1. GM Quiz Fest2014

2. http://kqaquizzes.org/ https://www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes 3. Preliminary Round Common preliminary round 25 questions All questions will be displayed on the screen Write down your answers in the sheets provided Along with your names, mention your category asStudents or Teachers Questions 11 to 20 are star marked and will beused to resolve ties, if any Top 6 go to the final from each category 4. 1 The official logo of this event is represented bya huge wing consisting of a string of "A", thefirst letter of the continent the event belongsto. The logo also has a shining sun at its upperleft. The entire emblem is supposed tosymbolise people holding hands in the sky. Logo of what? 5. 2 A certain Indian caste gives its name to a kind of tree as themembers of this caste would carry out their business underthe shades of this tree The caste also lends its name to an everyday item ofclothing. Members of the caste are known for their strict abstinencefrom eating meat. This is the reason why on British navyvessels, from the 16th century to the 19th, when sailorswere made to do without meat one day every week (themeasure was intended to conserve provisions while at sea),such days were known by a name taken from the name ofthe caste. What caste? 6. 3 According to data collected by The Ocean Conservancy,this is the most common type of litter on earth.Collectively, they weigh in the millions of pounds.Trillions of these are disposed of yearly, many directlytossed into the environment. Contrary to popular belief, they are not biodegradable.They are made out of cellulose acetate, a plastic thattakes several years to degrade. What item is this, whichpollutes the environment when consumed as well asdiscarded? 7. 4 What piece of sitting furniture was namedafter a certain title given to high rankinggovernment officials in the Ottoman Empireand other Muslim dynasties? This wasbecause the furniture was usually only foundin the said official's chambers 8. Easy one. The map shows all the rivers flowing throughDemocratic Republic of Congo. Name the one blanked outwhich is in the news for all the wrong reasons5 9. 6 Primates (hence humans) and marsupials arethe only mammals to have trichromacy orcolour vision, specifically three colour vision.Primates gained trichromacy throughevolution on account of their habitat and diet.For what specific purpose did they developthis three colour vision? 10. 7 The phenomenon was discovered by the Frenchmathematician Fourier, much before it becamecommon knowledge. He calculated that an object thesize of the Earth, and at its distance from the Sun,should be considerably colder than the planet actuallywas if warmed by only the incoming solar radiation. The name we know it by today was coined by thescientist in the picture in one of his essays when talkingabout the effects of excessive use of fuel. Whatphenomenon are we talking about? Also name thescientist. 11. 8 This symptom of a fatal disease is actuallycaused by painful muscle spasms of thethroat, which expel any liquids administeredorally. This involuntary reaction to swallowingliquids is incorrectly interpreted as anirrational fear. What symptom? 12. 9 This country changed its name to X in 1935 onthe suggestion of the countrys foreignminister to Germany. This was done allegedlyto impress the Germans, an important ally ofX, as X meant land of the Aryans. X? 13. 10 Mascot of? 14. *11 Born Sharat Lata in the erstwhile South Canara,_______ was a Kannada film actress. She wasaffectionately referred to as Minugu Taare ("AShining Star") among the film fraternity. She is widelyrecognised as one of the greatest actresses ofKannada cinema who enjoyed both fan following andcritical acclaim. Identify the so called tragedy queen 15. *12Give me a one word connection for the three 16. *13 Venice is now in the process of implementinga system of gates to isolate the Venetianlagoon from the Adriatic Sea, to preventflooding during high tides. After whom is thisproject appropriately named? 17. *14 A 1978 publication by the company that inventedthis material explained that the name wasoriginally intended to be "No-Run" ("run"meaning "unravel or tear). But it was modifiedto avoid making such an unjustified claim, sincethe product was not really run-proof. Thus thevowels were swapped to produce "nuron". A finalchange was incorporated to make it sound lesslike a nerve tonic. What material whose folk etymology we're morefamiliar with? 18. *15What bird's Mandarin name when translated toEnglish would read "Cat headed eagle/falcon"? 