Saturday Quiz Night Vol. I

Quiz Rules
1. This quiz has 2 rounds
2. Round 1(Q1-32) - All participants will participate
3. Round 2 (Q33-44)- Top 6 move to the next round.
4. Points carry forward to the next round.
5. +10 on each correct direct question.
6. +10 on each correct pounce question.
7. No negative points.
8. For direct questions we will go alphabetically, Starting from letter A.
9. In case of incorrect response, the question will pass to the next person
who has not pounced for the question.
10. For incorrect pounce in each question you miss your chance for an
impending direct. You can still pounce on the question.

General Rules
1. Since there is no negative answer every time.
2. Use of Google or any sort of search engines is discouraged
3. In-built tie breakers
4. The Quiz Master is always right.
5. In case you ﬁnd the QM wrong, refer to point 4.

Example
Nitin Raikwar is a Hindi cinema lyricist, who writes
simplistic and rather coarse songs. Some of his efforts
include Excuse Me from Style and Phatela Jeb from
Aankhen. However, he is responsible for penning two
iconic movie songs from the 90s, featuring male
‘vocalists’ speaking out their parts instead of singing it.
Which two songs?

Aati Kya Khandala- Ghulam
Apun Bola Tu Meri Laila- Josh
Answer

1.
Grupo Modelo is a Mexican giant which is now a part of the A.B. InBev. Group.
María Asunción Aramburuzabala, known as Mariasun, is Mexico's second
wealthiest woman and inherited her stake in Grupo Modelo. As a part of the
Constellations Brand of the group, X - a marquee product of the brand has been a
major sponsor for boxing, most notably with undefeated featherweight champion
Floyd Mayweather Jr. It has also been a sponsor of the Mexican Football team and
various teams in the Mexican First Division like Puebla, Club León, Chiapas F.C.,
Monarcas Morelia amongst others.
Identify(ID.) X.

Pop Star Rihanna went to school
with these two brothers in
Barbados. She was also seen
supporting one of them in 2019.
How do we remember their
names?
2.

Carlos and
Kraigg
Brathwaite
Answer

3.
The original title for this piece of art was “People we like” with the different
individuals choosing people they thought should feature in it. People
considered for inclusion but rejected included Gandhi and Hitler, whereas Elvis
was another notable omission.
What am I talking about?

Sgt. Peppers Lonely
Hearts Club Band
cover art.
Answer

Awwal Number is a 1990 movie starring Aamir Khan. It is written, directed
and produced by Dev Anand, who also stars in the movie as DIG Vikram
Singh, President of the BCCI. The story revolves around cricket where a new
star Sunny (Aamir Khan) has been included in the team in place of another
famous star Ronny (Aditya Pancholi). All this creates hatred in the heart of
Ronny against Sunny, although Sunny respects him. Ronny decides to take
revenge on Sunny; by colluding with terrorists. A bomb is put up in the field
where a match is to be organised between India and Australia, with Ronny
incharge of the remote. Spoiler alert: Vikram Singh saves the day!
It is reported that Dev Anand wanted to an active cricketer to play Ronny, but
one of them turned it down. He would have been the 2nd special appearance
in the film, along with Cindy Crawford.
ID. the cricketer.
4.

The Forbes _______________________ list in the annual
ranking by Forbes magazine of the best deal makers in high
tech and life science venture capital. It uses parameter
including the first day market capitalization of IPOs and
opinions of Pane experts.
The name is allusion to the mythological king
_________________, renowned for some special ability he had
for a few days.
5.

6.
She gets her name from her father who arrived in Trinidad in
the 19th Century with the Hindu name Maharaj, which has
been corrupted over the years to its current form. Around
880 people search ‘Is X Indian?’ every month. One of her
famous works, shares its name with a popular movie
franchise and a free and open source distribution of the
Python programming language.
ID. her.

X’s higher education was funded by a scholarship from Jiwajirao
Scindia, the Maharaja of Gwalior. As per his 2016 biography, X joined
the All India Students Federation (AISF), a feeder organisation of the
Communist Party of India (CPI), which had an ‘internationalist’ outlook
and had partly disapproved of nationalist assertions. On a trip to
Pakistan, he is known of to have broken protocol and met Pakistani poet
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and narrated the following sher to him.
Makaam ‘Faiz’ Koi raah mein Jacha hi nahi,
Jo Ku-e-yaar se nikle toh Su-e-daar Chale.
ID. X
7.

