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The CommanderGeneral
QuizPresented by
Varun B Rao
Anand M S
The Department of Telecommunications
PRESENT
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Heartfelt Thanks to
Prof. K R Savithri for ensuring that today happened
Prof. S V Sathish for his invaluable support and
guidance to the Quotient Quiz Club
The Department of Telecommunications
All the participants
The World Wide Web for its vast reserve of information
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BRIEF OVERVIEW
4 Rounds inclusive of 1 LVC
Scoring pattern shall be elucidated at the start ofeach round
The collective IQ of the audience is ALWAYSgreater than the collective IQ of the participants.We need no proof.
The Quizmasters decision is final, binding, andwill not change even in the face of clinchingevidence to the contrary
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ROUND 1 : FRIENDLY FIRE
6 Questions : Clockwise
Fairplay enabled
+10/-10 on Fairplay
+10/0 on a Direct/Pass
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1. What famous, unsuccessful incident does the following picture
depict?
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Operation Valkyrie
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2. Which European football club
was founded as a cricket club in1899 by British expatriates Alfred
Edwards and Herbert Kilpin from
Nottingham, and in honor of itsorigins, retained the English
spelling of its city's name, instead
of changing it to the local spelling?
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A C Milan
That is why they call themselves A C Milan and not A C Milano
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3. In 1982, toothpaste salesman DietrichMateschitz was surprised that certain Mr Taisho
was in the top 10 list of tax payers in Japan andthat he owned Krating Daeng (water buffalo).This product had listed taurine as one of itsingredients, which was effective for jet lag.
Mr M, inspired by this idea created his empirebased on Krating Daeng. He said, I was mostfascinated by Zeus the king of Gods - the way
he came to see Europa and got transformed. Bywhat name is Krating Daeng known to us?
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Red Bull gives you Wiiings!
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4.
S forStupendous!
T forTiger, ferocity of!
U forUnderwear, red!
P for Power, incredible!
E forExc
ellentphysique!
N for umm something... hmmm, well, I'llcome back to that
D forDetermination!
U for... wait, how do you spell this? Is it "I"??
Monologue of the alter ego of which fictionalcharacter?
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5. Connect (non-exhaustive)
Mr. Wilson from Home Improvement
Charles Townsend in Charlies Angels
Kenny McCormick from South Park
Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget
Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry
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Unseen faces on TV
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6. A Frank Zappa and The Mothers of
Invention concert was held in the casino'stheatre. In the middle of Don Preston's
synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place
suddenly caught fire when somebody in
the audience fired a flare gun into therattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the
"some stupid with a flare gun" line. The
resulting fire destroyed the entire casinocomplex, along with all the Mothers'
equipment. What in the lords name,
resulted from this?
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END OF ROUND 1
Score time!
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ROUND 2 : ARTILLERY
6 Questions : Counter - Clockwise
Fairplay enabled
+10/-10 on Fairplay
+10/0 on a Direct/Pass
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1. The original of this was developed
after a worker at Rowntree's factory inYork put a suggestion in the suggestion
box for a snack that a 'man could have
in his lunch box for work'.
It was launched in September 1935 in
the UK as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.
It was later renamed in 1937 to a brand
that we are all familiar with.
What?
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2. It lasts 200 days for an averagefamily of five, uses a combination of
paddy husk ash and tiny silverparticles.
The company can afford to producethis on the cheap because Indiaproduces 20 million ton of paddy huskash each year as a byproduct of rice
milling.
What are we talking about?
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3.
James Bond = Agent 007
Enemy : GoldFinger
Boss : Q
__________ = Agent 000
Enemy : Yellow Pinkie
Boss : Double Q
Fill in the blank.
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Pretty nostalgic one Cartoon Network
is just not the same nowadays, is it?
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4. FIA President Max Mosley instead
attended the funeral of X which took placeon May 7, 1994 in Salzburg, Austria.
Mosley said in a press conference ten
years later, "I went to his funeral becauseeveryone went to Y's. I thought it was
important that somebody went to his.
ID X and Y.
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X Roland Ratzenberger Y Ayrton Senna
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5. _____ _____ has the looks of James Dean and
Fonzie (from Happy Days) and the voice of Elvis
Presley and resides in Aron City.
The director says that the name _____ _____ was
inspired from the episode of the Brady Bunch wherein
Greg Brady wants to be a rock star.
Many Celebrity guests on the show include Mick Jagger,
Weird Al Yankovic, Farah Fawcett, Capt. America,
Velma Dinkley etc.
Simply. Fill in the blank.
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6. In medieval England, there was a practice of
allowing peasants to take any deadwood from
the royal forest that they could reach with ashepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook.
What is the significance of this in the modern
English language?
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The origin of the expression By hook or crook
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END OF ROUND 2
Score time!
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VENI VIDI VICI THE LVC
ROUND 3
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GUIDELINES
12 slides in 4 slabs of3
All visuals are related by a theme
Slab 1 : +40/-20 Slab 2 : +30/-15
Slab 3 : +20/-10
Slab 4 : +10/0 Teams can answeronce per slab
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SLAB 1
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END OF SLAB 1
+40/-20
Who dares wins!
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SLAB 2
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END OF SLAB 2
+30/-15
Any brain-waves? An epiphany perhaps?
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SLAB 3
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END OF SLAB 3
+20/-10
Come on now! Think.. Think
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SLAB 4
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END OF SLAB 4 +10/0
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ANSWER SLIDES
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LIC (Jeevan Bhima Policy) Jeevan Bhima Nagar
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Soundarya s character - Ganga Ganganagar
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Jayprakash Narayan JP nagar
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C. Rajagopalachari Rajajinagar
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V.V. Giri Girinagar
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Kamal Nehru Kamalanagar
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Sanjay Gandhi Sanjaynagar
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Ghulam Nabi Azad Azadnagar
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Thyagaraja Thyagarajnagar
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Rabindranath Tagore RT nagar
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Victoria Terminus / Shivaji Terminus Shivajinagar
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Vijaya Bank Vijayanagar
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Indira Gandhi Indiranagar
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END OF ROUND3
Score Time
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ROUND 4 LAST MAN STANDING
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GENERAL OVERVIEW
6 Questions
Fairplay disabled
Teams are expected to provide thecomplete funda for full points
Administering part points is left to the
discretion of the quiz-masters
+15 / 0
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1. Surprisingly, Cameroon has been identified as
the country with the most number of phishing
sites on the internet.
Yella ok Cameroon yaake?
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Its domain name is .cm
People register fake sites with famous names
under .cm because of its proximity to .com
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2. This was a popular E-mail forward which joked about the
way something came into existence. What does this depict?
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3 Why are buttons on womens clothing on the left
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3. Why are buttons on women s clothing on the left
as opposed to mens being on the right?
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In Aristocratic England, men used to dressthemselves whereas the high class
women had maids to dress them.
The buttons were placed on the left to
make it easier for maids (standing
opposite to the women) to button them up.
4. Yeh kya hua?
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4. Yeh kya hua?
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Maldives is under threat of being completelysubmerged due to global warming.
To raise awareness, a pact to battle GlobalWarming was signed underwater.
5 Put funda
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5. Put funda.
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The demand for the shirt of Cardiff City's new loan signing,
hometown boy Craig Bellamy, was so rabid that the officialclub shop ran out of "Y's" and "9's" after selling 3,000"Bellamy 39" shirts in 3 hours.
So they started selling "Bellam 3 shirts!
6.
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END OF ROUND 4 Final scores!
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