THE IN-QUIZ-ITORS

The oh-not-so-difficult-quiz
Dedications
• Mohneet Ahuja – The absence of whom is the sheer
reason for this quiz being so simple…

• Jennifer Aniston – For the brilliance with which she ruined

my Sunday night with “Just go with it” and for being the
inspiration to start preparing this quiz…

• And as always, Wikipedia – The secret source of

Hermione Granger‟s wisdom..
Chocolate question 1

Connect:
• 1. Model College
• 2. Xaviers College
• 3. Queens College
• 4. Rajput College
Answer
• These are the schools that feature in the movie “Jo Jeeta
Wahi Sikandar”
Chocolate question 2
• When Google launched it‟s IPO, the filing was done to
raise $2,718,281,828. Not $2.5 billion and not $3 billion,
but the particular figure mentioned.

• As is always the case with Google, they had an

unconventional reason tinged with some humor for this.
What was the reason?
Answer
• This number is value of the natural log
 Infinite bounce

+10 for direct answers as well as passes

+5 for partial answers

Quiz features hints all over the place

1. Just for geeks
• In the Star Trek fictional universe, the fictional
computer OS known as “Library Computer
Access/Retrieval System (LCARS)” is often seen
used on a device known as “Personal Access
Display Device”. This device served as the
inspiration of the name for a modern technology
marvel – more so because of their similar
appearances.

Name this modern gadget every one of you

would love to own.
Answer
• iPad
2. Did you know this one was Chinese
too?
• This Chinese multinational computer technology
corporation develops desktops and notebook PCs and is
the largest seller of PCs in China.
• It is also the fourth largest vendor of personal computers
in the world.
• Incorporated as “Legend” in Hong Kong in 1998, a part of
this former name is still part of the new name of the
company.

Name this technology giant

Answer
• Lenovo
3. Funny sounds
In medicine, it is known as Synchronous
Diaphragmatic Flutter (SDF) or Singultus, from the
Latin singult, “the act of catching one‟s breath
while sobbing”. It is caused due to abrupt rush of
air into the lungs causing the vocal chords to
close.

How do we know this term in common knowledge?

Answer
• Hiccup or Hiccough
4. Secularism
Answer
• Amar Akbar Anthony
5. Indian sci-fi

This James Bond villain Blofeld

served as the inspiration for the
famous bald villain X who rules
from a remote island equipped
with modern gadgets.

Name the character X and the

actor who played this role.
Answer
• Shakal / Kulbushan Kharbanda
6. Childhood memories
• Nintendo‟s Mascot “X” is a video game character
created by the Japanese designer Shigeru
Miyamoto, has appeared in over 200 video
games since his creation.
• X and his brother Y are portrayed as Italian-
American plumbers and his dress is made to look
like a construction site worker.

Name X and Y
Answer
• Mario and Luigi
7. Nadal
• This multinational giant originally known as “Blue Ribbon
Sports” was founded by athlete Philip Knight and his
coach in 1962.
• In 1978, BRS, officially renamed to X
• X is the name of the goddess of victory in classical Greek
culture.

• What is X?
Answer
• Nike
8. Fair and lovely

This large global skin-and-body care brand is

named after its flagship product, a creamy white
emulsion of water, added with Eau De Toilette and
named after Nivis, the Latin term for snow.

Name this brand

Answer
• Nivea
9. Hungry eh!
Answer
• All are Nestle products:
• Milo (The dog from Mask)
• Polo (Volkswagen Polo)
• Maggi (Maggie Simpson)
• Milkmaid (These women are called milkmaids)
10. It‟s not God!
Answer
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Man of the matches in WC finals)
11. Bombay Cabs
Answer
• Premier Padmini
12. Time pass

The puzzle, known as Number Place in the US, was first

published in New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle
publisher Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic
Puzzles. It became immensely popular in the UK in 2005,
stimulating international interest.

What is its popular name which is also the Japanese for

„single number‟?
Answer
• Sudoku
13. The empirical question

If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the

Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the
seven basic units of measurement in the SI
system, what is the seventh?
Answer
• Mole
14. Dafli wale, dafli baja!

