The IBQC Open Quiz Finals. (some questions have been sourced from public domain material)

1. IBQC OPEN QUIZ
2017
FINALS
Quizmaster
Sreepadmanabh M
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Bhopal

2. The 5 circles of Hell
Round 1 : Pounce n Bounce – Clockwise
Round 2 : The Gambler
Round 3 : Pounce n Bounce - Anticlockwise
Round 4 : Chakravyuh
Round 5 : Long Visual Connect

3. Round 1
Regular Pounce n Bounce
Direct question : + 10 / 0
Pounce : + 20 / - 10
This is the only round you’ll be able to play without being
messed up by the scoring .
So chill and scoop up some points . You’ll really need them
in the next round .

4. 1.Nothing really matters , to me …..
 X is a region of the Czech Republic . The people , usually gypsies from X were
also called as X-ians .
 The term however , soon came to mean someone who lived without assured
resources , without worry of tomorrow , careless etc.
 Soon , poets , artists and musicians were described by this term very frequently
in the 19th century Parisian society .
 Currently , this term carries a connotation of enlightenment , but is also used
to signify someone who is careless about health , hygiene , does not adhere to
conventional societal rules , marital fidelity etc.
 Identify the word .

6. Bohemian / Bohemia

7. 2. Double Switch
 The erstwhile name of this capital translates to estuary. Its name
was changed to its current name, which translates to 'Eastern
Capital'. This is in reference to the previous Capital which was
situated in the western part of the country, and which meant
'Capital'. Name both the current and the previous capital cities,
whose names are anagrams of each other.

8. Viva face
when you’ve
no clue what
Hall effect is

9. Kyoto
Tokyo

10. 3. Trifling mistakes , Disastrous fall-
outs
 PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC) is a multinational professional
services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is
the second-largest professional services firm in the world, and is
one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.
 Vault Accounting 50 has ranked PwC as the most prestigious
accounting firm in the world for seven consecutive years, as well as
the top firm to work for in North America for three consecutive
years.
 "They recently were in a controversy". What event did this
controversy happen at?

12. The Best picture fiasco this year

13. 4. Strange eurekas
 Vijendra Shekhawat went to a shrine atop a hill in Jaipur. While he
was walking at the foot of the hill , he realized that most of the
pilgrims preferred riding on the backs of elephants .
 He observed a couple of elephants and got the idea for a particular
innovative product .
 What did he come up with / What brand originated thus ?

14. When they
serve dum
aloo in
mess

15. Haathi-Chaap
Paper made from
elephant dung

16. 5. The Beautiful Game
 This version of a popular sport started in Uruguay in 1930. In
Brazil, this version developed on the streets of São Paulo, and,
eventually, a rule book was published.
 The sport began to spread across South America, and its
popularity ensured that a governing body was formed under the
name of FIFUSA in 1971, along with the World Championships.
 The first World Championships were held in Río de Janeiro, with
hosts Brazil crowned champions ahead of Paraguay. Which version
?

18. Futsal

19. 6. See Something ?
 The Telluride Foundation, based out of Colarado is a multi-venture
organization which has come under the controvesy radar in the recent past,
due to what reason?

20. Seeing bae date
a junior

23. The Gambler
No standard rules of scoring apply .
You bid for points .
Correct answer : you get back as many points as you bid
Wrong answer : You lose ALL the points you bid
Right to answer goes to highest bidder
You cannot bid more than your current total .
Teams with no points/negative score can bid max 20 points.

24. 1. A unique record
 To date , Simon Bolivar remains the only person to have his name
featured as a part of the official names of two countries in the world.
 One of them is Bolivia (quite obvious) . The other not-so-obvious one is
Venezuela .
 Tell me how is this possible ? How does Bolivar’s name feature here ?
 CLUE : Read the question VERY carefully and then think

25. When the IISc guy
rejected your
internship
application but
your room-mate
got it

26. The Bolivarian republic of Venezuela

27. 2. The Gold Rush , ver 2.0
 This natural resource X has recently come to assume vital importance ,
primarily due to its wide-spread and indispensable application in a specific
type of technological equipment that has seen exponential growth over the
last few years.
 The amount used per item is miniscule , but extremely essential . Global
demand for X has therefore scaled up incredibly.
 Argentina , Bolivia and Chile together hold about a staggering 70% of the
world’s total quantity of X . The region is called as the X triangle and is
under heavy international speculation and extensive mining efforts are
being carried out there.
 X is also called sometimes as white gold . Identify X .

28. There
goes my
physics
mid-sem

29. Lithium for batteries

30. 3. Subtle criticisms
 X is an organization which has made quite a few parodies of popular games
like Super Mario Bros, Cooking Mama, Pokémon and Super Meat Boy.
 One of the group's first notable satirical games, called Super Chick Sisters,
parodying Super Mario Bros, was released on December 2007 where the villain
was Colonel Sanders.
 It then released a sequel where McDonalds and Ronald McDonald was the
villain.
 They have come under various intellectual property thefts from even
Nintendo for their version of Pokémon named Pokémon: Black and Blue.
 Identify this world famous organization.

