It is a general quiz conducted by in the CULFEST'18, NIT Jamshedpur.

2. PRESENTS
SSMQ
THE GENERAL QUIZ
Quiz Master : Ashutosh Anshu

3. FINALS

4. ROUND 1

5. Before everyone started staking claims _______________ ‘s name to for
their businesses, the Bombay High Court declared that nobody can be
allowed to claim monopoly over such words as trademarks or trade names.
The court ruled that names of __________ are not exclusive.The order
came while dismissing a trademark infringement plea moved by a
company which was selling brooms under the name ‘X’.
The company had objected to the use of word ‘Y’ by a competing company
for its broom.

7. Hindu gods and deities’ names

9. Following the death in office of President Zakir Hussain on
3 May 1969, Giri was sworn in as acting President the
same day. Later on when presidential election was
announced to officially fill the vacancy, Giri wanted to
contest the election as an independent candidate.
Giri resigned from his post of acting president on 20 July
1969. He was succeeded as Acting President by Mohammad
Hidayatullah.

11. Mohammad Hadyatullah
■ He became the only person to have served in all three offices of Chief Justice of
India, President of India, and theVice-President of India

13. Jonbeel Mela (Joon and Beel are Assamese terms for the Moon and
a wetland respectively) is a three-day annual indigenousTiwa Community fair held the
weekend of Magh Bihu at a historic place known as Dayang Belguri at Joonbeel. It is 3 km
from Jagiroad in Morigaon district of Assam and 32 km from Guwahati.
During the occasion a huge bazaar is held.A few days before the mela starts, indigenous
Assamese communities and tribes like HillTiwa, Karbi, Khasi, and Jayantia of the
northeast come down from the hills with products where X is literally no object during the
three-day-long community fair at Jonbeel.
It is said to be a hi-tech age ____________ and perhaps the only fair in India where
______________is still alive

15. barter system

17. The X Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given
by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay
people. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju
Patnaik, Founder President of the X Foundation Trust in India. The
recipient of this annual award must have demonstrated – during a
brilliant career as writer, editor, lecturer, film producer, radio/television
programme director or presenter – talent in interpreting science and
technology for the public.
The X is awarded during the Celebration of the World Science
Day in odd years (2003, 2005, etc.) and in New Delhi, India, in even
years.
Louis de Broglie, the first recipient of the this award.

19. Kalinga prize

21. In 2015, Carolyn Wagner, a student of University of
Cincinnati wrote a thesis- Material Memories: The
________ Wedding Gowns of American Brides, 1945- 1949
in which she described how after the Second World War,
several brides and grooms repurposed _________ silk into
making wedding dresses. By exploring the materiality of the
fabric and the physical transformation involved in
fashioning a dress from a _________, these wedding
dresses are seen as the result of creative resourcefulness.
In contrast to today’s disposable culture, the _________
dresses of the Second World War emphasize singularity and
historicity. Shown is an image of ___________ wedding
gown. What were the gowns made from?

24. Parachute

26. ■ ___________________ might have gone a little too far in Iceland.The region’s energy
company says ____________________is becoming so popular that the country will
likely use more electricity for ________________than total domestic power
consumption in all homes of Iceland this year.
■ That could cause problems, though, as officials warn they won’t have sufficient energy
to supply the number of proposed ______________.
■ “If all these projects are realized, we won’t have enough energy for it,” Johann Snorri
Sigurbergsson, a spokesman for Icelandic energy firm HS Orka, told the BBC.
■ ______________ will use around 840 gigawatt hours of electricity this year, while the
country’s all homes, collectively, use about 700 gigawatt hours per year, he said.

30. Identify the game and its connection in tech
world?
It is a traditional children's game often first learned in pre-school or kindergarten, also in later
classes.
The object of this game is to walk in a circle, tapping on each player's head until one is finally
chosen and he or she must chase the picker to avoid becoming the next picker. Originating from
Sweden, the game was originally called "AnkaAnka Grå Anka“
A similar game is known as "Rumaal Chor" in India.A "rumaal" or handkerchief is thrown by the
picker and the players have to constantly search behind them using their hands to search for the
handkerchief.
(IMAGE SLIDE FOLLOWS)

33. Duck, duck, goose

35. ■ In the Alapuzha district of Kerela,India there is a temple which worships a 300 year old idol
of Lord Murrugan ,the Chemmoth Sree Subramaniya SwamiTemple.
■ The temple was constructed in the year 2007 and the offerings included regular indian
sweets like laddu etc.
■ In the year 2009 an eight year old boy residing in the neighbourhood fell ill and kept
chanting the word “murugan” in his sleep.His parents brought him to the temple to seek
cure.Insteasd of regular offering the child insisted on offering ______________he had with
him.The child healed a few days later.
■ The word spread throughout town and the regular offerings were replaced by
_____________
■ And thats how Lord Balmurugan came to be known as X.

