The document discusses a quiz event called "Siruseri Open Quiz 57" held in Chennai, India. It includes several multiple choice questions about topics like books, movies, language terms, sports, and more. The questions provide context and the "ANSWER" sections include short explanations or answers to the multiple choice questions.

1. Siruseri Open Quiz 57
TCS Chennai
6th May 2016
FINALS
Researched and Conducted by Daivik De

2. The Exile is a book by Navtej Sarna,
an Indian diplomat and former ambassador to
Israel,
published in 2008.
It is based on the life of Maharaja Duleep Singh,
the last Maharaja of the Sikh empire.
The book gained a sudden resurgence in India
as it details a certain action of Maharaja of
Duleep Singh in 1849,which has caused a huge
brouhaha in recent times.

3. ANSWER

4. How the Kohinoor was taken from
India to Britain

5. Legendary pop superstar Prince who
breathed his last on April 2016, became an
international sensation in the 1980s, when he
popularised the Minneapolis sound of
danceable funk.
He changed his stage name in 1993 for a for
a few years to an unpronounceable symbol
dubbed the ‘Love symbol’ to remove himself
from contractual obligations.
Why did he do so?

6. ANSWER

7. Warner Bros. trademarked the word
‘Prince’

8. ‘Kaum De Heere’ (Heroes of the Nation)
is a Punjabi movie which is barred from
release in India.
Many Sikhs believe that the film is the true
depiction of the Sikh's community feelings
against atrocities but many depict it as a
glorification of a shameful event.
What is the movie based on?

9. ANSWER

10. Assassination of Indira Gandhi

11. ‘Komi-Bashi’, ‘Neburi-Bashi’, ‘Nigiri-Bashi’ are considered as
crimes in Japan as they regard these insulting to their culture.
The crimes are mostly committed using bamboo, wood and
plastic.
How are these crimes committed?

12. ANSWER

13. Forbidden Behaviour with chopsticks
Neburi Bashi- lick the tips of chopsticks
Nigiri Bashi- to hold two sticks by grasping them (consider
an action of attack)

14. Part of Russian folk life and frequently occurring in it’s literature
and art,
the most famous portrayal of Russian boxing is in Mikhail
Lermontov's poem,
‘The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov’,
where it takes place as a form of honour duel between a
government police agent and a merchant.
How is Russian boxing different from traditional boxing?

15. ANSWER

16. Bare knuckle boxing

17. Dothraki is a constructed fictional language in George R. R.
Martin's fantasy novel series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ and its
television adaptation Game of Thrones.
The language comprises of more than 3000 words, not all of
which have been made public.
In 2012, 146 new-born girls in the U.S. were named
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the Dothraki term for the wife of a ruler,
and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.
FITB.

18. ANSWER

19. Khaleesi

20. 1985 is a novel by Anthony Burgess
set in the future
in which the trade unions have become so
powerful that they exert full control over
society.
Which work is it intended as a tribute to ?

21. ANSWER

22. George Orwell’s ‘1984’

23. As a result of the logical evolution in
user interface design,
why is this symbol used as the ‘Power
button’ on all electronic devices?

24. ANSWER

25. Deriving itself from the Binary Number System, 1 (or the
vertical line) stands for power On whereas 0 (or the circle)
indicates power Off.
To create the symbol for a Single On/Off button,
the "1" and "0" symbols were super-imposed and merged
each other to create the universally recognized power symbol
currently in use.

26. Boko Haram is an Islamic terrorist
group based in north-eastern Nigeria
having influence in a lot of North
African countries.
The word ‘Haram’ in Arabic means
forbidden
while ‘Boko’ in Hausa language
translates as ‘fake’.
What do they refer to as fake?

27. ANSWER

28. Western Education

29. This ‘sport’ gained public attention in
recent years due to the stardom of
Takeru Kobayashi (53 in 12 mins) and
Joey Chestnut (61 in 10 mins) but the
current reigning champion is Matt
Stonie (62 in 10 mins).
The most popular event of its kind
being organised by American company
‘Natham’s Famous’,
which ‘sport’ is this?

30. ANSWER

31. Competitive Eating

32. Francisco Lazaro was the first Portuguese
Olympic marathon runner in the nation's first
ever Olympic Games. (1912 Summer Olympics,
Stockholm)
His actual job was as a carpenter in an
automobile factory in Lisbon.
Prior to the Olympics he had run and won three
national marathon championships.
With what unfortunate Olympic trivia is he
associated?

