2017 defence quiz at kozhikode - finals

FINALS

4 ROUNDS 1 Infinite Bounce/Pounce – 12

questions 1 Written Round – 8 questions 1 Infinite Bounce/Pounce – 12

questions 1 Written Round – 8 questions

ROUND 1 - CLOCKWISE

INFINITE BOUNCE/POUNCE 12 questions 10/-5 on Pounce

Q1. The term has been used for centuries to describe

a fast-paced battle between two or more opponents. The term gained popularity during World War II although its origin in air combat can be traced to the latter years of World War I.

The first written reference to the modern day usage of the word comes from Fly Papers, by A. E. Illingworth, in 1919, “The battle develops into a X small groups of machines engaging each other in a fight to the death.”

Identify the term.

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Dogfight.

Q2.A scene from the 1991 film Prahaar. Whose cameo?

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General VK Singh.

Q3.What was his connection to Indian Navy?

Admiral Sergey Gorshkov was a Soviet naval officer during the Cold War who oversaw the expansion of the Soviet Navy into a global force.He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, and under Leonid Brezhnev oversaw a massive naval build-up of surface and submarine forces, creating a force capable of challenging Western naval power by the late 1970s.

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INS Vikramaditya

Formerly named as Admiral Gorshkov before India purchased it.

Q4. It is a giant sequoia tree located in the

Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth.

It was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh _______ , in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under the namesake.

Name the tree.(Just his surname will do)

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General Sherman.

Q5. These animals are used in military

applications by the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program. These include detecting underwater landmines and equipment recovery. They can be highly useful as they can reach places inaccessible to human divers. They can dive to 1,000 feet and swim up to 25 miles per hour in short bursts. They can also swim silently in the water.

What animals?

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Sea Lions.

Q6. It was invented to be part of Military uniform (American

air-combat-wear).Then it went through phases-hipster to street.Now it has sneaked into corporate wear because of changing mindsets and open work environments.

What is it called?

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BOMBER JACKETS.

Q7. They include several groups of indigenous people

of the Pacific Northwest in the United States and in the early 19th century they resided along the lower and middle Columbia River, now areas of present-day Oregon and Washington. In 1805 the Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered the tribe on the lower Columbia.

Lends their name to an entity designed and initially produced by Boeing Vertol in the early 1960s; it is now produced by Boeing Rotorcraft Systems.

What am I talking about?

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CHINOOK.

Q8.Identify the brand. Introduced in 1941,X’s period advertising called it

“The World’s Most Wanted Pen,” a slogan alluding to restrictions on production of pens for the civilian market in the United States during World War II. X's continued advertising during the war created a demand that took several years to fulfill after the end of the conflict.

The pen was not named after the ___ Mustang fighter plane; but X took advantage of the coincidence by comparing the pen and the plane in its advertising.

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Parker 51

Q9.Simple.What’s thus made?

The traditional explanation of the source of the metal from which the medals are struck is that it derives from Russian cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol. Some research has suggested a variety of origins for the material.Research has established that the metal for most of the medals made since December 1914 came from two Chinese cannons that were captured from the Russians in 1855.

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Victoria Cross.

Q10.Four word phrase. This was a military action by the British Sutherland

Highlanders 93rd (Highland) Regiment at the Battle of Balaklava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War.In this incident, the 93rd, aided by a small force of 100 walking wounded, 40 detached Guardsmen, and some Turkish infantrymen, led by Sir Colin Campbell, routed a Russian cavalry charge.

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The Thin Red Line.

Q11.Another phrase question.Whom does he referring to?

The phrase was further popularised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena":

Lo! in that house of misery A _____ ___ __ _____ I see

Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.

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A Lady with a lamp. Florence Nightingale for her services

during the Crimean War.

Q12. Carl Diem devised the idea when a particular event

was organized by the Nazi Party under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels. The process was ratified by the chief organizing body and is continued ever since.Diem and the organizing team realized that there would need to be very detailed plans in order to successfully complete the process to a standard that would satisfy both themselves and the ruling Third Reich.. Research was therefore required into the specialist technologies that would be needed.

What was thus devised by Carl Diem?

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First Olympic torch relay.

Round 2 :- Write bros.

8 questions 10 points each 10 points bonus for 7-8 right

answers. 5 points bonus for 5-6 right answers. Topic :- Films

Q1. According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in

human geography at the Royal Holloway University of London, the word 'first' appears in the Domesday Book in the late 1000's to describe parcels of land that lie just beyond the London city walls.

The name is shared by a 1987 film and it basic plotline (undercover policeman falls in love with prime suspect's sister and cannot bring himself to make an arrest) is frequently cited as inspiring the film The Fast and the Furious.

Q2. Bomber jacket sales increased and Ray-

Ban Aviator sunglasses jumped 40%, due to their use by characters in the film.

