[QMB Freshers open 2013] Finals

Quizmaniac BEings (QMB)
Quiz Master : Alumni of BESU (QMB members)
Date : 19 September 2013
Alumni Seminar Hall
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Santanu Dey (Metallurgy 1989)
Debojyoti De (CST 2003)
Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Mining 2009)
Rohel Deb (Mining 2011)
Ankur Lunia (Civil 2013)
Sushobhan Dutta (Civil 2013)
Shubho Deep (Civil 2013)
Sauradeep Bhowmick (Civil 2014)
Tanoy Dewanjee (Aerospace 2014)

FinalsFinalsFinalsFinals
Rules of the game :
48 questions, first 24 clockwise, last 24 anticlockwise
Infinite Bounce
10 points for both direct and bonus
10 seconds for direct question, 2 second for bonus
8 pounce available per team

Question 1Question 1Question 1Question 1
Ordering of what ? Explain / Give funda.
Bigger picture in next slides
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And the answer isAnd the answer isAnd the answer isAnd the answer is …………

Answer to Question 1Answer to Question 1Answer to Question 1Answer to Question 1
• Order of the location where BESU
functioned in last 100+ years.
• BESU was established on 24 November 1856 named Calcutta Civil
Engineering College, training personnel for the Public Works
Department, and located at the Writers' Building, Howrah.
• Next, in 1865, the college merged with Presidency College, Kolkata
and from 1865 to 1869 the college functioned as the Civil
Engineering Department of Presidency College.
• In 1880, the college was shifted to its present campus at Shibpur,
Howrah, and was christened the Government College, Howrah, in
the premises of Bishop's College

During world war 1, he tried to join the army but
was rejected for being underaged. He joined Red
Cross instead and drove an ambulance for a
year. Who ?

Dutch mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen's
grave stone had something on it that can be
connected with a boy who had a rather
interesting voyage with Richard Parker in a book
by Yan Martel.
What is the connection ?

Pi. Ceulen was the first person to calculate pi's
value till the 35th place. And, the book by Martel
is Life of Pi.

Identify the person playing the role of Gabbar Singh
Bigger picture in next slide
Question by Sauradeep Bhowmick (2014 CE)

Sachin Tendulkar

This is an neologism that refers to a
lifestyle associated with a certain
District of Seoul.
Its signature moves were attempted
by many notable political leaders
such as the British Prime Minister
David Cameron, U.S. President
Barack Obama, and United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
who hailed it as a "force for world
peace".
What are we talking about ?

Gangnam Style

Identify this gentleman in this video who is
rapping the following lyrics wearing a
ridiculously funny white wig.
“We’ve got to make things leak, so we can get
much bolder”
“Oh, we’re all wire-tapped now, we’re all being
fed lies.”
“You’re the light that the world’s demanding!”
“Make it bright and make things clear.”

Julian Assange of the Wikileaks fame

And the next question isAnd the next question isAnd the next question isAnd the next question is
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Audience QuestionAudience QuestionAudience QuestionAudience Question
Find the connection. Hint : food item.

Answer to Audience QuestionAnswer to Audience QuestionAnswer to Audience QuestionAnswer to Audience Question
These are different types of Sandwich
(Peanut-Butter-Jelly, Club, Monte Cristo and
Dagwood).

The people in the
picture are : Georges
Krins, Wallace
Hartley, Roger
Bricoux, Theodore
Brailey, Percy Taylor,
John Woodward, Fred
Clarke and John
Hume.
What did they form
together? Be specific

They were the Titanic
Band that went under
playing music !

Koushik Mitra was a Mechanical engineer
from BESU.
He, for some time, ran The Repose, a hotel
at Ghum, Darjeeling along with his wife
Sujata Mitra.
He started a private detective agency,
named Sukoushali at some one's residence
New Alipore.
Whose residence ?
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Prasanna Kumar Basu (famously known as P. K.
Basu), Bar at Law as in the Kanta series by
Narayan Sanyal

At 27 years, she was at her prime age when
she died from intestine impaction on 27
August 2013 in Kolkata.
Kanai Lal Ghosh did confirm that preliminary
investigations have not revealed anything
unusual.
Born in 1986, she came to Kolkata in 2005
and had given birth to her daughter Shanti
the next year.
Name her.

Pappi, the hippopotamus that died in Alipore Zoo.
Kanai Lal Ghosh is the director of Alipore Zoo.

Identify these two gentlemen so popular in
the world of comics.

René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo of the
Asterix fame

This is Kevin Mitnick, a renowned
hacker. He served five years in prison —
four and a half years pre-trial and eight
months in solitary confinement —
because, according to him, law
enforcement officials convinced a judge
that he had the ability to "start a nuclear
war by whistling into a pay phone",
meaning that law enforcement told the
judge that he could somehow dial into
the NORAD modem via a payphone from
prison and communicate with the modem
by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.
On the next slide we have a picture of his
business card.
What is so special about the card ?

