The preliminary round of Qriosity - the general quiz for college students held as part Silhouettes 2016 at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, prepared and presented by Anmol Dhawan & Pranjal Gupta.

1. T H E P R E L I M I N A RY R O U N D
QRIOSITY
SILHOUETTES 2016
ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE, PUNE
ANMOL DHAWAN
&
PRANJAL GUPTA

2. DISCLAIMER SLIDE
• This quiz has been prepared by Anmol Dhawan and
Pranjal Gupta of Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
for Silhouettes 2016, the annual cultural, sports and
literary festival of the college.
• Please do not circulate this quiz without permission,
and please do not steal questions! 

3. 1
• Ben Mor is a director who is well-known for directing
short videos and the Britney Spears documentary “I am
Britney Jean”.
• Which work of his came into prominence in India,
earlier this year?

4. HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND

5. 2
• X, ie C18Fe7N18, was probably synthesised for the first time by
Diesbach in Berlin in 1706, when he was attempting to
create a red lake pigment, but obtained something else
instead, as a result of contamination.
• X’s use spread across the world. The famous Japanese
artwork The Great Wave off Kanagawa makes use of it.
• X was also used very extensively by engineers and
architects for their designs, which is where the word Y
comes from.
• ID X and Y. Part points available.

6. X – PRUSSIAN BLUE
Y – BLUEPRINT

7. 3
• Wallpaper groups are a mathematical classification of a two-
dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in
the given pattern. There are a maximum of 17
mathematically possible wallpaper groups.
• The tiles of X, a European UNESCO World Heritage Site, are
remarkable in that they contain nearly all these possible
wallpaper groups.
• The Dutch graphic artist M C Escher’s visit to X in 1922 and
study of the Moorish use of symmetry in the tiles of X
inspired his subsequent work.

8. ALHAMBRA

9. 4
• Jim Lakers took all 10 wickets in one of the innings
against Australia in the 1956 test match at Old Trafford.
• Australia, earlier in that same season, had also lost
their ten wickets to a single bowler in one innings.
• Who was the bowler on that occasion and which team
was he playing for?
• Part points available.

10. JIM LAKERS AGAIN, THIS TIME FOR SURREY

11. 5
• On the following slide is a recreation of a famous
painting by the cast of the TV show Modern Family.
• ID this 20th century American painter, whose works
enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for
their reflection of American culture.

12. 5

13. NORMAN ROCKWELL

14. 6*
• John Hanning Speke was an officer in the Royal Army who
famously made three explanatory expeditions to Africa,
during one of which he discovered and named Lake Victoria,
the source of the Nile.
• He was awarded a medal with an inscription that read –
“Honor est a nilo,” – ‘The honour is from the Nile’.
• This was also, interestingly a clever wordplay in honour of
the man who paved the way for Speke’s exploratory exploits.
• Who?

15. HORATIO NELSON

16. 7
• X is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown
sugar and ______, although other ingredients such as corn syrup,
cream etc are part of some recipes. The earliest known X recipes
come from Doncaster, England in the 19th century, where it became
popular as an emollient for the chest in harsh winters.
• X is similar to toffee, except that the sugar is boiled to the soft
crack stage for X, and not hard crack as with toffee.
• The term X is also often used more specifically of the flavour of
brown sugar and ______ together, even where the actual
confection X is not involved.
• ID X.

17. BUTTERSCOTCH

18. 8
• With which event would you
associate the following four
subjects?
1. The Babushka Lady (seen
with a camera)
2. The Umbrella Man (who
‘may have been acting as a
signaler of some kind’)
3. The Badge Man (a man in a
policeman’s uniform with a
visible badge firing a
weapon)
4. Three Tramps

19. INITIAL SUSPECTS OF JFK’S ASSASSINATION

20. 9
• Valencia FC, the six-time La Liga winning Spanish
football club, partnered with the Red Cross in May
2015 for this effort during their match against Celta
Vigo, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
• How did they attract attention to the cause they were
trying to raise money for, which helped in a worldwide
relief effort? And for what cause?
• Part points available.

