General Quiz 2016 Finals

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50 questions.
Namesake- 5 questions
Infinite Pounce- 16
questions
AV- 8 questions
Maps- 5 questions
Infinite Pounce 2.0- 16
questions
May the best team win!!!

NAMESAKE
Written round on namesakes…
5 questions.
+5 for each correct answer.
Stake for +5/-5.

AUDIENCE Q:
Son of Anil Pal, a software engineer, his first
brush with cinema was appearing as a child
artist in QSQT and JJWS.
This Oxford alumni served as the Chancellor of
Bradford University between 2005 and 2014.
Back in his day, besides his on-field antics, his
cross-border relationships too garnered media
attention…

Eldest son of Sushila
Charak, a St. Xavier’s
College (Mumbai)
dropout, he had his
voice dubbed for his
1st movie. However,
his next venture,
(referred to as his
official debut) earned
him his first Filmfare
nomination in
the Best Actor
category.
1

• Namesake of the then Maharani of
Baroda, she was born Renee Smith, and
was one of early stars of silent films
in Indian film industry.
2

This Canadian-American sports journalist
worked for ESPN and ABC, hosting different
shows and even covering the NBA from 2002
to 2004. On August 10, 2016, he died at the
age of 61.
This erstwhile Assistant Superintendent of
Police met his death on December 17, 1927.
The original target however, was, the Chief
Superintendent James Scott who had ordered
his men to lathi-charge protesters leading to
the death of the nationalist leader Lala Lajpat
Rai. It was later found that the person who was
hanged due to the act was not even mentioned
in the FIR.
3

In 1895, during the Cuban War of Independence, this
future Nobel laureate travelled there to observe
firsthand the Spanish fight the guerrillas. He was
commissioned by Daily Graphic to write about the
conflict. While there, he soon acquired a taste for
Havana cigars, which he would smoke for the rest of
his life.
A naval academy passout, he took up writing as a full-
time engagement and in 1895, he became the
managing editor of Cosmopolitan, but within a year he
gave it up to find more time for writing. A
successful novelist, he also wrote poetry and essays.
His first novel in book format was The Celebrity.
4

Eldest son of Sushila
Charak, this St.
Xavier’s College
(Mumbai) dropout
had his voice dubbed
in his 1st movie.
However, his next
venture, referred to
as his official debut,
earned him his first
nomination for a Best
Actor at Filmfare.

SALMAN KHAN
• The actor
• The founder of
Khan Academy.

• Namesake of the then Maharani of
Baroda, she was born Renee Smith, and
was one of early stars of silent films
in Indian film industry.

This Canadian-American sports journalist
worked for ESPN and ABC, hosting different
shows and even covering the NBA from 2002
to 2004. On August 10, 2016, he died at the
age of 61.
The then Asst Superintendent of Police met
his death on Dec 17, 1927. The original target
however, was, superintendent of police James
Scott who had ordered his men to lathi-charge
protesters leading to the death of the
nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai. It was later
found that the person who was hanged due to
the act was not even mentioned in the FIR.

In 1895, during the Cuban War of Independence, this
future Nobel laureate travelled to Cuba to observe
the Spanish fight the insurgent guerrillas; he had
obtained a commission to write about the conflict from
the Daily Graphic. He had fond memories of Cuba. While
there, he soon acquired a taste for Havana cigars, which
he would smoke for the rest of his life.
Though trained in the Naval Academy, he resigned and
took writing as a full-time engagement. In 1895, he
became managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine,
but in less than a year he retired from that, to have more
time for writing. While he would be most successful as
a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist. His
1st novel in book format was The Celebrity.

STING
The wrestler- Steve Borden
The musician-Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner

 16 questions clockwise
 +10 for each correct answer.
 2 strike rule
 No negatives…
INFINITE POUNCE

Taking a cue from Dipankar De’s dialogue advocating the
intellectual superiority of the Bengali adda in Agantuk:
Tarun Majumdar was a regular in such sessions at a tea stall
in Deshapriya Park.
One day, when he reached quite late, others inquired him
regarding the reason for his delay. He explained that he was
watching a movie and added that they must alert each and
everyone to watch the same.
As a result of this, the next day, he and his friends came out
with placards with “X dekhun” (Watch X), “X dekha amader
kortobyo” (Watching X is our responsibility).
Which movie was this?
AUDIENCE QUESTION

Starting with an easy one…
Earlier this year, Union Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad and Manoj Sinha, launched a new scheme
that made this available in post offices pan-India
and enabled doorstep delivery via India Post .
Though, it is available in each and every post
office, it would be sourced from only two places
in India.
What would henceforth be delivered by India
Post apart from the usual?
And no, the answer is not DVDs of a Prakash Jha
movie…

