Question Mark,Finals,General Quiz,14th feb 2015,

Question Mark
Finals
Techtrix General Quiz
Questions by Abir
Bhattacharya,Samrat Roy,Sayantan
Bhattacharjee,Srijak Bhattacharya

Rounds
• WRITTEN ROUND
• SCIENCE, TECH & BIZ ROUND
• SPORTS ROUND
• MIXED BAG
• FILMS & MUSIC

What’s in a name?
• WRITTEN ROUND
• 7 QUESTIONS, 5 MARKS EACH
• +10 FOR A FULL HOUSE
• BIRTH NAMES AND PROFESSION WILL BE GIVEN,
YOU’LL HAVE TO WRITE DOWN HOW THEY ARE
BETTER KNOWN AS

What’s in a name?
1. Issur Danielovitch (film,stage actor and producer)
2. Kedarnath Pandey (Father of Hindi Travel literature, polymath,
polyglot)
3. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod (dancer and courtesan)
4. Doménikos Theotokópoulos (painter,sculptor,architect)
5. Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (political leader)
6. Arthur Antunes Coimbra (sports-person)
7. Reginald Kenneth Dwight (musician,occasional actor)

Science, Tech and Business Round

QUESTION 1
X is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in Japan
by Shigeru Sato et al., and named after Y, a famous character. The name of
this "nimble" protein was inspired due to X's "lightning-fast moves and shocking
electric effects"
ID X & Y.

QUESTION 2
Whose colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a unit of a "_____", which
was one word per hour? (named after him for his precise and taciturn nature.)
He was regarded by his friends and colleagues as unusual in character. Albert
Einstein once said of him, "This balancing on the dizzying path between
genius and madness is awful".

QUESTION 3
Jyoti Basu then chief minister of West Bengal made India's first cell-phone call
to Sukh Ram, the communications minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao
government on July 1995.What was the name of the network used?

QUESTION 4
The Government of Turkey blocked access to the _____________ website on 24
January 2014. A user named "haramzadeler" ("bastards" in Turkish) uploaded a
total of seven secretly recorded phone calls that reveal private conversations
between the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and others,
including: Erdoğan Bayraktar, local politicians, some businessmen, and the
prime minister's daughter, Sümeyye Erdoğan, and son, Bilal Erdoğan. Linked to
the 2013 corruption scandal in Turkey, some conversations on the recordings
revealed illegal activity and possible bribery—mainly about the building
permit for villas located on protected cultural heritage sites in Urla, İzmir.
FITB

QUESTION 5
 X is the brand name for a line of men's grooming and fragrance products
first launched in 1964 by Y . The X line would grow to include aftershave,
balms, and deodorant.
Muhammed Ali, Paul Gascoigne, Franz Beckenbauer have endorsed the
brand. The West Indies Cricket Team in the 1970s also did a commercial
for X.Elvis Presley is known to have used this cologne.
ID X & Y.

QUESTION 6
X is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen
and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity
and won the Nobel Prize for it in 1972
The character Y from a famous TV show is named in part after X.
Identify X and Y.

X= Leon Cooper Y=Sheldon Cooper

QUESTION 7
1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Konrad Lorenz,
Karl von Frisch and Nikolaas Tinbergen. It could be considered a prize in
the behavioural sciences rather than medicine or physiology.
Tinbergen expressed surprise in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech at "the
unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize
‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been
regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’”.
What was their work?

QUESTION 8
Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something
deceased with the line, "__________", or something similar. The phrase so
became a catchphrase of the character that Kelley joked that the line would
appear on his tombstone, but disliked repeating such lines and refused to say
it in The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death. Kelley and James Doohan
(Scotty) agreed to swap their lines.
FITB and Where would you see this being used regularly?

The “HE’S DEAD JIM” error message when Google Chrome
either is terminated with the task manager, or Chrome runs
out of memory

QUESTION 9
 X is a village located in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh State, India. The old name of
this village is Shiv Nagar.
The renaming took place after a certain company installed 15 hand pumps, so villagers no
longer had to walk for miles to fetch drinking water. There was no source of potable water
in the village before. The villagers voted to name their hamlet X to express their gratitude.
ID X.

This is the world’s first computer bug;
caused by a bug (moth) literally
being trapped in the computer and
causing it to fault. The word went out
that they had "debugged" the
machine and the term "debugging a
computer program" was born.

