THE BIG

BANG
QUIZ
ROUND 2
Rules
• Fastest fingers first
• No passing
• 1 point per question
• Points added to team total
• Enter your answer into the zoom chat ( privately to Mr. Manu)
• The first correct answer will be chosen
*Compulsory to switch on your camera’s (show that face)
Q1 : X has been in the news recently, and the name “X”
comes from a Latin word meaning a “crown” or a “wreath”.
The name was coined by June Almeida and David Tyrrell in
1968. 

Upon closer inspection, X looks like a fringe of large,

bulbous surface projections creating an image reminiscent
of a wreath or a crown. Identify X.
Q2: In a recent study by the university of Duke it was found
out that all masks or methods to stay safe against the virus
were not all equally effective. According to this study
which of these types of masks was proven to be the most
ineffective - 

a) N-95 masks 
b) Copper mask 
c) Neck fleece/Neck Gaiter 
d) Bandana
Q3 :
Identify
the
mascot,
in the
picture 
(I)
Q4: The image below is
the image of the old city
of Pompeii. Something
happened to the city
that laid waste killed
almost everyone in the
city. What was the
calamity and what
caused it ?
Q5: X, celebrated every year on Y is also known as
Gwangbokjeol (“the day the light returned”) in South
Korea and as Chogukhaebangui nal (“Liberation of the
Fatherland Day”) in North Korea. It is the only Korean
holiday that is currently celebrated on both sides of the
Korean Divide.

This day, Y is very special for Indians too because of

something similar that happened in India a long time ago.
Identify X and Y. 
Q6 : John Legend, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks and Robert
Lopez have all gotten EGOTs, but what is an EGOT ?
Q7: After which historical or mythological figure did Sri
Lanka name its first satellite? 

A) Kuber 
B) Buddha
C) Vibhishana
D) Ravana
Q8: Excerpt from the article : The “________ Act” (Caution
Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was
introduced on Tuesday (July 7) at a San Francisco Board of
Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Shamann Walton.

The ordinance’s name is a twist on “X,” a name whose

common stereotype has been associated with a racist
middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to
demand her own way at the expense of others.

What is X?
Q9: How many stripes are
there on the US flag, and
why? 
Q10:Which of these scientists does not have a chemical element on the
periodic table named after them? 

A) Albert Einstein
B) Alfred Nobel 
C) Thomas Edison
D) Enrico Fermi
Rules
• Team round
• Points added to team total
• You have to answer as a team, but only one from the team should answer
• This is a passing round (some questions have no passing)
• 2 points for a correct answer, 1 point for a correct passed answer
• 15 second time limit per question (after the question is thrown to the
other teams a ten second time limit is given for hand to be raised)
• After a team gets a question wrong the first hand raised gets to answer
(this can be from any team)
• In case you want to discuss your answer privately, you may chat
privately on the zoom chat ( within the 20 seconds )
 55 teams
teamswillenter this 2round,
enter round but unfortunately
only 3 will leave.

But only 3 teams will enter round 3 Elimination

Round
Q1 : As we all know the statue of liberty is a symbol of
freedom or liberty. It was a gift from France and has always
been and will be one of New York’s greatest landmarks but
what is located at the bottom of the Statue and what does
it represent.
Q2: What do
these images
represent
together ?
Q3: Neurologists believe that the brain's medial
ventral prefrontal cortex is activated when you
do what?
(no passing)

A) Have a panic attack

B) remember a name
C) Get a joke
D) Listen to music 
Q4 : An excerpt from a conversation between two of the
most bittersweet rival founders in recent history is as
follows.

X: I trusted you, and now you’re stealing from us!

And according to X’s biography, Y responded thusly,

Y: Well, X, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it.

I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour
named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set
and found out that you had already stolen it.

Who are X and Y? As a hint, X had lent Y some of his

company’s intellectual property.
Q5: On 1st February 2017, the organizers of this event launched an extensive “green” initiative
throughout Japan, as they called on the Japanese population to donate their discarded or obsolete
electronic devices like mobile phones, laptops, cameras etc. 

