Oculus 2014 General quiz round 1. St. Thomas' Boys' Kidderpore.

1. Researched and Created by:
Arpan Kr. Saha
UG-II , Department of English,
Member, Presidency College Society for the
Acquisition of General Knowledge.
Presidency University, Kolkata.
Mail: arpans65@gmail.com

2. Rules:
1. QM’s decision is final.
2. +10/-10 for each correct answer.
3. Infinite pounce.
4. No negative marking (except
during pounce).

3. Round 1.
35 direct questions. Infinite pounce.

4. 1.
Trivia:
Name the first Indian novel written in
English. Name the author as well.

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6. Answer:

7. 2. Give me the proverb I’m looking for

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9. Answer.
“Empty vessels make much noise”

10. 3.
• Its design was based on the British-made model of Morris-
Oxford III.
• Widely known as ‘The Sick old lady of Indian roads’.
• The latest versions of this currently defunct model
include- Grand, Avigo and Encore.
Hint: Yellow and black, nowadays white with blue stripes.
What am I talking about?

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12. Answer- Ambassador

13. 4.
1. Three young and beautiful women.
2. Three old and weird looking women with
beards.
3. Three creepy nurses.
4. A Japanese female ghost or ‘Kami’
weaving on a spinning wheel.
5. two corrupt policemen of Mumbai
making horoscopes with pudina chutney.
6. Voodoo priests.
Representation of which fictional
character(s) in cinema/theatre
Hint: Think on the lines of Haider…

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15. Answer.
The three prophetic weird sisters in
Macbeth.

16. 5. Id this condiment used commonly in
the “tadka” or “phoron” in Indian
cooking. Shares its name with a
celebrity chef

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18. Answer: Nigella

19. 6.
• WHO classifies this medical condition under-
ICD-10 A83-A86, B94.1, G05.
• It derives its name from an Ancient Greek term indicating-
“in head inflammation”.
• Some of its variants include- Herpes Simplex, West Nile
and Tick Borne.
• Hint: Recently in news.
Identify.

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21. Answer- Encephalitis

22. 7.
“A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products
manufactured ( or in this case services provided) are statistically
expected to be free of defects (3.4 defective parts/million).
The Dabbawaalas of Mumbai have been unofficially awarded a
6-sigma. It was that one mistake which made the difference”
Which recent Bollywood movie was I talking about?

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24. Answer:

25. 8.
Identify this 2014 flick from its filming locations
(given below):
• Pahalgam
• Kehribal Area, Anantnag
• Mattan, Anantnag
• Aishan Sahab Zaina Kadal Bridge,Old Srinagar
• Nishat Bagh, Srinagar
• Dal Lake
• Qazigund, Anantnag district
• Martand Sun Temple,Srinagar
• Naseem Bagh(Kashmir University Garden), Hazratbal

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27. Answer- Haider

28. 9.
After selling its premier soda brands (like Thums Up, Citra,
Limca and Maaza) to Coca Cola in 1993, this Indian food and
beverage company re-entered the industry with the launch of
Café Cuba in 2013, which boasted of being the first coffee
flavoured carbonated drink.
Name the Mumbai based company, which is also known for
products like Frooti, Appy, Grappo, Saint Juice, Bailey, Hippo
and LMN.

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30. Answer- Parle Agro

31. 10. Beatles’ album Abbey road. Used
in advertising by which Govt
organisation? The caption of the ad is
“If they can, why cant you?”

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33. Answer

34. 11.
Before X's identity as the book's author was
revealed, 1,500 copies of the printed book had
been sold since its release in April 2013, plus
another 7,000 copies of the ebook, audiobook,
and library editions. The book surged from
4,709th to the 1st best-selling novel
on Amazon after it was revealed on 14 July 2013
that the book was written by X under the
pseudonym “Y". Signed copies of the first edition
are selling for as high as $4,000–$6,000. Give me
X, Y and the book.

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36. Answer: X- J.K Rowling Y- Robert
Galbraith.

37. 12.
If Marc Okrand invented the language Klingon
for Star Trek and J.R.R Tolkien invented the
language Elvish for The Lord of the rings, What
did Paul Frommer invent and for what?
Hint if needed.

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39. Answer: Na’avi

40. 13.
1. His birth name was Yuyudhaan. He was a
Vrishni clansman and a devout follower of
Krishna, tutored in divine weaponry by
Arjun. He was given the epithet of the
Unconquerable.
2. He was the only Yadav who fought for the
Pandavas on the battlefield of Kurukshetra,
where his actions had raised many
controversies. He broke Drona’s bowstring
101 times and countered every assault
hurled by the guru of the Pandavas. He
killed his own father on the battlefield, the
same day Bhim killed his grandfather.
Id the character

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42. Answer: Satyaki

43. 14. Id the actor whose voiced this
character.

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45. Answer: Robin Williams

46. 15.
Born Hirdesh Singh on March 15th
1983 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab.
Professions: _____, Music director
and actor.
Filmography includes Punjabi
movies like Mirza- the untold story,
Tu mera 22 main tera 22 and
Zorawar along with Hindi movies,
Boss and The Xpose.
Who?

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48. Answer

49. Which news is this girl
reading?

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51. Answer
Pic in next slide

52. On July 20, 1969, the
spaceflight Apollo 11
landed on the moon,
and American
astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Edwin E.
"Buzz" Aldrin became
the first humans to walk
on the lunar surface.

53. 17.
Which renowned Irish poet and
Nobel Laureate wrote the preface to
Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Geetanjali’?

