Techofes Buzzer Quiz - Prelims quiz with questions on various topics including breast cancer awareness, the ice trade, Upanishads, Oscars awards, Google Maps borders, modified musical pieces, Hart Island in New York, Olympic art competitions, Gabbar from Sholay, esoteric programming languages, confusing North Korean and South Korean cities, the sinking of the Andrea Doria ship, the anime series Cowboy Bebop, the term "Hail Mary" in football, Welsh fairy dog breeds, ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, ending child labour in the rug industry, actor Danny Sapani's Tamil film connection, IKEA refugee shelters, and the only product of Indian company Laljee God

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3. 1. Put funda for both

4. Pink - Breast cancer awareness
Green - Global Warming

5. 2
This was started by the New England businessman Frederic Tudor in
1806, when he shipped X to the Caribbean island of Martinique, hoping to sell
it to wealthy members of the European elite there, using a “special” house he
had built for the purpose. Over the coming years the trade widened to Cuba
and Southern United States, with other merchants joining Tudor in
harvesting and shipping X from New England. Tudor made a fortune from
the Indian trade, while brand names such as Wenham X became famous in
London. This revolutionized the U.S. meat, vegetable and fruit industries,
enabled significant growth in the fishing industry, and encouraged the
introduction of a range of new drinks and foods.
WHICH “COMMODITY”?

6. Ice Trade

7. 3
The Sanskrit term X translates to "sitting down near", referring to the
student sitting down near the teacher while receiving spiritual knowledge.
Other dictionary meanings include "esoteric doctrine" and "secret doctrine".
Monier-Williams' Sanskrit Dictionary notes – "According to native
authorities, X means setting to rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of
the supreme spirit."

8. Upanishad

9. 4
The 77th Academy Awards which took place on February 27, 2005 ended
with Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” bagging the most Oscars for that night
including the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. An odd thing about
the presenters for the award was that it included Pierce Brosnan and X, a
character from another movie which also won 2 Oscars in the same Awards
ceremony.
Id X.

11. 5
Google Maps snaps from different country versions of the same place on
Earth.
Put funda.

12. The territorial borders shown in Google Maps differ depending on who's
looking at them. These strange features were implemented by Google Maps
in order to comply with Chinese laws designed to protect what China refers
to as its “territorial integrity.”

13. 6. STARRED
This is a modified version of a musical piece all of us would know.
For 0.5 points, Id the piece and the composer.
For another 0.5 points, give me the name of the 2013 bilingual movie ( one of
them being Tamil) which features this modified piece.

14. Neram
Fur Elise - Beethoven

15. 7
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is an island in New York
City at the western end of Long Island Sound. It is approximately a mile long
and one-quarter of a mile wide and is located to the northeast of City Island
in the Pelham Islands group. The island is the easternmost part of the
borough of the Bronx.
What purpose has the island held to this day?
(pic follows)

17. To bury the city’s unclaimed dead.

18. 8
With the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, and
the celebration of the first modern Olympic Games, French Baron Pierre de
Coubertin saw the fulfillment of his ideals—men being educated in both
mind and body, and competing in sport rather than war. One of his other
desires was to combine sport with it, and he thus considered including these
competitions in the Olympic Games. These competitions formed part of the
modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1948. were
abandoned in 1954 because ______s were considered to be professionals,
while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs.
What competitions?

19. Art Competitions in the Olympics which was later abandoned because
artists were considered professionals.

20. 9

21. Gabbar from Sholay

22. 10. Give X
An esoteric programming language is a programming language designed to
test the boundaries of computer programming language design,
One such esolang is ______C, created by Lauri Hartikka. It is described as
"an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are
replaced with quotes from different X movies."
For eg., to start a program, you use “IT’S SHOWTIME”. DeclareMethod
becomes “LISTEN TO ME VERY CAREFULLY” and the stale
AssignVariableFromMethodCall becomes the much more colorful “GET
YOUR ASS TO MARS”.

23. Arnold Schwarzenegger

24. 11
There has been several instances of people confusing these two cities
because of their similar pronunciation and spelling. One famous instance is
that of a Kenyan in 2014 who flew into X instead of Y and was fined $500 for
entering a country without visa.
To distinguish Y from X, a capital C and an extra “e” is being used to avoid
confusion between tourists.
X and Y?

