General Quiz #22 #QOVID-21 Quiz Series

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Edition #22

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18th April
2020
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Abhishek Patil 11
Manish Pradhan 10
Samiran Mondal 9
Prashant Kalbende 7

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1) – 6) Dry
8) – 12) Art
13)- 15) Theme connect
BEWARE- NO GOOGLING ZONE BEGINS!!

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Q-1.
……Aayo re Gorkhali
It all started in early 70s, when The royal college of art got a call from X’s office to
create a poster. A young masters student Pasche was thus dispatched to discuss
ideas with the legendary X hotshot- Y who would go on to receive his knighthood
33 years later..
Y wanted an image that could work on its own, a creation of sheer simplicity like
the Shell Petroleum logo and was oddly intrigued by the striking image of an Indian
deity. Pasche, on seeing the image immediately picked up on the deity’s _____,
and went to design in black&white something that transcended X’s image, earning
billions of dollars in branding & merchandising.
Ironically though it is also popularly considered to be inspired from Y’s ____ as Y
mocking the world with his trademark persona. What is being talked about here?

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Q-2
Otherworldly injustice in MELA world…
On the advice of his friend Arthur C clarke , X took“Mr. Bonku and his friend”- A relatively
unknown short story written in the early 60s to hollywood. Despite prolong talks, the
project fell through and X refocussed on his home projects. Unknown to him it would go
on to transform its cinematic genre in late 70s and early80s. Despite having clear
indications of plagiarism X chose not to sue Y, a legend in his own right.
Karmic justice hit as the oscars were sweeped by an indianesque movie and Y’s work
could only win in technical categories.
10 years later Y made it up to X , albeit a little too late by backing him for Z along with
polanski and Ivory merchant productions..
Identify X,Y,Z (part points for all)

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Q-3
Little fockers…
Probably one the Few
alliterative wishes of festive
splendor… how did
astro_jessica appropriately
title this tweet as-
“__________ to all those
who celebrate it on earth”
FITB

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Q-4
When names become boring…
“ My name is eoww”, an appropriately titled documentary about a village, about
60kms from the city of shillong. This village is known to be one of the few
remaining cultures to recognize ______ as a form of individual identity and
communication, and as a consequence are expert in the art of ______.
The practice might have originated as a form of effective interaction and
recognition across long distances. UNESCO has declared that the evolution of
mobile phones is the primary threat to this practice..
On the birth of a new child ,contrary to the subject of brainstorming among
parents in the rest of the world; in this village giving a unique ________ for the
parents is always a tougher job.
Give me the funda for _______

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Q-5
A hindi ‘NEW ENTRY”
• The quintessential hollywood destination for the wild west is this rocky desert of
arizona…Yet unknown to most americans its people participated in one of the most
critical cryptographic missions of the USMC that changed the face of the war.
• The idea of using ____ languages as code was explored even in WW1, due to which
the japanese and germans sent deep assets inside america to learn these languages.
But due to the fact that the X had a language that was unwritten as well as based on
word association, 29 Xs in 1942 were conscripted into the USMC as codetalkers; and
by the end of the war remained unbroken
• Their role remained classified till the late 60s… and it took 55 years for the original 29
Xs to be awarded the congressional gold medal by the white house, at which point
only 4 were alive… Identify X…

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Q-6
Think tangentially…
‘A’ has been a highly contested Asian military choke point since ancient times. An
integral part of the Silk road amidst the Sher koh range, it was also the site for
Dragon teeth- WWII era anti tank mod. By the Brits. Its also known for its thriving
industry of cheap copies of ammunition and weapons, including Ak-47s, Colts, Lee
enfield rifles. An easy way to spot ‘A’ copy weapons is to look for cyrilic letters that
the soviet taught gunsmiths tend to misuse within english
This highly profitable industry was controlled by the ‘B’ clan untill 2007 as the
powerholders of ‘A’ until being seized by the taliban. The ‘B’s are known for their
martial abilities , fighiting the mughals for ages and invading kashmir in 1947.
Yet we know ‘B’ from a similarly rampageous personality in a different field. Identify
A and B

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Q-7
ID the companies/brands…-
A)

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B)

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C)

Q-8 #QOVID-21
No hints needed
• This was one of the early avant garde european art movements that shocked
classical tastes with their ideas. Over the years multiple theories have been given
regarding its etymology…
• One of the popular ones state that its german proponent slid his paper knife
randomly into a dictionary that landed on a french derivative of toy horse and tada!
the movement was born..
• Interestingly the same word is popularly used in some parts of India, and has gone
to refer to multiple movies, bands, a sportsman as well as an african dictator….Id
the word or the art movement

