Open General Quiz Prelims(Where the Pounce is Without Fear), GOVB Fest 2018

Where the Pounce is Without Fear Answers GOVB Quiz Fest - 2018
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Where the Pounce is Without Fear 1 GOVB Quiz Fest - 2018
In the 1950s, the international fashion press looked to Christian
Dior to set the direction fashion would take each season. He
obliged by organizing each new collection around a specific idea,
and giving each a name that described or evoked that idea.
The 1955 collection was characterized by narrow shoulders and
a smooth, trumpet-like flare toward the hem, and the elongated
waistline, either high under the bust or dropped toward the hips,
formed the crossbar.
What name did Dior give this collection, termed the “most
wanted silhouette in Paris”, that conveyed the visual appearance
and top-class quality of the lineup?

Where the Pounce is Without Fear Answer GOVB Quiz Fest - 2018
The A-Line

Pipe organs are built with knobs(called Xs) in place, which need to
be removed using tensile force in particular combinations to play a
particular note.
On removing the entirety, the organ plays all music possible at the
loudest.
This is the origin of a well-known phrase that means “to hold back
nothing/to give everything”.
What phrase?
Where the Pounce is without Fear 2 GOVB Quiz Fest - 2018

What is this headgear called, a feature characteristic
to King Henry IV of France, that though literally
means "plume", came to mean "reckless and
flamboyant behaviour" after being used in the same
sense by the titular character of Edmond Rostand's
1897 play Cyrano de Bergenac ?
The word is derived from the Latin pinna for feather.

X is an American company headquartered in Utah City, with major
interests in the electric automobiles and autonomous vehicles
section.
It has multiple teams in different tiers of powersports, including
Formula E.
Identify this company, named after a Serbian-American inventor.

This theme from the TV show Battlestar Galactica
came off as a spin on a rendition of what by Deva
Premal in the 1990s, that according to Swami
Vivekananda, meant “We meditate on the glory of
that Being who has produced this universe; may
He enlighten our minds”?

Working as a clerk for Calcutta High Court judge Noel Barwell, he
had to shift to Spence’s Hotel opposite Raj Bhavan.
The subsequent interactions in his stay made him think, until one
rainy day, stuck near KC Das, he found inspiration in an AC Maffen
poem from a second-hand book.
Who, and what resulted thus in 1962?
In the latest avatar with a royal name, whose voice echoes the
poem?

The _____ ______ being the only source of entertainment in
saloons, the owners in the West used to keep notices outside to
preserve their services in face of violence.
Oscar Wilde, on his 1882 US tour, wrote - “____ _____ ___
_____ ______, he’s trying his best.”
The phrase later achieved fame due to a personal twist in Elton
John’s 6th studio album.
What phrase is this? How did the affirmative version gain
popularity in India this year?

After his 6-month secret affair with Miss Wales Imogen Thomas
threatened to come out in public and ruin his leadership of Great
Britain at the 2012 Olympics, this footballer managed to get a
media gagging order from the High Court, which fell into jeopardy
later due to backlash on Twitter.
With what 3-word headline, a pun on a 1998 work changing the
first word slightly, did the Mirror report this activity by the media?

Naming Private Ryan

This new alphabet was designed in 1920 to teach young people
what?
The inventor of this, often used the below verse to explain people
how to pronounce his surname --
Man, matron, maiden,
Please call it _____.
Further for ______,
Rhyme it with Noel.
Name him.

Cricket in this country started with the introduction of
TV in 1999, as a young Damber Singh Gurung got
inspired by action in London to start the first cricket
tournament, later becoming Coaching Coordinator of
the nation. Which country is this, with a motto of
“Cricket for joy, not victory”?
The first Anglo-Indian to play Tests for India, X was
appointed by the ACC as development manager here
during ‘04-’08, and was also honoured in a stamp. Who?

