Quanta - The official Quiz club of NIT Goa presents September Monthly Quiz hv 2 QM - Sauvik Senapati and Nithin L.

1. Round 1
Infinite Bounce
Infinite Pounce
Pounce only on all unknowns
+10/0 on Bounce
+10/-10 on Pounce

2. Q1. Identify this personality

3. • Vikram Pandit (ex CE0 , Citi Bank)

4. Q2. Which word, now generally used for an
unexpected burst of wealth or success, literally
means ‘ calm sea’ in Spanish?

5. • Bonanza

6. Q3. Identify the product associated with these
personalities.

7. • Founding team members of their product i.e. Trizzio which is a
quizzing app

9. Q4.
• Statements about pornography appeared in the very
1st minute of this film X , directed by Mohit Suri under
the banner of Vishesh , Entertainment Ltd. X was
released in 2005, starring Amrita Singh , Emraan
Hashmi, Deepal Shaw and Y.
• Speaking of pornography , the origin of this word can
be traced to which language?
• Hint : Y worked as a child artist in “Raja Hindustani”
starring Aamir Khan and Karishma Kapoor.

10. • X: Kalyug
• Y:Kunal Khemu
• Greek language

11. Q5.
•Kenneth George “Ken” Aston was
responsible for the major change in the
game of football. This change was
implemented first in 1970 FIFA World Cup .
•Can you guys tell the major change ?

12. • Yellow and red cards

13. Q6.
• In an interview, Mukesh Ambani once said –
“If you noticed my public utterances, and I speak very rarely, I made
this point(of free voice call) more than once in the past. I had spoken in
Delhi at a Brown University function where the president of Brown and
the media were present. I had met the CEO of ‘X’ and he had said , “ Oh
in your country you still charge for voice? We stopped doing that long
ago”.
X’s CEO is Lowell McAdam and it was founded on October 7 , 1983 as
Bell Atlantic . Today , it now stands as the largest U.S wireless comm.
Service provider.
X’s slogan is Better Matters.
Identify X.

14. • Verizon

15. Q7
• Joel Zimmerman aka Y , a well known EDM artist, expressed his desire
to work with Daler Mehendi at the Sunburn festival 2014 by tagging
him on Twitter and praising him like he would prefer him over Yo Yo
Honey Singh .
• The outcome of bonding over social media and on the Coffee Run was
and electrifying remix of Mehndi’s smash hit ‘B’.
• ‘B’ became so popular that the video game ‘World of Warcraft’ had
the dance steps incorporated from the video.
Identify Y and B.

16. • Deadmau5
• Tunak Tun Tunak

17. Q8.
•Recently , Abhishek Bachchan broke a Guinness
world record which was held by German film
actors(one of them is Daniel Bruhl of Inglourious
Basterds and Rush fame).
•Which record did Junior B break?

18. • Most public appearances in 12 hours , while promoting for Delhi 6.

19. Connect
• Pounce to death
• Infinite Bounce
• +20/0 on bounce
• +20/-20 on pounce

20. Q1. Connect

21. • Limited edition packs of Walkers – flavours named after them

22. Q2.
• Mehmet Scholl
• Richard Gere
• Kate Bosworth
• Orlando Bloom
• Mayawati

23. • Followers of Buddhist principles.

24. Q3.

25. • Kashmiri Pandits.

26. Q4.

27. • Pankaj Kapur played the titular role in detective serial “ Karamchand”
and the character is seen eating carrots while solving the cases.

28. Q5. Connect

29. • It is claimed that Bob Woolmer had witnessed the record of achieving
the highest individual score in the domestic cricket.
• At Kanpur – he witnessed Hanif Mohammed
• At Worcester, he witnessed Brian Lara creating the new record.

30. Round 3
• Pounce to death
• No infinite bounce
• Pounce only on all X,Y (and Z)
• +30/-20 on pounce
• +15/-5

31. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi created a
name for himself in the
business world in 1987.
What was it ?
Q1.

