General Quiz held at Udbhav 2015, the technical fest of Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. QMs- Rajan Arora, Ashlesh M.

2. RULES
 Maximum of three members in a team
 Kindly put your mobile phones on silent
 Top 6 teams will be shortlisted for the
finals
 Two of these will be first year teams
 Star marked Qs for settling ties
 The QMs’ decision shall be final in case
of all disputes

3. INSTRUCTIONS
 Since there is no negative marking,
feel free to guess away
 Questions are generally crackable-
pay special attention to hints along
the way
 Do not question the QM

4. Q1.
 X was an Indian educationist and politician notable for
his role in the Indian independence movement and as
the four time president of Indian National Congress. He
was born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, India
on 25 December 1861, in a Sri Gaud Brahmin family to
Pandit Brij Nath and Moona Devi. His ancestors, known
for their Sanskrit scholarship, originally hailed from
Malwa(Ujjain), Madhya Pradesh
 X was the President of the Indian National Congress on
four occasions (1909 & 1913,1919,1932) and was also one
of the initial leaders of the Hindu Mahasabha. He was
also the Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946.

5. Q2.*
 The head coach of the train will have
an abstract painting in primary colours
denoting speed, in the middle of which
will be a pair of legs, coloured blue, in
a running stance," a source in the
railways said.
 Question is,who painted this stuff?
 (Picture on next slide)

7. Q3.
 “...he has no ambition and no energy. He will not
even go out of his way to verify his own solutions,
and would rather be considered wrong than take
the trouble to prove himself right. Again and again
I have taken a problem to him, and have received
an explanation which has afterwards proved to be
the correct one. And yet he was absolutely
incapable of working out the practical points...”
 Who is talking about whom?

8. Q4.* Id the the sculpture and
the designer.

9. Q5. Foll. is a prize-winning recipe of a
fictional drink that was once served
at Starbucks. Which drink?
 2 litre cream soda
 2 tablespoons Butter extract
 2 teaspoons rum extract
*drop the extracts into the 2 litre bottle, put on cap and slowly
rotate until combined.
 Cream topping
 one 7oz container of marshmallow creme
 1 cup whipping cream
 1 teaspoon rum extract
*add all items together in an electric mixer and combine until
smooth.

11. Q6.
 Mouseless is an “invisible computer mouse that provides
the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without
actually needing a real hardware mouse.”
 The project by MIT Media Labs was unveiled to the press
in July 2010 and it’s fully working prototype should hit the
market soon, at a extremely cost-effective rate (under
$20).
 This project is the brainchild of which person, touted as
one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age
of 35 in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review?

13. Q7.
 On June 3rd 2009, she was ‘killed’ and this led
to protests and pleas to bring her back
 Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy heart that I
have to announce that I will be shutting down
the Save X campaign and everything
associated with it," PuneetAgarwal, who earlier
went by the pseudonym 'Deshmukh', said in a
statement released on the Save X site.

14. Q8.*
 Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped two cannonballs of
different masses from X to demonstrate that their speed of
descent was independent of their mass.
 During World War II, the Allies discovered that the Germans
were using X as an observation post. A US Army sergeant sent
to confirm the presence of German troops in X was impressed
by the beauty of the cathedral and its campanile, and thus
refrained from ordering an artillery strike, sparing it from
destruction.
 In 1987 the tower was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage
Site along with the neighboring cathedral, baptistery and
cemetery.

15. Q9.
 Businessman X is unlikely to figure anywhere
among the country's 1,000 most eligible bachelors.
Y’s 28-year-old beau is short, fair, rather stocky and
only moderately well-to-do. An unremarkable
young man, until he begins to speak—extremely
charming, soft-spoken and poised, without the
slightest hint of pretension. Mr Nice Guy in person.
 So begins a 1997 Outlook article about a (then)
brass trader from Moradabad.

16. Q10.
 In the rain-affected 1992 semi-final between
England and South Africa the Proteas needed 22
runs when, with 13 balls remaining, the heavens
opened. When play resumed and various fancy
sums had been completed according to pre-
Duckworth Lewis methodology, their target was
reduced by one and the number of deliveries had
gone down to what?

17. Q11.
 There are four mandatory constitutional duties in South
Korea – taxes, education, labor and military service. The
only exemptions to the military service being Olympic
Medal winners or Gold Medallists in the Asian Games.
 X supposedly performed his military service from 2003-
2005, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X
filed a litigation against the military authorities in an effort
to block his re-conscription. However, he lost his appeal
and was eventually re-drafted into the military in Dec
2007. This was supposedly the first such incident in Korean
history.
 Who is X?

18. Q12.*
 ID the movie from its minimalist
poster

20. Q13.*
 The Most Interesting Man in the World is an
advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of
beer, produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG for
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery.The ads feature
Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's most interesting
man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman. The
advertisements first began appearing in the United
States in 2006 and have since then been adapted
into a certain thing which YOU have come across
on the Internet.

22. Q14.
 An alumnus of NMIMS, he decided to take up a writing
career with Complete/Convenient after his job in IT
took him across a lot of countries where he claims to
have closely experienced the wave of emotions
experienced by the NRIs settled there.
 However, on being asked if his decision to take up this
line of work was an attempt to cash in on his more
famous sibling’s fame, he dismissed the allegation
stating that his writing begins where his brother’s ends,
as they both catered to different audiences.
 Name him and his more famous sibling.

