talent inquisition

Talent Inquisition

40 Questions in all. 20 Clockwise Qs; 20 Anti Clockwise Qs. A written round of 5 questions in the middle. +10 per correct answer.

1. Inspired by Yelp!, where people could share all kinds of information about dentists and plumbers, what did Robert Hohman start, so as to provide a similar review service for jobs?

Answer

Glassdoor

2. Tiling in mathematics means to fully cover a two-dimensional plane with polygons with no overlaps. A tiling is said to be symmetric if one can virtually rotate it or reflect it without causing the tiling picture to change. There are only 17 possible symmetries in tiling.

The most impressive tiling mosaics in history were done by Islamic artists in the Middle Ages. Which popular attraction in Spain was found to have all the possible seventeen symmetries on its walls?

Answer

The Alhambra Palace

3. What does the map depict?

Answer

European nations according to 2nd largest nationality within them

4. The picture beside shows a patent for "classifying apparatus and method" given in 1952. How do we now commonly know it as?

Answer

The Bar Code

5. Which city is this an aerial photo of ? Identifying what the lit up route depicts may help.

Answer

Berlin; Berlin Wall

6. The following photo was taken from the ISS somewhere over East Asia. What popular pilgrimage spot does this image capture, one that has lent itself to many illustrations?

Answer

Mt Fuji in Japan

Most famously depicted in Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji.

7. From outside the Academy awards show in 1974. Who is being nominated for the best editing award?

Answer

Richard Nixon, after Watergate

8. David Cornwell, a much celebrated author, who worked with MI5 and MI6 wrote this about John Bingham, "Surely there can be few better tributes to a friend and colleague than to create – if only from some of his parts – a fictional character who has given pleasure and food for thought to an admiring public."

How do we popularly know Cornwell as? What was inspired by John Bingham?

Answer

John le Carre; George Smiley

9. In 1963, TV host Merv Griffin, while flying with his wife, was looking at notes for a new knowledge based game show. After the quiz show rigging scandals of the 1950s, the audience suspected TV channels of giving the answers to participants and Merv thought this show may fail as well.

Then Julann - his wife said, “Well, why don’t you give them the answers? And make people come up with the questions?"

What classic TV show came about thus?

Answer

Jeopardy

10. Which was the first Pakistani city to host a test cricket match, in 1955?

Answer

Dhaka, then a part of Pakistan

11. Whom does 'Mx', an honorific gaining popularity in Nordic countries, refer to?

Answer

Transgenders

12. Translated to English as "New Body/ New Skeleton", this event happens once in a cycle of 12 to 19 years depending on the Hindu calendar. The previous such event happened in 1996, while the next will be held this year.

What is the event popularly known as? Where does this take place?

Answer

Nabakalebara; Puri

13. In ancient Indian art, the representation of the Buddha transformed from aniconic to iconic. The aniconic is shown by an empty throne symbolizing his presence and the iconic being images of Buddha.

This change happened over four centuries (2nd century BC to 2nd Century AD) and can be prominently seen in a school of art which flourished under Satavahanas.

The city which gives its name to this school of art is now back in news. Identify the city

Answer

Amravati. New Capital of AP.

14. What slang for a much used place is said to be derived from the modification of a term called 'lieux d'aisances' (places of conveniences)?

Answer

Loo

15. Sean Conley from Minnesota; David Tidmarsh from Indiana; Evan M. O'Dorney from California and Kerry Close from New Jersey.

The above four the only ones to break what stranglehold in the past 15 years?

Answer

Non Indian origin winners of Scripps Spelling Bee

16. Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownagree, from Bethnal Green North East in 1895 and Shapurji Saklatvala from Battersea in 1922 are 2nd and 3rd in this list.

What list is this? Which famous Indian is 1st in this list?

Answer

Indians to be elected to House of Commons in UK; Dadabhai Naoroji

17. The constituencies of Brighton and Hove were the only ones in England's south to not be won by Conservatives in the 2015 general election. The electoral results map follows.

Twitter reacted to this image by comparing Brighton and Hove to another iconic place of resistance in popular culture. Which place ?

Answer

The village of Asterix

18. Who posted this status update on LinkedIn, after confirming a second attempt at breaking a barrier which has stood for 200+ years?

Answer

Hillary Clinton

19. In 1926, Bimal Mukherjee set out to do something first made popular by an 1873 French novel. But, he could only return a decade later and then authored a travelogue 'Du Chakay Duniya'.

What did he set out to do? What was his mode of transport?

Answer

Go around the world on a bicycle

20. Who is seen here describing the end moments of his pioneering act which took place in 1920s?

"The sun went down shortly after passing Cherbourg and soon the beacons along the Paris-London airway became visible. I first saw the lights of Paris a little before 10 P.M., or 5 P.M., New York time, and a few minutes later I was circling the Eiffel Tower.

The lights of Le Bourget were plainly visible. Presently I could make out long lines of hangars, and the roads appeared to be jammed with cars.I flew low over the field once, then circled around into the wind and landed."

Answer

Charles Lindbergh's non stop flight crossing of the Atlantic

Written Round

5 images which show the 1st tweet. ID the person/account.

+5 for each correct answer.

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2

3

4.

5

Answers

Exchange Sheets!

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Anti Clockwise

20 More!

21. What in its initial avatar was a half-hour competition programme during which a few random Hindi film songs were broadcast and the audience asked to rearrange them chronologically for a prize?

