Gen q 2014 finals

QUIZMASTERS
•Pratik Sen
•Korok Dasgupta
•Shikhar Rana

• And Any Other Electrical appliances as well

The Deal
• The Prohibition Era
• Athena’s Strategy
• Choose your Poison
• The ‘X’ Factor
• Tryst with Destiny
• Carpe diem

The Prohibition Era
• Dry round
• Total No. of Questions- 8
• 4 go clockwise, 4 go anti-clockwise
• Infinite Bounce
• Scores:- 10/0

1
• What disease is this Halitosis?

ANSWER
• There is no such disease. Halitosis was invented by
Listerine to sell their mouthwash.

2
• This painting is often interpreted as rejecting the idea of
time to be rigid and deterministic in line with Einstein’s
Theory of Relativity but the artist himself thought of it as ‘a
surrealistic expression of a Camembert cheese melting in
the sun’.
• ID the painting and the painter.

ANSWER
• Persistence of Memory painted by Salvador Dali

3
• This is a folk song made popular in the US and Europe
during the 1960s folk revival and involves the lament by a
traveller who is far out of home and is ashamed to return.
This song has been recorded by many artists like Peter,
Paul and Mary, Elvis Presley, the Highwaymen, Justin
Timberlake, Brothers Four to name a few.
• This song has been remade into versions in other
languages as well in French, German, Spanish etc. It also
has a Hindi version from the Indian film ‘Jurm’ (1990)
sung by Kumar Sanu and Sadhna Sargam.

4
• If this was the first
• What came
Between them?
• And this was the last

ANSWER
• The only 3 animated movies to be nominated for The Best
Picture at the Oscars.

6
• “Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.”
• About what?

ANSWER
• This is a verse written in Shah Jahan nama; said to have
been recited in Urdu by the emperor himself when he had
first seen ...

7
• A magician performs an illusion for a young girl explaining
that each trick has three parts; The Pledge, where the
audience is presented with an ordinary object; The Turn,
where the object is turned into something extraordinary;
and The ______, where the object is brought back.
• FITB or give the movie where this is shown.(Both are the
same)

8
• Mohini Bhasmasur is a 1913 Indian mythological film
directed by Dadasaheb Phalke and starring Kamlabai
Gokhale and Durgabai Kamat. It is India's and Phalke's
second full-length film.
• Why is this movie significant in the history of Indian
cinema?

ANSWER
• This was the first time that a woman had faced a camera
in India.
• Raja Harishchandra had male actors only

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• Where would you find the phrase ‘yaatra pratibha avsara
prapnotihi’ (where talent meets opportunity), inscribed in
English but in a Sanskrit-like script?

Athena’s Strategy
• Rules:-
• 8 Questions in the round
• 4 go clockwise, 4 go anti-clockwise
• Scoring- 10/0
• Infinite Bounce
• Doubling of points is allowed
• Scores– 20/-10

1
• Minimalist Poster of which movie?
• Hint:- Think WWII and recent events…

2
• The patent application reads. "For the special event
company logo, the system may modify a standard
company logo for a special event to create a special event
logo, associate one or more search terms with the special
event logo, and upload the special event logo to the web
page. The system may then receive a user selection of
the special event logo and provide search results relating
to the special event.“
• Patent for?

3
• The history of this board game can be traced back to
1903 when an American woman named Elizabeth Maggie
Philips created it to explain the single tax theory to Henry
George. In 1941, the British Secret Intelligence Service
had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of
the game in the United Kingdom, create a special edition
for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.
Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real
money, and other objects useful for escaping. They were
distributed to prisoners by Secret Service-created fake
charity groups.

4
• Born in St Johns this person played as a centre back in
the Antigua and Barbuda football team in the world cup
qualifiers in the 1974 world cup where he earned the
nickname 'the Bull'. The home stadium of the A and B
football team is also named after him. But he is better
known for his contributions in another sport. ID him.

5
• 49-O: Elector deciding X.—If an elector, after his electoral
roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters
in Form 17A and has put his signature or thumb
impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule
49L, decided not to___________- a remark to this effect
shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the
presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of
the elector shall be obtained against such remark.
• Rule 49-O was a rule in The Conduct of Elections Rules,
1961
• What is this specifically about?

ANSWER
• The ‘None of the Above’(NOTA) option to be put in use in
the General Elections 2014.

6
• This is the Red Vineyard at Arles (The Vigne Rouge)
painted by Vincent van Gogh, which is now in the Pushkin
Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. It was exhibited in
Brussels in 1890 at the annual exhibition of Les XX, and
sold for 400 francs.
• What is so significant about this?
Pic next slide

ANSWER
• This was the only painting Van Gogh ever sold in his
lifetime.

