Visions g eneral quiz finals 2013

The Rules
45 Questions in the following categories
Round 1 – 10 Questions – Clockwise
Round 2 – 25 Questions in a Stage 3 format
Round 3 – 10 Questions – Anti Clockwise

Questions would be asked in Infinite Bounce
Direct Questions would be asked of the table subsequent to the one that has
answered the question irrespective of which table was asked the direct question
in the first place.
For e.g. – If the question is asked to Team 1 and is answered only after passing to
Table 4 then the next direct question would be asked of Team 5
If no team is able to answer the question then the next direct would be asked of
the same team. Therefore in the above example it would again go to Team 1

For a direct question or a pass – +5 points
For a Pounce – +5 if correct, -5 if wrong
Quiz Master’s Decision is Final and binding

Question 1
In 2011, in the German city of Darmstadt, the scientist Wilhelm
Roentgen, and the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus were three (official)
additions to a list that numbers just over a hundred. This decision was
taken at an institute in Darmstadt. Other members of this list include
such scientists as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Madame Curie, and
different places such as California, Copenhagen, and Germany.
What list are we talking about ?

Answer 1
Ans: List of elements named after people or place

Question 2
Ophiocordycepsunilateralis is a parasitoidal fungus that infects ants such
as Camponotusleonardi and alters their behavior. The ant falls from the
tree where it normally lives, climbs on the stem of a plant, clamps its
mandibles on a leaf and dies there, while the fungus consumes its
tissues and grows outside it, releasing its spores. The infected ants are
popularly known as ‘X’
Identify ‘X’

Question 3
The Currency notes in India later than 2005 generally have
mark to the mid left? What is its significance?

Answer 3
Answer: The raised geometrical shapes are different for different notes
and help even the blind identify the currency notes just by a touch!

Question 4
Andorra is primarily ruled by 2 co-princes. One of them is the Spanish
Bishop of Urgell. Who is the other? (Give the person’s title)

Answer 4
ANS. The French President

Question 5
What is being blanked out?

Question 6
This term originally meant 'storehouse', and now refers to a periodical
of various content and imaginative writing, on topics ranging from
science, to sports, to fashion. What is it called today?

Question 7
In Robert Heinleins Science Fiction novel ‘The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress”, underground colonies are scattered across the moon who’s
main computer is called High Optiona Logical Multi-Evaluating
Supervisor. As the novel progresses, the computer develops a sense of
humour, prompting the technician to name it MIKE.
Why mike?

Answer 7
MIKE for the Character ‘Mycroft HOLMES’

Question 8
The “Ig Nobles” are a spoof of the Nobel's; in 2011 mathematicians
were awarded this “for teaching the world to be careful when making
mathematical assumptions and calculations.
•Below are the names and the year of achievement? What
Achievement?
•Dorothy martin, USA, 1954
•Pat Robertson, USA, 1982
•Elizabeth Clare Prophet, USA,1990
•Lee Jang rim ,Korea ,1992
•Harold camping ,USA, Sept 6-7
•However Nostradamus was never added to this list

Answer 8
Ans: Predict the End of the World

Question 9
The Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala is now the site of a large museum. It
was a palace of the Tripura kings until it was given to the government.
What did it house until 2001?

Answer 9
Ans: Tripura Legislative Assembly

Question 10
The name of this tribe probably derives from two Marathi words
meaning “bundle of grass” and “who takes”. It came into existence
towards the end of the Mughal Empire in the 18th century. Consisting of
a motley group of people of varied ethnicities, they were scattered all
over the Maratha states. Instead of being paid for their services, they
were allowed to plunder without restriction. During 1817-18, a major
campaign was undertaken by Lord Hastings to wipe out this tribe and he
successfully managed to defeat some 30,000 of them. Which tribe is
this?

Stage 3 -Rules
5 sets of 5 questions each
Each set of 5 questions linked to a central theme OR Stage 2
Each of the Stage 2s have a common theme i.e. Stage 3
Scoring for the Stage 2 and 3 as under

For a direct question or a pass +5 points. (pounce)
No guesses allowed at the end of Question 1 OR Theme 1 for the Stage
2 and 3 respectively
1 attempt for the Stage 2 and 2 for the Stage 3
Quiz Master’s Decision is Final and binding

Answer
•Clip of the movie ‘Z’ by Costa Gravas
•Song from the movie Shanghai which is based on ‘Z’

No guesses for theme at this moment
•Clue 1: Shanghai

1) The Award ‘XY’ is often referred as the Nobel of Asia. The prize was
established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund based in New York City. It is awarded for outstanding contributions
in Government Service, public service, Community Leadership,
Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, Peace and
International Understanding and Emergent Leadership.

