IIM Ranchi Freshers Quiz 2014 Finals

FRESHERS QUIZ 2014
The Finals !

1.
• Decades before India embarked on its quest for superpower status,
the tiny princely state of Travancore had aimed it high in 1937 when it
made a bid to enlist whom, as vice-chancellor of its fledgling
university for a monthly pay of Rs 6,000?
• Hint!?

Hint: The blanked out face in this famous pic

2.
• Back in those days,
brand ambassadors
were a lot more
classy and so were
the products they
used to market!
Connect the
legendary Charlie
Chaplin with an
equally legendary
brand that he is
promoting...

3. Who am I?
• I was formed by the 50-50 venture of Amex and Warner
Communication. Manhattan Design my logo for a prize of $1000.
• My moral influence on young people, including issues related to
censorship and social activism, has been a subject of debate for some
years. Some of my famous campaigns have been- Choose or lose,
Fight for your rights and think.
• I was launched in august 1981 with a very appropriate song by the
Buggles- Video killed the Radio star.

5.
• X was established as a patent medicine business in Mumbai in 1893
by K. Nageswara Rao Pantulu. Even today, the words “Bombay” are
inscribed on the lid of its most well known product. Which product?

5. Answer
• Amrutanjan Pain Balm

6.
• X is a Finnish computer game developer, founded in 2003 as Relude,
and in 2005, renamed as X. Nokia is also headquartered in Keilaniemi,
Espoo, along with other high-tech companies such as KONE,Tekla and
Fortum.
• In Jan’05, relude received its first round of investment from a
business angel, and the company changed its name to Rovio Mobile.
• The first game developed by the trio, King of the Cabbage world, was
sold to Sumea, (now Digital Chocolate), and renamed to Mole War,
which became the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile
game in the world.
• What?

6.Answer
• Rovio mobile/ Rovio entertainment

7.
• Borrowed from the world of gambling, __X__ is a term used to
describe stocks of a company with a national reputation for quality,
reliability and the ability to operate profitably in good times and bad.
Based on the idea that different tokens dictate different values
ranging from lowest to highest, the phrase was coined by Oliver
Gingold of Dow Jones sometime in 1923 or 1924. Company folklore
recounts that the term apparently got its start when Gingold was
standing by the stock ticker at the brokerage firm that later became
Merrill Lynch. Noticing several trades at USD$200 or USD$250 a share
or more, he said to Lucien Hooper of W.E. Hutton & Co. that he
intended to return to the office to "write about these __X__ stocks."
Thus the phrase was born.

8.
• What is a bald-hairy joke in Russian Politics?

8. Answer
• It is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the
empirical rule of the state leaders' succession defined as a change of
a bald leader with a hairy one and vice versa. This consistent pattern
can be traced back until as early as 1825, when Nicholas I succeeded
his late brother Alexander as the Russian Emperor. Nicholas I's son
Alexander II formed the first "bald–hairy" pair of the sequence with
his father.

9.
• X is a term used to indicate a group of former Y employees and
founders who have since founded and developed additional
technology companies such as Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir
Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp Inc and Yammer. What?

11. Frequently described as one of the most original and beautiful stadia
in the world, X is the home ground for Y.
An article in the Financial Times once wrote this about the stadium:
“There has been nothing in this country to match the architectural
delight of Eduardo Souto de Moura’s stadium for Y, a breath taking
arena carved into the side of a rock face on the site of a former quarry“
The architect Eduardo Souto de Moura also won the Z prize for
constructing Y ,which honours architectural achievements attributed to
a living architect- the Nobel prize for architecture.
X, Y, Z please ?? (5 points per part for X and Y)(10 points for Z)

Estadio Municipale De Braga. Home of C.F. Braga

12. ________ is a term given to a Sufi saint who is at a very high level of spiritual
enlightenment. Being above all wandering sufi saints and dervishes, they are
most likely be free from all attachments of this material world.
Songs praising them have been called ‘_______ dhamaal’; which may be adapted
according to various regional folk traditions.
The most famous of these songs has been attributed to Amir Khusro (and later
Baba Bulleh Shah) and is very famous as a spiritual song especially for the Sindhi
people.
This song has been made famous by many singers from both sides of the border,
like Abida Parveen, Runa Laila, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan etc.
You are most likely to hear this song with Sindhi lyrics.
Fill in the blanks.

