General Quiz

Round 1
Infinite Pounce
10 questions
+10/-5 on Pounce

1
Shown in the picture is a screenshot from a 2007 film
titled ‘I’m not there’ starring a set of 6 actors who play
characters based on the different facets of this real life
personality. The six facets as depicted in the film are
poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, rock and roll martyr and a
star.
Q: On which real life personality is the movie based on ?
Q: Who plays the facet shown in the picture next slide?
Q: Whose last film before his death was this?

A1
1. Bob Dylan.
2. Cate Blanchett.
3. Heath Ledger.

2
This entity originated from the Ojibwe legend, according
to which ‘Spiderwebs’ protect people from all harm and
help the children have a good time through night and
day. However, in the modern day we know these entities
by a term that was given by the mainstream media in the
1960s and the name stuck. And since this name stuck,
people usually misinterpret the name with something
that usually is associated with night.
Q: What are these entities in question?

3
Named after a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll’s
Through the Looking Glass, it was a failed project done
at Imagine Software. The project’s failure caused the
company to go bankrupt and was closed on 9th July of
1984, which features in a recent work many times.
Q: Why is this company in news? (or) what was the name
given to their failed project?

A3
Bandersnatch – Black Mirror.

4
These two geographical entities that are shown in the
picture next slide define ‘Mesopotamia’ in a way.
One of the entities is named after the ancient Greek
word for our national animal.
The other one gets its name from the ancient Greek word
meaning ‘good and abounding’.
Q: What are the two entities in question?
Q: What does the word ‘Mesopotamia’ mean?

A4
1. Tigris and Euphratus.
2. Between rivers (or) land enclosed by rivers.

5
This city’s original ancient name was Halab meaning
milk (or) white (in Hebrew and Aramaic respectively)
referring to the city’s rich deposits of white marble.
Q: How is the city currently known as?
Q: Which monument present in this city, one of the
largest and oldest of its kind, was destroyed in the year
2013? How?

A5
1. Aleppo, Syria.
2. Great Mosque of Aleppo (or) Umayyad Mosque of
Aleppo; destroyed by the Syrian Civil War.

6
In 1888, the Youth’s Companion magazine had begun a
campaign to sell the US Flags to public schools as a premium
to solicit subscriptions. But this wasn’t a great success until
Daniel Ford, the owner of the children’s magazine hired a
certain Francis Bellamy in 1891 to do something that
resulted in each and every school having to get a flag.
This was propelled in the schools by the year 1892, in order
to commemorate the 400th anniversary of a particular event.
Q: What did Francis Bellamy do/create?
Q: Commemorating which event did the schools actually
start using the creation by Francis Bellamy?

A6
1. He wrote the US Pledge of Allegiance. The pose in
which the US Pledge is recited by the kids is called the
‘Bellamy Salute’.
2. Columbus discovering USA in 1692.

7
Started as BrightKit by Ryan Holmes, this media
management platform gets its current name from the
wordplay on the sound made by the bird in the logo and
the French phrase meaning ‘right now’.
Q: Which social media management site is this?

8
As the story goes, Jawaharlal Nehru once approached the
World Bank for India’s development after Independence.
But the World Bank denied the loan citing insufficient
loan security. Then, Nehru told the World Bank that
India has a valuable asset and thus pledged it to get the
loan.
Q: Which place/region (more popularly known by its
acronym) in India did Nehru pledge for the loan, which
has been in the news due to a project that is the
‘costliest’ of its kind.

A8
KGF (or) Kolar Gold Fields.

9
Shown in the picture is the comic book adaptation of a
work.
Q: Identify the work.

10
The Bruce Effect, named after the Zoologist Hilda Bruce
who in 1959 conducted experiments at the National
Institute for Medical Research in London which involved
a pregnant mouse and a male mouse in a confined
atmosphere.
Q: What tendency, found in female rodents, did Hilda
Bruce first note in 1959?

A10
Aborting themselves after meeting a new male.

Round 2
Unconventional Units
5 questions
Normal Bounce/Pounce applies

1
A system, similar to the prevailing SI system is called the
FFF systems.
Q: Using the table, expand FFF.

2
As a humorous tribute to astrophysicist and his
association with the catchphrase "billions and billions",
a ______ has been defined as a large quantity – technically
at least four billion (two billion plus two billion) – of
anything.
Q: FITB.

