General Quiz held under Chanakya 2016, the annual quizzing event for Quest, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Collge of Commerce's Quizzing Society

2.  There are 17 questions in the prelims worth 20 points.
 Top 6 teams to be selected for finals. SIX and only SIX!
 Not all questions are workout-able.
 6 star marked questions
 Star marked questions to be considered in case of tie.
Even if tie persists, Sudden Death to be followed.
 After the Finals, if we have tie for top 3 positions, Prelims
score to be considered.
Lets begin!

4.  X, while making the point that symbols are not
reality, retrospectively said:
 “The famous _____. How people reproached me
for it! And yet, could you stuff my _____? No, it's
just a representation, is it not? So if I had written
"This is a _____," I'd have been lying!”

8.  Vigyapanti is X’s advertisement wing launched last year with the
motive “to make small brands massive”. It looks at building
communication strength for startups who've already got funding or
those who're looking for funding. Supervised by the core X’s team;
Vigyapanti is a team of six young creatives: An Overpaid Creative
Director in Girish Narayandass (ex CLA), aWannabe Author Creative
Director in Devaiah Bopanna (ex-Lowe), a Scam Loving Creative
Director inVignesh Raja (ex Dentsu) and a Font Nazi Art Director in
Mihir Lele (NID graduate).Y, who's their Self Important Creative
Officer, is still figuring out funky designations for the other two
members of the team.The hiring process wasn't easy. It took him
two months of rigorously meeting with as many creative as
possible. He wanted to handpick youngsters who were sick of
advertising as it happens in the current scenario.

10.  In June 1991, an unidentified man bought a torn
painting for $4 in a flea market in Adamstown,
Pennsylvania because he was interested in its frame.
When he got home he removed the painting -- a
dismal country scene -- and concluded the frame could
not be salvaged, but found a pleasant surprise, folded
and hidden in the backing.
 The $4 bargain was auctioned for $2,420,000 at
Sotheby's.The buyer was Donald J. Scheer of Atlanta,
president ofVisual Equities Inc.
What did the man find that made him a millionaire?

14.  According to the founding legends of Bessières, Haute-
Garonne, when Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were
traveling through southern France, they decided to rest for
the night near the town of Bessières. Napoleon feasted on
an X prepared by a local innkeeper that was such a culinary
delight that he ordered the townspeople to gather all the
_______ in the village and to prepare a huge X for his army
the next day. X over the years has become a staple diet for
many and has various versions around the world. Some of
them being:
Nagresi and Khagineh in Iran
Frittata in Italy
Tamagoyaki in Japan
Khai Chiao Songkhrueang inThailand

16.  The term "X effect" was coined byThomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky.
The phenomenon made its first appearance in the world of psychology in
the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science in 1999. It is the
phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are noticed more than
they really are. In social judgment, embarrassment plays a considerable
role in the degree to which the X effect is manifested. Research has
indicated that certain situations in which perceivably embarrassing items
are factors, such as an embarrassing t-shirt, increase the extent to which
the X effect is experienced by an individual. X effect has also been seen in
situations that involve large, interacting groups where a common detail
identifies the reason attention of others is not solely focused on the
individual. In these settings, like a class lecture or athletic competition,
attention is divided between focusing on the individual and on the actions
of the group.The inability to identify the split attention leads individuals to
overestimate the likelihood that their peers will perceive them poorly. Id X.

18.  Between his experiments, he
also found time to write science
fiction in Bengali. His famous
story PolatokTufan describes
how a cyclone was stopped
using a bottle of hair oil since it's
known that oil stills the surface
of water by changing surface
tension. Now considered as the
father of Bengali science fiction,
he also has a crater on the
moon named in his honour.

20.  One of the theories about the origins of this word is
that it came from the name of a famous 8th-
century Islamic alchemist, Jābir ibn Hayyān, whose
name was Latinized as Geber. He is "considered by
many to be the father of chemistry, as he developed
an early experimental method for chemistry, and
isolated numerous acids, including hydrochloric
acid, nitric acid, citric acid, acetic acid, tartaric acid,
and aqua regia. Because his works rarely made any
sense, the term is believed to have originally referred
to his writings.Which commonly used word/term?

22.  An administrative area of Monaco, famous for
its casino gambling and entertainment complex.
 A broad class of computational algorithms that
rely on repeated random sampling to obtain
numerical results.
 A leading clothing brand for men and women, a
100% Indian woollen wear brand from the
Ludhiana-based Nahar Group.
 A 2011 Hungarian-American romantic comedy
film based on Headhunters by Jules Bass.

24.  Started in 2014 by Sukhmani Singh and Dhruv Raj Gupta, both
aged 23 years and graduates from Shri Ram College of
Commerce, Delhi, XY is a mobile-based marketplace that
connects locals and travellers to facilitate unique travel
experiences. Inspired by their frequent travels, in which they
faced difficulties due to lack of local knowledge, the pair
decided to quit their jobs at AT Kearney and Google
respectively to focus on developing their idea to connect locals
and travellers.
 To ensure some amount of uniformity, Singh and Gupta have
chalked out five categories-food, nightlife, shopping,
history/heritage and music. Each tour cannot exceed three
hours and aY cannot charge more than Rs 3,000 per person.A
quick survey of the experience available in Delhi-XY's biggest
market at the moment-reveals that for a group of two to five
people, a momo trail costs between Rs 300-500 and a shopping
trip through Chandni Chowk Rs 400-800.

28.  When asked about common themes in X andY, the author
replied:
 "Both novels are multigenerational, and so the relationship
between parent and child, with all of its manifest
complexities and contradictions, is a prominent theme. I did
not intend this, but I am keenly interested, it appears, in the
way parents and children love, disappoint, and in the end
honor each other. In one way, the two novels are corollaries:
The X was a father-son story, andY can be seen as a mother-
daughter story."
 He ultimately considers both novels to be "love stories" in
that it is love that "draws characters out of their isolation,
that gives them the strength to transcend their own
limitations, to expose their vulnerabilities, and to perform
devastating acts of self-sacrifice"

30.  _________ __ _______ is a counter campaign launched
by college student Nikita Azad against menstrual
taboos, and sexism that women are subject to through
it. It acknowledges menstruation as a natural activity
which doesn't need curtains to hide behind.
It urges young women to hold placards/sanitary
napkins/charts saying ______ __ ______, take their
pictures, upload it to their profiles, and send it to us, in
order to oppose the shame game played by patriarchal
society since ages.
Name the campaign and the reason which led to its
launch.

32.  This game, developed by Remedy Entertainment, centres on a
NYPD Detective who attempts to avenge the murder of his
family. It features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic
novel panels (with voice-overs) to narrate the game.The game
contains many allusions to Norse mythology, particularly the
myth of Ragnarök, which is a series of future events, including
a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a
number of major figures, the occurrence of various natural
disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in
water.The gameplay is heavily influenced by the Hong Kong
action cinema genre, particularly the work of director John
Woo, and it was one of the first games to feature the bullet
time effect popularized byThe Matrix.

38. Hope you all
enjoyed, see you
in the Finals! 