Fill in the blanks

A __________ instrument is any object which produces a

sound when hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed,
scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into
vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a
rhythmic context or with musical intent.
Answer
• Percussion
15. The „Chemistry Lab‟ doodle

Name this common piece of laboratory equipment that

produces a single open gas flame, which is used for
heating, sterilization, and combustion.
Answer
• Bunsen burner
16. Scandalous

Portrayed by Rachel McAdams in the 2009 film Sherlock

Holmes, this character is a skilled professional thief and is
frequently portrayed as a romantic interest for Holmes in
derivative works despite appearing in only one story.

Bonus marks for naming the story.

Answer
• Irene Adler
• Scandal in Bohemia
17. Laika

• The “Burning Man” festival is a week long annual event

held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in US.
It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden
effigy on Saturday evening.
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin used this doodle to notify the
Google users of their absence (they were attend this
festival in 1998) in case the servers crashed.
• What is so special about this Google Doodle?
Answer
• The first Google Doodle
 The four clue round

• Clue 1: +30 / -15

• Clue 2: +20 / -10
• Clue 3: +10 / -5
• Clue 4: +5 / 0

Please write your answer on the piece of paper and call

the quizmaster when you think you have the answer.

-30 for voicing out any answers

1. Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman

Clue1:

The name of this Bollywood star is inspired from the

famous Italian actress, Gina Lollobrigida, a Golden Globe
winning actress of Come September and Hotel Paradiso
fame, because she was the favorite actress of this person‟s
mother.
Pretty Woman

Clue2:

This person made his/her debut in 1991 with the movie

Prem Qaidi.
Pretty Woman

Clue3:

Played the leading role in a 2003 television program

(broadcast on Sahara TV) named after her
Pretty Woman

Clue4:

Dated Ajav Devgan, was engaged to Abhishek Bachchan

and married Sanjay Kapur
Answer
• Karishma Kapoor
2. Superstar
Superstar

Clue1: Daughters
Superstar
Clue2: Nickname
Superstar

Clue3:
Superstar
Clue4: Daughter‟s husband
Answer
• Rajesh Khanna
3. Brother
Brother
Clue1: First role in Reshma and Shera as child actor
Brother
Clue2: First film
Brother
Clue3: Most remembered for a similar role
Brother

Clue4: Parents
Answer
• Sanjay Dutt
4. The perfect smile
The perfect smile

Clue1:

An acclaimed Kathak dancer,who wanted to be a Micro-

biologist, and did study in that course in Bombay's Parle
College, in Vile Parle (East), Bombay.
The perfect smile

Clue 2:

Portrayed Nisha Chaudhary in her most famous role to

date
The perfect smile

Clue 3:

Antara Mali aspires to be X in a film named after X.

The perfect smile

Clue 4:

Has been the muse for the famous Indian painter M.F.
Husain who considers her the epitome of womanhood.
Hence he made a film named Gaja Gamini (2000) in which
she acted.
Answer
• Madhuri Dixit
Infinite bounce

Reverse
18. Feeling sick already

With a chemical name of p-acetylaminophenol, this

drug is used for the relief of headaches, other
minor aches and pains and is a major ingredient in
numerous cold and flu remedies. The toxicity of
this drug is the foremost cause of acute liver failure
in the Western world.

How do we commonly know this drug?

Answer
• Paracetamol
19. Connect
Answer
• James Cameron movies (Rambo, Titanic, Terminator and
Avatar)
20. A sitter, really!!
Answer
• Flag of India (BRIC countries)
21. Going global
Answer
• Anil Kapoor (He will act in MI4, was there in 24 and
Slumdog Millionaire)
22. Wonderfull
What is the yellow line in this high resolution satellite
picture showing?
Answer
• Great Wall of China
23. Don‟t think science

Connect!

• Pavo cristatus (Indian Peafowl)

• Panthera Tigris (Tiger)
• Magnifera Indica (Mango)
• Nelumbo nucifera (Lotus)
Answer
• India‟s national symbols – National bird, national animal,
national fruit and national flower
24. Something for girls too..
• Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara at play with
paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving
them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls
were representations of infants. Realizing that there could
be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an
adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the
Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the
idea, as were Mattel's directors.
• The idea resulted in „X‟, one of the most popular toy
figures of all time. What is X?
Answer
• Barbie doll
25. Pangram
• What is the significance of this image?
Answer
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
26. Medium, Measure, Standard, Store
• The symbol preserves unique and essential features of
Devanagari script. It explicitly states the Indianess of the
symbol.
• The two horizontal lines with an equal negative white
space between them create a foreground and background
effect of three strips subtly representing the tricolor of our
Indian national flag flying at the top.
• The horizontal lines also denote the arithmetic sign „equal
to‟.
• The symbol is designed with minimal of three strokes
making it very easy to write, construct, reproduce and
design.
Which Symbol I am talking about ?
Answer
• Rupee Symbol
27. Crowded places

This place is Asia‟s largest wholesale market built by a king

for his favorite daughter in 1650 AD so that she could shop
all she wanted to. This market place derives its name from
the canals filled with water that sparkled like silver in the
moonlight.