7
• X’s spoken word performance at the UNHRC in 1999
caught the eye of Youssou N’Dour who invited him to
collaborate on Youssou’s next album. His own first album
came out in 2005 called the Dusty Road Philosopher.
• He then became very closely related to the FIFA World
Cup of 2010. What is the relation?

8
• X was the first baseball player to induce mass frenzy
about the sport. He started his career as a pitcher but
soon became a hitter famous for hitting homeruns. He
was a member of the famous Murderer’s Row lineup of
New York Yankees another of whose famous member
was Lou Gehrig. His nicknames were ‘The Bambino’ and
‘The Sultan of Swat’.
• ID X.

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• “This Man is Busting Wall Street" and "Sheriff of Wall
Street" are some tags given to him by the Time Magazine.
• ID?

ANSWER
• Preet Bhararra; the lawyer who had represented the
Commonwealth of the United States against Devyani
Khobragade and the Indian consulate in America.

Choose your Poison
• Topics Round!
• Total no. of 12 “poisons” to choose from
• Teams with lower points will get to choose their
topics first
• Choose your poison– It may be your Salvation
• Scores:- 10/-5
• Topics not chosen or answered incorrectly by a
team will be open on Pounce
• Scores:- 20/-10

A LA CARTÉ OF POISONS
• MYTHOLOGY
• SPORT
• HISTORY
• INDIA
• TELEVISION
• SCIENCE
• BOOKS
• GEOGRAPHY
• FOOD
• ENTERTAINMENT
• ART
• QUIZMASTERS’ CHOICE

MYTHOLOGY
• X was a mythological Greek hero, the son of King Telamon and
Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an
important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series
of epic poems about the Trojan War. He was also the cousin of
the great hero Achilles. He was the only Greek leader who was
not guided by any god.
• Like most of the other Greek leaders, X was alive and well as
the Iliad comes to a close. Later, when Achilles is killed
by Paris (with help from Apollo), he and Odysseus are the
heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body ;X with his
great shield and spear, manages to drive off the Trojans, while
Odysseus pulls the body to his chariot, and rides away with it to
safety.
• Football fans now know X because a Dutch football Club is
named in his honor.
• X?

SPORTS
• "The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals,
stretching out to receive the world. From the remarkable
dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture
rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of
victory.“--- What has been described thus?

HISTORY
• X is an anglicized term describing a method of warfare
whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense
concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized
infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air
support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense
through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks; and once in
the enemy's territory, proceeds to dislocate them using speed
and surprise, and then encircle them. Through the employment
of combined arms in maneuver warfare, the X attempts to
unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for them to respond
effectively to the continuously changing front, and defeat them
through a decisive battle of annihilation.
• This technique of warfare was extensively used by the Nazis
during WW2 and has recently come to fame due to its use by
various journalists to describe Germany’s 7-1 win over Brazil in
the FIFA World Cup 2014 (#YES)
• ID

INDIA
• Connect the following pictures

TELEVISION
• The Musical theme for which TV series?

TELEVISION
• What in the world of our favourite ‘idiot-box’ started with—
“There’s nothing to tell. It’s just some guy I work with.”
And ended with a sarcastic—
“Sure, where?”

SCIENCE
• On one particular hiking trip in 1941, Swiss engineer
Georges de Mestral found burrs clinging to his pants and
also to his dog's fur. On closer inspection, he found that
the burr's hooks would cling to anything loop-shaped. If he
could only artificially re-create the loops, he might be on
to something. One of its most notable clients in the 1960s
was NASA. The agency used the material in flight suits
and to help secure items in zero gravity.
• ID the ‘object’ invented by Mestral

BOOKS
• A fictional disease invented by Roald Dahl's friend Thwaites
during their schooldays in Llandaff, England. Thwaites made
this up to amuse Roald and the other friends, but he says his
dad told him about the disease, which is apparently contracted
from eating liquorice bootlaces. Thwaites says that the
licquorice bootlaces actually have rat's blood rather than
licquorice, and they are done this way by rat-catchers bringing
their rats to the sweet factory where they pound the rats into a
paste, then mash it up to form licquorice bootlaces. Thwaites
told Roald and his friends never to eat them, because if they
did, a rat's tail would burst out of their buttocks and their teeth
would turn into fangs. Only Roald and his friends saw the joke;
Thwaites took it with deadpan humour.
• ID the disease.

GEOGRAPHY
• Located on the 51˚48́ N latitude this is a district in south
east London 5.5 miles from the Charing Cross. This
region is well-noted for its maritime history. This is home
to many well-noted landmarks like the Palace of
Placentia, the Maritime Museum, the Royal Naval College
and the most famous of all the ___ ____. The maritime
center of this town became a world heritage site in 1997.
It is of great importance internationally because of its
position.
• ID this district.

