QUIZ SESSION

BY- ROHIT LOHAN

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RULES:

• TOTAL 40 QUESTIONS- NORMAL POUNCE/BOUNCE(PASS) FORMAT.

• MAX 3 MEMBERS IN A TEAM.
• POUNCE- +15/-10, BOUNCE(PASS)- +10/0
• QM IS AN INCARNATION OF GOD. DON’T IRRITATE HIM. DECISION OF QM IS FINAL.
 1. EASY ONE

• Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of VHP released a poster condemning marriages of Hindu
women to Muslim men stating that religious conversion from Hinduism should be
considered treason towards the “Hindu Rashtra”.
• What word was used for the first time to describe such marriages?
ANS: LOVE JIHAD
 2. WHAT IS IT COMMONLY KNOWN AS?

• Xylaria polymorphia is a saprobic fungus. It is a common inhabitant of forest and

woodland areas, usually growing from the bases of rotting or injured tree stumps and
decaying wood. It has also been known to colonize substrates like woody legume pods,
petioles, and herbaceous stems. It is characterized by its elongated upright, clavate, or
strap-like stromata poking through the ground, much like _____________.
• Image on next slide.
ANS: DEAD MAN’S FINGERS
 3. WHICH HIGH PROFILE WRITER?

• WordStar is a word processor application that had a dominant market share during the
early to mid 80s. It was published by MicroPro International. While its user base has
almost gone extinct, WordStar still has the solid fan following of one high level writer. The
writer came into popular consciousness in the past decade and his every installment of
most popular series has been written on WordStar.
• The next one in the series was expected to be released this year but instead a new book
“Fire and Blood” was announced by him.
ANS: GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
 4.WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THIS?

• Toilet Tweets, the retailer on Amazon, describe the toilet paper as “a collection of 10 of
X printed throughout a roll of 2-ply toilet paper”. This toilet paper went on sale in August
last year on Amazon. A single roll is up for $9.99, a little less than $12.95 that costs with
pictures.
• Review of a Amazon costumer that bought this-
“Many people told me this was the greatest invention in the history of ever and boy
were they right. It is great to see X getting the recognition they deserve.”
• Amazon also lists toilet paper to ‘Fill your bathroom with ______’s voice’.
ANS: DONALD TRUMP’S TWEETS
 5.CONNECT AND FITB.

• ETRUSCO
• QUESTRA
• TRICOLORE
• FEVERNOVA
• TEAMGEIST
• JABULANI
• BRAZUCA
• ________
• (INEXHAUSTIVE LIST)
ANS: FIFA WORLD CUP BALLS; TELSTAR
6. WHAT IS BEING DEPICTED HERE?
ANS: ANTI-PHOTOGRAPHY SCARF(ISHU) INVENTED BY
SAIF SIDDIQUI
 7.

• X temple, locally known as Dhungiri Temple is located in Manali, a hill station in

Himachal Pradesh. It is an ancient cave temple dedicated to X who is a well known
character in Mahabharata story. The temple is surrounded by a cedar forest. The
sanctuary is built over a huge rock jutting out of the ground which was worshipped as
an image of the deity. The structure was built in 1553.
• However X temple was seen by most of the Indians in YEH JAWANI HAI DEEWANI
movie featuring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone.
ANS: HIDIMBA
 8.

• In August 2016, probably a guy enthusiastic over this, just happened to achieve the
ultimate end of something which irritated a lot of us in our childhood.
• The ending visual appeared like what you see in your next slide with the caption “And
now we’ll show you a cartoon. Connection to server… No connection. Thanks.
Everybody’s free to go”.
• What did this guy end or find the end to?
ANS: SNAKE GAME
 9. WHO IS SHE?

• X was born in the suburbs of London, on Nov 1. Her height is described as five apples
and weight as three apples.
• X is portrayed with a large family. Her twin sister Mimmy is described as “shy and very
girly”, interested in sewing and dreaming of marriage. Her father George is described
as dependable, humorous but also absent-minded. Their mother Mary is portrayed as
a good cook who loves doing housework. Grandpa Anthony likes to tell stories and
Grandma Margaret likes sewing. Dear Daniel is X’s childhood friend.
• Recently Japan has launched a special bullet train themed on X.
ANS: HELLO KITTY
 10.

• SPS Tomar, Under Secretary to the Ministry has replied that there was no such record
available in his archive. “I haven’t come across any official order or notification in the
ministry saying X. It is known to be X in general parlance,” Tomar has stated.
• “I had asked the government when X was declared. The question assumes significance
in the backdrop of the fact that we have been learning since Class 1 that X. We attach
this with nationalism.”
• The query was filed by a class-VII student, Aishwarya Parashar. An earlier query by the
girl has revealed that the government doesn’t have any specific document to prove
whether Mahatama Gandhi was conferred the title “Father of the nation”.
• What was the RTI filed?
ANS: HOCKEY IS OUR NATIONAL SPORT
 11.

• Having conceded defeat to X several times, Krishna moved his capital to island capital of
Dwarka, acquiring the moniker Y for himself, meaning “deserter”. X planned to sacrifice
100 kings to gain the means to capture Dwarka, and the 95 who were already captured
secretly requested Krishna to save them. To defeat X, Krishna devised a clever plan. X
chose Bhima for a wrestling match. This went on till 14 days, and Bhima had all but given
up defeating X. Krishna then picked up a twig from the ground and split it into two, a hint
that Bhima understood, and this was critical for Bhima’s victory.
• Identify X and Y( Y was creating buzz all around the country in 2009).
ANS: X- JARASANDH
Y- RANCHOD( 2009-3 IDIOTS WAS RELEASED)
12. WHICH FAMOUS COMPANY’S OLD LOGO?
ANS: PIZZA HUT
 13. #TECH

• On July 20 of last year, Eduardo Barros was arrested by the New Mexico police while
abusing his girlfriend. According to the authorities, they received a 911 call reporting
the incident. Why is it relevant in the world of tech?
• Hint : call was not made by a human.
ANS: AMAZON ALEXA PICKED UP THE THREAT AND
CALLED 911
14.

• The second budget of Yashwant Sinha in 1999, which also happened to be the last
budget of the 20th century, made a historic departure from a practice that had been
followed by all his predecessors dating back to the grand British days.
• Consequently, all finance ministers succeeding him have stuck to the new practice
started by Sinha since then.
• What was the old practice?
ANS: ANNOUNCING INDIAN BUDGET AT 5PM LOCAL TIME,
TO MATCH THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 11:00AM GMT TIME
15.

• An international journal recently published a study in which they categorized a

certain group of people into four broad types: relationship builders, window
shoppers, town criers, and selfies.
• “Selfies are all about themselves, town criers are wrapped in political
controversies/celeb gossips, window shoppers who in spite of being present all the
time don’t do much content creation, just lurking there, and relationship builders
well… look to reinforce relationships”.
• What group of people are we talking about?
ANS: FACEBOOK USERS
16.

• On 30th October 2013, Cecilia Abadie, a resident of San Diego, California was pulled
over by a police officer and was given a ticket, and was made to pay a hefty fine for
doing “something” while she was driving her car. This was a “first of it’s kind” case.
This incident (her being fined) angered many people in the Silicon Valley. A person
named Steve Mautone commented on a social networking site – “How can technology
progress if our backwards, outdated laws are holding it back, out of ignorance?”
Why was Cecilia Abadie fined?
ANS: SHE WAS WEARING A GOOGLE GLASS WHILE DRIVING
 17.

• Though the origins of the name have never been confirmed, the character’s name could
have conceivably been derived from the Sanskrit word for warrior, or the Hebrew word
meaning “one who knows”.
• Originally named ‘Buffy’ or Bunden Debannen, the character was later renamed Minch X
before eventually being named X.
• Which character?
ANS: YODA(STAR WARS)
18. WHO ISSUED THESE CURRENCIES?
ANS: ISIS
19.

• Indian actress _________ acted in an hollywood movie X, in the year 2009. When
her husband __________ bought a team in the year 2014 in a league of a particular
sport, he named it after the movie X as a show of affection towards her wife.
• This team has caught the attention not only because of their unique name but also
because of the fact they finished at the top of the table in the inaugural season of
the league.
• Either name the team or movie.
ANS: X- PINK PANTHER
TEAM- JAIPUR PINK PANTHERS
20. #POTTERHEADS

• X(1330-1418) was a successful French scribe and manuscript seller. After his death, he
gained reputation as an alchemist who discovered Y and thus gained immortality. He is
said to have designed his own tombstone. His will, dated 22 Nov 1416, indicates that
he was generous but that he didn’t have the extraordinary wealth of later alchemical
legend. There is no indication that the real X of history was involved in alchemy,
pharmacy, or medicine. His reputation rests on the claim that he made Y which turns
base metals into gold and using that he and his wife achieved immortality.
• Identify X and Y, both of which came to light to youngsters in the late 20th century.
ANS: NICOLAS FLAMEL AND PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
21. #HISTORY

