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Freshers’ General Quiz 2018 Prelims
Quiz Club IIT Kanpur
Customary Rules
1. ‘Star’ marked questions would be used to resolve ties. 2, 7, 14, 15 are * marked.
2. Decision of QMs is final and binding.
3. Wikipedia and Google Search have been assumed to be factually correct while
preparing the quiz.
4. The more you stare at the question, the more the answer stares back at you.
5. Doubts, different claims or discrepancies? Refer to 0.
Okay then! Let’s start…….
1
● Y was trained in Krav Maga for role in X.
● Y first appeared in 2016 movie 'Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice’ , which
revamped Y’s role in X.
● Y has strong association with “hill of spring”.
Enough hints: Tell me who/what Y is?
Y: Gal Gadot
X is Wonder Woman
2*
“Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other character), or glyphs, symbolizing the
multilingualism of X. As with the Latin letter 'W', these glyphs are in most cases the first
glyph or glyphs of the name “X” rendered in that language. The empty space at the top
represents the incomplete nature of the project."
What project am I talking about? More precisely what's X?
Wikipedia
3
Code-named Operation Dynamo.
It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of
____, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were
cut off and surrounded by German troops.
In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this
“a colossal military disaster”.
Which operation is being talked of? Brief explanation would do.
Keyword: Dunkirk
4
This woman came to be known widely as the inventor of ‘something’.
That thing has become a global phenomenon since April 2017, with kids and adults
indulging into the play.
What is her invention?
*Some disapprove of the fact because she
didn’t patent her invention.
Fidget Spinner
5
Literally it means the state of being unaware or
unconscious of what is happening around one.
Which one word is blanked out?
Fresher's General Quiz 2018
6
Connect these!
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
7*
One of the most dreadful weapon in Indian hands, feared by west as an Indian can do
virtually anything with that. The country has said to be 'running' on it since independence.
It can make a broken plane fly, defunct TV play program, rusting car run like a limo, ailing
patience sprint like Ben Johnson. Most importantly, it can get you admission in almost all
the colleges in the country. If in India, when even the Gods refuse, go and find _______.
Jugaad
:P
8
How to Backrub?
You use a different term for
‘Backrub’ing these days.
What term exactly?
Google!
9
What’s so special about these 3 Olympic games?
1916: Berlin
1940: Tokyo
1944: London
These Olympics never took place
10
This letter of recommendation was written
for whom?
John F Nash
11
Following the California landmark-based naming system introduced with OS Q, the name
P refers to the _____________ in California.
P is the latest OS announcement made by ______ in WWDC 2018.
Gimme P and Q.
P- Mojave Q- X Mavericks
12
X is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not found in the visible spectrum of light.
Rather, it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as the mixture of ____ and
_______, with the absence of _____. This has caused people to claim that X is not a color.
What am I talking about?
Magenta/Purple
13
X was one of the co-authors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of an
influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm.
He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your
Pocket with those same authors.
ID X.
Rajeev Motwani
14* So much contrast!
1. Algeria
2. Azerbaijan
3. Comoros
4. Malaysia
5. The Maldives
6. Mauritania
7. Pakistan
8. Tunisia
9. Turkey
10. Turkmenistan
11. Uzbekistan
1. India
2. United States of America
3. Former Soviet Union
4. China
5. Japan
Give funda.
Fresher's General Quiz 2018
1. The countries have moon on their flag.
2. These countries have their flag on the moon.
15
● S means a kind of clay used as a building material.
● You are most likely to have used S’s products.
● S comes from the name of a stream originating on Black mountain in Santa Clara
County, California, United states, which ran behind the houses of the founders of S.
Give me S?
Adobe
Freshers’ General Quiz 2018
!34
1.
In the early 2000s, which consumer product was boycotted in some countries
such as Egypt after rumours that it was named after a leader that they opposed,
and its logo was a modified form of a symbol that they hated?
!35
Ariel.
The then Israeli PM
was Ariel Sharon
!36
Code-named Operation Dynamo.
It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches
and harbor of ____, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French
troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops.
In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill called this “a colossal military disaster”.
Which operation is being talked of? Brief explanation would do.
2.
!37
!38
Dunkirk
In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 book, what,
rather appropriately, is the name of the
unmanned space probe launched from
Phobos to intercept the titular alien
starship and photograph it?
3.
!39
!40
Sita
• Sources leaves us in no doubt that it happened, a 1941 Soviet
archeological team confirming the bone fusion, but there is
uncertainty about exactly how. It probably happened in the
Dasht-e-Margo desert.
