Full Throttle Quiz-2014

1. Final!
By Ramanand | Choose To Thinq

2. Rules • 5 rounds
• Common
• Passing 1: 13 questions
• Connect
• Passing 2: 13 questions
• Common
• Thanks to: Harish, Suraj, Niranjan

3. Round 1 • written
• 5 questions
• 10 points each

4. What was offered to Prime Minister Robert Walpole in 1732 by King
George II, which he then enlarged by joining some neighbouring
property?

5. On the occasion of what ‘first’ was this photo taken?

6. A character in the folk tales of Sheikh Chilli, some stories have it
that his name is a reference to him accidentally scaring or killing
away a band of thieves. The name has become a local idiom in parts
of North India with negative connotations.
What term?

7. This is the only integer number which, when written
in Roman letters, the letters are in alphabetical
order.
Which number?

8. What denomination is this from?

9. Answers
10, Downing Street
1st T20 international
Tees Maar Khan
40!
50 Rupee Note
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10. Round 2 • 13 questions
• 10 points each
• Infinite Bounce

11. Inigo Lopez was a Spanishman born in 1491. He was in the army and later
became a Catholic saint. From which place in Spain did he come from, which
is now known to us in India in an educational context?

12. St. Ignatius of Loyola
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13. The Western concept of this phrase came with Queen Victoria's
celebrations in 1897.
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated this in 2012.
What concept?

14. Diamond Jubilee
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15. This question is about an interesting medical syndrome. People
who have this problem suddenly see objects around them going out
of proportion - too big or too small.
What is this called?

16. Alice in Wonderland syndrome
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17. Hunnarbaaz is a reality show, now airing on DD National, which
has brought two iconic presenters from the golden days of DD
back again.
What did India Post specifically create as a result of their
previous show?

18. “Surabhi”, competition postcards
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19. This term is supposed to have originated during the American Civil
War. It essentially meant the boundary beyond which prisoners were
not allowed to go, day or night, with the penalty of being shot
down. Now we use this word in a different context.
What?

20. Deadline
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21. The Hindu version has five fragrant flowers:Ashoka tree
flowers, white and blue lotus flowers, Jasmine and the flowers
from the Mango trees.
The Roman and Greek versions have golden with dove feathers
and lead tipped ones.
What are we talking about?

22. Kamadeva's arrows and
Cupid and Eros' arrows
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23. International Women’s Day is a holiday in countries such as
Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Nepal, Russia, etc.
What is different about the holiday in countries such as China,
Nepal, and Madagascar?

24. Holiday only for women
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25. What term for a type of motorcycle comes from bikes
that were modified by cutting down parts, usually
manually?

26. Chopper
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27. In an article published in Sept 2014, noted economist (and IIT-B alumnus) Ajit
Ranade wrote about an important and impending decision:
•Such proposed decisions inevitably cause ‘real estate frenzy’
•To avoid such problems, in this case, perhaps this should be located in the
middle of nowhere (such as Timbaktu, for there is such a place)
•Or perhaps this should be ‘virtual’ as there is no real need for this to be
located in an actual place.
What decision, which will come into play latest by 2024?

28. What should be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh.
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29. Despite what happened to their sides at the 2014 FIFA World Cup,
Argentine Pablo Silva and Brazilian Heine Allemagne have been
hailed as being two of the major winners of the tournament.
Silva said: We have played together and won as “brothers”,
referring to the otherwise traditional rivalry between the two
countries.
They are co-founders of the company BRA.AR which produces
what in the world of sport?

30. The 915 Fairplay vanishing spray used for marking free-kick walls.
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31. Which taunt in the world of video games and internet
culture is most likely to have originated because of the
confusing proximity of the two rightmost letters on top
of a QWERTY keyboard?

32. “PWN” from “OWN” as “P” & “O” are QWERTY neighbours.
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33. This is a 4 letter word. On a Scrabble board, you would
have got a score of 29 for this word, but since you can’t
have more than 1 of the last letter, so you will have to
use a blank (making your score 19).
It was voted the word of the 20th century. What word?

34. JAZZ
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35. About a decade ago, this organisation ran a campaign
called "Got Beer", claiming (somewhat correctly) that it
was healthier to drink beer than milk.
Opposition from anti-alcohol campaigners
forced them to eventually withdraw the campaign. One
spokesperson for the org said their campaign was
against milk and if they had compared milk to orange
juice, they would have got no publicity at all.
Which org is this?

