General quiz mains!

Rules:-
• A random number of questions will be coming for you.
• Infinite Bounce is the format!
• Between the questions at any random time an LVC will
be there. Details will be given later regarding them.
• 10 points for direct and 5 points for indirect. Can go for
the double only on the pass. -5 for wrong answer on
the double.
• Clues will be given only on no objection.
• Quiz master’s decision is final and binding!

1. What am I talking about?
• This internet phenomenon is not exactly
recent but is certainly catching up with us
now. Whynne, its creator has this to say
“People were particularly fond of the
grinning face which, at the time, had no
name. It eventually became a separate entity
and has since come to represent the humorous
and mischievous side of ______.”

2.
On the morning of 28th April 1986, workers at the Forsmark
Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden, were found to have
radioactive particles on their clothes.

It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after
they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish
plant, that led to the first news of _________________ to
the outside world.

4. What are we talking about ?
• Strangely, the two men most often associated
with this curse, share eerily similar last names.
One of them tried to escape the trappings of the
role, and it ruined his acting career. Depressed,
he committed suicide in 1959, though many
theorize he was murdered. The other was
paralyzed in 1995 after falling from his horse. He
died in 2004 from heart failure, and, though she
was never a smoker, his wife, Dana, passed away
from lung cancer the next year.

The Superman Curse, George Reeves
and Christopher Reeve

5. What is this pic telling you about ?

Richard Nixon leaving the White House
after resigning as the President of USA

Indian Coins
• Indian coins are mainly produced in 4 cities.
• The production in city puts an identification
mark under the year of issue.
• Noida: Dot.
• Mumbai: Diamond.
• Hyderabad: Star, Dotted Diamond, Split
Diamond.
• Kolkata: Nothing.

7.
• X’s most famous movie roles are in Water for
Elephants (2011) and The Artist (2011). In The
Artist, his performance was considered by many
to have upstaged those of his co-stars and has
won him accolades in Cannes . There are
petitions for other awards to be also given to
him, on account of his exceptional performance.
• The campaign "Consider X" was launched in
December 2011 on Facebook by S.T. VanAirsdale,
an editor at Movieline, for X to receive a
honorary Oscar nomination.

Long-Visual-Connect
• Enough of reading questions. It’s time to
observe very carefully!
• 4 visual clues. 20 on the first guess, 15 on the
second, 10 on the third and 5 on the last
guess.
• Any team guessing in any earlier clue will be
further debarred from answering it.

Ivy League Institutions
• Harvard
• Brown
• Yale
• Princeton
• Pennsylvania
• Columbia
• Dartmouth
• Cornell

9. This poster is of a
documentary which
came into focus recently
during march of this year.
It’s part of a famous
protest campaign. What
is it’s name ?

Kony 2012
• It’s a documentary
about the Ugandan
leader Joseph Kony
and the use of
children in the army
of LRA.

10.
• Who is Blaise Pascal talking about
when he says - "________'s nose,
had it been shorter, the whole
face of the world would have
been changed.“ ?

11. The adjoining
poster is for a TV
show based on
the life of young
Stephen Hawking.
ID the lead actor
or (for half points)
his more famous
role.

Benedict Cumberbatch or as we better
know him…. Sherlock Holmes!

13. What are we talking about?

• The red colour symbolizes life.
• The orange colour symbolizes healing.
• The yellow colour symbolizes sunlight.
• The green colour symbolizes nature.
• The blue colour symbolizes serenity.
• The violet colour symbolizes spirit.

14.
• Before he died, Milton Wright made his sons Wilbur
and Orville make him a promise. This promise has
now become standard procedure with persons of
certain importance, for example Princes William and
Harry of the United Kingdom, and the President and
Vice President of the USA.

• What is this promise?

The brothers weren’t allowed to travel on the
same place together; that way, if one died in a
plane crash, the other would still be around.

15.
• The logo is among the most artistically created technology emblems.

• The logo brings together the Nordic runes analogous to the modern Latin
H (Haglazl) and B (Berkanan). Such combination of letters represents the
connection that the product creates between two devices.

• The logo comprises of two unified letters sketched in white, and bounded
by a blue background. The name of the technology is added to the logo in
black. This arrangement signifies unison, strength and reliability, and
provides the users with a safe and powerful connection.

• The font of the logo is simple, bold and effective. The logo is self-
explanatory as its glimpse depicts the wide existence of the technology.

16. Who is he?
• During his university studies he was an upright bass player
and occasionally performed as a cruise ship crooner. In
later life he co-wrote AC Milan's anthem and the Forza
Italia anthem with the opera director Renato Serio.

• He is also known under the nickname Il Cavaliere (literally,
The Knight), due to the knighthood Order of Merit for
Labour which he received in 1977.

• As of 2010, Forbes magazine has ranked him as the 74th
richest man in the world with a net worth of $9 billion. He
is also very powerful, though his political clout is on the
wane.

