Quizmaster - Raspreet Singh Session Conducted on 12-09-18

2. RULES OF THE QUIZ
• 1 – Wikipedia has been assumed to be true.
• 2 – QM is gawd and his decisions are final.
• 3 – Pounce Scores 40/-20
• 4 – Direct Scores 10/0
• 5 – Bounce Scores – 10/0
• 6 – Not making any guesses will lose you 10 points.

3. From 1884 through 1911, this tournament used a challenge system
whereby the defending champion automatically qualified for the
next year's final, where he would play the winner of the all-comers
tournament.
Jimmy Connors is the only man that has triumphed on all the
surfaces this tournament has been played.
Recently, a Japanese woman made history winning this
tournament.
Which tournament is being talked about?

4. THE US OPEN

5. The X with an operational name of Y, is an autonomous regional
satellite navigation system that provides accurate real-time
positioning and timing services. It covers India and a region
extending 1,500 km (930 mi) around it, with plans for further
extension.
Seven satellites with the prefix "X-1" will constitute the space
segment of the X.
The eighth satellite, X-1H, which was meant to replace X-1A,
failed to deploy on 31 August 2017 as the heat shields failed to
separate from 4th stage of the rocket.
Give me X and Y

6. X- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite
System (IRNSS)
Y – NAVIC

7. IDENTIFY
THE
PRODUCT

8. The Boring
Company’s
FLAMETHROWE
R

9. According to Katherine Connor Martin, the Head of Content Creation
at Oxford Dictionaries, this word is traditionally said to come from
Greek ______‘wise’ and _____‘fool’ (the same root from which we get the
word moron), making it particularly apt for the combination of
arrogance and ignorance evinced by young people emboldened by
the completion of something. The word originated at the University of
Cambridge, where it is now obsolete, but by 1726 it had crossed the
pond to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when it was used at Harvard, and
to Yale by 1764.
What word?

10. SOPHOMORE
(Sophos – Wise
and Moros – Fool)

11. Swedish dairy technologist Edward ________ arrived in India in
1889. In 1894, he took over the ailing Aligarh Dairy in the
United Provinces, modern Uttar Pradesh, and turned it
profitable.
In 1925, he opened a sprawling dairy farm in New Delhi’s
Chanakyapuri area, marking the genesis of the brand. In the
late 1960s, he even began supplying milk powder and
condensed milk to the Indian Army. This firm was resurrected
in 2014 with a complete makeover.
What are we talking about?

12. KEVENTERS

13. The dabbawallahs of Mumbai are known for their dedication and
precision. Most of them hail from a small village near Pune and are the
followers of Varkari movement of the Bhakti tradition. Every year in
March the dabbawallahs take a 5 days leave from their work to attend
their village festival.
Apart from this, the only time the dabbawallahs of Mumbai stopped
their work in 120 years was in 2011 when they took some days off to
participate in something big that was happening in Mumbai’s Azad
Maidan that also gathered attention of the whole of India.
Why did the dabbawallahs take leave from work?

14. TO TAKE PART IN ANNA HAZARE’S
ANTI-CORRUPTION MOVEMENT

15. The constitution of this country is considered to be
the oldest in the world and quite short at just 4400
words. Interestingly the word “Democracy” does not
feature in it even once. Ironically the most popular
definition of Democracy was given by one of its
President.
Name the country.

16. UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

17. X was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. X was conceived
after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father, King Cinyras of
Cyprus. Myrrha had sex with her father in complete darkness for nine nights, but he
discovered her identity and chased her with a sword. The gods transformed her into a
myrrh tree and, in the form of a tree, she gave birth to X. Aphrodite found the infant
and gave him to be raised by Persephone, the queen of the Underworld.
X grew into an astonishingly handsome young man, causing Aphrodite and
Persephone to feud over him, with Zeus eventually decreeing that he would spend one
third of the year in the Underworld with Persephone, one third of the year with
Aphrodite, and the final third of the year with whomever he chose. X chose to spend
his final third of the year with Aphrodite.
Id X, whose name has now come to being synonymous with “a very handsome man”.

18. ADONIS

19. To overcome it’s grave financial crises, this country created X, a
cryptocurrency backed by the country’s oil and mineral reserves. On 20th
August this year, this country introduced Y, another currency, carrying a
similar name to the previous currency, in hopes that linked with X, the
country would be able to circumvent it’s crisis.
But as of August 2018, Y has still not found it’s use as “The coin is not sold
on any major cryptocurrency exchange. No shops are known to accept it.”
What are X and Y?

