The Pounce & Bounce Round for Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan Quiz hosted at XLRI on 30th October 2019

1. Pounce Baby Pounce!
+10 pts for correct on Pounce/ -10 for incorrect
+10/0 on direct

2. 1. What is this an ad for?

4. Ikea

5. 2.
WHAT SPECIFIC GENRE OF A FASHION TREND STARTED IN THE 1950S LIKELY DUE TO
WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN KOREA AND VIETNAM, AND THEN GREW IN POPULARITY
IN THE 90S WHEN GERI HALLIWALL ASKED HER DESIGNER TO USE HER “SISTER'S TEA-
TOWELS’ INSTEAD OF A BLACK DRESS?
GERIS’ ICONIC DRESS BECAME “THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE OF POP-STAR CLOTHING
EVER SOLD”, WHEN SOLD AT A SOTHEBY'S AUCTION FOR £41,300 TO BE DISPLAYED AT
THE HRC-LAS VEGAS.
IN 2019, NIKE GOT INTO A BIT OF A CONTROVERSY FOR CREATING A SPECIAL RANGE
OF SHOES IN THIS FASHION GENRE.

7. FLAG FASHION
GERI HALLIWELL’S. UNION JACK DRESS
2019: NIKE’S BETSY ROSS SHOES

8. 3.
Considered one of the best examples of the work of Piet Mondrian, this art
piece is named after two things:
1. a street
2. a type of music related to jazz.
From MoMAs description: “These atomized bands of stuttering chromatic
pulses, interrupted by light gray, create paths across the canvas suggesting
the city’s grid, the movement of traffic and blinking electric lights, as well as
the rhythms of jazz.

10. Broadway Boogie Woogie

11. 4.
In the 3 generations since being founded in 1947, CD, Inc. have used
their innovation and expertise to make formulaic arrangements with the
main aim of minimizing physical damage.
Their work requires a very planned and strategic use of explosives like
Nitroglycerine and dynamite, with projects taking anywhere from a day
for small scale ones, to 6 months, for the more complex ones, in the
process saving hundreds of millions of dollars and sometimes even
months of time, worldwide.
What is CD, Inc. the market leader in? OR What is the full form of CD?

13. Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), founded by Jack Loizeaux in 1947, is a firm that
specializes in the use of explosives to create a controlled demolition of a structure

14. 5.
The painter Henri Matisse
was fond of keeping birds.
One of them was even used
as a model by a friend of
his. Who was the friend,
and more importantly, how
was it immortalized?

16. The friend was Pablo Picasso
who created a lithograph
called “La Colombe” (Dove)
which was adopted by the
World Peace Congress a sits
emblem of peace. He
developed the them further in
many other drawings

17. 6.
First level of this building, X is known as
the Turbine Hall because it was used to
house electricity generators for a power
station.
This power station was designed by the
famous architect Gilbert Scott whose
iconic Bird’s nest stadium in Beijing is a
marvel. What is X, aptly designed by the
iconic artist?
What else did Scott design that became
an iconic symbol of a country due to its
easy visibility from far distances.
Popularity of these has gone down due
to technology but few installations are
still in place. What?
Turbine Hall

19. TATE Modern Art Gallery

20. 7.
One explanation of the origin of this practice is that it was sanctioned by
Pope Gregory I who, to counter an outbreak of bubonic plague, also
ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets.
Another explanation is it was used as a sort of shield against the body’s
invasion by the Devil or evil spirits. The Irish Folk story "Master and Man"
by Thomas Crofton Croker, collected by William Butler Yeats, describes
this variation. What practice?

22. "Bless you" after sneezing

23. 8.
“This is a clever device for making him seem very alien, surprisingly,
there are a very few languages—it seems to be in single digits—that
use OSV (Object-Subject-Verb) as their basic or normal order,” said
Geoff Pullum, a professor of linguistics at the University of Edinburgh
talking about a highly iconic character X of --- movie franchise. There
are other fictional examples of characters who speak like X. Bowser,
from the 1996 Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG: Legend of
the Seven Stars.ID X

25. Yoda

26. ANTI-CLOCKWISE

27. 9. What is special about this font?

29. IT IS A FONT CREATED BY US CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICTS Called GERRY as a reference to
Gerrymandering

30. 10.
X is an American multinational headquartered in Purchase, New York. In 1972, the
USSR wanted to buy Y - a product of X (lots of it!). But the Ruble had no value outside
of the USSR and they didn’t have enough Vodka- the deal they initially agreed on (Y
in exchange of Vodka). So USSR gave 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a
destroyer. X became the 6th largest military power at that point. These vessels were
then quickly sold to a Swedish company for recycling.
Give X,Y.

32. X- Pepsico
Y- Pepsi

33. 11.
To whom is the ABC paying
homage through their GPO Box
number?

35. SIR DON BRADMAN

36. 12.
As the night fell on the first day of the exile, Lakshmana stood guard over
Ram and Sita with a strong resolve not to sleep until the exile ended. As
Lakshmana stood guard over his brother's dwelling, a resplendent goddess
called Nidra Devi manifested before Lakshmana. On Lakshmana's enquiry,
she introduced herself as the Goddess of Sleep and informed him that not
sleeping for fourteen years is an act of defiance against nature. Lakshmana
requested Nidra Devi for a way out so that he could carry out his Dharma
towards his brother. Impressed by Lakshmana's devotion towards his
brother, Nidra Devi put forth a workaround?
What was this creative workaround, that can only be thinking of a higher
being?

38. Her wife Urmila, took Lakshman’s share of
sleep and fell in deep sleep for 14 years

39. 13.
On 8 August, the Ebola outbreak was formally designated as a public health
emergency of international concern. This is a legal designation used only
twice before.
for the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic
and the 2014 resurgence of X
and invokes legal measures on disease prevention, surveillance, control, and
response, by 194 signatory countries. On 28 August, the WHO reported that
it estimated that up to 20,000 individuals could be infected before
containment efforts bring the outbreak to a halt.

41. Polio

42. 14.
What is this a list of?

44. The 10 top universities by number of billionaires
(asset > $1 billion), only counting bachelor's
degree

45. 15.
This character trait was not conceived before the show had begun. William
Hartnell had arteriosclerosis and his health was declining. The producers
then thought of this trait because the show was doing well and they
wanted to keep it going. So, it was Hartnell’s sickness that inspired this very
important trait which led to the show becoming immortal and also helped
the show in becoming a pop culture icon.
Which character and what trait?

47. Doctor Who and the regeneration of the
character with a new body.

48. 16.
X is an English actor and Singer and has recorded various opera and Metal albums.
X became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a string of popular Hammer
Horror films, Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, MA Jinnah in
Jinnah, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, Y in LoTR and Hobbit etc.
X was posted in WW2 with the RAF in North Africa and also worked in the British
Special Forces, the SAS.
After the war he worked as a Nazi Hunter for a while before starting his Film Career.
X and Y?

50. Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman