D quiz by Debjit Tripathy- IIT Roorkee

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QM- Debjit Tripathy

The One
• Though it dates back to Ancient Greece and it was also used
in Ancient Rome; the first documented appearance of ________ in
the United States was in 1886, when Old Hoss Radbourn,
a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed.
(Image)

2. Parts
i. This person had a cameo as a church father in this movie, a
story revolving around an Anglo-Indian woman whose
unending quest for true love takes a dark turn. Person and
movie gets you 5.

ii. Screengrab from The Da Vinci Code. Identify the person
standing in line to get Robert Langdon's autograph. Person
gets you 5.

• Ruskin Bond in Saat Khoon Maaf
• Dan Brown

3. Complete the trio!
• If the first was the Olympic and the third was the Britannic, give me
the second

4. Whose Viking family
last Halloween?

6. This was France in the 1968
Olympics.
Humorously compared to what?

7. WTF
• The very first company to offer _________ insurance was the St. Lawrence
Agency in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The company pays the claimant $1
per year until their death or for 1 million years, whichever comes first. Over
20,000 people have purchased the insurance. The insurance is normally
purchased by the "feeble-minded", according to Simon Burgess, former
Managing Director and co-founder of British Insurance. The Heaven's Gate
religious group had purchased _________ insurance before their mass
suicide. The payment would double if the insured person was impregnated
during the event. Men were also able to purchase the impregnation
insurance for protection against the unknown capabilities of technology.
• What insurance?

8. Har samasya ka soluchan
• __________ is a website claims to have over 100 million users serves
to facilitate petitions by the general public.
• Corporations including Virgin America, and organizations such
as Amnesty International and the Humane Society, pay the site to
host and promote their petitions. Their stated mission is to "empower
people everywhere to create the change they want to see.”

9.
• X-ism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the
company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It
involves musical, artistic, literary or spiritual pursuits.
• The term emerged in France in the early 19th century when artists
and creators began to concentrate in the lower-rent, lower
class, Romani neighbourhoods. X was a common term for the Romani
people of France, who were mistakenly thought to have reached
France in the 15th century via _________ (the western part of
modern Czech Republic), at that time a largely proto-Protestant
country and considered heretical by many Roman Catholics.

10. Bad Boy on Death Row
• This rivalry was a no less than a war, riddled with diss, drive-by
shootings and peace summits in the United States, especially from
the mid to late 1990s; with major incidents happening in 1996 and
1997.
• What am I talking about?

East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry

11.
• In a society that Orwell described, every citizen is under
constant surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The
people are constantly reminded of this by the slogan “___ _______ __
________ ___“
• This gave rise to something in worldwide entertainment. Give me the
phrase!

12. Th Man
• The story goes that when X was playing on secondary level (School
level), he was not included in the playing 11. But still managed to bag
the man of the match award.
• Who? Funda?

Jonty Rhodes, 7 catches as a substitute

13. Exact term please?
• This is an event where people dance to music listened to on
__________. Those without ________ hear no music, giving the
effect of a room full of people dancing to nothing.
• They are popular at music festivals as they allow dancing to continue
past noise curfews.
• Recently popularised in India through a Ranbir Kapoor & Anushka
Sharma song.

15.
• For 0.7 seconds the Maltese national anthem became ____, when the
it was accidentally played ahead of Malta's friendly with Slovakia.
• By full time, the choice was quite apt for the visitors as they suffered
a 1-0 defeat. (Video)
• What?

16.
• A _________, is a large-screen television using technology developed
by Sony, typically used in sports stadiums and concert venues to show
close up shots of the event. Although it is a registered trademark
owned by the Sony Corporation, Sony stopped manufacturing the
devices under that name in 2001 and the word has since become
a genericized trademark. (Image)

17. Them Murdock boys
• X left school after his sophomore year and got a job in the copper
mines as a diamond drill operator. He was promoted to surface duty,
where he drove a large earth mover. He was fired when he made the
earth mover do a motorcycle-type wheelie and drove it into the main
power line, leaving the city without electricity for several hours.
• After a police chase in 1956, in which he crashed his motorcycle, X
was taken to jail on a charge of reckless driving. When the night jailer
came around to check the roll, he noted X in one cell and a man
named "Awful Knofel" ("awful" rhyming with "Knofel"), so X began to
be referred to as “X”

Are you above 18?
• _______ __ ___ is an American period drama television series set in
the 1950s through the early 1970s. The series tells the story of two
pioneering researchers of human sexuality at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri portrayed by Michael Sheen and Lizzy
Caplan. The name of the show is a play on the name of the
protagonist.

