This is the prelims of the Annual Fresher's Quiz conducted by the Quizzing Section of Calcutta National Medical College, under the aegis of Broca, for the incoming batch of freshers for the year 2023.
1. Every answer leads to something great- play the quiz and elevate!
THE
FRESHER’S
UIZ
2023
PRESIDENT:
SIDHARTHA DEY
VICE-PRESIDENT:
SUBHAM BISWAS
BROCA’S
3. Rules:
1. It’ll be a written round.
2. There are 26 questions and first letter of each answer
will be the corresponding alphabet.
3. Question numbers 4, 9, 12, 16, 21, 25 are * marked.
4. In case of a tie, the number of correct star marked
questions will have prevalence.
5. Top 5 teams will qualify for the finals.
6. Spelling mistakes will be considered, but the decision of
the QMs will be final.
Happy Quizzing!
4. Q1.
A was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is
considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. He
first started writing stories to earn money, later on it was
his formal innovations that influenced the evolution of the
modern short story.
A was also a physician by profession, who once said
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress”. ID
By QM Subham
5. Q2.
He was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist, who contributed to
Charles Edouard Brown Sequard work on nervous system, conducting
vivisection experiments as a result of which, the latter became known for
demonstrating the principle of decussation, that is right side of the body is
controlled by left side of the brain.
However he’s better known for his intense research that gave the first
anatomical proof of localization of brain function, thereby having this area in
the frontal lobe, named after him which is involved with language processing
ID the area for full points. By QM Subham
6. Q3.
C is the largest living rodent, native to the dense forests and flooded savannas
of South America.
Known to be superb swimmers, holding breath up to 5 minutes underwater;
they're often hunted for pelts and meat; especially in Venezuela, where its
meat is popular consumption in Lent and Holy Week.
As recently as 2021, after causing serious problems for certain affluent
sections in Argentina, they were jokingly adopted as a symbol of class struggle
by netizens, once again making it a growing figure of meme culture. ID. Image
follows
By QM Subham
7.
8. Q4.*
As per Wikipedia, _______ was a courtier in the court of Dionysus II of
Syracuse, a 4th century ruler in Syracuse, Italy.
He’s known to history for appearing in an anecdote commonly
referred to as “the sword of ________”, which alludes to the imminent
and ever-present dangers faced by those in positions of power, as
demonstrated by Dionysus who gave him the king’s throne for a day
while a sharp sword hung over him by horse’s tail hair.
(As for the anecdote, it appears frequently in popular culture:novels,
TV series, videogames and music.)
FITB. By QM Subham
9. Q5.
This movie E is a 2022 American historical action thriller
loosely based on the real life events of a slave in the 1860s,
after Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for the slaves via
Proclamation 95.
It is co-produced by Will Smith, who also stars as a runaway
slave in the movie. Name the movie.
By QM Sidhartha
10. Q6.
There’s a high chance that you have come across it in
your life. Coming in variety of colors and patterns, their
manufacturers claimed them to be therapeutically
beneficial in autism, anxiety minus any clinical backing.
Interestingly, these proposed concentration boosters
ended up to be concentration busters and thereby
spinning out their existence long enough to be a “fad” but
never a “trend”.ID
By QM Subham
11. Q7.
“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people
believe that they’re doing something very clever
when they’re only wasting their time.” said by a
famous Irish person(playwright) who won both a
Nobel Prize and Academy Award. Name him.
By QM Aditya
12. Q8.
Also known as the King’s Jewel, or the French Blue, this 45.52 carat
is a famed large blue diamond extracted from the Kollur mines,
India.
Though one of the most enchanting diamonds, and having royals
like King Louis XIV of France as its owner once; the diamond
brought with it murder, tragedy and heartbreak; thereby the
unfortunate reputation of being a cursed diamond, much unlike to
the name by which it is known commonly, thanks to a British
banking family. Image follows.
By QM Subham
15. Q10.
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
If _______ don’t get ya , Lillee must.”
A punchline from a cartoon in Sydney Telegraph, 1975,
describes the fear the fast bowling duo induced in the
batsmen.
While one of the duo was Dennis Lillee, who was the
other one being referred to here?
By QM Subham
16. Q11.
This scale of measurement was invented by a Soviet
scientist in 1964.
This K scale measures the progress of a civilization by its
ability to use the energies available to the universe.
Name the scale.
By QM Sidhartha
17. Q12.*
In the late 1960s, an anti-long hair(for men) campaign titled Operation Snip Snip was
launched by the government of Singapore to in a bid to slow down the influence of the
hippie culture which was deemed to be detrimental to the stability of the society. A slew
of measures were progressively rolled out to deter men from having long hair. This
includes:
– Men with long hair were served last at government offices
– Fining or terminating jobs of male civil servants who had long hair
– Discouraging companies from hiring men with long hair
– Forcing male tourists entering Singapore to have their hair cut short or be denied entry.
L were the most famous casualties of Operation Snip Snip. They were scheduled to
make an appearance in Singapore on 14th February 1972 but were denied permission to
get off their private jet after landing.
By QM Shaheer
19. Q14.
“At Montreal [_______] received four of her seven 10s on the
uneven bars. The apparatus demands such a spectacular burst of
energy in such a short time—only 23 seconds—that it attracts the
most fanfare. But it is on the beam that her work seems more
representative of her unbelievable skill. She scored three of her
seven 10s on the beam. Her hands speak there as much as her
body. Her pace magnifies her balance. Her command and distance
hush the crowd.”
