Prelims of the school quiz in association with Rotary club of Silchar. 22 questions in the prelims and topics ranging from anything under the sun as well as outside it!!

1. The Inter-School Quiz
In association with Rotary Club of Silchar
QM: Bedanga Das, Aveek Baruah

2. Prelims
• 22 Questions
• +1 for each, no negative marking!
• 6 teams proceed to the finals
• Don’t be evil – do not google!

3. 1. This fictional mansion is located at 1407 Greymalkin Lane in
Westchester, New York.
One of its distinguishing features is the Danger Room where all kinds of
mechanical and holographic simulations using cutting edge alien
technology help the students learn to harness their skills in combat.
It’s also the location of Cerebro, a computer that the headmaster used
to track down new students.
What is this place?

4. Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters
(residence of the X-Men)

5. 2. This 1935 film was recently handed over to the National Film Archive
of India (NFAI) from the Bangladeshi Film Archive (BFA).
The film was made by Pramathesh Chandra Barua, in Hindi, Bengali and
Assamese. It starred P.C. Barua as the lead, along with Jamuna Barua
and Chandrabati Devi in female leads
This film was later remade many times in Hindi, in 1955, 2002 and
2009, along with many other regional TV and theatrical adaptations.
Identify the movie.

6. Devdas

7. 3. Back in 1920, a newlywed couple Josephine and Earle Dickinson
were living in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
A cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson, Earle wife was used to getting
cuts or minor burns on her fingers. As a remedy, Earle and Josephine
would cut pieces of adhesive tape and cotton gauze to make bandages
of their own. This became rather time consuming.
Finally, Earle hit upon an idea. He sat down and prepared some ready-
made bandages by placing squares of cotton gauze at intervals along an
adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline.
Earle soon told his boss at work about his new invention. Which brand
of product was created as a result?

8. Band-Aid

9. 4. San Francisco’s forthcoming _____ _____International Film Festival
(FRiFF) focusses on a different kind of filmmaking, to be held at the
Roxie Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Scheduled for November 19, it will be the first global festival to
“celebrate aerial cinema from the perspective of X.” But the festival will
be more than just the stunning landscape cinematography commonly
associated with aerial film - “The stories around some of the categories
are just as important as the quality of the shots”, organisers say.
One such category is “X for Good,” which will feature the best shorts
about how X are being used to help humanity and tackle global issues.
Xs already have been used to help anti-poaching efforts, drop medical
supplies in war zones, fight fires and even find missing people.

10. Drones
(Flying Robot International Film Festival)

11. 5. Firefly Creative Studio is a feature-grade creative agency and visual
effects production house based in Hyderabad, India headed by P.C
Sanath. Recently they shot to fame for a certain reason.
Their fruitful outcome was the result of consistent discussions with the
story development team and the director, to delve deep into character
histrionics as well as imagining it as if they were set in a real space. This
was evident in scenes like the war sequence, avalanche sequence,
beheading sequence, the snake and underwater fish sequences.
Which was this project of theirs?

12. Baahubali: The Beginning

13. • Anand Mehta, is a 7-time national champion in bridge. He married an
English lady, and his daughter is a well-known pediatrician. His son-in-
law is a famous Member of Parliament.
Who is this particular MP?

14. • Sachin Tendulkar

15. 7. X is a Chinese multinational company with headquarters in Beijing
and North Carolina.
X was founded by Liu Chuanzhi in Beijing, 1984. Its original name
was Legend, but later got a new name in 2003 by combining a part of
the word ‘Legend’ with the Latin word for ‘new’.
Possibly the most significant expansion of this company was when it
acquired IBM’s computer business in 2005. Name the company.

16. Lenovo

17. 8.
• Wide Dynamic Range helps capture clear images in varying light conditions
• Lightfinder provides clear images in very low light conditions
• Thermal cameras can take images in darkness and send alerts when
movement is detected
• Sharpdome technology detects images as much as 20 degrees above the
camera horizon
• Gatekeeper feature automatically makes the camera zoom to the spot
where motion is detected.
• Cross Line Detection captures images of objects that cross an imaginary
line
These are all technologies used in which common device of public use?

