General Quiz done by me at May Informal meet in Palakkad

2. Alhamdulillah
MY FIRST QUIZ
Researched and conducted by : ABDUL VAHID. P. A

3. ROUND 1
• 8 Questions: Clockwise
• Bounce + Pounce
• +10 for Bounce
• +10/-10 for Pounce

4. • Finland is known as the land of thousand lakes.
• It has 1,87,888 lakes and nearly 1,79,000 islands.
• X lake is the largest lake in Finland and fourth largest freshwater
lake in Europe.
• Now a days, the word X is popularly used by malayalees thanks
to the debut movie of a young Malayalam actor.
• X please!

5. ANSWER

6. •Saimaa

7. On 2 November,2000, at Malom, a small town near Imphal
in Manipur, ten civilians were shot and killed while waiting
at the bus stop.The incident known as Malom Massacre
was allegedly committed by Assam Rifles.This resulted in
the beginning of something that lasted almost 15 years,
one of the longests in the world.
What?

8. ANSWER

9. • Irom Sharmila’s Hunger Strike

10. • Chhurim Sherpa was the first person to scale Mount Everest
twice in a week.
• She has started her third journey to the top of the world recently,
but this time her journey caught a wider global attention. This is
because of the fact that in this journey she carries some
belongings of a person to pay tribute to him.
• Whom does she pay tribute to?

11. ANSWER

12. • Phil Hughes
• She carries a bat and two jerseys belonging to Hughes.

13. • The following slide gives you an eye-witness account of an incident by
George Steer in TheTimes.
• X was inspired by this eye-witness account and created the world famousY.
• Identify X andY.

14. BILBAO, April 27, 1937
Y, the most ancient town of the Basques and the centre of their cultural tradition, was
completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders.The bombardment of this
open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a
powerful fleet of aeroplanes consisting of three German types, Junkers and Heinkel bombers
and Heinkel fighters, did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1,000 lb.
downwards and, it is calculated, more than 3,000 two-pounder aluminium incendiary
projectiles.The fighters, meanwhile, plunged low from above the centre of the town to
machine- gun those of the civilian population who had taken refuge in the fields.
The whole of Y was soon in flames except the historic Casa de Jontas with its rich archives of
the Basque race, where the ancient Basque Parliament used to sit.The famous oak of Y, the
dried old stump of 600 years and the young new shoots of this century, was also untouched.
Here the kings of Spain used to take the oath to respect the democratic rights (fueros) of
Vizcaya and in return received a promise of allegiance as suzerains with the democratic title of
Señor, not ReyVizcaya.The noble parish, church of Santa Maria was also undamaged except
for the beautiful chapter house, which was struck by an incendiary bomb.

15. ANSWER

16. • X – Pablo Picasso
• Y – Guernica

17. The etymology of the term is often disputed.The term
comes from the notion of justice proceeding by leaps like a
X. Another possibility is that the term means the court is
in someone’s pockets. Merriam Webster defines it as a
mock court in which the principles of law and justice are
disregarded. A X is often held by a group or a community
to give the appearance of a fair and just trial, even though
the verdict has in reality already been decided before the
trial has begun.
Id the term.

18. ANSWER

19. Kangaroo Court

20. • Renowned scientist Max Born joined IISc in 1935 accepting the request of CV
Raman. On meeting Born, Diwan Mirza Ismail enquired if he know any
trained architect. Born introduced his nephew Otto Konisberger to the
Diwan. Upon Born’s suggestion Konisberger was appointed the chief
architect and planner of Mysore.
• Konisberger designed various buildings for the IISc, theTATA Institute of
Fundamental Research and some parts of Jamshedpur under the vision of
JRDTata.
• Konisberger was also the architect of the Temple City of India. Which is that
city?

21. ANSWER

22. • Bhubaneswar

23. Hershey’s X are chocolates produced
by American brand Hershey’s.They
were introduced in 1905 and had a
distinctive shape ; a flat bottomed
teardrop wrapped in an aluminium foil
with a paper protruding out featuring
the name of the brand.They were
named X due to the characteristic
sound produced when they were
deposited by the machine. X?

24. ANSWER

25. • Hershey’s Kisses

26. Kurai Onrum Illai is aTamil devotional song written by X.
The song was written in praise of Lord Krishna and is very
popular in South India. It is a regular at Carnatic music
concerts. X also wrote a benediction hymn which was sung
by M. S Subbalakshmi at the UN General Assembly in 1967.
X’s lasting contributions to English literature include
translations of Ramayana and Mahabharata which are
used by foreign universities for ‘Oriental Studies’.
Identify X.

27. ANSWER

28. •C. Rajagopalachari

29. Round 2
• 7 Questions : Written
• Differential Scoring
• Your score = 5 x no of teams who didn’t
get it right.

30. I’m sure that most of you have at least one Orissa
Pan in your home. Otherwise I strongly suggest you
to have one.
Tell me what exactly an Orissa Pan is?