19.
• X is a Japanese cardboard robot that originally appeared in the
manga Yotsuba&! in 2007. The name is a play on the Japanese word
for corrugated cardboard. While the robot was originally named
“Cardbo”, X was chosen later which the editors thought sounded
cuter. (Image)

20. This is called Kebleh (in Farsi).
What is the use of this discreet
design painted on the ceiling corner
of every hotel room in Iran?

It points towards Mecca in order for Muslims to know in which
direction they should pray.

21.
• A Punjabi film based on real life events during the Khalistan
movement, was controversially banned in 2013 by the Punjab
Government.
• Give me the name of the movie, that it derives from slogans during
the Khalistan Movement and shares with a Bollywood rock track.

22. Table Manners
• __________ an item used to rest beverages upon. They protect the
surface of a table or any other surface where the user might place a
beverage.

23. FITB
• __________ is a management consulting firm headquartered in
Evanston, Illinois that provides services for clients primarily in
the pharmaceutical industry. It was founded in 1983 by Prabhakant
Sinha and Andris Zoltners, who worked together as professors of
marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University.

25. PS: I know
• X uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric,
byte/binary, and kanji) to efficiently store data. Invented in 1994
by Denso Wave, its purpose was to track vehicles during
manufacturing. But X became popular outside the automotive
industry due to its quick response and greater storage capacity, and is
now used in a much broader context.

Now one’s gonna shout!
-Arnab Goswami

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• There are stories. Please have patience. There are chocolates as well.

Pounce/Bounce
+15/-10 for Pounce
+10 on Direct

2. What term?
Bhim, who was the chief of the Mahemi tribe, had an interesting ritual.
Whenever he had to assign a difficult task, he would call a meeting at
his Mahim fort where warriors used to be given a sumptuous feast.
After the feast, _________ would be placed in the middle of the
gathering and the man who picked it was entrusted with the difficult
task.
In several regions across India, ________ has been used to symbolize a
deal/invitation between two parties, where the client would literally
give the performer a ________.
However, now the term is used in a particular sense only. What term?

3. ID All Three
“And 74 more than _____”

“And 74 more than the Don!”

4.
• The United States' acquisition of X from Y on March 30, 1867 for $7.2
million saw an increase of about 17% in a certain aspect.
• Economists have argued that the U.S. federal government has not
earned a positive financial return on the purchase. Tax revenue and
mineral and energy royalties to the federal government have been
less than costs to government plus interest on the borrowed funds
used for the purchase. Other economists and scholars have criticized
the metrics used to reach those conclusions.
• X and Y?

• X-Alaska
• Y-Russian Empire

5.
• Historical accounts of “____________” were recorded by the military
writer Polyaenus and by Aelian. Both writers reported that Antigonus
II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the
Megarians did something to counter the enemy’s war elephants; by
combining two of the elephants’ biggest fears. The elephants bolted
in terror, killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling
them to death.
• According to legend Alexander the Great learned about this "secret
weapon" against war elephants from Porus in India.

Incendiary pigs or flaming pigs

6. FITB
• The origin of the term “______ ___" was from the 1979 video
game Adventure for the Atari 2600, and is now used widely. The game was
programmed by Warren Robinett. Robinett secretly inserted the message
"Created by Warren Robinett", which would only be triggered if the player
moved their avatar over a single pixel (the "Gray Dot") in a certain part of
the game.
• Shortly after his departure, the Gray Dot and his message was discovered
by a player, who wrote their discovery in to Atari. Atari's management
initially wanted to reprogram and rerelease the game to remove the
message, but this was a costly effort. They kept the message and
encouraged future games to include such messages, describing these as
“______ ___" for consumers to find, and thus coining the term.