19. *16 After partition of India in 1947, Western Punjab, India'swheat bowl, had gone to Pakistan. A spell of successivebad monsoons later, there was a severe food crisis in1955, reminiscent of the great Bengal famine. This is when India signed a deal with the US to importtheir foodgrains. Unbeknownst to India however ,something else is believed to have entered her shoresin large quantities along with wheat as an adulterant.Today this has spread all over the country and is anuisance to crops, cattle and humans alike, apart frompolluting the soil. What are we talking about that has,over the years, acquired a nickname after the rulingparty in India when the deal was signed? 20. *17 What movie is this song from? 21. Amuls tribute to which twogreats from Hollywood?*18 22. *19 The materials original utility or advantage was itsability to withstand high temperature. During WW1, the British military was trying to find abetter metal for guns. The problem was that barrels ofguns were distorted by the friction and heat of bulletsover repeated firing. Harry Brearley, a metallurgist at aSheffield firm, was asked to find harder alloys. In his quest to find the suitable alloy, he discovered thismaterial by accident. He soon realized that it hadbetter use elsewhere, not in the field of ammunitions.He sold it under the name "Rusnorstain" for manyyears. What name do we know it by today? 23. *20 In the late 1970s, Dragutin Surbek of Yugoslaviaforgot to bring his standard glue to a tournament.He hustled to a nearby bicycle shop andpurchased an adhesive that was used for pluggingholes in tires. Surbek used the glue to prepare hisequipment and once play began, he noticed hecould generate greater speed and spin. The gluegave the rubber on his playing equipment atrampoline like effect. Thus the era of speed-gluecame about. What sport? 24. 21 Was born at Adamaru in Karnataka. Completed his secondary educationfrom Christian High School, Udupi Ph.D at Physical ResearchLaboratory, Ahmedabad under theguidance of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Former chairman of ISRO Former chairman of Prasar Bharti Who? 25. Identify this Indian activist and anti-globalizationauthor, who is currently in the news for herprotest against genetically modified seeds The New Yorker recently carried a critical profile ofher followed by several rounds of counterpointsand rebuttals from her and the magazine.22 26. 23 This flower was the subject of a famous poemby what poet? 27. 24 When Ren Descartes was solving an ancientGreek problem of Pappus of Alexandria (c. 300AD), concerning the locus of a point that movesin such a way that it always makes fixed angleswith a number of given lines, his approach to theproblem involved drawing two lines of variedlengths, and then to prove that the path of thepoint satisfies an equation. The question now is, what did he name the twolines in his solution? 28. 25 Ancient Babylonians used an empty space toconvey this sense of nothingness, whereasancient Cambodians used a dot. But thecircular/loop form first seen in India is the oneused all over the world today. What are wetalking about? 29. Answers follow 30. 1 The official logo of this event is represented bya huge wing consisting of a string of "A", thefirst letter of the continent the event belongsto. The logo also has a shining sun at its upperleft. The entire emblem is supposed tosymbolise people holding hands in the sky. Logo of what? 31. Asian Games 2014 32. 2 A certain Indian caste gives its name to a kind of tree as themembers of this caste would carry out their business underthe shades of this tree The caste also lends its name to an everyday item ofclothing. Members of the caste are known for their strict abstinencefrom eating meat. This is the reason why on British navyvessels, from the 16th century to the 19th, when sailorswere made to do without meat one day every week (themeasure was intended to conserve provisions while at sea),such days were known by a name taken from the name ofthe caste. What caste? 33. Baniya caste from which we get banyan tree,banyan vest. The meatless days on Britishnavy vessels were known as banyan days 34. 3 According to data collected by The Ocean Conservancy,this is the most common type of litter on earth.Collectively, they weigh in the millions of pounds.Trillions of these are disposed of yearly, many directlytossed into the environment. Contrary to popular belief, they are not biodegradable.They are made out of cellulose acetate, a plastic thattakes several years to degrade. What item is this, whichpollutes the environment when consumed as well asdiscarded? 35. 