Waves Mega Quiz - All Rounds (Gen Quiz)

Waves Mega
Quiz
Puneeth | Chitra
Haritha | Nithish

Rules
● 20 ques for prelims
● Top 6 teams qualify
● Starred questions will be considered for tie breaker
● No use of cellphones or discussion between teams

1.
X is a word that is derived from Old English word wafian "to fluctuate", from
Proto-Germanic word *wab- "to hover about", possibly from PIE root *webh-
"to move to and fro".
ID the word X.

X - Wave
PS: Welcome to Waves.

2.
Ponniyin Selvan is a 2400-page 20th-century Tamil historical novel written by
Kalki Krishnamurthy. Written in five volumes, this narrates the story of
Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Y), one of the kings of the Chola Dynasty
during the 10th and 11th centuries.
The word 'Ponni' refers to ‘X’.
ID the entity X and the king Y.

Y - Raja Raja Chozha
X - Kavery

3*.
The Samjhauta Express, commonly called the Friend Express, is a twice-weekly
train – Wednesday and Sunday. The word Samjhauta means "agreement",
"accord" and "compromise" in Hindi. The other similar train is the Thar
express.
What's special about these two trains?

These trains are international trains between India and Pakistan

4.
“We want to be a $1 bn firm in India by 2021.” This statement was said by
R.Dinesh, the logistics MD of the company X recently.
X is an Indian diversified industrial conglomerate with its principal
headquarters located in Madurai and presence across the Globe. The largest
and most visible subsidiary is its Motor Company, the third-largest two-
wheeler manufacturers in India.
ID X.

5.
X is a French football manager and former player. He has been the manager
of Y since October 1996, where he has since become the club's longest-serving
manager. Football pundits give X credit for his contribution to the
revolutionising of football in England in the late 1990s.
The nickname "Le Professeur" (French for "The Professor") is used by fans and
the British media to reflect X's studious demeanour.
Find the manager X and the club Y.

6.
"From the time the award was announced, X wasn’t happy with him getting
much more than others. He informed the Board that he felt that every
member had played an equal role in the team winning the World Cup. It
surprised many in the BCCI that he was ready to take a cut in his own
earning."
Find X.

7.
In early 2018, startling allegations have emerged against popular Facebook
page X for mismanagement of funds collected for families of farmers, who
committed suicide due to debt in Tamil Nadu. These accusations allege that
the group has misappropriated funds that they crowd sourced.
The money collected through multiple crowd funding sites amounted to
around Rs 7 lakh, but has not yet reached the farmers.
X is a page well known for posting awareness memes.
ID X.

8. Movie Quote
“There was an idea,” an opening voiceover explains, “to bring together a group
of remarkable people. To see if we could become something more. So when
they needed us, we could fight the battles that they never could.”
ID the movie.

9.
Without having watched Game of Thrones, Lall’s ears picked up the HBO
show’s opening theme. He got hold of a flautist and a tabla player and
recreated Ramin Djwadi’s now iconic composition, shot a video in his room
with a DSLR camera in a single take, and created an overnight YouTube hit.
“Buzzfeed and MTV Indies picked it up and it blew up from there,” Lall said. “I
was the first mover in the concept of ______ in the market so we were fresh.
From the second video onwards, we got serious.”
Tushar Lall/ Indian Jam Project is a youtube content creator. What is their
content about?

Providing “Indian Classical Covers” for western music.

10*.
“Can a land inhabited by people who lynch a hungry soul in search of a meal
be called culturally reformed? It is a question that we should be asking
ourselves. Only then will the darkness surrounding us be removed.”
Find the narrator and the incident he is commenting upon.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, referring to the killing of the tribal
youth Madhu in Attappady

11.
Vladimir Putin spoke in a forum in the city of Kaliningrad recently. Taking
questions from audience members, he was asked what occurrence in Russia
he would have most liked to have prevented. What did he reply?
He said he could have prevented X, “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of
the century.”

He replied he would've prevented “the disintegration of the Soviet Union”.

12.
X is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra
Pradesh.
X is known as "The Nightingale of the South"
In 2013, X refused to accept Padma Bhushan award by the Government of
India, saying that it had come "too late" and that South Indian artists were not
given their due recognition.
ID X

13*.
X is an altcoin which has been described as a high-yield investment program
and as a Ponzi scheme. X experienced a major crash in January 2018 in which
the market capitalization went from $2 billion USD to $20 million USD.
X has been suspected of being a Ponzi scheme because of its multilevel
marketing structure and for various other reasons.
A video of a keynote speech by Carlos Matos at an event has since gone viral
and become an Internet meme. ID X.

