First Monthly of Session 2019-20. General Quiz. QM : Sahil Raikar

1. Prepared By- Sahil Raikar
2nd Year
Quanta Member

2. • Infinite Bounce: Assume that the actual
question is to Team 1, the question is passed
until any team answers. The next question is
to the team next to the last answered team
and not team 2.
• Pounce: If a question is meant for Team 1,
but if other teams know the answer then
they can pounce on that question by writing
their answer on a sheet before a stipulated
time.

3. • Three Rounds. 25 Questions. QM’s
Decision is final.
• Point system will be explained at the
beginning of each round.
• Comments and criticism is accepted at
the end of quiz because QM is not
BHAGWAAN.
• Keep Calm and Enjoy.

4. Lets start
Quizzing
….

5. • 12 Questions. 6 Clockwise and 6
Anticlockwise.
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce.
• +20/0 on direct, +10/-10 on
Pounce.

7.  Each piece bears a glyph (a
letter or other character), or
glyphs, symbolizing the
multilingualism of ‘X’ . These
glyphs are in most cases the
first glyph or glyphs of the
name ‘X’ rendered in that
language. The empty space at
the top represents the
incomplete nature of the
project.
 Identify ‘X’.

11. The Below ‘Shloka’ is from Shri
Vishnupurana, Part 1 Chapter 19,
Verse 41. FITB.
तत्कर्म यन्न बन्धाय __ ____ __
________|
आयासायापरं कर्म विद्यऽन्या
शिल्पनैपुणर््॥
tatkarma yanna bandhāaya __ _____
__ ________|
āyāsāyāparaṁ karma vidya’nyā
śilpanaipuṇam||

15. • Identify the three men and dignified woman RGV is
referring to.

19. Identify her and What is her claim to fame?

23.  1. “X”- ‘Y’
 2. “Boy With Luv”- ‘BTS’
 3. “Me!”- ‘Taylor Swift’
 4. “Kill This Love”- ‘Blackpink’
 5. “Thank U, Next”- ‘Ariana
Grande’
 6. “Chewbacca Mask Lady”-
‘Candace Payne’
 7. “Idol”- ‘BTS’
 8. “Look What You Made Me
Do”- ‘Taylor Swift’
 9. “Fancy”- ‘Twice’
 10. “Massive Pillow Chair”-
‘Insider Design’
An Indian artist proclaims to have achieved the top position
in this list but it is held by the ‘Y’ for its work of ‘X’.
Identify X, Y. This is Exclusive list of what?

27.  The accident started during a
safety test on an ‘X’ reactor on
26 April 1986 , which was
commonly used throughout the
Soviet Union. The test was a
simulation of an electrical
power outage to aid the
development of a safety
procedure for maintaining
cooling water circulation until
the back-up generators could
provide power.
 Identify ‘X’ and the ‘Loacation’
where the accident took place.
(Bonus if you can tell the exact
time of the accident :P)

31.  St. Mary Magdalene Church,
Trivandrum Located on Earths
magnetic equator( an
imaginary line where equatorial
electrojet exists), caught
attention of ‘X’ and thus went
on to become the first site for
something.
 Tell me what is that something.
 Identify ‘X’ . Recently, on
August 12, google launched the
following doodle as a tribute
for 100th Birth Anniversary of
‘X’.

36. Connect.
Bonus if you can identify all of
them.

40.  Using mortar and pestle, the buds
and leaves of ‘Y’ are ground into a
paste which can be added to foods.
For a beverage it is mixed with milk
and filtered, then often flavored
with kusha grass, sugar, fruit, and
various spices. It can be found in
‘X’ thandai and ‘X’ lassi. ‘X’ is also
mixed with ghee and sugar to
make a purple halva, and into
peppery, chewy little balls called
goli (which means “tablet”).
Another form is ‘X’ chutney, a
Pahari cuisine from Uttarakhand.
‘Y’ was used as truth serum by the
Office of Strategic Services(OSS), a
US government intelligence agency
during World War II.
 Identify ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

44. What search in Google Maps will show you the above
terrain?

48.  Pavitr Prabhakar, a simple Indian
boy from a remote village, moves
to Mumbai. His parents died some
years ago. Students at his new
school tease him and hit him for
his studious nature and village
background. Only Meera Jain, a
popular girl from his school,
befriends him. Meanwhile, a local
crime lord named Nalin Oberoi
uses an amulet to perform an
ancient ritual in which he is
possessed by a demon committed
to opening a gate for other
demons to invade Earth.
 How do we better know this
story?

