2. INQUIZZITIVE ‘14
Prelims
-By
QUEST - DSCE Quiz Club

3. RULES
• 25 Questions
• Q no. 21 to 25 are starred questions
• In case of a tie, starred questions will be considered
first.
• If the tie still persists, sudden death from the 1st
question.
• Top 6 teams will qualify for the finals.
• No Googling!!
Happy Quizzing..!!

4. ID this cricketer known
for his non-cricketing
achievements.
1.

5. Jawaharlal Nehru

6. 2.
Connect!

7. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road

8. _____ is the act of accidentally or purposely
putting oneself into the view of a photograph,
often in order to play a practical joke on the
photographer or the subjects.
3.
ID
Give me the word originating
through the 2 answers which was a
trending twitter topic

9. • Benedict Cumberbatch
• Photobombing
• CumberBombing

10. According to Robert Scoble, X succeeded in combining attributes of Twitter, Facebook, Google
Wave and similar websites that are based on a system of users voting up content. Scoble later
criticized X for being a "horrid service for blogging," and although a decent website, not
substantially better than competitors. The Daily Telegraph has predicted that X will become
larger than Twitter, and along with Airbnb and Dropbox, it has been named among the next
generation of multibillion dollar start-ups by the New York Times.
4.

12. In 1904, Gus Mears acquired an athletics stadium with the aim of turning it
into a football stadium. An offer to lease it to the nearby Fulham was turned
down. Mears opted to start his own club to use the stadium & thus a new club
was born on 10 March 1905 at “THE RISING SUN PUB”. The club took their first
European honour in 1971 with a win over Real Madrid in Athens. In 2013,
IFFHS ranked it the best club in the world replacing Barcelona. Identify this
famous football club.
5.

13. Chelsea

14. 6.
The word “X" is an anglicized version of the Scandinavian Blåtand, the epithet of the
tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish
tribes into a single kingdom. The idea of this name was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach.
Its logo is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes (Hagall) and (Bjarkan)
What is X..??

15. Bluetooth

16. 7.
Minimalist
poster for??

17. The Truman Show

18. X is the nickname of a football match played in Round 2 of the 2006 FIFA
World Cup between Portugal and the Netherlands on 25 June
2006. Russian referee Valentin Ivanov issued a FIFA World Cup record 4 red
cards and 16 yellow cards, setting a new record for cards shown at
any FIFA-administered international tournament.
8.

19. Battle of Nuremberg

20. Launched in august 2006, it is an online travel company backed by investors –
Norwest Venture Partners, Anil Ambani’s group Reliance Capital, Network 18 &
Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of Intel. Which online travel portal
are we referring to..?
9.

22. 10.
ID the Logo

24. 11.
How do we better know the Birla Tata AT&T Ltd.
also called as BATATA?

26. 12.
Connect!!
12.

27. Automobile brands owned by Volkswagen

28. 13.
Name the Presidents in the following monument

29. • George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln

30. 14.
How do we better know the
person on the right?

31. The Kissing Sailor

32. Which watch brand is advertised with slogan
“It takes a licking and keeps on ticking"?
15.

34. During prohibition, bootleggers would transport whiskey from the Appalachian
region. The cars used by the drivers for transporting this illicit booze would be
specially modified for speed to outrun the police on the twisty mountain roads.
The repeal of Prohibition in 1993 dried up some of this business. Addicted to the
speed & high of driving these cars, what did these drivers start?
16.

35. Nascar

36. 17.
The front and rear fuselage are manufactured in Hamburg, the wings
are manufactured at Broughton in North Wales, belly and tail
sections are manufactured in Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA in
Cádiz in southern Spain, and assembled in Toulouse.
What?

37. Airbus A380

38. 18.
The official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Give me its name.

39. Fuleco

40. 19.
Which product’s codename during development was
Project Normandy?

41. Nokia X

42. 20.
ID the band.
#sitter

43. The Doors

44. 21*.
Connect!

45. Unfortunate members of the 27 Club
i.e., all have died at the age of 27

46. 22*.
• Actor (Male) - Akshay Kumar
• Actor (Female) - Sonakshi Sinha
• Film – Joker
• Song - Chinta ta Chita Chita
Winners of what awards?

47. Golden Kela Awards

48. 23*.
Three students from Helsinki University of technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno
Vakevainen & Kim Dikert participated in a mobile game development
competition & won the competition. As a result of their victory, they decided
to set-up their own game-making company. They received their first round of
funding & soon released a game they had been working on. In less than three
years, this game has been downloaded over a billion times.
What game did they release?

50. 24*.
Y was the nickname of X given by the actor Ashok Kumar because he
could cry in five different notes when he was a child. He went on to
become one of the greatest music directors being nominated 18 times
for Filmfare awards
Give me X and Y

51. X – R. D. Burman
Y - Pancham da

52. 25*.
India after Gandhi is a book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha,
which won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. His book
published in 2012 can be considered a prequel in literary terms.
Name the book

53. Gandhi Before India