31. ANSWER

33. Fr. Abel was a catholic CMI priest from Kerala. He had a thirst to become a
good journalist and took Doctorate in Political Science and Journalism from
University of Rome. After returning to Kerala, he started translating ancient
Christian texts and devotional songs. During this work, an idea arose in his
mind – why not write original devotional songs in Malayalam? He soon started
the work and wrote more than 1000 devotional songs. In order to perform
these songs on stage, he started an institution in 1969 and organised many
concerts of Christian devotional songs. Also another programme was staged as
‘fillers’ between the songs. Eventually these ‘fillers’ became the masterpiece
of the organisation and a lot of artists shot to limelight through these
programmes.
Identify the institution.

34. ANSWER

35. Kalabhavan

36. • InWhichWe Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noel
Coward and David Lean. It was made during the second world war with the
assistance of the Ministry of Information.
• The film was inspired by the exploits of X, who was in command of the
destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete. X was also
the longest serving official to head the British armed forces.
• The film also witnessed the acting debut ofY, who later became a director
and went on to bag supreme awards like Oscar, BAFTA, golden globe etc.
• Identify X andY.

37. ANSWER

38. • X – Louis Mountbatten
• Y – Richard Attenborough

39. Udaan (meaning flight) was a Hindi serial aired on DD
national during 1989-91.This claims to be the first Indian
serial on women empowerment.The serial was inspired by
the real life of X who also made guest appearance in the
serial. However the female lead was played by her sister
Kavitha who also directed the serial. X went on to become
the first woman in India to hold a certain office when she
achieved the feat in Uttarakhand.
Identify X.

40. ANSWER

41. • Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
• First Indian woman to become DGP.

42. The X lake was constructed by engineer John Rennie for theTrent
and Mersey Canal Company to feed the Caldon Canal at X,
Staffordshire, a village named after X, a local man reputed to have
killed Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field. Sometime in 1863,
a man and a woman, John and Alice, met and courted at X lake who
later became married. Appealed by the serenity of the location,
they named their first son after this lake.
Name the famous son mentioned above.
(Pic in next slide)

44. ANSWER

45. Rudyard Kipling

46. Mrugaya is a 1989
Malayalam film written by
Lohithadas and directed by
IV Sasi.The film features a
leopard which was loaned
by animal tamer
Govindarajan Naidu.
Where was the film shot?

47. ANSWER

48. •Nelliampathy

49. 1 Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine 29-May-1873 grandson
2 The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany 28-Mar-1884 son
3 Prince Heinrich Friedrich of Prussia 26-Feb-1904 great grandson
4 Lord Leopold Mountbatten 23-Apr-1922 grandson
5 Prince Rupert ofTeck 15-Apr-1928 great grandson
6 Infante Gonzalo of Spain 13-Aug-1934 great grandson
7 Alfonso, Prince of Asturias 6-Sep-1938 great grandson
8 Prince Waldemar of Prussia 2-May-1945 great grandson
PUT FUNDA

50. ANSWER

51. • Descendants of QueenVictoria who
died of haemophilia.
• The reason why it’s called Royal
Disease.

52. ROUND 3
• 8 Questions: anticlockwise
• Bounce + Pounce
• +10 for Bounce
• +10/-10 for Pounce

53. • Benjamin Franklin once wrote an essay to the Royal Society of Brussels,
named “_________ proudly” also called “A Letter to a Royal Academy”.The
essay was never submitted, but was sent as a letter to Richard Price, a
renowned welsh philosopher at that time.
• The essay argues the need to launch independent studies about __________.
It calls for a detailed research about effect of various food items on this and
reminds the need of a new drug to improve it.
• Franklin also sent a copy of the essay to Joseph Priestly who was then
researching on gases.
• What was Franklin’s essay all about? Or FITB.

54. ANSWER

55. • വളി
• Blank : Fart

56. PUT FUNDA

57. ANSWER

58. • Longest kissing scene ever in any Indian film. It lasts up to 4
minutes.
• This scene is from the 1933 movie Karma, the first English talkie
by an India.
• Himanshu Rai kisses Devika Rani.

59. • Marjarin – Medicine for increasing life span of cats.
• Miracurall – A drug capsule that cures all ailments except common cold.
• Robu – A robot made with very cheap materials which is programmed to answer
any question asked to it.
• Batika Indica – A pill made from banyan tree sap that can ward off the need for
food and water for 24 hours.
• Snuff Gun – A gun that on firing induces snuffing for 30 hours.
• Linguagraph – A translator that can translate any earth language to another
including animal languages.
• Compudium – A device that helps to contact departed souls.
• Omniscope – A combination of telescope and microscope that can be worn as
spectacles.
• Ornithon – A device to educate birds.
IDENTIFYTHE INVENTOR

60. ANSWER

61. Professor Shonku

62. On July 12,1959, an Indian Airlines plane Viscount c/n 295 was
flying from Rangoon, Burma to Dum Dum Airport, Culcutta. On
that evening Captain Waseem Pina was summoned by one of
the travellers and something, first time ever in India, happened
at 4. 15 pm.This triggered a lot of discussions in the media
analysing the pros and cons of the event. Subsequently, Indian
Airlines came up with a new tradition which was later
abandoned due to widespread misuse.
What happened at 4.15 pm? What new tradition was
introduced?

