INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHARTHE GRAND FINAL

GUIDELINES/RULES:1. 3 rounds of quizzing. Total 30 questions2. Round 1 - Current Affairs/General round (10 questions). 5

clockwise and 5 counterclockwise.3. Round 2 - Specialized topic round (10 questions). 5 clockwise

and 5 counterclockwise. A choice of 15 subjects shall be displayed

4. Round 3 - Buzzer round (10 questions). Open to all teams on the buzzer. Whoever hits the buzzer first, gets to answer. No passing (except that it would go to the audience)

INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHARTHE GRAND FINAL

5. Round 1 will not have negative marking. No passing as well to the next team. Unanswered questions will go to the audience.

6. For round no. 2 (Specialized topics), on a direct question, a correct answer would fetch 10 points, while an incorrect/pass answer will not fetch any negative points. However, there is the option of a pounce for the other teams. If there is a claim of pounce, the concerned team shall raise a card (to alert the QM), write the answer in the sheet provided and hand it over to the QM. On a pounce, if the answer is correct, the team gets 10 points. However, an incorrect/pass answer on a pounce shall attract -10 points. Unanswered questions will go to the audience.

INDIAN SOCIAL CLUB, SOHARTHE GRAND FINAL

7. For round no. 3, negative marking shall be applied. +10 for a correct answer and -10 for an incorrect/pass answer.

8. Intermittently, audience questions would be posed to audiences, where the first preference is given to children and later, if unanswered, to the adults.

QUESTION 1This is the photograph of a lady called Sharmila Thakur. She was all over the news channels for a very peculiar reason, which she recorded, during January/February 2016.What was her claim to fame?

QUESTION 2How does the world know the real name of the author of these novels?

QUESTION 3

Identify the logo (picture is in the next slide) of this organization?

QUESTION 4

Whose titular name is blanked out here?

QUESTION 5Merriam-Webster Inc., were approached by Selchow and Righter, the manufacturers of a particular brain game (generally played indoors) to assist them in making something, which is popularly coined as the OSPD, which would be of extreme help for the players of this game, be it referring or disputes.

The most recent edition of the OSPD was published on August 6, 2014.

For which indoor game does this utility find extreme importance and significance?

QUESTION 6The Shanghai World Financial Center (pictures in the next slide) is a supermall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as its structural engineer and China State Construction Engineering Corp and Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. as its main contractor.

How does this financial center be, more popularly, known to the general public in the world?

QUESTION 7Listerine Zero is one of the variants from Listerine, which is used specifically for this market.

Why this variant and which markets does this specifically cater to?

QUESTION 8Which fictional planet was first introduced thus, in a particular issue (No. 246) of Action Comics

QUESTION 9Robert Cornelius was an American pioneer and a lamp manufacturer. He worked as a silversmith before opening a lamp manufacturing company. Extremely fond of chemistry, he worked for his father's business, specializing in silver plating and metal polishing.

With his own knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy and with the help of chemist Paul Beck Goddard, Robert attempted to perfect the daguerreotype.

From the world we live in currently, what is this man (picture overleaf) credited with the first of its kind?

QUESTION 10The picture of this deity (next slide) was taken at a place by name Kootanur, which is located in the temple town in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu.

Identify this deity and what is so special/unique about this statue in the world?

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

AUDIENCE QUESTION #1This is a photograph of Lord Pethick Lawrence and Gandhiji, taken on April 18, 1946. Why is it significant even to this day?

ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #1

The obverse of the photograph of the Mahatma is used on the Indian currency notes, even till today

AUDIENCE QUESTION #2According to University of Maryland:

It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound continuously for 31 hrs. from east to west and carries a payload of 353,430 tons which is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner.

What are we talking about, whom we recollected around the month of December?

ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #2Santa Claus’ sleigh

AUDIENCE QUESTION #3A "surveyor's chain” is a measuring device, whose form will be familiar to students of civil engineering even today.

It was first used in England in the late 17th century primarily to help landowners measure land. It has 100 metal links of equal length, each of 7.92 inches. The legacy of this chain is still preserved in a very different field.

How is it preserved, even to this date?

ANSWER TO AUDIENCE QUESTION #3To measure the length of cricket pitches. 792 inches = 66 feet = 22 yards.

On June 11, 1888, Lord Frederick Arthur _____________ was sworn in as the sixth Governor General of this country, appointed by then England's reigning monarch, Queen Victoria.

The sport, under subject, was in its very earliest stages of its development, when Lord and Lady Frederick Arthur and their children observed their first game on Feb. 4, 1889, which was a moment of epiphany for the royal family.

Capt. Charles Colville, a former aid to Lord Frederick, was instructed to use 10 guineas (US$50) to purchase this trophy, which was a beautiful punchbowl (picture in the next slide), with an intention to support the sport and its continuation.What are we talking about?

