FRESHERS’ QUIZ 2014

FINALS

1. The quiz shall consist of 5 rounds.2. The rules and scoring system of each

individual round shall be explained as and when we reach the round.

3. The quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

4. And most importantly, enjoy yourself and have fun.

RULES

ROUND 1

LIST IT

List the 14 football players that feature in Nike’s FIFA World Cup commercial ‘Winner Stays’.

• 5 points each for correct name.• 10 points bonus for getting 11-13 names

correct.• 20 points bonus for getting all 14 minutes.• Any answer after 14 names shall not be

considered, even if it is correct.• You have 2 minutes to list ‘em down.

LIST IT

EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS!

ANSWERS

8. David Luiz9. Andres Iniesta10. Mario Gotze11. Andrea Pirlo12. Tim Howard13. Thibaut Courtois14. Thiago Silva

1. Cristiano Ronaldo2. Neymar3. Wayne Rooney4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic5. Gonzalo Higuain 6. Eden Hazard7. Pique

+15/-10 on pounce15 questions

ROUND 2

INFINITE BOUNCE

1.While in his days in London as a civil engineer, X

witnessed the Gunners' remarkable run to the European Cup Winners' Cup final in the 1993/94 season. So enthralled was he by George Graham's side that he bought his eldest son an Ian Wright replica shirt.

As a teenager too, he shared the love for the beautiful game and played as a center forward, making use of his tall 193 cm frame.

He joins Fidel Castro, Darren Ferguson, and Queen Elizabeth as an unlikely entrant to the list of ‘Celebrity Gooners’, a list of famous Arsenal fans.

Who?

2.

Silver nitrate, on exposure to NaCl and proteins with exposed sulphur atoms, forms salts that are largely pale. But light soon reacts with the silver and removes it from its compounds, depositing it as a metal.

What is the most common application of this process?

3.

The tournament ‘X’ was first played in 1934, though it was only officially designated as ‘X’ in 1998.

It is the only series in cricket which is decided on a points system, taking into account tests, ODIs and T20s. Six points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in any of the One Day Internationals and Twenty20 games.

Give X.

Women’s Ashes

4.According to Akira Toriyama, X's design is an

amalgamation of what he thought monsters looked like in his childhood.

According to the Daizenshuu, X was also inspired by Toriyama's second editor, Yu Kondo.

According toDaizenshuu 2, Toriyama was also inspired to create X due to the events of the Japanese economic bubble that had occurred at the time he was writing the _______ saga, with X specifically being based on real estate speculators, which Toriyama claimed were "the worst sort of people.“

Who/what is X?

5.This company has 26 showrooms under X

brand. Its main showroom is situated in Mumbai and is said to be the largest of its kind in the world.

It recorded a revenue of Rs 8.8 billion in 2010 and even proposed an IPO in July 2011.

It made the news headlines in 1987 for a rather unfortunate reason, and again in 2013, for a somewhat similar reason.

Give X.

6.

In America, the book’s publishers thought that children wouldn't understand the word A, so they would only publish the book if the author changed the title to something else. Thus, A became B in American editions only, and the author has since said that changing the title is one of X’s biggest regrets. 

A is still the official name of the book (and is for the film adaptation as well, but it's marked as the "international name“, which makes no sense because the film is not American).

7.

“We don't believe in the star system. We want the focus to be on the music. If we have to create an image, it must be an artificial image. That combination hides our physicality and also shows our view of the star system. It is not a compromise. We're trying to separate the private side and the public side. It's just that we're a little bit embarrassed by the whole thing. We don't want to play this star system thing. We don't want to get recognised in the streets. Yes. Everyone has accepted us using masks in photos so far, which makes us happy. Maybe sometimes people are a little bit disappointed but that's the only way we want to do it. We think the music is the most personal thing we can give. The rest is just about people taking themselves seriously, which is all very boring sometimes.”

8.When he heard of the impending Kurukshetra War, he

marched forth with his army to join his nephews. On the way, he was tricked by Duryodhana, who arranged a huge feast for him and his men. When he was impressed by the hospitality of his host who he mistakenly thought to be Yudhisthira, he offered to be at his host's service.

Knowing that he was a great charioteer and forecasting that he would someday be asked to be the charioteer of Karna, Yudhishthira extracted a vow from him to the effect that he would demoralize Karna and dampen his spirits. He assured the Pandavas that he would do everything possible to dampen Karna's spirits.

Who is being talked about here?

Shalya

9.

This is the only referendum to have been held in India (on January 16, 1967), with its result binding on the government. The two options presented before the people were ‘flower’ for merger and ‘two leaves’ for retaining independent identity. 54.20% voted against a merger, 43.50% voted in favour.

What did the referendum set out to decide?

Opinion poll to decide whether Goa should be merged with the state of Maharashtra or remain a union territory. The people voted in favour of it remaining a UT.

