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Siruseri Open Quiz 57TCS Chennai
6th May 2016FINALS
Researched and Conducted by Daivik De
The Exile is a book by Navtej Sarna, an Indian diplomat and former
ambassador to Israel, published in 2008.
It is based on the life of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh
empire.The book gained a sudden resurgence in
India as it details a certain action of Maharaja of Duleep Singh in 1849,which has caused a huge brouhaha in recent
times.
1
ANSWER
How the Kohinoor was taken from India to Britain
1
Legendary pop superstar Prince who breathed his last on April 2016, became an international sensation in the 1980s, when he popularised the Minneapolis
sound of danceable funk. He changed his stage name in 1993 for
a for a few years to an unpronounceable symbol dubbed the ‘Love symbol’ to remove himself from
contractual obligations.
Why did he do so?
2
ANSWER
Warner Bros. trademarked the word ‘Prince’
2
‘Kaum De Heere’ (Heroes of the Nation)
is a Punjabi movie which is barred from release in India.
Many Sikhs believe that the film is the true depiction of the Sikh's community
feelings against atrocities but many depict it as a glorification of a
shameful event.
What is the movie based on?
3
ANSWER
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
3
4‘Komi-Bashi’, ‘Neburi-Bashi’, ‘Nigiri-Bashi’ are
considered as crimes in Japan as they regard these insulting to their culture.
The crimes are mostly committed using bamboo, wood and plastic.
How are these crimes committed?
ANSWER
4Forbidden Behaviour with chopsticks
Neburi Bashi- lick the tips of chopsticks
Nigiri Bashi- to hold two sticks by grasping them (considered as an action of attack)
5Part of Russian folk life and frequently occurring in it’s
literature and art, the most famous portrayal of Russian boxing is in Mikhail
Lermontov's poem, ‘The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov’,
where it takes place as a form of honour duel between a government police agent and a merchant.
How is Russian boxing different from traditional boxing?
ANSWER
Bare knuckle boxing5
6Dothraki is a constructed fictional language in George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’
and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. The language comprises of more than 3000 words, not
all of which have been made public. In 2012, 146 new-born girls in the U.S. were named
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _the Dothraki term for the wife of a ruler,
and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.
FITB.
ANSWER
Khaleesi 6
1985 is a novel by Anthony Burgess set in the future
in which the trade unions have become so powerful that they exert full control
over society.
Which work is it intended as a tribute to ?
7
ANSWER
George Orwell’s ‘1984’7
As a result of the logical evolution in user interface design,
why is this symbol used as the ‘Power button’ on all electronic
devices?
8
ANSWER
Deriving itself from the Binary Number System, 1 (or the vertical line) stands for power On whereas 0 (or
the circle) indicates power Off.
To create the symbol for a Single On/Off button, the "1" and "0" symbols were super-imposed and
merged each other to create the universally recognized power symbol currently in use.
8
Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist group based in north-
eastern Nigeria having influence in a lot of North African
countries.The word ‘Haram’ in Arabic
means forbidden while ‘Boko’ in Hausa language
translates as ‘fake’.
What do they refer to as fake?
9
ANSWER
Western Education
9
This ‘sport’ gained public attention in recent years due to the stardom
of Takeru Kobayashi (53 in 12 mins) and Joey Chestnut (61 in 10
mins) but the current reigning champion is Matt Stonie (62 in 10
mins).
The most popular event of its kind being organised by American company ‘Natham’s Famous’,
which ‘sport’ is this?
10
ANSWER
Competitive Eating10
Francisco Lazaro was the first Portuguese Olympic marathon runner in the nation's first ever Olympic Games. (1912 Summer
Olympics, Stockholm) His actual job was as a carpenter in an
automobile factory in Lisbon. Prior to the Olympics he had run and won three national marathon championships.
With what unfortunate Olympic trivia is he associated?
11
ANSWER
First athlete to die during an Olympic event
11
12
ID the painter who often paints religious themes
backed by his own belief in ‘oneness of Gods.’
ANSWER
12Salman Khan
13
In the recently concluded 2016 ICC World Twenty20, Virat Kohli was named the ‘Player of the Tournament’,
but a Bangladeshi and a Afghan player had most runs and most wickets in the tournament
respectively.
Name both.
ANSWER
13
Tamim Iqbal Mohammad Nabi
Sachin Tendulkar launching ‘Digibank’ which claims itself to be ‘India’s first mobile only bank’.
Which bank is behind ‘Digibank’?
14
ANSWER
14
Palacio de Sal is a hotel built of salt blocks located at the edge of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, in
Bolivia.The hotel faced slow degradation due to a bad habit of the tourists staying in it and thus now, they have a rule
prohibiting the action.
What action is prohibited officially?
15
ANSWER
Licking the wall!
15
Janus is the Roman god of doorways and passages.
He is depicted as having two faces- one looking forward and the other
looking backward.Julius Caesar named something on
him and started a celebration which is followed till date.
What is named after this Roman god?
16
ANSWER
January month
16
What is special about this Coca-Cola can?
(It came into news in 1985 for being the first to achieve something unique)
17
ANSWER
First soft drink to go to space.
Astronauts tasted it aboard Space Shuttle Challenger
17
This term was coined in Britain in1895 while arguing the case for whole new meal, mainly for Saturday night
partygoers.
Which fashionable term thus came into being, now used by a lot of eateries offering discounts?
18
ANSWER
Brunch
18
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming service which claims to
pay the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music
streaming market .
Who acquired it in March 2015 and started a mass-marketing campaign to relaunch it using "#TIDALforAll?
19
ANSWER
Jay- Z 19
20Abbas Kazmi first came to Mumbai as an aspiring actor and worked in a few films such as Anjaan Rahen, with Feroz Khan
and Asha Parekh.He found little success in acting and
switched career.
His claim to fame finally came in the year 2009, but in a completely different
field for which he frequently had to defend himself saying that he was just doing his professional duty sincerely.
How did he come into limelight?
ANSWER
20Lawyer who represented
Ajmal Kasab
21
The X Memorial Award is an international children's literary award established in 2002 to honour the
author X who passed away in 2002.
The prize money is approximately 3.9 crores in Indian currency,
making it the richest award in children's literature and one of the richest literary prize in the world.
Who is X?
ANSWER
21Astrid Lindgren
22Anupam Mittal is the founder and CEO of People
Group which owns businesses such as Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile and People Pictures. However his biggest venture was launched in 1997 after he met a broker in
India who went door to door carrying biodata in his suitcase.
Mittal figured an online medium would increase a person's chances of finding the right customer.
This business is now estimated to be about 1.5 billion Indian rupees.
What?
ANSWER
22
.com
23
DanChurch Aid, a local NGO with the help of crowdfunding, set up a first of its kind supermarket in
Copenhagen called the “Wefood”.This supermarket aims to sell products, 1.3 billion metric
tonnes of which is produced every year.What do they sell at half the original rate?
ANSWER
23
Expired food products
24This is the Dilli Darwaza,
the main gate of Shaniwar Wada, seat of the Peshwa rulers of the
Maratha empire. Each pane of the gate has seventy-two
sharp twelve-inch steel spikes arranged in a grid, situated at a height
above the ground.
What was the primary purpose of this design?
ANSWER
24
To discourage elephants from charging the gates
Some immediate aftereffects of what?
25
• Variants of it were used by BJP and Congress in their campaigns during 2012 assembly elections.
• Top business schools like IIMs conducted studies to figure out the science behind the popularity.
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited the man behind it for the dinner party along with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in his New Delhi residence to discuss its craze in Japan.
ANSWER
Why this Kolaveri Di?25