Finals of Who Dares Quiz!! an Open General Quiz conducted by Dottoh and Chazz on 16th June 2011.

1. ZE FINALS
•8 rounds on Infy Bounce.
•88 questions in total.
•The last question of each round has been contributed
by our ever-“green” friend Debanjan Bose.
•Limited infinite pounce (20 per team).
•+15/-5 on pounce.

3. ROUND 1

4. 1.
• This is a complicated story of imagery.
When the field first came to the public notice in a
substantial way, a common view of the process
was that X’s would metaphorically "reach in" and
"clean". In every day life, cleaning of clothing
often resulted in size of clothing to reduce, hence
Y-ing. So, the parallel image of cleaning, and Y-
ing, led to X’s being called Y’s. So, what’s the
question?

6. Answer
• Why are psychologists called shrinks?

7. 2.
• So, one of the stories goes thus: when the
Romans conquered Gaul they borrowed the
style of local footwear. Nobles would wear a
red leather boot with ornately carved wooden
soles to display their station. What word
derives from this?

9. Answer
• Galoshes

10. 3.
• English poet William Wordsworth referred to
the plight of X workers of his hometown of
Cockermouth in his autobiographical poem
"The Prelude".
• All this changed thanks to the efforts of a
certain Adolf Von Baeyer reducing the
production of X from 19,000 tons in 1897 to a
mere thousand tons in 1914.
• A tragedy we are more aware through a
seditious literary work closer home. X?
Literary work?

12. Answer
• Indigo dye
• Nildarpan

13. 4.
• Analogues can be drawn to the cooking term,
meaning the same thing. Its origins have been
traced to the decade 1840-1850, but its
popularity in modern English (it is less
common in modern French) is attributed to its
use by the lead character in Muriel Spark's
1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, in
which the intensely authoritative girl's school
teacher refers to her charges with this epithet.
The line from the novel reads, Miss Brodie had
told them at that time, 'and all my pupils are
the .............”

15. Answer
• Crème de la crème

16. 5.
• G K Datt, who currently owns the A R Studio in
New Delhi is entrusted with what
responsibility, for the past 60 years, at a gap of
every five years and two years, a practice
started by his father A R Datt?

18. Answer
• Clicking a group photo of MPs at the
culmination of every Lok Sabha’s term and
Rajya Sabha MPs

19. 6.
• It was first successfully tested at a large event
hall in Carinthia, Austria in 2003. Its initial uses
were for live events such as concerts—Kylie
Minogue in Australia, Robbie Williams in Great
Britain and The Police in Argentina and
television programs such as the Eurovision
Song Contest in Greece and Finland before
being to put to use in the ‘field’. What called
so because of the intricate system of Kevlar
cables required for its functioning?

21. Answer

22. 7.
• A composite beast with a man's face, a lion's
body, and the stinger of a scorpion
• “…a chameleon -- borrowed from a similar
creature in the Zulu tradition -- that performs
a sutradhar’s role”
• If these are the 2nd and 3rd ones what was the
first one?

24. Answer

25. 8.
• X Internet was founded in 1996 by American
web entrepreneurs Brewster Kahle and Bruce
Gilliat. The company's name was chosen in
homage to the what was at one point the
largest repository of knowledge in the world.
Currently it is a subsidiary of Amazon. As of
2013, its website is visited by over 8 million
people monthly.
• What exactly does it do?

27. Answer
• Alexa Internet, Inc. provides commercial web
traffic data. Once it is installed, the Alexa
Toolbar collects data on browsing behavior
and transmits it to the Alexa website, where it
is stored and analyzed, forming the basis for
the company's web traffic reporting.

28. 9.
• In an interview with Jim Leach, chairman of
the National Endowment for the Humanities,
he explains that name comes from a warning
from his father and mother not to speak his
mind while outside. His pseudonym in the
native language means “don’t speak”. Who?

30. Answer

31. 10.
• “I was writing an investing article about
another man, Alfred Winslow Jones, who
wasn’t famous at the moment. Jones was
running something called a hedge fund, and
Fortune’s description of what that was and
how Jones operated started a mini-boom. X
Partnership Ltd-a sort of competitor of Jones’s
fund-got a single line in the article. To my
everlasting dismay I misspelled X, giving it only
one ‘t’.”- Carole Loomis from Tap Dancing to
Work. X?

