This is the general quiz of NUTech-2018 organized at Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. This particular quiz was organized on 8th of March on 2018.

2. THE GENERAL QUIZBy-Mantraraj Naik, Nitin Sharma and Sumedh Gosavi
NU-TECH ’18

3. 1-What am I talking about?
● In 1998, singer Akai was the sponsor of it.
● The name means “Freedom”.
● In 1998, it was played to celebrate the 50 years of Independence of
a country.
● It is recently in news again.
● What am I talking about?

4. 2-3 - X & Y
It is said that X was not trying to invent Y.
He was actually attempting today what we call ’Wavelength Division
Multiplexing’ ie. sending multiple signals through one connection by using
different wavelengths.
Id.

5. 4.
“BE ANYWHERE. MOVE ANYTHING. CONNECT EVERYONE.”
Id the company.

6. 5.
According to X, “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic sport, I
would win the gold”.
As per official records, X had a record 638 assassination attempt.
Id.

7. *6.
Id the company.

8. .
7- Whose biography is named Touch Play?

9. *8 - Usually, it is something else. But now,
temporarily, one of these at a time. What am I
talking about?•Vaquita
•The Burmese roofed turtle
• The northern sportive lemur
•The Javan rhino
•The cao-vit gibbon
•The kakapo
•The California condor
•The saola
•The Sumatran tiger
•The anegada ground iguana.

10. 9- Put context.
•Jimmy Kimmel in his opening monologue of _____ 2018 said “We will
always remember this year as the year when man screwed up so badly,
women started dating fish.”

11. 10- Give me X.
•“X” is the protagonist of the cartoon. He is a wooden boy who lives in Toyland.
•Although he is characterized as a child, he is a main taxi driver of the city.
•He often finds himself in troubles with his childlike innocence. But his friend “Big Ears” always
helps him.
•Other characters of the series are Mr. Plod the policeman, Bumpy the dog and Sly and Gobbo the
goblins.
•Identify “X”.

12. 11- Clear the context.

13. 12-Id the blank

14. 13-
In 2017, Canada issued a special $2
coin depicting the ____________ to
commemorate the country's 150th
birthday.
FITB.

15. *14-
KFC has recently introduced their Smoky
Mountain BBQ flavor in a very unique and
distinctive way.
What was so special and distinctive about
it?

16. 15- Gimme X
X is a company headquartered in Bellevue , Washington DC. This company traces
its roots back in 1994 when Voice stream wireless PCS was subsidiary of Western
Wireless Corporation but later spun off from it 1999 and was eventually purchased
by Deutsche Telekom for $35 billion in 2001.
In 2015, Consumer Reports named X as the number one American wireless
carrier. In 2017, X was ranked #1 in Customer Service Satisfaction by Nielsen.
ID X.

17. *16- WHAT?

20. 17- Identify the Painter.
Japanese art form, Ukiyo-e emphasizes on creating dark outlines in paintings, due
to the fact that the Japanese consider fine handwriting an important skill by itself
and the art of writing is irrevocably connected with Japanese art.
The subject matter of the Ukiyo-e in 18th and 19th centuries was drawn from
everyday life, celebrated the non-heroic, and was based on the idea that all is
transient.
Id the painter of the following painting who was very much influenced by this
Japanese art.

22. *18- Give me X and Y both.
•The dedication in the book, written by ‘X’ , ‘Report on Planet
Three ‘ , reads ,"In accordance with the terms of the “X-Y” treaty,
the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-
best science-fiction writer .“ Who is X and who is Y?

23. *19- What is been talked about?
Its earliest known citing comes from Richard Halliburton's Second Book
of Marvels: the Orient (1938) & Henry Norman’s The People and Politics
of the Far East (1904).
According NASA scientist’s who directed observational activities from
the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, _____ is
generally hard to see and hard to photograph, because of the material
from which it is made is about the same color and texture as the area
surrounding it.

24. 20- Connect

25. Submit your answer sheet.

26. Answer

27. 1-What am I talking about?
● In 1998, singer Akai was the sponsor of it.
● The name means “Freedom”.
● In 1998, it was played to celebrate the 50 years of Independence of
a country.
● It is recently in news again.
● What am I talking about?

28. Nidahas Trophy

29. 2-3 - X & Y
It is said that X was not trying to invent Y.
He was actually attempting today what we call ’Wavelength Division
Multiplexing’ ie. sending multiple signals through one connection by using
different wavelengths.
Id.

30. 2- Graham Bell
3-Telephone

31. 4.
“BE ANYWHERE. MOVE ANYTHING. CONNECT EVERYONE.”
Id the company.

32. Hyperloop One

33. 5.
According to X, “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic sport, I
would win the gold”.
As per official records, X had a record 638 assassination attempt.
Id.

