General Quiz JAN 18 Finals Prometheans Club

RULE
• The quiz will consist of four rounds.
• The first, second and third round is open for pounce
and bounce. Maximum number of pounce for each
team shall be EIGHT.
• Each team will be asked one question in each round.
• Pounce making team will have to answer in five
seconds.
• For bounce team will get five seconds to answer.
• The decision of the quizmaster is final and any
argument with quiz master may lead to
disqualification.

ROUND ONE - CLOCKWISE
• Clockwise pounce
• Open for pounce for all teams.
• +20 for every direct
• +20/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• If no answer question passes clockwise.

1.
•This day falls in the month April/May every
year when the sun and moon both are believed
to be at their peak of brightness.
•According to Hindu mythology river Ganges is
considered to have descended on earth on this
day. Also it is considered Ved Vyasa began
reciting the Hindu epic Mahabratha to Ganesha
on this day. Parashurama, the sixth incarnation
of Vishnu was also born on this day.
•Which is this auspicious day which holds
special significance for Jains?

ANSWER
AKSHAYA TRITIYA
In Jainism it commemorates the first
trithankaras ending his one year asceticism by
consuming sugarcane juice.

2.
The 2018 by-election for the Phulpur Lok
Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh was a
high voltage affair, with the Samajwadi Party
winning the seat from the BJP. Which famous
politician was the first ever MP from this seat?

3.
• Working for the past 125 years with no change in
technology and core principles, the organisation has
100 percent satisfaction.
• It has a unique system of working with each member
being an entrepreneur himself.
• Most of them are related to each other and belong to
the Varkari sect of Maharastra and come from a small
village near Pune. Their work is suspended for five days
each March as they have to go home for the annual
village festival.
• ID the organisation.

4.
• On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, went on
a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River
Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. He became
involved in an argument over which was the
fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or
the grouse (the former being correct). That
evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it
was impossible to confirm whether or not the
golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird.
This incident gave birth to an idea of something
very famous nowadays. What's that thing??

ANSWER
• Guinness Book of World Records

5.
• X is a social psychological phenomenon in
which individuals are less likely to offer help to
a victim when other people are present.
• Several factors contribute to this including
ambiguity, cohesiveness and diffusion of
responsibility.
• Identify phenomenon X. (image follows)

6.
• “People ask me what is this_____? and if I am on the left or
the right? That is why I kept the name ______, which
means centre.”
• “If you look closely, you will find the new map of south
India. The six hands stand for the six states. The six pointed
star represents you and people's justice.”
• Identify the man and the name of the
Party.

Audience Question.
• Times person of the year is an annual issue of the US
News magazine TIME, that features and profiles a
person, a group, idea or an object that “for better or
for worse... has done the most to influence the events
of the year.“
• The tradition of selecting a “Man of the Year” began in
1927, with TIME editors contemplating the newsmaker
of the years. The idea was also an attempt to remedy
the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not
having aviator X on its cover following his historic
trans-Atlantic flight.
• Identify X who was the first Time Person of the year.

ROUND 2
ANTICLOCKWISE
SCORE PLEASE

7.
• According to the wall street journal, around 10
fold increase in the number of Google
searches for a particular type of images over
the past few years are reported. Due to that,
one out of three high end phones in India is
running out of memory space. A cleaning app-
files Go, has recently been launched for this
purpose.
• What is the issue ?

ANSWER
• Good Morning messages

8.
• Am I so round with you as you with me, that
like a football you do spurn me thus you spurn
me hence, and he will spurn me hither.
• If I lost in this service, you must case me in
leather,
• This excerpt is from a play by Shakespeare and
is the first known reference of football. Which
play?

ANSWER
• Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors ,1st known
reference of football.

9.
• In 1891, a 29 year old business man X from
Philadelphia came to the Chicago with $ 32 and the
idea to start a business selling ___X’s scouring soap.
Later on his career, he switched to the baking powder
business but with little success. To increase his sales he
began offering two packages of X for each purchase of
a can of baking powder. However, Y became more
popular and promising only in a few months. Soon the
company became the largest manufacturer of Y in the
world with its products being sold in 180 countries.
• Give X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Wrigley’s
Y = Chewing Gum

10
.
The dish was introduced to Britain in Glasgow,
Scotland mainly by Bangladeshi workers who
immigrated there. Although this dish is widely
considered Indian, first accounts of it appear
only in Britain. It is so famous there that in
2001, MP Mohd. Barwar tabled a motion to
make it the national dish of Britain. Which
iconic dish?

11.
It started as a response to Malom Massacre
where ten civilians were shot & killed while
waiting at a bus stop. The victims included 18
year old Sinam Chandramani, a 1998 National
Bravery Award winner. After more than 500
weeks, normalcy restored on 9 August, 2016.
What is being discussed?

ANSWER
Irom Sharmila’s Hunger Strike

12.
From the date of its construction in 537 AD until
1453 AD, it served as an Eastern Orthodox
Cathedral & the seat of the Patriarch of
Constantinople, except between 1204-1261,
when it was converted to a Roman Catholic
Cathedral under the Latin Empire. The bulding
was a mosque from 1453 AD until 1931 AD. It
was then secularised & opened as a museum
in 1935 as it still is today. What?

AUDIENCE QUESTION
• ‘X’, popular today in a different field
altogether started out as a stock broker before
trying his hand at the family business of PVC
pipe making. He went on to become the
chairman of Gujarat State Finance
Commission in 1995. Id X.

