General quiz by Mrudang Mathur

1. GENERAL QUIZ

2. Rules
• +10 on the bounce
• +10/-10 on pounce
• Q 1-14 : Infinite Pounce
• Q 15-20 : Mega Connect

3. Q1. CONNECT

5. ANSWER
• Universities in Delhi

6. Q2.
A X is a Spanish _______ bred from the lineage of the X Cattle Ranch, located in the
province of Seville, Spain. The ranch originally belonged to Don Eduardo X Fernández,
and is known for producing large and difficult _______ . A X debuted in Madrid on
April 30, 1849.
The name X is better known in connection to the Italian Y , who used it as the name of
his company’s second product between 1966 and 1973.
ID X and Y

8. ANSWER
• X – Miura
• Y – Ferruccio Lamborghini

9. Q3.

11. ANSWER
• On board the Apollo 17 mission

12. Q4.
The SHA is a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ). Cryptographic hash functions
are mathematical operations run on digital data; by comparing the computed
"hash" (the output from execution of the algorithm) to a known and expected
hash value, a person can determine the data's integrity.
Identify the use of the 256 bit SHA given on the next slide .

15. ANSWER
• Bitcoin mining algorithm

16. Q5.
• Mohammed Emwazi was born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri on
17 August 1988 in Kuwait to Jassem and Ghaneyah. The family, who were Bedoon
of Iraqi origin, moved to the United Kingdom in 1994 when he was six. They
settled in inner west London, moving between several properties in Maida Vale,
later living in St John's Wood and finally in Queen's Park. Emwazi attended St Mary
Magdalene Church of England primary school, and later Quintin Kynaston School.
• In 2006 he went to the University of Westminster, studying Information Systems
with Business Management. He secured a lower second-class BSc (Hons) on
graduation three years later. At age 21, he worked as a salesman at an IT company
in Kuwait and was considered by his boss as the best employee the company ever
had.
• Why is this ordinary sounding gentleman in the news recently ?

18. ANSWER
• He was unmasked as Jihadi John ( ISIS terrorist
)

19. Q6.
• The ‘X’ is an electric guitar made famous by Y of the band Z.
• Unlike the primary instruments of most musicians, the X was built by Y along with
his father.They began to work on the guitar in August 1963, with the project taking
two years to complete.
• The neck was constructed from wood from a "hundred-year-old-ish" fireplace
mantel that a friend of the family was about to throw away. The neck was hand-
shaped into the desired form, a job that was made more difficult by the age and
quality of the wood.
• The body was made from oak from an old table, blockboard (strips of softwood
sandwiched between two plywood skins) and mahogany veneer; the final result
was technically a semi-acoustic guitar – the central block is glued to the sides and
covered with two mahogany sheets to give it the appearance of a solid-body
guitar. It was originally intended that the guitar would have f-holes but this was
never done.
• Give X , Y and Z

21. ANSWER
• X – Red Special
Y – Brian May
Z – Queen

22. Q7. ID

24. ANSWER

25. Q8.
• The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Route 80 across the
Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named for Edmund Winston
Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, Democratic Party U.S. Senator
from Alabama. The bridge is a steel through arch bridge with a central span of 250
feet (76 m). There are nine large concrete arches supporting the bridge and
roadway on the east side.
• With the fiftieth anniversary of _______in 2015, a group of college students and
others organized a campaign to rename the bridge. Changing the name would
require approval from the State of Alabama. Proponents of changing the name
have not offered a specific name as an alternative. An earlier attempt to change
the name in 2010 failed.
• FITB , why did they want to change the name of the bridge ?

27. ANSWER
• Blank : Black Sunday/ Selma Protests
Reason : Edmund Pettus was Grand Dragon of
the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and a noted slaver.

28. Q9. ID the breed

30. ANSWER
• Shiba Inu

31. Q10. Give funda

33. ANSWER
• Ashley Madison gender disparity map

34. Q11.
Uber recently launched a new promotion called UberPITCH in Delhi , Mumbai ,
Bangalore and Pune. It works in the following way :-
• Open the Uber app on your mobile between 12 -4 PM,
• Select the UberPITCH view on 12 or 13th August depending on your city.
• If your request is connected, a car will arrive with a VC.
• Hop-in and use the 15 minutes to pitch your idea and get feedback on your idea
with the VC.
Why did Uber launch this service ?

