2016 Oct Inter-Collegiate Quiz- Finals

Finals

5 Rounds 40 questions (excluding List it) Round 1 : Infinite Pounce (12

questions) Round 2 : Written Round (8

questions) Round 3 : Infinite Pounce (12

questions) Round 4 : List it Round 5 : Written Round (8

questions)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Abhra Das Siddhanth Rao

Rumaiza Fathima

Round 1

Infinite Bounce/Pounce 12 questions Unlimited Pounce +10/-10 No Part Pounce

Q1. P.D. Kasbekar, a Joint Secretary in the

Banking department attended the meeting convened by the then PM Indira Gandhi to take a key decision. Kasbekar had kept a Wedding Invitation in his Shirt Pocket which was Orange in colour with a dash of Red and Saffron. Indira liked the colour Combination and chose the colour scheme and design for 'something'.

What am I talking about ?

And the answer is…

20 Rupee note.

Q2. Crossword puzzles first appeared in the New

York World in 1913 and soon became a popular feature in newspapers. In 1924, Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle devotee, asked Simon whether there was a book of these puzzles that she could give to a friend. Simon discovered that none had been published and, with Schuster, launched a company to exploit the opportunity. To attract attention, the book came with an innovative idea and that clicked. What was the idea?


The book came along with a pencil.

Q3. In his childhood, along with a small band of

followers he raided travelers for goods, especially animals such as sheep, horses, and cattle. At around 1363, it is believed that he tried to steal a sheep from a shepherd but was shot by two arrows, one in his right leg and another in his right hand, where he lost two fingers. His injuries have given him the a certain nickname by Europeans.

Who?


Timur the lame.

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Q4. Tanaji Malusare also known as Simha was a

warrior and military leader in the army of Shivaji. Tanaji is famously known for the Battle of Sinhagad in 1670. At Shivaji's request, he pledged to recapture the fortress of Kondana near Pune. According to many accounts, he received the summons while at his son's wedding, and immediately left the festivities. Tanaji and his troops scaled the fort ,recaptured the fort from Udaybhan Rathod, fortkeeper of Jai Singh I.

What unusual technique was used by him while capturing the fort?


Mountain Lizard/Ghorpad.

Tanaji and his troops scaled the fort with the help of mountain lizards (ghorpad in Marathi), to whom they tied ropes and sent crawling up to the top of the ramparts.

Q5.The Elephant House is a gourmet tea and coffee

shop located in the heart of historic Edinburgh.What ‘s the claim to fame of this coffee shop in the

world of Literature?


Birthplace of Harry Potter.

Q6. What curious event occurred from July 25

to September 23, 2001 in which the popular media reported that researchers Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar proposed a controversial hypothesis that extraterrestrial beings were involved (though a later study commissioned by the Government of India concluded that it had been colored by airborne spores from a locally prolific terrestrial green alga from the genus Trentepohlia)?


Red Rain in Kerala.

Q7. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Reebok was the official sponsor

and all athletes had to wear the Reebok Logo on their vests / shorts. However, in those days, Linford Christie, the British Sprinter, was sponsored by rival Puma. He managed to sport the Puma Logo, leading to huge controversy. What did he do?


He wore them in Contact lenses.

Q8. X was founded in 1976 by Dr. G.

Venkataswamy, and is today the largest hospital of its kind in the world. At a time when cataract lenses cost nearly 500 dollars, X marketed and sold cataract lenses for just 4 $, using a proprietary method, driving many MNCs out of business and forcing them to accelerate their research. X is named after Y, who was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, major Indian English poet, philosopher, and yogi.

Id both.


X- Aravind Eye HospitalY-Sri Aurobindo Ghose

Q9. It was first published between 1768 and 1771. Although publication has been based in the

United States since 1901, the X has maintained British spelling.

References to the X can be found in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Red-Headed League".

Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and others have contributed to this publication.

Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition.

Identify.


Q10. Tom George Longstaff was an English doctor,

explorer and mountaineer, most famous for being the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 meters in elevation, Trisul, in the Indian Himalayas in 1907. During one of his explorations in 1909, he named a geographical region after seeing the abundance of widely dispersed rose plants in the region.

Which region, considered the superlative of its kind in the world, did he name thus?


