General Quiz

1. BQC Quiz
Nov 25th
By
Srinath Bhashyam

2. Connect
&

3. Answer Follows

4. Ans: Soca
Trinidad & Tobago football team nicknamed the
‘Soca Warriors’
Devesh Sookoo sung the Chutney Soca inspired ‘I
am a hunter’ from Gangs of Wasseypur

5. This book X almost never did see the light of the
day, as the publishers who’d agreed to print it were
nearly bankrupted by publishing another book (in
pic) on fishes. The printer had to incur significant
expenses because of the high quality of illustrations,
and it failed to sell as well as they had hoped.
However Y (in pic), the son of a wealthy soapmaker
came to the rescue and published the book .
ID X (book) and Y(person)

7. Answer Follows

8. Ans: X - Principia Mathematica by Newton; Y -
Edmund Halley

9. Connect:

10. Answer Follows

11. Ans: Giotto di Bondone
Was inspired by the 1301 appearance of the
comet to depict it as the Star of Bethlehem in his
famous painting ‘The Adoration of the Magi’
Spacecraft Giotto launched by the European
Space Agency to study the comet in 1986 named so
in his honour

12. The Sweeney is a 1970s
British television police
drama focusing on two
members of the Flying
Squad, a branch of the
Metropolitan Police
specialising in tackling
armed robbery and
violent crime in London.
Why is the show called
so?

13. Answer Follows

14. Ans: Derives from ‘Sweeney Todd’ which is Cockney
rhyming slang for ‘Flying Squad’

15. Below is the most famous depiction (by painter
Emanuel Gottlieb Luetze) of a famous event in
American history. Name it. What anachronism is
evident in the painting?

16. Answer Follows

17. Ans: Washington crossing the Delaware;
Anachronism - American Stars and Stripes flag

18. ‘Washington crossing the Delaware’ is a sonnet written by
American lexicographer and cryptographer David Shulman in
1936, based on the painting. What is unique about this sonnet?
A hard, howling, tossing water scene.
Strong tide was washing hero clean.
"How cold!" Weather stings as in anger.
O Silent night shows war ace danger!
The cold waters swashing on in rage.
Redcoats warn slow his hint engage.
When star general's action wish'd “Go!”
He saw his ragged continentals row.
Ah, he stands – sailor crew went going.
And so this general watches rowing.
He hastens – winter again grows cold.
A wet crew gain Hessian stronghold.
George can't lose war with's hands in;
He's astern – so go alight, crew, and win!

19. Answer Follows

20. Ans: Anagrammatic poem. Every line in the sonnet
is an anagram of the title ‘Washington crossing the
Delaware’

21. The cotton-top Tamarin is a small new world monkey found in
tropical forest edges and secondary forests. The origins of its
scientific name Saguinus X appear to be straightforward.
Saguinius means ‘like a squirrel monkey’. X meaning ‘Swollen foot’
in all probability referred to the fact that the monkeys have large
feet. However certain research studies have established that X
could also refer to certain other tendencies exhibited by these
monkeys. X?
In certain areas in Europe,the primate is also called the Y monkey
due to its resemblance to a famous 19th century personality. Y
Pic in next slide

23. Answer Follows

24. Ans: X - Oedipus; Y – Liszt Schaffe (Liszt monkey)
named after Franz Liszt

25. Balu Mahendra cites that he was inspired to become
a movie director at a very young age, after watching
this monumental movie being directed. He was on a
school field trip, when he watched this much
acclaimed director (best remembered for his big
screen epics) on the sets of the movie.
Which epic was he talking about?
For the uninititiated, Balu Mahendra is a famous South Indian filmmaker and
cinematographer widely regarded as part of the first in a wave of directors and
screenwriters from the Chennai film industry who revitalized Tamil Cinema. The
73 year old has won five national awards and three filmfare awards. His first
Hindi film was Sadma

26. Answer Follows

27. Ans: The bridge on the river Kwai. Balu Mahendra
was a Sri Lankan born Tamil

28. In many airports such as the Hartsfield-Jackson
International airport in Atlanta, prominently
amongst others, what change is made to the
standard NATO alphabet that is used for air traffic
communication.
In these airports, a different word is used to
represent a specific alphabet from the convention.

