Conoscenza finals 2021

RULES FOR THE QUIZ
❖ There are a total of 30 questions.
❖ There are 2 dry rounds and and 1 written round. (12+6+12)
❖ Infinite bounce
❖ Standard pounce rules applicable.
❖ Scoring on pounce will be +15/-10, On bounce +10/0
❖ Teams need to tag the assigned person in their group with full answer.
❖ Refrain from using any browser and enjoy the quiz!

Q1
X is based on a bishop who supposedly was famous for leaving coins in poor children’s
shoes or stockings. X was first depicted in Harper’s Weekly by the illustrator Thomas
Nast as early as 1862. However, those depictions portray him more as a frankly vaguely
sinister elf, and less as the cheerful gentleman we’re familiar with today.
While X became an established figure and showed up in different advertisements,It was
not until 1931 that the full image became widely recognized. In 1931, the soda company
Coca-Cola created an advertising campaign, that featured X , drinking Coca-Cola. While
many mistakenly credit Coca-Cola for creating the modern day image of X, the company
is responsible for presenting the image that became the modern standard.
Who is X ?

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Q2
X is a popular young Indian author and historian who started working on his first book
in the age of 19. After completing his under-graduation in Economics he went to King’s
College London to pursue master’s degree, in between to collect evidence for his first book
from the archives of London.
Later the book has published in 2016 in the genre of historical biography of Sethu
Lakshmi Bayi, the senior rani of Travancore was found unpopular in the histories. The
book went to an absolute success for his dedication and deep research in histories of India
at the young age. Later he got Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for the same book called
_(3)_ __(5)__ ___(6)___ in the year 2017.
Find the author and the name of the book.

A2
Manu S. Pillai, The Ivory Throne.

Q3
Mary Jane Rathbun, born on December 22, 1922, in Chicago Illinois, and is
popularly known as Brownie Mary. She was an American medical rights activist.
As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for
making and distributing X's products to AIDS patients. Along with activist Dennis
Peron, Rathbun lobbied for the legalization of X for medical use.
She generated interest in the medical community and motivated scientists and
researchers to develop and propose one of the first clinical trials which were
organised to study the effects of common chemicals belonging to X's family in HIV-
infected adults.
Id X.

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Q4
In Girifushi, Maldives in 2009, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, his vice
President, cabinet secretary and 11 other ministers attended a cabinet meeting. But this
was not a regular meeting. They proceeded to have a meeting using only white boards and
hand signals to communicate as they could not physically speak in this particular
situation due to the environment it was taking place in.
The target of this meeting was to bring global attention to a very big problem which will
be affecting Maldives the most among any other country. In this meeting all these men
signed a document calling all countries to join them in solving this problem which is
probably the biggest problem at the moment. An extremely big politician took his country
out of a similar kind of agreement a few years back and went on to loss the re-elections.
How was it different from the tradition meeting?

A4
The meeting took place underwater

Q5
______ has a long and rich history in Old Delhi. It became immensely popular during
Mughal rule. "When Shah Jahan shifted his capital from Agra to Delhi and built
Shahjahanabad - the original name of Old Delhi - the tradition got transported. The
______ became the symbol of the city. There were clubs for this activity like we have
football clubs these days.
This game has its own rules and terminology. While ‘ladaana’ refers to trapping ,
‘haqaana’ means to race. The most spectacular event of haqaana or racing is conducted on
Republic Day which is keenly attended.
Which activity or sport is being described here ?

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Q6
● Patrick: Spends most of his time under a rock, doing nothing.
● Squidward: despises his life, despises SpongeBob, and is often irritable.
● Mr. Krabs: Wealthy and money-obsessed. Throughout the series, he makes several strategies to gain more
money.
● Plankton: Mr. Krabs has always irritated me since his restaurant isn't as successful as "The Krusty Krab."
He even tries to steal Krabby Patty secret recipe.
● Gary: A recurrent humour in the series in which various characters remind SpongeBob that he "had to go
feed Gary”, even run away when he failed to feed him.
● Sandy: She takes pride in the fact that she is from Texas and, unlike many others, is a land mammal.
● SpongeBob: is always motivated to do good to others. Even if they don't deserve it, he treats everyone with
respect.
These descriptions are the basis for a common fan theory that claims SpongeBob Squarepants' major characters
are X manifestations.
What is X?

