The Common Man's Quiz by Arjun, Dhanraj and Gulsar_Finals_26.07.2015

THE COMMON MAN’s QUIZ
FINALS
(CONDUCTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH LSD AND AQC)
ARJUN BANERJEE - IIMA
DHANRAJ - IIMA
GULSAR AHAMED - IIMA

FORMAT
• INFINITE POUNCE CLOCKWISE
• FOLLOWMETO
• MEDIUM VISUAL CONNECT
• LIST IT
• LONG VISUAL CONNECT
• INFINITE POUNCE ANTI-CLOCKWISE
• DIFFERENTIAL

INFINITE POUNCE
CLOCKWISE
12 QUESTIONS
Bounce +10/0
Pounce +10/-10

Q1) DISCO DEEWANE
Pair of bulls
Cow and calf
Farmer with a plough
X
Wheel
Y.
What list?

ANSWER
Election symbols of parties when they got power at the centre.

Q2) THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
X Mahadevan Nair (21 September 1983) was popularly known as Y X and the reason
his protégé was called Z X. Y and Z are words with opposite meanings. The 1991
Malayalam movie Abhimanyu is loosely based on Y Z. Who?

ANSWER
Bada Rajan and Chota Rajan

Q3) KILL BILL
The man in the picture is Leslie George Hylton.
Played 6 matches for West Indies in the 1930s.
He is the only cricketer to have been
_____________.

Q4) ISSTYLE
Around World War II, the X industry became an important and widespread
cottage industry in urban shanties and rural areas. X was a part of the rations of
the Indian jawan when he went to fight in foreign soils. The outbreak of World
War II saw an increase in the production of X, which also accompanied
the Indian soldiers. The demand for X increased at such a fast rate that the
opening of new production centres became an everyday activity for manufacturers.
X gained widespread social acceptance in a short period and
the industry became a role model for small Indian businesses. A few brands of X
were also successful during Swadeshi movement as many leaders endorsed it rather
than its foreign alternatives.

Q5) NOW THAT HAPPENS ONCE IN A MILLENIUM?
Alexander Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov, Sergei Krikalev, Franz Viehböck and Klaus-
Dietrich Flade.
These guys were the crew on the 175 day long Soyuz TM-13 mission launched on Oct
2, 1991. Out of these Volkov, Aubakirov and Krikalev share a particular distinction.
What?

ANSWER
Went as USSR citizens and came back as Russian citizens

Q6) VERY NICE OF THEM
The 1996 Miss world pageant in Bangalore, organised by ABCL and
including the likes of Vijay Mallya, Parmeshwar Godrej and Aamir khan in
their judging panel has a certain first instance of something happening.
What?

ANSWER
The swimsuit round was not held in the country. It was shifted Seychelles.

Q7) THE RATES HAVE INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY?
Between 1539 and 1857, there were only 317 instances of this happening in the entire
British empire. This could be because one needed a private act of parliament to legally
finalise it! What?
I guess we have more than that number every day now.

Q8) FOOD!
Thousands of years ago, the Kurukshetra war, between Pandavas and Kauravas, was
the mother of all wars. All the kings; hundreds of them, aligned themselves on one
aide or the other. The king of X however chose to remain neutral. He spoke to
Krishna and said, "Those who fight battles have to eat. I will be the caterer for this
battle.“
And according to legend how did the king of X ensure that the right amount of food
was cooked everyday? (A legend used to indicate that the entire war was in
Krishna’s hands)

ANSWER
Udupi. Giving Krisna groundnuts and him eating the number of nuts=number
of people to die next day

Q9) TUGHLAQ?
Fidel Castro is quoted as saying “Niemeyer and I are the last communists on this planet."
But Niemeyer is most remembered for creating something with his friend Lucio Costa on the
instructions of Juscelino Kubitschek who soon after taking over as the President visited him.
What is he most remembered for?
Maybe this quote from Niemeyer will help you.
“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves
of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.”

Q10) CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
The Brahui are an ethnic group of 2.2 million found in Baluchistan and Afghanistan.
They are almost entirely Sunni Muslim. There is one feature that is different from the
other people around them and has been used as a proof for some theorizing. What?

ANSWER
• Their language is Dravidian

Q11) SORRY?
X officially the Republic of X, was
a secessionist state that existed from 30 May 1967
to 15 January 1970, taking its name from
the Bight of X.
It was recognized by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast,
Tanzania and Zambia.
After the 1970 ceasefire, the country was
reintegrated to the parent country.
Id X.

Q12) SOMETIMES
Edneer is a small area in Kasaragod district in Kerala and the Mutt here belongs to the
parampara of Sri Thotakacharya, one of the first four disciples of Sri Adi
Shankaracharya and follows Smartha Bhagawatha tradition of Advaitha Pantha which
has more than 1200 years of glorious history of religion, culture, art, music and social
service. The Mutt is headed by the man on the next slide from 50+ years. The Mutt
also runs a few educational institutions. But none of these is the reason he is in this
quiz. What is he famous for?

