General Quiz Mains

(Utkansh’15)

QM : Sujit J Patil

Round 1

Infinite Bounce

• The Dish is a 2000 Australian film and was the top grossing film in Australia in 2000.

• It tells a somewhat fictionalized story of the Parkes Observatory's (located at Parkes, New South Wales, Australia) role in relaying live telecast of an important event.

• What event ?

1)

• Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969)

The following text has been taken from the book, Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Charles LutwidgeDodgson better known as X.

This text was used as Y’s first official logo – derived from a logo competition held in 2000. But due to the “fisheye” form of logo, only a part of the text can be read.

What is X and Y. (Half points for each)

Text on next slide :

2)

The text in black can be read on the logo.

• X – Lewis Carroll

• Y – Wikipedia

• This is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences.

• During Gandhi’s stay in South Africa, the Boer legislature passed a law requiring that all Indians register with the police and be fingerprinted but he refused to obey it. He was arrested and put in jail. While in jail, Gandhi read the above essay by Henry David Thoreau. Taking inspiration from the essay Gandhi launched Satyagrah.

• What was the title of this essay ?

3)

• Civil Disobedience

• In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the character John Carter. In 2012, a Disney movie was released to mark its 100th

anniversary.

• But in 1912, Burroughs had also created another character which was to have about 200 films made upon him between 1918-2014.

• In fact, the company “Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.” which licenses Burroughs’ works and characters is based in the city named after this character.

• Which character?

4)

• Tarzan

• This is a company which started as Società ScientificaRadio Brevetti _______ in Bologna to produce vacuum tubes, condensers and other radio components.

• In the 1930s and 1940s, it manufactured radios, cameras, and electrical products such as a razor.

• But today the company is known for a different product. Which company is this ?

5)

• Ducati

• Gösta Mittag-Leffler was a Swedish mathematician. According to a popular urban myth, there is no Mathematics Nobel Prize because this mathematician was involved in an affair with Alfred Nobel’s wife / fiancée.

• X was a physicist and chemist. X was a Nobel Prize winner despite being actually nominated for it. X won the prize eventually because of Mittag-Leffler’ intervention, who was then a member of the nominating committee. Due to his intervention, the committee nominated and eventually awarded the prize to X.

• Who is X ?

6)

• Marie Curie

• Andy Bichlbaum, member of The Yes Men – is a cultural jamming activist. Through actions of tactical media, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues.

• In December 2004, Andy Bichlbaum appeared on BBC World as "Jude Finisterra", a spokesman for a company, X. Bichlbaum went on the news to claim that X planned to liquidate Y and use the resulting $12 billion to pay for the for medical care of the people affected by industrial disaster involving Y.

• After two hours of wide coverage, X issued a press release denying the statement, ensuring even greater coverage of the phony news. In Frankfurt, X's share price fell 4.24 percent in 23 minutes, wiping $2 billion off its market value.

• Fill X and Y.

7)

• X – Dow Chemical

• Y – Union Carbide

• This is the statue of John T Daniels. He was a member of the Kill Devil Hills Life-Saving Station. Daniels had never seen a camera prior to using the Gundlach Korona view camera. What did he captured with the camera ?

8)

• Wright brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903

• X was an art teacher, illustrator and museum curator. He was made the principal of Sir J.J School of Art in 1865. In 1875, he was made the principal of Mayo School of Industrial Art, Lahore.

• He designed the coat of arms of Mayo College, Ajmer. He also illustrated many books of his more famous son. Identify X OR his son ?

9)

• John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling

• Dr. J. Allen Hynek was an American ufologist. He devised the Hynek Scale : a sixfold classification for UFO sightings which are arranged according to increasing proximity.

• Hynek was also a consultant to Steven Spielberg for a popular 1977 movie. Moreover, he played a cameo role in the movie. The title of the movie is inspired from the Hynek Scale.

• Which movie ?

10)

Cameo role :

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Round 2

The Challenging Round

• Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who contributed heavily to criminology.

• He developed the “Bertillonage system”, a system for the identification of criminals making use of anthropometric measurements — including head size, arm span, scars, distinguishing features and the like.

• Apart from the Bertillonage, he also developed a special type of method for identification of criminals by victims or investigators. What is this method?

1)

Mugshot

Self mugshot of Bertillon

• The man in this photo is A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh. He created Winnie, based on his son’s stuffed teddy bear. Almost all other characters were created the same way like Tigger & Piglet.

• What was his son’s name ?

2)

Christopher Robin Milne (after whom the boy character is named)

• A Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) was a large pressurized container used on Space Shuttle missions to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

• Three such modules were made by Italian Space Agency –Leonardo, Raffaello, and Donatello (named after great Italian personalities).

• The logo of MPLM consisted of a character copyrighted by Mirage Studios. Hence NASA gave Mirage the copyright to the logo in exchange for the use of the studio's character on it.

• Which character ?

3)

“Raffaello” of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• The Henry Classification System is a long-standing method by which _________ are sorted by physiological characteristics for one-to-many searching.