Q7
Identify the book series from it’s graphic
novel adaptation.

Q8
Apparently, the word dates back to the 17th century which essentially means long-sheltered
'walk' or 'promenade'. In India, this word has been around since the 18th century and is
associated with the British era. During that time, a '__(4)__ __(4)__' acted as a division
between married accommodation and living lines road in the military.
So, on one side there used to be Units' living lines along with Unit Admin areas and on the
other side, there were accommodations for married British Officers and troops with
Bungalows and Messes on one side and lines on the other side. Though, this word has a
different meaning in hill stations.
A '__(4)__ __(4)__' in a hill station is a place where all major shops and restaurants are
located. So, you could say a '__(4)__ __(4)__' is basically like the city centre which is the most
happening area in a hill station or a city. This theory explains why most hill stations in India
have __(4)__ __(4)__.
FITB.

Q9
In the 2017 sci fi thriller show, with timeline of late 1980s, carelessness of a scientist
lead to a malfunction in his machine which duplicated the universe and all the people
in this world and opened a pathway to travel between these 2 worlds.
This scientists met his duplicate and both of them found out that everything is identical
in both the worlds and even the decision they will take will be same. This brought the
show it's name _____(11)_____, i.e. everyone has a copy of themselves in the other
world, a _____(11)_____ of them. So out of curiosity they both triggered a change
which started a butterfly effect and both of these worlds kept changing from each
other. In the present day, after 30 years, everything and everyone is completely changed.
2 people who are each other's duplicates are no longer even remotely same.
Name the show.

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Q10
X is an online website portal for online trading, investments and stock marketing.
The company ‘roared into the market’ in February 2000 by entrepreneur Shripal Morakhia.
X is ranked as the 2nd largest stock broker portal and has its branches in 575 cities in India.
The tagline of X is “Your guide to the financial jungle”.
The name X is a pun on the name of a fictional character from a very famous novel.
Identify X.

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Q11
This song belonging to a movie franchise which is quite popular in india and has a
lot of pop culture references and memes from this movie franchise.
In the song, it is being described as a woman is singing the song explaining about her
husbands bad health, how he is not eating properly and losing a lot of weight. But
actually its literal meaning is that she is complaining about her inlaws, uncle, sister in
law for not paying attention to her husband.
In between the song there is some form of political satire and like a metaphor the
poor state of affairs in the particular region.
What song?

A11
Taar Bijli Se Patle Hamare Piya from Gangs
Of Wasseypur.

Q12
X is a famous painting of Raja Ravi Varma, an Indian artist from the princely state of
Travancore in the early 1900s. X portraits his daughter Mahaprabha who is holding her
daughter (Varma’s granddaughter) Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, who later became the queen of
Travancore, India. The artist plays with light and darkness to focus the attention to the main
character in the scene.
The scene takes place at the entrance of the house. Here, the dog sitting with the women
shows eager waiting for its master to come. Similarly, through the painting Varma express
the idea of Indian culture of a woman in a everyday affairs by representing his family story, in
which to show the love for the men in the family through the eyes of the family members.
About which painting of Raja Ravi Varma has detailing here?

Q13
The earliest examples of written X date to the 10th century BCE. X is a Northwest
Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. X has been referred to by certain
religious community as "the holy language", since ancient times.
X ceased to be an everyday spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE,
declining in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. However it survived in mediaeval
period as a language of religious liturgy, without any regular speaker. Today there are 9
million speakers of X of which 5 million are native speakers .
X is one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still spoken .
Name the language X ?

