The Return Gift Quiz - Kutub Session (General Quiz)

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The Return Gift Quiz
By: Sreshth

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Rules
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Bounce :10
Question moves on to next team if unanswered
We reverse at Q 31.

1) According to the locals: “In Feb 1784 ten ships,
including HMS Convert, were part of a convoy travelling
from Jamaica to Britain & America. On the morning of
Feb 8th, the fleet struck a reef during bad weather and
ran aground due to the rough seas.
Seeing this, the locals who spotted the shipwreck came
to the rescue braving the storm. Thanks to their effort,
all but eight sailors survived – including a member of
King George III’s family. George, delighted at the news
of the safety of his relative ordered something for the
people of the land who came to the rescue.”
..continued...

Although the shipwreck is well documented, the decree
bit in the story which the locals spread isn’t quite true as
no proof of it has been located but makes for a good
story about a certain special honour the locals have
received from this incident.
Where did the shipwreck take place?
What did King George III declare for the locals’ benefit
(according to legend), something that is in-the-news all
the time?

Answer: Cayman Islands
Announced it as a Tax Haven

2) His fame has always has always resulted in him being a character in
the films based on the same theme in 1943, 1953 and in a very
popular late 20th century film – with all movies bearing the same
name.
After his death, he was located & recognized thanks to the following
info:
NO. 124 - ESTIMATED AGE 50 – LIGHT HAIR &
MOUSTACHE. CLOTHING – Blue serge suit; blue handkerchief
with "A.V."; belt with gold buckle; brown boots with red rubber soles;
brown flannel shirt; “___." on back of collar. EFFECTS – Gold
watch; cuff links, gold with diamond; diamond ring with three stones;
£225 in English notes; $2440 in notes; £5 in gold; 7s. in silver; 5 ten
franc pieces; gold pencil; pocketbook.
Who am I talking about?

Answer

3) It will take Siloe, a small Spanish publishing house about 18
months to make the first facsimiles, in a painstaking process
that started in April when a photographer took detailed
snaps of the original in Yale. The paper they use – made
from a paste developed by the company – has been given a
special treatment so it feels like the stiff parchment
used to write the original. All the imperfections are re-
created using special tools in a process kept firmly secret by
Garcia, the owner of the firm.
The publishing house plans to sell the facsimiles for €7,000
to €8,000 apiece and 300 readers have already put in pre-
orders.
After a 10-year appeal for access, Siloe has recently bought
the rights to make 898 exact replicas of what book?

Answer:

4) She said she wanted to name her company because
she wanted to create “very risky” products.
She said she came up with this name while attempting
to do a difficult mountainous trek while travelling the
world after a couple of semesters at USC.
Who is she?
What is her company’s name?

Answer
Megan Ellison
Annapurna Pictures

5) The earliest partnership with Coca-Cola and this
organization started way back, although some are
under the impression that it started 20 or so years
back.
Which organization and where and when was the first
time Coca-Cola team up with this organization?

6) Some version of this began appearing on feminist
message boards in discussions of sexual assault
in the late ’90s. Andi Zeisler, of feminist publication
Bitch magazine, said it often popped up on a
community forum on Ms. Magazine’s website.
It was first used in July 2003 in a LiveJournal article -
"What Form Of Self Mutilation Are You?" and
has then been seen on multiple fan-fiction/roleplay-
fiction websites.
Its use rose on the internet on Tumblr, especially since
many LiveJournal users were early Tumblr users.
What?

7) Its logo/emblem features two objects, one to
“circumscribe us within bounds...” while the other “to
square one’s actions”. Although some versions of it,
also feature other objects in the middle of it – most
popular versions include a letter within these two objects.
Logo of?
What letter and what does it signify?

Answer
‘G’ for God

8) 88-year old Ed Benguiat has now been forgotten
although he designed the following logos back in the
day.

He has also worked on many prominent Stephen King
novels.

But, Why has he again come back in the design
spotlight thanks to a couple of Stephen King fans
who discovered his work?