32. People for the
Ethical Treatment
of Animals

33. 4. Serendipity
 In the 1920s, Kutol Products, a company specializing in soaps and
cleaning products, came up with a pliable, putty - like substance
used for cleaning soot from dirty wallpaper.
 Post World War II, there was a reduction in internal soot, as well as
a change towards washable vinyl - based wallpaper, consequently
reducing the demand for the product.
 However, someone at the company discovered that it was being
used by school children for another purpose, and this led to the rise
of a very commonly seen product. What?

36. 5. The way the wind blows
 This was banned in the 1930s for safety reasons , but reintroduced after
World War II due to a lack of people.
 The ban was reinforced in 1974, and has stuck since then.
 The governing body in the US explains it this way :
 “you’re driving merrily down the road when all of a sudden, coming
straight at you, is a crazed Englishman driving on the left side of the road.
The panic you’d feel in that situation is just what________ “
 What was banned ?

38. Ban on left handed polo playing

39. 6. Not quite what you expected
 The recently opened Holocaust memorial in Berlin was criticized
by many including the celebrated Gunter Grass .
 One of the minor criticisms was also over the company which
supplied the anti – graffiti paint .
 Why were they targeted ?

41. They supplied the chemicals used in
the gas chambers

42. Round 3 – Music , Movies , Madness
Anticlockwise Pounce n Bounce
Same scoring rules as in Round 1

43. 1. Identify all 3
 A long time back , X and the lead singer Y of a famous band Z decided to
collaborate . However , the idea never came to fruition , as after just a few
sessions they decided to split up.
 The actual reasons for the split , revealed much later are quite astounding. X
apparently came for the recording with his pet llama Louie, without which he
refused to sing. Y found this highly annoying.
 X too , was uncomfortable with the large amounts of cocaine consumed by Y ,
which became another point of friction between them.
 The few songs they did record were released much after the death of both X
and Y , in 2013.
 Recently , at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony , a gigantic hologram
of Y in his trademark yellow military jacket was shown , followed by a
performance featuring the living members of Z , with vocals by Jessie J .

45. X – Michael Jackson
Y – Freddie Mercury

46. 2. The whims of fame
 This is the story of the most sought after photograph in the US National
Archives.
 On the night of 21 Dec , 1970 , X who was at the height of his fame at that time
, suddenly decided that he wanted a badge from the Narcotics dept. which he
believed would allow him to enter any country at free will carrying whatever
drugs he wished.
 In this regard , he wrote to the US President Y , who personally granted his
request.
 The photo of the two of them is the photo we are talking about.
 Recently , X & Y was the title of a film released , featuring Michel Shannon as X
and Kevin Spacey as Y.
 Identify both .

48. Elvis Presley meets Nixon

49. 3. Vintage Classics
 Identify both the movies and the director.(Both are directed by the
same ) using the posters on the next slide
 First one reads “ I knew it was you _____ . You broke my heart . “
 Second one reads “ It’s judgement that defeats us “

53. 4. Hats of , my boy !
 X is a currently active cinema professional. His work has received high critical
acclaim and he is often regarded as one of the best of our generation.
 X set a remarkable record at the Oscars last year , as he went on to win his
third straight Oscar in a row. ( 2014, 2015 ,2016 ) all in the same category.
 In 2015 , he had worked with Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron who himself
became the first Mexican director to win an Academy Award for Gravity .
 In 2015 and 2016 , he worked with the great Gonzalo Innaritu , who himself
won two back to back Oscars for Best Director for his films Birdman ( 2015 )
and The Revenant ( 2016 )
 X won his award for all three of these films .
Give me the category X won his award in . Bonus points if you get the name
right as well.

55. Emmanuel Lubezki
Best Cinematography

56. 5. No little matter
 President Obama described X as his favorite character from the critically
acclaimed TV series Y , which incidentally is also his favorite TV show .
 X is distinguished especially for his strict moral code , his refusal to use
profanity and his reluctance to use wanton violence which sets him apart from
the usual stereotype of gangsters . He is also depicted as having a privately
tender nature and is a homosexual in the series.
 He has gone to become the most enduring character from the show and for his
portrayal of X, Michael K. Williams was named by USA Today as one of ten
reasons they still love television.
 Following slide shows some of his most memorable quotes .
 Identify him and the series .

