General Quiz

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Rules:
1) There are 4 rounds each consisting of 8 questions.
2) If found cheating, the team will be immediately
disqualified.
3) Decision of Quiz Master will be considered final,
not even Thanos can challenge him.
4) You all cleared JEE, so no need to teach what
competition means.

Puchke Batata Hu
(Round 1)
Bounce: +10/+0
Pounce: +20/-10

Q1. The tragic end of the dodos occurred because Dutch
sailors brought pigs to the island of Mauritius, which
plundered the dodos’ nests and ate their eggs ultimately drove
the birds to extinction. It is a misconception that sailors ate
the dodos themselves.
What in the world is magnificent reconstruction of this
historic tale?

Q2. This symbol was drawn to resemble a certain Roman
god’s trident. The three tips of the trident were modified and
they end in a circle, a triangle and a square. This was done to
signify compatibility and versatility in usage.
What symbol?

Q3. This famous ‘theorem’ or equation is famously called
beautiful because it combines 5 fundamental mathematical
constants. Indeed, after proving _______ during a lecture,
Benjamin Peirce stated that “it is absolutely paradoxical; we
cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means, but
we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the
truth.”
What am I talking about?

Q4. Indravadan J. Purohit, is remembered the most for his
work as X in the Bollywood movie Y. He was also a part of
SAB TV’s kids show ‘Baal Veer’ where he played the role of
DoobaDooba. Called ‘Chotu Dada’ affectionately by his
colleagues, his costume for X was made in such a way that he
had to act blindly with weight almost equal to his own over
his head.
Identify X and Y.

Q5. In the final of Champions League T20, on 4th October,
2014, when KKR’s Kuldeep Yadav came to bowl his first over,
CSK’s Brendon McCullum hit five sweep shots off his
deliveries.
This made the commentator Arun Lal joke that McCullum
might have taken X’s initiative Y a little bit too seriously.
Identify X and Y.

A5.
X- Narendra Modi, Y- Swachh Bharat

Q6. The East India Company took control of this place in
1809 and banned entry of sub-castes like Pirali, Chamar,
Dom. At some point, even Sant Kabir, Guru Nanak and Lord
Curzon were refused entry.
When Lord Mountbatten visited the place with his Executive
Council Member Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, he was given a grand
welcome. However, Ambedkar was not allowed inside.
Which place is this?

Q7. What do all these have in common:
Ultron
Wolverine
Sabretooth
Bullseye
Lady Deathstrike
X-23

Q8. The flag consists of a deep red field, representing
labour, charged with a plough to represent agriculture. Three
stripes are found on the hoist side and represent the three
geographic regions.

Humse Na Ho Payega
(Round 2)
Bounce: +20/+0
Pounce: +40/-20

Q1. Gary Gilmore was a notorious murderer and
committed two gruesome murders. He was executed by a
firing squad on January 17, 1977 in Utah. His last three
words have made him a legend in the world of Business and
Branding.
What did his last words lead to?

Q2. In 2004, APJ Abdul Kalam broke this tradition, that
was being followed by most of his predecessors.
In 2009, Pratibha Patil followed the suit, I mean, by breaking
the tradition.
However in 2014, Pranab Mukherjee decided to reinstate the
practice.
What are we talking about?

Q3. Significance of this list?
Shahid Afridi Saeed Anwar
Ijaz Ahmed Saleem Malik
Inzamam-ul-Haq Mushtaq Ahmed
Yousuf Youhana Saqlain Mushtaq
Moin Khan Wasim Akram

A3.
Anil Kumble’s 10 wickets against Pakistan

Q4. The Ig-Nobel winning paper “Spontaneous _____ of
an Agitated String” (2014) was about tumbling strings of
different stiffness and length in a box. The complexity of the
result was directly proportional to the length.
The experiments were the simulation of an annoying modern
problem – caused by confinement and external movement.
Keeping something neatly wasn’t always going to prevent it
from _____.
What did this paper explain?

A4.
Why do earphone cords get entangled?

Q5. X is a random collection of letters. The first two letters
are the initials of the founder’s name. The third letter is the
first alphabet in the name of the property where the founder
grew up and the fourth letter is the alphabet in the name of
the village where the founder grew up.
Identify X.

A5.
IKEA
Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd

Q6. “Majdur paida huwe, majdur hi maroge
Vote na diya hamein, to zinda jaloge.”
“Jal kar hum shola bane hai,
Kaun jalayega zinda aap ko, jab hum aap ke sath khade
hain.”
Slogans of which famous political rivalry?

