College General Quiz @ Arcania ISBF

Inter College Quiz | Sreshth Shah | Arcania @ Xenia 2016

General Quiz – Arcania@ Xenia 16

Indian School of Business & Finance

Researched and conducted by: Sreshth Shah


Preliminary Round

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1

– The Peter Thiel Fellowship is given to college dropouts aged 22 and under

alongwith a funding of 100,000 dollars to pursue their entrepreneurial interests.

Who became the first Indian to receive the fellowship and what's the name of his

entrepreneurial venture?


1Answer

– Ritesh Agarwal of OYO Rooms


2

In 1910s, he published his work in UK and USA under the pseudonym, HA Largelamb,

so that people would read his article for the value of its content and not only

because it was written by a famous person. Who is this, the pseudonym being a

anagram of his name.


2Answer

A Graham Bell


3

The Public Works department of West Bengal famously helped fund the

production of which film?


3Answer

Pather Pachali


4

Which is the only venue (city) in the world to have been the home ground for the first

test of two different nations?


4Answer

Dhaka


5

Charqui, a Spanish term for dried meat, gave rise to the term. Other locals suggest it refers to the motion of poking meat with a skewer to help flavour get easily absorbed. Possible

etymological origins behind what style of cooking?


5Answer

Jerk/Jerky


6

This emoji, used by most of the western world as a hospital, was actually created by

the japanese to indicate what sort of establishments?


6

Love Hotels


7

In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus named them after the latin for spirits of the dead, wandering ghosts. He knew they roamed an african island's forests at night, their

large eyes brimming with moonlight, their shrill cries cracking through the treetops.

Which animal?


7

Lemurs


8

The name of which gemstone comes from the name of a transcontinental country?


8Answer

Turquoise – from Turkey


9December 9th is celebrated as National Day

in which African country? Here's a google doodle of it's celebration.


9Tanzania


10

– The trial of Regina vs Penguin Books in 1960, resulted in the publication

of which book in 1963, 35 years after it was first intended to be published?


10Answer

– Lady Chatterleys Lover


11

It is believed that sage Vashistha retired to this place following his differences with

sage Vishwamitra. Another story goes that a serpent name Arbuda saved the life of

Nandi here, therefore it was also known as Arbudaranya in the Puranas. Which

modern day location is this?


11Answer

Mt. Abu


12

Kendrick Lamar's album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' very popular in 2015. But, Lamar

almost ended up naming the album 'To Pimp a Caterpillar', before he went with

the eventual title. For what reason of tribute did he want to name Caterpillar

instead of Butterfly?


12Answer

To pimp a caterpillar shortens to 2pac


13

Which hollywood star's shoulder? What do the coordinates represent?


13Answer

Angelina Jolie, adopted children's location are tattoo coordinates


14 The myth goes that X married 27 daughters of Daksha

but truly loved only one of them. His other wives complained about his negligent behaviour to Daksha , who cursed him that he would become ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to lord Shiva to remove the curse. however lord Shiva said that he could not

completely remove the curse , but said that whenever X lost his beauty completely , he would again

gradually gain his beauty and the cycle would go on.

Who is X and what resulted thus?


14AnswerChandra, Lunar Cycle


15Who has this singer-songwriter duo been

immortalized and will be prominently noticed this year?


15AnswerTom (Jobin) + Vinicus (de Moraes) –

names of Rio Olympic mascots


16

He made his first million in 1897. His 3 cubic acre property is on top of Killmotor Hill

which is atop Futterman's Fault, a fault line which would prove catastrophic in the

event of an Earthquake. Who, from fiction, who gets his name from another work of

fiction from which he is based out of?


16

Scrooge McDuck


17

This area was originally inhabited by the Patowomacks in the 16th century. The name X is credited to come from a Native American term, and has been translated to mean "by the large

Stream.” What is X, a buzzword among Indians in the recent past.


17


18

The Sunnis called her Muhammad's favorite wife, while the Shias view her negatively. She lived till a ripe age of 56, even though she was widowed by the time she was 18.

Who is she, also the title of two musical works and a film?


18Answer

Aisha


19

The creator refers to the title of work as the weight of the human soul, measured by a doctor by weighing a human body

before death and after death. What is the weight of the human soul, then?


