TMC Quiz Challenge 2018 Finals

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Hello!
Round 1
POUNCE (+15/-10) / INFINITE BOUNCE (+10)
format
6 questions
Starts clockwise

! Question 1
▪ A legend about the origin of a famous practice says that, Lord Krishna came in
form of a sage and challenged the King of that area, who was a master Chess
player, to a game of Chess.
▪ Asking what the sage wanted in case he wins the game, the king remained
bedazzled by the sage’s request: an amount of rice grains for each square of the
chess board, each pile having double the number of grains than the previous pile.
So the first square would have only one grain of rice, the second would have 2
grains, the third would have 4 grains, the fourth would have 8 rice grains and so
on.
▪ The King gladly accepted as he thought it was a matter of a few pile of grains.
The King lost in the game and started placing rice grains, and he was shocked
when the number reached one million grains of rice by the 20th square. The sage
then revealed his true form and said that the debt can be paid by doing a regular
practice instead.
▪ What practice?
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!
Answer
▪ Ambalapuzha Pal Payasam

! Question 2
▪ This is Kesarbai Kerkar (13 July 1892 – 16
September 1977), one of the most noted
Khayal singers and a winner of Padma
Bhushan. 
A ethnomusicologist, Robert E. Brown felt
her rendition of "Jaat Kahan Ho” (an
interpretation of Raga Bhairavi) was the
finest recorded example of Indian classical
music. This made him recommend it to be
included in a special thing.
▪ What was this special thing? Or to whom was
this thing intended for?
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!
Answer
▪ In the Voyager
Golden Record (it
was intended for
Extraterrestrial
life)
▪ The Voyager Golden Records are
two phonograph records that were included
aboard both Voyager spacecraftlaunched in
1977 are intended for any
intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for
future humans, who may find them.  
It contains 116 images plus a calibration
image and a variety of natural sounds, such as
those made by surf, wind, and thunder, and
animal sounds, including the songs of birds,
whales and dolphins.

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Question 3
▪ This is the Methan Mani, a clock tower, on top
of the Old Fort Palace, near Padmanabhaswamy
temple, Trivandrum. It was built in the 1840s
in the reign of Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma.
▪ The unique feature of the clock is the presence
of a bearded man on top of the dial who opens
his mouth corresponding to every hour and two
rams hit his cheek and forcing him to close his
mouth. This action is co-ordinated with the
hourly chimes.
▪ There is a history saying that this clock was
installed by Travancore as a commemoration of
the successful repulsion of invasion by whom?
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! Question 4
▪ “The adrenaline levels in a game can be so high; the pulse is racing and
sometimes the brain doesn’t keep up. The pressure mounts and there is no
release valve. In 2010, I was frustrated because we were drawing what was a
very important game, and we were on a bad run.
▪ I wanted to do everything right that day, and it felt as though I was doing
everything wrong. The pent-up frustration and feeling that it was my fault
reached a point where I couldn’t contain it anymore.”
▪ This is the reason for some action done by the speaker.
Identify the action and the speaker.
▪ P.S. English sports psychologist, Thomas Fawcett, of the University of Salford,
gave his opinion on ____ to the BBC. Fawcett said, “It’s not pre-planned- it’s
a very spontaneous, emotional response. He’s doing it on impulse.”
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!
Answer
▪ Luiz Suarez’s
Biting

! Question 5
▪ This Ad was rolled out by a company in India.
▪ In the video they talk about shopkeepers having
shortage of change and to solve that, in India, we have
one another type of Currency.
▪ The company advertises a product which modifies the
currency so that customers get their balance in full.
▪ Either identify the Other type of Currency or the New
Product by the company.
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!
Answer
▪ Sweet Change
(by Paytm)

! Question 6
▪ At birth, he was named Ramachandra. But he is
known to us as X because before he was born, his
parents had 3 sons and a daughter with all 3 boys
dying in their infancy. Feeling a curse that
targeted male children, he was brought up as a girl
for the first few years of his life, including being
made to wear a nose ring, which earned him the
name X.
▪ Identify X.
A

Behind the
Curtain
▪ Round 2
4 clues (+20/+15/+10/+5)
Negative for wrong (-15/-10/-5/0)
One pounce allowed for each clue
It could be person/place/thing/
phrase/tv series/etc. Basically,
ANYTHING!

