1. QUIZ TIME 2014
Below are the questions asked in the final round of the
Quiz titled ‘Quiz Time’ on 23rd November, 2014.
Audio-visual questions are not included as they are not
supported here. Apart from these questions, two
rounds were conducted by Mr Abhra Das (whose
questions are not included here).
Questions from the prelims of the event have already
been uploaded.
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9. RULES
Written round.
Seven variables from A-G.
5 points per correct answer.
Full house ensures a further +15.
10. Brother to the present
Duchess of Cornwall,
author of books like
‘Travels On My Elephant’,
‘River Dog’ etc, this is the
picture of A. He died in
April, 2014.
11. B is another book written by A. It went on to win
the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and
the Prix Litteraire d'Amis. Also made into a
documentary by the BBC with the same name.
12. C is the subject of the book B, and is broadly
considered the first of his/her kind. The success of
the book B made C well known in international
circles.
13. C’s sister D is a famous personality in another
field- an exponent in her chosen genre. A
documentary film titled E, made on the
Padmashree awardee D’s life won the National
Award for the best biographical film in 1997. E
and B both feature an animal in their names and
in fact, both sound similar.
14. C and D’s uncle was F. F was a famous name
himself and is best known in quizzical circles for
his involvement in a ‘project’ titled G. The
‘project’ G has been attempted many times by
many people with varying degrees of success.
16. RULES
Written round.
Seven variables from A-G.
5 points per correct answer.
Full house ensures a further +15.
17. Brother to the present
Duchess of Cornwall,
author of books like
‘Travels On My Elephant’,
‘River Dog’ etc, this is the
picture of A. He died in
April, 2014.
19. B is another book written by A. It went on to win
the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and
the Prix Litteraire d'Amis. Also made into a
documentary by the BBC with the same name.
21. C is the subject of the book B, and is broadly
considered the first of his/her kind. The success of
the book B made C well known in international
circles.
23. C’s sister D is a famous personality in another
field- an exponent in her chosen genre. A
documentary film titled E, made on the
Padmashree awardee D’s life won the National
Award for the best biographical film in 1997. E
and B both feature an animal in their names and
in fact, both sound similar.
25. C and D’s uncle was F. F was a famous name
himself and is best known in quizzical circles for
his involvement in a ‘project’ titled G. The
‘project’ G has been attempted many times by
many people with varying degrees of success.
31. Its owner originally wanted to call his company
'Relentless' . He even bought the domain name. So, if
you type www.relentless.com in your browser, which
website will you reach?
33. Sometime in the 1970s, somewhere in California, the
guy on the left- Ronnie Rondell and the guy on the
right- Danny Rogers greeted each other. How is this
meeting between these two ensconced in public
memory?
35. German “Was du heute kannst besorgen, das
verschiebe nicht auf morgen” – "Never put off till
tomorrow what may be done today"
Italian- “Il mattino ha l’oro in bocca” – "The morning
has gold in its mouth"
French -“Un ‘Tiens’ vaut mieux que deux ‘Tu
l'auras’ – "One 'here you go' is worth more than two
'you'll have its'", the equivalent of "A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush"
Spanish -No por mucho madrugar amanece más
temprano – "No matter how early you get up, you
can't make the sun rise any sooner”
English- ???
36. (Video removed) These were the proverbs used in the
movie ‘The Shining’ when dubbed in other
languages.
37. According to Vimalasuri, this child was gifted
with a necklace containing nine mirrors. This, he
hints, may be the reason for a popular
misconception that is prevalent among us
Indians. What misconception? Or who is the
child being referred here?
38. It created the illusion of the child having ten
heads. Hence, also called ‘Dashanan’
(Ravan)
39. It was conceived and launched by the National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on March 26,
2012. It was created to fulfill the Reserve Bank of
India’s desire to have a domestic, open loop, and
multilateral system of payments in India. Earlier it
incorporated the name ‘India’ but was changed to its
present one to avoid naming conflicts with other
financial institutions using the same name. What
scheme/ system of payments?
