This document provides a summary of an online quiz competition called "Prashnatantra" hosted by GQF 3. It includes 6 written round questions on a common theme with clues, points values and answering instructions. The questions cover topics like journalism, military terminology, writing systems, films, technology and inventions. Participants are asked to provide written answers and exchange answer sheets for marking on a theme related to scams or alleged scams in India.

1. PRASHNATANTRA
• The General Quiz of GQF 3
• Finals
• Audio-visual files removed.
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• Questions researched by daktar vinay, Bhaskar
Sharma and Pratik Baruah on behalf of Team
Quriozzity.

2. LONG ANSWER CONNECT

3. RULES
• Written round
• 6 questions. 10 points apiece. Answers linked
by a common theme.
• Non exhaustive list.
• Marking scheme for theme mentioned on the
slide.
• No negative marking. However a team can
only attempt once for the theme by writing it
out.

4. 1. +30
He started his journalism
career at the age of 15 as
the editor of Trade Guide, a
weekly box-office magazine.
In 1994, he produced and
wrote a Bollywood film-
based serial Hello
Bollywood. Just identify
him.

5. 2. +25
XY is an informal, derogatory term for
combatants who are regarded or treated as
expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term
is generally used in situations where combatants
are forced to deliberately fight against hopeless
odds (with the foreknowledge that they will
suffer extremely high casualties) in an effort to
achieve a strategic goal. The two word term
please.

6. 3. +20
It is a writing system of the Brahmic family of
scripts, developed around the 8th century and
was used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. The
Gurmukhi script was developed from it.
Originally more widespread, its use became
later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely
used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community
for ceremonial purposes. It is also another name
for Saraswati, the Goddess of learning. Which
writing system?

7. 4 +15
Audio removed. Song- ‘Yashomati Maiya se bole
nandlala’
Lovely song. Name of the movie please.

8. 5 +10
It was first launched commercially in Finland by
Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.
It has now been superseded by newer ones- one
of the newer ones of which can be connected to
a Bollywood movie.
What am I rambling about?

9. 6 +5
This English gentleman is
widely hailed as the
originator of the basic
concepts of a much used
service and also credited
with the invention of
something very much
necessary for that particular
service. What invention is he
credited with?

10. • EXCHANGE ANSWER SHEETS

11. ANSWERS

12. 1. +30
He started his journalism
career at the age of 15 as
the editor of Trade Guide, a
weekly box-office magazine.
In 1994, he produced and
wrote a Bollywood film-
based serial Hello
Bollywood. Just identify
him.

13. TARAN ADARSH

14. 2. +25
XY is an informal, derogatory term for
combatants who are regarded or treated as
expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term
is generally used in situations where combatants
are forced to deliberately fight against hopeless
odds (with the foreknowledge that they will
suffer extremely high casualties) in an effort to
achieve a strategic goal. The two word term
please.

15. CANNON FODDER

16. 3. +20
It is a writing system of the Brahmic family of
scripts, developed around the 8th century and
was used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. The
Gurmukhi script was developed from it.
Originally more widespread, its use became
later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely
used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community
for ceremonial purposes. It is also another name
for Saraswati, the Goddess of learning. Which
writing system?

17. SARADA

18. 4 +15
Lovely song. Name of the movie please.

19. SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM

20. 5 +10
It was first launched commercially in Finland by
Radiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.
It has now been superseded by newer ones- one
of the newer ones of which can be connected to
a Bollywood movie.
What am I rambling about?

21. 2G SPECTRUM
The Bollywood movie being 3G

22. 6 +5
This English gentleman is
widely hailed as the
originator of the basic
concepts of a much used
service and also credited
with the invention of
something very much
necessary for that particular
service. What invention is he
credited with?

23. POSTAGE STAMP

24. ANSWERS
• TARAN ADARSH
• CANNON FODDER
• SARADA
• SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM
• 2G SPECTRUM
• POSTAGE STAMP

25. THEME
A SMALL PART OF THE INEXHAUSTIBLE LIST OF
SCAMS (OR ALLEGED SCAMS) IN INDIA

26. DRY DOSE
• 30 questions.
• Clockwise and counter-clockwise
• 10 points for direct. +10/-10 on pounce.

27. Bhagvadgita. Chapter 9 Verse 22.
“The day to day welfare of those people who
worship me would be taken care of by me”
being the rough translation of this shloka. Taking
the translation as a clue, give me the name of a
famous business entity whose logo features a
phrase from this shloka. The company may indeed
claim what the shloka implies.

