The document contains a series of quiz questions and answers from an intercollegiate quiz competition held in 2013, covering a wide range of topics including history, literature, science, and sports. Notable entries involve figures like Alfred Nobel, Grace Machel, and various cultural references. The format includes specific questions and their corresponding answers, showcasing a broad educational scope.

1. Intercollegiate Quiz 2013

2. Q1
• There is this famous Swedish scientist and
engineer W who perhaps is better known to the
world for laying the foundations of X. A famous
playright Y once said - “ I can forgive W for
having invented Z, but only a fiend (enemy) in
human form could have invented X”. Incidentally
scientist W, was quite multi-talented. He also
authored a prose tragedy in four acts based on
the life of Beatrice Cenci partly inspired by PB
shelly.Identify W,X,Y,Z

3. • Answer W: Alfred Nobel
• X: Nobel prize
• Dynamite Z:
• Y:George Bernard Shaw

4. Q2
• She is the only person in the world to have
been married to the Presidents of two
different nations and thus being the First Lady
of two different Nations.Name the lady

5. Ans2 Graça Machel-- third wife of former South African
President Nelson Mandela and the former widow of
the late Mozambican President Samora Machel

6. Q3
• Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur who
completed the process of buying the this
company in 2005 from the "30 or 40" people who
owned it. The formal start of the Company is
usually dated back to 1600 when Britain's Queen
Elizabeth I granted a group of merchants a
charter under the name 'The Company of
Merchants of London Trading into the --------Now,
the brand sells luxury gift sets, teas, coffees, jams
and other goods inspired by its history?

7. East india company

8. Q4
• It’s usually said that the human tongue can
detect only four basic tastes: sweet, sour,
bitter and salty, and that all tastes are
combinations of these. In recent years some
researchers have added a fifth taste, umami
(which is a pleasant savory taste) to the other
four, though western food scientists are
divided about whether it really exists or not.
What ingredient is usually used to provide the
umami ?

9. Monosodium glutamate or as Aji-no-
moto

10. Q5
• What name is used in Bible for the final battle
between the Good and the evil,at the end of
the world
•

11. Armageddon (from Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών
Harmagedōn,[1][2] Late Latin: Armagedōn[3]) will be, according to the Book of
Revelation, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as
either a literal or symbolic location. The term is also used in a generic sense to
refer to any end of the world scenario

12. Q6
• When Indian forces drove away the Portuguese from
this colony, it became in the eyes of international law,
an independent country. The residents of the colony
requested the Government of India for administrative
help. Mr. K.G. Badlani, an officer of the Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) was sent as the
administrator. In 1961, Mr. Badlani was, for one day,
designated the Prime Minister of the ‘country’, so that,
as Head of State, he could sign an agreement with the
Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally
merge the ‘country’ with the Republic of India. Identify
this former Portuguese colony
•

13. • Answer
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli

14. Q7
• The National sports day of India is celeberated
on 29th August is the birthday of which
Legendary Sportsperson?
•
•

15. Dhyan chand

16. Q8
• What is common to the Goan feni, Tirupathi
ladoos, Mysore silk and Darjeeling tea?

17. Ans 8
• AnswerAll these are Geographical Indication (GI)
patented . A geographical indication (GI) is a
name or sign used on certain products which
corresponds to a specific geographical location or
origin (e.g. a town, region, or country). The use of
a GI may act as a certification that the product
possesses certain qualities, is made according to
traditional methods, or enjoys a certain
reputation, due to its geographical origin.
•

18. Q9
• Who was the first Indian in independent India
to win a medal in an Individual Olympic
event?
•
•

19. Ans 9
• Answer KD Jadhav won independent Indias
first Olympic medalist,with bronze at 1952
helsinki games in freestyle wrestling

20. Q10
• The Apu Trilogy is a trilogy consisting of three
Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather
Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito
(The Unvanquished) and Apur Sansar (The
World of Apu).Who created The original music
for the trilogy?

