Quanta - The Quiz Club of NIT Goa presents March Monthly Quiz. QM - Vishakha Ghadi This Quiz saw a lot of firsts. First quiz from the new batch and first woman Quiz Master. This Quiz served as a perfect pre-event for International Women's day.

1. Quanta presents
Monthly Quiz
March

2. Round 1
•Direct: +20/0
•Pounce: +20/-25
•Pounce to death

3. 1. Can the crowd be silent, please ?
• This sport was invented in Melbourne in 1922 by 2 factory workers.
• Then, it was played with a tin can containing rocks and was later improvised to play with a similar
equipment.
• It requires pin drop silence and uses verbal cues in its play, such as asking the opponent if he is
ready.
• In 2002, Govt. Of Punjab , Pakistan , allocated 45 Kanal space for a stadium for this particular
sport, making it one of the first stadiums for it.

5. Blind Cricket

6. 2.
• The motto for this American media company designates it to be free from Political and social
requirements.
• The motto literally means “Art for Art’s sake”.
• Some famous productions from this media company include: Hobbit series, Me before you, Gone
with the wind , Wizard of oz….Etc.
• Which media company ?

7. Ars Gratia Artis

8. MGM
Metro Goldwyn Meyer

9. 3. You may have the body
• It is a legal principle Indian constitution borrowed from American and British legal systems .
• It is one of the fundamental rights available to the citizens of India in form of a writ under Right to
Constitutional remedies.
• It guarantees the inmate the right to appear before court and not to be subjected to punishments
directly.

11. Hebeaus Corpus

12. 4. No worries
• It is a Swahili phrase formed by the words A (there is not here) and B (plural form of problem).
• The phrase has been popularized by its use in an equally famous flim in which it is translated as "no
worries" in a song named after the phrase.
• The phrase is in more common use in Zanzibar and Kenya.

14. Hakuna Matata

15. 5. Mobius strip
• This logo consists of a modified upward pointing triangular shape. Three parallelograms run along
the perimeter of the triangle.
• 2 parallelograms on either side are yellow and green while base One is blue.
• It can also be imagined as a Mobius Strip , with differently coloured surfaces.

17. Google Drive

18. 6. It’s used when sentence could have been ended, but wasn’t.
• This Non profit mental health organisation organization founded by Amy Bleuel in 2013 as a
tribute to her father who committed suicide.
• Apart from other social work to help the casualties, it encourages anyone who has been through
depression, anxiety, or had suicidal thoughts, to follow a particular gesture.
• Identify the organisation.

20. Project Semicolon

21. Round 2
•Direct: +20/-15
•Pounce: +20/-20
•Pounce to death
•Infinite Bounce

22. 7. Belts to LCDs
• It is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic
devices/products.
• It has been an integral part of Taiwan based Foxconn group.
• One of its 1st products include a snap belt buckle and an ever sharp mechanical pencil.
• The company is named after the latter.

25. 8. Connect

27. Starbucks coffee : named after character from
Moby Dick, Starbuck or Starbo.

28. 9. Happy home, happier lives
• It is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in England. It was formed in
1999 by the merging of a UK-based and a Netherlands-based company.
• It is a famous health, hygiene and home products giant whose products include Strepsils, Veet,
Durex,Lysol,Mycil and Vanish.

31. 10.
• In 1907, a French chemist Eugéne Schuller developed an innovative hair colour formula. He called
his improved hair dye Auréole.
• He registered his company as Safe Hair Dye Company of France, which today is world’s largest
cosmetics producer and is based in France.

33. L’OREAL

34. 11.
• In 1866, Ernest Francillon bought 2 plots of land on the right side of river Suez and brought all the
skills required in a particular area under one roof. This paved the way to the establishment of 1st
_________ factory.
• Today, __________ is a member of Swatch Group.
• The riverside land was called Les Longines.

37. 12.
• It was a British software technology developer and video game publisher.
• It officially became part of Square Enix in April 2009.
• Its famous video game Series includes Tomb Raider, Hitman etc.
• Its name literally means “idea” or “species” in Greek.