7. Who?
• John Lawrence Nettleship was a British schoolteacher who
taught chemistry at Wyedean School, Gloucestershire. Nettleship
described himself in hindsight as "a short-tempered chemistry
teacher with long hair...[and a] gloomy, malodorous laboratory..”
Strangely enough he died of cancer in 2011.

Inspiration behind Severus Snape

8.
• The Letters of Vincent van Gogh refers to a collection of 903 surviving
letters written (820) or received (83) by Vincent van Gogh. More than
650 of these were from Vincent to his brother Theo. The collection
also includes letters van Gogh wrote to his sister Wil and other
relatives, as well as between artists such as Paul Gauguin, Anthon van
Rappard and Émile Bernard. It is to these letters between the
brothers that we owe much of what we know today about Vincent
van Gogh.
• However the only period where we are relatively uninformed is
between 1886-1888. Why is it so?

They shared an apartment during this period in Paris and had
no need to correspond.

9. X and Y?
• X was 15 and had just been named man of the tournament at the
Subroto Cup, the country’s premier inter-school football tournament.
In the middle of a press conference, a few journalists insisted he call
up his mother and ask the story behind his name. Till then, the
thought had never occurred to him. His parents, it turned out, were
big fans of the superstar Y. “That was the first time I heard his name.
Even my parents did not mention it to me before. It felt strange.”
• X, from Manipur, plays primarily as a winger for Kerala Blasters in
the Indian Super League.

X-Jackichand Singh Y- Jackie Chan

10.
• This place features a large lotus in full bloom carved out of stone
surrounded by 46 small lotuses.
• What place? What does this serve as a memorial for? Why 46
lotuses?
• Bonus: Why lotuses?
• (Image)

Veer Bhumi
• Rajiv Gandhi Memorial
• 46 to signify the number of years he lived
• Rajiv, named after Kamala Nehru, means lotus

11.
#pop_culture
#sorry_anushrut
• What is a Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea smile, or
a Glasgow, Chelsea or Cheshire grin)?
• The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland in the
1920s and '30s, but became popular with English street gangs
(especially among the Chelsea Headhunters).

12. What’s unique to these movies?
(Exhaustive list)

13. What are the images pointing
at?

“Imagine Dragons” is actually an anagram made from the
letters of different words

14.
• Forbesganj is a town in the Araria District in the state of Bihar. The
city was given its present name from its British ruler named Forbes.
• There are many such places that get their names from British names
or even English phrases, that have been ‘Indianized’ in pronunciation
over time.
• Give me the funda behind the naming of Araria; a large part of which
used to house British officers before independence, including Mr
Forbes.
• (Image)

The area where Mr. Forbes's bungalow was located was called
"Residential Area", which people abbreviated to R. Area. Over
time, R. Area acquired the pronunciation Araria!

15.
• Peshwa Bajirao at the peak of his success declared to prove the
strength of Marathas by waving the Kesariya flag:
“____X____ se lekar ____Y____ tak”
• X represented the western most reach of the Maratha empire, now in
modern day Pakistan. And Y, the eastern most, now lying near the
coast of Bay of Bengal.
• No points for guessing X and Y are rhyming names.

16.
• The name for the currency is krona in Sweden and krone in Norway
and Denmark.
• What does this literally mean? The meaning being somehow related
to the common heritage of these Scandinavian nations.

17. Not again Barry!
Who is dressed as Superman here?

18.
• X invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical
industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19. His business pitted
him against Y, as rivals of the Current War.
• In 1911 he received the “Y Medal” from AIEE for meritorious
achievement in connection with the development of the alternating
current system.
• X and Y?

X- George Westinghouse
Y- Edison

19. Basic CBSE
• A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of shot balls by
___________, which are then caught in a water basin. They replaced
the moulds or barrels that were previously used to produce the shots.
• The shot is primarily used for projectiles in shotguns, and also for
ballast, radiation shielding and other applications where small lead
balls are useful.
• Method/Principle? (Image)

Freefall of molten lead gives it the spherical shape required

20. What country was Jewel Thief shot in, whose culture is
well depicted in the video?

21.
• The official jersey sponsors of South Africa in ODIs are Castle Lager, a
brand of Castle Breweries which is an old and one of the most
popular brewery in South Africa.
• However not players endorse them on their jerseys. Wayne Parnell
used to endorse Castle Lager. But since 2011, he doesn’t.
• Overall Funda?

