Final set from Exotica General Quiz 2012 at Govt.Engg. College,Kalyani. QM-Alekhya

1. General Quiz
Finale
13/04/2012
QM-Alekhya

2. Off the Mark
• Round 1
• MCQ
• 15/10/5
• Everyone will score at the end of Round 1

3. 1.1
Manchester United
A. The club couldn’t play in the 1974-75 season of
the top division of the English League.
B. The club was formed as Newton Heath L&YR F.C.
in 1878 as the works team of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath.
C. Man Utd beat Bayern Munich 4- 1 coming from
behind to win the European Cup in 1968.

4. 1.2
Bill Gates
A. Bill Gates played himself in a cameo role on the
200th episode of Friends in 2001.
B. Besides Microsoft Bill Gates founded another
company named Corbis.
C. Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfield appeared in a
Microsoft ad in 2008.

5. 1.3
Harry Potter
A. There are 142 steps in the castle at Hogwarts
B. Harry and Ginny name their two sons James and
Ronald.
C.Professor Dumbledore has a tattoo of the London
Underground network on his left knee.

6. 1.4
This plaque can be seen at the entrance of:
A. Madame Tussauds
B. Disneyland, California
C. Louvre, Paris

7. 1.5
Michael Jackson
A. The "King of Pop“ nickname was conceived by Elizabeth Taylor when
she presented him with an "Artist of the Decade“ award in 1989,
proclaiming him “the true king of pop, rock and soul”.
B. Home Alone star McCaule Kulkin starred in the music video of ‘Bad’
C. In 1982, Jackson contributed the song "Someone In the Dark“ to the
story book for the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial- the record won a
Grammy for Best Album for Children

8. 1.6
According to Bill Gates the five vital components of an organisation are:-
Enrichment
Egalitarianism
Empowerment
Emphasis on Performance
What’s the 4th E missing?
A. Employees
B. Email
C. Ecosystem

9. Powerplay 1
• Round 2
• 10 on direct
• 10 on pass
• Infinite bounce

10. 2.1
• This ancient technique
originally started by
early Egyptians has seen
many minor
modifications, but is still
widely used for casting
Gold.
• It is practical for casting
both gold and silver
alloys.
• Which method is
depicted here?

12. • Lost Wax Method

13. 2.2
• Id the Cricketing Personality.

15. • Greg Shipperd

16. 2.3
• The Intimacy 2.0
dress uses smart e-
foil technology to do
something unique.
• ‘If you got it, it will
help you flaunt it’ so
says the tagline for
the brand.
• What is the
uniqueness of the
dress which is the
first of its kind in the
world.

18. • It changes transparency based on the wearer's
heart rate.

19. 2.4
• Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble
Something wicked this way comes.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing.
• Song from the ,movie Harry Potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban.
• Who is the lyricist?

21. • William Shakespeare

22. 2.5
• Zombie Eating Road Kill
• Answering machine(voice) (uncredited)
• Mr. Brown
• American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
• Piringo
• Joke telling cowboy
• Whose Acting Credits are these?

24. • Quentin Tarantino

25. 2.6
• Id the artiste.
• (Indian)

27. • Bharti Kher’s sculpture “the skin speaks a
language not its own”- which depicts a
fibreglass elephant down on its knees with
over 100,000 sperm-shaped bindis arranged in
whorls on its skin, made auction history at
Sotheby’s in London when it sold for around
Rs. 7 crore.

28. Middle Overs
• Round 3
• Connect
• 10 on Direct
• 10 on Pass
• Infinite Bounce

29. 3.1

31. 3.1
• Sam Mendes

32. 3.2

34. • Loki

35. 3.3
Aise in halaat mein
Majboori ke saath mein
Best to go online
Leke apne haath mein!
Jismaani pyaar ki chaabi – _?__ __?__
•Cricket
•The Party
•Doctor Doctor
•The Interview

37. Savita Bhabhi
• Shor Bazaar is the name of the band that wrote a song called
Savita Bhabhi, about the banned toon
• The list is a list of episode names
• They ran into controversy when a character closely
resembling Amitabh Bachchan was depicted in the comics

38. 3.4
Weave Faro Wash
Mongean Pile Irish
Hindu Stripping Riffle

40. • Card Shuffling Styles

41. 3.5

43. Bugs Bunny
• Created by Tex and Robert
McKimson
• First cartoon character to
feature on US Stamp
• Has a star on ‘Hollywood
Walk of Fame’
• Mascot for Warner bros.

