GENERAL QUIZ FINALS

2. 18 QUESTIONS
POUNCE +15/-10
DIRECT +10
PASS +10

3. 1.
X (born 1 April 1956) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha. He
represents the Dhenkanal constituency of Orissa, and was re-elected
for the fourth time in 2014. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal
(BJD).
In 2015, he became first MP to hold official ‘Ask Me Anything’ on
Reddit. His other views include support to net neutrality, abolishing
Sec 377, legalising cannabis, repealing laws banning pornography,
inclusion of MPs in Jan Lokpal Bill, implementing Uniform Civil Code.
ID X.

5. Tathagata Sathpathy

6. 2.
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8. Elon Musk Cameo

9. 3.
……………… is a layered dessert, often considered a cake. It
originated in Italy’s Veneto in Europe, in the 1960s. It consists of
ladyfinger or sponge finger biscuits, coffee, mascarpone cheese, cocoa,
sugar and egg yolks. It’s an Italian word that can be translated as ‘pick
me up’, often thought to be referring to either the appealing nature, or
the energy boosting caffeine and sugar content. Which popular Italian
dessert is it?

11. Tiramisu

12. 4.The Goddess on the rooster,………….., is invoked in many Hijra communities
during the Hijra’s castration ceremony which is termed ‘Nirvana’. She is shown as a
woman who carries a sword on her top right, a text of scriptures on her top left,
the abhay hasta mudra ("showering of blessings") on her bottom right, and
a trident on her bottom left.

14. Bahuchar mataji or Bahucharaji

15. 5.
CONNECT

17. Taher Shah
• First image denotes “Eye to Eye”
• Second image denotes “Angel”
• Third image is his logo.

18. 6.
During one of the trials, X impressed with 9 goals in one match. X has
never won the World Cup, never been named the Fifa World Player of
the Year, nor has he ever been awarded the Ballon d’Or but X is one of
the greatest to ever play the game.
Id X.

20. X = ZICO/White Pele

21. ANTI-CLOCKWISE

22. 7.
An X system is an airborne radar picket system designed to detect
aircraft, ships and vehicles at long ranges and perform command and
control of the battlespace in an air engagement by directing fighter and
attack aircraft strikes. X units are also used to carry out surveillance,
including over ground targets and frequently perform C2BM (command
and control, battle management) functions similar to an Air Traffic
Controller given military command over other forces
X aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and
are to the NATO and US forces trained or integrated Air Forces what
the Command Information Center is to a US Navy warship, plus a highly
mobile and powerful radar platform.
ID X?

24. airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)

26. 8.
X, launched in 1970, was a project of India's National Dairy
Development Board (NDDB), which was the world's biggest dairy
development program. It transformed India from a milk-deficient
nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in
1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–11. X's objectives
included:-1)increasing milk production;2)augment rural incomes;3)fair
prices for consumers.
The Anand pattern experiment at Amul, a single, cooperative dairy, was
the engine behind the success of the program. Verghese Kurien, the
chairman and founder of Amul, was named the chairman of NDDB by
the then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri.
ID X?

28. OPERATION FLOOD

29. 9. Id this Chocolate

32. 10.
CONNECT
Brianna Rollins was born in Miami, Florida, daughter of Temperance
Rollins. She is a 2009 graduate of Miami Northwestern senior high
school. Rollins competed for Clemson University and graduated in
2013, majoring in travel and tourism.
Nia Ali raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Ali moved
to Pleasantville, New Jersey for her senior year and graduated from
Pleasantville high school in 2006.
Kristi Catlin graduated in the top five percent of her class. she gained a
scholarship to study political science at Virginia tech. She graduated
from Virginia Tech in 2010.

34. 1-2-3 historic podium sweep by USA in 100M
hurdles final.

35. 11.
• X is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of
Economics at MIT . X is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab (along with economists Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan). X
was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic
Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau
of Economic Research. He is the co-author of Poor Economics.
• He was honoured with the Infosys Prize 2009 in the social sciences
category of economics.
• ID X?

37. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

38. 12.
Nasadiya Sukta, is the 129th hymn of the 10th Mandala of
the Rigveda. It is concerned with cosmology and the origin of
the universe. The hymn has attracted a large body of literature
of commentaries both in Indian theology and in Western
philology.
The hymn features in the title track of ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’. Carl
Sagan quotes this poem in episode 10, 'The Edge of Forever‘ in
“Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”.
What does the hymn talk about?

39. • नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीीं नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो यत्|
किमावरीवः िु ह िस्य शममन्नम्भः किमासीद्गहनीं गभीरम ्॥ १॥
न मृत्युरासीदमृतीं न तर्हम न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्रिे तः |
आनीदवातीं स्वधया तदेिीं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किञ्चनास ॥२॥
तम आसीत्तमसा गूहळमग्रे रिे तीं सलििीं सवामऽइदम ्|
तुच्छ्येनाभ्वपपर्हतीं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्मर्हनाजायतैिम ्॥३॥
िामस्तदग्रे समवतमताधध मनसो रेतः रथमीं यदासीत्|
सतो बन्धुमसतत तनरपवन्दन्ृर्द रतीष्या िवयो मनीषा ॥४॥
ततरश्चीनो पवततो रश्श्मरेषामधः श्स्वदासीदुपरर श्स्वदासीत्|
रेतोधा आसन्मर्हमान आसन्त्स्वधा अवस्तात्रयततः परस्तात्॥५॥
िो अद्धा वेद ि इह र वोचत्िु त आजाता िु त इयीं पवसृश्ष्टः |
अवामग्देवा अस्य पवसजमनेनाथा िो वेद यत आबभूव ॥६॥
इयीं पवसृश्ष्टयमत आबभूव यर्द वा दधे यर्द वा न |
यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्त्सो अङ्ग वेद यर्द वा न वेद ॥७॥

41. • Atheism/Agnosticism/Questions the existence of god.

42. SCORE BOARD

43. CLOCKWISE

44. 13.
When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment
manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings
owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van
Gogh, he contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's International and
Sotheby's Holdings, seeking their proposals on how they would bring the
collection to the market as well as how they would maximize the profits from
the sale. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive
enough to get Hashiyama’s business. Unwilling to split up the collection into
separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves
who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under
the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12–16 million.
The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to
____________to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining
that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to
decide between two things which are equally good".

47. 14.
Wildlife scientists in Southern Karnataka recently done to reduce thefts of
camera traps used to estimate leopard population densities. Sanjay Gubbi
and his Nature Conservation Foundation team are setting up motion
sensitive cameras along forest trails frequented by leopards in a large study
area covering 30,000 square kilometers (11,583 square miles).
Unfortunately, the cameras were vulnerable to timber smugglers and
poachers, who didn't want their activities recorded. Most camera security
devices proved to be prohibitively expensive. Chains and padlocks helped to
a degree, but the vastness of the study area and its inhospitable terrain
made it impossible to effectively guard all the cameras all of the time. After
15 costly cameras went missing or were destroyed -- along with their
invaluable photographic data -- the researchers were forced to innovate.
In a flash of what some might call divine inspiration, the frustrated field team
decided to erect a ‘social fence' of sacred symbolism around the cameras.

49. • In India, sliced lemons
stuffed with blood-red
vermillion powder are
often used in black magic,
and are viewed with fear
and avoided.

50. 15. Who is the author?

52. Ramachandra Guha
Democrats and Dissenters authored by Ramachandra Guha was released
in September 2016. The book is a work of rigorous scholarship on
topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and
wit.

53. 16.
The film X’s song, “Y”, is also the opening song of the second
act of A.R. Rahman’s, Don Black’s, Shekhar Kapur’s and
Andrew Llyod Webber’s musical “Bombay Dreams”, which
opened in London in June 2002 and in New York in April 2004.

55. X = Dil Se
Y = Chal Chaiyya Chaiyya

56. 17. Equation of?

59. 18.
Jon Hicks is an English designer who is currently working at Opera as
Lead Designer.
He has designed the Miro, Mahalo.com and MailChimp logos. He has
also created a popular diagram of the CSS Box model and a widely used
trick to counter the "IE whitespace bug".
But he is best known for his logo of X, which was later named Y. The
logo comprises of earth and Ailurus fulgens.
Give X.

