The Return Gift Quiz - Kutub Session (General Quiz)

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RulesPounce :10/-5Bounce :10Question moves on to next team if

unansweredWe reverse at Q 31.


1) According to the locals: “In Feb 1784 ten ships, including HMS Convert, were part of a convoy travelling from Jamaica to Britain & America. On the morning of Feb 8th, the fleet struck a reef during bad weather and ran aground due to the rough seas. Seeing this, the locals who spotted the shipwreck came to the rescue braving the storm. Thanks to their effort, all but eight sailors survived – including a member of King George III’s family. George, delighted at the news of the safety of his relative ordered something for the people of the land who came to the rescue.”

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Although the shipwreck is well documented, the decree bit in the story which the locals spread isn’t quite true as no proof of it has been located but makes for a good story about a certain special honour the locals have received from this incident.

Where did the shipwreck take place? What did King George III declare for the locals’ benefit (according to legend), something that is in-the-news all the time?


Answer: Cayman Islands

Announced it as a Tax Haven


2) His fame has always has always resulted in him being a character in the films based on the same theme in 1943, 1953 and in a very popular late 20th century film – with all movies bearing the same name. After his death, he was located & recognized thanks to the following info:NO. 124 - ESTIMATED AGE 50 – LIGHT HAIR & MOUSTACHE. CLOTHING – Blue serge suit; blue handkerchief with "A.V."; belt with gold buckle; brown boots with red rubber soles; brown flannel shirt; “___." on back of collar. EFFECTS – Gold watch; cuff links, gold with diamond; diamond ring with three stones; £225 in English notes; $2440 in notes; £5 in gold; 7s. in silver; 5 ten franc pieces; gold pencil; pocketbook. Who am I talking about?


Answer


3) It will take Siloe, a small Spanish publishing house about 18 months to make the first facsimiles, in a painstaking process that started in April when a photographer took detailed snaps of the original in Yale. The paper they use – made from a paste developed by the company – has been given a special treatment so it feels like the stiff parchment used to write the original. All the imperfections are re-created using special tools in a process kept firmly secret by Garcia, the owner of the firm. The publishing house plans to sell the facsimiles for €7,000 to €8,000 apiece and 300 readers have already put in pre-orders.

After a 10-year appeal for access, Siloe has recently bought the rights to make 898 exact replicas of what book?


Answer:


4) She said she wanted to name her company because she wanted to create “very risky” products.She said she came up with this name while attempting to do a difficult mountainous trek while travelling the world after a couple of semesters at USC.

Who is she?What is her company’s name?



Answer

Megan Ellison

Annapurna Pictures


5) The earliest partnership with Coca-Cola and this organization started way back, although some are under the impression that it started 20 or so years back.

Which organization and where and when was the first time Coca-Cola team up with this organization?




6) Some version of this began appearing on feminist message boards in discussions of sexual assault in the late ’90s. Andi Zeisler, of feminist publication Bitch magazine, said it often popped up on a community forum on Ms. Magazine’s website. It was first used in July 2003 in a LiveJournal article - "What Form Of Self Mutilation Are You?" and has then been seen on multiple fan-fiction/roleplay-fiction websites.Its use rose on the internet on Tumblr, especially since many LiveJournal users were early Tumblr users.What?


Answer


7) Its logo/emblem features two objects, one to “circumscribe us within bounds...” while the other “to square one’s actions”. Although some versions of it, also feature other objects in the middle of it – most popular versions include a letter within these two objects.

Logo of?What letter and what does it signify?


Answer

‘G’ for God


8) 88-year old Ed Benguiat has now been forgotten although he designed the following logos back in the day.


He has also worked on many prominent Stephen King novels.


But, Why has he again come back in the design spotlight thanks to a couple of Stephen King fans who discovered his work?


Answer


9) This Olympian is officially the first Indian born athlete to win an Olympic Gold medal. Having gone to study in Paris to learn more about Degas and Rodin, the decision to take part in the Olympics happened abruptly.

Who?What other record does this Olympian

hold with respect to another participant (who finished 7th) in the same event?


Answer: only mother-daughter pair to take part in any olympic finals event


10) When he visited India in 1951, he discussed with Nehru how he wanted to create this ever since 1948 with the Himalayas in the foreground. In a later letter to JN, he suggested that it could actually become a symbol to represent Nehru’s Non-Aligned Movement. His original design featured yellow, red, green and white while rotating with the wind. Sadly, he never managed to create it in his lifetime, due to lack of any sort of sponsorship or funding as he died some years later.

Who? Create what?


Answer


11) This site was purchased in 1799 by the crowd on behalf of Jeremy Bentham for his proposed panopticon style prison on the banks of the Thames. Being a massive project, it was later rejected by the Government and became a regular prison. Both Dickens and Conan Doyle describe this prison in Bleak House and Sign of Four, respectively. In 1897, it was shut down and redeveloped into what we know it now as. What was the Millbank prison redeveloped as?


