Prelims of GenQuiz conducted for Christ University's InBloom Quiz - 2015

1. InBloom 2015 GenQuiz
Christ University
Abhishek Upadhya
7th Feb

2. Prelims

3. Rules
• Teams of up to 3 members.
• Cross-College Teams Allowed
• Use of mobile phones, and any other Internet connectivity devices during the duration of this
quiz, is strictly discouraged, at risk of disqualification. So is collaborative efforts with people not
belonging to your team. 
• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
• (Scores from Prelims) will be carried over to the Finals
• Write your names and team names on the answer sheet.
• Starred questions will be used to arbitrate ties (more stars win): no. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
Mentioned on the slides. Please mark them on the answer sheet.
• Answers only on the paper, please. No need to shout it out. 

4. 1.
• This is a patent about modifying cable structure filed by a company.
• Which company? What common problem does it address?

5. Answers Follow

6. 2.
• Id this supervillain and adversary of Batman, who has featured in many Batman
comics since the 70s.

7. Answers Follow

8. 3.
• In a 2013 Indian animated film TVC titled “Children’s Dream”, to be played before
movies in theatres – something extra on a ~50 year old character, was seen for the
first time. What?

9. Answers Follow

10. 4.
• His co-director is Jeetu Arora ______ .
• His official spokesperson is Aditya ______.
• Everyone associated with him attach _____ at the end of their names.
• <jokey : Maybe they take Salman’s tshirt brand too seriously>
• What’s the project we know him by?
• Fill in the blank.

11. Answers Follow

12. 5*.
• Internationally, these two are used for the same purpose, when the use of the
official well-known version might cause religious issues.
• What is the original version?
• Which country insisted that it will not use the original or the Crescent, thus leading to
the creation of the Crystal symbol?

13. Answers Follow

14. 6.
• Which beelike nickname of a famous American happened because his sister couldn’t
pronounce “Brother” when she was little, and hence called him something that we
now know him by?

15. Answers Follow

16. 7.
• For a long time, it was erroneously reported that the name of this disease was
derived from the “Swahili” language, both in lay press and the media and reputed
medical journals.
• The word is derived from the Makonde language, spoken by an ethnic group in
south-east Tanzania and northern Mozambique meaning “to dry up or become
contorted”/ “that which bends up” and signifies the cause of a contortion or folding
and the stooped posture developed during the disease.
• In Congo, it has been called “buka-buka”, meaning “broken-broken” once again
reflecting the common acute manifestations of this fever.
• What disease, that is tremendously prevalent in India?

17. Answers Follow

18. 8.
• When you open the homepage of “MakeMyDrink.com”, a website that specializes in
door-delivery of Booze/Cocktails, you see only such products. Why?

19. Answers Follow

20. 9.
• This is the Plot synopsis of a TV series from 1990.
• “While business keeps their business executive mother on the road, Americans Chris
and Max Townsend are sent to live with their uncle Gustav, in Europe. The teenagers
soon discover that Uncle Gustav is a hunter and his goal is the destruction of
billionaire industrialist Alexander Lucard”
• Well, why does Uncle Gustav want to destroy this billionaire?

21. Answers Follow

22. 10*.
• Why would the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, Grain Crops, Fertility, and motherly
relationships be of interest to you etymologically, at the Breakfast table?
• This image is a clue.

23. Answers Follow

24. 11.
• When Ken Livingstone became mayor in 2000, he proposed a number of measures
to reduce this menace
1. Stop vendors from selling feed in the area
2. Introduce Harris Hawks at £60,000 spend per year
3. Introduce Megaphones in the vicinity that blares sounds
• An organization called STTSP by activists was started to try to stop these measures
from being implemented.
• What was the menace he was trying to solve? Be specific

25. Answers Follow

26. 12.
• Who directed this Sony Xperia ad?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnlfPvd5AI

27. Answers Follow

28. 13.
• Teams from the previous World Cup. Explain the blanking.

29. Answers Follow

30. 14.
• In the soon-to-be released Bollywood movie X, the following dialogue exchange
happens.
• Kid (who’s just been caught watching a B-grade film) : “Sir, woh poster ka mistake ho
gaya. Mujhe laga _____ ______ hain, is liye dekhne aa gaya”
• Cop: “_____ ______ dekhne aaya tha, ya _____ _____ baDa karne aaya tha?”
• Id this Hindi movie, and the blanked out 15 year old Hindi movie.

