Freshers' Quiz IITG (with answers)

FRESHER’S QUIZIIT Guwahati

(Answers)

THEME - GENERAL

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Let’s Take a Little Detour, Shall We ?

• Who was the first man on moon ?

• Who was the first woman to go to space ?

QUIZZING 101

A general School Quizzing question

• Who is welcoming whom during the latter’s visit to Yuri Gagarin centre in Russia ?

( Source – J.Ramanand)

A proper College Quizzing Level Question

Enough lecture . Now let’s start :D

1. A 2014 mobile game app is built by Glu Mobile and became instantly popular. Set in Hollywood, the game's 'currency' is various forms of 'energy' such as K-stars and energy bolts.

Using that, players can try to become 'famous' and try to become A-listers in Hollywood.

Which socialite-star (image on left) lends her name and much of her life & personality to this game?

• X was first held in 1960.• Since then it has undergone major changes, the

most recent being in 2013.• In 1997 , it suffered a minor setback.• Political parties in various states have raised

objections to X based on language issues.• While it was initially an only-Indian affair, it had

its first overseas version in 2008.• All of us sitting here have been a part of X, at

some point in our lifetime.

• Identify X .

2. Another easy one

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• Guy Dangerous: Just your average explorer. Guy Dangerous was born in April 25, 1985.

• Scarlett Fox: The cunning escape artist. Scarlett Fox was born in December 19, 1986. 

• Barry Bones: A city cop with an attitude. Barry Bones was born in September 29, 1984.

• Karma Lee: "The fastest legs in the Far East"• Montana Smith: "The second greatest explorer ever"• Francisco Montoya:" The conquistador"• Zack Wonder: Football star• Usain Bolt: World's fastest man.He is an athlete.

• Santa Claus: Exclusive character for limited time.

3. Where would one find all these ?

4. Quim Barreiros is a Portuguese pimba music writer and singer . The image on the left is the poster used by him to promote his single 'Recebi Um Convite‘ in 1973.

This picture however has again come into limelight after almost 40 years albeit with a minor change.

What am I talking about ? Put funda.

• In the two slides that follow, you will be shown four images of some pretty famous footballers in their not-so-famous looks .

• You only need to identify them and write down their names.

• There is a provision for partial points .

• P.S. – Appearances can be deceitful ;)

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6. Whose voice ,lyrics and which movie ? I need all but there are partial points.

Farhan Akhtar , Javed Akhtar

• In essence, X is a tribute to native genius, and lateral thinking. It means "can do." It means where there's a will, there's a way.

• X is also a locally-made motor vehicle used in small villages as a means of low cost transportation in rural India. X literally means an improvised arrangement or work-around, which has to be used because of lack of resources. 

• X can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used for solutions that bend rules, or a resource that can be used as such or a person who can solve a vexatious issue. It is used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers.

7. This is how Samosapedia defines X . What is X here ?

8. Connect

• We all know the tragic story of RMS Titanic including the love story of Rose and Jack (which didn’t happen in actual by the way)

• Titanic in all essence was a ocean liner (a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another) but very few know that the letters ‘RMS’ denoted another function that it was supposed to carry out .

• What was that function ?

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• The R.M.S. Titanic was a Royal Mail Ship, a designation which meant the Titanic was officially responsible for delivering mail for the British postal service.

• On board the Titanic was a Sea Post Office with five mail clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic.

• Interestingly, although no mail has yet been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic, if it were, the U.S. Postal Service would still try to deliver it (the USPS because most of the mail was being sent to the U.S.).

Royal Mail Ship

10. “The Theory of Everything” is an upcoming biopic based on the life of an eminent physicist / cosmologist. Give me his name.

• Video of trailer

Stephen Hawking

11. Whose autobiography ? The person will be in news once again in upcoming months.

12.An ad by Snickers alluding to what?(Clue – Think Football)

Suarez biting Giorgio Chiellini 

• There are many myths and legends about the origin of the X.

• One legend explains how the X was create by Heracles when he was a baby. His father, Zeus, was fond of his son, who was born of the mortal woman Alcmene. He decided to let the infant Heracles suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when she was asleep, an act which would endow the baby with godlike qualities.

• When Hera woke up and realized that she was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed him away and the spurting milk became the X.

13. Identify X , a term for the crowd of stars that makes a distinctive bright streak across the night sky .

Milky way

14. Connect these songs (Non – exhaustive list)

• Audios removed

These are the original versions of the remake Bollywood songs .

• These type of vehicles get their popular English name from the literal translation of the Japanese "dangan ressha", indicative of its shape in the original design and its much talked-about speed. In Japan, the name for the network of lines these vehicles run on literally means "new trunk line".

• Much discussed in India by the new government this year , what kind of vehicles are these and what is the Japanese name of the network?

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"Bullet Trains" and "Shinkansen"

16. Above is the tweet by the developer of a single -player puzzle game created in March 2014 .

The game created quite a hysteria and later had plenty of derived versions.

Which famous puzzle game is this ? (which I am pretty sure you all must have tried at one point of time on your smart phone :P)

17. “A mass murderer poses in a group photo with his victims.” was the caption under which this was posted few days back in r/funny . Anyway , so who’s this mass murderer and who are these supposedly victims ?

GRRM Martin and GOT characters

• The event was the most discussed sports game ever on Twitter with over 35.6 million tweets

• Just give me the name of the event.

18. Following are the few among the many images that went viral after a certain event in world of Sports.

• The game is a pretty famous first-person and third-person shooter video game franchise. 

