This quiz was originally held in Infosys Pune Quiz club on 23rd April 2014. The slide has a collection of trivia questions and answers.

1. General Quiz v2
Framed by:
Gokul Panigrahi | Pune DC Quiz Club
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2. Let’s Start
• Infinite Bounce
• 24 Questions
• 10 points per question, unless specified
otherwise.
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3. Q1. Identify the country from its coat
of arms
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Hint: The bird on the left is as dead as a __?

4. A1
• Mauritius
• The dodo is an extinct flightless bird which was native to this
island. The species got exterminated within a century of
human settlement.
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5. Q2. Identify the name of this “fashion”
trend popular in Qingdao, China
• Hint: It is a portmanteau word which combines what it covers and a kind of beachwear.
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6. A2
• Face+Bikini=Facekini.
• Purpose: Protection from tanning( which
might get the wearer mistaken as one who is
accustomed to physical
labour=labourer/peasant/ lower class)
• Claimed side benefits: keeps away
jellyfish,insects, sharks.
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7. Q3. What is the question?
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8. A3
• Where is ?
• Where's Waldo? is a sucessful media franchise created
by British illustrator Martin Handford.
• The series debuted in 1987 with the release of Where's
Waldo?. The book introduced readers to Waldo, a
distinctively dressed man, as he sets off on "a world-
wide hike". The book features 12 detailed 2-page
illustrated spreads of the different locations.
Somewhere amid the crowded scene is Waldo and
readers are asked to scour the detailed illustrations to
locate the lost traveler.
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9. Q4.
• The directors of the movie Matrix, the
Wachowski brothers are no longer credited as
such on their movies after date. Can you tell
me why?
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10. A4
• They are now The Wachowskis, one of them
went through a gender change operation.
• Lana Wachowski (born Laurence Wachowski; and Andrew Paul "Andy"
Wachowski.
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11. Q5
• Identify this product launched in 1709 by an
Italian expatriate Giovanni Maria Farina,
named in honour of his new hometown.
• In a letter to his brother, he wrote that it
reminded him of “an Italian spring morning, of
mountain daffodils and orange blossoms after
the rain”
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12. A5
• The original Eau de Cologne was a spirit-citrus
perfume
• Launched in Cologne in 1709 by Giovanni.
• Eau de Cologne, or just "cologne", has now
become a generic term.
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13. Q6
Non exhaustive absurd connect:
• The capital of Latvia: Riga
• The start point of the ship Pequod in Moby
Dick: Nantucket
• Ireland’s 4th largest city (after Dublin, Cork
and Galway)
• Hint: XXYYX
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14. A6. Limerick
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
There once was a lady from Riga
who rode with a smile on a tiger.
They came back from the ride
with the lady inside
and the smile on the face of the tiger.
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15. Q7
• Explain and connect the physical phenomenon
of tidal locking to a Pink Floyd album.
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16. A7
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Tidal locking (or captured rotation) occurs when the gravitational gradient makes
one side of an astronomical body always face another, an effect known as
synchronous rotation. For example, the same side of the Moon always faces the
Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it
does to revolve around its partner. This causes one hemisphere constantly to face
the partner body.

17. Q8
• What is the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by
Edward Bulwer-Lytton best remembered for?
• It is also the inspiration for the annual Bulwer-
Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC)
• Hint: Purple prose, oft-used, cliched and parodied line.
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18. • It was a dark and stormy night;
the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional
intervals, when it was checked by a violent
gust of wind which swept up the streets (for
it is in London that our scene lies), rattling
along the housetops, and fiercely agitating
the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled
against the darkness.
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BLFC awards the “best opening sentence to the
worst of all possible novels”.
A8

19. Q9
• One word connect for
• a Hollywood horror movie released in 2014
and
• a hardware company snapped up by Facebook
in 2014.
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20. Oculus
• Oculus Virtual Reality
• Oculus is a 2013 American supernatural drama
psychological horror film directed by Mike
Flanagan.
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21. Q10
• Explain the purpose of these robots developed starting
around 2001 in Qatar; these have mostly replaced
people in this job within the Arab gulf area.
• Some versions of these robots include features such as – mannequin like face, sunglasses, hats,
perfumes along with the capability to endure heat, dust and an uneven terrain.
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22. Camel racing robot jockeys
• Earlier camel racing in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and
Qatar often employed small, starving children who
reportedly suffered from repeated systemic human rights
abuses.
• In response to international condemnation of such
abuses, the nations of Qatar and the UAE have banned
the use of human jockeys in favor of robots.
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23. Q11
• A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THOSE WHO CAN
RISE TO THE CHALLENGE.
• What initiative?
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• Spark the Rise is a platform for
innovators and entrepreneurs
with path-breaking ideas.
India has been on the verge of greatness for too long. It's time to change
that. It’s time to make the world sit up and take notice. To create disruptive
solutions that transform lives. To lead in enterprise and innovation. To see
"Made in India" mean best in the world. It’s time. To Spark the Rise of
India.