18. CCTV

19. 9. This is a river named
Legbala, in the country of
Congo, Africa.
However it also has a more
common name, which also is
the name of a widespread
disease. The disease was
named after the river because
it was discovered around 60
miles from the river, by
Professsor Piot.
Name the river/disease.

20. Ebola

21. 10. This famous monument has been facing many problems due to
pollution.
In the 1980s, Sulphur dioxide was suspected of making its walls to a
yellowish colour.
Now the problem is due to black and organic carbon particles that are
emitted from vehicles and other polluting units. Among the culprits are
the local petha (a local sweet) shops, which have been asked to switch
from using coal to LPG, or shut down the shop.
Which monument is this?

22. Taj Mahal

23. 11. He is
an Indian columnist, humorist,
writer and playwright who is best
known for his column in
newspapers
in the Gujarati language.
The humorous weekly column first
appeared in Chitralekha in March
1971 and ever since has been
looking at contemporary issues
from a different perspective. It has
also been made into a TV show
ID the person

24. Tarak Mehta

25. 12. Identify the
movie from the
poster

26. Goliyon ki Ras-leela Ramleela

27. 13. In 1882, Mr. W L Lake a Canadian engineer saw elephants
emerging out of dense forests with oil stains on their feet. So the
story goes, that his shouts urging his men to drill the area for crude
oil gave this Indian town its name.
Which town in Assam is this?

28. Digboi
(from ‘dig boy, dig’)

29. 14. Mahashian Di Hatti Limited is an Indian manufacturer, distributor
and exporter. The company was founded on March 8, 1919 by
Mahashay Chuni Lal as a small shop in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). After
the partition of India, Mahashay Dharam Pal, the son of the founder,
shifted to Delhi and opened up his shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol
Bagh.
It has since grown in popularity all over India, and exports its
products to several countries including UK,
other European countries, Canada, United States, Switzerland and
Japan.
Give me the name by which we are familiar with the company.

30. MDH

31. 15. Identify the singer on the left, where an addition of the letter ‘i’ to
her name will give the species of the penguin on the right.

32. Adele (and Adelie penguin)

33. 16. This series of advertisements was conceptualized by Lowe Lintas (an ad
agency) and produced by Crazy Few Films, and has been widely ridiculed by
the public. Some responses -
What ‘phenomenon’ is
this?

34. IIN

35. 17. Born Namgyal Wangdi, he later adopted a
name which means “wealthy-fortunate-
follower-of-religion”. Originally unaware of his
actual birthday, he began celebrating it on May
29, when he shot to worldwide fame on that
date in 1953.
Who was he and his claim to fame?

36. Tenzing Norgay

37. 18. Google’s tribute to whom?

38. APJ Abdul Kalam

39. Century in all formats of International
cricket i.e. T20,ODI,Test

40. 19. Connect....(exhaustive list)

41. 20. Connect these
pictures

42. Salman Khan

43. 21. It is a 2011 endless video game developed and published by
the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. It is produced, designed and
programmed by husband and wife team Keith Shepherd and Natalia
Luckyanova.
Eventually it became a game series, and along with the regular series,
some other of its games are titled ____: Brave and ____: Oz.
Some of the playable characters are - Guy Dangerous, Scarlett Fox,
Santa Claus etc

44. Temple Run

45. 22. During the British rule, ships were docked at the bank of a river in
North-Eastern India. Gradually, a market developed at the bank, which
became a major place of economic activity. The bank was covered with
stones to help dock ships and vessels, and the market was developed at
a place that was fully covered with stones. People started to refer to
the place as X, meaning a “bank of stones”.
With the passage of time, X became Y (the current name) for linguistic
simplification and ultimately the British officials started to use the
name Y in their official documents referring to the surrounding area of
the market.
Which city Y?

46. Silchar (from Shiler Chor, meaning ‘bank of stones’)