Conoscenza finals 2021

This quiz was held on 13th November 2021 as day event of Conoscenza, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence. This Gen Quiz was hosted by Aishani &Nitesh. The set was meticulously prepared by the team of Conoscenza.
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1. Welcome to Conoscenza finals

2. RULES FOR THE QUIZ There are a total of 30 questions. There are 2 dry rounds and and 1 written round. (12+6+12) Infinite bounce Standard pounce rules applicable. Scoring on pounce will be +15/-10, On bounce +10/0 Teams need to tag the assigned person in their group with full answer. Refrain from using any browser and enjoy the quiz!

3. DRY ROUND I

4. Q1 X is based on a bishop who supposedly was famous for leaving coins in poor children’s shoes or stockings . X was first depicted in Harper’s Weekly by the illustrator Thomas Nast as early as 1862. However, those depictions portray him more as a frankly vaguely sinister elf, and less as the cheerful gentleman we’re familiar with today. While X became an established figure and showed up in different advertisements,It was not until 1931 that the full image became widely recognized. In 1931, the soda company Coca-Cola created an advertising campaign, that featured X , drinking Coca-Cola. While many mistakenly credit Coca-Cola for creating the modern day image of X, the company is responsible for presenting the image that became the modern standard. Who is X ?

5. Yeh Keh Raha hai Google Karte hai

6. A1 SANTA CLAUS

7. Q2 X is a popular young Indian author and historian who started working on his first book in the age of 19. After completing his under-graduation in Economics he went to King’s College London to pursue master’s degree, in between to collect evidence for his first book from the archives of London. Later the book has published in 2016 in the genre of historical biography of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, the senior rani of Travancore was found unpopular in the histories. The book went to an absolute success for his dedication and deep research in histories of India at the young age. Later he got Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for the same book called _(3)_ __(5)__ ___(6)___ in the year 2017 . Find the author and the name of the book.

8. Getting 5 Ques Right In A Row

9. A2 Manu S. Pillai, The Ivory Throne.

10. Q3 Mary Jane Rathbun, born on December 22, 1922, in Chicago Illinois, and is popularly known as Brownie Mary. She was an American medical rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for making and distributing X's products to AIDS patients. Along with activist Dennis Peron, Rathbun lobbied for the legalization of X for medical use. She generated interest in the medical community and motivated scientists and researchers to develop and propose one of the first clinical trials which were organised to study the effects of common chemicals belonging to X's family in HIV-infected adults. Id X.

11. me thinking that i will not be caught after googling

12. A3 Weed/ marijuana/ cannabis

13. Q4 In Girifushi, Maldives in 2009, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, his vice President, cabinet secretary and 11 other ministers attended a cabinet meeting. But this was not a regular meeting. They proceeded to have a meeting using only white boards and hand signals to communicate as they could not physically speak in this particular situation due to the environment it was taking place in. The target of this meeting was to bring global attention to a very big problem which will be affecting Maldives the most among any other country. In this meeting all these men signed a document calling all countries to join them in solving this problem which is probably the biggest problem at the moment. An extremely big politician took his country out of a similar kind of agreement a few years back and went on to loss the re-elections. How was it different from the tradition meeting?

14. A4 The meeting took place underwater

15. Q5 ______ has a long and rich history in Old Delhi . It became immensely popular during Mughal rule. "When Shah Jahan shifted his capital from Agra to Delhi and built Shahjahanabad - the original name of Old Delhi - the tradition got transported. The ______ became the symbol of the city . There were clubs for this activity like we have football clubs these days. This game has its own rules and terminology. While ‘ladaana’ refers to trapping , ‘haqaana’ means to race. The most spectacular event of haqaana or racing is conducted on Republic Day which is keenly attended. Which activity or sport is being described here ?

16. Bas kar bhai aur pounce mt kar

17. A5 KABOOTAR BAZI

18. Q6 Patrick: Spends most of his time under a rock, doing nothing. Squidward: despises his life, despises SpongeBob, and is often irritable. Mr. Krabs: Wealthy and money-obsessed. Throughout the series, he makes several strategies to gain more money. Plankton: Mr. Krabs has always irritated me since his restaurant isn't as successful as "The Krusty Krab." He even tries to steal Krabby Patty secret recipe. Gary: A recurrent humour in the series in which various characters remind SpongeBob that he "had to go feed Gary”, even run away when he failed to feed him. Sandy: She takes pride in the fact that she is from Texas and, unlike many others, is a land mammal. SpongeBob: is always motivated to do good to others. Even if they don't deserve it, he treats everyone with respect. These descriptions are the basis for a common fan theory that claims SpongeBob Squarepants' major characters are X manifestations. What is X?

