The in house Audio Video Quiz conducted by Young India Fellow (2015-16) Raghav Chakravarthy.

1. ASHOKA
AUDIO VISUAL
QUIZ FINALS

2. Format
• 2 rounds of Dries (10 questions each)
• 2 written theme rounds
• Thas all!
• Let the games begin!

3. THEME - I
• 5 audio clips
• Indian tributes to famous themes
• +10 for each correct answer
• +10 for all correct

4. 1

5. 2

6. 3

7. 4

8. 5

9. EXCHANGE!

10. ANSWERS

11. ANSWERS
• Sherlock
• Game of Thrones
• Harry Potter
• Pirates of the Carribean
• Interstellar

12. INFI POUNCE - I
CLOCKWISE
+10/-10 ON THE POUNCE
+10/0 ON THE BOUNCE

13. 1
• Who lived in this building in London during
the 1920s? Who is the current owner?

14. <SAFETY>

15. ANSWER
• Ambedkar; Government of Maharashtra

16. 2
• To take this photo, Philipp Shmidli from Lucerne waited for 4 months. After bad
weather thwarted his attempts to take the picture in January, February and March,
the persevering photographer finally took the photo in the 3rd week of April.
• He was lucky enough for the weather to clear over his chosen scene just as the
_____ cycle reached its April climax. He spent hours of exploration on Google
Earth, searching for the perfect location on which to frame the image, and from
which to shoot it.
• Since _____ changes its relative position every month it meant that for every
attempt foiled by the weather Mr Schmidli had to plan a new shoot in the next
month.
• And in order to have the desired effect, Mr Schmidli needed a large gap between
the camera and the hill with no trees, fences, telephone or power lines in the way.
• Which famous scene was he trying to recreate?

17. 2 (contd)

18. <SAFETY>

19. ANSWER

20. 3
• This is a NASA satellite image taken on 24
September 2015. Put funda.

21. <SAFETY>

22. ANSWER
• Haze over South East Asia

23. 4 Whose playlist?
• This playlist was a part of a series of celebrity playlists, put together for the launch of Myspace's UK
site. Most of the playlist features expected tracks such as Mozart's "Don Giovanni," but things get
interesting with the inclusion of Tupac's "Changes," and Muse's "Uprising."
• _____ explained the choices at the time as “A perfect mix of classical, world and contemporary
music. The genres are very different form each other, but all these artists share the aim to reach the
heart of good minded people.”
• "Advocata Nostra" – X
• "Uprising" – Muse
• "Causa Nostrae Laetitiae" – X
• "Il Mare Mi Salva" – Rossomalpelo
• "After The Rain" – Dame Shirley Bassey
• "Coexist" – Nour Eddine
• "Don Giovanni" – Mozart
• "He Doesn’t Know Why" – Fleet Foxes
• "Changes" – Tupac Shakur
• "Regina Coeli" – X
• Whose playlist is this?

24. <SAFETY>

25. ANSWER

26. 5
Give the name of this monument located in the
southern part of the Czech Republic.

27. 5 (contd)

28. <SAFETY>

29. ANSWER
• IRON CURTAIN

30. 6
• The VP of the company was quoted saying,
“This is a product we’d LOVE to bring to India
soon – X Water Purifier. Just declared today, it
makes tap water filtered with Reverse Osmosis
(RO), is supercompact, shows real-time water
quality, and reminds you on your smartphone
when it’s time to replace the filter.”
• ID the company.

31. 6 (contd)

32. <SAFETY>

33. ANSWER
• Xiaomi

34. 7
• The man in the chair X was born on December
5, 1927. Rumors about his ill-health caused
financial markets in _____ to tumble in
October 2009. Although he is a little ill, he has
been very much alive for a long time now.
• ID X and what unique distinction does he
have now?

35. 7 (contd)

36. <SAFETY>

37. ANSWER
• Bhumibol Adulyadej; King of Thailand
• Longest reigning monarch as of now

38. 8
• X and the award-winning Japanese electronics company Onkyo
Corporation have revealed the name of their new on-ear
headphone collaboration, Ed-Ph0n3s.
• Earlier this year, a visual mock-up of the headphones was displayed
on X's iconic mascot Y at C.E.S in Las Vegas, sparking huge
international interest among the attendees.
• Onkyo's engineers have worked with X to 'fine tune' the product.
They made the production samples available exclusively at IFA in
Berlin for people to touch, hold and test out the sound. (Image on
the next slide)
• ID X.

39. 8 (contd)

40. <SAFETY>

41. ANSWER
• IRON MAIDEN

42. 9
• The old logo of X uses a complicated serif font which can
only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100
anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When
compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB (2,145 bytes).
• A simplified version of the new logo, on the other hand,
can be constructed almost entirely from circles and
rectangles. The entire logo consists of:
• 10 circles,5 rectangles and 1 shape made with 7 anchor
points. The size of the new logo is close to 305 bytes
• ID X.