32. • He was declared as the world’s richest man in the inaugural Forbes
list in 1987.

33. Q2.
• Creators while visualising the image of a new comics villain
acknowledged that it produced an image of German actor
Conrad Veidt in character as Gwynplaine as an inspiration for
their new villain character.
• One of them , Jerry Robinson said that his studies at
Columbia University taught him that some characters are
made up of contradictions, which helped him to add this
characteristic to the character.
Character was also known as the Red Hood.
An animated film depicting the character’s
origin was released this year.
Name the villain.

34. • Joker

35. The statue symbolising Jai Jawan
Jai Kisan in Miramar , replaced the
bust of which Portuguese
personality???
Q3.

36. • Afonso de Alberqueque

37. Q4.
• Mayte Garcia is an American belly dancer, actress and choreographer
of Puerto Rican ancestory. She has appeared in many singles , notably
choreographed Britney Spears’ “ I’m a Slave 4 U” and appeared in the
Bollywood song “Deedar De” of 2005 film Dus starring Sanjay Dutt.
• Garcia was hired to dance on the tour named “Diamonds and Pearls
Tour” where she met her employer and future husband named K,
later to be divorced.
• Recently, K was in the news this year for his death due to a fenatyl
overdose. He won 7 Grammy Awards and Rolling Stone ranked him at
number 27 on its list of 100 Greatest Awards. His first album was
named “For You” and released on April 7,1978.
• Identify K.

38. • Prince

39. Q5.
• ‘A’ was born on August 9,1976 in Los Angeles, California.
• In 1998, A along with other classmates , dropped out of UCLA to
found Scour Inc. with Dan Rodrigues, a search engine. It had to face
legal action from various bodies like the Motion Picture Assoc. of
America . Scour filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from the lawsuit.
• A started a company named RedSwoosh , a peer to peer file sharing
company. It took advantage of increased bandwidth efficiency on the
Internet to allow users to transfer large media files.
• A along with Garrett Camp founded B , an app which is focussed on
vehicle rental system, ridesharing etc. . It operates in 66 countries .
• Identify A and B

40. • A – Travis Kalanick
• B- Uber

41. Q6. Describe the Photo.

42. • Gary Liner

43. Q7.
• This tournament was conceived in 1899 by 4 members of the N
University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis
competition.
• Once accepted , 1 N player Dwight Davis , designed a tournament
format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve
Crump & Low.
• The first match between them took place in Boston in the year 1900.
• The tournament expanded to various countries as the years
progressed.
• Initially known as Int’l Lawn Tennis Challenge, now renamed as X Cup.
• In 1966, which country did India defeat to reach the final of the X Cup
for 1st time. Country is ‘Z’
• Give Z,N,X.

44. • Harvard
• Davis Cup
• Brazil

45. XYZ
• Pounce only on all X,Y (and Z)
• Infinite Bounce
• +30/0 on Pounce
• +10 for each variable

46. 1.
Wikipedia is an Internet encyclopaedia project in many languages. It is "open content".
This means anyone can copy it, and make changes to it if they follow the rules for copying
or editing.
Its name is a combination of the two words wiki, a Hawaiian word for quick, and
encyclopedia. The term ‘Wiki’ was coined by X, who also created the first Wiki website.
X is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, an American
organization based in San Francisco, California, which owns Wikipedia.
Wikipedia, created by Jimmy Wales and Y, began as a related project for Z. Z was a free
online English-language encyclopedia project, whose articles were written and owned by
Bomis, Inc which is a web portal company. Y was the editor-in chief for Z.

