15/01/2022

GENERAL QUIZ MOCK

SESSION

GENERAL MOCK SESSION Kanishk Singh QUIZZARDS, DBC COLLEGE

 RULES
1.This quiz consists of 15 questions in total.

2. +15/-10 For Pounce, +10 for Bounce

3.The Question intended to the Direct Team can not pounce.

4.For multi – part questions in Pounce, If a team know only One part then they will be entitled to Part Points and will
not be deducted marks. However if you have pounced for both points and one of them is wrong, you will be entitled
to a -5.

5. Time limit for pounce is 2 minutes.








BEST OF LUCK !
 QUESTION 1
“Now I shall proclaim the heroic deeds of X, those foremost deeds that the mace-
wielder performed:-
He smashed the serpent. He bored out the waters. He split the bellies of the
mountains. He smashed the serpent resting on the mountain—for him Tvaṣṭar had
fashioned the resounding mace. Like bellowing milk-cows, streaming out, the waters
went straight down to the sea.”

Identify X.



X= Lord Indra
 QUESTION 2
X is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a
Dyson sphere. It was proposed in 1997 by Y. It is an example of a Class B stellar engine,
employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems. This concept
derives its name from the famous nesting russian dolls. The concept was deployed by
Bradbury in the anthology Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge.

Identify X & Y

X= Matrioshka Brain

Y= Robert J. Bradbury

 QUESTION 3
Audio Question: This song is considered by many historians to be the irst lyrical
music piece composed by humans. Identify the song and civilisation to which it
belongs.

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The song is The Epic of
Gilgamesh (2100–1200 BC) &
The Civilisation it belonged to is
Mesopotamia.
 QUESTION 4
The X is an ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military
strategy. Y, is traditionally credited as the author of the text. Composed, expanded and
redacted between the 2nd century BCE and 3rd century CE, X was in luential until the 12th
century, when it disappeared. It was rediscovered in 1905. The irst English translation, was
published in 1915. Although translated to "the science of wealth" but the book has a broader
scope. It includes books on the nature of government, law, civil and criminal court systems,
ethics, economics, markets and trade, the methods for screening ministers, diplomacy,
theories on war, nature of peace, and the duties and obligations of a king.

Identify X & Y. Also tell who rediscovered it.

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X= Arthshastra

Y= Kautilya/Chanakya/Vishnugupta

Rudrapatna Shamasastry

 QUESTION 5
Identify this iconic image. Name the person
who took this photograph & how did this image
become famous
 The Bliss

Photographer is Charles O'Rear

Default desktop wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.

 QUESTION 6

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.”

Identify who gave this quote.

Friedrich Nietzsche
 QUESTION 7
X is a 2013 American biographical crime black comedy ilm directed by Martin
Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the 2007 memoir by Y. It recounts
Y's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his irm
engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his
downfall. Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer on the ilm, stars as Y, with
Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Margot Robbie as his wife and Kyle
Chandler as FBI agent who tries to bring Y down.

Identify X & Y

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X= Wolf of the Wall Street

Y= Jordan Belfort

 QUESTION 8
The X was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the 19th
century and beginning of the 20th century between the British Empire and the
Russian Empire over Y and neighbouring territories in Central and South Asia. It also
had direct consequences in Persia and British India. The X began on 12 January 1830,
when Lord Ellenborough, the president of the Board of Control for India, tasked Lord
William Bentinck, the governor-general, with establishing a new trade route to the
Emirate of Bukhara. The results included the failed First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838,
the First Anglo-Sikh War of 1845, the Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848, the Second
Anglo-Afghan War of 1878, and the annexation of Kokand by Russia.
X= The Great Game

Y= Emirate of Afghanistan

 QUESTION 9
X is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on the seinen manga series of the same
name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.Primarily set in the mid-twenty- irst
century in the ictional Japanese city of Niihama, Niihama Prefecture, otherwise known
as New Port City, the manga and the many anime adaptations follow the members of
Public Security Section 9, a task-force consisting of various professionals at solving and
preventing crime, mostly with some sort of police background. Political intrigue and
counter-terrorism operations are standard fare for Section 9, but the various actions of
corrupt of icials, companies, and cyber-criminals in each scenario are unique and require
the diverse skills of Section 9's staff to prevent a series of incidents from escalating. In
2013 a live action movie starring Scarlett Johansson as titular character was also made.
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X= Ghost in the Shell
 QUESTION 10

What is the funda behind the image?

 Gaganyaan, The irst Indian human
space light programme
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 QUESTION 11
Identify the movies:-
 QUESTION 12
X is thought to have originated with the Indian rice-and-bean or rice-and-lentil dishy, Y,
traced back to 1340 or earlier. It is widely believed that the dish was brought to the United
Kingdom by returning British colonials who had enjoyed it in India and introduced it to the
UK as a breakfast dish in Victorian times, part of the fashionable Anglo-Indian cuisine.
The dish was listed as early as 1790 in the recipe book of Stephana Malcolm of Burnfoot,
Dumfriesshire. The National Trust for Scotland's book The Scottish Kitchen by
Christopher Trotter notes the Malcolm recipe and other old examples, expressing the
belief that the dish was devised by Scottish regiments hankering for the tastes of India.

Identify X & Y.

X= Kedgeree

Y= Khichdi

 QUESTION 13
Identify how are these two images linked.

Hint: Its related to a very popular Indian meme.

Mauj Kar Di! (Heavy driver meme)

 QUESTION 14
X Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.
Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Y , the clock is a metaphor for threats to
humanity from unchecked scienti ic and technical advances. The clock represents the
hypothetical global catastrophe as midnight and the Bulletin's opinion on how close the
world is to a global catastrophe as a number of minutes or seconds to midnight, assessed in
January of each year. The main factors in luencing the clock are nuclear risk and climate
change. The clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has been set
backward and forward 24 times since, the farthest from midnight being 17 minutes in 1991,
and the nearest being 100 seconds in 2020 and 2021

Identify X & Y.
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X= Doomsday Clock

Y= Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

 QUESTION 15
“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it
would not be a wasted life.”

“The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around.”

“So do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, illed with regret, waiting
to die alone?”

• Identify how are these 3 movies quotes/dialogues are connected and also mention the
movies to which they belong.

 All are the dialogues of Ken Watanabe.

Movies:-

• The last samurai

• Godzilla

• Inception

THANK YOU !