Spqc pl 12 11-14 darshan

SPQC PLSession
Darshan Godhia
12th November, 2014

SUBJECTS:
India
Technology
Movies
Entertainment
Literature
Sports
 Well, it is a PL quiz!
 The scoring is GPA based
The grading is relative:
Topper – O : 60 marks
Second – A : 40 marks
Third – B : 20 marks
Last – F : 0 marks
The independent subject scores won’t matter, only the grade will
In case of a tie, there will be a cumulative average
ie. (Sum of scores)/(number of receivers) to all

India
Qn. 1
In Mahabharata, Ashwatthama was
the son of Dronacharya.
Ashwatthama was killed during
battle, to enable the assassination of
Dronacharya, Ashwatthama’s father.
Ashwatthama , after the end of
fighting tried killing Arjun’s unborn
grandson.
How is that possible?

One was an Elephant
and other was the son
of Dronacharya.

India
Qn. 2
Grandson of Pulatsya, son of a rishi
father and rakshasa mother, a
maestro ofVeena and hailed as a
great scholar, which mythological
character has a beautiful temple
dedicated to him at Mandore near
Jodhpur? His statue can be found in
the MeenakshiTemple in Madurai.

India
Qn. 3
 “Here lies one who spared neither man nor God
Waste not your tears on him, he was a sod
Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun
Thank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.”
Who wrote these lines for himself?

India
Qn. 4
 Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette.To dance by
spinning on one foot came naturally to her. On
one of her school functions, her talent was
spotted by a certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputed
ad film maker who approached her mother and
said “We just want her to do the spin, like she
does so gracefully.The small twist would be
counterbalanced by a jingle. She does the
move, packs her bags, gets the cheque and
leaves.Think of it, she’s going to be the first
________"

India
Qn. 5
How many members are nominated
by the President in the Rajya Sabha?

India
Qn. 6
Connect:
IIT KGP
Wharton
Stanford
McKinsey

ChristopherNolan,thefilm director
Here'show:
1-Following;
2-Memento;
3-Insomnia;
4-BatmanBegins(ok,thisisabitofastretch!);
5-ThePrestige;
6-TheDarkKnight;
7-Inception;
8-TheDarkKnightRises;
9-Interstellar

India
Qn. 8
While the female version of this
name made headlines in December
2012, the male version of this name
made news in October 2014, owing
to a major contribution of India's
DRDO.
Which undaunted name?

'Nirbhaya'and'Nirbhay'.'Nirbhaya'was
thepseudonymgiventothiscase,while
'Nirbhay'wasthenameofanIndian
subsoniccruisemissilesuccessfullytest-
firedinOct2014.

India
Qn. 9
From a July 2014 exhibition by the
artist Claire Phillips (the lady on the
right).Who is the person in the
painting (also seen standing next to
Phillips), who became better known
in the eyes of the world later in the
year?

India
Qn. 10
If model-actor Milind Soman and
singer Alisha Chinai (in the 90s) are
associated with the past tense, a lion
with cogs is in the present tense,
since 2014.What is all this about?

TheformerisareferencetotheIndipop
song"MadeinIndia",whilethelatteris
the2014"MakeinIndia"campaign
launchedbytheIndiangovernmentto
spurmanufacturinginthecountry.

Technology
Qn. 1
 A mnemonic describing a mathematical “device” :
Sift theTwos and Sift theThrees,
The ____ of ______.
When the multiples sublime,
The numbers that remain are X.
Fill in the blanks
Bonus for X

Sieve of Eratosthenes.
X - Prime

Technology
Qn. 2 What’s the name of this song?

Darude -Sandstorm
Everysongin theworldthatpeople
do notknow thenameto
"Whatis thatsong?"
"Darude-Sandstorm"

Technology
Qn. 3
Satirising corporate tech
buzzwords, which company -
on its way down over the last
few years-has been described
as a 'high hanging fruit' in a
recent FT headline?

Technology
Qn. 4
Satirising corporate tech
buzzwords, which company -
on its way down over the last
few years-has been described
as a 'high hanging fruit' in a
recent FT headline?

Technology
Qn. 5
Here you see a Picasso painting
calledTwo Characters, also
implemented into his Google
Doodle.
What other prominent feature
from the world of technology
borrows lineage from this
painting?
Image on next slide

Technology
Qn. 6
What's so unusual about the
discovery of the following species?
Mindarus harringtoni :- an extinct
species of aphid and the insect was
discovered when Richard Harrington, a
scientist and vice-president of the Royal
Entomological Society of London.
Coelopleurus exquisitus (exquisite
urchin) :- a sea urchin species found off
the coast of the island of New Caledonia
in the Pacific Ocean.

