The Air Force School Quiz, 2016

Welcome you all to The TAFS Quiz

About the Quiz

The Quiz has 1+3 rounds.

First two rounds are General in nature.

The last two rounds are theme centric.

Hope You Have Brought it. Good Luck

0th Question

X is the title song from a 1998 album. It is a steady stream of a song that goes on without a break,

stanzas, verse or apparently even a pause for breath. The lyricist was Javed Akhtar and the director of the

video featuring model Renu Desai was Farhan Akhtar. This song made the singer famous. The name of the song gives the name to the first round of our Quiz.

Which Song?

THE RAPID FIRE ROUND

0th Question

What 3 word phrase would you use when someone's supposed to

choose between two horrible options.

You could either chop off your toe or you can stab yourself with that

piece of broken glass.____ ____ _______?

History and PoliticsCinema and Music

Literature

Geography

Mythology

Sci-Tech

Sports

Business

Awards/Honours

Controversies

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When US President Richard Nixon was on a state visit to Ottawa, he said looking at the 4 year old son of the Prime Minister, ‘‘I’d like to toast the future prime minister.’’ How do we

know this 4 year old kid now?

Justin Trudeau, the Current Prime Minister

of Canada

Identify the organization from its logo.

Wikileaks

The Panama Canal was constructed keeping in mind two of the largest ships – the largest American Warship and the largest American Passenger ship that was to be constructed. However, one of them never passed. Which

ship?

RMS Titanic

If India celebrates 26 January as Republic Day commemorating the Poorna Swaraj pledge of

Karachi Resoultion, what did Pakistan commemorate by adopting Constitution on

23 March, 1956 (Also known as Pakistan Day)?

Lahore Resolution of 1940, in which the demand for Pakistan was formalized

The third Portuguese Viceroy of India died in India in the year 1524.It was his third voyage

to India. What did he discover in his first voyage?

India itself!The third Portugal

Viceroy was Vasco da Gama.

The subject of the ‘Guerrillero Heroico’ is a 31 year old man whose facial expressions show absolute implacability as well as anger and

pain. The Maryland Institute College of Art called it a symbol of the 20th century due

to its popularity. Who is the subject of this photo by Alberto Kroda?

Che Guevera

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How do we know Space Exploration Technologies Corporation headquartered

in California, USA and founded by a former Paypal entrepreneur in 2002?

SpaceX of Elon Musk

What does this mean in the world of

internet?

What is this a map of (The

Circle in particular)?

Large Hadron Collider

On the left is the Roman goddess of dawn and on the right is the Greek god of North wind. What naturally occurring phenomena is named after

these two?

Aurora Borealis or the Northern Nights

This person became world famous at the age of 27 for a feat in 1961. He wanted to repeat the feat again.

However, seeing his fame, his country couldn’t risk his life again and made him a

national hero. Unfortunately, he passed

away at the age of 34. Who?

Yuri Gagarin

• FITB.

The “Order of the British Empire” was established on 4 June, 1917 by King George V. The most senior two of the Order make the recipienteither a Knight if male, or a ____ if female.

After the Israeli state was formed in 1949, they offered the Presidency in 1952 to the most

famous Jew in the world at that time who, though, was not an Israeli citizen. He turned it down,

stating "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and

ashamed that I cannot accept it.Who was this person who was a legend in

science?

Albert Einstein

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Man Friday is a term used for a loyal male servant or assistant. However, the term

originates not from the day ‘Friday’ but from someone’s name in a classic adventure novel.

Which novel?

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Crusoe names the only person he meets on the deserted island ‘Friday’

The dedication of which book is split in seven ways:To Neil,

To Jessica,To David,To Kenzie,

To Di,To Anne,

And to you, if you’ve stuck with ______ until the end.

Harry Potter and the Deathly

Hallows

FITB and ID the author“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can

hit 'em, but remember it's a sin __ ___ _ __________."

To kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper

Lee

Which literary villain, also known as the Napoleon of Crime, died during a struggle at

Reichenbach Falls?

