Qriosity Quiz 2019 Finals

 DIRECT- 10/0
 PASS- 5/0
 POUNCE 20/-10
 MESSING WITH QUIZMASTER -3000

 A renowned doctor of Bengal (X) once fell in
love with (Y), the daughter of yet another
doctor of Bengal, after whom the NRS Medical
College was named. As the latter did not yield
to the marriage proposal, (X) never married
again.
 (X) later became the Chief Minister of Bengal
and designed five townships. Out of which,
one was named after his lady love (Y).
 Identify X and Y.
Q.2

X was made in 1952, famously because the then
Prime Minister Nehru was concerned that Indian
women were spending precious foreign exchange
on beauty products, and personally requested JRD
Tata to manufacture them in India. X was named
after the Goddess of Wealth.
Q.3

 IDENTIFY
 Knowledge of Literature = Nil
 Knowledge of Philosophy = Nil
 Knowledge of Astronomy = Nil
 Knowledge of Politics = Feeble
 Knowledge of Botany = Variable
 Knowledge of Geology = Practical, but limited
 Knowledge of Chemistry = Profound
 Knowledge of Anatomy = Accurate, but unsystematic
 Knowledge of Sensational Literature = Immense
 Plays the violin well
 Is an expert boxer and swordsman.
 Has a good practical knowledge of British law
Q.4

In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character
by Forbes Magazine. But later X was dropped from
the list because of angry letters from children
claiming X was real. Identify X.
Q.5

 Minimalist poster for which movie ?

 X is the process of creating a word
that phonetically imitates, resembles, or
suggests the sound that it describes. As such
words are uncountable nouns, X refers to the
property of such words. Common occurrences
of words of the X process include animal noises
such as "oink", "meow" (or "miaow"), "roar"
and "chirp".
 What is X?

Rules
8 topic are listed in the next slide.
Each team will select a topic for another team.
The teams which gets selected topic gets +30/0
Other teams can pounce for +20/-10

Topics
1. Sports
2. Movies
3. TV Series
4. Politics
5. Business & Tech
6. Literature
7. Science
8. Music

SPORTS
IDENTIFY THE PLAYERS X AND Y AND THE FOOTBALL TACTIC Z
X is regarded as one of the best central midfielder’s in this generation. With his pale skin,
emaciated face, long hair and swaying runs with the ball, he bears a resemblance to Y in terms of
both playing style and looks.
Because of this eerie resemblance, X is known as the “Y of Balkans”
Y is considered as a legendary attacking midfielder and football manager who is synonymous
with a very famous football playing style Z.

ANSWER
Topics
X – Luka Modric Y- Johan Cruyff Z - Total Football

MOVIES
“X” has been enlisted as a case study in marketing management courses in ”Y”
colleges. After the movie caught the imagination of the Indian audience.
Y saw a staggering 32% increase of the country’s tourism. Multiple tour
companies started tailor made adventure trails and flights were scheduled
between India and Y.
ID X & Y

ANSWER
Topics
X- ZNMD Y- Spain

TV SERIES
Q. Inexhaustive list of what?
The national anthem
Fifteen Million Merits
The Entire History of You
Be Right Back
White Bear
The Waldo Moment
White Christmas
Shut Up and Dance

ANSWER
Topics
Black Mirror Episodes

BUSINESS AND TECH
In the Ecole Nationale Institute in Paris, a group of students created a software
X.
While they did so, other members used to go out to the streets of Paris and
collect Y from the streets.
By the time the software was done, they had hundreds of Ys. Hence the logo of
X became Y
ID X & Y

ANSWER
Topics
X – VLC Media Player Y- Traffic Cones

ANSWER
Topics
X – Hitler
Mein Kampf

SCIENCE
Though no one is sure about the authenticity of this incident , the
noted German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss offered his own
version of the events in one of his books. According to him, the
whole story was cooked up by X when X was asked by a stupid
importunate man that how X made his discovery.
Which much-celebrated story in the field of science, that found it's
place in the logo of a famous company for a few years, was that?
ID X and the incident

ANSWER
Topics
X- Isaac Newton
Apple Falling on Newton’s head leading to discovery of gravity

Differential Round
Points =(8 - No. Of teams Answering correctly)*10
*80 points to the quizzer if nobody can answer
Quiz-master's decision is ultimate

Identify X &Y.
X was considered by many people to be a lock as India's selection for the Academy Awards Best
Foreign Film Category. However, the selection committee of the FFI decided to send the The
Good Road instead.
Goutam Ghose, the chairman of the committee revealed:
Personally I liked X very much. But eventually the eighteen member jury supported The Good
Road. Now I can say that some people from Bombay felt that the basic premise of X was wrong.
Because the 'Y' never do such mistakes. Films are after all works of fiction, with the right to
cinematic liberty!
It is frequently claimed, that 'Y' make less than one mistake in every six million deliveries.

