General Open Quiz held at NIT Silchar, by ISTE Students' Chapter NIT Silchar

1. QURIOZITY 1.0
- The ISTE General Quiz
PRELIMS
Quizmasters:
 Aveek Baruah & Nikhil Agarwal
(In association with ISTE Students’ Chapter, NIT Silchar)

2. 1. Print ad for what?

3. Axe

4. 2. It is called a roundel. The blue-and-
white version evolved from the ‘Rapp
Motorenwerke’ company logo (shown
alongside), designed by Karl Rapp,
combined with the blue and white
colors of the flag of Bavaria. It has
been portrayed as the movement of
an aircraft propeller with the white
blades cutting through a blue sky, first
seen as such in an advertisement in
1929. It was submitted for registration
on the rolls of the Imperial Patent
Office, and registered there with
no. 221388 on 10 December, 1917.
Which iconic image is being talked
about?

5. BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke ) logo
It was formed out of Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft
manufacturing firm in 1918

6. 3. During the British rule, ships were docked at the
bank of a river in North-Eastern India. Gradually, a
market developed at the bank, which became a
major place of economic activity. The bank was
covered with stones to help dock ships and vessels,
and the market was developed at a place that
was fully covered with stones. People started to
refer to the place as X, meaning a “bank of
stones”. With the passage of time, X became Y (the
current name) for linguistic simplification and
ultimately the British officials started to use the
name Y in their official documents referring to the
surrounding area of the market.
Which city Y?

7. Silchar (from Shiler Chor,
meaning ‘bank of stones’)

8. 4. On the 25th anniversary of its independence, what system
of mail addressing was introduced on 15 Aug 1972 in India?
It uses the concept of dividing the country into 9 zones,
including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for
the Indian Army).
• Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and
Kashmir, Chandigarh
• Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
• Rajasthan, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar
Haveli
• Goa, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
• Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana
• Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Lakshadweep
• Odisha, West Bengal, Arunachal
Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalay
a, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam
• Bihar, Jharkhand
• Army Post office (APO) and Field Post office (FPO)

9. PIN (Postal Index Number)
Code

10. 5. X was invented by Nazis in Germany back in
1941. It was very difficult for the Nazis to
import Coca-Cola syrup into Germany during
World War II due to trade embargos. So, the head
of Coca-Cola Deutschland, Max Keith, decided to
make a new product for the German market.
He used ingredients available already in Germany
at the time, including whey and pomace. During a
brainstorm on what to name the beverage, Keith
said “use your imagination” in German. Salesman
Joe Knipp yelled out “X” And this is how it was
born. Today you can find over 100 flavors of X
worldwide.

11. Fanta (from the German
‘Fantasie’ meaning – ‘use
your imagination’)

12. 6. X was roommate and best friends with
Christopher Reeve at Juilliard School
located in the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts in New York City.
Christopher Reeves recounts in his
autobiography “The first person I met at
Juilliard was the other advanced student, a
short, stocky, long-haired fellow from Marin
County, California, who wore tie-dyed shirts
with track suit bottoms and talked a mile a
minute,” wrote Reeve. “I’d never seen so
much energy contained in one person. He
was like an un-tied balloon that had been
inflated and immediately released. I
watched in awe as he virtually caromed off
the walls of the classrooms and hallways. To
say that he was ‘on’ would be a major
understatement. There was never a moment
when he wasn’t doing voices, imitating
teachers, and making our faces ache from
laughing at his antics…”
X dedicated his Golden Globes’ lifetime
achievement award in 2005 to Christopher
Reeve.

13. #RIPRobinWilliams

14. 7. ID the inspiration for this song. Also the band
<Tumne Jo Kaha - Movie: Laawaris>

15. Barbie Girl – by Aqua

16. 8. The “X” button probably costs the company Y
about $110 million a year. When you click on that
button you skip all the ads that the company Y makes
money on. So why don’t they just take that button off?
Focus groups apparently show that people feel more
comfortable with the button on there. Worth noting
that @Y’s first tweet on twitter was: “I’m 01100110
01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110
01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011
01101011 01111001 00001010” which means “X” in
binary. Although the button is still there now, revenue
losses due to it have been brought down to a fraction
due to a new algorithm introduced in Sept. 8, 2010.
Funda.