The film also had boosted Navy recruitment.The Navy had recruitment booths in some theaters to attract enthusiastic patrons.

Which film?

Q3. X is a 2016

American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, starring Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Q4

X is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead) encased in a shell of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or less commonly a steel alloy. In military nomenclature, it is often labeled ball ammunition.

Lends its name to this 1987 film.

Q5.Which 1998 film? Many World War II veterans stated that the

film was the most realistic depiction of combat they had ever seen.The film was so realistic that combat veterans of D-Day and Vietnam left theaters rather than finish watching the opening scene depicting the Normandy invasion. Their visits to posttraumatic stress disorder counselors rose in number after the film's release, and many counselors advised "'more psychologically vulnerable'" veterans to avoid watching it.

Q6.Which 1957 film? The filming of the bridge explosion was to

be done on 10 March 1957, in the presence of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, then Prime Minister of Ceylon, and a team of government dignitaries. However, cameraman Freddy Ford was unable to get out of the way of the explosion in time, and Lean had to stop filming. The train crashed into a generator on the other side of the bridge and was wrecked. It was repaired in time to be blown up the next morning.

Q7.Identify X or how does he connect to this topic?

Eddie Ray Routh was a 25-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran from Lancaster, Texas.

X and his friend Chad Littlefield had reportedly taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help him with his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Routh had been in and out of mental hospitals for at least two years and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Later X and Littlefield, were shot and killed by Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort shooting range.

Q8.ID X/the film. In India, the Bhartiya Janata Party demanded a

ban on the film, accusing it of showing falsehood and indulging in character assassination of X. As an example, the BJP spokesman stated that the film shows X visiting the house of a prostitute.[

The Samajwadi Party leader Uday Pratap Singh called in the Rajya Sabha for the movie to be banned for its "inaccurate portrayal" of X.

The Uttar Pradesh government criticised the film for "distortion" of historical facts, and considered banning it.

and now the answers are…

Q1. Id the 1987 film. According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in

human geography at the Royal Holloway University of London, the word 'first' appears in the Domesday Book in the late 1000's to describe parcels of land that lie just beyond the London city walls.

The name is shared by a 1987 film and it basic plotline (undercover policeman falls in love with prime suspect's sister and cannot bring himself to make an arrest) is frequently cited as inspiring the film The Fast and the Furious.

No Man's Land.

Q2. Bomber jacket sales increased and Ray-

Ban Aviator sunglasses jumped 40%, due to their use by characters in the film.

The film also had boosted Navy recruitment.The Navy had recruitment booths in some theaters to attract enthusiastic patrons.

Which film?

Q3. X is a 2016

American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, starring Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Q4.Film?

X is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead) encased in a shell of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or less commonly a steel alloy. In military nomenclature, it is often labeled ball ammunition.

Lends its name to this 1987 film.

Q5.Which 1998 film? Many World War II veterans stated that the

film was the most realistic depiction of combat they had ever seen.The film was so realistic that combat veterans of D-Day and Vietnam left theaters rather than finish watching the opening scene depicting the Normandy invasion. Their visits to posttraumatic stress disorder counselors rose in number after the film's release, and many counselors advised "'more psychologically vulnerable'" veterans to avoid watching it.

Q6.Which 1957 film? The filming of the bridge explosion was to

be done on 10 March 1957, in the presence of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, then Prime Minister of Ceylon, and a team of government dignitaries. However, cameraman Freddy Ford was unable to get out of the way of the explosion in time, and Lean had to stop filming. The train crashed into a generator on the other side of the bridge and was wrecked. It was repaired in time to be blown up the next morning.

Q7.Identify X or how does he connect to this topic?

Eddie Ray Routh was a 25-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran from Lancaster, Texas.

X and his friend Chad Littlefield had reportedly taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help him with his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Routh had been in and out of mental hospitals for at least two years and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Later X and Littlefield, were shot and killed by Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort shooting range.

Chris Kyle.

Q8.ID X/the film. In India, the Bhartiya Janata Party demanded a

ban on the film, accusing it of showing falsehood and indulging in character assassination of X. As an example, the BJP spokesman stated that the film shows X visiting the house of a prostitute.[

The Samajwadi Party leader Uday Pratap Singh called in the Rajya Sabha for the movie to be banned for its "inaccurate portrayal" of X.

The Uttar Pradesh government criticised the film for "distortion" of historical facts, and considered banning it.

ROUND 3 - ANTI-CLOCKWISE

SAME RULES AS FIRST ROUND.

Q1.Two worded term. (5,5)

A two worded term coined to describe the reaction of some soldiers in World War I to the trauma of battle. It is reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.

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Shell Shock.

Q2.Identify the brave soldier.