Vikas Swarup is a career diplomat who joined the IFS in
1986. He has been the Spokesperson for the Ministry of
External Affairs, the Indian High Commissioner to Canada
and is currently the Secretary of Consular, Passport, Visa
and Overseas Indian Affairs.
But his most popularly recognised work is a result of his
side hustle-writing.
What popular piece of work is he associated with?
8.

In a speech at NYU’s Stern School of Business X spoke about an
incident which changed him forever. While hitchhiking across
Europe in 1974, he was arrested and locked up for 3 days
without food or water in Bulgaria on suspicion of criticising the
communist regime. Upon his release in Istanbul, he says, he was
a changed man. “Deep in my heart, I always thank the Bulgarian
guards for transforming me from a confused Leftist into a
determined, compassionate capitalist!”
This inevitably led to something in 1981.
ID. X
9.

Ishq and X are movies directed by
Indra Kumar, both starring Aamir
Khan. The music for Ishq is
composed by Anu Malik and for Y
is composed by Sanjeev-Darshan.
What is the one element that binds
all the songs in X and one song in
Ishq?
10.

All of these are plagiarised from other
songs.
"Nasha Yeh Pyar Ka" is based on the melody of "L'Italiano"
by the Italian singer Toto Cutugno
"Tinak Tin Tana" is lifted from "Yang Sedang Sedang Saja"
by the Malaysian singer Iwan
"Chaha Hai Tujhko" is based on the Tamil song "Edho Oru
Paatu" from Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen (1998)
"Khushiyan Aur Gham" was lifted from "Come Vorrei" by
the Italian pop group Ricchi e Poveri
and "Kali Nagin Ke Jaisi" was lifted from "Ya Rayah" by the
Algerian singer Dahmane El Harrachi.
The first 40 seconds of "Kehna Hai Tumse" were lifted from
"Liquid" by Jars of Clay
Answer

There was only 1 of these in India in 1988, just 3 of these throughout the 1990s and
whooping 62 of these till 2019. India produced a record of these in 2018 alone. This
rise is credited to access to software, databases, computer aided training along with
administrative changes. What are these?
11.

Chess Grandmasters in India
Answer

These are the lyrics to which song?
12.

13.
The suffix ‘a____’ is associated with many cities. The
word ‘a____’ in Urdu means ‘settlement or area of
environment where an organism or ecological
community normally lives with reference to the name.’
It is theorized that the fact that these cities were ruled
by Muslim rulers or has/had a dominant population
speaking Urdu is where the influence comes from.

14.
In April of 1976, Acharya Kripalani fell seriously ill.
He was taken to hospital, where all sort of tubes and
wires were put into him. When a friend came visiting,
he had a fresh complaint: ‘I have no constitution- All
that is left are _____________.’
Fill in the blank.

X set off from his hometown on a hajj, or pilgrimage, to
Mecca, a journey that would ordinarily take sixteen months.
He would not see his home country again for twenty-four
years. He is known to have travelled some 117,000 Km.
He is the protagonist of a children’s poem by Sarveshwar
Dayal Saxena. This poem came into limelight again when
Saxena’s daughter accused Gulzar of plagiarising it. One of
the contributors to this ‘plagiarised’ piece of work is famous
EDM producer Nucleya.
Who is X?
15.

16.
WHAT WAS THE LAST NAME OF THIS COMMISSION AGENT AND
OIL MERCHANT WHO WAS AGGRESSIVELY PURSUED BY
JINNAH?
When Mohammed Ali Jinnah set up the planning committee of the
Muslim League (on the lines of the national planning committee of the
Indian National Congress) in September 1944, he invited Mohammed
Hasham ______ to be a part of it. But _____ did not want to join the
League formally for ‘personal and business reasons’. He was then
assured by Jinnah that he could serve without publicly signing the
Muslim League pledge. Jinnah reportedly sought out ______ once
again when he was forming the first cabinet in Pakistan to serve as

17.
This is a device used to
keep a track of properties
and cash balance.
Who uses these? And who
is the manufacturer?

M&M is a predecessor to an Indian multinational
conglomerate which has interests in Automobiles,
Technology, Shipping, Hospitality, Finance etc. It
was incorporated in 1945 as a trading company for
steel. One of its founders is criticized for
undermining the civilian control of the military by
authorizing the Martial law in his country.
What does M&M stand for?
18.

19.
In the early 18th century, Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed
five_ _(X)_ _(Y) in total, in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and
Varanasi. The decision to build multiple such structures at large
distances from one another was in part a quest for accuracy; the
ability to compare readings from different coordinates. But they may
also have played a role in strengthening Jai Singh’s political position
in regions where he had gained authority. X means calculation and Y
means instrument. X Y incorporate multiple buildings of unique form,
each with a specialized function for astronomical measurement.
Today, X Y serves as a popular tourist attraction.
Identify X Y.