21. Answer 10
• Ravi Shankar

22. Q11
• She won the Junior National Lawn Tennis
Championship in 1966 and the Asian Lawn
Tennis Championship in 1972. She won the
presidents Galantary award in 1979. She is the
Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994.
A non fiction feature film on her life, Yes
Madam, Sir, has been produced by Australian
film maker, Megan Doneman?Who is the
person

23. Kiran bedi

24. Q12
• Montichiari is a town and comune in the
province of Brescia, in Lombardy,in Italy. It
received the honorary title of city with a
presidential decree on December 27, 1991.On
its territory there are the
"GabrieleDAnnunzio" airport and the fair
center"Centro Fiera del Garda". This town has
an indoor volleyball court. What is its name?

25. Jimmy george stadium

26. Q13
• What organizations are referred to as Bretton
Wood Sisters?

27. • the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
and World Bank Group

28. Q14
• Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson
invented this for his wife Josephine, who
frequently cut and burned herself while
cooking.[2] The prototype allowed her to dress
her wounds without assistance. Dickson
passed the idea on to his employer, which
went on to produce and market the product
Which product
•

29. Band Aid

30. Q15
• Which country granted asylum to Julain
Assange,Wiki Leaks founder in its london
embassy?

31. • Answer: Ecuador

32. Q16
• It was an ancient seaport and an Urban
centre.Kerala Council for Historical Research
(KCHR) suggest that the location of the
disappeared port could have been at
Pattanam, a small town 2 km north of North
Paravur, Ernakulam district and 9 km south of
Kodungallur.It is referred to as
Murachipattanam in Valmiki's
Ramayana.Name the port which is now in
News?

33. • Muziris

34. q17
• In the world of Renaissance art,how do we
better know the model who was the wife of
Florentine banker Zanobi Del Giacondo
•

35. • Answer: Monalisa

36. Q18
• What message did Julius Caesar send to Rome
after winning the Battle of
Pharnaces?Variations of this is used in
Music,Art,Literature,art and entertainment
even now
•

37. • veni vidi vici in latin which means ..I came,I
saw,I conquered

38. Q19
• An IFS officer his debut Novel “Q and A”
became international best seller and the 2008
film based on it won 10 oscar nominations out
of which it won 8 awards ?.
•
• Identify the novelist
•
•

39. Answer Vikas Swarup

40. Q20
• 20 Addor Gopalakrishnan movie which depicts
the story of decline of feudal system in kerala
and how the lords were unable to adjust to
the changed situation.The lords refuse to
change their mindsets getting trapped in their
own homes?It won the National award for
best malayalam film Name the film
•

41. • Elipathayam

42. q21
• In Kottayam, where exactly will you find
school of Licknomics and Colonel Sanders
smiling at you?

43. Answer : KFC outlet in Kanjikuzhi

44. Q22
• Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use a wrist
hand action to spin the ball which turns from
off to leg side of the cricket pitch. The
direction of turn is the same as that of a
traditional right-handed off spin bowler;
however, the ball will usually turn more
sharply due to the spin being imparted
predominantly by the wrist.What is it
popularily called

45. • Chinaman

46. Q23
• 23 In India, it officially denotes the end of
Republic Day festivities. It is conducted on the
evening of January 29, the third day after the
Republic Day. It is performed by the bands of
the three wings of the military, the Indian
Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air
Force. The venue is Raisina Hills and an
adjacent square, Vijay Chowk. What is the
event

47. • Ans. – Beating Retreat

48. Q24
• Beautiful mind a hollywood oscar winning
movie made in 2001 is about an American
mathematician whose works in game theory,
differential geometry, and partial differential
equations have provided insight into the
forces that govern chance and events inside
complex systems in daily life.Name him

49. • John Nash,Nobel laureate in economics

50. Q25
• The national song of republic of India-Vande
mataram is taken from which book of Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee
•