31. Answers Follow

32. 15*.
• A Swedish group in Stockholm known as Planka.nu is an organization with only two
prerequisites for admission:
1. Members must pay a monthly fee of about $15
2. As part of a continuous demonstration, promise to not do something.
• Occasional Damages resulting from the 2nd prerequisite, are covered by the
collective contributions from the 1st prerequisite.
• The group in principle works similarly to an Indian group that works in Mumbai, that
we've read about in email forwards and news articles about Indian Jugaad.
• So, what's the 2nd prerequisite, or alternatively, what does Planka mean?

33. Answers Follow

34. 16.
• “Most of these were run by the Maratha descendants of Shahaji Bhonsle who
conquered Bangalore in 1638. They added the religious prefix to make it clear that
they did not serve beef or pork,” says artist and art historian Suresh Jayaram.
• Rajiv L who runs an establishment in South Bangalore is more enthusiastic about it
and offers a kitchen funda.
• “They served Bangalore’s many roving soldiers, both British and Indian. People
believed that soldiers needed meat every day to fight. They used these to meet here
and plan their campaigns”.
• What kvlt three word term?

35. Answers Follow

36. 17.
• Employees who serve Medical Marijuana to Patients(customers), are known by a
portmanteau term that combines the item being served and a similar serving
profession found in bars. What’s the one word term that almost sounds like the bar-
profession?

37. Answers Follow

38. 18.
• What 17th century eternal throne was built purposefully a foot higher (This number
keeps increasing depending on the faith of the storyteller)
than the Emperor’s throne, in defiance – suggesting that God is mightier than the
Emperor?

39. Answers Follow

40. 19.
• Even the current fastest time is just 13 seconds better than the first instance. He
admitted that failing to win the 1500 metres medal made him challenge himself to
beat this record in the two years that followed.
• He currently suffers from Parkinson’s and can hardly walk, which he wryly jokes
about considering he was a Clinical Neurologist and a Runner.
• Who? What Record?

41. Answers Follow

42. 20*.
• On the Internet and on the streets, a new form of activism is on the rise for the past
few years. Known as Intactivists, they protest against something severe.
• What?

43. Answers Follow

44. 21.
• In some Comic Book reader softwares, what is the purpose of the Button that is
shown to the right?

45. Answers Follow

46. 22.
• 20th century Urdu Poet Sa’il Dhlavi’s praising poetry – that even appeared in some
advertisements and on packaging as well. What’s he talking about?
Jo rang dekho to dilruba hai,
Maza jo chakkho to janfaza hal;
Mahak main phoolon se bhi ziyadah.
Asar main iksir-e-be-baha hai;
Jo is main tafrith-o-taquiyat hai,
Na us ki ghayat, na intiha hai;
Na _________ sa koi _______,
Kabhi baneyga na ban chuka hai;

47. Answers Follow

48. 23.
• What are these primitive guitars/string instruments called, because of the primary
resonators they have, that can be seen in this image?

49. Answers Follow

50. 24.
• These are called Ferrite Beads or Chokes – Essentially an Electromagnetic wave-
bouncer.
• They look like this from the inside, mostly empty – essentially a magnetic core to
prevent EMI interference.
• Where would you most regularly come across this in everyday life?

51. Answers Follow

52. 25*.
• This is a late-80s DOS game called “Avoid the Noid” based on a famous TV
commercial campaign. “You have just been called by Doom Industries to deliver. You
must reach the top of the building, while avoiding the "Noid“. You’ve a goal which if
unaccomplished, the customer gets a discount, and you lose your job.
• To advertise what familiar promise was the character “Noid” created?

53. Answers Follow

54. 26.
• Rajshekhar Basu, the Bengali fiction author wrote under the pen name Parashuram.
Parashuram created a character Saralakhyo Hom, and his assistant, Botuk Sen.
• What was the obvious influence for these characters?

55. Answers Follow

56. 27.
• In the book “Armies, Wars and their Food”, Vijaya Rao describes something called
the “Siachen Omelet”, a concoction made by soldiers stationed 20,000 feet above
sea level on the Siachen Glacier along the contested border with Pakistan, often
described as the world’s highest battlefield.
• The omelet consists of powdered eggs stuffed with a popular food item, possibly
two of the only foodstuffs that can survive at that altitude.
• So, what goes into a Siachen omelet?

