Freshers' Quiz at METONYM 2023 Held on 31st August 2023 exclusively for the I year UG & PG students of St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru Set by Dr. Arul Mani

1. METONYM 2023
FRESHERS’ QUIZ
Rules
No negative marking
**ed questions 1-10 will resolve ties
20 minutes allowed
1. **On September 30, 1975, they became the first TV network to continuously
deliver signals via satellite after telecasting the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing match
between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Identify.
2. **A tag is an item of stationery used to fasten sheets of paper to each
other or to a folder. It consists of a piece of string, typically around 3 to 8 cm (1 to
3 in) long, both ends of which are held in the centre of a metal or plastic bar. The
name of which country is used for such a tag?
3. **This sporting accessory was made available in a fluorescent shade known as
optic yellow after research proved that it was more visible on TV. The only other
allowed shade is white. Which accessory?
4. **What process, patented by Kusuma Rangaiah, works by extracting material
after the Bombyx mori moth has outgrown its cocoon rather than by extracting it
beforehand?
5. **In the early 1900s, the use of this fashion accessory started to become more
widespread, especially among the pioneering stars of silent movies. This was
because they often needed shielding from the powerful arc lights that were used
due to the extremely slow speed film stocks of those times. Which accessory?
6. **Which six-letter business term has its origins in tailoring, where it referred to
cutting off, or clipping and dividing?
7. **Hasbro purchased the Diaclone toyline from the Japanese company Takara
Toys in 1984 and re-branded the line using the idea that an individual toy’s parts
can be changed to turn it from a vehicle into an animal or a robot. The name they
chose for this franchise reflects this ability that the toys come with. Which line of
toys?
8. **This British business pioneer founded a model village named Port Sunlight in
1888 for employees of his soap factory. The village was named after his most
well-known product. Identify this person.
9. **What six-letter term, borrowed from biology, is used in the automobile industry
forvehicles that use a variety of fuel or power sources?

2. 10. **They have a distinctive five-petal logo and take pride in presenting ‘Indian
products with a hint of Western aesthetics’. Their best known products include
handmade paper and incense sticks. Which community, founded in 1968?
11. In the English –speaking world, this two word term denotes either carbonated
water products or liquids containing salts or sulphur compounds. Strictly speaking
this term can be applied only to liquids bearing 250 parts per million of Total
Dissolved Solids.The same term was used in India in the late 1980s to
distinguish a particular product from tap water. The name continues to be used.
What name?
12. What two-word, military-style name was given to the programme launched by the
National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to ensure a national milk grid?
13. Which costly spice derives its English name from an Arabic word meaning
‘yellow’?
14. Racal telecom eventually chose a new name to reflect the dominance of voice
and data services over mobile phones. What was this name?
15. In ordinary English, this word is used to mean “crazy/slightly off”. In astronomy is
applied to objects which do not have a perfectly circular orbit. What 9-letter word?
16. Octopi and sea-slugs are capable of autotomy. They use it primarily for
reproduction. We have however encountered autotomy as a defensive strategy,
very often in and around the ordinary Indian household. What is autotomy?
Explain the familiar incidence.
17. The term HCB is applied to species of the genera Bacillus, Acinetobacter,
Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Arthrobacter, Nocardia, Micrococcus, Actinomyces,
Alcaligenes, Brevibacterium, Aeromonas, Enterobacter and Flavobacterium. If
HCB stands for Hydrocarbonoclastic Bacteria, what is the reason for researchers
being interested in these species?
18. The Rete Mirabile, literally ‘miraculous net’, is a group of closely connected
arteries found usually in animals that burrow or dive, and ensures proper
circulation. Its most unusual function is to ensure that a certain land animal does
not suffer hypertension while drinking water. Which animal?
19. The Egyptians celebrated this fruit both as a symbol of immortality and as a sign
of fertility—because worms could not damage the fruit, and because of its
innumerable seeds. Which fruit?
20. There are two widely quoted histories for this term. One traces it to a term coined
in 1889 by Louis Pasteur's pupil Paul Vuillemin which means a process by which
life could be used to destroy life. The precise use of the term is also traced to
Selman Waksman . In 1942, he used it to describe any substance produced by a
microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high
dilution. What term?

3. ANSWERS
1. HBO
2. India
3. Tennis Balls
4. Ahimsa Silk
5. Sunglasses
6. Retail
7. Transformers
8. William Lever
9. Hybrid
10. Auroville
11. Mineral water
12. Operation Flood
13. Saffron
14. Vodafone
15. Eccentric
16. Cutting off; Lizard tails
17. Ability to decompose hydrocarbons
18. Giraffe
19. Pomegranate
20. Antibiotics