1. PRESENTED BY
Rotaract Club of Behala, RID 3291
In association with
Interact Club of Calcutta Boys’ School
THE ANNUAL
INTER-SCHOOL
QUIZ

2. Team
Welcomes you!

3. House Rules
> Switch off your mobiles!
> 6 Rounds
> Scoring rules: to be informed
before each round
> Most answers can be worked out… so go for it!
> Decision of the quiz master stands true and final

4. R1: Warm Up
Direct: 20
Bonus: 10
Pounce: +20/-10
(max 2 pounces per team)

5. (Audience)
Which is the only king without a
moustache in a deck of cards?

6. Answer

7. King of Hearts

8. 1.1 Which fictional character has
written books like
‘Whole Art of Detection’,
‘On the Study of Tobaccos and
Their Ashes’, and
‘On Secret Writings’?

9. Answer

10. Sherlock Holmes

11. 1.2 Mokshapat, created by a
13th Century poet saint Gyandev,
was a game representing virtues and
vices. How do we know it today?

12. Answer

13. Snakes and Ladders

14. 1.3 Which Tiger Reserve in India gets
its name from the word ‘bakshish’
meaning tips, which were often
offered to the plantation workers by
British rulers?

15. Answer

17. 1.4 Nagarjuna, V Chamundeshwarnath
and which former Mumbai sheriff
owns the Mumbai Masters franchise
of the inaugural
Indian Badminton League?

18. Answer

19. Sunil Gavaskar

20. 1.5 Raaste Pyar Ke, Punar Milan in
Hindi has already hit the stands along
with some Tamil titles. Following soon
will be versions in Marathi, Malayalam
and Bengali. What 1908 founded thing
am I talking about that was in 1997
added to the Oxford English Dictionary
meaning “romantic story book”?

21. Answer

22. Mills and Boons

23. 1.6 The first Otis Elevator in Calcutta
was installed in the late 19th Century
in which famous building?

24. Answer

25. Raj Bhavan

26. 1.7 In 2001 John Koegh of Australia
filed a patent for
"Circular transportation facilitation
device". What is this?

27. Answer

28. Wheel

29. 1.8 Which literary work is nicknamed
the "Monalisa of English Literature"?

30. Answer

31. Wuthering Heights

32. (Audience)
Which Internet term originally meant
"harmless, creative fun"?

33. Answer

34. Hacking

35. R2: Sound Bytes
Direct: 20
Bonus: 10
Pounce: +20/-10
(max 2 pounces per team)

36. R3: Fundas
Direct: 20
Bonus: 10
Pounce: +20/-10
(max 2 pounces per team)

37. R4: Eye Spy
Direct: 20
Bonus: 10
Pounce: +20/-10
(max 2 pounces per team)

38. R5: Back to Basics
Direct: 20
Bonus: 10
Pounce: +30/-15
(INFINITE)

39. AUDIENCE:
Albino Luciani held which post for just
33 days in 1978?

40. Answer

41. The “September” Pope

42. 5.1 X is running for office in Australia as a
representative of a newly formed party. He
recently appeared in blond mullet wig, a flag
necktie as a headband and retro-looking Aussie
jersey in a parody video called "Game of Polls".
The video was produced by Juice Rap News. It
blends a hip hop beat with the theme from the
HBO series Game of Thrones. The video has actors
playing versions of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. ID.

43. Answer

44. Julian Assange - The WikiLeaks Party

45. 5.2
2000 John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
2003 Sir Michael Parkinson, British Media Personality
2005 Richie Benaud, former Australian Captain
2006 Alan Jones, Radio Personality ; Rugby coach
2008 General Peter Cosgrove, retired army officer
2008 Ricky Ponting, Former Australian Captain
2009 Greg Chappell, Former Australian Captain
2010 Sir Tim Rice
2011 Rahul Dravid, Former Indian Captain
2012 Gideon Haigh, Sports Journalist
2013 Mike Brearley, Former England Captain
CONNECT.

46. Answer

48. 5.3
Polianthes tuberosa is a night
blooming perennial plant, the
flowers of which are used in
perfumery.
Which 1974 film directed by Basu
Chaterjee is named after this flower?

49. Answer

51. 5.4
Late Dutch programmer, Joannes Jozef
Everardus Van Der Meer, who was a "pioneer in
the development of user-friendly Web
technologies," is believed to have created this in
1998.
This was officially launched by a different
company on February 9,2009. In an average day,
there are approximately 2.7 billion of this,
meaning over 955 billion in an average year.
What?

52. Answer

54. 5.4
A human can be identified uniquely
by their fingerprints.
Similarly, A dog can be identified
uniquely by what?

55. Answer

57. 5.5
This is one of the many phrases
coined by Shakespeare.
It refers to the warmest part of the
day.
USAGE: Next slide

58. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE:
There's none but witches do inhabit
here;
And therefore 'tis XX that I were hence.
She that doth call me husband, even my
soul
Doth for a wife abhor.

59. Answer

61. 5.6

62. Answer

64. 5.7

65. Answer

67. 5.8
This logo is said to be based on
Dreizack, the trident of Neptune.
An urban myth is that former VP Al
Gore helped design the same.
What?

68. Answer

69. USB

70. R6: ConneXion
EIGHT Qs
Non-exhaustive
Every correct answer: 10
Points mentioned on every slide

71. CLUEONE
Chau and Macau come together to make
this company's logo.
What?
+70 -35

72. CLUETWO
+60 -30
X is an out of shape middle aged man, disk jockey. With
the discovery of his powers he quickly became a special
British government operative for M.I.6, a secret British
national security unit, under the name X.
His costume is made of unstable molecules and has a
sound system in it. Image follows.

73. CLUETWO

74. CLUETHREE
X can be classified into two primary types:
pahoehoe (pronounced 'paw-hoey-hoey") and aa (pronounced "ah-
ah")
There is a third type called “pillow” but that is applicable only to the
submarine variety. What?
CLUE: Next Slide
+50 -25

75. CLUETHREE
+50 -25

76. CLUEFOUR
+40 -20
X is small town with a population of 32,000.
Its Coat of arms has an image of a Soot
Marten which is still found there. X got city
status in 1977.
Better known for a different reason. ID.

77. CLUEFOUR

78. CLUEFIVE
+30 -15

79. CLUESIX
+20 -10

80. CLUESEVEN
+10 -5

81. CLUEEIGHT
+5 -0

82. FINAL CONNECT
What are they?

83. ANSWERS
ONE VIDEOCON
TWO MICROMAX
THREE LAVA
FOUR NOKIA
FIVE HTC
SIX MAXX
SEVEN APPLE
EIGHT BLACKBERRY
ALL MOBILE PHONE BRANDS

84. PRESENTED BY
Rotaract Club of Behala, RID 3291
In association with
Interact Club of Calcutta Boys’ School
THANK
YOU!