ANSWER
The person is Kesavananda Bharti of the famous case that got us the basic
structure doctrine

• 10 Pictures
• +10 on each slide (+5 for monument/building, +5 for city)

ANSWER
Sigiriya Lion’s Claws, Sri Lanka

ANSWER
Jumbo Kingdom, Hong Kong

ANSWER
Berlin Cathedral, Berlin

ANSWER
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow

ANSWER
Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque, Istanbul

ANSWER
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

All Photo Credits to Murad Osman

• Points as shown on slide
• Maximum one attempt on each slide
• Points only for theme.
• Part of a finite exhaustive list

Actors from Harry Potter movies who
have also played roles in the Game of
Thrones universe

3 SETS
+3 for each right. Bonus 10 if all Correct for each set

SET 1 - ALL MAN OF THE MATCHES OF
MEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP FINALS (1975
to 2015)

ANSWERS
• 1975 – Clive Lloyd
• 1979 – Viv Richards
• 1983 – Mohinder Amarnath
• 1987 – David Boon
• 1992 – Wasim Akram
• 1996 – Aravinde de Silva
• 1999 – Shane Warne
• 2003- Ricky Ponting
• 2007- Adam Gilchirist
• 2011- MS Dhoni
• 2015- James Faulkner

SET 2 - ALL HARRY POTTER HORCRUXES

ANSWERS
• Tom Riddle’s Diary
• Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring
• Salazar Slytherin’s Locket
• Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup
• Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem
• Harry Potter
• Nagini

SET 3 - NASSIM TALEB BOOKS (NON –
TECH)

ANSWERS
• The Black Swan
• Fooled By Randomness
• The Bed of Procustes
• Antifragile

• Points as shown on slide
• Maximum one attempt on each slide
• Points only for theme
• Part of a finite exhaustive list
• Clues on each slide to decode the slide

KATRINA KAIF MOVIES (THE ONES IN WHICH SHE ACTS IN
A LEAD ROLE OR HAS JUST MADE AN APPEARANCE)

ZINDAGI NA
MILEGI DOBARA
(LAILA)

INFINITE POUNCE
ANTI-CLOCKWISE
9 QUESTIONS
Bounce +10/0
Pounce +10/-10

1)PART OF AN INEXHAUSTIVE LIST OF?
Accused
Addiction
Alligator
Amazement
Anchovies
Assassination
Backing
Bandit
Bedroom
Critic
Dauntless
Dawn
Design
Dickens
Discontent
Embrace
Employer
Engagement
Excitement
Exposure
Eyeball

ANSWER
Words coined by Shakespeare

2) TEAM SPIRIT
• In the autumn of 2005, X announced that they purchased Y and that it
would be known as Scuderia Toro Rosso (Italian for X) from 2006 onwards.
STR operates as a separate team, but the two share certain technical
resources.
• ID X and Y.
(Only negatives on pounce for partial answers)

ANSWER
• X = Red Bull
• Y = Minardi

3) SOME PEOPLE LIKE FOOTBALL IT SEEMS
• X is the official football team of a Spanish autonomous
community. The team has been referred to by various names
including Selecció Catalana, Selecció de Barcelona. X is not
affiliated to either FIFA or UEFA and is therefore not allowed to
participate in either the FIFA World Cup or the European
Championship because the region is not a state. On 3rd
November 2009, it was agreed that Johan Cruyff would become
the coach of the side, taking the reins officially from 9th
November 2009.
• ID X

ANSWER
Catalonia National Football Team

4) India v/s South Africa
• The Passive Resisters Soccer Club was started by X in 1913 in Pretoria
& Johannesburg .
• ‘What fascinated X in particular was the notion he had of football’s
nobility. At that time, the idea of team play was much stronger than
the idea of individual ‘star’ players, and this is something that greatly
appealed to him. ‘
-Poobalan Govindasamy, president of the South African Indoor
Football Association
• ID X

5) FLETCHER SEXTON VITTORIA NEVEU SOLOMON
• X (born April 19, 1946) is an American graphic designer,
ambigram artist, painter, and writer.
A self-taught artist and graphic designer, X has free-lanced as a
lettering artist and logo design specialist since 1976. Known for
his ambigrams, which he began developing in the late 1960s and
early 70s. X is known mostly as the inspiration of the protagonist
of a best-selling series written by Y , as a tribute and he will
continue to be so for his next 12 books, an estimate given by Y
himself.
• ID X and Y.

