IIM Ahmedabad FSI Faculty Student Interaction Cell Pot Pourri Quiz Round Prelims with Answers

2. FSI Potpourri – Quiz Prelims
The boot is on the other foot
IIM Ahmedabad
12th of December, 2014
Faculty Student Interaction Cell

3. Rules and Regulations
• 15 Questions, 1 point each, 10 seconds per question
• 3 Starred Questions, 1 Super starred, Used in case of ties
• Spelling Mistakes will be tolerated, give full names if possible
• Explanations will be given, Hints may be thrown subject to blocks
• Electronic Devices need not be OFF but you know what’s prohibited
• Write all team member names, phone numbers and emails
• Best of Luck!!!

4. Q1 – ID X.
• Chuck Wepner claimed it was based on his life. Some elements
resembled incidents from Joe Frazier’s life. Other possible references
suggested have been a certain X Marciano and X Graziano. Of course,
the answer and X are same. What?

5. Answer
• Rocky

6. Q2 – ID X.
• It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near
the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from
August 15 to 18, 1969. The event was captured in the 1970
documentary movie X. Again X is the answer.

7. Answer
• Woodstock

8. * Q3 – The speaker?
• Who said this?
• "What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit,
and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous!"

9. Answer
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

10. Q4 – A map of what?
• Images on the next slide. The answer’s not Africa 

12. Answer
• Bantu

13. Q5 – ID X?
• X was in the Indian team which toured England in 1932 and played
the first test match India ever played. X’s main claim to fame was of
being the first man to take a wicket for India as well as a five for.
• In the first ball of his second over, dismissed Herbert Sutcliffe for 3,
knocking over Sutcliffe's stumps. Then, with the fifth ball of the very
same over, he bowled the other opener, Percy Holmes.
• Indian batsman C.K. Nayudu claimed in writings that during his first
spell, X was faster than Englishman Harold Larwood, who terrorized
Australia in 1932 in the infamous Bodyline series.

14. Answer
• Mohammad Nisar

15. Q6 – ID X.
• X was the first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR). X was also the first Chairman of the University Grants
Commission (UGC).
• X’s major innovation was improving the procedure for drilling crude oil. The
Attock Oil Company at Rawalpindi (representative of Messers Steel
Brothers & Co London) had confronted a peculiar problem, wherein the
mud used for drilling operation got hardened upon contact with the saline
water, thereby clogging the drill holes.
• X added an Indian gum, which had the remarkable property of lowering the
viscosity of the mud suspension and of increasing at the same time its
stability against the flocculating action of electrolytes. M/s Steel Brothers
was so pleased that they offered X a sum of Rs. 1,50,000/- for research
work on any subject related to petroleum.

16. Answer
• Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

17. ** Q7 – The man in the picture.
• Image on next slide.

19. Answer
• Vittalbhai Patel

20. Q8 – The person.
• X was born in the small village of Janzour, near Tobruk in eastern
Barqa (Cyrenaica) in Libya. Beginning in 1912, X organized and, for
nearly twenty years, led native resistance to Italian colonization of
Libya. Italian armed forces captured and hanged X in 1931.
• X’s final years were depicted in the movie Lion of the Desert (1981),
starring Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, and Irene Papas. It was based on
the struggles of X against Rodolfo Graziani's forces.
• In 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wore a photograph of X in
Italian captivity on his chest while on a state visit to Rome, and
brought along X’s elderly son during the visit.

21. Answer
• Omar Mukhtar

22. * Q9 – The incident.
• The battle of Samara Bend took place in autumn 1223, at the
southern border of Volga Bulgaria. The natives retreated and the
invaders pursued them. Then the main native forces ambushed the
invaders.
• Who were the invaders?

23. Answer
• Mongols

24. Q10 – What are we talking about?
• According to K T Acharya, it most probably originated in Tamil Nadu,
with the earliest mention of it found in Tamil Literature from around
6th century CE.
• According to P. Thankappan Nair, it originated in the Udupi town of
present-day Karnataka. This theory is supported by the fact that the
version popular across the country is more akin to the Kannada
version as compared to the product’s version from Tamil Nadu.
• What?

25. Answer
• Dosa

26. Q11 – What event? Exhaustive
Year Winner
1982 Australia
1988 Australia
1993 England
1997 Australia
2000 New Zealand
2005 Australia
2009 England
2013 Australia

27. Answer
• ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup

28. Q12 – ID the “organisation”.
• It was founded on 16 December 1899 by English expatriates Alfred
Edwards and Herbert Kilpin, who came from the English city of
Nottingham.
• In honour of its English origins, it has retained the English spelling of
the city's name, as opposed to the native spelling which it was forced
to bear under a political regime.

29. Answer
• AC Milan

30. Q13 – ID X.
• According to Chinese legend, X began the physical training of the
Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu.
• The principal Chinese sources vary on their account of X’s origins,
giving either an origin from India or from the Greco-Buddhist
traditions of Iranian language speaking Central Asian kingdoms.
• Several stories about X have become popular legends, which are still
being used in the Ch'an and Zen tradition.

31. Answer
• Bodhidharma or Damo

32. Q14 – ID both the people.

34. Answer
• Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady
• Big Bang Theory or some variant does not get points, but may be
used in tie breaks

35. * Q15 – Answer very specifically
• What is hosted at
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

36. Answer
• The first website on the internet