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55. Answer: William Butler Yeats

56. 18.
• It was conceived and designed by 18 year old Egyptian
artist Ahmed Ehmad Eldin. It was turned into a digital
artwork by the design studio Stylorouge.
• Anthony Barnes of the Press Association described it as
depicting "a young man in open shirt punting across a
sea of clouds towards the glow of the sun“.
• In the news and will remain in the news for some time
now… what.
• Album art of whose what?

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58. Answer:

59. 19.

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61. Answer: Golden galleons, silver sickles
and bronze knuts; the currency used
by the wizarding world in the Harry
Potter series

62. 20.
•X originally started off making musical
instruments.
•Later they started making motorcycles, and
they became so successful, that people almost
forgot that they still made musical instruments.
•Their logo, a combination of three tuning forks
was designed for this reason.
• X?

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64. Answer

65. 21: Question in next slide

66. Very iconic piece of furniture, belonging to an equally iconic
figure. Writer of numerous books and critiques, many of
which changed the way we perceive literature, ourselves and
others. Given the epithet of Father of Psychoanalysis. His
seminal work was “Interpretation of Dreams” where he talks
about how dreams are projections of one’s own desires. He
has become the de facto face of Psychological and behavioural
studies across the world and a true definition of genius.
Born: May 6th 1856, Czech Republic. Nationality: Austrian.
Died: September 23rd 1939, London.
Name the personality.

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68. Answer: Sigmund Freud

69. 22.
1. The franchise started out with 151 original
_______, in 1996.
2. After 16 seasons and the 17th going on, the
number has risen to 719 (including the ones
in the games).
FITB.

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71. Answer: Pok’emon

72. 23.

73. Indie artist from Bangladesh. Name:
Shayon Chowdhury popularly known
as Arnob. The name of one of his
albums became unexpectedly famous
in 2014. Name the album.
Hint: Jadavpur University, 2014.

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75. Answer: Hok Kolorob

76. 24.
Mas a Tiera was the former name of a South
Pacific island where a sailor Alexander
Selkirk was marooned. Today it is known by
a whole different name owing to a famous
work of fiction. What is the new name?

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78. Answer

79. 25
 Identify the personality.

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81. Answer

82. Question 26
• Beloved Sir, I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and
my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to
privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for
train to go off and I am running with lotah in one hand and dhoti in
the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and
female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard
not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honor
to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am
making big report to papers.
Yours faithfully,
----
Okhil Chandra Sen
• Letter that led to the __________________.

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84. Answer
Introduction of toilets in trains in
India.

85. 27.
European: Evil, winged, Lizard-like or
Feline, Whisker-less, Fire.
Chinese: Benevolent, Kingly, Lizard-like,
whiskers or even moustaches,
Water.
One word that fits both descriptions.

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87. Answer: Dragons.

88. 28.
The Elgin Marbles were a collection of Greek
artefacts, displayed in London. John Keats
among many others drew poetic inspiration
from the pieces of art.
A certain Nathaniel Cook was especially inspired
by a sculpture of a horse; a stallion with its head
facing ahead and the wind blowing its mane
back.
He designed __________ keeping this in mind.
FITB.
Hint: Everyone has seen this commonplace
item. Try to visualise the bust of a horse.

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90. Answer: The Chess Knight

91. 29.
It’s a sweet and cold beverage made by mixing
Vermicelli noodles with rose syrup, tapioca
pearls and milk with ice cream and/or cream
Varieties include kesar, pista, plain or gulab etc.
Name the sweet dish and the popular Hindi
phrase originating from it.

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93. Answer: Izzat ka falooda.

94. 30.
• It was called the “Pearl in the necklace of forts
in Hind”. The place is also famous for the last
stand of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.
• The discovery of a small tablet recording the
establishment of a small 9th Century hindu
temple discovered here roused a lot of
excitement all over the world. The tablet was
the earliest record of existence of_______.
• Pic in next slide. Id the fort and FITB.

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97. Answer: The Gwalior Fort where the
tablet with the oldest recorded
existence of the number ‘0’ was found.

98. 31.
1. Abul Fazal
2. Faizi
3. Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khana
4. Hamim Humam
5. Raja Todarmal
6. Raja Maansingh
7. Shaikh Mubarak
Complete the list with two more names.

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100. Answer
• Raja Birbal
• Tansen

101. 32.
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka,
Jammu and Kashmir, Telengana,
Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
What is common to the
administrative machinery of these
states as of 2014.

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103. Answer
Bicameral Legislature or the existence of a
“Vidhan Parishad” or Legislative Council.

104. 33
• Cinnamon
• Basil
• Tamarind
• Oregano
• Saffron
• Fennel
• Rosemary
• Which company's assets are named thus?

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106. Answer

107. 34
Born in 1905, X graduated from Scottish Church College,
Kolkata. During his career, X was a broadcaster, playwright,
actor and a theatre director. X wrote plays including Mess
No. 49, and directed a theatre production, Sahib Bibi Gulam.
In 1952, he dramatised Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay's Subarna Golak. In spite of this, X is famous
for something very different, and on a “special” day in 2006,
X’s daughter got a cheque worth Rs 50917 from Saregama
India Ltd as royalty for her father's most famous work. Id X
or the famous work.
P.S : the special work has become an integral part of the
Kolkatar Bangali ethos.

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109. Answer
Birendra Krishna Bhadra ; Mahishashura Mardini

110. 35.
• Where would one find these ships over the
years?
• The Friendship
• John Wesley
• Propontis
• The Grand Turk
• Maria Teresa
• Sooloo
• Star of the West

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112. Answer

113. End of Round 1. More coming up