20. X – The Petro
Y – Sovereign Bolivar

21. ORNILUX is an insulated glass sheeting made by Arnold
Glas, a Germany-based company, which is designed
keeping in mind a specific concern. It uses a special
ultraviolet (UV)-reflective coating. Independent field testing
by Dr. Hans-Willy Ley from the Max Planck Institute for
___________, tested the effectiveness of ORNILUX glass in
avoiding Y.
FITB and Give Y

22. Ornithology
Y – Avoiding Bird
Collisions

23. Snowball
Chicago
Nashville
Memphis
Blackcomb
Quebec
Threshold
Redstone
What is this a non-exhaustive list of?

24. MICROSOFT
CODENAMES

25. Orange-Red has always been recognised as the original color of
this attribute.
In August last year, millions of fans from a cult fandom saw the
color of this attribute change to blue instead of its conventional
shade. The cult fandom was also surprised by the effectiveness of
the blue variant. Physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson had his say in the
matter and assured fans of their speculations by saying that the
blue version could be 3x more potent than the orange red version.
Identify this phenomenon.

26. UNDEAD VISERION’S BLUE COLORED BREATH

27. The true origins of the company's name are only based on
rumors. However, according to most people, it is a term
used in common parlance for a well known city.
Interestingly, the logo of the company is also modelled on
the city's world famous landmark.
Give me the company and the landmark

29. Company – CISCO
Landmark – Golden Gate Bridge

30. X became the first woman athlete to be awarded the ‘Most
Valuable Player’ Award at the Asian Games 2018. She won 6
gold medals, the most by any at a single Asian Games, in the
sport of swimming.
X had to return to Indonesia only to collect the award because
she flew back to Japan as soon as her routine of events had
completed.
X is only 18 years old, which makes this feat even more amazing.
Give me X’s Name

31. RIKAKO IKEE

32. When X’s author Michael Wolff approached Donald Trump about writing a book on his
presidency, Trump agreed to give him access to the white house because he liked an
article Wolff wrote about him in June 2016.However, Trump later claimed that he never
gave Wolff any access as the White House called the book a “trashy tabloid fiction” and
“filled with false and misleading accounts”.
The Trump Administration sought to stop the release of this book but it was still released.
On the day of the release, trump tweeted this

33. Fire and Fury – Inside the Trump White
House

34. In 1931, Jacques Cartier designed a diamond necklace for the Maharaja
of Nawagarh. It featured a 136.25 carat 'Queen of Holland' diamond
described as the finest cascade of colored diamonds. The necklace was
named the ‘Jeanne Toussaint necklace’ in the honor of its then creative
designer.
Though the necklace no longer exists as it was dismantled and the
diamonds used in other pieces, the diamond has become popular
recently through a work of fiction of which the central plot revolves
around a similar necklace. Name this work of fiction, which is an all
woman spin off to a trilogy.

35. OCEAN’S 8

36. Nike was the official clothes maker for the 2018 winter
Olympics. But due to sanctions imposed by the US on a
particular country, the delegation from that country did not
wear Nike clothing. The delegation was also not given
Samsung Phones for the event, which came as a surprise
because the country out of which Samsung is based out of,
did not impose any sanctions on the country but came
under pressure from the US.
Which delegation?

37. North Korean Delegation

38. WHOSE TRIBUTE IS AMUL PAYING HERE?

39. Former Air Force Marshal Arjan Singh

40. ‘Operation Mincemeat’ was planned based on the memo prepared by a
minor British intelligence officer during the WWII. The plan was to plant
strategic but misleading information on a corpse allowed to drift
through the Spanish waters as the British expected the Spanish fascist
regime to forward the information to the Nazis. This later turned out to
be significant to the allies because the plan worked out making Hitler
believe that allies would invade Greece and having him divert his forces
there.
Who was this rather imaginative officer whose creation turned out to be
more popular than him?

41. Ian Fleming’s James BOND

42. The X is a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.
Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and
Security Board, it represents an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war. Since 2007, it has
also reflected climate change and new developments in the life sciences and technology that
could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.
It has been set backward and forward 23 times since then, the smallest-ever number of
_______________ being two (in 1953 and 2018) and the largest seventeen (in 1991).
The two tied-for-lowest points for the X have been in 1953, when it was se to two minutes
after the U.S. and the Soviet Union began testing hydrogen bombs, and in 2018, following
the failure of world leaders to address tensions relating to nuclear weapons and climate
change issues.
What is X?

43. The Doomsday Clock