QUESTION 1
Edel Bete Plays
international
football as a
Goalkeeper for
which National
Team?

QUESTION 2
X is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks
as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has won
over 85 international tournaments in his career, including two majors: The
Open Championship in 1986 and 1993. He is nicknamed The Great White
Shark .He also regularly featured in the page 3 when he was married to tennis
legend Chris Evert.
ID X.

QUESTION 3
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is
the first Indian since 1936 to
play for a top division
European club and the fifth
Indian player to play
professionally in Europe.
Name his current club.

Stabæk Football in Norwegian Tippeligaen

QUESTION 4
John Brendan Kelly, Sr, also known
as Jack Kelly (the father of Grace
Kelly, actress and Princess
of Monaco) was a triple Olympic
Gold Medal winner, the first to do so
in that particular sport. Which sport?

Sculling
Two-oared sculling is a form of rowing-
both competitive and recreational—in
which a boat is propelled by one or more
rowers, each of whom operates two oars,
one held in the fingers of each hand

QUESTION 5
In November 2009, Thierry Henry was embroiled in the handball controversy
during a World Cup qualifier. Also, Tiger Woods made headlines for all the
wrong reasons after his car crash following which his series of affairs was
exposed. Around the same time, Roger Federer was knocked out of ATP
World Tour by 6th-seed Nikolai Davydenko in a shock defeat.
What were these 3 incidents collectively called?

QUESTION 6
This Swede of Moroccan origin became part of a
world record on June, 2010 which granted him
celebrity status.
He later joked, “I travel Economy. Seven to eight
hours sitting still is nothing.”
Who is he and what was his claim to fame?

Mohd. Lahyani, the umpire of the longest ever
tennis match between Isner and Mahut.

QUESTION 7
X is talking about Y: "From there everything begins. Ajax, the adventure in Ajax, I saw
Beenhakker, I saw this amazing Amsterdam Arena. I came to Amsterdam totally alone, and I
had problems in the first month. And I called Y, because Y came to Ajax at the same time as
me, so he picked me up at the airport and I got to know him a little bit more. After two weeks
I called Y and I said I have problems, he was like 'OK', because Y is the best guy in the world. I
mean if you want to think of a teddy bear you have Y.
Identify X and Y who have played together at 4 clubs and are still playing together.

X=Zlatan Ibrahimovic Y=Maxwell

QUESTION 8
X got a lucky break when he was picked to play against New Zealand in the
Test at Feroz Shah Kotla in 1955-56 when Y rested himself. He scored 68*, but
bowled 57 overs in the match without taking a wicket. When Y returned, X
found himself out of the team. X became the captain of Maharashtra the
same year.
X was famous for bowling an unerring line to batsmen which made it nearly
impossible to score.
Y is world-famous as one half of a world-famous partnership record that stood
for 52 years. ID X and Y?

X=Bapu Nadkarni Y=Vinoo Mankad

QUESTION 9
He was born in Perak and he subsequently represented the Perak team in his
school days.
He trained to be a lawyer in the United Kingdom. In 1965, he became the
youngest ever to hold his country’s highest judicial rank. He later became the
9th elected king of his country in 1989.
How do we better know this avid sports lover as?

QUESTION 10
He is the first Indian cricketer to take a wicket off his first ball in ODI cricket, the
victim being Nixon McLean of the West Indies.
Despite having a batting average of over 50 in his first six tests and proving
that he could easily play against top bowlers, he did not convert his starts into
big scores. He was discarded from the team after India's tour of Sri Lanka
when he passed 30 runs in 5 out of the 6 innings but only one innings was
converted to a 50. He has played for both Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
He has acted in a Tamil movie, Santosh Subramaniam, released in April 2008.
He also played a lead actor in the movie Potta Potti - 50/50. Who?

QUESTION 1
X is a deep blue semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for
its intense color. Today mines in northeast Afghanistan, west of Lake Baikal in
Russia, and in the Andes mountains in Chile are the major source of this stone
which was used for the eyebrows on the funeral mask of King
Tutankhamun. It was used by the Renaissance artists who grounded this stone
to use it as a pigment and was often reserved for the clothing of the central
figure of the painting, especially the Virgin Mary.
PICTURE IN NEXT SLIDE

QUESTION 2
This mansion located in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was the central site
of the United Kingdom's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS),
which during the Second World War regularly penetrated the secret
communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the
German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The site is now an educational and
historical attraction memorialising and celebrating those accomplishments.
Name this site.

