Initium: The Launch Quiz finals 2015

FINALS

ROUND 1: INDIA

• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)

• Pounce : +10/-10

• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

X Sirumalani started out running a tea stall outside magistrate’s office in Vijapur in 1958.

Following murder allegations he left town to start bootlegging along the Sabarmati.

He tried his hand working in a Dairy earning ₹300 a month but it didn’t work out.

Id X

Asumal Sirumalani or Asaram Bapu

Moraji Desai was perhaps the most successful Indian statesman when it came to achieving peace with Pakistan. He shared an excellent relationship with President Zia ul Haq who described the two as “brothers who act together.”

To maintain good relations, Desai even went to the extent of revealing classified details of Indian intelligence operations to Zia and the Pakistani government.

As a tribute to his efforts the Pakistani government did something in the 1990, which gives Desai the distinction of having achieved something that no one has. What did Pakistan do?

NISHAN-E-PAKISTAN

• A second paradise: Indian country life 1590–1947 – published in India, England and US

• A desert kingdom: the people of Bikaner – published in India, England and US

• The garden of life: an introduction to the healing plants of India- published in India, England and US

Id the author

NAVEEN PATNAIK

A Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) test-landed on __________________ on 21st May as part of a drill for emergency landings on national highways

Before the landing, an IAF helicopter took several rounds in the air. Several air force personnel were at the spot and the area was cordoned off. A makeshift Air Traffic Control was set up.

Bird-watchers were also on alert and fire engines and rescue vehicles were on stand-by

Where exactly it landed ?

NOIDA-AGRA YAMUNA EXPRESSWAY

DKT international is a charitable organisation that promotes family planning and prevention of HIV through social marketing.

It is named after Dharmendra Kumar Tyagi, a health official during the1960s.

What ‘invention’ of his can be seen across India and other countries such as Ghana, Zimbabwe and Egypt?

Red Triangle (symbol of family planning)

Mulk Raj Anand’s novel, Untouchable, published in 1935 is the story of a single day in the life of Bakha who accidentally bumps into a member of a higher caste.

During the course of the day, Bakha talk to a Christian missionary, listens to a speech about untouchability by Mahatma Gandhi and a subsequent conversation by two educated Indians, but by the end of the book Anand suggests that it is technology that may be his saviour.

What technology is he talking about?

Bakha was a toilet cleaner. The technology is ‘flush toilets’

ROUND 2: LEGO

6 Questions based on Lego

Write your answers in a sheet.

Please exchange the sheets after the final question

+5 for correct answer

ID THIS FAMOUS BAND ?

ID THIS FAMOUS BAND

ID THE MOVIE

WHO TWEETED THIS. GIVE THE EXACT NAME.

ID THE MOVIE

ID THE MOVIE

ANSWERS

PHILIP LORD

ROUND 3: DIRTY

• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)

• Pounce : +10/-10

• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

This is Mark Felt, an ex-FBI agent. After denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for 30 years, Felt revealed himself to be the Watergate scandal's whistle blower, “___ ___," on May 31, 2005.

What was the nickname given to the anonymous whistle blower, named after a famous 1972 pornographic movie?

Identify the Advertiser

WONDERBRA

CONNECT THE PICTURES

On 6 February 2009 in an incident of moral policing a group of men who claimed to belong to Sri Ram Sena attacked a group of women in Mangalore, India.

Later that month, Pramod Muthalik, chief of SRS announced an action plan to target couples found dating on 14 February, Valentine's Day.

A protest was started by a group of young women, called the “___ ___" campaign, where they urged a peaceful protest to all of India, by sending ___ ___ to Muthalik's office on Valentine's Day.

Which famous campaign is being talked about?

This book became an international bestseller and gained wide publicity.

Reviews on Amazon include: • A must read for students studying

anything to do with gender politics, This is a deeply insightful and philosophical read and in many ways.

• Simove understands the mind so much that he's able to explain it in one simple read. Yes, I read it in one session! I just can't wait for the sequel.

What is so special about this book?

BLANK BOOK

When Samuel L. Jackson pulls out his wallet in Pulp Fiction, this is what is says on it.

• “Now give me back my wallet.”

• “Which one is it?”

• “It's the one that says ___ ___ on it.”

Origin of which famous phrase?