Parnell converted to Islam
Alcohol is forbidden in Islam

22. FITB
• In 2015, the Supreme Court agreed to take up a rather unusual
petition - one that seeks a ban on “______ _____". The petitioner,
Harvinder Kaur Chowdhury, argued that they portray the community
as "unintelligent", "foolish" and "naïve", making them an easy target
for ridicule and racial abuse.

• Engine is switched on or not
• Prevent Birds from flying into it

24.
• After careful observations and tireless data collection, German
researcher Arnd Leike explained the mathematics behind the rate at
which X dissipates, winning the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. Leike
painstakingly timed how long it took for the X to disappear and
concluded that it undergoes exponential decay - meaning that right
after _______ is poured X disappears quickly, and the longer it rests,
the more slowly the remaining X will vanish. Leike's work was
published in the European Journal of Physics.

25. Dharam now
• In summer months of May and June these remnants of temples are
rendered visible. The temples were part of the then Padmapur. Nearly
150 temples have either perished in over 60 years or are not visible
and about 50 are visible during summer. The hidden treasures have
finally caught the attention of historians, and steps are being taken to
understand the historical significance of these temples
• Where? Funda?

26. What actions of Reiner was reported in newspapers
around the world in the following days?
• Herbert Reiner Jr. served in the US Navy in World War II. He arrived in newly
independent India in 1947 as a disbursing and financial officer for the US State
Department, in the US Embassy in New Delhi, with rank of vice-consul.
• Reiner, arriving fifteen minutes before the scheduled start of the meeting at
5 p.m., found himself in a relatively small crowd. Although there were some
armed guards present, Reiner felt that the security measures were inadequate,
especially in view of an attempted bomb explosion at the same location ten days
before. A few minutes after five, the crowd had swelled to several hundred,
which Reiner described as comprising "schoolboys, girls, sweepers, members of
the armed services, businessmen, sadhus, holymen, and even vendors displaying
pictures…” He soon heard sounds, though, which in his words were "not loud, not
ringing, and not unlike the reports of damp firecrackers ..." and which for a
moment made him wonder if some sort of celebration was underway.

Reiner rushed forward, grasping Godse by the shoulders, and
restrained him until military and police personnel took him
away

27. Another one from Persia
• Iran has elaborately-decorated front doors, that they used to attach
two separate types of door knockers. To solve what problem was this
devised? (Image)

• If a man comes, he uses the door knocker that looks like a thick bar of
metal (the one on the left in the image above). The bars create a
deeper sounding knock.
• If a woman comes, she uses the door knocker that looks is a shaped
as a ring of metal (the one on the right in the image above). The
rings create a lighter sounding knock.

28. X? Funda?
• In the 18th century, the whale oil industry was booming, and the
Falklands had their fair share of whales. Fat is rendered into oil in
gigantic vats of boiling water. The Falkland Islands had plenty of
whales, but they’re mostly void of timber, and burning whale oil to
render whale oil seemed a little silly. It turned out, X made
surprisingly good kindling, thanks to layers of protective (and,
apparently, highly flammable) fat beneath their skin. And it didn’t
hurt that they’re so easy to catch.
• After coming down to 1 million from 10 million in 300 years following
combustion and competition for food; the Falklands War left the X
with a bizarre kind of habitat protection attributed to the X not being
heavy enough.

The Penguins aren’t heavy enough to set off the mines laid out, but
because humans are, the little guys have the minefields all to
themselves.

29. Showoff!
• Sweden, which sources almost half its electricity from renewables,
was one of the first countries to implement a heavy tax on fossil fuels
in 1991.
• Last year, Sweden even ran out of _______ and the Scandinavian
country has been since forced to import it from other countries to
keep its _______ power plants going.

30.
• WWII survivors were appalled after something filmmakers did in
Blenheim Palace, Sir Winston Churchill’s birthplace, for the shooting
of Transformers: The Last Knight.
• Colonel Richard Kemp, said: “I know its a film, but it’s symbolically
disrespectful to Churchill. He will be turning in his grave.”
• Aisa kya kardiya?