4 What piece of sitting furniture was namedafter a certain title given to high rankinggovernment officials in the Ottoman Empireand other Muslim dynasties? This wasbecuase the furniture was usually only foundin the said official's chambers 36. Diwan 37. Easy one. The map shows all the rivers flowing throughDemocratic Republic of Congo. Name the one blanked outwhich is in the news for all the wrong reasons5 38. Ebola, virus gets its name from the name ofthe river 39. 6 Primates (hence humans) and marsupials arethe only mammals to have trichromacy orcolour vision, specifically three colour vision.Primates gained trichromacy throughevolution on account of their habitat and diet.For what specific purpose did they developthis three colour vision? 40. Fruits. To spot various coloured fruits amongthe leaves 41. 7 The phenomenon was discovered by the Frenchmathematician Fourier, much before it becamecommon knowledge. He calculated that an object thesize of the Earth, and at its distance from the Sun,should be considerably colder than the planet actuallywas if warmed by only the incoming solar radiation. The name we know it by today was coined by thescientist in the picture in one of his essays when talkingabout the effects of excessive use of fuel. Whatphenomenon are we talking about? Also name thescientist. 42. Greenhouse Effect, (Alexander) Graham Bell 43. 8 This symptom of a fatal disease is actuallycaused by painful muscle spasms of thethroat, which expel any liquids administeredorally. This involuntary reaction to swallowingliquids is incorrectly interpreted as anirrational fear. What symptom? 44. Hydrophobia. The disease being rabies 45. 9 This country changed its name to X in 1935 onthe suggestion of the countrys foreignminister to Germany. This was done allegedlyto impress the Germans, an important ally ofX, as X meant land of the Aryans. X? 46. Iran. Old name Persia. In fact, Iran was how the country was knownin the local language for centuries. Only theWest called it Persia 47. 10 Mascot of? 48. Jaipur Pink Panthers 49. *11 Born Sharat Lata in the erstwhile South Canara,_______ was a Kannada film actress. She wasaffectionately referred to as Minugu Taare ("AShining Star") among the film fraternity. She is widelyrecognised as one of the greatest actresses ofKannada cinema who enjoyed both fan following andcritical acclaim. Identify the so called tragedy queen 50. Kalpana 51. *12Give me a one word connection for the three 52. Lotus 53. *13 Venice is now in the process of implementinga system of gates to isolate the Venetianlagoon from the Adriatic Sea, to preventflooding during high tides. After whom is thisproject appropriately named? 54. Moses 55. *14 A 1978 publication by the company that inventedthis material explained that the name wasoriginally intended to be "No-Run" ("run"meaning "unravel or tear). But it was modifiedto avoid making such an unjustified claim, sincethe product was not really run-proof. Thus thevowels were swapped to produce "nuron". A finalchange was incorporated to make it sound lesslike a nerve tonic. What material whose folk etymology involvingtwo cities we're more familiar with? 56. Nylon Name does not come from New York - London 57. *15What bird's Mandarin name when translated toEnglish would read "Cat headed eagle/falcon"? 58. Owl 59. *16 After partition of India in 1947, Western Punjab, India'swheat bowl, had gone to Pakistan. A spell of successivebad monsoons later, there was a severe food crisis in1955, reminiscent of the great Bengal famine. This is when India signed a deal with the US to importtheir foodgrains. Unbeknownst to India however ,something else is believed to have entered her shoresin large quantities along with wheat as an adulterant.Today this has spread all over the country and is anuisance to crops, cattle and humans alike, apart frompolluting the soil. What are we talking about that has,over the years, acquired a nickname after the rulingparty in India when the deal was signed? 60. Parthenium, known as Congress hullu inKannada Parthenium was present in India even earlier,but its abundance is attributed to theimported wheat 61. *17 What movie is this song from? 62. Amuls tribute to which twogreats from Hollywood?*18 63. *19 The materials original utility or advantage was itsability to withstand high temperature. During WW1, the British military was trying to find abetter metal for guns. The problem was that barrels ofguns were distorted by the friction and heat of bulletsover repeated firing. Harry Brearley, a metallurgist at aSheffield firm, was asked to find harder alloys. In his quest to find the suitable alloy, he discovered thismaterial by accident. He soon realized that it hadbetter use elsewhere, not in the field of ammunitions.He sold it under the name "Rusnorstain" for manyyears. What name do we know it by today? 