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Quiz Contest 2014

DAV School PokhariputBhubaneswar

QM - Bivash Rath

Special Thanks to…

ODISHA QUIZ ASSOCIATION

DAV PUBLIC SCHOOLPOKHARIPUT

ABANIS NAYAK

KAMAL RATHI

RASHMI RANJAN SWAIN

PRATYASHA RATH

Round 1

Easy one to begin with

• List of revolutions “socio-economic” of India since

Independence.

• Five have been left out

• Provide the five missing ones

• 5points for each i.e. 20points

• Answer all for bonus 5points

Revolution Name Product

Blue Revolution BLUE

Brown Revolution Leather

Green Revolution GREEN

White Revolution WHITE

Yellow Revolution Oil Seed

Black Revolution BLACK

Golden Fibre Revolution Jute

Grey Revolution Fertilizer

Red Revolution RED

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Revolution Name Product

Blue Revolution Fisheries ***

Brown Revolution Leather

Green Revolution Agriculture ***

White Revolution Dairy Development ***

Yellow Revolution Oil Seed

Black Revolution Petroleum ***

Golden Fiber Revolution Jute

Grey Revolution Fertilizer

Red Revolution Meat & Tomato Production ***

Dry Questions Round 2

• 6 questions

• 10 for a correct answer , 5 for one on the pass

• No Negative

• Infinite Bounce [No Pounce]

1

• The Prophet Mohammed died in AD 632 without naming a

successor. Some of his followers believed the role of the Caliph,

or Viceroy of God, should be passed down Mohammed’s

bloodline, starting with his cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Ali

Talib. But the majority backed the Prophet’s friend Abu Bakr, who

duly became the Caliph. Ali eventually became the fourth Caliph

before being murdered in AD 661 and The succession was once

again disputed. The majority backed the claim of Mu’awiyah,

Governor of Syria and his son Yazid. Ali’s supporters agitated for

his son Hussain. What did this difference of opinion lead to?

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

The Muslim world was divided in to Sunnis and Shias

2

• Post IIT Arunabh Kumar came to Bombay to work in a US Air Force project. And as the level of discomfort and mental turmoil increased , Arunabh quit his job. It was during the same time Arunabh started meeting a lot of creative minds in IIT Mumbai and did a few short films, so people started encouraging him to become an assistant director. Finally Arunabh got an opportunity to assist Farah Khan in Om Shanti Om which he considers his pedigree.

• In 2009 Arunabh came up with a pilot for a show called Engineer’s diary, he approached MTV and other youth channels for it. Everyone liked the idea but the show was rejected. The rejection fuelled his anger and disappointment to form what highly popular , entertaining rib-tickling resource?

• ANSWER FOLLOWS…

The Viral Fever

3 Long story

• In the 13th century, Tugan Khan decided to attack this place, the then ruling king, decided to use subterfuge against the Muslims..

• Tugan had by that time overrun Bengal and claimed that he had put the fear of death in the heart of the locals and could overrun the entire country in a single campaign.

• But the king of the palce had other ideas and decided send word to Tugan that he was ready to surrender to the Muslims without a fight. Tugan accepted surrender proposal with other conditions like the embracing of Islam by the entire population in the central square in front of the iconic local temple or agreeing to pay Jazia and to convert the temple into a Mosque as an acknowledgement of submission.

• On the orders of king, the city had been completely evacuated of its pilgrims and inhabitants and was filled with soldiers from all over the kingdom hidden away inside the closely built houses across the narrow winding lanes.

• Once the Muslim army was inside the city, it had to disperse itself into the maze of narrow lanes and had to dismount from their horses and advance single file.

• When the Muslim army was so dispersed, at a prearranged signal the temple bells started ringing, and this was the signal for the Hindus to pounce on the Muslims. The battle lasted one whole day and went into the night. While the Hindus took many losses, the entire Muslim army was caught and annihilated.

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

JAGANNATH PURI

KING NARASIMHADEVA

4

• Initially, Gandhi's choice of this path was met with incredulity by

the Working Committee of the Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru was

ambivalent; Sardar Patel had suggested something else.

• The Statesman, a prominent newspaper of the time, wrote about

the choice: "It is difficult not to laugh, and we imagine that will be

the mood of most thinking Indians."

• The British establishment too was not disturbed by these plans of

resistance. The Viceroy himself, Lord Irwin, did not take the threat

of the protest seriously, writing to London, "At present the

prospect of a X campaign does not keep me awake at night."