Question 1
!Clue 1:
(+20/-15)
!A Tweet by the
Person/Thing/ 
Event/Place in
Question
Z

Question 1
!Clue 2: (+15/-10)
!They say I resemble the
British Actress, Audrey
Hepburn.
Z

Question 1
!Clue 3: (+10/-5)
!You and AI(I) have a lot in common!
Z

Question 1
!Clue 4: (+5/-0)
!Saudi Arabia
Z

Question 2
!Clue 1: (+20/-15)
!“The Wandering Wind”
Z

Question 2
!Clue 2: (+15/-10)
!The Malappuram Dagger
Z

Question 2
!Clue 3: (+10/-5)
!An International Hitman, by the name of
P.V. Narayanan was hired by _______, a
drug smuggler to kill 2 members of the
CID
Z

Question 2
!Clue 4: (+5/-0)
!Assalam
waleikum.
Waleikum Islam.
!Dosth.
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Answer
Nadodikaatu (The Movie) (Even if the teams give names of characters in the movie, points will be given)

Question 3
!Clue 1: (+20/-15)
!He dawned 300 years since the death
of Galileo.
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Question 3
!Clue 2: (+15/-10)
!“Keep Talking” by Pink Floyd 
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Question 3
!Clue 3: (+10/-5)
!Ice Bucket Challenge?
Z

Question 3
!Clue 4: (+5/-0)
!This is a scene from Harry Potter and
Prisoner Of Asakban of a Wizard in
“The Leaky Cauldron”
Z

Question 4
!Clue 1: (+20/-15)
!A Hope from Australia? Late, but
timely.
Z

Question 4
!Clue 2:
(+15/-10)
!Tweet
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Question 4
!Clue 3: (+10/-5)
!2000+ people in quarantine.
Z

Question 4
!Clue 4: (+5/-0)
!3 pictures on next slide
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Answer
Nipah Virus Outbreak In Kerala

LEAGUE OF
LEGENDSROUND 3: POUNCE(+15/-10), INFINITE BOUNCE (+10/-0),
STARTS ANTICLOCKWISE

QUESTION 1
• In 2003, 3 students from the Helsinki University of
Technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno Vakevainen and Kim
Dikert, participated in a mobile game development
competition. A victory with the multiplayer game
called King of the Cabbage World led to the trio to
set up their own company, Relude, which is now
known by another name.
• How is this company familiar to us ?
A

QUESTION 2
• The Hanshin Tigers is a basketball team in Japan.
• After their 1985 Japan Series win, fans celebrated by
having people who looked like Tigers players jump into
the Dotonbori Canal.  
According to legend, because none of the fans
resembled first baseman Randy Bass (picture next slide),
fans grabbed a life-sized statue of X and threw it into the
river (like Bass, X had a beard and was not Japanese).
After many seasons without a pennant win, the Tigers
were said to be doomed never to win the season again
until the X was rescued from the river.
• The statue was found in 2009 and till then they had no
win and it was believed due to the statue’s curse.
• Identify who the statue depicted.
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ANSWER
Colonel Sanders (Points for
KFC)

QUESTION 3
•Where did Leonardo da Vinci Become Plato
and Michalengelo become Heraclitus?
•Clue: Pythagorus, Socrates, Euclid, Aristotle,
Alexander the Great? Are also part of it.
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ANSWER
School Of Athens (painting by
Raphael) (in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican)

QUESTION 4
• A macaroni (or formerly maccaroni) in mid-18th-century
England was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even
spoke in an outlandishly affected and epicene (lacking
gender distinction) manner. The term pejoratively referred
to a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion”.
• In the first verse of a famous song, the protagonist calls a
feather, a macaroni. This song is also the state anthem of
the US state of Connecticut.
• Identify the song.
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ANSWER
Yankee Doodle
Yankee doodle
went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in
his cap
And called
it macaroni

QUESTION 5
• Cyril John X, a man who had never been out of Paris, was called for a
daunting mission, which would decide the fate of millions. His efforts
resulted in about death of 2 million people and injuring more
millions, which led him to refuse his salary of 40,000 rupees (then
3,000 pounds).
• W.H. Auden has written a poem on this man, and here are a few
verses:
• “Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission, 
Having never set eyes on the land he was called to ______ 
Between two peoples fanatically at odds, 
With their different diets and incompatible gods. 
“Time,” they had briefed him in __(place)____, “is short. It’s too late 
For mutual reconciliation or rational debate: 
The only solution now lies in ________.”
• Identify this person or X.
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ANSWER
Sir Cyril John Radcliffe (the person
who drew the border between India and Pakistan
during partition)

