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KUMARANS INTER STREAM QUIZ

SENIORSAUG 2012

By

Sudarshan, Sashank & Suresh

Format

• This quiz consists of 5 rounds

• Rules for each round will be explained at the beginning of the round

• Quiz master is God for the next hour or so…

Rules

• This round consists of 6 questions

• You have to identify and write your answer

• + 5 for every correct answer

• If you get all 6 correct, a bonus of + 20

• No Negative marking in this round

• You can get a max of +50 in this round

1. Identify

2. Identify

3. Identify

4. Identify

5. Identify this animal

6. Identify

Answers written?

1. Identify

JACQUES ROGGE, PRESIDENT IOC

2. Identify

CURIOSITY – ROVER THAT LANDED ON MARS

3. Identify

FERNANDO ALONSO, F1 DRIVER – FERRARI

4. Identify

CYRUS MISTRY WITH RATAN TATA.CYRUS HAS BEEN NAMED SUCCESSOR

OF RATAN TATA AT TATA SONS

5. Identify this animal

AARDVARK

6. Identify

Pranab Mukherjee – President of India

Rules• This round consists of 12 questions on

Infinite Bounce

• The first 6 will be clock-wise and the next 6 will be anti-clock-wise

• + 10 for every correct answer

• No Negative marking in this round

Question 1

Queen Elizabeth II declared the 2012 London Olympic Games open on 27th

July 2012.

When was the last time she did a similar act of declaring an Olympic Games

open?

 It was the 1976 Montreal Games, Canada.

She was the Head of State of Canada.

Question 2

Question 3A Reuters dispatch in 2008 from Afghanistan

recounted an incident in the evening hours of how a set of robbers in Mazar-e-sharief

stripped a car of its wheels, mirrors etc. as nobody was around. The robbers left a note on

the car “Tulsi Zindabad”.

Further the Reuters dispatch stated that you couldn’t meet / call any Afghani at 830 pm in the evening as they were busy watching!

What were the Afghans busy with?

They were busy watching the Hindi TV serial “KYUNKI SAAS BHI KABHI BAU THI”.

Tulsi Zindabad was with reference to the main character Tulsi in this serial

Question 4

These penalties are called “Panenka penalties” named after the Czech footballer

Antonín Panenka .

Panenka won the 1976 European Championship for Czechoslovakia where in the final against West Germany he scored the winning penalty in the shootout with a softly chipped ball up the middle as the

goalie dived away.

Question 5In the 19th Century they were sold under brands like Major Grey’s (or) Bengal Club and shipped to Europe and were treated

on par with Luxury goods

They are either wet or dry, and they can have a coarse to a fine texture

Types of these include Tamarind, Ridge gourd, Mango, Mint, Peanut, Onion

What is being referred here?

CHUTNEY

Question 6

At the 84th Academy Awards in 2012 it had 10 nominations and won 5 awards

Including Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor

Question 7

“I actually feel very embarrassed because I rejected him as a fast bowler. However I think I did him

and the game of cricket a big favour”

Who said recently about whom?

Dennis Lillee on Sachin Tendulkar.

Since Sachin went to the MRF foundation in late 1980s to get trained as a fast bowler and Lillee told him to

focus on his batting rather than bowling

8. Connect

Jim Corbett National Park

Question 9Mr. William Ortan, President of Western Union in

1876 decided not to pay $ 100,000 as an investment for an invention.

He declined the investment with a note “After careful consideration, while it is a very

interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial

possibilities”.

A few years later he said that he could consider the patent for the same invention, a bargain at $ 25MM.

What is being referred here?

Mr. William Orton had rejected the invention of the “Telephone”

by Alexander Graham Bell.

Question 10X was the idea of David Wallerstein, a Y executive who worked

for a chain of movie theaters in the 1950s and 1960s.

While working at the movie theaters, Wallerstein was tasked with boosting sales of popcorn and soda. Wallerstein

discovered that it was very difficult to persuade customers to purchase more than one soda or bag of popcorn.

"I soon discovered that customers could be persuaded to pay for more up front.”

Although Y executive Ray Kroc was initially skeptical ofWallerstein's proposal to change Y meals (believing that people

who wanted more fries would buy two bags), he eventually agreed to try Wallerstein's idea.

The sales results led to the program being rolled out in the 1990’s throughout Y restaurants.

Supersizing, McDonalds

Question 11

“CQD..CQD..MGY..41.46N 50.14W”

This the distress signal sent by Titanic using radio maritime

signals

Titanic had the call sign MGY and CQD is understood by

wireless operators to mean “All Stations: Distress”

12. Connect

World’s first wireless TV remote control invented by Eugene Polley from Zenith

Electronics in 1955.

