The document is about a quiz club at CNLU called Quizzica. It provides information about the club's mission to promote quizzing at the university and bring laurels through competitions. It describes the club's modus operandi of weekly quizzing sessions on various topics. It also lists some of the major quizzing competitions in and around Patna that the club participates in. The last section provides a guide for quizzing, explaining the types of questions typically asked at different levels and providing tips on solving atypical questions through deduction and lateral thinking.

1. Q FOR
QUIZZICA:
THE QUIZ CLUB
OF CNLU
ORIENTATIONS 2018

2. ABOUT US
We are small group of individuals, dedicated to spirit
of learning. To inculcate a culture of Quizzing here at
CNLU, to bring laurels for the University in different
quizzes.
Also, we are the most profitable Club of CNLU.
OUR MODUS OPERNADI
Quizzing Sessions, at least once a week
Sessions could be thematic(Sports, Automobiles,
Business) or Mixed Bag.
Prep for national quizzes (and win them?)

3. WHY WE WHAT DO WE DO?
Cash! Money!! Paisa!!!
Cost Benefit Analysis: Investing a little amount of
time, attractive prizes and heavy cash at stake.
Some relief from the monotonous life of a law
student.
At least learn a lot of things, facts and trivia.
Last but not the least, celebrate victories together!!

4. QUIZZING IN AND AROUND PATNA
 Tata Crucible Campus Quiz, one of the most prestigious
Business Quizzes in India
 Mahindra AQ, the flagship quiz by Mahindra and Mahindra
 Also, quizzes are conducted by various colleges/universites in
Patna, like AIIMS, NIFT, PMCH, NIT Patna, IIT Patna, BITS,etc
 Also, a lot more events take place in the Calcutta Quizzing
Circuit regularly, like Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz,
CLPR Conquest Quiz, Calcutta Quizzing Festival, etc.

5. A HITCHIKERS’
GUIDE
TO QUIZZING

6. HIGH SCHOOL QUIZZING 101
This is what a typical
school level quiz question
would look like:
Who was the first
man on moon?
Who was the first
woman to go into the
space?

7. ATYPICAL
COLLEGE LEVEL
QUIZ QUESTION
Who is
welcoming
whom during
latter’s visit to
Yuri Gagarin
centre in Russia?

8. HOWTO
ATTEMPT
SOLVINGTHIS?
 Clearly this has something to do
with space, given the man in the
spacesuit at the back.You need to
identify a gentleman and a lady.
This where the GK helps. And some
basic deduction. The photograph is
Black andWhite. Cold War Era?The
lady, a very few of them would fit
the timeline, would be easy to
guess, due to lack of choices. And
who would be the obvious one?The
gentleman, 1970? Famous? What
would make the answer really cool?

9. AND,THE
ANSWER IS……
 VALENTINATERESHKOVA WELCOMING
NEIL ARMSTRONG.
ELEMENTARY, MY DEARWATSON?

10. Q: WHAT PART HAS BEEN BLANKED OUT?

11. HOW DO I SOLVETHIS?
Look at the date. 1910. Pre Independence India?
Parties, French and the British.The Case
Description? British Indian escapes from a
steamer. Somebody famous? Some freedom
fighter?

12. AND HERE IT GOES…..
THE SAVARKAR CASE

13. Q1.
 Originally the X was intended for the Suez Canal. As the Canal
neared construction in 1869, French sculptor Bartholdi tried to
convince Egyptian Government to let him build a structure
inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes at its Mediterranean end,
Bartholdi envisioned a 90 ft statue holding a massive torch which
would serve as a lighthouse to guide ships.The project failed to
take off but Bartholdi persisted with the idea and was unveiled
as we know in 1866.
 Gimme X

14. ANSWER
STATUE OF
LIBERTY

15. Q2.
For a certain role of an NRI, it is widely rumored that Saif
Ali Khan, and evenTom Cruise were considered
(eventually played by SRK).This role was named after
a legendary movie actor, suggested by Aditya Chopra.
Gimme the character/ the movie.

16. ANSWER
RAJ,THE MOVIE
BEING DDLJ

17. Q3.
Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers
whose families opposed their marriage would
jump off a cliff to prove their love. But women,
when their turn came after seeing their men jump
off, would get cold feet and return home, and
marry someone else.Which famous phrase came
into existence due to this ?
Hint: It is used nowadays to accord respect.

