GsssssINCRIDEA ‘20

GENERAL QUIZ
SUNDEEP KAMATH
Prelims
The Rules:
1. 25 questions
2. No negatives, Questions are workoutable, BINDAAS
GUESS MADI!
3. Do not cheat.
4. Top 6 teams qualify for the finals.
5. QM reigns supreme.
 1.
He got elected to the Lok Sabha from Bengaluru South
Constituency in 1977 contesting from the Janata Party ticket.
Later during that tenure of parliament he was also appointed
as the speaker.
After Janata Government collapsed he joined the newly
founded BJP in 1980 and was made their vice-president.
Even though his political achievements are noteworthy, his
name is immortalized by his contribution in other fields.
Name the gentleman.
 2.
Anne McClain and Summer Worden, got married in 2014 and split in 2018, when
Ms. Worden filed for divorce.
The pair have been involved in a custody battle over Worden’s young son for the
past year, but things got more complicated recently after Worden accused her
ex-spouse of illegally accessing her bank account from a remote location.
McCain admitted logging into the bank account, but denied any wrong-doing,
claiming that she was just keeping an eye on the family finances to make sure
their son was well taken care of.
In this dispute, the investigating authority was not a judiciary one because of the
place from where the crime was done.
What makes this case unique?
 3.
XY is believed to be derived from the word for tribute in the
counties bordering England and Scotland.
The Y part is derived from the middle English word Male,
meaning rent or tribute.
X is named so as the tribute is paid in labour.
Opposite to XY is White Rent(paid in silver).
In modern day XY means an act of coercion using a threat to
get some deeds done .
What term is XY?
 4.
IHCL’s property Umaid Bhavan Palace earned an
income equivalent to its 3 months earnings in just 4
days during the early December of 2018.
What made it possible?
 5.(*)
Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson was to
share a official media release to people across the world.
This list, made up of more than 400 recipients, consists
addresses mostly of journalists, but also includes an address
appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan
legislator, several academics and activists, and also students.
During the course of his action, he committed a serious
blunder that led to several Taliban backers’ privacy to be at the
risk of exposure. This costly mistake took his job away.
What blunder did he do?
 6.
London based Vedanta Resources started mining bauxite from
Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa which was a home to people of much
unknown tribe called Dongria Kondh.
Many Dongrias were forced out of their home and traditional
occupation to facilitate this mining.
The tribe's fight with Vedanta has been likened by
environmental campaigners to something more famous, in
which humans battled with indigenous people for mineral
rights.
Because of the similarities this tribe is also called as the _____
tribe. FITB.
 7.
The phrase was reported to have been coined by criminologist
and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot.
Psychiatrist Dr Frank Ochberg was intrigued by the
phenomenon and went on to define condition for the FBI and
Scotland Yard.
On 23 August 1973, the four bank employees were taken
hostage in the Kreditbanken region in Sweden by 32-year-old
career-criminal Jan-Erik Olsson - who was later joined at the
bank by a former prison mate. Six days later when the stand-off
ended, it became evident that the victims had formed some
kind of positive relationship with their captors.
Thus ____ was born by way of explanation.
 8.
In 1966 he joined the Indian Air Force as a trainee at the age of
18.
He initially served as a test pilot at HAL and tested aircrafts.
During the 1971 war he was in charge of 21 combat missions in a
MiG-21 in the war.
In 1984, he was appointed as the Squadron leader of the IAF.
But his Greatest glory would come in 1984 not from his time
with the IAF. His achievement also saw him and his two
colleagues honoured with the Ashok Chakra.
Who is this famous Indian?
 9.
A herringbone gear, a specific type of double helical gear, is a
special type of gear that is a side to side combination of two
helical gears of opposite hands.
The logo of the car maker X is a graphic representation of a
herringbone gear, reflecting André X's earlier involvement in the
manufacture of these gears.
Early X cars used a herringbone bevel gear final drive in the rear
axle.
ID X
 10.(*)
The name of this city, X literally translates to “Salt Castle” in
their native language.
Based on the memoir “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” by
Maria von Trapp,
This superhit film Y is about a young Austrian postulant in X,
Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer
and widower to be governess to his seven children.
After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she
marries the officer and together with the children finds a way to
survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.
Name the City X and the movie Y.
 11.(*)