Q7. How do we better know this in the field of science?

Q8. This device was based on the cash register design.
According to this theory, the currencies used in that time
mean the number 0 was often most pressed key. So, it would
make sense to keep that number at the very bottom to ensure
it was within hand’s reach. While there is some truth to the
explanation, it’s still riddled with factual errors. This is
especially so since early cash registers (until 1893) had no
separate 0 key and no workers behind the table.
Which anomalous design is being talked about?

A8.
Why Calculators use a (9-1) input layout instead of the
conventional (1-9) arrangement in phones.

Amar Chitra Katha
(Audio-Visual Round)
Bounce: +20/+0
Pounce: +40/-20

Q1. Reserved Parking spots in UC Berkeley.
For who?

A1.
Nobel Laureates (NL) Parking Lot in UC Berkeley

Q2.
Back in those days, brand ambassadors were a lot
more classy and so were the products they used to market!
Connect the legendary Charlie Chaplin with an equally
legendary brand that he is promoting.

Q3. Govt. of India’s Directorate of Visual Publicity
(DAVP) and the ITC were threatened to be sued in 2012 for
this anti-smoking campaign. Why?

A3.
English footballer John Terry’s face was used as a part of
anti-smoking pictorial warnings for use on cigarette packets
in India.

Q4. This advertisement was launched in North-East India
few years ago. Who is their brand ambassador featuring in
this ad?

Q6. What does this recent Amul ad refer to?

Q7. This Toilet Cafeteria was recently in news. Where have
you seen this unique cafeteria?

Endgame
(Final Round)
Bounce: +40/-20
Pounce: +60/-40
(Yes, negative marking even in case of bounce)

Q1. There is a temple in Varanasi, constructed in 1936 by
freedom fighter Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta and was
inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. It features a huge map of
our country carved in marble, instead of traditional
statuettes/idols. This temple claims to be the only of its kind
in the world, due to the deity worshipped at this temple, who
may be worshipped by anyone irrespective of creed, although
the demographic might be somewhat limited.
Which deity is worshipped here, usually depicted as a woman
clad in a saffron saree and sometimes accompanied by a lion?

A1.
Bharat Mata (Mother India)

Q2. The birth of Adam painting by Michelangelo on the
ceiling of Sistine Chapel is supposedly when God infused him
is just-created figure of man with the spirit of life.
However, there was an outcry against him by the Vatican
Clergy as a certain error in the painting contradicted the
basic Christian theology.
He was rescued by the Pope and theologically, a reason was
found to account for a supposed ‘error’ in the painting.
What was the ‘error’ they identified in the painting?

A2.
The presence of a navel on Adam’s body. If Adam was
created directly by God in his own image – then where does
his umbilical cord come from? Also, does this mean God has a
navel too? In which case, who is God’s mother?

Q3.
Google dedicated this doodle to Georges Perec, who
wrote a 1969 novel titled ‘La Disparition’ in French, which
was later translated into English in 1994 by Gilbert Adair,
who renamed it ‘A Void’ (since it was not possible to keep the
direct translation ‘The Disappearance’ as title).
What is the doodle conveying? OR What’s so special about
the novel?

A3.
50,000 word novel without the letter ‘E’

A4.
Companies named after the founder’s child

Q5. This is a 2005 book of fiction. Each chapter’s name is
prefixed with a number, which are:
1000 200000
2000 500000
5000 1000000
10000 10000000
50000 100000000
100000 1000000000
Which book?

Q6. What is so unique about this video?
(Clip)
(Hint: Movie is Aakhree Raasta)

A6.
It’s not Sridevi’s voice, Rekha dubbed for Sridevi

Q7.
Mr. Sumant Moolgaonkar was instrumental in a number of
revolutionary changes in TELCO and bringing about
significant progress. How has TELCO, now Tata Motors, has
immortalized his name?

A7.
Tata Sumo was named by taking his initials

Q8. Indra was once driven out of Devalok by an asura
named Vrittasur. He had a boon that he cannot be killed by
any weapon made of metal or wood.
The Gods then fashioned _____ from the vertibral bones of
Sage Dadhichi to kill Vrittasur.
How is this weapon/design still commemorated in India?

A8.
Vajra, it forms the motif of the Param Vir Chakra

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