We Quiz 1.0

We Quiz 1.0
Shrinidhi Kulkarni
Samarth M
September 10, 2015
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Welcome
About the Oldest Club in college and a few other things...

Prelims

Prelims Questions

1*
Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June, 1631 and died in 1706, at a
reasonably old age of 75. We may not ﬁnd her death interesting, but
why would her birth be signiﬁcant?

2*
X- Lead Vocals
Paresh Kamath — Lead guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Naresh Kamath — Bass guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Kurt Peters — Drums
Samuel Shetty — Drums
Naitik Nagda — Indian & Western Percussions
Jose Neil Gomes - Saxophone, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Flute
Sameer Chiplunkar - Keyboard
Jovian Soans
Tapas Roy - Mandolin, Dulcimer

3
Where in the world will you see the following verse?
"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn ;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn ;
And the rest coming home with the urn."

4
X was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. By applying
Louis Pasteur’s advances in microbiology, he promoted the idea of
sterile surgery.
Y is a product which is promoted with the slogan “Kills germs . . . ”. It
was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.
However, it found success later when it was pitched as a solution for
something else.

5*
Dr Elena Basner, an art curator, worked with scientists to create a
much better way to detect forged oil paintings. It is based on presence
of strontium-90 and cesium-137 in the paintings. The isotopes are
found in the types of crops that are used to produce oil based paints.
How is this used to detect forgery?

6
X literally means The Island (though I have no idea why this would be
named this way) and is owned by the the Qatari House of Thani. Due
to the ownership by the Qatari Govt, it’s credibility has often been
doubted and back in 2011 resulted in a controversy that saw UAE,
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia withdraw it’s diplomats from Doha. The logo
might help.

7
X also referred to as motor neuron disease (MND), Charcot disease
(in France ”maladie de Charcot”), and, in the United States, Y’s dis-
ease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is charac-
terised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to mus-
cle atrophy, diﬃculty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia),
and breathing (dyspnea). X is the most common of the ﬁve motor
neuron diseases. One of the famous victims of this disease is Stephen
Hawking. Last year, this disease had somehow accumulated the Inter-
net’s attention. How so? -Also give X & Y.

8*
X is word that shall always be associated with a certain TV series, an
essential part of our childhood. Although to the minority of scholars,
X is actually a certain Hawaiian King who was the ﬁrst to unite the
islands of Hawaii and laid down a set of laws. How Akira Toriyama
decided to use this name to describe the release of latent energy all at
once from the protagonists body is for us to speculate. The word X
please.

9
For what speciﬁc thing did Facebook pay the The American Farm
Bureau Federation 8.5 million dollars?

10

11

12
Explain the incident

14
Put funda

15
Put funda.

16*
Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a house in the 90’s.
The address of the house, still in rent, reads:
House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur,
Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006
Who is the famous resident?

17
An Interesting Exchange between Two Geniuses:
X to Y: What I most admire about your art. You don’t say a word,
and the rest of the world understands you.
Y to X: It is true. But your glory is even greater! The whole world
Admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you
say!
ID X and Y.

18
Their slogan is: ”We open government”. Their headquarters is in
Sweden, which even a nuclear bomb cant destroy. Name them.

19
From 1884 these were oﬃcially two: Bombay X and Kolkata X.
In the 20th century it was unoﬃcially used by Railways according to
Madras X .
Many years back there was 1 more of this kind at Port Blair.
Few years back it was again in news for some reasons and debate is
still going on.
What am I talking about ?

20
His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member of the Assam Leg-
islative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, after
leaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a few
months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal,
Assam.
On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18
months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At
23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved
this feat.
In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at the
age of 35.
Who?

21*
Who is the lyricist for this album? A very ”special” person debuted in
the Bollywood with this.

22
In 2006, X was named the richest ﬁctional character by Forbes Mag-
azine. But later X was dropped from the list because of angry letters
from children claiming X was real. Identify X

23
Put funda.
1 Coca-Cola
2 Lays
3 Playstation
4 Toyota Corolla
5 iPads
6 Angry Birds
7 Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album
8 Harry Potter Books
9 iPhones
10 Rubiks Cube

Answers to Prelims

1
Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June, 1631 and died in 1706, at a
reasonably old age of 75. We may not ﬁnd her death interesting, but
why would her birth be signiﬁcant?

Answer
Her mother Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth while delivering her. Her
father Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in Mumtaz’s memory.