64. Stainless steel 65. *20 In the late 1970s, Dragutin Surbek of Yugoslaviaforgot to bring his standard glue to a tournament.He hustled to a nearby bicycle shop andpurchased an adhesive that was used for pluggingholes in tires. Surbek used the glue to prepare hisequipment and once play began, he noticed hecould generate greater speed and spin. The gluegave the rubber on his playing equipment atrampoline like effect. Thus the era of speed-gluecame about. What sport? 66. Table Tennis 67. 21 Was born at Adamaru in Karnataka. Completed his secondary educationfrom Christian High School, Udupi Ph.D at Physical ResearchLaboratory, Ahmedabad under theguidance of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Former Chairman of ISRO Former chairman of Prasar Bharti Who? 68. U.R. Rao (Udupi Ramachandra Rao) 69. Identify this Indian activist and anti-globalizationauthor, who is currently in the news for herprotest against genetically modified seeds The New Yorker recently carried a critical profile ofher followed by several rounds of counterpointsand rebuttals from her and the magazine.22 70. Vandana Shiva 71. 23 This flower was the subject of a famous poemby what poet? 72. William Wordsworth 73. 24 When Ren Descartes was solving an ancientGreek problem of Pappus of Alexandria (c. 300AD), concerning the locus of a point that movesin such a way that it always makes fixed angleswith a number of given lines, his approach to theproblem involved drawing two lines of variedlengths, and then to prove that the path of thepoint satisfies an equation. The question now is, what did he name the twolines in his solution? 74. x and y This is the first recorded instance of algebrabeing used in the field of Geometry. In fact, he is said to have invented theconvention of representing unknowns inequations by x, y, and z, and knowns by a, b,and c The xy-Cartesian coordinates system thatcame much later was hence named after him. 75. 25 Ancient Babylonians used an empty space toconvey this sense of nothingness, whereasancient Cambodians used a dot. But thecircular/loop form first seen in India is the oneused all over the world today. What are wetalking about? 76. Zero 77. A-Z Pattern Asian Games Baniya Cigerette Butts Diwan Ebola Fruits etc 78. GM Quiz Fest 2014Final - Teachers 79. Home Run Written round 5 questions All on local topics and interests +10 for each right answer 80. 1 . Identify the actor and the singer 81. 2 _____ ______ is a group of concerns established in1947 by Gopal Holla in Udupi. The name means"Friends Society in Kannada. Over the years, the groupbecame well-known for its service in the hotel,hospitality and medical fields. In fact, the group claimson its website to have opened the first private hospitalin Udupi district Although today the hospital and the hotel are ownedand operated by two different entities, both haveretained the original name. FITB. 82. 3. You will see two male dancers in the video. Ifone of them is Dwarakish. Who is the other? 83. 4 X was established on the premise that the Varahi IrrigationProject, when commissioned, would provide irrigation to aminimum of 12,000 acres of land in Udupi district, therebyhelping in producing 2.5 lakh tonnes of a particular crop.This would then be supplied to X, so that the latter wouldmake a profit. But nothing went as planned. Though the foundation stonefor X and the Varahi Irrigation Project was laid at the sametime in 1980, the former materialised, while the latter isstill under construction. This is the main reason why X never really managed to takeoff and has always been at the mercy of the govt. What is X? 84. 5 . Identify this personality 85. Answers follow 86. 1 . Identify the actor and the singer 87. Mantapa Prabhakar Upadhyaya Kalinga Navada 88. 2 X is a group of concerns established in 1947 byGopal Holla in Udupi. The name means"Friends Society in Kannada. Over the years,the group became well-known for its servicein the hotel, hospitality and medical fields. Although today the hospital and the hotel areowned and operated by two different entities,both have retained the original name. Name X. 89. 3. You will see two male dancers in the video. Ifone of them is Dwarakish. Who is the other? 90. Udupi Jayaram 91. 4 X was established on the premise that the Varahi IrrigationProject, when commissioned, would provide irrigation to aminimum of 12,000 acres of land in Udupi district, therebyhelping in producing 2.5 lakh tonnes of a particular crop.This would then be supplied to X, so that the latter wouldmake a profit. But nothing went as planned. Though the foundation stonefor X and the Varahi Irrigation Project was laid at the sametime in 1980, the former materialised, while the latter isstill under construction. This is the main reason why X never really managed to takeoff and has always been at the mercy of the govt. What is X? 92. Brahmavar Sugar Factory 93. 