The finals of the annual general quiz conducted by Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE) for the year 2019. Eight rounds. 34 questions.

2. ONYOUR MARKS
FINALS
QM: Joseph Ben

3. We are in the ENDGAME now.

4. PRIZES
 First Prize: 2k + certificate of achievement
 Second Prize: 1.2k + certificate of achievement
 Third Prize: 0.8k + certificate of achievement
 Finalist certificate to all other teams.

5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 Joby Sir, faculty in charge of Quiz Club
 Advait M and Rex Mathew, secretaries of Quiz Club
 AbhayVS, my partner and coordinator of Quiz Club

6. FORMAT
1. Pounce and Bounce - 6
2. Written – 6
3. Binary - 1
4. Connect – 2
5. Pounce and Bounce - 6
6. Written – 6
7. Bidding – 3
8. Double Decker – 4
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8. So let’s begin.

9. ROUND 1: SIX FOR SIXTY PART ONE
 6 questions
 Pounce and Bounce.
 Clockwise.
 +10/-0 for bounce.
 +10/-5 for pounce.
 If nobody answers, the next question goes to the next team.

10. 1.
 The “X Syndrome” is a term coined by Stanford University and seems to be running rampant
at many colleges and in many high schools as well.
 What is the X Syndrome?
 Too many students on the outside appear calm, cool, and collected while on the
inside they are completely stressed out. It’s a “fake it till you make it” mentality.
Students work hard to complete assignments, get top grades, be the perfect ‘all-rounder’,
land the best internships, ignoring their mental and physical health. This causes unhappiness
and discontent which they try to confine within themselves to appear cool and jolly amongst
other students.This leads to unexpected outbursts, anxiety, depression and unhealthy habits.
 This syndrome is named after an animal which while doing a certain activity looks calm but is
actually putting a lot of effort. X?

12. DUCK

13. 2
 When Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was named
in the 2016 Panama Papers leak the court began an investigation into the 43-year-old.
 Sharif's children were linked to offshore companies in the BritishVirgin Islands which were then used
to purchase expensive property in London, and the Pakistan federal investigation agency believed the
properties were bought with laundered money. Opposition figures accused Sharif of failing to
explain how he became so wealthy.
 They discovered that Maryam was the sole shareholder of one of two BritishVirgin Island companies
which had invested in high-end London property.
 But she claimed she had disclosed her ties to the BritishVirgin Island's firm in 2006 in a statement.
Documents submitted in defence of the Sharif family appeared to show that Maryam Sharif was only a
trustee of the company that bought the flats. But these same documents ended up exposing her lie?
How?
 Images in next slide.

17. 3
 Which brand’s advertisements use the classical music Träumerei" from Kinderszenen Op.15,
by Schumann?
 The brand was mentioned by a psycho character from a popular movie released this year.

21. 4
 Recently cities have started adding traffic lights on grounds. That is apart from lights above
roads, they have started attaching lights on grounds such as pavements and zebra crossing.
These lights are also called “zombie led lights”. Like traffic lights above roads, they change
their colour from red to green to signal people that they can cross the road. This is to curb
accidents and deaths involving something. Give me the reason for the installation of these
lights. Pictures on the next slide.

26. 5
 In 2015, Brian Wasnick published his Bottomless Soup experiment.This experiment involved
a group of people half of whom were given soup in a normal bowl and the other half given
soup in a bowl that kept refilling itself from a tube at the bottom of the table. People from
the latter group ended up eating 73% more soup that the former group. This experiment
inspired interface designer Aza Raskins to come up with something that has changed the way
in which we consume information.What did he design?

28. ENDLESS SCROLL OR INFINITE SCROLL

29. 6
 An ancient king of Scotland, whose horse died in battle was trapped under the horse. He
was rescued by Fairbairn, his armour bearer. Fairbairn used his muscular arms (developed no
doubt due to the heavy armour he had to lift) to pull the king out and place him on his
saddle and ride away to safety. For this service, the king gave his armour bearer lands, royal
gifts, and an appellation for the manner in which Fairbairn rescued the king.This appellation
has since then become a famous surname.What surname / appellation?