36. PETA
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37. Round 3 • Connection common to all these elements
• written
• Points on slide

38. +25/0

39. +20/-10

40. +15/-5

41. +10/0

42. • Connection: Salman Rushdie
• Slide 1: studied at Cathedral & John Connon; characters Goopy & Bagha the
guppyfish in Haroon & The Sea of Stories; cameo in the film version of
“Bridget Jones’ Diary”
• Slide 2: Shalimar Gardens -> Shalimar the Clown; Parvati & Padma Patil ->
names from Midnight’s Children
• Slide 3: U2 wrote a song “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” based on his book
& lyrics; Kathasaritsagara inspired “The Sea of Stories”
• Slide 4: Still from the movie version of Midnight’s Children; won Booker of
Bookers for it.
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43. Round 4 • 13 questions
• 10 points each
• Infinite Bounce
• Reverse order of passing

44. This was the codename of the first ever nuclear bomb tested by
the Manhattan Project in New Mexico. Now something that most
of us here would like to have, but in the 19th century, a synonym
for words such as “thingamajig” or “gizmo”.
What word?

45. “Gadget”
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46. Nine hours long, the only Indian cast member was Mallika Sarabhai. What?
Image: The Guardian

47. Image: The Guardian

48. The Mahabharata – a play by Peter Brooks
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49. What is this list about?
Men
India (’99), India (’99), India (’01), Czech Rep (’06), Czech Rep (’09), Czech Rep
(’09), Czech Rep (’12), Czech Rep (’13)
Women
USA (’99), USA (’03), USA (’03), Zimbabwe (’09), Zimbabwe (’10), Zimbabwe
(’10),

50. Nationalities of the partners of Leander Paes’s Grand Slam titles
Bhupati, Damm, Dlouhy, Stepanek
Raymond, Navratilova, Black …

51. A picture from inventor and engineer Dave Warren’s funeral. His
invention though somewhat misnamed is also used in tech circles
to describe a way of compartmentalising technology.
What did he invent?

52. Airplane Black Box
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53. “Red Alert: Israel” is a 2014 app that warns Israelis of
possible missile attacks based on sirens. It also uses
which other, more infamous, 2014 app to deliver these
warnings?

54. “Yo”
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55. The most recent members of this list are associated with these places:
•…
•Bolpur, WB
•Sasaram, Bihar
•Indore, MP (most recent)
What do these people have in common?

56. Speakers of the Lok Sabha, and their constituencies
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57. From pre-independence India – British soldiers who waited for the ships back to
England used to be stationed at a transit camp.
Sometimes they would wait for the whole of the Indian summer and monsoons
to get over before they could leave.
Because of this wait, they’d go crazy and this led to the term camp-fever.
Where was this transition camp located in Maharashtra?

58. Deolali, resulting in the term “Doolally”
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59. The producer of the film Paperman, which won the Oscar for Best Animated
Short in 2013, celebrated in what unique way, resulting in her being thrown
out of the Academy Awards ceremony?

60. She started throwing paper airplanes!
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61. Quoting from an article on the Press Information Bureau site:
“The Anna Series was introduced on 15th August 1950 and represented the first
coinage of Republic India. The Lion Capital of the Ashoka Pillar replaced the King’s
Portrait. A _______ replaced the Tiger on the one Rupee coin. In some ways this
symbolised a shift in focus to progress and prosperity.”
What is the blank?

62. Sheaf of corn
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63. In 2011, a musician named Jonathan Mann posted a duet on his
website. The lyrics went like this:
"Hey, ___"
"What can I help you with?"
"Do you love me?"
"How can I tell?“
“Hey ___, you're very beautiful."
"OK, can we get back to work now?“
And so on. Who was he singing with?

64. …

65. This basic gentleman is said to have been inspired by someone from India.
He learnt of that Indian from an Indologist named Otto von Bohtlingk.
Who is this person, who is the Indian, and explain the inspiration.

66. Mendeleev. Conjecture is that Panini’s work on Sanskrit grammar was an
inspiration for his early work on creating the periodic table. Of course,
Mendeleev also used prefixes from Sanskrit for predicted elements.
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67. He was editor of “India Ink”, New York Times’s India-centric blog
A writing collaboration of his came out on Oct 2, 2014
Who, and what collaboration?

68. Basharat Peer, Haider
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69. Two of the less believable claims of how this piece of
equipment got its name are:
Because of the aviator A E George
Because of the author of Ulysses
Which equipment?

70. Joystick (“George Stick” and “Joyce Stick”)
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71. Round 5 • “Capital Punishment”
• Each answer is a place, which is an Indian
administrative, legislative, or judicial state/UT capital
• 5 points each
• Take the first letters of all the answers, rearrange
them to find another such capital (+10)

76. Stadium named after Kumar Digvijay Singh

78. • Imphal
• Hyderabad
• Shillong
• Ahmedabad
• Lucknow
• Mumbai
• IHSALM -> SHIMLA
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79. Thank you!
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