This is the answer slide of the Freshers' Quiz organised by me during the Freshers' Week at IIT Guwahati.

1. .

4. Let’s Take a Little Detour, Shall We ?

5. • Who was the first man on moon ?
• Who was the first woman to go to space ?
QUIZZING 101
A general School Quizzing question

6. • Who is welcoming
whom during the
latter’s visit to
Yuri Gagarin
centre in Russia ?
( Source –
J.Ramanand)
A proper College Quizzing Level
Question

9. Enough lecture . Now let’s start :D

10. 1. A 2014 mobile game app is built by
Glu Mobile and became instantly
popular. Set in Hollywood, the game's
'currency' is various forms of 'energy'
such as K-stars and energy bolts.
Using that, players can try to become
'famous' and try to become A-listers in
Hollywood.
Which socialite-star (image on left)
lends her name and much of her life &
personality to this game?

12. • X was first held in 1960.
• Since then it has undergone major changes, the most
recent being in 2013.
• In 1997 , it suffered a minor setback.
• Political parties in various states have raised objections
to X based on language issues.
• While it was initially an only-Indian affair, it had its first
overseas version in 2008.
• All of us sitting here have been a part of X, at some point
in our lifetime.
• Identify X .
2. Another easy one

13. आईआईटी जेईई :P

14. • Guy Dangerous: Just your average explorer. Guy Dangerous
was born in April 25, 1985.
• Scarlett Fox: The cunning escape artist. Scarlett Fox was
born in December 19, 1986.
• Barry Bones: A city cop with an attitude. Barry Bones was
born in September 29, 1984.
• Karma Lee: "The fastest legs in the Far East"
• Montana Smith: "The second greatest explorer ever"
• Francisco Montoya:" The conquistador"
• Zack Wonder: Football star
• Usain Bolt: World's fastest man.He is an athlete.
• Santa Claus: Exclusive character for limited time.
3. Where would one find all these ?

16. 4. Quim Barreiros is
a Portuguese pimba music writer
and singer . The image on the left
is the poster used by him to
promote his single 'Recebi Um
Convite‘ in 1973.
This picture however has again
come into limelight after almost 40
years albeit with a minor change.
What am I talking about ?
Put funda.

18. • In the two slides that follow, you will be shown four images
of some pretty famous footballers in their not-so-famous
looks .
• You only need to identify them and write down their names.
• There is a provision for partial points .
• P.S. – Appearances can be deceitful ;)
5.

23. 6. Whose voice ,lyrics and which movie ?
I need all but there are partial points.

24. Farhan Akhtar , Javed Akhtar

25. • In essence, X is a tribute to native genius, and lateral
thinking. It means "can do." It means where there's a will,
there's a way.
• X is also a locally-made motor vehicle used in small villages
as a means of low cost transportation in rural India. X
literally means an improvised arrangement or work-around,
which has to be used because of lack of resources.
• X can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used
for solutions that bend rules, or a resource that can be used
as such or a person who can solve a vexatious issue. It is
used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for
political fixers.
7. This is how Samosapedia defines X .
What is X here ?

27. 8. Connect

29. • We all know the tragic story of RMS Titanic including the love
story of Rose and Jack (which didn’t happen in actual by the
way)
• Titanic in all essence was a ocean liner (a ship designed to
transport people from one seaport to another) but very few
know that the letters ‘RMS’ denoted another function that it
was supposed to carry out .
• What was that function ?
9.

30. • The R.M.S. Titanic was a Royal Mail Ship, a designation
which meant the Titanic was officially responsible for
delivering mail for the British postal service.
• On board the Titanic was a Sea Post Office with five mail
clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks
were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million
individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic.
• Interestingly, although no mail has yet been recovered from
the wreck of the Titanic, if it were, the U.S. Postal Service
would still try to deliver it (the USPS because most of the
mail was being sent to the U.S.).
Royal Mail Ship

31. 10. “The Theory of Everything” is an upcoming
biopic based on the life of an eminent physicist /
cosmologist. Give me his name.
• Video of trailer

32. Stephen Hawking

33. 11. Whose autobiography ? The person will be
in news once again in upcoming months.