30. Mr Saigal was a victim of the partition of India in
which he lost all his family members. He and his
life were the basis of a book written by a Bombay
based doctor, who was suffering from depression
because of his inability to save his patients. Mr
Saigal’s afflictions have been an oft repeated
question in quizzes. Just give me the
aforementioned Mr Saigal’s first name.

33. Macbeth. Act II, Scene I.
Just before Banquo encounters Macbeth on his way to
kill Duncan, he asks his son, Fleance, "How goes the
night, boy?" Fleance replies, “___ _____ ____ _____; I
have not heard the clock.”
The blanked out four words are also the title of a John
Steinbeck work for which he received the Norwegian
King Haakon VII Freedom Cross. Also adapted into a
movie, give me the blanked out words.

36. Started by Torii Shinjiro this is a Japanese brewing and
distilling company group and is one of the oldest
companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages in
Japan. Its products include, among others, Jim Beam
Kentucky bourbon whisky, Old Crow whisky, Scotch
like Teacher’s and McClelland’s. Prominently featured
in the movie- Lost in Translation, where Bill Murray’s
character films a commercial for the whisky, Akira
Kurosawa made a series of commercials for it on the
sets of his movie Kagemusha. Which company am I
talking about?

38. SUNTORY

39. He, along with his older brother, was an
important exponent of the Pahari painting of
India. His most productive and well known
paintings were made under the patronage of
Rajput ruler Balwant Singh of Guler. Shown
here is one such painting depicting Balwant
Singh inspecting a painting done by him. Just
identify this practitioner of Pahari painting.
(Bigger visual in next slide)

42. NAINSUKH

43. The ‘Larousse Gastronomique’ suggests that the
name may be derived from the very old French
meaning ‘yolk of egg’. It may be apt as the
lecithin in the egg yolk acts as an emulsifying
agent, though preparations exist that do
without the egg too. Anecdotal origins ascribe
the preparation to Spain, in a town called
Mahon where it was known as salsa
__________, from where it was taken to France
after Armand de Vignerot du Plessis’ victory
over the British at the city’s port. Which
condiment/sauce item am I talking about?

45. MAYONNAISE

46. Mausoleum in Arno’s Vale Cemetery, Bristol,
England of X. There is a copy of the 1812
Spanish Constitution dedicated to X by the
Liberals of Spain. Just identify X.

48. RAJA RAMMOHUN ROY

49. The marked place on the map is the approximate
location of a place that is famous for being the
setting of Kipling’s story ‘Rikki Tikki Tavi’ as well as
for a treaty that resulted ultimately in territorial
gains to India. Just name the place. (Bigger pic next
slide)

52. SUGAULI
Place where a treaty was signed between British
East India Company and the King of Nepal
following the Anglo-Nepalese war of 1814-16.
Sikkim, Kumaon, Garhwal and most of Terai was
ceded by Nepal as per this treaty.

53. The year 1998 saw releases of a few nondescript
and almost universally panned movies like
‘Meet Joe Black’ (starring Brad Pitt as death),
‘The Waterboy’ (with Adam Sandler playing the
lead), and ‘The Siege’ (Bruce Willis, Denzel
Washington). All these movies though, got
minor boosts by people queuing up en masse to
buy tickets, but also witnessed a strange
phenomenon of people walking out of the
theatre before the films even started. Why was
this happening?

55. THE PHANTOM
MENACE TRAILER
The fans entered the theatres
playing the aforementioned
films, only to watch the trailer
for The Phantom Menace.
Reports say they would
promptly walk out once the
trailer ended.

56. “The film is awful (cant say that because I haven't seen it) I
hated doing it, it was the wrong film but for the right reasons.
I had two kids in college so I had to make a decision.”
"I thought the movie would be much more about the
corruption of this guy at first. I don't know if he is going to go
down. There doesn't seem to be any way you can get to them
because of all those big corporations behind him. It looks the
most promising now though, because he looks more exposed
then he has ever been in the past"
An actor talking about a USD 27 million budget film, which
made headlines earlier last year after making just USD 607 in
the US, leading it to be named the biggest box office disaster
of all time. Name both actor and movie.

58. TIM ROTH on why he chose to play the role of
Sepp Blatter in the much-derided propaganda
film commissioned by FIFA, "United Passions".