19. me confusing between x and y

20. A6 Seven Deadly Sins

21. Q7 Identify the book series from it’s graphic novel adaptation.

22. Googling ki bhi sima hoti hai

23. A7 Twilight

24. Q8 Apparently, the word dates back to the 17th century which essentially means long-sheltered 'walk' or 'promenade'. In India, this word has been around since the 18th century and is associated with the British era. During that time, a '__(4)__ __(4)__' acted as a division between married accommodation and living lines road in the military. So, on one side there used to be Units' living lines along with Unit Admin areas and on the other side, there were accommodations for married British Officers and troops with Bungalows and Messes on one side and lines on the other side. Though, this word has a different meaning in hill stations. A '__(4)__ __(4)__' in a hill station is a place where all major shops and restaurants are located . So, you could say a ' __(4)__ __(4)__ ' is basically like the city centre which is the most happening area in a hill station or a city. This theory explains why most hill stations in India have __(4)__ __(4)__. FITB.

25. A8 MALL ROAD

26. Q9 In the 2017 sci fi thriller show, with timeline of late 1980s, carelessness of a scientist lead to a malfunction in his machine which duplicated the universe and all the people in this world and opened a pathway to travel between these 2 worlds. This scientists met his duplicate and both of them found out that everything is identical in both the worlds and even the decision they will take will be same. This brought the show it's name _____(11)_____, i.e. everyone has a copy of themselves in the other world , a _____(11)_____ of them. So out of curiosity they both triggered a change which started a butterfly effect and both of these worlds kept changing from each other. In the present day, after 30 years, everything and everyone is completely changed. 2 people who are each other's duplicates are no longer even remotely same. Name the show.

27. not pouncing even after knowing answer

28. A9 Counterpart

29. Q10 X is an online website portal for online trading, investments and stock marketing. The company ‘roared into the market’ in February 2000 by entrepreneur Shripal Morakhia. X is ranked as the 2nd largest stock broker portal and has its branches in 575 cities in India. The tagline of X is “ Your guide to the financial jungle ”. The name X is a pun on the name of a fictional character from a very famous novel. Identify X.

30. after getting neg on every pounce

31. A10 Sharekhan

32. Q11 This song belonging to a movie franchise which is quite popular in india and has a lot of pop culture references and memes from this movie franchise. In the song, it is being described as a woman is singing the song explaining about her husbands bad health, how he is not eating properly and losing a lot of weight. But actually its literal meaning is that she is complaining about her inlaws, uncle, sister in law for not paying attention to her husband. In between the song there is some form of political satire and like a metaphor the poor state of affairs in the particular region. What song?

33. A11 Taar Bijli Se Patle Hamare Piya from Gangs Of Wasseypur.

34. Q12 X is a famous painting of Raja Ravi Varma, an Indian artist from the princely state of Travancore in the early 1900s. X portraits his daughter Mahaprabha who is holding her daughter (Varma’s granddaughter) Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, who later became the queen of Travancore, India. The artist plays with light and darkness to focus the attention to the main character in the scene. The scene takes place at the entrance of the house. Here, the dog sitting with the women shows eager waiting for its master to come. Similarly, through the painting Varma express the idea of Indian culture of a woman in a everyday affairs by representing his family story, in which to show the love for the men in the family through the eyes of the family members. About which painting of Raja Ravi Varma has detailing here?

35. A12 There Comes Papa

36. WRITTEN ROUND

37. Q13 The earliest examples of written X date to the 10th century BCE. X is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. X has been referred to by certain religious community as "the holy language", since ancient times. X ceased to be an everyday spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE, declining in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. However it survived in mediaeval period as a language of religious liturgy , without any regular speaker. Today there are 9 million speakers of X of which 5 million are native speakers . X is one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still spoken . Name the language X ?

38. Q14 In the 17th Century, X was formed when Porous clay pots containing boiled, cooled water were laid out on top of straw in shallow trenches; under favourable circumstances, X would form on the surface during winter nights which could be harvested and combined for sale . In the 1800s X was brought all the way from Boston, insulated in sawdust to prevent it from losing its form , and was only afforded by the rich. Which was once a status symbol, has now become an everyday household item.Some blogs suggest that X can be used to remove dents from clothing, carpet, as the fibre absorbs ____ and it rises. X is also used as a part of skin care routine. What is X ?

