Inter IIT Practice quiz, Keshav Kumar Jha

“COULDN’T FIND A PUN”
QUIZ
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50% ANYTHING I FOUND (LAST NIGHT) GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE QUESTIONS ON
IITP Quiz Club | Keshav Kumar Jha

ROUND 1
Written Round
Each variable carries 10 points
No negatives

1.
ID X
• The measurement of a X is equal to the height between the index and little
fingers when they are held parallel to one another. The name originates from a
city, which was once a state known for the extravagant ways of its royalty and
extraordinary height of its soldiers.

2.
WHICH ART FORM?
• The decoration is not the main purpose of a _____. In olden days, _____ were drawn
in coarse rice flour, so the ants would not have to walk too far or too long for a
meal. The rice powder also invites birds and other small creatures to eat it, thus
welcoming other beings into one's home and everyday life: a daily tribute to
harmonious co-existence. It is a sign of invitation to welcome all into the home,
not the least of whom is Lakshmi, the Goddess of prosperity and wealth. The
patterns range between geometric and mathematical line drawings around a
matrix of dots to free form art work and closed shapes. Folklore has evolved to
mandate that the lines must be completed so as to symbolically prevent evil
spirits from entering the inside of the shapes, and thus are they prevented from
entering the inside of the home.

3.
NAME THE PAINTER
AND THE LADY
PICTURED

4.
FIND X, Y, Z
• Madhu and Kaitabha, Rakshasas or demons of Hindu mythology, are associated with Hindu religious
cosmology. They both originated from one of the ears of God Vishnu. while he was in the deep sleep
of Yoganidra.
• Bhagavata Purana states that during the creation, the demons Madhu and Kaitabha stole
the Vedas from Brahma and deposited them deep inside the waters of the primeval ocean. Vishnu, in
his manifestation as ____X____, killed them, and retrieved the Vedas. The bodies of Madhu and Kaitabha
disintegrated into 2 times 6 — which is twelve pieces (two heads, two torsos, four arms and four legs).
These are considered to represent the twelve _______Y______ of the Earth.
• According to another legend, Madhu and Kaitabha are considered demons, designed to annihilate
Brahma. However, Brahma spotted them, and invoked the goddess Mahamaya. At this point, Vishnu
awoke, and the two conspiring demons were killed. This led to Vishnu being called _____Z______ - the
killer of Madhu and mahamaya came to be known as kaitabhi.

5.
NAME THE
PERSON AND
THE PLACE
• Vintage tata ads

6.
CLAIM TO FAME OF THIS PLACE
• Kibithu is a tiny village located at an altitude of 11,000 feet in Arunachal Pradesh's
Lohit District, bordering China's Tibet region. Kibithoo is nestled on the right bank of
the mighty Lohit River. It is the first settlement along the banks of Lohit River in
Arunachal Pradesh after the river enters the Indian Territory from China. The climate of
Kibithu is cool and salubrious. The whispering pine forests, wild rash berries, beautiful
flowers and majestic waterfalls set against tall blue hills add to the abundant natural
beauty of Kibithu.
Kibithu witnessed some of the fiercest fights by Indian Soldiers against the Chinese in
1962. But with the passage of time, after Nathu La, Kibithu is fast emerging to be a
new melting point of Indo-China friendship. It offers relatively easy travel up to
Chinese side.

7.
ID X & Y
• An ardent cricket lover, Devdas became Managing Editor of Hindustan Times; during his tenure the newspaper sponsored the
scorecard at Feroz Shah Kotla.
• But this was big. It was probably his last chance to watch The Don in action. He was in England to attend a meeting with
Reuters. As Ramachandra Guha wrote in Rediff, when a colleague asked Devdas what he would like to do once he was through
with business, the response was curt and prompt: “___ ____X___ __.”
• Tickets were in high demand, and poor Devdas could not acquire one. Guha wrote in Wisden: “Tickets for the ____________ were
sold out, but with the help of the grey eminences of Fleet Street a complimentary pass was procured.”
• So Devdas reached Nottingham, but there was another problem, and a bigger one to boot: the city was abuzz with excitement
and anticipation; hundreds swarmed into the city, occupying all available accommodation in the city. Our hero could not find a
hotel.
• Searching frantically for a place, Gandhi jr eventually convinced the warden and acquired a bed in the ___Y_____. It was ironic,
for Mahatma Gandhi, across several ‘stints,’ spent a sum of over six years in British _______. He affectionately referred to British
_______ as “His Majesty’s Hotel.”
• Devdas himself was arrested during the Salt March. He was back again, this time deliberately, to watch the man who had
tormented the British for two decades. It was fitting, ironic, and poetic at the same time.