Excerpt from a New Yorker article:
In November of 1929, a seventeen-year-old
Scotswoman, Mary Anne MacLeod, boarded the S.S.
Transylvania in Glasgow, bound for New York City. With
a high arching brow and deep, round eyes, MacLeod
hailed from Tong, a remote fishing community in the
parish of Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Although the American stock market was in a freefall,
Europe, in the shadow of war, was in no better shape.
Scots had been emigrating for years, trying to find
better opportunities.
In New York, MacLeod would find a well-established
community of countrymen and women, including two of
her sisters. In the 1930 census, her occupation is listed
as “maid” or “domestic.”
Who is her more famous son?

Though there has been considerable debate
regarding this, historians agree that
Lieutenant Clement Downing’s experience in
Cambay was the first-of-its-kind on Indian
soil.
Lt. Downing’s book A Compendious History
of the Indian Wars describes sailors being
involved in it with coolies keeping watch.
Downing himself indulged in it along with the
other members of the East India Company
fleet during a stopover at Cambay.

1st instance of CRICKET being
played in India

Giles Gilbert Scott was an English architect
known for his work on structures like the
Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power
Station, among others.
However, his most ubiquitous design was
done for a governmental body. He was one of
three architects invited by the Royal Fine Arts
Commission to submit designs for the same.
His design reflected a Classical style, topped
with a dome reminiscent of the mausoleum of
Sir John Soane in St. Pancras Old Church,
London.

The ______ Project is a social media
initiative which is an ode to vintage
Indian ______ art, reinterpreting it using
graphic designs.
Run by two 24-year-old Mumbai-based
artists — Aakansha Kukreja, a graphic
designer, and Aakash Doshi, a film-
maker, what is this project all about?

Red Dot Entertainment was the production
house behind the video commercial titled
“Beautiful Bangladesh”, made about half a
decade back.
They have also produced reality shows like D
Rock Star (2007), Ke Hote Chay Kotipoti (2011)
etc, along with other TVCs, music videos and
they are planning to produce a full-length
film.
Who is the co-owner-cum-Chairman of the
production house along with Gazi Shubhro
and Jewel Paiker?
Also, as a part of which marquee event, was
Beautiful Bangladesh originally made? (7+3)

The Dutch were the first to have arrived here
in 1598 and named the then uninhabited
place after _______ de Nassau, Chief
Magistrate of the United Provinces of the
Netherlands.
The French which occupied the place in the
18th century renamed it Isle de France.
When the British wrested control from the
French, they reverted to the original name
and it has stayed the same over the years.
Which place, one of whose early inhabitants
has lent its name to an idiom?

As an MP for three terms in the Lok Sabha and
Rajya Sabha, she pushed for the better
recognition of the tanpura artists of AIR. She
also fought for more travel concessions for
performing artists and for making life saving
drugs available to ailing theatre and stage
artists. Through Natyalaya, her dance school,
she helps young dancers with costumes and
jewellery too.
Who, whose courageously-written memoirs is
titled “Bonding”?

Salman Rushdie, time and again, hat-tipped
works which had had a profound impact on
him.
In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the land of
____ is the land of oppressive silence where
the sun would never rise. Right next door, the
raucous, argumentative ____ always enjoyed
bright sunlight.
Much like GGBB, innit?
So, FITB with two names that rhyme.

In November 2015, offices of the Marathi
newspaper Lokmat witnessed angry protests
by outraged Muslims who claimed that the
newspaper had insulted their faith by
publishing a blasphemous picture.
The article explained how the ISIS was
receiving money to fund their operations.
The article also carried an illustration that
showed symbols of various national currencies
– representing international sources of
funding – falling into a X, which was painted
like the ISIS flag.

• On New York City’s Lower East Side, Knickerbocker Village
sits between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. On the
11th floor of 10 Monroe St., a drama unfolded in the
apartment at the end of the hall.
• Michael Meeropol remembers it clearly. It was six and a half
decades ago, and he was 7 years old. He was listening to
“The Lone Ranger” on the radio when he heard the knock
on the door. He assumed the men who filled his family’s
apartment were friends of his father’s, but when his mother
yelled “I want a lawyer,” he knew something was strange.
When his father left that day, he never came back.
• Within few months, following a dramatic turn of events,
Michael and his brother Robert were turned into Cold War’s
most famous orphans.
• Who were their parents??

With their adoptive mother
Anne.

In March 2015, David Duckenfield the then
South Yorkshire police chief superintendent,
26 years after taking command of the event,
finally, devastatingly, admitted, his failure. He
said that his inadequate experience, directly
caused such a mishap.
So, what shocking incident did he admit to
being responsible for?

