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Quizzing in India: What are some of the best quiz questions you've seen?
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270 upvotes by Mihika Kulkarni, Sandhya Abirami Rajan, Shashank Ranganath,(more)

This question was asked as the Tie-Breaker question for the national finals ofTCS IT WIZ 2013 on a 3 way tie
breaker.
Following is what happened.
Question: Professor Auguste Piccard ..
(BUZZER)
(Everyone got a goosebumps because in a room which was filled with the nations best IT Quizzers, no one knew the
answer)
Delhi Team(In the most frightened state): He was the inspiration for Professor Calculus from the Tintin series.
Quiz-master: The question before the answer.
Professor Auguste Piccard was a phenomenal man who worked on ballooning experiments. These
ballooning experiments of his are being studied the world over today for internet innovations
(Google's Project Loon) and to create different forms of internet connectivity by using balloons.
(Everyone thought that the answer is Google's Project Loon)
Professor Auguste Piccard is remembered in the world today in a different form?
Quiz master: Delhi, THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Auguste Piccard was the inspiration for Professor Cuthbert Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian
cartoonist Herg. Piccard held a teaching appointment in Brussels where Herg spotted his unmistakable figure in the
street.
That was one of the best questions and one of the best answers by Naman Dhanuka and Apratim Chandra Singh.
Written 24 Dec, 2013.
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Mudit Narain, Indian, nerdy, contrarian, but... (more)

1.7k upvotes by Ishan Anand, Sankalp Mulye, Vidya Venkiteswaran, (more)
I think the question I most remember was in a DCE quiz in 2004, asked by a close friend of mine. And that friend is
now on Quora, Azeez Narain!
What is the significance of the old Nokia SMS ringtone of 'bip bip bip beep beep bip bip bip'?
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I loved how someone could figure out that the ringtone was Morse code for the letters SMS
Take a bow, Azeez Narain
Updated 6 May, 2013.
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Gaurav Dutta
1k upvotes by Anantharaghavan Sridhar, Shashwat Suman, Shreya Bhowmick,(more)

The Best Quiz questions in my opinion are the ones which have a story to it, are beautifully framed and have a balance
of various topics covered. So essentially a good Quiz would consist of three B's: Beauty, Breadth and Balance.
Here are some of the Best Questions I've come across in the past few years.
1. Madan Mohan Malviya went to the Nizam of Hyderabad (who happened to be one of the richest men the world at
that time) asking for a donation. The Nizam was annoyed at the gesture and flung his footwear at Madan. Madan
picked up the footwear and left silently. He came directly to the marketplace and began to auction the footwear. When
Nizam heard of this, he became uneasy. He thought it would be an insult if his footwear were to be bought by
someone for pittance. So, he sent one of his attendants with the instruction to buy his footwear no matter what the
bidding price may be!
Thus Malviya, managed to sell the Nizam's own footwear to him, for a huge amount. For what purpose did he use that
money?

Answer: He used the money to build the Banaras Hindu University

2. A changeup is a type of pitch in baseball. It is thrown with the same arm action as a fastball, but at a lower velocity
due to the pitcher holding the ball in a special grip. It is analogous to the slower ball in cricket.
Shown in pic is Ian Kennedy, currently a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, throwing a X Changeup. X ?

Answer: Vulcan Changeup

(Question Courtesy: Aravind 2D Ramachandran)

3. In 1882, Mr W L Lake a Canadian engineer saw elephants emerging out of dense forests with oil stains on their
feet. So the story goes, that his shouts urging his men to drill the area for crude oil gave this Indian town its name.
Which town?

Answer: Digboi from "Dig boy, Dig"

4. In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, a hospital nurse who is watching over Dave Bowman's mother throws down
a TIME magazine to go and check on her. The magazine cover is supposed to have photographs of the US and the
Russian presidents. Which 2 people feature on the magazine?