31. ARMSTRONG

32. ROUND 2: AMULED
 Written round.
 There are 6 images, each a Amul advertisement from last year. Identify the person
being caricatured in each image.
 +5/-0 the stake of each.
 No negatives. Feel free to guess.
 Get all right, you receive a bonus +10.

33. 0 – SERENA WILLIAMS

34. 1

35. 2

36. 3

37. 4

38. 5

39. 6

41. 5

42. 6

43. 1. Imran Khan
2. Freddie Mercury
3. Sridevi
4. VS Naipaul
5. Mark Zuckerberg
6. Padmavati

44. ROUND 3: TWOWAY JUNCTION
 1 question.
 True or False/Yes or No type.
 +20/-20, +10/-10, +5/-5 at stake depending on the choice you make.
 Feel free to guess at base value.

45. 1
 The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object
visible from space.
 True/ False?

48. ROUND 4: CONNECT THE DOTS
 2 questions.
 Connect images/texts/videos in slide to a common entity.
 No points for explaining the individual entities, reward only to the common connect.
 +20/-10, +10/-5, +5/-0 at stake depending on the choice you make.
 Feel free to guess at base value.

50. 1

52.  Only women after whom elements have been named.
 Curium and Meitnerium.

53. 2.

55. FIRST IMAGE OF BLACK HOLE

56. ROUND 5: SIX FOR SIXTY PART TWO
 6 questions.
 Pounce and Bounce.
 Anti-clockwise.
 +10/-0 for bounce.
 +10/-5 for pounce.
 If nobody answers, the next question goes to the next team.

57. 1
 According to WEF X is as toxic as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and is currently a global
epidemic. Our changing life style is mainly responsible for X and the current number of
people suffering from this is unprecedented in history.
 In cities like Paris and Stockholm about 50% people are facing this condition. In UK older
people (75% amongst them) tend to be more in this condition. Factors for this include
urbanization. In China as rural population halved this increased among people who moved to
cities.Another factor is technology.
 There is also an economic cost to X. It also increases mental depression and other disorders
which had a global economic impact of 2.5 trillion USD. Countries are trying to combat X.
The UK has in fact created a Ministry of X.
 Give me X.

59. LONELINESS

60. 2
 The video on the next slide depicts the climax of the film Lilo and Snitch (2002) initially
featuring Stitch piloting a 747 through a fictional Hawaiian city. But that urban backdrop was
replaced with a mountainous backdrop, and the aircraft was re-worked to look like an alien
spacecraft.Why?

63. 9/11

64. 3
 “Small Fry is X’s poignant story of a childhood
spent between two imperfect but extraordinary
homes. Scrappy, wise and funny, young X is an
unforgettable guide through her parents'
fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a
complex family, part love letter to California in the
seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling
book by an insightful new literary voice.” - review
 Who wrote this book?

66. LISA BRENNAN JOBS

68. 4
 In which top10 list would you
find this video song?
 Which video currently holds the
first position in that list?

70. MOST DISLIKEDVIDEO ONYOUTUBE
YOUTUBE REWIND 2018

71. 5
 Put Funda:
1. an object kept as a reminder of a person or event.
2. occurring or situated between stars
3. the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.
4. a body of supporters or admirers
5. denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration.
6. sleep disorder that is characterized by difficulty falling and/or staying asleep.
7. northern city of France, lying 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border.
8. brave soldier in black armour fights for his city three times

73. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN MOVIES

74. 6
 They are 12th century knights called X.They were organized solely for protecting pilgrims on
their journey to and from Jerusalem.They derived their names from the place they used to
live.Their headquarters was granted to them by Baldwin II, the King of Jerusalem.
 What is X?

76. TEMPLARS
 Their HQ was in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount

77. ROUND 6: DOODLINGYOUR WAY OUT
 Written round.
 There are 6 images. All are Google Doodles relating to the works of authors. Identify
the author in each slide.
 +5/-0.
 No negatives. Feel free to guess.
 Bonus +10 if all correct.

