SPQC session 5

SPQC Quiz October 2011

Quizmasters:
==========
Jay C
Rajesh R
Mayuresh M

Rules / Format

1. Infinite Bounce (Rebounds)
2. Clockwise round
3. small connect
4. Counterclockwise round
5. BIG connect
6. As usual, Gautam starts with -10

Whose facebook profile says this

"While i suck my favourite dish into my tentacles, people take
this regular stunt of mine as a prediction...
way to go Homo Sapiens"

Answer
Pulpo Paul aka Paul the Octopus

Connect

Answer
Dhoni – 3 alleged affairs and wife

Connect
Maris Crane - Fraser (TV series)
George Steinbrenner - Seinfeld (TV series)
Wilson - Home Improvement (TV series)

Godot - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Book)
Mrs. Churchill - Emma by Jane Austen (Book)
Rosaline - Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (Book/Play)

Sebastian Venable - Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee
Williams (Play)
Donald Muller - Doubt: A Parable (Play)
Eva Smith - An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestley (Play)

Answer
Characters who have been absent or partially
shown

Connect
X is the 36th and current President of Y. She is the first woman to hold the
office. Prior to that, in 2005, she was also the first woman to become Chief of
Staff of Y, appointed by then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant father, X was raised in an upper middle
class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist during her youth, and
following the 1964 coup d'état joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla
groups that fought against the military dictatorship. X was captured and jailed
between 1970 and 1972 and reportedly tortured.

In 2002, X joined the committee responsible for the energy policy of presidential
candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who after winning the election invited her to
become Minister of Energy.In 2005, a political crisis triggered by a corruption
scandal led to the resignation of Chief of Staff José Dirceu. X took over the post,
remaining in office until March 31, 2010, when she left in order to run for
President. She was elected in a run-off on 31 October 2010. She is the first
female elected President of Y, in addition to being the first economist elected for
the office.
Answer
X = Dilma Vana Rousseff Y = Brazil

Connect
Child support payment invisible
Eviction notice pink
Stripper pole silver
grapekool-aid purple
Extension Cord Orange
Bootleg DVD Silver
Money green
cocaine white
watermelon pink
chicken brown
Magnum Wrapper Gold
jail jumpsuit orange
crime scene tape yellow
limited edition michael jackson (black one day, white the next)
monopoly $ 5 pink
albino white
crackhead lips white
now 'n later blue
Answer
Ghetto Crayon Colours

X is over a 100 years old and was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi on Sept. 23,
1889 as a company that made Japanese playing cards.

One of many business ideas explored by early X was a "love hotel.“
These establishments are popular in Japan and offer couples rooms by the
hour. X invested in a love hotel in the swinging '60s.

X then built a brick system called "N&B Blocks." It seems LEGO wasn't too
pleased, but X wangled its way out of legal difficulty due to the fact that some
of its blocks were rounded.

Back in 1992, X became the majority owner of major league baseball team
the Seattle Mariners. After the purchase, the team's mascot remained the
Mariner Moose.

Identify X.
Answer
Nintendo

X and Y are intials with 3 letters - the 2nd and 3rd initials being common in
both.

X is the 36th president of USA.
Y is a favourite snack for most american kids.

Take away the first initial from X or Y
and you get the first act of most porn scenes.

Id X and Y.

Answer
X = LBJ, Y=PBJ

Identify

Answer
Mario’s Hat

 Adbusters Media Foundation is a vociferous
Canadian advocacy group that is against
consumerism in many forms and runs many
"subvertisements". Earlier this year, they made
a call for a series of protests in New York,
against big businesses and various socio-
political inequalities.
 Their Protest originally started off at X (place ,
2 letter word) with the name Z X and then
spread on to other places too with names such
as Z A, Z B etc.
 Identify Z X.

Answer
Occupy Wall Street

"Saakshaat" is a mission of the Indian government
to promote education through information and
communication technology.
Which is why "Saakshaat" was the earlier
rumoured name for a product associated with the
mission. This product will be available for purchase
under the name "Ubislate"
(Datawind, the manufacturer, already has a
product called "Ubisurfer").
But by what name has it become known in India?

Answer
"Aakash", the low-cost computing tablet that was
launched by the Indian HRD Ministry in October 2011

Connect

Answer
Zero

 This place in Delhi used to be a large pond in
the old walled city area. Some time during the
decade of the 1930s, the pond was filled up so
that an annual event could be shifted to that
place (from which it gets its name).
 Over the decades, the place has also been
used for other reasons; the Municipal
Corporation of Delhi isn't very happy about all
this and wants to turn it into a green area where
people can relax, instead of being agitated.
 Which place?
Answer
Ramlila Maidan

According to wikipedia:
Classification
Brass[citation needed]
Wind
Brass[citation needed]
Aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
423.121.22
(Tubular end-blown trumpet with mouthpiece)

Other names:
lepatata Mambu (its Tswana name), colloquially known in South
Africa as "Moerstripper“

What are we talking about?

