Agantuk Quiz 2017

Final

Rules.

Unlimited pounce is available for all the rounds.For correct answer +10 and for wrong answer -5 in case of pounce taken.

Total Rounds 6Round 1:- list personalities.Round 2:- 15 mixed bag dries plus 1 audios by Arup Donald Chattopadhyay. Round 3:- Sports comprising 11 questions by Sarat Putin Banerjee.Round 4:- long question connection or theme by again Sarat Putin Banerjee.Round 5:- 15 Audios/Still Visuals/Videos by Sarat Putin Banerjee.Round 6:- 20 miscellaneous dries by Sarat Putin Banerjee.

Round 1

List Personalities.No negative marks for wrong answer.

So whatever comes to your mind go for it.

List all the four women who have won

the EGOT and the only two men who

along with EGOT have also won the

Pulitzer Prize.

Each carries 4 points.

Extra 6 points for all the correct

answers.

So a total of 30 points up for grab.

You have 3 minutes to answer them.

Written Round.

Please exchange your sheets.

1.Helen

Hayes.

2.Rita

3.Moreno.

Audrey

Hepburn.

4.Whoopi

Goldberg.

5.Richard

Rodgers.

6.Marvin

Hamlisch.

Round 2

Mixed Bag

1.

Rama and the Sage Agastha.

What is common to

three snakes namely

Shankhyachur,

Basuki &

Swarnachur ?

2.

They are the three ropes of Nandighosh, Taladhwaj & Darpadalan respectively.

In feudal times, farmers & poor

people were not allowed to climb a

tree to cut & collect leaves,

branches, stems etc. But they were

allowed to collect all these things

from standing on the ground.

Which very common phrase was

originated from this custom?

3.

By

hook or

by

crook.

Rabindranath Thakur wrote a political

drama “X”. It was audio recorded as well as

performed on the stage in English. The

drama was translated into English as “The

King of Dark Chamber” by Rabindranath

himself. The name of the shorter version of

the drama was “Arup Ratan”. William

Radice acted in the English version of the

drama on stage. Id “X” ?

4.

Raja.

In 1878, a small ayurvedic doctor’s chamber and

shop was opened at Kalna in Bardhaman district by

the doctor Chandra Kishore Sen. As his practice

grew up he shifted from his small shop to a spacious

one at Kolutola Street in Kolkata in 1898. His

business converted into LLP (Limited Liability

Partnership) in 1911 by his four sons as C.K. Sen &

Co. “X” made two advertisements of “Y” (the most

famous product of C.K. Sen & Co.) and Edward’s

Tonic. Dadathakur wrote catchline of the product as

“Sadhone Prosadhone X”. Id X & Y ?

5.

“X”, Albina & Mushka were primarily

selected for some purpose. The trainer

of “X” was Oleg Gazenko. The real

name of “X” was Kudryavka. Out of

love & affection, some called it Jhuzka

(means a little insect) and limonchik

(means small lemon). Ultimately “X”

was selected for that very purpose. Id

“X”.

6.

Laika.

The play Nildarpan was first published

from Dhaka in 1860 which was written

by Dinabandhu Mitra under the

pseudonym “X” and it was translated

into English by Michael Madhusudan

Dutta under the pseudonym “Y”. Id “X”

& “Y”.

7.

X= Kashyachit Pathikashya Y= By a Native.

The term “X” (two words) was

originated from a practice in

medieval Europe. At the time of

signing a document, all the

signatories signed in a circular

way so that it could not be traced

who signed first. What was the

term (That means “X”)?

8.

Round Robin.

What is common to Knee, Toss, Throw, Body, Neck, Travel and Dougnut ? (Actually they are the different variety of something that we all here use everyday) different variety of something that

we all use daily).

9.

Pillows.

“X” worked as the Manager of Bengal

Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. His first

novel was “Gaddalika”. He won Rabindra

Puraskar for his novel “Krishnakali Ityadi

Golpo”. He was bestowed Padma Bhushan

in 1956. He took his pen name “Y” from the

name of his family goldsmith Tarachand Y.

Id. X & Y.

10.

X= Rajshekhar

Basu

Y= Parasuram.

The term “X” was coined by fourth King

of Bhutan, Jigme Singe Wangchuk

during an interview at Bombay Airport

in the 70s. “X” is a concept which was

first mentioned in the constitution of

Bhutan and was enacted on 18th July,

2008. The concept emphasizes

harmony with nature & traditional

values. Id “X” (Three word term)

11.