• Clavijo, a Castilian traveller and writer of the time writes: At
this time X had with him a following of some 500 horsemen
only; seeing which the men of Sistan (from Iran) came together
in force to fight him, and one night that he was engaged carrying
off a flock of sheep they all fell on him suddenly and slew a great
number of his men. Him too they knocked off, wounding
him.........What/who is being talked about here?
4.
!41
!42
The injury to Timur, which
gave him the name “Timur
the Lame”
If a Quora post is to be believed, the identity of the picture, was
a 4 year 3 months old Neeru Deshpandey from Nagpur.
However, Mayank Shah, group product manager, put all the
folklore to rest and revealed: It's actually an illustration by
Everest back in the 60s.
It is one of the largest selling products in the world, if the
number equivalent to its annual sales is kept end to end, 192 is
the number of times one could go around the world.
What?
5.
!43
!44
Parle-G Biscuits
● Edison’s first patented invention was never used for the
purpose for which it was made.
● The people who were supposed to use it were unimpressed
and more importantly they thought it would reduce the time
taken for performing a particular activity and this would
reduce the time they had to convince people.
● What invention, which is greatly used in the modern day?
6.
!45
!46
Electronic Voting Machine
 They initially called themselves as
“Starfish”, since there was already a
band called starfish they named
themselves after a part of the name
of the book “Child’s Reflections,
_________” by Philip Horky.
Name the band?
7.
!47
Coldplay
!48
!49
What phrase?
In olden days mattresses
were supported by ropes. A
certain action performed to
make a stable mattress and
a good night’s rest, gives
origin to a simple phrase.
8.
!50
“Sleep Tight”
!51
Identify the boisterous author of
book on Terrorism ?
9.
Arnab Goswami
!52
It is 45-foot-tall (14 m), and is 350 feet (110 m) long. It
was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a
local real estate development company
“_________land”, it was one of the largest
advertisement boards in that era. How do we better
know it?
10.
!53
Hollywood sign in Los
Angeles
!54
Put Funda
• Touko Madobe
• Yuu Madobe
• Ai Madobe
• Nanami Madobe
Why would you find these 4 names
in a tech quiz.
11.
!55
!56
Mascot of Microsoft.


!57
 Mayank Bhaskar of Daily Bhaskar rated the film 4/5 saying that “This is India's
equivalent of Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America (1984), or Robert
Rodriguez's Once Upon A Time in Mexico (2003), though I suppose it could
possibly be better than both.” On the other hand, Martin D'Souza of
Glamsham gave the movie 1.5/5 stars, concluding that "In short, the movie
definitely does not have a perpendicular rise. It is off tangent!“ Which movie is
this?
12.
!58
!59
13.
Mr. Manjul Bhargava became the
recipient of a certain award in
2014. It is the first time a person
of Indian origin has been
awarded that prize named after
John Charles _______. Name the
prize?
 Fields Medal
!60
!61
14.
The Bombay mail carried mails from Bombay to Culcutta
during the British Raj.The train also carried a certain
item due to which a common phrase ‘to smell like Bombay
mail’ originated.The item itself came to be known after
the train.What was thus transported between the two
presidency cities? 
!62
 Bombay duck,
from Bombay
daak
!63
15.
Anthony De Mello who was then the Secretary of the Cricket Club of India(CCI)
used the name of a painter from Goa to seek a meeting with X.
At the end of the meeting, de Mello asked X : 'Your excellency, which would you
prefer to accept from sportsmen, money for your Government, or immortality for
yourself?’.
X chose immortality and the CCI was allotted 90,000 square yards at a price of ₹
13.50 per square yard to build something which was to emulate a popular
sporting destination in England.
What structure is this which was named after X?
Also this place was also where a popular story heard by Indians took place
wherein a young 14 year old boy had his first exposure to international cricket.
What story is this?
!64
!65
16.
Which company owns the domain
names 466453.com and duck.com?
!66
!67
17.
X is the greek goddess of victory and is often portrayed as the divine charioteer.
X is also one of the most common figures in the greek coins. Since the 1928
summer Olympics the obverse of Olympic gold medals features X. In the story of
the Battle of Marathon, the last word of Pheidippides is X! after which he
collapsed and died. Connect these clues with an American anti aircraft project
and a sporting brand to identify X
!68
!69
18.
Dutch cartographers Hendrik
Brouwer and Joan Blaeu named a
country after the westernmost
province of the Netherlands,
which in Dutch meant they were
sea lands. Name the country?
!70
19.
● X is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by
Kurt Wimmer. X, is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the
run to try to clear her name.
● Sea snakes use a specialised gland under the tongue to expel X.
● ID X.
!71
20.
59th Annual Grammy Awards
David Bowie wins four posthumous awards, two for his final studio album Blackstar
and two for its title track.
X wins the Record of the Year and Song of the Year for P and Album of the Year for Q.
