JUST QUIZ IT(SRIJAN 2017)

Soham DeAND

Baidik Chandra

Mixed Bag – 1

8 Question in this Round Normal Pounce, Bounce Rules

(1)• Classified as a Dravidian Language• Spoken by about 4 million people and

majorly in parts of Balochistan only.• Historians opine that either this group

of Dravidians didn’t migrate like other groups to South India, or they migrated to Balochistan around 1000 C.E from West.

Brahui

(2)• This company recently surpassed the sum total of

revenues of McD and Dominos in India.• That's a huge feat for a company that started as a small

shop in Rajasthan in 1937 and gradually forayed into Delhi in 1982

• Odd as it may sound, the company is not looking to bring in innovative changes any time soon. This is due to the simple fact that they don't want to mess with their age-old recipes. They say they want to preserve and maintain the same great taste for future generations.

• The company also attributes their success to backstage operations. Everything is made in-house, supervised by family-led teams.

Haldiram’s

(3) Naming himself after X, the Hindu god of motion

was the speedster Y who was an enemy of Wally West. He was an ex-pilot obsessed with speed, and dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Speed Force. He discovered creative ways of using the Speed Force and tried to kill every other speedster on Earth, transferring their Speed Force connections onto himself.

X,Y differ by a single letter

Savitr & Savitar

• The Maratha Ditch was a three mile long moat filled around Kolkata in 1742, to protect it from ‘Bargis’. It was later filled.

• In 1865, British started reclaiming some swampy lands by connecting it with Maratha Canal, and It was finally acquired in 1955 by Bengal Government under Land Acquisition Act, 1884.

By what name do we know these two places presently?

• Upper Circular Road (APC Road), connecting Sealdah with Shyambazaar

• Salt Lake (Bidhannagar)

When the Concorde flies faster than sound, its airframe expands by design as friction heats the skin. As part of this expansion, a small gap opens next to the instrument panel at the flight engineer's station. What was done during the last Concorde flight related to this to memorialize the event?

The crew put their caps into the gap and it sealed.

Treetops hotel Kenya, Feb 1952. Logbook entry: “For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a ________ and after having a most thrilling experience she climbed down from the tree the next day a _____. God bless her.”Who wrote this? About whom?

Jim Corbett about Queen Elizabeth II.

There is no X in the Chinese calendar as during the time of its conception, there was no X in China, it came from Egypt later. X?

Cat

There are 7 of these, weighing exactly 150 pounds, each representing the 7 continents and oceans. What am I referring to?

The spikes on the Statue of Liberty’s head.

ROUND 2 BIZTECH

(1) Identify X

The name “X" is an Anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann (Old Norse blátǫnn), the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald X who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom and, according to legend, introduced Christianity as well.

X is a commonly used word these days.

Harald “Bluetooth”

(2) Name the company as we now know?

• At the time of foundation in 1995, this company was called AuctionWeb. Later on in 1997 the name was changed to what we now know, as it belonged to Echo _ Technology.

• The Founder wanted to name the company Echo _ , but after he found out that the domain name echo_.com was already been taken by the Echo_ mines (a gold mining company), he decided to shorten the name.

• Echo Bay Technology• Company - ebay

(3) Give both X and Y• A group of twelve students from the IIT-B  founded X.co.in in June

2012, currently having nine founders.[ The company purchased X.com from San Francisco-based internet entrepreneur, Peter Headington, and the telephone number 03-333-333-333 in September 2013 for a total of $10m.

• In early March 2015, the company had a nationwide brand launch, and revealed its new brand logo, colours and brand philosophy; with the tagline 'Look Up‘

• Its CEO Y, known as "bad boy of Indian startups" was thrown out in 2015.

Housing.com and Rahul Yadav

(4) Thomas Adams in 1870 was experimenting with tziktli (Nahuatl word) , the sap from a South American tree, as a substitute for rubber. After mounting failures, the dejected inventor popped a piece into his mouth. He mass produced it and is thus regarded as founder of an industry.