18. ANSWER

19. Q4.
 The first company to attain this particular milestone was
PetroChina, way back in November 2007. However, in
August 2018, X attained the same milestone, and owing to
its massive popularity, was widely misunderstood to be the
first company to so, where in fact it was actually the first US
Company to do so.
Gimme X or the milestone X achieved.

20. ANSWER
Apple Inc., the
first US based
Company to
cross the trillion
dollar mark.

21. Q4.
 This word originated with Richard Dawkins' 1976 bookThe
Selfish Gene. Dawkins used the term to refer to any cultural
entity that an observer might consider a replicator. He
hypothesized that one could view many cultural entities as
replicators, and pointed to melodies, fashions and learned skills
as examples; a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of
imitation and replication, but later definitions would vary.
 However, in modern parlance, the word is in a completely
different parlance, albeit it retains the underlying idea of
replication and transmission. Which viral Internet phenomenon
are we talking about?

22. ANSWER
MEME

23. Q5.
The company originated in Switzerland in 1884, when
Julius X took over his father's mill. He quickly became a
pioneer of industrial food production, aiming to improve
the nutritional intake of worker families. X was the first
to bring protein-rich legume meals to the market, and
followed up with a ready-made soup based on legume
meals in 1886. After that Julius introduced bouillon
concentrates, first in capsules, then in cubes. In 1897, he
founded the company X GmbH in Singen, Germany.
What extremely popular product is being talked about?

24. ANSWER
MAGGI

25. Q6.
When the Bengal Presidency was partitioned in 1912 to
carve out a separate province, Patna was made the
capital of the new province of Bihar and Orissa.The city
limits were stretched westwards to accommodate the
administrative base, and the township of Bankipore
took shape along the X Road after the first Lt. Governor
of Bihar and Orissa, Sir Steuart Colvin X.
Which famous stretch of Patna is being talked about?

26. ANSWER
BAILEY ROAD

27. Q7.
 Saudi X Group is a multinational construction conglomerate
and is headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Notably, they
were during 2011 signed to a US$1.23 billion contractual
agreement to construct the tallest building in the world,
Jeddah Tower in Jeddah. The Group’s Internet domain name,
was registered on September 11, 2000, for one year, expiring
on the same day a tragic event took place.
 However, the name X is known for completely different
reasons.
 Gimme X.

28. ANSWER
X-Binladin

29. Q8.
 It is a historic ground near the banks of Ganges River, in Bihar,
India. During the period of 1824-1833, under the British Rule it
was used as golf course & horse racing track. Spread across 60
acres of land, several movements were launched here during the
Indian freedom struggle like the Champaran Movement. Many
prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, such
as Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Jaya Prakash Narayan addressed their rallies
from here.
 What place is being talked about here?

30. ANSWER
GANDHI
MAIDAN,
PATNA

31. Q9.
 Dopinder is a taxi driver who was supposed to be married to Gita , the
love of his life but Dopinder was pissed off because Gita preferred his
cousin Bandhu over him.
 X was on his way to kill his enemy when he sat in Dopinder’s taxi.
Dopinder told X about his situation with Gita. X gave Dopinder advice
on how he should never let go of love.
 A couple days later, Dopinder was called by X for a ride again. X was
once again headed to kill his enemy, but this time, he brought giant
metal man and a teenage girl with him. A bump in the road caused a
man in the trunk of the cab to scream. Dopinder revealed the man in
the trunk to be Bandhu. Dopinder received praise from X, and was
told to kill him and kidnap Gita.This is all we know of Dopinder.
Identify X.

32. ANSWER
DEADPOOL

33. Q10.
 The Big X is turning 50 soon, and the company is going to celebrate
the way everything is celebrated in 2018: by releasing their own
currency — though it comes with a twist.
 While crypto is a big thing these days, the company is throwing a
curveball into the self-release currency game by putting out an
actual, physical coin called the “X Coin."The X Coin will be
redeemable for a free Big X at "participating locations" across 50
countries.
 At least we know its exact value, though: one Big X, or about $3.99.
 What “big” product X is being talked about?

34. ANSWER
Big Mac, and
the MacCoin