19Answer


20

He was an Indian lawyer, who's father was a doctor in Cuttack. He went to England to

prepare himself for the bar but was attracted to something else, there. Who was

he and what first did he achieve in 1958?


20Answer

Mihir Sen – crossed English Channel (first Indian)


21

Imran Khan's political outfit, Tehreek E Insaaf based in Pakistan, uses what

political symbol?


21Answer

A Cricket Bat


22This Florentine woman, has modelled for a

particular artist's work on numerous occasions. Here she has been depicted by him in a work, four years before his most famous rendition. In which piece of work

have we seen her? Who is her most famous cousin in law?



Answer 22

Birth of Venus by Boticelli– that's Simonetta Vespucci and her famous cousin in law is, Amerigo Vespucci.


23

This gets its named from an eponymous forest near Entebbe, Uganda. Having

originated in Africa, this has now prominently shifted to South America. It

means overgrown in the Lugandan language. Colombia has asked people not to get pregnant for the next 8 months due to

this. What am I talking about?


23Answer

Zika virus


24

This mnemonic is used to remember the order of what according to size?

Super Heroes Must Eat Oats


24Answer

Size of America's great lakes – Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

Super Heroes Must Eat Oats


25

The middle portion of this Bosch painting, represents what?



25Answer

7 deadly sins


Finals

36 questions total.

(+10/-10 on Pounce)

18 clockwise (+10 on Bounce)

18 anticlockwise (+10 on Bounce)


1

Because of the popularity of a certain practice then associated with this group of people, bloody bandages were used to signify their practice.

This later got reformed into the customary artifact we associate these people with today. What artifact and what profession?


1AnswerBarbers, Barber Poles being red and

white come from them wrapping bloody bandages around white polesthem – the practice they were associated with other than hair cutting was blood-letting, as a form of treatment, and therefore bloody bandages.


2

What iconic TV trope from a show that recently ended was inspired

when a writer for the show saw the name of an 84 old year TV channel president, William Paley, on a list of

eligible bachelors in New York?


2Answer


3

One of the options for the new flag of New Zealand, was the one you see in picture.

However, this variant was quickly overruled due to controversial visual imagery.

Why was it overruled?


3Answer

The white on black background apparently reminded people of the IS flag


4 - Connect


4Answer

These are the 4 organizations that comprise the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which won

the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Tunisian General Labour UnionThe Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade,

and HandicraftsThe Tunisian Human Rights League

The Tunisian Order of Lawyers


5

A ____X____ is the mixture of a color with whiteA ____Y___ is the mixture of a color with black.

X &Y Please !


5Answer

X - tint ; Y- shade


6The country _____ changed their flag, national anthem and their name recently. The changes were outlined in a new constitution proposed in 2008. The government

ordered that the old flags be burnt after being lowered by a person born on a Tuesday. The new flags were to be hoisted by a person born on a Wednesday.

In 1989, the then rulers changed the English translations of many places, including the name of the country itself to _____. This prompted one scholar to

coin the term _____ to refer to the top-down programme of political and cultural reform in the

context of which the renaming was done.

Fill the blanks. All the blanks need not be the same.


6Answer

It's Burma or any variations of the name. The word is 'Myanmarification'.


7 – Whose ad?

40 questions total.

17 clockwise

6 written

17 anticlockwise


7Answer

Johnson & Johnson (for babies)


8

Habitat of which mammal?


8Answer

Gangetic Dolphin


9

This activity involves five "S steps" – see, swirl, sniff, sip and savour. Some even tend to Swallow or Spit! ;) What am I talking about?


9Answer – Wine Tasting


10

This term was used in alchemy to refer to the fifth alchemical element, after earth, air, fire, and water. These days, it is used

to refer to something that is the most perfect example of its type. What word?


10Answer

Quintessence


11

One explanation of the origin of this practice is that it was sanctioned by Pope Gregory I who, to counter an outbreak of bubonic plague, also ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets.

Another explanation is it was used as a sort of shield against the body’s invasion by the Devil or evil spirits. The Irish Folk story "Master and Man" by Thomas Crofton Croker, collected by William Butler Yeats, describes this variation.