Answer


12) AirAsia started the “Fly Like A Superstar” campaign between 16/07/2016 – 30/07/2016 with special rates for flights to Chennai from Delhi or Bengaluru, to celebrate what?


Answer


13) In 2006, a cinema hall in Patna was redesigned to look like a marriage ceremony hall, thanks to the success of the hall for the past few weeks. When one entered the hall, shehnai music greeted them and the hall's foyer was scattered with floral decorations to visitors’ delight.For which movie was the theatre adorned with a festive banner outside it that read: Punam Weds Prem?


Answer


14) The term was popularized by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted in his 1914 and 1916 European-World History books. It reads, “The westernmost extension of Asia...included within the circuit of waters marked out by Caspian and Black seas on the north, Mediterranean & Red seas on the west, and by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the south and east....region chiefly of mountains in the north and desert in the south. The earliest home of men here...is a borderland between the desert and the mountains, a kind of cultivable fringe of the desert, a ____________ having the mountains on one side and the desert on the other. Now used to refer to what term?



15) After his parents’ divorce, he moved to NYC and lived with his dad and worked part time after school at a BMX store in the city. His co-workers there gave him his nickname because “he’d come to work without showering, and his hair was usually sticking straight up.”

His love with BMX and Skateboarding continued...having directed street skateboarding videos, most notably Blind's Video Days in 1991, and Lakai Footwear's Fully Flared in 2007. He co-directed the Girl Skateboards film Yeah Right! and the Chocolate Skateboards video Hot Chocolate. He is also co-owner of Girl Skateboards.Who?


Answer


16) In October 2008, music group M.O.P. filed a suit in a New York Court against Sony BMG and him. The group alleged he stole parts of their song "Ante Up" in his song, arguing that the song was unlawfully sampled and clearly repeated three times. M.O.P. sought the destruction of the song and $150,000 in damages. The charges were later dropped, two months later. Who was the co-defendant in the case along with Sony BMG?


Answer


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Answer


18) Piece #1:‘____’, the produce is depicted with tremendous bravura: vegetables tumble from the basket held by the woman on the left, and cascade towards the viewer. Sixteen different varieties of vegetable and fruit have been identified. The tiny figures of the Holy Family can be seen crossing a bridge in the far distance on the left.Piece #2: ‘_____’, Twelve different varieties of fish have been identified among those offered for sale in this painting.

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Piece #3: ‘___’, different kinds of fowl are offered for sale, some still alive in large wicker baskets, others dead and ready for plucking. On the platter in the centre of the foreground are rabbits, and to either side eggs in a basket and stacks of cheeses.Piece#4: ‘____’, combining the still life of haunches of meat and poultry being prepared for cooking with a dramatic use of perspective constructions involving multiple vanishing points.Identify the four parts in correct order.What is the name of the series?


Answer:

Earth, Water, Wind, Fire

The Four Elements


19) Han Kang of South Korea won the 2016 Booker Prize for her three – part drama novella which she wrote in 2007. It is set in modern day Seoul where the protagonist makes a decision to not eat meat after a bloody nightmarish dream about human cruelty leading to devastating consequences in her personal life.

What was the name of the book, that might remind you of another publication for which a famous Indian used to write regularly?Also, why was she nominated only in 2016, although the book was published in 2007?



Answer: because it was translated only in 2016


20) Jamshed Patel, Prasad Sinha, Dattatraya Naik, TA Ramachandran, Bapu Joshi, Balkrishna Mohoni and Mysore Vijaysarathi were the first seven Indians to do what in Test Cricket?


Answer


21) “Super Girl”, a Chinese talent show similar to “American Idol”, was cancelled in 2012 despite high ratings and popularity. Many theories exist as to why the show was cancelled. One of the reasons stated is that the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) told Human Satellite Television that the show violated a cap on screen time. What is the other popular reason that made this cancellation a front page news in dailies like the Guardian and Washington Post?


Answer


22) Many musical instruments are named after people, for example - Adolph Sax gives his name to the Saxophone, Philip Sousa gives his name to Sousaphone, but both of them have a suffix added to give the instruments name. But which musical instrument bears the exact surname of its creator (albeit a westernized version of the name), who patented the device in 1928 and was the first electronic music device and the first instrument to be mass produced?


Answer: Theremin (Leon)


23) Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Terry were cast as 4 of the 5 in a group of characters in a film. Who was cast as the 5th member of this award winning film?


Answer: Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz


24) This 1874 portrait testifies the friendship between these two artists who often painted together at Pontoise in the 1870s. The friendship that united these 2 is often said to be their similar career path. Sons of self-made businessmen, both rejected their father’s wishes of running their family business. While one went to Paris permanently, the other one spent some time in Venezuela looking for...self discovery before eventually settling in Paris too.ID Subject & Painter.