Qalandar
Dama dam Mast Qalandar !

13. Habiburrahman Dastageeri created a mobile app called Amir, Arabic
for ‘Guide’ in 2012. Since then it has been considered a must-have for a
certain purpose.
Dastageeri recounted the necessity for this app saying, “I realized that it
was not as easy as I had imagined. My family was prepared for it, but
there was so much that anyone could not have known.”
He was especially elated with the fact that his creation is going to
benefit millions and millions of people year on year.
What is Amir specifically about ?

App for guiding Hajj pilgrims around the Kaaba for the rituals !

14. A _____ ______ is in essence a confrontation among three opponents armed
with guns. The tactics for such a confrontation are substantially different from a duel
where the first to shoot has an advantage.
In a confrontation between three mutually hostile people A, B, C; the first to shoot is
at a tactical disadvantage because the C might shoot A while he is busy shooting B,
and thus survive.
This generally gives rise to complicated ally calculations and non-verbal signals
among the participants to ensure the survival of two people.
What is this term, made famous by many epic movies ??

15. In April 1934, a bronze likeness statue of X, was erected at Shibuya
Station and X himself was present there. The statue was recycled for the
war effort during the Second WW. In 1948, Takeshi Ando, son of the
original creator was commissioned to make another version of the
statue.
The station entrance to Shibuya near this statue is called X-guchi,
meaning the X-Entrance/Exit.
A similar statue of X stands at his home town of Odate, in the railway
station.
Who is X, immortalized and admired for unfailing loyalty and subject of a
famous movie in USA ?

16. William Ernest Henley is generally remembered for this one famous poem.
One of his legs was amputated due to complications arising from tuberculosis. After
this amputation, he received news of another operation to be done on the other leg.
However, this time he choose X as his doctor, who was a pioneer of antiseptic
surgery. Under X’s care, Henley was able to keep his other leg by going through
intensive surgery.
It was at this critical juncture of life, recovering at an infirmary that Henley wrote his
famous poem Y. Also, his impoverished childhood, along with various trials and
tribulations of his life are the primary undertone to the poem.
Which famous poem, that has also been adapted into a biographical movie (think
46664) with the same name ?
Also, who is doctor X, someone who is very famous because of a generic brand
named after him. We tend to use this product on a daily basis. (10 points per part)

X= Listerine (After Joseph Lister), Y= Invictus

17. Zangalewa is a 1986 hit song in a language called Fang. Originally
sung by a group called ‘Golden Sounds’, it was such a big hit that the
group changed its name to Zangalewa.
The song actually pays tribute to skirmishers during WW2. This song is
still used by Policemen and Army for training and rally purposes.
What were the words of the chorus which suddenly became famous 4
years back ?

18. The La Coubre was a 4310 ton French ship carrying Belgian munitions from the
port of Antwerp to Havana. While the ship was being unloaded, an explosion shook
the harbour at 3:10 pm on 4 March 1960. This was because according to harbour
rules, unloading such munitions was against the law and they had to be placed first
on a lighter and then unloaded.
This event as such is not very significant. However, it became famous because it
affected a person very much which has been captured in an extremely iconic
photograph.
What iconic photograph ?

19. The origin of this term is attributed to the then Mahim village in
Mumbai. Every time the ruler of Mahim village wanted something
accomplished, he would ensure the circulation of plate filled with X and
betel leaves in a meeting of all able bodied men. The one who picked up
his first X from the plate indicated his interest in accomplishing the task
for him.
What is this very desi term ?