52.  The ‘X’ class (Sanskrit, for Slayer of
Enemies) is a class of nuclear-
powered ballistic missile
submarines being built for the
Indian Navy. The lead vessel of the
class, INS ‘X’ was launched in 2009
and after extensive sea trials, was
confirmed to be commissioned in
August 2016. ‘X’ is the first ballistic
missile submarine to have been
built by a country other than one
of the five permanent members of
the United Nations Security
Council.
 Identify ‘X’.

56. • 8 Questions.
• Topics will be displayed. The team standing at last
position after the end of round 1 will get to choose
among the 8 topics continued by 2nd last and so on
till the top team. The remaining two questions will be
chosen by the teams which are at last and 2nd last
position after these first 6 questions.
• Infinite bounce but only the team who has chosen
the topic gets -10 if they don’t answer or answer it
wrong.
• Infinite pounce but you lose the pounce for the
round if you get it wrong at any stage of the round.
• +20/-10 on direct, +10/0 if the question is passed.

59. The Archaelogical Survey of India(ASI), the current caretaker
of the structure, mentions in its records, “there are various
theories regarding the purpose for which ‘X’ was
constructed. However it is widely accepted that it was built
at the center of the city, to commemorate the eradication of
Cholera,” a deadly disease which was widespread at that
time. The ruler had prayed for the end of the plague that was
ravaging the city and vowed to build a place of worship at the
very place he prayed.
Due to its architectural style, it is also called as the ‘Arc de
Triomphe’ of the east. This is however misleading, as the ‘X’
was built centuries before the arc.
Identify X.

67. Connect these Individuals.

71. The calculation of ‘X’ was revolutionized by the development of infinite series
techniques in the 16th and 17th centuries. An infinite series is the sum of the
terms of an infinite sequence. Infinite series allowed mathematicians to
compute ‘X’ with much greater precision than Archimedes and others who
used geometrical techniques.
1 Athanni (dheli) = ​1⁄2 rupee
1 Chawanni = ​1⁄4 rupee
1 Dawanni = ​1⁄8 rupee
1 Anna/Ekanni = ​1⁄16 rupee
1 Taka/Adhanni = ​1⁄32 rupee
Paisa = ​1⁄64 rupee
Dhela = ​1⁄128 rupee (​1⁄2 paisa)
‘X’ = ​1⁄3 paisa = ​1⁄192 rupee
Damari = ​1⁄4 paisa = ​1⁄256 rupee.
Identify ‘X’. (The blanked space is X)

75. Article 164 says that the Chief Minister shall be appointed by the
Governor. However, when no party has a clear majority in the
legislative assembly, then the Governor may exercise his personal
discretion in the selection and appointment of the Chief Minister. On
the death of an incumbent Chief Minister, the ruling party elects a new
leader, the Governor has no choice but to appoint him as Chief
Minister.
As there are going to be elections conducted in Maharashtra in next
month, Devendra Fadnavis might be the second CM to complete a 5
year term. But, due to changing political fortunes, till date only one CM
in Maharashtra has completed a full 5 year term. He is known as the
father of green revolution in Maharashtra. Identify that CM.

79. In 2011, then Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, released
a commemorative ₹ 150 coin to mark 150 years of the
establishment of the Income Tax Department of India. The
coin features the outline of a person, and a honeybee
sitting on a lotus.
The choice of these symbols is because this person opined
that the process of taxation shouldn’t be painful for the
taxed, and that governments should collect taxes like a bee,
sucking just the right amount of honey from the flower
allowing both to flourish.
Identify the person.