5 . Identify this personality 94. K Shivaram Karanth 95. Clockwise round Questions on infinite bounce +10 for right answer. Direct or pass 96. Humans have over centuries encroached into andinhabited every terrain, every landscape.Riverbanks, mountains, desert, forests, plains etc.But for the past 10,000 or so years, we have notbeen able to inhabit tropical rainforests to thesame extent. What according to scientists is thechief reason for this failure, something that is theonly redeeming quality of the said reason whichotherwise is responsible for nearly half of allhuman deaths in the history of mankind? 97. Answer 98. Mosquitoes 99. His real name is Sanjit Roy. But his parents usedto affectionately called him something else torhyme with his elder brother's name, Shanker.Not many know that he was a three timeNational Squash Champion. Today he is known asa social activist and educator. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100 mostinfluential personalities in 2010 for his work ineducating illiterate and semi literate rural Indians 100. Answer 101. Bunker Roy, founder of barefoot college 102. Dungaree fabric is a kind of twill-weave cotton cloth(exactly how jeans are made), often coloured blue. InBritish English the term is used for all work clothesmade from such fabric, and in American English fordurable workman's trousers (pictured). Dungaree isoften compared to denim. The difference betweendungarees and denim is that the former are made ofdyed yarn while the latter are dyed after weaving.Otherwise the two fabrics are identical, and dungareeis sometimes termed "blue denim". Question: Where does the name Dungaree come from? 103. Answer 104. Dongri, an area in Mumbai 105. What's the nameof the colouredregion in France?What is theregion's chiefproduce? 106. Answer 107. Burgundy Burgundy wine 108. If an article published in The Hindu is to be believed, thisparticular dish was introduced in 1965 at the famous BuhariHotel restaurant in Chennai by its founder A.M.Buhari Apparently, after the success of the dish, variants wereintroduced in 1978, 1982 and 1990 trying to encash on theoriginal marketing gimmick by extending it to these years aswell. But the original offering is still the most famous. It is also said that Buhari didn't want to monopolize theproduct by patenting it which is why it is seen as a genericrecipe rather than a brand name. What dish? 109. Chicken 65 110. This idiom meaning in one's prime, or inones youth is an expression invented byShakespeare in one of his later plays, Anthonyand Cleopatra (1606): "My _____ ____, WhenI was green in judgment: cold in blood, To sayas I said then!" What idiom? 111. Answer 112. Salad Days 113. List it. Written Round One question. Eight Answers +5 for every right answer. Bonus +10 if alleight are right No negatives Only eight answers to be written. If more thaneight found, only the first eight will beconsidered. 114. There have been eight Presidents of India fromSouthern Indian states* so far. Name them all.(Includes acting Presidents as well) Just to clarify what constitutes Southern India Pre Independence Madras Presidency Current day - Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, AndhraPradesh, Tamilnadu and Goa 115. Sarvapalli Radhakrishna, Zakir Hussain, V.V. Giri,B.D. Jatti, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, R.Venkataraman, K.R. Narayanan, A.P.J. AbdulKalam 116. Anti-clockwise round Questions on infinite bounce +10 for right answer. Direct or pass 117. The always proper Jackie Kennedy, is said to havereally disliked X, and she made this quite public.When X was in Washington in 1961, she wasinvited to the White House for a state dinner.Referring to a decision by JFK to separate themen from the women during dinner, Jackie saidof X: "Well, of course, she hated that. She liked tobe in with the men. And she is a real prune --bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman. You know, Ijust don't like her a bit. It always looks like she'sbeen sucking a lemon. 118. Answer 119. Indira Gandhi 120. As Victor Hugo once said: No power on earthcan stop an idea whose time has come. Isuggest...that the emergence of India as amajor economic power in the world happensto be one such idea. Let the whole world hearit loud and clear. India is now wide awake." Whose words, trying to persuade a fairlyreluctant bunch of people? A rare assertiveand verbose moment for the person. 