Answer
vuvuzela

This is a series of books. The 9th is the latest in the series. Each book has a name
common to its title. The name is followed by a word. The following are clues to the
All titles have "The Bourne..." common to them. The
nine words, one per title.
individual words are:
1st title. One meaning of this word is what 1 is in multiplication or what 0 is in
Identity
addition.
2ndSupremacy used to perform the Ashwamedha or Rajasuya Yagna - to
word is why kings
prove their "___" over other kings.
Ultimatum
3rd title is what political parties often give each other and it comes with a deadline.
Legacy
th is what famous people want to leave behind (no, not an old computer system).
4
Betrayal
5th is what double agents often do to their parent country.
6th SanctionUnited Nations often imposes on countries that are naughty.
is what the
7th Deception spinner (especially one who can't spin the ball) should have in his
is what a good
Objective
kitty.
8th Dominion KBC and most competitive exams have in common.
The format that
9th (this is the latest title) What India was between 1947 to 1950.
Today's question is: what is this series, and what is the latest (ninth) title?
Answer
"The Bourne series" by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader.

• Train number 17303/4, an express of the Indian
Railways, plies between Yeshwantpur (Bangalore)
and Mysore in Karnataka. This comes under the
South Western Railway.

• What do we commonly know it as?

Answer
Malgudi Express

Identify

Ian Botham — Beefy
Beefy
Jason Gillespie — Dizzy
Dizzy
Richard Hadlee — Paddles
Paddles
Bill Lawry — Phantom
Phantom
Dilip Vengsarkar — Colonel
Colonel
Venkatapathy Raju — Muscles
Muscles

Answer
Cricketer Nicknames

 "Foreign Policy", an American magazine, along with "The Fund for
Peace" (an American research group) publishes an annual index which
ranks countries on twelve factors comprising various social, economic,
and political dimensions. Usually, countries would not want to be ranked
high on this list.

 This year's list came out in June and its top ten has seven African
countries; Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq make up the rest.
 Somalia is the unfortunate #1. India ranks #76 (while Pakistan is #12).
 Expectedly, Scandinavian countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark) and Switzerland are at the very bottom.
 Such high ranking countries are described by a two-word geopolitical
phrase that indicates the inability of their governments to govern
effectively.

 This is also the name of the Index. What term?

Answer
Failed State

Identify.
2 points each.

Answer
IBM, Nokia, Firefox, Apple, Cannon – First Logos

 What do these numbers and formula signify?
Numbers-BIS Gold Hallmarking Marking Scheme
e.g 999(24 carats),916(22carats),875(21 carats)
etc
Formula-A measure of purity.
One carat is 24 purity by mass. X=24 Mg/Mm,
where
X is the carat rating of the material,
Mg is the mass of pure gold in the material, and
Mm is the total mass of the material
e.g 24-carat gold is 99.9% fine gold, 21-carat
gold is 87.5 %gold, 18-carat gold is 75% gold
and 14-carat gold is 58.5% gold.
Answer
Numbers-BIS Gold Hallmarking Marking Scheme,Formula-A measure of
purity

The English cricket season typically opens with the "Champion
County" match, in which a team representing the Marylebone
Cricket Club (MCC) plays the current English county
champions.
This year, as in 2010, the match was held at Abu Dhabi in
March, and was a four day match played in day-night fashion.
India's Rahul Dravid was part of the MCC team, and starred,
scoring a century to help them win.
He was reportedly happy with an experimental addition to the
match. This is being trialled around the world with a view of
being implemented in a day-night Test scenario.
What significant change to cricketing equipment was made in
this match?

Answer
They used Pink Balls

Here’s that rare Steve Jobs story, one that’s never been told, about the company
that got away.
Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who
blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file
system so that his startup’s logo, an _________ _____, appeared elegantly tucked
inside.
In December 2009 Jobs beckoned Houston and his partner, Arash Ferdowsi, for a
meeting at his Cupertino office. When Houston whipped out his laptop for a demo,
Jobs, in his signature jeans and black turtleneck, coolly waved him away:“I know
what you do.”
What Houston does is X, the _______________________ that has surged to 50
million users, with another joining every second.
Jobs presciently saw this sapling as a strategic asset for Apple. Houston cut Jobs’
pitch short: He was determined to build a big company, he said, and wasn’t selling,
no matter the status of the bidder (Houston considered Jobs his hero) or the
prospects of a nine-digit price.
In August 2011, X got a valuation of $4 Billions, 1 billion below what they expected
and almost half of the initial expectations. Answer
Identify X.
Dropbox

Identify / What the hell is going on / Where would
you hear this ???

