Aditya Gupta (23-08-17)

Session 01: General Quiz Quizmaster: Aditya Gupta

Rules
• 21 Questions
• Direct/Pass: +20
• Pounce: +50/-20
•The decision of the quizmaster is final.

1.
Trendy Shrimp is a Chinese restaurant located in Hangzhou, Zheipang.
Recently, the restaurant implemented a promotional strategy with
adverts showing a line-up of cartoon women with the slogan “The
whole city is looking for __________”. According to the restaurant’s
general manager Lan Shenggang, customer numbers rose by 20% due to
this strategy. However, some local residents heavily criticized Trendy
Shrimp for its promotional strategy.
What was their strategy?

Answer
Offered women discounts according to their bra sizes, giving women
with larger chest sizes larger discounts.

2.
The Bollywood actor, Varun Dhavan’s display name on Twitter is Varun
Dhavan. However, he recently added a middle name for a specific
purpose. In order to fulfil this purpose, he uses two middle names,
which are displayed alternatively. The first middle name is a four letter
word, while the second middle name is a three letter word.
With what words does his middle name keep changing these days?

Answer
Prem and Raj (Main protagonists in Judwaa 2)

3.
Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress
party in the Indian independence movement, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
went on to hold several key offices in independent India—as the
first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok
Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the youngest-ever Indian
president. His first attempt to become the Prime Minister was made in
1969 but he lost the election to his rival V.V. Giri, who emerged
victorious with 48.01 per cent of the first preference votes. However, he
was able to win the 1977 Presidential elections.
What was so special about this event?

Answer
Only time a President was elected without any contest.

4.
He was raised in Crumlin and attended a Gaelscoil and Gaelcholáiste at
both primary and at secondary level in Coláiste de hÍde in Tallaght,
where he also developed his passion for sport playing association
football. In his youth, he played football for Lourdes Celtic Football Club.
However, in 2006, he decided to pursue a career in a different sport
after he met Tom Egan. He claims that bullying was one of the reasons
why he decided to pursue a career in this particular field. On February
17, 2007, he made his debut and emerged victorious, following which
he was signed by Irish Ring of Truth promotion.
Who am I talking about?

7.
This is Brendan O’ Reagan.
He is known for developing
Shannon Airport and for
transforming the Shannon
region of Ireland. In 1947, he
invented a particular
concept, which is now used
all over the world.
What concept did he devise?

Answer
Astronauts giving Vulcan Salute, a hand gesture popularized by the
1960s television series Star Trek, to pay tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who
portrayed the half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek
television series.

9.
X is a fictional character that appears in an assortment of video games,
animated television shows and movies, trading card games and comic
books. It is also seen as one of the major mascots for Nintendo. Artist
Atsuko Nishida is credited as the main person behind X's design, which
was later finalized by artist Ken Sugimori. According to series
producer Satoshi Tajiri, the idea of the name came from a combination
of two Japanese sounds: ____, a sound an electric spark makes,
and ______, a sound a mouse makes.
Identify X

11.
The term ____________ is believed to have been coined by a
participant in an online forum in 2005. While some believe that
____________ is a real condition that induces negative emotional
responses, it is not yet considered as a recognized medical diagnosis.
The images responsible for the emotion include natural objects such as
honeycomb or the lotus seed head, and man-made objects such as
aerated chocolate or stacked industrial pipes viewed end-on.
____________ came into limelight when a certain online phenomenon,
whose date of origin is not known, went viral over Facebook on account
of some loopholes that the company used to suffer from at that time
and uncontrollable curiosity of people to know about it.
FITB. Bonus points for identifying the phenomenon.

Answer
Trypophobhia – fear of holes.

12.
The 1973 edition (inaugural edition) of the tournament included the
following teams and spanned 8 days.
I. England
II. Young England
III. Jamaica
IV. Australia
V. International
VI. Trinidad and Tabgo
VII. New Zealand
What tournament am I talking about?

Answer
First ICC’s Women World Cup

13.
XY and his brother Kishor entered the Mumbai underworld in the 1970s
when they joined the “Byculla Company”, a criminal gang led by Rama
Naik and Babu Reshim, operating in the central Mumbai areas of
Byculla, Parel and Saat Rasta. In late 1988, Naik was killed in a police
encounter. Subsequently, XY took charge of the gang. XY believed that
the encounter was engineered by Dawood Ibrahim, and thus, started a
gang war between Dawood’s D-Company gang and Gawli’s gang that
lasted from 1988 until the mid of 1990s. In 2012, he was convicted for
the murder of Shiv Sena leader Kamlakar Jamsandekar.
Identify XY, who will be portrayed by Arjun Rampal in an upcoming
Bollywood film.

15.
At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which was organized last month,
McLaren unveiled a life size replica of the 2018 McLaren 720S. The
replica was made out of a special material, which is exclusively
manufactured by a company who name means “I put together” in Latin.
According to McLaren's YouTube channel, the 720S took 2000 man-
hours to complete—slightly more than the 12 days it takes to build a
real 720S—and used no less than 280,000 units of the special material
used in the process.
What special material was used to create the replica?

17.
Born Edvige Antonia Albina Màino, to Stefano and Paola Maino in
Contrada Màini ("Maini quarter/district"), at Lusiana, a little village
30 km from Vicenza in Veneto, XY spent her adolescence in Orbassano,a
town near Turin. In 1964, she went to study English at the Bell
Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge. In 1965 at
a Greek restaurant she met ___________, who was enrolled in Trinity
College at the University of Cambridge. They subsequently got married
in 1968, in a Hindu ceremony, following which XY moved into the house
of her mother-in-law.
Identify XY

19.
X born in 1949 is of Kashmiri origin
with his father belonging to
Anantnag and mother belonging to
Pulwama. He played first class
cricket for Railways and got out for
a duck in what turned out to be his
only first class game. Later in 1987,
he batted against the fiery West
Indies pace attack in a domestic
game.
Identify X

20.
Born in a Telugu vishwa Brahmin family as Garlapati Ramakrishna, in a
village called Thumuluru during the early part of the sixteenth century,
XY was one of the Ashtadiggajas or the eight poets at the court
of Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagara emperor. XY did not receive any
formal education during his childhood, but became a great scholar, due
to his thirst for knowledge. As per a well-known tale,
the Vaishnava scholars rejected to accept him as a disciple, as he was a
Shaiva. Later while roaming aimlessly, he met a sage, who advised him
to worship the goddess Kali. It is believed that Kali appeared before him
and blessed him that one day, he would be acclaimed as a great comic
poet in the court of King Krishnadevaraya.

21. Connect (Non-Exhaustive)
1. Google Glass
2. Apple Newton
3. N-Gage
4. Kodak DC-40
5. Sony BetaMax
6. Coke BlaK
7. Colgate Beef Lasagne

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