121. Answer 122. Manmohan Singh 123. What is rather unusual about the lyrics of thissong? 124. Answer 125. Lyrics are made up of names of movies 126. Shown here is a pagefrom a bookcommissioned byone of the Mughalemperors. What is beingdepicted in thispainting? 127. Answer 128. Indra preventing Trishanku from enteringheaven 129. Although it is officially known as commonbasilisk lizard it is more popularly known byanother name. Look at the video and tell mewhat name? 130. Answer 131. Jesus Christ Lizard 132. This is an animal called Dhole. Although the exactetymology is unclear, since this name/word existsonly in English, the most accepted theory is that theanimal gets it's name from the Kannada word for acertain animal? What is the Kannada word? 133. Answer 134. Tola, Kannada word for wolf 135. Theme Round 9 questions on an underlying theme +10 for each right answer Points for cracking the theme : +50 through to+10 Negatives: -25 through to -5 Individual questions to be answered on thebuzzer 136. +50 What phrase whose origin is commonlyattributed to the American polymath,Benjamin Franklin, means having a dispute totake up or point of view to express? The phrase is said to have come from a storyconcerning a blacksmith and his grindstone 137. Answer 138. (Having) an axe to grind 139. +45_______ was pioneer brand in the Indian market and was thefirst player to provide solution to get rid of mosquitoes.________ repellent dominated around 67% of market till 1994and was a generic name in the product category. But thispioneer brand could not stand against MNC players. Companyfailed to upgrade its product in accordance the market needand total market share came down to 12% in 2000. Thoughthe company tried to make a comeback in 2002 with its Lazorbrand of repellants, it wasn't successful and today thecompany has all but vanished from the market. 140. Answer 141. Tortoise, Kachua 142. +40 He is the first Indian Prime Minister outsidethe Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to serve a full fiveyear term. Known for his ability to commandall types of economic and political legislationin the parliament, he was considered theFather of Indian Economic Reforms and giventhe nickname Chanakya. He is also the onlyIndian PM not to be cremated in New Delhi.Who? 143. Answer 144. P. V. Narasimha Rao 145. +35This special Oscar, consisting of one big statuette along withseven small ones, was given to Walt Disney for best animationfilm in 1938. What did each of the seven statuettes represent? 146. Answer 147. The movie he won this special award for was SnowWhite and the seven dwarfs. Hence each smallstatuette represented a dwarf. 148. +30 The ____________ Express is a daily superfast train runningbetween Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai) andMangalore Central. The name literally means "Smell ofFish" - the appellation was given since the train runs alongthe fishing coast of Western India adjoining the Arabian sea- Konkan railway route. The train has become an importantlink for natives of Dakshina Kannada, Karwar and Udupidistricts living in Mumbai and surrounding cities. In Indian mythology, it is also another name for Satyavati Fill in the blank 149. Answer 150. Matsyagandha Express 151. +25In 2011, on the 60th birthday of Indian batsman SunilGavaskar, a book called "Cricket's Little Master" was released.The book contained anecdotes from his life narrated by hisfriends from both cricketing circles and outside. One suchanecdote says that at college, Gavaskar had this deep desireto act in films. Once when Dev Anand came to his collegelooking for youngsters to be a part of a song in his movie,Gavaskar went for a screen test and was selected. Heapparently was one among many youngsters seen in the song.Just name the movie. 152. Answer 153. Hare Rama Hare Krishna. 154. +20What was the codename given to India'sfirst nuclear test explosion that took place atPokhran on 18 May 1974 on account of theauspicious day on which the test wasconducted? 155. Answer 156. Operation Smiling Buddha. 157. +15____________ was an Indian astronomer,mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjainbetween 505 -587 A.D. He is considered to be one ofthe nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendaryking Vikramaditya. His main work goes by the namePancha-Siddhantika. 158. Answer 159. Varahamihira or sometimes just Varaha. 160. +10_____ is an Indian actress of French descent. She wasborn to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry.Her parents had come to India 38 years ago asdevotees of Sri Aurobindo and settled there after theyfell in love with the country. 