61. • X = Phoenix
• Y = Mozilla Firefox

62. SCORE BOARD

63. GOOGLE DOODLE ROUND

71. EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS

72. India Independence Day 2016

73. Google’s 18th birthday

74. Mukesh Mathur’s 93rd birth anniversary

75. Pakistan National Day 2016

76. Ladislao José Biro’s 117th birthday

77. 112nd anniversary of Rukmini Devi Arundale’s
birthday

78. SCORE BOARD

79. LONG-VISUAL-CONNECT

80. +100/-80

81. 1.
• X was brought to the site by Nettie Tobin and accepted in 1912.
Construction began in 1921 and was completed in 1953, with a delay
of several years during the Great Depression and World War II. Also
known as the "Mother Temple of the West“.
• The cladding is made of white portland cement concrete with both
clear and white quartz aggregate. It has received numerous design
awards, and is a prominent Chicago-area landmark. In 1978, it was
added to the National Register of Historic Places.
• On April 30, 2007, it was named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois
by the Illinois Bureau of Tourism representing the Chicago
metropolitan area

83. +90/-60

84. 2.
• The Mother Temple of Africa is situated on Kikaaya Hill, in Kawempe
Division, in Y. It was designed by Charles Mason Remey. Its
foundation stone was laid in January 1958, and it was dedicated on
January 13, 1961.
• The building is more than 130 feet (39 m) high, and over 100 meters
in diameter at the base. The dome, composed of lace-like tiles, rises
over 124 feet (37 m) high and is 44 feet (13 m) in diameter. The
foundation goes 10 feet (3 m) underground to protect it from
earthquakes common in this part of the world.

86. +80/-50

87. 3.
• The Temple in Z in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia
was dedicated on September 17, 1961 and opened to the
public after four years of construction.
• The initial design by Charles Mason Remey was approved in
1957, and given to Sydney architect John Brogan to develop
and complete.
• Construction materials include local hardwoods and concrete
surmounted by a dome, with seating for six hundred people.
The building stands 38 metres in height, has a diameter at its
widest point of 20 metres, and is a highly visible landmark
from Sydney's northern beaches

89. +71/-43

90. 4.
• It was designed by Teuto Rocholl. The temple was dedicated on July 4,
1964, after three and a half years of construction. It is made of steel,
aluminum, and glass. 540 diamond-shaped windows give the dome
an optical lightness and permit the sunlight to play in it.
• The outstanding characteristic acoustics of this setting are created by
the reverberation within the dome and the resonance of its myriad
window ledges. Choirs here sometimes sing while standing around
the circumference of the temple floor, with the audience in the
center.

92. +62/-34

93. 5.
• It designed by Peter Tillotson. It is perched on a high cliff, "Cerro
Sonsonate" ("Singing Hill"), overlooking the city, and is constructed of
local stone laid in a pattern reminiscent of Native American fabric
designs.
• The dome is covered with thousands of small oval tiles, and the
entrance gates of the temple are constructed in a unique three-
dimensional design each consisting of an equilateral triangle of three
vertical posts with multiple rows of bars stretching between them at
various angles, each row of which gradually changes from vertical to
horizontal.

95. +55/-27

96. 6.
• It was designed by Hossein Amanat, and was dedicated by Malietoa
Tanumafili II, the Samoan head of state (1913–2007), who was the
first reigning Bahá'í chief of state. Its 30-meter domed structure is
open to the public for individual prayer, commemoration of Baha'i
holy days, and weekly devotional meetings. The structure is
completely open to the island breezes.

98. +41/-19

99. 7.
• It was designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects in
Toronto, Canada.
• Its sides and dome will be composed of nine wings, each one
consisting of a steel space frame with panels of translucent marble
and cast glass cladding.The construction phase started in November
2010.The construction completed in October, 2016, with doors
opening on October 19, 2016.

101. +22/-9

102. 8.
• Inspired by the lotus flower, its design is composed of 27 free-
standing, marble-clad "petals" arranged in clusters of three to form
nine sides. Nine doors open on to a central hall, capable of holding up
to 2,500 people. Slightly more than 40 meters tall, its surface shining
white marble, the temple at times seems to float above its 26-acre
(105,000 m²; 10.5 ha) nine surrounding ponds. The site is in the
village of Bahapur, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

105. Bahai House of Worship
• Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
• Kampala, Uganda
• Sydney (Ingleside), New South Wales, Australia
• Hofheim-Langenhain, Germany
• Panama City, Panama
• Tiapapata, Samoa
• Santiago, Chile
• Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

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