83. Find the connect.

87. Within the final episode of the third season of Stranger Things,
narratively taking place in 1985, "The NeverEnding Story" is sung by
Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and his long-distance girlfriend Suzie
(Gabriella Pizzolo) as a way to reconnect after not seeing each
other for some time.
Following the season's release on July 4, 2019, interest in "The
NeverEnding Story" surged; viewership of the original music video
had increased by 800% within a few days according to YouTube,
while Spotify reported an 825% increase in stream requests for the
song.
‘X’ expressed gratitude for Netflix for this; while he had not
watched the series, he was told of the song's inclusion by his
nephews and watched clips of the duet. ‘X’ had previously found a
similar increase in his past work when Netflix used his band
Kajagoogoo's song "Too Shy" in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Identify ‘X’ who is the original singer of this song.

91. • 5 Questions. 4 Direct and 1 to connect first 4.
• Answer by only Pounce.
• +20/-20 for each question. 0 for not answering.
• +50/-50 if you get connect after 1st Question.
• +40/-40 if you get connect after 2nd Question.
• +30/-30 if you get connect after 3rd Question.
• +20/-20 if you get connect after 4th question

92. Q.21
• ‘W’ was an Indian musician credited with popularizing a subcontinental
instrument of the oboe class.
• ‘W’s father was a court musician employed in the court of Maharaja Keshav
Prasad Singh of Dumraon Estate in Bihar.
• ‘W’ brought the instrument to the center stage of Indian music with his
concert in Calcutta in All India Music Conference.
• Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, instituted the ‘W’ Yuva Puraskar in 2007,
in ‘W’s honour. It is given to young artists in the field of music, theatre and
dance.
• In the film, ‘Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars’ , Clapton cites ‘W’ as an influence
and how he tried to use his guitar to imitate the music of ‘W’s instrument.
• Identify ‘W’.

95. +50/-50 for
connect.

96. Q.22
• ‘X’ was an Indian vocalist from Karnataka in the Hindustani classical
tradition.
• ‘X’ was the eldest among 16 siblings.
• ‘X’ performed live on stage at very young age of 19 and released debut
album on age of 20.
• ‘X's singing has been influenced by many musicians, including Smt.
Kesarbai Kerkar, Begum Akhtar and Ustad Amir Khan.
• ‘X’ along with friend Vasantrao Deshpande organised the Sawai
Gandharva Music Festival as a homage to guru, which is held every year
in 2nd week of December in Pune, Maharashtra.
• Identify ‘X’.

99. +40/-40 for
connect.

100. Q.23
• ‘Y’ was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-
maker.
• For a brief period ‘Y’ worked at All India Radio when he won a scholarship
from Columbia University and set sail for New York.
• In New York ‘Y’ befriended Paul Robeson, a prominent civil rights activist,
who influenced him in his song ‘Bistirno parore’ which is based on the
imagery and theme of Robeson's Ol' Man River. This song is translated in
various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi.
• ‘Y’ contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections from the Guwahati constituency, persuaded by Chandan Mitra via
Kalpana Lajmi which he lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Kirip
Chaliha.
• In 2010, the Barshapara Cricket Stadium as Dr. ‘Y’ Cricket Stadium.
• Identify ‘Y’.

103. +30/-30 for
connect.

104. Q.24
• ‘Z’ was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist,
lyricist and author.
• ‘Z’ directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
• ‘Z’ started work at D.J. Keymer , a British-run advertising agency, as a "junior
visualiser" earning eighty rupees a month.
• Along with Chidananda Dasgupta and others, ‘Z’ founded the Calcutta Film
Society.
• ‘Z’s first film, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes, including the
inaugural Best Human Document award at the Cannes Film Festival.
• ‘Z’ created two popular fictional characters in Bengali children's literature—
Feluda, a detective, and Professor Shonku, a scientist.
• Identify ‘Z’.

107. Q.25
Find the exclusive
connect between W,
X, Y, Z.

110. Thank You everyone who attended
this quiz. It was a great experience
to host my first quiz with such
great quizzers. All sort of
comments, criticism and ideas to
improve are welcome. Good bye
until we meet again for next month
with a new QM.