BOSCOTSAV ’13

Bosco Quizzard Prelims- Abhiroop and Sayan

Rules

25 Questions

Every multiple of 5 (do the maths yourself) is a starred question.

The starred questions will be used in case of a tie

Minor spelling errors would be ignored.

1.

The original title was pronounced was inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu where paku-paku

describes the sound of the mouth movement when widely opened

and then closed in succession. Although it is often cited that the

character’s shape was inspired by a pizza missing a slice.

What?

2.

Piper Beetle, Areca Catechu, Acacia Catechu and Calcium Hydroxide are typical constituents of?

4.

According to the popular story, the idea was born when the Congress

leader Kamaraj was at a train intersection near the town of

Cheranmahadevi in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. As he was waiting for

a train to pass, he noticed young boys tending to their goats and cattle. He

asked one small boy, ―What are you doing with the cows? Why didn’t you

go to school?‖. The boy’s response made Kamaraj think, and he went back

and started a new program to attract kids like him to school.

What did Kamaraj do?

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6. Id the copied piece

7.

Harten, Schoppen, Ruiten and troef—this is a list of Dutch words whose modified forms are used in bengali.Give me the field where it

is used.

8. Print Ad of which brand.

9. FIB

*10.

Y originated due to difficulties importing X syrup into Nazi Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo. To circumvent

this, Max Keith, the man in charge of X Deutschland during the

Second World War, decided to create a new product for the

German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the

time, including whey and pomace – the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled.

The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which

started with Keith exhorting his team to ―use their imagination‖, to

which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted“Y!"

11.

This serial was aired in Sri Lanka on Sirasa TV every weekday at 8:00PM. In this telecast, it is dubbed into Sinhala and the name of

the drama changed to 'Maha Gedara' (meaning 'Big Home' in

sinhalese). The serial is also aired in Afghanistan on Tolo TV every

weekday in dubbed Dari version.

12.

On a normal day in the ear 1974, a certain Dr. Raja, used an ordinary

landline phone from an arid village in North India, and replied to the person

on the other side, "Madam, Buddha has finally smiled."

What is the significance of this totally arbit message.

13.

Dedicated to all pretty girls

What can be defined as "An indentation caused by a structural variations

in the facial muscle Zygmomaticus Major"

14.

*15

Cultural Anthropologist Chantal Boulanger says this in the foreword

of her book :

―In an age where great efforts are made to preserve animal species

and human cultures, there is one art that has been completely ignored: _____‖.

In her book, she traveled to all parts of India, and identified nearly

80 ways of doing this, which she then categorized into the following

families:

Nivi, Bengali, Konkani, Gujarati, Dravidian, Madisar,Kodagu, Gond,

Malayali, Tribal, Kunbi or Denthli.

What was the area was she researching?

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