General Quiz conducted on 6 Feb 2016

2. RULES-
1. 25 questions in the prelims.
2. No negative marking.
3. Multiples of five are star marked. In case of a tie ,the team
with the higher number of stark marked questions correct
will move to the next round.
4. Top 6 teams qualify for the finals.
Best Of Luck!

4. 1. X is a word that is derived from Ancient Greek for ‘without
knowledge.’ It was coined and first used by Thomas Henry
Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in
1869 to describe his philosophy, which rejects all claims of
spiritual or mystical knowledge .Being a scientist, above all else,
Huxley presented X as a form of demarcation. A hypothesis with
no supporting objective, testable, evidence is not an objective,
scientific, claim.
What is X?

5. 2. Sleeping on Jupiter won the DSC prize for literature in 2015.
Who is the writer of this book?

6. 3.Nagnath S. Inamdar (1923-2002)was a Marathi
novelist whose career spanned almost five decades.
Inamdar rose from humble beginnings to establish
himself as one of India's best novelists. He is also
credited with earning recognition for Marathi literature
in a country dominated linguistically by Hindi.
Why was he in the news last year?

7. 4. A ________________or nevus flammeus is almost
always caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary
malformation in the skin). ________________ ordinarily
persist throughout life. The area of skin affected grows in
proportion to general growth. They occur most often on the
face but can appear anywhere on the body, particularly on
the neck and upper trunk. In adulthood, thickening of the
lesion or the development of small lumps may occur. They
are named as such for their color.

8. 5.* This former haveli belongs to the Thakurs (Khangarot
Rajputs) of X. Each of the Thakurs, since its construction in
1980s, added to the present structure, which in 1991 was partly
converted to a heritage hotel by the present owners Thakur Ram
Pratap Singh X and his wife, Jyotika Kumari X. It is located in
Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was converted into a heritage hotel, but a
part is still occupied by the royal family, which also runs the
hotel.

9. 6.Which fashion house has recently come out with a
collection of Hijabs and Abayas targeting the customers in the
Middle East?

10. 7.Tweets regarding what?

11. 8. The Hype was a band formed by X in 1970. They were
originally called Harry the Butcher, then X’s imagination. X
has said he choose the name tongue in cheek. The band has
been credited with helping to form the glam rock scene in the
1970s.
Their first performance was badly received, the band was
laughed and jeered at as they left the stage.
Members included:
X, alias Space Star/Rainbowman
Mick Ronson, alias Gangsterman
Tony Visconti, alias Hypeman
John Cambridge, alias Cowboyman
Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey
Benny Marshall

12. 9. Conrad Veidt was a German actor who is known for his
roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and to the English-speaking
population for Casablanca. However, there is another role of his
that has received cult status. It is also said to be in the
inspiration behind another character. Which character?

13. 10.*X was a painter born on July 6, 1907. However, she
wanted her birth to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican
revolution and therefore changed it to July 7 , 1910. She
married to famous Mexican painter Y. It was Y's third marriage
and people often referred to the couple as "The elephant and
the dove" due to the difference in their size. X suffered lifelong
health problems and recovering from them isolated her from
other people, and this influenced her works. X suggested, " I
paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the
subject I know best. "

14. 11.Robert Catesby
John Wright
Thomas Wintour
Thomas Percy
Robert Keyes
Thomas Bates
Robert Wintour
Christopher Wright
John Grant
Ambrose Rookwood
Sir Everard Digby
Francis Tresham
X?

15. 12. Designed by artist Shepard Fairey, X has been widely described as
iconic and has come to represent _______ (a person).
The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster. Fairey sold
350 of the posters on the street immediately after printing them. It was
then more widely distributed—both as a digital image and other
paraphernalia—nearly a decade back, initially independently but later with
official approval.
The image became one of the most widely recognized symbols of
________’s message, spawning many variations and imitations.
This led The Guardian's Laura Barton to proclaim that X "acquired the kind
of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely
set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the
years to come."
What am I talking about?

16. 13.The inspector pointed his cane at me and said, “You,
young man, are an intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this
crowd of thugs and idiots. In any jungle, what is the rarest of
animals- the creature that come sonly once in a generation?” I
thought about it and said __________.
“That’s what you are in this jungle.” Excerpt from which book.

17. 14.The signatories believe X should be _______________________for his
continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His
unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial,
religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK.
The UK has ________________ to many individuals for hate speech. This same
principle should apply to X. We cannot see how the United Kingdom can
condone ______________ to the country.
This is some part of the text of a petition in UK that attracted a lot of attention
recently. It even received more than the required 100,000 signatures and was
debated in the Parliament. What was the petition about?

18. 15.* X, while living in Southsea, used to play football as a
goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an
amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. He also has to
his credit a not so illustrious cricketing career of 10 first class
matches played on MCC ground in which he ended up taking just
one wicket of Y, a legend who has in kitty 54,211 first class runs
which includes 124 centuries and 251 half centuries. Y has also
taken 2,809 wickets including 5 wickets in an inning 240 times
and 10 wickets in a match 64 times. X received knighthood later
for his contribution to a different field altogether.