41. This commonly encountered system, a derivative of
another system with a similar name, has the slogan
“Stop Spam, read books”. Which system that was
originally developed by Louis von Ahn and
colleagues and was acquired by Google in 2009?
43. A (pic shown above) is a developmental congenital disorder
caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube
resulting in the condition A, which gets its name from the latin
for ‘Split Spine’.
B is a box that may be a designated spot for a pet to pass faeces.
C is a slang word for female genitalia.
A, B and C were all considered, as were others. Ultimately D was
adopted. What is D?
45. This doctor from Forbesganj in
Bihar was in the first batch of
students admitted to the then
Prince of Wales Medical College at
Patna (now known as Patna
Medical College) from where he
did his MBBS in 1931. His patients
included a famous Hindi writer
who later based one of the
protagonists in his most well
known work upon this person.
Either name him or the work that
is referred here.
47. Founded by Stepan Pachikov, this is a suite of
software and services. It has an animal as its logo.
To the question- “Why that particular animal as the
logo?”, it has been suggested, and is probably
implied, that the answer can be found in the book
title of an Agatha Christie novel featuring Hercule
Poirot, or the alternate name of the 1939 Oliver
Hardy movie called Zenobia- both of which may
have been derived from a popular belief. Which
suite of software and services am I talking about?
49. The two word phrase is nowadays used, typically in
politics and economics, to describe any
construction (literal or figurative) built solely to
deceive others into thinking that some situation is
better than it really is. It derives from the name of
Gregory ________ (whose name would be familiar
to movie buffs for a different reason) who
supposedly erected fake settlements along the
banks of the Dneiper river in order to fool Empress
Catherine II during her journey to Crimea in 1787.
Which two word phrase?
51. 12. This is a clipping of a news report
published in a French newspaper
called Le Petit Journal in 1886 . The
report talks of a someone, “who
went and rang at the door of a
house of ill repute and gave
something in a folded piece of
paper to the person who came to
open it, saying ‘Take it, it will be
useful’.”
The report goes on to say- “He then
left. The police searched for this
individual and found him lying at
his house. His very serious
condition necessitated his transfer
to hospital.”
What is the report talking about?
53. 13. “After many years in which the world has afforded me many experiences,
what I know most surely in the long run about morality and obligations, I owe
to football”
The guy wearing the dark colour jersey in the front row was referring to his
college days when he played goalie for the Racing Universitaire Algerios
(RUA) junior team. He would contract tuberculosis at the age of 18 which cut
short his not-so-promising football career. He would later go on to say-
“I learned . . . that a ball never arrives from the direction you expected it. That
helped me in later life, especially in mainland France, where nobody plays
straight.”
55. 14
“Once, long ago, I took instruction in a certain skill or subject
and in doing so, came into contact with a teacher or instructor
whom I disliked intensely on sight.
The woman in question returned my antipathy with interest.
Why we took against each other so instantly, heartily and (on
my side, at least) irrationally, I honestly cannot say. What
sticks in my mind is her pronounced taste for twee accessories.
I particularly recall a tiny little plastic bow slide, pale lemon in
colour that she wore in her short curly hair…. Her tendency to
wear frills where (I felt) frills had no business to be, and to
carry undersized handbags, again as though they had been
borrowed from a child’s dressing-up box, jarred, I felt, with a
personality that I found the reverse of sweet, innocent and
ingenuous.”
Who talking about what?
56. JK ROWLING talking about her inspiration for the
creation of DOLORES UMBRIDGE
57. 15. The phrase was popularized after the
name of this painting by WWII artist and
correspondent Tom Lea, which was
published in LIFE Magazine in 1945.
About the real-life Marine who was his
subject, Lea said:
He left the States 31 months ago. He was
wounded in his first campaign. He has
had tropical diseases. He half-sleeps at
night and gouges Japs out of holes all day.
Two-thirds of his company has been killed
or wounded. He will return to attack this
morning. How much can a human being
endure?
