A quiz on numbers, flags, serial killers and water bodies. It was run as the November Open at College of Engineering, Pune for the Boat Club Quiz Club. Originally intended to be a written quiz, it was later run on infinite bounce. Eight teams took the quiz. The quiz was set by Debanjan Bose. mail response(s) at debs.becks@gmail.com

1. The NSFW
Quiz

2. A quiz on everything that’s NSFW
Well, I mean:
Numbers, Serial killers, Flags and Water bodies

3. Guinea Piggery from:
Arindam Dutta | Hari S Nair | Aditya Gadre

4. 45 Questions
Part points (wherever applicable)
No negatives
No hidden theme/ connect/ treasures

5. 1.
2000 – 81 kgs
2004 – 54 kgs
2005 – 86 kgs
2006 – 61 kgs
2008 – 86 kgs
2010 – 66 kgs
2012 – 90 kgs
Whose (relative) weight over the years?

6. 2.
The Aral Sea has now disintegrated into four water bodies,
thanks to Soviet irrigation projects of the ‘60s. Plans are now
on to redirect waters from the Volga and the Ob to fill what
was once the fourth largest lake in the world.
Which two rivers fed the Aral Sea?
(pic next slide)

8. 3.
The O’Coqueiro restaurant that was famous long before ….
…………. one evening.
Then came along a man named _____ ______who, unable to resist
the food, sat down to dine.
Excerpts from the Porvorim-based (Goa) restaurant’s website.
Which man?
Or, what happened one evening?

9. 4.
The country’s flag bears the national ensign – The Three Towers.
This is in reference to three citadel towers located on three
separate peaks. The flag also represents peace and liberty.
Which country – whose 207th ranked football team
a uses similar motif?
(pics across 2 slides)

11. Erstwhile flag from the 1400s

12. 5.
A:
The erstwhile logo of what is
a gold miner?
B:
What name was given by Walter
Stallberg to pay tribute to the
gallant men who forged this
country’s (USA) independence,
that was chosen from over
4,000 entries ?

13. 6.
Never Learn Not to Love was on the B-side of this 1968 release. The
song is reworked version of another song called Cease to Exist,
which the band’s drummer (and singer for this song) Denis
Wilson recorded for a struggling musician he had recently met.
Changes included making ‘cease to exist’ to ‘cease to resist’, to
much dislike of the ‘struggling musician’.
Which band?
Who is the struggling musician?
(pic next slide)

15. 7.
This is the flag of Kiribati.
Which bird with an inflated breeding method is that?

16. 8.
Robert ____
1747 – Naval Chaplain
1748 – Arrived in Fort David
1760 – Governor of Madras
Vitus ____
1704 –Peter the Great
1728 – Sea connected
Asia and Africa
1741 – Wrecked at
Aleutian Is. Landed at
KayakI Is
George ___
1794 –Royal Navy as a
surgeon
1795 –Botany Bay
1803 – Set sail and was never
heard of again

17. 9.
Arnold Deustch (in pic) was either
Austrian, Czech or Hungarian.
What was the collective name for Stanley,
Homer, Hicks, Johnson and an another
unknown, whom he recruited in the
1950s?

18. 10.
The triskellion, on the flag, with the head of Medusa depicts the
triangular shape of the island.
While the yellow represents Palermo, the red represents a region
that in medieval times was a major agricultural city.
Flag of which island?
Which is the other region?
(pic next slide)

20. 11.
Four students of Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya were responsible
for 10 killings between January 1976 and March 1977. These
crimes came to be collectively named after two victims Joshi-Abhyankar murders. They had cases of abduction
registered against them as well.
Which 2003 film was ‘loosely’ inspired from this?

21. 12.
What’s this tool called?

22. 13.
This author has written at
least five books with
numbers in their
names.
Name any four for
full points or three
for half points

23. 14.
George Lusk, head of _____Vigilance Committee,
received this in a three-inch-square cardboard box, that had half a
human kidney preserved in wine.
FITB and what’s blanked out from the picture?
(pics next slide)

25. 15.
Which two rivers meet at Koodli, a town near
Shimoga in Karnataka?

26. 16.
In F1 and MotoGP racing, this flag is used to indicate internal
problems such as leakage and faulty mechanism - meaning that
a car/ bike is headed for the pit lane for fixing issues.
What culinary nickname is given to it?