34. Fidel Castro

35. 6.
Id the company.

36. The Weinstein Company

37. .
7- Whose biography is named Touch Play?

38. Prakash Padukone

39. 8 - Usually, it is something else. But now,
temporarily, one of these at a time. What am I
talking about?
•Vaquita
•The Burmese roofed turtle
• The northern sportive lemur
•The Javan rhino
•The cao-vit gibbon
•The kakapo
•The California condor
•The saola
•The Sumatran tiger
•The anegada ground iguana.

40. Lacoste

41. 9- Put context.
•Jimmy Kimmel in his opening monologue of _____ 2018 said “We will
always remember this year as the year when man screwed up so badly,
women started dating fish.”

42. Shape of Water

43. 10- Give me X.
•“X” is the protagonist of the cartoon. He is a wooden boy who lives in Toyland.
•Although he is characterized as a child, he is a main taxi driver of the city.
•He often finds himself in troubles with his childlike innocence. But his friend “Big
Ears” always helps him.
•Other characters of the series are Mr. Plod the policeman, Bumpy the dog and Sly
and Gobbo the goblins.
•Identify “X”.

44. Noddy

45. 11- Clear the context.

46. Lenin’s statue destroyed in Tripura

47. 12-Id the blank

48. SpaceX

49. 13-
In 2017, Canada issued a special $2
coin depicting the ____________ to
commemorate the country's 150th
birthday.
FITB.

50. Northern Lights/ Aurora Borealis

51. 14-
KFC has recently introduced their Smoky
Mountain BBQ flavor in a very unique and
distinctive way.
What was so special and distinctive about
it?

52. COL. SANDERS IS PLAYED BY A
LADY

53. 15- Gimme X
X is a company headquartered in Bellevue , Washington DC. This company traces
its roots back in 1994 when Voice stream wireless PCS was subsidiary of Western
Wireless Corporation but later spun off from it 1999 and was eventually purchased
by Deutsche Telekom for $35 billion in 2001.
In 2015, Consumer Reports named X as the number one American wireless
carrier. In 2017, X was ranked #1 in Customer Service Satisfaction by Nielsen.
ID X.

54. T-Mobile

55. 16- WHAT?

58. Corning Glass Museum

59. 17- Identify the Painter.
Japanese art form, Ukiyo-e emphasizes on creating dark outlines in paintings, due
to the fact that the Japanese consider fine handwriting an important skill by itself
and the art of writing is irrevocably connected with Japanese art.
The subject matter of the Ukiyo-e in 18th and 19th centuries was drawn from
everyday life, celebrated the non-heroic, and was based on the idea that all is
transient.
Id the painter of the following painting who was very much influenced by this
Japanese art.

61. VINCENT VAN GOGH

62. 18- Give me X and Y both.
•The dedication in the book, written by ‘X’ , ‘Report on Planet
Three ‘ , reads ,"In accordance with the terms of the “X-Y” treaty,
the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-
best science-fiction writer .“ Who is X and who is Y?

63. X-Issac Asimov
Y-Arthur C. Clarke

64. 19- What is been talked about?
Its earliest known citing comes from Richard Halliburton's Second Book
of Marvels: the Orient (1938) & Henry Norman’s The People and Politics
of the Far East (1904).
According NASA scientist’s who directed observational activities from
the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, _____ is
generally hard to see and hard to photograph, because of the material
from which it is made is about the same color and texture as the area
surrounding it.

65. Debunked theory that ‘Great Wall is visible
from moon’

66. 20- Connect

67. International Organisation for regional co-
operation

68. Finals

69. Round-1 Mini Connect.
+5 for Individual slides

70. +30/-20
After a certain success on July 16, 1945, X quoted from the Bhagavad Gita:
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

71. +20/-10

72. +10/0
In Japan, Hibakushas have been victims of severe discrimination when it comes to
prospects of marriage or work due to public ignorance about the consequences
of_____ sickness, with much of the public believing it to be hereditary or even
contagious.
As of March 31, 2017, 1,64,621 Hibakushas were still alive, mostly in Japan.

73. Answer follows…

74. Manhattan Project

75. Round 2 Bounce-Pounce
+15/-10 on Pounce
+ 10 for passing or direct
0 otherwise

76. 1- Which iconic feat?
Auguste Piccard was a Swiss innovator. He once ascended to stratosphere
in a hot air balloon that had a _____ (a design feature ).
He then again used this peculiar design & co-designed a contraption for
another gigantic feat but in the opposite direction.
What was the iconic feat?

