JMC Quiz 2014 Conducted by Jorhat Engineering College Quiz Forum

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2nd Rule:
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again,i.e,the QuizMaster is always right

Rules:
+10 for direct questions
+10 for passed questions
+10/-10 on pounce
Round 1

1
• In 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James
Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word
into the language within twenty-four hours. He
then went out and hired a group of street urchins
to write the word "X", which was a nonsense
word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a
day, the word was common currency and had
acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it
meant, everyone thought it was some sort of
test) and Daly had some extra cash in his
pocket. However, there is no evidence to
support the story, and the term was already in
use before the alleged bet in 1791.
• Which word??

2
Vietnamese gourd is a species of X grown for its fruit. The fruit somewhat resembles a
cucumber. The young fruit is eaten as a vegetable and is commonly grown for that
purpose in tropical Asia. Unlike the young fruit, the fully ripened fruit is used for a
different purpose.The plant is an annual, native to South and Southeast Asia . As a
tropical plant, it requires lots of heat and lots of water to thrive. It is a climbing vine and is
best grown with a trellis support.The fruits, which are about 30 cm long, hang vertically
(unlike their relatives the cucumbers, where the fruits grow on the ground horizontally).
Sometimes it is is grown as an ornamental vine. It has big yellow flowers before the
fruits form.
This plant is very common in Assam and both the young and ripened fruit is
used,although for different purposes.The Assamese name also closely resembles the
commercial name used for artificial varities of it which is a very popular skincare product
Give me X,which is also the commercial name .

3
• This has been a compulsory thing in almost every urban
assamese household and government offices,schools
and almost every other institution that you can come
across.Decades rolled by,but the design remained
same.All that changed annually was its internal
content.The only last significant change which occured in
the beginning of the new milennium was that it changed
from black&white to colour.
• However 2014 got a whole new look of it,something that
is totally fresh and new.However from this time,till almost
the next 20yrs or more,it will be the same as this year.
• What is it?

4
• Established in 1996 and based in New Delhi Hospitech
Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. has been admired for
delivering beyond conventional PMC services to its
clients, while constantly driving excellence. Having firmly
established its credentials for over a decade and putting
it on a steady growth path, Hospitech has been leading
multi-disciplinary teams in turning imaginative ideas into
engineering and construction marvels.
• Their Mission and Vision is "To be the most sought after
Project Management Consultants for the global
Construction Industry. To be the organization of choice
for Architectural, Engineering and Management
professionals."
• One of their projects in Assam is known to all of us. Just
name the project.

5
• In Hong Kong, X is known better as a café drink than as a sleeping
aid. It is served at cha chaan tengs as well as fast-food shops such
as Café de Coral and Maxim's Express. It can be served hot or cold,
and is usually sweetened with sugar. It is made with warm milk, and
ice is added to it if a cold drink is desired.
• X came to India with The British Army; the end of World War I saw
Indian soldiers of British Indian Army bringing it back with them.
Punjab, Bengal and Madras Presidencies became early adopters of
X and many well-to-do Indians took to taking X as a family drink in
early 1940s and 1950s. It became a sort of status symbol in upper
middle class Indians and rich classes.
• what is X??

6
• X’s parents had named him Y,a legend in his own field.
Coincidentally enough, he married a woman having the
same name as the wife of Y
• He featured in a kid’s programme called ‘Wonder
Balloon’ on Doordarshan in 1980. Playing four keyboards
on TV was an exhilarating experience for him and people
began to recognise him
• A Hindu by birth, X converted to Islam when a Pir called
Sheikh Abdul Quadir cured his sister from a fatal illness.

Audience:: Time for some
munching :)

• "We trekked alternately through wilderness and
hundreds of villages, surviving on the generosity of
people, for we were penniless, with no food and few
clothes. Occasionally, we met British soldiers who
provided us with transport, found us refuge and treated
our blistered feet and bruised bodies and fed us. By the
time we reached Dibrugarh in Assam, our group had
been reduced to half. Some had fallen ill and been left
behind, some had died of starvation and disease. My
mother miscarried along the way. The survivors were
admitted to the Dibrugarh hospital for treatment. Mother
and I had been virtually reduced to skeletons and my
brother's condition was critical. We spent two months in
hospital. When we recovered, we moved to Calcutta"
• Whose words? Think Bollywood