ANSWER- RAMON MAGASAYSAY AWARD

Any guesses for theme 1
•Clue 1: Shanghai
•Clue 2: Magsaysay award
•+20 or -15

1) Identify this region in Pre-Independence India-

•Clue 1: Shanghai
•Clue 2: Magsaysay award
•Clue 3: Madras Presidency
•+15 or -10

‘X ’was a Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna and one of
the most significant Sants ("true" or "saints") of the Vaishnava
bhakti movement. Some 1,300 pads (poems) commonly known
as bhajans (sacred songs) are attributed to X. Popular beliefs
about her life, which has been the subject of several films, are
often pieced together from the poetry and stories recounted by
X’s community and are of debatable authenticity, particularly
those that connect her with the later Tansen. Who is ‘X’?

ANSWER - ‘MEERA’ OR ‘MEERA BAI’

•Clue 1: Shanghai
•Clue 2: Magsaysay Award
•Clue 4: Meera Bai
•+10 or - 5

Many names in the ‘XY’, allude to the power of God in controlling
karma. For example, the 135th name of X is Dharmadhyaksha. In Adi
Sankara’s interpretation means, "One who directly sees the merits
(Dharma) and demerits (Adharma), of beings by bestowing their due
rewards on them”. What is XY?

ANSWER - VISHNU SAHASRANAMAM (1000
NAMES OF VISHNU)

Guess it now
•Clue 1: Shanghai
•Clue 2: Magsaysay Award
•Clue 4: Meera Bai
•Clue 5 : VishnuSahasranamam
+ 5 or 0

Theme- M.S. SUBBULAXMI
FIRST INDIAN MUSICIAN TO RECEIVE THE RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD
– OFTEN CONSIDERED ASIA'S NOBEL PRIZE.
M.S. MOVED TO MADRAS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MUSIC, MOST
OF HER PERFORMANES WAS THERE.
TITLE ROLE OF THE RAJASTHANI SAINT-POETESS MEERA IN THE
EPONYMOUS 1945 FILM
VS AND SUPRABHATAM BOTH COMPOSITONS OFTEN HEARD ONLY IN
HER VOICE!

Wikipedia calls this temple, "arguably the most famous of all Hindu
Temples". It is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas and apparently the holiest of
them all. Identify the Temple?

Answer: Kashi Vishwanath Temple

No guesses at this stage
•Clue 1 : Kashi Vishwanath Temple

What is erased is the 1967 Film
(Clue: read the description on the side!)

Title.

What

is

it?

Any guesses at this stage
•Clue 1: Kashi Vishwanath Temple
•Clue 2 : The Graduate
•+20 or -15

What is being highlighted here is a district in Northern India? (clue-cult
of films)

•Clue 3: Bhojpur
•+15 or -10

In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called the hautbois, hoboy,
or French hoboy (pronounced /, or "HOE-boy", borrowed from the
French name, a compound word made of haut ["high, loud"] and bois
["wood, woodwind"]). The spelling "____" was adopted into English c.
1770 from the Italian, a transliteration in that language's orthography of
the 17th-century pronunciation of the French name. A musician who
plays the X is called a Y. Identify X and Y.

•Clue 3: Bhojpur
•Clue 4: Oboe
•+10 or -5

Answer: Dichotomy of Change, Rockstar, Ustad Jameel Khan,
Shehnai

Guess it Now!!!
•Clue 3: Bhojpur
•Clue 4: Oboe
•Clue 5 : Dichotomy Of flame, Rock star, ustaad Jameel Khan, Shehnai
•+5 or 0

Theme: Bismillah Khan
Because the Shenai was originally invented in the Indian continent
with modifications similar like Oboe 4).
2) There is a poster advertising "Bismillah Khan and the seven
musicians" on a busy street of Berkeley, California.
3) His family from Bhojpur where his grandfather also a shenai player
named him Bismillah before moving to Varanasi.
5) Well it’s just to give it away

Any guesses for the Super theme
•Theme 1: M.S. Subbhalaxmi
•Theme 2 :Bismillah Khan
•+30 or -20

Answer: Headquarters of AIR Kolkata, Mangalore
and Delhi

•Clue 1: A.I.R.

