General/ Entertainment quiz finals hosted by Adithya, Srinath and me for Entrepreneurship Week 2013 at SSN College of Engineering

1. Ready to

2. Round 1:
• 15 q
•Clockwise
infinite bounce
•+10 / no negs

3. Question 1: Id this most trusted spy
from the world of comics.

5. ‘The Question’

6. 2) X said the following about Y…
“...a young off-spinning opponent of ours walked
into the England dressing room after taking a few
wickets for ________ team in a tour match in
Durban and plonked himself down next to me,
asking if I knew of any English teams he could play
for. I thought he meant club cricket and almost
gave him my brother’s number and told him to
try Fives and Heronians but it turned out he had
bigger ambitions than that...”.
Id X and Y.

8. X : Nasser Hussain
Y : Kevin Pietersen

9. 3) What event prompted Kanimozhi to
say the following in October 2012..
“It looks like the continuation of the
Dravidian movement in many ways and
it is a moment for relook and
reassertion of many of our ideologies. It
also shows the unrelenting fighting
sprit of our leader. It will energize the
party.”

11. Karunanidhi’s decision to wear a black shirt
for the rest of his life, instead of his
trademark white shirt and yellow shawl, as a
mark of protest against the AIADMK led
govt.

12. 4) This is the flag of which government
that lasted for only 4 years?

14. Confederate States of America (CSA), set up
by the group of southern slave states which
went up against the UNION (north) in the
American Civil War between 1861-1865.

15. 5) Put funda.

17. Legendary rock star Ozzy Osbourne
used to eat the head of live bats before
his performances!

18. 6) The film X was to be about “the love
story that changed the history of South
Asia”, according to its director Joe
Wright.
X was to star Hugh Grant , Kate
Blanchett and Irrfan Khan as the lead
characters but had to be shelved due to
political pressure.
Id X and what is the ‘love story’ we are
talking about?

20. INDIAN SUMMER
Dealt with the alleged
Jawaharlal Nehru-
Edwina Mountbatten
romance

21. 7) Velvin Hogan, an electrical engineer and a
patent holder, is better known in America for a
different reason.
He was seen as the man with the technical
know-how amongst a lay ____, meaning that
the ____ was largely considered to be
unqualified to take decisions on a complex
technical issue and determine which party was
at fault.
He has also been accused of misunderstanding
facts and having misled the _____.
So, what ‘problem’ did Velvin and the ____ have
to solve?

23. Apple inc. VS Samsung electronics Pvt.
Ltd. Copyright infringement case
(Velvin Hogan was the jury foreman)

24. 8) Ncell is a Nepali telecom
company, formed by a joint venture
between local investors and
TeliaSonera.
What is their claim to fame?

26. Providing wifi connectivity through
out mount everest, including the
summit

27. 9) Literally translating to “holy wisdom”, X has
served as a eastern orthodox cathedral
between 360 to 1453 (except between 1204
and 1261 when it was converted to a roman
catholic cathedral), a mosque between 1453
and 1935 and finally a museum from 1935 till
date.
Id X

29. Hagia Sofhia

30. 10) Of all the
submissions india
has made, only 3
films have been
nominated in the
best film category
at the Oscars.
One is Lagaan .
Name the other 2.

32. Mother India (1957)
Salaam Bombay
(1988)

33. 11) The practice X adopted in professional sport
means “fishing out, rescuing”.
Adopted in tournaments having a ladder format (a
knockout format from round 1), this practice or rule
ensures that worthy competitor who is paired with
another worthy competitor should not be unduly
penalized by luck of the draw, but have an
opportunity to fight for at least third place.
Name the practice X, to which India owes couple of
it’s individual medals in the Olympics.

35. Repechage

36. 12) X is the name for captive, trained Y. These
are used mostly for taming and training of
newly captured wild Y and also to lead away
wild Y that stray in to human settlements.
They are also used for the purpose of
breeding. Basically X are bullies among the
species Y.
X is not the same Y widely found in Indian
temples. An Y has to undergo extensive
training before it can become a X.
As always, ID X and Y.

38. X: Kumki
Y: elephants

39. 13) If the one on the right is pre-
independence, and the one on the left is post
independence, what are we talking about?

41. Right: Madras observatory, which
set the time followed by all of India
before independence
Left: Mirzapur clocktower marking
the 82.5 degree east longitude IST
line, that was chosen after
independence to set the time to be
followed by all of India.

42. 14) Id the man and the boy.