The Great Charter of Liberties is a document agreed by King John of England on June 15, 1215. It was first drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons (royal family members). However, since neither side stood by the commitments due to which the First Barons' War started. After the death of King John, his young son Henry III, reissued the document in 1216, stripped (from the old document) some of its more radical content to suit to both sides, with an intention of historical peace.

How do we, better know this document, which celebrated its 800th anniversary, back in November 2016?

Identify the amateur cricket team from this picture

This is the picture of a German physicist, engineer and a glass blower, by name Daniel Gabriel __________.

What path-breaking invention, which finds a wide range of applications in the field of health, weather, chemical reactions etc, did he give to the world?

As far as world history is concerned, back in 1952, what is the significance of this commemorative plaque (Picture in the next slide)?

This photograph was taken at Estadio Milton Correa (Brazil), popularly known as Zerao. What is its significance in World Geography?

Identify the Nobel Laureate (Pen name: Andrew Belis), in whose memory, this coin was issued

This is the photograph (next slide) of a shipwreck involving Sea Venture on the islands of Bermuda, which set sail from Plymouth in June 1609. It is widely believed that this shipwreck heavily influenced a superb creation by a litterateur-par-excellence.

What creation are talking about?

The Bollywood semi-blockbuster movie Bombay to Goa, was a 1972 movie starring Amitabh Bachchan, Aruna Irani in the lead roles, while Shatrughan Sinha donning the role of the antagonist.

Before NC Sippy approached Amitabh for the lead role, which iconic personality, known to Indians in a completely different field, was offered the lead role?

What is the significance of this picture, from the world of Hollywood?

Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands.

Which company’s tagline is this?

From the world of games and gadgets, where would one find the application of this formula?

Considered as one of the most important financial hubs in Eastern Europe, this capital city became a single city occupying both banks of Danube (after the unification of the East and West banks). This city also boasts of the world's second oldest metro in the world, after Moscow. It also has around 80 geothermal springs, the world's largest thermal water cave system, world's first known bombing of a hospital during a civil war and the third largest Parliament building in the world.

Which capital city are we describing here?

In the past, politics have sometimes gotten in the way of the Olympics. The games were cancelled in 1940 because of World War II, and the US boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics. However, during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, saw the athletes from these two neighboring countries, marched together as a single nation under one flag (Picture overleaf), even though they split in half following a civil war in the early 50s.Which two Asian nations are we referring to?

This brand (which produces an edible item - loved by children), was originally developed by P&G, who sold the first product in 1967. Back in 2012, P&G sold the brand to Kellogg's for $2.7 billion. There are varieties of slogans, which are used to market this product, which include:Once you pop, the fun don't stop; Once you pop, you can't stop.The logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a male figure (officially known as Julius), which was designed by Louis R. Dixon, with a large moustache and parted bangs. Which brand am I looking for?

QUESTION 21Which world-famous organization created this advertisement?

QUESTION 22John Hargrove and his wife Rosalea started Southern Maid Donuts in Dallas, Texas, in 1937. Quickly, the donut craze spread throughout Texas with stores opening all over the state.Beginning in 1954, a young man from Memphis, Tennessee, started playing his guitar at the Hayride and was quickly introduced to Southern Maid Donuts.From the music world, who was this guitarist (Who had an aircraft named after him)?

QUESTION 23Which country had this currency in the past?

QUESTION 24This edible flower plant derives its English name from the eastern classical Arabic name "Isfanakh". This edible flower plant was introduced by the Arabs to Spain around 10th century, from where it spread to the rest of Europe and the rest of the world.

What edible flower plant are we describing which has Arabic roots?

QUESTION 25What is the particular significance of this postal stamp, issued by the Govt. of Malaysia?

QUESTION 26Back in mid-2013, the Manly library in Sydney were moving books, of a particular sportsperson, from facts section to fiction section.

Which sportsperson are we referring to and what was the main reason for such a move?

QUESTION 27Amongst all the sports in the Olympics discipline, which is the longest time-taking event, in terms of distance covered?

QUESTION 28This is the photograph (next slide) of a Swedish inventor by name Nils Bohlin, who was a mechanical engineer (1939). He began his professional career (in 1942) with the aircraft maker Saab, as an aircraft designer.

A recipient of the Ralph Isbrant Engineering Award (1974) and a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (1995), he was inducted to the Hall of Fame in a particular field in 1999.

For what specific invention was he credited/recognized, which we come across everyday in our lives?

QUESTION 29What is the significance of this recent post in a social media page?

I came homeA little lateSomeone had a bag packed for meAnd a carriage awaitedDestination: RomeTo escort me to my very own "charming"Back to where our stars first collidedAnd now it was full circleAt the same table we first met by chanceThis time he made it not by chanceBut by choiceDown on one kneeHe said 4 words

QUESTION 30This was a stamp issued in his name by East Germany, back in 1975.Which world-famous Frenchman whose, 164th death anniversary, are we remembering today?