Goes an article by the Sports Illustrated in 1976, regarding an iconic
gymnast. ID.
By QM Subham
20. Q15.
O is a Swiss luxury watch maker founded by Louis Brandt,
headquartered in Biel, Switzerland.
From Britain’s Royal Flying Air Corps using it in 1917 as
combat watches, to 1969 Apollo 11 mission to being the
official timekeeper of Olympics, since the 1932 and even
being the main partner of Winter Olympics 2022, it has been
omnipresent over the years since its initiation henceforth a
strong resistance to oblivion. ID.
By QM Subham
21. Q16.*
There is a particular bird P after which a
browser and a book publishing house are
named. Which bird are we talking about?
By QM Aditya
22. Q17.
Q is one of the new metric prefixes to express the world’s
largest measurements, added to the SI units recently, for the 1st
time in more than 3 decades; prompted by an ever growing
amount of data. It implies 1 followed by 30 zeros.
The hint to the name can be found in the capital of the
Balochistan province, a place well known for the numerous fruit
orchards in and around the city. ID Q.
By QM Subham
23. Q18.
R is a North Indian sweet candy shaped like disks
made with roasted jowar, sesame seeds(Till),jaggery
and pure home made ghee. It is often gifted as a
symbol of love and gratitude during festivities. While
too much of any sweet can be unhealthy, according
to PM Modi too much of the R culture can be
unhealthy for the economy and leave taxpayers
dissatisfied. Image follows. ID
By QM Shaheer
24.
25. Q19.
Novak Djokovic recently made another record his own by
spending the 378th week as World no. 1, thereby overtaking S in
the process at All Time Weeks spent at No. 1 in Lawn Tennis
Singles ranking .
Apart from winning 22 majors, she still remains the first and the
only player to win the Golden Slam in the same calendar year. She
also remains the only tennis player to have won each major
tournaments at least 4 times. FITB.
By QM Subham
26. Q20.
The T composed by Mozart happens to be the
final movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11.
This movement received its “nickname” because
Mozart imitated a style that was understood as
Turkish— resemblance to the Turkish military
music of the time, the Janissary music– in Vienna.
ID
By QM Subham
27. Q21.*
Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Trinculo, Sycorax are better
known for being the characters of The Tempest, a
play by William Shakespeare.
However, they can also be found being grouped
together in another lesser known aspect, for being
the part of the U family, that which holds relevance
in this question. ID.
By QM Subham
28. Q22.
Since the 18th century, V has been the alto(middle)
voice of the violin family, between the violin and the
cello. Slightly larger than the violin, it has a lower and
deeper sound.
Among the great composers, several preferred it to the
violin, the most noted being Beethoven, Bach and
Mozart. If you interchange one letter in V, it transforms
into an act of exclamation. ID.
By QM Subham
29. Q23.
This animal is called Wolverine, after which the iconic superhero is
named. They are supposed to be the largest members of the
________ family living in the timber regions of the cold northern
latitudes of North America and Eurasia.
Noted for their strength, cunning, fearlessness, and voracity; the
species is renowned for its ability to face down and fight larger
predators that are more than twice its size thereby inspiring many
attributes of the iconic mutant. Image follows
FITB
By QM Aditya
30.
31. Q24.
Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that overlooks Lake Washington
in the city of Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot mansion is a
modern design in the Pacific Lodge style with classic features such as a
private library with a dome-shaped roof and oculus. The house features
an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot swimming pool with an
underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot gym, and a 1,000-square-
foot dining room.
Owing to its extravagance, many online articles have called the house X
2.0. This is a reference to X, the palatial mansion of Charles Foster Kane
from the movie Citizen Kane, which itself took its name from the Samuel
Taylor Coleridge poem, 'Kubla Khan'.
By QM Shaheer
32. Q25.*
Created in 1966 by Y, the Le Smoking tuxedo for women was the first of its
kind to earn attention in the fashion world and in popular culture. The
inspiration for the suit was the androgynous personal style of model and
Y's muse Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain.
Y took bits and pieces from both men's suits and women's clothing, and
combined it with new ideas. The collar was more feminine, as the shape
and curve were more subtle. The waistline of the blouse was narrowed to
show the body shape, and the pants were adjusted to help elongate the
leg. Le Smoking was an instant hit and pioneered long, minimalist,
androgynous styles for women, as well as the use of power suits and the
pants in modern-day society.
By QM Shaheer
33.
34. Q26.
This is the Z Nuclear Plant, the largest of its kind in Europe and
among the 10 largest in the world, generating 1/2 of the country’s
electricity from nuclear fuel and 1/5th of total electricity, thereby
underlying its significance.
The city going by the same name Z, which refers to the position of
the city, literally means “beyond the rapids”-- downstream of
Dnieper Rapids , is known to be an important industrialization
centre.
This place has recently catapulted into prominence in the last one
year. Image follows. ID.
By QM Subham
35.
36. A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Sidhartha Dey
Subham Biswas
Aditya Narayan Dubey
Ayush Charit
Shaheer Azam
Zainab Mansoor
37.
38. Answers
1. Anton Chekhov
2. Broca
3. Capybara
4. Damocles
5. Emancipation
6. Fidget Spinner
7. George Bernard Shaw
8. Hope’s Diamond
9. Ironman triathlon
10.Jeff Thomson
