1. Mechnius
2012
present
Mechnius Quiz

2. Total 6 rounds
 Round 1 – Direct Clockwise (12)
 Round 2 – Clues !!!
 Round 3 – Direct Anti clockwise (12)
 Round 4 – Long Visual Connect (11)
 Round 5 – Your Choice
 Round 6 – Rapid Fire
Decision of Quiz master will be final

3. Round I
Total 12 questions
Bounce Clockwise
10 points for right answer
No negatives

4. 1
By what name this is known ?

5. Vitruvian Man

6. 2
The name of this structure is derived from two Greek
words which means “on both sides” and “place for
viewing”. These were used for chariot races, gladiator
combats and executions in ancient Rome.
Some of the natural examples are found
in Drakensberg, South Africa; Slane Castle in Ireland; The
Gorge, The Red Rocks in USA.
What are we talking about ?

7.  Amphitheatres

8. 3
This regiment which was formed in 1815 in the British
Indian Army still exists in Indian Army and British Army.
Name it

9. Gurkha Regiment

10. 4
In 2006 a commemorative Coin set was issued to mark
the 50th anniversary of the founding of X, making it only
the second Indian company alongside State Bank of India
to have such a coin issued in its honour.
Name the company ......

11. ONGC

12. 5
This word was coined by Georges Herpin in 1864. He
took the Greek root word which means an attraction or
affinity for something, and another word meaning "exempt
from duties and taxes" to form this word. The alternative
terms considered were "timbromania", "timbrophily" and
"timbrology“. Identify the word.

13. Philately

14. 6
When the ships São Gabriel and São Rafael reached India,
a new history was created. Why?

15. These are the ships which carried Vasco da Gama to
India

16. 7
David Leavitt suggested this about the death of Alan Turing
that he was re-enacting a scene from a 1937 film , his
favourite fairy tale, pointing out that he took "an especially
keen pleasure in the scene where the Wicked Witch
immerses her apple in the poisonous brew.“
Name the film ?

17. Snow White

18. 8
For every year there is a pre-approved list of names for X
which are generated by National X Center. Since 1979, the
name list alternate between male and female. Xs are
named alphabetically for the list in a chronological order
i.e. the first X of the year will be given a name that starts
with „A‟ , second one starts with „B‟ and so on. The list
contains name that begin from A to W, but exclude name
that begin with “Q” or “U”. There are six lists that
continue to rotate.
What list…….

19. Hurricanes

20. 9
The 1968 Olympics marked the debut of Dick Fosbury
and his famous “______” jumping style. Till then, all high
jumpers cleared the bar by straddling it. But his technique
began by racing upto the bar and twisting his body while
taking off. He went over the bar head first with his back to
the bar. This style is adopted by most jumpers today.
Name the jumping style.

21. Fosbury Flop

22. 10
Gokul Rajaram, a former Google employe is known to us
by the name “Godfather of X” . X played a major role in
increased amount of blog writers and similar websites. In
fact it is one of the thing that most of the bloggers love of
Google.
Id X….

23. Google Adsense

24. 11
Flag of ___________________

25. English East India Company

26. 12
This was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United
States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic
National Committee headquarters which eventually led to
the resignation of Richard Nixon from the post of U.S
president. The FBI connected the payments to the
burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the
Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the
Nixon campaign.
Why was the scandal named so ????

27. Because the Democratic National Committee
headquarters was situated in Watergate complex in
Washington D.C

28. Round II
Total 6 questions
Each question consist of 3 clues with points 20,15
and 10.
Negative 20,15 and 10 for wrong answers

29. 20
19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938

30. 15
His famous quote, "the future is in the skies", is
embossed today on the façade of Etimesgut Airport and
his surname was presented to him by the Parliament of his
country in 1934.

31. 10
He was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer,
revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of
Turkey

32. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

33. 20
He is an 8 time academy award winner.
He also won Palm d‟Or in 2002.
 His first wife was Polish actress, Barbara Lass who
also acted in his 1959 film “When Angels Fall.”

34. 15
He then married Sharon Tate, the upcoming actress
of that time.
On 11 March 1977, he was arrested in Los Angeles for
the sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during
a photo shoot for French Vogue magazine.

35. 10
His famous movies are…
The Pianist (2002)
Oliver Twist (2005)
The Ghost Write (2010)
Carnage (2011) etc……..

36. Roman Polanski

37. 20
Alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Worked for companies such as Standard
Chartered, DBS Bank and IDBI Federal Life Insurance
before turning to writing.

38. 15
At the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2011 he said that “He
believes that religiosity and liberalism go hand-in-hand in
India”.
He targeted social media websites for promoting his
debut novel, and made a trailer film with a background
score reportedly by Taufiq Qureshi and uploaded it
on YouTube.

