GEN-ish QUIZ

Prelims with
answers
-BY UTSAV PALIWAL
RULES

25 QUESTIONS
+1 FOR CORRECT ANSWERS
NO NEGATIVES
Q5,Q10,Q15,Q20,Q25ARE TIE BREAKERS
And special thanks to Jyotbir Lamba at
Quest GGS for GPing!
Q1.
CONNECT THE FOLLOWING:

1. Siegfried and Roy's Tiger Attack

2. Autocorrect Fails
3. FaceTime
4. Faulty Voter Machines
5. The God Particle
6. NSA Spying Scandal
7. Trump’s Presidency
8. Lady Gaga Half -Time Show
9. Disney’s Taking Over FOX
A1.

EVENTS PREDICTED BY THE SIMPSONS

Q2.
X were invented in the county of Boulder, in Colorado in the
United States. X are made of a special type of foam resin
known as ‘Croslite’ or ‘Levirex’, which is an ethylene vinyl
acetate (EVA) material, and it is soft and light-weight, generally
making them comfortable to wear

The design of X was intended as a lightweight, waterproof

footwear with good grip for boaters, and as such were first
distributed in 2002 at a boat show.

ID X.
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 Q3.

X , a name applied disparagingly by Dutch settlers in New

Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring
Connecticut. It may be from Dutch Janke, literally "Little
John," diminutive of common personal name Jan; or it may be
from Jan Kes familiar form of "John Cornelius,"

This is the most probable and widely accepted etymology of

X.

ID X.
A3.

YANKEE
Q4.

Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma

revealed in an interview that the company's
meeting rooms are named after Xs due to
"wannabeism". "We can say let's have a
_____________ in San Francisco, then we'll meet in
Tokyo," he jokingly said.

ID X.
A4.

CITIES
 Q5.

India's First War of Independence, Revolt of 1857 among many other

names. It was a rebellion that posed serious threat to the rule of the
East India Company . Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the prominent
leaders of the Great Rebellion. The leader saw the need to unite
Indians more and realised nothing can bond people more than a
common idol, equally ‘worshipped’ by all.

What event did he start / popularise (to the phenomenon it is today)

as a result of this?
A5.

GANESH CHATURTHI
 Q6.
“Balenciaga looks to X for inspiration at Paris Fashion Week” are what the
headlines at Fashion United said at the Paris Fashion Show 2018.

The excerpt from the article is as follows:

Fashion's hottest designer Demna Gvasalia sent out more than a dozen jackets
and coats with “X Hips” in his Paris fashion week show for Balenciaga.

The Georgian-born wunderkind, who grew up as a refugee in Germany after

fleeing his war-torn homeland, channelled the prudent bourgeois hausfrau look
so beloved of the German leader. One orange houndstooth coat, worn with a
tight 1950s-style scarf, would have particularly pleased the thrifty Swabian
housewives whose fiscal rectitude X is so fond of quoting. ID X.
A6.

ANGELA MERKEL/ MERKEL

 Q7.

Bhakta Vidur is a 1921 silent Indian film directed by Kanjibhai

Rathod and made under Kohinoor Film Company banner. In this
film the Hindu mythological character Vidura was moulded on
the personality of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

It was the first movie to have received something. What?

Hint; The first word of the title can be taken in a modern context
depending upon your level of tolerance!
A7.

BAN
Q8.

Y created a creepy video in which it imagines a future where an evolving record of our
online data could be used to direct human behaviour (for the viewing by employees only.)

The video was obtained by The Verge and was made in 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of
design at Y's ambitious research and development division X Labs. It offers an unsettling and
controversial vision of the future that would not look out of place on the Netflix show "Black
Mirror."

Drawing on theories of evolution and directly referencing Richard Dawkins' 1976 book "The
Selfish Gene," the basic premise imagines that people have an ever-evolving online data
record, which Foster calls the "Selfish Ledger." In the future, he says this could be used so it
"not only tracks our behaviour, but offers direction towards a desired result." ID Y.
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 Q9.
In 1960 X enlisted in the United States Air Force at 18 years old and served as a
medical records technician .He eventually rose to the rank of master sergeant and
served as the first sergeant of the U.S. Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in
Alaska, where he first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring
themes in his artwork. He developed his quick-painting technique to create art
for sale during brief daily work breaks.

Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, “tough”
and “mean”, “the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you
make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”, X decided
that if he ever left the military, he would never scream again. He got his
perm/permanent hair afro done before he rose to television fame which is
why he couldnt get rid of it as it became a part of his “fuzzy”/warm identity.
A9.