33. ANSWER

34. First athlete to die during an
Olympic event

35. ID the painter who often paints
religious themes backed by his
own belief in ‘oneness of Gods.’

36. ANSWER

37. Salman Khan

38. In the recently concluded 2016 ICC World Twenty20,
Virat Kohli was named the ‘Player of the Tournament’,
but a Bangladeshi and a Afghan player
had most runs and most wickets in the tournament respectively.
Name both.

39. ANSWER

40. Tamim Iqbal Mohammad Nabi

41. Sachin Tendulkar launching ‘Digibank’ which claims itself to be
‘India’s first mobile only bank’.
Which bank is behind ‘Digibank’?

42. ANSWER

44. Palacio de Sal is a hotel built of salt blocks
located at the edge of Salar de Uyuni, the
world's largest salt flat, in Bolivia.
The hotel faced slow degradation due to a
bad habit of the tourists staying in it and
thus now, they have a rule prohibiting the
action
.
What action is prohibited officially?

45. ANSWER

46. Licking the wall!

47. Janus is the Roman god of doorways and
passages.
He is depicted as having two faces- one
looking forward and the other looking
backward.
Julius Caesar named something on him
and started a celebration which is
followed till date.
What is named after this Roman god?

48. ANSWER

49. January month

50. What is special about this Coca-Cola can?
(It came into news in 1985 for being the first to achieve
something unique)

51. ANSWER

52. First soft drink to go to space.
Astronauts tasted it aboard
Space Shuttle Challenger

53. This term was coined in Britain in1895 while arguing the case for
whole new meal, mainly for Saturday night partygoers.
Which fashionable term thus came into being,
now used by a lot of eateries offering discounts?

54. ANSWER

55. Brunch

56. Tidal is a subscription-based music
streaming service which claims to pay the
highest percentage of royalties to music
artists and songwriters within the music
streaming market .
Who acquired it in March 2015 and
started a mass-marketing campaign to
relaunch it using "#TIDALforAll?

57. ANSWER

58. Jay- Z

59. Abbas Kazmi first came to Mumbai as an
aspiring actor and worked in a few films such
as Anjaan Rahen, with Feroz Khan and Asha
Parekh.
He found little success in acting and switched
career.
His claim to fame finally came in the year 2009,
but in a completely different field for which he
frequently had to defend himself saying that
he was just doing his professional duty
sincerely.
How did he come into limelight?

60. ANSWER

61. Lawyer who represented
Ajmal Kasab

62. The X Memorial Award is an international children's literary
award established in 2002 to honour the author X
who passed away in 2002.
The prize money is approximately 3.9 crores in Indian
currency,
making it the richest award in children's literature and one of
the richest literary prize in the world.
Who is X?

63. ANSWER

64. Astrid Lindgren

65. Anupam Mittal is the founder and CEO of People Group which
owns businesses such as Makaan.com, Mauj Mobile and People
Pictures. However his biggest venture was launched in 1997
after he met a broker in India who went door to door carrying
biodata in his suitcase.
Mittal figured an online medium would increase a person's
chances of finding the right customer.
This business is now estimated to be about 1.5 billion Indian
rupees.
What?

66. ANSWER

67. .com

68. DanChurch Aid, a local NGO with the help of crowdfunding, set up
a first of its kind supermarket in Copenhagen called the “Wefood”.
This supermarket aims to sell products, 1.3 billion metric tonnes of
which is produced every year.
What do they sell at half the original rate?

69. ANSWER

70. Expired food products

71. This is the Dilli Darwaza,
the main gate of Shaniwar Wada,
seat of the Peshwa rulers of the Maratha
empire.
Each pane of the gate has seventy-two
sharp twelve-inch steel spikes arranged in a
grid, situated at a height above the ground.
What was the primary purpose of this
design?

72. ANSWER

73. To discourage elephants from charging the
gates

74. Some immediate aftereffects of what?
• Variants of it were used by BJP and Congress in their campaigns during
2012 assembly elections.
• Top business schools like IIMs conducted studies to figure out the
science behind the popularity.
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited the man behind it for
the dinner party along with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in
his New Delhi residence to discuss its craze in Japan.

75. ANSWER

76. Why this Kolaveri Di?