Bad Motherfucker

ROUND 4: ENTERTAINMEN

TDirect questions to all 6 teams in clockwise order. +10/0

You can outsource the question to a team who knows the answer

+5 to you and to them if they answer correctly

Priyesh Trivedi first started drawing X sometime in 2013. X has since gone on to become extremely popular, and his work has been compared to the work of Spanish surrealist cartoonist Joan Cornella.

He credits the swift popularity of the strips to “the love for nostalgia and the archaic which most of us have that is partly responsible for the popularity. I always found the visual styling of the educational charts from the ’80s and early ’90s very amusing.

Identify X.

ADARSH BALAK

Sholay has inspired several remakes and parodies. Examples are the infamous

“Ramgopal Varma Ki Aag”, “Duplicate Sholay”, “Ramgarh ke Sholay”.

So if the character of Gabbar (or Babban) was played by Amitabh Bachchan in “RGV Ki Aag”, and Vinod Tripathi in “Duplicate Sholay”, who played the role in “Ramgarh ke Sholay”

AMZAD KHAN

WHAI IS THIS SHOT CALLED ?

KUBRICK STARE

MINIMALIST POSTER FOR WHICH TV SERIES

Vyjayanthimala won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Chandramukhi in Devdas(1955).

• Reena Roy won the award for her role as Kamini in Apnaapan (1977).

What connects these 2 ‘victories’?

Both rejected the award, citing that their role was the lead.

This was founded by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, and Ken Krueger. They wanted to be the first people to give Southern California this.

This was held for the first time in 1970 in the basement of the Grant Hotel.

Special guests for the first edition included Jack Kirby and Ray Bradbury.

ROUND 5: TECHNOLOGY

6 Questions

Scoring based on number of teams giving right answer

No of teams answering

Points

6 0

5 5

4 10

3 15

2 20

1 25

X is produced by Antares, which was formerly called Jupiter Systems. X was initially created by Andy Hildebrand, an engineer working for Exxon.

He developed methods for interpreting seismic data and subsequently realized that the same technology could be put to use for X.

Priyanka Chopra, in her Reddit AMA, was asked a question about the importance of the device for her career.

identify X

Edison’s first patented invention was never used for the purpose for which it was made.

The people who were supposed to use it were unimpressed and more importantly they thought it would reduce the time taken for performing a particular activity and this would reduce the time they had to convince people.

What invention, greatly used in the modern day?

The following is an invention that interfaces between your mobile device and a USB port. Its purpose is to block the data pins of the USB while keeping the power ones open, thus allowing you to plug your device into an unknown USB port for charging with the fear of either contracting a virus or having any data stolen.

What is such a device called?

Project Calico is a new company being funded by Google, Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be its Chief Executive Officer.

What is the company’s ambitious purpose?

Jack Cover was a NASA researcher. In 1970, he developed a device which overtime became not only an essential law enforcement device but also a popular culture icon.

He had named the device after one of his childhood fictional heroes.

Which character and which device am I talking about ? 

_________ is a software firm that released collaboration software of the same name, notable for its market presence in the field of email-based collaboration.

The product _________, is a software as a service application that helps organizations collaborate from their email inboxes.

Its name is getting confused with Greece’s exit from Euro ?

FITB

ANSWERS

EVM (ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE)

USB Condom

Immortality, Prolong death

Calico, will focus on health and well- being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.

TASER GUN

ROUND 6: MYTHOLOGY

• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)

• Pounce : +10/-10

• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

A lesser known character from the epic Mahabharata, X was indeed the most powerful warrior, but he did not take part in the war as lord Krishna asked for his head in charity since he knew that whichever side X went the other would lose.

X was commonly known as bearer of three arrows, through which he could mark all his enemies by one arrow, with second he could mark all who are not his enemy and third would destroy all marked if used with first arrow and destroy all not marked if used with second arrow.

X is the grandson of the most ferocious/aggressive Pandava.

Id X

Barbarika

Son of Ghatotkach and Grandson of Bheem, the second Pandav.

In Norse mythology, a _______ is one of a host of female figures who decides who falls and dies in battle. They select half of those who die in battle and bring them to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla.

They sometimes also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals.

FITB

VALKYRIE

Vedic mythology refers to this place as an ancient settlement conquered by King Bharata in the epic Ramayana.