Gross National Happiness.

12.“X” is often regarded as one of the greatest Bengali scholars. He was born in Gotna village in Bardhaman district in 1900. He studied in Burdwan Municipal School, Sanskrit College and Calcutta University. One of his literary works is “Butpotti Siddhartha Shobdokosh” After the death of his wife, he started a story telling circle especially on ghosts in his house though it was not continued for a long time. He created his detective character “Kalidas”. When he was asked that why did he choose such name as his detective, he replied that in our ancient culture, inquisitiveness could be found in poets. He gave name of a food item as Luchuri (partly Luchi & partly Kochuri). He died in 1992. Id “X”.

Sukumar Sen

13.“X” is situated around 80 km. away from the city of Madurai. The area was filled by mud (actually it was a marshy land). The city “X” was founded in the 15th Century AD during the reign of Pandya King Harikesari Parakkirema Pandian. The small village has been transformed into a thriving industrial town when a factory of its kind was established here by P. Ayya Nadar (founder of Anil Brandd). Once upon a time “X” was a town of highest concentration of child labour in India. On 15th September, 2012, factory Om Shakti came in news. The town produces more than 90% of India’s something (a kind of product) and India is the second largest producer of that kind of product. Id “X”.

Shivakasi

14Raghu Naik, hailed from Jaguliapada in Orrisa was a gardener of “X”. He received a cash prize of Rs.500/- and a letter of appreciation from India’s 1st President Dr. Rajendra Prasad. In 2016, Odisha Government provided a financial assistance of Rs.5 lakh to 85 years old Mandodori Naik, his widow. What did he do ? (No need of answering “X”).

He caught Nathuram Godse.

15

As per Hindu mythology, what two word term is bestowed collectively of the following immortals : (a) Parasurama (b) Veda Vyasa (c) Kripacharya (d) Bali (e) Ashwathama (f) Vibhisana (g) Hanuman (h) Sage Markandeya ?

Ashta/Asta Cheeranjeevi

16

The inspiration of the catchline/slogan “X” of Company “Y” was the last words spoken by “Z” before his execution in a firing squad in 1977. “Z” was executed for two murders he committed in Utah, US. “Z” was also involved in three (3) cases of armed robbery and two (2) cases of assault. ID X, Y & Z.

X- Just Do ItY-Nike

Z-Garry Gilmore

Audience Questions

Id the

footballer

who scored

the winning

goal in the

2014 soccer

world cup

final.

Mario Gotze.

Nirmala Sitharaman became the second woman Defense minister of India. My question is who is the first woman to adorn the post?

Indira Gandhi (1980-82)

Film?

Shnkhabela.

Round 3

Sports Round

World Team Tennis, founded in 1973,is a

mixed-gender professional tennis league

originally played on a no-line court with

a team format in the United States. The first

team to reach five games wins each set. A

nine-point tiebreaker is played if a set

reaches four-all. One point is awarded for

each game won. If necessary, overtime and

a super-tiebreaker are played to determine

the winner of the match. What is the special

feature of this league/tournament?

1.

Each match consists of five sets.

Each set features a different

configuration i.e.men's singles,

men's doubles, women's singles,

women's doubles, and mixed

doubles. Prior to each match,

coaches decide the order in

which the sets will be played.

In 1935 a Jack Ryder led Australian team visited

India. They played a few first class matches here.

In the match against Patiala,owing to injury and

illness,the team was so depleted that they had to

call up Luise Tarrant,Frank Tarrant who did

umpiring before but never played any First Class

match and X to make up their numbers. This led

to happen something for the first and probably

the only time in first class cricket. What is being

talked about here?

2.

X was the Maharaja of Patiala.

he was given the honour of

captaining the Australian team.

His son Yuvraj of Patiala was

captaining the Patiala side thus

being the only known father-son

duo to have captained the

opposing sides.

This is an American athlete Horace

Ashenfelter who won a gold medal

in 1952 Helsinki Olympics. How can

one connect him with an athlete

participated in the last World

Athletics Championship held in

London in August this year?

(Pic in the next slide)

3.

k

He was the last American athlete

to win a 3000 meter

Steeplechase in major

championship like Olympics or

World Championship before

Emma Coburn did it in WC 2017

in London two months ago.