77. Answer follows

78. First manned mission to challenger
deep/mariana trench

79. 2- Konsa parivaar he woh?
This coat of arms shown in the last slide was registered in 1939. It was
in news in May, 2017.
It was reported that a famous family copied this Coat of Arms with a
small change in it.
The word “Integritas” on the coat of arms, which means Integrity in
Latin, was replaced by the name of the family.
Which family is this?

81. Answer follows

82. The Trumps

83. 3 – Which Netflix Series
Radhabinod Pal was an Indian Bengali jurist, who was a member of the United
Nations International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966.
He was one of the Asian judges appointed to the famous International Military
Tribunal for the Far East, the Military trials convened on the lines of
Nuremberg Trials.
The Yasukuni & the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine are the famous monuments
dedicated to Judge Pal.
What is the name of his to-be released Netflix series?

84. Answer follows

85. Tokyo Trials

86. 4- Who is “X”?
The South African Trade Publication PC and Office Technology
published the source code to a video game “X” had designed.
Called Blaster, the sci-fi inspired space game required 167 lines of
Instruction to run. This was back in the days when early computer
users were required to type out commands to make their
machines do much of anything.
In this context, the game was not marvelous like many of his
achievements nowadays but it was surely something better than
most of the twelve years could do.
In that game, you had to destroy an alien space fighter, which is
currying deadly Hydrogen Bombs and Status Beam Machines(As
of now, even Internet doesn’t know its exact meaning.).It is said

87. Answer follows

88. Elon Musk

89. 5- Id the movie & character
Kyrie Irving recently
unveiled his new Nike
sneakers.
According to Irving,"_____
is one of my favorite movies
& seeing how that franchise
has evolved is awesome.”

90. Answer follows

91. Woody, Toy Story

92. 6-Fill in the blank.
•The “American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language” cites the conventional
wisdom that the word “_______” originated “from the practice in baseball of arranging the
diamond with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun. A left-handed pitcher
facing west would therefore have his pitching arm toward the south of the diamond.” As
the third edition of “The Dickson Baseball Dictionary” points out, however, that origin story
is a little too simplistic. The earliest baseball mention of a “________”—as found by Tom
Shieber, senior curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame—appeared in the New York
Atlas in 1858, but in reference to a left-handed first baseman, not a pitcher. Boston Globe
baseball writer and former ballplayer Tim Murnane also recalled in a 1908 edition of
Arizona’s Bisbee Daily Review that a St. Louis newspaper had called him a “_________” in
1875 because he was a left-handed batter.
•Nowadays, this word is used in cricket also for the similar purpose.

93. Answer follows

94. Southpaw

95. 7-PUT CONTEXT
“…it retains the shield, the ship and three diagonal stripes symbolising the
city's three rivers the Irwell, the Irk and the Medlock. The Golden Eagle & the
Latin phrase have been removed…”

96. Answer follows

97. Manchester City logo change

98. 8 – Give me X.
The ‘ X Redeemer Award' was introduced in 2014.
It is given to those who 'Became respected ____ after having been nominated for a
X’.
Id.

99. Answer follows

100. Razzies/Raspberry

101. 9- What are we talking about?
The following painting ‘A bar at Folies Bergere’ by Manet, shows distinctive bottles
placed at either end of the counter.
Although painter's motivations for including a _____ in the painting are unknown,
this became the earliest known instance of something that is very commonly seen in
some other genre.
What?

103. Answer follows

104. Product placement

105. 10-
As a part of partnership between NASA & X, special figurines were
produced for the spacecraft ‘Juno’. They were-
Zeus/Jupiter
Hera/Juno
Y
Unlike using its usual material, X produced the figurines with aluminum
so as for them to endure extreme space conditions.
Id X & Y.

106. Answer follows

107. X- Lego
Y-Galileo Gelilei

108. 11- Inconvenient?
Generation Investment Management LLP is a London-based investment
management firm.
Unlike conventional investments, the company’s investments focus on sustainability
factors, including social and environmental responsibility and corporate
governance.
Who is the apt founder of this firm?

109. Answer follows

110. Al Gore

111. 12-
‘The Voyage of the Space Beagle’ is a book by A.E. van Vogt.
The story is about a group of all-male crew who on-board a spaceship & go
on to explore intergalactic space. On their journey they encounter several
alien civilizations and many scientific & political revolution take place on its
course.
The title & story are a homage/reference to whom?

112. Answer follows

113. Darwin’s journey of HMS Beagle

114. 13-HELM!?
‘________ Cooling’ is is a type of laser cooling of atoms.
This cooling method was first proposed by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji in 1989, for
which he received part of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.
Endless cycles of converting kinetic energy to potential energy, and subsequent
loss of this potential energy via optical pumping, allow the atoms to reach very low
temperatures.(pic next slide)
FITB.

115. .