Technology
Qn. 7
This one is a sitter:
Who is this physicist standing
next to Einstein, who first used
Einstein's Relativity equations to
prove that our Universe is
expanding?

Technology
Qn. 8
Which country is set to ban the
Apple iPhone and iPad from next
year as a result of a new law that
forces online services operating
in the country to store their data
locally?

Technology
Qn. 9
Lonesome George was the last
known individual of the subspecies.
In his last years, he was known as
the rarest creature in the world.
George served as a potent symol
for conservation efforts in Ecuador
and internationally. Upon his death
in June 2012, the sub-species
became extinct.
Which sub-species?
Image on next slide

Pinta Island /
Abingdon Island tortoise
or
Galapagos tortoise

Technology
Qn. 10
"A person with ___________ is open and
available to others, affirming of others,
does not feel threatened that others are
able and good, for he or she has a proper
self-assurance that comes from knowing
that he or she belongs in a greater whole
and is diminished when others are
humiliated or diminished, when others are
tortured or oppressed."
What modern-day product takes its name
from the above mentioned philosophy
mostly because it is based on the same
principle?

Movies
Qn. 1
 In an interview to Siddharth Sivakumar of
Tinpahar , Goutam Ghose, the chairman of the
selection committee of the Film Federation of
India revealed, "Personally I liked X very much.
But eventually the eighteen member jury
supportedY.
Now I can say that some people from Bombay
felt that the basic premise of X was wrong.
Because the Z never do such mistakes.
 Films are after all works of fiction, with the
right to cinematic liberty! Although X was my
personal favourite, but as a chairman one
should not impose his or her choice on others.
 Give X,Y,Z.

X – Lunch Box
Y –TheGood Road
Z – Dabbawallas

Movies
Qn. 2
X is a test in the StarTrek universe to
test the character of cadets in the
command track at Starfleet
Academy.
X is used to describe a no-win
scenario, or a solution that involves
redefining the problem.
Give me X

Movies
Qn. 3
Complete the exhaustive list:
 The First Post
 The Old Familiar
 The Famous Cock
 The Cross Hands
 The Good Companions
 TheTrusty Servants
 TheTwo Headed Dog
 The Mermaid
 The Beehive
 The King’s Head
 The Hole in theWall
 _________________

Movies
Qn. 4
Connect:
 Vespertilio
 Eptesicus
 Myotis
 Barbastella
 Artibeus
 Tadarida
 Macrotus
 Antrozous
 Nycteris
 Molossus
 Corynorhinus
 Lasiurus

TheSoundtrack of
Batman Begins

Movies
Qn. 5
Complete the dialogue:
“Aaj maine tum logo ki maut ki date
fix kar di hai.Yaad rakhna aaj ek
tareek hai. ___________________”

Do..Chaar..Chay..Aath..Dus..Bas!

Movies
Qn. 6
Complete the conversation:
I admire your courage, Miss ..?
Trench. SylviaTrench. I admire your
luck, Mr .. ?
_____________

Movies
Qn. 7
The Serbian village of Zitiste has
been through rough years - floods,
landslides and crime. In 2007, artist
Boris Staparc was commissioned to
create a 10-foot replica to symbolise
the city’s resilience.Village
authorities needed to get approval
from sculptorThomas Schomberg,
whose 1983 original now resides at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Whose statue/What sculpture?

Movies
Qn. 8
Sung Kang is an actor best known
for playing Han in the Fast and
Furious franchise. Han's last name is
revealed only in Fast Five, and is set
to be a word play on the name of a
cult character from a film trilogy and
the capital of Sung Kang's native
country.
What is his last name?

Movies
Qn. 9
 "Directors fear casting this particular actor in a
major production, or do not reveal his
character in the trailers to ensure that the
climax of the movie is kept intact."
 This statement is actually false and is based on
a very famous urban legend which is reinforced
by X's roles in major film andTV roles. However
the urban legend is not completely true and
can be refuted by citing movies such as
Flightplan, NationalTreasure, Anna Karenina
and theatre productions such as Macbeth,
Romeo and Juliet and based on interpretation
Maid of theWest.
 What Urban Legend?

Movies
Qn. 10
Where can one see them?
 Remember Sammy Jankis
 Consider the source – Memory isTreachery
 Photograph – House – Car -Friend – Foe
 She is gone –Time still passes
 ConditionYourself – Don’t trust your weakness
 EAT
 I’m no different
 Find him and kill him

LeonardShelby’stattoosinMemento

Entertainment
Qn. 1
Andrew "Andy" Armstrong had six
children. He worked as a jazz
musician and truck driver for
Safeway Inc. to support his family.
He died of esophageal cancer on
September 10, 1982.
Which song was written as a
memorial to him?

