Unit-IV; Professional Sales Representative (PSR).pptx
League quiz 3.0
1. League Quiz 3.0
Team: Quiz Your Daddy?
QM: Akhil Maya Sachan
Contributors: Samyak, Divyansh
2. RULES – DIRECT ROUND
• There are 10 questions in first round.
• For direct team - +20/-10.
• If direct team pounces - +30/-20.
• For other teams pouncing - +30/-20.
• Audience: +20 for correct answers. These points can be awarded to
any of the teams playing except the team for which the question is
direct. No member of the audience can award the points to the same
team again and again.
• QM makes the final call.
3. 1. X is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur X at St. James's
Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in 1759. It is one of the most successful beer brands
worldwide, brewed in almost 50 countries and available in over 120. Sales in
2011 amounted to 850 million litres (220,000,000 US gal)
On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of
the X Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River
Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he
became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe,
the golden plover or the red grouse (it is the plover).
Hence, Y was launched.
Id X and Y. No Part Points.
6. 2. The result of a famous scientific experiment was announced on February 22, 1997.
It was originally code-named "6LL3“ and later came to be known as “X”.
The name “X" came from a suggestion by the stockmen who helped with the
process/experiment, in honor of Y, because it was a mammary cell that was used for
the experiment.
The technique that was made famous by this experiment is somatic cell nuclear
transfer, in which a cell is placed in a de-nucleated ovum, the two cells fuse and then
develop into an embryo.
Many of the similar experiments after this one failed but it proved a milestone for it
boosted stem cell research.
Id X and Y.
9. 3. It started in 1898, when Heinrich Dreser, working for the Bayer pharmaceutical company,
spotted the commercial potential of diacetylmorphine, a white, crystalline variation of
morphine first synthesized in 1874 by London chemist, Charles Romley Wright.
While Wright had not found any particular advantages to his invention, Drese performed
several tests and declared this new compound constituted a non-addictive substitute for
morphine — a then widely used painkiller — as well as an efficient treatment of respiratory
diseases. With tuberculosis and pneumonia the leading causes of death at the time, X, which is
a sedative and slows down breathing, gave patients quick acting relief. He’d hit the
pharmaceutical jackpot.
Bayer employees who tested it claimed the treatment made them feel _______ — giving the
drug its name. The new compound was soon being marketed by the future pharmaceutical giant
as “X”: a cutting-edge cough medicine and cure for morphine addiction.
Id X.
12. 4. In ancient Athens contributing to politics and society in general was
considered the norm and highly desirable. Being apolitical and selfish was
frowned upon and all citizens aspired to be politically active. It was rare for
citizens to demonstrate apathy towards what was happening in their state and
common issues. The overwhelming majority of Athenians participated in politics
to a greater or lesser extent.
Those who did not contribute to politics and the community were known as “X-
es” (_____ΕΣ),originating from the word “_____” which means the self. If you
did not demonstrate social responsibility and political awareness you were
considered apathetic, uneducated and ignorant. The word was transferred to latin
as “X - a” and was used to describe an uneducated, ignorant, inexperienced,
common person.
Id X.
13.
14.
15. 5. According to Alexander of Miletus quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his "Lives and Doctrines of
Eminent Philosophers" (probably written toward the beginning of the IIIrd century A. D.), book III
(Life of X), chapter 4, his name was Aristocles, son of Ariston, of the deme Collytus. Aristocles
was the name of his grandfather : it was indeed customary in that time to give a boy the name of his
grandfather.
His family, on his father's side, was said to trace his ancestry back to Codrus, the last "legendary"
king of Athens. His mother was called Perictionè and was of the family of Critias, one of the leaders
of the Thirty Tyrants who took power in Athens after its defeat in 404 B. C. in the Peloponnesian war,
and also of Solon, one of the great legislators of Athens in the previous century, who was listed
among the Seven Wise Men of Ancient Greece.
Diogenes goes on to say that the surname “X" was given him by one of his teachers in gymnastic, a
certain Ariston of Argos, "because of his robust figure", adding "but others affirm that he got the
name X from the breadth of his style, or from the breadth of his forehead" : indeed, ______ in Greek
means "wide, broad, broad-shouldered, widespread, etc.".
Id X. (Think of a flat mouthed mammal that Disney made famous.)
16.
17.
