Acumen 2018 - Theme Quiz

THE THEME QUIZ
A C U M E N 2 0 1 8 – T H E I N T E R H O S T E L L I T E R A R Y F E S T

2Your Coffee Shop
RULES
▪ Total of 40 questions.
▪ 35% Theme and 65% General.
▪ 4 rounds.
▪ Bounce and Pounce. Pounce (+20/-10). Bounce (+10)
▪ Scores will be announced during halfway of the quiz.
▪ The blanks are indicative.

3Your Coffee Shop
Round 1
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to
know what other people do not know.

4Your Coffee ShopACUMEN 2018 | LITERARY SOCIETY
Question 1
▪ When the Panama Papers scandal was revealed, it brought to light a
unique mystery which has been deemed as befitting for Holmes
himself.
▪ From the Papers it was suggested that the family members of
former Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev invested their
illicit private wealth in London.
▪ Where did the family invest their wealth in London over which Mr.
Holmes would have been very annoyed?

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221B Baker Street
Specifically the building spanning 215 to 237 Baker
Street

Question 2
▪ Identify

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SPECTRE
SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism
Revenge and Extortion

Question 3
▪ To crackdown dissent and to uphold the uphold the country’s
values, the Chinese government banned the following films in 2011
as the Communist Party prepared to celebrate it’s 90 years in power.
Why?
▪ Dr. Who
▪ Back to the Future
▪ Butterfly Effect
▪ Terminator Films
▪ Star Trek Films

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Banning Time Travel
It essentially discouraged people from thinking of
rewriting the future and having an alternative reality.

Question 4
▪ This font is created by Kosuke Takahasahi in April 2018 and he aims
to release it before 2020’s Olympic and Paralympic in Tokyo.
▪ What is special about this font?

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Braille Neue
A font which combines Braille and Visible typefaces.

Question 5
▪ The German city of Trier with permission from the European Central
Bank has recently introduced a 0 Euro banknote as a souvenir
paying tribute to someone’s 200th birth anniversary.
▪ The notes sell for ‘3 Euro’ each and is in sharp contrast with the
‘philosophies’ and the ‘teachings’ of the person whom it honours.
▪ Who is the subject in question?

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Question 6
▪ ________ is a technique native to the Punjab region and was at one
time used as the word for embroidery.
▪ In earlier times, such garments were part of dowry given by the
bride’s family and the number of ________ pieces signified the status
of the family.
▪ Being a domestic art, only village scenes were depicted with no
religious or political scenes being done.
▪ What is this art form for which Punjab got its first ever GI tag in
2011?

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Question 7
▪ Odate in Japan is the city where Hachiko, the dog faithful for his
loyalty has a statue in front of the Shibuya station.
▪ In March 2018, Google Japan decided to play on this and hired Ako
and Asuka to map the city for its Street View platform.
▪ The initiative was a success and both Ako and Asuka takes the visitor
to Odate’s famous spots including the Hachiko statue.
▪ What is different about this?

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Dog View
Street View from the perspective of the Akita dogs.

Question 8
▪ The Skellig Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Ireland
which has been till the 12th century a monastery for the Christian
monks seeking ‘extreme solitude’.
▪ Now uninhabited, these islands are the home to many species of
birds including puffins.
▪ In 2016, while working in their new project (on the island) the group
encountered lots of puffins. They tried to remove them but it wasn’t
possible so they incorporated the birds in some form in their
project.
▪ What was the project and how was the puffin added finally?
Images follow

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Star Wars – The Last Jedi and Porgs

Question 9
▪ Dubbed as a case of surrogate advertising, this very famous person
was served a show cause notice by Delhi Government’s Health
Department in February 2018 for promoting the product.
▪ The notice said that the person in question is a role model and he
could be influential in lakhs of people buying the product and
causing a health hazard.
▪ The Government also sent a notice to the company asking why
punitive action should not be taken against it for such an
advertising stint.
▪ What?

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Pierce Brosnan and Pan Bahar Advertisment using his
James Bond persona

Question 10
▪ A Study in Scarlet published in 1887 introduced the world to
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
▪ The story also introduced __________ ____ as an investigative tool for
detectives which has now become a stereotyped image for them.
▪ Even Edgar Allan Poe’s Aguste Dupin didn’t use it in his
investigations.
▪ What is it?

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Magnifying Glass as a tool for detectives.

36Your Coffee Shop
Round 2
Be polite, be courteous, show professionalism and
have a plan to kill everyone in the room.