33. Answer
• Warren Buffett

34. Le Eleventh…
• Few among the 19 of them named have been named after:
• Spain
• King Ferdinand II of Aragon
• St. Christopher – patron saint of seafarers
• ‘Holy Cross’ – (also found in Bombay)
• The city of Genoa
• A Spanish city – also gave name to a US Capital which was
thought to be New Spain.
• German geologist Theodor Wolf
• Sir _____ James Sullivan, prominent naval Lieutenant.
• South American leader Juan Jose Flores, first president of a
country

36. The Galapagos Islands

37. ROUND TWO

38. 1.
THIS LADY HAD HER SHARE OF FAME IN THE EARLY 90’S. ID AND STATE THE
REASON WHY SHE BECAME FAMOUS

40. ANSWER
• Olivia Dabrowska

41. 2.
ID THE TEMPLE AND THE ‘COLLEGE’
ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

43. ANSWER
• Temple of Vesta, Rome; Vestal Virgins

44. 3.
• Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a
German politician, and was Chancellor of
Germany from 1998 to 2005.
• Following the 2005 federal election he stood
down as Chancellor in favour of Angela Merkel of
the rival Christian Democratic Union.
• What nickname(s) did Gerhard Schroder’s four
marriages earn him?
• Two possible answers. Any one shall suffice.

46. ANSWER
• Audi and Lord of the Rings

47. 4.
• I have watched the footage of X's resuscitation many, many
times (…) It has an order to it – a rhythm that is precise,
correct, unhurried. This is how we behave when we know
that protocol must be followed but that all hope is lost. Prof
confirms: "By his neurological signs, I knew it was going to
be a fatal injury – but X's heart was still beating, so there
were procedures to follow.“
• And though Prof isn't religious, he says: "He sighed… and
that was when I felt his spirit depart." I remember crying
my eyes out when I saw the world's media drip-feeding : ‘Y
critically ill', ‘Y brain dead'… then ‘Y dead, aged 34.‘
• Excerpts of an interview between a certain Manish Pandey
and “Prof”. Who is Prof? Who is XY? How is Manish Pandey
related to the scenario?

49. • Sidney Watkins; Ayrton Senna; Writer-
Producer of Senna

50. 5.
• “I owe X a real debt. It was because of her that I
played Y (…) She called the owner and told him
she wanted me booked immediately, and if he
would, she promised she would take a front table
every night, that the press would go wild. He said
yes, and X was there, front table, every night. The
press went overboard(…)She was an unusual
woman, ahead of her time and she didn’t know
it.”
• X,Y and the speaker please!

52. • Marilyn Monroe; Mocambo; Ella Fitzgerald

53. 6.
• 2012: Hello Kitty(second version), Papa Smurf, The Elf
on the Shelf, Kaws's "Companion" , Happy Dragon
(second version)
• 2011: Sonic the Hedgehog (second version), Paul
Frank's "Julius the Sock Monkey," Tim Burton's "B”
• 2010: Greg Heffley, Po from Kung Fu Panda, Virginia
O'Hanlon, Takashi Murakami's "Kaikai and Kiki”
• 2009: Pillsbury Doughboy, Sailor Mickey Mouse (4th
version), Ronald McDonald (3rd version), Spider-
Man (2nd version)
• 2008: Horton the Elephant, Buzz Lightyear, Smurf, Keith
Haring's "Figure with Heart"

56. 7.
•There are several of these tunnels existing beneath the streets of Portland. Less
famously known as the Portland underground they were said to be used to
transport goods from ships to warehouses.
•However, the more common name for these tunnels are attributed to either them
being linked to the waterfront where ships from the east (mainly china) docked or
to the fact that they ended directly below trapdoors beneath hotels or bars which
were said to be used for an illicit practice lesser known as crimping.
•WHAT WAS THE COMMON NAME FOR THESE TUNNELS AND WHAT PRACTICE
WAS SAID TO BE CARRIED OUT HERE??