51. • Answer: Anandmath

52. Round1 India round

53. • According to tradition,if a Hindustani classical
raga has a prefix Miyan like Miyan ki Todi,
Miyan ki Malhar, Miyan ki Mand, Who is the
composer

54. Answer
• Tansen

55. • Which indian soaps brand name set up by
tatas gets its name from an leon Delibes opera
about an Indian maiden called Lakshmi

56. • LAKME

57. • Which Sarod artist composed the raga
Priyadarsini on Mrs gandhis death

58. • Amjad ali Khan

59. • What is Mysore paints and varnishes limited
contribution to our democratic process

60. • Indelible ink

61. • By what name is Orissa refered to By Tagore in
our national Anthem

62. • Utkala

63. Round 2 World round

64. • This was a political movement for reformation
within the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union during the 1980s (1986), widely
associated with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning
"openness") policy reform?How do we know
this restructuring movement?

65. • Answer:Perestroika

66. • Who shared the Noble peace prize with Yasser
Arafat in 1994?

67. • Shimon Peres and Yitzhak rabin

68. • Name the scientist and science fiction writer
who coined the term Robotics

69. • Issac Assimov

70. • Which Mel gibson movie is based on the life
and times of William Wallace of Scotland

71. • Brave heart

72. • What did the pharmcist Caleb Bradham invent

73. • Pepsi cola

74. In the Who s who round we will have 3 clue
30 marks for answering in clue 1,20 in clue
2 and 10 in clue 3.
No passing in Who s who round.
Overall time 45 secs including giving of
clues.So goto next clue if
you don’t know the answer
Round 3 Who’s who

75. • Clue 1:He was born to a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family of
Santiniketan,West Bengal and his name was given By
Rabindranath Tagore
• Clue2 The Indian economist work “Poverty and Famines:
An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in
which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of
food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for
distributing food.
• Clue 3 His Book Argumentative Indian challenges the myth
that west has exclusive access to the values that lie at the
foundation of rationality and reasoning, science and
evidence, liberty and tolerance, and of course rights and
justice

76. • His father was a midfielder in the bronze medal-
winning Indian field hockey team at the 1972
Munich Olympics and mother captained the
Indian basketball team in the 1980 Asian
basketball championship
• Clue 2 He is making a debut in Ashok Kohli's
Rajdhani Express, a socio-political thriller. As per
reports he plays a terrorist in the film.
• Clue 3 He beat Fernando Meligeni to win the
bronze medal,in ATLANTA olympics

77. • Another student from Shantiniketan,he started
his career as a visualiser in an ad agency doing
cover of Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India
• Clue 2 His first movie which literally translated
means Song of the Road [1] is a novel written by
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and won critical
acclaim
• Clue 3 An honorary Oscar was awarded to him
weeks before his death, which he received in a
gravely ill condition.

78. • 1 Indian-American astrophysicist was a nephew of CV
Raman.
• Clue 2 He worked in distinct periods worked in various
areas including stellar structure, theory of white
dwarfs, stellar dynamics, theory of radiative transfer,
quantum theory of the negative ion of Hydrogen,
hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability
• Clue 3 He won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key
discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory
on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars

79. • Austrian-born American management consultant, educator,
and author who conducted political audit": a two-year
social-scientific analysis of the GM corporation
• Clue 2 He taught that management is “a liberal art,” and he
infused his management advice with interdisciplinary
lessons from history, sociology, psychology, philosophy,
culture and religion.[2] He also believed strongly that all
institutions, including those in the private sector, have a
responsibility to the whole of society which he wrote in the
book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
• Clue 3 he invented the concept known as management by
objectives

80. Visual round
Round 4

81. Identify sport
q1

82. Q2Name the Film based on AMUL Story

83. Q3-Identify the band

84. Q1Identify the person

85. Round 5 Sports round

86. • Q1) After which World War 1 pilot is the
venue of French open tennis Championship
named

87. • Roland Garros

88. • Q2 )Who was the first unseeded player to win
the Wimbeldon Mens Singles title

89. • Boris becker

90. •
• Q3 Maria Irudayam is a two-time World
Champion and nine time national champion in
his sporting discipline. He is the Only person
to be awarded the Arjuna Award in his sport.
Which sport does he play

91. • Answer.Carrom

92. • Who was the First Dronacharya recipient in
athletics?

