SPQC PL SessionDarshan Godhia12th November, 2014

SUBJECTS:IndiaTechnologyMoviesEntertainmentLiteratureSports

Well, it is a PL quiz!

The scoring is GPA basedThe grading is relative:Topper – O : 60 marksSecond – A : 40 marksThird – B : 20 marksLast – F : 0 marks

The independent subject scores won’t matter, only the grade will

In case of a tie, there will be a cumulative averageie. (Sum of scores)/(number of receivers) to all

Subject 1 India

IndiaQn. 1

In Mahabharata, Ashwatthama was the son of Dronacharya. Ashwatthama was killed during battle, to enable the assassination of Dronacharya, Ashwatthama’s father. Ashwatthama , after the end of fighting tried killing Arjun’s unborn grandson.

How is that possible?

One was an Elephant and other was the son of Dronacharya.

IndiaQn. 2

Grandson of Pulatsya, son of a rishi father and rakshasa mother, a maestro of Veena and hailed as a great scholar, which mythological character has a beautiful temple dedicated to him at Mandore near Jodhpur? His statue can be found in the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Ravan

IndiaQn. 3

“Here lies one who spared neither man nor GodWaste not your tears on him, he was a sodWriting nasty things he regarded as great funThank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.”

Who wrote these lines for himself?

Khushwant Singh

IndiaQn. 4

Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To dance by spinning on one foot came naturally to her. On one of her school functions, her talent was spotted by a certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputed ad film maker who approached her mother and said “We just want her to do the spin, like she does so gracefully. The small twist would be counterbalanced by a jingle. She does the move, packs her bags, gets the cheque and leaves. Think of it, she’s going to be the first ________"

Nirma Girl

IndiaQn. 5

How many members are nominated by the President in the Rajya Sabha?

12

IndiaQn. 6

Connect:

IIT KGP

Wharton

Stanford

McKinsey

Sundar Pichai

IndiaQn. 7

Christopher Nolan, the film directorHere's how:1 - Following;2 - Memento; 3 - Insomnia; 4 - Batman Begins (ok, this is a bit of a stretch!);5 -The Prestige;6 -The Dark Knight; 7 - Inception; 8 -The Dark Knight Rises; 9 - Interstellar

IndiaQn. 8

While the female version of this name made headlines in December 2012, the male version of this name made news in October 2014, owing to a major contribution of India's DRDO.

Which undaunted name?

'Nirbhaya' and 'Nirbhay'. 'Nirbhaya' was the pseudonym given to this case, while 'Nirbhay' was the name of an Indian subsonic cruise missile successfully test-fired in Oct 2014.

IndiaQn. 9

From a July 2014 exhibition by the artist Claire Phillips (the lady on the right). Who is the person in the painting (also seen standing next to Phillips), who became better known in the eyes of the world later in the year?

IndiaQn. 9

Kailash Satyarthi

IndiaQn. 10

If model-actor Milind Soman and singer Alisha Chinai (in the 90s) are associated with the past tense, a lion with cogs is in the present tense, since 2014. What is all this about?

The former is a reference to the Indipopsong "Made in India", while the latter is the 2014 "Make in India" campaign launched by the Indian government to spur manufacturing in the country.

Subject 2 Technology

Technology

Qn. 1

A mnemonic describing a mathematical “device” :

Sift the Twos and Sift the Threes,The ____ of ______.When the multiples sublime,The numbers that remain are X.

Fill in the blanksBonus for X

Sieve of Eratosthenes.X - Prime

Technology

Qn. 2 What’s the name of this song?

Darude - SandstormEvery song in the world that people do not know the name to

"What is that song?" "Darude - Sandstorm"

Technology

Qn. 3

Satirising corporate tech buzzwords, which company -on its way down over the last few years-has been described as a 'high hanging fruit' in a recent FT headline?

Blackberry

Technology

Qn. 4

Satirising corporate tech buzzwords, which company -on its way down over the last few years-has been described as a 'high hanging fruit' in a recent FT headline?

Blackberry

Technology

Qn. 5

Here you see a Picasso painting called Two Characters, also implemented into his Google Doodle.

What other prominent feature from the world of technology borrows lineage from this painting?Image on next slide

Technology

Qn. 5

Mac Finder Logo

Technology

Qn. 6

What's so unusual about the discovery of the following species?