8.
ID THE TWO
GENTLEMEN

9.
NAME THIS MAHABHARAT CHARACTER
• There are two accounts of the way in which Dimapur got its name : many writers
are of the opinion that the name ’ Dimapur’ was derived from Dimasa Kachari
words Di-meaning water, Ma-meaning big and Pur-meaning city or township in
the Dimasa dialect; while others contend that Dimapur is a corruption of
__________, meaning the city of X (of Mahabharata fame) - believed to be the
progenitor of the Kacharis. According to the second theory, the name __________ is
conjectured to have been abbreviated to Dimbapur and subsequently to have lost
a consonant to become Dimapur.

ROUND 2
Every right answer fetches
60
𝑛
points where n=number of teams who gave the correct
answer.
No negatives.

1.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO SEE THIS ROBOT?

2.
FITB

3.
MARCHING SONG OF
WHICH REGIMENT?
• Ek khubsurat ladki thi…
Usko dekh ke rifleman…
Chindi khichna bhul gaya…
Havaldar Major dekh liya…
Usko pittu lagaya…
Badluram ek sipahi thaa…
Japan war me mar gaya…
Quarter Master smart thaa…
Usney ration nikala…
Badluram ka badan zamin ke nichey hain…
Toh humein uska ration milta hain…
Sabashh… hallelujah…
Toh humein uska ration milta hain…

4.
MASCOT OF WHAT?

5.
WHICH GEOGRAPHICAL TERM?
• X is the Dutch pronunciation of "Karimanal", a village in the Sriharikota island in
the north of Pazhavercadu (Pulecat Lake). Pazhavercadu (Pulicat) was an early
Dutch settlement along with Masoolipatnam in present-day Andhra Pradesh.
There is a Dutch Cemetery belonging to the seventeenth Century at Pulicat. It is
said that the first Dutch ship stopped here for fresh drinking water, and upon
asking the name of the place Karimanal was spelled as X.
• The land of the Chola dynasty was called Cholamandalam in Tamil, literally
translated as The realm of the Cholas, from which the Portuguese derived the
name X.

6.
FITB

7.
WHAT WOULD BE FOR EARTH?
• Sun - Two different systems are used on the Sun.
• The first is the Carrington system.through the center of the solar disk as seen from the Earth on 9 November 1853,
• The second is the Stonyhurst system, originated at Stonyhurst Observatory.
• Venus - through the central peak in the crater Ariadne.
• Moon - lies directly in the middle of the face of the moon visible from Earth and passes near the crater Bruce.
• Mars - through the center of the crater Airy-0, although it is fixed by the Viking 1 lander.
• Jupiter - has several coordinate systems because its cloud tops—the only part of the planet visible from space—rotate at
different rates depending on latitude. It is unknown whether Jupiter has any internal solid surface that would enable a more
Earth-like system. System I and System II are based on atmospheric rotation, and System III use Jupiter's magnetic field.
• Titan, like the Earth's moon, always has the same face towards Saturn, and so the middle of that face
• Pluto - defined as the center of the face that is always pointed towards Charon, its largest moon, as the two are tidally locked
towards each other.

8.
THE ONLY PRODUCER OF WHAT IN INDIA?
• From the About Us section of the website of Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd.
• Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd., was established during 1937 by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, then the
Maharaja of Mysore province under the nomenclature “Mysore Lac & Paint Works Ltd”. During 1989,it was
renamed as “Mysore Paints & Varnish Ltd.,”.
• The rationale behind the establishment of the factory was to provide employment opportunities locally and for
effective utilization of the natural resources of the forest. The item called “Lac” was used for the manufacture of
sealing waxes. Apart from that paints were manufactured and supplied to the Govt. Departments and Defense
Department particularly for war tanks during those days.
• The above unit was converted into public Limited company during 1947 as one of the public sector
Undertaking, now it is one among the prominent undertakings from Govt. of Karnataka.
• The Company is manufactures and supply the Industrial Coatings, Decorative Paints, Wood polishes ,
Varnish and Thinners. At present, the company is meeting the requirements of Government, PSUs, Central
Government, Private industries and the paint Dealers.
• The Company is having its registered office at Mysore, just 130 kms from IT Capital of India, i.e. Bangalore city.

9.
NAME THE
MONUMENT

10.
WHO IS X
• Massey Sahib is a 1985 Hindi film by Pradip
Krishnen. It was an adaptation of Joyce Cary’s
1939 novel Mister Johnson.
• Raghubir Yadav was the lead male actor in this
film playing the role of Francis Massey, and later
won 2 international acting awards for this.
• The lead female role, Saila, was played by X, who
was yet to win the Man Booker Prize

11.
NAME THE RESIDENCE
• The X(in local language - Cheong Wa Dae; literally "pavilion of blue tiles”) is the
executive office and official residence of this Asian country.
• To the north is the mountain Bukhansan, flanked by two mountains, Naksan,
symbolizing the Azure Dragon, on the left and Inwangsan, symbolizing the White
Tiger, on the right. To the south is Namsan, the protective mountain of the
capital. In front flow the Cheonggyecheon stream and Han River.

