The fifteen-minute quiz conducted during the Induction Ceremony of Thapar University.

2. Induction Ceremony Quiz
Brought to you by Thapar Quizzing
Club

3. Rules
• Correct answer  Free chocolate!
• Wrong answer  Crushing humiliation.
• NO CHORUS ANSWERS. For every chorus
answer the quizmaster will sport a smug look
while eating two whole chocolates.
• This should not need reminding, but for the
next few minutes the quizmaster is Our Lord
In Heaven.

4. For tonight, we shall dine with kitkats!

5. 1. Frederick Pethick-Lawrence is a Labour party MP
from Britain, shown here to the right of Gandhi. Why is
this photu look uncannily familiar?

6. Kahin to dekha hai...?

7. 2.
• It’s name literally means “Protector of the
Seas”. How and why do we know it’s name
now?

8. • INS Sindhurakshak.

9. 3. What’s special about this game?

10. • Edward Snowden

11. 4. Any Nepalis in the house?
• Ncell is the Nepalese subsidiary of a Swedish
telecommunications company called
TeliaSonera. Apart from being Nepal’s most
famous Internet Service Provider, and
expanding it’s network coverage to urban and
rural areas of Nepal, It achieved a distinction
of sorts when it installed a base station for
signals somewhere in Nepal. Where did it
install this?

12. • It installed a station on Everest, which means
that on the highest point on land, one can get
3G coverage.

13. 5. Spot the (irony? Coincidence?)
What’s blanked out?

14. Boltception?

15. 6.
• It has been described as a "cross between a
Concorde and a railgun and an air table.“
• It’s an open source design, meaning anyone is
free to use and/or modify it.
• It’s earliest version is said to have been
discussed by George Medhurst in his book
way back in 1812.

17. 7. Where have you seen this,
collectively?

19. 8.
• This Priyanka Chopra film (utterly misleading)
releases in August 2013, and has her character
"Ishani" flying over the Taj Mahal along with
"Dusty". The background music plays "Tere
Bina" (composed by A.R.Rahman) from the
film "Guru".Which film?

20. Planes-the movie

21. 9.
• Some of the meanings of the French word
"mignon" are "darling", or "dainty", or
"pleasing" (you may have heard of the steak
cut "filet mignon"). The word, set to have
Celtic or German origins, itself gives rise to an
English word for a certain type of people, who
are never really very important by themselves.
The word was made (more) famous film
which appeared in 2013. Which word?

23. 10. Thapar mein kaam aayega
• Mexico – “refresco” – (brand of soft drink)
• Brazil – ‘cervijinha’ – (small beer)
• France/North Africa – un petit cadeu (A little
gift)
• Malaysia – kopi duit (payment for a small cup
of coffee)
• India – ?

25. 11. Who’s that kid?

26. • Sebastian Vettel.

27. 12.
• The 2nd ODI of India’s tour in 1984 did not get
to see Mohinder Amarnath bat due to an
abrupt match cancellation. That event also
resulted in the calling off of the entire tour.
What happened that day?

28. Hint sil-vous plais?

29. • The match was interrupted due to the death
of Indira Gandhi.

30. 13.
• This here, is Uatu the
Watcher, a character in the
Marvel superhero universe.
His species observes the key
events happening in earth,
usually relating to the
superheroes of Marvel
A fan theory states that his
human form is played by X,
who is often seen
appearing in all Marvel
movies.
• Who is X?

31. Stan Lee!

32. 14. Tough one.
• Russia's space agency announced in
early 2013 that Russian astronauts will take an
unusual piece of cargo to the International
Space Station later in the year (planned for
October). This will be done as part of a longer
route involving that item. Some of the
astronauts will take that item with them
during a special space walk. The item will
return a month later and the rest of the route
will resume. What item, and why?

33. • The Olympic torch!

34. 15. Looks like Nvdia?
• "Stop the Cyborgs" is a UK
based advocacy group that
campaigns against a culture
of surveillance and invasion
of privacy. They released a
couple of 'ban signs' that
can be used to
communicate that
something is prohibited in
that area (one of which
is shown here).
• What are they trying to
ban?

35. • Google Glass.

36. 16.
• The tiny country of Tuvalu’s unique domain
name earns $4million each year in royalties
from various entertainment websites, because
of it’s unique domain name. What?

37. • Tuvalu’s domain name is .tv!

38. 17. ID X. An obvious parody of Hotel California,
which organization’s theme song is this?
On a dark office evening,
Sat down in my chair.
Sharp smell of stale coffee
Circling round in the air.
Suddenly on the webpage
There came a flickering light.
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim;
I had to stop for the night.
There it was in the link list:
"Edit page; you'll do well"
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell!
Then it lit up the quickbar
And it showed me the way.
There were pages begging for clean-up;
I thought I heard them say:
Welcome to the Hotel X
Such a lovely place
So much Knowledge space
Plenty of work at the Hotel X
Any time of year
You can find us here...
Its structure's maze-passage twisted;
No one knows where it ends.
It's got a lot of money mirror sites,That it calls friends.
And in the dance of the pages
Editors sweat
-Some change to remember,
Some change to forget.
So I chose Contributions,Tell me, what have I done?
And it said:This is all that you've been good for,
here,since two thousand and one.
And still those pages beg changes From far away,
Keep you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel X
Such a lovely place
So much Knowledge space
They're typing it in at the Hotel Wikipedia
Things that you can do—
Revert vandals, too—

39. • Hotel Wikipedia, It’s theme song.

40. 18. Gets Thapar all excited.
• This word has it’s origins in Arabic which
means the ‘effective recipe’ (iksir). This term is
commonly used to describe a sweetened
drink, sometimes made with vodka, which has
one active ingredient for medical purposes,
such as curing allergies, fevers etc.. It is to be
taken orally.
• What word?

41. • Elixir from the Arabic (Al-ixir)

42. 19. The exchange rate for this fictional currency was determined by
estimating the value of gold used to make these, according to sizes
mentioned in the fictional work. What are they?

43. • Galleons, Sickles and Knuts. These are the
fictional currencies in the Harry Potter
universe.

44. 20. Which famous late personality’s US
patent?

45. Michael Jackson!