Mindarus harringtoni :- an extinct species of aphid and the insect was discovered when Richard Harrington, a scientist and vice-president of the Royal Entomological Society of London.

Coelopleurus exquisitus (exquisite urchin) :- a sea urchin species found off the coast of the island of New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean.

They were discovered on EBay

Technology

Qn. 7

This one is a sitter:

Who is this physicist standing next to Einstein, who first used Einstein's Relativity equations to prove that our Universe is expanding?

Technology

Qn. 7

Willem de Sitter

Technology

Qn. 8

Which country is set to ban the Apple iPhone and iPad from next year as a result of a new law that forces online services operating in the country to store their data locally?

Russia

Technology

Qn. 9

Lonesome George was the last known individual of the subspecies. In his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world. George served as a potent symolfor conservation efforts in Ecuador and internationally. Upon his death in June 2012, the sub-species became extinct.Which sub-species?Image on next slide

Technology

Qn. 9

Pinta Island / Abingdon Island tortoiseorGalapagos tortoise

Technology

Qn. 10

"A person with ___________ is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."

What modern-day product takes its name from the above mentioned philosophy mostly because it is based on the same principle?

Ubuntu

Subject 3 Movies

MoviesQn. 1

In an interview to Siddharth Sivakumar of Tinpahar , Goutam Ghose, the chairman of the selection committee of the Film Federation of India revealed, "Personally I liked X very much. But eventually the eighteen member jury supported Y.Now I can say that some people from Bombay felt that the basic premise of X was wrong. Because the Z never do such mistakes.

Films are after all works of fiction, with the right to cinematic liberty! Although X was my personal favourite, but as a chairman one should not impose his or her choice on others.

Give X,Y,Z.

X – Lunch BoxY –The Good RoadZ – Dabbawallas

MoviesQn. 2

X is a test in the Star Trek universe to test the character of cadets in the command track at Starfleet Academy.X is used to describe a no-win scenario, or a solution that involves redefining the problem.

Give me X

Kobayashi Maru

MoviesQn. 3

Complete the exhaustive list: The First Post

The Old Familiar

The Famous Cock

The Cross Hands

The Good Companions

The Trusty Servants

The Two Headed Dog

The Mermaid

The Beehive

The King’s Head

The Hole in the Wall

_________________

The World’s End

MoviesQn. 4

Connect: Vespertilio

Eptesicus

Myotis

Barbastella

Artibeus

Tadarida

Macrotus

Antrozous

Nycteris

Molossus

Corynorhinus

Lasiurus

The Soundtrack ofBatman Begins

MoviesQn. 5

Complete the dialogue:“Aaj maine tum logo ki maut ki date fix kar di hai. Yaad rakhna aaj ektareek hai. ___________________”

Do .. Chaar .. Chay .. Aath .. Dus .. Bas!

MoviesQn. 6

Complete the conversation:

I admire your courage, Miss ..?

Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mr .. ?

_____________

Bond, James Bond

MoviesQn. 7

The Serbian village of Zitiste has been through rough years - floods, landslides and crime. In 2007, artist Boris Staparc was commissioned to create a 10-foot replica to symbolisethe city’s resilience. Village authorities needed to get approval from sculptor Thomas Schomberg, whose 1983 original now resides at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Whose statue/ What sculpture?

Rocky Balboa

MoviesQn. 8

Sung Kang is an actor best known for playing Han in the Fast and Furious franchise. Han's last name is revealed only in Fast Five, and is set to be a word play on the name of a cult character from a film trilogy and the capital of Sung Kang's native country.

What is his last name?

MoviesQn. 8

Han Seoul-Oh (Han Solo)

MoviesQn. 9

"Directors fear casting this particular actor in a major production, or do not reveal his character in the trailers to ensure that the climax of the movie is kept intact."

This statement is actually false and is based on a very famous urban legend which is reinforced by X's roles in major film and TV roles. However the urban legend is not completely true and can be refuted by citing movies such as Flightplan, National Treasure, Anna Karenina and theatre productions such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and based on interpretation Maid of the West.

What Urban Legend?

Sean Bean always dies

MoviesQn. 10

Where can one see them? Remember Sammy Jankis

Consider the source – Memory is Treachery

Photograph – House – Car -Friend – Foe

She is gone – Time still passes

Condition Yourself – Don’t trust your weakness

EAT

I’m no different

Find him and kill him

Leonard Shelby’s tattoos in Memento

Subject 4 Entertainment

Entertainment

Qn. 1

Andrew "Andy" Armstrong had six children. He worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982.