2
X- Lead Vocals
Paresh Kamath — Lead guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Naresh Kamath — Bass guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Kurt Peters — Drums
Samuel Shetty — Drums
Naitik Nagda — Indian & Western Percussions
Jose Neil Gomes - Saxophone, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Flute
Sameer Chiplunkar - Keyboard
Jovian Soans
Tapas Roy - Mandolin, Dulcimer

Answer
Kailash Kher.
This is the list of the band members of his band, Kailasa.

3
Where in the world will you see the following verse?
"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn ;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn ;
And the rest coming home with the urn."

Answer
The Ashes Urn.

4
X was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. By applying
Louis Pasteur’s advances in microbiology, he promoted the idea of
sterile surgery.
Y is a product which is promoted with the slogan “Kills germs . . . ”. It
was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.
However, it found success later when it was pitched as a solution for
something else.

Answer
Joseph Lister, Listerine

5
Dr Elena Basner, an art curator, worked with scientists to create a
much better way to detect forged oil paintings. It is based on presence
of strontium-90 and cesium-137 in the paintings. The isotopes are
found in the types of crops that are used to produce oil based paints.
How is this used to detect forgery?

Answer
Painting made prior to 1945 do not have the isotopes as these isotopes
are not naturally found. These came into existence after 1945, since
the nuclear explosions.

6
X literally means The Island (though I have no idea why this would be
named this way) and is owned by the the Qatari House of Thani. Due
to the ownership by the Qatari Govt, it’s credibility has often been
doubted and back in 2011 resulted in a controversy that saw UAE,
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia withdraw it’s diplomats from Doha. The logo
might help.

Answer
Al Jazeera

7
X also referred to as motor neuron disease (MND), Charcot disease
(in France ”maladie de Charcot”), and, in the United States, Y’s dis-
ease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is charac-
terised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to mus-
cle atrophy, diﬃculty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia),
and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the ﬁve motor
neuron diseases. One of the famous victims of this disease is Stephen
Hawking. In recent times this disease has somehow accumulated the
Internet’s attention. How so ? -Also give me X & Y.

Answer
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge X- ALS. Y- Lou Gehrig

8
X is word that shall always be associated with a certain TV series, an
essential part of our childhood. Although to the minority of scholars,
X is actually a certain Hawaiian King who was the ﬁrst to unite the
islands of Hawaii and laid down a set of laws. How Akira Toriyama
decided to use this name to describe the release of latent energy all at
once from the protagonists body is for us to speculate. The word X
please.

Answer
Kamehameha

9
For what speciﬁc thing did Facebook pay the The American Farm
Bureau Federation 8.5 million dollars?

Answer
The domain
www.fb.me

10

Answer
McDonalds Fries.

11

Answer

12
Explain the incident

Answer
Shortage of Amul butter in Bengal.

14
Put funda

Answer
This is the ﬁrst clear picture of the planet Pluto, taken recently by the
New Horizons probe.

15
Put funda.

Answer
May Day/ Labors day

16
Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a house in the 90’s.
The address of the house, still in rent, reads:
House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur,
Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006
Who is the famous resident?

Answer
Dr. Manmohan Singh.

17
An Interesting Exchange between Two Geniuses: X to Y: What I most
admire about your art. You don’t say a word, and the rest of the world
understands you.
Y to X: It is true. But your glory is even greater! The whole world
Admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you
say!
ID X and Y.

Answer
X - Charlie Chaplin
Y- Albert Einstein

18
Their slogan is: ”We open government”. Their headquarters is in
Sweden which even nuclear bomb cant destroy. Name them.

Answer
Wikileaks
Currently, WikiLeaks is hosted mainly by the Swedish internet service
provider Bahnhof in the Pionen facility, a former nuclear bunker in
Sweden.

19
From 1884 these were oﬃcially two : Bombay X and Kolkata X.
In the 20th century it was unoﬃcially used by Railways according to
Madras X .
Many years back there was 1 more of this kind at Port Blair.
Few days back it was again in news for some reasons and debate is still
going on.
What am I talking about ? (source-The Tribune)

Answer
Indian Standard Time

20
His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member of the Assam Leg-
islative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, after
leaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a few
months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal,
Assam.
On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18
months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At
23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achieved
this feat.
In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at the
age of 35.
Who?

Answer
This is Bear Grylls of Man vs Wild fame.

21
Who is the lyricist for this album? A very ”special” person debuted in
the Bollywood with this.

Answer
Former Union minister Kapil Sibal.

