Final Round of QUIZzard 2K21 (Intra-college Quiz Competition of AIIMS Kalyani)

1. FinalRound

2. The Quiz Research Team
Rupayan
Debraj
Sundhodeep
Aakash
Kalarab
Kiranmay

3. Dry Round – I and II

4. Rules
•Infinite Pounce
•Direct Question = +10/0
•Pounce = +10/-5
•Bonus = +5/0

5. All The Best…

6. Here We Go…

7. Q-1
• Pakalu Papito lives in an IT firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s an Indian by origin but
hasn’t come back to the country for a long time. He is a little bit shy and weak at English,
5’7″ tall, and weighs 68kgs. This man curiously owns camels, a laptop (obvious), and a gas
station.
• In his introduction in social media he told that-“I’m _____ from your own planet, Earth. I
do work in a gas station & I also don’t know where it is located but surely on Earth. And
sadly I’m a married man. My wife says that I have girlfriends also but I don’t think so.
Anyway, wife knows everything.”
• He joined Twitter as a challenge from his friends that he wouldn’t cross 5000 followers for
$10000. He won the bet and supposedly invested the money to buy the gas station.
• How is Pakalu Papito known to us?

9. Answer
Xavier

10. Q-2
• The design of the logo of X was taken from an Ashokan period relic of the 3rd
century BCE which was found in excavations done by British historian
C.Beadon near Maski in Raichur district, Karnataka.
• The motto has been taken from the Upanishad and means 'life eternal through
learning’.
• The three intertwined swans symbolize the integration of the three aspects of the
work of X, namely research & development, training and extension.
• Logo of which autonomous organization am I
talking about?

12. Answer
Logo of NCERT

13. Q-3
On which day ‘Google’ was changed into ‘Topeka’?

15. Answer
April Fool’s Day 2010

16. Q-4
• This café was the brainchild of Kallol
Ghosh.
• The 12 X 10 ft garage at Jodhpur Park
was finalized for running this cafe after
a six-month search in some of south
Kolkata’s posh localities yielded a
straightaway “no” from house-owners.
• What is the specialty of this
café?

18. Answer
Asia’s First Cafe run by
HIV positive employees

19. Q-5
• How long does it take to beat the game?
• Edward: “We built it to max out at approximately 17
million years, the same amount of time that the ____ was
alive on Earth… but we feel like your spacebar may not be
the same afterwards.”
•Which game?

21. Answer
T-Rex Runner/ Dinosaur game

22. Q-6
Ingredients of what?

24. Answer
Hajmola

25. Q-7
• Along with the Great Wall of China, this place can also be
viewed from space stretching for over 2300 KM over an
area of approximately 344,400 Square KM.
• It has been characterised somewhat inaccurately, as the
largest structure ever built by living creatures.
• Which place of geographical importance
am I talking about?

27. Answer
Great Barrier Reef

28. Q-8
• X is a seed covered by a blue outer fruit when
they are ripened and are sometimes called blue
berry beads.
• The seeds are produced by several species of
large, evergreen, broad leaved tree in the genus
Elaeocarpus.
• The seeds are associated with Hindu lord
Shiva.
• They are valued similar to semi-precious stone.
• Identify X.

30. Answer
Rudraksh

31. Q-9
• This is a Swedish-Swiss multinational food packaging and
processing company which offers packaging and processing for
dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and prepared food.
• Founded by Ruben Rausing and built on Erik Wallenberg’s
innovation, a tetrahedron shape plastic coated paper carton from
which the company’s name was derived.
• Identify the company.

33. Answer
Tetra Pak

34. Q-10
• This medicine is also known as Acetaminofen is sometimes used for
severe pain such as cancer pain and pain after surgery, in combination
with opioid pain medication.
• It is typically used either by mouth or rectally but is also available by
injection into a vein.
• High doses of this medicine may lead to toxicity, including liver failure.
Serious skin rashes may rarely occur.
• First made in the year 1877 and in 2018 it was the 20th most commonly
prescribed medication in the US.
• Which medicine am I talking about.

36. Answer
Paracetamol

37. Q-11
• This show is an American Drama Television Series that
premiered on March 27, 2005 on the American Broadcasting
Company(ABC) as a mid season replacement.
• The main character of this show is played by the actor Ellen
Pompeo.
• This show is the longest running scripted prime time show
already completing 17 seasons.
• Which famous show am I taking about?