20. According to Wisden , he is the only person to have
played first class cricket and to have won a Nobel
Prize (in literature) . Identify this person

21. These indentations are actually muscle deformities
resulting from variation in the structure of the
zygomaticus major muscle, usually due to the
presence of a double or bifid zygomaticus major.
There is evidence of it being genetically inherited and
it is classified as a simple dominant trait.
What are we talking about?

• Nikola Tesla
• Niagara falls (where he set up the first major hydroelectric power
plant in the world)

23. This is a screenshot from Foster’s home of
Imaginary friends. The characters on screen are from
a famous 1998 cult classic. Name the movie.

24. What has been blanked out/ give funda.

25. This painting inspired a 2010 movie, the second-
most expensive movie ever made. Name the movie
and the painting/painter

• Tangled
• The Swing
• Jean Honre Fragonard

26. Reference to a god among geeks. Name the blanked
out character/the tv series.

• Captain Malcolm Reynolds
• Firefly/Serenity

27. He was a successful French scrivener and
manuscript-seller. By all accounts, his legendary
reputation only appeared in the seventeenth century,
apparently having learned secrets from a
Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de
Compostela.
He has had legendary references in books like The
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Foucault’s Pendulum and
even recently in manga like Fullmetal Alchemist, not
to mention the more obvious ones.
Whom? (picture on next slide)

28. In its earliest incarnation in the 1700s, this
expression described condemned men who struggled
the longest when they were executed by hanging.
The phrase later became even more popular after
1811’s Battle of Albuera during the Napoleonic Wars.
In the midst of the fight, a wounded British officer
named William Inglis supposedly urged his unit
forward by bellowing “Stand your ground and ___
____ … make the enemy pay dear for each of us!”
Inglis’ 57th Regiment suffered 75 percent casualties
during the battle, and went on to earn the nickname
“The ___ ____s”.
What term, which is also the name of a popular movie
series?

29. John Steinbeck had a habit of signing letters and
drawings with a small drawing of X, accompanied by a
latin phrase ‘ad astra per alia porci’. It was meant as a
reminder that “man should always strive for higher
ground, no matter how lowly his skills may seem”.
What is X?

The four pockets symbolize Propriety, Justice, Honesty and Shame-
the four virtues.
The five buttons represented the five branches of the Government-
Legislation, Supervision, Examination, Administration and Jurisdiction.
The three cuff buttons represent the ‘Three Principles of the people’.
Also it is made from a single piece of cloth, thereby symbolizing the
unity of people in the country.
What is being talked about ?

He was originally named Aristocles, after his grandfather; but his wrestling
coach dubbed him ____ (meaning broad) because of his robust figure.
One theory also says that his name could have been because of his wide
forehead.
In either case, this mononymous Athenian was not the only one with that
name, there were 31 other cases of citizens his name during his lifetime.
Who ?

Which oft-forgotten member of that great Brazilian football team of the
1970s ?

There is a 133 feet statue of X erected at Cape Comorin. The 133 feet
denote the 133 chapters and the show of three fingers denote the
three themes Aram, Porul and Inbam- sections on Morals, Wealth and
Love.
He was also the author of famous treatises on medicine, Gnana
Vettiyan and Pancharathnam- apart from his most famous work.
Who ??

PLATO
He was originally named Aristocles, after his grandfather; but his wrestling
coach dubbed him ____ (meaning broad) because of his robust figure.
One theory also says that his name could have been because of his wide
forehead.
In either case, this mononymous Athenian was not the only one with that
name, there were 31 other cases of citizens his name during his lifetime.
Who ?

THIRUVALLUVAR
There is a 133 feet statue of X erected at Cape Comorin. The 133 feet
denote the 133 chapters and the show of three fingers denote the
three themes Aram, Porul and Inbam- sections on Morals, Wealth and
Love.
He was also the author of famous treatises on medicine, Gnana
Vettiyan and Pancharathnam- apart from his most famous work.
Who ??

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