The Friday Quiz

Quizmaster : Pankaj Rodey

On Buzzer:Today, April the 5th is being celebrated as National Equality Day. Whose birthday is celebrated thus every year?

Babu Jagjivan Ram

ROUND - 1

Which Australian Cricket player, part of the 2003 and 2007 WC winning squad, is jokingly called 'Postman' in the dressing room, owing to his previous career as a mail delivery man in Australian Postal Service?

Answer

Brad Hogg

A revivalist movement in Sunni Islam, centered primarily in India, and rest of South Asia, originated in an Islamic school situated in this town in Uttar Pradesh.

This movement is named after the town, which, ironically, is supposed to take its name from the Sanskrit for "A forest of the Goddess" owing to the Puranic stories about monsters killed by Goddess Durga at this place.

Name the town.

Answer

Deoband, which is supposed to take its name from “Devi Vanam”

This old man was a chairman and CEO who passed away in Jan-2013.

Explain what was the hugely popular ‘sticky’ deal between these three in December 2012!

Answer

Arbaaz Khan secured rights from Pidilite (whose chairman B K Parekh passed away recently), to use brand name Fevicol in a song in Dabangg2, sung by Mamata Sharma.

With historical significance, especially because of eternal military presence, which mountain range was known by the names "Caucasus Indicus" in Greek and "Pāriyātra Parvata“ (पा�रि�या�त्र पार्वत) in ancient Sanskrit texts?

Answer

Hindu Kush

From 1059 the election of the Pope became the responsibility of the cardinals. When, after the death of Clement IV (1268), the cardinals were confused for more than two years, the local magistrate locked them in the small palace and fed them only bread and water until they elected new pope, Gregory X.

This locking up episode has contributed to the English language with which word used for a 'Private meeting'?

Answer

Conclave

The concept of this instrument is supposed to have been the brainchild of the physician Hakim Abu’l-Fath Gilani, at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar.

In the earliest form, the spherical base was cut from coconut, giving it the name Nargile (from Narikela in Sanskrit), still used in Middle East.

Its names in different parts of world are:

Europe - Lula

North Africa - Shishe

Iran - Qalyan

Maldives - Gudugudaa

What is the better known Indian name?

Answer

Hukka

These stoves are getting ready to conclude something, recently in news. Explain.

Answer

The stoves at Sistine Chapel which are used to indicate the decision on election of new Pope. White smoke indicates successful conclusion of elections.

This term, very popular among cricket commentators, comes from name of a device, that has a heavy lead ball, attached to the end of a rope, used to gauge the straightness of a wall or surface.

This word also gives its name to a particular profession.

What word?

Answer

Plumb (Plumber)

This flower, called 'Thistle' is the national flower of Scotland and features on many a national symbols of Scotland like coins, awards, police insignias, FC insignias etc.

The most significant presence of this flower is found on the logo of a company, founded in Scotland in the 1770s. The company claims to have been successful due to contributions from more than 100 Nobel Laureates. Which company?

Answer

Encyclopedia Britannica.

Complete this and tell me who wrote this in a newspaper article in March 2013?

"Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the ____ __ ___' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup.

Now, in my country, the same '____ __ ___' has brought us an Argentinian pope."

Answer

Maradona (Hand of God)

Since the regular CAG reports are not understandable by common man, recently, CAG of India, Vinod Rai has come up with idea of small booklets about its findings.

These booklets will be miniature versions of the mammoth audit reports written in easy to understand language for different stakeholders and also for the common citizens.

After which fictional character are these small booklets named?

Answer

Noddy reports

The next slide shows the 4 steps in a natural phenomenon, as theorized by Darwin.

The 4 steps might take centuries to result into what is shown in the last picture.

What is this?

Answer

Formation of Atoll / Coral reef island.

On 18 May 2011, Microsoft released an update to Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems for a specific purpose.

If you install this update and press the Alt key and simultaneously press 8377 on the Num pad, in a Windows Word document, what character will you get?

Answer

After logging into your google account, if you start typing this phrase in Google, the instant autocomplete feature pops up a calculator and displays the answer as 42.

What is this non-numeric phrase?

“answer to ____, ________ and _________”

Search picture on next slide…

Answer

Answer to Life, Universe and everything

Named after the Latin word for 'Elbow', this unit of measurement of length is based on the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.

The earliest mention of this unit is in the Bible and is used to describe dimensions of Noah's Ark in the Bible. Which unit?

Answer

Cubit

Answer

Movie titles inspired from song lyrics

In Lawn Tennis, if a player has won at least one of every possible type of Major championship available: The singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, in the career, what is the player said to have achieved?

Answer

A boxed set

In his dancing form ‘Nataraja’, lord Shiva is depicted standing with His foot on the corpse of a dwarf.

This dwarf is considered to be the manifestation of ignorance and Epilepsy and its name is the Ayurvedic term for for Epilepsy.

Name this dwarf.

Answer

Apasmara (अपास्म�)

What is the English name of law enforcement agency प्रर्वतन निनदे�शा�लया?

