the quizzitch cup finale 2014 - infinite bounce 1 (with answers)

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MODIFIED INFINITE BOUNCE 1

QUESTION 1.

A print ad. What is the “message” here?

Don’t Text and Drive.

QUESTION 2.

The name of which brand originates from the lubricant originally used in internal combustion rotary engines for planes developed during World War I?

Pilots had to face an unpleasant side effect due to the nature of the lube.

Castrol, which gets its name from Castor Oil (a laxative).

What famous poem – written in 1895 and first published in Rewards and Fairies, 1910 – has been described by Khushwant Singh as “the essence of the message of The Gita in English”?

In Britain, the third and fourth lines of the second stanza of the poem are written on the wall of the players’ entrance to the Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

QUESTION 3.

Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If-’.

QUESTION 4.

What famous logo went through updates in 7 stages:

Slats (1924–1928)Jackie (1928–1956)Two-Strip Technicolor ____ (1927–1934)Tanner (1934–1956)George (1956–1957)___ (1957-Present)

Apart from these, a “stylized” logo was seen only thrice on ‘products’.

Leo The Lion/MGM logo

QUESTION 5.

One of the 25 gu (local government districts) which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea, the place literally means "South of the River". It is a place known for heavy concentration of wealth and a high standard of living, comparable to Beverly Hills.

Gangnam

QUESTION 6.

In early 2013, the MoEF issued a circular banning use of these 'government servants'. The Ministry of Urban Development has since implemented it in New Delhi? Who are these servants?

The employment of langurs in Delhi’s govt offices to ward of macaque monkeys.

QUESTION 7.

The name of this 1968 book – written by Brigadier JP Dalvi about the 1951 Sino-Indian war – is now used as a metaphor for a gross error. What is the book's name?

QUESTION 8.

What curious practice can be attributed to a community of YouTube users who call themselves "Untergangers"?

These users have repeatedly stressed that they are not sympathisers of the political ideology but merely seeking fun.

Downfall parodies.

Downfall (2004) is also known as Der Untergang.