15*.
As an aristocratic hero with a double identity, X had predecessors in the
Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro. Like them, X performed his heroic deeds in
secret, averted suspicion by playing aloof in public. The influence of the films
The Mark of Zorro (1920) was in the creation of the character's iconography.
Drawing inspiration from pulp heroes like Doc Savage, The Shadow, Dick
Tracy, and Sherlock Holmes, made the character a master sleuth.
ID the character X.

16.
X is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major
literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic
young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise
with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark
embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle reflects
Rand's belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
The Tamil filmmakers Mani Ratnam and Selvaraghavan described this novel X
to be life-changing.
ID X.

17.
Billionaire T. Ananda Krishnan-led company X has filed for bankruptcy under
Section 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 after the company’s
failed attempt in 2017 to merge itself with the company Y.
X was the main shirt sponsor of an IPL team .
ID X and Y.

18.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke out defiantly in the face of global criticism
of his plan to impose tariffs on X & Y imports, claiming trade wars are “easy to
win”.
The tariffs — 25%,10% on X & Y — cover two materials that are the lifeblood of
the construction and manufacturing sectors in the U.S.
The announcement angered key U.S. allies — Canada, the European Union,
Australia, and Mexico — as well as rival China.
ID the materials X and Y (in any order).

19.
X is a series of video games developed by Game Freak. First released in 1996
for the Game Boy, the main series of role-playing video games (RPGs) has
continued on each generation of Nintendo's handhelds.
The games are commonly released in pairs—each with slight variations—with
an enhanced remake of the games usually released a few years after the
original versions.
More than 300 million X games have been sold worldwide, across 76 titles.
This makes X the second best-selling video game franchise, behind Nintendo's
own Mario franchise. ID X

20*.
X is a Government of India all-in-one unified secure multi-platform multi-
lingual freeware mobile app for accessing over 1,200 central and state
government services in multiple Indian languages over Android, iOS, Windows
devices, including services such as AADHAR, DigiLocker, Bharat Bill Payment
System, PAN, EPFO services.
ID X

Waves Mega
Quiz Finals
Round - 1

General Instructions
1. Standard bounce/pounce rules apply.
2. +10/0 for direct
3. +5/0 for bounce
4. +10/-10 for pounce
5. Different rules for different rounds. They would be explained as the quiz
progresses.
6. The quiz master is always right.
7. In case you find him wrong, refer the above point.

1. Find the word
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a convivial meeting, usually following a dinner,
for drinking and intellectual conversation.
a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, dealing with ideal love and
the vision of absolute beauty.

2.
X was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar
whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and
modern intellectual history.
X popularly claimed, "God is dead. And we have killed him."
'God is dead' means that the idea of God can no longer provide values. With
the sole source of values no longer capable of providing those values, there is
a real chance of nihilism prevailing. Übermensch is a concept in philosophy by
X. It means superman or beyond man.
ID X.

3.
X was known as the word 'Y' which translated as clown jester poet, was a
Telugu poet who hailed from the present-day Andhra Pradesh region,
generally known for his wit and humour.
He was one of the Ashtadiggajas or the eight poets at the court of the
Vijayanagara emperor.
X attained the status of a folk hero when he was the court poet, but at the
same time he composed serious works on religion.
ID X and Y.

X - Tenali Raman
Y - Vikata Kavi

4.
“I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.”
- X (a tennis player)
ID X.

5.
In the late 1980s, X created the "_______" campaign.
It was a hit.
In 1988, X’s sales were at $800 million; by 1998, sales exceeded $9.2 billion.
"_________" was short and sweet, yet encapsulated everything people felt when
they were exercising -- and people still feel that feeling today. Don’t want to
run five miles? _________. Don’t want walk up four flights of stairs? ________. It's
a slogan we can all relate to: the drive to push ourselves beyond our limits.
Find the company X and the slogan.

6.
Two Indian newspapers involved in
Advertisement wars from in 2011-2015.
The image on the right is an example of
one such ad.
Find the two newspapers.

7.
"X" is a popular Hindi song.
The composer personally trained Egyptian singer Maryem Tollar to sing "X", a
song which he wrote while on Hajj in Makkah. After he heard a man near a
river who was continually repeating "____ _____ ____" (water in Arabic), he told
Gulzar to incorporate the word into the tune he had created while touring.

8.
X is a super-quick alternative to WiFi. X utilises ___ in place of radio waves to
bar date through the air. X innovation began in 2011 by Professor Harald Haas
of the University of Edinburgh who showed that ___ could transmit a larger
number of info than a cellular tower. The speed of X is around 1GB/s.
ID X.