Answer

Enforcement directorate

A monument for whom and where?

Answer

Yuri Gagarin, Moscow

The last time it was out for public display in 2010, more than two million people turned up to see it.

In 1988, after a radiocarbon dating test, it was declared to belong to the medieval times.

Having intrigued believers and non-believers alike for centuries and preserved in the automobile hub in Europe, it has appeared in popular culture on many occasions.

Most recently it was depicted in a 2013 Bollywood action(?) film.

What?

Answer

Shroud of Turin

Give the first line of this shloka from Brihadranyaka Upanishada that forms the motto of CBSE:

______________तमसो�म� ज्या�नित�� गमया ।म�त्या�म�म�त� गमया ॥ॐ शा�न्ति!त शा�न्ति!त शा�न्ति!त" ।।

Answer

According to the Hebrew Bible, as part of the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement, La Azazel was an animal that was outcast in the desert of Mount Jabel Muntar (In present day Syria).

What type of animal was this and what popular word is the English translation of 'Azazel'?

Answer

Scapegoat

Tell me this Universal Truth:What is the name of chapter 11 (अध्या�या ११) of the Bhagvatgita?

Answer

Vishwaroop Darshana Yoga. The inspiration of title of the controversial Kamal Hassan movie.

Which sport governing body, formed in 1920, headquartered in Athens, Greece has the motto:

'Gens una sumus', meaning "We are one people"

Answer

FIDE (Chess)

This machine, patented by Edison, consisted of a paper strip which ran through the machine which printed something and transmitted it on electrical telegraph (also patented by Edison). In fact the onomatopoeic term "______" still used, comes from the sound made by the machine as it printed.

What is this and what term?

Answer

Stock Ticker

Identify.

Answer

This is a copy-paste of Oxford English Dictionary entry for what 7-lettered word?

“A spicy condiment of Indian origin, made of fruits or vegetables with vinegar, spices, and sugar.”

Answer

Chutney

These are photos from Dec-2012 at an Indian coast.

What is happening?

Answer

Memorial of Tsunami victims in Chennai

This is the plaque for which award?

Answer

Vag-devi statue for Jnanapith award

Identify.

Answer

The Polgars…

When Ivo goes back with the ___, the ___;

Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,

The great crowd will feel proud,

Seeing Barlow and Bates with the ___, the ___;

And the rest coming home with the ___.

What 3 lettered word is blanked out in this historical poem?

Answer

Urn. This poem appeared on the first Ashes trophy. Ivo is reference to Ivo Bligh who captained the England team during the first series to ‘Regain the ashes’

Touching speed of 300 kmph, the 2300 km Beijing-Guangzhou train is world's longest high speed railway.

Though the railway was ready a few months back, China officially opened the line on 26 December 2012. Why this day?

Answer

Birthday of Mao Zedong

Connect!

Answer

Indians given Pakistani awards: Neerja Bhanot – Tamgha-e-InsaniyatMorarji Desai – Nishan-e-PakistanDilip Kumar – Nishan-e-Imtiyaaz

The erstwhile president of India R Venketraman, in an award ceremony, called the name of X. X did not come on the stage and among thunderous claps, the president saw the discomfort of X and went down the stage to hand him the award. The awardee, accepted the award and collapsed, breathing his last breath. ID X and the award.

Answer

Raj Kapoor, Dadasaheb Phalke award.

In ancient England, Kipper fish had to be salted, dried and smoked till reddish brown, before they can be served .

Legend has it that escaping criminals in the 17th century would drag this strong-smelling fish across some part of the trail to make pursuing blood-hounds lose the scent and confuse the chasing hounds.

What idiomatic expression owes its origin to this?

Answer

Red Herring

Round 2LogometryGeometry in logos…

The Cartesian equation of the form

(x2 + y2)2 = a2(x2 - y2)

forms a shape that appears on the logo of Kotak Bank.

What is this shape called?

Answer

Lemniscate of Bernoulli (Infinity symbol)

Which society (magazine), established in 1888 in USA has a logo, that has a perfect vertical rectangle with thick yellow boundary, and the name of the society appearing in a custom font called '________ _________ Vector font’ besides the rectangle?

Answer

Two equilateral triangles, one blue and other yellow are entangled into each other with the name of the Bank on the right side of these triangles.

Which bank's logo?

Answer

Recall the logos of these companies and tell me which geometric figure is the common feature on the logos.

Cadbury’s

Samsung

Hyundai

Toyota

Carrier

Answer

Ellipse

Similar to the representation of 3 phase voltage vectors, this logo has three rhombuses arranged with their longer diagonal at 120 degrees with each other. Which company’s logo?

(Automobile, Elevators, Electronic chips…)

Answer

Mitsubishi

The logo of Windows 8 is actually 4 windows of different sizes arranged in two rows. The logo gives the effect of looking at these windows from the right side, so that the distant two windows appear smaller than the nearer two. Due to this none of the 4 windows appears to be rectangular but each forms the geometric figure of a ________.

Answer

Trapezoid

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