In Asterix and the Goths, Asterix and Obelix head East into
Gothic territory from Gaul(France),where they meet a chief
Metric.
Metric wanted to unite all the Goths and they planned to
conquer Europe. He also enjoyed wearing spiky hats, and is
named so because his real life inspiration wanted to create a
coherent metric system and currency, among the unifying states.
Who was the inspiration for Metric? Image in next slide.

Otto Von Biesmirch
(Bismarck)

Which sport got its name
from ‘crosier’, a type
of hooked staff carried by
a bishop as a symbol of
pastoral office?

Lacrosse

The play X/Y, set in the historical Charenton Asylum, is almost entirely a
"play within a play". The main story takes place on 13 July 1808, after
the French Revolution; the play directed by Y (within the drama) takes place
during the Revolution, in the middle of 1793.
While the inner story is about the famous death of a polymath, which took
place on 13th July 1793 and has been immortalised in many media, the main
setting of the drama involves the audience who were supposed to be the
18th-century nobility watching it and deriving the pleasure passively.
Give me X and Y ?
The next slide includes the poster of a version of the drama by Peter Weiss.

Marat/ Sade

Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason,
and road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an gigantic
figure amongst engineers of road and canal projects in his native Scotland.
Reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th
century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death.
Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges,
he was dubbed The ________ __ _____ punning on something was
constructed to celebrate the famous victory over the ruler of
Cyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus . What was the name given?

Colossus of Roads

The notorious place now stands on a traffic divider opposite the Feroze
Shah Kotla, where there is a marble plaque in Hindi by the ASI, with
almost obliterate inscription, narrating the sad tale of the cold blooded
murder where General Hudson shot dead the three Mughal princes in
cold blood in front of the towering arched gateway on 22 September
1857.
Which place am I talking about which gets it name from this incident ?
Also tell me what was the former name of this place because it directs
to another city, 1147 km northwest to Delhi?

Khooni Darwaja

This important question was one that required serious debate. In 1941 the X
Corporation of America set up a confab at the swanky Astor Hotel in New York
City to address this very issue with a three-person panel of celebrity judges.
Their job was to determine the reason of this unique characteristic.
Fred Crockett came with substantial proofs on this matter that it was the
invention of his ancestor Hans Crockett Gregory’s mom. Gregory, who was a
renowned ship captain, would often complain to his mother that on his long
journeys, this thing would become soggy due to the sea weather. So his mother
gave it a shape so that it remains crisp on every position and also help sailor
Gregory to eat it and at the same time hold it while piloting the ship.
What is being talked about ?

Why donuts have a hole?

Who is the author of the books in the next slide, who was a champion
geographer adventurer and gained multiple laurels from many royalties
and head of state around the world. His book helped a Bengali genius to
know about the Tibetan influence at a certain city’s culture before the
troubles begin.
Which another charismatic Bengali helped him in his expeditions in
Transhimalyan region, known for his own adventures in all around the
world?

Sven Hedin ,
Ghanada

Robert E Lee was one of the first person to use trench warfare
extensively. Due to this what nickname was he given which is
more suited to a biblical king wielding his sword after beating
his mammoth enemy?

The King of Spades

Korsakoff syndrome is a chronic memory disorder caused by
severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1). Korsakoff syndrome is
most commonly caused by alcohol misuse, but certain other
conditions also can cause the syndrome.
The patients affected by this disease tends to imagine past
experiences(which they don't remember) by taking into account
the images and object they see round them, thus making fake
details of happenings.
Who was the supposed patient of this syndrome, which helped
him to get away from justice, fooling the interrogator?

Keyser Soze

90% of the population of Polynesian country Pitcairn Islands
are descendants of which group of people?
They inhabited the island following an revolutionary event in
1789, when 18 people was forced to be deported on a single
boat.

Mutineers of Bounty Ship

Gorchichniki are poultices made from clay or paste and mixed with mustard powder. The
process produces rectangular-shaped plasters resembling slices of cheese that are sold in
packets of 10 or 20. A mainstay of Soviet medicine, the term has also been appropriated
by another section of the populace to refer to, as per the visual similarity, a warning.
What, then, is gorchichniki slang for in Russia?

