Enthuzia 2017General Quiz

PrelimsIBQC – 2017

(IISER Bhopal Quiz Club)

Quizmaster - Sreepadmanabh M

1. The land of nobody

.___ is the domain name assigned to a particular country .

This particular country has not been in existence for over two

decades now .

Infact , the country went out of existence within just a few months of

the creation of this domain name .

Today , its usually used by Russians and Americans .

Identify either the country or the domain.

.ussr

The Soviet Union , which broke up in 1991

2. May I help you ?

Hejny , an audio engineer from Nashville , Tennessee , was inspired

to create the wax four years ago when he was a concert at Texas and

saw a particular musician being forced to repeatedly do something.

Out of sympathy , he wanted to walk onto the stage and hold

something up so that the drummer could play peacefully .This led to

him creating Nerdwax.

What does NerdWax do ?

Holds spectacles in place

3. Bye Bye Blackbird

The frequent tendency for the wives and girlfriends of male superheroes to

meet grim fates is called as the X syndrome .

It derives its name from a famous issue of Marvel Comics’ The Amazing

Spiderman that proved to be a watershed moment in comic book history .

Historians say that it was the publication of this incident that paved the way

for the end of the Silver Age of comics and ushered in the grimmer , grittier ,

Bronze Age.

Rachael’s death in the Dark Knight is a prime example of this kind of event.

Identify X .

Stacy . Gwen Stacy .

The issue was titled –

“The night Gwen Stacy Died”

4. That’s the spirit

On 1st Nov 2000 , an army convoy was attacked at Malom ,

On 2nd Nov , 2000 , Sinam Chandramani , a 1988 National Child

Bravery Awardee , and nine others died at a bus stop .

On 3rd Nov 2000 , what began and is regularly punctuated by

nasogastric intubation ?

Clue , this very recently ended amid much controversy.

Irom Sharmila’s fast unto death protesting against the

AFSPA

5. Wash it clean baby

In an experiment, different groups of participants were asked to recall a

good or bad deed after which they were asked to fill in letter to complete the

words “W_ _ H “ ; “ SH_ _ ER “ ; and “S_ _P”.

Those who had been asked to recall a bad deed were 60% more likely to fill

in cleaning related words like “WASH” “SHOWER” “SOAP” as compared to

those who recalled a good deed and filled in words like “WISH” “STOP” etc.

This experiment derived from a famous event in literary fiction , something

which gave this kind of behavior a name .

What is this called ?

Lady Macbeth Effect

6. Khiladi

Who is the only person to have won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna as

well as the Arjuna Award as a player , AND the Dronacharya Award

as a coach ?

Pullela Gopichand

7 . Vroom Vroom

In September 2015 , Ola Cabs launched a special

“Ola Prime Time with X” in which select

customers were driven to their destinations in a

white Jaguar driven by whom ?

Narain Karthikeyan

8 . Think you know ?

The scientific name of the

species whose fruits are shown

here is “Elaeocarpus ganitrus”

How do we better know these ?

Rudraksh seeds

9. Play that song

It all started while staying together in the same dormitory

at University College of London in the mid – 1990s .

They wanted to name themselves ‘Starfish’ . But when

one of their friends’ group no longer wanted to use the

name X taken from a book of poems written by American

poet Philip Horky , they gleefully accepted it .

Identify X who since 1996 are still going strong .

Coldplay

10. Identify both X and Y

X is a whole Y blend used in Bangladesh, Eastern India and Southern Nepal

especially in Bhojpuri, Mithila of Nepal, Bengal, Assam and Oriya in their

cuisine. The name literally means "five Y" .

All of the Ys in X are seeds. Typically, X consists of fenugreek seed (methi),

nigella seed, cumin seed , black mustard seed and fennel seed in equal

parts

Unlike most Y mixes, X is always used whole and never ground.

Traditionally ,X is used with vegetables, chicken or beef curry, fish, lentils,

shukto and in pickles.

X - Panch Phoron

Y - Spice

11.