This project offered everyone the opportunity to play a role in the preparation of one of the biggest
events in the country. Around 2000 collection bins were placed at offices and in NTT DoCoMo stores all
over Japan by April 2017 for the same.

The organizers estimated that nearly 8 tons of metal had  been collected from these electronic devices,
the aim being that the metal collected from these devices will be used in the production of something.
What is that something?
Q6: Due to an Increase in
use of Contraceptives,
which hormone is
negatively affecting fishes ?
Q7 : What do
these pictures
represent
together ?
Q8 : What is special about the photo, and what myth did it
clear up?
Q9 : This picture
was taken in 1927
and inspired one
of the world’s
most well-known
Kid’s
show/movie.
Which
show/movie was
it ?
Q10: The first iPhone, was released
in 2007 and was almost an
immediate success with people
buying it all over the world. And
whenever you buy a product the
time on the product is always 10:36.
What is the significance of this time ?
Q11: Susan Wojcicki, the current YouTube CEO, has had a
very colourfully academic life. She grew up in the Stanford
campus where her father was the head of the Physics
department. 
She went to Harvard for history and literature and then
moved to Computer science. 

She joined google as their 16th employee and later moved

on to become the CEO of a  google acquired company -
YouTube. She has been involved with Google ever since it
was made and has been credited with the idea for Google
doodles and even ads on webpages. But how did she get
her start at google ?
Q12 : What country has
the most islands in the
world?
Q13 : Looking up X on Google gives the result shown
below. The interesting thing is that the word hidden by the
box is exactly the same as the word being looked up. If you
click on the ‘Did you mean: X’, you end up on the same
page. What did I look up?
Q14 :    Joseph Swan : Thomas Edison
as Nikola Tesla : __________
Q15: Which insect shorted
out an early supercomputer
and inspired the term
"computer bug"?
Rules
• Only 3 teams in this round
• 25 – second time limit (10 second passed answer)
• Passing round (there are exceptions)
• After the team gets a question wrong, the answer is open to the floor
and the first hand raised gets to answer
• 4 points for correct answer, 2 points for a passed answer
• Points added to team total
• If chosen any private discussion may be done in the private zoom chat
with your team mate ( within the 40 second or 20 second time limit)
Q1: X is an unconventional punctuation mark. First proposed in
1962 by Martin K. Speckter, X is still used today. The educational
publishing company, Pearson, uses X in their logo, to convey "the
excitement and fun of learning".  

A sentence ending with an X asks a question in an excited manner,

expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question, or asks
a rhetorical question. For example, “You call that a hat X” What is X
called ?  
Q2 : In 1535, King Henry VIII of England introduced a tax on
this interesting facial feature. The tax was instituted to
make this facial feature a symbol of status. The idea was
that only the elite could afford to pay the tax, and thus,
only the elite would be able to spot this facial feature. 

If non-elite members of the society were seen spotting this

facial feature, they would be taxed with a token saying,
“for the poor, this facial feature is a superfluous burden”. In
fact, after the tax was abolished, King Henry VIII’s
daughter, Queen Elizabeth I reintroduced this tax.

What tax are we talking about? 

Q3 : Jus Soli, commonly referred to as birth right
citizenship in the United States, is the right of anyone born
in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship. 

In contrast, jus sanguinis refers to “the right of blood” or

citizenship by descent. For the countries mentioned below,
mark their citizenship laws as jus soli or jus sanguinis. 
(each is one point) (no passing)

Canada : jus soli or jus sanguinis 

Pakistan : jus soli or jus sanguinis 
France : jus soli or jus sanguinis
India :  jus soli or jus sanguinis
Q4 : In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and
conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests”. 

Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s
racial perceptions. Their subjects, African-American children between
the ages of three to seven, were asked to identify both the race of the
dolls and which color doll they prefer. A majority of the children
preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it. 

