"QUIZ NIGHT" : KQA Pub Quiz - A QI Style Quiz at The Courtyard- Feb 2019- QM: Sai Ganesh

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Welcome Everyone to a
‘QI-style Quiz’,
where you get score
with 2 answers:
1 correct answer
and 1 interesting wrong
answer!

POUNCE WRITTEN ANSWER
60 SECONDS
SINCE THE QUESTION APPEARS
10 POINTS - CORRECT ANSWER
ZERO - WRONG ANSWER
FORMAT: For each question…
1ST
ANSWER

DIRECT /
PASS
POUNCE
ANSWER
Correct answer
FUNDA
Interesting related fact
PUN
Funny Pun / Wordplay
2 points 2 points
WRITTEN ANSWER
60 SECONDS
SINCE THE QUESTION APPEARS
10 POINTS - CORRECT ANSWER
ZERO - WRONG ANSWER
NO NEGATIVES
CORRECT ANSWER INTERESTING WRONG ANSWER
Obviously, not over above the pounce round
FORMAT: For each question…
10 points
NO NEGATIVES NO NEGATIVES
1ST
ANSWER
2ND
ANSWER

MITHUN - THE NAME GIVEN TO THE “DOMESTIC BISON”

SOME QUESTIONS
ARE DELIBERATELY
VAGUE TO
ENCOURAGE WILD
GUESSES.
SO BE A SPORT!

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT
WHEN YOU TURN OFF YOUR
PHONE OR TV OR IPAD?

Creator Charlie Brooker explained:
"When a screen is off it looks like a black mirror.
Because any TV, any LCD, any iPhone, any iPad –– if you just stare at it, it looks like a black
mirror, and there’s something cold and horrifying about that, and it was such a fitting title for the
show.
"I mean, I don’t know what else we would’ve called it – Spooky Technology Time?! It would’ve
been rubbish. I quite like the fact that people are watching it on their TV or on their laptop, or
their smartphone or whatever, and then as the end credits start running and the screen cuts to
black, they see themselves reflected."

If this is the answer what was the question?
• Try to be nice to people
• Avoid eating fat
• Read a good book every now and then,
• Get some walking in, and
• Try and live together in peace and harmony with people
of all creeds and nations.

• Try to be nice to people
• Avoid eating fat
• Read a good book every now
and then,
• Get some walking in, and
• Try and live together in peace
and harmony with people of all
creeds and nations.

WHO RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THIS,
REVEALING THE “MESSAGE BEHIND THE STUNT”?
"Recently, I started to crack. The
pressure of social media is hurting me.
If you're struggling too, talk to
someone."

And
the answer
is…
EUGENE THE EGG WITH THE MOST
POPULAR POST ON INSTAGRAM
WAS AN AD FOR MENTAL
HEALTHCARE.
”Recently, I started to crack. The
pressure of social media is hurting
me. If you're struggling too, talk to
someone."

To promote the movie
Simba, Ranveer Singh
became the first Bollywood
actor to appear on the cover
of which “magazine”, that
began in 1980?

With a pun-filled blogpost in October 2017,
Google Photos announced what important
innovation in facial recognition technology,
making it easier for people to tag / name /
identify photographs?

Facial recognition for pets
Google launched facial recognition for pets, so
you no longer have to search for breeds and
pets can get labelled making search easier.

A: 2226, B: 523
X: >100,000, Y: <200
A was chosen over B
because of B was
mainly a “Gujarati”.
X was chosen over Y
because X was in mythology,
and Y could be seen as
“abusive"
IDENTIFY A,B (5) & X,Y (5)

TIGERs: 2226, LIONS: 523
PEACOCKS: >100,000, GREAT INDIAN BUSTARD: <200
TIGER was chosen AS THE
NATIONAL ANIMAL OF INDIA
over THE ASIATIC LION because
of TIGERS WERE FOUND IN
MORE PLACES, AND ASIATIC
LIONS WERE LARGELY GROUND
IN AND AROUND GURJARAT.
PEACOCK was chosen as the
NATIONAL BIRD OF INDIA over the
GREAT INDIAN BUSTARD because
peacocks were represented in
Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic
mythologies, and BUSTARD could
be MISPRONOUNCED as
well..BASTARD.
As on 2018

What is this Guardian headline referring
to when it says "Daddles" and when it
says "Test Cricket's broadcast wars"?