44. 3.6

46. • Real life couples acted in these movies
• Roberto Benigni - Nicoletta Braschi in Life is
Beautiful, Michael Douglas - Catherine Zeta
Jones in Traffic
• Nargis - Sunil Dutt in Mother India and
Dharmendra – Hema Malini, Amitabh
Bachchan – Jaya Bachchan in Sholay

47. 3.7

49. • How I met your mother
• Britney,Enrique,Bob Barker had special
appearances
• Neil Patrick Harris aka Barney played a cameo
in Harold and Kumar goes 2 white castle

50. Powerplay 1
• Round 4
• Infinite Bounce
• 10 on Direct
• 10 on Pass

51. 4.1
• Give the funda

53. • Speculation that Eddie Irvine would sabotage
Jacques Villeneuve’s chances in the 1997
season by deliberately crashing into him, so
that Michael Schumacher could win

54. 4.2
• ID Sculptor
and sculpture

56. • Anish Kapoor and the famous Cloud Gate in
Chicago , more famously known as the Bean

57. 4.3
• Paul Vinay Kumar, publisher, Westland Ltd says, “The
graphic novel (based on X) we are doing is called The
Jungfrau Encounter and does not follow the film
script. It talks about the introduction of X, so in a way,
it is setting the tone of the character. We didn’t want
to have a straight adaptation of the film, that is why
the name of the novel is different. We were given the
script to understand the character and the mood of
the film. Based on this, we have a new story that talks
about the origin of the lead character.”
• Id X.

59. • Agent Vinod

60. 4.4
• In "The Wisden Cricketer“ it was described as follows:
"The imperious Indian - dubbed 'Lord Snooty' - deigned
to represent Lancashire in 2000. At the crease it was
sometimes uncertain whether his partner was a
batsman or a batman being dispatched to take his
discarded sweater to the pavilion or carry his kit bag.
• But mutiny was afoot among the lower orders. In one
match Ganguly, after reaching his fifty, raised his bat to
the home balcony, only to find it deserted. He did not
inspire at _________ or ___________ either.
• At the latter in 2006 he averaged 4.80 from his four
first-class appearances."

62. • Glamargon and Northamptonshire

63. 4.5
• What Charles Dickens did with words
for the underage toilers of
London, Lewis Hine did with
photographs for the youthful laborers in
the United States.
• In 1908 the National Child Labor
Committee was already campaigning to
put the nation’s two million young
workers back in school when the group
hired Hine.
• The Wisconsin native traveled to half
the states, capturing images of children
working in mines, mills and on the
streets.
• Here he has photographed “_____
___,” whose job was to separate coal
from slate, in South Pittston, Pa.
• FITB

65. • Breaker Boys

66. 4.6
• What is being made here?

68. • Death Mask

69. 4.7
• Aged 102, what is Luise Rainer’s claim to
fame?

71. Luise Rainer is the oldest surviving Oscar Winner
• She is a former German film actress. Known as
The "Viennese Teardrop", she was the first
woman to win two Academy Awards, and the
first person to win them consecutively. She
was discovered by MGM talent scouts while
acting on stage in Austria and Germany and
after appearing in Austrian films. Aged
102, she is currently the oldest living Academy
Award winner.

72. 4.8
• Born in Massachussets, this British General was the first officer of
the British Indian Army to be awarded the Knight Grand Cross of
the Order of the Bath for his role in outmanoeuvring the Gurkhas
at the Kouera Ghat Pass in 1816.
• Id him and how is he commemorated in Bengal even today?

74. • David Ochterlony

75. 4.9
• Put funda.

77. • 1980
• US led boycott of the Moscow Olympics

78. 4.10
• Guy Laliberte, a Canadian
philanthropist &
businessman, ranks 664 on
the list of Forbes
billionaires, just behind the
likes of Oprah Winfrey. In
2009, he became the
world’s 7th space tourist.
• He is the man behind X - a
group of performing
artistes known for their
Beatles and Elvis themed
shows.

80. • Cirque du Soleil

81. 4.11
• T-20 World Championships 2012:
• The qualification event was held in UAE (Dubai,
Abu Dhabi, Sharjah) in March, where 14 teams
participated. Two of these teams were Italy and
Papua New Guinea.
• One of the Italian team members was a former
Australian one-day international player of the
‘90s.
• One of the PNG team members was former
England test and one-day cricketer of the ‘00s.
• Name both.

83. • The Italian and PNG players are Michael Di
Venuto and Geraint Jones, respectively.

84. 4.12
• Kandathil Varghese Mappillai in Kottayam, a
small town in the princely state of Travancore,
founded X in 1888. On September 10th 1938,
during the Indian freedom struggle, the
Government closed this down. After nine
years, when India became free, the
“production” of X resumed. What is X?

86. • Malayala Manorama

87. The Virat Kohli Over
• LVC Round
• 20 visuals
• Non exhaustive
• 1-5: 40 points
• 6-10: 20 points
• 11-15: 10 points
• 16-20: 5 points

88. L1

89. L2

90. L3

91. L4

92. L5

93. • Pause
• Chance for 40 points*

94. L6

95. L7

96. L8

97. L9

98. L10

99. • Pause
• Chance for 20 points*

100. L11

101. L12

102. L13

103. L14

104. L15

105. • Pause
• Chance for 10 points*

106. L16

107. L17

108. L18

109. L19

110. L20

111. • Pause
• 5 points on the line 

112. • London Underground Metro stations named
after sportspersons to celebrate the 2012
London Olympics.

114. • Thanks.
• It was a pleasure
hosting the quiz.