It was only in 1987 that Goa became a full-fledged state.

10.

Before X became a teacher, she worked at a pickle-packing plant. During World War II, she served with the Women’s Army Corps, outranking her present boss Y.

Y is said to be a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. However, he  jests that his claim towards being in the "Battle of the Bulge" refers to his own battle against weight gain, which he has lost.

Who are X and Y?

11.

‘Sudharma’ is a daily newspaper published from Mysore. It was started by Kalale Nadadur Varadaraja Iyengar in 1970. It has a daily circulation of about 2000 copies.

This newspaper is even subscribed in countries like Japan, USA etc. and is available online as well.

What is the specialty of this newspaper?

Only Sanskrit daily in the world.

12.

As of October 1st 2013, there have been 95 men and 22 women in this list. Among the men, the first was the Indian Zeeshan Ali in 1990, while the 95th, an Italian named Daniele Bracciali, entered the list in the last week of September 2013. The most famous in this list is an Indian at 36th. As for the women, the first was an Indonesian named Yayuk Basuki in 1994, while the most well known was a Czech-American at 9th.

What is this a list of?

13.One of the earliest known descriptions of standard time in India

appeared in the 4th century CE astronomical treatise Surya Siddhanta. Postulating a spherical earth, the book defined the prime meridian, or zero longitude, as passing through Avanti, the ancient name for the historic city of Ujjain and Rohitaka, the ancient name for Rohtak.

The day used by ancient Indian astronomers began at sunrise at the prime meridian of Ujjain, and was divided into smaller time units in the following manner:

Time that is measurable is that which is in common use, beginning with the praṇa (or, the time span of ____________). The pala contains six praṇas. The ghalika is 60 palas, and the nakṣatra ahoratra, or astronomical day, contains 60 ghalikas. A nakṣatra masa, or astronomical month, consists of 30 days.

Fill in the blank, i.e. what did the book define as a prana?

The respiratory cycle

14.

In 2006, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the Chief of the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, issued a secret order to assassinate Somali government officials. This was widely reported in the western media but was ferociously denied by the organisation.

What was significant about this incident ?

First ever Wikileak

15.

Actor and movie for full points.

ROUND 3

DIFFERENTIAL

• This is a written round.• It shall consist of 6 questions.• Each question shall have a Google

Earth screenshot and the question shall be something connected to the image.

• The scoring formula is 2n+5, n being the number of teams that don’t answer.

• Sheets are to be exchanged at the end of this round.

RULES

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6.

EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS!

Answers

1. Ayers Rock/Uluru2. State Bank of India logo3. Waterloo 4. Walter White 5. Bondi Beach, Australia6. Trent, Nottingham

+15/-10 on pounce15 questions

ROUND 4

INFINITE BOUNCE 2.0

16.

It needs to contain at least four dots and not more than nine.

Once a dot is lit, it can’t be used again.You can use one or several “knight moves”, such as in

[0 5 4 2]:You cannot go over an unlit dot without lighting it. For

example, the pattern [0 2 1 4] is illegal, because moving your finger between 0 and 2 will light 1.

Once a dot is lit, you can use it to reach another unlit dot. For example, both [0 4 3 5] and [0 4 5 3] are legal.

What is being described?

17.

• A situation in which further action is blocked.• A situation in which two opposing forces find t

hat further action is impossible or futile.• A deadlock• A situation in the game of chess where the

player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move, resulting in a draw.

The good word, please.

Stalemate

18.Once upon a time, not so long ago though, the Aam Aadmi Party had the full support of the television media of this country.That support has now eroded somewhat, due to whatever reasons.Obviously, this has made AAP supporters really angry. They have taken to Twitter and started trending a hashtag #X. This # targets Times Now and Arnab Goswami in particular.Now the Bollywood connect with the #name is the fact that it has been borrowed from a unique form of protest featured in a superhit 21st century mainstream Bollywood film.Give me the # and the name of the Bolly movie. The nation demands an answer.

#GetWellSoonArnab

19.

He started his career as a bond trader at Gambit Trading LLC, a Chicago-based trading firm in 2008. He worked there for the next two years, when in July 2010, he lost his job.

In early 2010, he bought a ______, and despite any training, started pursuing his hobby. In July, he made it his profession, and as they say, the rest is history.

Give funda.

Brandon Stanton, HONY

20.X was founded by Abrahamadeen in 3696 B.C (or 5636

B.A.) and has since been subject to violent fighting, up until 19 B.A., after which the modern day single-party lead government was established under the rule of president-for-life Omar Aladeen. Since then, the country has been under strict rule of the Aladeen regime.

As a result, the Western states became increasingly critical of the supreme leader, His Excellency Haffaz Aladeen, who succeeded his father after legislative elections voted him as president with 99.999% of the vote.

