Ken-Quest Finals

Rotaract Club of Nirma Institutes
presents

Nitin Pillai

Rules
• The quiz is split in 6 rounds:
2 Written, 2 Infinite Bounce, and 2
Megaconnect.
• Rules of each round to be elaborated
as they come.
• QM’s decision is final & binding.

ROUND 1
Write Brothers 1.0
LEGOSPHERE

• 8 slides depicting LEGO re-creation of
famous movie scenes. Identify the
Movie.
• +5 for the correct answer. No
Negatives.
• +10 bonus for getting all correct.
• All answers to be “WRITTEN DOWN”

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS FOLLOW

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE
UGLY

ROUND 2
Infinite Bounce
• 12 Questions in this round
• Each correct answer +10.
• No Negatives.

1
This is the flag of the “Lord’s
Resistance Army” a guerilla militant
group found in 1987 mainly active in
the African Continent.

It is led by a person, who proclaims
himself the spokesperson of God.
Ideologically, the group claims to be
establishing a theocratic state based
on the Ten Commandments and local
tradition but are accused of
widespread human rights violations.

Who is the most (in)famous leader of
this group?

2
The Narcissus genus of
mostly spring flowering
bulbs. It is named after the
Greek Mythology character
Narcissus who fell in love
with his won reflection and
died.
Two of the less popular
varieties of it are
Paperwhite and Jonquils.
However the third variety is
the most famous and
immortalized in Literature.
What?

3
• According to a folklore in Andhra
Pradesh, once while riding his chariot Karna
came across a young girl crying because she
has dropped her pot of milk on the ground
and she fears punishment at the hands of
her step-mother.
• Out of compassion, Karna takes the wet
earth and squeezes milk out of the soil back
into the pot. The girl goes away happy but
Bhoomidevi is annoyed with Karna for
causing her pain. What did she do?

She cursed him that caused his
chariot to be trapped in earth during
the battle.

4
Give funda behind these rankings given to the
tennis players by the Telegraph newspaper in
2011?
1. Michelle Larcher De Brito (109)
2. Maria Sharapova (101)
3. Monica Seles (93.2)
4. Serena Williams (88.9)
5. Venus Williams (85)
6. Victoria Azarenka (83.5)
7. Elena Bovina (81)
8. Anna Kournikova (78.5)
9. Kim Clijsters (75)
10. Elena Dementieva (73)

Decibel Level of their grunts!

5
•During the time of British Raj, the children of British Officers
studied in Indian schools built by the Englishmen. With the
lack of quality books available by Indian authors on the
subject __X__ and __Y__ wrote these books and published
it in 1935.
• These books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani
schools in the post British era and missionary schools in
Burma and has still got a iconic status and used as a
standard textbook in the subject in many schools in India.
• The Samosapedia describe __X__ and __Y__ as “Two
firangi goras, who torture school-children and JAMmers
in India with their arcane rules”

6
The Mexican free-tailed bat, is a Be, what you wanna be,
medium-sized bat that is native taking things the way, they
to the Americas and is widely come,
regarded as one of the most nothing is as nice as finding
abundant mammals in North paradise
America. Connect it to what is ______ __ __________
written on the right to give the
name of an Iconic Brand. Living live the easy way,
got your way to let it run,
nothing is as cool as drifting in
the sun light,
______ __ __________

la la la ________,
la la la ________,

Bacardi
(Sipping the Bacardi Blast!)

7
Identify the character from its skeleton.

8
•In 1961 ___X___ joined Reuters and then BBC as a
journalist. He was on of the correspondent sent to cover the
Nigerian Civil War in 1967.

• In 2006 in an article published in “Timeonline” he
admitted that he financed a group of 13 men from Nigeria to
launch a coup against Equatorial Guinea by kidnapping its
President Fransisco Macia Nguema. However he failed in
Equatorial Guinea when a Spanish co-conspirator did not
turn come up with the ammunition.

• He came back from this foiled mission and wrote __Y__ in
1973 based on his experiences which is considered by
many as a textbook on the subject.

X: Frederick Forsyth
Y: Dogs of War

9
The Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit, is
an endangered species of the
March Rabbit. found in marshes
and swamps of coastal regions of
the Eastern and Southern United
States. It is a strong swimmer and
found only near regions of water.

The scientific name of this specie
“Sylvilagus palustris ___X___” has
been aptly named after a famous
media personality.
Who?

Hugh Hefner, who else!
(Sylvilagus palustris hefneri)

10
Put funda behind this meme and what has
been blanked out?

11
Google Donated around €1 million to this event/organization in
2011? What?

INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD

12
“A Glass And A Half Full Productions” is the
in-house production unit dedicated to
advertisement campaign of which
company?

The phrase was originally used to explain
the amount of milk in every half-pound of
this product. But due to new European
standards this phrase had to be dropped
from the product .

13
Statue erected in whose honour?

King Leonidas
(Flag of Greece in background)

Audience
• Dr. Ralph Steinman
won the Nobel Prize
for medicine in 2011
for his work in the
immune system.
• However he became
the first person in
Nobel Prize history to
be credited with a
certain feat. What?