58. • Shanghai Tunnels; People were Shanghaied

59. 8.
• The term X applied to the takeover of Cambodia
in 1975 by Pol Pot. The idea behind X is that all
culture and traditions within a society must be
completely destroyed or discarded and a new
revolutionary culture must replace it, starting
from scratch.
• It is an analogy to Y, the usage of which started
from the events of 22nd September 1792.
• X and Y please.

61. • X – Year Zero; Y – Year One

62. 9.
• It is said to symbolize life. It is also called the
"handled cross", or crux ansata. It represents
the male triad and the female unit, under a
decent form. There are few symbols more
commonly met with in Egyptian art. In some
remarkable sculptures, where the sun's rays
are represented as terminating in hands, the
offerings which these bring are many a crux
ansata, emblematic of the truth that a fruitful
union is a gift from the deity.

65. 10.
• “I had just entered the kitchen when I heard the first shots –
there were eight. I knew that it was an Iver Johnson
revolver. I knew the caliber of the gun, because I was a
hunter, I had been in Vietnam, and had been shot at many
times. I was 12 feet behind him. People were going down in
front of me. I thought they were diving for cover, they
weren’t; they were being shot. The busboy, Juan Romero,
was still holding _______, and I took one frame, which was
totally out of focus. The second frame, I made sure he was
in focus, but Romero was looking down at him. I took the
third as quickly as I could, and Romero looked up towards
me with a look of “Help me” in his face.”
• Funda?

68. Le Eleventh…
• What, part of office paraphernalia is a French
diplomat under the Ambassador, who is
assigned to him to perform dual roles of an
under-secretary and a diplomat?

71. Attache

72. ROUND THREE

73. 1.
• In 1994, David Dyte, a statistician in Victoria,
designed a graphic with the name X flanked by
the silhouette of a batsman on the left and a
bowler on the right. What resulted? Who was
the batsman? The silhouette was of a famous
photograph that captured the culmination of
an iconic match. Which match?

75. Answer
• The original Cricinfo logo
• Allan Border
• The first tied test match

76. 2.
• This term once used in psychology to denote
mild mental retardation. The term was closely
tied with the American eugenics movement.
Once the term became popularized, it fell out
of use by the psychological community, as it
was used more commonly as an insult than as
a psychological term. What term?

78. Answer
• Moron

79. 3.
• A company that has a manageable amount of
debt and does not wish to use precious equity
capital has a number of other options. One of
these is X capital, so called because it sits in
between equity and senior debt in order of
preference on liquidation. Which term
originally from the realm of architecture?

81. Answer
• Mezzanine

82. 4.
• The Chinese Breakfast or Y is quite unique to
Calcutta, it has been around for more than
100 years. The little street it named after X
Street, next to Poddar Court, Esplanade Area
and comes alive around 5.30-6 am when the
little stalls start their business. X, Y?

84. Answer
• Yum Cha
• Sun Yat Sen

85. 5.
• Rachel, the unofficial mascot of Pike Place Market in
Seattle, Washington, is a bronze cast X Y that weighs
nearly 600 pounds, located at the corner of Pike
Place under the "Public Market Center" sign.
• Rachel was designed by local artist Georgia Gerber
and modeled after a X (also named Rachel) that
lived on Whidbey Island and was the 1977 Island
County prize-winner. Rachel receives roughly $9,000
annually in just about every type of world currency,
which is collected by the Market Foundation to fund
the Market's social services

87. Answer

88. 6.
• The cartoon series X’s Home for Imaginary
Friends was created by Craig Mccracken
debuted on CN in 2004. The show is set in a
world where childhood imaginary friends co-
exist with humans and is set in an orphanage
designed for outgrown or abandoned
imaginary friends in which they may reside
until adoption by another child. X is a surname
and a tongue-in cheek reference to the
backdrop in which the show is set. X?

90. Answer

91. 7.
• Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up
in nearby Westport, X began modeling at 17,
and appeared in the original film version of
The Poseidon Adventure (opposite Gene
Hackman) at the age of 19. During the run of
the TV series Y, a young adult favourite she
shocked modest uptight sensibilities when she
appeared in a cover-featured pictorial in the
July 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. A known
face in the 80’s,obliviated thereafter. X?

