Inquizitiive 2016 General quiz Finals as part of Agon 2016 (CNMC) by Partha Sarathi Ghatak (Partha Abarki)

Researched and conducted by
Partha Abarki

Written Round –extracts.
• You will see extracts from speeches or works
of literature, as also visuals from which some
names or other details have been extracted.
• 6 question – 5 points of each
• A bonus 5 for a full house

Question 1
What NAME has
been extracted
from this
memorial plaque
?

Question 2
Identify the
SUBJECT of the
painting from
which this image
was excerpted

Question 3
• Who is the AUTHOR of these lines? "93. Bene
agant omnes illi prophete, qui discunt populo
Christi ,Crux crux', et non est crux. "94.
Exhortandi sunt Christiani, ut caput suum
Christum per penas, mortes infernosque sequi
studeant, "95. Ac sic magis per multas
tribulationes intrare celum quam per securitatem
pacis confidant."

Question 4
• The name of what
CHARACTER has been
extracted from this
image?

Question 5
• Who is the AUTHOR of these lines? "And where is
that band who so vauntingly swore, / That the
havoc of war and the battle's confusion / A home
and a Country should leave us no more?/ Their
blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's
pollution. / No refuge could save the hireling and
slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of
the grave"

Question 6
• What CHARACTER does this passage describe?
"...as dark as darkness, except for two big round
pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little boat, and
he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for lake
it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. He
paddled it with large feet dangling over the side,
but never a ripple did he make. Not he. He was
looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind
fish, which he grabbed with his long fingers as
quick as thinking

Answer 2
Napoleon
Crossing the
Alps

Answer 3
• Martin Luther (95 Theses)

Answer 5
• Francis Scott Key (From the star spangled
banner)

Final – Infinite Bounce
• 3 Strike Pounce for the entire quiz
• Part marks at QM’s discretion
• No part Pouncing

Question 1
• Name a US state capital whose name consists,
in order, of the name of an Asian country, the
name of a large European city in its native
language (as also a football club from that
city), and the middle name of a US President

Answer 1
• Indianapolis ( India +Napoli + S )

Question 2
• In his original baptismal records in 1756– this part of
his name is recorded as Theophillus or lover of God
and comes from the name of his godfather . Its
German equivalent Gottleib was also used during his
lifetime. X is the Latin form and has become the most
popular form used since the early 19th century –
though it was only used once in an official document
during his lifetime.
• Give me X.

Question 3
• Why is Mitsuo
________, a Japanese
artistic gymnast of the
1960s and 70s who was a
five times Olympic Gold
Medallist who also served
as vice president of the
Japan Gymnastic
Association topical to
Indian sports these days?

Answer 3
• This is the seocond vault in Deepa Karmakar’s
repertoire apart from the Produnova.

Question 4
• Connect – “He was a well-known cricket-watcher
who could often be seen prowling on the field of
play; he loved publicity and frequently appeared
on the television” (this is something unique)
• With –a well known establishment in Kolkata
which claims to have invented something which
was actually available and popular in Iran from
well before this establishment came into being.

Answer 5
• Snatch
• Clean and Jerk
• The components of a
weightlifting
programme

Question 6
• Cabinda in Angola, Kaliningrad
Oblast in Russia, Alaska in the
United States, and Ceuta and
Melilla in Spain are examples
of territory disconnected from
the "main" section of the
country by other nations,
though sometimes accessible
by sea. This type of area is
best known by what seven-
letter term?

Question 7
• . ___ ___ ____ ____ is a government of India scheme
launched in 2015 in reaction to the dropping sex ratio in
India. ___ ____ ___ ____ is also the slogan for the scheme. In
August 2016, after X achieved something , when X’s mother
was asked for a reaction , she said ____ ____ ____ ____ ___
____, adding two words to the above scheme/slogan .This
expanded slogan went viral on both the social and
conventional media and even the government picked up on it
and the Prime Minister announced that X’s mother’s addition
will now be an added dimension to the scheme.
• X has now been made the brand ambassador of the scheme.
• Give me X and the six word slogan as said by X’s mother

Answer 7
• Beti bachao Beti padao
Beti khilao.