QUESTION 3
An acetate recording of the ballad My Happiness was sold at auction for the
sum of $300,000 (£198,413). My Happiness was offered to the auction house
by Ed Leek’s niece, who inherited the record. Bidding began at $50,000
(£330,68) on 8 January,2015 and it was purchased by an undisclosed buyer.
The track is a pop standard which was initially made famous in the mid-
twentieth century and has been interpreted by a number of artists throughout
the decades, including Ella Fitzgerald and Fats Domino.
What is the significance of this record?

It was the 1st song that Elvis Presley , then 18, recorded at Sun Records, for his
mother. Paying $4 for the session, it is said that Presley then left the studios
and went to the home of friend Ed Leek to listen to it - as his own family did
not have a record player - and left the record behind.

QUESTION 4
X is mainly known in literary circles for his anthology of poems titled- ‘Chena Phooler Gondho', or
"The Fragrance of the Known Flowers”.But very few know that X also translated two of Gabriel
Garcia Marquez’s novellas into Bengali - 'The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor' and 'Clandestine in
Chile'.
"Take 'The Autumn of the Patriarch', for instance. The sweep of the novel startled me. At that
time, Latin America had 7-8 military dictators who exercised ruthless power. It could be the story
of any of them.Don't forget this was the novel Garcia Marquez said was closest to his heart,"
said X who fears that much of the original essence of Marquez’s work may get lost during
Bengali translation as he translated the works directly from English (he doesn’t know Spanish in
which the original books were written.)
ID X.

Hawking’s success equation for England’s
2014 World Cup Campaign

Question 6
At 110 kilometers (68.3 miles) in length, X is
said to be the world’s longest art gallery. X
is decorated with sculptures, mosaics,
paintings, installations, engravings and
reliefs by over 150 different artists.
What am I talking about?

Stockholm Underground Metro / Subway

QUESTION 7
The national dish of Iceland consist of a Greenland shark cured with a
particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has
a very particular ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste. Rotten shark is chosen
instead of fresh shark meat because the meat of the Greenland shark is
poisonous when fresh. It is often called “The world’s most disgusting food-stuff
that you can eat and still live”
Name the Dish.

QUESTION 8
What practice evolved when Eskimos murdered the captain of the ship
Heart's Ease, James Hall in 1612 during the first expedition in search of the
North-West Passage?

Question 9
 There have been many famous friendships in Hollywood, and one of the longest and most cited is X
and Y’s. The two meet when both were starting out in summer stock theatre in the New England area, X
just having graduated from Princeton and Y having come from the regional theatres in the Midwest.
Along with Josh Logan, X and Y moved into an apartment in New York City. After honing their skills on
Broadway, X eventually followed Y out to Hollywood once the movies came calling, and they once
again were roommates in their early movie years and the two gained reputations as playboys.
 Throughout their career, X &Y made three films together which were not successful in comparison to
the numerous classic films they acted in.
 Y was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning one. Y is also the oldest person till date to win the
Best Lead actor Oscar at 76,his daughter is also a multiple Oscar winner.
 X was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one .X also had a noted military career and was
a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States
Air Force Reserve.
 Both of them received the Lifetime Achievement Oscar.ID these two legends.

QUESTION 10
This case was the last to be heard as a jury trial in India, as the government
abolished jury trials without any proper study of the existing judicial systems
and without making any effort to improve the judicial system, it was claimed
that jury had been influenced by media and was open to being misled,
the Government of India abolished jury trials after this case. In popular culture
several movies are said to have been influenced/inspired by this case.
Which case am I talking about(Give X vs Y format answer)?

Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra

Question 11
In the Australian Commonwealth Coat of Arms the kangaroo and emu are the native
animals that hold the shield with pride. But according to a common belief what was the
reason for choosing these two particular animals( apart from they being the native animals)?

The common belief was that neither animal can move
backwards easily so the kangaroo and emu were chosen
to symbolise a nation moving forward.