ANSWER
• X=John Langdon
• Y= Dan Brown

6) MOVIES…
• What is the connect in the above non-exhaustive list ?
• Jodhaa Akbar(2008)
• Swami(2007)
• Parineeta (2005)
• March of Penguins(2005)
• Inssaf-The justice(2004)
• Khushi(2003)
• Lagaan(2001)

ANSWER
Amitabh Bachchan voiceovers

7) VERY FUNNY
• Budai (Chinese: 布袋; pinyin: Bùdài), or Hotei in Japanese, Bố Đại in
Vietnamese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means "Cloth Sack,"
and comes from the bag that he is conventionally depicted as carrying.
He is usually identified with (or as an incarnation of) Maitreya, so
much so that the Budai image is one of the main forms in which
Maitreya is depicted in East Asia. His nickname in Chinese, the X .
Many Westerners confuse Budai with Y.
• ID X and Y

ANSWER
• X=Laughing Buddha
• Y=Gautam Buddha

8) ADDING FUEL TO FIRE
• In the evening of 29 September 1913, X boarded the post
office steamer Dresden in Antwerp on his way to a meeting
of the Consolidated ______ Manufacturing company in
London. He took dinner on board the ship and then retired
to his cabin at about 10 p.m., leaving word to be called the
next morning at 6:15 a.m. His cabin was found empty
during a roll call and he was never seen alive again. A search
of his cabin revealed that X’s bed had not been slept in,
although his nightshirt was neatly laid out and his watch had
been left where he could see it from the bed.

8) ADDING FUEL TO FIRE(2)
• His hat and overcoat were discovered neatly folded
beneath the afterdeck railing. Ten days later, the crew of
the Dutch boat Coertsen came upon the corpse of a man
floating in the ocean. The body was in such an advanced
state of decomposition that it was unrecognizable and
they did not bring it aboard. Instead, the crew retrieved
personal items (pill case, wallet, pocket knife, eyeglass
case) from the clothing of the dead man, and returned
the body to the sea. On 13 October these items were
identified by X's son, Eugen, as belonging to his father.
• ID X

9) SWEET TOOTH
• X knew he could make great candy, but running a great business was more
daunting. X, who didn't have a formal education, spent four years
apprenticing in a Philadelphia candy shop before striking out on his own in
1876. Six years later, his business went under. This wasn't the last time he
would go broke. A subsequent attempt to peddle sweets in New York City
met the same fate, and the penniless X returned home to Penn. There, he
started tinkering with the use of fresh milk in caramel production. And out
of nowhere, sweet success! In 1900, X sold Y for an eye-popping $1 million.
• Find X and Y

ANSWER
• X=Milton Hershey
• Y=Lancaster Caramel Company

CALCULATION
• 8 Questions
• Points = ( k x 2 ) + 4
Where k = No. of teams who have not got the right answer

1) ITZZ ME
• During the middle ages, X was dubbed the ‘City of Spices’.
• According to Prof K.V. Krishna Ayyer, X derives its name from the native words for ‘palace
+ fort’.
• The old name of X i.e. Y, is thought to have been derived from a fine variety of hand-woven
cotton cloth that was exported from the port of X.
• Although the city's official name is X, it is also very commonly called by its Anglicized
version, Y.
• X is the third largest city in its state and is part of the second largest urban agglomeration in
the State.
• Despite not being the state capital or the state cultural capital, the city has two of the
country’s top educational institutes.
• ID X ( No points for Y).

2) VERY FUNDAMENTAL UNIT
• Manek N. Daruvala
IIMA
• Pramod Kumar
PGDBM-XLRI
• P.Viswanath
IITM IIMA
• All the three are/were the current directors of which
educational service organisation ?

ANSWER
T.I.M.E. (Triumphant Institute of Management Education)

3) NO CLUES
• Y is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese video
game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996.
• Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video
games developed by Game Freak, Y has since become the second-most successful
and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only
Nintendo's own Mario franchise.
• The concept of the X universe, in both the video games and the general fictional
world of X, stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which X
executive director Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child
• ID X

4) IS THE QUIZMASTER 6? - CONNECT

ANSWER
Power Rangers (Space Patrol Delta)

5) LEADS US FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
• The Z Schools System is the single largest non-governmental
education society in India.
• It was established in 1886 by Lala Hansraj in Lahore and Shri R.N. Mittal is
its current President.
• It is based on the ideals of the religious and social reformer,
Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
• Z manages 667 institutions today, 461 of which are high school level
institutions, with an annual budget of more than 2 billion rupees.
• It holds the record for producing the largest number of CBSE (class Xth
and XIIth) toppers as a single institution in the last 10 years.
• ID Z.

6) U OUGHT TO HAVE WATCHED THIS
• Directed by Frank Darabont
• Produced by Niki Marvin
• Screenplay by Frank Darabont
• Starring :
• Music by Thomas Newman
• Cinematography Roger Deakins
• Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

7) CONNECT
(i) Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to score an individual
double century in ODI
(ii) Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to score 50 International
Test Hundreds
(iii) Yuvraj Singh became the first person to hit six sixes in an over
in a T20 International.
(iv) Suresh Raina became the first Indian to score an International
T20 century.

ANSWER
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the non-striker in each of these situations

8) IS THIS AN INDIA QUIZ?
• X is a fictional Indian superhero from the television series of the same name
produced by Y and directed by Dinkar Jani.
• Around 400 episodes of the series originally aired on Doordarshan, India's national
television network, from 27 September 1997 (barring the introductory episode on
27 September 1997) to 27 March 2005, on Sundays at 12 noon IST
• As soon as X seemed to be over, Y starred in another TV series Y, which was along
similar lines
• ID Y.

END OF FINALS
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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