The document contains a quiz with 5 rounds of general knowledge questions covering topics like world records, Nobel prize winners, movies, sports, and entertainment. It begins with the rules of the quiz explaining there will be 5 rounds of increasing difficulty with opportunities to gain or lose points for correct/incorrect answers or passing on a question. The rounds cover general topics, sports, entertainment figures who have won EGOTs, movies and TV shows featuring Friends stars, Marvel characters, and a final picture round with political images.

2. द डोप क्विज
VEDA-THE QUIZZING SOCIETY
A QUIZ BY KARTIK MADAN

3. RULES
5 ROUNDS, INCREASING ORDER OF DIFFICULTY
POUNCE +10/-10
DIRECT +5/0
PASS +5/0
+10 FOR QUIRKIEST TEAM NAME

4. ROUND 1
THE GENERAL

5. 1. What is being talked about?

7. Apple AirPods

8. 2.
What does the logo of Reliance
Jio Infocomm Limited convey
about Reliance India’s earlier
endeavors?

10. For Reliance, Data Is The New Oil,
Says Mukesh Ambani About Jio

11. 3.
The name of the country X means ‘The
Lion City’ is a misnomer as recent studies
indicate that lions have never lived there;
the beast seen by X's 13th century
founder, the Srivijayan Sang Nila Utama,
was most likely a tiger, probably the
Malayan tiger.

13. Singapore

14. 4.
 X was born in 1833 and has an element in the periodic table
named after him.
 In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig caused several
newspapers to publish obituaries of X in error. A French obituary
stated "Le marchand de la mort est mort" ("The merchant of
death is dead").
 As the popular legend goes, after reading this news, X
unbeknownst to his family, friends or colleagues, left most of his
wealth in trust, in order to fund a popular award. He is buried in
Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

16.  Alfred Nobel

17. 5.
 X in an interview defended the fair play for Cuba Committee for
which he was a member. He said:
 “The fact that I did, ah, live for a time in the Soviet Union, gives me
excellent qualifications to ah, repudiate charges that Cuba [and the
Fair Play For Cuba] committee is communist controlled.”
 The words “and the Fair Play For Cuba” when reversed describe an
act, Y, that he actually did commit on 22nd November, 1963.
 Who is being talked about and what was the act?

19.  X – Lee Harvey Oswald
 Y – Assassination of JFK. “and the Fair Play For Cuba”
when reversed sounds like “I wish to Kill President”.

21. 6.
 The X warning, which can also be referred to as the X rights, is a right to
silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects
in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are
interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against
them in criminal proceedings.
 However, media in the US have always propagated myths about the
same. One typical example is Y released in 2012. In the movie, the lead
pair catch a break when they arrest Domingo (DeRay Davis), the leader of
a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they
failed to read him his X rights.

23.  X - Miranda Rights
 Y - 21 Jump Street

24. 7.
 For publicity, many Indian movies have tried attempting to break
the world record for making the largest ever poster.
 Many movies achieved this feat like Boss in 2013.
 X released in 2015 as a sequel for a movie released the same year.
It broke the record of Bahubali’s poster (4645.152 sq. meters ) at
5969 sq. meter but it was short-lived as it was eventually broken.
 Now the record is held by Generation Grundeinkommen (which
means ‘Generation Basic Income’) which created the Largest
poster ever in Geneva, Switzerland, measuring a staggering
8,115.53 m² (87,354.84 ft²).

26. MSG 2 Poster

27. 8.
 X was born in 1889 and was an American mechanical engineer and
chemist who is said to be the worst inventor of all times. He synthesized
the first CFC for which he awarded the Perkin Medal which was
eventually shown to harmful to ozone.
 X working along with General Motors patented a process Y that
prevented "knocking" in internal combustion engines. X was awarded
Nichols Medal for this invention. This invention proved consequential.
 J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, opined that X "had more
impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's
history.“
 Identify X and Y.

29.  X – Thomas Midgely Jr.
 Y – Addition of Tetraethyl lead to gasoline

30. 9.
X is a practice that is followed primarily in the Indian
subcontinent and its origins and reasons for its existence
are debated.
However, the most commonly accepted reason might
be that this form of punishment started in ancient times
by teachers and doing so is a way of expressing guilt.
Another reason might be that mutilation was practiced
by ancient rulers and practicing that on oneself
followed.

32. Holding one’s ears apologetically.

33. Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was an Indian enclave
belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the
State of West Bengal. It was the only third-
order enclave in the world until 1 August
when it was ceded to Bangladesh. What does
third-order enclave mean? Give Funda.
10.

35. It was a piece of
land of India within
Bangladesh, within
India, within
Bangladesh.

36. ROUND 2
THE SPORTING FUNDA

37. CONNECT

39. Sports in which India has won
Olympic Medals in. Since 1900 to Rio,
2016.

40.  Whenever the footballer X plays, the
crime rates for crimes like Carjacking,
mugging and robberies in his home
country are said to be at record lows
and many have said that this might
be because the criminals take a break
to watch the national hero play.
 Not only that, but during the times
he’s playing, there is also an increase
in birthrates.
 Who is X? Bonus for X’s nickname.