63. ANSWER

64. • A child was born on air
• He was namedViscountViman Rao
• Indian Airlines declared free air tickets
for those were born on air for lifetime
which was later abandoned.

65. This is the model of a device
used to lift boats over shoals. It
was designed by X for which he
gained US patent number 6469.
Nevertheless, the device was
never manufactured. As of now,
he remains the only patent
holder to hold a coveted
position.
Identify X.

66. ANSWER

67. • Abraham Lincoln

68. Studying in England was the greatest dream of this men. After the
younger earned enough money and ordered his passport and travel
tickets, the postman delivered them to the elder thanks to the
same initials they shared. Upon this, the elder insisted on travelling
with those documents actually meant for the younger, pointing out
that it would be socially criticized that an older brother followed
the lead of the younger. Respecting the elder despite the obvious
cruelty of fate on his own hard work, the younger allowed him to
proceed to England and even paid for his stay.
Identify this famous freedom fighter siblings.

69. ANSWER

70. Vithalbhai andVallabhai Patel

71. 1. A _______ may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A _______ must obey the orders given to it by human
beings, except where such orders would conflict with the
First Law.
3. A ______ must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Three laws of???

72. ANSWER

73. •Robotics

74. • She did her LLB, LLM (first rank holder) and PhD from Kerala Law
Academy, University ofTrivandrum. She serves as a member of
Kerala State Film Censor Board since 2005. In 2007, she became
the principal of Kerala Law Academy,Trivandrum.
• She served DD Malayalam as a news reader between 1986 and
1988. When KairaliTV was launched in 2000, she did a new
programme, which was one of the first programmes in the
channel.That was a new beginning for her and the rest is history.
• Just identify her.

75. ANSWER

76. • Dr. Lakshmi Nair
• Cookery show fame

77. Round 4
• 7 Questions : Written
• Choose your score round
• Along with answer, write an even number from 6 to 20
within braces.
• If your answer is right, you win the points written in the
bracket and loses half of it if your answer is wrong.

78. • Bogorad’s Syndrome is a disease first described by F. A Bogorad in 1926.The
disease involves the initiation of a certain physiological process on taking
food.The disease is also called ________ ________ Syndrome.
• The disease is named so because of a myth involving similar behaviour by a
certain animal. Actually the animal initiates this physiological process not
on feeding, but as a mechanism for lubrication and salt loss.
• Thus ________ _________ became a common usage to describe a certain
behaviour.
FITB

79. ANSWER

80. • CrocodileTears

81. BarongTagalong is an embroidered formal dress
from Philippines. It is worn untucked over an
undershirt and is lightweight. It was popularised as a
formal dress by a famous person who was initially an
automobile mechanic who later led guerrilla forces in
World War II.
Who?

82. ANSWER

83. Ramon Magsaysay

84. His key field of specialisation did not dissuade him from studies. He
secured good grades. He participated in the Quit India movement
in 1942. On 15th August 1947, he took a resolution which he
achieved 5 years later. He had no money to go abroad for this and
the government did not come to help. Subsequently, he along with
his family resorted to begging to raise enough funds.This
prompted the principal of his college Khardikar to mortgage his
house for raising a sum of Rs. 7000 for his student. He was one of
the most neglected Indians in his field even after achieving the feat
which was an unbelievable one at that time.
Who?

85. ANSWER

86. •KD Jadhav

87. • X is aThailand-born British-American software designer and publisher who founded several
companies in United States and elsewhere. All members of his family where fluent inTamil
language and his family had several Indian servants. He attended Presentation Convent
School at Kodaikanal till Class 6 after which the family relocated to England.
• X started his own publishing house named after himself which was later acquired by
McGraw Hill. He also published a best-selling memoir “Hypergrowth” in 1984.
• In 1983, he bragged about two advanced new computers his company was developing.
These statements decreased the consumer demand of the earlier product of his company,
which claimed a first in the history of computers.Thus this phenomenon, the pre-
announcement of a product causing a catastrophic collapse in the demand of older ones,
came to be known as X affect.
• X returned to India in the later days of his life and died at Kodaikanal.
• Identify X.

88. ANSWER

89. • Adam Osborne
• Created Osborne-1, first commercial portable computer.

90. “We wanted an age related title. Other than being
feminist the film is about being proud of your age. I’m
proud of my age.There was opposition but this seemed
apt. I’m sure I will be more proud when I’m 50”
This an excerpt from a recent interview. Just identify the
speaker.

91. ANSWER

92. • Jyothika
• 36Vayadhinile

93. • Rika Hiraki won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in 1997
becoming the first Japanese player to win a grand slam.
• Her male partner also became the first player to win a grand
slam from his country.
• Who was her male partner? Which country did he represent?

94. ANSWER

95. • Mahesh Bhupathi
• India

96. This is a teakettle that
entered market some years
ago. It was released by JC
Penney Corporation, the
American mid-range
departmental stores based in
Plano,Texas.
Why did this teakettle create
controversy?

97. ANSWER

98. • Resemblance with
Adolf Hitler