Siachen

Q11. It was invented in 1818 by an English

engineer named Sir William Cubitt, son of a miller. Noting idle prisoners at Bury St Edmunds gaol, he proposed using their muscle power to both cure their idleness and produce useful work.

Now its is available as a household equipment for a totally different utility.

What?


Treadmills

Q12. Selaginella bryopteris is a plant that grows on the hills

of tropical areas, particularly in the Aravali mountains. The plant has traditionally been used as a remedy for

several ailments for centuries by tribal peoples. It has been the subject of several scientific speculations

and researches, though any conclusive proof hasn’t been produced yet. What was this considered as?


It is believed to be Sanjeevani as mentioned in the Ramayana.

Audience Questions

What began when Julius _____ took over his father's mill, aiming to improve the nutritional intake of worker families? _____was the first to bring protein-rich legume meal to the market, and followed up with a ready-made soup based on legume meal in 1886

In what way is this photo of Lord Pethick-Lawrence and Mahatma Gandhi, taken on April 18, 1946 significant even now?

Basis for the picture of Gandhi on currency notes.

Round 2

Written Round 8 questions 10 points each Topic :- Biopics(Biographical films)

Q1. Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor by

profession, was born in Kenya, was of Gujarati decent. His paternal father was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Rahitmulla lived until moving to Britain at the age of 14.There, he married Anna Lyna Mary (born Goodman), an actress and model who appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s.

However , A few months later they had their first child , who they named Krishna Pandit Bhanji.

How do we better know Krishna Pandit Bhanji and tell how he fits in to this topic.

Q2.

Based on the book The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin, the film is about the secret love affair between X and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years.

Identify the author X.

Q3. Who as whom? From a 2012

Biographical film.

Q4. The 2008 Biopic based on whose life?

Q5. Kirk Douglas as whom in the film Lust

for Life?

Q6. Milla Jovovich portrays which Historical figure?

Q7. Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by

John Lee Hancock. Centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars Emma Thompson as author X and Tom Hanks as Y. Identify both.

Q8. Paul Muni as which famous scientist?

Muni won an Academy Award for Best Actor for this role.

Exchange your sheets.

Now time for the answers…

Q1. Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor by

profession, was born in Kenya, was of Gujarati decent. His paternal father was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Rahitmulla lived until moving to Britain at the age of 14.There, he married Anna Lyna Mary (born Goodman), an actress and model who appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s.

However , A few months later they had their first child , who they named Krishna Pandit Bhanji.

How do we better know Krishna Pandit Bhanji and tell how he fits in to this topic.

Ben Kingsley.

Q2.

Based on the book The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin, the film is about the secret love affair between X and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years.

Identify the author X.

Charles Dickens.

Q3. Who as whom? From a 2012

Biographical film.

Antony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock

Q4. The 2008 Biopic based on whose life?

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Q5. Kirk Douglas as whom in the film Lust

for Life?

Vincent Van Gogh.

Q6. Milla Jovovich portrays which Historical figure?

Joan of Arc.

Q7. Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 period drama film directed by

John Lee Hancock. Centered on the development of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the film stars Emma Thompson as author X and Tom Hanks as Y. Identify both.

Walt Disney and PL Travers.

Q8. Paul Muni as which famous scientist?

Muni won an Academy Award for Best Actor for this role.

Louis Pasteur.

Round 3

Infinite Pounce/Bounce 12 questions Pounce :- +10/-10 No Part pounce

Q13. Ashok Kheny is an MLA from Bidar South and the

Managing Director of Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises, which is best known for the construction of Bangalore–Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project.

Which reel-life character was actually modeled on Ashok Kheny’s real-life story ?


Q2. The Imagine Peace Tower is a

memorial to X from his widow and is located on Viðey Island near Reykjavík. It consists of a tall "tower of light", projected from a white stone monument that has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages.

Whose memorial?


John Lennon.

Q3. “Save as _____, Save a Tree” is the tagline for this new file

type. Technically _____ is same as PDF format with the print option

is completely blocked. The aim behind developing new file format is to stop documents being printed out unnecessarily.

Identify the three letter extension.