He was awarded the
posthumously after changing the
rules.

• 7 slides showing fictitious tweets by famous
personalities,
• + 5 for each correct answer. No Negatives
• + 10 Bonus for getting all correct.

Brutus
(Assassination of Julius Caesar)

Exchange Sheets

Answers Follow

Johannes Gutenberg
(Invention of Printing Press)

Charles Dickens
(A Tale of Two Cities)

Martin Luther King Jr.
(I Have a Dream)

Abraham Lincoln
(Assassinated at Ford Theatre)

Adolf Hitler
(Excellent Painter)

ANNE FRANK
(DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL)

ROUND 4
Infinite Bounce
• 13 Questions in this round
• Each correct answer +10
• No Negatives. So feel free to guess
• QM’s decision is the last word etc. etc.

14
On his website he describes himself as thus:
I’m a sparkling conversationalist , a globetrotter on
the internet and by far the coolest person in the
world. I have two left feet for the right moves and am
a 117% of pure cool awesomeness.
When I was born everybody said “PARTY” so I
thought my name was “PARTY”. Even if no one said
“PARTY” I was there. Because I thought it was a
surprise party!
BTW my name is ____X____.
You can address me as Bro, Hommie or “Your
Awesomeness”. Who?

15
The Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan
attempted to invade Japan twice in 1274 and 1281
AD. On each of those two occasions the Mongols
gained a toehold on Japanese soil, but then a
"divine wind", supposedly stirred up by Japan's
protective deities, ravaged the invasion fleets and
forced the Mongols back to their continental bases.
The Japanese word for “divine wind” or “God
Wind” was only used colloquially until 1945 when
they used it for a major task and the world came to
know about it.
What?

16
He was a trained French lawyer by profession
and was an amateur mathematician who is given
credit for early developments that led
to infinitesimal calculus. He is also recognized
for his contribution to number theory, analytical
geometry, probability and optics.

However non-mathematicians and common
junta only know him by a conjecture scribbled
by him on the margin of a book on mathematics
that he was reading. He never again mentioned
about this conjecture before his death. The
margin note was available after his son released
the book with the argument and the margin note
came to be known as ___X___.

Pierre de Fermat
(Fermat’s Last Theorem)

17
__X__ is a fried ball or patty made from ground
chickpeas or fava beans. It is generally served with
round or flat bread.
This food item gets it name from the Arabic word
for pepper which itself is derived from the Sanskrit
word pippali (long pepper).
It is eaten throughout the Middle East. The
Egyptians claim to have made it as a replacement
for meat but now it’s found throughout the world
mostly as street food.

18
The “Free as a man”
design, based upon a
human hand and a bird in
flight, was created by
Serbian designer Predrag
Stakic. It has been
accepted as the
International Symbol for
something. What?

19
The Prince of Mars is the first among the
series of novel written by Edgar Rice
Burroughs. It is set in the fictitious world
land called barsoom which is a romantic
vision of dying Mars.
While depicting many outlandish
inventions, and advanced technology, it is a
savage world of honor & noble sacrifice
filled with lost cities, heroic adventures and
forgotten ancient secrets.
The character ____X____ made his first
appearance in this book in 1912 and his
centenary was celebrated in 2012 in a
particular way.
Who is this Prince of Mars being talked
about?

21
What is this video all
about?

22

• Trademark Design of a
famous product which was
first made in 1912.
• The name of this product
is an African American
slang for “Black on the
outside and white on
inside”

23
• He was born in 1973 in the Etawa district in Uttar Pradesh.
• He studied at Sainik School in Dhaulpur Rajasthan. He
then did his Bachelor of Engineering and Masters in Civil
Engineering from University of Mysore, Karnataka. He later
obtained a Masters in Environmental Engineering from the
University of Sydney, Australia.
• He is married to his childhood sweetheart Dimple with two
kids. As a keen Environmentalist he was contemplating on
taking up water pollution projects when his father introduced
him to a different career path.
• Technically speaking, he has covered 2.5 times the length
of Tour de France track on bicycle.
•Who are we talking about?

The Hindu’s take on Page 3 news
published by TOI

25
•This word finds its use in Judaism and Christianity. It is
basically derived from the modification of words from
Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic.
• In Christianity it refers to a shout of praise and worship and
adoration, or referring to a cry of salvation expressing an
appeal for divine help.
• The word found its way into a 2010 Tamil movie song
composed by A R Rahman. Here the word is used as an
exclamation of joy when a man sees his beloved.
•However The Catholic Christian Secular Forum (CSF)
objected to this song and asked film-makers Fox Star Studios
to remove it from the final cut of the Hindi remake of the song.
What is the word?

26 (Open)/+15
Connect these pictures to the world sports.

Nicknames of Australian
Cricketers
Don- Donald Bradman
The Afghan- Mark Waugh
Pigeon- Glenn Mcgrath
Kasper- Michael Kasprowicz
Pup- Michael Clarke
Bing – Brett Lee

Mega-Connect 1.0
• 10 Slides in all.
• + 10 for each individual slides. No
Negatives
• Points for the Mega-Connect written on the
top
• Exhaustive List.

