Siruseri Open Quiz 57TCS Chennai

6th May 2016FINALS

Researched and Conducted by Daivik De

The Exile is a book by Navtej Sarna, an Indian diplomat and former

ambassador to Israel, published in 2008.

It is based on the life of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh

empire.The book gained a sudden resurgence in

India as it details a certain action of Maharaja of Duleep Singh in 1849,which has caused a huge brouhaha in recent

times.

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ANSWER

How the Kohinoor was taken from India to Britain

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Legendary pop superstar Prince who breathed his last on April 2016, became an international sensation in the 1980s, when he popularised the Minneapolis

sound of danceable funk. He changed his stage name in 1993 for

a for a few years to an unpronounceable symbol dubbed the ‘Love symbol’ to remove himself from

contractual obligations.

Why did he do so?

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ANSWER

Warner Bros. trademarked the word ‘Prince’

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‘Kaum De Heere’ (Heroes of the Nation)

is a Punjabi movie which is barred from release in India.

Many Sikhs believe that the film is the true depiction of the Sikh's community

feelings against atrocities but many depict it as a glorification of a

shameful event.

What is the movie based on?

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ANSWER

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

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4‘Komi-Bashi’, ‘Neburi-Bashi’, ‘Nigiri-Bashi’ are

considered as crimes in Japan as they regard these insulting to their culture.

The crimes are mostly committed using bamboo, wood and plastic.

How are these crimes committed?

ANSWER

4Forbidden Behaviour with chopsticks

Neburi Bashi- lick the tips of chopsticks

Nigiri Bashi- to hold two sticks by grasping them (considered as an action of attack)

5Part of Russian folk life and frequently occurring in it’s

literature and art, the most famous portrayal of Russian boxing is in Mikhail

Lermontov's poem, ‘The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov’,

where it takes place as a form of honour duel between a government police agent and a merchant.

How is Russian boxing different from traditional boxing?

ANSWER

Bare knuckle boxing5

6Dothraki is a constructed fictional language in George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’

and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. The language comprises of more than 3000 words, not

all of which have been made public. In 2012, 146 new-born girls in the U.S. were named

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _the Dothraki term for the wife of a ruler,

and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.

FITB.

ANSWER

Khaleesi 6

1985 is a novel by Anthony Burgess set in the future

in which the trade unions have become so powerful that they exert full control

over society.

Which work is it intended as a tribute to ?

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ANSWER

George Orwell’s ‘1984’7

As a result of the logical evolution in user interface design,

why is this symbol used as the ‘Power button’ on all electronic

devices?

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ANSWER

Deriving itself from the Binary Number System, 1 (or the vertical line) stands for power On whereas 0 (or

the circle) indicates power Off.

To create the symbol for a Single On/Off button, the "1" and "0" symbols were super-imposed and

merged each other to create the universally recognized power symbol currently in use.

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Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist group based in north-

eastern Nigeria having influence in a lot of North African

countries.The word ‘Haram’ in Arabic

means forbidden while ‘Boko’ in Hausa language

translates as ‘fake’.

What do they refer to as fake?

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ANSWER

Western Education

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This ‘sport’ gained public attention in recent years due to the stardom

of Takeru Kobayashi (53 in 12 mins) and Joey Chestnut (61 in 10

mins) but the current reigning champion is Matt Stonie (62 in 10

mins).

The most popular event of its kind being organised by American company ‘Natham’s Famous’,

which ‘sport’ is this?

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ANSWER

Competitive Eating10

Francisco Lazaro was the first Portuguese Olympic marathon runner in the nation's first ever Olympic Games. (1912 Summer

Olympics, Stockholm) His actual job was as a carpenter in an

automobile factory in Lisbon. Prior to the Olympics he had run and won three national marathon championships.

With what unfortunate Olympic trivia is he associated?

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ANSWER

First athlete to die during an Olympic event

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ID the painter who often paints religious themes

backed by his own belief in ‘oneness of Gods.’

ANSWER

12Salman Khan

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In the recently concluded 2016 ICC World Twenty20, Virat Kohli was named the ‘Player of the Tournament’,

but a Bangladeshi and a Afghan player had most runs and most wickets in the tournament

respectively.

Name both.

ANSWER

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Tamim Iqbal Mohammad Nabi

Sachin Tendulkar launching ‘Digibank’ which claims itself to be ‘India’s first mobile only bank’.

Which bank is behind ‘Digibank’?

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ANSWER

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Palacio de Sal is a hotel built of salt blocks located at the edge of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, in

Bolivia.The hotel faced slow degradation due to a bad habit of the tourists staying in it and thus now, they have a rule

prohibiting the action.

What action is prohibited officially?

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ANSWER

Licking the wall!

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Janus is the Roman god of doorways and passages.

He is depicted as having two faces- one looking forward and the other

looking backward.Julius Caesar named something on

him and started a celebration which is followed till date.

What is named after this Roman god?

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ANSWER

January month

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What is special about this Coca-Cola can?

(It came into news in 1985 for being the first to achieve something unique)

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ANSWER

First soft drink to go to space.

Astronauts tasted it aboard Space Shuttle Challenger

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This term was coined in Britain in1895 while arguing the case for whole new meal, mainly for Saturday night

partygoers.

Which fashionable term thus came into being, now used by a lot of eateries offering discounts?

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ANSWER

Brunch

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Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service which claims to

pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music

streaming market .

Who acquired it in March 2015 and started a mass-marketing campaign to relaunch it using "#TIDALforAll?

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ANSWER

Jay- Z 19

20Abbas Kazmi first came to Mumbai as an aspiring actor and worked in a few films such as Anjaan Rahen, with Feroz Khan

and Asha Parekh.He found little success in acting and

switched career.

His claim to fame finally came in the year 2009, but in a completely different

field for which he frequently had to defend himself saying that he was just doing his professional duty sincerely.

How did he come into limelight?

ANSWER

20Lawyer who represented

Ajmal Kasab

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The X Memorial Award is an international children's literary award established in 2002 to honour the

author X who passed away in 2002.

The prize money is approximately 3.9 crores in Indian currency,

making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prize in the world.

Who is X?

ANSWER

21Astrid Lindgren

22Anupam Mittal is the founder and CEO of People

Group which owns businesses such as Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile and People Pictures. However his biggest venture was launched in 1997 after he met a broker in

India who went door to door carrying biodata in his suitcase.

Mittal figured an online medium would increase a person's chances of finding the right customer.

This business is now estimated to be about 1.5 billion Indian rupees.

What?

ANSWER

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.com

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DanChurch Aid, a local NGO with the help of crowdfunding, set up a first of its kind supermarket in

Copenhagen called the “Wefood”.This supermarket aims to sell products, 1.3 billion metric

tonnes of which is produced every year.What do they sell at half the original rate?

ANSWER

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Expired food products

24This is the Dilli Darwaza,

the main gate of Shaniwar Wada, seat of the Peshwa rulers of the

Maratha empire. Each pane of the gate has seventy-two

sharp twelve-inch steel spikes arranged in a grid, situated at a height

above the ground.

What was the primary purpose of this design?

ANSWER

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To discourage elephants from charging the gates

Some immediate aftereffects of what?

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• Variants of it were used by BJP and Congress in their campaigns during 2012 assembly elections.

• Top business schools like IIMs conducted studies to figure out the science behind the popularity.

• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited the man behind it for the dinner party along with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in his New Delhi residence to discuss its craze in Japan.

ANSWER

Why this Kolaveri Di?25