25. X - Pyongyang
Y - PyeongChang

26. 12
Named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral X, this ship had a gross
register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and 500
crew. For a country attempting to rebuild its economy and reputation after
World War II, X was an icon of Italian national pride. Of all Italy's ships at the
time, X was the largest, fastest, and supposedly safest.
This ship also figures in an episode of Seinfeld , in which a survivor of the
sinking is given priority over George Costanza in renting an apartment.(It is
also the name of that particular episode). What is the name of this ship?

27. Ans:Andrea doria
Seinfeld s08e10

28. 13
X is a harbinger anime which was given the following description -- "the
series distinctly establishes itself outside the realm of conventional
Japanese animation and instead chooses to forge its own path. With a
setting within the realm of Science Fiction, the series wisely offers a world
that seems entirely realistic considering our present time. Free from many
of the elements that accompany science fiction in general — whether that be
space aliens, giant robots, or laser guns — the series delegates itself towards
presenting a world that is quite similar to our own albeit showcasing some
technological advances. "
Id X
Play theme

29. Cowboy bebop

30. 14
The use of this term became widespread after a 1975 NFL playoff game between the
Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, when Cowboys quarterback Roger
Staubach said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew
Pearson, "I closed my eyes and ________. Previous to this play, it had been called
several names, most notably the "Alley-Oop."
The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, being used publicly in that decade by
two former members of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, Elmer Layden and Jim Crowley.
Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a “____ _____" gradually came to
denote a long, low-probability pass attempted at the end of a half when a team is too
far from the end zone to execute a more conventional play, implying that it would take
divine intervention for the play to succeed.
What term?

31. Hail Mary

32. 15
Welsh legends speak of a battle between two fairy tribes, the Tywyth Teg and the Gwyllion,
which resulted in the deaths of two fairies of the Tywyth Teg.
Two children happened upon the Tywyth Teg funeral procession and were gifted the
departed warriors’ noble steeds to help with their herding. As the dogs were passed on to
the children, a representative of the Tywyth Teg spoke fondly of the dogs’ talents. “They are
trained warriors in their own right,” he supposedly said. “But they are more than warriors:
they are great helpers for the faerie folk.” The small dogs were perfect for herding cows, he
explained; Their short stature kept them out of the way of flying hooves when they nipped
at angry cows’ heels.
Many dogs of this breed have a darker patch of fur under their shoulders that even today is
sometimes known as the “fairy saddle.”
Which breed?

33. Corgis

34. 16
The Motor Neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a
specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary
muscles. The disease is characterized by stiff muscles, muscle twitching,
and gradually worsening weakness due to muscles decreasing in size. This
results in difficulty speaking, swallowing, and eventually breathing. Known
victims of the disease include U.S. baseballer Lou Gehrig ( thereby lending
his name to the disease ) and also Stephen Hawking. This disease became
popular in late 2014 due to a certain internet phenomenon. What is it?

35. ALS Ice bucket challenge

36. 17 X and Y
GoodWeave International, formerly known as Rugmark, is a network of
non-profit organizations dedicated to ending X in the rug making industry.
Founded in 1994 by children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Y
it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass
inspection to attach a logo certifying that their product is made without X.

37. X - Child Labour Y- Kailash Sathyarthi

38. 18
X is a British actor of Ghanian descent.He has acted in films like star wars:
the last jedi, and now in the film Black panther.This particular actor also has
a tamil connect.
Id X and the tamil connect

39. X: Danny Sapani
He acted as the antagonist in the film singam 2

40. 19
With years of expertise in squeezing complex items into the smallest
self-assembly package possible, the company has come up with a robust 17.5
sq m shelter that fits inside two boxes and can be assembled by four people
in just four hours, following the familiar picture-based instructions –
substituting the ubiquitous allen key for a hammer, with no extra tools
necessary.
Which company is this and for which group of people are these entities
aimed at?

42. IKEA refugees shelters

43. 20
Laljee Godhoo & Co., a company established in 1894 , that has been an
integral part of the majority of the Indian households for over a century, is
the one that has been behind the much desired extra taste in many an
Indian dish.
What is this company’s only product?

44. Asofoeitida / perungayam