He was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra,India's highest and prestigious award for valour, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. He led one of the toughest operations in mountain warfare in Indian history. He was often called as ‘'Sher Shah'’ in the intercepted messages of the Pakistan army.

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Captain Vikram Batra. An FUQ : The slogan has its origins as a

commercial slogan for Pepsi advertisement in 1998,at JWT by Anuja Chauhan who eventually became Vice President and Executive Creative Director at JWT, Delhi, and author of books like, The Zoya Factor (2008).Thereafter it soon gained mass popularity, and became a battle slogan and rallying cry, first used by Capt. Vikram Batra, an officer of the Indian Army, during the 1999 Kargil War and widely reported in the media.

What slogan?

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Q3.(4,6)

In mid-1918, he attempted to join the United States Army to fight against the Germans, but he was rejected for being too young. After forging the date of birth on his birth certificate, he joined the Red Cross in September 1918 as an ambulance driver.

Who?

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Q4 The Rajput Regiment (war cry: “Bol Bajrang Bali ki

jai!”) The Punjab Regiment (“Boley so nihaal, Sat Sri Akal!”) The Madras Regiment (“Veer Madrassi adi kollu, adi

kollu, adi kollu!”) The Maratha Light Infantry (“Bol Chhatrapati Shivaji

Maharaj ki jai!”) The Dogra Regiment (“Jawala Mata ki jai!”) Gorkha Rifles (“Ayo Gorkhali!”) Jat Regiment (“Jat balwan, jai Bhagwan!”) The Kumaon Regiment’s (“Kalika Mata ki jai!”) How does the war cry of the Mahar regiment stand out

in perspective of all the above war cries?

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Bol Hindustan Ki Jai, No regional or religious touch.

Q5.X? (6) General KS Thimayya was a distinguished soldier of

the Indian Army who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961 in the crucial years leading up to the conflict with China in 1962. Gen. Thimayya was the only Indian to command an Infantry brigade in battle during the Second World War and is regarded as the most distinguished combat officer the Indian Army has produced.

After his retirement from the Army, he was appointed Commander of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in X from July 1964 to December 1965 and died in X while on active duty on 18th Dec 1965.

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CYPRUS.

Q6.Who? He was one of the passengers in Air India's

first ever flight – to Tokyo – in November 1960. On 8 November 1960, he was having a meal in a restaurant in Tokyo with a friend, an officer in the Indian Navy. A piece of food lodged in his windpipe, choking him to death.The next day his body was flown to Palam Airport, New Delhi, and on 10 November 1960 he was cremated with full military honours. He was paid a final tribute with a fly-past of forty nine aircraft, one for each of his forty nine years.

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Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee.

Q7.(5) An X is a sweet, hard tack biscuit, popular in

Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.

It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.Todaym they are manufactured commercially for retail sale.

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Anzac biscuit.

Q8. What word has been blanked out? This is a pun on the founding director

of RAW’s name and a American group of people.

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Q9.FITB. The administrative headquarters of the NDA

was named the _____ _____, in honour of the sacrifices of Indian soldiers in the _____ theatre during the East African Campaign. It was inaugurated by then Ambassador of _____ to India, Rahmatullah Abdulla, on 30 May 1959. The building is a 3-storey basalt and granite structure constructed with Jodhpur red sandstone. Its architecture features an exterior design comprising a blend of arches, pillars and verandahs, topped by a dome. 

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Sudan Block.

Q10.Connect this to the person in the next slide.

Savitri Khanolkar thought of the sage Dadhichi – a vedic rishi who made the ultimate sacrifice to the Gods. He gave up his body so that the Gods could fashion a deadly weapon – a Vajra, or thunderbolt, from his spine. Savitribai gave Major General Hira Lal Atal, the design of the double Vajra, common in Tibet. It is a myth that it also carries images of the fearless warrior king Shivaji's sword Bhavani but this is a popular perpetuated myth.

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Major Somnath Sharma - was the first recipient of the Param Vir

Chakra (PVC), India's highest military decoration.

Coincidentally, the first PVC was awarded to her elder daughter's brother-in-law Major Som Nath

Sharma.

Q11. The obverse of the medal depicts the head of a

young Queen Victoria and bears the inscription Victoria Regina. The reverse shows a helmeted Britannia holding a wreath in her right hand and a union shield on her left arm. She is standing in front of a lion. The words "India 1857-1858" are inscribed on the reverse of the medal. The ribbon is white with two scarlet stripes.

Identify the medal. Which is the only School to have received this

honour? This is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours.

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INDIAN MUTINY MEDALLA MARTINIERE,LUCKNOW

Q12.(10) X is a method of warfare whereby an

attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them.

X means ‘Lighting War’ in German.

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Blitzkrieg.

