General Quiz

Elims

Ayush AgrawalMarch 2012

The Last Hurrah

Rules• NSFW language will be used. Please leave if

you are easily offended.• 25 Points, 6 *s• Sudden death if still a tie• 6+3 Teams Qualify (More on that later)• Questions are simple, and they follow the

“Mother Rule” (aka the “Teri Maa Ki” rule in Hindi, and the “Terimaki” rule in Japanese)

• The obvious answer is probably right!!

Q1.

• The word X is used to refer to the three prominent liberal arts: Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic.

• It was also used to describe a place where three roads met in Ancient Rome.

• X?

• Trivia

Q2.

• FITB• Move. Hit a ball. Climb a hill. Run a mile. Don't

sit there. _________________.

• Just Do It

Q3.Q3.

What does this comic depict?

• Hotel California

Q4.

• __________ was suggested in a meeting by Amit Patel, as the informal “slogan” of the company X.

• However, with recent policy changes, some people say that it is probably the end of X’s _________ era.

• Id X and FITB

• Google, Don’t Be Evil

Q5.

• ____________ is a 1955 novel, X's wacky road-trip "romance". The action takes place between 1947 and 1952.

• Originally written in English and set in the US, but had to be published in France as pornography because no one else would touch it.

• X himself pointed out that this is probably the main reason why parents don't name their daughters “_________" any more.

• Id X and FITB

• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Q6.

• This former Indian Chief Ministers family had the following custom: Soon after a woman gave birth to a child, they were asked what they would like to eat. The newborn was then named after that foodstuff. Over the years, the Chief Ministers mother had chosen the likes of paan and rasgulla.

• Name this former CM.

• Rabri Devi

Q7.

• The first edition of the book was launched in Mumbai in 1990, and featured the likes of Rakesh Sharma and PT Usha.

• It also has distinction of being the largest selling book in India in 1992, acc. to the Limca Book of Records.

• The Limca Book of Records

Q8.

• Ad by which painter?

• Salvador Dali

Q9.

• X was awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1992. The award was later withdrawn due to a legal technicality.

• Who is X, and what was the “legal technicality”?

• Netaji Bose, The committee couldn’t provide conclusive evidence that he is dead

Q10.

• Whose face has been blanked out ?

• Gaddafi

Q11.

• Who’s this guys with Harrison Ford ? (Claim to Fame)

• Played Chewbacca in the Star wars films

Q12.

• Google Doodle on March 14th 2010. Commemorating what?

• Pi Day

Q13.

• In the late 1960s, Larry Hillblom was a broke student at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school, so to pick up a bit of extra cash, he started a business. After he finished law school, he decided the business was the real racket for him, so he recruited his pals Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn to help him.

• Which company did these guys start?

• DHL

Q14.

• Headline for the Daily Mirror on the 1st of July, 1998 “10 Brave Lions, 1 Stupid Boy”.

• Who was the stupid boy?

• David Beckham

Q15.• Sports Question:• The Battle of X took place at the village of X, East Riding of Yorkshire in

England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway (Old Norse:Haraldr harðráði) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson. After a horrific battle, both Hardrada and Tostig along with the majority of the Norwegians were killed. Although Harold repelled the Norwegian invaders, his victory was short-lived: he was defeated and killed at Hastings less than three weeks later. The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age, although in fact major Scandinavian campaigns in the British Isles occurred in the following decades, notably those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark in 1069–70 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway in 1098 and 1102–03.

• X?

• Stamford Bridge

Q16.

• There's an odd little moment in The Social Network where Harvard litigant Divya Narendra pouts that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had become "the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star“.

• The movie star also helped out screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by telling him stories about Harvard at the time. Who?

• Natali Portman

Q17.

• _______ is a class of weight in boxing, and the name is derived from _______ chickens. Their name origins are from the city of _______, near the western end of Java.

• FITB

• Bantam weight

Q18.

• The idea of building the Yerba Buena Center, in downtown San Francisco was a further development of the idea stemming from the late 1950s to redevelop the city center, particularly the industrial areas that were gradually falling into disuse.

• Why is this place the centre of insane media attention every now and then?

• Hosts the launch of Apple products, including the recent “the new iPad”

Q19.

Complete the list:• The Apartment • _______________ • _______________

• These are the last 3 of a fairly long list. • Some say that the 2nd last one doesn’t truly belong in

this list, but is officially considered a part.• There was a 33 year gap between the 3rd last and 2nd

last ones.

• Schindler’s List, The Artist• Best Picture Oscar to a B&W film

Q20.

Mandatory Schroedinger’s Cat Question

• Scroedinger’s Cat