This document contains 30 questions from a solo quiz. The questions cover topics ranging from films, books, art, music, and current events to test general knowledge.

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25th March 2018
by Siddhanth Rao

2. • Solo quiz consisting of 30 written questions.
• No run-through of the questions.
• Good luck!
Format
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3. Earlier this week, the popular photography app
VSCO released a set of 3 photo filters.
What inspired the design and colour scheme of
these photo filters?
Images follow.
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6. Isle of Dogs
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7. These are some of the tweets from an anonymous
account that provided humourous anecdotes and
wisecracks from a certain annual event.
This Twitter account was even hailed by Scroll as
the most engaging voice of the event.
Which event?
Images follow.
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8. A
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9. Jaipur Literature Festival
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10. In lieu of International Women’s
Day, Mattel released a Barbie
collection that depicted famous
women from across the globe.
What particular feature of this
doll irked the estate of Frida
Kahlo, going as far as to
condemn the depiction?
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11. The absence of her unibrow.
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12. In September 2017, the first ever spy-themed bar
opened in London. Inspired by Alan Turing and
Sherlock Holmes, the bar provides a truly unique
experience: customers dress up as codebreakers
from WW2, look for clues and hints around the bar
and decipher codes using Enigma machines to earn
their own personalised cocktail combinations.
Which historical attraction that served as the
central site for British codebreakers during World
War II lends its name to this bar?
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13. Bletchley Park
The bar is called The Bletchley and currently has a
waiting list of over 6000.
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14. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s only novel and
features the romance between Cathy and
Heathcliff. The book has seen steady sales since the
last 150 years and sold over 8500 copies in 2005.
In 2010, Harper Collins reissued Wuthering Heights
with a brand new cover and tagline. Following this
reissue, the sales jumped to over 34,000 copies
and is now among the best-selling classics.
What inspired the new cover? Image follows.
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15. A
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16. The covers of the Twilight series.
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17. Not to be confused with the black or urad gram
found in our country, this is a type of black pulse
that belong to the Lens genus.
What is the common name of this lentil, owing to
its resemblance to a prized commodity found
primarily in the Caspian Sea?
Image follows.
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19. Beluga lentil
(resembles Beluga caviar)
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20. The Faculty of Human Biology and Bioimaging at
the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich offers
an annual summer lecture course that provides an
in-depth coverage into some of the most important
aspects of human biology: the aging of cells, the
role of stem cells and how it shapes our body and
the detrimental effects of cancer cells.
Which legendary film from the 1960s is used as
the title for this course?
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21. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(Stem cells, cancer cells and aging of cells)
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22. In 2018, a particular gentleman made his way into
New York City with his latest offering.
However, to the dismay of hundreds who flocked
to his latest establishment, his signature move
involving an iconic gooseneck pose was deemed
unhygienic by the city’s inspectors and was later
required to wear gloves to perform the same.
Who is this all about?
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23. Salt Bae
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24. These are maps of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan
and Basavangudi, a locality in Bangalore.
What was the design of these areas based on, a
direct nod to the colonial rulers who reigned over
the land?
Images follow.
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26. Union Jack
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27. The logo of this entity was designed by the company
Ray+Keshavan and the graphic primarily represents
the coming together of different countries, and of
people across geographies.
While on the one hand it depicts the Bodhi tree, a
symbol of nature and a metaphor for life and giving,
it also shows interlinked figures of the people who
have come together to create the entity itself.
What 4 year old entity is this the logo of?
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28. Nalanda University
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29. In early March 2018, the Royal Mint released a new
series of Sterling Silver 10p coins. A set of 26 coins,
they covered the A to Z of British life and traditions
and hoped to trigger a national coin hunt. For instance,
the letter B represented James Bond, S showcased the
Stonehenge and U displayed the Union Jack.
What did the following alphabets represent?
N – considered the lifeline of the country and employs
over 1.5 million individuals.
Q – a quintessential aspect of British etiquette.
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30. National Health Service (NHS)
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31. Queuing
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Brits queue for an Ed Sheeran concert
without the need for any barriers.