Question 8
• Though it had been a best selling series since 1913, on which
several successful movies had also been made - following the
1940 release of Republic Pictures' serial adaptation of Drums
of X, the United States Department of State,in response to a
complaint by China , requested the studio make no further
films with the character X as China was an ally against Japan
in WW II. Likewise,publisher Doubleday, refused to publish
further additions to the best-selling series for the duration of
World War II. BBC Radio and Broadway investors
subsequently rejected the author's proposals for an original X
radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.
• Identify X.

Question 9
a. a hugely popular BBC supernatural drama series
featuring a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire – all of
whom were sharing accommodation and attempting as
best as they can to live a "normal" life and blend in with
the ordinary humans around them.
b. a 1994 British-Japanese comedy-drama film written
and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Robin Williams.
The film portrays the experience of a single human soul,
portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations.
Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories
that span man's history on Earth.

Question 10
• The first word of this phrase we commonly
associate with WW II does not mean “designated”
as is commonly believed. In fact, this first part is a
redundancy ,simply standing as an abbreviation of
the second word of the phrase. According to Time
Magazine ,the first use of this phrase was during the
forced evacuation St Mihiel Salient during World
War II.
• Which 2 word phrase?

Question 11
• .This is the picture of Lotus bridge, between
Macau and China. It has been designed like this
due to the difference in a law in China and Macau.
• What difference?

Answer 11
• Macau follows right hand drive and China
follows Left hand drive.

Question 12
• Very Appropriately , which footballer’s
autobiography has a title which is a play on a
17th century philosophical proposition which
originally appeared in French, in Discours de la
methode, as "je pense, donc je suis," rather than
the more familiar Latin found in his Principia
Philosophae.
• Also give me the title.

Question 13
• The people who should know best have this to say of her.
• Sir Mortimer Wheeler – “There is her little Baluchi-style face with
pouting lips and insolent look in the eye. She's about fifteen years
old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all
the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the
moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's no
one like her, I think, in the world.
• John Marshall – “She gives a vivid impression of the young ... girl,
her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly
forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet...”
• Who am I talking about?

Question 14
• Four countries have become members of the United
Nations in the 21st century (i.e 1st January 2001 or
after). Three of them are Montenegro,South Sudan
and timor leste. Which is the fourth?

Answer 14
Switzerland .
It has avoided alliances that might entail military,
political, or direct economic action. Only in recent years
have the Swiss broadened the scope of activities in which
they feel able to participate without compromising their
neutrality. Switzerland is not a member of the European
Union and joined the United Nations very late compared
to its European neighbors.

Question 15
• This song from the movie Yahaan has been
composed and song by _____ bandhu or ____
brothers , who belong to a family of
musicians, who traditionally and till this day
perform at the famous religious site dedicated
to X. They have also performed in the song “
Kun Paya Kun” from rockstar. Give me X

Answer 15
• Nizami bandhu or brothers
• Hazrat Nizamuddin auliya.

Question 16
• In the 17th century, the Chinese mixed a concoction of
pickled fish and spices and called it _______ meaning
the brine of pickled fish . By the early 18th century,it
had made it to the Malay states, where it was
discovered by English explorers. The Indonesian-Malay
word for it was a little different. That word evolved into
the English word X". English settlers then took X with
them to the American colonies. In modern usage, X is
prepared from something completely different than
how it originated. Give me X

Question 17
• The Hong Kong Sports Institute is situated in the Fo Tan,
Sha Tin district of Hong Kong. It is mandated to provide
training to athletes, and also offers academic
qualification in the field of sports training. The institute
sponsors elite athletes and trains them as full-time
employees, based on their talent and potential.
• The sports institute temporarily relocated to the YMCA
Wu Kwai Sha Youth Village in January 2007 and the
Hong Kong Jockey Club took over the site for nearly 20
months. Why?

Answer 17
• It was the venue for the equestrian events for
the Beijing Olympics which were held in Hong
Kong due to quarantine rules in China.

Question 18
• When adjusted for inflation, which is the
highest grossing R rated film of all time? This
is also the highest grossing film from Warner
Brothers when adjusted for inflation.

Question 19
• This compound word is used as a part of a phrase
which refers to postponing consideration or
action on something, and is derived from the
custom of placing pots which don’t require
immediate attention to the rear of a stove.
• Another form of this word refers to a technique
used to fight wildfire in which s new fire is
created in the opposite direction to the line of
advancing fire.
• Give me the word or the phrase.

Answer 19
• Backburner/to put on the backburner.