Question 11
▪ Ian Fleming originally chose Beretta as the gun of choice for James
Bond. Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote several letters to Fleming to
change it to German made Walther PPK due to its versatility and
saying that the Beretta was a ‘lady’s gun’.
▪ Fleming finally changed the firearm and was so grateful to him that
he wrote a letter to Boothroyd to thank him.
▪ Fleming also did something to the novels to express his gratitude.
▪ What?

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Major Boothroyd is the Armourer, now known as Q

Question 12
▪ The Special Operations Executive (SEO) was a British WW2
organization whose purpose was to conduct espionage, sabotage,
reconnaissance in Axis held territories with its headquarters in 64
Baker Street.
▪ It was tasked by Winston Churchill to ‘set Europe ablaze’ during
World War 2 and hence the organization earned some nicknames.
▪ Some of them are – Churchill’s Secret Army, Ministry of
Ungentlemanly Warfare and the more famous _____ ______ __________.

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Baker Street Irregulars
After the group of street children in the Sherlock
stories.

Question 13
▪ This is a Dr. Who
episode titled Crusade.
Identify the person in
the background.

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Question 14
▪ KALQ is a split keyboard designed to speed up typing which features
two 4x4 grids of keys.
▪ This keyboard was developed after conducting research on how a
smartphone or a tablet is held, user behavioral data to come with
the layout.
▪ Here, the most commonly used letters are clustered and the vowels
are positioned near the space bar.
▪ What discomfort or what activity does this keyboard aim to reduce?
Image Follows

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Thumb Typing in QWERTY.
This keyboard is designed to easier on our thumbs.

Question 15
▪ Vultures in India started dying mysteriously since the 1980’s until the
problem was found in 2008. With 99% of the population dead, it
was too late.
▪ This created certain problems for a community in India who relied
on them. The community installed solar concentrators to do the job
but it still doesn’t find favour with the old generation.
▪ The Maharashtra government even started open feeding centres
dubbed as vulture restaurants during the mating season.
▪ Which community is this and why do they need the birds?

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Parsi
Parsis don’t bury their dead. They leave the body to
be devoured by vultures in the Tower of Silence.

Question 16
▪ The following is an excerpt from a poem titled The Book of My
Enemy Has Been Remaindered –
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered.
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
▪ Remaindering is the worst thing which can happen since the author
since receives little or no loyalty from it.
▪ What does Remaindering mean?

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When publishers sell books at massively reduced
prices to bargain shops who then offer them at
heavy discounts.

Question 17
▪ The Nascodino World Championship which is in its 8th year is the
only one of its kind for this ‘sport’.
▪ In it’s website, it describes the sport as an intrinsic animal instinct
and invites people from every country to play it. However, this game
a favourite of children is only for adults considering the vast ‘play
area’ involved.
▪ This year it is being held in Consonno, a abandoned village in Italy.
This ghost town will be perfect setting with its crumbling shops,
hotels, restaurants and other empty buildings.
▪ What is this World Championship about?
Hints as Images

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International Hide and Seek Competition

Question 18
▪ Five buses in Seoul were installed with these statues in August 2017
to highlight a certain ‘wartime atrocity’.
▪ These statues have angered a country who thought that the issue
was resolved after a widely covered 2015 agreement with Korea.
▪ What do these statues represent?
Images follow

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Remembering the Comfort Women or Sex Slaves
from Korea who were forced by the Japanese

Question 19
▪ In April 2018, in London, a new type of art installation is made. It
consists of 5 geodesic domes which gives an ‘artist’s approximation’
of a pressing problem worldwide.
▪ The 5 domes represent or ‘try to emulate’ 5 cities – London, New
Delhi, Beijing and Sao Paolo. The final one being Tautra in Norway
which serves as a ‘contrast’.
▪ What does this installation aim to depict?
Images follow

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These are Pollution Pods
It aims to reproduce the air pollution and smog of
the cities within the Pods

Question 20
▪ In the 1940’s America, the Great Depression and the World War
made people very conscious of their buying decisions.
▪ This led to people not buying products just for their value and
extravagance. This hurt the sales of a company who then hired an ad
agency to deal with it.
▪ A copyrighter then came up with the iconic phrase _ _______ __
_______.
▪ This phrase became the title of a Bond film. Which film?

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Diamonds Are Forever
DeBeers’ A Diamond is Forever

71Your Coffee Shop
Round 3
In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met
anyone who wasn’t important

Question 21
▪ What is the missing word?

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Question 22
▪ In the series Elementary, Mycroft Holmes owns several restaurants
by the name ________.
▪ What is the name of the establishment which goes very well with
Mycroft Holmes?

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Question 23
▪ Identify the Bond movie from
the redesigned poster.