3
The unit for measuring the intensity of the earthquake is
the Richter scale. There’s an another unit called the
Richtus scale that measures something that comes along
with any disaster.
Q: What does the Rictus scale measure?

A3
Media coverage of the Earthquake.

4
The ______-second is a unit of length inspired by
the light-year, but applicable to extremely short
distances such as those in integrated circuits. The ______-
second is defined as the increase in length for an
average ______/second. Kemp Bennett Kolb defines the
distance as exactly 100 angstroms (10 nanometers).
Q: Fill in the blank.

5
The ‘mooch’ is another unit referring to a duration of 10
days. It is named after a certain personality who spent
the same time in a certain position.
Q: Who is it named after?

A5
Anthony Scaramucci, the White House Director of
Communications

Round 3
Infinite Pounce
10 questions
+10/-5 on Pounce

11
This is a film genre which is a wordplay combining the
already existent genre which makes use of whatever is
the current trend and the representation of a group of
people often dealing with crime, drug trafficking, money
and sex.
Shown in the picture is one of the examples of such a
genre.
Q: Give me two genres.

A11
Exploitation & Mexploitation.

12
Shown in the picture is the street called Beale Street in
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1870s, the
population of Memphis was rocked by a series of yellow
fever epidemics, leading the city to forfeit its charter in
1879. During this time, Robert Church purchased land
around Beale Street that would eventually lead to his
becoming the first of a kind.
Q: What first did Robert Church become during this
period?
Q: What genre of music is said to had its origin in Beale
Street?

A12
1. First black billionaire.
2. Blues.

13
The semi-political fortnightly magazine by the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram gets its name from the term by which
Mira Alfassa is fondly called by the devotees with a
patriotic touch to it, thereby informing the people of
nature of the magazine.
Q: Which 1957 epic movie’s title also shares its name
with the fortnightly magazine from the Ashram?

A13
Mother India – after The MOTHER.

14
Shown in the image is the crest of the Indonesian
national football team.
Q: From the crest, tell me what their nickname is, which
can also be used to call the people in the Indian Air
Force?

15
Leon ______, currently is studying in Yeshiva in Israel to
become a rabbi. The fact that he is trying to become a
rabbi is ironical due to the fact his more famous dad, who
won the Academy Award playing a role in which he can
think like a Jew, which is also the reason for the myth
surrounding him in the film.
Q: Whose son is Leon?

A15
Christoph Waltz – Hans Landa – Jew Hunter

16
This term refers to the policies instituted in India to
encourage self employment and entrepreneurship.
The term originated from a comment made by the Prime
Minister of India Narendra Modi in January 2018 stating
that street food vendors (selling ________) should also be
considered in employment statistics and hence
unemployment in the country is actually much lower
than statistically reported.
Q: What is this term that combines the food product he
was referring along with the term which was first defined
by Adam Smith among others?

17
Shown in the picture is the L'Inconnue de la Seine was an
unidentified young woman’s death mask which has
inspired many artists and creators alike.
The famed writer, Albert Camus compared her eerily
enigmatic smile to that of a 1503-06 work which features
a certain Lisa Gherardini.
This face was also used as the face to a famous
mannequin, thereby getting the name: The most kissed
face of all time.
Q: Which work did Camus compare it to?
Q: In which other mannequin was it used?

18
Shown in the pictures are two different shades of the
color reddish-brown.
One gets its name from the French region in which the
wine’s color is similar to that of this shade of reddish-
brown color.
The other shade gets its name from the leather
manufactured around a Spanish city in which gets its
name from the old Spanish word, Kartuba.
Q: Identify both the regions.

19
A GoFundMe campaign was started once it was called off
officially by the government in order to fund the private
search for the missing. So far, there has been £220,000
collected from about 2,448 people. Some among these
2,448 are Tolisso, Rabiot, Gray among others.
Q: Who/What are they searching for?

A19
Emiliano Sala - The footballer who went missing

20
Shown in the picture is a screengrab from a 1991 film,
which follows Dmitri, a tram driver in Leningrad, making
a trip from St. Petersburg to Berlin, Paris and London.
This is relevant because of the fact that his great-
grandfather made the same trip across Western Europe
on 7th July,1862.
Q: Who is Dmitri’s great-grandfather?
Q: What is the work shown in the poster?

A20
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky.
2. Crime & Punishment.

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