Due to his dangerous allegiance with nations such as North Korea, international relations and foreign investment in X has plummeted.

X’s flag is displayed on the next slide.

Which country?

Wadiya

21.

Someone accidentally purchased Winzip

22.

As per fan estimates, there are 109.It begins with cellular mitosis, and

ends with fireworks. It also includes mammoths, the

Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Abraham Lincoln, the Ford Model T, a floppy disk and a Playstation 2, among other things.

What am I talking about?

23.

X was built by Y as the divine kingdom of Sukrani. Y chose a gorge in a forest near a lake for X, even though it was decreed that nothing could be built on the gorge.

X, a huge complex of interlinked courtyards, palaces, temples and waterfalls, was hidden from the world for eighteen years before it was discovered.

Give X and Y.

24.

A X or military X is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term derives from the Spanish word _____, meaning committee or meeting; specifically a board of directors.

P.P. Phayuhasena led the first well-known military X in the country Y in 1933, and in May 2014, following six months of political crisis, the armed forces of Y established a X, called the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to govern the nation after dissolving the government and the senate.

Give X and Y.

Junta, Thailand

25.This is Wimbledon 2011 :

India faced off against X in the Davis Cup Playoffs in the same year, and the player in question played against India in that tie.

In the sporting headlines the past few days, which player am I talking about?

26.

This place in Delhi used to be a large pond in the old walled city area. Some time during the decade of the 1930s, the pond was filled up so that an annual event could be shifted to that place (from which it gets its name; this year's event is around the corner).

Over the decades, the place has also been used for other reasons; the Municipal Corporation of Delhi isn't very happy about all this and wants to turn it into a green area where people can relax, instead of being agitated.

Which place?

Ramlila Maidan

27.

X is a Toronto-based company.The name of the company is an

anagram of the name of the commodity that X’s products are looking to replace.

Give X, the name of the company.

28.

It was purchased from the New Jersey-based company Annin for $5.50.

No one gave it a chance to survive in its harsh environment. With abrasive ____ dust, it would most likely disintegrate. It was never intended to last long.

But in 2012, it was discovered that it was simply lying on the surface. The general consensus is that its colours have probably bleached and faded to white.

What am I talking about?

29.

It was covered with a huge scaffold in 1942During the ________ in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e. camouflaged within the greenery around it.

Even in 2001, the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth was taken and it took more than 20 days to do that. 

However these days with the advent of high precision GPS, and satellite imagery an enemy can bomb such precious targets blindly.

But thankfully, the X has actually never been a target of enemies.

What is X here?

30.

Jeremy Bujakowski (image next slide) was born in 1939 in Druskieniki, Lithuania to Polish parents, who were travellers and travelled to Shanghai from Druskieniki on motorcycle from 1934 to 1936.

He competed in the Men's downhill event in Alpine Skiing in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, which he could not finish due to an injury. He returned in 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble in Alpine Skiing, competing again in the downhill, slalom, and giant slalom events, where he never made it into the top 50 in any event.

What is his claim to fame?

India’s first Winter Olympian

ROUND 5

MAHACONNECT

• This is a written round.• It consists of 6 questions.• Each individual question is worth 10 points.• The answer to each question goes into the

Mahaconnect directly or indirectly.• A team can go for the Mahaconnect not

more than 2 times.• The points on each slide indicate the value

of the Mahaconnect for a right or wrong answer.

RULES

1. +50/-40

X is a comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterwards.

It is the most popular and influential in the history of the comic strip, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".

At its peak, it ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.

2. +40/-30

X is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and then improved over several decades.

It was the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952.

It became known and celebrated for its saturated levels of color, and was initially most commonly used for filming musicals such as The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain, costume pictures such as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Joan of Arc, and animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia.

3. +30/-20

William Derham (1657-1735) was an English clergyman and natural philosopher. He produced the earliest, reasonably accurate estimate of X.

Using a shotgun and a pocket watch, and simple triangulation, he determined X, thus improving on Newton’s estimates.

What is X?

4. +20/-10

X is an epic poem written by Y and is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature.

It is divided into three parts, the first of which is a title of a 2013 thriller novel. The second part is titled “Purgatory” and the third “________”.

Y shares his name with a footballer who was part of the team which won the UEFA Champions’ League in 2013.

5. +10/-5

This river, popularly known as the ‘______ River’ is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

The river plays a large role in the history, culture and economy of China. Its delta is responsible for the generation of as much as 20% of China’s GDP.

Also, the Three Gorges Dam, built on this river is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world.

Which river?

6. +5/-0Aired from 2004-2010. Won an Emmy

for its first season.

EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS!

Answers

1. Peanuts (Charlie Brown)2. Technicolor (Life in Technicolor)3. Speed of Sound (Speed of Sound)4. Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

(Paradise)5. Yangtze (Yellow)6. Lost (Lost!)

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