29. Answer Follows

30. Ans: D is represented by ‘Data’, ‘Dixie’ or ‘David’
instead of ‘Delta’ in order to avoid confusion with
the callsign of Delta Airlines. The Hartsfield-
Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Airlines and is
the world’s busiest airport by traffic

31. Why was the James Bond movie ‘Goldfinger’ once
banned in Israel and then reinstated?

32. Answer Follows

33. Ans: Gert Fröbe was a member of the Nazi party, but
it was later realised that he was anti-establishment
and had saved the lives of jews (when the family he
saved came forward)

34. Which geographical entity’s nickname derives from
what you see in the picture below?

35. Answer Follows

36. Ans: Hashima Island or Battleship Island named
after its apparent resemblance to the Japanese
battleship Tosa

37. Monument you see in the picture. a) Whose
monument? b) Where is it located?

38. Answer Follows

39. Ans: a) Jim Thorpe b) Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

40. Connect

41. Answer Follows

42. Ans: Avatar,Batik: Colours derived from the colour
of Vishnu.
Traditional Batik colours of dark brown, indigo and
white represent the colours of the Trimurti

43. How were the actors Ed Kemmer and Helene
Stanley involved in the production of Disney’s
Sleeping Beauty (1959). They played an integral part
in the development of the key characters Prince
Phillip and Princess Aurora – yet are uncredited in
the movie.

44. Answer Follows

45. Ans: They were live action models for the movie.
Every single scene in the animated feature was
enacted with actual actors for the reference of
animators. This was because Walt Disney wanted
the animation to be as close to live action as possible

46. Identify this bird that appears on the coat of arms of
South Africa and Sudan.

47. Connect the bird to the two visuals below

48. Answer Follows

49. Ans: Secretary Bird;

50. Scientific name of Secretary bird: Sagittarius (Quill
like feathers resembling a quiver) Serpentarius (Diet
of snakes)

51. In the wake of the Norman conquest, animals were
raised by Anglo-Saxon peasants, but eaten mainly
by the wealthy Norman aristocracy
This attempts to reason what dichotomy?

52. Answer Follows

53. Ans: Different name given to animal while eaten
In the wake of the Norman conquest, animals were
raised by Anglo-Saxon peasants who spoke in a
Germanic language, but eaten mainly by the wealthy
Norman aristocracy who spoke in their native
Norman French.
Cow (German: Kuh) Beef (French: Boeuf)
Sheep (German: Schaf) Mutton (French: Mouton)
Swine (German: Schwein) Pork (French: Porc)
Calf (German: Kalb) Veal (French: Veau)

54. What is the French word for paperclip? It is so
called because of its resemblance to another
instrument from a different field.

55. Answer Follows

56. Ans: Trombone

57. 1966 was one of the few years when the Time ‘Man of the
year’ wasn’t an individual but a group of people. Some of the
people singled out in the group included Bobby Fischer,
world record miler Jim Ryun and actress Julie Christie
amongst others. Who?

58. Answer Follows

59. Ans: Baby Boomers or the ‘Inheritors’

60. Connect
1960 2006

61. Answer Follows

62. Ans: Addition of a star to the flag. Hawaii became a
part of the union in 1960. Hugo Chavez added an
eighth star to the flag of Venezuela, to represent the
territory of Guayana (which was a signatory to the
Venezuelan declaration of independence but not
represented)

63. What event in 2012 could potentially lead to the U.S
flag looking thus?

64. Answer Follows

65. Ans: Puerto Rico voting to become the 51st state

66. In the 1950s a special variant of colourless coke
called ‘White Coke’ was produced for what specific
reason?

67. Answer Follows

68. Ans: Produced on the special request of Marshal of
the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Asked for its color
to resemble vodka so that he would not be seen
drinking Coca-Cola in public

69. Connect

70. Answer Follows

71. Ans: Boycotted Oscars and Filmfares because they
were nominated for “Best Supporting Actor” and not
“Best Actor” for these roles. (The Godfather and
Devdas)

72. Asterix and Soothsayer - Reference to which
painting?

73. Answer Follows

74. Ans: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by
Rembrandt

75. In picture is a famous painting by Rembrandt based
on a biblical character. Name the character.
During the period he painted this, he was
particularly intrigued by the problem of
symmetry/assymetry in the grouping of figures in
another painting. This was purportedly an attempt
by Rembrandt to surpass the other painting in the
challenge set by this compositional problem, and
thus create a much livelier scene. Which painting?

76. Picture

77. Answer Follows

78. Ans: The Marriage of Samson; Da Vinci’s ‘The Last
Supper’

79. For what specific reason was Pablo Picasso arrested
in Paris in the year 1912?

80. Answer Follows

81. Ans: He was accused of abetting the stealing of
‘Mona Lisa’

82. Portugal released this stamp in 2007 to
commemorate what?
How have they incorporated this in the design of the
stamp?