57. Answers Follow

58. 28.
• From a recent court decision from France, where the Judge changed the name of a
baby.
“This name given to the child is the trade name of a spread. And it is contrary to the
child’s interest to be wearing a name like that can only lead to teasing or disparaging
thoughts.”
• The judge eventually changed the girl’s name to a routine baby-girl-name, by
removing a part of the original name.
• What name did her parents give her?

59. Answers Follow

60. 29.
• If Alimony is the separation money paid after a divorce from a marriage, what is
Palimony? (Think about new-age relationship formats)

61. Answers Follow

62. 30*.
• In the movie “From Paris with Love”, John Travolta’s character brings a paper bag
and the following dialogue happens. So, what’s his vice?
Reese: What's the deal with the bag?
Travolta/Charlie Wax: What they got in this bag, will get me killed one day.
Reese: You look pretty bulletproof to me.
Travolta: Reese, every man has got his vices.

63. Answers Follow

64. 31.
• What’s the nickname of the London Olympic Velodrome, due to the visual similarity it
has with a snack.

65. Answers Follow

66. 1.
• This is a patent about modifying cable structure filed by a company.
• Which company? What common problem does it address?

67. Answers Follow

68. 1.
• Apple
• Cable structure to “prevent untangling of headphones/earphones”

69. 2.
• Id this supervillain and adversary of Batman, who has featured in many Batman
comics since the 70s.

70. Answers Follow

71. 2.
• Man-Bat

72. 3.
• In a 2013 Indian animated film TVC titled “Children’s Dream”, to be played before
movies in theatres – something extra on a ~50 year old character, was seen for the
first time. What?

73. Answers Follow

74. 3.
• Amul Girl in 3D

75. 4.
• His co-director is Jeetu Arora ______ .
• His official spokesperson is Aditya ______.
• Everyone associated with him attach _____ at the end of their names.
• <jokey : Maybe they take Salman’s tshirt brand too seriously>
• What’s the project we know him by?
• Fill in the blank.

76. Answers Follow

77. 4.
• MSG : The Messenger of God by Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan
• All his followers attach “Insaan” to their name. Being Human 

78. 5*.
• Internationally, these two are used for the same purpose, when the use of the
official well-known version might cause religious issues.
• What is the original version?
• Which country insisted that it will not use the original or the Crescent, thus leading to
the creation of the Crystal symbol?

79. Answers Follow

80. 5*.
• The Red Cross
• The Red Crescent and The Red Crystal are used in certain geographies since the
Cross is considered to be a Christian symbol.
• Israel didn’t want the Cross or the Crescent

81. 6.
• Which beelike nickname of a famous American happened because his sister couldn’t
pronounce “Brother” when she was little, and hence called him something that we
now know him by?

82. Answers Follow

83. 6.
• Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. Buzz was because his sister called him “Buzzard” instead of
Brother. (as told by Buzz in his Reddit AMA)

84. 7.
• For a long time, it was erroneously reported that the name of this disease was
derived from the “Swahili” language, both in lay press and the media and reputed
medical journals.
• The word is derived from the Makonde language, spoken by an ethnic group in
south-east Tanzania and northern Mozambique meaning “to dry up or become
contorted”/ “that which bends up” and signifies the cause of a contortion or folding
and the stooped posture developed during the disease.
• In Congo, it has been called “buka-buka”, meaning “broken-broken” once again
reflecting the common acute manifestations of this fever.
• What disease, that is tremendously prevalent in India?

85. Answers Follow

86. 7.
• Chikungunya

87. 8.
• When you open the homepage of “MakeMyDrink.com”, a website that specializes in
door-delivery of Booze/Cocktails, you see only such products. Why?

88. Answers Follow

89. 8.
• The non-alcoholic options are the front. Once you opt-in with your “age-proof”, you
get shown the good stuff.

90. 9.
• This is the Plot synopsis of a TV series from 1990.
• “While business keeps their business executive mother on the road, Americans Chris
and Max Townsend are sent to live with their uncle Gustav, in Europe. The teenagers
soon discover that Uncle Gustav is a hunter and his goal is the destruction of
billionaire industrialist Alexander Lucard”
• Well, why does Uncle Gustav want to destroy this billionaire?

91. Answers Follow

92. 9.
• Gustav is a Vampire Hunter.
• Alexander Lucard = A.Lucard = Dracula
• Slightly more subtle than Dr.Alucard as seen in Batman vs.Dracula.

93. 10*.
• Why would the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, Grain Crops, Fertility, and motherly
relationships be of interest to you etymologically, at the Breakfast table?
• This image is a clue.

