Fervour General Quiz 2011

During WWII, American parachutists, while jumping out of planes, would yell out the name of an Apache war chief. Originally intended to steady the nerves, the word soon became a regular battle cry. What?

Answer : Geronimo(Think Scooby Doo)

What is unusual about the city’s

layout,specifically the

numberingof the sectors? Give the funda.

• Answer : Map of Chandigarh. When the city was designed, Le Corbusier (the chief architect) was asked to leave out Section 13 to respect local superstitions. Grudgingly, he did so, but numbered the sectors so that opposite sectors’ numbers add up to 13. For example, Sector 5 is opposite Sector 8, Sector 6 is opposite Sector 7 and so on.

• X's father wanted a son but got her instead. Her father refused to accept this and brought her up as a boy instead. He finally caught her kissing a boy when she was 14 and realised that he had a girl and there was nothing he could about it.

• She started out her journey towards celebritydom as a singer, and appeared and sang in music videos which were successes in her country but achieved little fame outside. She finally settled in on her current profession after she moved to New York City.

• X is constantly dissatisfied by the work she is doing and often comes across as commitment phobic. She has achieved mild success in her profession and has won a LAMA award for her efforts. Who?

Answer -

Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother

The design shown below is believed to have served as the inspiration for the Infinite Staircase in Inception. It was initially created in the year 1959 by a father-son duo of mathematicians.In his artwork Ascending and Descending, MC Escher realised the same design the following year in a different form. Give the name by which this design is generally known today.

• A : Penrose Stairs

Douglas Engelbart, a researcher at Stanford, was trying to design a tool that would save retyping large volumes of data on a computer in case of a mistake at one point. He ultimately succeeded in creating a device he named the XY index. How do we know it today?

A : Computer Mouse

A Cricinfo columnist referred to the fourth match of the India-Australia Test series, played in Nagpur, as the” Abbey Road Test”, referring to a Beatles album. What was the reason for the analogy?

• A : The Nagpur Test was the last time that India’s own Fab Four - Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly and Laxman - played in a Test match together.

• X is a popular food item in Southern India. It was first made during World War II when, due to a severe shortage of rice, a restaurant in Bangalore tried cooking a breakfast item Y using semolina rather than rice, usually the main ingredient. This led to the creation of X, which is now a well-known dish in its own right. What is X?

A : Rava Idli. The restaurant is of course MTR.

What is the name given to the crew of technicians who accompany music bands on tours, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians. This catch-all term covers tour managers, production managers, stage managers, front-of-house and monitor engineers, guitar techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, pyrotechnic techs, security/bodyguards, truck drivers, merchandise crew and caterers, among several others. The term is famous in India in a different context.

A : Roadies

What is the significance of this pic?Hint : Irony!

A : Kamini Kaushal receiving the Filmfare Award. The Filmfare statuette, the Black Lady, is believed to be modelled on her.

• This magazine was founded in Cincinnati by William Donaldson and James Hennegan in 1894, making it one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. Its name comes from its original function of carrying trade advertisements for small businesses. The magazine later diversified into the entertainment industry. It is now eponymous with music ratings, and maintains several internationally recognised album and song charts. The publication is known for ranking the top songs regardless of genre and solely based on sales and airplay. Name the magazine.

A : Billboard

The only complete, handwritten copy of the recipe is kept in a computerised vault in corporate headquarters. The recipe, which includes exact amounts of each component, is written in pencil on a single sheet of notebook paper. Only two unnamed executives have access to the recipe at any one time, and they are never allowed to fly together.

William Poundstone examined the patent application for the recipe in 1983, and declared that he had cracked the secret formula. Although never confirmed by the company, it is believed that Poundstone’s formula is the closest anyone has come to discovering the recipe. What?

A : KFC Chicken recipe.

According to a tale from the Bhagavatha Purana, the two gatekeepers of Vaikuntha (Lord Vishnu’s abode) committed a minor offence, and were cursed by the angry Kumaras to be reborn on Earth and live as mere mortals. Vishnu was able to reduce the curse to the extent that they would be reborn on Earth in three avatars as his enemies. As a result, they were reborn as :

Hiranyakashyap and Hiranyaksha Ravana and Kumbhakarana Dantavakra and Shishupala Name the gatekeepers.

A : Jaya and Vijaya

In 1968, X founded X Ltd., a coat shop in the

York Hotel in New York City, with $10,000. In 1969, X, who was later described as "the supreme master of minimalism," appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. What/Who are we talking about?

A : Calvin Klein

Ad for which brand of confectionery? Also give the funda.

A : KitKat

What does the Park Avenue Treaty, which came to be formulated during a shared cab ride in New York City, obligate its “signatories” to do?

A : Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. The treaty stated that Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was thebest science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself). Thus the dedication in Clarke's book Report on Planet Three reads "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer".

Oxford Dictionary adopted it in 2001 without the apostrophe. The inspiration was what was used by Jimmy Finlayson in 33 Laurel and Hardy films. The VoIP software Skype has even made a smiley as a tribute to this word. The first occurrence of the word as we know it today was on the Tracey Ullman in 1989. What word?

Answer -

In the year of 1284, on the day of Saints John and Paul

on 26 June. 130 children born in X were seduced

By a Y, dressed in all kinds of colours,and lost at the place of execution near the koppen.

This is the earliest account of a tragic event in the city of X. Rats were later added to the account as it passed on through generations. People believe today the phrase, "pay the ___" arose from this event. To "pay the ___" now means to face the inevitable consequences of one's actions. The phrase is also attributed to meaning to recompense a minstrel or similar musician in the medieval period for services rendered. Minstrels were a significant status symbol, hence refusing payment would be great mark on the nobleman's reputation and a noticeable loss in his social standing.

A : The Pied Piper of Hamelin For more :

http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2010/06/catastrophe-emigration-psychopathic.html

Robert Capa, a photographer for Magnum Photos, coined the term and later used it as the title of an essay about young men and women growing up immediately after WWII. Several years later, Douglas Coupland popularised the term in his 1991 book _________ : Tales Of An Accelerated Culture. The unusual term is generally used to signify a group of young people, seemingly without identity, who face an uncertain and (maybe) hostile future.

A : Generation X

The company (X) was founded around the 17th century by members of the ______family. X now manufactures stuff for defence, petrochemicals, food and various other sectors. It employs close to 170,000 people in more than 150 countries. It also has charitable foundations named after the parents of the current CEO and chairman. The current CEO is under an FBI investigation after some secret prototypes for the use of the army were misplaced by the company. Forbes estimates X to be one of the largest of its kind with sales in 2007 being estimated at around $ 31.3 billion.

A : Wayne Enterprises, from the Batman comics.

This cricketer was considered perhaps the greatest all rounder of his time.

In all, he took 1,109 first-class wickets with a bowling average of 10.32. He was also a fine batsman (4,140 first-class runs with a batting average of 14.12).

He retired from cricket as a result of rheumatism. He was posthumously selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1913, 50 years after his retirement from first-class cricket. Identify.

A : John Wisden

Superhuman strength, durability, speed and agility, invulnerability to any kind of assault. Reality manipulation. Increased intelligence at the loss of sanity, inhibitions and self-control.

Symptoms of?

[Hint : Think Comics!]

A : Wearing ‘The Mask’!

Complete this nursery rhyme :

Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,Apple seed and apple thorn,Wire, briar, limber lockThree geese in a flockOne flew EastOne flew WestAnd ______________________

A : One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Identify the band.

A : The Band

• Video Question

• Identify the film for which the track in this ad was first composed :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6-lEKgW9Y

A : Bombay