39. Q15 This comic has been referred to as '' arguably the longest story ever told by one human being” . The strip, though dealing with children and their issues with the loneliness and miscommunication in just four panels, has become an icon of pop culture. Its creator, Sparky, hated the name given by the Syndicate as it was not the name of any of the characters. Initially, it appeared as 'Li'l Folks' but after he sold it to a American syndicate company they changed the name, but the creator rather called it as 'Good Old Charlie Brown.’ What is the name of this widely popular comic strip?

40. Q16 Nise da Silveira, only woman in her medical class at Faculdade da Bahia, was against the prevalent methods used in the field, so she created Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente in 1952. She thought art might be a great way to help a certain set of people . One of the reason she started this was because she thought “People who are too healthy are boring people. Everyone's a little crazy, so live your imagination, because it is our deepest reality." Following are some artworks created by these people. Who are these artists/ What was so special about these artworks?

41. Q17 ____(8)____ originated in the 18th century in South Asia, before being more generally adopted in the late 19th century. According to Emma Tarlo, its modern form evolved from a Persian cape , which was gradually given a more Indian form , and finally developed into present version . It appeared first at Lucknow in the 1820s and then gradually adopted by rest of the royalty and aristocracy of Indian Subcontinent, and later by the general population. Its name is plausibly derived from Shirvan, a region of present-day Azerbaijan . Therefore, it is also speculated that ____(8)____ may also be a derivative of the Caucasian dress due to the ethnocultural linkages of Turco-Persian affinity during the Middle Ages. FITB

42. Q18 Harpadon nehereus is a type of lizardfish that makes a very popular dish once dried and fried. Its odour is extremely powerful , and hence it is not transported on passenger trains. Legend has it that these fish used to be sent by the mail train from Bombay to other inland parts. These mail trains were known as ‘Daak’, and this is rumoured to be the origin of the fish’s strange name. The name of this fish has a mention of a bird usually consumed in countries like Myanmar, China, Thailand. How better do we know this odd-looking fish?

43. ANSWERS

44. Q13 The earliest examples of written X date to the 10th century BCE. X is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. X has been referred to by certain religious community as "the holy language", since ancient times. X ceased to be an everyday spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE, declining in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. However it survived in mediaeval period as a language of religious liturgy , without any regular speaker. Today there are 9 million speakers of X of which 5 million are native speakers . X is one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still spoken . Name the language X ?

45. A13 HEBREW

46. Q14 In the 17th Century, X was formed when Porous clay pots containing boiled, cooled water were laid out on top of straw in shallow trenches; under favourable circumstances, X would form on the surface during winter nights which could be harvested and combined for sale . In the 1800s X was brought all the way from Boston, insulated in sawdust to prevent it from losing its form , and was only afforded by the rich. Which was once a status symbol, has now become an everyday household item.Some blogs suggest that X can be used to remove dents from clothing, carpet, as the fibre absorbs ____ and it rises. X is also used as a part of skin care routine. What is X.

47. A14 Ice

48. Q15 This comic has been referred to as '' arguably the longest story ever told by one human being” . The strip, though dealing with children and their issues with the loneliness and miscommunication in just four panels, has become an icon of pop culture. Its creator, Sparky, hated the name given by the Syndicate as it was not the name of any of the characters. Initially, it appeared as 'Li'l Folks' but after he sold it to a American syndicate company they changed the name, but the creator rather called it as 'Good Old Charlie Brown.’ What is the name of this widely popular comic strip?

49. A15 Peanuts, Syndicated comic strip.

50. Q16 Nise da Silveira, only woman in her medical class at Faculdade da Bahia, was against the prevalent methods used in the field, so she created Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente in 1952. She thought art might be a great way to help a certain set of people . One of the reason she started this was because she thought “People who are too healthy are boring people. Everyone's a little crazy, so live your imagination, because it is our deepest reality." Following are some artworks created by these people. Who are these artists/ What was so special about these artworks?

51. A16 Paintings by mental patients

52. Q17 ____(8)____ originated in the 18th century in South Asia, before being more generally adopted in the late 19th century. According to Emma Tarlo, its modern form evolved from a Persian cape , which was gradually given a more Indian form , and finally developed into present version . It appeared first at Lucknow in the 1820s and then gradually adopted by rest of the royalty and aristocracy of Indian Subcontinent, and later by the general population. Its name is plausibly derived from Shirvan, a region of present-day Azerbaijan . Therefore, it is also speculated that ____ (8)____ may also be a derivative of the Caucasian dress due to the ethnocultural linkages of Turco-Persian affinity during the Middle Ages. FITB

53. A17 SHERWANI

54. Q18 Harpadon nehereus is a type of lizardfish that makes a very popular dish once dried and fried. Its odour is extremely powerful , and hence it is not transported on passenger trains. Legend has it that these fish used to be sent by the mail train from Bombay to other inland parts. These mail trains were known as ‘Daak’, and this is rumoured to be the origin of the fish’s strange name. The name of this fish has a mention of a bird usually consumed in countries like Myanmar, China, Thailand. How better do we know this odd-looking fish?

