The “Kashipur Kit-Kat” Quiz

ByAshwin Murali

About Me• From Coimbatore• Quizzing since 1996 ;-)• Been to all major quizzes in Tamilnadu and

have won prizes in a lot of them.• Tata Crucible Campus Edition – Regional

Finalist in 2009.• One of the founding members of the

Coimbatore Quiz Circle.• To put it in a nutshell, I’m a Quizzer and

everything else comes next.

Rules

• 1. The gesture first appears 4000 years ago, found in clay tablets of the Indus Valley Civilization

• The gesture is also known as Hrdayanjali Mudra meaning "reverence to the heart seal" (from hrd, meaning "heart") and Atmanjali Mudra meaning "reverence to the self seal"

• It is performed as part of a physical yoga practice with an aim to achieving several benefits. It is a centering pose which helps to alleviate mental stress and anxiety and is therefore used to assist the practitioner in achieving focus and coming into a meditative state.

• The physical execution of the pose helps to promote flexibility in the hands, wrists, fingers and arms.

• What is this gesture?

Namaste / Anjali Mudra

2. One for you Tennis fans. Apart from Tennis, which is the only other sport allowed to be played on the Wimbledon Courts?

Croquet

3. Identify this pair from the 19th Century who became very famous or rather infamous in 2008.

Lehmann Brothers

4. In 2007, the American Film Institute (AFI) came up with a list of 100 Best Heroes and 100 Best Villain characters in the History of American Cinema till then. Only one character featured in both the lists. Which character?

Terminator

5. Who’s the Author of these books?

• Break with a Banshee • Gadding with Ghouls • Holidays with Hags • Magical Me (autobiography) • Marauding with Monsters • The Travel Trilogy • Travels with Trolls • Voyages with Vampires • Wanderings with Werewolves • Who Am I? • Dancing with the Wailing Widow • Year with the Yeti

Gilderoy Lockhart

6. Raj Narain was an Indian politician who was a candidate for the Janata Party in various Lok Sabha elections. He was the minister of health during Morarji Desai’s ministry.

Raj Narain was the principle person who set off a snowball effect when he filed a case against a certain personality for manipulation and fraud of the elections. When the Allahabad high court upheld the accusation, the infamous event came into effect.

What was Raj Narain responsible for?

The Emergency. He filed a case against Indira Gandhi and when the High Court ordered her not to stand in the general elections, she declared a state of Emergency in the country.

7. All mountain peaks over 6000 m in height have been scaled or conquered except one. Name that peak.

Mt. Kailash

8. It was said that before the event Y, X called a press conference and urged all journalists to take as many photographs and interviews of him as after Y, he would be mobbed by journalists from all over the world and they would be forced to wait for him. The journalists laughed off his suggestion and thought that he was a fool. But after Y, X managed to achieve what was thought to be impossible for him and indeed the same journalists were forced to wait for him. Identify X & Y.

X – Muhammad Ali ( Cassius Clay then)Y – 1960 Rome Olympics

9. It is often asked to actors that what they would have become if they hadn’t become an actor/actress. When this question was asked to a certain

actress, she spontaneously replied

“I’d have become a Naxalite.”

Who?

Silk Smitha

10. Mithali Raj is the first woman cricketer to endorse a product. Which product does she endorses?

Iodex

11. X is a Sumerian rendering of a foreign word into Sumerian syllables, and then by modern scholars into English. These people were found somewhere to the south east of Sumer, the Sumerian capital. X lies within 25 degree to 35 degree N latitude.

• In the book, “History of Civilizations of Central Asia (vol.1)”, by A.H. Dhani and B.K.Thapar, X is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “A Stranger of ill pronounced ‐speech”.

• X is supposed to have traded carnelian, ivory, shell, lapis lazuliand jewels with Sumeria.

• X came back into prominence in India recently. X?

Meluha

12. Albert Korda took a photograph of a certain person in 1960. Later Jim Fitzpatrick, an Irish artist created a portrait based on this photograph in 1968. This portrait became very iconic in the 20th century and it was featured on everything from magazine covers to T-Shirts to bags to every other article carrying an image. This image was also voted as “the image of the 20th century” in an online poll. Who was the person who featured in this image?

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

13. Which is the only team apart from Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City to win an EPL title?(EPL era started in 1992)

Blackburn Rovers in 1995

14. Olivia Debrowska is a current University student who was initially appalled with the work she did years ago. But now that she understood the significance of the work, she says that she has been a part of something which she is proud of.Where have we seen her?

Schindler’s List

15. X was a fictional character created in January 1952 by a British journalist while on holiday in Jamaica who once said in an interview, "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'X' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.“ X?

The character of James Bond – 007 as revealed by Ian Fleming- his

creator.