9) This Olympian is officially the first Indian born
athlete to win an Olympic Gold medal. Having
gone to study in Paris to learn more about Degas and
Rodin, the decision to take part in the Olympics
happened abruptly.
Who?
What other record does this Olympian hold with
respect to another participant (who finished 7th)
in the same event?

Answer: only mother-daughter pair to take part in any
olympic finals event

10) When he visited India in 1951, he discussed
with Nehru how he wanted to create this ever
since 1948 with the Himalayas in the foreground.
In a later letter to JN, he suggested that it could
actually become a symbol to represent Nehru’s
Non-Aligned Movement. His original design
featured yellow, red, green and white while
rotating with the wind.
Sadly, he never managed to create it in his
lifetime, due to lack of any sort of sponsorship
or funding as he died some years later.
Who? Create what?

11) This site was purchased in 1799 by the crowd on
behalf of Jeremy Bentham for his proposed
panopticon style prison on the banks of the Thames.
Being a massive project, it was later rejected by the
Government and became a regular prison. Both
Dickens and Conan Doyle describe this prison in
Bleak House and Sign of Four, respectively. In 1897,
it was shut down and redeveloped into what we
know it now as.
What was the Millbank prison redeveloped as?

12) AirAsia started the “Fly Like A Superstar”
campaign between 16/07/2016 – 30/07/2016 with
special rates for flights to Chennai from Delhi or
Bengaluru, to celebrate what?

13) In 2006, a cinema hall in Patna was redesigned to
look like a marriage ceremony hall, thanks to the
success of the hall for the past few weeks. When one
entered the hall, shehnai music greeted them and
the hall's foyer was scattered with floral
decorations to visitors’ delight.
For which movie was the theatre adorned with a
festive banner outside it that read: Punam Weds Prem?

14) The term was popularized by University of Chicago
archaeologist James Henry Breasted in his 1914 and 1916
European-World History books. It reads, “The
westernmost extension of Asia...included within the
circuit of waters marked out by Caspian and Black seas on
the north, Mediterranean & Red seas on the west, and by
the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the south and
east....region chiefly of mountains in the north and desert
in the south. The earliest home of men here...is a
borderland between the desert and the mountains, a
kind of cultivable fringe of the desert, a
____________ having the mountains on one side and
the desert on the other.
Now used to refer to what term?

15) After his parents’ divorce, he moved to NYC and lived
with his dad and worked part time after school at a BMX
store in the city. His co-workers there gave him his
nickname because “he’d come to work without
showering, and his hair was usually sticking straight
up.”
His love with BMX and Skateboarding continued...having
directed street skateboarding videos, most
notably Blind's Video Days in 1991, and Lakai
Footwear's Fully Flared in 2007. He co-directed the Girl
Skateboards film Yeah Right! and the Chocolate
Skateboards video Hot Chocolate. He is also co-owner
of Girl Skateboards.
Who?

16) In October 2008, music group M.O.P. filed a suit in a
New York Court against Sony BMG and him. The
group alleged he stole parts of their song "Ante Up"
in his song, arguing that the song was unlawfully
sampled and clearly repeated three times.
M.O.P. sought the destruction of the song and
$150,000 in damages. The charges were later dropped,
two months later.
Who was the co-defendant in the case along with
Sony BMG?

17)

18) Piece #1:‘____’, the produce is depicted with
tremendous bravura: vegetables tumble from the
basket held by the woman on the left, and cascade
towards the viewer. Sixteen different varieties of
vegetable and fruit have been identified. The tiny
figures of the Holy Family can be seen crossing a
bridge in the far distance on the left.
Piece #2: ‘_____’, Twelve different varieties of fish
have been identified among those offered for sale in
this painting.
....continued

Piece #3: ‘___’, different kinds of fowl are offered
for sale, some still alive in large wicker baskets, others
dead and ready for plucking. On the platter in the
centre of the foreground are rabbits, and to either side
eggs in a basket and stacks of cheeses.
Piece#4: ‘____’, combining the still life of haunches
of meat and poultry being prepared for cooking with
a dramatic use of perspective constructions involving
multiple vanishing points.
Identify the four parts in correct order.
What is the name of the series?