55. A18 Bombay duck

56. DRY ROUND II

57. Q19 The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that puts forward a capitalist peace theory called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention. It states that "no two countries that both had this corporation had fought a war against each other since each got its franchise". This corporation is probably the biggest example of globalisation due to their extreme physical global presence. In 2006, Iraq got its 1st franchise . The launch took place with the opening of only 1 location which still remains the only official location of it in Iraq. This also makes Iraq the country with least number of it's locations in the world. In Fact this location was never made with the intention of serving the general public of Iraq as due to very tender sociopolitical structure in the country and high violence, a healthy business of national scale is extremely difficult to run. This location was opened to serve a very specific group of people during the mid and late 2000s. Id this corporation and for whom was this special arrangement made for?

58. googlers be like

59. A19 McDonald's American soldiers

60. Q20 Saadat Hasan Manto was one of the most influential and controversial writer/poet in Indian as well as Pakistani literature. His writing style consisted of stories mostly on the topics about partition and some others related to it. Due to his controversial style, he was also arrested in Pakistan for 4 times. Out of these 4 arrests, he was bailed out for 3 of them. His bail was paid by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Manto being the younger of the two, aspired to Faiz’s ideologies and respected him greatly. On the other hand, Faiz respected Manto’s independence as a writer but he never totally agreed with Manto’s writing. For some reason, Faiz Ahmed Faiz was unable to bail out Manto for the fourth time. What was the reason?

61. teammate saying bharosa rakh on pounce

62. A20 He was also in jail himself.

63. Q21 Almost everyone has heard of "deja vu" . However there also exist a much more common phenomenon known as "presque vu". It is not really just a simple matter of forgetting something. It is a strong feeling that you are on the very brink of a powerful epiphany, insight, or revelation, but it never happens. For example, you forget a name and you feel like you’re about to say it, but you just cannot put your finger on it. Most of the languages refer to the same region of Human Anatomy while referring to the part of human body where the word is supposedly stuck . In fact American sign language too has a different but analogous idiom to refer to the phenomenon. So what do we call this phenomenon in day to day usage ?

64. losing team making a comeback

65. A21 TIP OF THE TONGUE

66. Q22 In the early decades of the twentieth century, when football was becoming most popular sport in South America. The fanatic crowd that showed up for the local derby’s made the radio commentators job really tough. So, the positions of the commentators was not fixed strategically. So they had to place people called spotters which will tell them about the jersey number of the player that scored the goal. So, there is a time gap between scoring the goal and announcing the player who scored it.So, to keep the audience engaged the commentators used to do something which can be seen in the modern times too. What did the commentators do?

67. after pouncing

68. A22 They used to scream GOAAAAAL !!!!! Until the spotters told them the jersey number of the player who scored it.

69. Q23 During the cold war, in Soviet Russia, Beatles and some other bands and groups were not allowed since they didn’t adhere to the communist party principles. In these times, there were a small group of people who wanted to listen to Rock n Roll and they would dress up in stylish clothes which were worn in the west and at parties. The Soviet government even has a name for them, still yagi which basically means style hunters. These still yagi’s figured out a new way of producing home made records. What used to happen was one or two copy of albums used to find their way into Soviet Russia through different means and these kids could get access to these records. They used to produce multiple copies of these records. What the main problem was actually that could not find vinyl records to actually produce copies. They actually got hold of a material on which they could reprint these tapes on. They found this material in hospital trash bins. They then used a wax disk cutter and a recording lathe to edge copies of the album on this material. They used to cut this material into a circle and poke a hole between it using a cigarette bud in order to fit it on the turntable . What material did they use?

