World Quiz

RESEARCH – QUIZLABS

Rules of the game

- Round 1: 12 questions clockwise. +10 on direct, +10 on pass

- SYNERGY written round

- Round 2: 12 questions anti-clockwise. +10 on direct, +10 on pass

- Infinite written pounce. +10/-10 on pounce. Complete answer expected

on pounce.

Round 1 Clockwise

Question 1 Pankaj Ghemawat is economist, global strategist, speaker and author. In his 2012 TED talk titled ‗Actually, the ___A___ is not ___B___‘ he said:

And what‘s interesting about this view is, again, it‘s a view that‘s held by pro-globalizers like ______C______ from whose book this quote is obviously excerpted, but it‘s also held by anti-globalizers, who see this giant globalization tsunami that‘s about to wreck all our lives if it hasn‘t already done so…

______C______ is an American journalist, columnist and author who is best known for writing the book: The ___A___ is ___B___ (2005)

Answer 1 The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

Question 2 Mosi-oa-Tunya (meaning the Smoke that Thunders) also known as Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the at the border of _________ and _________.

Fill in the blank.

Answer 2 Zambia and Zimbabwe

Question 3 The scientific name of this is harpadon nehereus. There are different etymologies for the term which is normally used to refer to this fish.

There is an urban legend about harpodon nehereus. When Lord Rama was building a bridge across the sea to get to Lanka, all the fish except _________ helped him. This enraged Lord Rama who twisted it in his hands and tossed it away. From that time on, its bones have been crushed and it has become soft. Devoid of a backbone, it is as soft as cotton when fresh.‖

Answer 3 Bombay duck

As per a story, when people started importing fish via railways or the mail train; the Bombay Mail (or Bombay Daak) began to reek of the fish smell and ―You smell like the Bombay Daak‖ became a common term. It got corrupted into ―Bombay duck‖.

Question 4 This is the current premier championship in this category. Competitors perform the expected task in 15 minutes for four judges. The format was created in Norway in the year 2000, and was dominated by Scandinavians in early years. The next event will happen in 2015 in Seattle.

Answer 4 World Barista Championship

Each year, champions representing more than 50 countries each prepare 4 espressos, 4 cappuccinos, and 4 original signature drinks in a 15-minute performance set to music.

Question 5 The ______ has done for _________ what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look back down on it. Not just specialists or rich people, but everybody. That‘s the beauty of it: it is public and accessible, and it is in a great position at the heart of _________.

- Sir Richard Rogers, winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, writing about this structure in a book. What is being described?

Answer The London Eye. A giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London.

Question 6 Identify the person and the country. On what would have been her 73rd birthday, 1 April 2013, she was posthumously honored with a Google Doodle.

Answer 6 Wangari Maathai, Kenya

In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for ―her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace‖

Audience Question Identify the group. What is the funda behind their name?

Answer Penn Masala

A group formed in 1996 by students at the University of Pennsylvania, who wanted to represent their sub-continental heritage and music through a cappella

Question 7 The four children are: Gopalkrishna, Rajmohan, Ramchandra and Tara. Identify their father and the person on the right.

Answer 7 Gopalkrishna, Rajmohan, Ramchandra and Tara with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.

Children of Devdas Gandhi (youngest son of M. Gandhi) who was married to Lakshmi (Daughter of C. Rajagopalachari)

Question 8 Identify the film. Guest appearance by?

Answer 8 Midnight in Paris. Guest appearance by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Question 9 US President Ronald Reagan in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987 said:

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, _____ _____ _____ _____!

What did he ask Gorbachev to do?

Answer 9 ―Tear down this wall!‖

Question 10 The Ig Nobel Prizes are given each year in early October by Annals of Improbable Research. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people‘s interest in science, medicine and technology. In 1998, Ig Nobel Prize for Peace was presented to Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif. Why?

Answer 10 Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, for their aggressively peaceful detonations of atomic bombs

In 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran in Rajasthan. Soon after Indian nuclear tests, Sharif vowed that his country would give a suitable reply to the Indians and Pakistan did five underground nuclear tests on 28 May 1998.

Question 11 Identify the dictator who was described in a Time magazine article as a ―killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet‖. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his portrayal in a 2006 film.

Answer 11 Idi Amin

Third President of Uganda, ruling from 1971 to 1979. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000.

Question 12 Two words that connect following:

- A variety of rose, bred in France in 1875, and originally named ‗Madame Ferdinand Jamin‘

- The official flower of the District of Columbia

- Sixth album by the rock band Grateful Dead

- A 1999 American drama film

Answer 12 American Beauty

Audience Question What does this map indicate?

