The Common Man's Quiz by Arjun, Dhanraj and Gulsar_Finals_26.07.2015

THE COMMON MAN’s QUIZFINALS

(CONDUCTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH LSD AND AQC)

ARJUN BANERJEE - IIMADHANRAJ - IIMA

GULSAR AHAMED - IIMA

FORMAT

• INFINITE POUNCE CLOCKWISE

• FOLLOWMETO

• MEDIUM VISUAL CONNECT

• LIST IT

• LONG VISUAL CONNECT

• INFINITE POUNCE ANTI-CLOCKWISE

• DIFFERENTIAL

INFINITE POUNCE CLOCKWISE

12 QUESTIONS

Bounce +10/0

Pounce +10/-10

Q1) DISCO DEEWANE

Pair of bulls

Cow and calf

Farmer with a plough

X

Wheel

Y.

What list?

ANSWER

Election symbols of parties when they got power at the centre.

Q2) THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

X Mahadevan Nair (21 September 1983) was popularly known as Y X and the reason his protégé was called Z X. Y and Z are words with opposite meanings. The 1991 Malayalam movie Abhimanyu is loosely based on Y Z. Who?

ANSWER

Bada Rajan and Chota Rajan

Q3) KILL BILL

The man in the picture is Leslie George Hylton.

Played 6 matches for West Indies in the 1930s.

He is the only cricketer to have been _____________.

ANSWER

Hanged

Q4) ISSTYLE

Around  World  War II,  the X industry  became an  important and widespread cottage  industry  in urban shanties and  rural areas.  X  was  a  part  of  the  rations of the Indian  jawan  when  he  went  to  fight in  foreign soils.  The outbreak  of World War  II  saw an  increase  in  the  production of X,  which  also  accompanied the   Indian soldiers. The demand  for X increased  at  such a  fast  rate  that  the opening  of  new production centres   became  an everyday  activity  for manufacturers. X gained  widespread social  acceptance  in  a  short  period and the  industry  became  a  role  model  for small Indian businesses. A few brands of X were also successful during Swadeshi movement as many leaders endorsed it rather than its foreign alternatives.

ANSWER

Beedi

Q5) NOW THAT HAPPENS ONCE IN A MILLENIUM?

Alexander Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov, Sergei Krikalev, Franz Viehböck and Klaus-Dietrich Flade.

These guys were the crew on the 175 day long Soyuz TM-13 mission launched on Oct 2, 1991. Out of these Volkov, Aubakirov and Krikalev share a particular distinction. What?

ANSWER

Went as USSR citizens and came back as Russian citizens

Q6) VERY NICE OF THEM

The 1996 Miss world pageant in Bangalore, organised by ABCL and including the likes of Vijay Mallya, Parmeshwar Godrej and Aamir khan in their judging panel has a certain first instance of something happening. What?

ANSWER

The swimsuit round was not held in the country. It was shifted Seychelles.

Q7) THE RATES HAVE INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY?

Between 1539 and 1857, there were only 317 instances of this happening in the entire British empire. This could be because one needed a private act of parliament to legally finalise it! What?

I guess we have more than that number every day now.

ANSWER

Divorce

Q8) FOOD!

Thousands of years ago, the Kurukshetra war, between Pandavas and Kauravas, was the mother of all wars. All the kings; hundreds of them, aligned themselves on one aide or the other. The king of X however chose to remain neutral. He spoke to Krishna and said, "Those who fight battles have to eat. I will be the caterer for this battle.“

And according to legend how did the king of X ensure that the right amount of food was cooked everyday? (A legend used to indicate that the entire war was in Krishna’s hands)

ANSWER

Udupi. Giving Krisna groundnuts and him eating the number of nuts=number of people to die next day

Q9) TUGHLAQ?

Fidel Castro is quoted as saying “Niemeyer and I are the last communists on this planet." 

But Niemeyer is most remembered for creating something with his friend Lucio Costa on the instructions of Juscelino Kubitschek who soon after taking over as the President visited him.

What is he most remembered for?

Maybe this quote from Niemeyer will help you.

“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.”

ANSWER

Brasilia

Q10) CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

The Brahui are an ethnic group of 2.2 million found in Baluchistan and Afghanistan. They are almost entirely Sunni Muslim. There is one feature that is different from the other people around them and has been used as a proof for some theorizing. What?