70. after continuous correct answers

71. A23 X ray sheets

72. Q24 In australia, between balladonia and caiguna there is a strip of road that is around 150 km long. There is wilderness all around and pretty much nothing to see. And the strange thing is that this road doesn't have a turn for 150 km making it one of the longest road stretches of the world. So, if you have to drive on this road you are likely to encounter drivers fatigue and that can be really dangerous on the road. Because these accidents kept happening on this stretch of road again and again. So, what the local counsel did to solve this problem of drivers getting fatigued and distracted is that they placed interconnected sign boards across this 150km stretch. This helped in bringing down the total number of accident related death on this road. This addition may seem trivial. What was so interconnected about those sign boards?

73. After quiz, losing teams to each other

74. A24 They are Trivia Sign Boards.

75. Q25 In the book, The Emergency by Coomi Kapoor, Arun Jaitley talked about his days during the emergency period. Jaitley , who was the president of the students union got the news that the police is arresting the major leader of the opposition. Jaitley’s father, who was an advocate, advised Jaitley to run from the back wall. Jaitley, at that time approached X, who later became a TV journalist, and advised him to runaway from the back wall. He also told Y, who later became a Print Journalist, to wait for him on a scooter for the getaway. Unfortunately, Y failed to turn up because he was caught by the police and during the same time. X shouted in the campus”Agar sach kehna bagawat hai, toh hum bhi baaghi hai”. Id X(TV journalist) and Y(Print Journalist)

76. A25 X-Rajat Sharma Y- Prabhu Chawla

77. Q26 X was an addition to the game of Y. It was voted in by the controlling authority in 1979 as a way to boost points and reduce congestion observed during the game. Many players were not able to adapt to this new thing in their own playing style. This was because scoring from far out was an unnecessary risk without reward. All of this changed when a statistical analysis was done and what the statisticians observed was: ” 33% from __ is as good as 50% from __”. What was introduced as a tool to make the sport more difficult ending up being the standard practice for each team. Id X&Y

78. A26 X- 3 pointer line Y- Basketball

79. Q27 Chester, also known by his pen name F.D.C Willard , belonged to Michigan University professor Jack Hetherington. In the year 1975, Hetherington had written a physics paper. When he sent his report to a friend to review, Jack Hetherington was met with a perplexing situation: he had written the entire paper using the term ‘we’, although he was the sole author of the report. Rather than take the time to retype the article to use the singular form, or to bring in a co-author, Hetherington decided to invent one . He added Chester's name in the co-author section. However ,In an International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in 1978 , Hetherington's co-author was exposed: Hetherington had sent some signed copies of his article to friends and colleagues and included the "signature" of his co-author in them . Later the paper became influential and Chester was invited to join the university’s physics department full-time! What surprising distinction chester holds to till date ?

80. A27 First cat to co-author a research paper

81. Q28 Argo, an oscar winning movie of 2013, starring Ben Affleck. Although the movie was celebrated for its plot, its actually the significance of the state-of-the-art paper shredding technology which is very fascinating to watch. The real-life incident led to prolific advances with regards to paper shredding technology as the Iranian militia was able to get their hands on sensitive information regarding 6 high ranking US diplomats. This forced the US to re-think their paper shredding technology. This led to change in paper shredders from simple shredding to cross shredding. How was the Iranian militia able to obtain the sensitive information?

82. A28 People could identify t he real identity of these people by joining back the strips of shredded documents. (The Iranian Militia was able to identify one US diplomat by putting together strips of shredded documents.)

83. Q29 Michael Atherton is a broadcaster, journalist and an ex-member of the England cricket team. In his college time, he played for the cricket team of Cambridge University. There is this legendary rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford University. One day, During a match between Cambridge v/s Oxford, he faced this rookie bowler named X. X was able to bowl out Michael at a very low score. X, who belong to a cricket family didn’t pursued the sport as a future. Instead of that, he went on to become a journalist. When asked about his experience with this sport. He mentioned the incident above and Michael confirmed this incident. Who is X?

84. A29 Rajdeep Sardesai

85. Q30 In the early and mid 2000s, US military started a program to build goodwill in some of the countries near the middle East. This program involved handing out backpacks with pencils, games, toys, etc to local kids. Many locals praised this and seeing this, CIA got an idea to achieve their main goal. CIA recruited Donald Levine, a genius from the toy industry and ex business executive of Hasbro. With his help, CIA developed a toy, which was a very unique and special action figure of a particular individual. This toy was so unique as it would look like any other normal toy until with time and environmental effects, it will lose it's paint and will reveal it's actual face, which is of a devil which is how most people in many countries, especially in the west see him. This was intended to be distributed in their distribution program to make common people of these regions scared of him. This project was later cancelled after the prototypes were made. Who was this particular individual.

86. me after qms ask me to repeat my answer

87. A30 Osama bin Laden

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