32. This legend’s quirky nickname was first used by
ESPN's Jon Gruden during a game between Miami
Dolphins and Indianapolis Colts.
It is attributed to the sportsman’s ability to lay
down the law in other teams’ stadiums by
manipulating his offense at the line of scrimmage
through his audibles.
Who is this? What nickname?
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33. Peyton Manning
The Sheriff
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34. In 2011, Design Sponge came up with a list of
artifacts and collectibles to recreate the design and
style of a particular 1979 film.
The list included a Panasonic cassette recorder, a
vintage Queensboro Bridge postcard, a classic
Sundae, a Hohner harmonica and a pair of subway
token cufflinks among various other quirky objects.
Identify the film. Images follow.
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36. Manhattan
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37. The Indian historical fiction-political thriller film
Hey Ram featured Kamal Haasan as the protagonist
Saket Ram, along with his friend Amjad Ali Khan
(played by Shah Rukh Khan) as field assistants
working together in the excavation process at
Mohenjo-daro in the Sindh province.
Which real-life British archaeologist and former
Director General of the Archaeological Survey of
India was shown as being their boss in the film?
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38. Mortimer Wheeler
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39. What was confirmed by this tweet, something
that broke the heart of hundreds of thousands?
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40. Groot died in Guardians of the Galaxy.
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41. Beginning from the early third season in 2016, the
on-screen title card of a particular satirical comedy-
drama television series has been modified.
One part of the title has been crossed out in favour
of a substitute to portray the fact that the
protagonist is no longer what the title of the show
claims to be.
Which series?
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42. Jane The Virgin
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43. Goetheplatz is a U-Bahn station in Munich, in
operation since 1971. The construction of the
station was completed in 1941 and was over 135
metres long. For what purpose was the completed
tunnel put to use until 1945?
From 1945 to 1965, this space was used for
another purpose owing to its dark environment,
humid climate and consistent temperatures.
What were these the perfect conditions for?
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44. Bomb shelter
Cultivating mushrooms
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45. In February 2017, Spyder, the world’s largest ski
specialty brand, outfitted the U.S. Ski Team
members in race suits that embodied the strength
and amazing abilities demonstrated by both the
elite athletes and what their suits represented.
Identify the athlete.
What does her suit represent?
Image follows.
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47. Lindsey Vonn
Captain Marvel
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48. Gary Burden was an American artist who designed
several memorable album covers for Neil Young,
Joni Mitchell, the Doors and numerous other stars
of rock and folk-rock.
As times changed in the music industry, he adapted
to the new formats and technology, but remarked
that the LP would always remain his favorite —
mainly because it felt the best to hold in his hand.
What was the other reason he cited, involving an
activity common among his peers?
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49. It was the easiest to roll a joint in.
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50. Which place in South India, that formerly served
as the capital of the Chalukyas, gets its name from
the abundance of almond-coloured sandstone
found in the region?
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51. Badami
(from Badam, the word for almond)
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52. In biology, adaptation is the process by which an
animal or plant species becomes fitted to its
environment. Back in the heyday, naturalists
theorised ridiculous reasons without scientific
backing for adaptations among organisms.
Such adaptive theories without any proof are now
referred to by the title of a 1902 collection of
children’s stories that described how animals such
as leopards and elephants acquired its most
distinctive features. What are they called?
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53. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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54. In the 1950s, Richard J. Daley, the mayor of a
particular city wanted to curb the city’s pollution
problem and came up with an innovative solution
to pinpoint the exact places where waste was being
discarded into the waterway of the city.
This idea was put to use in 1962 for a different
purpose and transformed into an annual tradition.
What tradition is this, that is now carried out by
the Plumbers Local?
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55. Dyeing the Chicago River Green on St. Patrick’s Day
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56. Only two of this year’s Academy Award for Best
Picture nominees are set in present day, with the
rest cycling through about sixty years: from the
1940s to the Y2K era.
Which two films are set in the present day?
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57. A
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58. The common pipistrelle is a bat species found across
most of Europe, North Africa and Asia. In 1999, it was
split into two species on the basis of different-
frequency echolocation calls. The common pipistrelle
produced a call of 45 kHz. What was the species that
used a higher call frequency of 55-85 kHz called?
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59. Soprano pipistrelle
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60. In 1968, this gentleman famously posed showing
off his bulked-up bodybuilder’s physique – in a
loincloth, impaled with arrows in a series of
photographs by Kishin Shinoyama.
Identify the person.
What was he paying tribute to, a visual imagery
that greatly inspired the person in question?
Image follows.
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61. A
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62. Yukio Mishima
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63. Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
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Saint Sebastian by
Guido Reni (c. 1616)

64. This popstar started stylising her name while she
was living as a waitress and struggling to get by,
explaining that the choice was an ironic gesture.
In 2014, she reverted back to the original style, her
birth name, explaining that she wanted to let go of
the facade about being a girl who didn't care but
instead wants to start telling the truth about who
she is: vulnerable, real, and not always strong.
Who is this? or What exactly did this popstar do?
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65. Kesha
She added and dropped the dollar sign -> Ke$ha
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66. In 1679, Dennis Papin invented a steam digester
which came to be known as Papin’s digester.
This invention was the forerunner of two other
significant machines – one, a commonly used
household appliance and another, a revolutionary
sterilisation equipment. Name both.
Image follows.
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67. A
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68. Pressure cooker
Autoclave
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69. Aimed at targeting younger readers, what is
subject of Manga no Shimbun? Images follow.
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70. A
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71. News
News is covered in graphical form to
encourage young people to follow the news.
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72. The final quality safeguard inside this particular
company is the human eye. Every employee is
required to pass an annual exam called the
Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test.
The test taker has to arrange four rows of samples, 85
in all, into descending order based on their shade and
they can’t make more than three errors. The reigning
champion of this test is Madlin Tadros, an employee of
the textiles department who hasn’t erred in 21 years.
Which company uses this parameter?
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73. Pantone
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74. This is the track Only 1 U from the album Matangi.
Which British rapper and activist released this
album in 2016?
Which track from a 2000 Kollywood film in
sampled in this clipping?
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75. M.I.A.
(Mathangi Arulpragasam)
Karuppu Thaan Yenakku Pidicha Coloru from
Vetri Kodi Kattu
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76. 1. Isle of Dogs
2. Jaipur Literature Festival
3. Absence of the unibrow.
4. Bletchley Park
5. Twilight book covers
6. Beluga lentils
7. The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly
8. Salt Bae
9. Union Jack
10. Nalanda University
11. NHS, Queuing
12. Peyton Manning
The Sheriff
13. Manhattan
14. Mortimer Wheeler
15. Groot dies in GotG
16. Jane The Virgin
17. Bomb shelter, Mushrooms
18. Lindsey Vonn, Captain Marvel
19. Easy to roll a joint on.
20. Badami
21. Just So Stories
22. Dyeing Chicago River Green
23. Get Out, 3 Billboards..
24. Soprano pipistrelle
25. Yukio Mishima
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
26. Kesha
27. Pressure cooker, Autoclave
28. News
29. Pantone
30. M.I.A., Karuppu Thaan..