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ARTS FEST QUIZ 2016

RULES• 4 Rounds - 32 Questions Round 1– 7 Questions Round 2 – 9 QuestionsRound 3 – 8 QuestionsRound 4 – 8 Questions

PLEASE NOTE ..

The Quiz Master does not know everything !!!

( But he certainly knows most of the things about his questions. So Respect the Decisions of the Quiz Master) The Decision of the Quiz Master is

Final.

Round 1Amul Ads

• Written Round• 7 Questions (All are Amul Ads released in

2016) – Identify the personality and/or the incident.

• 10 points for each correct answer .• No negative points .• If all the 7 are correct ,a bonus of 10 more

points will be gifted !!

EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS

ANSWERMartin Crowe

ANSWERJohann Cryuff

ANSWERHarsha Bhogle ( The IPL contract was

terminated)

ANSWERDipa Karmakar (The 1st Indian female

gymnast to qualify for Olympics)

ANSWERPRINCE

ANSWERTony Cozier

ANSWERRaghuram Rajan (Extension of his term as the

RBI Governor)

Round 2

RULES • 8 Questions • Pounce & Bounce Format • +10/-10 on Pounce .

Q1.• The Gowda Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) community is a religious &

linguistic minority in Kerala.• In 1963,the Community started an institution which was the 1st of its

kind in the state. The Institution was run by a Trust.• But due to its financial constraints ,it couldn’t run the institution on its

own –the State Govt then intervened & took charge of the Institution for a 5 year period.

• After 5 years, the Govt demanded a sum of Rs 40 lakh for running the institution (for the last 5 years)- but the Trust couldn’t pay it. So the Govt took over it.

• The community is planning for a legal battle against the state for claiming the institution.

• The Institution still bears the name of the Trust .• The Institution is ?

ANSWER

• Thirumala Devaswom Medical College (TDMC)

Q2.• X is a Chinese multinational manufacturer of smart phones

headquartered in Dongguan, Guandong Province, China.• Founded in 1995 ,the Company entered the

telecommunication & electronics industry with landline phones & wireless phones . From 2011,the company started its smartphone business.

• At present, it is the 5th leading smartphone brand in China & the 10th globally.

• The Company ?• What is the reason for its popularity at present ?

ANSWER

VIVO VIVO IS THE TITLE SPONSOR OF IPL 2016

• X is a Novel written by Y, published in 1880.• X is regarded as “ the most influential christian book of

the 19th century“ .• The book was blessed by Pope Leo XIII ,and it was the 1st

work of fiction so honoured.• The sales of the book increased multifold owing to an

event in 1959.• Identify X & Y.• What happened in 1959 that resulted in the increase in

sales of X ?

ANSWER

• X – Ben Hur : A Tale of the Christ

• Y – Lew Wallace• The 1959 event

was the release of the film Ben Hur which bagged 11 Academy Awards

Q4.• The etymological root of this word X is ‘Jagannatha’ (Lord of the

Universe).• As the story goes , every year in mid summer ,Lord Jagannatha with his

elder brother Balabhadra & sister Subhadra goes on vacation, travelling on grand chariots ,from his temple in Puri to his garden palace in the country side. This belief of the Hindus has given rise to one of the biggest religious festivals in India -The Rath Yatra .

• When the British first observed the Rath Yatra in the 18th century ,they were so amazed that they sent home shocking descriptions which gave rise to the term ‘X’ meaning ‘huge , powerful, unstoppable, destructive force ‘.

• The connotation may have originated from the occasional but accidental death of some devotees under the chariot wheels caused by the crowd and commotion.

• Identify the word X.

ANSWER

• JUGGERNAUT

• X was born in East Africa in 1860 .• He stayed at Germany for some years ,then was

taken to Paris and then to London.• He lived in London for 16 years.• In 1882, X left for USA – he had by then acquired

International stardom and a huge crowd was present when he reached the American shores.

• In 1885,he passed away in a train crash.• Who is X ?

ANSWER

Q6.The description given below is about of the logo of which famous organisation ?

• Hamsa, the swan, is the symbol of the pursuit of knowledge. The intertwined swans symbolize the integration of the three major aspects of the work of …………. :

Research and Development, Training, and Extension and Dissemination. • The design has been adapted from an Ashokan period

relic of the third century B.C.E. found in excavations near Maske in the Raichur district of Karnataka. The motto is taken from the Isavasya Upanishad and means ‘life eternal through learning’.

ANSWER

Q7.• The image is that of Dr. Theodore Howard

………..• He was an English surgeon , mountaineer

( A member of 2 expeditions to Mt.Everest in the 1920s ) and a painter .

• He spent about 40 years working as a doctor in India.

• In 1924 ,he was awarded an Olympic gold Medal by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of Modern Olympics for his achievements in mountaineering.

• A popular Medical Institution in South India established in 2002 is named after him.

• FITB.