37. Munch Murugan.

38. Round 2
Differential

40. Created in partnership
with Ogilvy and
Mathers, with the help
of the font creation
toolmaker Fontself,
what was this font
creator’s most famous
contribution to the
world?

42. • LGBT Flag by Gilbert Baker

44. What is being talked about?
These colours are called CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black), the
base colours for all colours used in_____________. Basically any colour
can be obtained by using these in correct proportions. Plates of all these
colours are laid out on a page separately and lined up in the same spot
while _____________. This is necessary to print a full colour image
accurately. If the images are somehow blurry and not crisp enough, you
will find the colours overlapping or not in the same line.
If the plates of different colours don't align with each other, you know that
the image is not registered properly. The marker is also used to identify
the density of colours and dot formation.

48. Id the context
On Dec 22, 2017, US embassy released a video,
based on the famous song from the Bollywood
movie "Sholay", to affirm its commitment of
friendship between the two nations. In the video,
tweeted under the hashtag "USIndiaDosti", the
embassy employees can be seen performing on the
famous Bollywood song "Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi
Todenge" from the 1975 movie "Sholay".

51. US Embassy in India, India votes against
Trump's move on Jerusalem

55. $1 salary club

57. ■ What obscure unit of comparative measurement for relative laser output gets its basis
from a brand-name household product?
■ A X is a measure of how many Y a laser can burn through.
For ex- A 5-X laser can burn through 5 Y.“
■ None other thanTheodore Maiman, the man who built the first working laser, used
this ad-hoc measurement, though no one knows precisely who coined the term.The
logic behind it may seem oblique today, but at the time, a X was a handy unit of
comparison.
■ The first lasers could not sustain a continuous beam but instead produced pulsed
outputs. If the pulse emission could sear through a relatively uniform, thin strip of
metal such as aY , it could give scientists a quick way to gauge the amount of energy
released.

59. Gillette ,razor blades

61. The bravest battle ever fought
■ ________________was a small village in the border district of Kohat, situated on
the Samana Range, in present-day Pakistan.The Battle of ___________ was fought
before theTirah Campaign on 12 September 1897 between Sikh soldiers of the British
IndianArmy and Pashtun Orakzai tribesmen
■ The British Indian contingent comprised 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikhs (now the 4th
battalion of the Sikh Regiment), who were stationed at an army post and were
attacked by around 10,000Afghans.The Sikhs, led by Havildar Ishar Singh, chose to
fight to the death, in what is considered by some military historians as one of history's
greatest last-stands. The post was recaptured two days later by another British Indian
contingent.
■ Sikh military personnel commemorate the battle every year on 12 September,
as ________________ Day

63. Battle of Saragrahi

65. ■ In 1972 when Donald Kendall was president of X , he had been seeking for years to take X to the USSR.
Kendall was a friend of Nixon (who was president of the U.S.) and tried to play that card. He made use of
his political influence to strike a trade agreement to take the X to the Soviet Union.
■ In 1972 the deal was almost signed, but an important question came up: How was the Soviet Union going
to pay X?The problem was that the USSR did not have access to foreign currency and the ruble could not
be exchanged in the international market.The solution was to pay withY !The Soviet government had
large amounts ofY, since most of the brands of thatY were state-owned.
■ This agreement was historical: x became the firstWestern product to be sold in the USSR. Moreover, X
arrived to the alcoholic beverages market, as it became the exclusive importer of the famousY for the
American market.
■ In 1989, the initial agreement between X and the USSR was about to expire and the negotiations to sign
a new one began. At that time, X already had more than 20 factories in the USSR .The new trade
agreement had a cost of about three billion dollars, and it was obvious that only the exclusivity ofY
wasn’t enough to pay for it.The USSR still had difficulties in international markets to exchange rubles, so
they had to find an alternative method of payment.
■ The USSR offered to pay X with a fleet of diesel ships. x accepted the deal because they knew that it was
the only way to continue to sell x in the USSR.
■ The agreement included 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer, which were sold to a Swedish
company for scrap recycling.Those 17 submarines made X become, for a few days, the 6th largest
military power in the world by number of diesel submarines.The president of x, Donald Kendall, told
the National SecurityAdviser of USA: "We are disarming the USSR faster than you".

