Friendly intra-club quiz prelims conducted at RDPS in February 2015

1. G.K. Club Quiz
Prelims

2. Rules
• DO NOT USE ANY MEANS FOR ANSWERING
WHICH MAY PROVIDE YOU AN UNFAIR
ADVANTAGE OVER OTHERS
(other than your brains)
• No negative marking in prelims
• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals
• 16 questions in prelims. Tie breaker questions are
marked with a *.

3. Question One
• “India recently accomplished a historic non-violent
revolution. In a magnificent assertion of the
indomitable human spirit, our people reaffirmed in
March last their firm faith in a free and open
society. Calculated efforts by forces of darkness
and tyranny to destroy democracy were decisively
defeated”
• This is the first paragraph of a speech delivered in
1977 by someone, which was a ‘first’ for
something. Who delivered the speech?

4. Question Two
• She is Neeru Deshpandey from Nagpur, if you believe a
post on Quora where a user has raised a question on the
identity. The Wikipedia page comes up with the name
'Gunjan Gundaniya'.
• Finally, Mayank Shah, group product manager, puts all the
folklore to rest and reveals: It's actually an illustration by an
Everest creative back in the 60s. People have created their
own stories about the kid being a girl and assigned names
of their own accord and others just caught onto them, a
lethal combination of rumour and grapevine.
• Who?

5. Question Three
• ?
• Siri
• Tughluqabad
• Ferozabad
• Dinpanah
• ?
• Qila Rai Pithora or Lal Kot

6. *Question Four
• "Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped over and
landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close
second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm
long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about
the focus, it was a X”.
• This was the caption of an image uploaded to a
website (abc.com, if that makes a difference) in
2002, uploaded by an Australian named Nathan
Hope. It was the first time the word X was used.
What is X?

7. Question Five
• This band rarely records music in the studio, and
most of their recordings are made in live
performances. They are yet to release a full-length
album, because they often give out their music for
free. This band does not have any policies against
their music being copied or illegally distributed.
One of their songs, dedicated to the kidnappings in
Kashmir Valley has been listed as one of the
greatest Indian rock songs by Rolling Stones
magazine. Which band?

8. Question Six
• In this image, a very significant place is being
built, in the early 20th century. Identify the place

9. Question Seven
• Newt Scamander
• Beedle
• Kennilworthy Whisp
• These are all pseudonyms of a popular author.
Identify the author

10. *Question Eight
• Tsotumo Yamaguchi was a resident of the
Kyushu island in Japan, who had to travel to
another prefecture for his employer Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries on August 6, 1945. He returned
the next day, and went back to work on August 9,
1945.
• Two events that occurred on these days made
the man unique in some way. How?

11. Question Nine
• Which brand is the largest manufacturer of
female clothes and apparel in the world?
HINT: Do not go for the obvious.

12. Question Ten
• X, California, a census-designated place
• X, Colorado, an unincorporated town
• X, Iowa, a city
• X, Louisiana, a town
• X, Minnesota, a city
• X, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• X, New York, a town
• X (village), New York, county seat of
Delaware County
• X Charter Township, Michigan, a charter
township
• X Dam, a dam in Iowa
• X Township, Minnesota, a township of
Redwood County
• X Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, a
township
• X, Canada
• X, Ontario, an unincorporated community
• China
• X, Qinghai, a city in and the seat of the
Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture
All of these are places around the world with the name X.
What is X?

13. Question Eleven
• X was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer
who invented and developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839,
which he improved while living and working in Springfield,
Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number
3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
• Though he is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has
proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and
other objects as early as 1600 BC. He discovered the vulcanization
process accidentally after five years of searching for a more stable
rubber and stumbling upon the effectiveness of heating.
• Identify X.

14. *Question Twelve
• Pandit Pant Marg, New Delhi is named after X who
was the first Chief Minister of a state in India.
• On the Bungalow Number 14 on this road an important
building is situated especially relevant these days.
• Identify X and name the building.

15. Question Thirteen
• What is the historical significance of this?

16. Question Fourteen
• Identify

17. Question Fifteen
• Identify the band.

18. Question Sixteen
• This is a song by a soft-rock band. Currently, the
only member of the band is Salman Ahmad.
Identify the band