ANSWER
• Greenwich
• The blank is Royal Observatory.

FOOD
• Fruits used for _____ ______ include cherries, raisins,
and pineapple, often augmented with nuts. In the
Netherlands, _____ ______ is a compote of dried fruits,
served as a dessert or a side dish to a meat course. In
Belgium, _____ ______ is often seen as a dessert.
Typically, it contains a combination of raisins, currants,
apricots, prunes, dates, and figs. The dish is quite popular
in Belgium. In India it is popular as an ice-cream flavour
• In the United States, _____ ______ can also refer to fruits
soaked in brandy or other spirits, or even to fruit
fermented in a liquid containing sugar and yeast.
• Fill in the blanks.

ENTERTAINMENT
• The following video has X in the role of Captain Teague,
Jack Sparrow’s father in this clip from Pirates of the
Caribbean: At The World’s End.
• X is famous in the entertainment world in another role.
• ID X.

ART
• In the spring of 1962, X had been working on his new
renditions of ads and comic strips when he saw Roy
Lichtenstein’s comic-strip paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery.
Soliciting suggestions for subjects to paint, he asked a
friend, who suggested he choose something that
everybody recognized like Y. In a flash of inspiration he
bought cans from the store and began to trace projections
onto canvas, tightly painting within the outlines to
resemble the appearance of the original offset lithograph
labels. Expanding his subject, he decided to paint one of
each of the thirty-two varieties of Y. Irving Blum of Ferus
Gallery, Los Angeles exhibited the Y on shelves running
the length of his gallery.
• ID X and Y

ANSWER
• X- Andy Warhol
• Y-

QUIZMASTER’S CHOICE
• ID X.
• X has a master’s degrees in chemistry, philosophy and
theology.
• X knows Spanish, Italian and German and some English,
French, Portuguese, and Piedmontese, a dialect of northwest
Italy.
• X is a soccer fan.
• X came into the possession of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
He sold the bike at an auction that benefited the homeless.
Always one to eschew fancy rides, X traded in his Mercedes-
Benz for a “30-year-old Renault 4 with 186,000 miles on the
clock”.
• X once worked as a bouncer and has only one lung.
• X is the first non-European head of a particular ‘organization’ in
1200 years.

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• This 61-yr old institution made humble beginnings and
currently has 13500 ‘members. It featured in the Guiness
Book of World Records from 1984 to 1992 as the largest
of its kind and in 2007 was hailed as the fourth most
respected of its kind in the national league table. The
record currently is held by a counterpart in Lucknow. The
members of this institution are interestingly known by a
breed of dog.
• ID?

The ‘X’ Factor
• Consists of two parts:-
• Ist Part-
LVC
• 2nd part-
Theme round
• Total six questions
• One theme connects all the answers of the
questions
• Scoring patterns are displayed in each slide

HINT:
• Think about a particular television sitcom.

1
• X is a historical country of Central Europe, occupying the
western two-thirds of the traditional Czech lands. It is
located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its
capital in Prague. X was a kingdom in the Holy Roman
Empire and subsequently a province in
the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire.
• X also forms a part of the title of a very popular yet queer
rock song by a famous 1970s group.
ID X.
+60/-30

2
• X fever is an infectious disease which most commonly
affects 4–8-year-old children. Symptoms include sore
throat, fever and a characteristic red rash. Most of the
clinical features are caused by erythrogenic toxin.
• X is a bright red colour with a slightly orange tinge. In the
spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional colour
wheel it is one-fourth of the way between red and orange,
slightly less orange than vermilion.
• ID X.
+50/-25

3
• X Old Face is a transitional serif typeface designed in
1757 by John X (1706–1775) in the X Hall
at Birmingham, England.
• ID X.
+40/-20

4
• X is a large abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or
more openings draining pus onto the skin, usually caused
by bacterial infection.
• X is an archaic name given to any
red cabochon cut gemstone. The name applied
particularly to red garnet. The word occurs in four places
in most English translations of the Bible.
• ID X.
+30/-15

5
• ‘Our Leader, Comrade X, Father of All Animals, Terror of
Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings' Friend’ is
a fictional character and the main antagonist in George
Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm
pig, he gets rid of Snowball, another pig which shares the
power. He then takes advantage of the animals' uprising
against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical
"President" of Animal Farm, which he turns into a
dictatorship
• ID X.
+20/-10

6
• Piyush Chawla played for which English county till 2009
after which he joined Somerset as their overseas player?
+10/-5

ANSWERS
• Bohemia
• Scarlet
• Baskerville
• Carbuncle
• Napoleon
• Sussex

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• This is the logo of what, which we all know( and
sometimes hate)?