“Wake MeUpWhen
September Ends”

Entertainment
Qn. 2
When asked if he would sue X over
certain copyrights on his creationY "I
don't think so," said Keith Chapman.
"He's got his finger on the nuclear
button and the whole of the US
army under his command. I don't
want Delta Force coming over my
garden wall. He's free to use it as
much as he likes.“
ID X andY, and the object in question
here.

X – BarackObama
Y – Bob the Builder (Yes
WeCan)

Entertainment
Qn. 3
 “When I was 14, my father was stationed in Japan. I
went rock-climbing with a kid from school. He fell
and got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital.
We came in through the wrong entrance and passed
this guy in the hall. He was a janitor. My friend came
down with an infection. Doctors didn’t know what to
do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor.
And a buraku. One of Japan’s untouchables. His
ancestors had been slaughterers, gravediggers. And
this guy, he knew he was not accepted by the staff,
didn’t even try. He didn’t dress well. He didn’t
pretend to be one of them.The people around that
place … they didn’t think he had anything they
wanted, except when they needed him. Because he
was right.Which meant nothing else mattered. And
they had to listen to him.”
 The above narrated incident had a significant impact
on the life of the narrator. Id the narrator.

House MD
Episode:Son ofComaGuy

Entertainment
Qn. 4
 "Paramount had organized a party for me. All of
cinema was there, it was incredible. And then comes in
Y, the last one to come. For me, that was when it got
amazing. . . . She came right for my table. She knew
everyone was watching. She sat down. And now, she
was barely . . . Listen. Look at the picture.Where are
my eyes? I’m staring at her ____ because I am afraid
they are about to come onto my plate. In my face you
can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in
her dress is going to blow—BOOM!—and spill all over
the table.“
 X talking about which infamous photograph?

Entertainment
Qn. 5
The voice actor quit the show after he
was asked to appear in a Burger King
commercial. He rejoined only after the
character turned vegetarian. He told
Newsweek he had never voiced a hippie,
but was ‘hip to what hippies were about’.
In 2010, he came out of retirement to
voice the character’s father – Samuel
Rogers.
Which cartoon character?

Entertainment
Qn. 6
Whose career highlights include the
following:
The Smurfs
Stand-up
The Bugle
Mock the week
Community
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
X - Bonus

JohnOliver
X – LastWeekTonight

Entertainment
Qn. 7
A X is a digital medium consisting of an
episodic series of audio, video, radio,
PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and
downloaded through web syndication or
streamed online to a computer or mobile
device.
MerriamWebster defines X: a program
(as of music or talk) made available in
digital format for automatic download
over the Internet.
Give me X

Entertainment
Qn. 8
A X is a digital medium consisting of an
episodic series of audio, video, radio,
PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and
downloaded through web syndication or
streamed online to a computer or mobile
device.
MerriamWebster defines X: a program
(as of music or talk) made available in
digital format for automatic download
over the Internet.
Give me X

Entertainment
Qn. 9
Kuntal Patel was accused of trying to kill
her mother, a magistrate in London, for
opposing her marriage with her
boyfriend. She was cleared of the charges
of trying to kill her mother by poisoning
her Diet Cola but was sentenced for three
years after being convicted of acquiring a
biological agent or toxin. She is supposed
to have been inspired by whichTV series
to take this extreme step?

Patelis saidto havebeen inspired
by a BreakingBadepisode in
whichWalterWhitekillsan
enemywith ricin-lacedtea.

Entertainment
Qn. 10
"The ImitationGame" is a 2014 British
film.This term refers to a test devised to,
given an unseen man and woman, to try
and identify who was of which gender.A
further modification of this test is now
better known, and is named after the
person who proposed this test.
This person is also the subject of this film
- who is the person?

AlanTuring, the famed
AI researcher and
computer scientist.

Literature
Qn. 1
X’s birth name is RichardAlexander
Rodgers
He has used the aliases ‘Jackson
Hunt’ and ‘Anderson Cross’
He is a writer
His popular works incude ‘The Calm
BeforeThe Storm’, ‘Gathering
Storm’, ‘Storm Rising’
Identify him

Literature
Qn. 2
The word for a discussion or conference,
especially one between enemies over
terms of a truce derives from the French
verb "to speak". Beginning in the High
MiddleAges with the expansion of
monarchs, it was a meeting held
between kings and their Chief Retainers
and was a part of the many changes in
Europe, especially regarding
governments.The Pirates of the
Caribbean series refers to it as being
part of the pirate code.
What's the good word?

