For this month,ENQUEST team came up with a SpEnt quiz. Even though the quiz was of low scoring, we got good response from the participants,as the answers were almost known to them and popular. Looking forward for your valuable suggestions.

1. SpEnt Quiz
Researched and Hosted by:
John Alias & Noyel Sebastian

2. Acknowledgements
• Loyola Debating Society and Quiz Club
• Contributors : Denita Tresa, Vishakh K
Valiathan and Amal Jose Philip
• Guinea pig : Denita Tresa.

3. Rules
• 26 questions, 34 points
• Questions are shown alternatively
(Entertainment and Sports).
• Don’t make it complicate. Guess and think
freely.
• No use of cell phones and googling is
prohibited
• And of course, respect Q.M’s authority!!!

5. Q.1
• Bairavi’s release on June 2, 1978, was preceded by a canny and
high-decibel marketing campaign that was orchestrated by S
Dhanu, a tin manufacturer turned distributor.
• Dhanu had previously commissioned eye-catching posters for his
releases, which were different in style and content from the official
publicity material.
• For Bairavi, he put up a 40-foot cut-out of Rajnikanth at Plaza
theatre in Chennai and Bairavi saw something new and first of its
kind in to the Kollywood.
• What was the new initiative which is still in practice was initiated by
Dhanu?

6. Q.2
• The international federation which governs Taekwondo
changed its name to World Taekwondo because of the
negative connotation associated with its initials.The
organisation had used the previous name since it was
established in 1973.
• However, it felt in the "digital age" the slang of the old
abbreviation was "unrelated to our organisation and so
it was important that we rebranded to better engage
with our fans".
• So what was the old name of the federation which was
changed to World Taekwondo?

7. Q.3
• Kavitha Devi is a weightlifter who represented India in
international competitions and won gold in the 75 kg
category at the 2016 South Asian Games.
• She changed her coach to a person called Dalip Singh Rana,
in 2016 itself which made all the difference in her career
and now she is common to us in another particular field.
• What unique feat was achieved by Devi recently?
• How do we better know Dalip Singh Rana , an ex-Punjab
police officer?
• Image slide follows.

9. Q.4
• After winning the final match of the tournament
in 1936 Berlin Olympics, X was offered German
Citizenship and a high position in the German
Army by Y who was said to be blown away by X’s
splendid performance. It is said that Y left the
stadium seeing Germany losing the match.
However X rejected the offer and decided to stay
in his homeland.
• Identify X & Y.

10. Q.5
• Union Ministry is up with a ‘Safe City’ plan for women in Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai ,Kolkata, Ahmedabad,Bengaluru,Lucknow and Hyderabad
• Uttar Pradesh came up with an initiative where a set of girl students were
selected and awarded police identity cards and designated as 'special
police officials' up to the age of 24 years.
• They named their initiative (with apt correction for the scheme) taking
cue from a popular cartoon series where the selected civilians turns super
heroes and showcases their power in order to save those in danger.
• What did they name their initiative?

11. Q.6 Gimme X and Y
• In the 1920s, German brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler launched a shoe
company together in their mother's laundry room. But as their sales
spiked, so did the tension between the two brothers. After an Allied bomb
attack, Adolf and his wife took cover in a bomb shelter already occupied
by Rudolf and his family. "The dirty bastards are back again," Adolf said,
apparently referring to the planes, but Rudolf thought the comment was
an attack against his family.
• By the war's end, the brothers had split the company and waged a war of
their own — in the business arena. Adolf, who preferred to be called Adi,
named his business X; Rudolf tried the same with his firm called Ruda,
though he later changed it to Y.
• It's said that the brothers never spoke again, and their bitter rivalry even
divided the town of Herzogenaurach, where they built their competing
factories on the opposite banks of the town's river.

12. Q.7 Put Funda

14. Q.8
• Chris Chataway who died in 2015 was BBC’s
Sports Personality of the year in 1954, when
he helped a colleague pass one of the sport’s
most famous milestones on May 6, 1954.
• Who was his colleague?
• What word (that also describes a functional
region of the heart) describes Chataway’s role
in his milestone?

15. Q.9
• The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from
the Rudyard Kipling novella of the same title and the film used to
represent Freemasons.
• “The reason I can be incredibly precise about when I drew this is
that at some point when I was drawing the picture and watching
the movie, my mother died” said the creator of a particular symbol
which is so famous in the pop culture.
• What symbol was inspired and has a resemblance to the symbol In
the movie?
• Image slide follows.