22
In 2006, X was named the richest ﬁctional character by Forbes Mag-
azine. But later X was dropped from the list because of angry letters
from children claiming X was real. Identify X

Answer
Santa Claus

23
Put funda.
1 Coca-Cola
2 Lays
3 Playstation
4 Toyota Corolla
5 iPads
6 Angry Birds
7 Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album
8 Harry Potter Books
9 iPhones
10 Rubiks Cube

Answer
World’s best selling products of all time.

Finals

Dry Humping

1
X was written by Hans Christian Anderson as a love letter to one Edvard
Collin. Anderson, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young
woman, proclaimed his true love to him. Edvard turned Anderson
down, disgusted. He then wrote X to symbolize his inability to have
Collin just as the lead character cannot be with a human. X, as it was
originally written, did not have a happy ending.

Answer
The Little Mermaid

2
Identify.
Figure: Id the kid

Answer
Sebastian Vettel

3
This is the record for the longest clocked standing ovation given to an
Academy Award winner. Identify the recipient.

Answer
Charlie Chaplin
The longest standing ovation to an Academy Award recipient was given
to Charles Chaplin when he received the academy honorary Award for
achievement in ﬁlm. It was presented to him by Jack Lemmon.

4
Mobile phone throwing is an international sport that started in X in the
year 2000. It is a sport in which participants throw mobile phones and
are judged on distance or technique. There are usually four categories
in the sport:
Original (also called ”Traditional”): an over-the-shoulder throw
with the farthest distance winning (best of three)
Freestyle: contestants get points for aesthetics and creative
choreography
Team original: up to three competitors have one throw each
with their scores added together
Junior: for children aged twelve or younger.
Which country are we talking about?

Answer
Of course, which other country than Finland?

5
The painting is titled ’The courtyard at the residency in Munich’. Iden-
tify the artist.

Answer
This was painted by Adolf Hitler.

6
The book is divided in 5 parts:
Mitra-bheda
Mitra-labha or Mitra-samprapti
Kakolukiyam
Labdhapranasam
Apariksitakarakam
Name of the book?

Answer
The Panchtantra

7
Identify

Answer
Jawaharlal Nehru, his wife Kamala Nehru and daughter Indira Gandhi
in 1918.

8
In 1712, the British imposed a newspaper tax that was solely based on
the number of pages in the publication. What resulted due to this?

Answer
Broadsheet
Other newspaper sizes then were Tabloid, Berliner and Compact.

List Its

List It
List all the Nobel laureates with multiple Nobel awards.

List It
List the teams of Pro Kabbaddi League

1. Answer
John Bardeen
Marie Curie
International Committee of the Red Cross
Linus Pauling
Frederick Sanger
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

2. Answer
Bengal Warriors
Jaipur Pink Panthers
Bengaluru Bulls
Puneri Palthan
Patna Pirates
U Mumba
Telugu Titans
Dabang Delhi

Arbitrarium

1

1.1
Dolphin - ?

2

2.1
Why?

3

3.1
Put funda.

4

4.1
So?

5

5.1
What’s happening here?

6

6.1

1

1.1
Dolphin - Dolphout

2

2.1
Because Neil died of cancer due to smoking xD

3

3.1
Victoria’s Secret

4

4.1
Bear Grylls. Seriously, stop laughing.

5

5.1
Carbon Dating

6

6.1
Hi, I’m your Bucket List.

Stage II

1
This man was a tribal leader and a folk hero, was behind the Mil-
lenarian movement that rose in the tribal belt of modern day Bihar
and Jharkhand during the British Raj, in the late 19th century mak-
ing him an important ﬁgure in the history of the Indian independence
movement.

2

3
A legal luminary, he has also authored the book- “Problem of the
Rupee” while studying at LSE.

4

5

6

Indian Airports
Birsa Munda - Ranchi
Kempegowda - Bengaluru
B.R Ambedkar - Nagpur
Veer Savarkar - Port Blair
Chaudhary Charan Singh - Lucknow
Indira Gandhi - Delhi

Short Visual Connect - Audience

1

2

3

4

5
Hyderabad
Noida
Mumbai
Kolkata

SVC
1 Harshaali Malhotra (Munni)
2 Regional Broadcasters of World Cup 2015
3 Players from Indian origin playing for diﬀerent countries
4 UN Security Council’s permanent members
5 Indian Coint Mints

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