Yellow Card

Carl Sagan called ‘______ chauvinism’ an appalling failure of the scientific imagination and
an ill-conceived geocentrism, urging his colleagues to look beyond the terrestrial realm
and to such alternatives as silicon, boranes and sulfur and, in lieu of water, to ammonia,
methane and hydrogen fluoride. Asimov and Haldane spoke against it, with many a Star
Trek episode, a Crichton novel and even The X Files eventually backing them up.
What element-ary scientific assumption are they all arguing against?

That life can only be carbon-based

In 1933, U.S. Judge John M. Woolsey wrote:
“It is a powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women. I am quite aware that
owing to some of its scenes it is a rather strong draught to ask some sensitive, though
normal, persons to take. But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in
many places the effect of the book on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,
nowhere does it tend to be aphrodisiac.”
Thus lifted the decade old ban on which enigmatic masterpiece?
In the same week, another pronouncement sent people scurrying from their apartments
to line up before the crowd at large had been made aware - rockets were burst and
melodies belted out.
What did this second judgement declare?

Ulysses
Lifting of Prohibition

27th September, 1962. Unesco.
“Sir Charles Snow ends his famous essay, Science and Government, by stressing the vital
importance of the gift of foresight. He points out that men often have wisdom without
possessing foresight. Perhaps our lot sometimes show foresight without wisdom; but at
least we undoubtedly do have foresight, and it may rub off on to the community at large.”
So ended an address delivered on the occasion of winning the Kalinga Prize.
Who is speaking - far away from his coconut groves and scuba gear? This prize was
established in 1952, after an endowment from which statesman?

Arthur C. Clarke
Biju Patnaik

Amongst the several milestones of modernity, writes Chris Rodrigues, belong the
following twin accomplishments from 1869 and 1914: Towering totems of transit that
bridged the world, separated by about 100 nautical miles. (Distance inaccurate).
Name both, in order.

Suez Canal
Panama Canal

The city palace of which medieval capital, located in Zhengian Banner, Inner Mongolia,
was once described as “a miracle of rare device - a sunny pleasure dome with caves of
ice”?

Xanadu

The X was a flight-test term referring to the limits of an aircraft's performance, how tight
a turn it could make at such-and-such a speed, and so on. Probing the outer limits of the
X seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test. To escape the X was to
press beyond the boundaries of discretion, and the metaphor carried over into civilian
life.
Long since a staple of aeronautics, the employment of the word in this sense entered the
common parlance (in the form of a phrase) after the publication of a 1979 book dealing
with a few special individuals who had what it took to carry mankind to space.
Which phrase? Name the book.

Pushing the envelope
Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff

What 1927 creation of Paul Renner - a marker of things to come - links American Beauty,
Gravity, Interstellar, Sesame Street, Lost, Moonrise Kingdom, V for Vendetta, Captain
America: Civil War, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Utopia, Watchmen, and the Pittsburgh
Steelers?

Futura

Nestled amongst the hillocks of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Nurburgring is 20.8 km and 154
turns of the one of the most acclaimed roadways in the world. A small part of it is also
home to a grand prix track built in 1984, but the main attraction is the open-to-all
Nordschleife or 'north loop'. Its winding and swooping character, with an elevation
differential of 300 m and incredibly fast straights makes it notoriously difficult to navigate.
Keeping in mind its damning nature, what did Sir Jackie Stewart christen the Nurburgring
Nordschleife - a description that reveals the true nature of this verdant paradise?

The Green Hell

A 1953 coinage of the U.S. Air Force, in translation, provides it with its name.
Thematically similar to a Satyajit Ray short story and an Anjan Dutta tune (based on the
said short story), by what three word name (also an acronym) do we know this Mohiner
Ghoraguli song?

Ojana Uronto Bostu

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