27. 17.
Which Romanian river gave name to a principality (flag) (whose
capital Baia was on the banks of the river), which in turn gives
name to a modern day country
(coat of arms) ?

28. 18.
Several members of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
signed Dwarf’s Baseball
before it was put for
auction.
However, the identity of the
painter was not revealed
to them.
Who is the artist?

29. 19.
The origin of which slang/term lies in the name of this CBS
police procedural show which ran from 1968-80?
The show’s been rebooted in 2010.

30. 20.
This is the flag of an Indian political party (founded in 1980),
which it also uses to represent a certain region.
What object is hidden?

31. 21.
The Sangai or the Brown-antlered deer is endemic to the
south-eastern part of which lake?

32. 22.
In an Inside the Actor’s Studio episode, Anthony Hopkins revealed
his mannerism as Hannibal Lecter was inspired from the
unlikely characteristics of Katherine Hepburn and which film
antagonist?
Hannibal Lecter is the only serial killer connect in this question.

33. 23.
It was intended to read as this :
However, in UK it read: NUJV

34. And, in US it read: NVUJ
What was the original supposed to read?
or
quoting lazy QMs, ‘put fundae’

35. 24.
For which song did Saroj Khan win the inaugural
Filmfare Award for Best Choreography?
She leads the pack with 8 awards, while
the other Khan has 6.

36. 25.
A camping trip turned ugly after three murdered victims were
discovered and one survivor was found with major injuries – who
was held guilty of the killings and charges were later dropped.
This happened near the city of Espoo.
What was the crime called?
(pictures on next slide)

38. 26.
Which third-in-a-trilogy’s title can also be reasoned by
the fact that China has promised 50 years of
self-regulation to Hong Kong?

39. 27.
Two part question.
A – Designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas for the
land rights movement.
B – Designed by Hiraina Marsden, Jan Smith, and Linda Munn in
1990 and is inspired from the belief that the land, sky and
physical realm were created when these entities were
separated from each other.
Respective ethnic flags are seen with the creator(s)
in the next slide.

41. 28.
Tobin Bell was mostly an extra
or a stand-in before he got his
break in
Mississippi Burning.
However, he is mostly known
for essaying a character first
seen in a 2004 film.
Which character?

42. 29.
Arsene Wenger on why he chose to give the
No 10 shirt to a defender:
No 3 was uncomfortable for him and I’d given the rest of the
numbers out. In the end, I thought it might be a good idea to give
the no 10 to a defender, because a striker would suffer a lot with
the comparison with ____. At first I was reluctant to give ____’s
number out, and especially to a defender.
Who are the two players in question?

43. 30.
In the 1930s, excavation in and around this water body revealed
the area’s Buddhist past. These sculptures are now housed at
the Albert Hall Museum. This water body has been listed
under the Ramsar Convention of 1975.
Which water body is this?

44. 31.
Appointed on June11, 2012 Rajinder Pal Singh heads which nodal
body that has 235 numbered entities to take care of?

45. 32
In this all-inclusive flag, having the four common colours, the
emblem in the middle is a bundle of 10 rice stalks – staple
food. What is this a flag of?

46. 33.
Media and criminal analysts think that
he saw himself in competition with
Andrei Chikatilo (who was
convicted in ‘92 for the murders of
53 children and young women).
He’s gone on to say that his target was
a certain number of victims, which
earned him his nickname.
How many victims?
(ask for clues?)

47. 34.
This 142-km long river in Chile is formed by the union of Juncal
and Blanco rivers and gets its name from the valley through
which it eventually passes.
However, the geographical feature which gives name to the
valley (and thus the river) is wholly located in Argentina,
about 20 kms away from the confluence.
What is the name of the river?
(map next slide)

49. 35.
Although ATP does not recognise serve speed records, it
confirmed that this was the fastest serve at a professional
match – an ATP Challenger event in Busan in 2012 – at 263
kmph
Who’s this player?
Whose erstwhile record of 251kmph did he beat?
(pic next slide)

51. 36.
Two naval flag-related phrase origins. Part points.
•
Under Royal Navy’s Articles of War, it was mandatory to fly
your country’s flag when at war on sea. However, ships did
carry flags of other nations for false measures and element of
surprise.
•
For being identified while sailing on friendly waters, ships
flew their country’s flags.
(Alternative theory: Metaphor drawn from parades which
moved with highly-raised flags)

52. 37.
Certain editions of which book, about the life and times of a
serial-killer, carried an Antoine Watteau painting titled Jupiter
and Antiope (next slide) as its cover image?