Answer

Binaca Geetmala

22. In the begining of the 20th century, foreign exploitation had escalated to the point that the outright partitioning of China into international zones seemed likely.

This aroused a violent movement among the Chinese to rid their country of foreign influence. At its forefront was a group that called itself the the Righteous and Harmonious Fists

What did the foreign press label this group?

Answer

The Boxers

From where we get the Boxer Rebellion

23. FITB and identify the occasion which inspired the original work.

Answer

Lincoln's death

24. Connect

Answer

Adapted from Shakespeare's Works

25. The filmmaker Pritish Nandy has this story of a friend who brought a 16mm print of an English film and then took it around the countryside in a van with a projector.

Although the film had not been dubbed to local language, the story line went down so well in rural India that Nandy’s friend made a small fortune.

Which iconic 1960's movie, one which did not do well in the US, but has left its mark in Indian culture?

Answer

Mackenna's Gold

26. Which novel can be summarised as "Man goes for a walk around Dublin. Nothing happens" ?

The novel itself is based on the structure of an older work, one which is fundamental to the Western Canon. Which work?

Answer

Ulysses; Odyssey

27. He obtained his PhD for a dissertation "Racial-Morphological Examinations of the Anterior Portion of the Lower Jaw in Four Racial Groups", where he sought to demonstrate that there were structural differences in the lower jaws of individuals from different ethnic groups, and that racial distinctions could be made based on these differences.

This formed a precursor to his later bizzarre experiments, actively encouraged by the state, on dwarfs and twins.

Who is this, someone who evaded capture till death?

Answer

Joseph Mengele

28. "We have all been given a gift with _______ ________ - a show that’s not only based in the scientific community, but also enthusiastically supported by that same community. This is our opportunity to give back."

This was the producer of a show during the inauguration of a scholarship fund in May 2015 at UCLA to aid students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Which show?

Answer

The Big Bang Theory

29. In October 2014, a group of 84 women football players representing 13 countries filed a lawsuit against Fifa in Canada’s court of human rights citing risk of injury and gender discrimination.

What change in the playing conditions were they protesting against ?

Answer

Women's WC 2015 will be first senior global tournament played on artificial grass

30. P. hysterophorus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae, that is native to the American tropics. This is generally believed to have invaded India during the 1950's along with a gift sent by the USA. What gift?

Considering its proliferation, it goes by another name referring to another entity which was also deemed to be present everywhere then, although now not so much. What is the alternate name?

Answer

Wheat; Congress Grass

P is Parthenium

31. Whose grave in Rome has the following tombstone?

Answer

John Keats

32. "The Most Dangerous Game" is a thriller movie of 1932 which was shot on a jungle set. This set was pre-production material for another blockbuster movie of that era. So both the movies ended up with common crew (producer, writer, co-director, composer and several actors).

The story involves a sadistic Russian aristocrat who is tired of hunting big game and now hunts humans he has lured to his private tropical island in the Malay archipelago.

Which blockbuster movie was in the works?

Answer

King Kong

33. This idea occurred during a trip to Sony’s factories in Japan in the 1980s. Workers there wore Miyake-designed outfits and X hoped to introduce the concept of uniforms at his company.

“Oh man, did I get booed,” he said. The idea was dropped. Regardless, he took to the idea, results of which were visible at every public appearance in the later years of his life.

Who is X? What idea?

Answer

Steve Jobs; Turtleneck Sweaters

34. Sentenced to 4.5 of prison for a failed revolt, he dictated a book originally with the title of My Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. An editor changed the title to the one we know it now by. He then was released within 9 months and ended up implementing the ideas described in the book.

Who?

Answer

Adolf Hitler

35. These set of cards had two decks - the picture deck and the pattern deck. The images on the cards were of familiar and nostalgic objects. Each card had six slots which could be joined together to make towers, bridges and apartment blocks.

Designed by Ray and Charles Eames, these cards were marketed by a name which has again come back into public consciousness.

What name?

Answer

House of Cards

36. "You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by a Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly."

Opening lines of which novel?

Answer

Huckleberry Finn by Twain

37. In 1989, he flew across London in a hot-air balloon made to look like an alien spacecraft. The plan was designed as a publicity for a then recently launched airline.

Police later confirmed they’d received calls from emergency roadside phones, motorists having halted their speeding cars, convinced they’d seen a UFO.

Who pulled this stunt?

Answer

Richard Branson

38. She was the first person from her village – to get an education and ended up with a scholarship to the USA. Having seen the environmental degradation caused by agribusiness and political corruption, she started a Green Belt Movement to replant devasted areas with trees.

She was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace prize, 'for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace'. Who?

Answer

Wangari Maathai

39. Faced with a shortage of escargots, chefs in New Orleans created this dish – baked oysters topped with a buttery green sauce and breadcrumbs – in 1889.

On account of the richness of the sauce, who was this dish named after?

Answer

John Rockefeller

Oysters Rockefeller

40. 'Last Man in Tower' by Arvind Adiga tells the story of struggle for a slice of Mumbai's real estate. A prominent builder offers to buy out the entire apartment block. All of the occupants agree, except for the protagonist, which forms the thick of the plot.

Where is 'Tower A, Vishram Society' in the novel depicted as being located at?

Answer

Vakola :)

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