20.
This map
shows records
post 2011. What
are these?

Internet
Shutdown in
India
Answer

21.
It’s an advanced
version of a daily
use product which
is being used to
make your lives
easier and
convenient.
ID this.

This is the first meat product in India to receive a GI
tag
In his book, royal hyderabadi cooking, Sanjeev Kapoor
describes that its preparation has become an art form.
What was introduced to the public by the Madina
Hotel, Hyderabad in 1950
22.

He is Stewart Brand. He led the
campaign to have NASA
release the first photo of the
whole Earth taken from space.
On his work, called The Whole
Earth Catalog, there was a very
famous quote in English.
What is this famous quote?
23.

24.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who
served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based
Al-Baghdadia TV. As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with
a Lebanese TV channel. The Al-Zaidi humanitarian
foundation aims at building orphanages, a children's
hospital, and medical and orthopaedic centres offering free
treatment. He has been an inspiration to people like Jarnail
Singh, Shamim Khan and Pete Gray. Which act of his has
garnered so much attention? What is common between
these gentlemen?

Threw a
Shoe at
George Bush
Answer

25.
X is related to the actress Sadhana from his
mother’s side. X’s grand uncle, Liyaqut Ali Khan
was the first PM of Pakistan. His step sister is the
great niece of Khushwant Singh, the former of the
Times of India and the Illustrated Weekly. This list of
famous relatives can go on and on.
Which media sensation are we talking about
here?(ID. X)

26.
Whose filmography is this?
Savli Premachi (1980)
Kabhi Ajnabi Thé(1985)
Maalamaal (1988)
Inside Edge (2017)

The shipwreck in the picture belongs MV
Primrose which was grounded here in 1981.
An expedition to the island, led by Maurice
Vidal Portman, a government administrator
who hoped to research the natives and their
customs, landed in January 1880. After
several days, an elderly couple and four
children, were captured and taken away.
The colonial officer in charge of the
operation wrote that the entire group,
"sickened rapidly, and the old man and his
wife died, so the four children were sent
back to their home with quantities of
presents".
There have been multiple expeditions to the
island since, where the visiting parties drop
off some gifts off the coast. Coconuts are a
popular gift.
An event in 2018, made the place infamous.
Expand on it.
27.

The North Sentinel
Island
An American
Missionary was
killed by the local
Sentinelese people
Answer

28.
It started with Birth of a Nation, the 1915 film on the founding of Ku Klux
Klan, where it depicts a group of actors portraying shiftless black elected
officials acting rowdy and crudely in a legislative hall. And one of them was
very ostentatiously consuming __________.
This is reportedly the beginning of a stereotype which still raises its ugly
head in multiple American ads and public discourse. A professional golfer,
when asked if he'd ever invite Tiger Woods to dinner. "We'll have him
'round every night,"he said. "We will serve _______"
When a Republican Colorado State Senator associated diabetes and
mortality rates with _______ even the Colorado GOP had to take a step
back.
What is this stereotype?

This is a piece of literary work in Persian, commissioned by Mughal
Emperor Farrukhsiyar. It can be currently seen at the Raza Library in
Rampur. The same work has been translated to Urdu by Brij Narain
‘Chakbast’ in 20th Century. ID the work.
29.

30.
Hints: Tulip Joshi,
Mount Thomas
Connect

31.
X visited Glasgow in the 80s to thank the city for its support in the fight, for which
he had become the heroic champion. X praised the "Citizens of Glasgow" for
being the first to offer him the Freedom of the City, at a time more than a decade
earlier when many others were still condemning him as a terrorist for his role in
his fight.
X was convicted of charges including conspiring to commit acts of sabotage and
guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution. A trial was condemned by
the United Nations Security Council and nations around the world.
In 1986, Glasgow brought more attention to the situation by changing the name
of St George's Place in the city centre to X Place.The name change was made
more significant by the fact that X’s country’s consulate-general was based on
the fifth floor of the Stock Exchange building, at an address which now bore the
name of X.
X?

33.
X is derived from the Latin words for 'water' and 'to lead'. The
Indian subcontinent is believed to have some of the earliest of
these, some of them as long as 15 miles. Evidence can be found at
the sites of present-day Hampi, Karnataka. In the Arab world, they
are known as Falaj or Qanats. The Romans built them all across
their empire, ranging from Germany to Africa.
The modern versions of these can be as long as 242 miles(389
km).
What are these?