1 (+100/0)
The scientific name is Xiphias gladius and
known as “broadbill” in many countries.
Give me the popular name for it.

2 (+90/-20)
This specie of tortoise is native to an island lying to
the west of Ecuador. Spanish explorers who
discovered the islands in the 16th century named it
after the Spanish name for tortoise. We know this
Island by a famous voyage made by a scientist on
the ship HMS Beagle which led to the proposal of a
famous scientific theory.
Name the specie

3 (+80/-20)
Who are:
Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Thorin, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur,
Dori, Nori, and Ori .

5 (+60/-20)
Born in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, he did
his specialization in Law from Fergusson College, Pune.
He Became the 9th Prime Minister of India in 1991. He
held the Industries portfolio and was personally
responsible for the dismantling of the Licence Raj as this
came under the purview of the Industries Ministry.
He is best remembered for employing Dr. Manmohan
Singh as his Finance Minister and is referred to
as Chanakya for his ability to steer tough economic and
political legislation through the parliament.
He could speak 15 languages. He died in 2004.

6 (+50/-20)

Virgin Comic based
on whose life?

7 (+40/-10)
__X__ is a play ground located near New Delhi Railway
Station and Delhi Gate.
The place was originally a large pond before 1930. It was
filled up in the early 1930s so that an annual theatrical drama
could be shifted here from the flood plains behind Red Fort. It
quickly became a popular site for political meetings, with
Gandhiji, Nehru, Sardar Patel and other top nationalist leaders
addressing rallies here. A small pond is still there inside the
ground as a remembrance of its history.
The place was very much in news last year due to a specific
event.
What?

8 (+30/- 10)
The photo shows George
Harrison posing with A C
Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada. Which
organization
headquartered in
Bangalore did he found?

9 (+20/-10)
Id the monument & what according to general belief does it
contain?

10 (+10/0)
What connects these four Pictures?

And the Mega-Connect
is……..

1
The scientific name is Xiphias gladius and
known as “broadbill” in many countries.
Give me the popular name for it.

2
This specie of tortoise is native to an island lying to
the west of Ecuador. Spanish explorers who
discovered the islands in the 16th century named it
after the Spanish name for tortoise. We know this
Island by a famous voyage made by a scientist on
the ship HMS Beagle which led to the proposal of a
famous scientific theory.
Name the specie

Galapagos Tortoise
(Kurma, the tortoise)

3
Who are:
Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Thorin, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Do
ri, Nori, and Ori.

The Dwarfs in the movie Hobbit
(Vamana, the dwarf)

5
Born in the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, he did
his specialization in Law from Fergusson College, Pune.
He Became the 9th Prime Minister of India in 1991. He
held the Industries portfolio and was personally
responsible for the dismantling of the Licence Raj as this
came under the purview of the Industries Ministry.
He is best remembered for employing Dr. Manmohan
Singh as his Finance Minister and is referred to
as Chanakya for his ability to steer tough economic and
political legislation through the parliament.
He could speak 15 languages. He died in 2004.

P V Narasimha Rao
(Narasimha, the half man-lion)

6

Virgin Comic based
on whose life?

7
__X__ is a play ground located near New Delhi Railway
Station and Delhi Gate.
The place was originally a large pond before 1930. It was
filled up in the early 1930s so that an annual theatrical drama
could be shifted here from the flood plains behind Red Fort. It
quickly became a popular site for political meetings, with
Gandhiji, Nehru, Sardar Patel and other top nationalist leaders
addressing rallies here. A small pond is still there inside the
ground as a remembrance of its history.
The place was very much in news last year due to a specific
event.
What?

8
The photo shows George
Harrison posing with A C
Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada. Which
organization
headquartered in
Bangalore did he found?

International Society of Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON

9
Id the monument & what according to general belief does it
contain?

Sanchi Stupa, relics of Buddha

10
What connects these four Pictures?

Megaconnect 2.0

• 6 slides containing abstract images
• Find a common connect between them
• No Points for Individual Slides.
• Points shown on each slide.

7

And the connect is………..

Ram
(Aries)

Lamborghini
(Taurus)

Twins Crab
(Gemini) (Cancer)

Leo Tolstoy Virgin Mary
(Leo) (Virgo)

Scales Scorpion King
(Libra) (Scorpio)

Goatee Centaur
(Capricon) (Sagittarius)

Water Carrier Fish Face
(Aquarius) (Pisces)

Backups
Explain the funda behind this image.

Pirate Bay to continue with
only magnet files

2
Movie released in 1977. Why is it doing the
rounds in the media?

3
• Dr. Ralph Steinman
won the Nobel Prize
for medicine in 2011
for his work in the
immune system.
• However he became
the first person in
Nobel Prize history to
be credited with a
certain feat. What?

4
What is being parodied by this Fredo & Pidgin
cartoon strip ?

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