ANSWER

• Dr.Somerwell Memorial CSI Medical College , Karakonam

• An ordinary 6V alkaline battery is used to power this device ,manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd , Bangalore & Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad.

• This design enables the use of this device throughout the country without interruptions because several parts of India do not have power supply and due to low voltage , there is absolutely no risk of getting an electric shock from the device.

• Which is the device mentioned here ?

ANSWERELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES

Round 3

• 8 Questions • All the Questions have some Medical

Connection.• Pounce & Bounce Format .• +10 /-10 on Pounce .

Q1.FITB• Global Public Health Days offer great potential to raise awareness

and understanding about health issues and mobilize support for action, from the local community to the international stage.

• WHO focuses particular attention on the 7 days and 1 week that WHO Member States have mandated as "official" global public health days. These are:

• World TB Day, 24 March• World Health Day, 7 April• World Immunization Week, last week of April• World Malaria Day, 25 April• …………………………………………• World Blood Donor Day, 14 June• World Hepatitis Day, 28 July• World AIDS Day, 1 December

ANSWER

• May 31 – Anti Tobacco Day

• The Chapter about Malaria in the 19th edition of “Harrison’s Principles of internal Medicine” begins with a famous saying by William Osler , a Canadian Physician who is regarded as “The Father of Modern Medicine”.

• Humnity has but 3 great enemies : ……….. , Famine & War ; Of these by far the greatest , by far the most terrible , is ……..

• FITB

ANSWER

• Fever

Q3.• Jim Boysen ,a 56 year old software developer from Austin,

Texas, was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 5 years .• In 1992 ,he received a kidney pancreas transplant and was on

immunosuppressive drugs since then.• In 2006,he was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma . He was on

treatment for it by a combination of chemotherapy & radiotherapy .

• A surgery was performed upon him on May 22 ,2015 at MD Anderson Cancer Centre & Houston Methodist hospital ,Texas . The surgery lasted nearly a day and it was the 1st of its kind in the world .

• What was the surgery performed ?

ANSWER

• World’s 1st partial skull & scalp transplant surgery

• The Union Health Ministry has issued an order recently to be implemented in 19 major hospitals including AIIMS , JIPMER, PGIMER as a part of its Kayakalp programme launched to promote cleanliness, hygiene & infection control practices in public health facilities.

• After assessing the program’s run at these hospitals, it will be extended to other hospitals also.

• The program has a colour code to be practiced on every day of the week.

• What is the programme ?

ANSWER

BEDSHEETS• White bed sheets would

be used on Mondays, Pink on Tuesdays, Green on Wednesdays, Yellow on Thursdays, Violet, Lavender or Purple on Fridays, Blue on Saturdays and Peach or Light grey on Sundays.

Q5.• Rififi is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's

novel of the same name . The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or music. The fictional burglary has been mimicked by criminals in actual crimes around the world.

• In 1957 , at the Lepetit Pharmaceuticals research lab in Milan, a research group led by Piero Sensi & Maria Teresa Timbal , discovered a new bacterium and isolated a new class of molecules from the it .

• Because Sensi, Timbal and the researchers were particularly fond of the French Film Rififi , they decided to call these compounds ……………..

• After two years of attempts to obtain more stable semisynthetic products, a new molecule with high efficacy and good tolerability was produced in 1959 and was named X .

ANSWER

Q6.• For at least two thousand years of European

history until the late nineteenth century , ………… was thought to be particular to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus , such as when a newborn child emerges from the birth canal.

• It was supposedly caused by the movement of a woman's uterus to various locations within her body as it became light and dry due to a lack of bodily fluids .

• FITB .

ANSWER

• Hysteria

Q7.What is X ?• On 26th April 1986, explosions at reactor number four of the nuclear

power plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine led to huge releases of radioactive materials into the atmosphere.

• A large increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has occurred among people who were young children and adolescents at the time of the accident and lived in the most contaminated areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This was due to the high levels of radioactive iodine released from the Chernobyl reactor in the early days after the accident.

• The Polish Govt acted soon – they formed a committee -The Chernobyl Committee –and after discussions , gave a solution of X to all Polish children to prevent the accumulation of radioactive iodine in the thyroid .

• X was a commonly used drinking water decontaminant in the country.• The swift action taken by the Govt helped to prevent the incidence of

thyroid cancer among its exposed population.

ANSWER

Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol

Q8. What is X & FITB .• The logo of X is conceived from the latest trends and current

developments in the …………. sector. The new logo came into place during March 2006. It was developed by Stark Communications, Thiruvananthapuram . The logo is basically consists of 3 X

• The red one in the middle international symbol of ……… awareness. It is a simple way in which we can, as individuals or in groups, declare our support for people living with and affected by ………...

• The one on the left indicates the acceptance and care given to people living with ………….. in their family.

• The one on the right indicates the acceptance and care given to people living with …………. in the society.

• The three together indicate social responsibility to work together for combating ………….

• Independently, the one on the left represents Kerala through its greenery and the one on the right represents Kerala through its backwaters.