94. Answers Follow

95. 10*.
• The Goddess being Ceres (after whom the dwarf-planet is named), also gives the
word “Cereal”

96. 11.
• When Ken Livingstone became mayor in 2000, he proposed a number of measures
to reduce this menace
1. Stop vendors from selling feed in the area
2. Introduce Harris Hawks at £60,000 spend per year
3. Introduce Megaphones in the vicinity that blares sounds
• An organization called STTSP by activists was started to try to stop these measures
from being implemented.
• What was the menace he was trying to solve? Be specific

97. Answers Follow

98. 11.
• Get rid of Trafalgar Square Pigeons.
• ST = Save the

99. 12.
• Who directed this Sony Xperia ad?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnlfPvd5AI

100. Answers Follow

101. 12.
• Wes Anderson. That’s the thumbnails created by him for this project.

102. 13.
• Teams from the previous World Cup. Explain the blanking.

103. Answers Follow

104. 13.
• Team composition if First-generation Immigrants are not allowed to play.

105. 14.
• In the soon-to-be released Bollywood movie X, the following dialogue exchange
happens.
• Kid (who’s just been caught watching a B-grade film) : “Sir, woh poster ka mistake ho
gaya. Mujhe laga _____ ______ hain, is liye dekhne aa gaya”
• Cop: “_____ ______ dekhne aaya tha, ya _____ _____ baDa karne aaya tha?”
• Id this Hindi movie, and the blanked out 15 year old Hindi movie.

106. Answers Follow

107. 14.
• Hunterrr
• “Chota Chetan dekhne aaya tha, ya Chota Chetan baDa karne aaya tha?

108. 15*.
• A Swedish group in Stockholm known as Planka.nu is an organization with only two
prerequisites for admission:
1. Members must pay a monthly fee of about $15
2. As part of a continuous demonstration, promise to not do something.
• Occasional Damages resulting from the 2nd prerequisite, are covered by the
collective contributions from the 1st prerequisite.
• The group in principle works similarly to an Indian group that works in Mumbai, that
we've read about in email forwards and news articles about Indian Jugaad.
• So, what's the 2nd prerequisite, or alternatively, what does Planka mean?

109. Answers Follow

110. 15*.
• “Dodge the Fare”. Promise not to pay for public transport
• Any fines are immediately paid, and the "insurance company" completely reimburses
it.

111. 16.
• “Most of these were run by the Maratha descendants of Shahaji Bhonsle who
conquered Bangalore in 1638. They added the religious prefix to make it clear that
they did not serve beef or pork,” says artist and art historian Suresh Jayaram.
• Rajiv L who runs an establishment in South Bangalore is more enthusiastic about it
and offers a kitchen funda.
• “They served Bangalore’s many roving soldiers, both British and Indian. People
believed that soldiers needed meat every day to fight. They used these to meet here
and plan their campaigns”.
• What kvlt three word term?

112. Answers Follow

113. 16.
• Hindu Military/Miltry Hotel
• Cheap hotels with excellent Biriyanis, Muddes and everything meat, and often
serving Shady clientele.

114. 17.
• Employees who serve Medical Marijuana to Patients(customers), are known by a
portmanteau term that combines the item being served and a similar serving
profession found in bars. What’s the one word term that almost sounds like the bar-
profession?

115. Answers Follow

116. 17.
• Budtender ( Bud + Bartender)

117. 18.
• What 17th century eternal throne was built purposefully a foot higher (This number
keeps increasing depending on the faith of the storyteller)
than the Emperor’s throne, in defiance – suggesting that God is mightier than the
Emperor?

118. Answers Follow

119. 18.
• The story of Akal Takht being a foot higher than the Mughal throne in Delhi.

120. 19.
• Even the current fastest time is just 13 seconds better than the first instance. He
admitted that failing to win the 1500 metres medal made him challenge himself to
beat this record in the two years that followed.
• He currently suffers from Parkinson’s and can hardly walk, which he wryly jokes
about considering he was a Clinical Neurologist and a Runner.
• Who? What Record?

121. Answers Follow

122. 19.
• Roger Bannister. The sub-4 minute mile.

123. 20*.
• On the Internet and on the streets, a new form of activism is on the rise for the past
few years. Known as Intactivists, they protest against something severe.
• What?