Movie Posters
• 6 Questions on Movie posters
• 5 points per question
• Bonus 5 for a full house

Question 1
• Minimalist poster of?

Question 2
• A lot of text for a poster.
Identify the movie

Question 3
• To please imperialists
everywhere, I have
obscured what item
from this poster?

Question 4
• This is a riff on a poster
for what 2005 film ?

Question 5
• Poster for the bhojpuri
movie Devdas. Ripped
off from?

Question 6
This poster for the
movie L'Arroseur arrosé
(also known as The
Waterer Watered and The
Sprinkler Sprinkled) is
generally recognized with
what distinction?

Answer 6
• The First movie poster

Question 20
• In the early 13th century,the Anatolian peninsula which had
belonged to the Byzantine, or eastern Roman empire, had
only relatively recently been conquered by Muslims and
even when it came to be controlled by Turkish Muslim
rulers, it was still known to Arabs, Persians and Turks as the
geographical area of ______,literally meaning 'Roman,' in
which context Roman refers to subjects of the Byzantine
Empire or simply to people living in or things associated with
Anatolia."
• This is most probably the origin of the famous title by which
we know this 13th-century Persian philosopher and man of
letters. FITB

Question 21
• World Is One News (WION) is an international
news entity with headquarters across South Asia.
Its website was launched on June 15, 2016 and the
TV channel on August 15, 2016 as a free to air
satellite service in 37 countries. It’s the
international arm if an Indian media conglomerate
and derives its name from the moto of that entity.
How?

Answer 21
• WION stands for "World is One News" which is
inspired by the Group’s motto, Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam (The World is My Family).

Question 22
a.In Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil were taken up from the
earth by the moon as they were going to a well called Byrgir,
bearing on their shoulders the cask called Saegr and the pole
called Simul.
b.The village of Kilmersdon in Somerset has a long tradition of
association with this and the hill is said to be one near this
village. It has been suggested that the surname Gilson
originated in this area and could have been derived from 'son
of Y'.
c.X and Y signify the 18th century Louis XVI of France, who was
deposed and beheaded and his Queen, Marie Antoinette.
These are some of the many theories about what?

Answer 22
• The origin of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill
went up the hill.

Question 23
• This sporting team took its name from a locality
to indicate the fact that it represented a
particular ethnicity even though the team was
formed somewhere else .So they played their first
“home” game(i.e first played in the locality they
are named after) only in 1968 even though the
team was formed in 1927? Which team?

Question 24
• In Greek mythology, X was a monster, half-woman and
half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate
of the fearsome monster Typhon, and known primarily
for being the mother of the most famous monsters of
Greek mythology – such as
Chimera,Sphinx,Cerberus,Gorgon,Hydra.
• Four extant species, of the order Monotremata, are
named X, as they were perceived to have qualities of
both mammals and reptiles,just as X was half woman
and half snake.
• Give me X . Pic next slide

Question 25
• a. The term "____ ____"
(from the Italian for
"broad") is used for this
plant in the US.
• b. X is region in Central
Tuscany in Italy. Any wine
produced in the region is
called X. X is traditionally
associated with a squat
bottle enclosed in a straw
basket, called a fiasco.
• “What” did a certain
forensic psychiatrist
infamously eat with the
above two items ?

Question 26
• this early Christian saint is depicted with the
traditional instrument of her martyrdom, as
well as what could be described as some
books that might be figuratively from "her
library." Name this saint, including the city
with which she is most-closely associated.
• Pic next slide

Answer 26
• St catherine of Alexandria

Question 27
• The Russian consul general for Kolkata has
recently complained to the external affairs
ministry and the mayor of Kolkata that a plaque
honouring the life and activities of X which was
installed on Ezra Steet, is now lying in ruins amid
garbage and heaps of earth. The CMC has
promised to restore the plaque before the pujas.
• Identify X?

Answer 27
• Gerashim lebedev

Question 28
• What in the solar system is named after the Dutch
astronomer (apart from an Asteroid) who first
postulated the existence of dark matter, and the fact
that the Milky Way rotates and the sun is not at its
centre. He also made significant discoveries about the
origin of comets. His New York Times obituary called
him “one of the century's foremost explorers of the
universe;” and the European Space Agency website
describes him as, “one of the greatest astronomers of
the 20th century.” ?