21. PLAYER NAMES WRITTEN IN NEPALI TO ATTRACT
ATTENTION TOWARDS THE NEPAL EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

22. 10
• This Yogic siddhi (a divine ability) helps the sadhaka to
see things or events happening at any place in all
three worlds.
• In the Mahabharata, this ability was used by Sanjay to
explain the happenings at Kurukshetra to Dhritarashtra.
• Name this siddhi or divine ability, which is known to
everybody in India with respect to mass media.

23. DOORDARSHAN

24. 11
• _________s were medieval Persians and Syrians
belonging to the Nizari Ismailis, an Islamic sect that
formed in the late 11th century from a split within
Ismailism, itself a branch of Shia Islam.
• One of the theories is that they get their name from
their extensive use/abuse of the substance X. The
English word Y derives from them, as this is what they
were professionally most famous as.
• Identify X and Y. No part points.

25. X – HASHISH
Y – ASSASSIN

26. 12*
• For his role in defusing the Cuban missile crisis and other
peacekeeping efforts, the Norwegian permanent representative of
the United Nations informed X that he would be awarded the 1965
Nobel Peace Prize.
• He humbly replied, “Is not the ___ merely doing his job when he
works for peace?” On the other hand, Gunnar Jahn, chairman of
the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, lobbied heavily against giving X
the prize which, at the last minute, was awarded the prize. The
rest of the committee all wanted the prize to go to X.
• The disagreement lasted three years and, in 1966 and 1967, no
prize was given, with Gunnar Jahn effectively vetoing an award to
X.
• ID X.

27. U THANT

28. 13
• X is a song from a famous 1992 cult Bollywood film
that launched Y’s career in the industry. Apparently,
when Z got late for the shooting of this song, Y who was
working as an assistant director then, stepped up for
the role and took over Z’s position. The rest, as they
say, is history.
• ID X, Y and Z. Half-point for getting any 2 elements
correct. No points for 1.
• (Image on the next slide)

29. 13

30. X – PEHLA NASHA
Y – FARAH KHAN
Z – SAROJ KHAN

31. 14
• The Digambar Jain Mandir
in Delhi runs a charitable
bird hospital in Chandni
Chowk, catering to winged
creatures of all kinds.
• There does, however, exist
a single criterion for
admission to the hospital.
Only X birds can be
admitted, whereas Y birds
can be treated on an
outpatient basis.
• Put funda.

32. ONLY ‘VEGETARIAN’ BIRDS ALLOWED
ADMISSION!
• Since the hospital is run by a Jain trust, only
herbivorous birds are admitted into the wards.

33. 15
• The job description for an ideal X is that “X should not
be seen. They should blend into the background and
get on with their jobs quietly.”
• The requirements for this job are as follows:
1. Being nominated by their school headteacher
2. Passing written tests on the rules of ______
3. Passing fitness, mobility and other suitability tests, which
ensure that they are fast, alert, self-confident and
adaptable to situations
4. Being chosen through a period of continuous assessment

34. BALLBOYS/BALLGIRLS AT WIMBLEDON

35. 16
• Thanksgiving Day was an informal holiday celebrated across
New England in America in the 1600s. Other parts of the USA
had their own Thanksgiving Days at different times.
• One lady named Sarah Josepha Hale campaigned excessively
for over 20 years for Thanksgiving to be designated as an
official holiday.
• Finally, president Lincoln decided to act on a letter from her
and designated it as a national holiday.
• What was her famous contribution in the field of children’s
literature? (Pertaining not to turkey, but another animal )

36. SHE WROTE “MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB”

37. 17
• This city, whose name means “City of Love”, was founded in
1881 as a fortification on the ruins of the Silk Road city
of Konjikala, first mentioned as a wine-producing village in
the 2nd century BC and leveled by an earthquake in the 1st
century BC.
• It was rebuilt because of its advantageous location on the
Silk Road and it flourished until its destruction by Mongols in
the 13th century. After that it survived as a small village
until Russians took over in the 19th century.
• Identify this Asian capital city.

