Round 1 of Karavaan 2017 Quiz

1. IB 1

2. RULES
 Clockwise.
 6 questions.
 (n+1)th question directed to the team next to the
team that answered nth question.
 No team shall get more than 2 questions on
direct.
 Pounce open for 15 sec. Everything must be
answered on pounce.
 +15/0  Direct
+10/0  Pass
+30/-10  Pounce

4. Poets’ Society
CONNECT!
(Inexhaustive)

6. 27 Club

8. 100 Ducks follow the One
• Catull was the most viewed font in the world. On
September 1, 2015, the brand (or company)
announced its major change thus officially ending
Catull's world record.
• The font that replaced Catull is not officially a font,
but experts in this field define it as a combination
of the fonts Futura and Product Sans.
• This unnamed font will soon overtake Catull as the
most viewed font.
• Where would one commonly find this unnamed
font / would have found Catull being used?

12. Cold-hearted Brat
• In the political satire 1984, George Orwell describes a
dystopian future with three totalitarian states. The
protagonist Winston Smith works in the Ministry of
Truth of Oceania, ruled by 'The Party'. He
manipulates documents, newspaper reports and even
photographs in accordance with the Party's latest
versions of history and reality.
• This photographic falsification was inspired by a real
head of state's practice of the same - wherein he had
his enemies assassinated and their images 'cut out'
from all photographic records.

13. • One of the photographs (before and after):
• ID the head of state.

15. Joseph Stalin

17. Prem Ratan is Wanted
• The monologue by Samuel L. Jackson in
Pulp Fiction is from the movie X, which is
a recut version of the Japanese movie
“Karate Kiba” starring Sonny Chibba.
• In X, the monologue was slightly different
from that in Pulp Fiction. Instead of “My
name is the Lord”, X had “I am Chibba X”.
• What is X?

20. The Bodyguard

22. Namaste
• What is unusual about the above pictures and why?
• If the 2nd picture was not unusual, then the photographer
would have been in a lot of trouble, but since it is unusual, the
photographer has done no wrong. Why? (Be specific)
14th November 2015 2nd October 2017

24. Lights were turned off in the Las Vegas
Eiffel tower to honour the victims in the
Paris terrorist attacks and vice versa.
It is illegal to take pictures of the Eiffel
tower in Paris at night as the lighting is
copyrighted.

26. Just like Superheroes
• During January 2009, The Times ran a feature called
"Football's Top 50 Rising Stars," which featured at #30 a 16-
year-old attacker named Masal Bugduv.
• He was even portrayed as something of a saviour by the
magazine When Saturday Comes, which introduced him as
"one bright spot" amid Moldova's nationalist strife.
However, after a stunning revelation, it was evident that
Bugduv would not move to Arsenal, or to any other club for
that matter. What was this "stunning" revelation?

28. He was completely fictitious and,
spelled differently, means ‘My
Little Black Donkey‘ in Irish.