93. Answer
• Pamela Sue Martin
• Nancy Drew

94. 8.
• The song is reportedly about Canadian
singer/songwriter Z, with whom X and Y were
both infatuated. In live performances of the
song, Y would often say the name Z after this
stanza (which is thought to have referenced
Z's 1967 composition I Had a King): “To find a
queen without a king, They say she plays
guitar and cries and sings.”
• The song is featured in the series finale of
Entourage where it was played throughout the
show's final moments. X, Y and Z or the song?

96. Answer
• Going to California
• Joni Mitchell
• Jimmy Page
• Robert Plant

97. 9.
• Maciej/Matthew Nowicki died around
midnight on 30 August/1 September 1950, in
the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 in
the Libyan Desert near Wadi Natrun in Egypt.
He had been returning from India. Who was
the chief beneficiary as a result of his death.
What?

99. Answer
• He was the chief architect designing the new
city of Chandigarh, so Le Corbusier.

100. 10.
• X, the fourth largest of its kind in India, started
in 1899 as India’s first fully integrated one. X
was acquired by Y in 1989 and caters to 2.5
million consumers and almost everyone
present here and claims that its client list
includes Rabindranath Tagore, Swami
Vivekananda and Netaji Subhash Chandra
Bose. X and Y, please.

102. Answer
• CESC
• RPG Group

103. Le Eleventh…
• In the 1908, the O’Leary Fender Company in New York, fitted
a mesh cradle of sorts that could spring forward and then
backwards. However, the mechanism looked quite uncool on
the car and people did not buy such cars, not because it did
not serve is purpose but it looked simply bad on a car. It was
called the cow cradle, jokingly.
• However, the idea went to Europe and till the late 20s few
models came with this contraption. As car-engines were
modernised, the idea became futile.
• What purpose did it serve?

105. Minimize human injuries on collison
• Back in the day, cars were pretty slow and thus whenever
someone was hit, he would get caught in the cradle. With
developments, faster cars came and the idea became
pointless as the injury was more on the impact.

106. ROUND FOUR

107. 1.
• In Finland, if your car is made to go through
the Elk Test, what is being tested?

109. ANSWER
• The Elk Test evaluates your car’s response to
high-speed/sudden turns. Named so because
of animals straying onto roads.

110. 2.
• What ,in marketing slang, is a technical
analysis term referring to a rounding bottom
in a stock's price pattern?

112. ANSWER
• Jennifer Lopez market

113. 3. ID these two characters.

115. ANSWER
• Sarsaparilla and Vanilla. Asterix and Obelix’s
mothers.

116. 4.
• If Brijal Patel of Kenya and Keith Dabengwa of
Zimbabwe were the last two, who were the
first two? Also, what is being talked about
here?

118. Super Subs

119. 5.
• "No one has actually seen a drop emerge, so it is
getting quite nervy round here," said Professor
John Mainstone who has been running the
experiment since the 60s. "The other eight drops
happened while people had their backs turned.
For the last drop, in 2000, we had a webcam
trained on the experiment, but it broke down …
in 1988, when the previous drop was about to
emerge, I popped out for a coffee and missed it.“
• Funda

121. Pitch Drop experiment; Listed in Guiness as the world’s
longest running experiment

122. 6.
• This iconic brand started off in a factory at Bindu
Sarovar Road, Sidhpur, Gujarat. The website says that
the brand “was in the market at a time when the
concept of consumer product selling wasn’t really
born in India” and that the brand “has a
commendable market share in India & also has wide
presence in Middle East, UK, USA, Japan, Australia &
Canada.”
• What am I talking about?

125. 7.
• How do we better know an Extraterrestrial
Vegetation Evaluator?

127. ANSWER

128. 8.
• According to legend, after the 1890s discovery of
the mummy of a Priestess of Ammon-Ra in Egypt, the
purchaser of the mummy ran into serious misfortune.
The mummy was then reportedly donated to
the British Museum where it continued to cause
mysterious problems for visitors and staff. The mummy
was eventually purchased by a journalist who
dismissed the claims of a curse as quirks of
circumstance and he subsequently took it with him on
his journey hiding it on the underside of his car.
• What supposedly resulted?