ANSWER

• Their language is Dravidian

Q11) SORRY?

X officially the Republic of X, was a secessionist state that existed from

30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking its name from the Bight of X.

It was recognized by Gabon, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Zambia.

After the 1970 ceasefire, the country was reintegrated to the parent

country.

Id X.

ANSWER

Biafra

Q12) SOMETIMES

Edneer is a small area in Kasaragod district in Kerala and the Mutt here belongs to the parampara of Sri Thotakacharya, one of the first four disciples of Sri Adi Shankaracharya and follows Smartha Bhagawatha tradition of Advaitha Pantha which has more than 1200 years of glorious history of religion, culture, art, music and social service. The Mutt is headed by the man on the next slide from 50+ years. The Mutt also runs a few educational institutions. But none of these is the reason he is in this quiz. What is he famous for?

ANSWER

The person is Kesavananda Bharti of the famous case that got us the basic structure doctrine

END OF ROUND 1

#followmetoROUND2

• 10 Pictures

• +10 on each slide (+5 for monument/building, +5 for city)

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS

1.

ANSWER

Bellagio, Las Vegas

2.

ANSWER

Sigiriya Lion’s Claws, Sri Lanka

3.

ANSWER

Jumbo Kingdom, Hong Kong

4.

ANSWER

Berlin Cathedral, Berlin

5.

ANSWER

Petra, Jordan

6.

ANSWER

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow

7.

ANSWER

Piazza Duomo, Milan

8.

ANSWER

Versace Mansion, Miami

9.

ANSWER

Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque, Istanbul

10.

ANSWER

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

All Photo Credits to Murad Osman

END OF ROUND 2

MEDIUM VISUAL CONNECT

ROUND 3

• Points as shown on slide

• Maximum one attempt on each slide

• Points only for theme.

• Part of a finite exhaustive list

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-5

+5/0

ANSWER

Actors from Harry Potter movies who have also played roles in the Game of Thrones

universe

END OF ROUND 3

LIST IT

ROUND 4

3 SETS

+3 for each right. Bonus 10 if all Correct for each set

SET 1 - ALL MAN OF THE MATCHES OF MEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP FINALS (1975 to 2015)

ANSWERS

• 1975 – Clive Lloyd

• 1979 – Viv Richards

• 1983 – Mohinder Amarnath

• 1987 – David Boon

• 1992 – Wasim Akram

• 1996 – Aravinde de Silva

• 1999 – Shane Warne

• 2003- Ricky Ponting

• 2007- Adam Gilchirist

• 2011- MS Dhoni

• 2015- James Faulkner

SET 2 - ALL HARRY POTTER HORCRUXES

ANSWERS

• Tom Riddle’s Diary

• Marvolo Gaunt’s Ring

• Salazar Slytherin’s Locket

• Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup

• Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem

• Harry Potter

• Nagini

SET 3 - NASSIM TALEB BOOKS (NON – TECH)

ANSWERS

• The Black Swan

• Fooled By Randomness

• The Bed of Procustes

• Antifragile

END OF ROUND 4

ROUND 5

LONG VISUAL CONNECT

• Points as shown on slide

• Maximum one attempt on each slide

• Points only for theme

• Part of a finite exhaustive list

• Clues on each slide to decode the slide

+36/-18GENERIC

+34/-17CONNECT

+32/-16ID

+30/-15ID

+28/-14GENERIC

+26/-13GENERIC - CONNECT

+24/-12ID

+22/-11GENERIC

+20/-10ID

+18/-9ID

+16/-8SPECIFIC

+14/-7CONNECT

+12/-6ID

+10/-5ID

+8/-4ID

+6/-3ID

+4/-2TRANSLATE

+2/0CONNECT

ANSWER

KATRINA KAIF MOVIES (THE ONES IN WHICH SHE ACTS IN A LEAD ROLE OR HAS JUST MADE AN

APPEARANCE)

SINGH IS KING

BOOM

SARKAR

BALRAM VS TARADAS (MALAYALAM)

RACE

PARTNER

MALLESHWARI (TELUGU)

HELLO

YUVVRAJ

NEW YORK

NAMASTE LONDON

JAB TAK HAI JAAN

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (LAILA)

AGNEEPATH

BLUE

DHOOM 3

EK THA TIGER

BODYGUARD

END OF ROUND 5

INFINITE POUNCE ANTI-CLOCKWISE

9 QUESTIONS

Bounce +10/0

Pounce +10/-10

1)PART OF AN INEXHAUSTIVE LIST OF?

