General Category-The General Quiz Prelims

1.
 The creators of X, a show about a dysfunctional family
coming across comical situations wanted to use bright
colours to attract the attention of channel surfers but X
ended up being outlawed in Burma due to this colour choice
as that specific colour can’t be used in movies/shows in that
particular country.
Identify X

ANSWER
 The Simpsons-movie(2007)

2.
 Ancient Indian kings were supposed to follow the concept of
Rajdharma. However, despite his many conquests, X was
motivated to abandon this concept.
 In 2002, Y, the then head of the government, advised Z to
follow Rajdharma in a press conference, to which Z snapped
back at him in the middle of the press conference in an
incident still popular today.
 ID X,Y AND Z.
 (Part points will be given)

Answer
X: Ashoka
Y: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Z: Narendra Modi

3.
X is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals
are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are
present.
Several factors contribute to this including ambiguity,
cohesiveness and diffusion of responsibility.
Identify phenomenon X.
(Image follows)

Answer
All these are minimalist posters of movies starring Leonardo
DiCaprio

5.
In 1962, X formed his first band at the age of 15. He was a leading
figure in popular music for over five decades,his career was marked
by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft
significantly influencing popular music.
He received a serious injury at school when his friend punched him in
the left eye during a fight over a girl. This became one of his most
recognizable features. This friend later went on to create the
artwork for some of X’s albums. ID X

Answer
David Bowie
After a series of operations during a four-
month hospitalisation, his doctors determined
that the damage could not be fully repaired
and Bowie was left with faulty depth
perception and a permanently dilated pupil,
which gave a false impression of a change in
the iris' colour; the eye would later become
one of Bowie's most recognisable features.

6.
Started in association with Cricket Australia in 2009 as a tribute to
former Australian fast medium pace bowler X's wife Jane who
died of breast cancer in 2008, Y has become one of the most
iconic and sought after sporting events of the Australian
cricketing calendar with the 2018 edition marking its 10th
anniversary.
The third day of this event (formerly called Ladies Day) has been
renamed after X's wife Jane wherein every January, various
activities are carried out to spread awareness about breast cancer
and raise money for the foundation set up by X and Jane in 2005.
Id X and Y.
(Part points will be given)

ANSWER
X= Glenn McGrath
Y= Sydney Pink Test

7.
X is the official emblem of Ireland. The earliest 'X' were
developed from the hunting bow .
'X' has also featured on the reverse side of all Irish Euro coins.
The oldest depictions of 'X' without a forepillar can be seen
adjacent to the Near East, in the wall paintings of ancient
Egyptian tombs in the Nile Valley, which date from as early as
3000 BC.
Identify 'X'.

8.
One day in 1961, Lorenz was working in his office at MIT, entering data
into a newfangled computer program designed to simulate weather
patterns. The simulation was a repeat of one he'd run already, but this
time he rounded off one of his 12 variables from .506127 to .506.
Then he left his office to grab some coffee while the computer
crunched the numbers. When he came back, though, it was clear that
something was very, very wrong. That tiny change in his data led to a
drastic transformation, completely changing two months of simulated
weather. Instead of small changes leading to other small changes,
Lorenz realized that small changes could have huge consequences.
He published his findings in 1963, and the idea came to be known as
"sensitive dependence on initial conditions" in scientific circles.
What is this phenomenon commonly known as?

9.
The crackling ________ lava that erupts from Ol Doinyo Lengai runs
about 510°C (950°F) — well below the melting point of most lava
(1,000°C/1,832°F), but still a bit warmer than a comfortable jacuzzi.
Still, it's cool enough that it's actually possible to fall in and survive.
Ol Doinyo Lengai's one-of-a-kind lava forms thanks to its chemical
makeup. Unlike the basalt that forms the lava of most volcanoes, the
magma- rocks of Ol Doinyo Lengai are carbonatite, made up of
calcium, sodium, and dissolved carbon dioxide.
Carbonatite has a much lower melting point than basalt, which is
also why the lava never heats up enough to gain a reddish glow
(except one that's faintly visible at night). Otherwise, the lava stays a
____________ color until it cools and hardens, at which point it turns
white.

10.
Designed by Erik Lindberg, showing a lady holding an open book in
her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to
quench the thirst of a sick girl.
The inscription reads:
Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes
loosely translated "And they who bettered life on earth by their
newly found mastery."
(Word for word: inventions enhance life which is beautified through
art.)
Identify.

