General Quiz finals - Rhetorica '12

1. I
Dry Round

2. • Recently (June 2011) this train entered its
100th year of service. It is the first train to
achieve this distinction on Indian Railways'
broad gauge network Once the preferred
service for British officials, it once connected
two great cities of India and Pakistan.
Identify the train and its source and destination
stations.

3. • Punjab Mail which now connects Mumbai CST
to Amritsar once connected Bombay and
Peshawar before 1947.

4. • Something happened for the first time in India
between the then Weat Bengal CM CPI (M)
chief Jyoti Basu and Union minister Sukh Ram
on July 31, 1995. What was the incident?

5. • This was India's first cellular phone call,
inaugurating Modi Telstra's MobileNet service
in Calcutta.

6. • The initial total budget estimated for this
Event was 1,620 crore (US$361.26 million).
Business Today magazine estimated that the
Event cost 60,000 crore (US$13.38 billion). (A
jump of 37 times.) This became the most
expensive event of its type.

7. The 2010 Commonwealth Games, New
Delhi

8. The red bar which lies closest to the mast,
symbolizes the place as it is today. The green
and blue symbolize future stages should
humanity have the will and ability to
undertake such a task. Flag of?

9. • Proposed Mars flag

10. • Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a research institution of higher
learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909. This
was funded and established by Jamsetji N. Tata after a chance
meeting between him and X on a ship in 1893 where they discussed
Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to X
five years later:
• “ I trust, you remember me as a fellow-traveller on your voyage
from Japan to Chicago. I very much recall at this moment your
views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India... I recall these
ideas in connection with my scheme of Research Institute of
Science for India, of which you have doubtless heard or read ”
Impressed by X views on science and leadership abilities, Tata
wanted him to guide his campaign. X endorsed the project with
enthusiasm.

11. Swami Vivekananda, its official website
also mentions both the names.

12. • The Munich massacre is an informal name for events
that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in
Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germay, when
members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken
hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group
X. X called the operation "Ikrit and Biram", after two
Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were
killed by the Haganah in 1948. The kidnappers had
killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West
German police officer. Five of the eight members of X
were killed by police officers during a failed rescue
attempt. Identify X by whose name the incident is
popularly known.

13. • Black September Organisation

14. • How did Nargis Yadav of Dauraha village of UP,
born on October 31, make world headlines?

15. • She was symbolically chosen by the UB among
several children around the world to be the
seven billionth child on the planet.

16. • Four poets of Hindi literature were
symbolically said to be the four pillars of Hindi
romanticism towards nature “Hindi
chhayawaad sahitya ke char stambha”. The
three of them were Sumitra Nandan Pant,
Mahadevi Verma, Suryakant Tripathi Nirali.
Who was the fourth one?

17. • Jai Shankar Prasad, he has wonderful works
like Kamayani, Titli, Kankal.

18. • Name the author of the book which was
removed from the University of Mumbai’s
English syllabus after complaints from the
family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal
Thackeray as the book contained some racial
comments against Maharashtrians and him.

19. Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey

20. • Pierre Cardin is world-renowned for having
licensed over 840 products - from fashion to food
to furniture.
• He was recently hired by an Indian company to
design something for the company. He spent the
day with top-of-the-line Indian designers Tarun
Tahiliani, Satya Paul and Ritu Beri for the same
purpose.
• Which company and what was he supposed to
design?

21. • He was hired by Air India. He would be
sketching his silhouettes for the flag carrier's
flying staff. Air-India, the country's flag-carrier,
will soon sport a glamorous new look with his
designs.

22. • U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in his April
7, 1932 radio address, The Forgotten Man, in
which he said “These unhappy times call for
the building of plans that rest upon the
forgotten, the unorganized but the
indispensable units of economic power....”
He used a term for the first time which is widely
used even now? What was the term.

23. • The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” “These
unhappy times call for the building of plans
that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized
but the indispensable units of economic
power...that build from the bottom up and not
from the top down, that put their faith once
more in the forgotten man at the bottom of
the economic pyramid.”