35. 12.An ad by Snickers alluding to what?
(Clue – Think Football)

36. Suarez biting Giorgio Chiellini

37. • There are many myths and legends about the origin of the X.
• One legend explains how the X was create by Heracles when
he was a baby. His father, Zeus, was fond of his son, who was
born of the mortal woman Alcmene. He decided to let the
infant Heracles suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when she
was asleep, an act which would endow the baby with godlike
qualities.
• When Hera woke up and realized that she
was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed him away
and the spurting milk became the X.
13. Identify X , a term for the crowd
of stars that makes a distinctive
bright streak across the night sky .

38. Milky way

39. 14. Connect these songs
(Non – exhaustive list)
• Audios removed

40. These are the original versions of the
remake Bollywood songs .

41. • These type of vehicles get their popular English
name from the literal translation of the Japanese
"dangan ressha", indicative of its shape in the
original design and its much talked-about speed.
In Japan, the name for the network of lines these
vehicles run on literally means "new trunk line".
• Much discussed in India by the new government
this year , what kind of vehicles are these and
what is the Japanese name of the network?
15.

42. "Bullet Trains" and "Shinkansen"

43. 16. Above is the tweet by the developer of a single -player puzzle
game created in March 2014 .
The game created quite a hysteria and later had plenty of derived
versions.
Which famous puzzle game is this ? (which I am pretty sure you all
must have tried at one point of time on your smart phone :P)

45. 17. “A mass murderer poses in a group photo with his
victims.” was the caption under which this was
posted few days back in r/funny . Anyway , so who’s
this mass murderer and who are these supposedly
victims ?

46. GRRM Martin and GOT characters

47. • The event was the most discussed sports game ever on Twitter
with over 35.6 million tweets
• Just give me the name of the event.
18. Following are the few among the
many images that went viral after a
certain event in world of Sports.

51. • The game is a pretty famous first-person and third-person
shooter video game franchise.
• The series began on the PC, and later expanded to
consoles and handhelds. Several spin-off games have also
been released. The earlier games in the series are set
primarily in World War II
19. Identify the game and the actor in
the video (video to follow)

53. Kevin Spacey

54. 20. In 2012, Sana Saeed made
her screen debut as an adult in a
supporting role in Karan Johar's
Student Of The Year, which
emerged as a box-office
commercial success.
As a child artist, she had also
acted in Fox Kids, Kachche
Papad Pakke Papad, and the
Bobby Deol - Rani Mukherji
starrer Badaal.
Name her debut film as a child
artist.

55. Kuch Kuch Hota hai

57. The Guest Quiz
Master:
Manan Bhutani

58. Few tidbits about the QM
• Fourth Year. Mathematics and
Computing.
• Was the Quiz Club Secretary last year
• Huge fan of The Beatles, Coldplay
and Dire Straits.
• An Alcohol Connoisseur.

59. Rules
• 6 Questions.
• You get a +1 for each correct answer. No negative marking.
• I hope you enjoy the questions 

60. 21. Being a Dilliwallah , I HAD to ask this question! 
X is a famous locality in Delhi. The Mela restaurant in the UK has
imitated this place and a popular restaurant group is also trying to
copy the ambience of this place in Bombay. Of the 20 shops present
in the late 1960s (all belonging to branches of the same family),
three remain:
Pt Kanhaiyalal Durgaprasad Dixit (estd
1875),
Dayanand Shivcharan (estd 1882),
and Pt Baburam Devidayal (estd 1886).
X derives its name from the one food item it is particularly famous
for.
Identify X

61. Paranthe waali gali

62. 22. X was born in Pilani, Rajasthan. Her father worked with the Indian
Army, so she also lived and studied in Bathinda and Patiala.
• In 1994, her father was killed in a terrorist attack in Kashmir.
Thereafter, her mother started living in Delhi-suburb, Noida, where
she grew up and did her schooling from Delhi Public School, Noida.
• After that she studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
University, and started taking part in local theatre.
• Her Cannes' first was with Anurag Kashyap's production Peddlers in
2012, followed by The Lunchbox, which was screened at 2013 Cannes
Film Festival.
• X has also appeared in one of Cadbury’s advertisements. She is shown
as eating a Diary Milk Silk while she is stuck in a Traffic Jam.
• Identify X .

