1. OPEN QUIZ – MUMBAI QUIZZERS
PRELIMS SET WITH ANSWERS –
12.12.2019
2. The seventh sheep was tasty
• In 1963, she was included on the Royal Society list of ten most
important British women in science.
• Back in her day though, even though she was well known in
geological circles in Britain, Europe, and America, and was
consulted on issues of anatomy, she wasn’t recognized as the
founder of an entire branch of scientific study for nearly a century.
• In reality, their family did run a shop on the coast of Dorset, which
she took over after her father died.
• How would you most well know this lady?
4. • FCB the famous media creative agency along with a top
perfume company launched an entirely new brand of
perfume in Norway to create one of a kind campaign as
part of their talent acquisition & employer branding
strategy. The campaign aims to reach creatives in the
advertising and design industry globally in an
unconventional way by adding a key ingredient in the
perfume launched. What is the key ingredient?
6. Not the Pole-stealing Germans
• It had to be easily understandable by all
parties involved
• Most of the traffic at that time was between
Croydon and Le Bourget
• So Fredrick Mockford thought of using the
French word for ‘help’.
8. • The sales are attributed to what is now known as The Fifty Shades
Effect – people want to read it, but don’t want to be seen reading it
• Where the royalties are going is complex and not entirely known,
since it could be scandalous.
• In Britain, Random House used to give it to the GWC in secret, but
that arrangement ended in 2016.
• In the US, Houghton Mifflin gives it to undisclosed charities
• At home, it’s collected ‘grudgingly’ by the state government and
distributed to charities
10. • It’s been in the news for nearly a year now,
though mostly faded now.
• In February 2017, the final holdouts of the
campsite were razed to the ground, and the work
has been completed.
• The reversal really occurred in January, after the
‘biggest crowds in attendance’ came out to see
the ceremony.
13. • The song is a ballad, with the singer taking the role of a
man who is faced with the end of a relationship. He tells his
lover how he feels, likening her to "a flower that I picked",
implying that the relationship was of a comparatively short
duration.
• It tied for last with Switzerland, Norway and Germany; but
they’re probably happy with the result anyway.
• It was broadcast on the 6th of April 1974, with the follow up
“Grandola Vila Morena” on the 24th of April.
• That’s why the 25th is celebrated as a national holiday.
14. • 1974 Portugal’s entry to Eurovision signalling
the start of the Carnation Revolution
15. • Founded in 1910 by Killick-Nixon, it was a JV with the
British government to help transport cotton back from
Vidarbha to Manchester.
• There’s no apparent reason why it was left out in 1952
– and so the guards are also ticket clerks, and the
steam engine was replaced only in 1994 .
• It still operates in the Vidarbha area, acting as a lifeline
to the farmers, since the bus fare is about 6x as
expensive.
20. Why Diego?
• The use of Z in the name (full name X-Y Z) is is
a bit of a misnomer, because they’re more
closely related to marsupials than placental
mammals, and were quite bear-like in build.
• In this regard, they’re really examples of
convergent evolution, where different families
evolve similar features.
23. I Xeroxed this question
• The term was first used by the B.F. Goodrich
company which used them on their galoshes.
• Early uses were on galoshes or tobacco pouches
• In the ‘30s, a marketing campaign praised it for
promoting self-reliance in young children by
making it possible for them to dress in self-help
clothing.
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25. • “My wife Julann just came up with the idea one day when
we were in a plane bringing us back to New York
City from Duluth. I was mulling over game show ideas,
when she noted that there had not been a successful
‘_________’ game on the air since the quiz show scandals
…’5,280’; that was feet in a mile… ‘79 Wistful Vista’; that
was Fibber and Mollie McGee's address.
• I loved the idea, went straight to NBC with the idea, and
they bought it without even looking at a pilot show.”
26.
27. • The first two are excluded –
X (1)
Y (2)
Jereboam (4)
Rehoboam (6)
Methuselah (8)
Salmanazar (12)
Balthazar(16)
Nabuchadnezzar (20)
29. • "They [Arsenal] have a replay against Chelsea and if
they win it they would face a semi-final three days
before playing us in the league. But then they did say
they were going to win the Treble, didn't they? It's
_____________ and we've got the experience now to
cope.“
• The allusion is, of course, to the sound made by
squirming in one's seat as one's team's fortunes wax
and wane.
31. I Love This Question
• In the 14th century, it denoted a verse or story about a
knight or a hero filled with chivalric adventures. It took
the meaning we know today in about the 17th century.
• These tales were told in the vernacular rather than the
formal Latin. The vernacular itself had its roots in the
Roman soldiers who were paid in land in the areas
conquered.
• The adjective in question can describe therefore the
word we now know and these vernacular languages.
33. ARE YOU READY
• He’s famous for pioneering a distinct style in which he rolls certain letters
and adds other inflections to a name.
• He had an exclusive contract for every such event that occurred at Donald
Trump’s casinos.
• He started using his signature phrase in 1984, and had it trademarked by
1992. He’s earned an excess of 400 million from his trademark.
• He’s been credited in 25 movies, all essentially just for that trademarked
phrase, including Creed, Rocky Balboa, Love and Other Drugs as well as
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.
• What is this trademark for?
35. I’d love a Cohen brothers’ film on this
• As of January 1, 2017; the population was 796, divided into only 4 families.
• You probably know them only as part of a two word adjective.
• Here’s MLKJr describing his take on it – “It's a winding, meandering road ...
In the days … it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's
possible that the X and the Y looked over that man on the ground and
wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt
that the man on the ground was merely faking, and he was acting like he
had been robbed and hurt in order to seize them over there, lure them
there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the X asked,
the first question that the Y asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what
will happen to me?"
37. Didn’t I see this in Sri Lanka?
• The INA was not the first Indian armed force to
be involved along the India-Burma border
• The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade was inserted
deep into Japanese territory for raiding
operations on strategic bases and supply lines.
• The name for this group came from corrupted
version of a Burmese mythical guardian beast
• Put funda.
39. Look to Bethlem
• Danvers State Hospital was built in
1874 on the grounds of the estate of
John Hawthorne who was also one
of the leading judges at the Salem
Witch Trials.
• Due to its history, it has been in pop
culture extensively. It’s believed to
also be the inspiration for X Y from
HP Lovecraft’s The Thing on the
Doorstep.
• You’ve probably heard X as X Z from
another series .
• ID X (Y and Z are synonyms and
simply complete the name)
41. • Almost everyone agrees it was the South Arabian kingdom of centered around the
oasis of Marib which extended to the Horn Of Africa.
• She herself was most likely Ethiopian
• “Without movement while living, it moves when its head is cut off,” – Tree
• “Produced from the ground, man produces it, while its food is the fruit of the
ground” – Wick
• These are two of 19 riddles that are given by Yemeni sources. These two are
genuine riddles, most of which are found scattered in the Torah and not very
edifying in general.
• In Arabic, her name derives from the Greek Pallakis which means ‘Concubine’.
• In Christian iconography, X meeting Pallakis is depicted with X representing Jesus
and Pallakis representing the gentile Church, with her gifts therefore forshadowing
the Gifts of the Magi
• ID X or the Kingdom