69. Name the place where you would find
this ?
■ Even before Budhism was spread in the region of and close to __________, this place
belonged to Chola dynasty at around 1025 A.D who wereTamil.The airport's name as
quoted itself is aTamil name.
The name X means Land of gold inTamil . During those times, the population in South
EastAsia were predominantlyTamil Hindus.
The Chola kings belonging to this dynasty were very very prosperous, powerful and
influential .Their kingdom hadThanjavur as their capital, and was spread as far as
__________, and to other south east Asian countries. ___________ was conquered
fromThambralinga Kingdom(present south __________) by the Cholas.
■ IMAGE FOLLOWS

72. SuvarnabhumiAirport,Bangkok

74. ■ It all started with an insult. During Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign, his
political opponents labeled him a “__________."•Stubborn as he was, Jackson co-opted
the insult and began putting a X on his election posters. For the rest of his career and
even into his retirement, newspapers and cartoonists continued to represent Jackson
either as a stubborn ass or struggling to control one.
■ Almost 40 years later, the X was used to represent not just Jackson, but a larger group.
In 1870,Thomas Nast, the German-born political cartoonist who gave us the versions
of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam we know today, drew a cartoon for Harper's
Weekly titled "A Live _________ Kicking a Dead Lion."•

77. Donkey being the party symbol of the
Democrats.

78. Round 3

80. Data moving on shoes
■ Amazon just announced a new service called AWS Snowmobile, which is a 21st century
version of the classic “X" method of data transport. Basically,Amazon is offering to
tow a 45-foot-long shipping container full of hard drives to your data center, plug in to
your servers via fiber, and siphon off up to 100 petabytes (a petabyte is 1 million
gigabytes) of data.That shipping container is then transported to anAmazon data
center where all the data is uploaded to S3 or Amazon Glacier,Amazon's cloud data
storage services.
■ X is an informal term describing the transfer of electronic information by physically
moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, compact discs, USB flash drives or
external hard drives from one computer to another; rather than transmitting the
information over a computer network.

81. Sneakernet

83. What is being talked about?
■ There are a couple of common theories about the origin of the _____________. One of the
most popular credits American seafarer Hanson Gregory with inventing the X with
___________________in 1847 while aboard a lime-trading ship. He was just 16 years old at
the time.
■ As the story goes, Gregory wasn't happy with the consistency of the fried cakes served on
the ship. Although the outsides and the edges were crisp, the centers of the X were
always greasy and doughy.
■ Gregory suggested __________________ of the fried cakes, so that the insides of the cakes
would cook as evenly as the outsides. Experts believe that this reason makes sense,
because of the way that X are cooked.
■ When X is placed in a fryer, the outsides and edges will cook quickly, because
they're exposed to the hot oil.To fully cook the insides of the X, the X would have to stay in
the oil for a longer time, which would lead to the outsides becoming burnt.
■ So _____________, however, allows the insides and the outsides to cook evenly, creating a
perfect X.

84. Reason why there is a hole in donut.

86. CONNECT

87. Mythological flying animals

91. SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch with
payload asTesla Roadster

93. Which book is being talked about?
■ A short time after Steve Jobs passed away,Crystal Clarity Publishers received a phone
call saying “We’d like to place an order for 500 copies of ______. Do you have that
many?”
■ It turned out that those books—eventually purchased from Self-Realization
Fellowship, who had enough in stock—were needed for the memorial service for
Steve Jobs, the famous founder of Apple who was inspired throughout his life by
Eastern spirituality. Mark Benioff, one of the attendant of service said: “X...had this
book on self-realization.... [Steve's] last message to us was that here is X’s book....
Actualize yourself”.
■ In 1974, Jobs traveled to India with a friend after reading Be Here Now and X’s
__________________.The trip turned out to be a disappointment. Jobs later said that
he realized “we weren’t going to find a place where we could go for a month to
become enlightened.”

96. Coca Cola registered URLs for every Y that conveys their motto.
Entering any of these into a mobile Web browser, along with the
.ws suffix, leads users to their Puerto Rico's website. Though the
.ws is Samoa’s domain suffix. Their ad agency told that, it used
.ws because “Y are not accepted on domains such as .com, .net,
and .org. After doing some research on domains they opted to go
with the .ws because the letters could stand for ‘__ _____,’ and
hence seemed most relevant to the brand.” The URLs were been
placed on the company's website and other media outlets,
including billboards. Identify Y

98. Using emojis in web address

100. When Modi ji was inVaranasi and was laying the foundation stone
of toilets at a village, he saw ‘X’ written on them. He congratulated
state government for coining the name and after this Centre wrote
to all states on October 16 in this regard, advising Hindi-speaking
states to call a toilet an ‘X’ while urging other states to come up
with other terms in regional language with the same meaning.
According to Centre, it is a good practice that instils a sense of
dignity and pride in the entire family for their toilet and will have a
positive impact on usage as well.
Id X,a brainchild of U.P. Gov

102. Izzat Ghar

104. X is a species of jumping spider
found in Central America, including
Mexico,Costa Rica, and Guatemala.
X eats mostly plant buds and acc. to
a new study it the only known
vegetarian out of some 40,000 spider
species. The
genus name is derived from Y, a
character from Rudyard Kipling's The
Jungle Book, with the species name
honoring Kipling himself. Id X.

106. Bagheera Kiplingi

107. Parachutes

108. Whose endeavor to promote
knowledge and intelligence?

109. CIA

110. Round 4

111. Minimalistic book cover of?