17. I’m Feeling Lucky
(after the introduction of Google Instant in
2010, the button only serves ornamental
purpose on the site)

18. 9. Connect
(exhaustive)
Contd. in next slide

20. Most expensive players in
respective IPL’s
MS Dhoni
Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen
Kieron Pollard, Shane Bond
Gautam Gambhir
Ravindra Jadeja
Glenn Maxwell
Yuvraj singh

21. 10. Though credit for the invention of the first practical X
usually goes to Sebastien Lenormand in 1783, Leonardo da
Vinci actually conceived the X idea a few hundred years
earlier.
Da Vinci made a sketch of the invention with this
accompanying description: “If a man have a tent made of
linen of which the apertures (openings) have all been
stopped up, and it be twelve braccia (about23 feet) across
and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down
from any great height without suffering any injury.”
Like many of da Vinci’s ideas, the invention was never
actually built or tested by Leonardo himself. But, in 2000,
daredevil Adrian Nichols constructed a prototype based
on da Vinci’s design and tested it. Despite skepticism from
experts, da Vinci’s design worked as intended and Nichols
even noted that it had a smoother ride than the modern X.

22. Parachute

23. 11. “I want you to remember, X. In all the years
to come. In your most private moments, I want
you to remember my hand at your throat. I
want you to remember the one man who beat
you.”
These lines were read by actor Harry Lenix, at a
recent press conference and are an excerpt
from a literary work, where Y says this to X. The
work is scheduled to be made into a film by
2015.
Id the upcoming movie, or both characters X
and Y.

24. X=Clark
Y=Batman
Movie= Batman v. Superman:
Dawn of Justice

25. 12. It is a script derived from Devanagari, used
by ministers of Maratha rulers and was one of
the scripts used to write the Marathi language. It
was developed by Hemadpant (or Hemadri
Pandit) during the period 1260–1309 AD. The
name most likely derives from the verb
"modane" meaning “to break” in Marathi, which
lends credence to the fact that it was
developed from broken Devanagari characters,
and was developed as a faster way of writing
Marathi.
What is the name of this script?

26. Modi

27. 13. In the days of hand
typesetting, the type (i.e.
individual letters that were cast
from special metal alloys for use
in printing) were kept in specially
designed wooden or metal
compartments. There were
separate compartments for
each of the letters, their different
forms and the punctuations .
When printers set font by hand
one letter at a time, they placed
the compartments holding the
most frequent forms of the
letters, punctuations and spaces
on a lower shelf for
convenience.
How is this reflected in modern
usage?

28. Lowercase/Uppercase

29. 14. The ABSTRACT says:
“A system for allowing a show
wearer to lean forwardly beyond his
center of gravity by virtue of
wearing a specially designed pair of
shoes which will engage with a
hitch member movably projectable
through a stage surface. The shoes
have a specially designed heel slot
which can be detachably
engaged with the hitch member by
simply sliding the show wearer’s foot
forward, thereby engaging with the
hitch member”
How is this famous patent otherwise
known?

30. Michael Jackson’s anti-
gravity shoes

31. 15. It came into existence roughly 1000
years ago during the Song Dynasty
in China - the only region of the
world at the time where paper was
abundant. At this time, many
merchants often congregated in
city centers and had little time or
energy to eat during the evening.
Because of the large variation found
in Chinese cuisine from different
regions, the restaurants could no
longer cater to the local palates,
giving rise to it.

33. 16. What is the name given to the crew of
technicians who accompany music
bands on tours, and handle every part of
the concert productions except actually
performing the music with the
musicians.—This catch-all term covers tour
managers, production managers, stage
managers, front-of-house and monitor
engineers, guitar techs, keyboard techs,
lighting techs, pyrotechnic techs,
security/bodyguards, truck drivers,
merchandise crew and caterers, among
several others. —The term is famous in India
in a different context.

34. ROADIES

35. 17. According to University of Maryland:
It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000
times the speed of sound continuously
for 31 hrs. from east to west and carries a
payload of 353,430 tons which is four
times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth
II ocean liner.
What?

36. Santa’s Sleigh

37. 18.
Red is a chaser, alternately called Macky, Shadow or Blinky.
Pink is an ambusher, also known as Micky,Speedy or Pinky.
Cyan is fickle, nicknamed Mucky, Bashful or Inky.
Orange is stupid, a trait noticable by his slow movement, and is
affectionately referred to as Mocky, Pokey or Clyde.
They aren't really very helpful when you meet them, nor are they
useful in any way, except four times for about 10 seconds.
Collectively they are also called "ghosts","goblins or "octopi".
You’ve probably packed in at least a few hours with these guys.
Where?
9

39. 19. X, an album by Y, explores abandonment and isolation,
symbolised by a _______. The songs create an approximate
storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Z, whose father was
killed during the Second World War. Z is oppressed by his
overprotective mother, and tormented at school by tyrannical,
abusive teachers. Each of these traumas become ___________.
The protagonist eventually becomes a rock star, his relationships
marred by infidelity, drug use, and outbursts of violence. As his
marriage crumbles, he finishes ___________, completing his isolation
from human contact. Z’s crisis escalates, culminating in a
hallucinatory on-stage performance where he believes that he is a
fascist dictator performing at concerts similar to Neo-Nazi rallies, at
which he sets men on fans he considers unworthy. Tormented with
guilt, he places himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to
____________, opening Z to the outside world.
X and Y.