16. In 1999 SAAB purchased Celsius Group, parent group of X. In September 2000 United Defense purchased X Weapon Systems from SAAB (the heavy weapons business), while SAAB retained the missile interests. X’s most famous owner was Alfred Nobel who owned the company from 1894 until his death in December of 1896. He had the key role in reshaping the iron manufacturer to a modern Cannon manufacturer and Chemical industry.

Bofors

17. X is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and IIM Ahmedabad. His mother was an Anganwadi worker, who used to sell idlis to fund his studies. In 2006, he gave up his high paying job with Polaris and started Food King Catering Services. Today, the company has a turnover of Rs. 8 crore. He has won numerous awards like Pepsi-MTV youth icon – 2008, CNN-IBN Award for Young Indian Leader – 2011, Example to Youth Award – 2008, etc. Identify X.

E. Sarath Babu, the founder and CEO of Food King

18. Amar Chitra Katha comic series, after publishing over 150 titles, stopped publishing new titles. Later after a gap of ten years, they came out with a new title on a French Soldier. Whom did they feature in this comeback edition?

J.R.D.TataHe was part French and part Indian. He was born in Paris. He served in the French Army for

a brief period. He is buried at Paris.

19. X once interviewed Pete Sampras in the court. When asked about his idol, Sampras replied that it was Rod Laver. When asked about his favourite match, Sampras replied that it was a thrilling 5 setter in 1972, in which Rod Laver lost and the victor was none other than X. Even today, X recalls this moment as the most memorable of his career as an interviewer. Who is X?

Vijay Amritraj

20. "Yeh dil maage more" was one of the most famous Ad slogans ever. Infact it was so popular that Pepsi retained that slogan for more than 5 years, something that they had never done previously. It was also voted as the best ad slogan in various awards. My question is who framed that iconic slogan, though the person was in no way associated with Pepsi and Pepsi did not take permission from him to use it.(Hint if everyone agrees)

Hint

The person in question has achieved something that only 4 men have achieved before him and none since. He was the reason why a certain person achieved immense fame in his/her career and managed to become one of the foremost in his/her field.

Capt. Vikram Batra

21. So far only 3 movies have won the Oscar for all of the top five categories – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. Name them.

1934 – It Happened One Night1975 – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

1991 – The Silence of the Lambs

22. X is a printed material which is distributed free of cost. It became so popular that at one point in the 2000s, it became the most distributed printed material in the world, surpassing the Free Bible distributed by Gideon's International. It was said that the Church and Gideon's did not take it favourably and they had a talk with the person responsible, who it is said agreed to lessen his distribution in order to give the lead back to Bible. But it is still the most printed material in the world twice more than the no. of Bibles printed every year. Identify X.

IKEA Catalogue

• 23. Born in Allahabad, UP, X was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad, during the Indian independence struggle. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, his father changed the name to X which means, "the light that would never go off”In 1984, He contested Allahabad's seat of 8th Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in general election history (68.2% of the vote)

Identify X

Amitabh Bachchan

24. He received his powers from seven gurus who trained and blessed him with "yogic shakti". He was the chosen warrior against evil by the siddha gurus of a cult named Suryanshi. They are the followers of Sun.As a part of his training he was trained with Kundalini Yoga to awaken the 7 chakras of body and gain super power from them. But it was not easy. To gain complete control over his powers he had to perform a ritual of death. He was to perform a Yajna in which he entered the fire himself and dissolved his body in the fire. Then the Five Elements of life revived his body giving special powers from them. Thus after leaving his mortal body he was given a super human form to fight against the evil in the world. Who?

Shaktimaan

25. X enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a BS in Electrical Engineering in the early 1950s. He spent a year in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in the research labs at NV Philips Electronics. He enrolled as a professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT while at the same time he started researching keenly on Acoustics. He came up with an invention related to acoustics, which all of us have come across/used. What was the invention?

The Bose speakers, the inventor being Amar Gopal Bose.

26. This place is named so because of a lake situated there which is in the shape of an eye. Which famous place am I talking about?

Nainital

27. X holds the record for having won the Maximum no. of Oscars (26) and the maximum no. of nominations (64). Identify X.

Walt Disney

28. Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyuktha Sangha in Hubli is the only organization authorised to produce what?

Mysore Sandal Soap

29. X became the Chief Minister of a State, just 8 months after X entered politics and launched a party. One of the main reasons for his victory was the historic Rath Yatra that he undertook. He was the first person to undertake a Rath Yatra in the country. In fact, X is credited with the introduction of Rath Yatra into Indian Politics. Identify X.

N.T.Rama Rao

30. The following is an excerpt from a Cricinfo article published on April 1, 2011:“Sir Alex Ferguson is a huge admirer of X. He says, “X will certainly have a positive impact on Van Der Saar’s successor. Goalkeepers often find themselves in similar situation where they’ve to guess the path of the ball, use their footwork and agility. Hence, X will be of immense help to the Manchester United team as a Goalkeeping advisor.”

X-His Holiness, the Almighty, The GOD

Thank You !!