General Quiz

The General Quiz which was conducted by Debashish Reang on 10 November 2017.

1. Teddy’s Quiz
By Reang

2. ●30 Questions.
●Infinite pounce and bounce
●Scoring: +20/-10 on Pounce,
+10/-0 on Bounce.
●* Questions are worth +40/-20
on Pounce and +20/-0 on
Bounce.
Rules

3. Question 1
●X is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by
Kurt Wimmer. X, is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on
the run to try to clear her name.

●Sea snakes use a specialised gland under the tongue to expel X.
ID X. (Image may be helpful)

6. Salt

7. Question 2
Tshering Tashi, an author of several books on Bhutan talks
of a legend behind the annoying habit of P. He says, “Earlier
the country was filled with savages who ate each other until
Guru Rinpoche weaned them off”. This practice led to the
guru advising them to eat P whose juice symbolised blood.
ID P.

9. The practice of
Chewing PAAN

10. Question 3
Recently US Central Intelligence Agency released around 4.7 lakh files obtained
in the 2011 raid of Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Among them a hard drive
contained few mind-blowing files among others.
Trust me the files were kept secret! But when you hear what was on the drive
you'd be amazed. Can you tell me what was on the drive?

12. Tom & Jerry, Mr. Bean

13. Question 4
In Indian cuisine, what name, derived from a Persian
word meaning 'fried’, is given to a dish of basmati
rice mixed with meat often topped with thin
omelette and served with a separate vegetable
curry?

15. Biryani

16. Question 5
P is a village in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh state in northern
India. It is near to the Kaza location. It is one of the highest year-round inhabited
locations in India, with residences from 4330 to 4400 meters. Komic village two
km to the southeast has residences up to 4520 meters, and Korzok village on
Tso Moriri has year-round residences to 4570 meters. The world’s highest post
office is located here. Most of the people are Buddhists. People use stones
extensively to build houses and structures.
Give me P.
Look at the following image carefully. It may be helpful.

19. Hikkim

20. Question 6
The biographer is
presenting the biography
to the subject. What's the
name of the biography?

22. Akbarnama by Abul
Fazl

23. Question 7
●Y was trained in Krav Maga for role in X.
●Y first appeared in 2016 movie 'Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice’ ,
which revamped Y’s role in X.
●Y has strong association with “hill of spring”.

●*Enough hints: Tell me who Y is?

25. Y: Gal Gadot
X is Wonder Woman
‘Tel Aviv’: hill of spring!

26. Question 8
Identify the
person.

29. Question 9
“Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other character), or
glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of X. As with the
Latin letter 'W', these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph
or glyphs of the name “X” rendered in that language. The
empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of
the project."
What project am I talking about? More precisely what's X?

31. Wikipedia

32. Question 10
A man named Celino Jaramillo was in news very recently.
The Chilean govt. Declared something about him, if officially
acknowledged he will be a record holder in certain category.
Can you tell me what is being talked of here?

34. A Chilean man named Celino Jaramillo was born in
1896 and is 121 years old, according to the country's
official records. This makes him four years older
than the current Guinness-listed oldest person
Nabi Tajima, who is aged 117. Jaramillo, who never
married, is reportedly 90% blind, 85% deaf and
toothless.

35. Question 11
A certain letter must appear
at the beginning of
registration number of all
non-military aircrafts in the
US.
What letter?

37. N

38. Question 12
"I know college students are behind it, because most of the
tweets happen at 3 a.m." - Tim Cook.
What is it?

40. Donald Trump’s
tweets.

41. Question 13
What event does this cover
represent?

44. Question 14
●Literally it means the state of
being unaware or unconscious
of what is happening around
one.
●Which one word is blanked out?

47. Question 15Connect ‘em all!

49. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!

50. Question 16*
●In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is a style that uses pared-down design elements.
●Minimalism began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s
and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, John McCracken,
Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects
of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to
post-minimal art practices.

●Identify the minimalist posters on next page

54. Question 17
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only
connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the
dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in
something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
So connect the following.

58. Question 18
Identify the person in the centre.

60. Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the
Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary
genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk
tales.

61. Question 19
X is a very popular folk dance of India performed by the Y people. It is performed
by women and young girls, about 7 to 12 members in a team, singing, balancing
on an earthen pitcher and managing other props such as a bottle on the head
and earthen lamp on the hand, while only the lower half of the body is moved.
The dance is performed on the occasion of X festivals or Laxmi Puja, held in the
following full moon night of Durga Puja, generally after 3rd day of Dusshera. The
Goddess Mailuma, (Laxmi) is worshipped on this day.
Give me X and Y. Video follows.