BOB
ROSS
Q10.

What is the reason for the creation

of the following one off items:
A10.

ROYAL WEDDING/ HARRY

AND MEGHAN’S
WEDDING
Q11.

This cover design concept by graphic artist Elizabeth

Perez could make it very easy to test the claim of the
book.. She’s screen-printed the book’s spine with match
striking paper, in order to, as she says on her website,
“spread the book-burning message to the book itself.”
So if the book inspires you to set some fires of your
own, she’s got you covered, provided you’ve got a
match and also that you’ve missed the point of the story
completely.

ID the book (Pic on next slide)

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Q12.
The mono pitched voice of well-known physicist X, who passed
away in March 2018, will be broadcast into space towards the
nearest black hole to Earth.

The broadcast, planned after his funeral , is in honor of X’s

research, which played a key role in our current understanding of
black holes.

His words, which his daughter says are “a message of peace and
hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony
on this planet,” will be set to an original score by the composer
Vangelis.
A12.

STEPHEN
HAWKING
Q13.
These headphones, called The Project Rock, are the result of a collaboration
between X and Under armour.

In the words of X:

“Project Rock is not a brand, it’s a movement. It’s a core belief, that I 100%
don’t care what color you are, how old you are, where you come from or
what you do for a living. The only thing I care about is you and me, building
the belief that regardless of whatever the odds, we can overcome and
achieve—but it all starts with the work we’re willing to put in with our two
hands.”

ID X.(Pic in next slide)

A13.

DWAYNE JOHNSON
Q14.

The basic difference between a normal X and

a King X is that the King X eat other
________s, that is, they are cannibalistic in
nature.
ID X.
A14.

KING COBRAS
Q15.

Explain the connect/ funda behind the following paintings/sketches. (part points allowed)
A15.

SELF PORTRAITS BY PICASSO

AT DIFFERENT AGES/IN
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
Q16.

ID the person around whose hollywood star this

wall was built
A16.

DONALD TRUMP
Q17.
Martin Eberhard is an American engineer and
business executive. Eberhard's interest in sports
cars, dependence on oil imported, and global
warming led him to found Silicon Valley's first
automobile company. In 2003 Eberhard co-
founded (with Marc Tarpenning) and became the
first CEO of X.

ID X.
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 Q18.

A X-delivering drone that can

detect when people are tired and
bring them a drink has been
patented by technology company
IBM. The patent describes a
drone that can identify the
"cognitive state" of office
workers and lower cups of X on
an "unspooling string". IBM has
not revealed whether it plans to
produce the X drone. ID X.
A18.

COFFEE
Q19.

WHICH SPANISH
ARTIST WAS
RESPONSIBLE
FOR MAKING
THIS 1957
CUTLERY SET?
A19.

SALVADOR DALI
Q20.

The Dino Game or the Offline Game on Google

Chrome as most of us know it has become a very
popular game to play irrespective of your
connection status. The game’s basic idea/operation
is based on a factual fallacy though. ID what the
fallacy is.
A20.

T Rex Couldn’t Run

Q21.

The lady in the following picture

is Jennipher Joseph. ID What she
is posing for, or where is it that
we can see her today in this pose?
 A21.

COLUMBIA
PICTURES’
LOGO
Q22.

ELON MUSK TWEETED THE FOLLOWING PICTURE AND APPLIED PATENT FOR THE
TEQUILÁ’S NAME. ID THE NAME.
A22.

TESLAQUILA
 Q23.
WHO PLAYED THE FOLLOWING ROLES? FEDEX DRIVER

HUGH HEFFNERS DOUBLE WORLD WAR 2 VETERAN

A LOVER OF SODA WITH THE _________’S BLOOD A CASINO PLAYER

LARRY KING DOUBLE

MAN TRYING TO MOVE THOR’S HAMMER

WITH HIS TRUCK

ELDERLY GENERAL

BEAUTY PAGEANT JUDGE

BARTENDER

A BARBER
A23.

STAN LEE
Q24.

The "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is

the first letter of the Greek word Christó)), which
became Christ in English. The suffix -______ is from
the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass.

This led to the abbreviation of a word to what it is

today.

ID Both the original word and the Abbreviation.

A24.

XMAS
CHRISTMAS
Q25.

The practice of round-tripping means trading a good

repeatedly to give the appearance of distinct
transactions in order to avail lower rate loans from
banks against the receivables shown from these
round trips. This tactic recently came into the news
for shady trading of something that is ironically
enough considered shiny.

Identify the person involved in the round tripping

who is central to the ongoing investigation for the
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NIRAV MODI