Q-Block's first quiz of the year and the semester. It was a general quiz by Parth Panchal and Bharg Mankodi. The quiz proved to be a fairly high scoring affair.

1. General Quiz
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2. General Quiz – Prelims
Answers
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3. Who makes a special appearance in February,
2019 edition of Tinkle ?

4. Ranveer Singh

5. Identify the car and company.

6. Santro, Hyundai

7. In China, it is said that the second tastiest meat is Donkey meat. What
meat is supposed to be the tastiest?
An ‘animal’ important to Chinese mythology where it is as a symbol of
prosperity and good luck.
ID.

8. Dragons

9. What does this man lend his name to; something he first described in
his landmark 1880 paper 'On the Diagrammatic and Mechanical
Representation of Propositions and Reasonings'?

10. John Venn, Venn Diagram

11. Tata Steel acquired this company (X) in the first half of 2018. X mainly
caters to the auto industry and high quality consumer goods through
facilities in Orissa, Maharashtra and UP.
ID X.

12. Bhushan Steel

13. Gujarati migrant to USA, Kanji Mancchu Desai along with two other
migrants acquired a building from a Japanese-Amercian who was
forced into a internment camp during WW II, in 1942.
Slowly over the years under the guidance of Desai and other people
involved in the same business and through informal loan lending
networks, the Guajarati's came to dominate this industry.
What is Desai's legacy in North America?

14. First motel owner of Indian-origin

15. “...My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and
motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly,
degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to
hear—naturally I refer to the bulk of [redacted]....
It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young
people. It smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the
most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic
reiterations and sly, lewd—in plain fact dirty—lyrics, and as I said
before, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned
delinquent on the face of the earth....This rancid smelling aphrodisiac I
deplore...
Frank Sinatra on what?

16. Rock n Roll music; specifically Elvis Presley

17. This is zine designed by Priyanka Paul and Rushil Bhatnagar. It is a zany
millennial friendly manual for sex-ed, targeting young adults especially
men of the age 16-24.
What is it's title, a play on another popular independent program in the
education/learning space?
4 lettered answer.

18. BedX

19. Founded by Marcus Samuel and Samuel Samuel in 1897, X started out
in the shipping industry. It gets its name (and its logo) from the fact
that the empty shipping containers returning to home port; were used
to supply their father’s antique trading business.

20. Dutch Shell Co

21. _______ is a division of a prominent film production company. The
founder, went to John Dykstra, the now legendary visual artist; to set
up a team to work on his magnum opus. They have pioneered several
visual effects and computer graphics processes/methods over the last
4+ decades. Their initial logo featured a magician, a gear and what
seems to be a camera light. ID.

22. Industrial Light and Magic; ILM by George Lucas

23. General Quiz - Finals
Parth Panchal x Bharg Mankodi

24. This is Aravind Adiga. His 2008 book, The White Tiger won the Man
Booker Prize Award. His latest book has been adapted into a Netflix
Show.
ID.

25. SAFETY SLIDE

26. Selection Day on Netflix

27. Operation Woodrose was carried out in the aftermath of Operation Y to
curb public protest surrounding the circumstances of Operation
Woodrose; in the mid 1980s.
Operation Woodrose involved banning/stopping activities by certain
political organizations, and the detention and interrogation of several
young men, by the army.
Give Y

28. SAFETY SLIDE

29. Operation Bluestar

30. Urban Dictionary definition of X: Condition affecting buddies on a trip
who fall asleep as soon as the car starts moving, providing no company
or driving help.
ID X, a play on a pathological disorder.

31. SAFETY SLIDE

32. Carcolepsy

33. Visitors to North Korea would either receive a blue certificate or a red
certificate to use as currency (called FECs, because their actual
currency was for exclusive use by citizens.
Explain this discrimination.
Oh BTW, FECs were discontinued, but an internal region wise currency
color marking system still exists.

34. SAFETY SLIDE

35. Red would be given to visitors from
communist countries.

36. Rahul Sharma, founder/CEO in an interview to Economic Times, said that
they went from enjoying the 2nd highest market share to not being in the
top 5 in a matter of a few months because of their misplaced focus,
compounded by demonetization (in 2017).
They focussed too much on the sub Rs 10k range; while their Chinese
counterparts correctly estimated the purchasing power of Indian consumers
and took hold of the market.
What company went from being supremely popular to now being virtually
non-existent?

37. SAFETY SLIDE

38. Micromax

39. It began as 'Son Joliscience' and involved musicians with stringed
instruments wearing the clothes one would typically find a Mexican
farmer wearing. Its name may have come from the French word for
'marriage', 'mariage' dating from the French intervention of Mexico in
the late 19th century.
What?

40. SAFETY SLIDE

41. Mariachi

42. What 1957 movie was adapted from a book by Pierre Boile, describing
a semi-fictional account of the construction of the Burmese railway ?

43. SAFETY SLIDE

44. The Bridge over River Kwai

45. Apart from working on several important building in India with Edward
Lutyens, Herbert Baker also designed X, which cricket fans might know
about. Standing six feet tall, this structure was moved from its original
position after that original location was rebuilt.
It was meant to be an apology for delay in construction. The symbolism
comes from the cricket rule that states that the bails must be moved
after time is called.
ID X.

46. SAFETY SLIDE

47. Old Father Time at Lord’s

48. When Hsing Hsing and Ling-Ling arrived in USA on April 16, 1972; the
then first lady Pat Nixon greeted them. They lived in Washington until
they died in 1999 and 1992 respectively. Their arrival and stay was an
important moment in US-China diplomacy.
Who are these individuals?

49. SAFETY SLIDE

50. Pandas

51. This is a site for many educational institutions in Paris, France. It is
named after the language used by many students, historically. It shares
its name with a fashion house.
ID.

52. SAFETY SLIDE

53. Latin Quarter

54. These are the only two novels by which celebrated Canadian singer,
poet who died in 2016 ?

55. SAFETY SLIDE

56. Leonard Cohen

57. What food dish used to be made by Sailors, packing preserved raw
ingredients in alternate layers of pork and garlic, soaked in red wine.
The Indianized version of this dish substituted red wine for palm
vinegar and addition of spices.
Its Portuguese name is carne de vinha d'alhos.
How do we know this dish?

58. SAFETY SLIDE

59. Vindaloo

60. In fascist Italy, the Blackshirts used this as a method of torture
technique because of its dehydrating effects. Thus, the saying goes that
Mussolini was backed by the ‘bludgeon and _____ _____’. At the same
time, popular belief held it as a great remedy for various maladies, thus
making it easy to write-of torture as medical practice. It is still used to
refer to Italian politician patronizingly.

61. SAFETY SLIDE

62. Castor Oil

63. Carl Eric Wickman was born in Sweden in 1887. In 1905 he moved to
the United States, where he first worked as a miner, and then, in 1914,
as a car salesman for Huppmobile.
He couldn’t sell the car, and began a bus service, by transporting iron
miners.
The name of this service was coined when an associate of Wickman,
saw the reflection of the 1920s era bus in a store window, which
reminded him of an animal.
ID this piece of Americana.

64. SAFETY SLIDE

65. Greyhound

66. Tombaugh Regio is a large, light-colored region about 1,590 km
(990 mi) across on 134340 _____, formed about a 100 million years ago
the two lobes are geologically distinct, and the western lobe, Sputnik
Planum, is smoother than the eastern, and they are of slightly different
colours.
Where is Tombaugh Regio?

67. SAFETY SLIDE

68. Pluto, named after its discoverer Clyde Tombaugh