ROUND 4 – Write Bros II

8 questions 10 points each 10 points bonus for 7-8 right

answers. 5 points bonus for 5-6 right answers. Topic :- Weapons

Q1.X? X is an explosive charge placed within

one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire.

X is named after an Indian city.

Q2.

IT is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. From its start within a lipreed mouthpiece the air column expands into a wide length of pipe which slides freely around a narrower length of pipe which itself terminates in a widely flaring bell.

Which weapon is named after this musical instrument?

Q3.Who?X? He never claimed to have invented the X; his

design was a more practical adaption of Collier's earlier revolving flintlock incorporating a locking bolt to keep the cylinder in line with the barrel.The invention of the percussion cap made ignition more reliable, faster, and safer than the older flintlock design. His great contribution was to the use of interchangeable parts. Knowing that some parts were made by machine, he envisioned that all the parts on every X to be interchangeable and made by machine, later to be assembled by hand.

Q4.An alliterative name. Expanding bullets were given the name X,

after an early British example produced in the X Arsenal, near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville Bertie-Clay.There were several expanding bullets produced by this arsenal for the .303 British cartridge, including soft point and hollow point designs. These were not the first expanding bullets, however; hollow point expanding bullets were commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in express rifles as early as the mid-1870s.

Q5.What’s the poem about?

Q6.Either identify him or his claim to fame.

He began designing the gun shortly after the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1951, it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense Forces and was named after its creator. He did not want the weapon to be named after him but his request was ignored. In 1955, he was decorated with Tzalash HaRamatkal and in 1958, he was the first person to receive the Israel Security Award, presented to him by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion for his creation.

Q7.Fitb. _____ is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created

by James Black in the early 19th century for Jim _____ who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight. Since the first incarnation, the _____ knife has come to incorporate several recognizable and characteristic design features, although in common usage the term refers to any large sheath knife with a crossguard and a clip point.

Q8.French city/weapon?

The term dates back to the end of the 16th century, but it is not clear whether at the time they were knives that could be fitted to the ends of firearms, or simply a type of knife. For example, Cotgrave's 1611 Dictionarie describes it as "a kind of small flat pocket dagger, furnished with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle". Likewise, Pierre Borel wrote in 1655 that a kind of long-knife was made in a certain French city and hence the name.

And now the answers…

Q1.X? X is an explosive charge placed within

one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire.

X is named after an Indian city.

Bangalore torpedo.

Q2.

IT is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. From its start within a lipreed mouthpiece the air column expands into a wide length of pipe which slides freely around a narrower length of pipe which itself terminates in a widely flaring bell.

Which weapon is named after this musical instrument?

Bazooka.

Q3.Who?X? He never claimed to have invented the X; his

design was a more practical adaption of Collier's earlier revolving flintlock incorporating a locking bolt to keep the cylinder in line with the barrel.The invention of the percussion cap made ignition more reliable, faster, and safer than the older flintlock design. His great contribution was to the use of interchangeable parts. Knowing that some parts were made by machine, he envisioned that all the parts on every X to be interchangeable and made by machine, later to be assembled by hand.

Samuel Colt,Revolver.

Q4.An alliterative name. Expanding bullets were given the name X,

after an early British example produced in the Dum Dum Arsenal, near Calcutta, India by Captain Neville Bertie-Clay.There were several expanding bullets produced by this arsenal for the .303 British cartridge, including soft point and hollow point designs. These were not the first expanding bullets, however; hollow point expanding bullets were commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in express rifles as early as the mid-1870s.

Dum Dum bullet.

Q5.What’s the poem about?

EXCALIBUR-SWORD OF KING ARTHUR.

Q6.Either identify him or his claim to fame.

He began designing the gun shortly after the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1951, it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense Forces and was named after its creator. He did not want the weapon to be named after him but his request was ignored. In 1955, he was decorated with Tzalash HaRamatkal and in 1958, Gal was the first person to receive the Israel Security Award, presented to him by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion for his creation.

UZI.

The first Uzi submachine gun was designed by Major Uziel Gal in the late 1940s.

Q7.Fitb. _____ is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created

by James Black in the early 19th century for Jim _____ who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight. Since the first incarnation, the _____ knife has come to incorporate several recognizable and characteristic design features, although in common usage the term refers to any large sheath knife with a crossguard and a clip point.

Bowie knife.

Q8.French city/weapon?

The term dates back to the end of the 16th century, but it is not clear whether at the time they were knives that could be fitted to the ends of firearms, or simply a type of knife. For example, Cotgrave's 1611 Dictionarie describes it as "a kind of small flat pocket dagger, furnished with knives; or a great knife to hang at the girdle". Likewise, Pierre Borel wrote in 1655 that a kind of long-knife was made in a certain French city and hence the name.

Bayonet/Bayonne.

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