The Common Man's Quiz, a general Quiz, held at IIM Ahmedabad on 26.07.2015. The quiz was hosted by Arjun Banerjee, Dhanraj B., and Gulsar Ahamed.

1. THE COMMON MAN’s QUIZ
PRELIMS
(CONDUCTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH LSD AND AQC)
ARJUN BANERJEE - IIMA
DHANRAJ - IIMA
GULSAR AHAMED - IIMA

2. Q1) OH! THE DANGERS
• Sir Alex Ferguson in his autobiography said that the scariest moment of his life did
not come because of football but because of another activity he was involved in.
The story went that he was at a prison (to do something).
• One of the prisoners there was a former acquaintance who had once asked
Ferguson to put him in the team. And obviously Ferguson refused and never met
him again. And now Ferguson was scared of being in a room full of hooligans with
one of them probably plotting revenge. However the proceedings went on fine, and
in fact the prisoner helped keep everyone in check.
• Question is - what was Sir Alex doing at the prison which scared him more than
anything else in life?

4. He was a Quiz Master

5. Q2) What artificial disaster does this Cannes winning ad highlight to avoid?

7. • Back Up Contacts

8. Q3) OLD MEMORIES?
• The French term ‘Par Coeur’ is used to refer to objects that are treasured
beyond value. In ‘Anne of the Green Gables’, the titular character uses this
term to describe how she adores the poem.
• However, most Indians use this term more loosely to the pre-eminence of
certain subjects over others. Its often abused by mothers and school teachers
who ascribe this term to almost every lesson in the school syllabus.
• How is ‘Par Coeur’ used in India or translate the term

10. • By Heart
• Learn Byheart

11. Q4) STRANGE, VERY STRANGE
• “Who am I” (released in 1993) is the last work of best-selling author X.
• It is believed to be an autobiography of sorts but since it never makes an
appearance in the books, this fact is disputed. Also, it is unclear on how the
book was written owing to the author’s frame of mind at the time.
• ID author X
• It is shown in the window of Flourish and Blotts at the end of a movie

13. • Glideroy Lockhart

14. Q5) SEEMS PRETTY NICE, I BELIEVE
Which League is governed by the following nice rules?
• Women Fighters Only. No Exceptions.
• Fights have a five minute time limit and are won via pinfall, surrender, or referee stoppage. If a fight ends at
the time limit with no winner, a winner is declared by a three-judge committee.
• Punching, leg drops, clotheslines, submission holds, and other moves are allowed as long as a ___ is used to
execute the attack.
• Preventing an opponents' ___ strike by holding her ___ results in a warning from the referee. Judges may
choose to include these warnings as part of their judging criteria if a fight goes the distance.
• No eye-gouging, biting, scratching, hair pulling, or low blows.
• No rude, lewd, or suggestive behavior.
• Loading a ___ with a foreign object such as a brick is strictly forbidden.

16. • Women’s Pillowfight League

17. Q6) I MISS THESE GUYS
• The following picture is of ‘A Hamburger Today’, a website dedicated to the review
of hamburgers and where beefs about burger related topics (such as whether onion
rings are toppings) are resolved.
• It takes it name from a famous solicitation by the character __X__ which is now a
textbook example of financial irresponsibility.
• ID __X__ and the solicitation

20. • X: J Wellington Wimpy, from Popeye

21. Q7) BRILLIANT IDEA!
• A new section in Museo Del Prado in Madrid has opened up. What is this
for?

26. First Art exhibition for the visually impaired
• They have used 3D printing to recreate certain art works.

27. Q8) SITTER!
Who scored the first Double Hundred in a cricket One Day International?

29. • Belinda Jane Clark

30. Q9) Har ghar kuch kehta hai
• X is a company started in 1942 and headquartered at Mumbai
• X was started by Choksey, Choksi, Dani and Vakil – 4 friends who believed
in a common philosophy
• They began their operations out of a garage in Mumbai
• The name X was reportedly pulled haphazardly out of a phone directory
• The company’s mascot and brand identity was a naughty cartoon boy created
by R.K. Laxman

32. • Asian Paints

33. Q10) FOOTBALL?
• The X is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor
that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving
that constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor. In manufacturing, the
constraint is often referred to as a bottleneck.
• The X is also a book written by Y. Give me Y and the more famous book
written by him.

35. Y – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Goal

36. Q11) What GUI element gets its name from the following image?

38. • Radio Button

39. Q12) WHEN DID THE RBI START LEARNING PHYSICS?
When asked what is the most powerful force in the universe, Albert Einstein
gave a seemingly answer that may be appreciated more by Raghuram Rajan
than by CNR Rao. What?