47. Answers
X – Ward Cunnigham
Y – Larry Sanger
Z – Nupedia

48. 2.
In April 2012, X was sued by the author of the book Link, John L. Beiswenger, who alleged
a copyright infringement for using his ideas in Y and demanding $5.25 million in damages
and wanted to stop the Y that was set to be released in a few months along with any
future games that allegedly contain his ideas. However, Beiswenger dropped the lawsuit
within a month due to X’s motion to block future lawsuits from him. He was later quoted
as saying he believes "authors should vigorously defend their rights in their creative
works“.
This is not the first controversy X has been associated with. On 2 July 2013, X announced
a major breach in its network resulting in the potential exposure of up to 58 million
accounts including usernames, email address and encrypted passwords. Although the
firm denied any credit/debit card information could have been compromised, it issued
directives to all registered users to change their account passwords and also
recommended updating passwords on any other website or service where a same or
similar password had been used.
Hint: EA has a 19.9% stake in X

49. Answers
X – Ubisoft
Y – Assassin’s Creed III

50. 3.
X is an American bags and luggage manufacturer and retailer, founded in Denver,
Colorado as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company.
Beginning in 1961, X manufactured and distributed Lego building toys for the North
American market under license from the Danish parent firm. X was instrumental in
establishing the Lego brand in the United States. This was part of an overall company
expansion into toy manufacturing in the 1960s that was abandoned in the 1970s.
Currently, X is involved in making products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries
bags and briefcases, and 40% of all its hard luggage is manufactured in its plant in Nashik,
India.
After a series of lows, the company was bought by Marcello Botolli, former Chairman and
CEO of Y, as the President and CEO of X for a period of 4 years after which he left.
Hint: Y is one of the world's leading international fashion houses with products ranging
from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry,
accessories, sunglasses and books.

51. Answers
X – Samsonite
Y – Louis Vuitton Malletier

52. 4.
X was founded in February 1982 by three senior managers from semiconductor
manufacturer Texas Instruments. The three of them had left due to lack of faith and loss
of confidence in Texas Instrument's management, and initially considered but ultimately
decided against starting a chain of Mexican restaurants. Each invested $1,000 to form the
company, which was founded with the temporary name Y.
Unlike many startups, X differentiated its offerings from the many other IBM clones by
not focusing mainly on price, but instead concentrating on new features, such as
portability and better graphics displays as well as performance—and all at prices
comparable to those of IBM’s PCs. Due to its partnership with Intel, X was able to
maintain a technological lead in the market place as it was the first one to come out with
computers containing the next generation of each Intel processor.
X produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to
legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer. It rose to become the largest
supplier of PC systems before being overtaken by it’s biggest rival Z.
Soon after the Company struggled and was finally taken over by Z.

53. Answers
X – Compaq
Y – Gateway Technology
Z - HP

54. 5.
Fellowship of the Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant
honor which has been awarded to many eminent scientists from history including Isaac Newton,
Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday.
X, a Scottish chemist, was also one of the few people elected as a member of the Royal Society.
Born in Glasgow, X was first employed as a Clerk. Later he resigned his clerkship to take up the
manufacture of chemicals. In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes. His
experiments with one of the by-products of tar, led to his invention of Y, to which he is most
widely credited with.
In 1828, he became a partner with James Beaumont Neilson in a firm to exploit the latter's patent
for the hot blast blowing of blast furnaces, which saved considerably on their fuel consumption.
X died in 1843 at Dunchattan, Scotland, and was buried in the churchyard of the Glasgow
Cathedral
Hint: The essence of his patent involved cementing of two thicknesses of cloth together with
natural (India) rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of the Naphtha

55. Answer:
X – Charles Macintosh
Y - Raincoat

56. BUZZER ROUND
• Each question consists of 5 clues that reveal the answer
• +50/-20 on first clue
• +40/-15 on second clue
• +30/-10 on third clue
• +20/-5 on fourth clue
• +10/0 on fifth clue
• The next clue will be provided if no one presses the buzzer for 15s