39. Answer
Grey's Anatomy

40. Q-12
Identify the device. It was used for which purpose?

42. Answer
•Enigma.
•To protect commercial, diplomatic and
military communication during World
War 2.

43. Audience Q1
• There is a well-known myth about the word X that says that in 1791 a
Dublin theatre’s owner named Richard Daly made a bet that he could
introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and
hired a group of street children to write the word “X", which was
a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the
word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one
knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly
had some extra cash in his pocket by winning the bet.
• What was the word X?

45. Answer
Quiz

46. Audience Q2
• Dananeer Mobin, 19, whose Instagram bio says "call me Geena", is a social
media influencer from Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar.
• Dananeer’s posts usually center around fashion and make-up.
• On 6th February Dananeer posted a video and explained in text below the video
that Dananeer was poking fun at "burgers", who come to visit the northern
mountainous parts of Pakistan on holiday.(Pakistanis use the term "burger" to
describe the rich elites who may have studied or worked outside Pakistan and
speak with an American or British-tinged accent)
•What was the video?

48. Answer

49. Score Time

50. Audio-Visual Round

51. Rules
•Direct Question = +10/0
•Bonus = +5/0
•No pouncing

52. Q-1
Identify the Singer

54. Answer
Suresh Raina

55. Q-2
Identify the Advertisement

57. Answer
Fevicol

58. Q-3
Identify the Movie

60. Answer
3

61. Q-4
Identify this sport

63. Answer
Paddle Tennis

64. Q-5
Who wrote this song?

66. Answer
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

67. Q-6
Identify the dance form

69. Answer
Paso Doble

70. Audience Q
Identify the advertisement

72. Answer

73. Score Time

75. RULES
•Buzzer Round
•Answer in 1st Option = +50/-25
•Answer in 2nd Option = +40/-20
•Answer in 3rd Option = +30/-15
•Answer in 4th Option = +20/-10
•Answer in 5th Option = +10/-5

76. • I am one of the most eminent personalities in the world and the most influential woman in
my country in 2020
• There is an eminent award that goes by my name awarded every year.
• I planted a tree and founding stones of some buildings at AIIMS NEW DELHI back in
1961
• My biography was written by SALLY BEDELL SMITH is one of the New York Times
bestseller.
• I am the longest serving monarch alive till date even at the age of 94
WHOAM I -1 ?

78. ANSWER
Queen Elizabeth II

79. WHO AM I-2?
• I was born on 9th January, 1960 at Spinner’s End, England
• My father was Tobias and my mother was Eileen Prince
• I attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a student from 1971-1978
• My patronus is a doe and my signature spell is Sectumsempra
• I was the “Half-blood Prince”

81. ANSWER
Professor Severus Snape

82. WHO AM I-3?
• I was born on 18th December, 1975 in Adelaide, South Australia.
• My name is _____ Kate Isobelle Furler and I am a singer, songwriter, voice
actress and director.
• I suffered from Graves’ disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Bipolar-II
disorder, Complex post traumatic stress disorder.
• I have received a total of nine Grammy Award nominations and one of my
songs was nominated for record and song of the year at the 2015 ceremony.

85. ANSWER
Sia

86. WHO AM I-4?
• I was born on June 13,1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia.
• My theories are widely used in economics and I was the only person to be awarded both
the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994 and the Abel Prize in 2015.
• I have contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial
differential equations
• I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
• Sylvia Nasar wrote my biography A Beautiful Mind

88. ANSWER
John Forbes Nash Jr.

89. WHOAM I-5?
• I was born in America and was spotted by talent scouts where I subsequently joined Sao-Paulo
F.C. at age of 13.
• I have played 48 games for the Brazilian National Team and scored 12 times.
• I moved to a country to play there in 2017 from the club where I played 131 matches.
Coincidently the name of the country and the club have the same first two letters.
• I scored the solitary goal in the 2014 World Cup in my country’s defeat to Germany 7-1
• My name is same as one of the most prestigious awards in the world. This award has been won 4
times by Katharine Hepburn.

91. ANSWER
Oscar

92. WHOAM I-6?
• I was inspired by the real life figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of
Edinburgh
• I sometimes use morphine or cocaine, which was legal during the time I was published.
• I died by jumping into a waterfall, but due to public demand, I was brought back to life.
• I first appeared in “A Study in Scarlet”
• I share rooms with a military doctor at 221B Baker Street.

94. ANSWER
Sherlock Holmes

95. AUDIENCE Q
• I am an American Physiologist born on September 8, 1919 in Oxford, Mississippi.
• I am mostly famous for my experiments in the 1950s which studied the physiology of cardiac output and its
relationship with the peripheral circulation.
• I initially intended to be a cardiovascular surgeon but was partially paralysed after being infected with polio. I
suffered from this infection in 1946 during my final year of residency training.
• Due to my disability, I had to abandon my plan to become a surgeon. Instead I concentrated on physiology
research and teaching, and became the head of the University of Mississippi Dept. of Physiology and
Biophysics.
• I wrote a textbook which all medical students buy in their initial days of 1st Year MBBS but can never finish
the whole book before their professional examination.