Q14
In the 17th Century, X was formed when Porous clay pots containing boiled, cooled
water were laid out on top of straw in shallow trenches; under favourable
circumstances, X would form on the surface during winter nights which could be harvested
and combined for sale.
In the 1800s X was brought all the way from Boston, insulated in sawdust to
prevent it from losing its form, and was only afforded by the rich. Which was once a
status symbol, has now become an everyday household item.Some blogs suggest that
X can be used to remove dents from clothing, carpet, as the fibre absorbs ____ and it
rises. X is also used as a part of skin care routine.
What is X ?

Q15
This comic has been referred to as ''arguably the longest story ever told by one human
being”. The strip, though dealing with children and their issues with the loneliness and
miscommunication in just four panels, has become an icon of pop culture. Its creator,
Sparky, hated the name given by the Syndicate as it was not the name of any of the
characters.
Initially, it appeared as 'Li'l Folks' but after he sold it to a American syndicate company
they changed the name, but the creator rather called it as 'Good Old Charlie Brown.’
What is the name of this widely popular comic strip?

Q16
Nise da Silveira, only woman in her medical class at Faculdade da Bahia, was
against the prevalent methods used in the field, so she created Museu de Imagens
do Inconsciente in 1952. She thought art might be a great way to help a certain
set of people.
One of the reason she started this was because she thought “People who are too
healthy are boring people. Everyone's a little crazy, so live your imagination,
because it is our deepest reality." Following are some artworks created by these
people.
Who are these artists/ What was so special about these artworks?

Q17
____(8)____ originated in the 18th century in South Asia, before being more generally
adopted in the late 19th century. According to Emma Tarlo, its modern form evolved from a
Persian cape , which was gradually given a more Indian form , and finally developed into
present version .
It appeared first at Lucknow in the 1820s and then gradually adopted by rest of the royalty
and aristocracy of Indian Subcontinent, and later by the general population. Its name is
plausibly derived from Shirvan, a region of present-day Azerbaijan. Therefore, it is also
speculated that ____(8)____ may also be a derivative of the Caucasian dress due to the
ethnocultural linkages of Turco-Persian affinity during the Middle Ages.
FITB

Q18
Harpadon nehereus is a type of lizardfish that makes a very popular dish once
dried and fried. Its odour is extremely powerful, and hence it is not
transported on passenger trains. Legend has it that these fish used to be sent by the
mail train from Bombay to other inland parts. These mail trains were known as
‘Daak’, and this is rumoured to be the origin of the fish’s strange name.
The name of this fish has a mention of a bird usually consumed in countries
like Myanmar, China, Thailand. How better do we know this odd-looking
fish?

Q13
The earliest examples of written X date to the 10th century BCE. X is a Northwest
Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. X has been referred to by certain
religious community as "the holy language", since ancient times.
X ceased to be an everyday spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE,
declining in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. However it survived in mediaeval
period as a language of religious liturgy , without any regular speaker. Today there are 9
million speakers of X of which 5 million are native speakers .
X is one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still spoken .
Name the language X ?

Q14
In the 17th Century, X was formed when Porous clay pots containing boiled, cooled
water were laid out on top of straw in shallow trenches; under favourable
circumstances, X would form on the surface during winter nights which could be harvested
and combined for sale.
In the 1800s X was brought all the way from Boston, insulated in sawdust to
prevent it from losing its form, and was only afforded by the rich. Which was once a
status symbol, has now become an everyday household item.Some blogs suggest that
X can be used to remove dents from clothing, carpet, as the fibre absorbs ____ and it
rises. X is also used as a part of skin care routine.
What is X.

A15
Peanuts, Syndicated comic strip.

