The document describes the details of an event called Kenquest'15 which included 5 rounds of quiz competition with different formats and rules for scoring. It provides the questions and answers for the first two rounds. The first round had 6 general knowledge questions with +5 points for each correct answer and a +10 bonus for getting all correct. The second round had 12 questions with +10 points for bouncing a question and +15/-10 points for pouncing (accepting/rejecting) a question.
18. 1
• The movie X’s plot has striking similarities with Harlan Ellison’s short
story trilogy, “I have no mouth”, ”Soldier” and “Demon with a Glass
hand” .
• Though Ellison was not acknowledged for any inspiration, the
director Y did an interview with Starlog magazine, where he was
asked where he got the idea for X. He was reported to have bragged
that he ripped it off a couple of Harlan Ellison short stories.
• Unfortunately for Y, Ellison was friends with some of the staff there,
who leaked him the original draft of the interview containing the
admission and took Y to court. Hence, harlan Ellison has an
acknowledgement credit for ‘X’ to this very day.
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21. 2
• Construction of X occurred in three stages across 199 years. Work
on X began on August 14, 1173, during a period of military success
and prosperity. X was finally completed in 1372. There has been
controversy about the real identity of the architect of the X. For
many years, the design was attributed to Guglielmo and Bonanno .
However, recent studies seem to indicate Diotisalvi as the original
architect due to the time of construction. However, Diotisalvi
usually signed his work and there is no signature on X, leading to
speculation. During World War II, the Allies discovered that the
Germans were using the X as an observation post. A U.S. Army
sergeant sent to confirm the presence of German troops in the
tower was impressed by the beauty of the X and thus refrained
from ordering an artillery strike, sparing it from destruction.
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23. 3
• This is how the story of their formation goes: ◦ It was
during A’s jingles career that the idea of X was conceived. A
had called in B to sing a jingle for him one evening in 1992.
The lyrics for the jingle were late coming in. The restless A
began crooning something while strumming on his guitar, B
felt inspired to jam with an alaap, and the result: the
seamless fusion of Eastern and Western sounds that has
become the quintessential characteristic of X. Their unique
brand of music fused Indian and Western musical genres
instantly won the hearts of young and old alike. Their
eponymous first album hit platinum in sales in India alone
and consistently headed the Indian music charts in 1996.
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25. 4
• What prompted the Indian government to do
so? Hussainiwala is a village in Firozpur district
in Punjab state, India. It lies near the banks of
the Sutlej river. The village is on the border
with Pakistan, opposite the Pakistani village of
Ganda Singh Wala. In the 1960s, the Indian
government exchanged 12 villages in Punjab
with the Pakistani government in return for
the village Hussainiwala in Punjab province in
Pakistan.
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26. It is where Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and
Sukhdev are cremated
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27. 5
• X invested the money he made from his engineering
career in USA in producing the movie Y Blues. It is
based on a script that he wrote in Atlanta dealing with
Indians returning home from the United States of
America. He directed and acted in the movie. It was a
budget of Rs. 1.7 million (roughly equivalent to
US$40,000) and shot in 17 days. It was perceived by
Sanjay Arora, an independent film maker, to be realistic
and among one of the first movies to use Z, a dialect
used extensively in Y, correctly. It became the most
successful independent film in India. The film was
featured at Peachtree International Film Festival in
Atlanta and Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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29. 6
• Yaadein is a 1964 movie directed by Sunil
Dutt.
• It has a place in the guinness book of records
for a very special distiction
• What?
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30. • Least number of actors in a narrative movie
• The movie is a soliloquy of Sunil Dutt and he is
the only character in the 113-minute movie
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31. 7
• X is a product suggested by a former
(un)popular Chief minister of a state, to
increase the declining profits of an
organisation Y.
• The product came outin 2004 and is still
popular among consumers.
• Surpisingly, the organisation did register a
profit of 200 Cr. in the subsequent fiscal year
• ID X and Y
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33. 8
• A.R.Rahman in collaboration with Lata
Mangeshkar has released a new song in 2012
titled 'Laadli' - the Raunaq of Life, based on
the theme of women empowerment, an issue
neglected since ages. Who is the Lyricist?
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37. 10
After representing a elite group for 68 years, he
is proposed to be replaced by a person
representing Aam Admi as the organisation is
believed to be surviving on the hard earned
money of Aam Admi. Who we are talking
about?
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39. 11
• The subject of his most paintings are
architecture such as public places, buildings,
and farmhouses. He rarely painted people.