34.
“Neil Armstrong we had on the moon in 1969, we had Roger
Bannister- the 4 min mile 65 years ago, Edmund Hillary- the
first man to climb Everest in 1953. We have one minute to go.
X is on his way here, a humble father who used to run 2 miles
to his school and back, and now, through hard work and
discipline; he is pointing- ‘C’mon!’ He says”
“One final lung burstins stride for X, one giant leap for human
endeavour! And X was right. No human is limited, and now we
celebrate”
These are the last few minutes of what?

Eliud Kipchoge runs a marathon under 2 hours
Answer

35.
The poem "Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पवर्वत-सी) was
sung often by Arvind Kejriwal during the Anti Corruption Movement.
It is written by Dushyant Kumar, a poet of modern Hindi literature.
He plays a pivotal role in the story of a Hindi feature film which also
features poems by his contemporaries like Basheer Badr, Akbar
Allahbadi, Chakbast amongst others.
This, according to the writer of the film, was a conscious decision to
portray a protagonist whose hobby is reading poetry, as this is a
common hobby of millennials and generation x youngsters in
Northern India, especially when in love.
ID. the movie and/or the poem. Hints will be given if asked for.

36.
Rashtrakuta was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th
centuries. X was carved out in the 8th century in the Rashtrakuta period, before anything else existed in the
city. It still exists as an integral part of the city’s heritage.
Archeologists believe that it was left incomplete, possibly because of a fault line found at the back of the
structure, which made the further sculpting unsafe, or political upheaval resulting in loss of patronage.
Snehal Pradhan is a former India cricketer based out of Pune. Before becoming an accomplished cricket
writer, post her retirement, Snehal would post weekly vlogs on YouTube covering her love for Pokemon Go,
amongst other things. In one such episode, she visits X in trying to catch ‘em all!
ID. X.

Answer
Pataleshwar Cave
Temple

37.
X. is the rifle regiment of the British Army. It has fought famous battles like Gallipoli
and Mesopotamia in World War I, Mandalay and Rangoon Road in World War II
and the Falklands War. They played a pivotal role in the siege of Delhi to curb the
revolt in 1857. A battalion of it was posted in Hong Kong when the control of the
city was transferred to China in 1995.
Unlike other regiments of the British Army, soldiers for it are recruited from a place
which is neither a British Territory nor a Commonwealth State.
ID the Regiment.

Answer
The British Gurkha Regiment

38.
The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a
botanist accompanying French Navy admiral Louis Antoine de <Blank>
during his voyage of circumnavigation of the Earth, and first published by
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789. It is possible that the first European
to observe these plants was Jeanne Baré, Commerçon's lover and
assistant who was an expert in botany. Because she was not allowed on
ship as a woman, she disguised herself as a man in order to make the
journey (and thus became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe). It
is native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern
Argentina, but various hybrid varieties of it are available throughout the
globe.
What Plant are we talking about?

The Mughals are often hated by numerous Indians for being
foreign invaders. But nothing illustrates their assimilation to the
Indian land more than the following discourse.
Babar, as per his own account in the Babarnama, is known to
have longed for X. For him, they were a constant reminder of
his homeland.
But his great grandson, Jahangir, had a contrary opinion.
He writes in his memoir, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, “notwithstanding
the sweetness of the Kabul’s X, not one of them has, to my
taste, the flavour of the Y.”
What is this disagreement between the two relatives?
39.

40.
X is a two time Olympic Gold Medalist, 3 time World Champion and
perhaps the Greatest of All Time in her sporting event. She has also
been named the Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF thrice. X
was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics when reports about a
State Sponsored Doping programme in Russia came up. She later
wrote, "Let all those pseudo clean foreign athletes breathe a sigh of
relief and win their pseudo gold medals in our absence. They
always did fear strength."
She's a member of PutinTeam, a Russian political organization
aimed at supporting Vladimir Putin and promoting his policies. She
is also known to have controversial(Read: terrible/bigoted) views on
LGBTQ rights.
ID. X

41.
X is a brand that is one of the strongest
advocates against travelling.
They even advertise on TSA bins on Airports
to discourage travellers.

42.
Which business was started by American
Express in 1882 to compete with US postal
service.

43.
X’s paternal grandfather was a chef, who at one time or another
cooked for Vladimir Lenin, Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, and
on several occasions for Joseph Stalin. His maternal grandmother
was killed by the German occupiers of Tver region in 1941, and his
maternal uncle disappeared at the war front. His autobiography is
called Ot Pervogo Litsa (English: In the First Person).
ID X.

44.
A still from whose last on-screen appearance, a
movie he also wrote and directed (like most of the
other movies he acted in).

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