• The Gold Coins of Jahangir is a Feluda story which revolves around the
disappearance of a set of 12 coins, originally issued by Jahangir. While in reality no
such disappearance took place, this set of coins does exist in real life, and the story is
attributed to Satyajit Ray seeing a display of these coins in the Indian Museum at
Kolkata.
• What are these coins themed on?
ANS: 12 RASHI
22. #NATIONALISM

• Karnataka Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha was founded on November 1,1957 by a

group consisting of H.A. Pai, Anant Bhat, Jayadev Rao Kulkarni, B.J. Gokhale, Vasudev
Rao and B.H. Inamder, who wanted to create a federation to cater to the need for
growth of village industries.
• This company has a sole monopoly in India for a particular product. What product is
this?
ANS: INDIAN NATIONAL FLAGS
23.

• On June 8,1954, Alan Turing was found dead. His cause of death was cyanide poisoning,
and while an apple lay half-eaten near the body, the police failed to test it.
• However, both Andrew Hodges and David Leavitt, his 2 biographers, say that Turing
purposely staged his death, by eating a cyanide infused apple, to re-enact a scene from
one of his favorite stories.
• Which story?
ANS: SNOW WHITE AND 7 DWARFS
24. #BOLLYWOOD

• Born in a lineage of many statesmen, X is the great grand daughter of former prime
minister of Hyderabad, grand niece of a former governor of Assam, and the grand
daughter of J. Rameshwar Rao from her mother’s side.
• Calling herself more than an actress, she has gained acclaim for many of her films, but
not much mainstream success. She is trained in Bharatnatyam as well as classical
vocals, but started acting at a pretty young age.
• She did play small parts in many films before, but she was noticed by the masses in an
Airtel 3G April 2011 advertisement.
• ID this LSR alumna.
ANS: ADITI RAO HYDARI
25.

• The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046km/sec, about 3000 times the
speed of light.
• The total load weight involved in my transfer is 3,21,000 tonnes. Total climbing done by
me is equivalent of Mount Everest over 50,000 times. My vehicle has estimated 24,000
horsepower engine.
• I have 318 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6
destinations per second.
• Who am I?
ANS: SANTA CLAUS
26. #DEFENSE

• X is a branch of the Indian Army under the authority of the Indian Ministry of
Defense. It is a counter-insurgency force made up of soldiers deputed from others
parts of the Indian Army.
• The army got the go-ahead to create the X from the V.P. Singh government in 1990. It
was specially created for the intensity growing in J&K from the last decade of 20th
century. Each infantry regiment of Indian Army has atleast 2 X battalions, and soldiers
and officers from the regiment are deputed to the X battalions for 2-3 years. Thus it is
not possible to join the X directly.
• X crest consists of the Asoka Chakra and two crossed AK-47 rifles.
• Motto: “Dridhta aur Virta”.
ANS: RASHTRIYA RIFLES
27.

• X was born into an erstwhile Nawanagar royal family which has a cricketing royal family
which has a cricketing pedigree. His relatives include K.S. Ranjitsinhji, after whom Ranji
Trophy is named, and K.S. Duleepsinhji, for whom the Duleep Trophy is named. X’s
cricketing achievements were overshadowed by a 5-year ban for match-fixing.
• X acted in the 2003 movie Khel with Sunny Deol and Sunil Shetty. He also acted in the
2009 movie Pal Pal Dil Ke Ssaat, directed by V.K. Kumar. He was a contestant on Jhalak
Dikhla Jaa in its first season. He also appeared on Comedy Circus.
• He was the captain of Haryana Ranji team in 2013 when Sachin played his last Ranji
match against Haryana.
• Id this famous cricketer.
ANS: AJAY JADEJA
28.

• X is a cross platform instant messaging service for smartphones that uses the internet
for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other graphical
stickers, emoticons, images, videos, audios, files, voice messages, contacts and user
location.
• X was launched on 12 December 2012 and raised its first funding from Bharti
SoftBank. It is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank. On 16 August
2016 it raised new round of funding led by Tencent & Foxconn. After raising this round,
X reached the valuation of $1.4 Billions.
• X’s founder is Kavin Bharti Mittal.
ANS: HIKE
29.

• Emilio Fernandez was a notable Mexican and Hollywood director and actor of the mid
1900s, achieving many feats. Where would we see him today in something which is
very popular?
• Images on next slide.
ANS:
30.