A16
Paintings by mental patients

Q19
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L.
Friedman that puts forward a capitalist peace theory called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict
Prevention. It states that "no two countries that both had this corporation had fought a war
against each other since each got its franchise". This corporation is probably the biggest example of
globalisation due to their extreme physical global presence.
In 2006, Iraq got its 1st franchise. The launch took place with the opening of only 1 location
which still remains the only official location of it in Iraq. This also makes Iraq the country with
least number of it's locations in the world. In Fact this location was never made with the intention
of serving the general public of Iraq as due to very tender sociopolitical structure in the country
and high violence, a healthy business of national scale is extremely difficult to run. This location
was opened to serve a very specific group of people during the mid and late 2000s.
Id this corporation and for whom was this special arrangement made for?

A19
McDonald's
American soldiers

Q20
Saadat Hasan Manto was one of the most influential and controversial writer/poet in Indian as well
as Pakistani literature. His writing style consisted of stories mostly on the topics about partition and
some others related to it.
Due to his controversial style, he was also arrested in Pakistan for 4 times. Out of these 4 arrests, he
was bailed out for 3 of them. His bail was paid by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Manto being the younger of the
two, aspired to Faiz’s ideologies and respected him greatly. On the other hand, Faiz respected
Manto’s independence as a writer but he never totally agreed with Manto’s writing.
For some reason, Faiz Ahmed Faiz was unable to bail out Manto for the fourth time.
What was the reason?

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A20
He was also in jail himself.

Q21
Almost everyone has heard of "deja vu" . However there also exist a much more
common phenomenon known as "presque vu". It is not really just a simple matter of
forgetting something. It is a strong feeling that you are on the very brink of a powerful
epiphany, insight, or revelation, but it never happens. For example, you forget a name
and you feel like you’re about to say it, but you just cannot put your finger on it.
Most of the languages refer to the same region of Human Anatomy while referring to
the part of human body where the word is supposedly stuck . In fact American sign
language too has a different but analogous idiom to refer to the phenomenon.
So what do we call this phenomenon in day to day usage ?

Q22
In the early decades of the twentieth century, when football was becoming most
popular sport in South America. The fanatic crowd that showed up for the local
derby’s made the radio commentators job really tough.
So, the positions of the commentators was not fixed strategically. So they had to place
people called spotters which will tell them about the jersey number of the player that
scored the goal. So, there is a time gap between scoring the goal and announcing the
player who scored it.So, to keep the audience engaged the commentators used to do
something which can be seen in the modern times too.
What did the commentators do?

A22
They used to scream GOAAAAAL!!!!! Until the spotters told them the jersey number of the player
who scored it.

Q23
During the cold war, in Soviet Russia, Beatles and some other bands and groups were not allowed since
they didn’t adhere to the communist party principles. In these times, there were a small group of people
who wanted to listen to Rock n Roll and they would dress up in stylish clothes which were worn in the
west and at parties. The Soviet government even has a name for them, still yagi which basically means style
hunters. These still yagi’s figured out a new way of producing home made records. What used to happen
was one or two copy of albums used to find their way into Soviet Russia through different means and
these kids could get access to these records. They used to produce multiple copies of these records.
What the main problem was actually that could not find vinyl records to actually produce copies. They
actually got hold of a material on which they could reprint these tapes on. They found this material in
hospital trash bins. They then used a wax disk cutter and a recording lathe to edge copies of the album on
this material. They used to cut this material into a circle and poke a hole between it using a cigarette bud
in order to fit it on the turntable.
What material did they use?

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Q24
In australia, between balladonia and caiguna there is a strip of road that is around 150 km
long. There is wilderness all around and pretty much nothing to see. And the strange thing is
that this road doesn't have a turn for 150 km making it one of the longest road stretches of
the world. So, if you have to drive on this road you are likely to encounter drivers fatigue and
that can be really dangerous on the road.
Because these accidents kept happening on this stretch of road again and again. So, what the
local counsel did to solve this problem of drivers getting fatigued and distracted is that they
placed interconnected sign boards across this 150km stretch. This helped in bringing down
the total number of accident related death on this road.This addition may seem trivial.
What was so interconnected about those sign boards?

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other

A24
They are Trivia Sign Boards.