44. Barack Obama Sr. with Barack
Hussein Obama.

45. 15) Time's "Man (Person) of the Year" is awarded to
the public figure that have the most effect on world
affairs over the year and as Time has pointed out
many times since, it is not an endorsement of the
person or their deeds.
Who did TIME name as the person of the year in
1938 and what did they put on their cover to
emphasize their motives?
(corresponding cover page shown in next slide)

47. Adolf HitlerTime selected Adolf Hitler for
Man of the Year in 1938 for the
Munich Agreement .
In order to ensure that their
reader’s didn’t get the wrong idea
(that they approved of Hitler’s
actions), Time didn’t use Hitler’s
photo. Instead the cover showed
Hitler in a desecratedcathedral
playing a "hymn of hate " with his
victims dangling from a Catherine
Wheel above (cover on next slide)

49. Round 2:
• 6 Connect qs
•Clockwise infinite bounce
(from where round 1
ended)
•+10 / no negs
•Hint on top of each slide

50. 1) Hocus pocus alakazam

52. Oracle database
Oracle from the Matrix
And
Oracle of Omaha (Warren
Buffet)

53. 2) Not one to slam the door

55. Jelena Jankovic, Dinara Safina and
Caroline Wozniacki are the only
players to have been ranked No.1
without having won a Grand Slam

56. 3) ladies and ‘gentlemen’

58. Abdul Kardar, Amir Elahi and Gul
Mohammad have all represented both
India and Pakistan in test cricket.

59. 4) Are you not entertained!

61. 20th century Fox, Paramount, Columbia,
MGM and universal are all TV and film
production and distribution companies

62. 5) In the presentation party , we have …

64. Sponsors of the Cricket world cup tournaments and
trophies (Hence the different trophies till 1999. The ICC
decided to do away with title sponsors from 1999 onwards
and provide their own cup, and hence none of the editions
since have had a corporate name attached)
Prudential (75,79,83), Reliance (87),
Benson and Hedges (92) and Wills (96)

65. 6)Once is good, twice is better

67. Pep Guordiola, Johan Cruyff, Giovanni
Trapattoni, Frank Rijkaard, Carlo Ancelotti
and Miguel Monoz have all won the UEFA
European cup as both player and manager

68. Round 3:
• 15 q
•Anti-Clockwise
infinite bounce
•+10 / no negs

69. 1) Id this
‘device’ from
the world of
comics

71. Mechanical web shooter, used by
spiderman!

72. 2) Old logos of …?

74. Renault
(used to make military planes and
ammunition during World War 1)

75. 3) A truncated icosahedron is an Archimedean solid,
one of thirteen convex isogonal non-prismatic solids
whose faces are two or more types of regular
polygons.
It has 12 regular pentagonal faces, 20
regular hexagonal faces, 60 vertices and 90 edges.
Which famous object has a more ‘rounded’ form of
the said geometry, though newer model’s haven’t
incorporated the same design?

77. The traditional 32
panel football

78. 4) Put funda

80. Lucasfilm taken over by Disney

81. 5) Representatives of the English
football player X were contemplating
legal action against India’s Directorate
of Visual Publicity because of their
illegitimate use of his image for a
particular campaign they launched in
2012.
Id X and name the campaign.

83. X : John Terry
Used in the Anti-smoking campaign

84. 6) What are they about to/
trying to do?

86. Filming of the scene where Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul
get out of the Lazarus pit, with the Mehangarh fort
(Jodhpur) seen in the backdrop, in TDKR. (the green screen
can be seen inside the pit. The actual pit was a set located
elsewhere)

87. 7) Creators of the fantasy series X said
the following regarding a controversy
that arose during its first season on air.
“Y’s head appears in a couple of
beheading scenes. It's not a choice. It's
not a political statement. It's just we had
to use whatever heads we had around.”
X,Y?

89. X: Game of thrones
Y: George.W.Bush

90. 8) FITB
On New Year’s Eve last year, Citizen’s
Collective Against Sexual Assault organized
a protest in the form of a street party called
“Take Back the Night” at Saket in south
Delhi.
The New Years Eve invite, which was posted
on Facebook and circulated over mail,
implored people to “Be Warm- Bring
Family, Friends, Lovers, Pets” and “Come
_____ and _____”.

92. “dented and painted” following
Abhijith Mukherjee’s
controversial comment.

93. 9) As the legend goes, King Belshazzar looted the
temple of Jerusalem and hosted a feast to celebrate
his victory.
During the drunken feast, Belshazzar used the sacred
golden and silver vessels, from Solomon's Temple, to
praise 'the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood,
and stone'.
Soon afterward, disembodied fingers appear and write
on the wall of the royal palace the words:
‫מנא‬,‫מנא‬,‫תקל‬,‫ופרסין‬
Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin
The popular interpretation of which is “you’ve been
weighed, measured and found wanting”.
How do we remember this legend better as?