9.
‘Blue Bird’ is a Japanese song by pop rock band Ikimono-gakari. It was featured
as an opening song in a shounen anime X.
The translation of the song would be
“You said if you could fly
You would leave all this world behind you
And sore up to the sky
So blue, so blue that sky’s so blue”
This is a conversation between the lead. Find the anime X.

10.
Kabbadi traces its origin in ‘Kai pidi’ which literally translates to hold hands.
The sport was created as a simulator or a trial ball for a sport without a key
element of that sport.
Which sport and what element?

Jallikattu.
The person replaces the bull.

11.
According to legends from ancient Egypt, Greece and China, this sport was
played between sun and moon for supremacy on Earth over light and
darkness. The sport was part of the summer olympics from the year 1900 to
1920 where in a country could send in multiple clubs to participate which
would defeat its purpose of being a team sport and hence was removed.
Which sport?

12.
Centuries ago, this village in Nottinghamshire was known for its several
lunatics. Jokes about the villagers were collected in books such as the 1556
“The Merrie Tales of the Mad Men of _____”.
Washington Irving read these tales in 1807, when he was writing a series of
satires for “The Salmagundi Papers”, and mocked the residents of his home
city, calling it by the name of the village.
The nickname became quite popular, and in turn, was used to name another
city which periodically suffers from the attentions of certain highly talented,
but unfortunately, insane people.
What name/city?

Rules
1. This is a written round
2. +10/No negatives
3. The team which gets every questions right will get an extra 10
4. The round’s theme is “trademarked colors”

1. Find the company
The company prohibits anyone from using its distinct “________ Yellow"
without its permission.

2. Find the product
3M colormarked the original ______ color, Canary Yellow, for use in office and
stationery products. The sunny hue was chosen because it was the only color
of scrap paper on hand when the company started experimenting

3. Find the franchise
Another protected shade of pink: ________ Pink. It’s trademarked for use in
more than 100 categories, from bubble bath to cereal.

4. ID the brand
Royal purple has been associated with _______ since they wrapped their
confections in the shade to honor Queen Victoria in the 1800s. It is the
second-largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars.
Confections – products rich in sugar

5.
California-based X has filed a case against Y in the Indian trademark office for
using a logo similar to its own.
ID the companies.

Waves Mega
Quiz Finals
Round - 2

General Instructions
1. Standard bounce/pounce rules apply.
2. +10/0 for direct
3. +10/0 for bounce
4. +10/-10 for pounce
5. Different rules for different rounds. They would be explained as the quiz
progresses.
6. The quiz master is always right.
7. In case you find him wrong, refer the above point.

1.
When the film was due to release in 2002, rumours started circulating that it
was actually titled X but was changed to Y because of 9/11 incident. However,
the director was quick to reject it saying that the title was always Y since the
1954 book it was based on was named Y.
Name the film.

Lord of the Rings: The two towers
Rumour was that it was called twin towers

2.
The Y run was started with the help of Isadore Sharp, founder of the Four
Seasons Hotels in 1981 and is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for
cancer research and over $600 million has been raised so far.
Id Y

3.
Ericsson, A Denmark based company started working on a device which
establishes radio links between portable devices. Jim Kardman named the
technology X after the 10th century Viking king Harold Blatand who liked
eating Blueberries. What is the name of the technology ?

4.
X was originally made by Vishwakarma for Brahma, later gifted to Kubera by
Brahma and finally stolen by Kubera’s half-brother? What is X ?

5.
The two actors X and Y won the Oscars portraying the same fictional
character _________.
Name X, Y

Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro

6.
‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ is a German Phrase which roughly Translates to
‘Advancement through technology’.
Since 1971, it has been the main advertising slogan and company ethos for a
prominent German Car manufacturer.
Which Company?

7.
Who won the Guiness record for organizing the most lavish wedding, the
description for which has been given here?
“The wedding is reported to have cost over 750 million rupees with the dining
area alone costing an estimated Rs 15 million and the menu an estimated Rs
20 million. A fortress topped with cannons and winged mythological
creatures was constructed from plywood at the entrance of the wedding
grounds.”

Special Round-2
Long Visual Connect

Rules
1. 5 images will be displayed one by one.
2. These images have a common connect and that’s the answer.
3. The team which guesses correct first will receive the points.
4. Points are awarded based on the number of clues a team has taken to
guess.

Answer
These films are adapted from the literary works of Stephen King

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