Answer

Renoir by Pisarro


26) In 1968, a chemist named Dr. Spencer Silver was attempting to create a super-strong adhesive when instead he accidentally invented a super-weak adhesive. Thrown in the trash pile for another five years, its use was eventually discovered by fellow colleague Art Fly on how it could be effectively used.

Origin of the birth of which product?


Answer


27) Vijay Mehra’s record was broken by Maninder Singh. Maninder Singh’s record was broken by Laxman Sivaramakrishnan.

Who broke LSRK’s record? What is this record?


Answer

Youngest ODI player for India


28) Mad Max: Fury Road had a field day at the 2016 Oscars with six wins.Among these winners, the award for Best Editing went to Margaret Sixel, wife of MM:FR director George Miller.

Why is her win specially important to us?


Answer


29) Scientists at the University of Antwerp have traced it to wax drippings from a candle. Researchers came to the conclusion after examining it with a machine of their own invention called a Macro-X-ray fluorescence scanner. After ruling out white paint or chalk, they detected the tell-tale signs of wax indicating that the mess had likely been made by accident inside the artist's studio.He had been known to paint outdoors and would often leave his works exposed to the elements. This habit of his helped spread the idea that a bird flying overhead left the stain, and as the University of Antwerp puts it, “literally added another layer of meaning to his masterpiece.”

What am I talking about?


Answer


30) 75 extra people were hired in the Rio Olympics for this task compared to zero in London, Beijing or Athens. According to Ricardo Prado, the Olympic sports manager, “the Games are simply following the laws set by their host country.” Each of these hires earned $340 for their 20 day service.

What role did they have?


Answer: Swimming lifeguards


31) The average cost of facilitating this is currently $10,130, a cost that’s been rising steadily: It’s up 30 percent from 2010. And the 36-year-old organization will soon appeal to a crowd sourcing platform for help footing that bill. Joining hands with PwC, they have created a crowd funding platform for people to contribute, hoping that will bring more transparency to how their money comes in. It facilitates about 29,000 successful applications from over 100,000 applications per year and execute those, however expensive it might be.What?


Answer


32) A 61-year old man from Scotland, suffering from persistent cough and trouble breathing was diagnosed with hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) when he visited doctors. HP is an inflammation of the respiratory tract caused by exposure to some sort of pathogen. The man didn’t smoke, own birds (a common trigger), nor did his house show any signs of mold or water damage, yet his symptoms were getting progressively worse. After his death, when doctors began to investigate possible triggers for his illness, they found out about his daily hobby involving an object (quintessential to his residence). Further research showed that people having a particular profession or having an object from this family suffered from HP (something unnoticed till then). What profession or what family of objects did research reveal create a high number of HP cases?


Answer


33) This is Odo, Earl of Kent and half brother to a very prominent person of his time.

Apart from the fact that being a rich man he commissioned this piece, the fact that he was the Bishop of this place is how the piece got it’s name.

Whose half brother was he?Where was he the Bishop of?


Answer

William the Conquerer

Bayeaux, therefore the namesake Tapestry


34) He suffered from chronic hand injuries throughout his career and was forced to work on the docks and collect social assistance to feed his family during the Great Depression. It was only in 1935, that he got a shot at the title of the World Heavyweight Championship against Max Baer, in which he had an upset victory and retained the title till 1937.

Who and What nickname did he get for his comeback?



35) In 19th century England, the textile workers in London’s East End would be annoyed with the spinner’s ______(locally nicknamed the cycle of despair), a spoked wheel with a ratchet that made a clicking sound every 2 revolutions. Therefore this four-word phrase ___ ____ ___ ______came to mean repetitive and tedious work. What is this phrase that also became a song for local texting workers later?


Ans: PopGoesTheWeasel


36) St. Columbanus spent 30 years of his life doing missionary journeys through Germany & Switzerland, before crossing the Alps into Northern Italy. Therefore, what demographic of people consider St. Columbanus their patron saint since the path taken by him is usually known as “heaven” in their circles?


Answer


37) Microsoft Excel, that ubiquitous tool for data crunching, has been playing an unexpected role in the scientific world. The program has been screwing with data in genomics studies and causing errors in almost 20 percent of all reports. This is because the the program has a tendency to misunderstand entries for ‘Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger-1’ and ‘Septin-2’ and a few other geno-types.

Why was MS Excel messing up?


Answer: Confused the genomes with months and took their entry as dates


38) This term has come to mean any object with false facades, named after such a place created by a world leader who ruled his country from 1762-1774. The term has come to stand for a phony, bogus image, a false front used to fool people into thinking a fake proposition or situation is real. What term is this, named for an artificial, one-street, one-dimension location along a particular route set up by the ruler?