Answer
The Haka performed by the All Blacks (New Zealand Rugby
Team) before every match.

Small Connect. Clue 1. +50/-25


Answer
EPL Jersey Sponsors

Written Question. Identify Personality/Logo.
2 points for each.

.
Answer

Identify
This famous British author's first ever book was called
The Narrative of John Smith and was completed in
1884. It is about a man suffering from gout. This theme
is in no way reflective of the kind of books the author
was to become famous for a couple of years later.
In fact, the book was lost in the mail after being sent to
a publisher. The author wrote it again, but never
published it, even quipping: "My shock at its
disappearance would be as nothing to my horror if it
were suddenly to appear again - in print".
The British Council is now releasing this novel with the
permission of the author's literary estate. Who is this
author?
Answer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Awaara” was one of the first foreign films to seep through the bamboo
curtain (China) and the song "awaara hoon“ held sway across the
middle kingdom for more than half a century.
Until W, the title song from X's movie Y caught the modern hamburger-
chomping, gizmoguzzling , tea-tripping Chinese. The film locally known
as “San Geshagua” - literally meaning Y - has done astoundingly well
in China and Hong Kong where it's been running houseful in cinemas
for an unusually long five weeks.

Normally a Bollywood film would run in select multiplexes in Hong Kong
for 1-2 weeks. The only other movie that has come close to the success
of Y is another one starring X, namely Z. According to
www.boxofficemojo .com, Y is currently number 3 in Hong Kong in the
sixth week of its re-release with mandarin subtitles bringing in over
USD1.18 mn (Rs 5.9 crore). Identify W, X, Y, Z.
Answer
W = All Izz Well, X = aamir khan, Y = 3 idiots, Z = Lagaan.

This is a print ad for
what product ?

Answer
Durex

 In "Kaun Banega Crorepati", it is a type of lifeline.
 In the TV series "Seinfeld", it is a social and eating
faux pas committed by George Costanza in the
episode "The Implant".
 This term can also be found in metereology, in
taxation, and in politics.
 However, if you've seen it recently, it's probably to
do with fears of a recession in the Western world.
 What double-worded term?

Answer
Douple Dip

An image meme that started on
Tumblr in early 2009 and spread to
social networks around the world has
just made its way back to Tumblr,
where many users are seeing it for
the first time. The meme is called
“241543903” and it involves taking a
photo of ___________________ and
tagging it 241543903. That way,
anyone who searches for the magic
number on Google Images will see a
whole ton of ____________ photos

Answer
Head in a freezer

 The international association (established in 2007)
for this "sport", along with some of its leading
exponents, has made a petition to the International
Olympic Council earlier this year asking for this
discipline to become a test event at the 2012
London Olympics. They hope this might pave the
way for it to become a full-fledged Olympic sport by
2016. (National championships for the sport have
already been held in countries like the US, and a
couple of international events have also been
held.)The petition states that "like the horizontal bar
(in gymnastics), the vertical bar should have a place
in international sport."
 What "sport"?
Answer
Pole Dancing

Put Fundae.

Answer
Dani Jarque Forever With Us.

This rule in a sport has seen a few changes over the years.
Earlier, the maximum number of times every participant could
do something was two. Apparently, the rule was modified after
TV broadcasters complained about the delays it could cause.
So in 2001, the rule changed to a system where the first
person to do so got a yellow card and the next person to do
this got a red card. In 2010, this rule changed again,
controversially, to a harsher 'one-strike' rule. A recent high-
profile casualty of this rule has caused many to call for a
change from this stricter rule.
What rule, and what recent event has brought this into the
spot-light?
Answer

The 'false start' rule in athletics. During the recent World Athletics
Championships, reigning champion Usain Bolt made a false start in
the 100m final, and was promptly disqualified.

X is the round old man in a top hat who serves as the mascot
of the game Y. X was rechristened Mr. Y (the nickname by
which he was already popularly known) in a Hasbro
marketing effort in 1999. He also is known as Whiff from all
the casino slot machines. He also appears in the related
games Advance to Boardwalk, Free Parking, Don't Go To
Jail, Y City, Y Junior, and Y Deal.

