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1. The Quiz Weekend’17
GEN QUIZ
BY ROHAN ‘RUBY’ THOMBRE
OMKAR JOSHI
SANYUKTA CHOUGALE
SWAPNIL KHEDKAR
KARAN AGRAWAL

2. Prelims

3. Q1
 Connect Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde to a world
famous video game

4. Q2
 X is an ancient African word meaning ‘Humanity to
others’.
 It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all
are’.
 What is X in the world of Computers ?

5. Q3*  At 5 his father died
 At 16 he quit school
 At 17 he had already lost 4 jobs
 Married at 18
 wife left him with his child at 20
 Was a railroad conductor till 22 but failed again
 Applied to Army but was washed out
 applied to law school but was rejected
 became insurance salesman but failed again
 became a cook and a dishwasher in a Cafe
 retired at 65
 Was going to commit suicide at 65 but stopped himself and went on to
create on of the most popular food chains of all times.
 ID him and the food chain

6. Q4
 Amar Sonar Bangla (Bengali : My Golden Bengal) is the
national anthem of Bangladesh.
 It was written in 1905 during first partition of Bengal.
 It is believed that Indira Devi, daughter of
Satyendranath Tagore, jotted down the musical
notation hearing it from the lyricist.
 Who wrote the song?

7. Q5
 This is a memorial of X
who became quite a
celebrity in 2010 for a
particular reason. ID X
or put funda

8. Q6
 Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser
developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
 It's iconic logo has an animal on it which has been a
topic of debate ever since it's inception.
 According to a few based on the actual image of the
animal, it is a X. But Firefox is also a common name for
Y which a few say is the actual animal on the logo.
 X and Y share a few similarities such as the colour
combination and facial structure etc. Y is considered
an endangered animal.
 So what are X and Y, which have caused quite a stir in
the online community?

9. Q7
 This is a game played by 2 players and is known
throughout the world as a pencil and paper game,
predating the WW I in its form.
 Invented by Clifford von Wickler in early 1900s, he
never patented it and thus was published by Milton
Bradley Company in 1943 as 'Broadsides, the game of
Naval Strategy'.
 It has an appearance in the Asterix comics when
Asterix and Getafix play a variant of the game
'Quinqueremes and Galleys'.
 What is this game?

10. Q8
 Wikipedia defines this phrase as "the criminal act of
stealing or attempting to steal a car or any other
motor vehicle".
 However, since October 1997, this phrase has become
synonymous with a major gaming franchise.
 Give me the phrase/franchise and the significance of
October 1997.

11. Q9*
 26 year old Ashok Mahadevan, then an employee of
Reader’s Digest, had come across a news item which
was originally published in a Lankan newspaper.
 Inspired by that, he wrote a 22-word obituary
“anonymously” which came out among the classified
ads in the Times Of India around 40 years ago.
 As a result, police looked for him like hounds, but
could not trace him (no proof for this line).
 The obituary read – “O’Cracy, D. E. M., beloved
husband of T. Ruth, loving father of L. I. Bertie,
brother of Faith, Hope and Justicia, expired on June
26.”
 What happened on June 26 in that year?

12. Q10
 It has been speculated that sailors who often went
above and below deck might have needed to keep one
eye adjusted to the darkness below decks.
 The strong sunlight while above deck on an oceangoing
vessel could require minutes of adaptation to the dim
lighting below deck. With virtually no light sources
below deck, sailors would have to rely heavily upon
their eyes to adjust.
 In the critical moments of modifying the rigging,
navigating, and especially during battle, those minutes
were too precious.
 This is the reason behind a popular culture happening.
What am I talking about ?

13. Q11
 The Star Foundation Network is a charitable
organization that provides people an opportunity to
buy a star in the sky and gift it to anyone.
 The members of "The Empress" fan page made
efforts to buy a celestial body and named it after X.
 The star is found in Orion constellation.
 Id X.

14. Q12*
 This is a picture of University of Pennsylvania's
College hall, it's oldest building on campus.
 Famed artist Charles X was an architect student at
this college in 1930s and used this building as his
inspiration to design or create his most famous work.
 What did he create?

16. Q13
 It took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to come up
with the final draft.
 With 25 parts containing 448 articles and 12
schedules it is the longest written of its kinds in the
world.
 What am I talking about?

17. Q14*
 Franz Reichelt was an Austrian born French tailor and
a part time inventor.
 His experiments were always based on trial and errors
and he used to modify the designs based on the
results.
 But his experiments always resulted in failure and
frustrated, he attempted a final test. But this also
resulted in a failure and led to his death after he
jumped off the Eiffel Tower.
 Following his death, it was patented and developed by
Glen Kotelnikov but Reichelt was credited with the
original design of X.
 What is X?