What practice?


11Answer

Bless you after sneezing


12

In various European languages the medical term is, literally, ‘emperor’s cut’ or ‘imperial cut’. What is it in English?


12Answer

Caesarean section!


13It is a particular word that has become so associated in

people's minds with the Victorian period that the word briefly became a figurative term for it. However, despite its Victorian associations It represents an item that is still used on modern commercial passenger transport vehicles, especially airplanes and trains.

It derives in part from the name of the capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia because the city was where the basic ingredients (ylang ylang oil and palm oil) for a popular Victorian product originated. This product was what made it necessary.

What is this rather antagonistic Victorian word?


13Answer

ANTI-MACASSAR (which is basically the covering on sofas or seats to prevent stains from the hair oil or Macassar oil used in Victorian times. Macassar or Makassar is the city in Indonesia)


14

The now common term X, related to education, was coined by Louisa May Alcott in her 1886 novel Jo's Boys and has to do with the progressive nature of the school that Jo founded (for that time period). "Never liked X ", is a line uttered by a boy named Adolphus "Dolly" Pettingill who objects to carrying out activities with a certain other group of students in the school.

What precisely is he objecting to, still a cause of debate today?


14Answer

CO-ED (for co-education)


151. Prince Court Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2. Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany

3. Clemenceau Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon,

4. Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India,

5. Wooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul, Korea,

6. Bumrungrad International, Bangkok, Thailand,

7. Anadolu Medical Center, Istanbul, Turkey,

8. Bangkok Hospital Medical Center, Bangkok, Thailand,

9. Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore,

10. Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, India.

What specific top 10 list?


15Answer

Foreign patients/medical tourism


16

Delhi had a partial green belt around the city. In 1982, the Indira Gandhi government took a decision to replace this green belt of sorts, for reduction of traffic congestion. Experts currently believe, that, Delhi's ecological problems stem from this decision. So, what came up in place of the green belt?


16Answer

Outer Ring Road


17Very recently, four of these were revealed from the total list of 11 known. What is the most famous entry of this list and therefore

what is this a list of?

Mahoutokoro – located on a volcanic island

Uagadou – located in Africa

Castelobruxo – deep within forests of Brazil

Ilvermorny – in the American Midwest


Answer17

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

These are names of Wizarding Schools in the Harry Potter universe – these four

were revealed recently


18 – Fill in the blank


18Answer – Al Aqsa - along with the Dome of the Rock, is referred to as al-Haram ash-

Sharif ("the Noble Sanctuary


19

In republics of Central Asia, there's a practice of proposal, where the bride

comes out of her room, performs a dance – the groom interrupts the dance, gets on

his knees and gives an impetious proposal. Almost a scene from a

bollywood flick, this tradition mirrors an event featuring two historical characters.

Which pair, one a defender of men and the other possessing beautiful cheeks?


19Answer

Alexander – means 'defender of men' and Rukhsana / Roxane – means 'beautiful

cheeks'


20Today (31/1/16), marks the 26th anniversary of

the biggest day in the history of this company and marked the beginning of its world wide

domination. It was dubbed “the biggest launch event in the world”. Ironically, over 35000

people applied for the 600 available job spots to work here (considering how their employees

are looked at back home) and day 1 saw a footfall of 30,000 people. What and where?


20Answer

First McDonalds in Moscow (Soviet Russia)


21

In the 1940s, the spectacular success of the Allied Air Force was attributed by

them to something that has thus become a myth with almost no scientific backing.

So, what did the Allied Air Force attribute their successes to, so as to avoid shedding light on their actual reason for success, which was the

Airborne radar?


21Answer

CARROT in the diet of these pilots helped their eyesight to see Nazi bombers attacking at night. That was a lie

intended to cover the real matter of what was underpinning the Royal Air Force's successes: Airborne Interception Radar,

also known as AI


22

In local language, this range's name translates to – the benovelent mountain. We know it, ofcourse, by it's Westernized

Avatar. ID both names.


22Answer

Sahyadri and Western Ghats!


23

The director of this movie, carried around a picture of a particular piece of artwork

for his art director to replicate for the tone of a particular film of his. (Image in next slide). For full points, identify the

movie, the director & the artwork being spoken about.