17.
• John Lawrence Nettleship was a British schoolteacher
who taught chemistry at Wyedean
School, Gloucestershire. His pupils there included a
famous author, whose mother worked for some time
as an assistant in his department. The author began
studying at the school in September 1976. Nettleship
described himself in hindsight as "a short-tempered
chemistry teacher". He has been claimed as a major
inspiration for the character of ________ in
author's books. Name the author and the character.

J.K. Rowling and Severus Snape

18. In an interview to the Indian Express in
November 2011, he said
“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of
students demanding a month’s notice as
preparation.

We made banners saying, “____ ____”.

and went about raising this slogan.”
He used these lines in a recent film. Which lines ?

He used these lines in a film.

Which lines?

“Sadda Haq” in Rockstar and the
interviewee was Irshad Kamil

19. In which country was the
song “hothon mein aisi baat”
picturised?

Sikkim was then an independent
country :P

20. The scientific name of this fruit is
“Elaeocarpus ganitrus”. What are it’s
seeds more famously used for ??

21. Its LVC time again ! Clue 1. Her
name is Carol Ann Susi. But what
matters is her voice … ?

Clue 2. He has a recent connection to
it.

Clue 3. They seem to be pretty
studious….

The Big Bang Theory TV Show
• Howard Wolowitz’s mother’s voice
• Stephen Hawking appeared on its most recent
episode
• The rip off in Belarus called The Theorists
• The Big Bang explosion

21. This game was the first
to utilize a certain gaming
technique which has
become quite
commonplace in today’s
world of games.

The WASD gaming keys as motion keys

22. This is a drawing of
a child by a parent.
The child is pictured
looking at a flower
which later became
very significant in his
life.
Who is the kid? What
is the relevance of this
flower in his life?

Alan Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis.

23. These posters are celebrating
something. What is it ?

Mole Day/ Moles commemorating
Avogadro’s Number

24. What the F@#$* LVC again. Clue 1.

The very first items sold on….
• Flipkart
• Amazon
• Ebay

25. This pic shows a certain area of a place in India from the
top. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (also known as
"The Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. As
stated in Alfassa's first public message about the township, “X
is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all
countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony,
above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of
X is to realize human unity."

26. This pic in a newspaper was the centre of
controversy some time back. It shows the US President
Obama and his national security team watching the
raid that killed Osama bin Laden from the White House
Situation Room. What was the controversy ?

The Jewish newspaper photoshopped Hillary Clinton
from the pic. It did not publish pics of women

27. Another pictorial controversy…

Is that guy Vladimir Putin the ex KGB
agent ???!!!

28. Ok.. This is fairly easy. What did
this thing used to be a part of ….?

29. There is something special about
this beer brand … what is it ?

The Skinny Blonde beer
• She takes her top off as you finish the bottle !

30. Lena Söderberg (born
31 March 1951 in
Sweden) appeared as a
Playmate in the
November 1972 issue of
Playboy magazine. But
her pic is famous for
other “technical”
reasons??

Her pic is the most often used for
testing algorithms in Digital Image
Processing

31. This is an ad of
Cadbury Bourn-vita.

Who is the model
supposed to be endorsing
the product?

The model also endorsed
products like Radium
Cream, ghee
manufacturer Sri Ghrita,
Darjeeling tea

The great
Rabindranath
Tagore…

32. The product's
name is derived
from Nahuatl word
tziktli.
The original flavor
was peppermint

But many flavors have
been added and
discontinued over the
decades since the
introduction in 1906.

Nahuatl
is a group of related
languages and dialects of
the Nahuan (traditionally
called "Aztecan“)

33.
• Washington Post reported that "India was
offered a X 55 years ago, in 1955. But that
offer, made by the United States and the
Soviet Union, was declined by India's first
prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru said
the X should be given to China instead." . This
decision by Nehru is seen as a blunder and the
loss of an opportunity to attain a stronger
diplomatic stature by India.ID X.

Permanent seat at the UN Security
Council

34.
The flag is designed to portray the "future
history" of X. The red bar, which lies closest to
the mast, symbolizes X as it is today. The green
and blue symbolize stages in the
possible terraforming of X should humanity ever
have the will and the ability to undertake such a
task.ID X.

35. LVC…  Think very basic ….
What connects them all…Clue 1.

Clue 4. And this is the place to be…

• All of there headquarters are in….
The southern part of San Francisco Bay
Area in Northern California of USA or
as we better know it……..
The Silicon Valley

36. What is happening here ?
• More than 130 people converged upon the
ninth floor rug department of the Macy’s
store in New York, gathering around an
expensive rug. Anyone approached by a sales
assistant was advised to say that the gatherers
lived together in a warehouse on the outskirts
of New York, that they were shopping for a
"love rug", and that they made all their
purchase decisions as a group. A certain
first….

37. Stretch your eyes … and tell me
what do you see ?

Just roll it up into a ball and you get
this….

This is the last edition of my Quiz in
this college… So I would like to thank a
few people… The organisers for
making this possible…. My friends for
inspiring me… My juniors for driving
me to keep on quizzing and last but
not the least … I would like to dedicate
this quiz to a certain someone
special……

The cockroach that I killed last night at
3 in the morning…. Hats off to you
buddy!

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