.wwf

Q4. In the Bombay vs. Karnataka Ranji Trophy semi-final of

1981-82 season, Karnataka’s Raghuram Bhatt had flattened Bombay with his orthodox left arm spin. He took 8/123 in the first innings in which Bombay scored 271. In reply, Karnataka posted 470. On the fourth and final day, the track was spinning square and Raghuram Bhatt was unplayable. Sunil Gavaskar walked in at number 7 and soon Bombay lost another wicket to slump to 160/6 with Bhatt wrecking havoc with 4 wickets. Gavaskar did something unusual against Raghuram Bhatt which later drew lot of criticism. But he batted for an hour staying unbeaten on 18 with the match ending in a draw. What did Gavaskar do?


He batted left-hand.

Q5. This style of moustache is characterised by

whiskers that are thick, bushy, and drop over the mouth. It enjoyed immense popularity among men in the latter part of the 19th and early years of the 20th centuries and was sported by people such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain.

It gets its name due to its resemblance to the whiskers of a mammal that belongs to the genus Odobenus, which derives its name from the Greek words for teeth and walk, based on the observation that they use their tusks to pull themselves.

What is this style of moustache called?


Walrus Moustache.

Q6. This building is opened twice a year for a special

cleaning ceremony. The keys to the building are held by the Bani Shaiba tribe, whose members greet visitors, usually dignitaries and foreign diplomats, to the inside of the building on the occasion of the cleaning ceremony. The governor of this city leads the honoured guests who ritually clean the structure, using simple brooms. The washing is performed with a mixture made from the Zamzam water, Taif rosewater and expensive Agarwood oil that is traditionally used in perfume making.

What is this the cleaning ceremony of?


The Kaaba.

Q7. In 2010,it was announced that X and Y were

abandoning their attempts at bidding for co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics. The mayors of the cities had a Mayors for Peace Vision 2020 plan, a road map for world peace and nuclear disarmament by 2020. Although the bid itself was lauded for the message it meant to propagate, it was rejected by the country’s Olympic Committee, on the technicality that IOC rules state that co-hosting is not possible.

Name the two cities.


Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Q8. Subbaraya Shastri, the son of Syama

Shastri, was born in 1803 and died in 1862. In a Carnatic tradition that relies on and recognises the guru-shishya tradition extensively, what unique distinction in the history of Carnatic music, does Subbaraya Shastri hold?


The only known artiste to have studied under each of the Trinity:

Muthuswami Dikshitar, Syama Sastri, and Thyagaraja.

Q9. Michael Gross, rated amongst the

greatest German swimmers ever received what well punned and earned nickname due to his incredibly long arms which gave him a wing-span of 2.13 metres?


Albatross.

Q10. They were traditionally made from bone,

quill, ivory or gold and silver, if you could afford such ostentation. Mass production is traced to the American entrepreneur Charles Forster who noticed young boys selling similar objects made of Spanish willow while travelling through Brazil. He returned to Boston in 1870 and set up a factory that used white birch as raw material because it was tasteless.

What business did Forster thus begin?


Toothpicks

Q11. In the film “Bhopal – A Prayer For Rain”, the

director Ravi Kumar added a fictional character Rekha played by Fagun Thakrar who loses her husband to Union Carbide’s chemicals .

What was his inspiration for this character’s looks?


The Afgan Girl.

Q12. This lake in Ahmedabad was built by Sultan

Qutbuddin in the 15th century. The work was completed in 1451 CE and was known as "Qutb Hauz" or "Hauz-i-Qutb.” At one point of the circular lake, there opens a walkway which later merges into a garden called Nagina Wadi (‘beautiful garden’ in Urdu) that is located in the centre of the lake.

Which lake? How did Shekhar Kamat of the National Institute

of Design use it as an inspiration in 1971 to replace what was previously just a banyan tree?


Kankaria Lake. Logo of SBI.

Round 4

Written round Total of 3 minutes Eight entities to be listed +3 for each answer and +6 for

getting everything A total of 30 points at stake

There were originally eight affiliate/ associate banks of the State Bank of India based on the princely states they were for. Some of these were late merged into one another, and some acquired by SBI over the years, leaving five existing as of now

List the original eight.

Exchange the sheets.

State Bank of Hyderabad State Bank of Patiala State Bank of Travancore State Bank of Mysore State Bank of Bikaner State Bank of Jaipur State Bank of Saurashtra State Bank of Indore

Audience questions

Whose face has been blanked out?

Which company did Ranbir Singh and Gurbax Singh start in 1937 as distributor for a Japanese company Shionogi?