Rules• This round consists of 8 questions

• This is a Buzzer Round

• + 10 for a correct answer and - 10 for a wrong answer

• No passing

1. Explain

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSOR, LIZARD, SPOCK popularized by the TV sitcom

“The Big Bang Theory”

2. Identify

J Vishnuvardhan who partnered Leander Paes at the 2012 Olympic games

3. What is this?

WEBCAM

4. Identify

LOUVRE AT PARIS

5. Identify

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

6. What just happened here?

May 6, 1954 - Roger Bannister ran the first sub 4 minute Mile

7. Identify

Mariah Carey

8. Identify

Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins

Rules of BOOMERANG• Correct answer +20; Wrong answer -10

• Question assigned to random team

• The team to which question is assigned can answer or boomerang it to any other team

• Boomerang can continue till all teams are exhausted

• If receiving team answers correctly they get +20; the team that last boomeranged will get -10

SAMPLE

In 1888, an elephant carrying sleepers for the Assam Railway & Trading company for laying tracks was found to have dark

coating on its legs. What discovery did this lead to?

Ready?

FIRST TEAM IS….

Question 1

Nick Newlife from Oxford placed a bet of £1,520 at odds 66 to 1 ten years ago with

Bookmakers William Hill. But he died in 2009 and left his entire estate including the 2003

betting slip to the charity organization OXFAM.

This betting slip in 2012 won them £100,000.

What was the bet?

The bet was that Roger Federer would win 7 Wimbledon Titles

SECOND TEAM IS…

2. Connect

SCIENTOLOGY

It is a body of beliefs and related practices created by L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986),

starting in 1952, as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics which

has been become a religion.This religion being practiced by Tom Cruise and being imposed on their daughter Suri resulted in Katie Holmes filing for divorce

THIRD TEAM IS….

3. ConnectAlong with the Indian Army, Indian Navy & Indian Air Force there are 3 other paramilitary forces that

guard our nation.

The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) guards the border in the heights, the Border Security Force (BSF) guards the borders in the plains & jungles.

Name the 3rd paramilitary force that watches over internal security of our county.

The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State / Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and

contain insurgency.

FOURTH TEAM!

4. Connect

The equestrian events at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games were not held at Melbourne, Australia due to

strict quarantine regulations. Hence this event was held in Stockholm, Sweden earlier that year.

FIFTH TEAM IS…

5. What are we talking about?Cheetah Flex carbon fibre transtibial

Categories 2-9

Build Weight - 512g

Build Height - 411 mm

Max Weight - 147 Kg

Oscar Pistorius’ Prosthetic Limbs

SIXTH TEAM IS…

6. What?

Rule 1: one foot shall remain in contact with the ground at all times.

Rule 2:  front leg on making contact with the ground shall straighten at the knee and stay

that way till the body has passed over it.

What are we talking about?

Rules of Race Walking

SEVENTH TEAM IS…

8

What are Foetus, Log, Yearner, Soldier, Freefall, Starfish the different

forms of?

Question 7

Human Sleeping Positions

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST

7

This game has its origins in Maharashtra and in

ancient times was played on ‘raths’ (or) chariots,

and was known as “Rathera”. It is one of the

traditional sports in India and is a modified form of

“Run Chase”. The game is played between two

teams, one of whom is the Runner team and the

other the Chaser team. It is played in 2 innings by

12 players on each side with initially 9 players

starting the game and 3 are kept in reserve.

Which game?

Question 8

Kho-Kho

Rules• 6 questions of standard quizzing on Buzzer• For each correct answer +10 points and wrong answer -10

points• The answers to each of these 6 questions are connected

by a common - Theme / Word / Concept / Person – this will lead you to the LINK

• Teams should guess and write down the LINK on paper (not shout out)!

• If you guess the LINK correctly i.e. connecting theme / word / concept / person after the first two questions, you get plus 60 points, next two ,you get plus 40 points and last two you get plus 20 points

• There is a constant negative of 20 points for wrong guesses (any number of guesses allowed but for every wrong guess – 20 points)

1. What happened next?

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in

May 1991

2. Identify

CHARLES DE GAULLE OF FRANCE

3. IdentifyIt is a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by

Frederick William Stevens with influences from Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and Indian (Mughal and Hindu) traditional buildings.

Was built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria  on the location of the

old Bori Bunder Station.

Its name was changed to its present one in March 1996 and is simply known as VT (or CST/CSTM)

What are we talking about?

Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus

4. Identify

JOHN F KENNEDY

5. Identify

INDIRA GANDHI

6. Identify

HAL

The LINK is names of

“Airports”

1. Rajiv Gandhi International (Hyderabad)2. Charles de Gaulle (CDG Paris)

3. John F Kennedy (New York)4. Chatrapati Shivaji International (Mumbai)

5. Indira Gandhi International, New Delhi6. HAL Airport, Bangalore

PLEASE WAIT TILL THE SCORES ARE TABULATED

AND THE WINNER IS…