97. ANSWER
Arthur C Guyton

98. SCORE TIME

100. RULES
• Total 6 poisonous cards are there. You have to
choose one
• Each card contains 2 questions
• If you give the correct answer to the first question,
then only you can get access to bonus question
• 1st Question = +20/-10
• 2nd Question = +40/-20

101. Literature Sports
History Geography Entertainment
Science

102. SCIENCE-1
Identify the Place

104. ANSWER
CERN

105. SCIENCE-2
• In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught
engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons,
the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars. One
day while working near the magnetrons , Spencer
noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had
begun to melt . That’s how idea of X was born.
• Identify X.

107. ANSWER
Microwave oven/
Micro-oven

108. LITERATURE-1
• On 17th February 1952,X began writing his first
novel series on Y, at his house ‘Golden Eye’ located
northern coast of Jamaica.
• For the next 12 years, X wrote all his stories on Y
there.
• In 1956 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and
his wife Clarissa spent a month at Golden Eye after
Eden's health collapsed in the wake of the Suez Crisis.
• In 1976, twelve years after X's death, the property
was sold to reggae musician Bob Marley. A year later
he sold the estate to Island Records founder Chris
Blackwell.
• Who is X? What was he created(Y)?

110. ANSWER
X- Ian Fleming
Y- James Bond 007

111. LITERATURE-2
“This day relenting God
Hath placed within my hand
A wondrous thing; and God
Be praised. At His command,
Seeking His secret deeds
With tears and toiling breath,
I find thy cunning seeds,
O million-murdering Death.
I know this little thing
A myriad men will save.
O Death, where is thy sting?
Thy victory, O Grave?”
Who wrote this poem? ( Can anyone tell why he wrote it?)

113. ANSWER
• Sir Ronald Ross
• In the evening of the day of
discovery and the confirmation of
the growth of the malarial parasite
in the mosquito, he composed the
following poem for his discovery

114. SPORTS-1
• If 2008 is the Fuwa
• 2012 is Wenlock
• 2016 is Vinicius
• Then 2020 is?

116. ANSWER
Miraitowa and Someity

117. SPORTS-2
Identify the bowler and the batsman

119. ANSWER

120. HISTORY-1
• This battle is of immense significance as it marked the
starting of Dark Medieval rule of Afghan barbarism over
Northern India.
• This battle followed Islamic sultanate over Delhi for next
600 years.
• Fought between Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad
Ghuri in 1192, this battle ended with the loss of the last
major Hindu king of northern India.
• Name the battle.

122. ANSWER
SECOND BATTLE OF TARAIN(1192 AD)

123. HISTORY-2
• Being a proud Indian, we must know his name. He got the
Youngest Param Vir Chakra(posthumous),the highest army
award in India.
• He sacrificed his life just at the tender age of 21. He served
as the second-in-command, second lieutenant,17 Poona
horse regiment, at the battle of Basantar during Indo-
Pakistan War in 1971.
• Can you name this gallant son of Mother India?

125. ANSWER
Arun Khetarpal

126. GEOGRAPHY-1
• _____ is a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific
Ocean. It’s considered as one of the world’s
foremost destinations for wildlife viewing. A
province of Ecuador, it lies about 1,000 km off
the coast.
•FITB

128. ANSWER
Galapagos Island

129. GEOGRAPHY-2
From the flag identify the country.

131. ANSWER
South Sudan

132. ENTERTAINMENT-1
• X is an American mystery thriller film directed
by Ron Haward and written by Akiva Goldsman
and David Koepp, based on Dan Brown’s 2000
novel of the same title. It is a sequel to the 2006
film ‘The Da Vinci code’ and the second
instalment in the Robert Langdon film series.
•Identify the movie.

134. ANSWER
Angels and Demons

135. ENTERTAINMENT-2
• X is a 2015 American epic Revisionist Western film directed
by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The film was a blockbuster
grossing 533 million dollar worldwide. It won 3 Golden
Globe Awards and 5 BAFTAAwards. At the 88th Academy
Awards, the film received 12 nominations where it won for
the best director, best actor and best cinematography. The
film comprises of characters like Jim Bridger, Andrew Henry,
Hawk.
•Identify the movie

137. ANSWER
The Revenant

138. Score time