisbee

45. The author gets pissed off whenever people pronounce the name of the
antagonist of a series incorrectly. Recently the author had to clarify on
Twitter that the final letter is silent while pronouncing the character’s
name. Name the author and the mispronounced character.
13

46. JK Rowling and Voldemort
13

47. Geneva-based tech entrepreneur David Galbraith had
tweeted a photograph which was re-tweeted thousands of
times. This is what he said after he was asked about his
tweet:
"A small child, was washed up on the sea shore like a
discarded object of no value, when a child with a parent of
the same nationality, given opportunity had created the
________________".
Who is being referred to here?
14

48. The child being referred to here
created the biggest company in
the world, Apple.
Steve Jobs’ biological father is
Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian
immigrant.
14

49. 15
Also derived from the Latin word for "a furrow caused
by running water", what is the name of the "channel"
that forms as the molten wax flows off in a candle ?

50. 15
Gutter

51. Ramesh Srivats being Ramesh Srivats about what?
16

52. 16
Chetan Bhagat’s Half Girlfriend

53. Talking of Mohur, Tamga
and other such seals,
symbols and what not, one
is reminded of John L. John
teaches courses on
Corporate Identity at Drexel
University, and he inspired
X to create Y.
Identify X and Y.
17*

54. 17*
X: Dan Brown
Y: Robert Langdon / The Da Vinci Code