This document appears to be the preliminary round questions for a quiz competition at Oakridge International School titled "Treasure Fest Brainwave". It provides the format and rules for the preliminary round which will consist of 25 multiple choice questions, with no negative points and star marked questions used as tie-breakers. The top 6 teams will advance to the finals.

1. OAKRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
TREASURE FEST
BRAINWAVE
22ND AUGUST 2014
QUIZ - PRELIMS
Sree Nihit & Aditya Varma
CONTACT: sreenihit@gmail.com

2. FORMAT
 PRELIMINARY ROUND OF 25 QUESTIONS
 NO NEGATIVE POINTS
 STAR MARKED (*) QUESTIONS WILL BE USED AS TIE-BREAKERS
 SIX TEAMS IN THE FINALS
 QUIZ MASTER’S DECISION IS FINAL

3. PRELIMS

4. WITH CONTENT CONTRIBUTION FROM THEJA
KANUMARY AND PRADYUMNA TAMBWEKAR

5. Q1.
________ is a neurodegenerative disease which is referred to with
multiple names including Motor Neurone Disease and Charcot
disease.
Its symptoms include muscle spasticity, weakness due to atrophy,
difficulty in speaking, swallowing and breathing.
The most famous person with this disease is possibly Stephen
Hawking who has been living with this disease from 1963, despite
being told he had only two years to live.

6. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

7. ALS

8. Q2.
Arab cookery books of the 10th and 13th Centuries referred to these pastries as
sanbusak , sanbusaq or sanbusaj.
By the early 14th Century, it was not only a part of Indian cuisine but also deemed food
fit for a king. Amir Khusrao, the prolific poet of Delhi once wrote that the royals
seemed partial to the "______prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so on”.
The ______obtained a royal stamp with its inclusion in the Ain-i-Akbari which declared
that among dishes cooked with wheat there is the qutab, "which the people of Hind
called the sanbusa”.
What almost universally popular snack is this?

9. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

10. SAMOSA

11. Q3.
HOW DO WE BETTER KNOW THE OXFORD III?
The following are early models of the Oxford series of cars made by Morris
Motors. How do we better know one of the later models, Oxford III?

12. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

13. THE AMBASSADOR
Oxford III was the inspiration behind the Hindustan Ambassador.

14. Q4. THE FOLLOWING IMAGES SHOW POPPY FLOWERS BEING PLANTED
AROUND THE TOWER OF LONDON THIS YEAR.
TO WHOM IS THIS TRIBUTE BEING MADE, COMMEMORATING 100 YEARS
SINCE THIS EVENT.

15. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

16. SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN WW1.

17. Q5. WHAT IS THIS AN AD FOR?

18. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

19. SCRABBLE

20. Q6. THE BEST EXTRA WEIGHT WE HAVE CARRIED – LUFTHANSA.
TWEET ABOUT?

21. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

22. THE WORLD CUP

23. Q7. WHOSE ‘RESUME’?

25. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

26. JAMES BOND.

27. Q8. MAP OF?

28. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

29. HYDERABAD METRO

30. Q9. PICTURE OF?

31. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

32. ALL SATELLITES AROUND EARTH.

33. Q10. WHAT IS THIS COIN RELEASED BY THE VATICAN
THIS YEAR COMMEMORATING?

34. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

35. 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN
WALL

36. Q11. WHAT IS THIS GRAPH ABOUT?

37. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

38. EBOLA VIRUS

39. Q12. GROWN UP VERSION OF WHICH CARTOON
SHOW?

40. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

41. DEXTER’S LABAROTORY.

42. Q13. DOWNTON ABBEY IS A TV SHOW SET IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY
ENGLAND, DURING WW1. THIS PROMOTIONAL PICTURE WENT VIRAL AND
WAS MOCKED ON THE INTERNET. WHY?

43. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

44. THERE’S A PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE IN THE IMAGE.
SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE IN THE 19TH CENTURY.

45. Q14. TRIBUTE TO?

46. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

47. ROBIN WILLIAMS.

48. Q15. WHO IS THIS UPCOMING MOVIE BASED
ON?

49. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

50. STEPEHN HAWKING.

51. Q16. WHO WAS THIS ‘PRESCRIBED’ TO?

52. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

53. IRON MAN.

54. Q17. THIS AIRPLANE CALLED ‘FIREFLY’ WAS PAINTED IN THESE
COLORS BY BRITISH AIRWAYS FOR A VERY SPECIFIC PURPOSE. WHAT
PURPOSE? TIMELINE: 1 TO 3 YEARS AGO.

55. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

56. TO CARRY THE OLYMPIC TORCH FROM ATHENS
TO UK FOR THE 2012 OLYMPICS.

57. Q18. WHAT IS THIS INFOGRAPHIC DESCRIBING?

58. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

59. USA’S OIL IMPORTS.

60. Q19. WHAT “STOP ZONES” IS THE NEW YORK
GOVERNOR INTRODUCING HERE IN THIS PHOTO?

61. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

63. Q20. WHAT IS THIS A REFERENCE TO?

64. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

65. ALICE IN WONDERLAND

66. Q21.
X's branding was created by Timothy Hanley to distinguish items that
integrate consumer audio and video with conventional computing
products…
The X logo also represents the integration of analog and digital
technology with the ___ representing an analog wave and the ___
representing a digital binary code.
The sound some X models make when starting up is derived from the
melody created when pressing a telephone keypad to spell the letters
of X.

67. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

68. VAIO

69. Q22.
Instead of using the typical watercolors to create his paintings, Baghdad-based
artist Othman Toma uses a very unusual “paint” as his medium. Toma
scoops up the liquid with his brushes and begins to paint.
The clever collection of work includes lions and tigers bursting from splatters,
and minimalist portraits. Toma is able to obtain an incredibly wide array of
saturated colors without requiring very many materials. He simply has to go
to the freezer.
When photographing the piece, he includes the ____________ and his brushes
as a part of the composition. In doing so, he offers his viewers a small
glimpse into his process of transforming the food into beautiful artwork.

71. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

72. MELTED ICE CREAM

73. Q23.
The following are excerpts from a humorous Reader's Digest article titled 13 Things
_____ Won't Tell You:
Sure, we burn things.
Obviously, we’re not all going to sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting for a roast or
a lasagna to cook.
Sorry, but we are not going to tell you how bad a recipe is for you.
Sometimes, the dishes we taste are stone cold because of a swap-out.
The truth is, I have no clue what brand of ketchup or baking powder I’m using.
What kind of spoon did I use? The one they handed to me.
No, that’s not my real house or kitchen.

74. ANSWER FOLLOWS.

75. TV CHEFS

76. Q24 IDENTIFY THE TAGLINE X
The tagline X was created by SpiceJet co-founder Ajay Singh.
Talking about how X came into place, Singh says "The idea was to make the
slogan find resonance with everyone, which included a lot of first time ------.
We had a new market to tap into and these stakeholders needed to be
communicated with. There was real anger among people.....To counter it all
and attack the existing --------, we, in a team effort, brought out X".
During the committee meeting when the tagline was being discussed, senior
members in ------ were keen on words such as swaraj and sushaasan to be
included, but Singh was thinking of appealing to a younger India.

78. AB KI BAAR MODI SARKAAR

79. Q25.
In the early years of the movie industry, _______ , something we all associate
with movies was actually banned in movie theatres/
This was a consequence of the fact that early movies did not have sound and
were silent movies. As movies with sound began to appear, ________ became
commonplace in movie theaters.

81. POPCORN!