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

DANDI MARCH

protest against

Salt taxation

5

• MgFeTi2O5 is a mineral named Armalcolite. Where

was it first discovered? How does it get its name?

ANSWER FOLLOWS

• Mineral first discovered on the moon by the Apollo 11

• ARMstrong, ALdrin, COLlins

6This is a sample from a “A Thousand Suns” album by Linkin Park which features the voice

of a prominent and a most important humanitarian and civil rights leader of the century.

Identify.

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

ROUND 3

List It!

• There are 14 letters of the English alphabet that are

also (single-letter) symbols of elements on the

Periodic Table

• List these 14 elements (Symbol, and element name)

• (5 points per correct answer)

• List all correctly for a bonus of 10 points

ANSWER FOLLOWS

H – Hydrogen B – Boron

C – Carbon N – Nitrogen

O – Oxygen F – Fluorine

P – Phosphorous S – Sulphur

K – Potassium V – Vanadium

Y – Yttrium I – Iodine

W – Tungsten U - Uranium

ROUND 4

• 8 Questions on Infinite Pounce

• Teams can buzz out of turn to pounce on an answer. On Buzzing +10/-5

• For Direct you can double for +20/-5 or answer for +10 and no negative

• On passing also doubles rule apply

• If a team buzzes and answers wrong then it loses its chance to answer while passing for that particular question.

1

• This idea was first envisioned by Sun Yat Sen in 1931 in The International Development of China, in 1919.

• Mao Zedong dreamt of it and wrote a poem titled “Swimming” in 1962.“Great plans are afoot:

A bridge will fly to span the north and south,

Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare;

Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west

To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain

Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.

The mountain goddess if she is still there

Will marvel at a world so changed.”

• What was this which these people dreamt of ?

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

THREE GORGES DAM

2

• The book Footlights was released in Feb 2014.

• Footlights is the only book authored by this celebrated personality and serves the basis of 1952 movie Limelight. It has been reconstructed by his biographer, David Robinson.

• Drafts of the work were uncovered in an archive at the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy.

• Footlights is 70 pages long and contains around 34,000 words

• It tells the story of a clown who saves a dancer from suicide and helps her resume her dancing career.

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

3• IDENTIFY THE LOCATION AND THE DANCE FORM.

• NO PART POINTS ON BUZZING

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Dumhal Dance & Martand Sun Temple

4

• If SRK sir’s bunglow in Mumbai is named Mannat,

What is KRK sir’s bunglow in Dubai named?

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

5

• In the 17th century, when Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in a village. It was a unique as the main deity Lord Hanuman was black in colour. It is for this reason that the temple is still known as "Kale Hanuman ka temple“.

• However, not ready to give up, the villagers not only put up a brave fight before the Mughal soldiers, they even forced them to beat the retreat.

• This village has been in news recently. For what reason?

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Jayapur, the village adopted by PM Narendra Modi on

Saturday

6

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

7

• Yesterday PM Narendra Modi spoke at the memorial of Shri Eknath Ranade. There he mentioned “people of this country would surely remember the donation drive and the campaign by Shri Eknath Ranade and would likely to have contributed to it. He asked for funds from all state governments and a token amount of Re1 form the public for a this cause and the reason he wanted a public donation is so that no one can lay claim for the work and that every citizen should feel his/her own involvement and hence identify it as ours”

• What was this campaign by Ranade which was aimed at honouring a towering personality and achieving national integrity ?

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

VIVEKANANDA ROCK

MEMORIAL

8

• British mathematician Godfrey Hardy –

I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.“

This led to the number being called as TAXICAB numbers among mathematician circles.

Who is this famous mathematician(1887-1920) who observed this wonderful feature of 1729 and died young of illness.

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

ROUND 5

• Four topics to choose from, one for each team

• “Score Big” +35/-15

• “Double” +20/-10

• “Normal” +10

Take your pick…

FINAL ROUND

Something native

• The premises spreads over 88 acres on a hillock

known as the Bhalu Mundia and is perhaps one of

the most beautiful and magnificent of its kind in the

country.

• On top of the hillock stands the main building and

below it various sections like the administrative

sections, dispensary , an annexe ,etc exist.

Score Big

Double

• The library here consists of about 7000 books in different

languages such as English, Oriya, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit,

and Urdu. The collection includes books on the

Constitution, religion, philosophy, history, culture, yoga,

literature, economics, management and computer science.