What is this phrase, used to describe the
limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-
weary soldier?
58. The painting is called 'The 2000-yard stare'
The phrase is 'thousand-yard stare/ 2000 yard-stare'
59. 16. This is the picture of an
obelisk found in Upper Egypt in
1815, named after the place
where it was found. This, along
with something else (X), served
a very useful role in Jean-
François Champollion’s most
famous work. Why is this
obelisk, and the X, in the news?
60. The Philae obelisk and the Rosetta stone (X) were
instrumental in Champollion’s deciphering the
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by
the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study
of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) with
both an orbiter, and lander module Philae. it is hoped
that these spacecraft will result in better understanding
of comets and the early Solar System. In a more direct
analogy to its namesake, the Rosetta spacecraft also
carries a micro-etched nickel alloy Rosetta disc donated
by the Long Now Foundation inscribed with 13,000
pages of text in 1200 different languages
61. 17. This is part of a text quoted by Galen from
someone’s book: “ For _______ ____, powder red
sulphuret of arsenic and take it up with oak gum, as
much as it will bear. Put on a rag and apply, having
soaped the place well first. I have mixed the above
with a foam of nitrite, and it worked well.” Who is
the author and what is the cure for?
67. 20. Question in next slide
He tuned his thoughts to electronic (a)
Circuitry. This soothed his mind. (b)
He left irregular (moronic) (a)
Sentimentality behind. (b)
He thought of or-gates and of and-gates, (c)
Of ROMs, of nor-gates, and of nand-gates, (c)
Of nanoseconds, megabytes, (d)
And bits and nibbles… but as flights (d)
Of silhouetted birds move cawing (e)
Across the pine-serrated sky, (f)
Dragged from his cove, not knowing why, (f)
He feels an urgent riptide drawing (e)
Him far out, where, caught in the kelp (g)
Of loneliness, he cries for help. (g)
68. 20. Lines from ‘The Golden Gate’- a novel in verse by
Vikram Seth. This stanza follows the rhyming
scheme of ‘ababccddeffegg’, in fact, the whole book
follows the scheme. Also called Pushkin sonnets, this
type of verse takes its name from Pushkin’s novel in
verse written around 1830. What name is given to
such a rhyming scheme?
71. DEATH OF ARYTON SENNA
Changes in San Marino F1 circuit
following his death.
72. 22
A BIn a coat of arms, A and B are used
to denote the sides (from the
viewpoint of the bearer of the
shield on which the coat of arms
exists).
Now, depending on your
inclinations and viewing habits,
A may remind you of two
fictional characters- one a boy
genius, the other a serial killer.
B, in contrast to its roots, now
means someone/something
malicious or underhanded.
Give me both A and B.
74. 23
Whose line of designer sarees which was launched in
collaboration with HomeShop18?
76. 24
He is V Sunil. His latest creation- which was made cog
by cog-is in the limelight since being ‘unleashed’ on
the world recently. What is this latest creation of his
that we are talking about?
77. The ‘Make in India’ Logo
Wieden+ Kennedy
Previous works include ‘Incredible India’
and Nokia’s ‘Made for India’
78. 25
It is called ‘Verse’. It is a new email service that tries to
algorithmically determine who the most important
contacts are based on correspondence history basing
itself around the idea that ‘who sent a message is
important, not the date or subject line’. Who is
launching this email service?
81. RULES
Written round.
Seven questions. Answers linked by a theme.
Theme on pounce. Marks decrease with successive
slides. Marks mentioned in the slides.
Individual answers for 10 points apiece.
Total 105 points on offer.
82. 1
In automobiles and other
wheeled vehicles, this
device allows the outer
drive wheel to rotate
faster than the inner
drive wheel during a turn.
What name is given to
such a device?
+35/-30
83. 2
(Audio removed). Title track of a 1967 Hollywood
movie starring Elvis Presley. The name of the song
or the movie please. (The lyrics may help in
guessing the answer.)