130. ANSWER
• The Titanic sank.

131. 9.
• It has been reportedly found that in animals suffering
from the X Syndrome large numbers of mites
(Sarcoptes scabiei) burrowing under the skin cause
inflammation, which results in thickening of the skin.
Blood supply to hair follicles is cut off, so the fur falls
out. In especially bad cases, the animal's weakened
condition opens the door to bacteria that cause
secondary skin infections, sometimes producing a foul
odour and in many cases weakening them and
rendering them unable to hunt in the wild.
• This is believed to have solved a long-debated mystery.

133. ANSWER

134. 10.
• X's former logo consisted of a man's face on the
moon surrounded by 13 stars, and some claimed
that the logo was a mockery of the heavenly
symbol alluded to a verse in the Bible, thus
construing the logo to be satanic.
• The accusation was based on a particular passage
in the Bible, specifically Revelation 12:1, which
states: "And there appeared a great wonder in
heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown
of 12 stars.“ (Pic of Logo on next slide)

137. ANSWER
• Procter and Gamble

138. Le Eleventh…
• Simple. Connect the two pictures with a name.

141. Audrey Tatou

142. ROUND FIVE

143. 1.
• Set up by Pradip Shah in 1987 and more
popular by its acronym which organisation is
now an 807 crore company currently headed
by Roopa Kudva and has a 50,000 strong client
base spread over 150 cities? An annual report
is for all purposes considered incomplete with
a reference to this organisation.

145. Answer
• Crisil

146. 2.
• What was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley,
an English surgeon who named it after a
surgical instrument as well as after the
architectural term meaning a window with a
sharp pointed arch, to indicate the "light of
wisdom" or "to let in light“?

148. Answer

149. 3.
• Peter Morgan who adapted David Peace’s
bestselling novel into a script said: "It deals
with themes I love: Alcoholism and self-
destruction and psychotic male
competitiveness and treachery." Which film
whose first television trailer premiered on
Setanta Sports 1 on 23 January 2009, before
the kick-off of the FA Cup Fourth Round tie
between Derby County and Nottingham
Forest?

151. Answer

152. 4.
• He rarely spoke, and then did so in a
marginally intelligible pidgin jumble of ethnic
clichés: “De phonograph is a great invention-
nit! I don’t think-wait till I git dat foolish bird
hom. I won’t do a ting te him well say’. Who,
so named by his creator for the colour of the
nightshirt he was seen wearing?

154. Answer
• The Yellow Kid

155. 5.
• In his 1966 memoir John Scarne, one of the
most famous storied magicians of his time
talks about how he wanted to become a boxer
and regularly sparred as a kid and lost to who,
more famously known by his nickname coined
by the legendary sportswriter Damon
Runyon? What nickname?

157. Answer
• James Braddock
• Cinderella Man

158. 6.
• Schloss Cecilienhof was the last palace built by
the Hohenzollern family that ruled Prussia and
Germany until 1918. Cecilienhof has been an
UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. What
happened here four and a half decades
earlier?

160. Answer

161. 7.
• What devised in 1876 and has undergone 23
editions and expansions thus far, with all the
ones till 1931 undertaken by the creator
himself and is used in 200,000 institutions of
their kind in at least 135 countries?

163. Answer

164. 8.
• Swabalambi Ghosh, a successful businessman,
at the dictate of his deceased wife forms a
play troupe. An ad is given in the newspaper.
For actors, there appear a sadhu bangla
speaking retired soldier who is semi-deaf, an
usurer, a flirting hero, an opera actor and two
rockbaaj chokras. But, where is the actress? At
last, Swabalambi Ghosh finds none other than
his sister-in-law. So whose ‘wheels started
spinning’ (or should I say ‘light started
shining’) 41 years back with Saroj Roy?

166. Answer
• Gorur Gaarir Headlight

167. 9.
• So, if you were Greek if you were indulging in
this then you were tearing flesh in rage.
• Over the years it has undergone myriad
changes so much so that it requires second-
order interpretation, meaning different parts
of the brain must work together to
understand it (Sheldon Cooper, then should
be treated as an exception)and a professional
translator advising international business
executives to “generally avoid it”.
• What the fuss is all about, anyway?

169. Answer

170. 10.
• The X, let’s call it ‘purono’ is located about 200
yards northwest of St Paul's Cathedral, just
outside the former western wall of the City of
London. It is named after the street on which
it is located. The initial location of X was close
to Y, which can be called ‘notun’ allowing
convenient transfer of certain people from X
to Y. X and Y please?

