Open General Quiz conducted at IIM Kashipur on 05th January, 2017.

1. WELCOME YOU ALL
OPEN GENERAL QUIZ 2017

2. RULES
25 Questions
Q6, Q12, Q16,Q21 are Star marked
questions to resolve ties.
Good luck!

3. V.S Naipaul’s 1979 novel, A Bend in
the River presents an account of post
colonial societies which suddenly
found themselves at the mercy of
dictators like the ‘Big Man’ (based on
a real person) in the book under
whom individual rights and rule of
law went out of the window.
Although Naipaul doesn’t mention
any name, the story is believed to be
set in a town of Kisangani. On the
banks of which river is this town
situated? Also, which country?
QUESTION1

4. In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association decided that
onychophagia counted as a form of "pathological grooming,"
and deserved to be part of the pantheon of behaviors
associated with OCD.
A study published in 2015 by Scientific American said that
people focused on high performance and excellence are
apparently more vulnerable to body-focused repetitive
disorders like onychophagia and hence linked it to
perfectionism.
In ancient Greece, the Stoic philosopher Sidonius said Zeno’s
successor Cleanthes, accumulated his wisdom through this.
What is onychophagia?
QUESTION2

5. Long before the refusal by some sections of Muslims to sing
Vande Mataram, there was the case of the Emmanuel family
whose three kids Bijoe, Binu and Bindu were suspended
from school in 1985 after a complaint that they didn’t sing
the national anthem owing to a core belief of the
community they belonged to. When the matter went to the
Supreme Court, however, the court ruled in the favor of
Emmanuel family and their community.
Which community did the Emmanuel family belong to?
What core belief prevents the members of this community
from singing the national anthem?
QUESTION3

6. QUESTION4
Identify the person
who was the third in a
certain list and the
only in the list to have
a different surname till
2012 when a certain in
the news individual
took over.

7. Before J. Jayalalitha passed away, this man wrote about his
unrequited love for the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
on Facebook. Who is this secret admirer?
QUESTION5

8. Born to a Hungarian Jew, how has this personality
________ Szekely remodeled his surname so that he can get
people to pronounce it the right way?
QUESTION6*

9. Whose description by FIFA?
He is charming, confident and social and has always dreamt of
becoming a football star.
His favourite sporting pastime is playing football. He is a fair player,
values his team members and respects his opponents, and he plays
with skill and purpose.
He is always fun to be around – as the joker in the pack, he knows
how to make others laugh.
He has taken to wearing cool sports glasses when he’s in action; he
believes they give him special targeting powers on the pitch. And he
loves to pose for photos!
QUESTION7

10. According to a popular tweet (which was a joke) that went
viral on October 13, 2016, this man in 1978, and not X in
2016, was the first one. What are we talking about?
QUESTION8

11. In an interview in 2013, D.B Weiss revealed how he and
David Benioff got GRR Martin to give them the rights for
the show in a 2006 meeting.
In a meeting that spanned around 5 hours, “he asked us a
question. We had discussed it before, and we gave a
shocking answer. At that point, George didn’t actually say
whether or not we were right or wrong, but his smile was
his tell. We knew we had passed the Wonka test, at that
point.”
What was the question that clinched it for them?
QUESTION9

12. QUESTION10
This movie had to face the
censor’s scissors on more than
one count. Despite that what
they overlooked was this tank
top that the protagonist wears in
an important scene which was
full of pornographic references.
This tank top has gained a cult
following of its own over the
years with a website
blacksugartanktop.com among
others sprouting up and
spreading its popularity. Which
movie?