+30/-25
84. 3
It is a fictional government funded team
of superheroes first appearing in ‘Uncle Sam and
the Freedom Fighters #3’ published by DC Comics.
Members include Americommando, Barracuda,
Chief Justice, Embargo, Lady Liberty etc.
It is also a term used commonly in nuclear strategy
in particular, and in warfare in general. It also
forms a key plot element in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964
movie ‘Dr. Strangelove’. The two word name/term
please.
+25/-20
85. 4
A popular series of mysteries written for children by
Ron Roy, how are these collectively known?
The Absent Author (1997)
The Bald Bandit (1997)
The Canary Caper (1998)
The Deadly Dungeon (1998)
The Empty Envelope (1998)
The Falcon's Feathers (1998)
The Goose's Gold (1998)
The Haunted Hotel (1999)
The Invisible Island (1999)
The Jaguar's Jewel (2000)
The Kidnapped King (2000)
The Lucky Lottery (2000)
The Missing Mummy (2001)
The Ninth Nugget (2001)
The Orange Outlaw (2001)
The Panda Puzzle (2002)
The Quicksand Question (2002)
The Runaway Racehorse (2002)
The School Skeleton (2003)
The Talking T-Rex (2003)
The Unwilling Umpire (2004)
The Vampire's Vacation (2004)
The White Wolf (2004)
The X'ed-Out X-Ray (2005)
The Yellow Yacht (2005)
The Zombie Zone (2005)
+20/-15
86. 5
(Video removed). In basketball, what are such
kind of shots that are taken before the timer stops
but get completed afterwards called?
+15/-10
87. 6
It is a fine powder formerly
used to smooth and finish
writing paper and soak up ink.
It derives its name from the
Latin word for the material
shown alongside via a French
intermediate. Its name please.
+10/-5
90. RULES
Written round.
Seven questions. Answers linked by a theme.
Theme on pounce. Marks decrease with successive
slides. Marks mentioned in the slides.
Individual answers for 10 points apiece.
Total 105 points on offer.
91. 1
In automobiles and other
wheeled vehicles, this
device allows the outer
drive wheel to rotate
faster than the inner
drive wheel during a turn.
What name is given to
such a device?
+35/-30
93. 2
(Audio removed). Title track of a 1967 Hollywood
movie starring Elvis Presley. The name of the song
or the movie please. (The lyrics may help in
guessing the answer.)
+30/-25
95. 3
It is a fictional government funded team
of superheroes first appearing in ‘Uncle Sam and
the Freedom Fighters #3’ published by DC Comics.
Members include Americommando, Barracuda,
Chief Justice, Embargo, Lady Liberty etc.
It is also a term used commonly in nuclear strategy
in particular, and in warfare in general. It also
forms a key plot element in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964
movie ‘Dr. Strangelove’. The two word name/term
please.
+25/-20
97. 4
A popular series of mysteries written for children by
Ron Roy, how are these collectively known?
The Absent Author (1997)
The Bald Bandit (1997)
The Canary Caper (1998)
The Deadly Dungeon (1998)
The Empty Envelope (1998)
The Falcon's Feathers (1998)
The Goose's Gold (1998)
The Haunted Hotel (1999)
The Invisible Island (1999)
The Jaguar's Jewel (2000)
The Kidnapped King (2000)
The Lucky Lottery (2000)
The Missing Mummy (2001)
The Ninth Nugget (2001)
The Orange Outlaw (2001)
The Panda Puzzle (2002)
The Quicksand Question (2002)
The Runaway Racehorse (2002)
The School Skeleton (2003)
The Talking T-Rex (2003)
The Unwilling Umpire (2004)
The Vampire's Vacation (2004)
The White Wolf (2004)
The X'ed-Out X-Ray (2005)
The Yellow Yacht (2005)
The Zombie Zone (2005)
+20/-15
101. 6
It is a fine powder formerly
used to smooth and finish
writing paper and soak up ink.
It derives its name from the
Latin word for the material
shown alongside via a French
intermediate. Its name please.
+10/-5