12.
WHICH ARCHITECTURAL MARVEL?
• In 1957, Utzon unexpectedly won the competition to design the X. His submission was one of 233 designs from 32
countries, many of them from the most famous architects of the time. Although he had won six other architectural
competitions previously, the Opera House was his first non-domestic project. One of the judges, Eero Saarinen,
described it as "genius" and declared he could not endorse any other choice.
• The designs Utzon submitted were little more than preliminary drawings. Concerned that delays would lead to lack
of public support, the Cahill government of New South Wales nonetheless gave the go-ahead for work to begin in
1958. The British engineering consultancy Ove Arup and Partners put out tenders without adequate working
drawings and construction work began on 2 March 1959. As a result, the podium columns were not strong enough
to support the roof and had to be rebuilt.
• The extraordinary structure of the shells themselves represented a puzzle for the engineers. This was not resolved
until 1961, when Utzon himself finally came up with the solution. He replaced the original elliptical shells with a
design based on complex sections of a sphere. Utzon says his design was inspired by the simple act of peeling an
orange: the 14 shells of the building, if combined, would form a perfect sphere. Although Utzon had spectacular,
innovative plans for the interior of these halls, he was unable to realise this part of his design.

13.
WHAT BEGAN WITH
THIS?

14.
FITB

• X abandoned an experiment after two artificially
intelligent programs appeared to be chatting to
each other in a strange language only they
understood.
• The two chatbots came to create their own
changes to English that made it easier for them
to work – but which remained mysterious to the
humans that supposedly look after them.
• The bizarre discussions came as X challenged its
chatbots to try and negotiate with each other
over a trade, attempting to swap hats, balls and
books, each of which were given a certain value.
But they quickly broke down as the robots
appeared to chant at each other in a language
that they each understood but which appears
mostly incomprehensible to humans.
15.
WHICH COMPANY?

16.
WHICH PEAK?
• It is situated in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas, is the tallest mountain
south of New Delhi. The peak was surveyed by George ______ who was a Surveyor
General of India from 1830 to 1843.

ROUND 3
Bounce & Pounce
Direct – +10/0 Pounce - +10/-5 Bounce - +5/0

1.
WHAT CONNECTS THEM
• Kundan Lal Saigal – 1936
• Dilip Kumar – 1955
• Shah Rukh Khan – 2002

2.
Name the person and
the painter.

3.
ID THE YOUNG MAN

4.
WHOM DID CHAPLIN MEET?
• His meeting with Charlie Chaplin, was a much-recorded event. They met at a “humble little house in
the slum district off the East India Dock Road…Press and Photographers packed both floors”. (My
Autobiography, Charles Chaplin, Penguin Books, 1966, Page 335)
• Chaplin asked X about his “abhorrence of machinery” to which X said: “Machinery in the past has made
us dependent on England, and the only way we can rid ourselves of that dependency is to boycott all
goods made by machinery”. And then Chaplin admitted: “I got a lucid object lesson in tactical
manoeuvring in India’s fight for freedom, inspired, paradoxically, by a realistic, virile-minded visionary
with a will of iron to carry it out”.
• Chaplin even witnessed the evening prayer of X and five others in the room. “What a paradox, I
thought, as I watched this extremely realistic man, with his astute legal mind and his profound sense of
political reality, all of which seemed to vanish in a sing-song chant”, he wrote. (My Autobiography,
Charles Chaplin, Penguin Books, 1966, Page 336-337).

5.
AD BY?

6.
WHICH COMPANY?

7.
PRINT AD FOR?

8.
FITB

9.
WHOSE SELF-
POTRAIT?

10.
WHICH AWARD?
• Height: 13.5 inches
• Weight: 8.5 pounds
• Number of awards presented: 3140
• First recipient: Emil Jannings
• Design: A stylized figure of a knight holding a
crusader’s sword standing on a……
• Designer: Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Sculptor: Los Angeles artist George Stanley
• Manufacturer: Polich Tallix
• Manufacturing time: 3 months for 50 statuettes

11.
• ferus, americanus, europaeus, asiaticus, afer and monstrosus
• What species is classified into these categories?

12.
• “you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with the exuberance of your own
verbosity”
• This was in part of a speech taken from 1878 speech by British politician Benjamin
Disraeli, who made it while referring to another politician, W. E. Gladstone.
• Where would you here this in an Indian context?
• "You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin
in the atmosphere, because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with
the exuberance of your own verbosity."

13.
ID THE BUILDING AND
THE MOVEMENT
• This structure is inspired from this movement in art,
which was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque

14.
• KFC taking a dig at whose tweet?

15.
WHY ARE SOME
WINDOWS BLOCKED?
Photo of a building in
Southampton

16.
WHAT HAPPENED
AFTERWARDS?

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