13. In Greek mythology, these
creatures, part woman and part
bird, would sing seductively
from cliffs, producing a trance-
like effect on sailors passing by.
The sailors would then steer
their ships toward the voice and
dangerous cliffs, eventually
crashing on the rocks. This word
is thus used to describe a
beautiful woman (or anything
beautiful) who beguiles men and
leads to their harm. What’s the
word?
QUESTION11

14. During the third year of American Civil War, more than
2,000 men were listed as suffering from it; 12 succumbed to
it. The year with the most fatalities was 1865, when 24 men
died of the disease. In all, between 1861 and 1866, 5,537
Union soldiers suffered it acutely enough to come to a
doctor’s attention, and 74 died of it.
French doctor Jourdan Le Cointe thought it should be
treated by "inciting pain and terror”, while American
military doctor Theodore Calhoun thought that those who
suffered from it were unmanly and proposed curing it with
public ridicule and bullying. Other dubious cures tried over
the years include leeches, purging the stomach, and "warm
hypnotic emulsions.”
What ‘disease’?
QUESTION12*

15. During an episode of Hogan Knows Best, Hulk Hogan
claimed that his agent called him to tell him of the offer to
have Hogan endorse the product, but Hogan missed the call
and hence missed the chance of endorsing it. In an
interview in 2011, Hogan changed the story, and said that he
was approached by his agent in the 1990s about endorsing
three devices and he simply chose one.
Which product did Hogan refuse which, considering the
success of the person who ultimately endorsed it, was a
huge blunder?
QUESTION13

16. Here is an excerpt from an article Sam Ferris wrote on April
1 last year. What has just happened?
QUESTION14

17. The workers clean the small intestines, free them from fat,
and steep them in water. Then they scrape off the external
membrane with a blunt knife, and steep the intestines again
for some time in potassium hydroxide. Then they smooth
and equalize the intestines by drawing them out. Next, they
twist the prepared strands together to make something
whose name is partially misleading as the intestine used is
that of usually sheep or goat or occasionally of the
intestines of cattle.
What is prepared this way?
QUESTION15

18. Designed
by Armenian sculptor Mihran
Hakobyan and unveiled in
October 2014, this sculpture
is located in Slubice Poland.
What's the name of the
statue in question or whose
contributions does the statue
honor?
QUESTION16*

19. The Travancore Christian succession
Act 1092 stated that if a man died
without leaving a will for his
daughter, she would not be entitled
to anything and the son would get
the property. Against this Mary______
invoked Article 14 and fought for
equality in property rights for all
Syrian Christian Women. The case
ended with the Supreme Court ruling
that the Indian Succession Act, 1925,
be applied to Christians in
Travancore and Cochin too.
What’s the famous fiery surname?
QUESTION17

20. What word that means to capture someone’s complete
attention comes from the last name of a highly popular yet
controversial 18th century German physician, and a close
friend of Mozart, Franz Friedrich Anton ______ who
theorized that there was a natural energetic transference
that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects
that he called animal magnetism?
QUESTION18

21. Since it established itself in 1970 in Germany, the
government has waged a long-running legal and political
battle against it. In 1992, Hamburg set up a “________ Task
Force” to monitor the group, assist members who have left it
and are thus cut off from their families, and discourage
citizens from joining it in the first place.
On the BfV’s homepage, it is listed alongside “Right-wing
extremism,” “Islamism,” and “Espionage” as one of its focus
areas. There is a belief that a total ban on it hasn’t yet
happened because it can jeopardize relations with the United
States where its recognized as well as protected.
What is it?
QUESTION19

22. Nowadays mostly associated with an author and a cult movie
from the 1990’s, it was traditionally a symbol of cowardice.
During the First World War, the Order of the ______ ________
was founded with support from author Mrs Humphrey
Ward. The organization aimed to shame men into enlisting
in the British army by persuading women to present them
with this if they were not wearing a uniform.
What?
QUESTION20

23. These are the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua or St. John’s Bread,
a tree native to the countries in the Mediterranean region.
Due to their almost uniform size and weight, they were
traditionally used for a specific purpose, a practice that has
now been abandoned for obvious reasons. As a result of
that, which ‘valuable’ word’s etymological roots can be
traced to these seeds?
QUESTION21*