25. Q12
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XKCD simplified explanation for what?

26. Heartbleed
• Security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library, which
implements the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. It is a buffer over-
read, (where software allows more data to be read than should be allowed).
• Discovered by Google and Codenomicon. Affects OpenSSL 1.0.1 -1.0.1f
• Many popular websites, servers, clients as well as net equipment affected.
• A fixed version of OpenSSL was released on April 7, 2014, at the same time as
Heartbleed was publicly disclosed.
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27. Q13
• Identify this man considered to be
the most prominent magician in
India.
• He has “vanished” the Taj Mahal,
Victoria Memorial and passenger
trains among others.
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28. PC Sorcar Jr.
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29. Q14
• Idexplain the “endurance sport”
• aka put’em down, it is a remarkable sport in which you get
more agony of defeat than thrill of victory.
• It seems to have been popular among coal miners in
Yorkshire, England. The world record is five hours and thirty
minutes.
• Anyone who has tried it will agree that falling off a
mountain isn't all that bad.
• It is now a dying sport maybe due to a lack of brave
contestants or complaining wives.
• The sport is said to involve very little native skill, simply an
ability to "have your tool bitten and not care"
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30. • Ferret legging is an endurance test or stunt in which ferrets are trapped in
trousers worn by a participant.
• The sport may have originated during the time when only the relatively wealthy in England were allowed to keep
animals used for hunting, forcing poachers to hide their illicit ferrets in their trousers.
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31. Q15
• How many districts and divisions does
Maharashtra have?
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32. • Maharashtra is divided into 35 districts, which
are grouped into six divisions.
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33. Q16
• Match the following (10 points for each correct match)
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Court dimensions Sport
A: 36:78 ft 1. Volleyball
B: 20:44 ft 2. Basketball
C: 9:18 m 3. Badminton
D: 15:28 m 4. Tennis

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Court dimensions A: 36:78 ft B: 20:44 ft C: 9:18 m D: 15:28 m
Sport 4. Tennis 3. Badminton 1. Volleyball 2. Basketball

35. Q17
Think Infrastructure, think ___ Hope for the Poor
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Identify and connect:

36. • RBI has decided to grant “in-principle”
approval to set up new banks in the country
to two financial services companies .
• IDFC Limited (Infrastructure Development Finance Company)
• Bandhan Financial Services Private Limited.
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37. Q18
• What event took place in the below conditions:
• 38000 Feet
• -62 Celsius
• 5+ hours
• Low oxygen
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38. • A 16 year old boy stowed away on a flight from California to Hawaii in the
frozen, oxygen-deprived wheel well of a passenger jet and survived . He
was resting in hospital on Tuesday, two days after his death-defying jaunt
over the Pacific.
• The conditions at high altitudes can put stowaways in a virtual
"hibernative" state, the FAA said.
• Someone could slip into unconsciousness so that the body cools and "the
central nervous system is preserved," said CNN aviation expert Michael
Kay. Also, he said, "there could be a situation where inside the bay is
warmer than the external air temperature and you wouldn't get the
instantaneous freezing of the skin."
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39. Q19
• Naming of what?
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40. • The Greek God of war Ares has the Roman
equivalent Mars.
• Mars has 2 satellites, named Deimus and
Phobus.
• Side Trivia: In their books, Jonathan Swift and Voltaire had both assumed Mars had
2 moons before these were discovered.
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41. Q20
• Who owns Ranbaxy Laboratories now?
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42. • Sun Pharma
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43. Q21
• Why is this dish named as such?
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44. •
• Dabeli literally means "pressed" in Gujarati
language.It is said to be invented by one
Keshavji Gabha Chudasama alias Kesha
Malam, resident of Mandvi, Kutch in the
1960s.
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45. Q22
• Which sporting event in India has a trophy
named for a late “Liquor Baron”?
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46. • Indian Hockey League has the Ponty Chaddha
Trophy for the player of the tournament
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47. Q23
• Id the art object present at Victoria and
Albert Museum since 1880
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48. • Tipu's Tiger is an 18th-century
automaton or mechanical toy
• The tiger was created for Tipu and makes use of
his personal emblem of the tiger and expresses
his hatred of his enemy. The carved and painted
wood casing represents a tiger savaging a near
life-size European man.
• Mechanisms inside the tiger and man's bodies make one hand of
the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts
from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down
to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes.
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49. Q24
• ID the art installation and/or artist.
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50. • Anish Kapoor – Leviathan
• Civilian honours
• 2003 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 2011 French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2012 Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour.
• 2013 Knighthood
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