The 16th century Portuguese Navigator X and his crew had

plenty of time to study the sky from the southern hemisphere
during their long navigation, X wrote about two fuzzy cloud-like
objects visible in the sky in 1519. Hence they were named after
him.
Now they are understood to be satellite galaxies of our much
larger Milky Way.
Whom were the clouds named after, he also coined the name of
a very large water body.
 12.
From the moment
I started rolling my dad’s tube socks
And shooting imaginary
Game-winning shots
In the Great Western Forum
I knew one thing was real:
I fell in love with you.
A love so deep I gave you my all —
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.
As a six-year-old boy
Deeply in love with you
I never saw the end of the tunnel.
I only saw myself
Running out of one. This is an excerpt of a poem published in the Players Tribune
in 2015. Id the Poet and what is his love ?
 13.
A French think tank recently came up with the
calculations of carbon footprint of a certain millennial
habit. They claim that this habit produces a 1.6
kilograms of CO2 every half hour, which could
otherwise be utilised to drive a distance of 3.6 miles.
Which millennial habit am I talking about?
This is believed to raise in the next few years
especially in a country like India where the internet
speeds and the demand for high quality content are
growing rapidly.
 14.
A large number of Hindu pilgrims from across the
country can be seen circumambulating Erumeli
Nainar Juma Masjid in their ritual attire, bathing in
the St. Andrew’s Basilica, and then proceeding to the
darshan of deity ‘Dharma Sastha’ in the months of
November to January.
Where can we find this unique tradition?
 15.(*)
In 2011 this item of clothing from 20th century was
once again back in the limelight and became a
fashion statement.
This defunct gear paradoxically named after a
gentleman who only wore it just for a short duration
of time, was recasted with a certain phrase inscribed
on it during the displaying of discontent in 2011.
Name this item and how did it raise to prominence in
2011.
 16.
In the Indian parliament members can raise questions
to the Government. These questions are classified
into 4 types.
The most important type of question is one which a
member desires an oral answer from the Minister in
the parliament and such questions are required to be
distinguished by a symbol.
Name this aptly named type of questions.
 17.
Most of the phishing sites, fake websites of famous
brands and sites used for hacking commonly use the
Country Code Top Level Domains of Columbia, Oman
and Cameroon.
What’s the clever reason for choosing Country Code
Top level Domain names of these 3 Countries in
particular?
 18.
A popular character since 1990, allegedly an alien being was
developed by X who donned the role himself. First presented at
Canada comedy festival 1987.
X wanted to perform in French category rather than in English
although it had no French dialogues. X’s act at the festival was a
test for his character as he wanted to see how it would fare with
a non-English audience. Who descends to earth at a
deserted London street near St. Paul’s Cathedral and also made
a cameo at London Olympics opening ceremony? Name the
character and Also X.
 19.
Prince Albert decided to visit a particular city in 1876.
The local ruler considered it to be an huge honor.
In order to get into the good books of the prince , he decided do
something to show him hospitality.
Prince was enchanted upon his visit to the city.
The media based on how the city looked christened the city with
a now popular sobriquet.
The tradition has been followed by the residents even to date
and the city still looks the same way as it's described by the
nickname.
What did the Maharaja do to welcome the prince?
 20.(*)
This English word means , nightmarishly complex and bizarre.
This word is named after a famous writer, whose works
expressed anxiety, alienation of an individual who is in a bizarre
situation and crushed by a nonsensical blind authority in 20th
century.
More Detailed meaning of this word based on the plot in the
works by this famed writer would mean
When you enter a world where all your plans , your life breaks
into pieces. You struggle against it with whatever you have got.
But of course you don't stand a chance.
Give me the writer to whom this word is attributed ?
 21.
The origins of this practice was thought to be from agriculture.
This gave farmers extra hands for sowing and harvesting and
preparation for the coming rains and winter.
But in reality this practice came into existence simply because of
the environment being too harsh and uncomfortable for any
productive work, which resulted large number of peoplele both
young and old skipping their work.
Thus , this practice was introduced in the USA with the hope
that people will show up when the weather is a bit
mild.Gradually it spread and is now its followed world wide.
What practice am I talking about?
 22.
This legendary singer X was a fan of Opera and had expressed
his admiration of Montserrat Caballé.
The City to which Montserrat Caballé belonged was chosen for
the ‘92 olympics. Caballé was selected to produce the theme for
the games. She decided to collaborate with the Rock and roll
icon , X to produce this song.
This song is one of the rarest combination of pop and Opera.
Since the Rockstar died a year before the Olympics, this
legendary duo could not perform live during the opening
ceremony of the 1992 Games and a recording of the song was
played. Name the song and the Rock star.
 23.
Eliza Kewark was an Indian house keeper of Theodore
Forbes, a Scottish EIC merchant at Surat in early 19th
Century. Eliza’s lineage rose to world prominence in
1981. In 1996 this descendant did something that
shocked the world as she had been constantly
targeted by the tabloids and British people.
Eliza’s 7th generation descendant took the same step
in 2020 like his mother after being constantly derided
by the British media.
Whose Indian connections am I talking about?
 24.
X received the baton from Y to an empire made up of
a disparate set of companies united only by name.
When X left the company in 2012 he handed over a
cohesive, well knit conglomerate to his successor
that was united not just by name but by ideology
and value systems and is one of the most valuable
brands in the country. It is a group where the binding
force is not the charisma of a single man , like it was
in Y’s time but now its a one united by shared vision,
philosophy and identity. Name both X & Y.
 25.(*)
A recently released work,New Way of Seeing: The History of Art
in 57 Works Talks about the inspiration behind some of the most
famous works of art. One of the works described in the book is
by an artist who had briefly pursued engineering studies.
In 1889 , he had attended the Exposition Universelle, an
elaborate exhibition devoted to celebrating the many
inventions of an American innovator. The biggest attraction of
the expo was a breathtaking spectacle consisting of 20,000
smaller objects arranged into the luminous shape of a single
gigantic specimen of the same object. Inspired by this shape
the artist created the art work which is widely known portrait of
a shrieking figure which has become an archetype of existential
anger. Name the work and the inspiration behind it.
 Hand over your sheets!