This is June 21 1954

publication of Times

magazine. Nicknamed

Slammin’ Sammy ,he is the

oldest player to win a PGA

tour event at 52 years,

youngest PGA tour golfer to

shoot his age(67) in the 2nd

round of the 1979 Quad

Cities Open and the only

man to ever win an official

LPGA tour event. ID him and

his record which is still

intact.(ignore oldest or

youngest record)

3.

Sam Snead.

Won most PGA tours (82).

So far only three players have

achieved the feat of winning all

nine ATP Masters,the year

ending ATP tour final, all four

grand slams and the Olympic

gold. The two are the Bryan

brothers,Bob and Mike. Who is

the third one?

4.

Daniel Nestor.

Canada.

This is Traianos Dellas who was

an integral part of Greece's Euro

2004 winning squad. The coach

of Greece called him

'the Colossus of Rhodes' in

respect of his performances in

the tournament and the moniker

is now widely used in the press.

He scored only one international

goal for Greece. However in that

EURO 2004 tournament he did

something for the first and only

time. What did he do that grew

interest among the quiz lovers?

5.

He Scored the only

international Silver

Goal.

X was a football chant sung by fans at many grounds,

originally sung at Hillsborough by Sheffield Wednesday

fans in the early 1980s. This was because Howard

Wilkinson aka Sergeant Wilko, was the manager of the

Sheffield Wednesday at the time. Older fans may

actually remember that it was originally sung 6 years

earlier when Jack Charlton took charge of Sheffield. The

chant moved up to Leeds in 1988 when Wilkinson

moved to Leeds United. X which is a limited company

now co-founded by Paul Burnham, claims it wants to

"make watching cricket more fun and much more

popular". What is X?

6.

Barmy Army.

When X at 18 years and 140 days, scored against Nepal

in 2015 SAAF Games, many Newspapers declared him

the youngest ever goal scorer for his nation. However it

was later revealed that he is the 2nd youngest after Y. Y

was 18 years and 90 days old when he scored his debut

goal for his nation against Uzbekistan in a Nehru Cup

match on 14 March 1995 in Kolkata. So Y was younger

than X when he scored but surprisingly he is not the

youngest. The youngest ever goal scorer is another

player Z who was only 16 years and 311 days old when

he scored against Kuwait in a friendly international on 5

November, 2004. Give me X,Y and Z.

7.

X-Lallianzuala Chhangte.Y- Baichung Bhutia.Z- Jerry Zirsanga.

________was a European football competition played between

1955 and 1971. The competition was the idea of

Swiss pools supremo Ernst Thommen,Ottorino Barassi from Italy,

and the English Football Association general secretary Stanley

Rous. The competition was set up to promote

international _______. The competition was initially only open to

teams from cities that hosted ______ and where these teams

finished in their national league had no relevance. Early

competitions also featured a one city, one team rule. After 1968, it

was sometimes referred to as the Runners-up Cup, with teams

now qualifying based on league position. In 1971,it came under

the auspices of UEFA and was replaced by the UEFA Cup. So

what is being talked about here?

8.

Fairs Cup.

X made only one official international

appearance for Scotland; he played in a 3–

2 British Home Championship defeat

to Wales at Ninian Park, Cardiff, on 4

October 1933. Playing opposite X in the

Welsh half-back line was his future

assistant Y. X also made seven

appearances for Scotland

against England.during the Second World

War, winning just one of them, but these are

considered unofficial. X and Y?

9.

The man in the picture was a Track & Field athlete who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he finished creditable 14th overall in the Long Jump competition. Four years later

he finished 36th in the same event at the 1928 Olympics.In the 1924 Paris Olympics he was the captain of the Indian athletic team. He can also be described as a very distinguished man, In World War II. For his services, he was awarded M.B.E. However he did something in the early 1950s for which he is remembered most. ID him and his later claim to fame.

10.

Dalip Singh.

Torch bearer in the first ever

Asiad Games in Delhi,1951.

ID this

sports

personality.

11.

Oscar Swahn.

The oldest ever gold medalist

and also the oldest spotrsperson

to have ever participated in the

Olympics.

Audience Questions

Film?

Baluchari.

Apart from India name

the other two teams

that are participating in

the ongoing U-17 FIFA

World Cup for the first

time.

New Caledonia.Niger.

Identify

this

eminent

Urdu

Writer.

Ismat Chughtai.