Round 5

INFO FEST ROUND 8 questions 10 points each Each answer starts with the alphabet

in INFO FEST in that order. For eg :- First answer starts with I ,

second answer with N and so on.

Q1.I Through an online auction held in January

2014, it was sold for ₹60 crore. The Supreme Court dismissed litigations challenging the sale both before and after the auction. It remained in Darukhana, Mumbai till November 2014 when it finally got all clearances. It was featured in ABCD2, and also gained wide notoriety earlier this year due to a tribute paid by a business giant. What is being talked about?

Q2.N After he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the

Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery.It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that he had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.

Who?

Q3.F This exam is often dubbed as the toughest

exam in the country that offers it. With a pass percentage of around 35%, it certainly lives up to its reputation. The selection process begins with a two or three year apprenticeship before aspiring candidates can give the exam. The exam itself comprises a written test, a fish-identification test, and a practical test. If an applicant passes, he receives a license that looks like this.

What is this test a certification for?

Q4.O Morbid jealousy or delusional jealousy, is a

psychological disorder in which a person is preoccupied with the thought that their spouse or partner is being unfaithful without having any real proof,along with socially unacceptable or abnormal behaviour related to these thoughts.

After which character is this syndrome popularly known as?

Q5.F This is Charles Best. He

never won the Nobel Prize, but he still got half the money because the guy who won it was so miffed that the Nobel committee ignored him, that he gave half the prize money to him.

What is Charles Best known as the co-discoverer of? And who was the righteous and generous Nobel winner?

Q6.E

Peter Piot about a 1976 decision: "We didn't want to name it after the village, Yambuku, because it's so stigmatising. You don't want to be associated with that." After consulting a not-so-detailed map of the area, they chose an entity close by. What?

Q7.S Identify this one-time Director of Sports Timing and Public

Relations at Longines in the 1960s, a former regimental commander of emergency drills and was known as the ‘Uwe Seeler of Upper Valais’ for his football club FC Visp.

Q8.T What often-in-the-news term was

originally coined in the wake of the 1789 French revolution to describe the government’s bloody campaign against counter-revolutionaries and eventually acquired its modern, more negative connotation in the late 19th century?

And now the answers…

Q1.I Through an online auction held in January

2014, it was sold for ₹60 crore. The Supreme Court dismissed litigations challenging the sale both before and after the auction. It remained in Darukhana, Mumbai till November 2014 when it finally got all clearances. It was featured in ABCD2, and also gained wide notoriety earlier this year due to a tribute paid by a business giant. What is being talked about?

INS Vikrant

Q2.N After he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the

Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery.It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that he had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.

Who?

Niels Bohr

Q3.F This exam is often dubbed as the toughest

exam in the country that offers it. With a pass percentage of around 35%, it certainly lives up to its reputation. The selection process begins with a two or three year apprenticeship before aspiring candidates can give the exam. The exam itself comprises a written test, a fish-identification test, and a practical test. If an applicant passes, he receives a license that looks like this.

What is this test a certification for?

License to prepare Fugu fish

Q4.O Morbid jealousy or delusional jealousy, is a

psychological disorder in which a person is preoccupied with the thought that their spouse or partner is being unfaithful without having any real proof,along with socially unacceptable or abnormal behaviour related to these thoughts.

After which character is this syndrome popularly known as?

Othello

Q5.F This is Charles Best. He

never won the Nobel Prize, but he still got half the money because the guy who won it was so miffed that the Nobel committee ignored him, that he gave half the prize money to him.

What is Charles Best known as the co-discoverer of? And who was the righteous and generous Nobel winner?

Fredrick Banting and Insulin.

Q6.E

Peter Piot about a 1976 decision: "We didn't want to name it after the village, Yambuku, because it's so stigmatising. You don't want to be associated with that." After consulting a not-so-detailed map of the area, they chose an entity close by. What?

EbolaEbola river, after which the virus

was named.

Q7.S Identify this one-time Director of Sports Timing and Public

Relations at Longines in the 1960s, a former regimental commander of emergency drills and was known as the ‘Uwe Seeler of Upper Valais’ for his football club FC Visp.

Sepp Blatter

Q8.T What often-in-the-news term was

originally coined in the wake of the 1789 French revolution to describe the government’s bloody campaign against counter-revolutionaries and eventually acquired its modern, more negative connotation in the late 19th century?

Terrorism

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