Which song was written as a memorial to him?

“Wake Me Up When September Ends”

Entertainment

Qn. 2

When asked if he would sue X over certain copyrights on his creation Y "I don't think so," said Keith Chapman. "He's got his finger on the nuclear button and the whole of the US army under his command. I don't want Delta Force coming over my garden wall. He's free to use it as much as he likes.“

ID X and Y, and the object in question here.

X – Barack ObamaY – Bob the Builder (Yes We Can)

Entertainment

Qn. 3

“When I was 14, my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock-climbing with a kid from school. He fell and got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital. We came in through the wrong entrance and passed this guy in the hall. He was a janitor. My friend came down with an infection. Doctors didn’t know what to do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor. And a buraku. One of Japan’s untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, gravediggers. And this guy, he knew he was not accepted by the staff, didn’t even try. He didn’t dress well. He didn’t pretend to be one of them. The people around that place … they didn’t think he had anything they wanted, except when they needed him. Because he was right. Which meant nothing else mattered. And they had to listen to him.”

The above narrated incident had a significant impact on the life of the narrator. Id the narrator.

House MDEpisode: Son of Coma Guy

Entertainment

Qn. 4

"Paramount had organized a party for me. All of cinema was there, it was incredible. And then comes in Y, the last one to come. For me, that was when it got amazing. . . . She came right for my table. She knew everyone was watching. She sat down. And now, she was barely . . . Listen. Look at the picture. Where are my eyes? I’m staring at her ____ because I am afraid they are about to come onto my plate. In my face you can see the fear. I’m so frightened that everything in her dress is going to blow—BOOM!—and spill all over the table.“

X talking about which infamous photograph?

Sophia Loren, Jayne Mansfields

Entertainment

Qn. 5

The voice actor quit the show after he was asked to appear in a Burger King commercial. He rejoined only after the character turned vegetarian. He told Newsweek he had never voiced a hippie, but was ‘hip to what hippies were about’. In 2010, he came out of retirement to voice the character’s father – Samuel Rogers.

Which cartoon character?

Shaggy (aka Norville Rogers)

Entertainment

Qn. 6

Whose career highlights include the following:

The Smurfs

Stand-up

The Bugle

Mock the week

Community

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

X - Bonus

John OliverX – Last Week Tonight

Entertainment

Qn. 7

A X is a digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, radio, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.

Merriam Webster defines X: a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet.

Give me X

Podcast

Entertainment

Qn. 8

A X is a digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, radio, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.

Merriam Webster defines X: a program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet.

Give me X

Podcast

Entertainment

Qn. 9

Kuntal Patel was accused of trying to kill her mother, a magistrate in London, for opposing her marriage with her boyfriend. She was cleared of the charges of trying to kill her mother by poisoning her Diet Cola but was sentenced for three years after being convicted of acquiring a biological agent or toxin. She is supposed to have been inspired by which TV series to take this extreme step?

Patel is said to have been inspired by a Breaking Bad episode in which Walter White kills an enemy with ricin-laced tea.

Entertainment

Qn. 10

"The Imitation Game" is a 2014 British film. This term refers to a test devised to, given an unseen man and woman, to try and identify who was of which gender. A further modification of this test is now better known, and is named after the person who proposed this test.

This person is also the subject of this film - who is the person?

Alan Turing, the famed AI researcher and computer scientist.

Subject 5 Literature

LiteratureQn. 1

X’s birth name is Richard Alexander Rodgers

He has used the aliases ‘Jackson Hunt’ and ‘Anderson Cross’

He is a writer

His popular works incude ‘The Calm Before The Storm’, ‘Gathering Storm’, ‘Storm Rising’

Identify him

Richard Castle

LiteratureQn. 2

The word for a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce derives from the French verb "to speak". Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, it was a meeting held between kings and their Chief Retainers and was a part of the many changes in Europe, especially regarding governments. The Pirates of the Caribbean series refers to it as being part of the pirate code.

What's the good word?

Parley

LiteratureQn. 3

The 2014 book "What If?" is a collection of interesting questions and answers posted to a popular blog. In this column, the blog's owner tries to provide scientifically valid answers to strange questions, such as "What if everyone actually had just one soul mate - one random person somewhere in the world? Could they ever meet?"

Who is the author and what popular website does he run?