‘Chance the Rapper’ wins the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
ID X, P, Q.
!72
Adele, Hello, 25
!73
Thanks!
too many…….
1. All the previous QMs of various quizzes.
2. QC IITK
3. Slideshare
4. Wikipedia
5. Google Search
6. You
et al………..
!74

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Fresher's General Quiz 2018

  • 1. Freshers’ General Quiz 2018 Prelims Quiz Club IIT Kanpur
  • 2. Customary Rules 1. ‘Star’ marked questions would be used to resolve ties. 2, 7, 14, 15 are * marked. 2. Decision of QMs is final and binding. 3. Wikipedia and Google Search have been assumed to be factually correct while preparing the quiz. 4. The more you stare at the question, the more the answer stares back at you. 5. Doubts, different claims or discrepancies? Refer to 0. Okay then! Let’s start…….
  • 3. 1 ● Y was trained in Krav Maga for role in X. ● Y first appeared in 2016 movie 'Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice’ , which revamped Y’s role in X. ● Y has strong association with “hill of spring”. Enough hints: Tell me who/what Y is?
  • 4. Y: Gal Gadot X is Wonder Woman
  • 5. 2* “Each piece bears a glyph (a letter or other character), or glyphs, symbolizing the multilingualism of X. As with the Latin letter 'W', these glyphs are in most cases the first glyph or glyphs of the name “X” rendered in that language. The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project." What project am I talking about? More precisely what's X?
  • 7. 3 Code-named Operation Dynamo. It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of ____, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this “a colossal military disaster”. Which operation is being talked of? Brief explanation would do.
  • 9. 4 This woman came to be known widely as the inventor of ‘something’. That thing has become a global phenomenon since April 2017, with kids and adults indulging into the play. What is her invention? *Some disapprove of the fact because she didn’t patent her invention.
  • 11. 5 Literally it means the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening around one. Which one word is blanked out?
  • 14. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
  • 15. 7* One of the most dreadful weapon in Indian hands, feared by west as an Indian can do virtually anything with that. The country has said to be 'running' on it since independence. It can make a broken plane fly, defunct TV play program, rusting car run like a limo, ailing patience sprint like Ben Johnson. Most importantly, it can get you admission in almost all the colleges in the country. If in India, when even the Gods refuse, go and find _______.
  • 17. 8 How to Backrub? You use a different term for ‘Backrub’ing these days. What term exactly?
  • 19. 9 What’s so special about these 3 Olympic games? 1916: Berlin 1940: Tokyo 1944: London
  • 20. These Olympics never took place
  • 21. 10 This letter of recommendation was written for whom?
  • 23. 11 Following the California landmark-based naming system introduced with OS Q, the name P refers to the _____________ in California. P is the latest OS announcement made by ______ in WWDC 2018. Gimme P and Q.
  • 24. P- Mojave Q- X Mavericks
  • 25. 12 X is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not found in the visible spectrum of light. Rather, it is physiologically and psychologically perceived as the mixture of ____ and _______, with the absence of _____. This has caused people to claim that X is not a color. What am I talking about?
  • 27. 13 X was one of the co-authors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm. He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors. ID X.
  • 29. 14* So much contrast! 1. Algeria 2. Azerbaijan 3. Comoros 4. Malaysia 5. The Maldives 6. Mauritania 7. Pakistan 8. Tunisia 9. Turkey 10. Turkmenistan 11. Uzbekistan 1. India 2. United States of America 3. Former Soviet Union 4. China 5. Japan Give funda.
  • 31. 1. The countries have moon on their flag. 2. These countries have their flag on the moon.
  • 32. 15 ● S means a kind of clay used as a building material. ● You are most likely to have used S’s products. ● S comes from the name of a stream originating on Black mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United states, which ran behind the houses of the founders of S. Give me S?