54. 38.
In knot tying, it indicates a curve which does not cross itself.
In geography, the same word is more commonly used to refer to a
bend in landforms along the shoreline.
It gives name to features in Australia, California, Benin,
New York, and Jamaica, among others.
Which word?
(pictures next slide)

56. 39.
Next slide shows pictures of a father-son duo.
The father, Brij Sadanah, directed and produced this 1973 film
which was remade (produced) by his son, Kamal Sadanah, in 2007
and had the subtitle of a 1971 Bond film.
Both films have the same title.
Which film?
(Brij on Kamal’s 20th birthday shot and killed his wife,
daughter and himself. Kamal survived, however)

58. 40.
Flag of?

59. 41.
The 13th century Slovakian castle Cachtice (pic next slide)
is now mostly in ruins and is declared a site of national importance
since the hill is home to rare plants.
Who was the most famous resident of this castle?

61. 42.
What is the common name of Platanista gangetica minor?

62. WARNING
shady question coming…

63. 44.

64. 44.
One of the theories is that originally a flag in a deep shade of red
was used and was thus named for in French. However, it has
long been replaced by a universally recognised motif.
What is being talked about?

65. 45.
What’s the generic
name of the water
body seen in the
painting?

66. Answers..

67. 1.
2000 – 81 kgs
2004 – 54 kgs
2005 – 86 kgs
2006 – 61 kgs
2008 – 86 kgs
2010 – 66 kgs
2012 – 90 kgs
Whose (relative) weight over the years?

68. Answer..

70. 2.
The Aral Sea has now disintegrated into four water bodies,
thanks to Soviet irrigation projects of the ’60s. Plans are now
on to redirect waters from the Volga and the Ob to fill what
was once the fourth largest lake in the world.
Which two rivers fed the Aral Sea?
(pic next slide)

72. Answer..

73. Amu Darya
Syr Darya
(darya in Persian is a river)

74. 3.
The O’Coqueiro restaurant that was famous long before
___________ one evening.
Then came along a man named ……. ……. who, unable to resist
the food, sat down to dine.
From the Porvorim-based (Goa) restaurant’s website.
Which man?
Or, what happened one evening?

75. Answer..

76. Charles Shobhraj
Then came along a man named
who,
unable to resist the food, sat down to dine. But his disguise failed
him as his hands were cuffed before he could lick his fingers to his
heart's content

77. 4.
The country’s flag bears the national ensign – The Three Towers.
This is in reference to three citadel towers located on three
separate peaks. The flag also represents peace and liberty.
Which country – whose 207th ranked football team
a uses similar motif?
(pics across 2 slides)

79. Erstwhile flag from the 1400s

80. Answer..

81. San Marino
(Guatia, Cesta, Montale | the dual colours represent P & L)

82. 5.
A:
The erstwhile logo of what is
a gold miner?
B:
What name was given by Walter
Stallberg to pay tribute to the
gallant men who forged this
country’s (USA) independence’,
that was chosen from over 4,000
entries ?

83. Answer..

85. 6.
Never Learn Not to Love was on the B-side of this 1968 release. The
song is reworked version of another song called Cease to Exist,
which the band’s drummer (and singer for this song) Denis
Wilson recorded for a struggling musician he had recently met.
Changes included making ‘cease to exist’ ‘cease to resist’, to
much dislike of the ‘struggling musician’.
Which band?
Who is the struggling musician?

87. Answer..

89. 7.
This is the flag of Kiribati.
Which bird with an inflated breeding method is that?

90. Answer..

91. • Frigate | Man of War | Pirate bird

92. 8.
Vitus ____
Robert ____
1704 –Peter the Great
1728 – Sea connected
1747 – Naval Chaplain
1748 – Arrived in Fort David Asia and Africa
1760 – Governor of Madras 1741 – Wrecked at
Aleutian Is. Landed at
KayakI Is
George ___
1794 –Royal Navy as a
surgeon
1795 –Botany Bay
1803 – Set sail and was
never heard of

93. Answer..

94. Straits

95. 9.
Arnold Deustch’s (in pic) was either
Austrian, Czech or Hugarian.
What was the collective name for Stanley,
Homer, Hicks, Johnson and an unknown
person, whom he recruited in the 1950s?