17. Q.10
• It was the second ODI between India and
Pakistan played at Sialkot in the winter of
1984. Pakistan were 1-0 up in the ODI
series.India were 210 for 3 in 40 overs with
Dilip Vengsarkar on 94* batting with Ravi
shastri. The match was suddenly called off.
• What was the reason?

18. Q.11
• In 1941, Russi Karanjia from Bombay started Blitz- India’s first
weekly tabloid and focussed on investigative journalism and
political news. R K Laxman started initial years of his career in this
tabloid.
• In 1959, Blitz came out with a sensational headline which received
unprecedented media coverage, so that a 25p copy of the tabloid
was sold at Rs 2 at that time.
• All this caused a change in the Indian Judiciary.
• What headline? or Gimme the funda
• What made this to be back in news?

19. Q.12
• X's management career didn’t particularly get to the
best of starts.During the late 1950s and 1960s- Alberto
Ascari, Eugenio Castellotti, Alfonso de Portago, Luigi
Musso, Peter Collins, Wolfgang Von Trips and Lorenzo
Bandini - were all killed. Although such high death toll
was not unusual in motor racing in those days, the
Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano nicknamed
him as Y, with reference to Roman mythology.
• ID X and what was his nickname?

20. Q.13
• Francisco Tárrega is often
called as "the father of
classical guitar" and is
considered one of the greatest
guitarists of all time.
• In 1902,he composed Gran
Vals , and a phrase from his
composition became popular
to us in a completely different
field.
• How is Gran Vals still
remebered?

21. Q.14
• X is an East Asia city hosting an important
international sporting event in 2018.To avoid
potential confusion with another controversial
city Y in the region, a capital C is added to X.
• Identify X and Y and name the sporting event
to be held?

22. Q.15
• The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between
the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of
the Ayyubid sultan Saladin and allowed Muslims to capture
Jerusalem and parts of the Holy Land.
• Third crusade helped European leaders to reconquer Acre
and Jaffna and still failed to capture Jerusalem, the
emotional and spiritual motivation of the Crusade.
• This history inspired something which commenced a
decade ago and was acclaimed all over the world.
• What did this inspire?

23. Q.16 Put Funda
• 11-3, 10 overs.
• 29 dot balls of first 30 deliveries.
• 4 maiden overs out of first 5 overs.

24. Q.17
• A health conscious X met his doctor in search
of tips to stay healthy and live longer. The
doctor replied to his client, “to stay away
from stake” so that X can live longer.
• What popular belief was inspired from this?

25. Q.18
• It was on October 9, 1971, Manchester United made their last visit
to Yorkshire town to play Huddersfield. Man.U won the match for 3-
0,while George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton scored one
each and appeared in the scorecard for one last time.
• Red Devils turned Russian capital red, sending their fans partying
into Red Square after winning 2008 UEFA champions League title.
• No more appropriate celebration of the 40 years since United first
lifted the trophy could be scripted than the 2008 triumph for the
new trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez,
where they were described as ___________ ,which was used to
describe Best, Law and Charlton .
• FITB

26. Q.19
• The political turmoil of the 19th century Europe saw the rise of
Edwardian Anarchists. In 1910 they broke into a jeweler's shop in
Houndsditch and the subsequent gun fight led to the killing of
policemen and the gang leader.
• Later police shot down the absconded gang members to death at
Stepany. This account is known to us by another name and Alfred
Hitchkock came up with a movie in 1936 with the plot.
• Hitchcock came up with another suspense thriller in 1954 with the
same name and won the Academy Award for best song.
• ID the movie.

27. Q.20
• After X's death, the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) started the Ranji Trophy in 1934, with
the first fixtures taking place in 1934–35. The
trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder
Singh of Patiala, who also inaugurated it. Today it
remains a domestic first-class
cricket championship played in India between
different city and state sides.
• ID X?

28. Q.21
• Informe Semanal, a Spanish weekly programme came under
widespread criticism at the same time applause for using a
particular theme music for Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
• The music is from the debut album by English musician Mike
Oldfield but popularized by the use in a 1973 movie.
• William Friedkin, director of the movie, was visiting the office of the
of the distributor’s of the album and found the particular music
would be perfect for the movie.
• What music?
• Which is the movie?