18. 6. In July 2008, President George W. Bush signed a bill into law that lifted that
requirement — about four years after Mandela announced he was retiring from
public life. The bill authorized “the Departments of State and Homeland Security
to determine that provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act that render
aliens inadmissible due to ____________ would not apply with respect to
activities undertaken in association with the African National Congress in
opposition to apartheid rule in South Africa.
Tom Casey, who was a State Department spokesman at the time, said, “What it
will do is make sure that there aren’t any extra hoops for either a distinguished
individual, like former President Mandela, or other members of the African
National Congress to get a U.S. visa.”
What Requirement?
21. 7. X is an international observance celebrated every year on
October 17 throughout the world. The first commemoration of
the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000
people gathered to honour victims of poverty, hunger, violence
and fear at the unveiling of a commemorative stone by Father
Joseph Wresinski. In 1992, four years after Wresinski's death,
the United Nations officially designated October 17 as X. One
of the primary goals of X is to recognize the struggles of the
impoverished and to make their voices heard by governments
and ordinary citizens. Participation by the poorest of people is
an important aspect of the observance of X. Give X.
22.
23.
24. 8. Id the author of this
book who is now famous
for something completely
different.
He is also an alumnus of
Hindu College, St Antony
(Oxford) College and
Sidney Sussex.
30. 10. X was founded in Oxford, England, in 1946 by Roland Berrill and Lancelot Lionel Ware.
Berrill was an Australian expatriate licensed to practice law. Dr. Ware was a Ph.D. on his way
to becoming a barrister who had become interested in intelligence testing while working at the
National Institute for Medical Research. They met by chance on a train and subsequently
corresponded, primarily about the possible formation of a club — a longtime dream of Ware's.
Early in 1946, Ware administered the Cattell III test to Berrill, and Berrill went off in search of
his constituency. On Oct. 1, 1946, Berrill had the first piece of X literature printed, and the date
is now the recognized founding date for the organization.
Today, with more than 100,000 members representing more than 100 countries, X continues to
provide social interaction and community involvement worldwide.
X has three purposes, which are outlined in its constitution. They are:
1. To identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
2. To encourage research into the nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence.
3. To provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members
Give X.
34. RULES – POUNCE
• All questions open to pounce.
• +20/-10.
• Each team has a option of increasing question value to double i.e.
+40/-30 provided they have correctly last two questions of the quiz.
• This can be done any number of time but each count will start afresh.
35. 11. Although often referred to as a fresco, X technically is not as Y invented a particular mix of oil and tempera
plaster to paint his 15-by-29 foot masterpiece, which ultimately made the color start to peel shortly after Y
finished it. This coupled with the humidity in the refectory caused the painting to deteriorate.
X underwent its first of many touch-ups soon after completion, but it is thanks to the twenty-year restoration
completed in 1999 that we can now admire the Y as it is today. Restorers who intervened along the way only
worsened the situation, one, in particular, being artist Michelangelo Bellotti. In 1726, he claimed to have a
miraculous product that would restore the painting back to its former splendor, but the result was far from
satisfactory. Four years later, Pietro Mazza, a lesser known and even lesser talented painter, took on a restoration
that only further besmirched Y’s masterpiece.
As if that wasn’t enough, when the French troops crossed the gates of Milan in 1796, Napoleon immediately went
to visit X. He ordered the hall be closed to preserve the work, but a general who missed the memo had the door to
the refectory broken down and converted the space into a stable.
In April 2017, an environmental restoration project was announced for the sanitation of the painting’s
microclimate, which is made possible thanks to a fund partially financed by Eataly, the worldwide, Italian food
hall giant.
Id X.
38. 12. X is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human
population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to
be less desirable and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior. The exact definition of X has
been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. The concept predates this
coinage, with Plato suggesting applying the principles of selective breeding to humans around 400 BCE.
The X movement became negatively associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when many of
the defendants at the YZ attempted to justify their human rights abuses by claiming there was little
difference between the Nazi X programs and the U.S. X programs.
In the decades following World War II, with the institution of human rights, many countries gradually
began to abandon X policies, although some Western countries, among them the United States
and Sweden, continued to carry out forced sterilizations.
Y is the second largest city of Bavaria after its capital Munich. During Nazi Germany, Y was chosen to
be the venue of Nazi Party conventions – The Y rallies.
Id X and Y.
41. 13. On September 21, 1915, a British barrister named Cecil Chubb went to an auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He
did not come home with the item his wife had requested. Rather, on a whim, he bought X.
