ENIGMA’15General Quiz

FINALS

Questions By: Kapish Malhotra, Nabilur Rahaman ( IIT Delhi) & Sanket Sharma

1.During Nadir Shah's invasion of India. His troops passed through Punjab after plundering Delhi and killing hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Muslims, and taking hundreds of women as captive. The Sikhs decided to attack Nadir Shah's camp and free the captive women. Being outnumbered by Nadir Shah's huge army, they could not afford to make a frontal attack. Instead, they used to make midnight guerrilla raids on Nadir Shah's camp, free as many captive women as possible, and return them to their homes in order to "restore the dignity of the Hindu community." This event gave rise to a very popular reference. What?

The 12’ 0 clock Jokes

X is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-

Roman world X was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and

magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden. Often depicted as

the mother of Horus, the falcon-headed deity associated with king and kingship. She is also

known as protector of the dead and goddess of children. Her name means “she of the kings'

throne.”

2.

ISIS

3.In a Test match played between the West Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year 1933. Ellis Achong, was a left-arm orthodox spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time.

According to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robins stumped off a surprise delivery that

spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to the pavilion, Robins said to the umpire, "fancy being done by a bloody ______________!", leading to the popularity of the term in England, and subsequently, in the rest of

the world.

CHINAMAN

4.

Identify the Show!

5.This is a defensive business strategy used to stave off a hostile takeover, in which a company that is threatened with a hostile takeover "turns the tables" by attempting to acquire its would-be buyer. Internationally, perhaps the best-known case was that of Porsche and the Volkswagen Group, in which Porsche slowly acquired stake in the much larger Volkswagen Group, eventually to the point of owning over 50% of the company in 2009.

What is the name given to such a business strategy?

PACMAN DEFENSE

7.

This Indian organization has been a consultant for Bosch and Airtel. It boasts of having been visited by

Prince Charles, who invited two of its members to his wedding. In very recent times Flipkart has announced

its tie-up with this Organisation for last mile delivery to customers. This association is an effort to explore newer delivery channels and opportunities by partnering with

this unique community of experts.

Which Organisation ?

8.

An ad by Douglas Adams

released in 2000 for Apple Inc. What was its

subject?

Y2K Bug / Millennium Bug

The camouflage effect was designed by R/Greenberg Associates, under the direction of Joel Hynek. There was a chrome man who was inside a reflective sphere. The man blended in, perfectly camouflaged, reflecting from all directions and only visible when in motion. It took quite a while before they figured out how to do it, which was basically an image repeated in a pattern of ripples in the shape of the Antagonist’s body. It proved very effective and was a new way of presenting an "invisible man." Before there was digital rendering technology all of the camouflage was done optically using photo-chemical means, so that one would never get the same result twice from combining the same pieces of film.

The process in making of which movie that went on to achieve Cult status?

9.

10.

X were Norse warriors who are primarily reported in the Old Norse literature to have

fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word ______________ .

Identify X and FIB.

BERSERK

11.In March 2015 ,an innovative Salvation Army campaign in South Africa to raise awareness of domestic abuse against

women took social media by storm. Some of the taglines used were:

“ Why is it so hard to see ______ and ________?”

“The only illusion is if you think it was her choice.”

Either give me the two blanks or tell me what was all the hype for this campaign about.

BLACK AND BLUE

12.

Identify both these

“gentle”men !

STING

13.

This is a snapshot of the twitter account of Michael Di Venuto, nicknamed “ the

diva "He made his debut for Italy 2012 ICC World

Twenty20 Qualifier. He was in news very recently for a

rather surprising achievement for an Italian.

What is his claim to fame.

Batting Coach of the 2015 World Cup winning

Australian Team

14.

The Kumars at No. 42 is an international Emmy winning British television show. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes. A Pakistani version of the show called Ghaffar at Dhoraji featuring a Gujarati family

living in Karachi. Sony Television has produced an Indian version of the show called Batliwalla House No. 43

featuring a Parsee family living in Mumbai. Another Indian remake of this show made it very big in the

Entertainment Industry.

Name the show.

The recommendation of the 10 member-Acworth Committee in 1920-21, headed by

British railway economist William Acworth, let to the reorganisation of railways in India. What was the effect of those recommendations that exists

even today?

15.

A Separate Railway Budget

16.

In early 2014. The review queue for Apple’s iTunes store was flooded with numerous apps with similar names.

This was actually a protest against a company X’s move towards copyrighting something. This was termed

_______ jam by the internet media.

Id the company and FIB.

CANDY JAMProtesting King.com’s move to

copyright the word CANDY

LIST IT!+5 for Every Correct answer

and +5 for full house.

List the Principal/Title Sponsors of ALL 8 IPL 2015 franchises(each).

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS

Kolkata Knight Riders: Gionee

Kings XI Punjab: Tata Motors Prima

Delhi Dredevils: Daikin

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 93.5 Red FM

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Huawei

Rajasthan Royals: Ultra Tech Cement

Mumbai Indians: Videocon D2H

Chennai Super Kings: Aircel

17.

Catull BQ, a variant of Catull an old style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold Type Foundry in 1982 is one of the

most viewed fonts in the world. What accounts for its high viewership?