39. 10
His third book, The Oath of the Vayuputras is expected
to release in 2012

40. Amish Tripathi

41. 20
In 2004, Art Silverblatt and Nikolai Zlobin described it as
a "muckraking site" in their book "International
Communications: A Media Literacy Approach"

42. 15
It carried out an investigation on defence procurement,
called Operation Westend, received international attention,
and led to the resignation of Indian Defence Minister in
2001

43. 10
The first issue of the magazine was published in 2000 as
a news website. It transitioned through a printed
newspaper format until it became a magazine in 2007.
Editor in chief is Tarun Tejpal

44. Tehelka

45. 20
 He made his first significant impact in tennis in 1990 by
knocking Boris Becker out of the first round of the French
Open men's singles where he went on to reach the
quarter-finals.
He helped Yugoslavia win the World Team Cup in 1991.

46. 15
He lost to Andre Agassi in 1992 and to Pete Sampras in
94 and 98 Wimbledon Single‟s finals.
He won bronze at Barcelona Olympics in 1992

47. 10
He is the only person to win the men's singles title
at Wimbledon as a wildcard in 2001 after a tough and
emotional 5 set match against Patrick Rafter.

48. Goran Ivanisevich

49. 20
 Featured in India Today's list of '100 People Who
Shaped India'.
She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956,
and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1967.

50. 15
She was instrumental for the legislation for The
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,1960 and for
later setting up of the Animal Welfare Board of India,
under her chairmanship in 1962.
In 1977, Morarji Desai offered to nominate her for
the post of President of India.

51. 10
In January 1994, an Act of the Indian
Parliament recognised the Kalakshetra Foundation
which she started as an 'Institute of National
Importance.‘
She is considered the most important revivalist in
the Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam from
its original 'sadhir' style

52. 10
Rukmini Devi Arundale

53. Round III
Total 12 questions
Pounce with bounce anti clockwise
10 for direct
+10/-10 for pounce

54. 1
It is a Russian nesting doll which is a set of
wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the
other. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in
1890 from a design by a folk crafts painter ,Sergey
Malyutin. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed
in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian
peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either
gender; the smallest, innermost doll is typically a
baby lathed from a single piece of wood.
Name it
Pic in next slide

55. Contd….

56. Matryoshka Dolls

57. 2
X started its actual operations in India in the summer of
1888, when crates full of Y soap bars, embossed with the
words "Made in England by X" were shipped to the
Kolkata harbour and it began an era of marketing branded
Fast Moving Consumer Goods.
Id X & Y ?

58. X – Lever Brothers
Y – Sunlight

59. 3
He was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality
from Bengal. He became a member of the Indian People‟s
Theatre Association, a left-leaning group of artists who aimed at
reflect the suffering of the poor in their work, so as to make a
social impact for the betterment of that section of society.
Name his wife who is more famous
in another field…..

60. Mahasweta Devi

61. 4
They are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian
ethnic group. The name of this tribe derives from the
word ”bādiyah” which means semiarid desert.
Id this group….

62. Bedouin

63. 5
X is a volcano in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. It erupted
thousands of years ago resulting in the formation of a crater.
Subsequent lava flows sealed the bottom allowing it to be filled
with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water from rainfall and
snow melt, consequently forming Y, the world‟s seventh deepest
lake in the world. The entire mountain range is located in the Y
National Park. A small volcanic island, Wizard Island appears on
the west of this lake creating a „volcano in a lake in a volcano‟.
Id X and Y ………….
Pic in next slide

64. Contd……

65. X – Mt.Mazama
Y – Crater Lake

66. 6
With which invention related to one of the natural disaster can
you connect A ?????
B is his invention.
A B

67. Seismograph

68. 7
Name of this Indian state is derived form the Sanskrit for
“without flatness or plains” or “unequal”. It is also believed that
the name is derived from one of the kingdom which ruled there.

69. Assam

70. 8
For which Indian newspaper did they work for?

71. The Pioneer

72. 9
This art form is similar to the European dramatic version, Opera.
It has a history of about 400 years and is closely related with
Latin Catholics.
A Malayalam film which is closely related with this art form was
released in 2010, which became the first Malayalam movie from
Reliance Big Motion Pictures.
Identify the art form and film.

73. Art form – Chavittu nadakam

74. 10
The 1939 Tripura session of Congress saw Gandhiji and Netaji in
opposite sides. Netaji & X were the candidates for the
presidential post of Congress. X was supported by Gandhiji, but
lost to Netaji by 95 votes. A book written by X is considered as
the History of INC .
Find X …

75. Pattabhi Sitharamayya

76. 11
Charles Darwin described it as "ugly animals, of a yellowish
orange beneath, and of a brownish-red colour above: from their
low facial angle they have a singularly stupid appearance.“
Identify it.