161. Kalki Koechlin 162. Theme Dashavataras of Vishnu_____________________________Axe Parashurama (Parashu means axe)Tortoise KurmaPVN NarasimhaDwarf VamanaMatsyagandha MatsyaHare Rama Hare Krishna Krishna and RamaSmiling Buddha BuddhaVaraha VarahaKalki Koechlin - Kalki 163. GM Quiz Fest - 2014Final - Students 164. Home run Written round 6 questions All on local topics and interests +10 for each right answer 165. 1. Identify the 2 missing sub-groups. NO PARTPOINTS 166. 2 This ice-cream was first prepared byMangalore's Prabhakar Kamath, founder ofIdeal Ice creams, 35 years ago and named sobecause it was prepared in haste. What ice-creaam? 167. 3 In 2003, as part of its golden jubileecelebrations, Manipal University released thisshort promotional clip with a Indianized versionof the song Summer of 69. It was sung by a thenrelatively unknown artist. Name him. 168. 4 169. 5 Complete this list Gommatagiri Shravanabelagola Dharmastala ?? ?? 170. 6. These are heavy metallic anklets worn by theperformers of a folk dance that is primarily aform of spirit worship. It has a closeresemblance to Theyyam, a ritual form ofworship common among Keralites of NorthMalabar.Name the ritual/dance formName the anklets 171. Answers follow 172. 1. Identify the 2 missing sub-groups. NO PARTPOINTS 173. Tulu and Kodava 174. 2 This ice-cream was first prepared byMangalore's Prabhakar Kamath, founder ofIdeal Ice creams, 35 years ago and named sobecause it was prepared in haste. What ice-creaam? 175. Gadbad 176. 3 In 2003, as part of its golden jubileecelebrations, Manipal University released thisshort promotional clip with a Indianized versionof the song Summer of 69. It was sung by a thenrelatively unknown artist. Name him. 177. Raghu Dixit 178. 4 179. Maravante 180. 5 Complete this list Gommatagiri Shravanabelagola Dharmastala ?? ?? 181. Venoor Karkala Monolith staues of Gomateshwara inKarnataka 182. 6. These are heavy metallic anklets worn by theperformers of a folk dance that is primarily aform of spirit worship. It has a closeresemblance to Theyyam, a ritual form ofworship common among Keralites of NorthMalabar.Name the ritual/dance formName the anklets 183. Bhoota Kola, Gaggara 184. Clockwise round Questions on infinite bounce +10 for every right answer, direct or pass 185. He attained the rank of lieutenant in the Italian Armyand of commander in the Italian Navy. During WW1he was placed in charge of the Italian military's radioservice. Who? By mid 1920s he had become a very influential andpowerful man in his country. Who then was the bestman at his wedding in 1927? 186. Answer 187. (Guglielmo) Marconi Benito Mussolini 188. Some say that this was created to help kids rememberthe Mediterranean countries; others say it was to helpthem remember some of the participants ofWW1. However, whilst being rather a nice play on words,both seem to be of dubious credibility as functionalmnemonics.Today only the first two lines remain as a mnemonic tohelp locate a European country vis--vis an autonomousisland belonging to it.What am I talking about? 189. Answer 190. Long legged Italy, Kicked poor Sicily.The entire rhyme for those interestedLong legged Italy, Kicked poor Sicily.Right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.Austria was Hungary, Took a bit of Turkey,Dipped it in Greece, Fried it in Japan, and ateit off of China 191. Goonch is a variety of Catfish found in the rivers inUttarakhand that feeds on human flesh. Although catfishare never known to eat humans (in fact not known for anysort of interaction with humans), this variety underwentmutation over several years and is now a real threat to thepopulation living on the river banks. Goonch has been thesubject of several TV documentaries including an episodeon the Animal Planet series called River Monsters. Why did the goonch start attacking humans in the firstplace? OR How did the seemingly harmless animal acquirea taste for human flesh? 