The different style in which he drew human
figures, critics said, represented his profound
disinterest in people. Who is the Painter?
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41. 12
• The blue and white crest is topped with a
fortress wall, said to represent the resilience
of The City. Seven stars sit alongside the name
of the group representing the seven islands
that make up the city. Meanwhile the train
imagery represents the local train system, said
to be the lifeline which connects the city.
What we are talking about?
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60. 13
• Instead of using GDP as a measure of
progress, Bhutan uses the GNH. It attempts to
define quality of life or social progress in a
more holistic manner, not just on the basis of
economic parameters. What is this GNH?
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62. 14
• According to this anecdote, X was a large
cannon, placed strategically on a wall. A shot
from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in
weakening the structure beneath X which
subsequently caused this X to fall off. Now, X
was so heavy that despite attempts on the
part of the Royalists or the Cavaliers, X could
not be placed back in its original position.
What are we talking about?
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64. 15
• X is a sheet material manufactured from thin
layers that are glued together with adjacent
layers having their grain rotated up to 90
degrees to one another. ID this X.
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66. 16
• Also known as “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ
and of the Temple of Solomon”, this
organization is believed to have developed
one of the earliest forms of banking in which
people could deposit their valuables, get a
receipt and later exchange that receipt for a
treasure of equal value. Identify this
organization
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70. 18
• On April 30 during a quarterfinal match with
Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg in which X was
leading 6–4, 4–3, Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of
Steffi Graf, ran from the middle of the crowd to the
edge of the court during a break between games and
stabbed X with a boning knife between her shoulder
blades, to a depth of 1.5 cm (0.59 inches). She was
quickly rushed to a hospital. Although her physical
injuries took only a few weeks to heal, she did not
return to competitive tennis for more than two years. •
Many say that if it weren’t for the stabbing, X would
have been the greates female tennis player of all time.
• Identify X.
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72. 19
X began with Madurai's first bus service in 1911 and
founded Y, a company that consolidated its presence in
the transportation business with a large fleet of trucks
and buses under the name of Southern Roadways
Limited.
• When he died in 1955 his sons took the company ahead
with several forays in the automobile sector, including
finance, insurance, manufacture of two-wheelers, tyres
and components. The group has managed to run 33
companies that account for a combined turnover of
nearly $3 billion.
• Identify X and Y.
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78. 22
• Privateer Holdings is a private equity firm that
strategically invests in this product.
• Privateer Holdings is headquartered in Seattle,
Washington and is the first firm in the United
States to focus entirely on this product.
• In 2012 it acquired leafly.com.
• Identify the product being talked about here.
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• In 1966, on the news of his father's death, the
then 21- year-old X returned home from Stanford
University, where he was studying engineering, to
take charge of Y.
• The company, dealt in hydrogenated oil
manufacturing but X later diversified the company
to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries,
hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products,
and hydraulic cylinders.
• Identify X and Y.
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82. 24
• In January 2004, X was found guilty of ball tampering
during an ODI with Zimbabwe. Match referee Clive
Lloyd adjudged the application of an energy sweet to
the ball as a deliberate offence, although X himself
denied this was his intent. Lloyd emphasized that
television footage caught X putting a lozenge on the
ball during the Zimbabwean innings on Tuesday night
at the Gabba. According to the ICC's Code of Conduct,
players are not allowed to apply substances to the ball
other than sweat and saliva. X was fined half of his
match fee.
• • Identify X.
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88. 50/-25
• X (born Ravi Shankar Raju Bhupatiraju and
popularly referred to as Mass MahaRaja) is an
Indian film actor known for his work
exclusively in Telugu cinema. He won the
Nandi Special Jury Award in 1999 and 2002 for
his performance in the films Nee Kosam and
Khadgam and also won the state Nandi
Awardfor best actor in his film Neninthe in
2008.
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89. 40/-20
• X came into limelight with Balaji Telefilms'
soap opera on Star Plus, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi
Bahu Thi (July 2000 - November 2008), and is
claimed for her fun character, Indu.[4]
According to a report published by the BBC,
"In millions of homes across the country,
families reorganised their daily routines to
ensure they didn't miss out on the show."[5]
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90. 30/-15
• From 1996 through 2001, X was arrested numerous
times on drug-related charges including cocaine, heroin
and marijuana and went several times through drug
treatment programs unsuccessfully, explaining in 1999
to a judge: "It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth
with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the
gun metal.“
• He made his screen debut at five in his father’s movie-
Pound.
• . He starred as Charlie Chaplin, the title character in the
1992 film Chaplin, which earned him a nomination for
the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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