Bharata was also called Pushkal and so the name of the settlement became Pushkalavati.

However, research has proven this claim as debatable and hence suggests an alternative name of this town, ‘Purushapura’, or the ‘City of Men’.

Which modern day city is this

PESHAWAR

In Greek mythology, X was the eldest child of Menelaus and Helen.

X was nine when Helen left with Paris. While Menelaus was fighting the war at Troy, X lived with Aunt Clytemnestra in Mycenae.

The Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone was code-named X.

Id X

HERMIONE

X was the personification of the Sun in Greekmythology. X was imagined as a handsomegod crowned with the shining aureole of theSun, who drove the chariot of the sun acrossthe sky each day to earth circling Oceanusand through the world-ocean returned to theEast at night.

X is sometimes identified withApollo.

Y was the statue of X erected in thecity of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between292 and 280 BC. Give me X and Y.

HELIOS AND COLOSSUS OF RHODES

Odin had two birds as messengers and reporters of the events in the nine worlds.

Their names were Hugin (Thought) and Munin (Memory).

What birds were they?

RAVENS

ROUND 7:SPORTS

Direct questions to all 6 teams in clockwise order. +10/0

You can outsource the question to a team who knows the answer

+5 to you and to them if they answer correctly

What he’s really saying is: “X, can you help me solve my tax problems, get me out of debt?”

Who here is X and who is he talking about?

Floyd Mayweather on why Pacquiao is so interested in facing him

• Eugenie Bouchard• Neymar• Jordan Spieth• Missy Franklin• Lewis Hamilton• X• Stephen Curry• Kei Nishikori• Katarina Johnson-Thompson• Usain Bolt

Identify X

List of Top 10 marketable athletes in 2015 by SportsPro

VIRAT KOHLI

What two-word term is common to a baseball win credited to a single pitcher that throws a complete game of at least nine innings without allowing any opponent to reach first base a 300-point score in bowling

PERFECT GAME

His arrival at Waterford was announced following the club’s 2-1 defeat to Limerick City on 11 January 1976.

The game itself had been a drab affair and fans’ spirits were only lifted with the incredulous news that a former World Cup winner would soon be playing in Ireland.

The first question on many peoples’ lips was understandably, how much?

SIR BOBBY CHARLTON

At which famous location would you come across these lines from Kipling's poem :

“If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”

CENTER COURT, WIMBELDON

Jerry Alan West (born May 28, 1938) is a retired American basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

His nicknames include "Mr. Clutch", for his ability to make a big play in a clutch situation, such as his famous buzzer-beating 60-foot shot that tied Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks.

Give his most famous contribution to NBA

MAN ON NBA LOGO

ROUND 8

THE LONG CONNECT

• The question has a series of pictures leading to a common answer

• The earlier you guess the more points you get

• Answering at various intervals may result in positive or negative points

+40/-20

+35/-15

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-5

+5/0

Prequels released after the original movies

Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom Alien vs Predator Star wars Hannibal Hobbit Wolverine

THE LONG CONNECT 2

• 5 questions leading to a common answer

• +10/-10 on pounce

• At the end of last question if you guess the connect right then +20/-20.

ROUND 9

ID THE PROBLEM

In search of a new car, the player picks a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player pick door 2 instead of door 1.

THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM

____________is a 2013 Indian drama film written and directed by Anand Gandhi, and produced by actor Sohum Shah.

The film explores "questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through the stories of an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and an enterprising stockbroker", played by Aida El-Kashef, Neeraj Kabi and Sohum Shah.

SHIP OF THESUS

In his book What Is Life? , ___________addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics.

He paid great attention to the philosophical aspects of science, ancient and oriental philosophical concepts, ethics, and religion.

ID this great personality

Erwin Schrödinger

The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air ForcesB-25 bombardier.

Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy.

It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot.

Id the novel

Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of speaking to or exchanging messages with the other.

The prosecutors do not have enough evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge. They hope to get both sentenced to a year in prison on a lesser charge.

Simultaneously, the prosecutors offer each prisoner a bargain. Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to: betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent

What is been discussed here?

PRISONER’S DILEMMA

Ship of thesus ParadoxMonty hall problemCatch 22 situationSchrodinger’s Cat Prisoner’s Dilemma

LIST OF PARADOXES