What place in contemporary Asia is this ?

Answer
• Chandni Chowk
28. Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
In the movie Benaam, Amitabh Bachchan’s character’s
name is “Amit Srivastava”. What is so special about this
fact?
Answer
• Real name of Amitabh Bachchan
29. Interrupt

David Bradley, one time IBM employee describes his most

famous achievement thus:

"I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous by
applying my formula whenever any Microsoft's Windows
operating system _______, thus I win whenever he loses”

What did David Bradley invent?

Answer
• Ctrl + Alt + Del
30. No hints for this one..

• With an estimated real estate value of $528 billion in

2005, this public park is the most visited urban park in the
world.
• The southern part of the park also features the “Wollman
Skating Rink”, the ice skating rink featured in the last
scene of the movie Serendipity.

Which park are we talking about?

Answer
• Central Park
31. Eggs boiling, baldies jumping

Born in Chandigarh as Harjit Singh Sehgal, this Sikh Rajput

is an Indian rapper and actor. Brought up in Lucknow, he
was famous in the mid 1990s and is credited as the first
Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon and
dominate the Indian rap scene in the 90s.

How do better know this person?

Answer
• Baba Sehgal
32. Junk-dealer

• The national sport of Bangladesh derives its name from a

Tamil word meaning “holding of hand”, which is a crucial
aspect of play.
• India has been unbeaten champion in all versions of the
World Cup event of this sport.

Which sport is this?

Answer
• Kabbadi
33. The battle of the sexes
Who‟s Grand Slam Singles Career Statistics look like this?

Grand Slam Winner Runner Up

Australian Open 81, 83, 85 75, 82, 87

French Open 82, 84 75, 85, 86, 87

Wimbledon 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 94

86, 87, 90
US Open 83, 84, 86, 87 81, 85, 89, 91
Answer
• Martina Navratrilova
34. A sitter again!
Connect
Answer
• Inspired from Shakespear plays – A comedy of errors,
Othello and Macbeth
Mega Connect
7 clues

• First three: + 30 / -15

• Next two: +20 / -10
• Last two: +10 / 0

Please write your answer on the piece of paper and call

the quizmaster when you think you have the answer.

-30 for voicing out any answers

SET 1
Who was the star of "Zanjeer"?
What motto is inscribed at the base of the national emblem
of India?
Who invented the first commercially-successful revolver?
SET 2
Which cricketer recorded the most first-class centuries?
Whose picture appears on a U.S. $100 bill ?
SET 3
In Alexander Dumas' book "The Three Musketeers", two of
the musketeers are called Athos and Porthos. What is the
name of the third Musketeer?
Which Indian poet wrote the song "Darshan Do
Ghanshyam"?
Answer
• Questions in Slumdog Millionaire
It‟s complicated
•6 answers – all connected

• Relative scoring:
For every answer, Number of points = 5 * Number of teams
that didn‟t give the answer

• Write all answers on your paper

Please write your answers on the piece of paper and call

the quizmaster when you think you have the answers.

-50 for voicing out any answers

• A is a prominent Indian film actress active in the past 15
years

• B is an Indian businessman and the ex-boyfriend of A

• C is an IPL cricket team owned jointly by A and B

• D is the flagship company of the business group run by

B‟s family involved in products like Bed Linen, Towels,
Furnishings etc.

• E is the debut movie of A, also featuring Sharukh Khan

and Manisha Koirala

• F is a Hollywood movie whose opening and ending credits

feature remixes of a song from the movie E. This song
gained popularity because it was filmed on a moving train.
Answer
• A = Preity Zinta
• B = Ness Wadia
• C = King‟s XI
• D = Bombay Dyeing
• E = Dil Se
• F = The Inside Man