83. Answer Follows

84. Ans: Portugal is the largest manufacturer of cork in
the world. Stamp entirely made of cork

85. Connect

86. Answer Follows

87. Ans: People looking for any key when prompted
‘Press any key’. Specific format of 9-1-1 was
introduced because people started looking for the 11
button

88. Connect
Chris Gayle’s jersey in the IPL
Kamran Akmal’s jersey in the SLPL
Mohammad Hafeez’s jersey in the SLPL

89. Answer Follows

90. Ans: Highest score in test cricket as jersey number
Chris Gayle - 333
Kamran Akmal - 158
Mohammad Hafeez - 196

91. What is KKR physio Andrew Leipus’ jersey number
in the IPL?

92. Answer Follows

93. Ans: 911

94. The X Line was put forward by the Allied Supreme
Council after World War I as a demarcation line
between the Second Polish Republic and Bolshevik
Russia and was supposed to serve as the basis for a
future border.
The current border between the countries of
Ukraine, Belarus and Poland is an approximation of
this line.
Named after which personality?

95. Pic

96. Answer Follows

97. Ans: Curzon Line named after Lord Curzon of
Kedleston

98. The X Cup is an annual football match played
between the students of the Peace Studies at the
University of Bradford and the War Studies
department at Kings College London.
This rivalry, often extending beyond football into
academic and ideological terms, is often voted as
one of the greatest college rivalries in England. The
football match is often covered by national media.
Peace Studies play with the names of notable figures
related to peace, such as "D. Lama", "M.L. King" and
"Gandhi" on their shirts. Nuff said. X?

99. Answer Follows

100. Ans: The Tolstoy Cup. The winner gets a framed
copy of Tolstoy’s book ‘War and Peace’

101. Which word in English derives from the corruption
of the French for ‘crane’s foot’? This so gets its name
because in genealogical tables and charts descent
was indicated by forked lines which resembled the
thin leg and foot of a crane

102. Answer Follows

103. Ans: Pedigree

104. Before being named Emmy, one of the possible
names suggested for the award was a short form of
the device you see in picture, which was an early
television camera tube before being replaced by the
image orthicon tube (from which the name ‘Emmy’
derives). The device derived its name from the
Greek for “Image” + “to see”. What device?
Also, why was the name ultimately rejected?

106. Answer Follows

107. Ans: Iconoscope. Name suggested was ‘Ike’ but
members thought that people would think the
award was named after Dwight Eisenhower

108. X, in a tournament in Memphis in 2006 up against
American Amy Frazier, was up 5-0, 40-0 before
double faulting and going on to lose the game 1-6,6-
0,6-0.
Who is X? How did she make amends for that day
on 30 Jun 2012?

109. Answer Follows

110. Ans: X – Yaroslava Shvedova was on the verge of a
‘Golden Set’ (not dropping a single point in a set)
against Amy Frazier, before double faulting. She
accomplished it against Sara Errani in Wimbledon
2012.

111. What did the girl on the right inspire the man on the
left to do?

112. Answer Follows

113. Ans: Grace Bedell inspired Abe Lincoln to grow a
beard

114. According to lead vocalist David Lee Roth, why did
Van Halen have a contract rider that a bowl of
M&M’s, with all the brown ones removed, need to
be placed in their dressing room?

115. Answer Follows

116. Ans: Test of whether the venue had actually read
and properly honored the terms of the contract, as it
contained other requirements involving legitimate
safety concerns

117. The Velebit is the largest mountain range in Croatia
and is located on its western coast. It is known for
its simple, solid form, stiff cliffs and its unique
terrain is marked by the nakedness of the seaward
side and the wood-covered slopes of the other side.
What is believed to be the primary cause for this
unusual landscape?

119. Answer Follows

120. Large scale deforestation for the making the wooden
piles that form the foundation of Venice

121. Reverse

122. Connect:

123. Answer Follows

124. Ans: English words from Venice – Lido, Quarantine,
Regatta and Ghetto

125. Connect

126. Answer Follows

127. Ans: Types of publications that get their name from
how much they cost – Gazette, dime novels
and penny dreadfuls

128. Connect:

129. Answer Follows

130. Ans: Working title of Return of the Jedi was Blue
Harvest based on Red Harvest. Working title of the
Simpsons movie was Yellow Harvest as a homage to
Star Wars

131. What was the working title of Virginia Woolf’s book
Mrs Dalloway?

132. Answer Follows

133. Ans: The Hours

134. X was an Irish hydrographer and officer in Britain’s Royal
Navy. One of his most important legacies was devising an
empirical measure that related the speed of wind to observed
conditions at sea or on land, while serving on HMS
Woolwich.
The measure was officially adopted first on the voyage of
another ship Y. This voyage was commanded by Z, who was
trained by X himself. When Z was appointed commander, he
requested the company of a “well-educated and a scientific
gentleman” A. This request was ultimately granted by X.
X,Y,Z,A?