38. ASHGABAT (FROM “ISHQABAD” – CITY OF
LOVE)

39. 18*
• Bruce Langhorne is an American folk musician, who was active in
the 60s folk scene, primarily as a guitarist. He lost his fingers in a
tragic accident, contributing to his distinctive fingerpicking style.
• He purchased a large Turkish frame drum, which had small bells
attached to its interior, giving it a jingling sound like the
instrument __________. He used to play this in various folk
festivals and circuses, inspiring the singer X to write the song Y in
which Langhorne played the countermelody on the guitar.
• The song Y was later covered by The Byrds, and both versions are
in the Top 100 of the Rolling Stones Magazine’s Greatest Songs of
All Time.
• ID the singer X and the song Y. The blank is part of the song name.

40. X – BOB DYLAN
Y – MR TAMBOURINE MAN

41. 19
• ID the connection. This is an exhaustive list, with the dots marking
their exact locations. Red marks countries which formerly had one
of these, and light green marks those where these are proposed.

42. BAHAI PLACES OF WORSHIP

43. 20
• Initiated in 1865, “The Knowledge” is a test offered in
London that applicants for a particular job must pass. The
applicant is required to be able to decide something
immediately in response to a client’s request or
preference, rather than stopping to look for reference or
relying on technology.
• Because of the minute details that practitioners of this
profession are aware of, scientists have discovered that the
hippocampus in their brains are larger and much more
developed than the average population.
• Who are these people?

44. LONDON CAB DRIVERS

45. 21
• Man O’War is considered to be one of the greatest race
horses of all time. During his entire career, he won 20
out of 21 races, and about $250,000 in prize money.
• What was the name of the horse that defeated Man
O’War in that eventful race, which resulted in the
origin of the sporting term denoting an unexpected
result?

46. UPSET

47. 22
• On the following slide is a clip from the 1967 Indian
movie Aman, which shows a conversation between Dr
Gautamdas (played by Rajendra Kumar) and his idol X,
who plays himself in the film.
• ID X.

48. 22
• Video removed

49. BERTRAND RUSSELL

50. 23
• _____ Amaru II was an 18th century Peruvian
revolutionary who was executed after leading an
indigenous uprising against Spanish rule.
• The name of this revolutionary inspired the
nomenclature of a famous singer X born in 1971 in the
East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City.
• ID X.

51. TUPAC SHAKUR

52. 24*
• The word X, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary,
has roots in acts similar to that performed by Robert
Campbell.
• The term dates back to the early 1600s and comes from the
French phrase “X d’honneur,” which literally translates to
‘word of honour’ (the French word X meaning ‘word’ or
‘speech’).
• It was most likely first used to describe the promise made
by a prisoner of war to not escape.
• ID X.

53. PAROLE

54. 25
• X is a Blended Scotch Whisky, which is part of Pernod Ricard. It
traces its roots back to 1801, and its home is the Strathisla
distillery at Keith, Moray in Speyside, Scotland, the oldest
operating Highland distillery which was founded in 1786.
• When X was struggling to gain market share and its sales were low,
its owners doubled its price - without changing the whisky.
Consumers saw the increased price as evidence that this must be a
quality brand, and as a result, the sales of X doubled.
• In the 1980s, some U.S. universities adopted the same kind of
policy, and the X Effect became more associated with tuition costs
than whisky. Colleges started to raise tuition fees to bring in more
money and typically saw a significant increase in enrollment. At
the time, parents equated higher tuition costs with a better
standard of education.
• What is the X Effect?

55. CHIVAS REGAL EFFECT

56. “GIVE US A FEW MINUTES, WE’LL LET YOU
KNOW SHORTLY”