18.Hemagglutinin is a glycoprotein that causes red blood cells to agglutinate/clump together

Neuraminidases, also called sialidases, catalyze the hydrolysis of terminal sialic acid residues from the newly formed virions and from the host cell receptors.

What do the first variants of these combine to give ?

H1N1, Swine Flu

19.

A family tree showing relationship between Richard III, King of England ( 1483-1485) and whom?

(Image on next slide)

Benedict Cumberbatch

20. 190 reasons to answer this question

What are these known as?

Richie’s Rules of Commentary

21. Whose interpretation and where will you be seeing these symbols?

22.

In Marvel continuity, Mjolnir is forged by Dwarven blacksmiths, and is composed of the fictional Asgardian

metal "uru". The side of the hammer carries the inscription "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be

worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.“

The inscription was true until recent times when a small part of it had to be altered.

PUT FUNDA

Thor is now Female

23. What is being shown in this map?

First Internet Connection

Identify the missing person (Most Famous person of the group).

Robert CatesbyJohn Wright

Thomas WintourThomas Percy___________Robert Keyes

Robert WintourThomas Bates

Christopher WrightJohn GrantAmbrose Rookwood

Sir Everard DigbyFrancis Tresham

24.

Guy Fawkes

25.

He was the founder and chairman of “Internet User’s Society of India” which was established in

1995. Though the world wide web was introduced in 1990, he was online way before that through a telecom service connection established with the

help of Steve Jobs.He even had his own website

www.junglee.org.in.

Identify!

Shammi Kapoor

26.

The Khasi tribe of Meghalaya are very famous for their archery skills. However their archery is very peculiar

because of the technique used in shooting the arrow. The reason for this peculiarity lies in their folklore that mentions an ancestor who had done something, as a result of which the tribe adopted this style of archery.

Who is their “ancestor” and how is their archery peculiar ?

EKLAVYAThey shoot the arrows

without using their thumbs

27.Connect

King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse

Test Match at Melbourne Cricket Ground

Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

IIHF World U20 Championship

Spengler Cup

Annandagsbandy

BOXING DAY26th December

28.Project X was started in 1994 and has since then

be subject to heavy criticism, though the statistics reveal that 50% of the world still uses it.

It is also argued that X was not created by Y rather Y used the source code off Spyglass Inc’s project

Mosaic to develop X.On March 17th 2015, Y announced that it was

replacing X with Z as the default. Thus “killing” the X brand forever.

Id X,Y,Z

+5 for 2 correct & +10 for all 3

X- Internet ExplorerY- MicrosoftZ- Spartan

29.Question courtesy: Shreya Pandey

The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the word “X” resides is a variant of the ______ logo, and is either “an early European symbol for quality” or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the Knights Templar

into the Crusades. Continuing the Da Vinci Code-theme, the X’s

geometric pattern of a dot with four triangles radiating outward is either a schematic drawing of a four-leaf clover or — cue the cliff-hanger music from

Jaws - the cross pattée, associated with knights templar and free masons.

Id X !

OREO

30.

Identify the Singer, who in recent times has shot to immense fame and now enjoys a

huge fan following.

(The Girls can’t seem to have enough of him)

FAWAD KHAN

31.

SBS Prince Beverages Pvt. Ltd. seeking to cash in on the popularity of X launched the product "X

Cola" earlier in February this year. With the slogan, "Drink and fight for your right", Mr.Kailash Kesarwani, the owner, claims that the

product is intended for the "common man".

Id X !

AAP Cola :P

32.

This name is Scandinavian, a short form of a very common Norse name meaning "beautiful victory", and comes from the

intended name for the original developer's first child. Though the

company describes it as an acronym.Which very famous application, used

worldwide, is being talked about ?

SIRI

33.

The Indian epics describe this region as lavanasagara (salt ocean). The story from Ramayana goes that when Lord Rama had to cross

the ocean with his army to Lanka, he decided to use a fire-weapon and dry up the ocean. All the living creatures of the ocean were

much frightened for their lives and started pleading him not to do so. But as it was impossible to dismount the arrow-weapon, once

it was drawn, he decided to point it to a distant sea drumakulya situated on north of Lavanasagara and released it.

This is the theory attributed to the formation of What?Or

Simply Give me the present names of Lavanasagara and Drumakulya.

Thar Desert & Rajasthan

34.Daniel Jacob Haugaard is a Danish comedian. He

ran for every parliamentary election as a joke from 1979 onwards. Among his outrageous

campaign promises were:•8 hours of free time, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours

of sleep•More tailwind on bicycle paths•Promises of better weather, and

•_______ in field rations (was actually implemented)

FIB (Eagerly waiting to give away hints) :P

35. A snapshot of a news article from the Guardian FB page. What was the caption with which they shared

the link, (3 word answer)?

36.

What is the name for the ecommerce business

model in which a website offers a single

product for sale for a period of 24 to 36 hours?

Potential

customers register as members of the deal-a-

day websites and receive online offers and

invitations by email or social networks. Also

associate the brand which has recently made

this popular in India.

Flash Sale

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Bollywood Posters Inspired From Hollywood

+5 for every correct answer & +5 for full house

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