General Quiz At St. Kabir School

HOW IT WORKS
• Only the correct Answers will be given
points.
• Always follow your gut, especially if it
defies logic.
•Everyone here has the right to ask
questions.
•QuizWaala aapka Parmeshwar hai!!
•Rest we MAKE as the quiz proceeds.

WHAT IT IS
• 1st – Pounce
• 2nd – Connect
• 3rd – Direct
• 4th – Mega Connect
• Rules as we come to the Rounds.

POUNCE
+15/-10 for pounce
+10 for direct

1
Clare Mendonca was a film critic who worked
for the Times of India during the 1950s. Her
name is immortalised in the history of Indian
Cinema as something was named after her
during the year 1954 at the Metro Theatre in
Mumbai . This event since then has taken place
every year and has also been renamed. How is it
known today?

2
X is a common English word, which
owes its origins to a Latin word. X is
used for a certain kind of people,
because of their occupations. In
Ancient Rome, the people having this
occupation used to wear white. So, X
is derived from a Latin word meaning
“shining white”. What is X?

Answer
Candidate
from Latin candidatus ‘white-robed’,
also denoting a candidate for office
(who traditionally wore a white toga)

3
• The temple of Pachacamac is an
archaeological site 40 km southeast of Lima,
Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. Most of
the common buildings and temples were built
c. 800-1450 CE, shortly before the arrival and
conquest by the Inca Empire. The temple shot
to instant fame in 1948 after a young reporter
had gone there and saved a very noted
scientist of that time after a very interesting
adventure. Put funda.

The Pachacamac
was the cargo ship
that Professor
Calculus was onboard
after being kidnapped,
bound for Callao,
Peru.

4
The curve where X and Rodas died (ironically) is a
popular spot for drifting cars. The coroner's report
stated that the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was
traveling at a speed possibly as high as 160 km/h
before the crash. The coroner's report further stated
that no alcohol or other drugs were found in the
systems of either man. Furthermore, it states that
there were no hints of technical problems with the
car and neither a damaged surface of the street nor
parts on the street played a role in the
accident.Police investigated as to whether drag
racing played a role, but were unable to find evidence
of a second car's involvement. Who Is X?

5
Hyperbolic Paraboloid is a rather complex 3-D
structured like a saddle. To most of the
people in this world (around 140 countries)
this shape would be known for something
else (X) which was created circa 1960s by a
man called Alexander Leipa. The
distinguishable feature of this product being
it’s mascot Mr. Julius X who has a large
mustache and parted bangs.
What?(Pic on next slide)

6
The country X before a few years was entirely
unmapped by Google Maps. So whenever you
would cross 38th Parallel North at a certain
longitude, all you would see on Google Maps
was darkness and black. However in the past 1-
11/2 year, it has changed as the few people who
can really access the internet contributed and
made the maps using Google Map Maker. Id this
country, which is riddled with concentration
camps?

7
Kiribati , is an island nation in the central Pacific
Ocean. The nation comprises 33 atolls and reef
islands and one raised coral island, Banaba.
They have a total land area of 800 square
kilometres. and are dispersed over 3.5 million
square kilometres, Their spread straddles the
equator and the International Date Line,
although the Date Line is kinked to bring the
Line Islands in the same day as the Kiribati
Islands.During a certain time of the year, year
after year, the tourism in Kiribati sees a sudden
jump. Put funda.

Answer
Kiribati is the eastern-most nation of the world.
So, it is the first place to witness the New
Year.

8
The idea was conceived in 1967 once ASP
(Advertising, Sales and Promotion) clinched
the brand portfolio from the previous agency
FCB Ulka. It was executed by Sylvester Da
Cunha, the owner of the agency and his art
director Eustace Fernandez on hoardings,
painted bus panels and posters in Mumbai.
The mascot, since then, has been mobilized
to comment on many events of national and
political importance.

9
Kaka Joginder Singh was a textile owner
who contested and lost over 300 elections
in India in the 1980s. He was the candidate
many times for the President of India
elections. During the time of the elections,
he was provided with very high security,
comparable to other big leaders. Why?

Answer
So many re-elections would have to be conducted, if he
died.

10
What are these appropriate little puns called? And on
what occasion was this brought out?

11
When this mythological character used to
go out to play in his youth, his mother used
to apply moist rice flour to his lips so it
would give the effect that he had drank
milk which was actually a luxury for poor
people like him. Who?

12
Also called Grande Valse, this tune is
a phrase from a composition for solo
guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical
guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega,
written in 1902.
In 2010, it was reported that the tune is heard
worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times per
day, about 20,000 times per second.
Which tune?

+10 for correct connect
CONNECT

ANSWER
TASMANIA
Tasmanian
Devil
Abel Tasman
The founder of
Tasmania
Tasmania
<--Born in Tasmania

ANSWER
TENNIS GRAND SLAM Main Arenas
Roland GarrosRod Laver Billie Jean King
Australian US French

ANSWER
MAJOR REVOLUTIONARY SQUARES
Tahrir Square, Cairo
Tiananmen SquareBastille Square
Paris
Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev

DIRECT
+10 for Direct and for Pass

Audience
X is a word used for a pot that is riddled with
holes and which has a small lamp placed
within it so that the light shines through the
holes and creates a dazzling effect. A
shortened version of this original word
(which has its roots in sanskrit) is used for a
very different thing which is also very much
related to the pot. Sometimes, this shortened
version is also used for the pot. The question
is what is the pot called?

1
• Created as a mixture of Sweet, Spice and
everything nice, what does this represent?