95. The phrase
“the writing is on the wall”

96. 10) This is a ‘Queen Victoria 1
Mohur’ gold coin released by the
British. This inspired the logo of a
very famous ‘organization’ X.
X made a change to picture on the
‘1 Mohur’ coin so as to Indian-ise
their logo.
What change? And ID X

98. X : Reserve Bank of India
They changed the ‘English’ looking Lion with
a more ‘Indian’ looking tiger!

99. 11) The ______ trilogy by notable director W dealt with
controversial issues of social reform on the Indian
subcontinent.
X, the first release in 1996, dealt with issues of arranged
marriage and homosexuality in the patriarchal culture
of India.
Y, released in 1998, dealt with the religious strife
associated with the partition of India and formation
of Pakistan in the mid-20th century.
Z, released in 2005, was the most critically successful of
the three, and dealt with suicide, misogyny, and the
mistreatment of widows in rural India.
FITB. And id W,X,Y,Z

101. The ELEMENTS
trilogy
W: Deepa Mehta
X: Fire
Y: Earth
Z: Water

102. 12) Put funda.
:
then
:

104. Rugby!
The South African Cricket team are called
the Proteas (after RSA’s national flower –
Protea Nerifola)
The South African Rugby team are called
the Springboks (after RSA’s national animal-
the Springbok)

105. 13) The author J.G.Farell
won an award (described
by The New York Times as
"an act of literary
reparation") in 2010, for
his book ‘Troubles’,
written in 1970.
Which award?

107. The Lost Man Booker prize
( Books published in 1970 were not eligible for the
Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until
1970 the prize was awarded to books published in
the previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was
awarded to books published the same year as the
award. )

108. 14) The maker of X was inspired by a pre-existing
‘product’ named Krating Daeng, which was first
invented and sold in Thailand. He took this idea,
and modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of
westerners.
Daeng is the thai name given to the bovine called
gaur (shown in picture).
So, what is X?

110. Krating= RED
Daeng = BULL

111. 15) A metachronal rhythm or metachronal
wave refers to wavy movements produced by the
sequential action (as opposed to synchronized) of
structures such as cilia, segments of worms or
legs. These movements produce the appearance
of a travelling wave.
This pattern is found widely in nature such as on
the cilia of many aquatic organisms such
as ctenophores, molluscs, ciliates etc.
What do we know the large scale version of a
‘metachronal wave’ better as?

113. MEXICAN WAVE

114. Round 4:
• 6 Audio Visual qs
•Anti- Clockwise infinite
bounce (from where
round 3 ended)
•+10 / no negs

115. 1) Id the actor who abuses
M.K.Gandhi in this scene from the
movie “Gandhi”.

117. Oscar winning
Hollywood hero
Daniel
Day-Lewis

118. 2) Ad for…?

120. Wikileaks

121. 3) Id the ‘type’ of language in which
this song is sung…

123. ‘Idioglossia’ or a made-up/private
language. In this case, made up
by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins

124. 4) What film, featuring a similar style,
inspired the making of this scene?

126. Kamal Hassan’s Abhay (Hindi) or
Aalavandhan (Tamil)

127. 5) Who constitute the background
chorus?

129. Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev , Mohinder Amarnath and
the rest of the world cup winning 1983 indian cricket
team sang the song “Barath Vishwa vijeta” along
with Lata Mangeshkar during a special concert in
Delhi to celebrate their victory.

130. 6) ID the interviewer and the
interviewee.

132. David Frost and Richard Nixon
(this interview, which also formed the crux of the
Movie Frost-Nixon, was the one in which President
Nixon admits to his guilt with regards to the
watergate scandal and other controversies)

133. Final round: LVC
• single set of 14 images
with common theme
•Points to be won/lost
will be indicated on the
top of each picture

136. or

148. 13 Zodiac / star signs

149. The emperor of
Maladies: A
Biography of
CANCER
Anna Karenina-
by LEO Tolstoy

150. OPHIUCUS
(man fighting
with a snake)
Battering ram
or Random
Access memory
(RAM) - ARIES

151. Richard Branson ,
owner of Virgin-
VIRGO
The archer-
SAGITTARIUS

152. Lamborghini: Logo is a
raging bull, inspired by
founder Ferruccio
Lamborghini’s star sign
- TAURUS
GEMINI Ganesan

153. SCORPIOn King
Aquarium -
AQUARIUS
PISCES

154. Scales - LIBRA
Tropic of
CAPRICORN

156. Vignesh Sridharan
Adithya Vivek
A.R.Sankaranarayanan
Srinath Narayanan