CLOCKWISE
• SAME RULES
• SCORE PLEASE

13.
‘X’ comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘one
who works as a farmhand’. But all of us know ‘X’
with a different meaning. The second meaning is
supposed to have derived from the fact that
farmhands & farm labourers, in order to earn
quick money, committed crimes & hence, were
quite evil.
‘X’ is also the nickname of a popular British football
team based in Birmingham.
What is ‘X’?

ANSWER
‘Villain’
Club is Aston Villa.

14.
Though no one is sure about the authenticity of this
incident, the noted German mathematician Carl
Friedrich Gauss offered his own version of event
in one of his books. According to him, the whole
story was cooked up by ‘X’ when ‘X’ was asked by
a stupid importunate man that how ‘X’ made his
great discovery.
Yet, this much celebrated story in the field of
science found its place in the logo of a famous
company for a few years. Which story?

ANSWER
Falling of an apple on Newton’s head.

15.
In Iran, these two words meant a series of reforms
launched in 1963 by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
which lasted until 1978. It consisted of several
elements including land reforms, institution of profit-
sharing schemes for workers in industry & formation of
a literacy corps.
In India, the same two words meant the largest self-
sustainable rural employment generation program
which transformed India from a back-bencher to the
world-topper, surpassing the U.S.A. in 1998.
Which two words?

16.
The first time India was represented here was in
the 30th Edition by a mother- the result was an
agonizing loss by one vote. Since then other
representatives include a tourism
professional, an underworld don, a female
gangster, a couple of amateur board game
players etc. What is this list and what was the
entry for 2017 in this list.

ANSWER
• India’s entry for best foreign language films at
oscars.
• 2017 - Newton

17.
It all started while staying together in the
University College of London in the mid-
1990s. They wanted to name themselves
‘Starfish’, but when one of their friend’s group
no longer wanted to use the name ‘X’, taken
from a book of poems, written by American
poet Philip Horky, they gleefully accepted it.
Identify ‘X’, who since 1996 are still going strong.

18.
The defeat of the Mughals by the Persians was in battle ‘X’, fought just
110 km from Delhi, which resulted in a devastating loss for
Mughals. Persians, under the command of Nadir Shah plundered
Delhi, killed 30,000 civilians & took away the Peacock throne,
Kohinoor & Dariya-e-Noor diamonds’.
The main reason for Mughal defeat, according to many historians, is
Mughal ruler Muhammad Shah’s delayed action who acted only
when Persians were about 110 km away from Delhi.
When asked to act by his General, he repeated a famous phrase of
Nizammuddin Auliya. This phrase ‘Y’ is used till date to scare Indian
procrastrinatots.
Give me ‘X’ & ‘Y’, for full points.

ANSWER
Battle of Karnal (1739)
“Hunz, Dilli Door Ast” or variations.

AUDIENCE QUESTION.
Radomir Antic is a
Serbian football
manager, currently
managing Hebei
China Fortune in
China League One. In
terms of managerial
careers in the La Liga,
what unique
distinction does he
hold?

ANSWER
Antić is the only individual who has managed
Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid

END OF THIRD ROUND
• SCORE PLEASE
• SAME RULES

LAST ROUND – ANTI-CLOCKWISE
• BE CAREFUL

19.
‘X’ building in Chicago was renamed to ‘X’ from
‘Y’ in 2009, by the ‘X- group’, as part of their
lease on a portion of the building. In 1965,
this building was built by ‘Y’, Roebuck & Co.,
who were then the world’s largest retailers to
accommodate a part of their 35,000
employees. What are ‘X’ & ‘Y’?

ANSWER
X- Willis Tower
Y- Sears Tower

20.
One of the companies, endorsed by Sachin
Tendulkar, got embroiled in an ugly
controversy in 2017. It was alleged that it had
engaged with the Russian Federal Security
Service (FSB), in the wake of Russian
interference in 2016-US Presidential Elections.
Which company?

21.
‘The Miracle on the Han River’ refers to the period
of rapid economic growth in a war ravaged Asian
country, during which it transformed from a
developing one to a developed one. The
development was accompanied by events such as
the country’s successful hosting of the Summer
Olympics & the FIFA World Cup.
Which ‘3-Star’ company, having interests in ship-
building, construction, insurance, advertising
apart from its regular activities is responsible for
this miracle?

22.
Commissioned by the Laxmi Insurance Company,
the Laxmi Building was inaugarated by Saojini
Naidu in 1938. Used to be the tallest building in
Karachi before partition, it was also known for its
state of the art ‘clock tower’ & its iron elevator.
The founder of this, now defunct company, was
also known for his another biz venture, which
came into big time news for all the wrong reasons
in recent times.
(a) Identify the owner.
(b) What is the other venture?

ANSWER
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b)PNB

23.
“Will I die, will I die
Will I live, will I live
This is the hairy man
Who brought the Sun & caused it to shine
A step upward, another step upward!
A step upward, another....the Sun shines”
What is the significance of these words?

ANSWER
Meaning of the lyrics of the Haka, performed by
All-Blacks

24.
In January 2017, Finland became the first
country in Europe to officially experiment with
this socio-economic concept. Similar
experiments were scheduled for many Dutch
cities and the Canadian city of Ontario in
2017. In the case of Finland, the figure is 560
Euros a month. What concept?

AUDIENCE QUESTION
This British Knight was the editor of “Brain and
________’s Clinical Neurology”, a famed
neurological textbook. He was suffering from
Parkinson’s disease and died in March this
year. Outside the medical world he is famous
as the 1st man to do the 4-minute mile. Who?

AUDIENCE QUESTION
India’s B.V. Doshi won the 2018 Pritzker Prize
for Architecture. Amongst his many works, he
has designed the campus of IIM-B which is
partly based on the design of a historical city
which rose to prominence during Mughal Era.
Which city?

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