The Test cricket duck on screen during the Channel Nine
Test cricket coverage. Channel 9 lost cricket Telecast rights
in Australia After 40 years! Fox Network won the bid in 2018

What is common to Narendra Modi and Steve Irwin ?

These shoes were created
for a specific purpose
which is reflected in their
name. The shoes have
specially designed soles
to deal with walking on a
special kind of surface.
WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF YOU
WERE WEARING THESE SHOES?

BOAT SHOES
As the story goes, the man who create BOAT SHOES Paul
Sperry had a problem - his leather shoes would slip while he
was on the deck of a ship.
But he noticed that his dog, Prince, had no issue climbing up
slippery icy cliffs. After closer inspection, he noticed tiny
grooves in the paws. To mimic this on a shoe, Sperry used a
penknife to cut the bottom of a rubber outsole shoe to
provide additional traction.

WHAT PRACTICE IS NOW BANNED IN DARTS AND F1, BUT STILL
CONTINUED IN OTHER SPORTS LIKE BOXING?
In January 2018, the Professional Darts Corporation banned a practice that has been in place for many decades.
A similar practice was banned by the new owners of Formula One in February 2018 ( though Monaco and
Russia have decided to retain this "deranged practice").
There have been calls for sports such as cycling, boxing, and UFC to follow suit and stop their similar practices.
Interestingly Formula One's "replacements" have been inspired by the practice in Football.
A) What practice has been now been stopped in Dart tournaments and most Formula One races?
B) What has Formula One copied from Football to replace this practice?

“GRID GIRLS / WALK ON GIRLS”

Professional Darts Corporation
announced it would end the practice
of “walk-on girls” – young women
in high heels and tight dresses who
accompany players to the stage.

Starting 2018, F1 has gotten rid of the
practice of having GRID GIRLS as part
the races, what they called “the young
women ogled by spectators and sprayed
with champagne by winning drivers.”

F1 NOW HAS GRID KIDS,
INSPIRED BY FOOTBALL

Shannon Gabriel, the West Indies fast
bowler was heard exchanging views with
Joe Root which ended with Joe root being
heard on the stump mic - “there is
nothing wrong with being gay”.
So knowing this, what song did the Barmy
Army welcome Gabriel when he came out
to bat?

UNTIL JULY 2018, WE SAW THE LEFT.
POST JULY, WE SAW THE RIGHT.
EXPLAIN

THE IMAGE
USED ON THE
RS.100 NOTE
USED TO BE THE IMAGE OF
MOUNT KANCHENJUNGA

"Rani ki Vav" (Queen's stepwell) in PATAN, GUJARAT IS WHAT IS REPRESENTED ON THE R.RS.100 NOTE

Which historic law was passed by in
March 2017, making Section 309 of the
Penal Code invalid for the first time?
Among the other implications especially in
Insurance, one of the smaller implications is that
people “do not have to wear green anymore”.
Somewhere in all of this, Wikipedia uses this
painting as a supporting illustration.

The MENTAL HEALTHCARE ACT was passed in 2017.
Making “an attempt to suicide” no longer a punishable
act.
Medical insurance now can cover Mental Health issues /
hospitalisation.
IMH has for the first time removed the rule that the patients have to
wear green uniforms.

In January 2019, Serena Williams starred in a Super Bowl ad campaign called
“The Ball is in Her Court" Campaign. For an app that salutes 'ultimate first
mover'.
Which brand?
In what unique way does the brand/ app claim “the first mover advantage” ?

Bumble - the
dating app
where the
woman gets to
message first.

The ‘Brisk Beat’ walking tour includes a look at the recycling area, a bakery, food
making workshop led by women, a look at households and a trip to the pottery
colony.
The longer tour named the The Longer Yard includes the red light district and the
garments section.
WHERE WOULD YOU BE TRAVELLING IF YOU TOOK PART IN THE BRISK
BEAT WALKING TOUR, OR THE LONGER YARD WALKING TOUR?
#WANDERLUST

The ‘Brisk Beat’ walking tour and The Longer Yard are the walking tours in Dharavi

Cinnamon
Sugar
Peach
Pear
Lettuce
Camphor
What can you tell us about the origins of these food items, wrt etymology?