Question 12
This song was used in a Martin Scorsese movie(which was loosely based on a
Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel) and this was played quite a number of times
throughout the movie. This song has adorned the soundtrack of several other
movies. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed it on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time. In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
ID the band and song and the Scorsese movie.
PLAY AUDIO

 SONG "A Whiter Shade of Pale“
 BAND PROCOL HARUM
 MOVIE “LIFE LESSONS” IN THE NEW YORK STORIES

Question 13
X is a fictional comic character and serves as both the protagonist and
antagonist of the graphic novel miniseries Y by Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons, published by DC Comics.
X is also an alternative name for name for Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II,
made famous by a sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Just Identify X .

Question 14
1. ex-patriot instead of expatriate
2. mating name instead of maiden name
3. on the spurt of the moment instead of on the spur of the moment
4. preying mantis instead of praying mantis
What are these replacements all examples of?

QUESTION 15
 X attended Princeton University for one year. Accounts vary as to why he
left. According to a more concrete but possibly apocryphal account, it
was because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor
Woodrow Wilson", the future president of the United States.
 X died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on
November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his
last words: "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel
room.“
 X was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in a 1981 movie.X won the Nobel Prize
in 1936, X’s son-in-law is a world renowned person.ID X.

Question 16
 X PRIZE is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting
scientific ideas to lay people. It was created in 1952, following a donation
from Y, Founder President of the X Foundation Trust in India.
 It was started in 1952 with Louis de Broglie as the first recipient of the prize,
other famous persons to have won this prize are Bertrand Russell, Karl von
Frisch, Arthur C. Clarke, David Attenborough, etc
 ID X and Y

X=Kalinga Prize Y=Biju Patnaik

QUESTION 17
 Andre Geim is a Soviet-
born Dutch-
British physicist working at
the University of
Manchester. He is known for
his work with graphene.
 However on 2010 he
became the first individual
to achieve a certain feat in
terms of prizes. What feat
am I talking about?

FIRST INDIVIDUAL TO RECEIVE BOTH THE NOBEL PRIZE(2010) AND THE IG-NOBEL
PRIZES(2000)
On winning both a Nobel and Ig Nobel, he has stated that ”Frankly, I value
both my Ig Nobel prize and Nobel prize at the same level and for me Ig Nobel
prize was the manifestation that I can take jokes, a little bit of self-deprecation
always helps”

Question 18
 In 1960, X joined the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakvasla, Pune, and in 1964,
X joined the Air Force Flying Colleges in Jodhpur and Allahabad. X served the Indian Air
Force between 1964–1972. Then X served as an instructor at NDA for two more years till
1974. He served through two wars - the 1965 and the 1971 wars against Pakistan, was also a
recipient of eight medals in his career as a pilot. He opted for premature retirement. In 1980,
as the President of the Maharashtra Athletics Association, X undertook the selection trials for
the Marathon team to represent the country at the Moscow Olympics. This soon led to the
establishment of the Pune International Marathon.
 ID X who was in the headlines few years back.

Question 19
Rabindranath dedicated two of his works to artists Suren Kar and Kadambari
Devi. He also dedicated one of his works to poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Which work
are we talking about here?

Question 20
 X’s 1st screen appearance was in a film called ”Revenge of the
Creature(1955)”
 X’s 1st work as a music director was in the movie “Paint Your Wagon(1969)”
 X’s directorial debut was “Play Misty For Me(1971)”
 X’s debuted as a producer in the movie “Every Which Way But
Loose(1978)”
 ID X.

Question 1
This is the top 5 list of certain Oscar winning candidates, what’s the list about:-
1. Beatrice Straight- best supporting actress for Network 1976
2. Judi Dench- best supporting actress for Shakespeare In Love 1998
3. Anthony Quinn- best supporting actor for Lust for life 1956
4. Anne Hathaway- best supporting actress for Les Miserables 2013
5. David Niven- best actor in a leading role for Separate Tables 1958

These are the shortest performance
roles to win Oscar.
1. Beatrice Straight- best supporting actress 1976 Network 5 mins 2secs
2. Judi Dench -best supporting actress Shakespeare In Love 1998 8mins
3. Anthony Quinn- best supporting actor Lust for life 1956 8mins
4. Anne Hathaway- best supporting actress Les Miserables 2013 15 mins
5. David Niven -best actor(leading role) Separate Tables 1958 15 mins 38
secs
6. Anthony Hopkins- best actor(leading role) Silence Of The Lambs 16mins
10 secs

Question 2
SUNGHURSH is a 1968 Indian Hindi film directed and produced by Harnam
Singh Rawail which presents a fictionalised account of vendetta within
a THUGGEE cult( practice to murder wealthy travelers who stay in pilgrim
guesthouse and offering them as a sacrifice to Kali) in the town of Varanasi.
The film starred Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Sanjeev Kumar, Balraj Sahni,with
music by Naushad and lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni. It is the last film where Dilip
Kumar and Vyjayanthimala worked together. Whose story was it based upon?