• Chewing Gum/Chiclets Industry• Chiclets (comes for Chicli, spanish for

tziktli)

The days of _______ your _____ for free may be gone, at least in one cafe in Vienna.Tired of clients ________ for hours, cafe owner Galina Pokorny now charges €1 ($1.06; £0.85) for those who take too long. "Tourists - always __________, __________, __________. Sorry but who is going to pay me for it?" she said. Put funda.

Charging your phones

When Mansukh bhai suffered severe losses in the Gujarat earthquake, he got an idea to make a fridge out of clay. He invented “_________” which runs without electricity and also preserves the original taste of the food items. Give me the name of this product.

Mitticool

_ _ _ _ is an abbreviation of the words ___ ___, which means 'play well' in Danish.

_ and _ are the initials of the founder, _ngvar _amprad. The _ and _ come from _lmtaryd and _gunnaryd, which are the farm and the village where he grew up, respectively.

LEGO is an abbreviation of the words Leg Godt, which means 'play well' in Danish.I and K are the initials of the founder, Ingvar Kamprad. The E and A come from Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, which are the farm and the village where he grew up, respectively.

UPS claims it uses 10m gallons less fuel, emits 20,000 tonnes less carbon dioxide and delivers 350,000 more packages every year by NOT following the shortest route between stops, and instead, using a pre-determined route, which eliminates 90% of what?

The routing includes a policy that drivers should never turn through oncoming traffic (that’s left in countries where they drive on the right and vice versa) unless absolutely necessary.

Round 3List ItList all Indian women chief ministers who have served less than 1 term

Choice Round Rules•Lower scored teams gets preference to chose topic.•Each topic would have 2 questions.•Other teams can only pounce.•If the team who has it on direct. can answer both, they get 10 points extra. Other teams don’t get this advantage

Soham’s Choice :• Anime and Cartoons• Mythology• International History• Background Story of SongsBaidik’s choices:LiteratureSportsKolkata

Urban Dictionary

Anime and Cartoons

(1) Created by Eiichiro Oda, this series holds the top rank by sales of manga. The story follows a young man whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. 

One Piece

(2) Identify the show.

• The author, Yoshito Usui, created the manga, as he wanted to depict how he was as a child as well as the things he wanted to do as a child but couldn't. He wanted to be a child with an “adult's” view. He thus made Shinnosuke, a character who questions the general norms of the society and the things imposed by adults on children.

• In 2005, the family was declared as permanent residents of Kasukabe city by the government.

• Shinnosuke Shin Nohara, or Shin Chan Nohara

Mythology

(1) Which mythological event is being depicted here?

Opening up of Pandora's Box (Jar), and letting all evils and

disease escape.

In Greco-Roman Mythology, Arachne was a talented mortal weaver who challenged the goddess Athena. When Athena won, she turned Arachne into X, and fear of X’s children is known as Y.

• Spider (Arachnid) and Arachnophobia

• International History

• (1) A was a sovereign state that existed from 1961 to 1964. Its old name was changed when neighboring republican country B joined, and finally the name that we all know (C) came into existence for the new combined country.

• The Sultans of B is famous for lasting in a war against an imperial power, for 38 to 45 minutes.

• Give A,B,C

• (A) Tanganayika• (B) Zanzibar• (C) Tanzania

(2) Identify this empire/ dynasty?

• This empire dominated across large parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Persia and Middle East between 1367 till about 1500 AD. It is named after its tallest emperor and founder, with a slight addition in the end name. Babur was also a prince from this dynasty, which has the same name as the empire.

Timurid Dynasty/Empire

Background Story of Songs

(1) Song and Singer•  This is a pop love song by Indian artist, released in 1998. At the

time, critics complained that X’s music was only popular due to his videos that featured beautiful women dancing. X's response was to create a video that featured only himself. The song and video was a success in India. It also became an international internet meme, with foreigners dancing and posting videos as well.