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Question 24
▪ This building in Bombay was designed by F.W. Stevens and has been
called the first truly public building of the city when it was opened in
1887.
▪ The architectural style is called Bombay Gothic and the building
features spires, turrets, domes and gables. Inside it is adorned with
floral and animal patterns. The central dome also has a statue
named Progress which signifies the dream of the British for the
purpose for which the building was built.
▪ Which building is this which was shared equally by Europeans and
Indians alike?
Image Follows

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Victoria Terminus or Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus
The statue personifies the introduction of trains in
India i.e progress

Question 25
▪ Trace is a project by Ai Weiwei which depicts Brutality in
Authoritarianism by showcasing stories of 176 other activists and
advocates of free speech.
▪ For this he used ____ since his son played with them and he thought
that he can reflect culture through colourful geometrical
backgrounds.
▪ The company which makes ____ initially refused to be a part of this
since it didn’t want its product to be used for political purposes.
▪ What did Ai Weiwei use?
Images follow

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Question 26
▪ In Bihar which has only 7% tree cover, deforestation is rampant.
Trees are felled felled in the name of development and road
expansion.
▪ To prevent this, in the year 2012 an NGO in the district of _________
decided to use something for which the district is famous.
▪ The NGO decided to ‘adorn’ the trees with something so that the
god fearing people wouldn’t cut them.
▪ This initiative was expensive as they couldn’t use the naturally
available materials to make the ‘work’ last long and had to resort to
synthetic materials.

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Madhubani Paintings
They painted the trunks with images

Question 27
▪ For which occasion did The New
Yorker have this cover?

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Question 28
▪ The word __________ comes from the name of the finance minister for
France during the Seven Years War.
▪ The state finances were low and to save the economy Etienne de
__________ levied taxes on various luxuries which hit the wealthy. He
was later removed for his severe austerity measures.
▪ His name was however attached to anything seen as cheap so when
a particular kind of portrait style became popular in France, they
were seen as cheap and quick to make and hence the name stuck.

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Question 29
▪ On 20th January, 1957 Jawaharlal Nehru officially gave it its name, in
which he likened the blue light coming from it to the celestial
damsel or the water nymph. ______ was given it’s name since it was
connected with water and the name made perfect sense.
▪ She is the first of her kind in India and later she was joined by
Purnima and Zerlina among others.
▪ While the others are no more, ______ was rejuvenated with a new
‘heart’ in 2007.
▪ What is this which shares its name with something every school
going student is familiar with?

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APSARA
India’s first nuclear reactor which a swimming pool
type. The blue colour is due to Cherenkov Radiation.

Question 30
▪ “Something old, something new,
Something borrowed, something blue.”
The above couplet is superstition that describes what a bride should
have with her on her wedding day, to protect her child.
▪ Typically they are multiple items. For example, in Friends, Monica
carries a stolen blue sweater (=something borrowed, something
blue), Chandler’s old condom (=something old) and a positive
pregnancy test (=something new).
▪ However, in a 2010 episode of an iconic TV show, the bride uses
______ to fulfil all four criteria, and then proceeds to spend her
wedding night inside ______. What?

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TARDIS – Time and Relative Dimension in Space
Credits – Abhishek Upadhya

105Your Coffee Shop
Round 4
Holmes, Bond and Doctor

Question 31
▪ Identify the Indian in the
James Bond movie who
actually uses a ______
_______ as a weapon in
the film.
▪ The person in real life
uses a ______ _______ to
‘earn his livelihood’ in a
way of speaking.

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Vijay Amritraj
He was a professional tennis player
The film is Octopussy

Question 32
▪ From 1946 to 2008, Orissa Police was the only organization in India
to use their services for communication.
▪ They are very reliable and efficient in the cases of floods or other
natural disasters which the state witnesses from time to time.
▪ There are three modes of communication – static, mobile and
boomerang.
▪ This type of communication service still makes an appearance on
Republic Day and Independence Day parade in Bhubaneswar for
ceremonial purpose.
▪ Who?

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▪ Written Round.
▪ 8 Questions based on British things.
▪ Coins issued by Royal Mint in 2018.
▪ Identify the subject.
▪ +5 for each correct.
▪ +5 bonus for all correct.

Question 33

Question 34

Question 35

Question 36

Question 37

Question 38

Question 39

Question 40

Answers
▪ English Breakfast
▪ Fish and Chips
▪ Greenwich Mean Time
▪ King Arthur
▪ Mackintosh
▪ Postbox
▪ World Wide Web
▪ X Marks The Spot

The End
A C U M E N 2 0 1 8 – T H E I N T E R H O S T E L L I T E R A R Y F E S T
By
Soham Banerjee
With lots of help from S Rishiraj and Dr. N. Tejo Prakash’s lectures

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