THEIR NAMES (IN HINDI AND SANSKRIT) INDICATE THAT THEY ORIGINATED FROM CHINA
Cinnamon = DAL CHINI
Sugar = CHINI
Peach= CHINANI
Pear= CHINARAJAPUTRA
Lettuce= CHINISALIT
Camphor= CHINAKAPUTA

ACCORDING TO REITA FARIA WHAT
WAS THE REASON WHY SHE
STOOD OUT AMONG THE REST OF
THE FINALISTS, AND WHAT SHE
THOUGHT WAS THE REASON FOR
HER WIN?
THIS IS APT GIVEN THAT REITA FARIA
HAS ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT TO HER
NAME, WRT MISS WORLD CONTEST.

REITA FARIA WAS THE
FIRST EVER MISS WORLD
TO GO ON TO BECOME A
DOCTOR.
Other finalists : Miss France was described as one who wanted “to
invest in a beauty institute”, Miss Germany was a beautician, Miss
Canada was a model, and Miss Japan “just wants to become a
housewife”.
“The question put to me in the personality round was why I wanted to
be a doctor. When I replied that India needed more obstetricians and
gynaecologists, they said India has lots of babies. I said that that was
something we needed to discourage, which got a lot of applause,” says
Faria, who then found herself in the final three, along with Miss Greece
and Miss Yugoslavia, who was her favourite for the title.

#FunFact
The Indian beauty pageant industry was rather amateurish and not well
organised at all.
Faria: “During the Miss Bombay contest, the organisers realised that since
the Miss World had a swimsuit round, it was important to show our legs to
the judges. So, they asked the girls to lift their saris to their knees,” she
says. By the time the Miss India contest was held, a swimsuit round was
introduced in the pageant.

WHY DID NETFLIX FACE BACKLASH WITH RESPECT TO THESE FILMS?

NETFLIX ”BLACKWASHING” POSTERS TO TARGET
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

HOW DID THE KAMASUTRA
GET PUBLISHED?
ACCORDING TO WENDY DORINGER, RICHARD
BURTON USED A CLEVER LITTLE TACTIC IN
TRANSLATION TO AVOID OFFENDING THE BRITISH
SENSIBILITIES (AND LAW) SO THAT THEY WOULDN’T
LOOK AT THE KAMA SUTRA AS A TYPE OF
PORNOGRAPHY.

HE AVOIDED THE WORDS PENIS, AND VAGINA AND
THOUGH THE REST OF THE WORK IS TRANSLATED IN
ENGLISH, THE ORGANS ARE REFERRED TO AS LINGAM
AND YONI, SO AS TO SEEM LIKE EXOTIC INDIAN TERMS
AND WOULD AVOID CENSORSHIP.

What did the
Indian Censor
Board find
offensive in
the movie
Black
Panther?

What did the Indian
Censor Board find
offensive in the
movie Black
Panther?
In other words, the
name of which Hindu
God was censored in
the movie?

HANUMAN WAS
CENSORED.
IN THE COMICS AND
THE MOVIE, THE JABARI
TRIBE ARE KNOWN TO
WORSHIP THE MONKEY
GOD - HANUMAN.
THE EXACT DIALOGUE
IN THE CENSORED
SCENE WAS “GLORY TO
HANUMAN”.

HOW DO WE BETTER KNOW GITA?
Back in 1932, just a few days after Diwali, Gita who was
15-year-old then, found herself fascinated by her
mother’s new saree. On a whim, she picked it up and
draped it. Given that Gita was extremely close to her
father, she immediately ran to show him her new avatar.
The moment he saw her, he said, “You are looking very
beautiful. Let me make a sketch of you.”
For the next three days, wearing the light lavender
colour saree and holding something in her hand, Gita
posed for half-an-hour every day for her father, as he
made the sketch.
Who was her father, and how has she been immortalised
in a way that involves a case of “mistaken identity” of a
Malayalee?

SL Haldankar painted a sketch of his daughter, that became his famous painting.
This painting is often mistaken as done by Raja Ravi Verma

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