Identify X and Y.

Answer
X = Rich Uncle Pennybags, Y = Monopoly

Identify

Answer

Customs Form filled by
Apollo 11 astronauts
when they came back
from the moon.

The Mattel Toy company initially decided to make
Conan the Barbarian action figures (inspired by the
movie), but then executives realized that they
couldn’t afford to be associated with a film with such
a graphic description of violence and sex. Since the
toys had already been made, they modified them,
and created something else. What?

Answer
They changed the colour of his hair from red-> blonde, and
created He-Man

What business entity connects the following set of
people:
 Manas Sarkar, a 17 year 'cadet' footballer
 Pawan Kumar, a senior associate for quality control
 A tribal beneficiary of the "Tejaswini" Project
 A Commonwealth Gold medallist in Archery
 Jyoti Pandey, A Departmental Ethics coordinator
 A Dutch researcher, formerly an employee of Corus
 Sadhan Baske, a tomato farmer
 The fifth woman to scale Mt. Everest

Answer
These people are featured in the Tata Steel "Values Stronger
Than Steel" ad campaign

Connect

Answer
All have come to S.P.I.T for Drama Practice.

The brand identity adorns red and black colours over a
white background. The logo comprises a triangle, a
parallelogram and a trapezoid as its part which
together form the ___ in 3D.The logo revolves around
high energy and space. In the words of the company,
“The colour red in the logo depicts continuity and
change. It also depicts confidence. There is an ___
formed in the logo. The angular formation of ___
symbolizes that it is no longer dependent on foreign
expertise for its brands. It will be focusing on its own
engineering capabilities.”
Whose logo?
Answer
Hero Moto Corp

Answer
Digital Camera. Steve Sasson.

Connect:

•Kim Tarvesh, who makes a cameo appearance in
'Golden Gate',
•Shiv Market in 'A Suitable Boy' and
•Keith Varms in 'An Equal Music'.

Answer
All anagrams of Vikram Seth, the author

A graduate in Chemistry from Scottish Church
College,Kolkata, he is recognized as the
highest tax payer in India for 5 years in a row
from 1994. He is also the owner of the Monarch
Group of hotels.
He was a Naxalite before his brother was killed
when he changed fields.
Identify this person.

Answer
Mithun Chakraborthy

Which brand would you associate with the following
campaign?

Answer
HappyDent

She's 29 years old, 5’10’’, weighs 96 pounds
and wears size 14-AAAAAA shoes and her vital
statistics are an unflattering 19-19-19. Her
parents were Cole and Nana, and her first
boyfriend was a chap called Ham Gravy. Who?

Answer
Olive Oyl

 The Swiss business giant Nestlé has a dog food
product called "Beneful" (under its Nestlé Purina pet
care company).
 What unusual ad, targeted at their real customers,
have they launched on Austrian television in October
this year?

Answer
Their first attempt to develop an ad for dogs had little success.
But they discovered a combination of sounds that attract a
dog's attention without distracting from the human-focused
dialogue.
The ad features the squeaky sound of a dog toy and a bell.

This debuted in The Economist in 1986 and has been
a popular albeit farcical method of making a certain
comparison. It appears annually, though it is updated
several times a year. This year, India appears in the
list for the first ever time, but the results must be
taken with a pinch of salt, since the Indian version
isn’t the same as it is elsewhere.There have been
calls to try out other objects, but so far, this has been
resisted. However, this year, The Economist collected
the source data via crowdsourcing and not, as it
were, from the cow’s mouth.
What is all this about? Answer
The Big Mac Index, which uses the prices of the McDonalds
Big Mac burger to compare purchasing power and exchange
rates across countries. The chain does not make Big Macs in
India because they are made with beef and uses the
Maharajah Mac instead

 The "World Earth Catalog" was created by Stewart Brand
in 1968 and published continuously for a short duration of
four years (there was the odd issue now and then after
1972). The catalog would document various tools,
information, products, and ideas that appealed to those
who subscribed to the counterculture movements of the
60s in the US. These were people who were interested in
ecology, the environment, sustainable living, etc.The
image here is of the back cover of the last issue in 1974,
with a four word phrase (blanked out) on it.
 In 2005, this burst into prominence and has been with us in
one form or another.
 Once again, in early Oct 2011, it was once again widely
quoted.
 Which phrase?

Answer
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Big Connect. Clue 1. +100/-50

Big Connect. Clue 16. REALLY ??? You
expect points at this stage ?/
-1 Lakh

Answer
Things shown during the start credits of
The Big Bang Theory

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