Answers -
X – THE LUNCHBOX Y - DABBAWALAS

In January-1990, X, a legendary musician came to Kolkata to attend a marriage in the family of an old music mate, Purna
Das Baul. It was X's only visit to India yet. During which he refused to do any interview stating “Not really in the mood to
hand out autographs"
Purna Das Baul, who appears on the cover of X's 1967 album 'Y', introduced X to rural bengali folk and 'baul'songs and
remained close friend trough out many years.
Identify X. Bonus for Y.
X

X – Bob Dylan. Y – John Wesley Harding

Connect:
(Inclusive)
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
The Beatles - Within You Without You
The Beatles - Love You To
The Rolling Stone - Paint it Black
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Beck - Loser
Guns N' Roses - Pretty Tied Up

Identify X;
bonus for Y
After visiting the shooting of '2001' in 1966 invited
by Stanly Kubrick himself, 'X' penned down a script
for a science fiction movie entitled 'Y'. He had
initial talks with Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen
and Peter Steller. Upon Colombia Pictures demand
the movie was later set to be called 'The Alien'.
However eventually the ambitious project was
cancelled.
He later viewed Steven Spielberg’s‘ET: The Extra-
Terrestrial’ at the Venice Film Festival in 1982 and
was astonished to notice strange resemblances to
his script of ‘The Alien’. He wrote about this to
Arthur C. Clarke. But Clarke warned X that, if he
resorted to legal action he would have to devote
his entire time travelling to USA, attending court
sessions. With his ailing health, X decided to
abandon ‘The Alien’.

Identify the film
After arriving in North India, the
protagonist of this film is asked by
desperate villagers to find a mystical
stone and rescue their children from
a Thuggee cult practicing child
slavery, dark magic and
ritualistic human sacrifice in honor
of the goddess Kali.
Amrish Puri played the role of Mola
Ram.
The film was condemned by the likes
of Shashi Tharoor and more for its
inaccurate portrayal of Indian
culture

Indiana Jones and
the Temple of
Doom

Name X:
According to some, the X is "one of the most pirated books in English language
However the original Sanskrit text written by Vātsyāyana has a total of 1,250 verses, distributed
in 36 chapters, further organized into seven parts. Only 20% of it is actually about the thing it is
famous for.

X is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh. This solitary
village situated on a side valley of the Parvati Valley to the north-east of Kullu
Valley, is isolated from the rest of the world. It has been called ‘one of the
oldest democracies’ in the world by its residents. The inhabitants believe that
they have pure Aryan genes and are descendants of Alexander the Great’s
soldiers. They speak Kanashi/Raksh (supposedly the dialect of devils residing
there long ago) which is understood only by them. Tourists are advised to
refrain from touching anything during their visit otherwise they have to pay
hefty compensation for the elaborate purification rituals to the villagers.
Identify X which has been widely linked to drug tourism.

Identify X
X has been consistently ranked among the top educational institutes of India. It was established
in May 1950 as the Eastern Higher Technical Institute and was located in Esplanade East,
Calcutta, and later shifted to its permanent campus to the grounds of a former detention camp
used to hold freedom fighters captive during the British rule.

Identify X and Y.
X is a 1957 film which tells the story
of Vijay, a struggling poet trying to
make his works known in post-
independence India, and Gulabo, a
prostitute with a heart of gold, who
helps him to try and get his poems
published. In 2005, it was rated as
one of the 100 best films of all time
by Time magazine. With Y as both
the director and the lead.

Identify X.
X is a former Indian hockey midfielder, and representing the Indian team in the 1972 Munich
Olympics, that won the bronze medal. He is the father of one of India's most accomplished
tennis players. He is also a doctor in sports medicine. He is married to Jennifer Dutton, a
granddaughter of Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Identify X & Y.
When the King of Awadh, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned by the British in the year 1856,
he was exiled to Kolkata from his capital Lucknow. Being fond of his tastes and indulgences, and
to ensure he didn't have to compromise on either, he brought the entire entourage
of khansamas and bawarchis along with him. But the indulgences of the Nawab were in a fix due
to scarcity of money. It was here that his cooks decided to innovate and gave birth to the local
variant of this much loved X, by cutting down on meat (an expensive component) and adding a
more cheaper component Y. Thereby giving birth to a toned down and more subtle variant of
the dish.

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