36. ANSWER
• As a promotion for TVF Pitchers

37. Q12.
• A gift to the citizens of Jamshedpur by Tata Steel on the occasion of
its golden jubilee in 1958, the 237.75- acre jubilee perk, modelled
after Brindavan Gardens in Mysore, is considered the green heart of
the city.
• Its breathtakingly beautiful Mogul Garden with its coloured
fountains attracts evening visitors by the hundreds. And the more
naturally contoured lake area is a popular picnic spot. The park’s
horticultural garden is renowned for the ____ hybrids it has
developed and christened with intriguing names like “Taxi” and
“Pioneering Pilot”. Altogether over 1000 varieties of Indian ____
greet the visitor in the Jubilee Park.
• The lovely lake in the Jubilee Park is one of the main attractions as
one gets to see various rare migratory birds.
• Between 1958 and 1964 Jubilee Gardens used to send a steady
supply of flowers including ____ to the national capital. Why ?

39. ANSWER
• Roses for Jawaharlal Nehru

40. Q13.
• The lyrics to this song are written from the perspective of a troubled and
delusional youth with homicidal thoughts. The lines in the chorus warn
potential victims to "outrun my gun" and that they faster than a bullet.
• X said in a statement to CNN.com, Y when I began to read about the
growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the
psychology behind it because it was foreign to me. It was terrifying how
mental illness among youth had skyrocketed in the last decade. I was
scared to see where the pattern was headed if we didn't start changing
the way we were bringing up the next generation."
• In writing the song, X wanted to "get inside the head of an isolated,
psychotic kid" and "bring awareness" to the issue of gun violence amongst
youth, which he feels is an epidemic perpetuated by "lack of family, lack of
love, and isolation".
• The song's title refers to shoes that the narrator's peers wear as a status
symbol.
• ID X and Y

42. ANSWER
• X : Mark Foster ( Foster the People )
Y : Pumped Up Kicks

43. Q14.
J Matthew Register was a high school math teacher based in Sacramento, California.
He taught at a few art schools in the area and in an attempt to make classes more
engaging he wrote the following equation
One of his students uploaded it on reddit in 2011 and it soon went viral.
What is the significance of the equation ?

45. ANSWER
• Batman equation

46. MEGA CONNECT

47. +80/-50
• X is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip which ran
from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns
afterward. The strip is one of the most popular and influential in the
history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it
"arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".At its
peak, X ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355
million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It
helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the
United States.
• The main character, Y , is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence.
He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football.
ID X and Y

48. +70/-40
• X is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and then
improved over several decades. It was the second major color
process, after Britain's ________, and the most widely used color
process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952. Technicolor became
known and celebrated for its saturated levels of color, and was
initially most commonly used for filming musicals such as The
Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain, costume pictures such as The
Adventures of Robin Hood and Joan of Arc, and animated films such
as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia.
• The X Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914
(incorporated in Maine in 1915) by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost
Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott.
• ID X

49. +60/-30
The Bell X-1 (pictured below ) was an experimental plane developed by NASA
between 1944 and 1948 . On October 17 , 1947 while being flown by USAF pilot
Chuck Yeager the Bell X-1 achieved something spectacular. What did it achieve ?

50. +50/-20
ID the show from the cast :
• Jorge Garcia
• Evangeline Lilly,
• Josh Holloway
• Matthew Fox
• Ian Somerhalder
• Naveen Andrews

51. +40/-10
• The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the
Yangtze or the _________ River by the town of Sandouping,
located in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The
Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in
terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). The dam is the
largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual
energy generation, generating 83.7 TWh in 2013 and 98.8
TWh in 2014, while the annual energy generation of the Itaipú
Dam in Brazil and Paraguay was 98.6 TWh in 2013 and 87.8 in
2014.
• FITB

52. +30/ - Babaji ka thullu

53. CONNECT
• Coldplay Songs
1. Charlie Brown
2. Life In Technicolor
3. Speed of Sound
4. Lost
5. Yellow
6. Paradise