The Inter-School QuizIn association with Rotary Club of Silchar

QM: Bedanga Das, Aveek Baruah

Prelims• 22 Questions• +1 for each, no negative marking!• 6 teams proceed to the finals• Don’t be evil – do not google!

1. This fictional mansion is located at 1407 Greymalkin Lane in Westchester, New York.

One of its distinguishing features is the Danger Room where all kinds of mechanical and holographic simulations using cutting edge alien technology help the students learn to harness their skills in combat.

It’s also the location of Cerebro, a computer that the headmaster used to track down new students.

What is this place?

Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters

(residence of the X-Men)

2. This 1935 film was recently handed over to the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) from the Bangladeshi Film Archive (BFA).The film was made by Pramathesh Chandra Barua, in Hindi, Bengali and Assamese. It starred P.C. Barua as the lead, along with Jamuna Barua and Chandrabati Devi in female leadsThis film was later remade many times in Hindi, in 1955, 2002 and 2009, along with many other regional TV and theatrical adaptations.Identify the movie.

Devdas

3. Back in 1920, a newlywed couple Josephine and Earle Dickinson were living in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

A cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson, Earle wife was used to getting cuts or minor burns on her fingers. As a remedy, Earle and Josephine would cut pieces of adhesive tape and cotton gauze to make bandages of their own. This became rather time consuming.

Finally, Earle hit upon an idea. He sat down and prepared some ready-made bandages by placing squares of cotton gauze at intervals along an adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline.

Earle soon told his boss at work about his new invention. Which brand of product was created as a result?

Band-Aid

4. San Francisco’s forthcoming _____ _____International Film Festival (FRiFF) focusses on a different kind of filmmaking, to be held at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco’s Mission District. Scheduled for November 19, it will be the first global festival to “celebrate aerial cinema from the perspective of X.” But the festival will be more than just the stunning landscape cinematography commonly associated with aerial film - “The stories around some of the categories are just as important as the quality of the shots”, organisers say. One such category is “X for Good,” which will feature the best shorts about how X are being used to help humanity and tackle global issues. Xs already have been used to help anti-poaching efforts, drop medical supplies in war zones, fight fires and even find missing people.

Drones(Flying Robot International Film Festival)

5. Firefly Creative Studio is a feature-grade creative agency and visual effects production house based in Hyderabad, India headed by P.C Sanath. Recently they shot to fame for a certain reason.

Their fruitful outcome was the result of consistent discussions with the story development team and the director, to delve deep into character histrionics as well as imagining it as if they were set in a real space. This was evident in scenes like the war sequence, avalanche sequence, beheading sequence, the snake and underwater fish sequences.

Which was this project of theirs?

Baahubali: The Beginning

• Anand Mehta, is a 7-time national champion in bridge. He married an English lady, and his daughter is a well-known pediatrician. His son-in-law is a famous Member of Parliament.Who is this particular MP?

• Sachin Tendulkar

7. X is a Chinese multinational company with headquarters in Beijing and North Carolina. X was founded by Liu Chuanzhi in Beijing, 1984. Its original name was Legend, but later got a new name in 2003 by combining a part of the word ‘Legend’ with the Latin word for ‘new’. Possibly the most significant expansion of this company was when it acquired IBM’s computer business in 2005. Name the company.

Lenovo

8.• Wide Dynamic Range helps capture clear images in varying light conditions• Lightfinder provides clear images in very low light conditions• Thermal cameras can take images in darkness and send alerts when movement is

detected• Sharpdome technology detects images as much as 20 degrees above the camera

horizon• Gatekeeper feature automatically makes the camera zoom to the spot where motion

is detected.• Cross Line Detection captures images of objects that cross an imaginary line

These are all technologies used in which common device of public use?

CCTV

9. This is a river named Legbala, in the country of Congo, Africa.However it also has a more common name, which also is the name of a widespread disease. The disease was named after the river because it was discovered around 60 miles from the river, by Professsor Piot.

Name the river/disease.

Ebola

10. This famous monument has been facing many problems due to pollution.In the 1980s, Sulphur dioxide was suspected of making its walls to a yellowish colour.Now the problem is due to black and organic carbon particles that are emitted from vehicles and other polluting units. Among the culprits are the local petha (a local sweet) shops, which have been asked to switch from using coal to LPG, or shut down the shop.Which monument is this?

Taj Mahal

11. He is an Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright who is best known for his column in newspapers in the Gujarati language. The humorous weekly column first appeared in Chitralekha in March 1971 and ever since has been looking at contemporary issues from a different perspective. It has also been made into a TV showID the person

Tarak Mehta

12. Identify the movie from the poster

Goliyon ki Ras-leela Ramleela

13. In 1882, Mr. W L Lake a Canadian engineer saw elephants emerging out of dense forests with oil stains on their feet. So the story goes, that his shouts urging his men to drill the area for crude oil gave this Indian town its name.

Which town in Assam is this?

Digboi (from ‘dig boy, dig’)

14. Mahashian Di Hatti Limited is an Indian manufacturer, distributor and exporter. The company was founded on March 8, 1919 by Mahashay Chuni Lal as a small shop in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). After the partition of India, Mahashay Dharam Pal, the son of the founder, shifted to Delhi and opened up his shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh.

It has since grown in popularity all over India, and exports its products to several countries including UK, other European countries, Canada, United States, Switzerland and Japan.

Give me the name by which we are familiar with the company.

MDH

15. Identify the singer on the left, where an addition of the letter ‘i’ to her name will give the species of the penguin on the right.

Adele (and Adelie penguin)

16. This series of advertisements was conceptualized by Lowe Lintas (an ad agency) and produced by Crazy Few Films, and has been widely ridiculed by the public. Some responses - What ‘phenomenon’ is this?

IIN

17. Born Namgyal Wangdi, he later adopted a name which means “wealthy-fortunate-follower-of-religion”. Originally unaware of his actual birthday, he began celebrating it on May 29, when he shot to worldwide fame on that date in 1953.

Who was he and his claim to fame?

Tenzing Norgay

18. Google’s tribute to whom?

APJ Abdul Kalam

Century in all formats of International cricket i.e. T20,ODI,Test

19. Connect....(exhaustive list)

20. Connect these pictures

Salman Khan

21. It is a 2011 endless video game developed and published by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. It is produced, designed and programmed by husband and wife team Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova.Eventually it became a game series, and along with the regular series, some other of its games are titled ____: Brave and ____: Oz.Some of the playable characters are - Guy Dangerous, Scarlett Fox, Santa Claus etc

Temple Run

22. During the British rule, ships were docked at the bank of a river in North-Eastern India. Gradually, a market developed at the bank, which became a major place of economic activity. The bank was covered with stones to help dock ships and vessels, and the market was developed at a place that was fully covered with stones. People started to refer to the place as X, meaning a “bank of stones”. With the passage of time, X became Y (the current name) for linguistic simplification and ultimately the British officials started to use the name Y in their official documents referring to the surrounding area of the market.

Which city Y?

Silchar (from Shiler Chor, meaning ‘bank of stones’)