31.
• In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a
Vermont window, among other names) is a window placed in the
gable-end wall of a house and rotated approximately 45 degrees from
the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the roof
slope. This technique allows a builder to fit a full-sized window into
the long, narrow wall space between two adjacent roof lines. What is
the funda behind its odd naming?
• (Image)

Superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through
the tilted windows.

32. Give me what I want.
Here’s the original content:
X: Don’t tell me I’m wrong, you brat. Proving his guilt is my whole
mission in life!
Y: Ow! X, your grief has obsessed you with this idea of vengeance. I beg
you…give it up!

33.
• The ______ ___ is an aerial vehicle built by Bruce Wayne to transport
the Justice League around the globe.
• What is it called? Why so?

What did Abraham text his
eldest son when he didn’t pick
up the phone?
“Call me Ishmael!”

34. What candy?
• Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the Mars Company founder, Frank C. Mars,
copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil
War when he saw soldiers eating British made Smarties, hardened
sugar syrup used to prevent the candies from melting. Mars received
a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941. Bruce Murrie, son of
Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, had a 20 percent
share in the product. The arrangement allowed the candies to be
made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of
the rationed chocolate at the time.

35.
• “_______ ___ ___ ___ ____” is an expression of the infinite
regress problem in cosmology posed by the “unmoved mover" paradox.
• A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a
public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the
sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection
of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the
back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The
world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a _____." The scientist
gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the ______ standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's
_______ ___ ___ ___ ____ !“
• It’s also a novel by John Green, published on October 10, if that helps.

36. FITB, We Good?
• ____ _______ were inexpensive magazines that were published from
1896 to the 1950s. The term derives from the cheap paper on which
the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher
quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks".
• If no one is pouncing?

• The term is in reference to low-quality literature and hardboiled crime
novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic
violence and punchy dialogue.

37. Role Reversal
$1 million (15 of 15) - no time limit
___________________________________?
• A: Lyndon Johnson • B: Richard Nixon
• C: Jimmy Carter • D: Gerald Ford

Which of these U.S. Presidents appeared on the television series
"Laugh-In"?

38. Kya lenge?
• X was created by the London based Peek Freans in 1874 to
commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria
Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh.
• Consumed in various methods apart from the traditional one; with
jelly, syrups, or by making sandwiches or desserts out of it.
• It’s round and usually has the name embossed upon its top surface,
the edges of which are also embossed with an intricate design.
• X?

39. Not here
• England players including Kevin Pietersen, James Anderson and Stuart
Broad allegedly did this on the Oval pitch celebrating England's 3-0 Ashes
triumph in 2013.
• Graeme Swann appeared to confirm the story but attempted to play it
down. "We did go out to the middle of the pitch, all the lads, drinking
beers, singing a few songs and enjoying each other's company. I think the
______________ might have come once or twice but it was nothing
untoward. It was midnight, a private celebration in the middle of the pitch
and the ground was dark.“
• What indecent celebration?

40.
• X is a caste or community of Hindus originating in India. They are
considered to be members of the scribe caste, and have traditionally
acted as keepers of public records and accounts, writers, and
administrators of the state.
• The exact varna status of X has been a subject of debate. Sources
rank X higher than Kshatriyas (but below Brahmins).
• According to Yama Samhita, Chitragupta sprung from Brahma’s body.
Hence his descendants were called X, derived from the Sanskrit word
for ‘body’.

Comment on the US-Iraq war which saw the usage of SCUD
and Patriot missile

42.
• The name X, adopted by several football clubs, is an ancient term for
Britain. It derives from the Latin word for ‘white’, a reference to the
iconic white cliffs of Dover.
• What name?

43.
• X came up with the K-series of processors, where ‘K’ stood for
‘Kryptonite’, in order to defeat the Superman (leader) of the industry,
Y.
• X and Y?

44. Death
• In 1895, Anna Bertha exclaimed, "I have seen my death!” when she
saw this image, first of it’s kind taken by her husband.
• What image caused this dread? Who was the husband?

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