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Monthly Quiz March

Round 1•Direct: +20/0•Pounce: +20/-25•Pounce to death

1. Can the crowd be silent, please ?

• This sport was invented in Melbourne in 1922 by 2 factory workers.• Then, it was played with a tin can containing rocks and

was later improvised to play with a similar equipment.• It requires pin drop silence and uses verbal cues in its

play, such as asking the opponent if he is ready.• In 2002, Govt. Of Punjab , Pakistan , allocated 45 Kanal

space for a stadium for this particular sport, making it one of the first stadiums for it.

Blind Cricket

2. • The motto for this American media company designates

it to be free from Political and social requirements. • The motto literally means “Art for Art’s sake”.• Some famous productions from this media company

include: Hobbit series, Me before you, Gone with the wind , Wizard of oz….Etc.• Which media company ?

Ars Gratia Artis

MGM Metro Goldwyn Meyer

3. You may have the body• It is a legal principle Indian constitution borrowed from

American and British legal systems . • It is one of the fundamental rights available to the

citizens of India in form of a writ under Right to Constitutional remedies.• It guarantees the inmate the right to appear before

court and not to be subjected to punishments directly.

Hebeaus Corpus

4. No worries• It is a Swahili phrase formed by the words A (there is

not here) and B (plural form of problem). • The phrase has been popularized by its use in an

equally famous flim in which it is translated as "no worries" in a song named after the phrase.• The phrase is in more common use

in Zanzibar and Kenya.

Hakuna Matata

5. Mobius strip• This logo consists of a modified upward pointing

triangular shape. Three parallelograms run along the perimeter of the triangle.• 2 parallelograms on either side are yellow and green

while base One is blue.• It can also be imagined as a Mobius Strip , with

differently coloured surfaces.

Google Drive

6. It’s used when sentence could have been ended, but wasn’t.• This Non profit mental health organisation organization

founded by Amy Bleuel in 2013 as a tribute to her father who committed suicide.• Apart from other social work to help the casualties, it

encourages anyone who has been through depression, anxiety, or had suicidal thoughts, to follow a particular gesture.• Identify the organisation.

Project Semicolon

Round 2•Direct: +20/-15•Pounce: +20/-20•Pounce to death• Infinite Bounce

7. Belts to LCDs• It is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs

and manufactures electronic devices/products.• It has been an integral part of Taiwan based Foxconn

group.• One of its 1st products include a snap belt buckle and an

ever sharp mechanical pencil.• The company is named after the latter.

8. Connect

Starbucks coffee : named after character from Moby Dick, Starbuck or Starbo.

9. Happy home, happier lives• It is a British multinational consumer goods company

headquartered in  England.  It was formed in 1999 by the merging of a UK-based and a Netherlands-based company.• It is a famous health, hygiene and home products giant

whose products include Strepsils, Veet, Durex,Lysol,Mycil and Vanish.

10.• In 1907, a French chemist Eugéne Schuller developed

an innovative hair colour formula. He called his improved hair dye Auréole.• He registered his company as Safe Hair Dye Company

of France, which today is world’s largest cosmetics producer and is based in France.

L’OREAL

11.• In 1866, Ernest Francillon bought 2 plots of land on the

right side of river Suez and brought all the skills required in a particular area under one roof. This paved the way to the establishment of 1st _________ factory.• Today, __________ is a member of Swatch Group.• The riverside land was called Les Longines.

12.• It was a British software technology developer and

video game publisher.• It officially became part of Square Enix in April 2009.• Its famous video game Series includes Tomb Raider,

Hitman etc.• Its name literally means “idea” or “species” in Greek.

Round 3•Direct: +20/-15• Infinite Bounce

13. Connect

Ask.com was originally called Ask Jeeves.Jeeves is a character from P G Wodehouse books.

14.• X started out as a mining company with the intention of

making grinding wheels and sand paper.• 2 scientists Dr. Spencer Silver Dr. Art Fry, working under

_____ developed a particular product which was pantented under the brand name of X. They sold it as Press and Peel.• The patent license of X for that particular product

expired in 1997, and now it is sold as Post-it notes.• Identify X.

15. Get it back!!• X is a stolen vehicle recovery system installed in cars

which allow vehicles to be tracked by police, in case of theft.• It’s name is a pun on “hijack”, meaning to steal

vehicles.• Identify X.

16.

Roulette wheel is a famous casino game. It relies on the odds of getting a particular results and statistics.

The roulette wheel, as it suggests was invented by a celebrated French physicist, inventor and mathematician.

The inventor was trying to invent a perpetual motion machine – a machine which continues to work without drawing energy- and s/he failed.

The same inventor is also credited with the invention of first mechanical calculator. Who invented it?

17.

This is Mt. Artsenraju located in Andes range in Peru.What is its claim to fame ?

18.• Coined by Horace Walpole and originally a Persian word,

it is used to describe good fortune (usually unseen).• It comes from a Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of

Serendip”, with Serendip meaning Ceylon (Sri Lanka).• Identify the word.

Round 4•Direct: +20/-20• Infinite Bounce

19.• Government of India launched an online portal named X

in 2015 to redress grievances of Indian Citizens living abroad.• Identify X.

20.

Identify the event.

Halwa ceremony before printing budget

21.• On 5 February 1922, in response to the Chauri Chaura

tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors, Gandhi felt responsible for the killings, so he went on a fast-unto-death to convince all Indians to call off Non cooperation movement. The Congress and other nationalist groups disavowed all activities of disobedience.• But few of them such as Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru

felt that the Non-Cooperation Movement should not have been suspended over an isolated incident of violence, and took a major step.• What was the major step taken?

Formation of Swaraj Party

22.• This is Stanford’s Maryam Mirzakhani.

• Her work in  "the dynamics of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces“ was highly appreciated.• What feat did she achieve with the above cited work?

1st woman and Iranian to win Fields medal ( equivalent to Nobel prize)

23.• This word first came into English in the early 1800s and

was used to refer to a medieval mercenary who would fight for whichever nation or person paid them the most.• Which word?

Freelance

24.1. Dasher2. Dancer3. Prancer4. Vixen5. Comet 6. Cupid 7. Donner8. **Rudolph

What are these?

Santa’s Reindeers..!!

Round 5• Infinite bounce: +20/-25• Identify song.

25.

Aye ajnabi

26.

Fix You by Coldplay

27.

Gravity

28.

Life in Technocolour

29.

Rolling in the deep

30.

Patakkha Kudi

Round 6• Buzzer: +30/-20

31.• Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor and Gambles

invented this product in 1961 because he didn’t want to deal with his daughter’s soiled nappies.• What do we know this as product today ?

Pampers

32.• There exists a disorienting

neurological condition/a syndrome whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing things smaller or larger than they actually are.• The nomenclature of this syndrome is

attributed to a literary work wherein the protagonists enters a similar world.• Identify the syndrome.

Alice in wonderland syndrome

33.• This culture began when prisoners in jail in US were

detained without belt and were prohibited altogether from wearing it for the fear of they using the belt to commit suicide , or kill a fellow inmate.• This style was popularized by skaters and hip-

hop artists in the 1990s and became a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among some youths or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society.• What is the above mentioned style/culture?

Sagging jeans/pants

34.

Kitty Hawk is a town in North Carolina, US.

What is its claim to fame?

Place where 1st flight took place. Wright brothers.

35.

Which Product?

36.• “X” has been called a “Fifth Beatle”, because he was the

original drummer of the Beatles.• He was let go in 1962 because his musical abilities were

“inadequate” and replaced by Ringo Starr.• Identify X.

Pete Best

That’s All Folks !