Annual Inter-college Freshers’ Quiz Rules

The Quiz Club of Jadavpur University, ENQUIRY,
presents
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The Annual Inter-college Freshers’
Quiz

General Rules
 20 Question Prelims
 Top 8 teams qualify for the final.
 Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 are star marked.
 The number of correct starred questions will be used to break
ties, if any.
 If that’s not enough, then we will follow the rule of ‘first
mistake’ or sudden death.
 Prelims scores shall be used to break ties in the final.
 Please do not consult your friend Google during the quiz.
Good luck!
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THE PRELIMS
QUESTION DISTRIBUTION:-
Ananyo Brahma: 10
Arpan Saha: 5
Balagopal Menon: 2
Dwaipayan Choudhury: 2
Krishnadev Roy: 1
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QUESTIONS BY
Ananyo Brahma
and others
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1.*
 X is one of the higher ranks in an army. Applied in other fields, it more or
less symbolises leadership.
 Y was one of the largest monarchies in pre-Norman Britain. York was the
chief city and the residents, mainly Danes, had a tendency to rebel
against the Wessex monarchs. The name Y, denoted the borders of the
kingdom.
 Z is a flintlock musket, which this regiment initially used, gave them their
name. The regiment saw action in a number of wars in the 19th Century.
 Connect these three words to a very famous literary character, who at
the start of his story had come to London from a convalescence home
and was looking for cheap accommodation.
 Note: X holds only in a special situation.
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 X: Captain
 Y: Northumberland
 Z: Fusiliers
 John Watson. Retd. Captain of the Fifth
Northumberland Fusiliers.
 Note: In the Sherlock Holmes novels, no rank is
mentioned.
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2.
 A recent fad, Trolley Problem
Memes, published this meme
on their page about a month
ago and has gone viral ever
since.
 What has been blanked out?
 All blanks are the same.
 Bigger picture in the next slide
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Harambe, the gorilla who was shot at
Cincinnati Zoo
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3.
 X is the only movie adaptation of a graphic novel
to win the Palm d’Or.
 The film also received another unique distinction-
that of the two actors receiving the award jointly;
an honour previously reserved for the director.
 Name X, a very famous movie of recent times.
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Blue is the Warmest Colour
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4.
 The ______ was a German military intelligence
organization which existed from 1920 to 1945.
 Despite the fact that the Treaty of Versailles
prohibited the Germans altogether from establishing
an intelligence organization of their own, they formed
an espionage group in 1920 within their defence
ministry.
 The word means defence, counter-intelligence or
rejection.
 Fill in the blank.
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5.*
 (Picture in the next slide)
 Napoleon III of France had this 7-foot monument built, as a part of a
romanticisation of a prehistoric past. Sculptor Aime Millet and architect Eugene
Viollet-le-Duc were the creators.
 The inscription (French translation of the supposed words of said person’s arch-
nemesis) translates in English to:
“Gaul united
Forming a single nation
Animated by common spirit
Can defy the universe.”
 Name the person.
The memorial stands at the supposed site of the Battle of ________. FITB.
No part points.
 You might know him from a very famous panel, in a very famous comic book.
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Vercingetorix ; Alesia
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6.
 Noah X (1758-1843) said, “Customs, habits, and
languages should be national.”
 He did his part by compiling ‘The American
spelling book’ (1783) and his ‘American Dictionary
of the English Language’ (1828).
 ‘Center’ instead of ‘centre’ and ‘honor’ instead of
‘honour’ are typical of X’s Americanized spelling.
 Identify X.
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7.
• Minimalist poster of which movie?
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8.
 This country is named after Jesus Christ and its
present name literally translates to ‘The Savior’.
 The full name of this province was "Provincia De
Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, __ ________ Del
Mundo" ("Province of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Savior of the World"), which was subsequently
abbreviated to “__ ________”.
 Fill in the blanks.
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Stanley Kubrick
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10.*
 In public relations, X is a form of propaganda,
achieved through providing a biased interpretation of
an event or campaigning to persuade public opinion
in favour or against some organization or public
figure.
 A person such as a political aide, whose job involves
trying to control the way something is described to
the public in order to influence what people think
about it, is known as an X ______.
 For full points, tell me what two word term am I
referring to.
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11.
 X is a semi-legendary figure, supposedly born in the
6th Century BC in Icaria, Greece.
 Aristotle and a number of later antiquity scholars
have given him the credit of being the first person to
act on stage. He not only, by modifying the
dithyrambic poetry form, create the concept of
theatre, but was also the first to go on theatre tours.
 As a result, actors are often referred to as
_________.
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12.
 Identify the
cartoon
character
whose crying is
being parodied
here.
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13.
 This word comes (in Late Middle English, via
Latin) from Greek, explained by the Greek as
‘breast-less’ referring to the fable that the Xs cut
off the right breast so as not to interfere with the
use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an
unknown foreign word.
 Identify X.
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14.
Connect the following with one word:
 Greg Pead
 Houyhnhnms (Gulliver’s Travels)
 (noun) a crude, brutish or obscenely coarse
person
 Yang and Filo
 Shammi Kapoor
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15.*
 X (2003) is the second film and by far the most famous film
of this particular trilogy. It is also one of the most popular
movies to be produced in this country.
 The director said he named the lead character/movie so, to
remind people of Y. Though the similarity isn’t very obvious
to any English speaking person, the movie’s plot does
involve extreme violence and incest, like in the play Y.
 Even in the end, titular characters of both X and Y are
shown to harm themselves, Y to ‘stop seeing the
despicable truth’ and X ‘ to not reveal the despicable truth’.
 Name X and Y.
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X: Oldboy (the character’s name was Oh
Dae-Soo). Y: Oedipus
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16.
 Abbas Kazmi, a participant of the Big Boss Season 4, first
came to Mumbai as an aspiring actor and worked in a few
films such as Anjaan Rahen with Feroz Khan and Asha
Parekh and Jugnoo, with Dharmendra and Hema Malini.
 He found little success in acting and decided to pursue
some other profession. After graduating in 1980 from K.C.
College, Mumbai, Kazmi moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
There he worked as a financial advisor.
 Apart from his short stint at the silver screen, he rose to
limelight in 2009, owing to his professional skills.
 What was his shot to sudden fame ? (Image follows)
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Kazmi was appointed as the defence
lawyer, who represented Ajmal Kasab
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17.
Passes for which event being sold for $350 ?
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Impeachment proceedings against
erstwhile President Bill Clinton
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18.
 ___ is a 1964 black and white short film directed
by Satyajit Ray.
 The film was made under the banner of Esso
World Theater and portrays an encounter
between a child of a rich family and a street child,
through the rich kid’s window.
 The film has no dialogue and its duration is
approximately 12 minutes.
 Fill in the blank.
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19.
 This is an Indian
Classical cover by
Mahesh Raghvan of a
track which is well
known.
 Identify the original
track.
 Keywords will do.
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Star Wars Imperial March
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20.*
 Derived from the Old Slavic root word for gold, X
means ‘golden’ and is most commonly found among
the Balkans (particularly in the countries Serbia,
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
 In May 2003, X was trademarked in the Swedish
Patent and Registration Office for “most likely being
perceived as ______”, which gave ______ exclusive
rights to the name for certain products like clothing,
shoes and sporting goods.
 What is X?
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FINALS TO FOLLOW
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