This document contains a general quiz with 15 multiple choice questions. The quiz covers topics like famous bands, Indian singers, British tea traditions, gestures, plant colors, tech companies, royal birthdays, terms, US presidents, artists, movies, the Bible, extinct mammals, food associations, and business tropes. It tests knowledge across many domains in a fun, trivia-style format.

1. General Quiz
a quiz by
Bharg Mankodi, Prakrut Chauhan, Rishabh Barodawala

2. Finals!

3. Round one! Magic Square.
+5 for each correct
+5 bonus if you get all correct
50 points at stake
No negatives

4. Referred to as Task Force
Blue, within JSOC. Also
known as DEVGRU,
NSWDG
Founded by Pete Lau and
Carl Lei in 2013
Invented by the
Brunswick-Balke Collender
Company. Official rules set
by WPA, BCA.
1995 film about a serial
killer who kills people on the
basis of the deadly sins in
the Bible.
The first perfume launched
by a famous French fashion
house, aimed to celebrate
Flapper culture.
Farah Khan’s production
company
Known as Telefónica UK
Limited; 2nd largest telecom
operator in UK
A baseball team comprises
of this many players
The most powerful
members of a radical
political elite convicted for
implementing the harsh
policies directed by CCP
during the Cultural
Revolution

5. Navy Team Seal 6 One Plus Eight Ball Pool
Se7en Chanel No.5 Three’s Company
O2 9 Gang of Four

6. Rules
1. means image on next slide
2. No negatives
3. Three questions
4. +5 for each, +5 bonus if you get all correct

7. Round two! Bounce-Pounce.

8. 1
The original logo for this band was designed in 1973.
He fashioned two 'characters' in the logotype into
lighting shapes, thus making the very recognizable
design.
This logo worked well on their international tours,
except in Germany and had to make small changes.
What band?

11. 2
Although born as Deenanth Hardikar, he decided to
change his surname to better fit into world of music;
and so he choose X, after their family deity in Ponda,
Goa.
His daughters have garnered even more love from
music fans than he ever did.
What surname/family?

13. Mangeshkar

14. 3
Novelist George Orwell in an essay threw his
unconditional support behind Camp 'TIF', claiming that
it allows for better control over the quantity.
While, Camp 'MIF', or MIF-ers claim that the TIF
method would scald the ingredient, and MIF gives
sweeter results.
What is this Oh-so British argument about?
OR
Simply expand TIF, MIF.

16. TIF-Tea in First
MIF-Milk in First

17. 4
This "gesture" has been recorded as early as 1927, and
Glenda Farrell used it in a 1937 screwball comedy,
"Breakfast for Two."
The trend became very popular in the 1990s, attributed
by many to comedian Steve Martin, who often used them
with exaggerated emphasis in his stand-up shows.
Identify this gesture which was recently used by a
prominent Indian and received a lot of attention of social
media.

20. 5
Hydrangea macrophylla is a hardy flowering plant, native
to Japan/Korea, but found in a lot of places with varied
conditions, and hence display a variety of colors. Of
interest are the pink and blue varieties.
Go back to your high school science lectures and tell me,
what physical/environment condition determines the
colors of these varieties?
Explain.

23. pH value of soil
Acidity/Basicity of soil

24. 6
_ _ _____ was founded in 1995 and got its name by
changing the spelling of a part of their name to its
German equivalent. This was because most of their
clients were European, while also doubling as a nod to
the family name of its founers.
What sector leading companies in India is this?

27. 7
The birthday of the Queen or the King is celebrated on a
day other than their actual birthday in a few
commonwealth countries.
The date of the celebration today varies as adopted by
each country and is generally set around the end of May
or start of June.
This double birthday tradition was started more than 250
years ago by King George II in 1748 who was born in
November.
Why is this tradition adopted?

29. 2nd birthday must be in
agreeable weather

30. 8
The currently used ' rotational' meaning is independent
of all of the earlier uses. This began in the 18th century
as the name of a form of petition, in which the
complainants signed their names in a circle, so as to
disguise who had signed first. This was especially
favoured by sailors - not surprisingly, as mutiny was then
a hanging offence.
What term?

32. Round-Robin

33. 9
This moniker for a former US president was given to him
by his wife. She was making eggs for her kids and came
up with the name. It referred to the fact that he had a
way of avoiding scandal. Some people argue, that it
makes a larger point about what behavior voters are
willing to excuse.
Who and what moniker?

35. Ronald Raegan,
Teflon President

36. 10
Godel, X, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is a book by
mathematician Douglas Hofstadter. Through illustrations and
analyses, the author wanted to explore how complexity arose
from simple systems; how systems can acquire meaning despite
being made up of meaningless entities; and ultimately how
cognition arises from hidden neurological mechanisms.
It explores the themes of symmetry and self-referentiality
through the works of Kurt Godel, X and Johann S. Bach.
Hofstadter coined the term, ‘strange-loops’ to represent self
referentiality. ‘This statement is false’ is an example of a sentence
with strange loops.
What graphic artist’s (X) work did he use as a starting point?

38. M.C Escher

39. 11
X is a 2011 crime thriller starring Bruce Willis, Forest Whittaker
amongst others. The movie involves intercepting a drug deal
which goes haywire, leading to a confrontation at a diner, leaving
no way for the characters to escape and save themselves.
The title is a reference to a novel and a gun most prominently
featured in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry.

41. Catch .44
Heller’s Catch 22 and the
large bore Magnum .44

42. 12
X, some believed was one of the brothers of Jesus. He
wrote the Epistle of X, which is placed in between
Epistle of Paul and the Book of Revelations in the
Bible.
X also means Jew in German and Swedish and hence
an advertisement for the song Y was considered to be
anti-Semetic, which led to a change in their
promotional campaign.
Give X or Y.

44. Jude,
Hey Jude by The Beatles

45. 13
Cambaytherium is an extinct plancetal mammals.
They were the size of a pig and weighed around 25 kg.
They are thought to be a common ancestor to the
Perissodactyla.
The five fingers/toe bones of the Cambaytherium
evolved into what feature in Perissodactyla.
Where did we find the fossils of this mammal?

47. Hooves in ungulates,
Gujarat

48. 14
The Verace _____ (X) ______ (Y) Association or the VPN, is an
organization supported by the Chamber of Commerce,
Handicrafts & Industry of that country. In 1984, Antonio Pace
decided to put in writing, the precise rules for the preparation
of the ‘verace’ (original) X. It was supported by professionals
involved in the industry, in and around the region that is
referred to in the word Y.
They believed that the fast food industry wrongfully used the
word X, as the verace and the popular version differ greatly.
What association is this that regulates and authorizes dairy
farms, tomato farmers etc.
OR simply ID X,Y

50. Verace Pizza Napoletana

51. 15
______ ______ syndrome is a situation that startups reach when
the company reaches a ‘comfortable’ zone, and the founders
are often unwilling to move on or evolve. This leaves the
company in a stagnant state.
The syndrome gets its name from a running trope in an
American animated series, that the climatic reveal being that
the ‘villain’ is the landowner/proprietor.
FITB

53. Scooby-Doo syndrome