24. Written by Greg Neri, this book tells the fictionalized story
of the real-life childhood companionship of two people on a
mystery hunt to track down who is vandalizing buildings in
town of Monroeville, Alabama? Who are Tru and Nelle?
QUESTION22

25. Although now obsolete, these giant concrete arrows served
an important function a century ago in US when they were
constructed. While most of them were demolished by the
middle of the century, some still remain. What purpose did
they serve?
QUESTION23

26. What, the first of which appeared at Venice Beach,
California on 10th November last year, does this excerpt
from a Forbes article talk about?
“Looking a bit like a Minions character in Despicable Me,
mixed with a fair amount of sounds similar to C-3P0 and
a funky round LCD video display screen that functions as
an emotive eye, add a “scavenger hunt” map to locate
where you can find them, they will go down in history as
a master achievement in modern product marketing.”
QUESTION24

27. QUESTION25
On November 11, 2016, Coldplay released a new single
version of Everglow, a song from their album ‘A Head Full
of Dreams’ in which Chris Martin sang unaccompanied. The
song ends with a 1977 audio sample of someone speaking
to a live crowd in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
"God is watching me. God don't praise me because _ ______ ____ _________.
God don't give nothing about ____ _______… He wants to know: How do
we treat each other? How do we help each other? So I'm going to
dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities,
helping people, uniting people, people bombing each other because of
religious beliefs. We need somebody in the world to help us all make
peace. So when I die, if there's a heaven, I'm gonna see it."
Who was the speaker?

28. Hand over the sheets and Wait
for the answers.

29. V.S Naipaul’s 1979 novel, A Bend in
the River presents an account of post
colonial societies which suddenly
found themselves at the mercy of
dictators like the ‘Big Man’ (based on
a real person) in the book under
whom individual rights and rule of
law went out of the window.
Although Naipaul doesn’t mention
any name, the story is believed to be
set in a town of Kisangani. On the
banks of which river is this town
situated? Also, which country?
QUESTION1

30. Congo River, Zaire
ANSWER

31. In 2012, the American Psychiatric Association decided that
onychophagia actually counted as a form of "pathological
grooming," and deserved to be part of the pantheon of
behaviors associated with OCD.
A study published in 2015 by Scientific American said that
people focused on high performance and excellence are
apparently more vulnerable to body-focused repetitive
disorders like onychophagia and hence linked it to
perfectionism.
In ancient Greece, the Stoic philosopher Sidonius said Zeno’s
successor Cleanthes, accumulated his wisdom through this.
What is onychophagia?
QUESTION2

32. ANSWER
The technical name for nail biting is onychophagia

33. Long before the refusal by some sections of Muslims to sing
Vande Mataram, there was the case of the Emmanuel family
whose three kids Bijoe, Binu and Bindu were suspended
from school in 1985 after a complaint that they didn’t sing
the national anthem owing to a core belief of the
community they belonged to. When the matter went to the
Supreme Court, however, the court ruled in the favor of
Emmanuel family and their community.
Which community did the Emmanuel family belong to?
What core belief prevents the members of this community
from singing the national anthem?
QUESTION3

34. Jehovah’s Witnesses
ANSWER

35. QUESTION4
Identify the person
who was the third in a
certain list and the
only in the list to have
a different surname till
2012 when a certain in
the news individual
took over.

36. Nowroji Saklatwala - the third chairman of
the Tata group from 1932 to 1938
ANSWER

37. Before J. Jayalalitha passed away, this man wrote about his
unrequited love for the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
on Facebook. Who is this secret admirer?
QUESTION5

39. Born to a Hungarian Jew, how has this personality
________ Szekely remodeled his surname so that he can get
people to pronounce it the right way?
QUESTION6

40. Louis C.K
Changed Szekely to C.K
ANSWER

41. Whose description by FIFA?
He is charming, confident and social and has always dreamt of
becoming a football star.
His favourite sporting pastime is playing football. He is a fair player,
values his team members and respects his opponents, and he plays
with skill and purpose.
He is always fun to be around – as the joker in the pack, he knows
how to make others laugh.
He has taken to wearing cool sports glasses when he’s in action; he
believes they give him special targeting powers on the pitch. And he
loves to pose for photos!
QUESTION7

