The preliminary round for an online quiz The Quiz Company conducted during lockdown in 2020. Take a look, you might end up learning something new! Hosted by Ashwin Arun and Tamoghna Chakraborty. Researched by Swapnil Das, Ahir Ghosh, Urmi Maitra, Sabarno Sinha, Tamoghna Chakraborty and Ashwin Arun for The Quiz Company.

1. THE QUIZ COMPANY
PRELIMS

2. RULES
• 18 questions
• No direct, all on pounce.
• +10, -5
• Top 6 teams will be qualify for finals.
• Press the raise hand option in pounce rounds before the
pounce window closes to register your pounce, then private
message me your answer.
• Hints will be given if at least two teams ask for it. Hints will be
blocked if at least two team block hints.

3. 1
Which football club has this logo?

4. AND THE ANSWER IS…

5. ANSWER

6. 2
Keeping recent events in mind, what is the name of the masked
villain in this Asterix comic strip, which shot to infamy recently?
(PIC ON NEXT SLIDE)

8. AND THE ANSWER IS…

9. ANSWER
CORONAVIR
US

10. 3
This is Benzaiten, the
Japanese goddess of
everything of
everything that flows.
She is considered the
personification of
wisdom in Japanese
Buddhism and
Shintoism. Whose
Japanese adaptation
is she?

11. AND THE ANSWER IS…

12. ANSWER
Goddess Saraswati

13. 4
What is the longest running film franchise in the world?

14. AND THE ANSWER IS…

15. ANSWER
Godzilla

16. 5
Which two countries are divided by ‘The 38th Parallel’?

17. AND THE ANSWER IS…

18. ANSWER
North and South Korea

19. 6
After which person is this tower named? It is located on MG Road
in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.

20. AND THE ANSWER IS…

21. ANSWER
Jinnah Tower. It was erected on MG Road as a sign of peace and
harmony.

22. 7
Where would you find this exact pattern?

23. AND THE ANSWER IS…

24. ANSWER

25. 8
Which famous actor is
seen here portraying
Saint Valmiki in the
Hindi serial Jai
Hanuman which aired
on DD Metro?

26. AND THE ANSWER IS…

27. ANSWER
Irrfan Khan

28. 9
Put funda.

29. AND THE ANSWER IS…

30. ANSWER
Donald Trump’s board game
called TRUMP: The Game

31. 10
What is term for what Ashwin doing here? (Apart from hosting the
quiz, of course)

32. AND THE ANSWER IS…

33. ANSWER
Mankading named after Vinoo Mankad.

34. 11
Which country is known as ‘The Land of Fire and Ice’?

35. AND THE ANSWER IS…

36. ANSWER
Iceland

37. 12
Coconics is a unique public-private Laptop and Server
manufacturing company that is backed by the government of
which state of India?

38. AND THE ANSWER IS…

39. ANSWER
Kerala

40. 13
Wisdom of Solomon
Strength of Hercules
Stamina of Atlas
Power of Zeus
Courage of Achilles
Speed of Mercury
Who has these powers?

41. AND THE ANSWER IS…

42. ANSWER
SHAZAM!

43. 14
How do we better know Dhanpat Rai Srivastava as?

44. AND THE ANSWER IS…

45. ANSWER
Munshi Premchand

46. 15
The name of this temple (located in Dakor in Gujarat) and its Lord Krishna-
derived deity inspired the name of the protagonist of a blockbuster 2009
Bollywood film. The deity is named so because it was believed that he ran
away from a war in order to avoid committing the sin of murdering Brahmins.
ID the film and the name of the deity/temple.

47. AND THE ANSWER IS…

48. ANSWER
Ranchhord das is the name of the deity and the temple is called
the Ranchhordraiji temple.

49. 16
This is the Kankariya Lake in Ahmedabad.
The design of what is based upon this?

50. AND THE ANSWER IS…

51. ANSWER

52. 17
How would you better know Barbara Millicent
Roberts and Kenneth Sean Carson as?

53. AND THE ANSWER IS…

54. ANSWER
Barbie and Ken dolls.

55. 18
ID

56. AND THE ANSWER IS…

57. ANSWER
Queen Elizabeth II during WW2. She is a certified mechanic.

58. PRELIMS END
Top 6 move on to finals.