57. Q1.
A. The New Development Bank (NDB) makes up the financial architecture of this organization,
operated by its members. The bank's primary focus of lending is on infrastructure projects
with authorized lending of up to $34 billion annually.
B. The organization’s first formal summit, held in Yekaterinburg, commenced on 16 June 2009.
The summit's focus was on means of improving the global economic situation and reforming
financial institutions. They announced the need for a new global reserve currency, which
would have to be "diversified, stable and predictable” which led to a fall in the value of the US
dollar against other major currencies
C. South Africa will be the African Headquarters of the NDB named the "New Development
Bank Africa Regional Centre
D. The name of the Association/Organization was coined in 2001 by then-chairman of Goldman
Sachs Asset Management, Jim O'Neill
E. The organization originally consisted of 4 member countries, which later expanded to
become five. Current many countries have expressed their interest in joining this
organization

58. Answer:
BRICS

59. Q2.
A. This company, established in 1897, became the first Indian company to introduce PUF (
Polyurethane Foam) and made soap using vegetable oil, which was a huge hit with the
vegetarian community in India
B. One of it’s subsidiaries oriented towards consumer products, became the Highest Ranked
Indian FMCG(Fast Moving Consumer Goods) in Asia's Hot Growth Companies' List by Business
Week, and was ranked 14th in The Best Companies to Work For study, jointly conducted by
Business Today, Mercer and Taylor Nelson Sofres(TNS)
C. One of it’s founders, Pirojsha laid the foundation for the sprawling industrial garden township
now called Pirojshanagar in the suburbs of Mumbai, where the company has its
headquarters.
D. They were the first to produce India's first indigenous typewriter in 1955 and shut down its
typewriter manufacturing plant in 2011, which was the last in the world
E. Introduced the first lock with lever technology in India in 1897 and the first Indian safe in
1902

60. Answer:
Godrej

61. Q3.
A. Widely recognized for frequently reinventing her style and image, she received the Fashion
Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2014.
Forbes ranked her the fourth most powerful celebrity of 2012, and was named one of Time's
"100 Most Influential People in the World" later that year
B. She was an army cadet in a sub-military program, where Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
Although she initially wanted to graduate from high school, she chose to pursue a musical
career instead
C. With sales exceeding 200 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling artists of all
time and is the youngest and fastest solo artist to earn fourteen number-one singles on the
Billboard Hot 100, and has eight Grammy’s to her name
D. Though she named Madonna as her biggest influence, her music has encompassed a broad
range of genres, including dancehall, reggae and soca, as well as pop, R&B, dubstep, hip hop
and electronic dance music, inspired by her Caribbean roots
E. She was involved in a controversy in 2009 where it emerged that her then-boyfriend had
physically assaulted her, resulting in the cancellation of her performance at the 51st Grammy’s

62. Answer:
Rihanna

63. Q4.
A. The company was an engine supplier in Formula One between the 1989 and 1993
Formula One seasons for various teams including Lotus, Modena, Minardi, and
Larrousse, with which its best result was achieved at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix
B. This car manufacturer owned by the Mimrans created high performance off-road
vehicles before being sold to the American Chrysler Group in 1987
C. The founder was skeptical of making cars for motorsports as they were too expensive
and drained the company’s resources and instead initially focused on producing
refined grand touring cars
D. This company based in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, is currently owned by the
Volkswagen Group through it’s subsidiary Audi.
E. The company names its cars after a breed of (famous) bulls used in bullfighting,
though they have broken from traditional once or twice.

64. Answer:
Lamborghini

65. Q5.
A. In 1928, one of the founders of this Film Distribution and Studio Company made his son
the head of the company as a 21st birthday present, building up a reputation for nepotism in
the company.
B. It is owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal and is one of
Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios
C. It is the only studio to have released three billion-dollar films in one year, and this distinction
was achieved in 2015 with movies including Furious 7
D. They owned the rights to "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit“, created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
However the producers were unhappy with the production fee accepted by Disney and
demanded that they accept a lower fee. This led to Disney and Iwerks creating Mickey Mouse
who starred in the first "sync" sound animated short, Steamboat Willie, establishing their
dominance in the industry
E. The company was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam
Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour

66. Answer:
Universal Studios