Question 3
X is a Hindi film actress whose debut movie became the first Indian film to gain recognition
at Cannes Film Festival. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955 for the movie Biraj Bahu.
Her stories used to be published in the children's magazine Paraag and she dabbled in television
doing serials like Chand Sitare on Doordarshan. In 1986, she made an animation film Meri Pari. She
appeared as SRK’s grandma in the movie Chennai Express which is her last movie appearance as
of now. ID her

Question 4
This Indian music maestro taught philosophy at Vassar and Brown universities.
He is perhaps the only Indian to have collaborated with the likes of Bob Dylan,
Bob Marley and Janis Joplin. His philosophy and largely purist living drew a
considerable Western audience and he travelled across the world teaching
music.
ID him.

Question 5
X(the director) said ” I had asked Begum Akhtar for the role, but at the last minute she
backed out. Her husband, an advocate, didn’t want her to act. So we started looking for
somebody else and we found this lady running a brothel.
She also had ambitions to become an actress. She had come to Mumbai when she was 16
or 17 years old, tried to get into films but didn’t succeed. So Badar Begum went back and
became a prostitute. When she grew old, she ran a brothel. She was cast as the aged
mother. She did her part very well even though she was in her 70s and nearly blind because
of cataract problems”.
ID the director X and the movie he’s talking about.

M.S Sathyu about Garam Hawa
 MS SATHYU ABOUT “GARAM HAWA”

Question 6
X the author said ”I was in need of money for the treatment of a relative,so I got 500 bucks by
publishing my story ‘Chenamukh’ in the magazine ‘Prasad’. 4-5 days after the publication, my
publisher said me Y(the director) wants to meet you, as he wants to adapt your ‘Chenamukh’ as a
movie.
The producer wanted a happy ending whereas me, Y, and most of the cast didn’t want to deviate
from the original story. Finally the tragic end was retained after facing a lot of hurdles. The crucial
final scene included a 360 degree shot at Sati Falls, Shillong and the rest of the scenes were shot at
New Theatres Studio. When the take was finished I was mesmerised and I hugged Y as I could not
believe he could create such a gem of a movie from ‘Chenamukh’” .
ID X(AUTHOR) and Y(the director) and the classic Bengali movie.

X= Shaktipada Rajguru Y=Ritwik Ghatak
Movie = Meghe Dhaka Taara

Question 7
Identify the actor, movie and director.
Video.

Martin Scorsese as Van Gogh
Film = Dreams
Director = Akira Kurosawa

Question 8
Identify the movie and the singer.
Audio.

Shatranj Ki Khiladi and Birju Maharaj

Question 9
The producers initially asked François Truffaut to direct the film; in fact,
cinematographer Néstor Almendros, a collaborator of Truffaut, had already
been hired with the expectation that Truffaut would helm the film. Truffaut
seriously considered it, but in the end, too busy with his own projects, turned it
down and suggested screenwriter Robert Benton direct it himself who finally
directed this movie which went on to win Oscars in the categories of Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best
Supporting Actress. This movie reflected a cultural shift which occurred during
the 1970s.15 years later it was remade in India with Amir Khan in the lead
role.Dev Anand launched his son in the movie Anand Aur Anand which was
inspired from this movie.
ID this famous movie.

QUESTION 10
 X(director) had cast Uttam Kumar in his film Y which was adapted from a
famous play.As this role was different from his usual movie roles,Uttam
asked for some time to prepare for the role and the dates were fixed
according to Uttam’s availability.But suddenly Uttam asked to postpone
the shooting by a month( due to some problem of his) to which X
disagreed.As a result X gave that role to Deepankar De.
 Later Supriya Devi filed a case against X and the producer for contract
violation which the High Court dismissed as there was a clause in the
contract that the director can omit anyone from the film.
 ID X and the famous movie.

X = Tapan Sinha
Movie = Banchharamer Bagan

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