63. Nimrat Kaur

64. 23. Jasper "Jack" Daniels,
nearing his end, had a last
wish. But that last wish of
his turned into his last
words, and he passed away
instantly.
What were those last
words, something we say
after enjoying a sip of his
famous booze?

65. One Last Drink Please

66. 24. Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers whose
families opposed their marriage would jump off a cliff
to prove their love. But women, when their turn came
after seeing their men jump off, would get cold feet
and return home, and marry someone else.
Which famous phrase came into existence due to this ?
Hint: It is used nowadays to accord respect .

67. Ladies First

68. 25. Manufactured by South Korea’s Orion Confectionery, the X were first
given to North Korean workers by their South Korean bosses in lieu of
cash bonuses, according to the Guardian. (Cash bonuses were banned
because they were considered to be a symbol of capitalism.).
X were so rare and delicious in snack-deprived Pyongyang that the
workers at the complex located just north of the demilitarized zone
started selling them on the black market for up to four times their
regular price in South Korea, where they are widely available.
As recently as 2010, nearly 2.5 million of the sweets were traded on
North Korean black market every month, according to the Chosun Ilbo, a
South Korean paper.
These days, the X are also manufactured by Lotte Confectionery
Identify X

69. Choco Pie

70. END OF GUEST QUIZ

71. 21. In Chattisgarh, Chaprah is regular chutney which is
prepared by the locals.
What’s this special chutney made of ?
Most of you would never ever try this chutney after knowing
the answer :D

72. Red ants

73. 22. What in the ‘cellular’ world does
this song lends inspiration to ?

74. Idea Cellular tune

75. 23. There are four slides to follow . Each
slide contains the lyrics of a hit song,
expressed in Archaic English.
Simply identify the song OR the artist.
Example Question follows.

77. • Sorry guys we won’t play the song as we don’t want you to
take home ear - sore from this event :D
The answer is of course Baby (Justin
Bieber )

78. 1.

79. 2.

80. 3.

81. 24. What is SPERMOLOGY ?
”Things are not always as they seem; the first
appearance deceives many” :P

82. • We are expecting a lot of ‘dirty’ answers on this one :D
Study of trivia :P

83. 25. Identify the singer ?
#Sitter

85. • His last appearance as an actor was in “Door Wadiyon Mein
Kahin” (1980)
• During the Indian Emergency , Sanjay Gandhi had requested
him to sing for an Indian National Congress rally in Mumbai,
but he refused.
• Interestingly, his Warden Road flat bore a sign -- "Beware of
<his first name>
• An official biopic on his life and times is being made by
director Anurag Basu, which stars Ranbir Kapoor .
26. Following are some interesting facts about a
certain famous personality. Just give me his name.

87. 27. Minimalist poster round

94. 28. A reference to what ? Put funda.

96. • X was exchanged to a fisherwoman’s child when newly born
; it was his uncle Y who immediately noticed the mistake
(actually he didn’t see a little hole on the top of my left
ear lobe that he had a day ago) and brought him back.
• Had it not been for the sharp eye of the legendary
cricketer’s uncle, we might not have ever seen the master
in action.
• X would later say "My habbit of FISHING outside the off-
stump comes from there" .
29. Identify this legendary cricketer X .

97. Sunil Gavaskar

98. 30. What is this range of bottles
known as ? (Clue – Think Simple)

100. • X is a Palestinian Sunni Islamic organization, with an
associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades,
in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle
East including Qatar. Since 2007, it has governed the Gaza
Strip, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian
Parliament . X is designated as a terrorist
organization by Israel (It is very much in news lately)
• Y is a Levantine food dip or spread made from cooked,
mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon
juice, salt and garlic. Today, it is popular throughout
the Middle East (including Turkey), North
Africa(including Morocco), and in Middle Eastern
cuisine around the globe
31. Give me X and Y which are more or
less homonyms .

101. X – Hamas Y - Hummus