QUESTION 6
•Android has Easter eggs in its OS that is always
awaited by mobile users. They had flappy droid
for Android 6, Cats for Android 7 and an Oreo
and an octopus in Android 8.
•What was there along with gingerbread and
the android logo in Android 2 (Gingerbread)’s
Easter egg?
Z

Round 4
Written Round
Only one member of a team will take part in this round.
5 questions. Each is for 10 points and if all are correct, a
bonus of 10 points, so total of 60 points. 6 volunteers will
check the answers.
If both members of a team want to take part, they should
agree to minus 20 points from their account.
Alone

QUESTION 1
▪Dante, a famous Italian
poet, known for his book
“Divine Comedy”, is seen
in this portrait looking at
something (a mountain)
described in his book.
▪Name the mount.
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QUESTION 2
• This is Raghunath A Mashelkar, an eminent scientist and
currently heads the National Innovation Foundation under the
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
• He was recently selected as the chancellor of a famous
institute. Identify the institute. 
Z

QUESTION 3
▪Identify this football
club (in the news
recently)
Z

QUESTION 4
▪Queen Udayamati commissioned the step-well in the 11th
century in memory of her deceased husband, King Bhimdev I of
the Solanki dynasty, in Gujarat. The entire structure is 64
metres long, 20 metres wide and 27 metres deep. And so, as
one descends the steps down to the 27 metres, one encounters
exquisite stone carvings all along. There are estimated to be
as many as 500 major ones and more than a 1,000 smaller ones
across seven galleries from the first steps to the last legs.
▪The monument in question doesn’t attract many tourists due
to lack of awareness. But, what happened recently that got
this monument in limelight?
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ANSWER
On New Rs. 100 note (Rani Ki Vav)

QUESTION 5
▪Look at this Tourism Video promoting the Unseen Beauties of
a particular city in India. The video shows it through the eyes
of a solo Irish traveler and the video is to encourage more
women to take up solo travelling and also explore the
unexplored.
▪Identify the city. (Video next slide)
Z

THE LAST LAP
Round 5
6 questions
Only pounce. Differential scoring
(Score = 5x no. of teams that got it wrong)

Q1)
Hemambika temple is about 8 km from Palakkad town.
There is a snippet about this temple that former Prime
Minister, Indira Gandhi visited this temple after the
Congress split along with Sri Karunakaran. She was so
impressed by the goddess and this gave birth to a new
“symbol” in Indian Politics.
By what other name is this temple known?
A

Q2)
The Missionary Church of
Kopimism (in Swedish Missionerande
Kopimistsamfundet), is a congregation of ___-
____ who believe that ______ ___________is a
sacred virtue and was founded by Isak Gerson, a
19-year-old philosophy student, and Gustav Nipe
in Uppsala, Sweden in the autumn of 2010.
The Word “Kopimism” is derived from one essential
principle of this believers.
What is their fundamental belief or what do they
believe in?
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ANSWER
Information is Holy and Act of Copying Information is Holy (Or They
Advocate Piracy) (Kopimism ! Copy me –ism)

Q3)
On 7 December 1950, Harrry Willcock, a Liberal Party member and
former councillor, was driving his car before being stopped by a
policeman, Harold Muckle, who ordered him to do something. He
refused.
The case Willcock vs Muckle ended up in the High Court the following
year, with Lord Chief Justice Goddard saying that the continuation of
X was an annoyance to the public "and tended to turn law-abiding
subjects into law-breakers". Mr Willcock was sent on his way.
Later Winston Churchill by a law completely abolished X. It was seen
as a liberation for the people.
What is this X?
Z

Q4)
This innovative project, “Google Wind” was launched in
2017 but never actually took form till now. What was the
reason?
Z

ANSWER
It was Google’s April Fool Prank

Q5)
The Hashtag #LastMaleStanding was very popular in social
media. Who was the last male standing?
Z

ANSWER
Sudan, the last Northern White Rhino which died in 2018

Q6)
Normally hardwood such as Oak is used for making ships. But a famous
attempt was made when the ship was made from wood of a Flowering tree,
(eg: Gulmohar).
The journey of concern was made by a person, along with his companions
and their servants and a beautiful girl.
It found its initial popularity at Maharaja’s college which gave it the
limelight but a search into the roots found that it was created by Dayal
Singh and Asan Babu, who live near Kodungaloor and that its nascent
version was mainly used when fishermen while pulling their nets.
What Am I Talking about?
Z

ANSWER
NJANUM NJANUM ENTAALUM….. (POOMARAM SONG)

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