41. 20. Identify X
X comes from a Late Latin word which meant
"farmland", in the sense of someone who is bound
to the soil of a villa, which is to say, worked on the
equivalent of a plantation in Late Antiquity, in Italy
or Gaul. It referred to a person of less than knightly
status and so came to mean a person who was
not chivalrous. As a result of many unchivalrous
acts, such as treachery or rape, this word took on
its modern meaning.

42. VILLAIN
(from the word “villa”)

43. 21. What is being talked
about?
Many suggestions have been made about the
origin of this - one of the commonest being that it
derives from the figure 8, representing the Spanish
'piece of eight'. However, it actually comes from a
handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old
Spanish-American books. It first occurred in the
1770s, in manuscript documents of English-
Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-
Americans, and it starts to appear in print after
1800.

44. 44

45. 22.
Clepsydra in Greek means to steal
water. It is a timepiece in which
time is measured by the regulated
flow of liquid into (inflow type) or
out from (outflow type) a vessel
where the amount is then
measured. Water clocks, along
with sundials, are likely to be the
oldest time-measuring instruments.
This device has given rise to a
famous phrase. Which phrase?

46. Running out of time.

47. 23. Shankar Rao a Legislator
from Andra Pradesh has
taken his devotion to X
depicting her as
'Telangana Talli’. He
said, "I want to build the
temple so that people
can offer prayers to X
every day for ending the
dominance of
Seemandhra leadership
over Telangana. I am
donating nine acres of
my own land and with
my own money I am
building her statue. Fill
for X

48. Sonia Gandhi

49. 24. X has its origins in the folklore of North India
about a princess with incomparable beauty
who was so delicate that she weighed only
as much as a flower.
This folklore took the shape of a drama.
Soon it became so popular that the name
became that of the Genre itself.
The word X, comprises of two words which
when translated to English means “Nine “
and a “Silver coin weighing four grams”,
and thus metaphorically implies that the
graceful princess weighs only 36 grams (9x4
grams). Give me the term X.

50. Nautanki

51. 25. Minimalist poster for which
movie?

52. Barfi.!!

53. Myosotis ("mouse's ear") is a genus of flowering plants in the
family Boraginaceae that are commonly called _________.
In a German legend, God named all the plants when a tiny
unnamed one cried out, "_________, O Lord!" God replied,
"That shall be your name."
Henry IV adopted the flower as his symbol during his exile in
1398, and retained the symbol upon his return to England
the following year. It was often worn by ladies as a sign of
faithfulness and enduring love. Freemasons began using
the flower in 1926 as a symbol well known in Germany as
message not to forget the poor and desperate.
Give me the blank.
26.

54. Forget me not

55. 27. When the British wanted to
purchase land for settling down in
Kashmir, they were not allowed to
do so by the Maharaja of Kashmir,
a tradition which continues till date
as Kashmiris rarely sell land to
outsiders.
What did the British do when
refused?

56. They started living on
houseboats
(This is the story behind the origin of Kashmiri
houseboats)

57. 28. What do all these symbols
combine to form?

59. 29.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated
with the exuberance of his own
verbosity and gifted with an
egotistical imagination that can at all
times command an interminable and
inconsistent series of arguments to
malign an opponent and to glorify
himself.
- Benjaimain Disraeli
This extremely boring quote is very very
popular in India for a reason.
Why?

60. Amitabh Bachchan’s monologue in ‘My
Name is Anthony Gonsalves’

61. 30. It has been suggested that X records the attempt
by King Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid
measures. He was blocked by Parliament, so
subsequently ordered that the volume of a ______ (1/2
pint) be reduced, but the tax remained the same. This
meant that he still received more tax, despite
Parliament's veto.(many pint glasses in the UK still have
a line marking the 1/2 pint level with a crown above it)
. The reference to ______, ( 1/4 pint) is said to reflect
that the ______ dropped in volume as a consequence.
There is also a local belief that X records events in the
village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697. When a
local spinster became pregnant, the putative father is
said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died
in childbirth soon after.
ID X??

62. Origin of the nursery rhyme ‘JACK
AND JILL’