Identify the musician in the picture. (If you identify
the other one, bonus)

Any guesses for the theme
•Clue 1: A.I.R.
•Clue 2: George Harrison
•+20 or -15

Which movie is in the Guinness book of world records for the maximum
number of extras used?

•Clue 1: A.I.R.
•Clue 3: Gandhi
•+15 or -10

•Clue 1: A.I.R.
•Clue 3: Gandhi
•Clue 4: Pather Panchali
•+10 or -5

A ‘X’ is a scholar and a teacher, particularly one skilled in the Sanskrit
language, who has mastered the four Vedic scriptures, Hindu rituals,
Hindu law, religion, music, and/or philosophy under a Guru in a
Gurukul or has been tutored under the ancient Vedic Guru-Shishya
academic tradition. The English loan word ‘X’ is derived from it but has
been used to broadly refer to any of the following: Siddhas, Siddhars,
Naths, Ascetics, Sadhus, or Yogis.

Guess it now
•Clue 1: A.I.R.
•Clue 3: Gandhi
•Clue 4: Pather Panchali
•Clue 5: Pundit
•+5 or 0

Pt. Ravi Shankar
• Started as a music Director For AIR (worked at 3 stations)
• Well known Associations with George Harrison and Allah
Rakha
• Music Director of Gandhi along With George Fenton
• Was Conferred the Title of Pundit. (later the KBE)

Any guesses for Super theme
•Theme 1: M.S. Subbhalaxmi
•Theme 2 : Bismillah Khan
•Theme 3: Pundit Ravi Shanker
•+20 or - 10

The city ‘Y’ traces its roots to its 16th century founding as a trading
hub between the Deccan and Delhi. The city and its surroundings came
under
Maratha
Empire
on
18
May
1724
after
Maratha Peshwa assumed the full control of Malwa. During the days
of the British Raj it was a 19 Gun Salute (21 locally) princely state (a
rare high rank) ruled by the Maratha X dynasty, until they acceded to
the Union of India, served as the capital of the Madhya Bharat from
1950 until 1956.Which city are we talking about?

Answer• X: Holkar
•Y: Indore

•Clue 1: Indore

Identify the 2011 movie poster?

•Clue 1: Indore
•Clue 2: Satrangee Parachute
•+20 or -15

•Clue 1: Indore
•Clue 3 :Lekin
•+15 or -10

On 4 May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the X,
went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in
County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over
which was the fastest game bird in Europe, The Koshin Golden Plover
or The Grouse. That evening at Castle Bridge House he realized that it
was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not The
Golden Plover was Europe's fastest game bird.
A gentleman called Christopher Chataway recommended student
twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding
agency in London. The brothers were commissioned to compile what
became the first Y in August 1954. Identify X and Y.

• X= Arthur Guinness, Son & Co ltd.
• Y= Guinness World Record

•Clue 1: Indore
•Clue 3 :Lekin
•Clue 4: Guinness World record
•+ 10 or- 5

The very first flyover built in Mumbai starts from ‘X’ at one end. Since
at least the early 20th century, ‘X’ is considered to be a posh
residential area with some of the flats fetching a price of over Rs.10
million as of 1993.
In February 2000, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai carried out a
study on traffic in the area which found that 94,000 vehicles used the
route every day at that time. The same study also found that the
average number of cars owned by a family living in X was 2.3.
According to a Times of India article in 2006, in new constructions
coming up on X (among other localities), transactions "routinely take
place" at over 1, 00,000 Rupees (2000 USD) per square foot.
What is X?

Guess it now!
•Clue 1: Indore
•Clue 3 :Lekin
•Clue 4: Guinness World record
•Clue 5: Peddar Road
•+5 or 0

Theme-: Lata Mangeshkar:
• Born in Indore
• Her last song in a movie was from the movie Satrangee
Parachute
• Producer of Lekin
• Held a controversial Guinness world record of being the
most recorded artist
• Lives at Peddar road (May leave Mumbai)

Any guesses for the super theme
•Theme 1 :M.S. Subbhalaxmi
•Theme 3 : Pundit Ravi shankar
•Theme 4: Lata Mangeshkar
•+10 or -5

X is a former Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls slow left
arm spin and bats left-handed. He used to travel 40 miles to Hubli each
morning for practice, in time for school. Such was his desire and
passion for cricket. Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2008 and 2009
season of the Indian Premier League and was under contract till 2010.
On 21 June 2012, Sunil Joshi formally announced his retirement from
International as well as First-class cricket, he is the current coach of
Hyderabad ?