The library is used by the chief occupant, the staff of the

place and their families. Guests, who visit stay there, also

use the library. The present library hall was inaugurated by

His Excellency Shri M. M. Rajendran on 9th October

2002.

Normal

The sprawling white mansion was designed by Julius Vaz.

It also has a very famous garden which won the Annual Flower Show and Garden Competition organized by Plant Lovers' Association in 2008. It houses an in house deer park, some images of the fountain of the premises are…

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Take your pick

SPORTS

• This sports body was formed in 1927 with Sir

Dorabji Tata as its first president and since that year

the body has been given the status of the

international arm’s country representative. Dorabji

was replaced by Maharaja Bhupindra Singh in 1928

who stayed on the position till 1938.

SCORE BIG

Double

• It was been banned by the international arm in 2012 and its

office bearer’s elections were declared "null and void", claiming

government interference in a vote that could result in a tainted

official taking over as secretary-general.

• The de-recognition came as a shocker to numerous athletes who

were preparing for the most important event in 2012.

Normal

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Take your pick

Literature

• The phrase “____ ____" is a reference to an ancient belief

that the Cygnus olor is completely mute during its lifetime until

the moment just before it dies, when it vocalizes one beautiful

tune.

• Aesop's fable of "The _______ Mistaken for a Goose"

incorporates the ______ ______legend thus: "The one which

had been caught by mistake instead of the goose, began to

sing as a prelude to its own demise. Its voice was recognized

and the song saved his life.

SCORE BIG

Double

• “____ ____" has become an idiom referring to a final

theatrical or dramatic appearance, or any final work or

accomplishment. It generally carries the connotation that the

performer is aware that this is the last performance of his or

her lifetime, and is expending everything in one magnificent

final effort

Normal

• The most familiar Cygnus olor, although not actually mute, is neither known for musicality nor to vocalize as it dies. This has led some to criticize _______ ________ beliefs.

• However, the Cygnus cygnus, a winter visitor to parts of the eastern Mediterranean, does possess a 'bugling' call, and has been noted for issuing a drawn-out series of notes as its lungs collapse upon expiry, both being a consequence of an additional tracheal loop within its sternum. Its nearest relatives, the Trumpeter and the Tundra variant, share its musical tracheal loop.

ANSWER FOLLOWS

SWAN SONG

In Shakespeare's The

Merchant of Venice, Portia

exclaims "Let music sound

while he doth make his

choice; Then, if he lose, he

makes a swan-like end,

Fading in music.”

Take your pick

BOLLYWOOD• This 1953 movie by BR Chopra

starring Ashok Kumar lent

something to a phenomenon which

started on the eve of Independence

day of 1975.

• The later phenomenon also got an

important fillip from Marlon Brando

*ing flick “One Eyed Jack”. The idea

was of a faulty economic instrument

which was to be used by the

protagonist to his own advantage.

SCORE BIG

Double

• The director's original cut has a different ending in which the villain is killed, along with some additional violent scenes. The villain’s death scene was cut from the film by India's Censor Board, as was the scene in which a family is massacred.

• The Censor Board was concerned about the violence, and that viewers may be influenced to take the law into their own hands. Although the director fought to keep the scenes, eventually he had to re-shoot the ending of the film, and as directed by the Censor Board, have the police arrive just before the villain was to be slaughtered.

• The censored theatrical version was the only one seen by audiences for fifteen years. The original, unedited cut of the film finally came out in a British release on VHS in 1990.

Normal

• The film was loosely styled after Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai,and drew heavily from the conventions of Westerns, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns such as Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and John Sturges' film The Magnificent Seven (1960).Sholay was also influenced by the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, such asTheWild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and by George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).A scene depicting an attempted train robbery was inspired by a similar scene in North West Frontier (1959)

ANSWER FOLLOWS…

Take your pick

FINAL ROUND

Written Round

Each correct entry gives 5 points

All correct +25

Identify the scientists ( 10 pictures )

1 and 2

3 and 4

5 and 6

7 and 8

9 and 10

• 1 RICHARD FEYNMAN

• 2 HOMI J BHABHA

• 3 NIKOLA TESLA

• 4 JAGDISH CHANDRA BOSE

• 5 MARIE CURIE

• 6 FRANCIS CRICK of Watson and Crick of DNA

• 7 MAX PLANCK

• 8 NEIL DE GRASSE TYSON

• 9 ALFRED NOBEL

• 10 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

FINAL SCORES!!