93. • OM NAmbiar

94. Literature
Round 6

95. • For which Work did RK Narayan win the
Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960

96. • Answer: Guide

97. • Q2 Which book won the booker of booker
prize in 2008

98. • Midnights children

99. • Q3 Which Mexican Ambassador to India in
1960 won the Nobel prize for Literature 3
decades later

100. • Octavio Paz

101. • In the world of Hindi letters how is one time
school teacher Dhanpatrai Srivastava known
as?

102. • Premchand

103. One
more
Visual
round
Round 7

104. Q2 Identify the person on whom movie
was released last year

105. Q6 This is the mascot for 2014 Soccer
world cup in Brazil.Name the animal
on which its based

106. Q7 Identify the cartoonist

107. Q8 Third day of every sydney test
match is called Pink day?Why

108. Audience question
Identify the team

109. Audience q2On opening page of which
site will you find this

110. Answer

111. Audience q 3
Connect

112. 6 questions in 60 seconds

113. • In 1977 who became the first person to address the UN General assembly in Hindi
• Answer: AB Vajpayee
• 2 Which party was formed by Subhash Chandra bose in 1939 after his break from
Congress
• Ans Forward Bloc
• 3 What toy is named after the daughter of Ruth and Eliot handler,the founder of
mattel
• Answer:Barbie
• 4 Who was Indias first Union Minister for Information technology
• Answer Pramod Mahajan
• 5 Which provision in indian constitution guarantees a special status to J and K
• Article 370
• 6 Who captained the Indian under 19 side that won the world cup in 2000
• Mohammed Kaif

114. •
• Which word In japanese means planting in Tray
• Bonsai
• Who is the only Pakistan national to win bharat Ratna
• Answer Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Which Indian cricketer has the name drawn from hindu mythology which is the collective name of
twins Dasra and natya
• Answer:Aswin
•
• What name is given to professional who analyses election trends and predicts results
• Answer PSephologist
• In which logo will you find a panda named Chi Chi
• WWF
•
• What word Descri bes the time of the year when day and night are of equal length
• Ans Equinox

115. • Which crop is traditionally used in Russia to Distill Vodka
• Answer Potato
• Which religious dignitary wears the fishermans ring?
• Answer Pope
• Who signed the Tashkent Declaration along with SHastri in 1966
• Answer Ayub Khan
• What is the electoral symbol of Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress
party
• Ans Clock
• 5)Which was the first Asian Country to host Summer Olympics
• Ans Tokyo in 1964
• 6 What indoor game was invented by James Naismith Naismith in 14
to provide an "athletic distraction to bunch rowdy college kids
• Answer:Basket ball
•

116. •
• What has been taken from Mundaka Upanishad as national motto of India
• Ans Satyamev Jayate
• 2 By what name did Abdul Kadar act in Films
• Ans Prem Nazir
• 3 Name Mamootys Autobiography
• Ans Chamayngal Illathe
• 4 Which Indian Business woman was named as most powerful business woman
for second year in succession by Fortune magazine
• Answer Chanda Kochar of ICICI
• 5 Who was Awarded a special Oscar in 1928 for writing acting and directing the
film CIRCUS
• Charlie Chaplin
• 6 According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, this song is the most
recognized song in the English language and in 1998 Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
bought the the copyright of this song for 5 million dollars.Which song
• Answer Happy birthday to you

117. Thanks for your active participation