•Clue 1: Sunil Joshi

Answer: Nain Mile Chain Kahaan

Any guesses at this point
•Clue 1 :Sunil Joshi
•Clue 2: Nain mile chain kahaan
•+20 or -15

This is the coat of arms of which Indian state?

•Clue 3 :Karnataka
•+15 or -10

The person in the picture is Rambhau Kundgolkar. He was a
popular Hindustani Classical vocalist and Marathi stage actor of
the Kirana Gharana. He was the first and foremost disciple of Utd.
Abdul Karim Khan, most well-known for popularizing the styling’s of
the Kirana Gharana through his accomplished disciples. The music
festival in Pune is named after him but by a name so tell us what he is
better known as?

•Clue 4 : Sawai Gandharva
•+10 or - 5

Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara (answer needed)

Guess it now
•Clue 4 : Sawai Gandharva
•Clue 5: Phir mile Sur Tumhara humara,Louis banks
•+5 or 0

Theme: Bhimsen joshi
•
•
•
•
•

Born in Gadag, Karnataka so is Sunil Joshi
Music in Nain Mile Chain Kahan
Karnataka his 2nd state
Sawai Gandharva the festival in Pune which he initiated
Mile Sur Tumhara Humara the song in which he opens the lines

Wait lets guess
•Theme 1 : M.S. SubbhaLaxmi
•Theme 3 : pundit Ravi shankar
•Theme 4: Lata Mangeshkar
•Theme 5: Bhimsen Joshi
•+5 or nothing!!!

SUPER THEME:
Only 5 musicians to be awarded the Bharat Ratna
• M.S Subbulaxmi -1998
• Ravi Shankar -1999
• Lata Mangeshkar -2001
• Bismillah Khan -2001
• Bhimsen Joshi -2008

Round 3, Question 1
These are machetes used during the Rwandan Genocide. 5 people
were killed every minute during the 100 days, mostly with machetes
purchased using World Bank money aid. The survivors are called
‘Bafuye Bahagaze’. In English, it means _____ ______

Question 2
In this Greek myth, Hero (a priestess) lives in a tower on one side of the
Dardanelles strait. Each night, she shines a lamp so that her lover can
swim over to be with her. Then, one night when a storm occurs, the light
is blown out. Her lover dies.
Most Indians may not have heard of this myth but they have heard of at
least one person with this name associated with a sport. What was his
name?

Answer 2
Leander ( all of us here have heard of PAES)

Question 3
The bridge is built in Holland to mimic a mythological instance hence
name as?

Answer 3
It’s called the Moses Bridge

Question 4
Prior to an Invention of An Daily Item this was

Used as what?

Answer 4
Alarm Clock: After only a certain period of time the hook would fall
crating a sound!

Question 5
X’ is remembered as the ‘Father of the atomic bomb’, for the role he
played in ‘Y’. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in
the Trinity test in New Mexico; ‘X’ remarked later that it brought to mind
words from the ‘Z’ (a sacred text): "Now I am become Death, the
destroyer of worlds.”
Identify X, Y and Z.

Answer 5
X = Robert Oppenheimer
Y = Manhattan Project
Z = Bhagawad Gita.

Question 6
The poster is describing an Ad from the early 19th century?
What is blanked out?

Question 6
Identify this ship (hint: picture to the right)

Answer 6
USS New York (the bow or stem of the ship is made from the steel
remnants of World Trade enter after 9/11

Question 7
These men are special military personnel called the ‘Blue Helmets’. They
are an international body, and work with local military personnel and
local communities. Who are they?

Answer 8
United Nations Special Forces

Question 9
X is a Sanskrit word for the ‘destroyer of all evil’. INS X is the first ballistic
missile submarine to have been built outside the five permanent
members of the United Nations Security Council. Name X

Question 10
King George V was the grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of
Germany. He ascended the throne in 1911. In the year 1919 at the end
of World War 1, King George drastically renamed something. What did
he rename, what was the previous name and what did he change it to?

Answer 10
He changed the name of the royal house of England from the house of
Saxe Cobourg and Gotha to the House of Windsor (presently Elizabeth
2 is also from Windsor. Saxe Cobourg was a German house and there
was hatred towards the Germans after WWI, so he changed it.

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