Answer:
Earth, Water, Wind, Fire
The Four Elements

19) Han Kang of South Korea won the 2016 Booker Prize
for her three – part drama novella which she wrote in
2007. It is set in modern day Seoul where the protagonist
makes a decision to not eat meat after a bloody
nightmarish dream about human cruelty leading to
devastating consequences in her personal life.
What was the name of the book, that might remind you
of another publication for which a famous Indian used to
write regularly?
Also, why was she nominated only in 2016, although the
book was published in 2007?

Answer: because it was translated only in 2016

20) Jamshed Patel, Prasad Sinha, Dattatraya Naik, TA
Ramachandran, Bapu Joshi, Balkrishna Mohoni and
Mysore Vijaysarathi were the first seven Indians to do
what in Test Cricket?

21) “Super Girl”, a Chinese talent show similar to
“American Idol”, was cancelled in 2012 despite high
ratings and popularity. Many theories exist as to why
the show was cancelled. One of the reasons stated is
that the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television (SARFT) told Human Satellite Television
that the show violated a cap on screen time.
What is the other popular reason that made this
cancellation a front page news in dailies like the
Guardian and Washington Post?

22) Many musical instruments are named after people,
for example - Adolph Sax gives his name to the
Saxophone, Philip Sousa gives his name to
Sousaphone, but both of them have a suffix added to
give the instruments name.
But which musical instrument bears the exact surname
of its creator (albeit a westernized version of the
name), who patented the device in 1928 and was the
first electronic music device and the first instrument
to be mass produced?

Answer: Theremin (Leon)

23) Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Terry were
cast as 4 of the 5 in a group of characters in a film.
Who was cast as the 5th member of this award
winning film?

Answer: Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz

24) This 1874 portrait testifies the friendship between
these two artists who often painted together at
Pontoise in the 1870s.
The friendship that united these 2 is often said to be
their similar career path. Sons of self-made
businessmen, both rejected their father’s wishes of
running their family business. While one went to Paris
permanently, the other one spent some time in
Venezuela looking for...self discovery before
eventually settling in Paris too.
ID Subject & Painter.

Answer
Renoir by Pisarro

26) In 1968, a chemist named Dr. Spencer Silver was
attempting to create a super-strong adhesive when
instead he accidentally invented a super-weak adhesive.
Thrown in the trash pile for another five years, its use
was eventually discovered by fellow colleague Art Fly
on how it could be effectively used.
Origin of the birth of which product?

27) Vijay Mehra’s record was broken by Maninder Singh.
Maninder Singh’s record was broken by Laxman
Sivaramakrishnan.
Who broke LSRK’s record?
What is this record?

Answer
Youngest ODI player for India

28) Mad Max: Fury Road had a field day at the 2016
Oscars with six wins.
Among these winners, the award for Best Editing
went to Margaret Sixel, wife of MM:FR director
George Miller.
Why is her win specially important to us?

29) Scientists at the University of Antwerp have traced it to
wax drippings from a candle. Researchers came to the
conclusion after examining it with a machine of their own
invention called a Macro-X-ray fluorescence scanner.
After ruling out white paint or chalk, they detected the
tell-tale signs of wax indicating that the mess had likely
been made by accident inside the artist's studio.
He had been known to paint outdoors and would often
leave his works exposed to the elements. This habit of his
helped spread the idea that a bird flying overhead left the
stain, and as the University of Antwerp puts it, “literally
added another layer of meaning to his masterpiece.”
What am I talking about?

30) 75 extra people were hired in the Rio Olympics for
this task compared to zero in London, Beijing or
Athens. According to Ricardo Prado, the Olympic
sports manager, “the Games are simply following
the laws set by their host country.” Each of these
hires earned $340 for their 20 day service.
What role did they have?

Answer: Swimming lifeguards

31) The average cost of facilitating this is currently
$10,130, a cost that’s been rising steadily: It’s up 30
percent from 2010. And the 36-year-old organization
will soon appeal to a crowd sourcing platform for help
footing that bill. Joining hands with PwC, they have
created a crowd funding platform for people to
contribute, hoping that will bring more transparency
to how their money comes in. It facilitates about
29,000 successful applications from over 100,000
applications per year and execute those, however
expensive it might be.
What?