78. 1

79. 2

80. 3

81. 4

82. 5

83. 6

85. 1. Charles Dickens
2. Oscar Wilde
3. RK Narayanan
4. HG Wells
5. Agatha Christie
6. Munshi Premchand

86. ROUND 7: BIDTO BUY
 The PENULTIMATE round of this quiz.
 3 questions.
 All questions are related to current affairs.
 Teams can bid to buy the right to answer.
 Highest bidder gets the chance to answer. In case multiple teams bid for the same
highest value then all those bidders playing for the highest stake are allowed to
answer.
 +20/-10, +10/-5, +5/-0 are the bids you are allowed to make.
 Note again, the other teams making lower bids are not allowed to answer.

87. 1
 X migrants in Colombia are giving their devalued currency a new lease of life by recycling
near-worthless Y into artworks.They are utilizing their creative power to make a living by
folding notes into model cars, swans, handbags and purses.The handicrafts are then sold on
stalls at a significant markup from theY’s black market value.
 X’s rate of inflation reached 2,000,000 per cent in 2018 following economic measures
by socialist President Nicolas Maduro, who claims his government has experienced the brunt
of an “economic war” led by the opposition party and supported by sanctions
from Washington. X is currently facing a huge economic and political crisis and protests
against the current president is common due to his presidency being disputed with Juan
Guaidó since January 2019.
 X andY?

91. X –VENEZUELA
Y - BOLIVIAR

92. 2
 This is Naresh Goyal. India Today in an
article written on April 18 called him the
New King of Bad Times. He is the founder
of?

94. JET AIRWAYS

95. 3
 This the Cathedral of _______ ________.Victor Hugo’s 19th-
century literary classic X soared to the top of France’s online
bestseller list after a fire ravaged the 850-year-
old Paris cathedral on the night of 15 April. X?
 By 17th morning, different editions of the 1831 novel occupied
the first, third, fifth, seventh and eighth slots in Amazon France’s
bestseller list, with a history of this gothic architectural
masterpiece taking sixth place.
 The runaway success confirms a French tendency to seek
solace in literature at times of national anguish: A Moveable
Feast, Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his time in the bars and
cafés of 1920s Paris, became France’s fastest-selling book after
the terror attacks of November 2015.

98. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME

99. ROUND 8: THE LAST STRAW
 The ULTIMATE round of this quiz.
 4 questions.
 Each question is a double decker or basically has two parts – A and B. Both the parts
will appear individually.
 Each team is allowed a single attempt to answer a question.
 If you attempt at part A +10/-5.
 If you attempt at part B +5/-0.

100. 1 A
 Advertisement of which company?

101. 1 A

102. 1 B

104.  Mercedez Benz

105. 2 A
 This is an example of Jali work or stone
tracery.This exquisite Jali work (as in the
images) can be found in The Sidi Sayed
Mosque situated in Ahmedabad and close
to Lal Darwaza.This mosque was built in
1573 by Sidi Saeed.The mosque is built in
yellow stones and is a perfect example of
the great Islamic Architecture. Which
entity gets it’s logo from this?

106. 2 B

108. IIM - A

109. 3 A
 Nutrition experts analysed the original, replications and variations of X and found out that
plate & dish sizes have increased through time and hence man’s intake of daily food has also
increased.
 Using CAD technology they scanned the sources and various food items depicted in the
sources and used computer algorithms to compare the results.
 The findings suggest the trend of bigger plates and portions that has been noticed recently
and linked to obesity may have been in the works for much longer.
 The growing size also reflects the success of agriculture over the past 10 centuries.
 What was their source?

110. 3 A
source

111. 3 B

114. 4 A
 Every country has its own share of folk tales.To which country does the story of Nazruddin
Hojah belong?

115. 4 B

117. TURKEY
 Monument was Hagia Sophia

118.  That’s it guys. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who put up a good fight.