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39) This country is installing mobile recycling units to be able to effectively produce something over the next four years thanks to the high quantity of metal that can be extracted from these cell phones.

Which country and what will they produce from cell phone metal extract?


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40) This country’s flag features which country’s female persona? (Bonus 5 for name of the persona).Also, name the country.


Ans

Montserrat,

Ireland (Erin)


41) As soon as I walked in to bat, he said I can smell blood. You do not have the guts. Showing his emblem on the shirt, he said I am playing for this. You are a scared fellow, rabbit. I will get you next ball."Before delivering the next ball, also had also asked the keeper to stay back and had also moved the short leg fielder. I being a fast bowler myself, knew he was going to bowl a bouncer. I just took my chance and prayed to God. I stepped out to connect the ball...”Who and what happened next?


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42) This phrase is also known as X’s Gale (after its creator). The source of this western notion is often considered to be Shiva’s Nataraja form. In 1942 the creator of the term said, “The opening up of new markets and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as US Steel illustrate the process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one ... [The process] must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of ________________; it cannot be understood on the hypothesis that there is a perennial lull.”

Who and What phrase?


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43) Shaadi Boys is a new show on Voot, a streaming website, following three Bollywood junkies who have failed in Mumbai professionally and have embarked on the wedding industry to make their mark.

What is the name of each of the three boys in the show?


Ans:


44) A tetragrammatron means 'word with four letters'. However all 4 letter words are not tetragrammatrons. This term specifically refers to one thing - there is only 1 tetrgrammatron.

Clue?

What is it?


Ans:


45) Which is said to be the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its binomial name? One part of its name describes one of its defining characteristics.


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46) “He speaks English of the _______, dammit-get-out-of-my-way variety.” This comment by critic Jonah Barrington of the ‘Daily Express’, around 1939, in an attempt to reduce the possible impact of the speaker, supposedly gave rise to what famous nickname for the speaker? The blank is his nick-name.


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49) The director of the movie says that this iconic scene in the beginning of the movie was inspired from this scene from a hollywood film made 7 years earlier. Which scene (be specific) in which movie? Also identify this movie.


Answer’:

Murder of Thakurs Family in Sholay & Once Upon A Time in the West


50) In sport, what is j’adoube?


Answer: Adjusting your chess piece without actually moving it. You need to say so before doing it.


51) The band was formed in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio by college friends Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris Salih. They’ve been nominated for all music awards from 2015 through today and have won “Best Music Video” at the 2016 MTV VMAs. The inspiration behind their names comes from a story Tyler was reading while in college. He was reading Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, a play about a man who must decide what is best for his family after causing the death of ______ ___ ______ during World War II because he knowingly sent them faulty parts for the good of his business.What band/FITB.


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52) Lord Byrom, an early inventor of shorthand writing, coined these two terms in a satire describing the disagreements between George Handel & Giovanni Bononcini. It goes:

Some say, compar'd to BononciniThat Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny

Others aver, that he to Handel scarcely fit to hold a Candle

Strange all this Difference should be‘Twixt __________ and __________!

Later, an author used these terms to refer to a couple of characters in his work: that are so alike that a choice between them is no choice at all and is often used during Election time. Fill in the blanks.


Ans: Tweedledum, Tweedledee


53) The title track of which Hindi movie was inspired from this 1959 classic by Neil Sedaka?


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54) After this business decision was announced, Hilary Clinton said few years ago, “hmm...I guess you could say she broke the steel ceiling.”

After whose barrier breaking appointment did Clinton say these words? While at it, mention the organization as well.


Ans: Mary Barra


55) In an article titled, “From Russia With Love”, Alexei Moiseenkov, a 25-year old graduate of Russia’s Polytechnic University, used to work at Mail.ru – one of the biggest internet companies in Russia. While working for Mail.ru, he visited Google’s HQ and was so blown over by Google’s “Neural Network” that he quit his job as he returned to Russia and started working on another project.

Who is he?



Ans Founder of Prisma


57) The original that was to be used was the “The Man in the Arena” speech delivered by Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910 but was changed into another piece of work in the final moments in this very famous incident from the 1990s.

What was it changed to?


Answer:


58) Name the three landlocked countries which are each completely surrounded by only one other country.


Ans

Vatican City StateSan MarinoLesotho


59) Jim Woodman suggested that hot-air balloons aided the construction of these things, which were formed partly by removing dark sun baked stones to reveal the lighter gypsum-laden soil below. Clusters of them appear by Cahuachi and near the Ingenio Valley. Disagreements over their purpose include George Von Breunig’s belief that they were used as a running track and Maria Reiche’s idea that they were part of an astronomical calendar. What?


Ans: Nazca Lines


60) On coming to power in 1959, what game did Fidel Castro ban, ordering that all paraphernalia related to the activity be destroyed?



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The Return Gift Quiz - Kutub Session (General Quiz)