29. Q.22
• A review of this book in the Gaurdian 3 May 2004
states that " This is far more than just a cricket book. It
is an inspired approach to colonial and post-colonial
Indian history, as seen in its relationship with what is
now, unarguably, the country's national game ". The
author is an Indian historian and writer whose research
interests include environmental, social, political,
contemporary and cricket history. He is also a
columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times.
• IDENTIFY THE BOOK ?
• Image slide follows.

31. Q.23
• There were a huge controversy surrounding the origin
of this particular dance move. At the end, Skippa Da
Flippa was credited with creation of the move.
• This is a simple dance move in which a person drops
the head into the bent crook of a slanted arm, often
while raising the opposite arm in a parallel direction
but out straight. The move looks similar to someone
sneezing into the "inside" of the elbow.
• What dance move?

32. Q.24
• AF Garenne-Doves were playing ES Benevolence in
1905.Unfortunately play was stopped in between as
the ball hit the mouth of the referee Henry Delaunay
and he swallowed the whistle and broke 2 teeth.
• After the incident Henry retired from refereeing and
joined the football administration. Along with Jules
Rimet, he was an early architect of the FIFA World Cup.
• How in the world of football, Delaunay is still
remembered?

33. Q.25
• The Greek fire was an incendiary weapon
developed and used by the byzantine empire,
particularly in naval battles with great effect. Also
called Roman fire, sea fire, liquid fire etc..its
components still remains a mystery with
suggestions like pine resin, naphtha and quick
lime, sulphur and niter.
• What was this an inspiration for in the pop
culture?

34. Q.26
• Both seems to be "twin sisters" but possess uniqueness
in its own ways.The outermost colour represents
upliftment and illumination offering hope, happiness,
cheerfullness and fun while the innermost one is
synonymous to trust, honesty and loyalty. The unique
concept in one is positivity, neglecting the negatives
and up keeping positive environment and perfection.
Th other one portrays the symbol of strength and
pride. The logo is built around the indomitable animal
reflecting its pride of place in culture and festivities of
the region.
• What am I talking about?

36. Q.1
• Bairavi’s release on June 2, 1978, was preceded by a canny and
high-decibel marketing campaign that was orchestrated by S
Dhanu, a tin manufacturer turned distributor.
• Dhanu had previously commissioned eye-catching posters for his
releases, which were different in style and content from the official
publicity material.
• For Bairavi, he put up a 40-foot cut-out of Rajnikanth at Plaza
theatre in Chennai and Bairavi saw something new and first of its
kind in to the Kollywood.
• What was the new initiative which is still in practice was initiated by
Dhanu?

37. SUPERSTAR RAJNI title card
(Rajnikanth was anointed superstar for the first time)

38. Q.2
• The international federation which governs Taekwondo
changed its name to World Taekwondo because of the
negative connotation associated with its initials.The
organisation had used the previous name since it was
established in 1973.
• However, it felt in the "digital age" the slang of the old
abbreviation was "unrelated to our organisation and so
it was important that we rebranded to better engage
with our fans".
• So what was the old name of the federation which was
changed to World Taekwondo?

40. Q.3
• Kavitha Devi is a weightlifter who represented India in
international competitions and won gold in the 75 kg
category at the 2016 South Asian Games.
• She changed her coach to a person called Dalip Singh Rana,
in 2016 itself which made all the difference in her career
and now she is common to us in another particular field.
• What unique feat was achieved by Devi recently?
• How do we better know Dalip Singh Rana , an ex-Punjab
police officer?
• Image slide follows.

42. HARD KD
( 1st Indian women WWE wrestler).
The Great KHALI

43. Q.4
• After winning the final match of the tournament
in 1936 Berlin Olympics, X was offered German
Citizenship and a high position in the German
Army by Y who was said to be blown away by X’s
splendid performance. It is said that Y left the
stadium seeing Germany losing the match.
However X rejected the offer and decided to stay
in his homeland.
• Identify X & Y.

45. Q.5
• Union Ministry is up with a ‘Safe City’ plan for women in Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai ,Kolkata, Ahmedabad,Bengaluru,Lucknow and Hyderabad
• Uttar Pradesh came up with an initiative where a set of girl students were
selected and awarded police identity cards and designated as 'special
police officials' up to the age of 24 years.
• They named their initiative (with apt correction for the scheme) taking
cue from a popular cartoon series where the selected civilians turns super
heroes and showcases their power in order to save those in danger.
• What did they name their initiative?