96. Answer..

97. Cambridge Five

98. 10.
The triskellion, on the flag, with the head of Medusa depicts the
triangular shape of the island.
While the yellow represents Palermo, the red represents a region
that in medieval times was a major agricultural city.
Flag of which island?
Which is the other region?
(pic next slide)

100. Answer..

101. Sicily
Corleone

102. 11.
Four students of Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya were responsible
for 10 killings between January 1976 and March 1977. These
crimes came to be collectively named for two victims - JoshiAbhyankar murders. They had cases of abduction registered
against them as well.
Which 2003 film was ‘loosely’ inspired from this?

103. Answer..

105. 12.
What’s this tool called?

106. Answer..

107. Oxbow

108. 13.
This author has written at
least five books with
numbers in theirs
names.
Name any four for full
points or three for half
points

109. Answer..

111. 14.
George Lusk, head of _____Vigilance Committee,
received this in a three-inch-square cardboard box, that had half a
human kidney preserved in wine.
FITB and what’s blanked out from the picture?
(pics next slide)

113. Answer..

114. Whitechapel

115. 15.
Which two rivers meet at Koodli, a town near
Shimoga in Karnataka?

116. Answer..

117. Tunga
Bhadra

118. 16.
In F1 racing, this flag is used to indicate internal problems such
as leakage, faulty mechanism etc. This is more to indicate that
the car is headed for the pit lane to fix issues.
What culinary nickname is given to it?

119. Answer..

120. Meatball

121. 17.
Which Romanian river gave name to a principalty (flag), whose
capital Baia was on the banks of the river, and in turn gives
name to a modern day country (coat of arms) ?

122. Answer..

123. Moldova

124. 18.
Several members of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
signed Dwarf’s Baseball
before it was put for
auction. However, they
were not told who the
painter was.
Who is the artist?

125. Answer..

126. John Wayne Gacy /
Clown Killer

127. 19.
The origin of which warning lies in the name CBS police
procedural show which ran from 1968-80?

128. Answer..

129. Five-0

130. 20.
This is the flag of an Indian political party (founded in 1980),
which it also uses to represent a certain region.
What object is hidden?

131. Answer..

132. Kukhri (GNLF/Gorkhaland)

133. 21.
The Sangai or the Brown-antlered deer is endemic to the
south-eastern part of this water body. Which lake?

134. Answer..

135. Loktak Lake

136. 22.
In an Inside the Actor’s Studio episode, Anthony Hopkins revealed
his mannerism as Hannibal Lecter was inspired from the
unlikely characteristics of Katherine Hepburn and which film
‘antagonist’ played by Douglas Rain (in pic) ?
Hannibal Lecter is the only serial killer connect in this question.

137. Answer..

138. HAL 9000

139. 23.
It was intended to read as this :
However, in UK it read as NUJV

140. And, in US it read as NVUJ
What was the original supposed to read ?
or
quoting lazy QMs ‘put fundae’

141. Answer..

143. 24.
For which song did Saroj Khan win the inaugural
Filmfare Award for Best Choreography?
She leads the pack with 8 awards, while the other Khan has 6.

144. Answer..

146. 25.
A camping trip turned ugly after three murdered victims were
discovered and one survivor was found with major injuries – who
was held guilty of the killings and charges were later dropped.
This happened near the city of Espoo.
What was the crime called?
(pictures on next slide)

148. Answer..

149. Lake Bodom Murders

150. 26.
Which third in a trilogy’s title can also be reasoned by the fact
that Mainland China had promised 50 years
of self-regulation to Hong Kong?

151. Answer..

153. 27.
Two part question.
A – Designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas for the land rights
movement
B – Designed by Hiraina Marsden, Jan Smith and Linda Munn
in 1990 and is inspired from the belief that the land, sky and
physical realm were created when these entities were
separated from each other.
Respective flags are seen with the creator(s).

155. Answer..

156. A – Aussie Aboriginal
B - Maori

157. 28.
Tobin Bell was mostly an extra
or a stand-in before he got his
break
in Mississippi Burning.
However, he is mostly known
for essaying a character first
seen in a 2004 film.
Which character?

158. Answer..

159. Jigsaw

160. 29.
Arsene Wenger on why he chose to give the
No 10 shirt to a defender:
No 3 was uncomfortable for him and I’d given the rest of the
numbers out. In the end, I thought it might be a good idea to give
the no10 to a defender, because a striker would suffer a lot with
the comparison with ____. At first I was reluctant to give ____’s
number out, and especially to a defender.
Who are the two players in question?

