bvcoe qc meet - 1st feb 2012

BVCOE Quiz Club

Weekly Quiz

Quizmasters: Surabhi Garhwal and Karthikeya Ramesh

Format :• Pens and paper round• All questions in AV• +1/-0 for right/wrong. • Part points depending on the Q and your A.

Rules :1. The QM is always correct.2. Remember Rule 1.

1. Famous hoarding held up at whose funeral?

• “Maradona good, Pele better, ____________”

“George Best”

2. Which word has been blanked out? And who/what is it a reference to?

Mario Miranda

#3

• The company name is based on the surname of the founder August Horch, his surname meaning 'listen' in German - which, when translated into Latin, becomes _______. FITB

• Audi

#4

• AV question : Identify the singer

• (Track played : Revival from AR Rahman’s Vande Mataram album)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRPpSgRqtRc

• AR Rahman himself, voice modulated to sound like a female singer.

#5

• Which aircraft manufacturer has been awarded the contract for the Indian Air Force’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft? Also name the specific make of aircraft.

Dassault Rafale

6.Exhaustive connect. Chronologically placed when taken clockwise.

Title Sponsors of Cricket ODI World Cups

• Prudential : 1975-1983• Reliance : 1987• Benson & Hedges : 1991• Wills : 1995

After 1995, the tournament has been known simply as the ICC Cricket World Cup; they have not had a title sponsor since.

X, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, with top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game. The sport is now increasingly popular in China.

The word X also has military origins, being a slang term for first-year cadets or inexperienced personnel. One version of events states that Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain of the Devonshire regiment was playing this new game when his opponent failed to ________ and Chamberlain called him a X.

It thus became attached to the ________ game now bearing its name as inexperienced players were labelled as X.

Identify X.

#7

Snooker

#8

Awards:-• British House of Commons Shield, 1998• Voted Homecoming San Dieguito High School, Class of

1999• Named as one of 20 Asian Heroes by the Asia edition

of Time in 2004• Nominated for a Grammy award in 2003 in the World Music

category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall. She was the youngest-ever and first woman nominee in this category.

• In 2005 she was nominated for another Grammy, in the Best Contemporary World Music category for her fourth album RISE.

Identify the person who has been awarded as mentioned above.

Anoushka Shanker

#9 The show was first launched on radio in 1972. It was

anchored by Hamid Sayani, a well-known talk show host. Four years later, his brother Ameen took over upon Hamid's death. It was launched on Zee TV in 1992, completing a transition from radio to the visual medium. In 2000, the show shifted to Sony TV. After a few years of waning viewer interest, the show was taken down briefly; only to make a comeback to the small screen in 2011. This followed an intense public campaign, largely organized on Facebook, to bring the programme back on TV (pic on next slide).

Which programme?

(contd) The online campaign poster.

#10• "A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life - that's me" that is how he used to introduce himself.

• He is the second Indian to get his doctorate in English literature from Cambridge.

• Nominated to the Indian Rajya Sabha in 1966 and received the Sahitya Akademi award three years later.

• In 1976 he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan for his immense contribution to Hindi literature.

• He was also honoured with the Saraswati Samman, the Sovietland Nehru Award and the Lotus Award of the Afro-Asian writers’ conference, for his unique contribution to the world of letters.

• His next generation became even more famous, but in a different field.

• Who are we talking about?

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

11. Ad for?

Monster.com ‘Caught in the wrong job?’

12. Who is awarded the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup?

The winner of the Australian Open women’s singles title.

#13• The very first company to offer ___________ was the St.

Lawrence Agency in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The company says that it has paid out at least two claims. The company pays the claimant $1 per year until their death or for 1 million years, whichever comes first.

• Over 20,000 people have purchased the insurance. The insurance is normally purchased by the "feeble-minded", according to Simon Burgess. Prominent policyholders have included Shirley MacLaine.

• On a more bizarre note, the Heaven's Gate religious group had purchased ___________ before their mass suicide.

• “Let’s face it,” said Burgess, “insurance is so tedious that if I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humour every now and again, I will."

• What?

Alien Abduction Insurance

14. This panel has been photoshopped. What is the significance of the edited part?

How Bruce Wayne ended up choosing the Bat as his symbol

15. Group of forty five youth recruits of the Indian National Army  who were sent to the __________ to train as fighter pilots in 1944. What were they known as?

The Tokyo Boys