ANSWER

• X – RIBBON• HIV AIDS

SECTOR• The logo of

Round 4

• 8 questions • Open to all teams • Bids available are 20 ,10 & 5.• If the team gets it wrong , equal number of

points will be reduced .• If no team bids , Bounce Format

• In the early first decade of the 20th Century the then Viceroy of the Indian Empire, X made a visit in the State to Alleppey ( now Alappuzha) .

• Fascinated by the Scenic beauty of the place, in joy and amazement, he said, “Here nature has spent up on the land her richest bounties”.

• In his exhilaration, it is said, he exclaimed, Alleppey, …………….

• Who is X and the blank ?

ANSWER

• X – Lord Curzon• Venice of the East

• The King of Sweden ,Gustav V ,told Jim Thorpe , an American athlete ,

• “You , Sir , is the World’s Greatest Athlete” after Thorpe won an Olympic event in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics .

• Since then, this title of “The World’s greatest athlete “ is given to the winner of this event.

• Which event ?

ANSWER

• DECATHLONDECATHLON

Q3.• The expression “......... ......... “ was rarely used before 1945.• Some writers credit the 14th century Spaniard, Don Juan Manuel for

first using the term (in Spanish), when dealing with the conflict between Christianity and Islam as a “......... ......... “ . However he used the term “tepid” not …….. The ………. word first appeared in a faulty translation of his work in the 19th century .

• George Orwell used this term in the essay “You and the Atomic Bomb” published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune. He also used this term in an article in March 1946.

• Bernard Baruch, an American financier and presidential advisor used this term in its present meaning at a speech he delivered in South Carolina in April 1947 saying, “Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of “......... ......... “

• Newspaper reporter-columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide currency, with the book “......... ......... “ (1947).

ANSWER

• Suresh Thampanoor is a head load worker at Thampanoor.

• He rose to stardom after his appearance in 2016 Film in which he wrote ,composed and sang a beautiful song which became very popular .

• Name the Film & the song .

ANSWER

Q5.• This company was established in 2011 with the vision to

provide better connectivity to the world through technology innovation and devotion to users .

• The mobile application they developed was originally released in China with the name Shan Chuan in 2012 and was known as ……………. outside China. In 2013, it supported more languages and its name was changed to its present name.

• The Company recently launched a new application named WeLine .

• Which is the Company /mobile application ?

ANSWER

• XENDER

Q6.• He was a Greek slave. After he was set free, he travelled to

several countries & met many wise men.• Once he was asked by the King to distribute a large sum of

Gold amongst the citizens of Delphi.• However , he found them to be very greedy & unworthy of

such a gift , so he sent back the gift. This enraged the citizens of Delphi,and they publicly executed him like a criminal.

• The Gods punished Delphi for their crime. Many calamities befell them until they were forced to repent.

• From this , the phrase , “ Blood of…….” came into existence . (deeds of those who do wrong will surely be punished )

• Aesop

• Every day , at the Wagah (the border between India & Pakistan),a flag lowering ceremony is held 2 hours before Sun Set.

• It is conducted by the military forces of both the countries.

• For India,it is the Border Security Force (BSF).• Name the military force of Pakistan that take

part in the ceremony.

ANSWER

• Pakistan Rangers

• The word X is a derivative of the Latin word …….. meaning "bright, shining, glistening white.“

• In ancient Rome , the Office-seekers would usually wear white togas ( a garment) at speeches , debates, conventions , and other public functions .

• The Latin word ………. Is also the root of the word Y meaning ‘expressing opinions & feelings in an honest and sincere way ‘.The word Y is also a commonly used word in photography.

• Identify the words X & Y .

ANSWER

• X –CANDIDATE• Y - CANDIDUS

• This Park, spread over 50 acres , is one among the oldest in the state in which it is located .

• It was designed in 1841 & is named after the sisters of Lord Auckland (his family name),the then Governor General of India.

• The park is most famous for a structure , built in 1864 – its name is the same as that of the Park. This structure is the largest of its kind in India (and the second largest in the world ,the 1st being in Australia).

• Name the Park/structure .

X may have different meanings depending on the field & judiciary system.All of the meanings originated from the French word ,meaning “ (spoken) word ” .Following its use in the late medieval Anglo French chivalric practice,the term became associated with the judiciary system with the meaning ‘giving word of honor to abide by certain restrictions’.Identify the word X.

Q36.• In the late 1940s & 1950s, one common technique

used by the ….. industry to reassure a worried public was to incorporate images of physicians in their ads. The none-too-subtle message was that if the doctor, with all of his expertise, chose to use a particular brand, then it must be safe.

• RJ Reynold Company promoted the ads and their brand Camel was advertised as the most commonly used brand by doctors.

• The response of the organized medical community was to do nothing, because the ads showed doctors looking wise.

• RJ Reynolds Company is at present the second largest ………. company in the US.

• Tobacco Industry

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