AccusedAddictionAlligatorAmazementAnchoviesAssassinationBackingBanditBedroomCritic

DauntlessDawnDesignDickensDiscontentEmbraceEmployerEngagementExcitementExposureEyeball

ANSWER

Words coined by Shakespeare

2) TEAM SPIRIT

• In the autumn of 2005, X announced that they purchased Y and that it would be known as Scuderia Toro Rosso (Italian for X) from 2006 onwards. STR operates as a separate team, but the two share certain technical resources.

• ID X and Y.

(Only negatives on pounce for partial answers)

ANSWER

• X = Red Bull

• Y = Minardi

3) SOME PEOPLE LIKE FOOTBALL IT SEEMS

• X is the official football team of a Spanish autonomous community. The team has been referred to by various names including Selecció Catalana, Selecció de Barcelona. X is not affiliated to either FIFA or UEFA and is therefore not allowed to participate in either the FIFA World Cup or the European Championship because the region is not a state. On 3rd November 2009, it was agreed that Johan Cruyff would become the coach of the side, taking the reins officially from 9th November 2009.

• ID X

ANSWER

Catalonia National Football Team

4) India v/s South Africa

• The Passive Resisters Soccer Club was started by X in 1913 in Pretoria & Johannesburg .

• ‘What fascinated X in particular was the notion he had of football’s nobility. At that time, the idea of team play was much stronger than the idea of individual ‘star’ players, and this is something that greatly appealed to him. ‘-Poobalan Govindasamy, president of the South African Indoor Football Association

• ID X

ANSWER

Mahatma Gandhi

5) FLETCHER SEXTON VITTORIA NEVEU SOLOMON

• X (born April 19, 1946) is an American graphic designer, ambigram artist, painter, and writer.A self-taught artist and graphic designer, X has free-lanced as a lettering artist and logo design specialist since 1976. Known for his ambigrams, which he began developing in the late 1960s and early 70s. X is known mostly as the inspiration of the protagonist of a best-selling series written by Y , as a tribute and he will continue to be so for his next 12 books, an estimate given by Y himself.

• ID X and Y.

ANSWER

• X=John Langdon

• Y= Dan Brown

6) MOVIES…

• What is the connect in the above non-exhaustive list ?

• Jodhaa Akbar(2008)

• Swami(2007)

• Parineeta (2005)

• March of Penguins(2005)

• Inssaf-The justice(2004)

• Khushi(2003)

• Lagaan(2001)

ANSWER

Amitabh Bachchan voiceovers

7) VERY FUNNY

• Budai (Chinese: 布袋 ; pinyin: Bùdài), or Hotei in Japanese, Bố Đại in Vietnamese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means "Cloth Sack," and comes from the bag that he is conventionally depicted as carrying. He is usually identified with (or as an incarnation of) Maitreya, so much so that the Budai image is one of the main forms in which Maitreya is depicted in East Asia. His nickname in Chinese, the X . Many Westerners confuse Budai with Y.

• ID X and Y

ANSWER

• X=Laughing Buddha

• Y=Gautam Buddha

8) ADDING FUEL TO FIRE

• In the evening of 29 September 1913, X boarded the post office steamer Dresden in Antwerp on his way to a meeting of the Consolidated ______ Manufacturing company in London. He took dinner on board the ship and then retired to his cabin at about 10 p.m., leaving word to be called the next morning at 6:15 a.m. His cabin was found empty during a roll call and he was never seen alive again. A search of his cabin revealed that X’s bed had not been slept in, although his nightshirt was neatly laid out and his watch had been left where he could see it from the bed.

8) ADDING FUEL TO FIRE(2)

• His hat and overcoat were discovered neatly folded beneath the afterdeck railing. Ten days later, the crew of the Dutch boat Coertsen came upon the corpse of a man floating in the ocean. The body was in such an advanced state of decomposition that it was unrecognizable and they did not bring it aboard. Instead, the crew retrieved personal items (pill case, wallet, pocket knife, eyeglass case) from the clothing of the dead man, and returned the body to the sea. On 13 October these items were identified by X's son, Eugen, as belonging to his father.