24. According to Greek mythology, X is a monstrous
fire-breathing female creature, composed of
the parts of multiple animals: upon the body
of a lioness with a tail that ended in a snake's
head, the head of a goat arose on her back at
the center of her spine. The term X has also
come to mean, more generally, an impossible
or foolish fantasy, hard to believe.****

25. • Chimera

26. • Born as Chandra Mohan Jain in 1931, a professor
of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in
the 1960s as a public speaker. His outspoken
criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and
institutionalised religions made him controversial.
He also advocated a more open attitude
towards sexuality: a stance that earned him the
sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later
international press. How is he commonly known
as?

27. • OSHO Rajneesh

28. • He graduated in Physics B.Sc Hons. from IIT
Kharagpur (class of 1969) where he was the recipient
of Director's Gold Medal.
• He received a M.Sc degree also in Physics from IIT
Kanpur.[3]
• He topped the IAS examination in 1972 and was
assigned the Andhra Pradesh cadre.
• In 1978, he did a Masters degree in economics
from Ohio State University, United States.
• He was given a career extension of two years by the
PMO for his efficient job and foresighted plans.
• Identify him and the post for which he was given
extension.

29. • Duvvuri Subbarao
• Current Governor of Reserve Bank of India

30. • Sri Lanka defeated India in the historic
semifinal of wills 1996 Cricket World Cup at
The Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In reply to Sri
Lanka’s 251/8 India had scored 120/8 in 34.1
overs when the match was awarded to Sri
Lanka by the match referee Clive Lyod without
the match getting completed. What was the
reason for the abrupt stop of play?

31. • The match was awarded to Sri Lanka by match
referee Clive Lloyd when play could not
continue due to the rioting crowd. The crowd
set ablaze a part of stadium with the
disappointment over India’s poor
performance. The cheerful Calcutta crowd was
highly criticized for that.

32. • Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American
biographical drama film based on Chris
Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with
homelessness. The film features Will Smith as
Gardner. Chris Gardner reportedly thought
Smith, an actor best known for his
performances in action movies, was miscast to
play him. However, he said his daughter
Jacintha "set him straight" by saying, "If Smith
can play X, he can play you!“ Which role X did
Smith play which was also highly appreciated?

33. • 2001 American film Ali, where Will Smith
Played Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend.

34. • According to an apocryphal story, it owes its
existence to a section of tightly packed seats
behind the homeplate at Fenway Parkin
Boston. The seseats were so close together
that whenever a fan had to stand up to get a
beer, it caused annoyance to people nearby. It
caught world wideattention in 1986. What
phenomenon am I talkingabout?

35. • Mexican Wave

36. • The Oxford English Dictionary records the use
of this term as a suffix attached to anything to
indicate ‘scandal involving’ since 1973. What
term?

37. • -gate

38. II
Poster, poster on the wall

61. III
Connect ‘em all

62. Connect and give me the name of the City

63. Istanbul

64. • What connects all these three logos?

65. • Chrysler.

66. Connect

67. • Chris Van Allsburg

68. Connect
• How the Whale got his throat
• How the First letter was written
• How the Camel got his hump
• How the Alphabet was made
• The tabu tale

69. • Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling

70. Connect these symbols

71. Olympic Logos

72. Connect

73. • All are published by Condé Nast Publications.

74. IV
Rapid Fire

75. 1. Which Indian company formed a joint venture with the
Hershey Company of North America (famous for their
chocolates)?
2. Connect Shine.com, Fever104 Fm, Mint,
Desimartini.com.
3. Which is the only country in the world whose English
name starts with the letter O?
4. If you were facing the main office of ArcelorMittal,
which country would you be in?
5. Which famous tourist destination is home to the volcano
Mount Etna?
6. Who owns the Indian Cricket League?
7. The largest city in Morocco is also the name of an Oscar
winning movie and has a famous port. Which city?

