The Quiz Club of Jadavpur University, ENQUIRY,presents

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The Annual Inter-college Freshers’ Quiz

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General Rules 20 Question Prelims Top 8 teams qualify for the final. Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 are star marked. The number of correct starred questions will be used

to break ties, if any. If that’s not enough, then we will follow the rule of

‘first mistake’ or sudden death. Prelims scores shall be used to break ties in the final. Please do not consult your friend Google during the

quiz.Good luck!

THE PRELIMSQUESTION DISTRIBUTION:-

Ananyo Brahma: 10Arpan Saha: 5

Balagopal Menon: 2Dwaipayan Choudhury: 2

Krishnadev Roy: 1

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QUESTIONS BYAnanyo Brahma

and others

1.* X is one of the higher ranks in an army. Applied in other fields, it

more or less symbolises leadership. Y was one of the largest monarchies in pre-Norman Britain. York

was the chief city and the residents, mainly Danes, had a tendency to rebel against the Wessex monarchs. The name Y, denoted the borders of the kingdom.

Z is a flintlock musket, which this regiment initially used, gave them their name. The regiment saw action in a number of wars in the 19th Century.

Connect these three words to a very famous literary character, who at the start of his story had come to London from a convalescence home and was looking for cheap accommodation.

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X: Captain Y: Northumberland Z: Fusiliers John Watson. Retd. Captain of the Fifth

Northumberland Fusiliers. Note: In the Sherlock Holmes novels, no

rank is mentioned.

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2. A recent fad, Trolley

Problem Memes, published this meme on their page about a month ago and has gone viral ever since.

What has been blanked out?

All blanks are the same. Bigger picture in the next

slide

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Harambe, the gorilla who was shot at Cincinnati Zoo

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3. X is the only movie adaptation of a graphic

novel to win the Palm d’Or. The film also received another unique

distinction- that of the two actors receiving the award jointly; an honour previously reserved for the director.

Name X, a very famous movie of recent times.

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Blue is the Warmest Colour

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4. The ______ was a German military intelligence

organization which existed from 1920 to 1945. Despite the fact that the Treaty of Versailles

prohibited the Germans altogether from establishing an intelligence organization of their own, they formed an espionage group in 1920 within their defence ministry.

The word means defence, counter-intelligence or rejection.

Fill in the blank.

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Abwehr

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5.* (Picture in the next slide) Napoleon III of France had this 7-foot monument built, as a part of a

romanticisation of a prehistoric past. Sculptor Aime Millet and architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc were the creators.

The inscription (French translation of the supposed words of said person’s arch-nemesis) translates in English to:“Gaul united Forming a single nation Animated by common spirit Can defy the universe.”

Name the person.The memorial stands at the supposed site of the Battle of ________. FITB.No part points.

You might know him from a very famous panel, in a very famous comic book.

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Vercingetorix ; Alesia

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6. Noah X (1758-1843) said, “Customs, habits,

and languages should be national.” He did his part by compiling ‘The American

spelling book’ (1783) and his ‘American Dictionary of the English Language’ (1828).

‘Center’ instead of ‘centre’ and ‘honor’ instead of ‘honour’ are typical of X’s Americanized spelling.

Identify X.

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Webster

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7.• Minimalist poster of which movie?

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Memento

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8. This country is named after Jesus Christ and

its present name literally translates to ‘The Savior’.

The full name of this province was "Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, __ ________ Del Mundo" ("Province of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World"), which was subsequently abbreviated to “__ ________”.

Fill in the blanks.

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El Salvador

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9.Identify.

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Stanley Kubrick

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10.* In public relations, X is a form of propaganda,

achieved through providing a biased interpretation of an event or campaigning to persuade public opinion in favour or against some organization or public figure.

A person such as a political aide, whose job involves trying to control the way something is described to the public in order to influence what people think about it, is known as an X ______.

For full points, tell me what two word term am I referring to.

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Spin Doctor

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11. X is a semi-legendary figure, supposedly born in

the 6th Century BC in Icaria, Greece. Aristotle and a number of later antiquity scholars

have given him the credit of being the first person to act on stage. He not only, by modifying the dithyrambic poetry form, create the concept of theatre, but was also the first to go on theatre tours.

As a result, actors are often referred to as _________.

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Thespians

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12. Identify the

cartoon character whose crying is being parodied here.

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Snoopy

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13. This word comes (in Late Middle English,

via Latin) from Greek, explained by the Greek as ‘breast-less’ referring to the fable that the Xs cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word.

Identify X.

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Amazon

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14.Connect the following with one word: Greg Pead Houyhnhnms (Gulliver’s Travels) (noun) a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse

person Yang and Filo Shammi Kapoor

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Yahoo!

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15.* X (2003) is the second film and by far the most famous film

of this particular trilogy. It is also one of the most popular movies to be produced in this country.

The director said he named the lead character/movie so, to remind people of Y. Though the similarity isn’t very obvious to any English speaking person, the movie’s plot does involve extreme violence and incest, like in the play Y.

Even in the end, titular characters of both X and Y are shown to harm themselves, Y to ‘stop seeing the despicable truth’ and X ‘ to not reveal the despicable truth’.

Name X and Y.

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X: Oldboy (the character’s name was Oh Dae-Soo). Y: Oedipus

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16. Abbas Kazmi, a participant of the Big Boss Season 4, first

came to Mumbai as an aspiring actor and worked in a few films such as  Anjaan Rahen with Feroz Khan and Asha Parekh and Jugnoo, with Dharmendra and Hema Malini.

He found little success in acting and decided to pursue some other profession. After graduating in 1980 from K.C. College, Mumbai, Kazmi moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. There he worked as a financial advisor.

Apart from his short stint at the silver screen, he rose to limelight in 2009, owing to his professional skills.

What was his shot to sudden fame ? (Image follows)

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Kazmi was appointed as the defencelawyer, who represented Ajmal

Kasab

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17.Passes for which event being sold for $350 ?

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Impeachment proceedings against erstwhile President Bill Clinton

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18. ___ is a 1964 black and white short film

directed by Satyajit Ray. The film was made under the banner of Esso

World Theater and portrays an encounter between a child of a rich family and a street child, through the rich kid’s window.

The film has no dialogue and its duration is approximately 12 minutes.

Fill in the blank.

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Two

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19. This is an Indian Classical

cover by Mahesh Raghvan of a track which is well known.

Identify the original track. Keywords will do.

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Star Wars Imperial March

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20.* Derived from the Old Slavic root word for gold, X

means ‘golden’ and is most commonly found among the Balkans (particularly in the countries Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

In May 2003, X was trademarked in the Swedish Patent and Registration Office for “most likely being perceived as ______”, which gave ______ exclusive rights to the name for certain products like clothing, shoes and sporting goods.

What is X?

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Zlatan

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FINALS TO FOLLOW