135. Answer Follows

136. Ans: X – Francis Beaufort of Beaufort Scale fame; Y – HMS
Beagle; Z – Robert Fitzroy; A – Charles Darwin

137. Connect:

138. Answer Follows

139. Ans: Ernests Gulbis; Hemingway cats - Both named
after Ernest Hemingway

140. What ‘anomaly’ of sorts is NASA acknowledging in
this photo on their website? (what has been blanked
out?)

141. Answer Follows

142. Ans: That Ohio produces so many astronauts (home
to around 25 astronauts – a state that contains ~3%
of U.S population)

143. This region in the U.S is named after the region on
the right in Italy. Name

144. Answer Follows

145. Ans: Piedmont (literally meaning at the foot of the
hills)

146. According to Timex, why was the industry standard
for the default setting on watches changed from
8:20 to 10:10?

147. Answer Follows

148. Ans: The hand placement in 8:20 looked too much
like a frown and created an unhappy face

149. The space shuttle (in pic) was originally going to be
named X to commemorate the anniversary of a
monumental event in American history. However,
pressure from another group of people played its
part in naming it Y. X and Y?

150. Answer Follows

151. Ans: X – Constitution (200th anniversary of U.S
constitution in 1976); Y - Enterprise

152. What day was this photo taken on?

153. Answer Follows

154. Ans: Ash Wednesday

155. Carl, the person in pic, shot to fame in the Oscar
2012 ceremony when Tom Hanks paid tribute to
him. He has been associated with the awards for 59
years – What is his role in the ceremony?

156. Answer Follows

157. Ans: Seat-filler at the award ceremony

158. Connect:

159. Answer Follows

160. Ans: Both titles derive their names from the same
line from the Robert Burns poem “To a mouse”

161. X was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S.
Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S.
Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as
the sixth Chief Justice of the United States. His photo
appeared on the $10,000 bill when it was published, and was
chosen to honour his crucial role in publishing modern bank
notes. X?

162. Answer Follows

163. Ans: Salmon P. Chase

164. Which football club’s logo is this?

165. Answer Follows

166. Ans: FC Basel

167. The longest muscle in the human body is called the
X muscle – It is a long thin muscle that runs down
the length of the thigh in the anterior compartment.
The name X comes from the Latin
for the name of a profession.
One of the hypotheses behind
naming it so was a reference
to the traditional cross-legged
position in which people of
this profession sat, thereby using
this muscle. X?

168. Answer Follows

169. Ans: Sartorius muscle after tailors

170. X, a British mathematician and logician, was born in
Madurai in 1806. He became blind in one eye a
month or two after he was born. He used to claim
that he was neither English,Irish or Scottish as both
his father and grandfather were born in India. He
formulated numerous laws and also introduced the
term ‘Mathematical Induction’.
Y was British India’s first major mathematician. His
book, ‘Treatise on problems of maxima and
minima’, was promoted by X. Y is called X’s
Ramanujan. X and Y?

171. Answer Follows

172. Ans: X – Augustus De Morgan; Y - Ramchundra

173. Connect the following:
Tom Byers’ win in 1500m at the 1981 Bislett games
Paul Pilkington’s win of the 1994 LA Marathon
Summoner winning the 2001 Queen Elizabeth II
Stakes

174. Answer Follows

175. Ans: Pacemakers going on to win the races

176. The two people you see in picture were pacemakers
on which famous occasion?

177. Answer Follows

178. Ans: Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway during
Roger Bannister’s sub 4 minute mile

179. Which brand derives its name from the French for
“Chalk” + “Oily”?

180. Answer Follows

181. Crayola

182. Follow-up question: Why did many of their crayon
boxes have a gold medal on the front?

183. Answer Follows

184. Ans: Binney and Smith Company won a gold medal
for their dustless chalk at the 1904 world fair

185. Etymologically connect the following words
Ballot
Calculus
Scruple

186. Answer Follows

187. Ans:
Ballot – Italian for pebble. Italians voted by casting
a pebble in a box
Calculus – Latin for pebble, used for mathematical
calculations
Scruple – Also Latin for pebble used figuratively by
Cicero for a cause of uneasiness or anxiety, probably
from the notion of having a pebble in one's shoe

188. 23rd March is celebrated as Pakistan Day and is a
national holiday in the country. This is to
commemorate two important events in the history
of the country. What?