In a response many spouses might appreciate, or at least recognize, Mary Chubb was not happy.
The megalith cost her husband £6,000 ($680,000 in today’s dollars).
“It’s said that Mary wanted Cecil to buy a set of curtains at the auction,” X’s curator, Heather Sebire, told the BBC
News Magazine. “And he came back with something rather different.” The other rumor is that Chubb bought X to
keep it out of the hands of rich Americans who were eyeing antiquities everywhere.
X had been in private hands since the middle ages and controlled by the Antrobus family since the early 1800s.
When the heir to X died in World War I, it was put up at auction.
Chubb did not keep ownership of X and sold it to the government with a minor stipulation.
A year after Chubb’s whimsical purchase, Prime Minister David Lloyd George awarded him with a title. He
became Sir Cecil Chubb, First Baronet of X. Chubb’s son died in 1957. With no heir, the baronetcy ended there.
Id X. Bonus points for getting the stipulation made by Chubb right.
42.
43.
44. 14. Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of a crackdown
on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield,
Ohio Police Department photographed men in a _________ under the main
square of the city. The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the clandestine
activities through a two-way mirror. The film they shot was used in court as
evidence against the defendants, all of whom were found guilty of sodomy,
which at that time carried a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state
penitentiary. The original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the
possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this case for a
documentary project. The unedited scenes of ordinary men of various races and
classes meeting to have sex were so powerful that the director decided to present
the footage with a minimum of intervention.
FITB. The place where cameras were hidden. (It’s a common noun!!!)
45.
46.
47. 15. Long considered the greatest of the so-called “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”, the X
located in modern-day Turkey consists of nothing more than a single column of marble surrounded by
random pieces of debris. Famously destroyed and rebuilt multiple times over the centuries, the temple
is most notable for being burned down by a guy who wanted to destroy the great temple for no other
reason than to be remembered by history.
The temple was built to honor the goddess _______, the deity of – amongst other things – the hunt,
wild animals and somewhat paradoxically both childbirth and virginity. Built literally on top of
another, lesser, temple dedicated to the goddess that had been destroyed by floods some two centuries
prior in the city of Ephesus, this new, much more resplendent temple was constructed almost entirely
from gleaming, pearly white marble with support beams of cedar that had been treated with perfumes
and oils.
Some of the confusion appears to be that the main body of the temple was constructed in just about a
decade, but it was constantly being improved upon right up until 356 BC when it was destroyed by
Herostratus. Herostratus simply snuck past the guards, placed various oiled rags around some of the
wood frame beams helping to support the roof, lit them on fire, and let the magic happen.
Id X or FITB. (picture follows)
48.
49.
50. 16. Gustav Eiffel, the architect most common in quizzing circle and the man responsible for
French Government’s large share of tourism revenue was born on 15th December, 1832. On the
same day, 120 years later, another architect named David Joseph Marks was born.
David Marks was the main architect of a giant structure on the South Bank of Thames, X. It is
the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.75 million visitors
annually, and has made many appearances in popular culture – If Only, FF: The Rise of Silver
Surfer, Doctor Who and in an episode of Neighbours to name a few.
In September 2014, Coca-Cola signed an agreement to sponsor X for two years, starting from
January 2015. On the day of the announcement, the X was lit in red.
Sir Richard Rogers once said, “X has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris,
which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look back down on it.
Not just specialists or rich people, but everybody. That's the beauty of it: it is public and
accessible, and it is in a great position at the heart of London.”
Id X.
53. 17. Something they don’t typically teach you in school about X is that he displayed scatological
humor in many of his letters to friends and family and in a few recreational compositions.
Here are some examples:
“Lick my ass nicely; lick it nice and clean; nice and clean, lick my ass; That’s a greasy desire;
nicely buttered; like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity; Three will lick more than two;
come on, just try it,; and lick, lick, lick; Everybody lick their ass for themselves.”
“Keep well, my love; Into your mouth your arse you’ll shove; I wish you good night, my dear, ;
But first shit in your bed and make it burst.”
“Well, I wish you good night; But first shit into your bed and make it burst; Sleep soundly, my
love; Into your mouth your arse you’ll shove.”
Id X.
54.
55.