116. Answer follows

117. Sisyphus

118. 14- FITB
According to Clarivate Analytics,
“Evaluation of potential _______ begins with a search for highly cited
authors whose work can typically be associated with or more major
advances or discoveries. Citations – serving as marks of influence,
approbation and intellectual indebtedness on the part of peer
scientists – point the way.”

119. Answer follows

120. Nobel Laureates

121. 15- What had happened?
Some over-enthusiastic Fans of New York Yankees at Nike decided to
commemorate Yankee’s performance against their rival Y between
1978 to 2008, produced a shirt that read “Y Massacre”.
Because something happened in 2013, Nike received flak & had to
remove the shirt.
What had happened?

122. Answer follows

123. Boston Marathon attack

124. 16- What is the logo?
• Yu Wan-shan, was an acclaimed female Chinese brush painters of the
20th century. For years, she had been a visiting professor to Tagore
University in India, where she taught in the Art Department. She had
studied and reproduced the many mural paintings, including the one
at Ajanta.
In 1990, Huafan University(Taipei, Taiwan) was founded in fulfillment
of her ideals ie. the education of enlightenment and the integration of
humanities and technology.
What is used as university's logo?

125. Answer follows

126. National Emblem of India

127. 17- Identify the personality.
• “I have 500 DVDs that I watch in my home theatre. I see a film in
totality - its direction, editing… all aspects,” she smiles. “People know
me as a social worker, as an author, as a philanthropist… but no one
knows me as a movie buff. That’s why I am glad to do this interview
with Filmfare,” ...
-ID the famous and widely known personality who is being interviewed
by Filmfare.

128. Answer follows

129. Sudha Murty

130. 18- Fill in the Blank..
• Following events like the Cuban Missile Crisis, USA & Soviet Union decided
to hold a bilateral talks on the issue of arms control, in Helsinki.
The two rounds of talks & agreements were called
_______ I & _______ II.
Apparently, the name given to the talks is same as that of a movie based on
a similar theme released in 2010.
FITB.
•

131. Answer follows

132. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty(SALT)

133. 19- Which word has been blanked out
here?

134. Answer follows

135. Abenomics

136. 20- What’s the funda here?
• This is not the first time the confusion has been created regarding the
name. In 2014, a Kenyan delegate ended up at the wrong side & got
detained.
• In an attempt to end the ruckus, the authorities have started re-
branding the name with a capital ‘C’ in it.
•

137. Answer follows

138. Pyeongyang & PyeonChang confusion

139. 21- Identify the person.

140. Answer follows

141. Sachin Tendulkar

142. Who is “X”?
X is known for his larger than life personality. Soon after he
created ______, he drafted the social goals for his new company. In 18
installments, X described the guiding principles of his editorial and
personal points-of-view.
These principles also served as the basis for establishment of ‘X First
Amendment Award’. Given to honor individuals who have made
significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First
Amendment rights for Americans.
•

143. Answer follows

144. Hugh Hefner

145. Round-3 A-Z

146. According to Greek Mythology, when “A” was a baby, there was a prophecy that
he would die young. To prevent this situation, his mother “B” took her to a river
“C” and held “A” by his “D” and dipped “A” into the water of River “C” to provide
“A” invulnerability. Since “D” was not dipped into the water, it remained the weak
part of “A” and “A” was killed in the war of “E” because the prince of “E”, named
“F”(Brother of “G”, which phonetically resembles to a unit of area) had shot an
arrow in “A”’s “D”, which became a famous phrase. In Champions League, “F”___
___ lost against “H” yesterday whose official soft-drink is “I”. Headquarter of “I”
is in the city of “J” in the state of Georgia, USA. The richest person of the USA
according to Forbes Magazine, is “K”, the founder of “L”. “L”, headquartered in
the city of “M” was recently in news for making the human employee less grocery
store name “L” “N”. “N” is also considered one of the toughest games for AI.
However, “O”s “PN” defeated the world champion of “N” who is from the
country “Q”. “Q”’s second biggest company is “R”(According to Fortune Global
500 list), from the sector of “S”. The biggest company of “S” sector in India is “T”
which is owned by “U”, whose head is “V”. “V”’s presence in the convocation of
“W” on 7th March, 2018 has stirred controversy because of a statement made by

147. Answers Follow

148. Answers
A=Achilles P= Alpha Q=China
B=Thetis R=Sinopec
C=Styx S= Petroleum
D=Heel T= Indian Oil
E=Troy U= Government of India
F=Paris V= Ramnath Kovind
G=Hector W= Aligarh Muslim University
H=Real Madrid X= Jordan
I=Coca-cola Y= Israel
J=Atlanta Z= Jerusalem
K=Jeff Bezos
L=Amazon
M=Seattle
N=Go