41. • Compound Interest

42. Q13) REPUTED COMPANY
X in Danish literally means "Play Well", however the Latin Translation seems
more apt "I put together". However the founders of X claim that the name is
purely Danish and the Latin name is purely coincidental. Years before plastic
was invented X used wood.
Identify X.

44. • LEGO

45. Q14) ID the missing entity

47. • Spock

48. Q15) THE MOVIE?
• How do we better know the extension of the gastrocnemius and the soleus
muscles of the calf, thanks to a popular mythological incident which is
believed to have been caused by an injury to the posterior tibial artery behind
the medial malleolus, in between the tendons of the flexor digitorum longus
and the posterior tibial vein ?

50. • Achilles Tendon

51. Q16) Pamphlet issued by Russian police
concerning hazards of?

53. • Selfies

54. Q17) DAILY USED?

56. • Fonts

57. Q18) Some Maths
• This formula is used to calculate the result of something that is never-ending.
• What?

59. The score in Temple Run 2

60. Q19) Richie Rich
• The San Diego Comic-Con concluded recently. Ahead of SDCC, Money put
together a list of the 5 richest superheroes. The richest superhero(?) had a
net worth of over $90 trillion.
• Who topped the list? Why?

62. Nah… Not Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne
Black Panther. He owns the vibranium reserves – a gram of vibranium is worth
$10,000. Drumrolls!

63. Q20) Easter Eggs!
• This iconic video game character was initially released as something that sounded
too similar to F***. Therefore, the company decided to make a change, ultimately
creating the iconic name.
• Its creator Toru Iwatani revealed that the character was designed to appeal to
women.
• It is also used in a business context, referring to a company that is about to be
acquired taking over the hostile company instead.
• Identify the game.

65. Pac-man

66. Q21) IS THE QUIZMASTER 10??
• When X was on the verge of exiting a floundering career, he imagined a
number of ideas and circulated them amongst the syndicates. One of them,
Y, was intended to be a parody of the Star Wars space fantasy genre. Later
however, X told the Dallas Morning News in 1987, “It (Y) was so bad that I
make fun of it in Z.” Give me Y and Z.

68. • Y – Spaceman Spiff
• Z – Calvin and Hobbes

69. Q22) SHOULD HAVE BEEN Q1
• IUPAC name - (6aR,9R)-N,N-diethyl-7-methyl-4,6,6a,7,8,9-hexahydroindolo-[4,3-
fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide
• Molecular formula C20H25N3O
• Molecular mass: 323.54 g/mol
• Biological half-life: 3-5 hours
• Legal Status: Prohibited
• Method of intake: Oral , sublingual , intravenous ,ocular, intramuscular
• What am I talking about?

71. • LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)

72. Q23) Is the Quiz master 8?
• These are sketches from a diary maintained by a certain Jordan M
in the mid-1980s
Where would one have experienced these sketches in action?

75. • Prince of Persia

76. Q24) THE BEGINNING
a. Identify the three-word phrase that has been masked. It was coined by Bud
Tribble in 1981, from something he claims he saw in Star Trek, to describe
a specific phenomenon.
b. What phenomenon?

79. Reality Distortion Field, to describe Steve Jobs’ charisma and its effect on the
company’s developers, who began to believe that any task was possible.
Later the term has been used to describe the mesmeric effect of Job’s keynote
speeches on Apple users and fans

80. Q25) THE FAVOURITE SUBJECT
• What has been blanked out?

82. • Marketing

83. Q26) REALLY
No one is sure about the exact reason why it exists. One explanation says that it
was a tradition for captains of the British navy to put a pineapple on top of the
front gate of their houses when they returned from duty. Another says that
pineapples were a way for the rich to show off their status and so they put
pineapples on their front gates.
What is this thing I'm talking about?

85. • WIMBLEDON TROPHY

86. Q27) DRINK AND DRINK
• Democratic senator from Arkansas David Pryor is quoted as saying "
decision of historical significance... proof that certain American institutions
can never change." after which event?

88. • Introduction of NEW COKE

89. Q28) FITB
Just as you have the term "____ _____" (X) where everyone on a table chips in
to foot the bill, you now have a new term "____ ____" (Y).... here people eat,
drink and make merry but when the bill arrives they simply stand up and show
their empty pockets and express their inability to pay up.

91. X – Going Greek
Y – Going Dutch

92. Q29) LIST OF WHAT?
Pishach
Rakshas
Gandharv
Asur
Kaay
Aarsh
Dev
Bhrahma

94. • Marriages

95. Q30) SO AND SO
• When Shankara was going to kashi he sees a old man trying hard to learn the
Vedas. Amazed at his futility he composes something. What?

97. • Bhaja Govindham

98. THANK YOU!
END OF PRELIMS
(Finals to follow…)