46. Power Angels

47. Q.6 Gimme X and Y
• In the 1920s, German brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler launched a shoe
company together in their mother's laundry room. But as their sales
spiked, so did the tension between the two brothers. After an Allied bomb
attack, Adolf and his wife took cover in a bomb shelter already occupied
by Rudolf and his family. "The dirty bastards are back again," Adolf said,
apparently referring to the planes, but Rudolf thought the comment was
an attack against his family.
• By the war's end, the brothers had split the company and waged a war of
their own — in the business arena. Adolf, who preferred to be called Adi,
named his business X; Rudolf tried the same with his firm called Ruda,
though he later changed it to Y.
• It's said that the brothers never spoke again, and their bitter rivalry even
divided the town of Herzogenaurach, where they built their competing
factories on the opposite banks of the town's river.

49. Q.7 Put Funda

51. Q.8
• Chris Chataway who died in 2015 was BBC’s
Sports Personality of the year in 1954, when
he helped a colleague pass one of the sport’s
most famous milestones on May 6, 1954.
• Who was his colleague?
• What word (that also describes a functional
region of the heart) describes Chataway’s role
in his milestone?

52. • Roger Bannister who was the first to run a
mile under 4 minutes.
• Charles Chataway was his 'pacemaker'

53. Q.9
• The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from
the Rudyard Kipling novella of the same title and the film used to
represent Freemasons.
• “The reason I can be incredibly precise about when I drew this is
that at some point when I was drawing the picture and watching
the movie, my mother died” said the creator of a particular symbol
which is so famous in the pop culture.
• What symbol was inspired and has a resemblance to the symbol In
the movie?
• Image slide follows.

56. Q.10
• It was the second ODI between India and
Pakistan played at Sialkot in the winter of
1984. Pakistan were 1-0 up in the ODI
series.India were 210 for 3 in 40 overs with
Dilip Vengsarkar on 94* batting with Ravi
shastri. The match was suddenly called off.
• What was the reason?

57. Indira Gandhi Shot dead

58. Q.11
• In 1941, Russi Karanjia from Bombay started Blitz- India’s first
weekly tabloid and focussed on investigative journalism and
political news. R K Laxman started initial years of his career in this
tabloid.
• In 1959, Blitz came out with a sensational headline which received
unprecedented media coverage, so that a 25p copy of the tabloid
was sold at Rs 2 at that time.
• All this caused a change in the Indian Judiciary.
• What headline? or Gimme the funda
• What made this to be back in news?

60. Q.12
• X's management career didn’t particularly get to the
best of starts.During the late 1950s and 1960s- Alberto
Ascari, Eugenio Castellotti, Alfonso de Portago, Luigi
Musso, Peter Collins, Wolfgang Von Trips and Lorenzo
Bandini - were all killed. Although such high death toll
was not unusual in motor racing in those days, the
Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano nicknamed
him as Y, with reference to Roman mythology.
• ID X and what was his nickname?

61. X- Enzo Ferrari.
He was nicknamed Saturn after the Roman god , who consumed his own sons.

62. Q.13
• Francisco Tárrega is often
called as "the father of
classical guitar" and is
considered one of the greatest
guitarists of all time.
• In 1902,he composed Gran
Vals , and a phrase from his
composition became popular
to us in a completely different
field.
• How is Gran Vals still
remebered?

63. Nokia tune

64. Q.14
• X is an East Asia city hosting an important
international sporting event in 2018.To avoid
potential confusion with another controversial
city Y in the region, a capital C is added to X.
• Identify X and Y and name the sporting event
to be held?

65. X-PyeongChang
Y- Pyongyang
(Winter Olympics)

66. Q.15
• The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between
the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of
the Ayyubid sultan Saladin allowed Muslims to capture
Jerusalem and parts of the Holy Land.
• Third crusade helped European leaders to reconquer Acre
and Jaffna and still failed to capture Jerusalem, the
emotional and spiritual motivation of the Crusade.
• This history inspired something which commenced a
decade ago and was acclaimed all over the world.
• What did this inspire?