• The music video was the first made in India using greenscreen technology,  which allowed the singer to superimpose his image over various computer-generated backgrounds such as desert and mountain landscapes and St. Basil's Cathedral.

Daler Mehendi for Tunak Tunak Tun

(2) Singer and Song (2014 pop)• Some of the things I write about on a song like “- -" are

satire. You take your creative license and create things that are larger than life. You can write things like I get drunk on jealousy but you'll come back each time you leave, 'cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream’. That is not my approach to relationships. But is it cool to write the narrative of a girl who's crazy but seductive but glamorous but nuts but manipulative? That was the character I felt the media had written for me, and for a long time I felt hurt by it. I took it personally. But as time went by, I realized it was kind of hilarious."

Taylor Swift and Blank Space

SPORTS

In the Laureus Sports Awards 2017, who won 1.The Team of the Year and 2. The Spirit of Sport Awards

Chicago Cubs and Leicester City

One of the greatest rivalries in tennis was between Agassi and Boris Becker. Becker’s serve was Agassi’s weak point. To overcome this, he studied tapes of Becker and found out that Becker used to do something (involves a body part), which could be used to predict his serve. What?

Agassi studied Boris Becker's tapes to understand his service style. He'd stick out his tongue, direction would vary.

KOLKATA

1. In 1827, a strike by X, to protest the Government’s decision to regulate the “exorbitant fares” charged by them caused one Mr Brownlow to improvise something and create the Brownburry Carriage. Who or what is X?

Palanquin/palki bearers

1. VW Beetle (Mexico City)VW Jetta (Shanghai)Ford Crown Victoria /Checker A11(New York)Mercedes Benz E-class (Germany)X (Kolkata)

Ambassador(iconic taxis)

LITERATURE

According to this iconic novel, to which a particular phrase traces its origin, people who were crazy were not obliged to fly missions, but anyone who applied to stop flying was showing a rational concern for his safety and was, therefore, sane and had to fly. Which novel?

Catch-22

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William FinneganThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadH Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsSeveneves by Neal StephensonWhat is this exhaustive list?

Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List

URBAN DICTIONARY

A best friend that you never see. He's always hiding or just at home. Named after the infamous best friend you never see.Mike:Hey where's Joey at?Daniel: IDK man he's being a real _______ __ _____

Mike:Hey where's Joey at?Daniel: IDK man he's being a real Brosama Bin Laden

The act or reactive measure when the opposite sex makes eye-contact with you and then proceeds to plug in their iPod as a defense mechanism to prevent you from making a move on them.Josh: I saw this girl on the bus and was going to hit on her, then she busted out her iPod.Sam: Aw man, you got ______________ __ _____ ____

Josh: I saw this girl on the bus and was going to hit on her, then she busted out her iPod.Sam: Aw man, you got Cockblocked by Steve Jobs

ROUND 5 Stake

8 Questions.

+5 for each correct answer

+10/-5 for each stake

1.

Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cornan, last person to do what, in 1972?

2.

Which was the first Lever brothers brand introduced in India?

3.

What did Pope Gregory IX do which led to the uncontrolled spread of the Black Plague?

4.

Released on 20/02/1959, which Mrinal Sen's movie was the first to be banned by the Indian govt?

5.

Name all foreigners who have been awarded the Bharat Ratna.

6.

Peter England, Louis Philippe, Allen Solly are all owned by which group?

7.

These are known as CMYK dots. Expand CMYK.

8.

Of what did Ron Wayne sell his 10% share in 1976 for $1500, which would’ve been worth $50 billion today?

ANSWERS

1. Walk on the moon.

2. Sunlight.

3. Condemn black cats as the incarnation of the Devil

4. Neel Akasher Neeche.

5. Mother Teresa, Khan Abdul Khan Ghaffar, Nelson Mandela.

6. Aditya Birla Group.

7. Cyan Magenta Yellow Key(Black).

8. His 10% stake in Apple.