The visiting card disassembles into a functional
lock pick set.

In the original 1912 serialized printing of Tarzan
of the Apes, Sabor the tiger was the main
antagonist who killed Tarzan's adpotive parent
Kala and Kerchack's original baby.
What was so strange about Sabor that write
Edger Rice Burroughs changed the genus of this
character in the first collected edition in 1914 ?

There are no tiger in Africa and Burroughs had to
change Sabor from Tiger to Lioness

This is Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
What is so special about this clip ?

First video uploaded on Youtube. Chad
Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim are the
co-founder of Youtube.

Five sons of Draupadi - Prativindhya,
Sutasoma, Srutakirti, Satanika, and
Srutakarma, were killed on the night after the
last day of the war of Mahabharata.
Who was the killer ?

Ashvatthama

What connects the following :
a computing term for a four-bit aggregation
a mouse character in the Tom and Jerry
cartoons (also known as Tuffy)
a popular MS-DOS game
small items of finger food

Nibbles

Born Teresa Draco in 1943, she is the only child
of Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the Union
Corse, a powerful Corsican crime syndicate. She
died on her wedding day in a drive-by shooting.
Who was the unfortunate husband left behind
unharmed ? Bigger picture next slide …

James Bond, in the novel and film - On Her
Majesty's Secret Service

Historic people – so, you do not have to identify
them by name. What is the connection
between these people ? Be specific, I need
proper funda. Bigger picture next slide…

These are the only 4 couples winning Nobel
Prizes.
Top left : Marie and Pierre Currie
Top right : Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Bottom left : Gerty Cori and Carl Cori
Bottom right : Irène Joliot Curie and Frédéric
Joliot

Identify the company
from its logo that also
highlights the "31
flavors" it promised its
customers - one
variety each day of
the month !

Connect the men in picture with a single theme ?

Rahul. All of them (Vinod Khanna, Mahesh
Bhatt, Sachin Dev Burman and Pramod
Mahajan) have a son named Rahul.

Parker pen ran an advertising campaign in the early
1970s, simply showing a hand using a Parker Pen to
write the following ‘mathematical’ formula on a piece
of paper
The result was that they received numerous
inquiries by chemists, mathematicians, and
physicists, asking for the meaning of the formula, as
they could not figure it out. What is the formula
about ?
Apparently the campaign received one very critical letter
asking “Who ever heard of a X without an olive?".

The formula was actually a
humorous representation for the
recipe of a Martini: 3.5 shots of gin
and half a shot of vermouth over 4
parts H2O3 (water cubed = ice),
finished off with three stirs (the
3×360°)!!!

Smaller non-capital letters were first developed by
Alcuin for use in the court of Charlemagne, and quickly
spread across Europe.
Here for the first time it became common to mix both
capital and small letters in a single text. Since small
letters were more frequently used in text than capitals,
manual typesetters often stored them within easy reach,
while capital letters were stored further away.
Which words in the language did this practice give
rise to ?
Question by Santanu Dey (Metallurgy 1989)

Lower case, upper case

Name the brand being advertised

This trophy is named after
Jawaharlal Nehru and is a
popular Vallam Kali conducted on
the second Saturday of August
every year. It is a major tourist
attraction.
The most popular event is the
competition of Chundan Vallams.
What attraction is this ?

The event is Nehru Trophy Boat Race held in the
Punnamada Lake near Alappuzha, Kerala, India.
Chundan Vallams are the famous snake boats.

Print advertisement of which brand ?

Volkswagen recently acquired the Italian bike
maker X to expand its portfolio and compete
with fellow german automobile giant BMW
which has both the profiles.
ID X.
Question by Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Mining 2009)

Assuming it came out perfectly cylindrical, what
is the volume of a pizza of thickness a and
radius z ?

Identify this five time Olympic gold medal winner.

Johnny Weissmuller who played Tarzan in 12
movies

This picture is titled "The Red Vineyard" and
was drawn by Vincent Van Gogh. Why was this
picture very special for Van Gogh ?

Only picture that Van Gogh was able to sell in
his lifetime !

Connect the pictures.
Hint : Four very popular icons !

Famous restaurants of Kolkata’s Park Street.
Peter (Roebuck) Cat, Mocambo (fruit),
Arsalan (lion) and Blue Fox.

