Quiz of the Month April 2012 by DBQC members Aditya Sarathy and Abhishek Murali

1. THE MAJOR
GENERAL
QUIZ
THE QUIZZANTHROPIST (ABHISHEK MURALI)
AND
ADITYA “SHELDON” SARATHY

2. REGULATIONS
 Prelims – 20 questions
 5 Star Marked questions – will play decider
in case of tie
 Specificity required for certain questions
 Quizmaster is SACHIN TENDULKAR – AKA
GOD
 Search Engines are banned from usage

3. 1)
These are some of the random events which took place during different decades
,
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
1633 – The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in
Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1927 – Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members
executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-
president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
1961 – The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first
human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital
flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their
official currency.
What connects them , basically ?

4. • APRIL
12th
(Today‟s Date)

5. 2)
• The font for one of X's first logos in 1909 (much similar
to the current font of the company), was borrowed
from a C Harold Wills, a then associate of X
company , who had designed this font for his
business card . In 1912 , ,the X logo was given a
complete makeover , as compared to the earlier
simplistic design. In 1927 , the famous blue oval was
introduced in the logo , setting a benchmark for the
future X logos. X has often experimented with
different shapes going from ellipse to circle, and
even a diamond shape in 1957 . Finally in 2003 , X
released a new logo, which came to be known as
the " Centennial Blue Oval ". ID X .

7. 3)*
 X is a port in Yemen, near the Southern end of the
Red Sea , though it has been of negligible use as a
port since the late 1800's.
 Y is an island in Indonesia .
 XY together was the world's first successful
commercial blend of two coffees . It is commonly
believed that roasters in the mid to late 1800's
recognized that certain aspects of the X bean
worked in harmony with the Y beans .
 ID XY ( NO PART POINTS)

8. • X-MOCHA
• Y- JAVA

9. 4 ) WHAT EEZ X?
 X was used as a basis for creating a networked client-server
game in a Unix systems programming course at the Kettering
University in Michigan
 The first known mention of X dates back to the time of the
Chinese Han Dynasty, when it was called shoushilling.
 X became popular in Japan in the 18th century and was
known as Jan-Ken-pon, or simply janken, where ken refers to a
fist in Japanese.
 Sam Kass and Karen Bryla invented an expansion of the classic
X method , with a slight modification . The modified version
has found mention in popular culture through a famous sitcom
 ID X .

10. •ROCK , PAPER ,
SCISSORS

11. 5) ID X
In most of the countries, X is a recent observance derived from the holiday as it
has evolved in America. When it was adopted by other countries and cultures, it
was given different meanings, associated to different events (religious, historical
or legendary), and celebrated on a different date or dates. Some of them are
shown below ,
Norway - Second sunday of February
Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal - First Sunday in May
Australia, Canada, Brazil , Germany, Italy, India, Switzerand- Second sunday
of May
Algeria, France - Last sunday of May
Argentina - third sunday of October
Russia - Last sunday of November

12. • MOTHERS‟ DAY

13. 6)*

14. OSAMA BIN LADEN

15. 7)ID THE SUPERHERO

16. • TIRANGA

17. 8)
X signs his paintings using the corruption of the
word „Au Fait‟ meaning „its done‟. The name
was suggested to him by Frank Dudley Wright.
X replaced Gina Lollobrigida as the Guest of
Honour at the Carnival celebrations at Rio in
1965 and is the lead singer of the band „The 3
quarks‟ with Ralph Leighton laying the drums
and Tom Rutishauser playing the guitar.
X?

18. • RICHARD FEYNMAN

19. 9)*
• "I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying
the magnificent views, the adventure of a
lifetime has begun!”
• This is a tweet of Mike Massimino on May 12,
2009
• Why is this so significant ? PUT FUNDA

20. • FIRST TWEET FROM
OUTER SPACE

21. 10) KONNEKT

22. • PAAN SINGH TOMAR

23. 11) ID X
Founder and Chairman of Vulcan Inc, which manages X's business and
philanthropic efforts
Owner of two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the
National Football League (NFL), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the
National Basketball Association (NBA) .
X was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982, but his cancer was
successfully treated by several months of radiation therapy
X's memoir titled "Idea Man : A memoir by the _____ of _______ ", was
released on april 19 , 2011
X was Listed among the TIME 100 most influential people in the world,
twice , in 2007 and 2008 .
X owns a 416 feet yacht named Octopus , and as of 2011, it was the 12th
longest yacht owned by anyone in the world .

24. Paul Allen – Co Founder
of Microsoft

25. 12)
Though there are several interpretations of this famous
proverb, one of the more popular ones refer to
"nomads who avoid taking on responsibilities or
cultivating or advancing their own knowledge,
experience or culture " . Another figurative
interpretation is such that " a frequently replanted tree
yields little fruit " .
Now in pop culture, part of the proverb is alluded to
various types/works in modern music , namely , a 1958
Bobby Darin song titled "early in the morning", Hank
Williams's 1952 hit Lost Highway , The Beatles in their
1970 album "Let it Be" , and more recently Bruno Mars
in his song, " Runaway Baby " .
Proverb ?

26. • ROLLING STONE
GATHERS NO MOSS

27. 13) ID THE
SINGER

28. Mr. Amitabh Bachchan

29. 14)*
XY was used in ancient Rome as a title for various
mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele and in
Christianity for the Virgin Mary. The term may also refer
to a song or hymn associated with a school . In Latin,
XY means "Nourishing Mother" verbatim .
Also, XY is a song performed by the American
musician and actor Alice Cooper on his "School's Out "
album in 1972.
ID XY

30. •ALMA MATER

31. 15) FUNDA / FITB

32. • Samuel Jackson / Jules
Winfield
( Quote from PULP FICTION)

33. 16) For the trivia
lovers …
• Who was Time Magazine‟s Man of the year in 1952 ?

34. QUEEN ELIZABETH the
2nd

35. 17)
Who wrote the following lines and what was he
referring to ?
"It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out
with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life
if I don‟t go out with the ________. The Almighty has
said, no doubt: Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they
must go out together."?
(part points)

36. • Mark Twain on Haley‟s Comet

37. 18) Print ad of ?

39. 19)*
• "It‟s a rite of passage in this new era. Some people
will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we
have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously
updated, it‟s much more expansive and it has
multimedia.“ - Jorge Cauz , March 2012
• What is being talked about here ?

40. • Closure of
encyclopaedia
brittanica

41. 20)
Bloodstone is a 1988 American adventure comedy
movie directed by Dwight Little and written by Greek
director Nico Mastorakis starring Brett Stimely, X and
Anna Nicholas. The movie was filmed in south India,
the story revolving around a mythical ruby called the
Bloodstone. It is the only English film X has ever starred
in.
ID X

42. THALAIVAR RAJINI