Round 2
Rules:
+10 for direct questions
+10 for passed questions
+10/-10 on pounce

• All of them played the role of Gandhiji in
various movies

3
• the period of
light when the
Sun is above
the local
horizon (that is,
the time period
from sunrise to
sunset);
• a full dark and
light period,
sometimes
called a
nychthemeron
in English

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away :)

• Can we see some real smile here??
• Skip to 1minute 50 seconds

• Identify this Television
celebrity in his younger
days

1
• X was serially published from July 1992 in the pages of Budhbar, the
newspaper Y edited. Its first edition was over at the Guwahati Book Fair and
the next edition was printed for the Asom Sahitya Sabha’s 59th session at
Sibasagar. Due to some tiff between the organisers and the publishers, the
book shops were shut in protest during the Sabha. Even during this phase,
hundreds of people thronged Budhbar’s stall only to buy X
• Actually, there is no single narrative thread in the novel.. It is about how
various sections of the society such as the Assamese tribals and migrant
Muslims were excluded from a popular movement and the immense
potential these groups had to contribute to it was left untapped by the mainly
upper-caste leadership of the movement. In many ways, X reworks the
picaresque novel. It rests in the tradition of The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling or Kim by Rudyard Kipling by following the escapades of a hero
over a range of experiences.
• What is X?

2
• Hasnat Ahmad Khan, FRCS (born 1 April 1959) is a British
Pakistani heart and lung surgeon.
• Khan was born in an affluent Pathan family from Jhelum, north of
Lahore in Pakistan.He is a distant cousin of Imran Khan
• Until 1991 he worked in Sydney, Australia and then began to work in
London.He served at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London from
1995 to 1996. Then he began to work at the London Chest Hospital.
In 2000, he worked at St Bart’s hospital. Then he served at Harefield
Hospital. In November 2007, he resigned from the post and began
to head a cardiac hospital in Malaysia. As of August 2013, Khan is
working as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Basildon
University hospital.
• Khan married 28-year-old Hadia Sher Ali in Pakistan in May 2006.
Ali is a Pakistani descendant from former Afghan royalty.
• In July 2008, Khan and Ali filed an application for divorce in the local
arbitration council of Islamabad.
• Enough of data,why was this person the focus of worlwide media
attention in the later half of the 90s?

• X is a symbol meaning "Y". This symbol originated in
medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation of the Late
Latin verb recipe, the imperative form of recipere, "to
take" or "take thus". Literally, the Latin word recipe
means simply "Take...." and medieval forms of Y
invariably began with the command to "take" certain
materials and compound them in specified ways.
• Folk theories about the origin of the symbol X note its
similarity to the Eye of Horus, or to the ancient symbol
for Zeus or Jupiter, gods whose protection may have
been sought in those contexts.
• The fact that a Y instructs someone to "take" rather than
"give" is not a trivial distinction, but makes clear it is
directed to a specific person, and is not directly an
instruction to anyone else.

Rupkonwar Jyoti
Prasad Agarwala

5
• The practice of X has been both praised and criticized.It benefits retailing,
sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours,[but can
cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the
sun (such as farming) or to darkness (such as firework shows).
• Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently announced to implement it in
Assam, so that people in the state do not have to wait till the rest of India
wakes up and starts working
• "It is nothing new. The upper Assam districts had been practising it in the
tea estates as well as the Digboi refinery because the sun rises much earlier
in this region. " Gogoi said.
• Filmmaker Barua, who has been running a campaign for the past five-six
years, has pointed out that even re-introduction of it would immensely
benefit Assam. "I am surprised and happy that Gogoi has come up with a
proposal that I mooted 25 years ago. "he said.
• What is the practice that I am talking about and what name it has been
given in Assam??

• Daylight Saving and Bagan Time

5
• "I was faced with racks of terry-cloth robes
and ugly floral-print nylon nightgowns, and
I always had the feeling the department-
store saleswomen thought I was an
unwelcome intruder."
• Which famous brand was born after this
incident to save men from the discomfort
of stepping into that particular kind of
clothing

6
• Some section of Hindus celebrate X as part of what is
called mock-marriage or bel marriage, often also referred
to as first marriage. This first marriage occurs before a
girl menstruates and is meant to initiate her into
adulthood. Through X, the girl is symbolically married to
the bel fruit, which is a symbol of the god Shiva, ensuring
that the girl becomes and remains fertile and that she will
never be a widow, even if her husband dies. Besides
this, the ceremony also includes a fire sacrifice. Neither
of these rites are part of the ceremony accompanying
the girl's second marriage to a human husband. Most
North Indian communities however combine the first and
second marriage in one ritual.
• What is X??