18. Q15  Marzen is a lager that originated in Bavaria before
the 16th Century.
 A Bavarian brewing ordinance decreed in 1553 that
beer may be brewed only between 29 September and
23 April.
 The Märzen was brewed in March according to a
special recipe that would allow the beer to last while
the brewing of new beer was forbidden from 24 April
to 28 September.
 The beer was often kept in the cellar until late in the
summer, and remaining bottles were served at the
_________.
 Recently only 6 X-based breweries are allowed to
make Marzen for __________. FITB

19. Q16
 What is this Oreo ad a
tribute to?

20. Q17
 What are the following two images depicting?

22. Q18
 In a recent event in Pune, a volunteer dressed as
Yamraj, the Hindu God of Death, is seen scaring
people (doing a particular act), as a part of Pune
Police's special drive.
 The Yamraj stops such people and asks, "Yayche ahe
ka?"
 The idea behind it was people are conditioned to fear
Yamraj and hence stop it.
 Identify the act.

23. Q19
 The myth goes on that X married 27 daughters of
Daksha but truly loved only one of them.
 His other wives then complained about his negligent
behavior to Daksha, who in turn cursed him that he
would turn ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to
Lord Shiva to remove the curse.
 However Lord Shiva said that he could not completely
remove the curse, but said that whenever X lost his
beauty completely, he would gradually gain his beauty
back and the cycle would go on.
 Who is X and what thus resulted.

24. Q20
 Jack Swigert (CMP): “Okay,
_________________________.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “ This is _____. Say
again please.”
 James A. Lovell (CDR): “ Uh,
_________________________. We’ve had a MAIN
BP BUS undervolt.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “ Roger, MAIN BP
undervolt.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “Okay, stand by for
Thirteen, we’re looking at it. “
 ID this very famous sentence.

25. Q1
 Connect Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde to a world
famous video game

26. A1
 Pac-Man Ghosts

27. Q2
 X is an ancient African word meaning ‘Humanity to
others’.
 It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all
are’.
 What is X in the world of Computers ?

28. A2
 Ubuntu

29. Q3  At 5 his father died
 At 16 he quit school
 At 17 he had already lost 4 jobs
 Married at 18
 wife left him with his child at 20
 Was a railroad conductor till 22 but failed again
 Applied to Army but was washed out
 applied to law school but was rejected
 became insurance salesman but failed again
 became a cook and a dishwasher in a Cafe
 retired at 65
 Was going to commit suicide at 65 but stopped himself and went on to
create on of the most popular food chains of all times.
 ID him and the food chain

30. A3
 Colonel Sanders KFC

31. Q4
 Amar Sonar Bangla (Bengali : My Golden Bengal) is the
national anthem of Bangladesh.
 It was written in 1905 during first partition of Bengal.
 It is believed that Indira Devi, daughter of
Satyendranath Tagore, jotted down the musical
notation hearing it from the lyricist.
 Who wrote the song?

32. A4
 Rabindranath Tagore

33. Q5
 This is a memorial of X
who became quite a
celebrity in 2010 for a
particular reason. ID X
or put funda

34. A5
 Paul the Octopus

35. Q6
 Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser
developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
 It's iconic logo has an animal on it which has been a
topic of debate ever since it's inception.
 According to a few based on the actual image of the
animal, it is a X. But Firefox is also a common name for
Y which a few say is the actual animal on the logo.
 X and Y share a few similarities such as the colour
combination and facial structure etc. Y is considered
an endangered animal.
 So what are X and Y, which have caused quite a stir in
the online community?

36. A6
 X – Fox
 Y – Red Panda

37. Q7
 This is a game played by 2 players and is known
throughout the world as a pencil and paper game,
predating the WW I in its form.
 Invented by Clifford von Wickler in early 1900s, he
never patented it and thus was published by Milton
Bradley Company in 1943 as 'Broadsides, the game of
Naval Strategy'.
 It has an appearance in the Asterix comics when
Asterix and Getafix play a variant of the game
'Quinqueremes and Galleys'.
 What is this game?

38. A7
 Battleships

39. Q8
 Wikipedia defines this phrase as "the criminal act of
stealing or attempting to steal a car or any other
motor vehicle".
 However, since October 1997, this phrase has become
synonymous with a major gaming franchise.
 Give me the phrase/franchise and the significance of
October 1997.