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For what reason was Wilfred Pickles chosen
as a BBC radio presenter during the World
War II years?
Answer
• He had a strong northern accent that Britishers could easily pick,
but germans would find it difficult to
The NFL team from Pittsburgh were the most dominant
team of them all in the 1970s, winning four Super Bowl titles
in that decade. These titles were won mainly on the
strength of their defensive unit. What nickname was given
to the defense of this team, something that made
references to both Pittsburgh’s team name, and a metaphor
that was always in the news in that time period?
Answer
• The Steel Curtain
Bernard Wolfe’s post-apocalyptic novel Limbo is set in a
world where humans are amputating their limbs in exchange
for weaponized cybernetic ones, which then find use in
athletic events. This is a literalisation of what common
metaphor?
Answer
• Arms race
In the 1633 poem Elegy XIX: To his Mistress Going to Bed,
has a section where John Donne is trying to persuade his
mistress to take off her clothes and let him explore her body.
In this context, what does he call her?
Answer
• America
Who, before performing what song live, often narrates the
story of Walter Cichon who was the inspiration for the song?

Walter Cichon was the frontman of a Jersey Shore band

called Motifs who was drafted aged 21 for the Vietnam War
in 1968 and went missing in action there.
Answer
• Bruce Springsteen
• Born in the USA