2
• "X" was used in a study to train medical professionals to provide the
correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing
CPR. The song has close to 104 beats per minute, and 100-120
chest compressions per minute are recommended by the British
Heart Foundation, and endorsed by the Resuscitation Council
(UK).A study on medical professionals found that the quality of CPR
is better when thinking about "X".This was parodied in the season 5
episode of comedy series The Office "Stress Relief".
• On 15 June 2011, the song was featured in a Hands Only CPR PSA
campaign video from the American Heart Association and featured
actor and medical doctor Ken Jeong in the classic John Travolta
outfit from Saturday Night Fever.
• Vinnie Jones also stars in a UK version of this CPR video in
association with the British Heart Foundation shown on TV circa
January 2012.

3
• Dulka Road is located in Wandsworth,
South London close to Clapham Railway
station. A few years ago, it was noticed
that a house on this road was attracting a
lot of interest from buyers of a particular
community. It was sold in 2004 for nearly
50% more than other houses on the same
road. Who and why were they so
interested?

4
• X is an Indian brand owned by Unilever and run by CEO Anil
Chopra. X started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills (Tomco),
part of the Tata Group; it was named after a French opera, which
itself is the French form of an Indian goddess.X was started in 1952,
famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was
concerned that Indians were spending precious foreign exchange
on those products, and personally requested JRD Tata to
manufacture them in India. Simone Tata joined the company as
director, and went on to become its chairman. In 1996 Tata sold off
their stakes in X to HLL, for Rs 200 Crore, and went on to create
Trent and Westside. Even today, when most multinational products
are available in India, X still occupies a special place in the hearts of
Indians.
• X please :)

5
A girl who is warm and humanly during
the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the
freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when
night comes
A girl with that kind of twist
I’m a guy
A guy who is as warm as you during the
day
A guy who one-shots his coffee before it
even cools down
A guy whose heart bursts when night
comes
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Now let’s go until the end
A girl who looks quiet but plays when
she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the
right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy
than a girl who bares it all
A sensable girl like that
I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he
plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when
the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than
muscles
That kind of guy
Beautiful, loveable
Beautiful, loveable
Now let’s go until the end
On top of the running man is the flying
man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two
On top of the running man is the flying
man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two

6
• In the 1932 MGM movie, Rasputin and the Empress,
which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha
had been raped by Rasputin. Princess Natasha's
character was supposedly intended to represent
Princess Irina of Russia, and the real Princess Irina sued
MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed
that the princess had been defamed.Princess Irina and
her husband Felix Youssoupoff were reportedly awarded
$127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in
1934 and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with
MGM.
• What historic development happened after this event??

5
• X were Norse warriors who are reported in
the Old Norse literature to have fought in a
nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a
characteristic which later gave rise to the
English word Y.
Give me X and Y??

• X – Berserker
• Y - Berserk

1
• The inspiration for X came from channel surfing on television. On
one channel the writer observed people competing on a reality show
and on another she saw footage of the invasion of Iraq. The two
"began to blur in this very unsettling way" and the idea for the book
was formed. The Greek myth of Theseus served as a major basis
for the story and Roman gladiatorial games provided the framework.
The sense of loss that the writer developed through her father's
service in the Vietnam War was also an influence on the story, with
the protagonist having lost her father at age 11, five years before the
story begins.the author stated that the deaths of young characters
and other "dark passages" were the most difficult parts of the book
to write, but that she had accepted that passages such as these
were necessary to the story. She considered the moments where
the protsgonist reflects on happier moments in her past to be more
enjoyable.