32) A 61-year old man from Scotland, suffering from persistent
cough and trouble breathing was diagnosed with
hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) when he visited doctors.
HP is an inflammation of the respiratory tract caused by
exposure to some sort of pathogen. The man didn’t smoke, own
birds (a common trigger), nor did his house show any signs of
mold or water damage, yet his symptoms were getting
progressively worse. After his death, when doctors began to
investigate possible triggers for his illness, they found out about
his daily hobby involving an object (quintessential to his
residence). Further research showed that people having a
particular profession or having an object from this family
suffered from HP (something unnoticed till then).
What profession or what family of objects did research reveal
create a high number of HP cases?

33) This is Odo, Earl of Kent and half brother to a very
prominent person of his time.
Apart from the fact that being a rich man he
commissioned this piece, the fact that he was the
Bishop of this place is how the piece got it’s name.
Whose half brother was he?
Where was he the Bishop of?

Answer
William the Conquerer
Bayeaux, therefore the namesake Tapestry

34) He suffered from chronic hand injuries throughout
his career and was forced to work on the docks and
collect social assistance to feed his family during the
Great Depression. It was only in 1935, that he got a
shot at the title of the World Heavyweight
Championship against Max Baer, in which he had an
upset victory and retained the title till 1937.
Who and What nickname did he get for his
comeback?

35) In 19th century England, the textile workers in
London’s East End would be annoyed with the
spinner’s ______(locally nicknamed the cycle of
despair), a spoked wheel with a ratchet that made a
clicking sound every 2 revolutions. Therefore this
four-word phrase ___ ____ ___ ______came to mean
repetitive and tedious work.
What is this phrase that also became a song for local
texting workers later?

Ans: Pop
Goes
The
Weasel

36) St. Columbanus spent 30 years of his life doing
missionary journeys through Germany &
Switzerland, before crossing the Alps into
Northern Italy.
Therefore, what demographic of people consider St.
Columbanus their patron saint since the path taken by
him is usually known as “heaven” in their circles?

37) Microsoft Excel, that ubiquitous tool for data
crunching, has been playing an unexpected role in the
scientific world. The program has been screwing with
data in genomics studies and causing errors in almost
20 percent of all reports. This is because the the
program has a tendency to misunderstand entries for
‘Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger-1’ and
‘Septin-2’ and a few other geno-types.
Why was MS Excel messing up?

Answer: Confused the genomes with months and took
their entry as dates

38) This term has come to mean any object with false
facades, named after such a place created by a world
leader who ruled his country from 1762-1774.
The term has come to stand for a phony, bogus
image, a false front used to fool people into
thinking a fake proposition or situation is real.
What term is this, named for an artificial, one-street,
one-dimension location along a particular route set up
by the ruler?

Ans:

39) This country is installing mobile recycling units to be
able to effectively produce something over the next
four years thanks to the high quantity of metal
that can be extracted from these cell phones.
Which country and what will they produce from cell
phone metal extract?

40) This country’s flag features which country’s female
persona? (Bonus 5 for name of the persona).
Also, name the country.

Ans
Montserrat,
Ireland (Erin)

41) As soon as I walked in to bat, he said I can smell
blood. You do not have the guts. Showing his emblem
on the shirt, he said I am playing for this. You are a
scared fellow, rabbit. I will get you next ball."Before
delivering the next ball, also had also asked the keeper
to stay back and had also moved the short leg fielder. I
being a fast bowler myself, knew he was going to bowl
a bouncer. I just took my chance and prayed to God. I
stepped out to connect the ball...”
Who and what happened next?

42) This phrase is also known as X’s Gale (after its creator).
The source of this western notion is often considered to
be Shiva’s Nataraja form.
In 1942 the creator of the term said, “The opening up of
new markets and the organizational development from
the craft shop and factory to such concerns as US
Steel illustrate the process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from
within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly
creating a new one ... [The process] must be seen in its
role in the perennial gale of ________________; it
cannot be understood on the hypothesis that there is a
perennial lull.”
Who and What phrase?