42. Javier Hernández, Chicharito

43.  In 1998, a football match was played in in the eastern province of Kasai
Democratic Rupublic of Congo was suddenly disrupted when a lightening
strike killed some of the players.
 Bena Tshadi were drawing 1-1 with visitors Basanga when the lightening
struck.
 Although lightemimg strikes during football matches are common, this
one was of particularly unique. Immediately after, accusations of
witchcraft arose. What was so unique about this event?

45. All 11 players killed were from the same
team and the other team members
returned unhurt.

46. Why is the game of
cricket depicted in
this poster of
importance?

48. The only match of cricket ever played in
Olympics at the 1900 Summer Games
between Great Britain and France.

49. ROUND 3
THE ‘ENT’ MAN

50. Where would you find the following
characters?
Pavitr Prabhakar
Meera Jain
Auntie Maya
Uncle Bhim

52. Marvel Comics’ Spider Man India
released in 2004.

53. CONNECT
 Richard Rodgers
 Helen Hayes
 Rita Moreno
 John Gielgud
 Audrey Hepburn
 Marvin Hamlisch
 Jonathan Tunick
 Mel Brooks
 Mike Nichols
 Whoopi Goldberg
 Scott Rudin
 Robert Lopez

55. People who have won the ETOG, i.e.
having won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony
and an Emmy.

56.  For the first time in its history, The Oscars in 2016 cut short the time
taken in acceptance speeches by displaying dedications on an on-
screen ticker, rather than read by the winner. This was done as the
show is telecasted live.
 But the record for the longest acceptance speech is held by X at the
15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for
Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes. It was shortly
after this incident that the Academy set forty-five seconds as the
allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners
off after this time limit.

58.  Greer Garson winning the Best Actress award
for Mrs. Miniver (1942).

59.  Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on 13th October, 2016.
But he is among the two people who have won both a Nobel Prize
and an Oscar. This feat is shared by X.
 X born in 1856 was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose
influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the
1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a
range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory,
X became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

61. George Bernard Shaw

62. CONNECT :
 Man with a Plan
 Web Therapy
 The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
 Cougar Town
 The Odd Couple
 30 Rock

64. TV Shows where the Friends’ Stars
have appeared
 Man with a Plan – Matt LeBlanc
 Web Therapy – Lisa Kudrow
 The People v. OJ Simpson American: Crime Story – David Schwimmer
 Cougar Town – Courtney Cox
 The Odd Couple – Matthew Perry
 30 Rock – Jennifer Aniston

65. Connect
 Hulk
 Mr. Fantastic
 Invisible Woman
 Doctor Strange
 Spider Man
 Lizard
 Cyclops

67. Characters from Marvel Universe having
first and last name starting with the
same letter.

68. ROUND 4
THE BIZ FIX

69. X owns the copyrights to “Happy
Birthday,” so it’s technically owed
royalties every time a person sings it to
someone on their big day.
Identify X.

71. Warner Bros

72.  Fredric John Baur (June 14, 1918 – May 4,
2008) was an American chemist and food
storage technician notable for designing and
patenting the Pringles packaging.
 When he passed away in 2008, he achieved
perfect closure by his own invention as stated
in his will. What was done that was stated in
his will?

74. His ashes were buried in a
Pringles Can.

75.  X is a product whose name represents the names of Forrest E.
Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son
of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a
20 percent share in the product.
 Y is one of the variants of X and was banned in 1976 citing
health concerns over its ingredients.
 Paul Hethmon, then a student at University of Tennessee,
started the campaign to bring back Y as a joke that would
eventually become a worldwide phenomenon.
 Eventually, Y did return in 1987 after a span of 11 years and still
remains in market.

77. X – M&M Candies
Y – Red M&Ms

78. ROUND 5
THE ‘PIC’NIC

80. This image circulates every year during
Diwali as the satellite image of India during
Diwali by NASA. Many large tabloids fell
for the false image the first time.
What does the image actually convey?

82.  That image, based on data from the Operational
Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program satellites, is a colour—composite
created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to
highlight population growth over time,” NASA said.

83. Who is asking this question?

85. This is APJ Abdul Kalam and was the President of India at
the time.

86. The Film Kissa Kursi Ka
was released in 1977. This
movie satirized the Indian
Political Scene during that
time and consequently X
along with V.C. Shukla was
arrested and jailed for
destroying all the prints
a movie that satirized
Identify X.

88. Sanjay Gandhi

90. The picture in question was that of
Mahatma Gandhi standing next to Lord
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence.
Why is this photo of importance now?

92. The photo
appears in the
Indian currency
notes

93. Thank You.
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