Answer
The medal for Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology

11.
X as a sport is said to have had uncertain origins but was
recorded as having been practised in ancient Egypt, Greece and
China, where it was held in legend that the Sun and Moon
played X over the light and darkness.
Archaeological evidence shows that X was also popular in India in
the 12th century in the area what is today the State of Orissa on
the east coast. The famous Sun Temple of Konark has a stone
relief on the west wing of the structure clearly showing the
game of X in progress.
X was contested as a team event in the Summer Olympics every
year from 1900 to 1920 but has not been included since.The
sport however continues to be part of the World Games to
date with an outdoor event for the men and indoor for women.
Id X.

12.
Born in Novo Mesto, X began her modelling when she was 5 and
started doing commercials at the age of 16.
In 1995 she met Metropolitan Models co-owner Poalo Zampolli -a
close friend of Y, a real estate tycoon at the time who launched his
political career with the Democratic Party -who urged her to travel
to the U. S. A. X's prospects seemed very limited as her moments
were not particularly graceful.
However this changed after she met Y, from that point she went
on to do shoots for leading magazines like Vogue and Vanity fair.
Identify X and Y.
(Part points will be given)

Answer
X = Melania Trump
Y = Donald Trump

13.
Black and Yellow is a song by American rapper X from his third studio
album, Rolling Papers released in 2010. The song was written by X
along with Stargate, who produced it.
The song is about X's car, a yellow Dodge Challenger Hemi with black
stripes. He stated that he got the car in those colours as a tribute to
his hometown of Y whose official colours are black and gold, and its
professional sports teams such as the football team X Steelers and
the baseball team X Pirates most of whose colours are black and
some variation of gold or yellow.
The song itself does not mention Y or sports but its music video made
the connection to Y explicit, showing various iconic locations in the
city, as well as apparel associated with the above mentioned sports
teams.
Id X and Y.(Part points to be given)

Answer
X- Wiz Khalifa
Y- Pittsburgh

14.
Ian and Greg were the first to achieve the feat in 1972 at the Oval
against England, followed by Steve and Mark, at the same venue
against the same opponents in 2001.
The latest to join this exclusive list were Mitchell and Shaun with a
mid-pitch celebration almost causing the former to get run out at the
SCG against England in January 2018. What :
i) Record is being talked about?
ii) Is common among these 3 pairs?

Answer
i) These are the only 3 instances where brothers have scored a century in
the same innings of a test match- Ian and Greg Chappell, Steve and Mark
(Waugh), Mitchell & Shaun Marsh.
ii) They are all Australians.

15.
 Fans can sometimes be deadly obsessive and dangerous. _________ saw
such peak of obsession when an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf ran from the
middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games
and stabbed _________ with a boning knife between her shoulder blades.
 Steffi’s deranged fan wanted her back at the top of the rankings. An
incident that forever changed her life and that of tennis
 ________ was the youngest player to take over the world’s No. 1 ranking
 ________ remains in the public eye, having appeared on “Dancing with the
stars” and penned both an autobiography and an upcoming children’s book.
An Australian pop rock band later renamed as ‘The Monicas’ released an
extended play, Fly ________ Fly, in 1993 and the lead track was adopted by
the tennis player while she was recovering from the incident.
 FITB

In 1956, EM Stuart proposed X with a specific vision in mind. He
hoped it would, “maintain the glory of a community whose name
means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world.“
A famous tourist attraction too, X can make the celebrities hunch
down on their knees beaming but comes at a cost. X gives
recognition to people from 5 categories: Motion Pictures,
Broadcast Television, Audio Recording/Music, Broadcast Radio,
Theatre/Live Performance.
There have been some exceptions to these categories and a few
stars, like the one for the company Victoria’s Secret, don’t fit in
any.
Name X.
16.