Professor Moriarty

While R.K Narayan wrote it, his brother

contributed with sketches like the

one in the picture. Who is the famous

brother of the author?

R.K Laxman

When asked in an interview from where he got that famous number, this author said that when he was writing his initial works, he lived in Georgetown where a lot of CIA operatives lived. So he used the ZIP code as that famous number. Which number are we talking about?

007

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The flag of Nepal is unique because of its shape. So, what specific entity does the

shape of the Nepalese flag refer to?

Himalayas

Which country derives its name from the latin word for Silver because of a legend

according to which the country had mountains of silver?

Argentina, from Argentum

What geographical feature are these

countries in the list connected by?

Greenwich Meridian

The XY is a narrow stretch of land of great strategic

importance to India. Located in West Bengal, it connects India's northeastern states to the rest of India, with the

countries of Nepal and Bangladesh lying on either side and Bhutan lies on the

northern side. What’s it called?

Chicken’s Neck

This Amul ad alludes to some change that happened in 1995.

What change?

Bombay’s name change to Mumbai

Which European country in the early1990’s broke down to form 6 new

countries and 2 non recognized provinces ?

Yugoslavia

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Which song did Elton John perform during the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997 as a tribute

to her?

Candle in the Wind

Identify the singer of the song from the 2004 movie Dev.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

Who is the youngest recipient of Ashok Chakra – the highest gallantry award for

peacetime bravery?

Neerja Bhanot

Which Hollywood actor was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011 for turning the spotlight on the sport of Boxing?

Sylvester Stallone

Martin and Jeff, two very popular

cricketers from New Zealand. However,

even their combined fame can’t match the fame of their Oscar

winning cousin . Who is the person with his

face blanked out?

Russell Crowe

Which actor working in the movie Inferno

received this note from Tom Hanks?

Irrfan Khan

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Everyone knows that Raavan used the Pushpak Vimana to abduct Sita. However, not

many know that Raavan stole it from its original owner, his half brother. From whom did

Raavan steal the Pushpak Vimana?

Kubera

These are scenes from Mahabharata depicted in Belur Halebidu in Karnataka. What’s been depicted on the extreme right of the picture?

Abhimanyu entering the Chakravyuh

In Hindu Mythology who is considered to be the physician of the gods, also depicted as an avatar of

Vishnu with four hands, holding medical herbs in one hand and a pot containing rejuvenating nectar called amrita in another. He is often shown with a leech in

his hand rather than the scriptures. Who?

Dhanwantari

In Norse Mythology , what name is given to the home of Gods and heroes

Killed in battles which could be reached by crossing a rainbow ?

Asgard

To which King’s court did Merlyn the Magician is believed to belong?

King Arthur

Located in the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi this

temple was constructed in 1936 by freedom fighter Babu

Shiv Prasad Gupta and was inaugurated by Mahatma

Gandhi. To which Goddess is this the only temple dedicated

in India?

Bharat Mata Temple

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Much before Snapdeal and Flipkart, Avnish Bajaj and Suvir Sujan founded India’s first

successful e commerce site in 2000 and sold it to eBay in 2004 for 230 crores. Which website?

Baazee.com

This particular scene from 1968 movie

2001: A Space Odyssey found itself at the centre of multi million legal suit in

2014 involving which two companies?

Apple and Samsung over Ipad

What was Tata Tiago, Tata’s newest hatchback

Car, originally named which was changed

because it was uncomfortably similar to

something that was spreading throughout

the world in 2016?

Tata Zica

In a recent news, a Delhi Based company called Adcom claimed that it sold around 1,000 mobile sets to which Noida based

company?

Ringing Bells

Earlier associated with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, the man in the

picture is going to become the Chief

Executive Officer of what body from June 1. Of what is he going to

be the CEO?

BCCI

https://abc.xyz/To the parent company of what would

this website lead one to?