Randall Munroe, of XKCD fame.

LiteratureQn. 4

On Halloween 2014, the author J.K.Rowling published an essay on the origins of a character from the Harry Potter series, also one of the least liked. (The author Stephen King even called this character "the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter").

Which character?

Dolores Umbridge

LiteratureQn. 5

Xs notable works include:

Y

Dark Places

Sharp Objects

Give X, and the recently famous Y

Gillian FlynnGone Girl

LiteratureQn. 6

Connect:

Sachin Tendulkar

Andy McNab

George HW Bush

Geordie Sharpe

Chris Ryan

The Gulf Wars

LiteratureQn. 7

This 2014 hit Hollywood movie joins films such as ‘North by Northwest’ in getting its title from a line in Shakespeare.

“Julius Caesar: The ____ dear, Brutus, is not ____. But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

The fault in our stars

LiteratureQn. 8

“Queen” is a 2014 Hindi film starring the actress Kangana Ranaut as “Rani”, a girl who has a set of small adventures in Europe during what should have been her honeymoon. The film was widely read as havindparallels with a famous word of literature, which was also alluded to with the lead actress wearing the sweatshirt referencing that work.

Which work of literature?

Alice in Wonderland

LiteratureQn. 9

“James Gordon” is the who?

Commissioner Gordon, Batman

LiteratureQn. 10

In the 80s, he wrote several episodes for such TV series as ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’. These days he contributes one episode per season to X

Give me the person and X

George R. R. MartinGame of Thrones

Subject 6 Art

Subject 7 Sports

SportsQn. 1

Xavier Doherty said, “Merv Hughes gave me my baggy green and, although much of what he said was a blur, one thing stands out. ‘There is an emu and kangaroo on the front of your hat’”.What is the significance of the two animals apart from being highly prevalent in Australia?

They never take a step backward

SportsQn. 2

Toni Kroos & Franck Ribery in a 6-0 Bayern Munich victory over HerthaBerlin

Marco Reus & Mike Hanke in a 3-0 Borussia Monchengladbach victory over FC Koln

What specific occurrences involving these players in the two games above happened in the 2011-12 Bundesliga season?

Rock Paper Scissors for deciding who takes the free-kick

SportsQn. 3

A German driver at the German Grand Prix incurred the wrath of FIFA on Thursday night – for celebrating Germany’s World Cup triumph with a commemorative helmet.

X, an avid follower of the tournament, was forced to alter a special helmet design to celebrate his nation’s victory after football’s governing body banned him from using an image of the famous trophy, claiming it would be in breach of its intellectual property.

Name X

Nico Rosberg

SportsQn. 4

FC Barcelona signed a new sponsorship deal in December 2013 with this company

Intel

SportsQn. 5

Who was the official flag bearer of India at Sochi Winter Olympics 2014?

No oneThe three Indian athletes competed under Independent Olympic flag

SportsQn. 6

Put funda

Valentino Rossi’s return to Yamaha

SportsQn. 7

After scoring his maiden test ton in Old Trafford, Manchester, SachinTendulkar was awarded his first MoM award. The person who presented him with the award though was arrested the very next day.

What was the reason behind this?

Sachin was a minor at that time. The MoM award required handling over the customary bottle of champagne. The poor gentleman was arrested on charges of handing alcohol to a minor.

SportsQn. 8

During his time at the club Kenny Dalglish had wanted to sign X who was playing in France for FC Girondins de Bordeaux, however Blackburn Rovers Chairman Jack Walker reportedly said to Dalglish: "Why do you want to sign X when we have Tim Sherwood?"

Blackburn went on to win the Premier League that season, to crash out of it in 2012, while X has retired.

Who is X?

Sachin was a minor at that time. The MoM award required handling over the customary bottle of champagne. The poor gentleman was arrested on charges of handing alcohol to a minor.

SportsQn. 9

Identify

Michael 'Vaseline' Vaughan

SportsQn. 10

A cricket team from this country toured England in Sept 2014. Though led by an Englishman, like many countries not known for their cricketing pedigree, its squad comprised mainly of South Asians. The tour concluded with a loss in a T20 match against a Church of England XI held in Canterbury, Kent.

From which country was this team?

Vatican City

Long Connect Think Tele

100 Gold

90 Movies

80 World

70 Ok

60 Yes We Can

50 Utsav

40 Sports

30 Crime

20 India

10 Plus