The second person from left (playing a flute) is
Pradip Chatterjee, an BESU alumni. He worked for
engineering firm M.N. Dastur & Company (P) Ltd.
What is he more famous for ?
Bigger picture in next slide
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Pradip Chatterjee is a founder member of the
Bengali band Moheener Ghoraguli, arguably
West Bengal's first music band

What was the special thing given by MS Dhoni
to Sourav Ganguly on the last day of the 4th
Test against Australia in 2010 Nagpur?

Captaincy

He was the chief designer of the flood protection
system for the city of Hyderabad, now capital
city of Andhra Pradesh, as well as the chief
engineer responsible for the construction of the
Krishna Raja Sagara dam in Mysore.
Every year, 15 September is celebrated
as Engineer's Day in India in his memory.
Name him.
Question by Sabyasachi Mukherjee (Mining 2009)

This is Al Jolson performing his signature tune
'Mammy'. Why is this movie so famous ?

This clip is from the
1927 film 'The Jazz
Singer', world's first
talkie

"Jabberwocky" is a poem written by a maths
teacher…in which book you will find it ?
“ Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves Did gyre and
gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves; And ye mome
raths outgrabe.”
Question by Santanu Dey (Metallurgy 1989)

What was named so, because J L Nehru told
Homi Bhaba that the lights of the reaction
reminded him of the mythological dancers from
heaven ?

Apsara, India's first nuclear reactor. The picture
in the question was of the blue Cerenkov
radiation seen in Apsara.

Born in Sydney, Australia, he was a qualified
civil engineer. Actress Parveen Babi helped him
get his first steps into the world of Hindi films.
He has acted in more than 200 movies in Hindi,
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
He is most famous for playing roles as a
henchman or an Army officer.
Who ?

Who is missing in the right most picture ?
Connection is the year 2000 !
Question by Ankur Lunia (Civil 2013)

Diya Mirza
India won all the international paegents it
participated in - Miss Universe, Miss World
and Miss Asia Pacific in the year 2000.

Name this
gentleman who
was born on 15
August 1938 in
Kasur (Pakistan)
and came to be
known as Walt
Disney of India.

Pran Kumar
Sharma better
known as Pran,
the creator of
Chacha
Chaudhary

In Ramananda Sagar's Ramayana, what
role did this lady play ?

This is Lalita Pawar and she played the role
of Manthara

He was from Bhikhiwind, in the Tarn Taran
district of Punjab, India.
A well-built man, he was fond of wrestling and
taking care of rare pigeons for games. He
worked as a farmer on other's fields.
He was married to Sukhpreet Kaur and had two
daughters Swapandeep and Poonam Kaur.
Name him.

Sarabjeet Singh

Which food item name comes from Latin
meaning Twice Cooked as it originally cooked in
a twofold process: first baked, and then dried
out in a slow oven ?

Identify the person in this advertisement
Question by Tanoy Dewanjee (Aerospace 2014)

Maria Sharapova

The foundation work for this
building was completed in late
1930s and construction was to be
completed by early 1942.
However, the World War II
brought all construction to a halt.
The building was eventually
completed only in 1950s and was
formally opened by then Finance
Minister C.D. Deshmukh on 19
March 1952. Which building ?
Bigger picture next slide…

The Alipore Mint

Name the movie

Which variety of
kebab was created
for an aging Nawab
Wajid Ali Shah of
Lucknow who lost
his teeth, but not
his passion for
meat dishes. This
type of kebab
literally means
"melt in your
mouth".

Galawati or Galauti

"An Uncertain Glory: India
and its Contradictions"
was released in July 2013
by Penguin Books India.
The writer, Jean Drèze,
became an Indian citizen
in 2002.
Who is his co-author ?

Amartya Sen

His epitaph reads "Never born, Never died:
visited the planet earth between December 11,
1931 and, January 19, 1990." Whose ?

This is the logo of the flag carrier of Indonesia.
The flight attendants’ uniform, features kebaya
and parang gondosuli batik which are
traditional dresses of Indonesia. Name the
airlines.

Identify the person who paid obeisance at the
famed Sree Krishna temple decked up in a
colourful costume for the devotional Krishattam
dance-drama at Guruvayoor in Kerala.
Bigger picture next slide…

S. Sree Santh

Who writes blogs under the pseudonym ‘Gul
Makai’?
The person’s real name when translated into
English means ‘Grief Stricken’.
The person was nominated for the 2013 Nobel
Peace Prize
Question by Rohel Deb (Mining 2011)

• The Canadian news agency, Canadian Press,
named him "Newsmaker of the Year" for 1988.
• He briefly acted as trainer for Argentine football
legend Diego Maradona in 1997.
• He had been hired by Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi to act as a football coach for his son, Al-
Saadi Gaddafi, who aspired to join an Italian
football club.
• Who ?

Benjamin Sinclair "Ben"
Johnson

Name the movie

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