In a report dated 27th Oct 2009, Forbes published a list as follows saying

“The money might be drying up in Hollywood , but there’s still plenty of

cash to be made in the ____ “ . What was this list all about ?

1. Yves St. Laurent ( $ 350 m ) 6. John Lennon ( $ 15 m )

2. Elvis Presley ( $ 70m) 7. Theodor Geisel ( $ 10 m )

3. Michael Jackson ( $ 90 m) 8. Albert Einstein ( $ 8 m )

4. JRR Tolkien ( $ 60 m) 9. Michael Crichton ( $ 7.5 m )

5. Charles Schulz ( $ 36 m )

People who earn the highest posthumously

12. Homeland gone

A significant portion of the Yannadi tribe of Andhra Pradesh used to

inhabit this small island , a barrier strip off the coast of Nellore

District in the Bay of Bengal.

In 1971 , the entire population of the island was relocated by the

Indian Government .

Name the island .

Sriharikota

13. Carface ka swag

The day after the Pearl Harbour attack , US President Roosevelt delivered

what came to be known as the infamy speech in which he declared war

against Japanese . The Secret Service wanted a bulletproof car in order to

protect the President from potential assasins .

Federal law prohibited purchasing of any automobile worth more than $ 750.

Hence , a seized Cadillac , with over 3000 pounds of bulletproof armor was

borrowed from the Treasury Depatment .

Whom did the Cadillac originally belong to ?

Al Capone

14. Desi maal

Considered the pioneers of the fusion rock genre in India , this group

released their latest album 16/330 Khajoor Road online for free , as a part of

their movement against the lines of record labels,

Their most acclaimed work includes Ma Rewa and Kandisa from their 2000

album, Kandisa. The musical style of the band can be at best classified as

jazz fusion and fusion music. It is an experimental genre, fusing raga with

rock music, guitars and drums, sometimes using Indian folk songs. It has

also been described by some music critics as "Indo-rock fusion with jazz-

spiced rhythms that integrates shlokas, sufism, environmentalism,

mythology and revolution".

Name this famous group .

Indian Ocean

15. Vintage stuff

X and his brother Frank were Confederate guerillas during the Civil War .

They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union

soldiers . After the war , as members of one gang or another , they robbed

banks , stagecoaches and trains . Popular portrayals of X show him as a

sort of Robin Hood .

On April 3 , 1882 , X was killed by Y , who was a member of the gang living in

his house and who was hoping to collect a state reward o X’s head .

X has had numerous films based on his life , having been portrayed by

Robert Duvall , Rob Lowe , Colin Farrell et al . Most recently in an Oscar

nominated film in 2007 , he was portrayed by Brad Pitt ( with Casey Affleck

as Y ) .

The Assassination of Jesse

James by the Coward

Robert Ford

16. “Say my name”

The following slide shows the characteristic font used for the on-

screen credits in a critically acclaimed series .

Identify it .

AAron Paul Betsy Brandt

Bryan Cranston

AnNa Gunn DeaN Norris

Vince Gilligan

RJ MitTe Wilson King

Breaking Bad

17. Sir Lands-a-lot , I presume ?

The word traces its origin to the Sanskrit word Kshatriya. It was the

name used for the governors of Persian and Median empires , and in

several of their successor , including the Hellinistic empires.

The word is also used in modern literature to refer to governors or

world leaders who are heavily influenced by larger superpowers or

hegemonies and act as their surrogates .

Satrap

18. Scratch your brains

Following is a picture of someone most of you have

already seen .

His first name in Japanese means “ military / martial ” .

He appeared on a very popular TV show that has his

name and features him as a count defending something .

Give the name of the show as well as his name .

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi’s Castle

19. May the Dead pass-port

French law requires that any deceased body transported across the

borders have some form of identification with it .

A passport was therefore issued to X, having the description “Y” .

He was received with a funeral procession of full military honors, as

was fitting for all members of high rank.

Who was X and what was the term Y , describing him in the passport

?

X was the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II

Y was “King (Deceased)” as the

occupation details on the passport

20 .

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral

conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the

United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on

the issue of armament control.