124. Answers Follow

125. 20*.
• Circumcision
• (Human Genitals should be Intact and not be severed– they say, hence Intactivism)

126. 21.
• In some Comic Book reader softwares, what is the purpose of the Button that is
shown to the right?

127. Answers Follow

128. 21.
• Japanese Mode/Manga Mode

129. 22.
• 20th century Urdu Poet Sa’il Dhlavi’s praising poetry – that even appeared in some
advertisements and on packaging as well. What’s he talking about?
Jo rang dekho to dilruba hai,
Maza jo chakkho to janfaza hal;
Mahak main phoolon se bhi ziyadah.
Asar main iksir-e-be-baha hai;
Jo is main tafrith-o-taquiyat hai,
Na us ki ghayat, na intiha hai;
Na _________ sa koi _______,
Kabhi baneyga na ban chuka hai;

130. Answers Follow

131. 22.
• Na Rooh Afza sa koi sharbat,
Kabhi baneyga na ban chuka hai

132. 23.
• What are these primitive guitars/string instruments called, because of the primary
resonators they have, that can be seen in this image?

133. Answers Follow

134. 23.
• Cigar box guitars

135. 24.
• These are called Ferrite Beads or Chokes – Essentially an Electromagnetic wave-
bouncer.
• They look like this from the inside, mostly empty – essentially a magnetic core to
prevent EMI interference.
• Where would you most regularly come across this in everyday life?

136. Answers Follow

137. 24.
• The beady looking thing on your Laptop Charger wire.

138. 25*.
• This is a late-80s DOS game called “Avoid the Noid” based on a famous TV
commercial campaign. “You have just been called by Doom Industries to deliver. You
must reach the top of the building, while avoiding the "Noid“. You’ve a goal which if
unaccomplished, the customer gets a discount, and you lose your job.
• To advertise what familiar promise was the character “Noid” created?

139. Answers Follow

140. 25*.
• The Domino’s “30 Minutes” guarantee
• “Noid” (short for Annoyed) tried to damage pizzas and stop them from being
delivered. Only Domino’s “Avoided the Noid”
• This weird mascot was finally taken off the air when a psycho guy named Noid
thought that Domino’s was mocking him and took a Pizza shop hostage, and later
committed suicide.

141. 26.
• Rajshekhar Basu, the Bengali fiction author wrote under the pen name Parashuram.
Parashuram created a character Saralakhyo Hom, and his assistant, Botuk Sen.
• What was the obvious influence for these characters?

142. Answers Follow

143. 26.
Saralakhyo Hom, and his assistant, Botuk Sen
• Sherlock Holmes and Watson
• Clearly, he wasn’t aiming for Subtlety 

144. 27.
• In the book “Armies, Wars and their Food”, Vijaya Rao describes something called
the “Siachen Omelet”, a concoction made by soldiers stationed 20,000 feet above
sea level on the Siachen Glacier along the contested border with Pakistan, often
described as the world’s highest battlefield.
• The omelet consists of powdered eggs stuffed with a popular food item, possibly
two of the only foodstuffs that can survive at that altitude.
• So, what goes into a Siachen omelet?

145. Answers Follow

146. 27.
• Maggi Noodles.

147. 28.
• From a recent court decision from France, where the Judge changed the name of a
baby.
“This name given to the child is the trade name of a spread. And it is contrary to the
child’s interest to be wearing a name like that can only lead to teasing or disparaging
thoughts.”
• The judge eventually changed the girl’s name to a routine baby-girl-name, by
removing a part of the original name.
• What name did her parents give her?

148. Answers Follow

149. 28.
• Nutella
• This is not that kid, but you can now appreciate the judge’s concern.

150. 29.
• If Alimony is the separation money paid after a divorce from a marriage, what is
Palimony? (Think about new-age relationship formats)

151. Answers Follow

152. 29.
• Money paid after separating from a Live-in relationship

153. 30*.
• In the movie “From Paris with Love”, John Travolta’s character brings a paper bag
and the following dialogue happens. So, what’s his vice?
Reese: What's the deal with the bag?
Travolta/Charlie Wax: What they got in this bag, will get me killed one day.
Reese: You look pretty bulletproof to me.
Travolta: Reese, every man has got his vices.

154. Answers Follow

155. 30*.
• “And in my case, the locals call my vice "A Royale with cheese".

156. 31.
• What’s the nickname of the London Olympic Velodrome, due to the visual similarity it
has with a snack.

157. Answers Follow

158. 31.
• The Pringle, due to the saddle shape.

159. Finals to Follow