TRYST With Destiny
• Total six questions
• Scoring system: 10/0
• Open on pounce
• Two pounces per team
• Scoring system: 20/-10

1
• This is a peninsula on the northern coast of the black sea
historically known as the Tauric peninsula. It was the site
of a major war from October 1853 to February 1856
where Russia lost to alliance of France, Britain, the
ottoman empire and Sardinia. This area was the fuel for
intense political conflict recently.
• ID

2
• This is whose statue in the beach of Samos in
Greece?

3
• Which recent Hollywood movie’s name was derived from
a title given to the main protagonist by Forbes magazine?

4
• What is this a representation of?

ANSWER
• Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident.

5
• This book gave the
Allies a knowledge of
what for the first time?

6
• X was born on the British protectorate of Sultanate of
Zanzibar, East Africa (now part of Tanzania). His parents,
Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Parsis from
the Gujarat region of the then province of Bombay
Presidency in British India.In the Gujarati local language
he is also known as Pharokh Bulsara

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• Which two famous buildings in the world have the
postcodes SW1A 1AA and SW1A 2AA?

ANSWER
• Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street.

Carpe Diem
• Total 12 questions
• Each team gets a minimum of 1 question. A second
question is optional.
• For the compulsory first question, 3 scoring options are
available 10/0, 20/-10, 30/-15
• The teams have to choose the scoring option before the
question is given
• The team with the lowest score gets to choose their
option first.
• Infinite Pounce is available(20/-10)
• For the second optional question the available scoring
pattern is 20/-10

1
• In German, the match is known as ‘Nichtangriffspakt von
Gijon’ or ‘Schande von Gijon’ (Disgrace of Gijon). It was
played between West Germany and Austria in the 1982
World Cup. Why is it such a blemish in the history of
World Cup?

ANSWER
• Depending on the result Algeria would have gone into the
second round at the expense of either West Germany or
Austria. So they played for a mutually beneficial 1-0 win
for West Germany.

ANSWER
• Hillsborough disaster at the Sheffield Stadium on 15th
April 1989 which resulted in the death of 96 people.

3
• X is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person
to person within a culture.” A X acts as a unit for
carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be
transmitted from one mind to another through writing,
speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena
with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard
them as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate,
mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
• The word X means "imitated thing", or "to imitate“ in
Greek and it was coined by the British evolutionary
biologist Richard Dawkins

4
• In archery, if an Archer hits a bull’s eye once and then hit
it again by splitting the shaft of the previous one through
the middle it is denoted by a particular term. What is the
term?

5
• The can contains water (~80%), butane (~17%),
surfactant (~1%), and other ingredients (~2%). The
butane expands when the pressure changes, forming
small drops of butane, covered with water, on the ground.
Eventually the butane evaporates, leaving only water and
surfactant residue on the ground. What are we talking
about?

6
• Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, better known as X was a
noted Indian con man known for having repeatedly "sold"
the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, and the Rashtrapati
Bhavan and also the Parliament House of India along with
its 545 sitting members. He was a living-legend in his
lifetime and a legend even after his death.
• He is also said to have cheated number of industrialists
including the Tatas, the Birlas and also Dhirubhai
Ambani taking from them huge money in cash, posing as
social worker or needy person.
• A film featuring Amitabh Bachchan was made on him.
What was the film(X) called?

8
• How have these historical
characters been immortalised
in pop culture?

9
• Graham Poll was officiating as the match referee in the
2006 World Cup Group F match between Australia and
Croatia. With scores tied at 2-2 with Australia just about to
put in a goal he blew the final whistle. Then Josep
Simunic was shown a red card for showing dissent. This
has gone down in World Cup history as one of the most
controversial decisions. Why?

ANSWER
• Simunic was mistakenly shown 3 yellow cards before
being sent off by the ref.

ANSWER
• SnapDeal's founder Kunal Bahl wanted to do something
good with his company's burgeoning profits,
• His answer? Water. He found out that a mere $5,000
would install 15 hand pumps that would make it so the
villagers wouldn't have to walk nearly two miles just to get
clean water.
• The villagers were so grateful for the SnapDeal.com-branded
pumps distributed throughout the city, they
decided to change the name of their village, formerly
known as Shiv Nagar to SnapDeal.com Nagar.

11
• Id both the minimalist posters for full points.
Pics on next slide

12
• Ed Gein was a serial killer from Wisconsin who confessed
to the murders of Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice
Worden in 1957. As a child, Ed Gein was described as
being shy and honest. His mother was very controlling
and harsh. She told Ed that all women are evil, with the
obvious exception being herself. Ed Gein was convicted
of the murder of Bernice Worden and spent the rest of his
life in a mental facility. Which iconic film villain is based on
this person?

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