42. ANSWER

43. According to a popular tweet (which was a joke) that went
viral on October 13, 2016, this man in 1978, and not X in
2016, was the first one. What are we talking about?
QUESTION8

44. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The first Singer
to win a Nobel in Literature
ANSWER

45. In an interview in 2013, D.B Weiss revealed how he and
David Benioff got GRR Martin to give them the rights for
the show in a 2006 meeting.
In a meeting that spanned around 5 hours, “he asked us a
question. We had discussed it before, and we gave a
shocking answer. At that point, George didn’t actually say
whether or not we were right or wrong, but his smile was
his tell. We knew we had passed the Wonka test, at that
point.”
What was the question that clinched it for them?
QUESTION9

46. ‘Who is Jon Snow’s mother?
ANSWER

47. QUESTION10
This movie had to face the
censor’s scissors on more than
one count. Despite that what
they overlooked was this tank
top that the protagonist wears in
an important scene which was
full of pornographic references.
This tank top has gained a cult
following of its own over the
years with a website
blacksugartanktop.com among
others sprouting up and
spreading its popularity. Which
movie?

48. ANSWER
Fightclub

49. In Greek mythology, these
creatures, part woman and part
bird, would sing seductively
from cliffs, producing a trance-
like effect on sailors passing by.
The sailors would then steer
their ships toward the voice and
dangerous cliffs, eventually
crashing on the rocks. This word
is thus used to describe a
beautiful woman (or anything
beautiful) who beguiles men and
leads to their harm. What’s the
word?
QUESTION11

50. Sirens
ANSWER

51. During the third year of American Civil War, more than
2,000 men were listed as suffering from it; 12 succumbed to
it. The year with the most fatalities was 1865, when 24 men
died of the disease. In all, between 1861 and 1866, 5,537
Union soldiers suffered it acutely enough to come to a
doctor’s attention, and 74 died of it.
French doctor Jourdan Le Cointe thought it should be
treated by "inciting pain and terror”, while American
military doctor Theodore Calhoun thought that those who
suffered from it were unmanly and proposed curing it with
public ridicule and bullying. Other dubious cures tried over
the years include leeches, purging the stomach, and "warm
hypnotic emulsions“
What ‘disease’?
QUESTION12

52. ANSWER

53. During an episode of Hogan Knows Best, Hulk Hogan
claimed that his agent called him to tell him of the offer to
have Hogan endorse the product, but Hogan missed the call
and hence missed the chance of endorsing it. In an
interview in 2011, Hogan changed the story, and said that he
was approached by his agent in the 1990s about endorsing
three devices and he simply chose one.
Which product did Hogan refuse which, considering the
success of the person who ultimately endorsed it, was a
huge blunder?
QUESTION13

54. The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-
Reducing Grilling Machine
ANSWER

55. Here is an excerpt from an article Sam Ferris wrote on April
1 last year. What has just happened?
QUESTION14

56. ‘Answered’ by Dhoni on his retirement
question after India got knocked out of
T20WC’16 (Mahi maar raha tha :p)
ANSWER

57. The workers clean the small intestines, free them from fat,
and steep them in water. Then they scrape off the external
membrane with a blunt knife, and steep the intestines again
for some time in potassium hydroxide. Then they smooth
and equalize the intestines by drawing them out. Next, they
twist the prepared strands together to make something
whose name is partially misleading as the intestine used is
that of usually sheep or goat or occasionally of the
intestines of cattle.
What?
QUESTION15

58. Catgut strings
ANSWER

59. Designed
by Armenian sculptor Mihra
n Hakobyan and unveiled in
October 2014, this sculpture
is located in Slubice Poland.
What's the name of the
statue in question or whose
contributions does the statue
honor?
QUESTION16