2
• Pal's group now has more than 20,000 members, and the number is
growing. Making her way from one far-flung village to another on an old
rusty bicycle, she holds daily gatherings under shady banyan trees, near
makeshift tea-stalls selling the sweet Indian drink chai and other popular
village hangouts to discuss local problems and attract new recruits.
• Pal has a long list of criminal charges against her, including unlawful
assembly, rioting, attacking a government employee, and obstructing an
officer in the discharge of duty, and she even had to go into hiding.Her
feistiness has secured notable victories for the community, however. In
2008, the group ambushed the local electricity office, which was withholding
electricity until members received bribes or sexual favors in return for
flicking the switch back on. The stick-wielding group stormed the company
grounds and proceeded to rough up the staff inside the building. An hour
later, the power was back on in the village.
• Which group headed by Pal is in the news these days??

3
• X was a motivational poster produced by the British government in
1939, several months before the beginning of the Second World
War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the
aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.It had
only limited distribution with no public display, and thus was little
known.
• In 2000, Stuart Manley,with his wife Mary of Barter Books Ltd. in
Alnwick, Northumberland, was sorting through a box of used books
bought at auction when he uncovered one of the original "X"
posters. The couple framed it and hung it up by the cash register;
and it attracted so much interest that Manley began to produce and
sell copies. Other companies followed suit, and the design rapidly
began to be used as the theme for a wide range of products. "What
seemed to the Manleys as just a bit of quintessential British
nostalgia has morphed into an international industry.Mary Manley
later commented, "I didn't want it trivialised. But of course now it's
been trivialised beyond belief."
• What is X?

4
• An American drama series takes its name from the title
of X
• In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the
book that Tom catches Becky Thatcher looking at, and
which she tears a page of, is implied to be X
• In the episode Episode 6 "Wasiyat" of the Doordarshan
TV series Byomkesh Bakshi, one of the murder suspects
is reading the book.
• The interior illustrations were adapted by Isaac Marion in
his Warm Bodies series from X. Also in the text of the
books, one of the main characters refers to it when they
see zombies in various states of decay.
• In Dan Brown's novel Inferno, Sienna Brooks, as a child,
reads all the 1,600 pages of X in ten days.
• In the Star Trek: Voyager episode ""Message in a
Bottle"", Harry Kim attempts to create a new Emergency
Medical Hologram, but it is only able to recite the entire
text of X instead of actually helping patients.

6
• Red - Does nothing but does make various battle cries when tapped and
does great at popping the targets
• Blue - Splits into three smaller kind of its own. Works best against glass.
• Yellow - Picks up speed and distance when tapped. Best against wood.
• Black - Explodes when tapped or shortly upon inpact. Best against stone.
• White - Drops an egg bomb that explodes on impact when tapped and does
great on wood.
• Boomerang - Comes back like a boomerang when tapped and does great
on wood and glass.
• Big Brother - No special abilities when tapped, but destroys materials with
ease.
• Orange - Inflates to huge size like a balloon when tapped or upon impact,
then deflates a little later. Best against wood.
• Pink - When tapped makes a bubble around her, and lifts up objects like
blocks . The bubbles last for about 3 seconds.
• Mighty Eagle - You first launch sardines and when it hits the ground, the
Mighty Eagle will come down, destroy everything in his path hit the ground
and cause an earthquake, then come back up, while also destroying
everything in his path; kind of like a V but wider.

6
• The name X comes from former United States President Roosevelt, who
was commonly known as "X" (though he loathed being referred to as
such).The name originated from an incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi
in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor
Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most
of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led
by Holt Collier,cornered, clubbed, and tied a Y to a willow tree after a long
exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and
suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot it himself, deeming
this unsportsmanlike, but instructed it to be killed to put it out of its
misery,and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in
The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.
• Morris Michtom saw the drawing of Roosevelt and was inspired to create
something new. He created the first ever Z and put it in his shop window
with a sign that read "Z," after sending a sample to Roosevelt and receiving
permission to use his name. It was an immediate success .
• What is the product Z??

1. Ratanpur
2. Vijaypur,
3. Kharound
4. Maro
5. Kautgarh,
6. Nawagarh,
7. Sondhi
8. Aukhar,
9. Padarbhatta,
10.Semriya,
11.Champa,
12.Lafa,
13.Chhuri,
14.Kenda,
15.Matin,
16.Aparora,
17. Pendra,
18.Kurkuti-kandri
19.Raipur
20.Patan
21.Simaga,
22.Singarpur,
23.Lavan,
24.Omera,
25.Durg,
26.Saradha,
27.Sirasa,
28.Menhadi,
29.Khallari,
30.Sirpur,
31.Figeswar,
32.Rajim,
33.Singhangarh,
34.Suvarmar,
35. Tenganagarh
36.Akaltara.