The Clarks concluded that prejudice and discrimination created a feeling

of inferiority among African-American children and damaged their self-
esteem. 

The “doll tests” resulted in the landmark Supreme Court decision of

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. What was the decision
Q5 : Shown below is a picture of the mineral Armalcolite. It is a titanium-rich mineral
with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5, and was one of the three minerals first
discovered at “Tranquillity Base” in the mid-20th century, alongside tranquillityite
and pyroxferroite. 

It is named after the explorers who were sent on a unique mission to analyse such
rocks and minerals of the area and retrieve them. Identify the three men and
accordingly the location of the discovery. 
Q6 : After practically revolutionizing the field of Physics, he
became the master of the Royal Mint of England during the
last years of the 1600s. 

Counterfeiting – especially ‘clipping’ coins by shaving

them and then melting the scraps together to make new
coins – was endemic in the seedier parts of London. The
way he tackled the problem was very elegant, and his
solution to the problem is still visible in most coins in the
world. 

This, along with some other reforms brought along by him,

saved the Crown around £40,000 then (around 8 million
dollars today). 

Identify this revolutionary person and his solution to

prevent the ‘clipping’ of coins.
Q7 : There are thousands of genes in the human genome,
and it is a tedious job to refer to them using their full
names when some of them have names such as
‘chromosome 1 open reading frame 100’. Hence, it is not
surprising that scientists use symbols, with a name and
alphanumeric code, instead.

However, recently, a problem has caused HUGO Gene

Nomenclature Committee, or HGNC, to publish new
guidelines for gene naming. An example of a gene whose
symbol was changed is Membrane Associated Ring-CH-
Type Finger 1.

What was the problem the scientists faced in ‘data

handling and retrieval’ for such genes, which caused the
HNGC to come up with new guidelines?
Q8 : Depicted below is a
cover for The New Yorker
magazine from almost a
decade ago. The artwork
is named “Dark Spring”
and was designed by
Christoph Niemann to
commemorate a tragedy
that occurred recently at
the time. What event? 
Q9 : The FBI says that this activity has garnered over 12
billion dollars from 2016 to 2018, and has affected over
80,000 during this period alone. This type of activity
targets small and medium sized companies and even
personal transactions. This type of activity has had a 136%
increase in global losses from  2016-18 and something
similar has happened to most of us. Identify this activity
and its formal name 
Q10: This invention was made by Reuben Rausing, who
was a Swedish Industrialist. After inventing the product in
1951, he founded a company around the name of the
invention and is still in production till date within the same
company. Its name is like its shape and was one of the first
sustainable products of its time.

 Niels Bohr allegedly claimed to “never have seen such an

adequate practical application of a mathematical
problem” as the tetrahedron package. Name the product 
•Q11 : Identify what is happening in the picture
Q12 : In 18th century Bavaria (modern day Germany) controversy was
brewing. Adam Weishaupt, a professor who was tired of the
interventions of the Catholic church in the matters of politics, created
a society that promoted the freedom of thought which was otherwise
not encouraged by the conservative Catholics.
Convinced that religious ideas were no longer an adequate
belief system to govern modern societies, he decided to
find another form of enlightenment , a set of ideas and
practices that could be applied to radically change the way
European states were run. Name the society he created 
Q13: Dr Judah Levine is a person
who works at the National
Institute of Standards and
Technology where they work to
keep time, length and many other
things standard. Due to his work
relating to one of the fundamental
units he was given a nickname
from the show Dr Who .What is this
nickname ?
 Q14: Enzo Ferrari, once told a
man that he may be able to
drive a tractor but would never
be able to drive a Ferrari,
angered by his statement he
later went on to create another
car company which would soon
rival the likes of Ferrari. Name
this company
Q15: This Indian state houses one of the world’s
oldest living cultures, although, it got its current
name in 1969. Before that, its previous name was
derived from a fisherman who lived in the area.
Recently, the state was in news for its surprising
part-ownership of a very popular Indian
jewellery company. Name the state.