189. Answer Follows

190. Ans: Adoption of the constitution and the Lahore
Resolution

191. Connect the previous question to Sachin’s
hundredth hundred

192. Answer Follows

193. Ans: AK Fazlul Haq – Played a key role in drafting
and presenting the Lahore resolution. He was called
‘Sher – e – Bangla’.
Sachin scored his hundredth hundred at the Sher –
e –Bangla stadium named after Haq

194. In which country is ‘Dia del Mar’ (meaning ‘day of the sea’)
celebrated every year on March 23rd and why?

195. Answer Follows

196. Ans: Bolivia; War of the Pacific with Chile leading to loss of
coastline

197. Cate Blanchett got nominated (and won) for Best
supporting actress for playing Katharine Hepburn, a
Best Actress Oscar winner.
Something similar happened in Academy awards
held in 2012 when X got nominated for portraying
Y, a Best Actor Oscar winner.
X and Y?

198. Answer Follows

199. Ans: Kenneth Brannagh for playing Laurence Olivier
in ‘My week with Marilyn’

200. This Nobel prize winner was offered a free passage on the Titanic
but had taken another ship three days earlier. His daughter
explained that he had paperwork to do and preferred the public
stenographer in the other vessel.
Although he was later grilled by a Senate committee over
allegations that his company had withheld news from the public in
order to sell information to the New York Times, he emerged from
the disaster as one of its heroes.
He was also aboard the other ship three years later and thus had
another near miss.
Who? Other ship?

201. Answer Follows

202. Ans: Marconi; Lusitania

203. What is the name of this constellation which takes
its name from the Greek term for the creature it
resembles?

204. Answer Follows

205. Ans: Monoceros, Greek for Unicorn

206. Apart from the fact that Pluto was the god of the
underworld, thereby referencing the dark and cold
world that the planet inhabited, the name was
chosen because it honored a person whose effort
was significant in its discovery. Who? How is he
honoured?

207. Answer Follows

208. Ans: Percival Lowell. First two letters of the planet
are his initials

209. Whose career record - A

210. No.1 seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi beat
Novak Djokovic and B in the opening round of the
doubles competition at the 2011 Dubai duty free
tennis championships title?

211. Answer Follows

212. Ans: A - Jamie Murray; B – Marko Djokovic

213. Why did Peter Stone want to credited for writing as
Peter Joshua in the below movie? Why did he chose
that name?

214. Answer Follows

215. Ans: Remake of Charade – Stone did not like the
movie hence did not want to be credited. Peter
Joshua is name of the protagonist in Charade

216. _____ Yankees was a term from the American Civil
War, denoting former Confederate prisoners of war
who swore allegiance to the United States and
joined the Union Army to escape incarceration. The
term arose from the fact that these soldiers switched
from grey Confederate uniforms to blue Union ones,
with the implication that despite the exchange, their
loyalties remained unchanged underneath their
uniforms.
Fill in the blank

217. Answer Follows

218. Ans: Galvanized Yankees

219. A species of freshwater snail found in Burundi, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and
Zambia around Lake Tanganyika is named after
which famous galvanized Yankee?

220. Answer Follows

221. Ans: H.M Stanley

222. In pic is a plaque that was made to commemorate an
achievement of USS Triton in 1960. The plaque was
subsequently presented to the Spanish government.
The Latin text translates to "Hail Noble Captain, It
Is Done Again“. What first did Triton achieve?

223. Answer Follows

224. Ans: First submerged circumnavigation of the world

225. Connect and complete – There is one more that
completes the list

226. Answer Follows

227. Ans: Nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting
Actor for the same role: Barry Fitzgerald – Going my
way. Ashok Kumar- Aashirwad. Only one other
instance in Filmfare – Kamal Hassan for Sagar

228. X (Best Actress) and Y (Best Supporting Actress)
were nominated for acting awards for playing the
same character in the Academy awards held in 1998.
Similarly, X (Best Supporting Actress) and Z (Best
Actress) were nominated for acting awards for
playing the same character in the Academy awards
held in 2002.
X, Y and Z?

229. Answer Follows

230. Ans: X – Kate Winslet ; Y – Gloria Stewart ; Z – Judi
Dench. Movies being Titanic and Iris. They were
playing the younger and older versions of the same
character