Answer: Arthur.C.Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

5. This year, Rovio turned X into an honorary Angry Birds character in time for his birthday (September 5th). They
released an animated short featuring this character and several of the other Birds, and a Pig. Who is being
commemorated?
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Anshul Roy, TCS IT Wiz Regional Winner (20... (more)

392 upvotes by Antara Roy, Bhuvi Jain, Prasanna Narayanan, (more)

According to me, a good and a beautiful quiz question should be "workout-able" and the answer should be easier than
it appears. Some of my favorite quiz questions are (These questions are from a Kushan Patel quiz) Q - Guggelimo Marconi missed it as he had some paperwork to do. William Hershey missed it due to personal
reasons. JP Morgan missed it because he wanted to spend some more time in a French resort. They all missed
something in the early 1900s. Had they not missed this thing, their business and for that matter of fact, the course of
their lives would have been completely different. What did they miss?
Answer - Titanic

Q - This is a phrase from Rule 6 of the Laws Of The Mendip Miners

If any man do pick or steal any lead or ore to the value of 13 Pence, the Lord or his officers may
arrest all his Lead or Ore with his Grooves and workers and forfeit it and shall take the person that
hath soe offended and bring him where his house or his workplace is and all his tools and
instruments are and put him into his house or workplace and burn it all together with him inside
and banish him.
This is the origin of a very popular phrase. What phrase am I talking about?
Answer - You're Fired/Being Fired from a job

Q - Put Fundae Britney Spears - Alotta Warmheart

Angelina Jolie - Miss Lollipop
Marilyn Monroe - Zelda Zonk
Brad Pitt - Mr. Ross Vegas
Elton John - Mr. Humphrey Handbags
Justin Bieber - Chandler Bing
George Clooney - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Johnny Depp - Mr. Stench
Answer - Fake names celebrities use for hotel check-ins
Q - In 2008, Turkeys 3rd largest town planned to sue Warner Bros. for using the towns name without prior
permission. According to Hussain Kalkan, the mayor of this town There is only one X in this world. The American
producer used the name without informing us. The town in Turkey takes its name from a unit of weight in Turkish
and is way older than the character of the same name who debuted in 1939. Identify X and hence name this famous
character.
Answer - Batman

Q - X is a restaurant company. The company operates 175 full service dining restaurants: of which 13 are under the
Grand Lux Cafe marque and 1 under the Rock Sugar Pan Asian Kitchen marque. It also operates two bakery
production facilities - one in Calabasas, California and the other in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. David Overton, the
company's founder, established the future chain's pattern of offering an eclectic menu and signature product.
According to him, it "does not have any sort of arrangements with the TV show is and really pleased to be featured
in such a funny and wildly popular TV show." IdentifyX.
Answer - The Cheesecake Factory (from The Big Bang Theory)

Q - The circle topped with a two bar cross in which the word X resides is a variant of the Y logo, and is either "an
early European symbol for quality" or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the Knights Templar into the Crusades.
The X's a dot with four radiating outward either resembles a four-leaf clover or the cross pattee, also associated with
the Knights Templar, as well as with the German Military and today's Freemasons. What famous design pattern is
being discussed here?
Answer - Oreo

Q - When initially shown to focus groups, they said that it appeared that the glass was full of hard drinks. This
is Rasna that we are talking about. The glass in the picture was the glass on the packet. The guys at Mudra were
worried as they intended to make it a children friendly drink. What did they do with the glass so as to make it appear
more children friendly?
Answer - They added a straw in the glass

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Atharva Kelkar, Immature Undergrad

1.4k upvotes by Ashwin C.v., Anurag Singh, Samarth Mohan, (more)

This question was asked in a Mayank Mujumdar quiz, this year at the IIT Bombay General Quiz General
Championship (Sounds a little goofed up I know).
So the question was :
Q.

Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers

City guard or policeman

Innkeeper

Merchant/Moneychanger

Doctor

Weaver/Clerk

Blacksmith

Worker/Farmer

Where in the world of sports would you come across practitioners of the aforementioned occupations in that order,
from left to right?

Hints :
1. Number of occupations.
2. Order from left to right.
3. World of sports.

Answer:
Although this question appears very tricky, your gut feeling after hearing 8 occupations and sports would lead you to
think of chess. Now the confusion is whether these were the original occupations of the rook, knight, bishop etc. (?)
Seems too far fetched, so someone guessed it to be the 8 pawns. What an answer! These are the occupations of
the 8 pawns on the chess board!
Brilliant question, brilliant answer!
Updated 7 Jun, 2013. Asked to answer by Mukund Madhav.
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Amitabh Mishra, An Inquisitive Indian.