59. When this once-respected organization shut down in
2008, one of the reasons cited for its demise, besides
losses, was technological obsolescence.
According to a report by the news agency Indo-Asian
News Service (IANS), the English department did not
have a computer. The printing section had five to six
computers and there was one computer in the
teleprinter room, which was used mostly by
advertisement staff to check mails.
Which organization, that can be connected to Patiala
House Court, is being talked about here?

61. This was the state of the
NATIONAL HERALD office
when it finally sputtered to
a stop in 2008.

62. One of the main problems that has plagued
several Indian hockey teams is that even though
our wasteful forwards reach the opposition half
with some slick passing, they then indulge in
fancy, directionless dribbling that gives enough
time for the defenders to retreat and kill the
move.
In domestic circles a term is used to describe
this regular phenomenon, which would be
familiar to fans of Mallika Sherawat and Katrina
Kaif.
What is the term?

64. JALEBI HOCKEY

65. Tall narrow windows like
these first appeared in
French early-Gothic
period (c. 1140–1200) and
later in the English period
of Gothic architecture
(1200–1275)
It acquired its name from
its resemblance to a
weapon.
Name it (bigger visuals
next slide)

68. LANCET WINDOWS from LANCE

69. Screenshots from the stunningly designed android
and iOS game Monument Valley.
What/ whom does the game owe its inspirations
to?

71. MC ESCHER

72. Video removed. Video of a Tom and Jerry
Cartoon.
The video in the last slide is an example of a
contraption that is deliberately over-engineered
to perform a simple task in a complicated
fashion, generally including a chain reaction.
Named after an American cartoonist and
inventor, what are such devices called?

74. RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINES

75. Pictures back from when he was captain of his college
wrestling team. At one point he tried to create a new
wrestling hold based on "a phenomenon in orbital
mechanics called a double tidal lock," but he could never get
it to work. Who is he?

77. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

78. The GIF above is probably one of most dramatic yet
simplest demonstration of a well known scientific
phenomenon taking effect. (GIF shows a ball dropped
from a height with backspin travelling away rather than
straight.) What phenomenon?

80. THE MAGNUS EFFECT
The Magnus effect is the commonly observed
effect in which a spinning ball (or cylinder)
curves away from its principal flight path.

81. On the right is the poster for
the 2011 Lars von Trier film
Melancholia while the video
in the last slide (removed) is
a sequence from the
beginning of the movie.
What is the inspiration
behind the imagery in the
poster and sequence?

83. OPHELIA
By John Everett Millais

84. Connect these two pics to give me something
that is an invariable part of our day to day life.
The gentleman in the picture is Georg Joseph
Kamel- a Czech Jesuit missionary.

86. Camellia sinensis (Tea)
Camellia (genus) was named after the Latinized name of Georg Kamel
by Carolus Linnaeus to honor Kamel’s contributions to botany.
Sinensis in Latin means ‘from China’

87. What is this yogasana called?
Hint: A little knowledge of Hindu
myth/mathematics/Sanskrit may be useful. Knowledge
of all three will probably lead you directly to the answer.

89. ASHTAVAKRASANA
Meaning having eight bends. Ashtavakra was a
sage who was born with eight bends in his body
as a result of a curse from his father.

90. This system was invented in 1994 by Denso
automotive components company for tracking
vehicles during manufacture and was designed to
allow high speed component scanning. However it
became popular outside the auto industry due to its
faster readability and greater storage capacity
compared to the usual method. The data is read by
an imaging device and processed using a Reed-
Solomon error connection until proper
interpretation takes place.
What am I talking about?

92. QUICK RESPONSE CODE
QR CODE

93. The English name of this disease comes from the
Greek word for coal, probably because of the
characteristic black skin lesions developed by the
victims having the skin infection. The type involving
the skin is also called ‘Hide-Porter’s disease’. Which
disease am I talking about?

95. ANTHRAX

96. Audio removed. ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’
recited by Michael Caine from Interstellar.
It is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets
followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two
repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first
tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which
includes both repeated lines. What is the name given to
such a poetic form, of which this one is probably the
most famous?

98. VILLANELLE

99. The video shown (removed here) is of the
boxing rematch between world heavyweight
champion Gene Tunney and former champion
Jack Dempsey held on September 22, 1927 at
Chicago. Based on what you saw in the video,
which some claimed was controversial, how is
this match better known to sports lovers?