• Also called Grande Valse, this tune is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran
Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tarrega, written in
1902.
• In 2010, it was reported that the tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion
times per day, about 20,000 times per second.
• Which tune?
ANS:
31.

• Which famous Indian brand is named after Ramaniklal Ambani’s son? Ramaniklal was
the elder brother of Dhirubhai Ambani and it was Ramaniklal who helped established
the Reliance establish their first textile mill at Naroda in 1966 under the brand name
X. Naming the brand name as X was the Dhirubhai’s way of trying to express the
gratitude.
• The advertisement of this brand was first of its kind i.e. first fabric brand to be
advertised on Doordarshan. It made Reliance a household name. It was the first brand
to use cricketers as brand ambassadors- Sir Viv Richards and Allan border.
ANS: ONLY VIMAL
32. #CRICKET

• X is a society, registered under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration act. It is a Private

club consortium. Basically to become a member of a state-level association, one needs
to be introduced by another member and also pay an annual fee.
• In the past, tax exemptions were granted to X on the grounds as promoting sport was
a charitable activity. Id X?
ANS: BCCI
33.

• USA and India have the worlds two largest film industries referred as Hollywood and
Bollywood. The third largest industry belongs to which country ?
• It produces roughly 1,000 films on average per yea. The youngest of the two (born
circa 1992) and uses innovative forms of financing and production. Now its in
adulthood, bigger productions and studio backings have become more regular. Today,
the film industry is the largest employer after agriculture and makes up 5% of country
’s GDP.
• Clue: It is termed as Nollywood.
ANS: NIGERIA
34. #MYTHO

• X is an unlikely hero amongst various tribes and communities in West Bengal,

Jharkhand and Odisha. X is supposed to have been a revolutionary who fought against
Aryan invaders, and was wrongfully killed by attacking his carnality.
• Santhals in Purulia district of West Bengal(kinda ironic) celebrates a 9 day mourning
to commemorate the fall of their great hero.
• Who is X?
ANS: MAHISASUR
35. THE FOLLOWING TABLE GIVES THE EXCHANGE RATES OF A CERTAIN CURRENCY IN
THREE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. IDENTIFY WHAT HAS BEEN BLANKED OUT.
ANS: GALLEON, SICKEL, KNUT
36. IDENTIFY THE CITY.

• This famous city was once

declared ‘no mans land’ by
government . As for its
dimensions, its comparable to
New York estimated as about 780
sq. km. This city was rebuilt by
person named Lex Luthor from
ground up after city suffered from
endless earthquakes, mass
evacuation.
ANS: GOTHAM
37. WHY IN NEWS?

• Eugene Newman Parker (born June 10, 1927) is an American solar astrophysicist
who—in the mid-1950s—developed the theory of the supersonic solar wind and
predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer solar system.
In 1987, Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny
“nanoflares”, miniature brightenings resembling solar flares that would occur all over
the surface of the Sun.
• His books, especially Cosmical Magnetic Fields, have been read by generations of
investigators. His most recent book includes the effects of magnetic fields of planets,
stars, and galaxies on X-ray emissions.
ANS: NASA RENAMED ITS SOLAR PROBE PLUS TO PARKER
SOLAR PROBE IN HIS HONOR, MARKING THE FIRST TIME
NASA HAD NAMED A SPACECRAFT AFTER A LIVING PERSON.
38.

• The Musalman is the oldest newspaper publishing from Chennai in India. It is an

evening paper with four pages. It was founded in 1927 by Syed Azmathullah. What is
different about it that makes it world’s only and last newspaper of its kind in whole
world?
ANS: 100% HANDWRITTEN NEWSPAPER
39. DREAM OF MILLIONS OF INDIANS
• It was first held in 1960. Since then it has undergone several changes, one of the
recent being in 2013.
• In 1997 it suffered a minor setback.
• Political parties in various states have raised objection to X due to language
problems.
• It held its first overseas edition in 2008.
• Most of us have been a part of it at some point in our life.
• What is X?
ANS: IIT-JEE
40.

• Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967) is an American professional wrestler,
businessman, actor, and politician. A Republican, he is the Mayor-elect of Knox
County, Tennessee and will be sworn in to succeed Tim Burchett on September 1,
2018.
• He was also a school teacher to third grade students and give economics lectures im
his spare time.
• Jacobs played various characters until 1997, when he was repackaged as X, the
mentally disturbed, pyromaniacal younger half-brother of ___________.
• How do we better know him as or give his stage name.
ANS: THE KANE