19. 16.Identify.

20. 17.X is a phantom island that was reputed, during the
15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic
Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island
also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities. What is
this in India named after?

21. 18.This photo in a newspaper, Der Tzitung, was the centre of
controversy a couple of years back.It shows the US President
Obama and his national security team watching the raid that
killed Osama bin Laden from the White House Situation Room.
What was the controversy ?
(Photo on the next slide)

23. 19.According to legend, on his 1762 visit to Schonbrunn, the
Austrian royal palace, a 7-year-old boy, X, playing with the
young princesses, slipped on a polished floor. Bursting into
tears, he was picked up and comforted by a 7-year-old girl Y. X
then kissed Y. “You are nice,” he declared. “I will marry you.”
X did not end up marrying Y, who got married into the royal
house of a neighbouring country.
Both X and Y went on to die in their 30s—X of disease, Y of
beheading.
ID X and Y.

24. 20.* Advertisement for what?

25. 21.While recovering from the shrapnel wounds that
he received in the first World War, DeWitt Wallace
had the idea of gathering a sampling of favorite
articles on many subjects from various monthly
magazines. What resulted thus?

26. 22.X was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India. A
contemporary historian has described him as "the Plato of the
Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Odysseus",
because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear
vision. There are claims that he caused two large silver doors
at the entrance of the Taj Mahal to be stolen and melted
down in 1764.A metro station and an institute in Delhi have
been named after this person.

27. 23. This game was banned by King James II in 1457,
as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery. Its
economic impact on the US economy is more than
$170 million. It is being reintroduced in the Summer
Olympics to be held in 2016. Name it.

28. 24. First known use of what term?
Who can think at this present time without a sickening of
the heart of the appalling slaughter, the suffering, the
manifold misery brought by war to Spain and to China?
Who can think without horror of what another widespread
war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new
________________________________? FITB.

29. 25.* X worked for a company Y which was named after a
famous fortification constructed by the Dutch West India
Company in the 1640's. X was abducted and killed by the
members of Al-Qaeda on alleged charges of his too much
involvement in the machinations of Al-Qaeda in the Indian
subcontinent. X and Y?
(Photo on the next slide)

33. 1. X is a word that is derived from Ancient Greek for ‘without
knowledge.’ It was coined and first used by Thomas Henry
Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in
1869 to describe his philosophy, which rejects all claims of
spiritual or mystical knowledge .Being a scientist, above all else,
Huxley presented X as a form of demarcation. A hypothesis with
no supporting objective, testable, evidence is not an objective,
scientific, claim.
What is X?

34. Agnosticism

35. 2. Sleeping on Jupiter won the DSC prize for literature in 2015.
Who is the writer of this book?

36. Anuradha Roy

37. 3.Nagnath S. Inamdar (1923-2002)was a Marathi
novelist whose career spanned almost five decades.
Inamdar rose from humble beginnings to establish
himself as one of India's best novelists. He is also
credited with earning recognition for Marathi literature
in a country dominated linguistically by Hindi.
Why was he in the news last year?

39. 4. A ________________or nevus flammeus is almost
always caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary
malformation in the skin). ________________ ordinarily
persist throughout life. The area of skin affected grows in
proportion to general growth. They occur most often on the
face but can appear anywhere on the body, particularly on
the neck and upper trunk. In adulthood, thickening of the
lesion or the development of small lumps may occur. They
are named as such for their color.

40. Port Wine Stain

41. 5.* This former haveli belongs to the Thakurs (Khangarot
Rajputs) of X, a thikana or estate 40 km south-west from Jaipur,
earlier part of the Jaipur state. Each of the Thakurs, since its
construction in 1980s, added to the present structure, which in
1991 was partly converted to a heritage hotel by the present
owners Thakur Ram Pratap Singh X and his wife, Jyotika Kumari
X. It is located in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was converted into a
heritage hotel, but a part is still occupied by the royal family,
which also runs the hotel.

42. Diggi Palace

43. 6.Which fashion house has recently come out with a
collection of Hijabs and Abayas targeting the customers in the
Middle East?

44. Dolce & Gabbana

45. 7.Tweets regarding what?

46. Casting Of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

47. 8. The Hype was a band formed by X in 1970. They were
originally called Harry the Butcher, then X’s imagination. X
has said he choose the name tongue in cheek. The band has
been credited with helping to form the glam rock scene in the
1970s.
Their first performance was badly received, the band was
laughed and jeered at as they left the stage.
Members included:
X, alias Space Star/Rainbowman
Mick Ronson, alias Gangsterman
Tony Visconti, alias Hypeman
John Cambridge, alias Cowboyman
Mick 'Woody' Woodmansey
Benny Marshall

49. 9. Conrad Veidt was a German actor who is known for his
roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and to the English-speaking
population for Casablanca. However, there is another role of his
that has received cult status. It is also said to be in the
inspiration behind another character. Which character?

