Atharva Diwali Quiz - IIM Kozhikode

11/10/2015 © Atharva, IIM Kozhikode 2
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Instructions

1. Which Institution?
© Atharva, IIM Kozhikode 11/10/2015

Answer
• Michelle Obama showing off her moves at
Mumbai University during Barack Obama
visit to India last Diwali

2. The festival coincides with the nirvana of the Tirthankara - Mahavira
and the birth of the Sikh Guru Nanak, Guru Nanak Jayanti. And also, the
well known festival, for the god of Sabarimalai, Ayyappan's garland
festival. Also known as Dev Deepavali in Varanasi

Answer
• Kartik Purnima

3. CONNECT - BRAND

ANSWER
• Kitkat Astronaut Diwali Ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2JusXKwYfY

4. ZO ROOMS

5. Created by amalgamating eight Punjabi princely states: Patiala, Jind,
Nabha, Kapurthala, Faridkot, Kalsia, Malerkotla and Nalagarh. The
state was inaugurated on July 15, 1948 and formally became a state of
India in 1950. The capital and principal city was Patiala.
By what abbreviated term did the state formed through the merger of
the princely states in Punjab come to be known ?

ANSWER
Punjab and East Patiala States Union
(PEPSU)

6. Inhabitants of this region were apparently unaware that
India had achieved Independence until days after August 15th.
Sardar Patel, realizing that Pakistan could claim this area as
their own on account of the Muslim majority prevalent there,
quickly rushed in the Indian armed forces. When the Pakistan
forces arrived, they were met by the sight of Indian flags, and
had to retreat.
Name this place.

ANSWER
• Lakshadweep

7. The National Physical Laboratory, situated in New
Delhi, is the measurement standards laboratory of
India. It maintains standards of SI units in India and
calibrates the national standards of weights and
measures. Apart from its primary objective, the NPL is
also involved in research. One of the major results of
its research is a product that has been widely used in
India, and many nations across Asia, Europe and
Africa. What?

ANSWER
• Election Ink

8. Name the youngest grand slam
champion of all time?
[For both men and women and in
all events]

ANSWER
In 1996, Martina Hingis became the youngest Grand
Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with
Helena Sukova at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles
title at age 15 years and 9 months.

9. Why did the Indian Express carry the following message in its obituary
section?
“O’Cracy: D.E.M.
O’Cracy, beloved husband of T. Ruth,
Father of L. I. Berty, father of Faith,
Hope and Justice, on June 25.”

ANSWER
• Due to the imposition of Emergency
• Similarly a library in Calcutta issued a notice in the
Statesman in December 1975, stating:
“On and from 1st January 1976, newspapers will be
found in the fiction section.”

10. Madan Mohan Malaviya went to the Nizam of Hyderabad (one of the richest men
in the world at that time) to request him for funds.
The Nizam was furious,'How dare you come to me for funds and that too for a ___?
He roared with anger and took off his footwear and flung it at Malviya.
Malaviya picked up the footwear and left silently. He came directly to the market place
and began to auction the footwear. As it was the Nizam's footwear, many came forward
to buy it. The price went up. When Nizam heard of this, he became uneasy.
He thought it would be an insult if his footwear were to be bought by someone for a
pittance.
So he sent one of his attendants with the instruction, 'Buy that footwear no matter
what the bidding price be!' Thus, Malaviya managed to sell the Nizam's own footwear
to him, for a huge amount.
What did Malviya use that money for ?

ANSWER
• Establishment of Banaras
Hindu University in 1916

11. What is this mascot for?

ANSWER
• DD. The Doordarshan mascot for high-definition
broadcast of the Commonwealth Games.

12. Identify the currency?

ANSWER
• The currency note of the Free India Govt set up by
the Indian National Army.

13. X in his lifetime wrote only two science fiction short
stories, With The Night Mail and As Easy As ABC. In both
he envisages the setting up of a fictitious organisation
called the Aerial Board of Control to regulate air travel
globally, and also the setting up of a world govt to
control this traffic.
X is a famous author, though not for this genre. Who is X?

ANSWER
• Rudyard
Kipling

14. According to Motion Picture Association of America, these
highly condensed series of movie shots cannot exceed 2.5
minutes, usually start with a green or a red band and include
rating cards.
The name comes from the fact that they were originally shown
at the end of a feature film screening.
What term are we talking about?

ANSWER
• Trailer

15. “Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my readers
to judge. Perhaps some of you will find my bursts of word-
fire too long, others may regard them too brief and broken.
What matters is if my words hit the target.” Whose
autobiography begins this way?
Lot s of clues in the question

ANSWER
•Mikhail Kalashnikov ( inventor of the AK-47)

16. X is of Mangalorean origin, and her mother tongue is
Konkani.
X made her acting debut with the 2006 Kannada film
Aishwarya.
In 2009, X started writing weekly columns for HT City, the
lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times. These columns
appear online on social network, Desimartini.
Id X

ANSWER
Deepika Padukone

17. Time magazine came up with the Person of the
Century in 1999, and awarded it to Albert Einstein,
with Gandhi and FDR being runners-up. However,
there was a lot of debate on whether another person
should be considered for this. The argument was
based on Time's criterion that the person chosen
should have the greatest impact on this century. But,
they finally rejected this argument.
Who was the other person in contention ?

ANSWER
• Adolf Hitler

18. What is the subject of this book /
what does the title refer to?

ANSWER
• Big Bang / Origin of the Universe

19. “At 60 miles an hour the loudest
noise in this new X comes from the
electric clock.”
Identify the advertiser?
Identify the advertising agency?

ANSWER
• Rolls Royce
• David Ogilvy

20. Till date, X is known to be one of the most
expensive brands in the world. Introduced in 1921 at
Florence, Italy, it is also the world’s top selling brands.
The tees launched under this top notch brand are
trendy, luxuriant, stylish as well as superbly durable. X
casual clothing like tees cost as much as $2,000.

ANSWER

21. Popularly known as the ‘Stealth Bomber’, and
officially the ‘B-2 Spirit’, which company beat
Lockheed for the manufacturing rights for this iconic
warplane?

• Northrop Grumman (just Northrop will do)
• Incidentally, one of the creators of the B-2 Spirit was
an Indian named Noshir Gowadia who is currently
in jail in the US on charges of espionage – he tried
to sell the design of the plane to China!
ANSWER

22. Connect

ANSWER
Volkswagen – Tuareg, Polo, Beetle, Jetta

23.
What do the red stars represent?

A
N
S
W
E
R Skopje
Macedonia
Shantiniketan
Calcutta
Chidambaram
Thiruchirapalli Mumbai
Almora
Khanewal
Lahore

Birth Places of Nobel Laureates from
India/Indian origin/Indian born…..
British-Raj Citizens
Ronald Ross – Almora, Uttarakhand
Rudyard Kipling – Mumbai, Maharashtra
Rabindranath Tagore – Calcutta, WB
Sir CV Raman – Tiruchirapalli, TN
American Citizens of Indian Origin
Hargobind Khorana – Khanewal, Pakistan
S Chandrasekhar – Lahore, Pakistan
Venki Ramakrishnan – Chidambaram, TN
Indian Citizens of foreign origin
Mother Teresa – Skopje, Macedonia
People of Indian Descent
VS Naipaul- Port of Spain, Trinidad
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Amartya Sen – Shantiniketan, WB

24. Connect

ANSWER
All brands belong to Fiat Chrysler

25. Connect

ANSWER
• Bihar Elections
• If the BJP loses in Bihar, crackers will burst in
Pakistan, says Amit Shah

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