192. Answer 193. Corpse disposed off into rivers 194. In spite of being one of the biggest influences on Chemistryand on whose work all modern chemistry is based, he didn'treceive a Nobel Prize for his efforts. In 1906, the Nobelcommittee did select him to win the honour, but the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences stepped in and overturned thisdecision. The intervention was spearheaded by Swedish chemist SvanteArrhenius, whod won the chemistry prize in 1903 for histheory of electrolytic dissociation. The man in question hadbeen an outspoken critic of Arrheniuss theory. Arrhenius sawthis as a perfect opportunity to extract vengeance. Name this scientist who predicted the existence a lot ofelements even before they were discovered 195. Answer 196. Mendeleev of the periodic table fame 197. It was coined by one Frederick Stanley Mockford in1923 who was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airportin London. Since much of the traffic at the time wasbetween Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, heproposed the word in question, derived from theFrench phrase "venez m'aider ( meaning"come helpme), so even the French could understand it withoutany difficulty. It was then accepted by the theInternational Radiotelegraph Convention in 1927 as aninternational standard. What word? 198. Answer 199. Mayday as a distress call 200. Vikas Gowda became only the third Indain towin a gold in the track and field events at thecommonwealth games by winning the men'sdiscuss throw in the recently concludedGlasgow games. If Milkha Singh was the firstIndian to achieve this feat by winning the400m race in 1958 Games, who is the secondIndian? 201. Answer 202. Krishna Poonia womens discuss 2010commonwealth games 203. Both these architectural features (the whitesection at the top of the arch and the greysection on the wall) have entered Englishlanguage as words that mean the crux/linchpin/ backbone etc. What are they? 204. Answer 205. Keystone Cornerstone 206. According to latest research, the increase inglobal demand of cashmere sweaters andproducts (or pashmina as it is locally known inIndia), has been a new threat to snow leopards inthe Himalayas. Cashmere sweaters are not madeof leopard fur, they are made from the choicestof furs from various breeds of goats found in theregion. And these goats aren't part of the snowleopards diet either. How then is the leopard'spopulation affected by this industry? 207. Answer 208. Most of the grass available in the region isbeing eaten by the goats, thus leaving little forwild antelopes and wild asses. Indirectly thedecline in number of the prey populationaffected the predators like the Snow leopard. 209. Audience QuestionIdentify these saree clad women 210. Answer 211. Serena and Venus Williams 212. Only Connect Written round 5 questions, each consisting of 4 clues on a commontheme The clues will appear serially one after the other Points for cracking the connect only After 1st clue 10 points After 2nd clue 7 points After 3rd clue 5 points After 4th clue 3 points No Negatives DONT SHOUT OUT THE ANSWER 213. Example Rig Yajur Sama Atharva 214. Answer.. The 4 vedas 215. 1 Leonardo Da Vinci Michaelangelo Raphael Donatello 216. Answer 217. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Each one is named after a renaissance painter 218. 2 219. Answer 220. 3 221. Answer 222. Womens Grandslam Tennis Champions of2014 223. 4 224. MPs from Karnataka in Modis council ofministers 225. 5 226. Answer 227. BRIC Nations Brazil Russia India China 228. Anticlockwise Questions on infinite bounce +10 for direct and pass 229. List all the FIFA world cups in which both Braziland Argentina made it to the semi-finals 230. Answer 231. One 2014 232. Name the movie this song is from 233. Answer 234. Ulidavaru Kandante 235. Identify the two voices that you hear 236. Answer 237. Indira Gandhi speaking to Rakesh Sharma 238. The founders of Intel, Gordon Moore andRobert Noyce, initially wanted to name theircompany after their respective last names.This was in line with the trend in those days.(HP was named in a similar fashion) Why did they then drop this idea and go witha different name? 239. Answer 240. Moore-Noyce would sound like More Noise,an undesirable feature for any electronicgood 241. The scientific name of this plant is Mimosapudica. It is not known exactly why Mimosapudica evolved a particular trait it is knownfor. But many scientists think that the plantuses this ability as a defense from herbivoresas this sudden reaction deters grazing animalsfrom eating it. What commonly found plant isMimosa pudica? 242. Answer 243. Touch me not 244. What change was brought about to the gameof Tennis in the late 70s by one Jimmy VanAlen to make the game more TV/audiencefriendly? 245. Answer 246. Tie-Breakers 247. What animal gets its name from Spanish forLittle Armored one? 248. Answer 249. Armadillo 250. Identify the two gentlemen in disguise 251. Answer 252. Narendra Modi and Subramanain Swamy In disguise during emergency 253. Audience Question 254. If these were the names of her sisters, what is the nameof this former CM of an Indian state? 255. Answer 256. Rabri Devi All the siblings were named after differentsweets 257. Finale All questions on the buzzer +5/-5 for right/wrong answers Questions dont pass