How did this influence the role of the mother of Shiloh , Vivienne and

Zahara ?

SALT - Evelyn Salt

21.

The question I put so that no one goes home with a zero .

No clues , no explanations , NOTHING .

Just the answer . What / Whom is the following Google Doodle on ?

M.S. Subbulakshmi

22 .

The Florida Gators football coach Ray Graves requested a research

team led by Robert Cade to come up with something in the form of a

routine , diet change etc. to help them overcome a slump in form .

What Cade’s team did dish out was something tonally different that

is today a globally recognized entity , which upon its first

introduction apparently worked wonders as the Florida Gators

notched up their first Orange Bowl win .

What are we talking about ?

Gatorade ( Gator + Cade )

23 .

They were once described as the “anti-Beatles” and in the early 1970s they

were even billed as “The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band” .

Rolling Stone magazine listed them 4th on the list of the greatest artists of all

time , and their most famous single Y was listed no. 1 on the VH1 list of the

greatest rock songs of all time . Y’s opening guitar riff is called as the “riff

heard over the world” .

In 2012 , the band celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Identify the band .

24.

The dish originated as a fast lunchtime snack for mill workers in

Bombay in 1850s.The need arose due to the American Civil War

wherein the shortage caused due to Lincoln’s blockade of the South

caused a supply shortage that had to be met by the cotton and mill

industry in other parts of the world like Bombay.

This dish was later served at Udupi restaurants throughout the city .

It is also a dish where the Portuguese contribution is unheralded

usually .

What incredibly popular (and yes , tasty) dish is this ?

Pav-Bhaji

25

A is the author of one of the most famous romantic classics of all time set

against the backdrop of the American civil war , named B . The lead

characters of B are C and D .

The male lead C , shares his surname with a famous Irish poet E , who

famously celebrated wining the Nobel by frying sausages at midnight and

also was responsible for popularizing Tagore's work Gitanjali in the West . E

was himself a Nobel Laureate.

D shares her first name with a part of the title of the first ever Sherlock

Holmes story F.

In addition , the author A shares her own first name with another famous

author G who won the Booker prize for her novel The Blind Assassin .

Identify all 6 of them and also give the famous dialogue from the movie

adaptation of B which was voted by AFI as the most iconic film dialogue of

the last 100 years in 2007.

A - Margaret Mitchell G – Margaret Atwood

B – Gone with the Wind

C – Rhett Butler

D – Scarlett O Hara

E – William Butler Yeats

F – A Study in Scarlett

Tie - Breakers

1. Now you see me

X is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate

speed suddenly raises the nose momentarily to the vertical position and slightly

beyond, before dropping it back to normal flight. It uses potent engine thrust to

maintain approximately constant altitude through the entire move.t is an impressive

trick to demonstrate an aircraft's pitch control authority, high angle of attack (AOA)

stability and engine-versus-inlet compatibility, as well as the pilot's skill.

It has been speculated that the maneuver could theoretically be useful when a

combatant is being pursued closely by an opponent at a somewhat higher altitude.

By executing X, a sufficiently closely pursued aircraft may suddenly slow itself to

the point that the pursuer may overshoot it, allowing the previously pursued aircraft

to complete X behind the other. This may give the now-pursuing aircraft an

opportunity for firing its weapons.

Pugachev’s Cobra

The maneuver is named after the Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachev, who

performed it in 1989 at the Paris Le Bourget air show

2. Khandani jalwa

Ulf von X was a Nobel Laureate in Medicine who received the prize in

1970 for his work on neurotransmitters .

His father was also a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1929 and his

grandfather was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Uppsala

and was the discoverer of the elements thulium and holmium. His

great-great-great-great grandfather was one of history’s most prolific

mathematicians .

Give me his full name ( essentially , what is X ? )

Euler

7. Strange words

The British Royal Navy used to serve food to sailors on square shaped

plates , in order to prevent them from slipping off the tables while at sea and

make handling , as well as manufacturing easier .

This led to a popular phrase , of American origin , in a different context .

Gimme the phrase

Square Meal