56. 18. History is littered with environmental disasters, but few compare to the one kicked off in 1958 in
China. That was the year that Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, decided
that his country could do without pests like _______. The impact of this ill-conceived decision — along
with many other policies he put in place — caused a domino effect of destruction. Three years later, as
many as 45 million people were dead.
One of Zedong's first actions after collectivizing agriculture was probably intended to protect the farms.
_________, he was told, ate a lot of grain seeds, so Zedong ordered the people to go forth and kill all the
_________. During the Great ________ Campaign, as it has been called, hundreds of millions of _______
were killed, mostly because people chased them until the birds were so tired that they fell out of the sky.
The problem with the Great ________ Campaign became evident in 1960. The ________, it seemed,
didn't only eat grain seeds. They also ate insects. With no birds to control them, insect populations
boomed. Locusts, in particular, swarmed over the country, eating everything they could find — including
crops intended for human food. People, on the other hand, quickly ran out of things to eat, and millions
starved. But the people did not go down quickly or easily. "Documents report several thousand cases
where people ate other people," Yang told NPR last year. "Parents ate their own kids. Kids ate their own
parents.“
FITB.
62. 20. “X” simply translates into the planting a stone order.
Stone plaques and signboards have come up in over 200
villages of Jharkhand in recent months. These stone orders
dismiss the authority of the central or the state governments
on their villages.
Usually placed at the entry points of tribal villages, these
stone plaques have provisions of the Panchayats (Extension
to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 or PESA written on them.
These are meant to serve as warnings to the outsiders. The
stone plaques and signboards also contain "orders"
prohibiting outsiders from entering the tribal village.
They proclaim allegiance to the Constitution but reject any
authority except their gram sabhas (village assemblies). They
claim to be the real "Bharat Sarkar" (the government of
India). Their fight is aimed to reclaim their rights over "jal,
jangal and zameen (water, forest and land)“
Which movement, known as X movement is being talked
about?
65. 21. _______________ has been used in popular culture to
describe pedestrians who walk slowly and without attention to their
surroundings because they are focused upon something else. Safety
hazards have been noted due to such distracted pedestrians. Cities
such as Chongqing and Antwerp have introduced special lanes for
these users to help direct and manage them. Whilst used in some
countries more than others, the terminology was suggested to
be pejorative by Tom Chatfield of the BBC, noting it is "more
sinister", "suggests disapproval of (the) subject(s)" and that "terms of
technological disapproval, conjured from hyperbolic hopes and fears,
are as old as electronic communications.
FITB.
66.
67.
68. 22. X (born in 1963) is an Indian scientist and Director General of Aeronautical Systems
and the former Project Director for Agni-IV missile in Defence Research and
Development Organisation. She is the first woman scientist to head a missile project
in India. She is known as the 'Missile Woman' of India.
She joined DRDO in 1988. She was placed in the department of design and development
of the new generation ballistic missile, Agni. For the Agni Programme, she had been
appointed by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
She was associate project director of the 3,000 km range Agni-III missile project. She
was the project director for mission Agni IV which was successfully tested in 2011. X
was appointed as the Project Director for 5,000 km range Agni-V in 2009. The missile
was successfully tested on 19 April 2012. She was appointed as Director-General,
Aeronautical Systems of DRDO in 2018.
ID X.
69.
70.
71. 23. During the 1997 women’s cricket world cup,
Lisa Keightley created a record. It was broken on
the same day by English cricketer Charlotte
Edwards. Even she couldn’t maintain the record
for much long as Australian Belinda Clark broke it
again on the same day. The record belongs to
Belinda till date.
What record?
72.
73.
74. 24.
• Jawed Karim - Co-founder Youtube
• Jeremy Stoppelman -Yelp
• Andrew McCormack - Valar Ventures, eCount
• Premal Shah - Kiva
• Luke Nosek - Founders Firm
• Ken Howery - Popexpert
• David Sacks - Geni.com, Producer – Thank You for Smoking (2005), Yammer
• X - Clarium Capital
• Keith Raboi - Khosla Ventures, Yelp, Xoom
• Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn
• Max Levchin - Slide,HVF
• Roelof Botha - Sequia Capital
• Russel Simmons - Yelp, Learnirvana
• Y
75.
76.
77. 25. According to the Telegraph analysis, _________ has
yielded a better return within the past 15 years than stock
market investments, including gold or bank accounts.
Since the year 2000, __________ has increased in value
by 12 percent with each passing year, notably higher
than the 9.6 percent return for gold within the same time
period.
FITB