Q25
In the book, The Emergency by Coomi Kapoor, Arun Jaitley talked about his days during the
emergency period. Jaitley , who was the president of the students union got the news that the
police is arresting the major leader of the opposition. Jaitley’s father, who was an advocate, advised
Jaitley to run from the back wall. Jaitley, at that time approached X, who later became a TV
journalist, and advised him to runaway from the back wall. He also told Y, who later became a
Print Journalist, to wait for him on a scooter for the getaway.
Unfortunately, Y failed to turn up because he was caught by the police and during the same time.
X shouted in the campus”Agar sach kehna bagawat hai, toh hum bhi baaghi hai”.
Id X(TV journalist) and Y(Print Journalist)

A25
X-Rajat Sharma
Y- Prabhu Chawla

Q26
X was an addition to the game of Y. It was voted in by the controlling authority in
1979 as a way to boost points and reduce congestion observed during the game.
Many players were not able to adapt to this new thing in their own playing style.
This was because scoring from far out was an unnecessary risk without reward.
All of this changed when a statistical analysis was done and what the statisticians
observed was: ”33% from __ is as good as 50% from __”. What was introduced as a
tool to make the sport more difficult ending up being the standard practice for each
team.
Id X&Y

A26
X- 3 pointer line
Y- Basketball

Q27
Chester, also known by his pen name F.D.C Willard , belonged to Michigan University professor Jack
Hetherington. In the year 1975, Hetherington had written a physics paper.
When he sent his report to a friend to review, Jack Hetherington was met with a perplexing situation: he
had written the entire paper using the term ‘we’, although he was the sole author of the report. Rather
than take the time to retype the article to use the singular form, or to bring in a co-author, Hetherington
decided to invent one. He added Chester's name in the co-author section.
However ,In an International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in 1978 , Hetherington's co-
author was exposed: Hetherington had sent some signed copies of his article to friends and colleagues
and included the "signature" of his co-author in them. Later the paper became influential and Chester
was invited to join the university’s physics department full-time!
What surprising distinction chester holds to till date ?

A27
First cat to co-author a research paper

Q28
Argo, an oscar winning movie of 2013, starring Ben Affleck. Although the movie was celebrated
for its plot, its actually the significance of the state-of-the-art paper shredding technology which
is very fascinating to watch.
The real-life incident led to prolific advances with regards to paper shredding technology as the
Iranian militia was able to get their hands on sensitive information regarding 6 high ranking US
diplomats.
This forced the US to re-think their paper shredding technology. This led to change in paper
shredders from simple shredding to cross shredding.
How was the Iranian militia able to obtain the sensitive information?

A28
People could identify the real identity of these people by joining back the strips of shredded
documents. (The Iranian Militia was able to identify one US diplomat by putting together strips of
shredded documents.)

Q29
Michael Atherton is a broadcaster, journalist and an ex-member of the England cricket
team. In his college time, he played for the cricket team of Cambridge University. There is
this legendary rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford University.
One day, During a match between Cambridge v/s Oxford, he faced this rookie bowler
named X. X was able to bowl out Michael at a very low score. X, who belong to a cricket
family didn’t pursued the sport as a future. Instead of that, he went on to become a
journalist.
When asked about his experience with this sport. He mentioned the incident above and
Michael confirmed this incident.
Who is X?

Q30
In the early and mid 2000s, US military started a program to build goodwill in some of the
countries near the middle East. This program involved handing out backpacks with
pencils, games, toys, etc to local kids. Many locals praised this and seeing this, CIA got an
idea to achieve their main goal. CIA recruited Donald Levine, a genius from the toy
industry and ex business executive of Hasbro.
With his help, CIA developed a toy, which was a very unique and special action figure of a
particular individual. This toy was so unique as it would look like any other normal toy
until with time and environmental effects, it will lose it's paint and will reveal it's actual
face, which is of a devil which is how most people in many countries, especially in the west
see him. This was intended to be distributed in their distribution program to make
common people of these regions scared of him. This project was later cancelled after the
prototypes were made.
Who was this particular individual.

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