40. A8
 Grand Theft Auto GTA I released in October 1997

41. Q9
 26 year old Ashok Mahadevan, then an employee of
Reader’s Digest, had come across a news item which
was originally published in a Lankan newspaper.
 Inspired by that, he wrote a 22-word obituary
“anonymously” which came out among the classified
ads in the Times Of India around 40 years ago.
 As a result, police looked for him like hounds, but
could not trace him (no proof for this line).
 The obituary read – “O’Cracy, D. E. M., beloved
husband of T. Ruth, loving father of L. I. Bertie,
brother of Faith, Hope and Justicia, expired on June
26.”
 What happened on June 26 in that year?

42. A9
 Declaration of the Emergency in 1975

43. Q10
 It has been speculated that sailors who often went
above and below deck might have needed to keep one
eye adjusted to the darkness below decks.
 The strong sunlight while above deck on an oceangoing
vessel could require minutes of adaptation to the dim
lighting below deck. With virtually no light sources
below deck, sailors would have to rely heavily upon
their eyes to adjust.
 In the critical moments of modifying the rigging,
navigating, and especially during battle, those minutes
were too precious.
 This is the reason behind a popular culture happening.
What am I talking about ?

44. A10
 Pirates/Sailors wearing an eye patch

45. Q11
 The Star Foundation Network is a charitable
organization that provides people an opportunity to
buy a star in the sky and gift it to anyone.
 The members of "The Empress" fan page made
efforts to buy a celestial body and named it after X.
 The star is found in Orion constellation.
 Id X.

46. A11
 Madhuri Dixit

47. Q12
 This is a picture of University of Pennsylvania's
College hall, it's oldest building on campus.
 Famed artist Charles X was an architect student at
this college in 1930s and used this building as his
inspiration to design or create his most famous work.
 What did he create?

49. A12
 Adam’s Family

50. Q13
 It took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to come up
with the final draft.
 With 25 parts containing 448 articles and 12
schedules it is the longest written of its kinds in the
world.
 What am I talking about?

51. A13
 Constitution of India

52. Q14
 Franz Reichelt was an Austrian born French tailor and
a part time inventor.
 His experiments were always based on trial and errors
and he used to modify the designs based on the
results.
 But his experiments always resulted in failure and
frustrated, he attempted a final test. But this also
resulted in a failure and led to his death after he
jumped off the Eiffel Tower.
 Following his death, it was patented and developed by
Glen Kotelnikov but Reichelt was credited with the
original design of X.
 What is X?

53. A14
 The Parachute

54. Q15  Marzen is a lager that originated in Bavaria before
the 16th Century.
 A Bavarian brewing ordinance decreed in 1553 that
beer may be brewed only between 29 September and
23 April.
 The Märzen was brewed in March according to a
special recipe that would allow the beer to last while
the brewing of new beer was forbidden from 24 April
to 28 September.
 The beer was often kept in the cellar until late in the
summer, and remaining bottles were served at the
_________.
 Recently only 6 X-based breweries are allowed to
make Marzen for __________. FITB

55. A15
 Oktoberfest

56. Q16
 What is this Oreo ad a
tribute to?

57. A16
 Tour de France

58. Q17
 What are the following two images depicting?

60. A17
 Anonymous declares war on ISIS

61. Q18
 In a recent event in Pune, a volunteer dressed as
Yamraj, the Hindu God of Death, is seen scaring
people (doing a particular act), as a part of Pune
Police's special drive.
 The Yamraj stops such people and asks, "Yayche ahe
ka?"
 The idea behind it was people are conditioned to fear
Yamraj and hence stop it.
 Identify the act.

62. A18
 Talking on the mobile while driving

63. Q19
 The myth goes on that X married 27 daughters of
Daksha but truly loved only one of them.
 His other wives then complained about his negligent
behavior to Daksha, who in turn cursed him that he
would turn ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to
Lord Shiva to remove the curse.
 However Lord Shiva said that he could not completely
remove the curse, but said that whenever X lost his
beauty completely, he would gradually gain his beauty
back and the cycle would go on.
 Who is X and what thus resulted.

64. A19
 Moon and its phases/Chandra

65. Q20
 Jack Swigert (CMP): “Okay,
_________________________.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “ This is _____. Say
again please.”
 James A. Lovell (CDR): “ Uh,
_________________________. We’ve had a MAIN
BP BUS undervolt.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “ Roger, MAIN BP
undervolt.”
 CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma (CC): “Okay, stand by for
Thirteen, we’re looking at it. “
 ID this very famous sentence.

66. A20
 Houston we’ve had a problem.