GoogleWhose parent company is

Alphabet

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From the MCC Laws of Cricket :The ______ __ ___ _____ involves respect for

>Your Opponents

>Your own captain and the game>The role of umpires

>The Game’s traditional values

Spirit of the Game

This man took over from Sepp Blatter as the President of FIFA in 2015. Just Name

him.

Gianni Infantino

This recently released Amul

Ad is celebrating the

success of which sporting personality?

Dipa Karmakar,First ever Gymnast from India to qualify

for Olympics

The year when X was born, electricity had just reached the country he belonged to. To

commemorate this major happening, the father of X decided to name him after Thomas Alva

Edison, the founder of the electric bulb. Who is this famous sportsperson?

Edson Arantes do Nascimento aka Pele

On April 8, Nike decided to celebrate 13th April as Mamba Day. What was the

sporting occasion that Nike was celebrating?

Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant’s Retirement

What’s the controversy and Which Olympics is

this TIME Magazine cover alluding to?

Soviet boycott of 1984 Los Angeles

Olympics

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Everyone knows that Raavan used the Pushpak Vimana to abduct Sita. However, not

many know that Raavan stole it from its original owner, his half brother. From whom did

Raavan steal the Pushpak Vimana?

Kubera

These are scenes from Mahabharata depicted in Belur Halebidu in Karnataka. What’s been depicted on the extreme right of the picture?

Abhimanyu entering the Chakravyuh

In Hindu Mythology who is considered to be the physician of the gods, also depicted as an avatar of

Vishnu with four hands, holding medical herbs in one hand and a pot containing rejuvenating nectar called amrita in another. He is often shown with a leech in

his hand rather than the scriptures. Who?

Dhanwantari

In Norse Mythology , what name is given to the home of Gods and heroes

Killed in battles which could be reached by crossing a rainbow ?

Asgard

To which King’s court did Merlyn the Magician is believed to belong?

King Arthur

Located in the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi this

temple was constructed in 1936 by freedom fighter Babu

Shiv Prasad Gupta and was inaugurated by Mahatma

Gandhi. To which Goddess is this the only temple dedicated

in India?

Bharat Mata Temple

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Identify this controversial Indologoist.

Wendy DonigerThe author of the banned book Hindus - An

Alternative History

Who is the man subjected to these and many such funny memes on the internet and Why?

Steve Harvey, who misread the 2016 Miss Universe’s winner name

Which cricketer courted controversy when while being interviewed on live television

during a match of the Big Bash League, he asked the interviewer Mel Mclaughlin out for

a drink?

Chris Gayle

TOI recently faced a lot of criticism for

this photo. To whom did TOI compare Kate

Middleton in this photo?

Marilyn Monroe

The controversial U – turn on Padma Awards by which celebrity?

Anupam Kher

Resul Pookuty won the award for best sound at the coveted Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 63rd annual Golden Reel Awards in 2016. However, the film that he won it for was banned in India. Pookuty dedicated to a 23 year old paramedic

student on whom it is made. Which film?

India’s Daughter

Bahot Ho Gaya!

Kar Yaar!!!

Check Your Buzzer!

1. Whose Creation?

Agatha Christie

2.Which company came up with this video?

Vogue

3.Simply ID

Sheryl Sandberg

4.Brand associated with which celebrity?

Maria Sharapova

5. (Video)Identify the woman in the ‘Just Say No (to drugs)’ campaign which she popularized in the US in

the 80’s.

Nancy Reagan

6.Raja Ravi Verma’s portrait of which mythical

woman?

Damyanti

7.Identify the Daredevil Biker who passed away recently.

Veenu Paliwal

8.What’s the name given to the woman in the

poster?

Rosie the Riveter a cultural icon of the United

States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war

supplies

9.Identify the Artist

Alisha Chinai(The song was ‘Made in India’)

10.Who is the author of the book on which this post-partition movie is based?

Amrita Pritam

11. ID

Anne Frank

12.Whose self portrait?

Amrita Shergill

RulesTotal 12 questions in the round. Each team gets 4 questions.

Before the question is shown, you’ll be asked for how many points you want to play the Question? You can’t play for more than half your points.