  • 33. Adobe
  • 35. 1. In the early 2000s, which consumer product was boycotted in some countries such as Egypt after rumours that it was named after a leader that they opposed, and its logo was a modified form of a symbol that they hated? !35
  • 36. Ariel. The then Israeli PM was Ariel Sharon !36
  • 37. Code-named Operation Dynamo. It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of ____, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this “a colossal military disaster”. Which operation is being talked of? Brief explanation would do. 2. !37
  • 39. In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 book, what, rather appropriately, is the name of the unmanned space probe launched from Phobos to intercept the titular alien starship and photograph it? 3. !39
  • 41. • Sources leaves us in no doubt that it happened, a 1941 Soviet archeological team confirming the bone fusion, but there is uncertainty about exactly how. It probably happened in the Dasht-e-Margo desert. • Clavijo, a Castilian traveller and writer of the time writes: At this time X had with him a following of some 500 horsemen only; seeing which the men of Sistan (from Iran) came together in force to fight him, and one night that he was engaged carrying off a flock of sheep they all fell on him suddenly and slew a great number of his men. Him too they knocked off, wounding him.........What/who is being talked about here? 4. !41
  • 42. !42 The injury to Timur, which gave him the name “Timur the Lame”
  • 43. If a Quora post is to be believed, the identity of the picture, was a 4 year 3 months old Neeru Deshpandey from Nagpur. However, Mayank Shah, group product manager, put all the folklore to rest and revealed: It's actually an illustration by Everest back in the 60s. It is one of the largest selling products in the world, if the number equivalent to its annual sales is kept end to end, 192 is the number of times one could go around the world. What? 5. !43
  • 45. ● Edison’s first patented invention was never used for the purpose for which it was made. ● The people who were supposed to use it were unimpressed and more importantly they thought it would reduce the time taken for performing a particular activity and this would reduce the time they had to convince people. ● What invention, which is greatly used in the modern day? 6. !45
  • 47.  They initially called themselves as “Starfish”, since there was already a band called starfish they named themselves after a part of the name of the book “Child’s Reflections, _________” by Philip Horky. Name the band? 7. !47
  • 49. !49 What phrase? In olden days mattresses were supported by ropes. A certain action performed to make a stable mattress and a good night’s rest, gives origin to a simple phrase. 8.
  • 51. !51 Identify the boisterous author of book on Terrorism ? 9.
  • 53. It is 45-foot-tall (14 m), and is 350 feet (110 m) long. It was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development company “_________land”, it was one of the largest advertisement boards in that era. How do we better know it? 10. !53
  • 54. Hollywood sign in Los Angeles !54
  • 55. Put Funda • Touko Madobe • Yuu Madobe • Ai Madobe • Nanami Madobe Why would you find these 4 names in a tech quiz. 11. !55
  • 57. !57  Mayank Bhaskar of Daily Bhaskar rated the film 4/5 saying that “This is India's equivalent of Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America (1984), or Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon A Time in Mexico (2003), though I suppose it could possibly be better than both.” On the other hand, Martin D'Souza of Glamsham gave the movie 1.5/5 stars, concluding that "In short, the movie definitely does not have a perpendicular rise. It is off tangent!“ Which movie is this? 12.
  • 58. !58
  • 59. !59 13. Mr. Manjul Bhargava became the recipient of a certain award in 2014. It is the first time a person of Indian origin has been awarded that prize named after John Charles _______. Name the prize?
  • 61. !61 14. The Bombay mail carried mails from Bombay to Culcutta during the British Raj.The train also carried a certain item due to which a common phrase ‘to smell like Bombay mail’ originated.The item itself came to be known after the train.What was thus transported between the two presidency cities? 
  • 63. !63 15. Anthony De Mello who was then the Secretary of the Cricket Club of India(CCI) used the name of a painter from Goa to seek a meeting with X. At the end of the meeting, de Mello asked X : 'Your excellency, which would you prefer to accept from sportsmen, money for your Government, or immortality for yourself?’. X chose immortality and the CCI was allotted 90,000 square yards at a price of ₹ 13.50 per square yard to build something which was to emulate a popular sporting destination in England. What structure is this which was named after X? Also this place was also where a popular story heard by Indians took place wherein a young 14 year old boy had his first exposure to international cricket. What story is this?
  • 64. !64
  • 65. !65 16. Which company owns the domain names 466453.com and duck.com?
  • 66. !66
  • 67. !67 17. X is the greek goddess of victory and is often portrayed as the divine charioteer. X is also one of the most common figures in the greek coins. Since the 1928 summer Olympics the obverse of Olympic gold medals features X. In the story of the Battle of Marathon, the last word of Pheidippides is X! after which he collapsed and died. Connect these clues with an American anti aircraft project and a sporting brand to identify X
  • 68. !68
  • 69. !69 18. Dutch cartographers Hendrik Brouwer and Joan Blaeu named a country after the westernmost province of the Netherlands, which in Dutch meant they were sea lands. Name the country?
  • 70. !70
  • 71. 19. ● X is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Kurt Wimmer. X, is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name. ● Sea snakes use a specialised gland under the tongue to expel X. ● ID X. !71
  • 72. 20. 59th Annual Grammy Awards David Bowie wins four posthumous awards, two for his final studio album Blackstar and two for its title track. X wins the Record of the Year and Song of the Year for P and Album of the Year for Q. ‘Chance the Rapper’ wins the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. ID X, P, Q. !72
  • 74. Thanks! too many……. 1. All the previous QMs of various quizzes. 2. QC IITK 3. Slideshare 4. Wikipedia 5. Google Search 6. You et al……….. !74