• ID X

ANSWER

Rudolf Diesel

9) SWEET TOOTH

• X knew he could make great candy, but running a great business was more daunting. X, who didn't have a formal education, spent four years apprenticing in a Philadelphia candy shop before striking out on his own in 1876. Six years later, his business went under. This wasn't the last time he would go broke. A subsequent attempt to peddle sweets in New York City met the same fate, and the penniless X returned home to Penn. There, he started tinkering with the use of fresh milk in caramel production. And out of nowhere, sweet success! In 1900, X sold Y for an eye-popping $1 million.

• Find X and Y

ANSWER

• X=Milton Hershey

• Y=Lancaster Caramel Company

END OF ROUND 6

DIFFERENTIAL

ROUND 7

CALCULATION

• 8 Questions

• Points = ( k x 2 ) + 4

Where k = No. of teams who have not got the right answer

1) ITZZ ME

• During the middle ages, X was dubbed the ‘City of Spices’.

• According to Prof K.V. Krishna Ayyer, X derives its name from the native words for ‘palace + fort’.

• The old name of X i.e. Y, is thought to have been derived from a fine variety of hand-woven cotton cloth that was exported from the port of X.

• Although the city's official name is X, it is also very commonly called by its Anglicized version, Y.

• X is the third largest city in its state and is part of the second largest urban agglomeration in the State.

• Despite not being the state capital or the state cultural capital, the city has two of the country’s top educational institutes.

• ID X ( No points for Y).

ANSWER

KOZHIKODE

2) VERY FUNDAMENTAL UNIT

• Manek N. DaruvalaIIMA

• Pramod KumarPGDBM-XLRI

• P.Viswanath IITM IIMA

• All the three are/were the current directors of which educational service organisation ?

ANSWER

T.I.M.E. (Triumphant Institute of Management Education)

3) NO CLUES

• Y is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996.

• Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Y has since become the second-most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario franchise.

• The concept of the X universe, in both the video games and the general fictional world of X, stems from the hobby of insect collecting, a popular pastime which X executive director Satoshi Tajiri enjoyed as a child

• ID X

ANSWER

Pokemon

4) IS THE QUIZMASTER 6? - CONNECT

ANSWER

Power Rangers (Space Patrol Delta)

5) LEADS US FROM DARKNESS TO

LIGHT

• The Z Schools System is the single largest non-governmental education society in India.

• It was established in 1886 by Lala Hansraj in Lahore and Shri R.N. Mittal is its current President.

• It is based on the ideals of the religious and social reformer, Swami Dayanand Saraswati.

• Z manages 667 institutions today, 461 of which are high school level institutions, with an annual budget of more than 2 billion rupees.

• It holds the record for producing the largest number of CBSE (class Xth and XIIth) toppers as a single institution in the last 10 years.

• ID Z.

ANSWER

DAV

6) U OUGHT TO HAVE WATCHED THIS

• Directed by Frank Darabont

• Produced by Niki Marvin

• Screenplay by Frank Darabont

• Starring :

• Music by Thomas Newman

• Cinematography Roger Deakins

• Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

ANSWER

Shawshank Redemption

7) CONNECT

(i) Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to score an individual double century in ODI

(ii) Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to score 50 International Test Hundreds

(iii) Yuvraj Singh became the first person to hit six sixes in an over in a T20 International.

(iv) Suresh Raina became the first Indian to score an International T20 century.

ANSWER

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the non-striker in each of these situations

8) IS THIS AN INDIA QUIZ?

• X is a fictional Indian superhero from the television series of the same name produced by Y and directed by Dinkar Jani.

• Around 400 episodes of the series originally aired on Doordarshan, India's national television network, from 27 September 1997 (barring the introductory episode on 27 September 1997) to 27 March 2005, on Sundays at 12 noon IST

• As soon as X seemed to be over, Y starred in another TV series Y, which was along similar lines

• ID Y.

ANSWER

Aryamaan

END OF ROUND 7

END OF FINALSTHANK YOU VERY MUCH!