3
If some know her as Neeru Deshpande,
some as Gunjan Gudaniya, who is this
personality who is actually a Creative
design by the Everest ad agency way
back in 1960s?

4
This great discovery is quite controversial as X
and Y received the Nobel Prize this discovery.
When it was widely known that they used used
a considerable amount of material from the
unpublished work of Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind
Franklin, A.R. Stokes, and H.R. Wilson at King's
College London.
This is something commonly seen in Science
textbooks and is one of the greatest discoveries
of the 20th Century. What discovery am I talking
about?

5
Russell Endean, Andrew Hilditch,
Mohsin Khan, Desmond Haynes,
Mohinder Amarnath, Graham
Gooch, Daryll Cullinan, Steve
Waugh, Michael Vaughan.
Give a common connect for these
cricketers.

ANSWER
Got OUT for Handling the Ball

6
X spread to Europe in 1960 when Mila Pond hosted
a XY in Weybridge,England, and subsequently
around the world. At the time, a strict dress code
was required for X ladies, with skirts and stockings
worn at all times, and white gloves often
accompanying the outfit.A technique called "carrot
calling" helped promote the parties:
representatives would travel door to door in a
neighborhood and ask housewives to "run an
experiment" in which carrots would be placed in a
X and compared with "anything that you would
ordinarily leave it in"; it would often result in the
scheduling of a X Y.

ANSWER
X = TupperWare
Y = Party

7
In 1944, a young professional, Satish Chona,
started an ice cream shop, by the name of X, in
Karachi.
The subsequent three years saw it becoming a
popular local brand. But in 1947, in the wake
of the India-Pakistan partition, he was forced
to leave everything behind and migrate to
India. Starting from scratch, he began
operations from a handcart at the Ahmedabad
railway station, churning out ice-cream
manually. He called this fledgling brand X
promising the customers more value for money
and more taste to relish. ID X

8
• Edwin X is a supporting character in the Marvel
comics universe in Spider-Man and Avengers. He
is the loyal household butler of Y. In many of the
Movie adaptations of Marvel comics, he is known
by an Acronym and is ‘technically’ not a person,
but is still a guide and a loyal servant of Y. He has
no superpowers but is a good hand-to-hand
combatant. He was a former boxing champion of
the Royal Air Force for three years and had
received military combat training and personal
tutelage in unarmed combat by Captain America.
Who?

9
• Rajani Thindiath and Subbu were having a
conversation about what to name their
latest publication in 1980. Rajani Thindiath
called Subbu and asked about the same.
Subbu who was busy in a meeting told
him he would give him a ______ later. In
reply Rajani Thindiath said why not name
the magazine _____. We know this very
famous publication by the same name
_____. FITB-

Audience
• Identify this city. You can see a marked
difference along the line in the middle which
may help you.

Mega Connect
• One connect, find it
As mentioned on slide

+60,0
• X kings first ruled Navarre and France in the
16th century. By the 18th century, members
of the X dynasty also held thrones in Spain,
Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and
Luxembourg currently have X monarchs.
• X is also the name of a vintage wine produced
in this region

+50,-40
• The X was created by the London bakery Peek
Freans in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of
the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
to the Duke of Edinburgh. It became popular
throughout Europe, particularly in Spain where,
following the Civil War, the X became a symbol of
the country's economic recovery after Y produced
mass quantities to consume a surplus of wheat.

+40,-30
The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the
word “X” resides, is a variant of the Nabisco logo,
and is either “an early European symbol for
quality” or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the
Knights Templar into the Crusades. The X’s a dot
with four triangles radiating outward either
resumbles a four-leaf-clover or the cross pattée,
also associated with the Knights Templar, as well
as with the German military and today’s
Freemasons.

+30,-20
• The national flag of X has two equal horizontal
bands of red and white. The flag of X is identical to
the flag of Indonesia, except for the ratio of height
to width.
• Once every year, the narrow streets of this tiny
nation are filled with racing F1 cars and the street
circuit here has often been regarded as the most
challenging for drivers.
• Known as the spectacle of the F1 season, the
winner is rewarded by the monarch himself.
• Which country?

+20,-10
The history of N in India is quite interesting. Towards
the end of the 16th century, a couple of Dutch dudes
set up a bakery in Surat to cater to the needs of the
local Dutch populace. When the Dutch were leaving
India, the bakery owners handed over the bakery to a
very enterprising employee of theirs, a Parsi gentleman
by the name Faramji Pestonji Dotivala. After the Dutch
left; because the bread was made with palm toddy for
fermentation, it didn’t find favour with the local
Indians. So to save his bakery, Mr. Dotivala started
selling the old bread and puff, which had by now, dried
out a bit, at a really cheap price. This dried version
then became so popular that he had to now start
drying the bread before selling it.

+10,0
In 1839, Q were first developed in the United Kingdom
by two Scottish doctors for health purpose. Q featured
in advertisements for the Berkshire based biscuit
company Huntley & Palmers in 1876, with a recipe
being given in Cassell's "New Universal Cookery Book"
of 1894. At the time, it was asserted grain millers knew
only of bran and endosperm.After 10% of the whole
grain's coarser outer-bran coat was removed, and
because the innermost 70% of pure endosperm was
reserved for other uses, brown meal, representing only
20% of the whole grain, remained, consisting of about
15% fine bran and 85% white flour. By 1912 it was
more widely known that brown meal included the
germ, which lent a characteristic sweetness.

BISCUITS
BOURBON
MARIE
OREO
MONACO
NAN KHATAI
DIGESTIVE

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