101. BATTLE OF THE LONG COUNT/
THE LONG COUNT FIGHT

102. The video shown was that of a game of football
between the New England Patriots and the
Miami Dolphins. The date was 8 December,
1980. The last voice heard here was that of
Howard Cossell. What were Cossell’s next words
about?

104. Announcement of John Lennon’s
death (Video removed)

105. This is the song ‘Grand Hotel’ (audio removed)
by the band ‘Procol Harum’. This song inspired X
to create a ‘business enterprise’, which is quite
famous in literary circles. Put funda.

107. THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF
THE UNIVERSE
Proper name being MILLIWAY’S
X= DOUGLAS ADAMS

108. Audio removed. Song ‘O mere Shahe
Khuba’
Evergreen melody from the movie ‘Love in
Tokyo’. The lyricist is Hasrat Jaipuri. However,
the song is built upon a sher by a famous shayar
of Mughal era- “Tum mere paas hote ho goya,
jab koi doosra nahi hota”. It is said that Ghalib
offered his whole collection of poetry in
exchange for this verse. Who is the shayar in
question?

110. MOMIN KHAN MOMIN

111. Luna Ergonomics Pvt Ltd is a startup founded in
2008 by Major Abhijit Bhattacharjee, a telecom
engineer from the signals with wide ranging
software technology experience. One of the
most popular products from their stable is an
app which helps users to type in their native
languages. The app is named after the author of
Astadhyayi (which contains 3959 rules of
Sanskrit morphology, syntax and semantics).
Which app are we talking about?

113. PANINI KEYPAD(S)

114. Shown in the next slide are pics of some
paintings by a painter who studied Fine Arts at
Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai and who had
seven one man exhibitions.
He is however better known for his work in
movies and theatre and his image of “middle-
class everyman” in his movies. Sridevi’s
Bollywood debut as a leading lady was opposite
him in the movie “Solva Savan”.
Who is this multi-faceted personality?

115. “I would describe myself as a minimalist -- the less said, the
better kind of thing. It's like in literature, when you become
more mature, the subtext is much more important than the
actual text.”

117. AMOL PALEKAR

118. X is a form of combat training, (video removed)
mostly associated with the Sikh community, and
practiced either as a sport or as a ritual. As a
sport, it is played by two opponents wielding
wooden staves (also known as X). The other
weapons are not used for full contact sparring.
Just give me X.

120. GATKA

121. TIE BREAKERS

122. 1
The adjoining pic is the
poster of Akira Kurasawa’s
movie ‘Donzoko’. It is
based on a play by the
Russian author Maxim
Gorky. The English title of
the movie is the same as
that of Gorky’s play. The
English title please?

124. THE LOWER DEPTHS

125. 2
• “Its delicate, but potent. (Someone) told me that in Greek X
literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in
your heart far more powerful than memory alone.”
• A slightly inaccurate description of a particular word by Don
Draper from Mad Men, which is actually a compound of the
Greek words for "homecoming" and "pain/ache".
• Coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the
anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries, what is the good
word?

127. NOSTALGIA

128. 3
On a presumably balmy April evening in 1930, a
BBC radio announcer nonchalantly reported
something to listeners that would be
unthinkable in today's date. Piano music
followed. What was the announcement?

130. THERE IS NO NEWS TODAY
• "There is no news today", the BBC announced for the only
time in its history, and played piano music instead.

131. 4
The “Putrakamesti Yagna” for King Dasratha was
conducted by his son-in-law. Who was the
somewhat curious looking son-in-law?

133. RISHYASHRINGA

134. 5
XY is a popular brand of cigarettes originally
manufactured in the UK by Ardath Tobacco Company. In
1893 Sir Albert Levy, a tobacco merchant from London,
travelled in the 'Empire State Express' train which at that
time broke the land speed records. Sir Levy was quite
inspired by the train and on his return to Britain
registered the word X as a trademark while the other part
of brand name Y is a series of triple numbers which varied
with different blends and mix of tobacco. However the
brand XY launched in 1896 became Ardath's flagship
brand. The brand though widely sold all over the world is
scarcely available in India as it used to be. But the
obvious reference to the brand XY can still be seen on an
indigenous product Z which resembles a pack of XY.
What is Z?

136. 555 PLAYING CARDS

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