43. <SAFETY>

44. ANSWER

45. 10
• Kim Phuc, born in 1963 in _______ now lives in
Toronto with her family. She recently went to
Miami to get a free course of laser treatment to
her skin condition.
• She has been living like this for more than 40
years and this treatment now is expected to put
an end to her chronic pain.
• What had happened to her? (Image next slide)

46. 10 (contd)

47. 10 (contd)

48. <SAFETY>

49. ANSWER
• Napalm effect. Vietnam girl.

50. THEME ROUND - II
• 10 Visiting cards.
• 5 points for each.
• +10 bonus for all correct

51. 1

52. 2

53. 3

54. 4

55. 5

56. 6

57. 7

58. 8

59. 9

60. 10

61. ANSWERS
EXCHANGE!

62. 1

63. • Arnold Schwarzenegger

64. 2

65. • ALBERT EINSTEIN

66. 3

67. • LADY GAGA

68. 4

69. • HARRY HOUDINI

70. 5

71. • ABRAHAM LINCOLN

72. 6

73. • BARACK OBAMA

74. 7

75. • WALT DISNEY

76. 8

77. • ANDY WARHOL

78. 9

79. • WRIGHT

80. 10

81. • MARK ZUCKERBERG

82. SCORES

83. INFI BOUNCE - II
COUNTER CLOCKWISE
+10/-10 ON THE POUNCE
+10/0 ON THE BOUNCE

84. 11
• The name of this product is _____ which is a
play on what it produces and the place this
product is meant to be used at.
• Give me the name for full points.

85. 11 (contd)

86. <SAFETY>

87. ANSWER
• ISSPRESSO

88. 12
• This photo was shot in Australia in 2006.
Weave a story about this.

89. <SAFETY>

90. ANSWER
• Tommie Smith and John Carlos at Peter
Norman’s funeral in Australia.
• Black Power Salute, 1968 Olympics, Mexico.

91. 13
• In late 1920s, X was being marketed by maker X Incorporated and
distributor Lehn & Fink, Inc as a feminine hygiene product. They
pronounced that vaginal douching with a diluted X solution
prevented infections and vaginal odour and thereby preserved
youth and marital bliss. The same solution was also used as birth
control agent, as post-coital douching was a popular method of
preventing pregnancy at that time.
• The use of X was later discouraged by the medical community as it
tended to eliminate the bacteria normal to healthy vagina, thus
allowing more robust health threatening bacteria to thrive.
• X is now used for a different purpose altogether. (Image next slide)
• ID X.

93. <SAFETY>

94. ANSWER
• Lysol

95. 14
• This is a picture of a razor wire. Of late,
German companies like Mutanox have refused
to sell this item to the Hungarian government
forgoing profits to the tune of 0.5 million Euro
for a specific reason.
• Why?

96. <SAFETY>

97. ANSWER
These razor wires were used in fences that often
wounded refugees and prevented them from
crossing the boundary.

98. 15
• What has been depicted in the painting?

99. 15 (contd)

100. <SAFETY>

101. ANSWER
• Hell. Court of Yama.
• ID the river, anyone?

102. 16
• Ida May Fuller was born on a farm in Vermont in
1874. She spent much of her life there, working
as a legal secretary and later retired in 1939. She
died in January, 1975, at age 100.
• She later said,"It wasn't that I expected anything,
mind you, but I knew I'd been paying for
something called _______ and I wanted to ask
the people in Rutland about it.” (Image)
• What did she become famous for?

103. 16 (contd)

104. <SAFETY>

105. ANSWER
• First person to receive the cheque for social
security.

106. 17
• An ambitious team of architects and structural engineers is campaigning
to raise funds for building something. Their goal is to raise £1.85 Billions
within 60 days.
• They say, "We all share a love of ______'s work, and a desire to challenge
the common perception of community and architecture. We believe that,
in realising X, we could create not only the most remarkable tourist
attraction on the planet, but also a wonderfully unique place to live and
work. We'd love to create both residential and commercial properties,
allowing for sustainable growth and a high quality of life. Residential
properties would be categorised by tier, quality and size. Tiers vary from
1-5, quality varies from 2-5 stars, with the higher star denoting higher
quality, and size varies from 1-4 bedrooms. A "3.4.2 property", for
instance, would be located in the 3rd tier of the city, be of a 4 star quality
and have 2 bedrooms - perfect for a young family."
• ID X.

107. <SAFETY>

108. ANSWER
• Minas Tirith

109. 18
• This has an average blade length of around 12
inches.
• The blades are often completely blunt.
• It gained popularity in Napolean's France for a
very specific purpose.
• What is it used for? (image on the next slide)

110. 18 (contd)

111. <SAFETY>

112. ANSWER
• Opening champagne bottles

113. 19
• Lucky Diamond Rich, born in 1971, is a
performance artist, street performer, and
international arts festival performer whose act
includes sword swallowing and juggling a
variety of items while on a unicycle.He has
held the certified Guinness World Record
since 2006 for a very specific reason. Kya hai?
(image on the next slide)

114. 19 (contd)

115. <SAFETY>

116. ANSWER
• Only person to have his entire body tattooed.
• Like 100%.

117. 20
• Sesame Street Parody of which famous
personality?

118. 20 (contd)

119. <SAFETY>

120. ANSWER
• Donald Trump

121. THANK YOU!