77. Galapagos Iguana

78. 12
He was an Indian international footballer and first class cricketer.
His club career started and ended at Mohun Bagan despite
offers from clubs like Tottenham.
He was the captain of Indian football team which won the Asian
Games gold in 1962.
He won the Arjuna award in 1963 and Padmashri in 1983.
He also acted in a Bengali movie “Prothom Prem”

79. Chuni Goswami

80. Round IV
Total 10 slides
5 pts for identifying each slide
10 pts bonus for getting all 10 correct
Slides 1-2 :: +50/-25
Slides 3-4 :: +40/-20
Slides 5-6 :: +30/-15
Slides 7-8 :: +20/-10
Slides 9-10 :: +10/-5

81. 1
+50/-25

82. 2
+50/-25

83. 3
+40/-20

84. 4
+40/-20

85. 5
+30/-15

86. 6
+30/-15

87. 7
+20/-10

88. 8
+20/-10

89. 9
+10/-5

90. 10
+10/-5

92. All are known as “Gandhi” of their respective areas

93. 1
A T Ariyaratna
Sri Lankan Gandhi

94. 2
Ibrahim Rugova
Balkan Gandhi

95. 3 Ahmed Sukarno
Indonesian Gandhi

96. 4 Jomo Keniyatta
Kenyan Gandhi

97. 5 Aang San
Burmese Gandhi

98. 6 K Kelappan
Kerala Gandhi

99. Baba Amte
7
Gandhi of Modern World

100. 8
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Orissa Gandhi

101. 9
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Frontier Gandhi

102. 10
Martin Luther King
American Gandhi

103. Round V
Select your topic
Each topic contains 3 questions with points in the
order 10,15,20.
For wrong answer you will lose your just previous
point in this round.

104. Sports
Politics
Literature
Entertainment
History
Business

106. S1
 Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, it was too painful for him
to show his index finger raised above the head and this led to
the "crooked finger of doom".
Other signals include “crumb-sweeping” wave of the arm,
double crooked finger six-phase hop etc.
Who is the creator of these signals who is referred as
“Bozo the Clown” ??

107. Billy Bowden

108. S2
Starting from 1928 Olympics, the gold medal winning
Indian hockey team holds another unique record which
was broken in 1968 Olympics. What is that ?

109. S2
None of the teams scored more than 1 goal against
India in Olympics

110. S3
The evolution of this was believed to be from the colour
of the event organizing newspaper after the journalists had
asked the event director, Henri Desgrange, to make it
easier for them to find the leader in the peloton.
What are we talking about ?

111. Evolution of Yellow Jersey in Tour de France

113. P1
 Founding member of the Communist Party of India.
Founder of Socialist the first socialist weekly in India
Played an important role in the formation of Maharashtra.
Remained the Chairman of the CPI till 1978, was removed in
that year because the majority of party workers were against his
political line of supporting Indian National Congress & Indira
Gandhi.
Was in news some months ago in Kerala.
Who is he ?

114. Sripad Amrit Dange

115. P2
Co founded the Penguin Books and also created the
Sainik schools. He is considered as the prime architect of
Third Bloc policy. He was described as the 2nd most
powerful man after Nehru by Time magazine.
Who is he ?

116. V k Krishnamenon

117. P3
He was a key figure in the Islamic revolution in Iran and
a close confidant of Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1981, after the
assassination of Mohammad-Ali Rajai, he was
elected President of Iran by a huge margin. Founded
the Islamic Republic Party, along with like-minded clerics
such as Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Javad Bahonar
Who is this great leader ?

118. Syed Ali Khameni

120. L1
By what name these 3 are known ????

121. Lake Poets

122. L2
He believed that his most enduring contributions would
be his "Three Laws of Robotics" and the Foundation
Series.
He was credited for introducing the words
“Robotics”, “positronic” and “psychohistory”.
His other famous works are Galactic Empire series,
Nightfall, Black Widowers series etc
Identify the Russian born author ……

123. Issac Asimov

124. The plot for this film was based on a story by Samuel
Hopkins Adams. Which is that story ?

126. Night Bus

128. E1
Identify the director of this movie

129. Santhosh George Kulangara

130. E2
X stars in Disney Mobile‟s IOS game “Where‟s My Water?”.
It was created to aim at the Angry Birds‟ empire in mobile games
world and soon to enter into film world.
Identify X….

131. Swampy

132. E3
It is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš
Forman and based on the 1962 novel of the same
name by Ken Kesey.
The title is derived from an American children's folk
rhyme.
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield played
major roles.
A Malayalam version of this was also made by a
leading director.

133. One flew over the Cuckoo‟s
nest

135. H1
They met first on 1955 April @ Bandung to lay the foundation of
X. Then in July 1956, they again met @ Briyoni to form the
practical skeleton of X. In 1961 September they met @ Belgrade
in which representatives from 25 countries participated and
finally X came into existence.
Identify X.

136. Non Alignment Movement

137. H2 Connect to a dynasty

138. Eastern Ganga Dynasty

139. H3
He was an archaeologist who is famous for some special
discovery in Egypt. What is that special discovery ?

140. Tomb of Tutankhamun

142. B1
Identify the company ………

143. Sum Zero

144. B2
The group that develops X was originally called the
"Portable Systems" team. X is a 32-bit operating system
released on July 27, 1993, which makes it a strategic
business platform that supports high-end engineering and
scientific programs.

145. Windows NT

146. B3
It was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by
three partners:
English teacher Jerry Baldwin,
history teacher Zev Siegl, and
writer Gordon Bowker.
The name is taken from Moby-Dick after Pequod was rejected
by one of the co-founders, the company was named after the
first mate on the Pequod.
Id the company……..

147. Starbucks

148. Round VI
One minute time
5 points for correct answer
No negatives

149. a