59. Omar Little from The Wire

60. 6. Good idea . Terrible execution
 The Vanishing Act is an upcoming thriller film to be directed by
Kamasutra 3D director Rupesh Paul, as inspired by events
surrounding ___________ .
 A teaser of the movie was released at the 2014 Cannes Film
Festival, and received an adverse reaction from social and
mainstream media.
 The story revolves around five young people and the decisions
they make in life, as inspired by events surrounding _________and a
theory by an unnamed journalist of what may have happened in
reality. FITB

62. MH - 370

63. CHAKRAVYUH
• 6 sets of 2 questions each . Teams get assigned in
descending order of points .
• First question - +20 / - 10 . Its mandatory
• You get three choices for the second one :
• 1. Double edged sword : Scoring is + 40 / - 40 . If you
answer incorrectly , pounce is open for +20 / - 10
• 2. The Shield : Scoring is + 20 / - 20 . Same rules as
above for pounce if you answer incorrectly .
• 3. Screw my enemy : You play for + 20 / - 10 . No
pounce . YOU get to decide which team will answer if you
cannot . They play for + 20 / - 20

64. 1. A. Nostalgia
 Due to a disastrous 96% drop in sales over the past 10 years , this particular
company decided to shut down production of a particular item.
 However , many Hollywood legends were upset over this , including Martin
Scorcese , J.J.Abrahams etc.
 They therefore entered into a deal with the company that would sustain
production of the particular item .
 Identify the company and its iconic product.

66. Kodak Film roll

67. 1. B. Connect

69. Che Guevara

70. 2. A. Precision’s the word
 X was a French mathematician and inventor.
 To a quadrant with a primary scale in half degrees he proposed to
attach a movable sector, thirty-one half degrees in length but
divided into thirty equal parts. In measuring an angle, minutes
could be easily reckoned by noticing which division line of the
sector coincided with a division line of the quadrant.
 Who / What did he invent ?

72. Vernier Callipers

73. 2. B. Connect
1 98
2 201*
3 125
4 ~250
5 200 *
6 250 (4)
7 200 (3)

75. IISERS and their campus sizes

76. 3. A. Cold water on grand plans
 The occasion was a big demo at the Royal Academy of Sciences. X was stationed
on a cliff in Poldhu, Cornwall and ready to transmit a message over 300 miles to
Fleming's receiver in London. But just as the demonstration was about to begin,
the receiving apparatus began to tap out a message in Morse code.
 Someone... was beaming powerful wireless pulses into the theatre and they
were strong enough to interfere with the projector's electric arc discharge lamp.
Mentally decoding the missive, [Fleming's assistant Arthur] Blok realised it was
spelling one facetious word, over and over: "Rats". A glance at the output of
the nearby Morse printer confirmed this. The incoming Morse then got more
personal, mocking X: "There was a young fellow of _____, who diddled the public
quite prettily," it trilled.
 Who’s X and why was this done ?

78. To refute Marconi’s claim about the
privacy and security offered by his
radio

79. 3. B. Connect

81. All are current British colonies :
Cayman Islands
British Virgin Islands
Falkland Islands
St. Helena
Bermuda

82. 4. A. With or without them
 The Bogside massacre took place on Sunday , 30 Jan 1972 in the Bogside area of
Derry , North Ireland . British soldiers shot dead 26 unarmed civilans during a
protest march in support of the Irish Republican Army which was waging a
campaign to unite Ireland against the British state.
 This inspired X to write the song titled Y along with his second wife , a Japanese
songwriter and peace activist.
 Even Black Sabbath wrote a song about this incident which is called Sabbath
Bloody Sabbath . U2 also wrote a song titled Y commemorating the incident .
 Identify X and Y .

84. John Lennon

85. 4. B. Whose artwork
?

87. Hitler’s Paintings

88. 5. A. 6-6-6 ; the number of the beast
…….
 On Halloween , Oct 30 1938 , the BBC went more than a few steps
further to pull of a remarkably successful prank .
 They roped in legendary director Orson Welles (of Citizen Kane
fame) and had him narrate a novel which they broadcast.
 It reportedly caused mass hysteria and panic among the listeners as
they believed it to be an actual broadcast that was being reported
live .
 Which classic work of fiction did Welles narrate ?

91. 5. B. Connect

94. 6. A. Some like it hot
 Former Premier of the Soviet Union , Nikita Khrushchev exaggeratedly
remarked “We’re making them like sausages”
 This particular statement alarmed America which immediately jacked up its
own production of the same item .
 Currently , India has about 110 – 120 of these , China owns about 260 , Russia
has 7000 , while the US has 6,800 .
 What are we talking about ?

97. 6. B. Connect

99. Charlie Chaplin

100. LVC

101. + 40 / - 30

102. + 30 / - 20

103. +20 / - 10

104. + 10 / - 5

105. + 5 / 0

107. North Korea

108. +40 / -30

109. +30 / -
20

110. + 20 / - 10

111. + 10 / -5

112. + 5 / 0

114. Yash Chopra