43) Shaadi Boys is a new show on Voot, a streaming
website, following three Bollywood junkies who have
failed in Mumbai professionally and have embarked
on the wedding industry to make their mark.
What is the name of each of the three boys in the
show?

44) A tetragrammatron means 'word with four letters'.
However all 4 letter words are not
tetragrammatrons. This term specifically refers to
one thing - there is only 1 tetrgrammatron.
Clue?
What is it?

45) Which is said to be the only living animal whose
common name is exactly the same as its binomial
name? One part of its name describes one of its
defining characteristics.

46) “He speaks English of the _______, dammit-get-
out-of-my-way variety.” This comment by critic Jonah
Barrington of the ‘Daily Express’, around 1939, in an
attempt to reduce the possible impact of the speaker,
supposedly gave rise to what famous nickname for the
speaker? The blank is his nick-name.

Ans

49) The director of the movie says that this iconic scene
in the beginning of the movie was inspired from this scene
from a hollywood film made 7 years earlier. Which scene
(be specific) in which movie? Also identify this movie.

Answer’:
Murder of Thakurs Family in Sholay & Once Upon A
Time in the West

50) In sport, what is j’adoube?

Answer: Adjusting your chess piece without actually
moving it. You need to say so before doing it.

51) The band was formed in 2009 in Columbus, Ohio by
college friends Tyler Joseph, Nick Thomas and Chris
Salih. They’ve been nominated for all music awards from
2015 through today and have won “Best Music Video” at
the 2016 MTV VMAs.
The inspiration behind their names comes from a story
Tyler was reading while in college. He was reading Arthur
Miller’s All My Sons, a play about a man who must decide
what is best for his family after causing the death of
______ ___ ______ during World War II because he
knowingly sent them faulty parts for the good of his
business.
What band/FITB.

52) Lord Byrom, an early inventor of shorthand writing,
coined these two terms in a satire describing the
disagreements between George Handel & Giovanni
Bononcini. It goes:
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini
That Mynheer Handel's but a Ninny
Others aver, that he to Handel
scarcely fit to hold a Candle
Strange all this Difference should be
‘Twixt __________ and __________!
Later, an author used these terms to refer to a couple of
characters in his work: that are so alike that a choice
between them is no choice at all and is often used during
Election time. Fill in the blanks.

Ans: Tweedledum, Tweedledee

53) The title track of which Hindi movie was inspired
from this 1959 classic by Neil Sedaka?

54) After this business decision was announced, Hilary
Clinton said few years ago, “hmm...I guess you could
say she broke the steel ceiling.”
After whose barrier breaking appointment did Clinton
say these words? While at it, mention the organization
as well.

Ans: Mary Barra

55) In an article titled, “From Russia With Love”, Alexei
Moiseenkov, a 25-year old graduate of Russia’s
Polytechnic University, used to work at Mail.ru – one
of the biggest internet companies in Russia. While
working for Mail.ru, he visited Google’s HQ and was
so blown over by Google’s “Neural Network” that he
quit his job as he returned to Russia and started
working on another project.
Who is he?

Ans Founder of Prisma

57) The original that was to be used was the “The Man
in the Arena” speech delivered by Theodore Roosevelt
at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910 but was changed into
another piece of work in the final moments in this
very famous incident from the 1990s.
What was it changed to?

58) Name the three landlocked countries which are each
completely surrounded by only one other country.

Ans
Vatican City State
San Marino
Lesotho

59) Jim Woodman suggested that hot-air balloons aided
the construction of these things, which were formed
partly by removing dark sun baked stones to reveal the
lighter gypsum-laden soil below. Clusters of them
appear by Cahuachi and near the Ingenio Valley.
Disagreements over their purpose include George
Von Breunig’s belief that they were used as a running
track and Maria Reiche’s idea that they were part of an
astronomical calendar.
What?

Ans: Nazca Lines

60) On coming to power in 1959, what game did Fidel
Castro ban, ordering that all paraphernalia related to
the activity be destroyed?

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