• The series began on the PC, and later expanded to consoles and handhelds. Several spin-off games have also been released. The earlier games in the series are set primarily in World War II

19. Identify the game and the actor in the video (video to follow)

Kevin Spacey

20. In 2012, Sana Saeed made her screen debut as an adult in a supporting role in Karan Johar's Student Of The Year, which emerged as a box-office commercial success.

As a child artist, she had also acted in Fox Kids, Kachche Papad Pakke Papad, and the Bobby Deol - Rani Mukherji starrer Badaal.

Name her debut film as a child artist.

Kuch Kuch Hota hai

Guest Round

The Guest Quiz Master:

Manan Bhutani

Few tidbits about the QM

• Fourth Year. Mathematics and Computing.

• Was the Quiz Club Secretary last year

• Huge fan of The Beatles, Coldplay and Dire Straits.

• An Alcohol Connoisseur.

Rules

• 6 Questions.• You get a +1 for each correct answer. No negative

marking.• I hope you enjoy the questions

21. Being a Dilliwallah , I HAD to ask this question!

X is a famous locality in Delhi. The Mela restaurant in the UK has imitated this place and a popular restaurant group is also trying to copy the ambience of this place in Bombay. Of the 20 shops present in the late 1960s (all belonging to branches of the same family), three remain:

Pt Kanhaiyalal Durgaprasad Dixit (estd 1875),

Dayanand Shivcharan (estd 1882),

and Pt Baburam Devidayal (estd 1886).

X derives its name from the one food item it is particularly famous for.Identify X

Paranthe waali gali

22. X was born in Pilani, Rajasthan. Her father worked with the Indian Army, so she also lived and studied in Bathinda and Patiala.

• In 1994, her father was killed in a terrorist attack in Kashmir. Thereafter, her mother started living in Delhi-suburb, Noida, where she grew up and did her schooling from Delhi Public School, Noida.

• After that she studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, and started taking part in local theatre.

• Her Cannes' first was with Anurag Kashyap's production Peddlers in 2012, followed by The Lunchbox, which was screened at 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

• X has also appeared in one of Cadbury’s advertisements. She is shown as eating a Diary Milk Silk while she is stuck in a Traffic Jam.

• Identify X .

Nimrat Kaur

23. Jasper "Jack" Daniels, nearing his end, had a last wish. But that last wish of his turned into his last words, and he passed away instantly.

What were those last words, something we say after enjoying a sip of his famous booze?

One Last Drink Please

24. Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers whose families opposed their marriage would jump off a cliff to prove their love. But women, when their turn came after seeing their men jump off, would get cold feet and return home, and marry someone else.

Which famous phrase came into existence due to this ?

Hint: It is used nowadays to accord respect .

Ladies First

25. Manufactured by South Korea’s Orion Confectionery, the X were first given to North Korean workers by their South Korean bosses in lieu of cash bonuses, according to the Guardian. (Cash bonuses were banned because they were considered to be a symbol of capitalism.).

X were so rare and delicious in snack-deprived Pyongyang that the workers at the complex located just north of the demilitarized zone started selling them on the black market for up to four times their regular price in South Korea, where they are widely available.

As recently as 2010, nearly 2.5 million of the sweets were traded on North Korean black market every month, according to the Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean paper.

These days, the X are also manufactured by Lotte Confectionery

Identify X

Choco Pie

END OF GUEST QUIZ

21. In Chattisgarh, Chaprah is regular chutney which is prepared by the locals.

What’s this special chutney made of ?

Most of you would never ever try this chutney after knowing the answer :D

Red ants

22. What in the ‘cellular’ world does this song lends inspiration to ?

Idea Cellular tune

23. There are four slides to follow . Each slide contains the lyrics of a hit song, expressed in Archaic English.Simply identify the song OR the artist.

Example Question follows.

• Sorry guys we won’t play the song as we don’t want you to take home ear - sore from this event :D

The answer is of course Baby (Justin Bieber )

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24. What is SPERMOLOGY ?

”Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many” :P

• We are expecting a lot of ‘dirty’ answers on this one :D

Study of trivia :P

25. Identify the singer ? #Sitter

• His last appearance as an actor was in “Door Wadiyon Mein Kahin” (1980)

• During the Indian Emergency , Sanjay Gandhi had requested him to sing for an Indian National Congress rally in Mumbai, but he refused.

• Interestingly, his Warden Road flat bore a sign -- "Beware of <his first name>

• An official biopic on his life and times is being made by director Anurag Basu, which stars Ranbir Kapoor .

26. Following are some interesting facts about a certain famous personality. Just give me his name.

27. Minimalist poster round

28. A reference to what ? Put funda.

• X was exchanged to a fisherwoman’s child when newly born ; it was his uncle Y who immediately noticed the mistake (actually he didn’t see a little hole on the top of my left ear lobe that he had a day ago) and brought him back.

• Had it not been for the sharp eye of the legendary cricketer’s uncle, we might not have ever seen the master in action.

• X would later say "My habbit of FISHING outside the off-stump comes from there" .

29. Identify this legendary cricketer X .

Sunil Gavaskar

30. What is this range of bottles known as ? (Clue – Think Simple)

• X is a Palestinian Sunni Islamic organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the Middle East including Qatar. Since 2007, it has governed the Gaza Strip, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament . X is designated as a terrorist organization by Israel (It is very much in news lately)

• Y is a Levantine food dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic. Today, it is popular throughout the Middle East (including Turkey), North Africa(including Morocco), and in Middle Eastern cuisine around the globe

31. Give me X and Y which are more or less homonyms .

X – Hamas Y - Hummus