23


23Answer

Ridley Scott

Blade Runner

Nighthawks – Edward Hopper


24

This geographical location's name when translated to English means "the country of honorable people" or incorruptible people. A startup took its name from this location, founded by Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee. Which geographical location and which start up?


24Answer

Burkina Faso

and


25

In China, there exists an occupation called Ding Zui – where those willing to undertake a Ding Zui contract are paid in full. Although professionals, an average Ding Zui merely does 2-3 projects in their lifetime. Who is a Ding Zui?


25Answer

Body Doubles to go to jail and serve time!


26Story goes that some drunk miners came into a

restaurant, one late night in 1860 in San Francisco, terribly hungry. The cook came up with something impromptu, by throwing some leftovers in the pot

and creating something tasty. When the miners asked him what the dish was called, he replied

______ ___, referring to the fact that he had cut the pieces of meat and veggies. Apparent origin of

which dish, which locals vow to have never eaten in their homeland but very popular in the rest of the

world? The fact that it's origins lie in SFO, might be why a variation of the food item is also an

oxymoron.


26AnswerHe said, 'chopped sui' which later became chopsuey

and the apparent origins behind American Chopsuey


27

Scientific name, Harpandon Neherus is named after the mode of its transport and often misattributed to contain a member of the Anatidae family. Just name the delicacy.


27Answer

Bombay Duck – not a duck, but actually a lizard fish.

Gets its name since it was transported on the Bombay Daak train


28

One often finds this in hotel rooms in some parts of the world. What does it represent?


28Answer

Direction towards Mecca to aid those wishing to pray. Seen in hotel rooms in Middle east.


29

Which sport and who's World number 1?


29Answer

Baseball


30

Argentina's 1978 Football World Cup winning team was suspected to have doped heavily due to a certain anomaly in their Urine Test results, which suggested switching of samples. Who were the players accused of switching their samples with? And what was the anomaly?


30Answer

With their partners/wives

They got caught because one of the samples came out positive for pregnancy!


31

Kishori Mohan Bandhopadhyay received the 1903 Edward VII medal for his contribution to science. However this seen by many Indian historians as a travesty of justice as his boss won the bigger prize for the same discovery a year before. Who was his boss and what did they discover together?


31Answer

Ronald Ross and Quinine


32

This is Daveigh Chase's filmography – What is her

most famous role?


32

Girl from the RING


33One of the major changes in the Indian army

post independence was the dropping of a term which is derived from a Persian word meaning army for a Persian word meaning

young. The first term is preferred by the British historians to denote an event in

Indian History while India historians generally don’t use it. What was the original

word and the new word?


33AnswerSepoy to Jawan


34 The name of this building literally means on

top of the hill. It is often misattributed to be connected to a dairy product identify this Delhi building.


34Answer

Malai Mandir in R.K. Puram


35The origin of the name of this substance comes from the old

English name for the Beaver. The connection being a bad smelly

fluid excreted by the glands near the back of the beaver being

similar to the substance. Name this substance?


35Castor Oil- The old English word for Beaver was

Castor


361. The main village in Sunart, an area in western Lochaber Highland,

Scotland, on the A861 road.2. A city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany, located in

the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.3. A town situated approximately 125 kilometres north of Moscow, on the

Volga River, just downstream the Ivankovo Reservoir, it is the northernmost town of Moscow Oblast.

4. A village on the Swedish island of Resarö, in Vaxholm Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. The name of the village means "outer village".

5. A city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbours to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north are the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington.

6. The capitals of Denmark, Sweden and France. CONNECT.


36AnswerElements named after citiesStrontium (38) (Strontian, Scotland)Darmstadtium (111) (Darmstadt, Germany)Dubnium (105) (Dubna, Russia)Erbium (68) (Ytterby, Sweden)Terbium (65) (Ytterby, Sweden)Ytterbium (70) (Ytterby, Sweden)Yttrium (39) (Ytterby, Sweden)Berklium (97) (Berkley, CA)Hafnium (72) (from the Latin hafnia for "Copenhagen")Holmium (67) (from the Latin holmia for "Stockholm")Lutetium (71) (from the Latin name for Paris)

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