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Is that a painting?
• X was a pioneering 20th century, who is known as the early founders of
performance art, minimalism as well as pop art.
• X was also a prolific martial artist, being the first european 4th dan black belt
in this japanese style & served as the technical director for the spanish
team.
• He’s chiefly known for his obsession with singularity- a single note/a single
chord/ a single tone of ____; and ironically died of a heart attack watching
his favourite tone in a screening of Mondo Cane; the only movie he had
starred in.
• One of his lifelong endeavours was to experiment with mediums of applying
paint on the canvas in a continous display of motion, that led to the
development of Y. Give me X and Y/funda for Y…

Q-10 #QOVID-21
EZee-PZee
Id the famous painting
that has been parodied by
Signor Mario….

Q-11 #QOVID-21
• In this famous scene from the Movie
Forrest Gump, when Jenny returns home
after years she throws herself on the
ground, in this defiant pose of resolve and
anger
• It was a supposed recreation in reverse of
an iconic 20th century american work, one
of the popular works of this painter
The original painting was made when the artist saw his Maine based neighbour; who
suffered from a severe neuropathy dragging herself through the field and has since then
become a symbol of willpower and has been extensively referenced in pop culture-
including kubrick’s 2001 a space odyssey. Id the painting

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"Modern consumer society is interested in slick design. I
wanted to contradict that trend, so I started to work with
a material that seemed vulnerable and ephemeral: a
derivative of___, complete union of nature and tech”
• This is one of the novel kinetic sculptures designed by
Dutch artist Tomas in his Slovakian farm that
manipulates nature in a harmonious transaction of
mutual benefit
• With complete control over the 40k workers it took to
create this, Tomas has tried to show the effigy of
crucified christ, the red pigment being the only one
that ____ cannot see in the visible spectrum. FITB or
give funda

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X paints and _____ ltd is an Indian State Government
undertaking that was founded in late 1930s by a dynamic
Indian ruler who has at times been referred to the saintly
king by gandhi and the ideal philosopher king of Plato’s
republic. His dynasty has ruled X for more than 300 yrs
The company since then has become an integral
supplier of wax, enamel, paints, sealing wax for indian
post stamps and ballot boxes,
X is an indian city, 90miles from the state cap.
named after a ‘ buffalo demon’ whose name was
officially changed to a more ethnical version in 2014.

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• Ponnani is a small city in the malabar coast of kerala and retains
the record of being the only LS constiuency to have never been
won by the INC. Interestingly it also bears the record of being
amongst the few ________ constituencies In pre 1962 india.
• Similar ________ constituencies existed in UK before 1950 and
are still in practice in some parts of Argentina and portugal.
• The 1962 LS elections adopted numerous reforms to prevent
electoral fraud and multiple voting; also abolishing this system
and creating Y. FITB or give me Y

Q-15 #QOVID-21
Colloidal Z is a dangerous and readily available
‘cure-all’ solution that has hogged medical debates
for long. High profile backers like Gwyneth paltrow
have publicly supported its use as an antiseptic
while others have derived it as a formula to be an
elder smurf or beast from X men fame…..
One of the key ingredients of the solution is a
cheap Z salt called Lunar caustic by alchemists of
antiquity: finds extensive use in photo films ,
biostaining and as antiseptics
Its also rumoured to be an important secret ingredient developed by the indian NPL
and now marketed in 25 countries. How do we better know this salt as ?

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Answer Follows

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1. Rolling Stones Tongue Logo From Kali 8) Dada/ Dadaism
2. X- Satyajit Ray 9) Morse
Y- Steven Spielberg(ET) 10) Creation Of Adam, Michaelanegelo
Z- Honorary Oscar 1992 11) Christina’s World, Wyeth
3. Happy Hanukkah 12) Sculpture Made Using Live Bees
4. Whistling – Each Person Has A Unique 13) Mysore
Tune Decided As Their Name On Birth 14) FITB- Multimember Constituencies
5. Navajos (Navajo Code) Y- Reserved Constituencies SC/ST
6. A- Khyber Pass 15) Silver Nitrate
B- Afridis Connect For 13)-15)
7. Youtube Indelible Ink- Made Only By Mysore
Linkedin Paints, First Used In 1962 , Has Silver
Old Spice Nitrate.

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