Answer 28
• Oort Cloud after Jan Oort

Question 29
• Field & Stream is a magazine featuring hunting, fishing, and
other outdoor activities in the United States.
• The following passage presents part of Field and Stream's
review of which 1928 book? 'This fictional account of the
day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of interest to
outdoor-minded readers, as it contains many passages on
pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to
control vermin, and other chores and duties of the occasional
gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through
many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and
savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands
shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion the book
cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeper.'

Question 30
X is a programme on the channel Investigation
Discovery which goes backwards in time to retrace
the steps of murders to show how they were
planned and committed. Appropriately, X is named
after a famous plot point in a 1977 bestselling novel
which was made into an iconic 1980 movie.
These works of art used X to forbode something.
Give me X

Question 31
• Most Indian states have tourism slogan’s like God’s own
Country (kerala) or the heart of incredible India
(M.P).Similarly, US states also have advertising slogans
aimed mainly at tourism but also included on state-
issued automobile license plates and the U.S. Mint 50
State Quarters coinage .
• So which US state has the slogan – “ Almost Heaven”?

Question 32
• In American usage, egghead is an anti-intellectual
epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-
touch with ordinary people and too lacking in
realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of
their intellectual interests.
• So "Egghead Marries Hourglass," blared
headlines in response to the news of what 1956
celebrity marriage?

Answer 32
• Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe

Question 33
• Today it is Japan's third-largest public company
(after Toyota and Mitsubishi), with wide-ranging
operations in mobile and fixed-line
telecommunications, Internet and technology
services, online gaming, and other businesses.
What is this corporation—not primarily a
financial services company despite what might be
inferred from its name—which began in 1981 as a
distributor of packaged computer programs?

Question 34
Man at the Crossroads (1934) was a fresco by X in
New York City's Rockefeller Centre which was
commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller. Despite
protests from several quarters, Nelson Rockefeller
ordered its destruction before it was completed
because X included an image of Y,perhaps not
surprising knowing X’s affiliation.
Only black-and-white photographs exist of the
original incomplete mural . Give me X and Y
Pic next slide

Answer 34
• Diego Riviera (X)
• Lenin (Y)

Question 35
• It was first released by Mennen early in 1991, and it had soon
established a market niche with teen girls. The fact that Toby
Vail, member of the band Bikini Kill used it had a lot to do
with the name becoming hugely well known soon after to the
extent that the it was said to be the most popular product of
its kind, and was the favorite of nearly 1/4 of all in its target
group. After Colgate-Palmolive took over Mennen in 1992,
there was a big brand extention with hair care products also
coming out with the same name.
• The craze for it died down after reigning supreme in the
market for a few years –and now it has only a token presence
in the market.
• What am I talking about?

Question 36
• In 1963, while in hospital for the removal of her tonsils, she
met Brajesh Singh, and the 2 fell in love. Singh died in 1966.
She was allowed to travel to India to take his ashes to his
family. She stayed in the family home in Kalakankar on the
banks of the Ganges for three months and became immersed
in local customs, leading to her abandonment of atheism. She
referred to him as her husband, but stated that they were
never officially married. This woman in question was later
named Lana Peters.
• While in New Delhi, on 6th March 1967, she did something
that caused an international incident.
• What did she do? Why did it cause an international incident?

Answer 36
• Defected to US.She was Stalin”s daughter -
Svetlana Losifovna Alliluyeva.

Question 37
• My Foolish Heart is a 1949 American film which tells the
story of a woman’s reflections on the bad turns her life has
taken. It was directed by Mark Robson and starred Dana
Andrews and Susan Hayward. Despite a critical drubbing
the film was nominated for two Academy awards and its
song became a jazz standard.
• The film is based on a short story by X. After he was
“horrified” by the results of the movie he refused to give
the rights of any of his other works(including the most
iconic) to Hollywood despite numerous attempts by
producers. It thus remains the only authorized adaptation
of X’s writings into film. Pic next slide

Question 38
• X was paced by greats Alberto Salazar, Joan Benoit
Samuelson, and Hicham El Guerrouj in the 2006 New
York City marathon and finished with a time of 2 hrs 59
mins and had a TV camera specifically trained on him
for the entire distance .He finished in the 856th
place.In the Boston marathon , X improved the timing
to 2 hrs 50 mins and finished in the top 500.
• But recently, both race authorities are saying its only a
matter of before his performances are erased.
• Who is X?

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