394 upvotes by Amit Gupta, Apurba Kundu, Shashank Acharya, (more)

What is the historic significance of this letter ?

Ans: It led to the introduction of toilets on trains.There were no toilets inall classes of Indian railways by 1909. Babu
Okhil Chandra Sen shot this complaint letter to the Transport Superintendent at Sahibaganj, following which railways
were compelled to introduce toilets in all lower class coaches in trains running at a speed of more than 50miles per
hour. This letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi.
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Aviral Srivastava, Seeker, Avid reader, Quizzer

1.8k upvotes by Anirudh Joshi, Mukunth Raghavan, Barath Mahadevan, (more)

At 5:34 a.m. Baghdad time on 20 March 2003 (9:34 p.m., 19 March EST) the surprise military invasion of Iraq
began. There was no declaration of war. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. army General Tommy Franks,
began under the codename "Operation Iraqi Liberation, the UK codename Operation Telic, and the Australian
codename Operation Falconer.
The US operation was later renamed Operation Iraqi Freedom. Why?
This question was asked early on in a tightly fought quiz at National Youth Festival, Rohtak, Haryana, India in 2010.
The question ran through all the teams making vague guesses (Amnesty International objected to the word
Liberation, The Arab countries contended that Iraq needed no Liberation, Israel-Palestine issues, etc).
We were the last team which was to have a go at this question and then it hit me: the acronym for Operation Iraqi
Liberation was OIL (fueling all the conspiracy theories about the reasons US waged the war).
I guess thats the eureka moment every quizzer plays for. When the answer finally hits you out of the blue, the rush
is fantastic.
Written 28 Nov, 2012.
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Deepak Dilipkumar, Always confused

421 upvotes by Yuvaraja Balamurugan, Souvik Gupta, Rohan Manchanda, (more)

This question was asked by Ashwin Krishnan at the IIT Bombay Open General Quiz.
Q. Before coming up with the name Intel, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to give their company a different
name. However, they decided against it, owing to the fact that it would be an ill-suited name for an electronics
company. What name? And why did they decide against it?
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A. Moore Noyce! Why did they decide against it? Because it sounds like "More Noise", which is the last thing an
electronics company would want to be associated with!
It was a particularly brilliant question because it could be worked out with just a little bit of thought (you don't need
to know anything about Intel to answer this), and gives you that real "How did I not get that?!" feeling. Nice one!
Written 9 Aug, 2013.
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Yogarshi Vyas, Curious,Inquisitive and a Know... (more)

154 upvotes by Ratan Rahul, Samarth Mohan, Virn Gabani, (more)

My best question comes from 'Son of Lumiere', which is the open movie quiz (and a 5-hour extravaganza for any
movies-buff) conducted by Anustup Datta & Arun Hiregange as part of KQA's annual orgy of quizzing, Askqance2012.
(Note : Since I do not have access to the original question, I have put it in my own words and might have missed out
on a detail or two)
Question : The 3 gentlemen shown in the image below once went to watch a 1940s British horror movie. This
movie had a circular plot, with a recurrent nightmare portion, that gave the movie a never-ending feel - or rather,
the movie could be imagined to have no beginning or end because of its circular plot.
After the movie ended, these 3 men entered into a discussion about the movie and its nature. This discussion (and
further contemplation) led to the them proposing something. What?

Answer: The Steady State Model of the Universe

Now what makes this an awesome question in my opinion?
1) This question was asked in a movie quiz. Sheer brilliance on the part of the QM to find out such a lovely fact that
makes this a question both about movies, and not about movies. Also we frequently see questions about movies
inspired by science, but it is rare that we come across science being inspired by movies.
2) This question was answered by a team...and how! A few teams answered something incorrect and went off on the
completely wrong track. When it came to this team, one of them confidently answered 'The Steady State Theory' and I
was sniggering to myself, thinking of the cock-and-bull story that was to follow such an improbable answer. Well, lets
just say they got the points and I was silenced.
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Q : Print ad for which brand?

A : Levis low rise jeans.