1. The general quiz document contains 15 multiple choice questions about various topics ranging from chili peppers to icebergs. 2. It also outlines some basic rules for participants, including getting +10 points for each correct answer and prohibiting the use of outside resources like Google. 3. One of the questions is about the famous violin that was played on the Titanic by Wallace Hartley and was later recovered from an attic in 2006.

1. GENERAL QUIZ
AMAN SINHA
3rd Year
CSE

2. RULES
1. +10 for each correct answer.
2. Stay away from Google.
3. Follow RULE 2 or DON'T PARTICIPATE.

3. Question 1.
The Scoville scale, used for the measurement
of something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography(HPCL). This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling.
X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million
SHU and an individual highest of 1.5mn. it
was surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad
Moruga Scorpion with 2mn SHU, which in
turn was surpassed by Carolina Reaper with
2.2mnn SHU in 2013 and holds the record till
date.
What does Scoville scale measure? Also, id
X.

4. Answer
• Bhut Jolokia
• The Scoville scale is the measurement of
the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers
or other spicy foods

5. Question 2
• Herzogenaurach is a town in the district of
Erlangen- Hoschstadt, in Bavaria,
Germany. This is sometimes called "The
town of bent necks"; owing to a certain
'practice' by the residents of the town.
• What practice? put funda.

6. Answer
• Adidas and Puma
• The town of Herzogenaurach was divided
on the rivalry between Adidas and Puma,
leading to the nickname "the town of bent
necks" as people looked down to see
which shoes strangers wore, before
talking to them.

7. Question 3
This parody video game portrays a ______
floating on a log down a river. The ____
presents with bangs, a lance, and a purple
sweater. It knocks 'Phot Hogs' that are
attempting to take his photograph into the
river with his lance. The ____ also signs
'Otter-graphs'. The ______ also must
dodge the 'whirlpool of success' which will
lead him out of control, while navigating the
river.
Name the video game. Or, who is it named
after.
(Any one will give you full points)

8. Answer

9. Question 4
The instrument, which is cracked, water
stained and only has two strings, is said
to have belonged to Wallace Hartley,
whose band continued to play- most
famously, the hymn "Near, My God, To
Thee". It was thought the violin had been
lost when Hartley and the rest of his band
faced the obvious consequences. But in
2006 an unnamed man found the
instrument in a leather suitcase in the
attic of his mother's home.
In 2013, it was bought by an British
collector at the sale in Devizes, Wiltshire,
for 1.45 million dollars.Why the hype?

10. Answer
• The violin played by the bandmaster in the
titanic.

11. Question 5
• X is a city located in the Hazara region of
the Khyber province, pakistan. the city is
well known throughout pakistan for its
pleasant weather, high-standard
educational institutions and military
establishments. It remains a popular hill
station attracting tourists every year.
This place came in limelight in the second
quarters of 2011.
Which place? Why did it came to
limelight?

12. Answer
• Abottabad.
Operation Neptune Spear!

13. Question 6
• X, a young graduate from IIT Kharagpur, was
studying for his doctorate at the Coulmbia
University, New york, where he got a chance to
attend a Dhrupad concert by Ustad Nasir
Aminuddin Dagaar and Ustad Zia Fariddudin
Dagar at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New
York. On his return to India in 1976, he started
teaching and doing research work at IIT Delhi,
where he got together with students and started
this NPO, Y.
Identify X and Y.

14. Answer
• X- Dr. Kiran Seth
• Y- SPIC MACAY(Society for the promotion
of Indian Classical Music and Culture
Amongst Youth)

15. Question 7
• on June 3rd 2009, she was 'killed' and this
led to protests and pleas to bring her back.
• "Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy
heart that I have to announce that I will be
shutting down the save X Campaign and
everything associated with it",
PuneetAgarwal, who earlier went by the
pseudonym 'Deshmukh' , said in a
statement released on the Save X site.

16. Answer
• Savita Bhabhi

17. Question 8
• Vaibhav Bedi, 26, sought 26,000 Euros
from Hindustan Unilever Limited in
November 2009, citing, "Depression and
psychological damage" caused due to one
of their products. What was this product
and how did it lead to the person's
"Depression and psychological damage"

18. Answer
• AXE
• According to him THE AXE EFFECT was
false. no girl was attracted to him for all
the seven years of AXE-use leading him to
"Depression and Psychological Damage"

19. Question 9
• launched on January 28 2013, Jaane
Anjaane is a music album with six songs,
written and composed by the finalists of
_____ Idol. Each song also has an
accompanying video. The tabla player
Harnam Singh says, "Love landed me in
this mess, now love has inspired me to
pursue music."
FITB.

20. Answer
• Tihar Idol

21. Question 10
• Angaraag Mahanta, better known as X
formed an electronic folk fusion band in
2007 called X and The East India
company. The band consists of X on
vocals, Brin Desai on live electronics, Jinti
on lead guitars, Kirti on percussion and
dipu on bass and Tanmay on Drums.
Id X.

22. Answer
• Papon

23. Question 11
• An interesting Exchange between two
geniuses:
• X to Y: What i most admire about you is
your art. You don't say a word, and the
rest of the world understands you.
• Y to X: It is true. But your glory is even
greater!! The whole world admires you,
even though they don't understand a word
of what you say!!
• ID X and Y.

24. Answer
• X: Albert Einstein
• Y: Charlie Chaplin

25. Question 12
• Dr. Abdul Sattar X, NI,LPP,RMA,IBP,GPA,MSP(these
are not his qualifications but awards won by him !) or
Maulana X, is a prominent Pakistani philathropist, social
activist and humanitarian. He is the founder and head of
the X foundation, a non profit social welfare organization
in Pakistan. Together with his wife, he recieved the 1986
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
• To this day, he owns two pairs of clothes, has never
taken a salary from his organization and lives in a small
two bedroom apartment over his clinic in Karachi.
• Id X.
• Bonus 5 points if you tell the unique record held by one
of the services provided by his foundation.

26. Answer
• Edhi Foundation.
• It holds the Guinness record for world's
"largest volunteer ambulance
organization" since 1997

27. Question 13
• Consider an equilateral triangle ABC and
let S be its incircle. Let AD be the median
from A, D lying on BC. What is the
resultant geometrical figure a sign of?

28. Answer
• Deathly Hallows

29. Question 14
• They are classified on the basis of their shape
into 2 groups- tabular and non-tabular.
• The tabular variety have steep sides and a flat
top, like a plateau, with length-to-height ratio of
more than 5:1. the non tabular ones come in
different shapes like dome,pinnacle,wedge and
blocky. The largest one recorded till date is B-
15, which was spotted in March 2000 and had a
surface area of 11,000km2.
• What am I talking about?

30. Answer
• Icebergs

31. Question 15
• This is Weird Al Yankovic's 'Bob', a track
from his Grammy Award winning studio
album Poodle Hat. It is a style parody of
Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick
Blues' and 'Tombstone Blues'.
• What is the speciality of this song?
Video link: http://vimeo.com/44024588

32. Answer