161. Answer..

163. 30.
In the 1930s, excavation in and around this water body revealed
the area’s Buddhist past. These sculptures are now housed at
the Albert Hall Museum. This water body has been listed
under the Ramsar Convention of 1935.
Which water body is this?

164. Answer..

165. Sambhar Salt Lake
(accounts for nearly 10% of India’s salt production)

166. 31.
Appointed on June11, 2012 Rajinder Pal Singh heads which nodal
body that has 235 numbered entities to take care of?

167. Answer..

168. National Highways
Authority of India

169. 32
In this all-inclusive flag, having the four common colours, the
emblem in the middle is a bundle of 10 rice stalks – staple
food. What is this a flag of?

170. Answer..

171. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei,
Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam)

172. 33.
Media and criminal analysts think that
he saw himself in competition with
Andrei Chikatilo (who was
convicted in ‘92 for the murder of
53 children
and young women.).
He’s gone on to say that his target was
a certain number of victims, which
earned him his nickname.
How many victims?
(ask for clues?)

173. Answer..

174. 64
(Alexander Pichushkin was called The Chessboard Killer)

175. 34.
This 142-km long river in Chile is formed by the union of Juncal
and Blanco rivers and gets its name from the valley through
which it eventually passes.
However, the geographical feature which gives name to the
valley (and thus the river) is wholly located in Argentina,
about 20 kms away from the confluence.
Which geographical feature?

177. Answer..

179. 35.
Although ATP does not recognise serve speed records, it
confirmed that this was the fastest serve at a professional
match – an ATP Challenger event in Busan in 2012 – at
263 kmph
Who’s this player?
Whose erstwhile record of 251kmph did he beat?
(pic next slide)

181. Answer..

182. Samuel Groth
Ivo Karlovic

183. 36.
Two naval flag-related phrase origins. Part points.
•
Under Royal Navy’s Articles of War, it was mandatory to fly
your country’s flag when at war on sea. However, ships did
carry flags of other nations for false measures and
element of surprise.
•
To be indentified while sailing on friendly waters, ships flew
their country’s flags.
(Alternative theory: Metaphor drawn from parades which
moved which highly-raised flags)

184. Answer..

185. Show true colours
Pass with flying colours

186. 37.
Certain editions of which book, about the life and times of a
‘serial-killer’, carried portions of an Antoine Watteau painting
titled Jupiter and Antiope (next slide) as its cover image?

188. Answer..

190. 38.
In knot tying, it indicates a curve formed between the ends of a
rope/string which does not cross itself.
In geography, the same word is used to refer to a bend or a curve in
landforms along the shoreline. It is used sometimes to mean a
receding bay, where ships can sail out in a direct line.
It gives name to features in Australia, California, Benin, New York
and Jamaica, among others.
Which word?
(pictures next slide)

192. Answer..

193. Bight

194. 39.
Next slide shows pictures of a father-son duo.
The father, Brij Sadanah, directed and produced this 1973 film
which was remade (produced) by his son, Kamal Sadanah, in 2007
and had the subtitle of a 1971 Bond film.
Both films have the same title.
Which film?
(Brij on his Kamal’s 20th birthday shot and killed his wife,
daughter and himself. Kamal survived, however)

196. Answer..

198. 40.
Flag of?

199. Answer..

200. American Samoa

201. 41.
This 13th century Slovakian castle Cachtice (pic next slide) is now
mostly in ruins and is declared a site of national importance since
the hill is home to rare plants.
Who was the most famous resident of this castle?

203. Answer..

204. (Blood) Countess
Elizabeth Bathory
(accused of torturing and killing over 650 girls)

205. 42.
What is the common name of Platanista gangetica minor?

206. Answer..

207. Indus River Dolphin

208. WARNING
shady question coming…

209. 44.

210. Answer..

211. Angela, Pamela, Sandra,
Rita, Monica, Erika,
Tina, Mary and Jessica

212. 44.
One of the theories is that originally a flag of a deep shade of
red was in use and was thus named for in French. However, it
has long been replaced by a universally recognised motif.
What is being talked about?

213. Answer..

214. Jolly Roger
(Joli Rogue = pretty red)

215. 45.
What’s the generic
name of the water
body seen in the
painting?

216. Answer..

217. Fjord
(“One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side
and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out
over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood
red. I sensed a scream passing through nature”)