- This document contains the rules and questions for a general knowledge quiz competition with 25 questions. - The top 8 teams will qualify for the finals based on their performance in the preliminary round of 25 questions. - Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 are marked as "star" questions and are worth more points. - Half points may be awarded at the discretion of the quiz master. Using external resources like Google is prohibited.

1. Milieu General Quiz

2. Rules
• 25 questions in the prelims.
• Top 8 teams qualify to the finals.
• Questions 1,5,10,15,20,25 are star
marked.
• Half points on the discretion of the QM.
• Googling gets you disqualified.
• All the best !

3. Quest ion 1*
• What is the French word for surroundings ,
that literally means middle place ?

4. Answer

5. Quest ion 2
Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker and teacher. He describes his
difficulties faced in Front of the Class: How ________ ________ Made Me the
Teacher I Never Had. When he was 10 years old, and was diagnosed with
severe ________ _______ and he growed up as an outcast among
discouraging teachers and ignorant peers
“I tried to live life like everyone else. Ultimately I had a dream that I wanted to
become a teacher, despite the fact that I had a medical condition. It means a lot
that I am able to share my message of hope. Just because people are different
and someone may have a disability, it does not mean that they cannot follow
their dreams.”
His book was made into a recent movie.
FITB and identify the movie.

6. Answer
Tourette’s Syndrome
Hichki

7. Quest ion 3
• Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly are 54 year old
twins who both now live in the US.
• Normally twins share 99.99% of their
DNA, but what did both of the Kelly
brothers do, which ensured a 7%
divergence in their genetic similarity ?

8. Answer
They were both astronauts!

9. Quest ion 4
Bored of the ___ is a parody
of ________________. This short novel was
written by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C.
Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon.
Names and words in the various languages
are parodied with brand names that mimic
their sounds. There are many topical
references, including once-popular brand
names.
Some of the characters are :
Goodgulf Greyteeth, Dildo Bugger of Bag Eye,
Frito Bugger and Spam Gangree.
Simply identify the original work that has been
parodied.

10. Answer
The Lord of the Rings

11. Quest ion 5*

12. Answer
Karni Mata

13. Quest ion 6
A _-____ is a cocktail popular in Germany, Poland, Macedonia, and
Belgium that is made with a glass of beer and a shot glass of vodka and is
similar in style to the American boilermaker.
When it’s prepared-the shot glass of vodka sinks to the bottom of the glass
of beer. The shot glass then "surfaces" when the cocktail is drunk. This is
the reason for the unique name for the cocktail.
Identify.

14. Answer

15. Quest ion 7
Identify the actors in the following still
from the 1989 film Chattahoochee.

16. Answer
Gary Oldman and Frances McDormand

17. Quest ion 8
Connect a communications satellite from the 1960s with a sport-
equipment manufacturer in Pakistan.

18. Answer 8
Adidas Telstar

19. Quest ion 9
• The United States set up concentration camps for Cherokee and
other Native Americans in the 1830s.From 1863 to 1868, the U.S. Military
persecuted and imprisoned 9,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache.
• Living under armed guards, more than 3,500 Navajo and Mescalero Apache
men, women, and children died from starvation and disease.
• Who, being an ardent admirer of the attitude of the American Government
against the Natives, in a 1928 speech praised Americans for having
"gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now
keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage.” ?

20. Answer
Adolf Hitler

21. Quest ion 10*
In a scene from The Watchmen,
we see that a flag of the US is
draped over The Comedian’s
coffin because of his
contributions in the Vietnam
War.
On closer inspection it is
revealed that there are 51 stars
on the flag.
Why are there 51 stars on the
flag ?

22. Answer
• Vietnam was the 51st
state that was won
over by Dr. Manhattan and The
Comedian.

23. Quest ion 11

24. Answer
Shapoorji Pallonji
Group

25. Quest ion 12
• In an iconic movie from 1999 , it is
revealed that the main character lives on
Paper Street.
• Now a “Paper Street” is a road or a street
that appears only on maps but doesn’t
exist in reality , thus perfectly playing to
the actual tone of the film.
• Which film ?

26. Answer
Fight Club

27. Quest ion 13

28. Answer
Determining the qiblah

29. Quest ion 14
• In 1923, the year after the founding of the Soviet Union, the Lomonosov
Porcelain Factory in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) produced a unique
chess set. Since originating in sixth-century India, chess designs had been
inspired by military battles, royalty, even nature; now, the inspiration was
ideology.
• The chess set produced in Lomonosov had two very distinct sides. For the
pieces in white, the king is a skeleton, wielding a femur bone as a scepter.
The queen unashamedly displays an abundance of riches. The bishops are
the tsar’s imperial guards, and the pawns are bound in chains. These are
the pieces for the X side.
• The Y side—in red, naturally—is led by the king, who is a blacksmith, and
queen, who carries wheat. The pawns are female farm workers and the
bishops, army colonels. The message wasn’t subtle, but it was evidently
popular: the Set became one of the most copied in the world.
• Just identify X & Y which are polar opposites of each other.
•

31. Answer
• X- Capitalist
• Y- Communist

32. Quest ion 15*
• King (left) and Queen
from ____ surrealist
chess set ,1944.
• He was a German
painter, sculptor, graphic
artist, and poet. A prolific
artist, he was a primary
pioneer of the Dada
movement and
Surrealism.

33. Answer
Max Ernst

34. Quest ion 16
This is an improvised chessboard from the 1970s with
pieces made from bent wire.

35. • Such improvised chessboards were
common in Russia coming out of places
that were ritually used to torture and
interrogate supposed enemies of the
state, or simply people who the Soviet
didn’t like.
• Where would this chessboard be from ?

36. Answer
Gulags

37. Quest ion 17
• Contrary to popular belief X wasn’t originally Irish. As a teen he was
kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland to herd and
tend sheep on Slemish mountain, Co Antrim.
• His exact birthplace and date is not known. However it is believed
he was born around 375AD in Scotland. His parents were
Calpurnius and Conchessa, were Romans living in Britain in charge
of the colonies.
His real name is believed to be Maewyn Succat and he took on the
name X upon becoming a priest.
• X ?

38. Answer
St. Patrick

39. Quest ion 18

41. Answer
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri
Marco Rubio

42. Quest ion 19

43. Answer
Senpai and kohai

44. Quest ion 20*
Connect.

45. Answer
Park Circus 7-point
crossing. Five of them
are named after:
●William Shakespeare
●Mother Teresa
●Syed Amir Ali
●Suhrawardy

46. Quest ion 19

47. Answer
Bahubali
Abhisheka

48. Quest ion 22

49. Answer
Spratly Islands in the South China Sea

50. Quest ion 23
● In the next slide we shall see a new
advertisement for Oregon State, US.
● What Japanese production house does it
take inspiration from ?

51. Quest ion 23

52. Answer
Studio Ghibli

53. Quest ion 24
● Here you’ll hear a song by Sahana Bajpaie
from her debut album Notun Kore Pabo
Bole which released in 2007.
● Who is playing the Esraj in this particular
audio ? His name became synonymous for
other reasons in 2014.

54. Answer
● Shayan Chowdhury Arnob

55. Quest ion 25*
● This is a song from , Brainwashed , the twelfth and final studio album
by _____ . It was released posthumously, a year after his death.
● In the song _____ talks about his battle with cancer which he soon
lost .
● Just identify the singer.

56. Answer
● George Harrison