51. 10.*X was a painter born on July 6, 1907. However, she
wanted her birth to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican
revolution and therefore changed it to July 7 , 1910. She
married to famous Mexican painter Y. It was Y's third marriage
and people often referred to the couple as "The elephant and
the dove" due to the difference in their size. X suffered lifelong
health problems and recovering from them isolated her from
other people, and this influenced her works. X suggested, " I
paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the
subject I know best. "

52. Frida Kahlo

53. 11.Robert Catesby
John Wright
Thomas Wintour
Thomas Percy
Robert Keyes
Thomas Bates
Robert Wintour
Christopher Wright
John Grant
Ambrose Rookwood
Sir Everard Digby
Francis Tresham
X?

54. Guy Fawkes

55. 12. Designed by artist Shepard Fairey, X has been widely described as
iconic and has come to represent _______ (a person).
The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster. Fairey sold
350 of the posters on the street immediately after printing them. It was
then more widely distributed—both as a digital image and other
paraphernalia—nearly a decade back, initially independently but later with
official approval.
The image became one of the most widely recognized symbols of
________’s message, spawning many variations and imitations.
This led The Guardian's Laura Barton to proclaim that X "acquired the kind
of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely
set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the
years to come."
What am I talking about?

57. 13.The inspector pointed his cane at me and said, “You,
young man, are an intelligent, honest, vivacious fellow in this
crowd of thugs and idiots. In any jungle, what is the rarest of
animals- the creature that come sonly once in a generation?” I
thought about it and said __________.
“That’s what you are in this jungle.” Excerpt from which book.

59. 14.The signatories believe X should be _______________________for his
continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His
unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial,
religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK.
The UK has ________________ to many individuals for hate speech. This same
principle should apply to X. We cannot see how the United Kingdom can
condone ______________ to the country.
This is some part of the text of a petition in UK that attracted a lot of attention
recently. It even received more than the required 100,000 signatures and was
debated in the Parliament. What was the petition about?

60. Banning Donald Trump’s entry from UK

61. 15.* X, while living in Southsea, used to play football as a
goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an
amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith. He also has to
his credit a not so illustrious cricketing career of 10 first class
matches played on MCC ground in which he ended up taking just
one wicket of Y, a legend who has in kitty 54,211 first class runs
which includes 124 centuries and 251 half centuries. Y has also
taken 2,809 wickets including 5 wickets in an inning 240 times
and 10 wickets in a match 64 times. X received knighthood later
for his contribution to a different field altogether.

62. X- Arthur Conan Doyle
Y- WG Grace

63. 16.Identify.

64. Andy Warhol

65. 17.X is a phantom island that was reputed, during the
15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic
Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island
also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities. What is
this in India named after?

66. Antilia

67. 18.This photo in a newspaper, Der Tzitung, was the centre of
controversy a couple of years back.It shows the US President
Obama and his national security team watching the raid that
killed Osama bin Laden from the White House Situation Room.
What was the controversy ?
(Photo on the next slide)

69. The Jewish newspaper photoshopped Hillary Clinton from
the photo.

70. 19.According to legend, on his 1762 visit to Schonbrunn, the
Austrian royal palace, a 7-year-old boy, X, playing with the
young princesses, slipped on a polished floor. Bursting into
tears, he was picked up and comforted by a 7-year-old girl Y. X
then kissed Y. “You are nice,” he declared. “I will marry you.”
X did not end up marrying Y, who got married into the royal
house of a neighbouring country.
Both X and Y went on to die in their 30s—X of disease, Y of
beheading.
ID X and Y.

71. X- Mozart
Y- Marie Antoinette

72. 20.* Advertisement for what?

74. 21.While recovering from the shrapnel wounds that
he received in the first World War, DeWitt Wallace
had the idea of gathering a sampling of favorite
articles on many subjects from various monthly
magazines. What resulted thus?

76. 22.X was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, India. A
contemporary historian has described him as "the Plato of the
Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Odysseus",
because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear
vision. There are claims that he caused two large silver doors
at the entrance of the Taj Mahal to be stolen and melted
down in 1764.A metro station and an institute in Delhi have
been named after this person.

77. Suraj Mal

78. 23. This game was banned by King James II in 1457,
as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery. Its
economic impact on the US economy is more than
$170 million. It is being reintroduced in the Summer
Olympics to be held in 2016. Name it.

80. 24. First known use of what term?
Who can think at this present time without a sickening of
the heart of the appalling slaughter, the suffering, the
manifold misery brought by war to Spain and to China?
Who can think without horror of what another widespread
war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new
________________________________? FITB.

81. Weapons Of Mass Destruction

82. 25.* X worked for a company Y which was named after a
famous fortification constructed by the Dutch West India
Company in the 1640's. X was abducted and killed by the
members of Al-Qaeda on alleged charges of his too much
involvement in the machinations of Al-Qaeda in the Indian
subcontinent. X and Y?
(Photo on the next slide)

84. X- Daniel Pearl
Y- Wall Street Journal

85. Finals Will Begin Shortly!