• This system was developed by Hem Chandra Bose and Azizul Haque under their supervisor Sir Edward Henry in the late 19th century for criminal investigations in British India.

• Fill the blank.

4)

• Fingerprints

• This treadmill on which SunitaWilliams is running is called the “Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill” and is present on the ISS.

• NASA named the treadmill after a comedian, X.

• Who is X ? (full name please)

5)

• X is Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report

Official patch of the treadmill by NASA

• Winston Groom is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He's best known for his novel published in 1986. The novel’s main character grew up in Mobile, Alabama as Groom himself did.

• Although published in 1986, it did not make Groom a best-selling author until it was adapted into a film with the same name in 1994. The film propelled the novel to best-seller status, and the novel sold 1.7 million copies worldwide.

• In 1995 he published a sequel whose first page reads : “Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story. Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter.” (deliberate Grammar mistake in the novel)

• Name the novel/film.

6)

• Forrest Gump

Round 3

Reverse Infinite Bounce

• This term was first used in 1858 to describe HH Stephenson's feat. A collection was held for Stephenson, and he was presented with a hat bought with the proceeds. Which term ?

• Hint ahead :

1)

• Hat-trick

• He is a Christian saint and considered as the keeper of the keys to heaven as this cartoon depicts.

• He is considered to be the first pope of the Roman Catholic church.

• His original name was Simon. His more common name is derived from the Latin/Greek word for “rock” or “stone” because Jesus designated him as the "rock" upon which the Church was to be built.

• Who?

2)

• St. Peter – the namesake of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

• What unique incident inspired Peter Kreeft to write this book ?

3)

• Odd coincidence that all three men died on the same day: November 22, 1963

– John F. Kennedy

– Aldous Huxley

– C. S. Lewis

• The nonsense word “X" emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman in his Smokey Stover cartoon strips. According to Holman, “X” takes its origin from a Chinese character for “fortune”.

• The term “X fighter” was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.

• The terms “X”, or “Xbar” are sometimes used as placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation.

• “X Camp” is an annual hacker event hosted by publisher O'Reilly Media.

4)

• Foo

• The Brat Pack is a nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented films in the 1980s. It is usually described as the cast members of two specific films released in 1985 – The Breakfast Club and X.

• “X” is also a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere.

• Hint ahead :

5)

• St. Elmo’s Fire

• Luxo Jr. is a 1986 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter.

• It was the first CGI film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

• What was the special contribution of this short film to Pixar ?

6)

• The corporate mascot of Pixar.

• ______ ______ is a French term for "high dressmaking" which refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing.

• It is the fashion that is constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses, often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques.

• This term originally referred to Englishman Charles Frederick Worth's work, produced in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. In modern France, it is a "protected name" that can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards.

7)

• Haute couture

• _________ is an entirely Indian owned company. It owns a bookstore chain that was co-founded by Emile Moreau, a French author, T K Banerjee, an Indian businessman and others in Allahabad in 1887.

• The company has 258 outlets and is held in deep affection by many Indians providing livelihood, directly or indirectly, to about 5000 people.

• It borrowed its name from a then-successful London bookstore.

• In his October 2004 Budget speech Lalu Prasad Yadav had announced, “Angrez chale gaye, ________ reh gaye.”

• Which is this famous chain ?

8)

• A. H. Wheeler

• The Venetia Fair is an alternative rock band based in Massachusetts, USA. It started on 2006 and took its name from a woman called Venetia Phair. She was responsible for naming _____, which was in news during 2006.

• A student dust counter, on board the “New Horizons” spacecraft was also renamed Venetia after her.

• Fill the blank.

9)

Image :

Venetia Phair aged 11

Venetia dust counter

• Pluto

• In 1909, X was quoted as saying:

• “I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”

• In fact, he was right – he died one day after the comet's approached closest to Earth. Who is X?

10)

• Mark Twain

Round 4

Long Visual Connect(Inexhaustive list)

1) +50/-25

Saint Vincent of Saragossa Saint George

2)

Saint Lucy

+45/-22.5

3)

Maurice, Prince of Orange

+40/-20

4)

Qin Shi Huang

+35/-17.5

5)

Philip II of Spain

+30/-15

6)

Captain John Marshall

+25/-12.5

7)

Jean Moreau de Séchelles

+20/-10

8)

Simón Bolívar

+15/-7.5

9)

Christopher Columbus

+10/-5

10)

Amerigo Vespucci

+5/0

• Individuals after whom countries are named :

1. St. Vincent of Saragossa – St. Vincent & the Grenadines

2. St. George – Georgia

3. St. Lucy – St. Lucia

4. Maurice, Prince of Orange – Mauritius

5. Qin Shi Huang – China

6. King Philip II of Spain – Philippines

7. Captain John Marshall – Marshall Islands

8. Jean Moreau de Séchelles – Seychelles

9. Simón Bolívar – Bolivia

10. Christopher Columbus – Colombia

11. Amerigo Vespucci - USA

Thank You