68. Q.16 PUT FUNDA
• 11-3, 10 overs.
• 29 dot balls of first 30 deliveries.
• 4 maiden overs out of first 5 overs.

69. Lowest Power play score in ODI by
India

70. Q.17
• A health conscious X met his doctor in search
of tips to stay healthy and live longer. The
doctor replied to his client, “to stay away
from stake” so that X can live longer.
• What popular belief was inspired from this?

71. Dracula is a vegetarian

72. Q.18
• It was on October 9, 1971, Manchester United made their last visit
to Yorkshire town to play Huddersfield. Man.U won the match for 3-
0,while George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton scored one
each and appeared in the scorecard for one last time.
• Red Devils turned Russian capital red, sending their fans partying
into Red Square after winning 2008 UEFA champions League title.
• No more appropriate celebration of the 40 years since United first
lifted the trophy could be scripted than the 2008 triumph for the
new trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez,
where they were described as ___________ ,which was used to
describe Best, Law and Charlton .
• FITB

73. The Holy Trinity/ United Trinity

74. Q.19
• The political turmoil of the 19th century Europe saw the rise of
Edwardian Anarchists. In 1910 they broke into a jeweler's shop in
Houndsditch and the subsequent gun fight led to the killing of
policemen and the gang leader.
• Later police shot down the absconded gang members to death at
Stepany. This account is known to us by another name and Alfred
Hitchkock came up with a movie in 1936 with the plot.
• Hitchcock came up with another suspense thriller in 1954 with the
same name and won the Academy Award for best song.
• ID the movie.

76. Q.20
• After X's death, the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) started the Ranji Trophy in 1934, with
the first fixtures taking place in 1934–35. The
trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder
Singh of Patiala, who also inaugurated it. Today it
remains a domestic first-class
cricket championship played in India between
different city and state sides.
• ID X?

77. Maharaja Ranjith Singh

78. Q.21
• Informe Semanal, a Spanish weekly programme came under
widespread criticism at the same time applause for using a
particular theme music for Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.
• The music is from the debut album by English musician Mike
Oldfield but popularized by the use in a 1973 movie.
• William Friedkin, director of the movie, was visiting the office of the
of the distributor’s of the album and found the particular music
would be perfect for the movie.
• What music?
• Which is the movie?

79. Tubular Bells
The Exorcist

80. Q.22
• A review of this book in the Gaurdian 3 May 2004
states that " This is far more than just a cricket book. It
is an inspired approach to colonial and post-colonial
Indian history, as seen in its relationship with what is
now, unarguably, the country's national game ". The
author is an Indian historian and writer whose research
interests include environmental, social, political,
contemporary and cricket history. He is also a
columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times.
• IDENTIFY THE BOOK ?
• Image slide follows.

83. Q.23
• There were a huge controversy surrounding the origin
of this particular dance move. At the end, Skippa Da
Flippa was credited with creation of the move.
• This is a simple dance move in which a person drops
the head into the bent crook of a slanted arm, often
while raising the opposite arm in a parallel direction
but out straight. The move looks similar to someone
sneezing into the "inside" of the elbow.
• What dance move?

84. DAB

85. Q.24
• AF Garenne-Doves were playing ES Benevolence in
1905.Unfortunately play was stopped in between as
the ball hit the mouth of the referee Henry Delaunay
and he swallowed the whistle and broke 2 teeth.
• After the incident Henry retired from refereeing and
joined the football administration. Along with Jules
Rimet, he was an early architect of the FIFA World Cup.
• How in the world of football, Delaunay is still
remembered?

86. EURO CUP
(Euro cup is named after Delaunay)

87. Q.25
• The Greek fire was an incendiary weapon
developed and used by the byzantine empire,
particularly in naval battles with great effect. Also
called Roman fire, sea fire, liquid fire etc..its
components still remains a mystery with
suggestions like pine resin, naphtha and quick
lime, sulphur and niter.
• What was this an inspiration for in the pop
culture?

88. Wildfire
( Used in the battle of Blackwater)

89. Q.26
• Both seems to be "twin sisters" but possess uniqueness
in its own ways.The outermost colour represents
upliftment and illumination offering hope, happiness,
cheerfullness and fun while the innermost one is
synonymous to trust, honesty and loyalty. The unique
concept in one is positivity, neglecting the negatives
and up keeping positive environment and perfection.
Th other one portrays the symbol of strength and
pride. The logo is built around the indomitable animal
reflecting its pride of place in culture and festivities of
the region.
• What am I talking about?