172. Answer

173. Le Eleventh…
• This is a 2010 Brit comic film.
The six songs in the OST were
(written, composed and sung)
someone’s debut as a solo
artiste. He shed his indie
rock/garage rock image to
record all acoustic songs. The
most popular song also featured
in his band’s third album SUCK
IT AND SEE in 2011.
• Which front-man?

175. Alex Turner (of Arctic Monkeys)

176. ROUND SIX

177. 1.
• It is estimated that 75 Million people waste
their time behind this. 200 Million minutes are
spent everyday by the people – equivalent to
16 years per hour. Three trillion ---- have been
popped. It has filled billions of those
interstitial moments spent riding the bus, on a
plane or in important work meetings.
• What is being talked about here and FITB?

179. • Angry Birds, Pigs

180. 2.
• X’s middle names were Ronald Reuel. He was the
Merton Professor of English Language at the
Merton College and was close friends with C.S.
Lewis, both being members of the informal
literary group Inklings.
• Y’s middle names are Raymond Richard. He
directed chess tournaments for the Continental
Chess Association. Later, he was an English and
journalism instructor at Clarke University and has
four Hugo awards to his name.
• ID these two great authors.

182. ANSWER
• J.R.R. Tolkien, G.R.R. Martin

183. 3.
• Candlestick
• Dagger (Knife in North America)
• Lead Pipe
• Revolver ( Dreyse M1907 semi-automatic pistol in
UK. Colt M1911 pistol in North America .
Currently an Allan & Thurber Pepper-box used for
both.)
• Rope
• Spanner (Monkey Wrench in North America)

185. ANSWER
• Weapons in Cluedo

186. 4.
• In the early 1990s, the term, ____-stroika ,
began appearing as a pun on "perestroika",
the reform policy of the Soviet Union under
Mikhail Gorbachev. Critics viewed the policy
as "a lot of fizz without substance" and as an
attempt to usher in Western products in deals
there with the old elites.

188. ANSWER
• Pepsi-stroika

189. 5.
• Mike Bryan has won 91 doubles titles till date,
89 coming with his twin brother Bob. The
other two came in 2002 when Bob was
injured. Who were his partners for those two
tournaments (at Newport and Long Island)?

191. ANSWER
• Mark Knowles and Mahesh Bhupathi

192. 6.
•A BUSINESS THAT WAS
SHOWN THE DOOR BY THE
DISCOVERY MADE BY A
CERTAIN FRITZ HABER.
•ID THE BLANKED OUT
PORTION.
•[BIGGER PICTURE NEXT SLIDE]

196. 7.
• Alone in a room in his home in Bonn,
Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his
typewriter, tapping out random sentences and
questions on a sheet of paper.
• As he went along, Hillebrand counted the
number of characters on the page. Each blurb
ran on for a line or two and nearly always
clocked within a certain number of characters.
• What did this lead to?

198. • A SMS being capped at 160 characters.

199. 8.
• Gerber Legendary Blades is a maker of
consumer knives and multi tools
headquartered in Tigard, Oregon, United
States, within the Portland metropolitan area.
• They have a survival series, which not only
features knives and machetes, but also other
utility tools and kits.
• This series has been designed and promoted
by whom?

202. ANSWER

203. 9.
ID this hound which gets its name from its original use
i.e. hunting an intelligent mammal that is often
considered to be a pest in North America.

205. ANSWER
• Coonhound

206. 10.
• What is a Monroe piercing?

208. A piercing just beneath the left cheekbone that
resembles Monroe’s beauty spot.

209. Le Eleventh…
• One-hundred-three years after the exploits of a
French soldier, a 1902 EncyBrita description of
glucose used a double-worded phrase in a
figurative sense to mean how they have cracked a
medical complexity. Academic papers often use
the phrase to refer to something that has
successfully been used as a evidence to decode a
medical mystery. OED caught the usage in a
more general sense.
• What two words?

211. Rosetta Stone
• Pierre-Francois Bouchard
found it in 1799 in Egypt.
The usage caught on to
refer a key to some
previously undecipherable
mystery or unattainable
knowledge.
• The three-script decoding
of the stone was a
landmark in understanding
later hieroglyphics.