43
• X is the name given to the species of fish Garra
rufa. They live and breed in the pools of some
Turkish river systems and hot springs. In modern
times, they have been integrated as a spa
treatment, where they feed on the skin of
patients with psoriasis. While the X treatment
has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of
psoriasis, they are not meant as a curative
treatment, as no cure for psoriasis currently
exists. The use of the fish as a spa treatment for
the wider public is still widely debated on
grounds of efficacy and validity, as the treatment
is not shown to have either positive or negative
effects.

43
• The X was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, a
medical student at the University of California at
Berkeley and a police officer of the Berkeley Police
Department in Berkeley, California.According to
Encyclopædia Britannica, the X was on its 2003 list of
greatest inventions, described by the company as
inventions that "have had profound effects on human life
for better or worse."A X (popularly referred to as a Y)
measures and records several physiological indices such
as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin
conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a
series of questions.

• This place is Asia’s largest wholesale
market. Built by a king for his favourite
daughter in 1650 AD so that she could
shop all she wanted to, this market place
derives its name from the canals filled with
water that sparkled like silver in the
moonlight. Id the place?

• The skeletal remains of several diminutive
paleolithic hominids were discovered on the
Indonesian island of Flores in 2004. These
tiny people, named Homo floresiensis after
the island on which the remains were
found,reveal a hominid that grew no larger
than a three-year-old modern child and had
proportionately larger feet than modern
humans. The original skeleton, a female,
stood at just 1 meter tall, weighed about 25
kilograms and was around 30 years old at the
time of her death. Further analysis of the
remains indicated that Homo floresiensis was
approximately 106 cm tall far smaller than the
modern pygmies, whose adults grow to no
more than 150 cm .Thus far, nine skeletons
of Homo floresiensis dating from
approximately 38,000 to 13,000 years ago
have been excavated, suggesting that they
would have shared the island with dwarf
elephants, giant rats, and Komodo dragons.
• These species were nicknamed X which is a
fictional species bearing striking similarities
with them.
• Name X

• X first appeared in print in 1881; but it is reported that a version was
already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s
• Many have associated the X with the Great Plague of London in
1665, or with earlier outbreaks of the Black Death in England…
however interpretation of X before World War II make no mention of
this.
• Indeed, given the large variety of verses, the global distribution and
poorly defined origin of the verse it is hard to say with any certainty
that this is in fact descriptive of the rash of the bubonic plague
• The invariable sneezing and falling down in modern English
versions have given would-be origin finders the opportunity to say
that X dates back to the Great Plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was
a symptom of the plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection
and to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing or coughing was
a final fatal symptom, and the ending line described exactly what
happened at the end.
• What is X?

• Y fell in love with X. He soon began composing poems about his
love for her, mentioning her name often. His unself-conscious efforts
to woo the girl caused some locals to call him Y (madman). When
he asked for her hand in marriage, her father refused as it would be
a scandal for X to marry someone considered mentally unbalanced.
Soon after, X was married to another man.
• When Y heard of her marriage, he fled the tribe camp and began
wandering . His family eventually gave up hope for his return and
left food for him in the wilderness. He could sometimes be seen
reciting poetry to himself or writing in the sand with a stick.
• X having moved to a place in Northern Arabia with her husband,
where she became ill and eventually died. In some versions, X dies
of heartbreak from not being able to see her would-be lover. Y was
later found dead in the wilderness in 688 AD, near X’s grave.
• X and Y ??

• . The X company commenced in 1906 as
The Haloid Photographic Company.
Looking for a term to differentiate its new
system, Haloid coined the term Y from two
Greek roots meaning "dry writing". Haloid
subsequently changed its name to Haloid
X in 1958 and then X Corporation in
1961.They sold photographic paper and
other similar materials, and later expanded
into one of the largest companies in the
world

• While Gordon Ramsay could only manage
one before giving up, Anandita Dutta
Tamuli went through 51 of them in a
minute, disappointed that she could have
done more. The occasion took place in
Jorhat, Assam. What did she do? (precise
answer only)

• A Greek God or Goddess lends his or her
name to the controversial practice of
assisting people with incurable illnesses to
die with dignity?
• Give me either the name or the
practice (or both)??

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