62. Video removed.

64. Hojagiri of Reang tribe of Tripura

65. Question 20
This particular incident P occurred during a UEFA Europa League match between
Tottenham Hotspurs and Partizan Belgrade. The game was suspended after less
than 42 minutes. The delay lasted a total of ten minutes with Ukrainian referee
Yevgen Aranovsky having no alternative but to take everyone to the safety of the
dressing room. A headphones company Q was also indirectly associated with
the incident.
Incident as such are rare in the game of football, give me P and Q.

67. The game was suspended after less than 42 minutes when not one but
three invading fans ran onto the pitch in separate incidents. They were
kitted out with ‘BassBuds’(Q) shirts which is a well known headphone
manufacturer. All three individuals then ran around the field before posing
for selfies(P) with three of the Tottenham players before being escorted off.

68. Question 21
●In Greek mythology, P is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. He was
the son of Tros of Dardania, from whose name "Troy" was supposedly
derived, and of Callirrhoe, the daughter of the river god Scamander. His
brothers were Ilus and Assaracus. In one version of the myth, he is abducted
by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as cup-bearer in Olympus.
●It is one of the first things you’ll hear of when you discuss of amazing stuffs
in astronomy.
●It was Discovered by Galileo Galilei.
●What is P?

70. Ganymede. The largest satellite of the solar
system

71. Question 22*
1.Algeria
2.Azerbaijan
3.Comoros
4.Malaysia
5.The Maldives
6.Mauritania
7.Pakistan
8.Tunisia
9.Turkey
10.Turkmenistan
11.Uzbekistan
1.India
2.United States of America
3.Former Soviet Union
4.China
5.Japan
*Image on next slide.

74. 1.The countries have moon on their flag.
2.These countries have their flag on the
moon.

75. Question 23*
“So the hypotenuse is now going to be five. This animal’s fossils are only found
in this area of South America — a nice clean band here — and this part of
Africa. We can integrate over the surface, and the notation usually is a capital
sigma. National Assembly: They create the Committee of Public Safety, which
sounds like a very nice committee. Notice, this is an aldehyde, and it’s an
alcohol. Start differentiating into effector and memory cells. A galaxy. Hey,
there’s another galaxy. Oh look, there’s another galaxy. And for dollars, is their
30 million, plus the 20 million dollars from the American manufacturer. If this
(P) does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion.”
What is P and who is the speaker?

77. Sal Khan, founder
and CEO of Khan
Academy
https://youtu.be/-MTRxRO5SRA

78. Question 24
●S means a kind of clay used as a building material.
●You are most likely to have used S’s products.
●S comes from the name of a stream originating on Black mountain in Santa
Clara County, California, United states, which ran behind the houses of the
founders of S. Give me S?

80. Adobe

81. Connect!
9:41
This time is associated with
everything X produces.
M68
Shhh! It's a secret!
Issac Newton
Issac Newton featured on X's
products! Amazing right?
Question 25*

83. Apple Inc.

84. Question 26*
P was born on 21 November 1852, in Villareal, Province of Castellon, Spain. It is
said that P’s father played flamenco and several other musical styles on his
guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman, P would take his
father’s guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard.
ID P and the famous work he’s done.

86. Francisco Tárrega.
He created the NOKIA tune.

87. Question 27*
Identify the logo.
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89. ●NIT Goa
●Humanetics
●Codefish

90. Question 28
In Latin this word means a female animal used for breeding.
In Geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal or
gem. In Biology it is the intercellular substance of a tissue.
The commonest use of the word, however, is in
Mathematics. Also appearing in the title of a 1999 film with
superb special effects, which word is it?

92. Matrix

93. Question 29
Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, germany,
Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter,
tapping out random sentences and questions on
a sheet of paper. What standard did this lead to?

95. Hillebrand’s magic number set the standard for
text messaging to 160 characters.

96. Question 30
One of the most dreadful weapon in Indian hands, feared by west as an Indian
can do virtually anything with that. The country has said to be 'running' on it since
independence. It can make a broken plane fly, defunct TV play program, rusting
car run like a limo, ailing patience sprint like Ben Johnson. Most importantly, it
can get you admission in almost all the colleges in the country. If in India, when
even the Gods refuse, go and find _______.

98. Jugaad

99. Review