60. ANSWER
The Wikipedia Monument

61. The Travancore Christian succession
Act 1092 stated that if a man died
without leaving a will for his
daughter, she would not be entitled
to anything and the son would get
the property. Against this Mary______
invoked Article 14 and fought for
equality in property rights for all
Syrian Christian Women. The case
ended with the Supreme Court ruling
that the Indian Succession Act, 1925,
be applied to Christians in
Travancore and Cochin too.
What’s the famous fiery surname?
QUESTION17

62. ANSWER
Mary Roy, mother of Arundhati Roy

63. What word that means to capture someone’s complete
attention comes from the last name of a highly popular yet
controversial 18th century German physician, and a close
friend of Mozart, Franz Friedrich Anton ______ who
theorized that there was a natural energetic transference
that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects
that he called animal magnetism?
QUESTION18

64. ‘Mesmerize’ from Mesmer
ANSWER

65. Since it established itself in 1970 in Germany, the
government has waged a long-running legal and political
battle against it. In 1992, Hamburg set up a “________ Task
Force” to monitor the group, assist members who have left it
and are thus cut off from their families, and discourage
citizens from joining it in the first place.
On the BfV’s homepage, it is listed alongside “Right-wing
extremism,” “Islamism,” and “Espionage” as one of its focus
areas. There is a belief that a total ban on it hasn’t yet
happened because it can jeopardize relations with the United
States where its recognized as well as protected.
What is it?
QUESTION19

66. Scientology
ANSWER

67. Nowadays mostly associated with an author and a cult movie
from the 1990’s, it was traditionally a symbol of cowardice.
During the First World War, the Order of the ______ ________
was founded with support from author Mrs Humphrey
Ward. The organization aimed to shame men into enlisting
in the British army by persuading women to present them
with this if they were not wearing a uniform.
What?
QUESTION20

68. White Feather
ANSWER

69. These are the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua or St. John’s Bread,
a tree native to the countries in the Mediterranean region.
Due to their almost uniform size and weight, they were
traditionally used for a specific purpose, a practice that has
now been abandoned for obvious reasons. As a result of
that, what ‘valuable’ word’s etymological roots can be
traced to these seeds?
QUESTION21

70. Carat from Carob Tree Seeds
ANSWER

71. Written by Greg Neri, this book tells the fictionalized story
of the real-life childhood companionship of two people on a
mystery hunt to track down who is vandalizing buildings in
town of Monroeville, Alabama? Who are Tru and Nelle?
QUESTION22

72. Truman Capote and Harper Lee
ANSWER

73. Although now obsolete, these giant concrete arrows served
an important function a century ago in US when they were
constructed. While most of them were demolished by the
middle of the century, some still remain. What purpose did
they serve?
QUESTION23

74. Guided early airmail pilots across the
U.S.
ANSWER

75. What, the first of which appeared at Venice Beach,
California on 10th November last year, does this excerpt
from a Forbes article talk about?
“Looking a bit like a Minions character in Despicable Me,
mixed with a fair amount of sounds similar to C-3P0 and
a funky round LCD video display screen that functions as
an emotive eye, add a “scavenger hunt” map to locate
where you can find them, they will go down in history as
a master achievement in modern product marketing.”
QUESTION24

76. Snap Bots for dispensing Spectacles
ANSWER

77. QUESTION25
On November 11, 2016, Coldplay released a new single
version of Everglow, a song from their album ‘A Head Full
of Dreams in which Chris Martin sang unaccompanied. The
song ends with a 1977 audio sample of someone speaking
to a live crowd in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
"God is watching me. God don't praise me because _ ______ ____ _________.
God don't give nothing about ____ _______… He wants to know: How do
we treat each other? How do we help each other? So I'm going to
dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities,
helping people, uniting people, people bombing each other because of
religious beliefs. We need somebody in the world to help us all make
peace. So when I die, if there's a heaven, I'm gonna see it."
Who was the speaker?

78. Muhammad Ali
ANSWER