Answer Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International

SYNERGY Round

S This book is titled How the _______ invented the modern world: The true story of how Western Europe‘s poorest nation created our world and everything in it.

Description as mentioned in the book: Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The _____. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ________ made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. This book is not just about ________: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world.

Answer Scots

Y Who/What was selected by TIME magazine as Person of the Year in 2006?

Answer You

It recognized the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to wikis (including Wikipedia), YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution.

N This variety of tea is dark, intensely aromatic, fragrant and is grown in the southern portion of the Western Ghats mountains in Southern India.

It is grown in the hills of the ______ district of Tamil Nadu. In November 2006, in the first ever tea auction in Las Vegas, this fetched a record price of $600 per kg.

Identify.

Answer Nilgiri tea

E One word for

- A song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s The Sound of Music (1959)

- A financial services company

- A Swiss Airline

- Name of the German plan to capture the oil fields of Baku during the second world war

Answer Edelweiss

R Identify the person.

Answer Rosa Parks

called ―the first lady of civil rights‖ and ―the mother of the freedom movement‖.

G The official name for this is Archipelago de Colon. The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when the Bishop of Panamá Fray Tomás de Berlanga went to Peru to arbitrate in a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro.

These islands first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. The islands were named ―Insulae de los ________‖ (Islands of the Tortoises) in reference to the giant tortoises found there.

Fill in the Blanks.

Answer Galápagos Islands

The islands were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle.

His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin‘s theory of evolution by natural selection.

Y From Friends episode ―The One With All The Rugby‖

Attendant: This is the final boarding call for Flight 664 to ______.

Chandler: Well, I-I guess I gotta go.

Janice: Oh, my Bing-a-ling. I‘ll wait for you. Do you even know how long you‘re going to be gone?

Chandler: Well, just until we find an energy source to replace fuel.

Janice: Oh. Well, I‘ll write you everyday. (Reading the address) 15 _____ Road, ______.

Answer Yemen

Round 2 Anti-clockwise

Question 13 What‘s written in the hidden part?

(Exact answer expected)

Answer 13 Occupy Wall Street (OWS)

A protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in New York against social and economic inequality worldwide.

Question 14 Connect to a place.

Answer 14 Sochi, Russia

Question 15 Whose update on social media describing whom? The English FA charged the person in question for this controversial post last week.

Answer 15 Mario Balotelli and Mario

Question 16 Identify the Airline Company from this advertisement

Answer 16 Air New Zealand

Question 17 The Hindi movie Fanaa was originally planned to be shot in Kashmir but due to the continuing insurgency in the region, the Kashmir segment was moved to the ______ Mountains.

These mountains lend their name to a Czech automobile company which was caught in a controversy involving AK Anthony and General VK Singh.

Identify.

Answer 17 The Tatra Mountains

a natural border between Slovakia and Poland.

Question 18 What? Where?

Answer 18 India’s research stations, Antarctica

Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri, Bharati

Question 19 This is a picture from Stockholm, Sweden on 3rd September, 1967 which was called ‗H Day‘ due to a certain rule/law which became effective on that day. What?

Answer 19 Sweden changed from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side

Question 20 More than 3500 babies born in a certain country were named ‗Aoyun‘.

Not only that, a lot of mothers wanted to deliver babies on the 8th day of a certain month in a certain year.

Which country, which day, and why?

Answer 20 Aoyun means Olympics in Chinese. The Olympics took place in Beijing on the 8th day of the 8th month of the 8th year of the millennium.

Question 21 Identify the country from postage stamps

Answer 21 Belgium.

honoring The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé about Tintin, a young Belgian reporter.

Question 22 The Museum of Innocence is a museum created by a Nobel laureate in conjunction with his eponymous novel.

In 2014, the museum was announced as the Winner of the 2014 European Museum of the Year Award.

Where will you find this? (Image on the next slide)

Answer 22 Istanbul, Turkey

Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The museum allows free entry to those who bring a copy of the book. A ticket placed in the 83rd chapter of the book.

Question 23 What‘s the Indian connection?

Answer 23 Former names of Indian Navy‘s Aircraft Carriers

HMS Hercules - INS Vikrant

HMS Hermes - INS Viraat

Admiral Gorshkov - INS Vikramaditya

Question 24 It is said that the title of this Tamil film is inspired by the story of __________, an ancient invader of India. This person was so persistent in invading India that he continued trying after several failures. During his rule, he invaded parts of Hindustan 17 times and destroyed Somnath Temple in one such attempt.

In the film too, the protagonist is persistent in his objective and keeps attempting repeatedly, even after failing several times.

Identify.

Answer 24 Mahmud of Ghazni (971 – 1030)

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