If you answer correctly, you get double the points. If you answer incorrectly, the points you played the question for will be deducted.

After asking the question, I will ask if there are any ‘Challenges’, before coming to the team whose direct question it is.

If its not your direct question and you know the answer, you can raise your hand and say ‘Challenge’ and write down the answer on a piece of paper. QM will come to you and check your answer. DON’T SHOUT OUT THE ANSWER.

If you answer correctly, you get the points that the other team had bid. If you answer incorrectly, half of their bid will be deducted from your score.

Q.1Although awarded a doctorate for her thesis on Quantum Chemistry, this woman chose Politics and was the Minister for Women and Youth

in 1991 and Minister for the Environment in 1994 of her

country. Identify this woman who has topped the list of Forbes most powerful woman in the world on 9 out of 10 occasions since the year

2016. Identify this powerful woman.

AAngela Merkel

Q.2Sher Singh Rana, a Rajput

attained fame for bringing back the ashes of Rajput King Prithviraj Chauhan. However, ultimately he

will go down in history for assassinating an MP in an act of

caste revenge. Whom did he assassinate who was also the

subject of 1996 highly critically acclaimed film?

Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi

Q.3She was an eminent Indian writer in

Urdu, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology.

Considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, She was one of the Muslim

writers who stayed in India after the subcontinent was partitioned. Her most

celebrated short story, Lihaaf (The Quilt) published in 1942 in the Urdu

literary journal Adab-i-Latif, was leveled with charges of obscenity and she was

summoned by the Lahore court in 1944. She went on to win the case

Ismat Chugtai

Q.4 X was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early

mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is

recognized as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a

machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer

programmer. Who is she?

Ada Lovelace

Q.5She is an Australian Cricketer who represented Australia in 118 ODIs and 15 Tests. Something that she

achieved in a match against Denmark in 1997 came into prominence only after it was

achieved in Men’s cricket 13 years later as many then thought that it

was the first time the feat had been achieved. However, she remains the first cricketer to achieve that feat. Who is she and what’s the

feat?

Belinda Clark scored the first 200 in ODIS

Q.6For which Queen did Govt of India

bring out this commemorative stamp on the Republic Day of

1996? The Indore Domestic Airport and the University of Indore too has been named in her honour.

Ahilya Bai Holkar

Time to go Anti-Clockwise

Q.7X was employed to make death

masks of the victims of the guillotine during French Revolution, including some of the Revolutions most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marat, and Robespierre. Also

others like Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin etc. Thus she gradually shot into fame. These days X’s name is associated with an iconic tourist

attraction. Id X or the thing she is famous for ?

Madame Tussauds

Q.8A special event was held to kick-start this campaign on 20 September 2014 at the

Headquarters of the United Nations in New York. It was hosted by UN Women Goodwill

Ambassador Emma Watson, whose speech — about her own path to feminism and her call to

involve men and boys in promoting gender equality — was widely circulated via social media. What’s the name of this campaign?

He for She Campaign

Q.9On October 5, 1950, BBC hosted a show with X. During the show, host Leslie Mitchell gave her a

complex math problem to solve. She solved it in seconds but the

answer was not correct, according to Mitchell. However, after rechecking the answer, the

host confessed that X was correct and the original answer was wrong. This news spread across the world and X earned

the title of the 'Human Computer'. Who is she?

Shakuntala Devi

Q.10Whose blogpost from 2009?

Malala Yousafzai

Q.11On October 24th, 1975 an incredible

general strike took place in this country when 90% of women refused to work. The strike not only included female laborers, but also women who worked at home. No women went to work, cooked, cleaned or took care of children. Society, as people knew, ceased to operate and the protest

put this country at the forefront of the fight for equality. Which country?

Iceland

Q.12After she lost her

husband, she teamed up with her

three daughters and formed 'The Women’s Social

and Political Union' - best known as the

suffragettes (women's right to

vote) and is considered the most prominent personality in

getting women right to vote. Who

is she?

Emmeline Pankhurst