40. Round 3
•Direct: +20/-15
•Infinite Bounce

41. 13. Connect

43. Ask.com was originally called Ask Jeeves.
Jeeves is a character from P G Wodehouse books.

44. 14.
• X started out as a mining company with the intention of making grinding wheels and sand paper.
• 2 scientists Dr. Spencer Silver Dr. Art Fry, working under _____ developed a particular product
which was pantented under the brand name of X. They sold it as Press and Peel.
• The patent license of X for that particular product expired in 1997, and now it is sold as Post-it
notes.
• Identify X.

47. 15. Get it back!!
• X is a stolen vehicle recovery system installed in cars which allow vehicles to be tracked by police, in
case of theft.
• It’s name is a pun on “hijack”, meaning to steal vehicles.
• Identify X.

50. 16.
 Roulette wheel is a famous casino game. It relies on the odds of getting a particular results and
statistics.
 The roulette wheel, as it suggests was invented by a celebrated French physicist, inventor and
mathematician.
 The inventor was trying to invent a perpetual motion machine – a machine which continues to work
without drawing energy- and s/he failed.
 The same inventor is also credited with the invention of first mechanical calculator. Who invented
it?

53. 17.
This is Mt. Artsenraju located in Andes range in Peru.
What is its claim to fame ?

56. 18.
• Coined by Horace Walpole and originally a Persian word, it is used to describe good fortune
(usually unseen).
• It comes from a Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip”, with Serendip meaning Ceylon
(Sri Lanka).
• Identify the word.

59. Round 4
•Direct: +20/-20
•Infinite Bounce

60. 19.
• Government of India launched an online portal named X in 2015 to redress grievances of Indian
Citizens living abroad.
• Identify X.

63. 20.
Identify the event.

65. Halwa ceremony before printing budget

66. 21.
• On 5 February 1922, in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a
mob of protestors, Gandhi felt responsible for the killings, so he went on a fast-unto-death to
convince all Indians to call off Non cooperation movement. The Congress and other nationalist
groups disavowed all activities of disobedience.
• But few of them such as Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru felt that the Non-Cooperation
Movement should not have been suspended over an isolated incident of violence, and took a major
step.
• What was the major step taken?

68. Formation of Swaraj Party

69. 22.
• This is Stanford’s Maryam Mirzakhani.
• Her work in "the dynamics of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces“ was highly appreciated.
• What feat did she achieve with the above cited work?

71. 1st woman and Iranian to win Fields medal (
equivalent to Nobel prize)

72. 23.
• This word first came into English in the early 1800s and was used to refer to a medieval mercenary
who would fight for whichever nation or person paid them the most.
• Which word?

74. Freelance

75. 24.
1. Dasher
2. Dancer
3. Prancer
4. Vixen
5. Comet
6. Cupid
7. Donner
8. **Rudolph
What are these?

76. Santa’s Reindeers..!!

77. Round 5
•Infinite bounce: +20/-25
•Identify song.

78. 25.

80. Aye ajnabi

81. 26.

83. Fix You by Coldplay

84. 27.

86. Gravity

87. 28.

89. Life in Technocolour

90. 29.

92. Rolling in the deep

93. 30.

95. Patakkha Kudi

96. Round 6
• Buzzer: +30/-20

97. 31.
• Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor and Gambles invented this product in 1961 because he didn’t
want to deal with his daughter’s soiled nappies.
• What do we know this as product today ?

99. Pampers

100. 32.
• There exists a disorienting neurological condition/a syndrome
whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing
things smaller or larger than they actually are.
• The nomenclature of this syndrome is attributed to a literary
work wherein the protagonists enters a similar world.
• Identify the syndrome.

102. Alice in wonderland syndrome

103. 33.
• This culture began when prisoners in jail in US were detained without belt and were prohibited
altogether from wearing it for the fear of they using the belt to commit suicide , or kill a fellow
inmate.
• This style was popularized by skaters and hip-hop artists in the 1990s and became a symbol of
freedom and cultural awareness among some youthsor a symbol of their rejection of the values of
mainstream society.
• What is the above mentioned style/culture?

105. Sagging jeans/pants

106. 34.
Kitty Hawk is a town in North Carolina, US.
What is its claim to fame?

108. Place where 1st flight took place.
Wright brothers.

109. 35.
Which Product?

112. 36.
• “X” has been called a “Fifth Beatle”, because he was the original drummer of the Beatles.
• He was let go in 1962 because his musical abilities were “inadequate” and replaced by Ringo Starr.
• Identify X.

114. Pete Best

115. That’s All Folks !