Euphoria Interbatch Quiz - Practice Quiz for D16

INTERBATCH QUIZ TEAM
SCREENING - ANSWERS
Set by,
George Zacharia

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
20 Questions, total of 26 points.
Strictly 1 min per question. Quiz will be timed!!
Write in capitals.
Do not copy or cheat. Be honest!
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Name:-
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If you are okay to be in a new team by this quiz:- Yes / No

Q1
X consists of 3 things: Orbiter, Vikram lander and Pragyan rover. X was
scheduled to be launched on 15th of July 2019, but due to a technical snag
detected just 1 hour before X’s launch, the launch was shifted to 22nd of
July 2019.
Identify X.

Q2
Identify the person in the photo.

Q3
If they two won the Best Actor Male in
the 66th National Film Awards, who
won the Best Actor Female?

Q4
What is the subject of the below two memes?

ANS
Amazon rain forest burning

Q5
Who is the current health minister of India?

Q6
Which company is replacing Oppo on India’s jersey?

Q7 (2 POINTER)
When Kerala Blasters play with Chennayin FC, it is called X.
While the matches between Kerala Blasters and a particular football club,
Y, is nicknamed as the “Indian El Classico”.
Identify X. (1 point)
Identify this football club Y. (1 point)

ANS
X – Southern Derby
Y- ATK (Athletico de Kolkata)

Q8 (2 POINTS)
It was the first time a One Day International match required a Super Over,
and subsequently the first time the winner had been decided by a
_____X_____. The match has been described as one of the greatest and
most dramatic in the history of the sport, with some analysts describing it
as the greatest match in the history of one-day cricket.
Identify this famous match. (1)
Identify using what rule/method the winner was decided (1).

ANS
1) World Cup 2019 Finals- New Zealand and England
2) Boundary Count

Q9
This year a teaser of a movie named “_____(X)_____-2” named after a very
famous Malayalam movie(X) surfaced on Youtube. The movie claims to tell the
story of the son of the protagonist of X, named Irumpan Sunny. Sunny Leone is
slated to appear in the film in a major role.
This was met with lot of backlash from social media and the director of the
original movie X, Bhadran. He told that they can release the movie anyway but
shouldn’t associate it with X or its characters.
Identify this famous movie X.

ANS
Spadikam (Son of Aadu Thoma)

Q10 (2 POINTER)
A famous food product was featured in one of
Netflix’s shows and the food product’s twitter
handle tweeted on how sacred this food was
and proud to be part of every artist’s initial
struggle.
Identify the show . (1 mark)
Identify the food product. (1 mark)

Q11 (2 POINTER)
The director,X, of the latest Hollywood
movie, “Once upon a time in
Hollywood” has told that he will only
direct mainly 10 films in his life and
this movie is his 9th movie, meaning
only one more movie left for his fans.
”Once upon a time in Hollywood” is
also the first film by X not associated
with Y, with whom X cut his relations
following sexual abuse allegations
against Y.
Identify X (director) . (1 mark)
Identify Y. (1 mark)

ANS
Tarantino
Harvey Weinstein

Q12
The Government of Kerala launched a scheme, aptly named, “Mazhavillu”
in 2018 for the benefit of a particular community. The scheme had various
projects including helplines, crisis management centres, short stay homes,
id cards, etc for this particular community.
Identify the community.

Q13
In Sushruta Samhita, Sushruta wrote that, X, incarnated himself as a King
of Varanasi and taught medicine to a group of physicians including
Sushruta.
Who is X? (Be Specific, no generic names allowed)

ANS
Dhanvantari, God Of Ayurveda Medicine

Q14
The Walk of Fame in Hollywood
contains stars placed on the
footpath with names of stars as a
tribute and appreciation to many
famous personalities directly or
indirectly associated with cinema.
When Muhammed Ali was selected
by the committee to get a star
(Boxing was considered a form of
“live performance”), it was placed
vertical on the wall of Dolby
Theatre instead of putting it on the
floor, because of Ali’s request.
What was the reason for his
request?

ANS
Because he didn’t want his name to be walked upon (since his name
contained the name of the Prophet Mohammed)

Q15
This element was initially called “eka-
aluminium” by Mendeleev who predicted its
existence.
Lecoq after discovering this element, named it
after his country France after the Latin term
which meant as Ancient France or the Latin
term(X) which means “Rooster”.
The term X also features in the name of an
anatomical structure in the Human Body.
Now, identify the element.

Q16
Harish Salve, a prominent Indian lawyer, received a call from Sushma Swaraj,
an hour before her death, it was emotional and she told him to come and
collect his precious fee of Re. 1 .
For what case was he given this fee?

Q17)
What would happen if a crowd of people stormed the gates of Area 51
looking for aliens, and all of them ran really fast with their arms
outstretched behind them?
On June 27, a Facebook account whose name includes a vulgarity shared an
event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” It is scheduled for
3 a.m. on Sept. 20 in Amargosa Valley, Nev.
“We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and
coordinate our entry,” the Facebook event page said. “If we __X___ run,
we can move faster than their bullets. Let’s see them aliens.”
Warnings have been issued by the US authorities against this event.
Identify what is the name of the very popular style of “Run” they were
going to do. (X Run)

Q18
There is an interesting story in Greek
Mythology. When Thetis went to dip her
son in River Styx as a child for
strength, she held him by his heel. So
the waters of the magical river never
touched his heel leading it to be his
most weakest position that led to his
defeat.
Identify the famous son of Thetis.

ANS
Achilles (Achilles Tendon)

Q19 (2 POINTER)
An artist painted this painting when he was admitted in a Mental asylum for his
mental illness. This depicts a night scene of the scenery seen from the window of
his room.
This is one of the most famous works of the artists but he actually called it a
“Failure”.
There is a speculation that he was treated with a drug, X, for his epilepsy. A side
effect of X , which is very rare, is that it can affect enzymes in the cone cells of
the retina leading to an yellow tinge to everything they see called “Xanthopsia”.
This could be responsible for the artist’s “Yellow Period” and the spectacular sky
he painted in the painting.
(Painting on next slide)
Identify the painter and painting. (0.5+0.5)
Identify the drug. (1)

ANS
1) Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Nights
2) Digitalis

Q20 (2 POINTER)
Manu S Pillai is a young historian and an author, with all of his books being bestsellers.
His first book (X) dealt with the rule of Sethu Lakshmi Bhai in the House of Travancore
and its aptly titled after the peculiar throne of this dynasty. This also is soon becoming
a Netflix series.
His latest book his titled ”The Courtesan, The Mahatma, The ____Y___ ____Z____ :
Tales from Indian history”, mentions Roberto de Nobili , who was a Jesuit priest who
came to Madras to preach the Bible. But he saw that Christian priests were seen with
disrespect because they ate beef, etc and hence they didn’t have any converts. So, de
Nobili , became a vegetarian, learned the vedas, and started wearing the dress of a
sanyasi instead of the cassock.
He became like a Hindu to serve the Hindus and built a church where people were
seated based on castes. He preached the Bible in Tamil saying it as a long lost Veda.
He was called The ____Y____ _____Z____ , after his place of origin and the caste he
pretended to be in.
Identify X. (1)
Identify de Nobili’s title. (Y Z) (1 point)

ANS
1) Ivory throne
2) Italian Brahmin (0.5+0.5)

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