Answer
The Hollywood Walk of Fame

17.
•In 1789 Samuel Wilson and his brother Ebeneezer Wilson moved to
Troy, New York. The two ended up setting up a business E.&S. Wilson,
which among other things dealt in meat packing. In the war of 1812 this
business obtained the contract with US government to provide the
army with beef and pork which they shipped in barrels bearing the
marking ‘E.A – US’ for Elbert Anderson (the contractor) and united
states govt. stores.
•As a joke a number of workers in the factory started to refer the
makings as X they soon began to refer all federal property as X and
eventually X was synonym to the Federal govt.
The senate and the house of representatives officially saluted X as the
progenitor of America’s National symbol.
Identify X

Answer
These people (Cher, Snoop Dogg, John Legend, DJ
Khaled, Hillary Clinton and Cardi B) read excerpts
from Micheal Woolf's ‘Fire and Fury’ in a cameo at
the 2018 Grammy Awards.

19.
It started in the 16th century, when numbered playing cards
reached Japan via European traders. The cards offered a
distraction from the mind-boggling new diseases that
mysteriously originated around the same time.
All this until 1633, when the Tokogawa Shogunate banned all
numbered cards to discourage gambling as well as stifle the
influence of Westernization.
The already-addicted population skirted the card ban by
producing collectible "artistic" pictorial cards, including "obake
karuta", cards depicting monsters and ghouls from Japanese
folklore.
Which popular video games' origin story?

20.
In a recent sales promotion in France, the product X was being sold at
a discount of 70 percent. The promotion, caused the price of X to
drop from €4.50 to €1.41 (£1.24).
The massive discount on this immensely popular product caused
punches to be thrown and claims that customers behaved “like
animals”, pushing and shoving each other to grab X and were termed
X Riots by the media.
Identify X.

In 2011, when Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning at a young age,
there was a large amount of media attention devoted to X once again.
Three years earlier, she had expressed a fear of dying at that age.
It remains a cultural meme/phenomenon, dramatising the early deaths of
certain musical celebrities, noted for their high-risk lifestyles. The ‘club’ is
generally taken to include Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim
Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
X is a list of popular musicians, artists or actors that have died at the same
age, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse, or violent means such as
homicide, suicide, or transportation-related accidents.
NameX.
22.

At the time of their publication in 1725 they were accompanied by
poems describing exactly what feature of that season _________
intended to capture in musical terms. If one were to read the poems
while simultaneously hearing the music one would find the poetic
scenes synchronizing nicely with the musical imagery.
The birds welcome spring with happy song, in summer the turtle
dove sings its song, autumn brings out eager hunters dashing out in
pursuit of their prey and winter begins with teeth chattering in the
cold before one takes refuge in a crackling fire.
The red haired artist wasn't interested in complicated
arrangements. He preferred to order readily accessible
entertainment to his listeners and with this masterpiece he
succeeded at it.
FITB
23.

24.
This American tribute to one of its many presidents is situated in
Plains, Georgia. It is 4ft tall, and can be viewed easily while passing by
in a car. It was actually constructed in Indiana in 1976 to honor the
presidential campaign tour. Why a giant, smiling peanut, you may ask?
Because well, before his presidency, the person in question was a
peanut farmer.
The statue also possesses the same grin that was known so fondly as
one of his most handsome traits during his years in office.
Which president are we talking about?
(Image follows)

25.
____________ was originally discovered by pharmaceutical company
Macfarlan Smith in 1958 while researching anesthetics.
According to the __________ website, the chemical compound is so
bitter that if you dropped a thimble-full into an Olympic-sized swimming
pool, you'd still be able to taste it in the water.
The U.S. Army even reported that this substance could be used in
chemical warfare to make food supplies inedible. It was named the
world's bitterest substance by the Guinness Book of World Records.
FITB

ANSWERS
1. The Simpsons
2. X- Ashoka Y-Atal Bihari Vajpayee Z- Narendra Modi
3. The Bystander Effect
4. All these are minimalist posters of movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio
5. David Bowie
6. X- Glenn McGrath Y- Sydney pink test
7. Harp
8. The Butterfly Effect
9. Black
10. The medal for Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology
11. Tug of War
12. X- Melania Trump Y- Donald Trump
13. X- Wiz Khalifa Y- Pittsburg
14. Half life
15. Monica Seles
16. The Hollywood Walk Of Fame
17. Uncle Sam
18. These people read excerpts from Micheal Woolf's ‘Fire and Fury’ in a cameo at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
19. Pokemon
20. Nutella
21. Prince Rogers Nelson
22. The 27 Club
23. Antonio Vivaldi
24. Jimmy Carter
25. Bitrex

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