24. Q15.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
is the fear of ?

25. ANSWERS

26. Q1.
 X was an Indian educationist and politician notable for
his role in the Indian independence movement and as
the four time president of Indian National Congress. He
was born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, India
on 25 December 1861, in a Sri Gaud Brahmin family to
Pandit Brij Nath and Moona Devi. His ancestors, known
for their Sanskrit scholarship, originally hailed from
Malwa(Ujjain), Madhya Pradesh
 X was the President of the Indian National Congress on
four occasions (1909 & 1913,1919,1932) and was also one
of the initial leaders of the Hindu Mahasabha. He was
also the Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946.

27.  Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya

28. Q2.*
 The head coach of the train will have
an abstract painting in primary colours
denoting speed, in the middle of which
will be a pair of legs, coloured blue, in
a running stance," a source in the
railways said.
 Question is,who painted this stuff?
 (Picture on next slide)

30.  Mamta Banerjee !

31. Q3.
 “...he has no ambition and no energy. He will not
even go out of his way to verify his own solutions,
and would rather be considered wrong than take
the trouble to prove himself right. Again and again
I have taken a problem to him, and have received
an explanation which has afterwards proved to be
the correct one. And yet he was absolutely
incapable of working out the practical points...”
 Who is talking about whom?

32.  Sherlock Holmes about Mycroft Holmes

33. Q4.* Id the the sculpture and
the designer.

34.  Open Hand Monument, Le Corbusier

35. Q5. Foll. is a prize-winning recipe of a
fictional drink that was once served
at Starbucks. Which drink?
 2 litre cream soda
 2 tablespoons Butter extract
 2 teaspoons rum extract
*drop the extracts into the 2 litre bottle, put on cap and slowly
rotate until combined.
 Cream topping
 one 7oz container of marshmallow creme
 1 cup whipping cream
 1 teaspoon rum extract
*add all items together in an electric mixer and combine until
smooth.

37.  Butterbeer,
from Harry Potter Universe

38. Q6.
 Mouseless is an “invisible computer mouse that provides
the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without
actually needing a real hardware mouse.”
 The project by MIT Media Labs was unveiled to the press
in July 2010 and it’s fully working prototype should hit the
market soon, at a extremely cost-effective rate (under
$20).
 This project is the brainchild of which person, touted as
one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age
of 35 in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review?

41. Q7.
 On June 3rd 2009, she was ‘killed’ and this led
to protests and pleas to bring her back
 Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy heart that I
have to announce that I will be shutting down
the Save X campaign and everything
associated with it," PuneetAgarwal, who earlier
went by the pseudonym 'Deshmukh', said in a
statement released on the Save X site.

43. Q8.*
 Galileo Galilei is said to have dropped two cannonballs of
different masses from X to demonstrate that their speed of
descent was independent of their mass.
 During World War II, the Allies discovered that the Germans
were using X as an observation post. A US Army sergeant sent
to confirm the presence of German troops in X was impressed
by the beauty of the cathedral and its campanile, and thus
refrained from ordering an artillery strike, sparing it from
destruction.
 In 1987 the tower was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage
Site along with the neighboring cathedral, baptistery and
cemetery.

44.  The Leaning Tower of Pisa

45. Q9.
 Businessman X is unlikely to figure anywhere
among the country's 1,000 most eligible bachelors.
Y’s 28-year-old beau is short, fair, rather stocky and
only moderately well-to-do. An unremarkable
young man, until he begins to speak—extremely
charming, soft-spoken and poised, without the
slightest hint of pretension. Mr Nice Guy in person.
 So begins a 1997 Outlook article about a (then)
brass trader from Moradabad.

46. Robert Vadra

47. Q10.
 In the rain-affected 1992 semi-final between
England and South Africa the Proteas needed 22
runs when, with 13 balls remaining, the heavens
opened. When play resumed and various fancy
sums had been completed according to pre-
Duckworth Lewis methodology, their target was
reduced by one and the number of deliveries had
gone down to what?

49. Q11.
 There are four mandatory constitutional duties in South
Korea – taxes, education, labor and military service. The
only exemptions to the military service being Olympic
Medal winners or Gold Medallists in the Asian Games.
 X supposedly performed his military service from 2003-
2005, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X
filed a litigation against the military authorities in an effort
to block his re-conscription. However, he lost his appeal
and was eventually re-drafted into the military in Dec
2007. This was supposedly the first such incident in Korean
history.
 Who is X?

50. PSY

51. Q12.*
 ID the movie from its minimalist
poster

54. Q13.*
 The Most Interesting Man in the World is an
advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of
beer, produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG for
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery.The ads feature
Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's most interesting
man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman. The
advertisements first began appearing in the United
States in 2006 and have since then been adapted
into a certain thing which YOU have come across
on the Internet. Alternatively, what did it inspire?

57. Q14.
 An alumnus of NMIMS, he decided to take up a writing
career with Complete/Convenient after his job in IT
took him across a lot of countries where he claims to
have closely experienced the wave of emotions
experienced by the NRIs settled there.
 However, on being asked if his decision to take up this
line of work was an attempt to cash in on his more
famous sibling’s fame, he dismissed the allegation
stating that his writing begins where his brother’s ends,
as they both catered to different audiences.
 Name him and his more famous sibling.

59.  Ketan Bhagat, Chetan Bhagat

60. Q15.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
is the fear of ?