Literature
Qn. 3
The 2014 book "What If?" is a collection
of interesting questions and answers
posted to a popular blog. In this column,
the blog's owner tries to provide
scientifically valid answers to strange
questions, such as "What if everyone
actually had just one soul mate - one
random person somewhere in the
world? Could they ever meet?"
Who is the author and what popular
website does he run?

Literature
Qn. 4
On Halloween 2014, the author
J.K.Rowling published an essay on
the origins of a character from the
Harry Potter series, also one of the
least liked. (The author Stephen King
even called this character "the
greatest make-believe villain to
come along since Hannibal Lecter").
Which character?

Literature
Qn. 5
Xs notable works include:
Y
Dark Places
Sharp Objects
Give X, and the recently famousY

Literature
Qn. 6
Connect:
SachinTendulkar
Andy McNab
George HW Bush
Geordie Sharpe
Chris Ryan

Literature
Qn. 7
This 2014 hit Hollywood movie joins
films such as ‘North by Northwest’ in
getting its title from a line in
Shakespeare.
“Julius Caesar:The ____ dear, Brutus,
is not ____. But in ourselves, that we
are underlings.”

Literature
Qn. 8
“Queen” is a 2014 Hindi film starring
the actress Kangana Ranaut as
“Rani”, a girl who has a set of small
adventures in Europe during what
should have been her honeymoon.
The film was widely read as havind
parallels with a famous word of
literature, which was also alluded to
with the lead actress wearing the
sweatshirt referencing that work.
Which work of literature?

Literature
Qn. 9
“James Gordon” is the who?

Literature
Qn. 10
In the 80s, he wrote several episodes
for suchTV series as ‘TheTwilight
Zone’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’.
These days he contributes one
episode per season to X
Give me the person and X

George R. R. Martin
Game of Thrones

Sports
Qn. 1
 Xavier Doherty said, “Merv Hughes gave me
my baggy green and, although much of what
he said was a blur, one thing stands out. ‘There
is an emu and kangaroo on the front of your
hat’”.
What is the significance of the two animals
apart from being highly prevalent in Australia?

They never take a step
backward

Sports
Qn. 2
Toni Kroos & Franck Ribery in a 6-0
Bayern Munich victory over Hertha
Berlin
Marco Reus & Mike Hanke in a 3-0
Borussia Monchengladbach victory
over FC Koln
What specific occurrences involving
these players in the two games
above happened in the 2011-12
Bundesliga season?

Rock PaperScissors for
deciding who takes the
free-kick

Sports
Qn. 3
A German driver at the German Grand
Prix incurred the wrath of FIFA on
Thursday night – for celebrating
Germany’sWorld Cup triumph with a
commemorative helmet.
X, an avid follower of the tournament,
was forced to alter a special helmet
design to celebrate his nation’s victory
after football’s governing body banned
him from using an image of the famous
trophy, claiming it would be in breach of
its intellectual property.
Name X

Sports
Qn. 4
FC Barcelona signed a new
sponsorship deal in December 2013
with this company

Sports
Qn. 5
Who was the official flag bearer of
India at SochiWinter Olympics 2014?

No one
ThethreeIndianathletescompeted
underIndependentOlympicflag

Valentino Rossi’s return
toYamaha

Sports
Qn. 7
After scoring his maiden test ton in
OldTrafford, Manchester, Sachin
Tendulkar was awarded his first
MoM award.The person who
presented him with the award
though was arrested the very next
day.
What was the reason behind this?

Sachinwas a minorat thattime.
TheMoM awardrequiredhandling
overthecustomarybottleof
champagne.Thepoorgentleman
was arrestedon chargesofhanding
alcoholtoa minor.

Sports
Qn. 8
During his time at the club Kenny
Dalglish had wanted to sign X who was
playing in France for FC Girondins de
Bordeaux, however Blackburn Rovers
Chairman JackWalker reportedly said to
Dalglish: "Why do you want to sign X
when we haveTim Sherwood?"
Blackburn went on to win the Premier
League that season, to crash out of it in
2012, while X has retired.
Who is X?

Sports
Qn. 10
A cricket team from this country
toured England in Sept 2014.Though
led by an Englishman, like many
countries not known for their
cricketing pedigree, its squad
comprised mainly of South Asians.
The tour concluded with a loss in a
T20 match against a Church of
England XI held in Canterbury, Kent.
From which country was this team?

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