76. 1. Which Indian company formed a joint venture with the
Hershey Company of North America (famous for their
chocolates)? Godrej
2. Connect Shine.com, Fever104 Fm, Mint, Desimartini.com. HT
Media Ltd, Hindustan Times
3. Which is the only country in the world whose English name
starts with the letter O? Oman
4. If you were facing the main office of ArcelorMittal, which
country would you be in? Luxembourg
5. Which famous tourist destination is home to the volcano
Mount Etna? Sicily
6. Who owns the Indian Cricket League? Subhash Chandra (Zee)
7. The largest city in Morocco is also the name of an Oscar
winning movie and has a famous port. Which city? Casablanca

77. 1. What is Rabindra Setu more commonly known as?
2. What U.S. state was named for Queen Elizabeth I?
3. Connect the Indian Hotels Company, Westside, Voltas, and Ginger.
4. The second in line to the throne of the head of state of Gibraltar
is… ?
5. Which small island, near the northeast coast of the United States,
which now houses among the costliest real estate was once bought
for a paltry sum of twenty four dollars?
6. What do we know baazee.com as now?
7. Which two companies bring the Mobile Store chain of stores?

78. 1. What is Rabindra Setu more commonly known as?
Howrah Bridge
2. What U.S. state was named for Queen Elizabeth I?
Virginia
3. Connect the Indian Hotels Company, Westside, Voltas,
and Ginger. Tata
4. The second in line to the throne of the head of state of
Gibraltar is… ? Prince William
5. Which small island, near the northeast coast of the
United States, which now houses among the costliest
real estate was once bought for a paltry sum of twenty
four dollars? Manhattan
6. What do we know baazee.com as now? Ebay India
7. Which two companies bring the Mobile Store chain of
stores? Virgin and Essar

79. 1. If you were born in St. Petersburg in 1903, educated in Petrograd, worked
in Leningrad, and died in 1992 in the same city that you were educated in,
where did you die?
2. Connect TV Channel Zing, DNA Newspaper, Asian Sky Shop, Water Kingdom.
3. What is the official name of the country which was earlier called Formosa?
4. The English translation of which South American country’s capital’s name
is good air?
5. Which company has built the Bandra-Worli Sea Link?
6. Which sports league is the highest earning league in the world?
7. In which city is Marco Polo airport?

80. 1. If you were born in St. Petersburg in 1903, educated in
Petrograd, worked in Leningrad, and died in 1992 in the
same city that you were educated in, where did you die? St.
Petersburg
2. Connect TV Channel Zing, DNA Newspaper, Asian Sky Shop,
Water Kingdom. Essel Group, Subhash Chandra, Zee
3. What is the official name of the country which was earlier
called Formosa? Republic of China
4. The English translation of which South American country’s
capital’s name is good air? Argentina
5. Which company has built the Bandra-Worli Sea Link? HCC
6. Which sports league is the highest earning league in the
world? NBA
7. In which city is Marco Polo airport? Venice

81. 1. What is the largest country (by area) in the world that borders only one
other country?
2. In which hemisphere would you find the Sea of Vietnam?
3. Connect Lumiere, Showbiz, Arabia, MetroNation and Hindu.
4. Which South American country’s name translates to Little Venice?
5. Which company bought chocolate giant Cadbury to become the world’s
second largest food company?
6. The former name of this city in India gave a fabric its name. How do we
know this city now?
7. What is the full form of DLF?

82. 1. What is the largest country (by area) in the world that
borders only one other country? Canada
2. In which hemisphere would you find the Sea of Vietnam?
None
3. Connect Lumiere, Showbiz, Arabia, MetroNation and Hindu.
NDTV
4. Which South American country’s name translates to Little
Venice? Venezuela
5. Which company bought chocolate giant Cadbury to become
the world’s second largest food company? Kraft Foods
6. The former name of this city in India gave a fabric its name.
How do we know this city now? Kozhikode
7. What is the full form of DLF? Delhi Leasing and Finance