• Id the poet
and the
person to
whom this
poem is
dedicated??
• (6+4)

After being popular in its intended use, the
color is now officially known as “National
______ ___ Glossy Yellow” and was originally
called “National _____ ___ Chrome”, since the
pigment used for this was, for a long time, the
lead-containing chrome yellow.
The colour was chosen because it attracts
attention and is noticed quickly in peripheral
vision, faster than any other colour.
FITB, or tell where do you see extensive use of
the colour, something which can be seen in
India as well?

This specific copy was commissioned by
the person concerned in 1997, on his 60th
birthday, reportedly to acknowledge God
for helping him survive many conspiracies
and dangers.
In Sept 2000, he explained the reason: "My
life has been full of dangers in which I
should have lost a lot of blood ... but since I
have bled only a little, I asked somebody to
write God's words with my blood in
gratitude.“
A copy of what? Also, who commissioned
it?

• Questions regarding its ownership had
haunted Himani Savarkar for years. Every time
she posed this question to her father, he
remained mum.
• Investigations suggested that the person with
whom it is associated had secured it from
Gwalior with the help of locals namely, Dr.
Dattatraya S. Parchure, Gangadhar Dandvate,
Gangadhar Jadhao, and Suryadeo Sharma.
• Which item is being talked about?

5 questions on MAPs.
Stake for +5/-5.
MAPS

AUDIENCE Q:
What does the red line represent?

Q.1 for the teams:
What does the Blue line represent?

Released by UNESCO…
Be very specific about your answer…

WORLD HERITAGE SITES
IN DANGER

16 questions anti-clockwise
2 strike rule.
No negatives
INFINITE POUNCE 2.0

AUDIENCE QUESTION:
One of the country’s best preserved observatories,
this monument, which is a great example of the
scientific as well as the cultural heritage of India was
built by the Rajput King Sawai Jai Singh of Rajasthan
in 1738 CE.
Its namesake is a machine employed for brain-
washing, as famously seen in a sequel to a 1969
movie.

Freshwater had to be driven in, seven hundred
gallons at a time, from a town forty miles
away. To wire the site for a telephone
connection required laying four miles of cable.
The most expensive single line item in the
budget was for the construction of shelters,
which would protect some of the more than
two hundred and fifty observers.
All these preparations were for what?

One of the many Jewish refugees to have
found a safe haven in India from the Nazis, he
arrived in Bombay in February 1934 and ended
up staying for 14 years.
Within a few weeks, he founded the Bombay
Chamber Music Society, which performed
every Thursday at the Willingdon Gymkhana.
Nevertheless, his lasting legacy in our country
has been created thanks to something called
Shivranjini. What?

On September 9, 2014, the company
announced that it would no longer be making
this once revolutionary product. For a
seemingly all-powerful corporation, its
reasoning was uncharacteristically defeatist:
“We could not get the parts anymore, not
anywhere on earth”, said the CEO. He later
explained, “The engineering work was massive
and the number of people who wanted it very
small.”
This marked an instance of a product by a
particular company ending the use of a
previous product by the same company.

No more iPod Classic from APPLE

On December 20, 2010, Indian Railways switched to a system of
5-digit numbering system applicable to all passenger trains.
In this system, the first digit indicates the type of the passenger
train, as follows:
0 is for special trains (e.g., summer specials, holiday specials, etc.)
1 is for all long-distance trains, including the Rajdhani, Shatabdi,
Jan Sadharan, Sampark Kranti, Garib Rath, Duronto, and other
classes.
2 is also for long-distance trains; it is to be used when train
numbers starting with 1 are exhausted in any series.
What is 3 for, then?

Literally, the Latin word ‘recipe’ means simply
“Take…!” and medieval instances of this
invariably begin with the command to ‘take’
certain materials and compound them in
specified ways.
Folk theories about the origin associate it to a
mythological figure, or an ancient symbol to
Zeus or Jupiter.
Origin of what is being talked about?

Though he spent two decades (1921 to 1941)
as a professor at Calcutta University, he could
not distance himself from controversies.
Once, in 1928, he condemned the act of the
then VC, who asked the police to deal with the
student unrest going on inside the campus
against the Simon Commission. In the
investigation report, he wrote that police
violence was “unprovoked and unjustified”.
Who was this daring professor?
Also, who was the then VC of CU, who was
knighted a year later?

SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN
SIR JADUNATH SARKAR

Gang War (released as All Square in the UK) is
a part-talking gangster film starring Olive
Borden, Jack Pickford, Eddie Gribbon, Walter
Long etc and directed by Bert Glennon.
Despite the synchronised sound as well as the
all-star cast, the film is largely unknown in its
own right and is now considered a lost film,
being overshadowed by something which was
shown at the start of the movie.
What?

Delhi based Shelly Jyoti, a graduate in
literature and fashion technology, while
researching, landed in Bhuj in 2008, where
she discovered Ajrakh, one of the oldest block
printing techniques in the world. Here, in the
village of Ajrakpur, in the house of Ismail
Khatri, one of the renowed, ninth-generation
Ajrakh printers, Jyoti decided that the complex
process of Ajrakh printing would now feature
in her works.
It was in Bhuj that Jyoti discovered that Ajrakh
is the Arabic term for X, which is/was referred
to by its colour in many parts of India.
What is Ajrakh the Arabic term for?

 The sight of Frank Rijkaard expectorating into
Rudi Voller's mullet in the 1990 WC might have
been denied had X not entered the scene after a
group stage match to decide who would be in
2nd position (in a group topped by England)
since both Ireland and Netherlands finished
with identical records of three points, two goals
scored and two goals conceded.
As the NYT describes: "He put a slip of paper
bearing each team's name into each of two
orange plastic balls, which he placed in a
goldfish bowl. Another two yellow balls were
marked 2 and 3 and placed in another goldfish
bowl. He then asked one of the blue-uniformed
World Cup hostesses to pull a ball from each
bowl."

• Only 40 people attended the funeral of
Profokiev, one of the most popular composers
of 20th century.
• Not a single flower was found and Prokofiev's
family defiantly festooned his casket with hand
drawn paper flowers.
• No musicians could be found to play the great
composer's funeral. Prokofiev's family was
reduced to playing a recording of the funeral
march from his ballet Romeo and Juliet.
• What had caused the death of Profokiev to
have been overlooked in such a manner?

The government of
Bangladesh
designated it a
monument and one
can visit this place
via local tours.
What happened
here on 12th
January, 1934?

To fund the Great Wall of China.
To fund repair in the city of Rome, during the
reign of Augustus Caesar.
To finance the war against Republic of Venice,
1449.
To support the settlement of The Virginia
Company of London in America at Jamestown.
Connect them and in relation to the above
explain an idea that Shri P.K. Kunju Sahib
came up with sometime in the 1960s

LOTTERY;
• In 1967 all private lotteries were banned and
the Government of Kerala started the Kerala State
Lotteries. The idea behind the setup of the new
department under the Ministry of Finance,
(Government of Kerala) was from the then Finance
Minister of the state, Shri. P. K. Kunju Sahib. The
objectives of starting Kerala state lottery were
providing employment, to and supplementing the
government finance without disturbing the public.

 X is one of the famous taals of Hindustani music. It is also
one of the common taals in North India, used in various
popular compositions of Indian music. It has many
variations including dhumaali, "bhajani“ etc.
Rang barse from Silsila remains one of the most famous
songs where it was used.
Y is a light classical vocal form in Hindustani classical
music, mostly performed in Agra and
in Bundelkhand region. It was originally accompanied by
Y tala (from where the term for the genre was borrowed),
but later Y compositions are often found in other light
talas, such as X.
Hence it is due to such similarity, that a certain Tabla
player played X, despite repeated instructions from his
master to play Y and was hence, disrupting the entire
programme.
X and Y?

John Henry Belville created a certain service for 200-
odd clients in 1836, inspired by a daily workplace
practice. His widow, Maria, was granted the privilege
of carrying on the work as a means of livelihood and
continued the business until her retirement in 1892.
Ruth Belville, their daughter, then took over the
business. She continued the business till 1940, by
which time WWII had started.
The ‘instrument’ used for the business was originally
made for the Duke of Sussex and had a gold case.
When it was given to John Henry, he changed the case
to silver because he was worried thieves might steal it.
Where was John employed? ‘What’ did he and later his
family, as mentioned above, sell?

GREENWICH
OBSERVATORY
THEY USED
TO SELL TIME

The organizers for inviting me, to conduct the quiz.
Score-keepers.
Arindam Dottoh and Dr. Aakash Roy for being the
guinea-pigs.
All the participants..
Thanks for attending the quiz. Hope you enjoyed it.
Audience…

Between 1989 and 1992, X created a
collection of drawings that were published in a
book entitled 'Drawn Blank' in 1994. These
expressive works capture his chance
encounters and observations. The creation of
these portraits, interiors, landscapes and
street scenes were done to "relax and refocus
a restless mind".
Some of the artworks are on the next slide.
So, ID the artist…

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