crescendo quiz

Quizmasters :Tapas Agarwal , Vijay Keswani , Siddhansh Arora

1.

• X is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. The logo of X is derived from the emblem of the Order of the Star of India, India's highest order of chivalry during the British Raj and also its Coat of Arms.

• BCCI

2.

• To his surprise, this English footballer found his likeness on the backs of cigarette packs in India, as part of a new set of mandatory warnings against smoking (it showed a man with blackened lungs). After his lawyers threatened to sue, the Indian health ministry withdrew the image, though they insisted "the picture could be of any man".

• This only adds to the personal and professional turbulence faced by the footballer in the last twelve months.

• Which footballer?

John Terry

3.

• During the freedom struggle, she created, an organization of young Indian boys and girls, as the children's wing of the Indian National Congress known as the Vanar Sena. Who?

• Indira Gandhi

4.

• This movie star goes under the name N. Herschlag and holds a degree in Neuroscience from Harvard.

• She is one of the very few people in the world to have an Erdos-Bacon number.

• Who is she?

• Natalie Portman

5.

• This great North African general has a name that translates as “Grace of the Lord”, and demolished the Roman armies at Trebbia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae. Subsequent generations of Romans scared their kids into behaving well using his name.

• In the 20th century, a fictional serial killer who ate his victims(portrayed on screen by Anthony Hopkins) was named after this man. Name him.

• Hannibal

6.

• Eugene Polley recently passed away. For years, he worked for Zenith Electronics where he gained patents for several inventions. Best known among these was called the "Flash-Matic", a revolutionary new product that eventually became an (now almost) indispensable household product. "Flash" because it focused visible light (from a device like a flashlight) to a set of photo-cells.

• So what product thus came about?

• Remote Control

7.

• List of what ?– Maria Sharapova : 101 __– Michelle Larcher De Brito : ~100 __ (109 reported)– Monica Seles : 93.2 __– Serena Williams : 88.9 __– Venus Williams : 85 __– Victoria Azarenka : 83.5 __– Elena Bovina : 81 __– Anna Kournikova : 78.5 __– Kim Clijsters : 75 __– Elena Dementieva : 73 __

• Loudest grunters in Tennis• A lion’s roar is a 110 decibels !!

8.

• Chicago gangster Al Capone created a set of clothes washing shops in order to disguise his ill-gotten earnings. What modern phrase did this give rise to?

• Money laundering

9.

• When requested a report on his prowess in Western India, Colonel John Napier sent back a one-word reply “Peccavi”, which his classically literate superiors understood at once to mean “I have X”.

• X later caused some controversy for remaining in the Indian National Anthem due to its location.

• Name X.

• Sindh

10.

• X in India (the first in Asia, too) was conceived primarily to improve the availability of cotton to British textile merchants, after the 1846 failure of the American crop. What?

• Indian Railways

11.

• This famous personality was given a hero’s welcome by the residents of Manchester in 1962 after the achievement that made him famous the world over.

• Coming at a year when his nation was feared and hated in the west, his small stature, amiable personality and humble nature made him a favorite of audiences the world over.

• Who was this man, and what was his “out-of-the-world” achievement?

• Yuri Gargarin

12.

• According to Motion Picture Association of America , these highly condensed series of movie shots cannot exceed 2.5 minutes, usually start with a green or a red band and include rating cards . The name comes from the fact that they are originally shown at the end of a feature film screening . What are we talking about ?

• Trailer

13.Whose ad is this? [ we’ve blanked out only the square ]

WWF, World Wildlife Federation’s ad.Based on the MGM logo with the lion.

14. Identify X ?

• Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief: X has definitely insulted these national symbols, but labeling him as a traitor and jailing him under sedition charge is not proper. Although he claims a patriotic fervour, X should have upheld the dignity of parliament and not insulted it in this manner

• Aseem Trivedi

15.

• The one-day tour requires booking at least 10 days in advance; among the highlights are feeding catfish, meeting the inhabitants of Opachychi village and touring the ghost village of Pripyat. At the end of the tour security guards at Dytyatky will check you with Geiger counters. What is the tour destination?

• Chernobyl

16. Identify X ?

• Born in Titlagarh, Orissa, India. After completing his Masters in Physics X went to the US and obtained a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

• Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, X is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution. X will be working on creating a roadmap for a ‘Decade of Innovation’ in India.

• X is also the chairman of National Innovation Council.

• Sam Pitroda

17.

• * __________ was previously known asFoodiebay.com. The brand name was changeddue to a possible move outside of the foodvertical and also to avoid a future conflict witheBay, because the earlier brand nameFoodiebay contained ‘ebay’ in it. Foodiebaywas started by Deepinder Goyal, a graduatefrom IIT Delhi. The journey started as a smallexercise to help his colleagues negotiate hugestacks of menu cards with ease by putting allthe menu cards in his office on the internet

• ZOMATO

18.• According to a Chinese legend, in the 14th century,

when the Mongols ruled China, a revolutionary named Chu Yuan Chang plannedan uprising against them. He used mooncakes topass along the date of the uprising to the Chineseby replacing the yolk in the center of themooncake with the message written on ricepaper. The Mongols did not care for the yolks, so the plan went on successfully and the Ming Dynasty began. It is claimed that the MoonFestival celebrates this with the tradition of giving mooncakes with messages inside.

• This is one of the suggested origins of what?

• Fortune cookies

19.

•It has been claimed that Fred Flintstone’s famous “Yabba Dabba Doo” was derived from probably the first jingle made for X, when Alan Reed, the actor who first voiced the character, didn’t like the simple “Yahoo” in the script.

•X’s popularity with RAF pilots in WW2 led to their nickname, The X Boys. This is the title of the1998 film about downed pilots interned in the Republic of Ireland. The model in RAF uniform who advertised the product during WW2 was said to have looked like a “guttered candle” because he used so much of it. X?

• Brylcreem

20.

• X was first granted permission to start operations in India by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in April ’07. In exchange, the US Government allowed the import of mangoes from India after a gap of 18 years.

• Mangoes for what?

• Harley Davidson

21.

• Mirzapur is a city in the heart of North India, nearly 650 km between Delhi and Kolkata and also equidistant from Allahabad and Varanasi. There are loads of facts about Mirzapur one being that there is a small clock tower in the center of the city.

Claim to fame of this city?

• Indian Standard Time (IST) is calculated from the clock tower in Mirzapur which is nearly exactly on the reference longitude of Indian Standard Time at 82.5°

22.

• Which patient soul has authored the following• books?• Midterm Poll• Beyond Survival• Emerging dimensions of Indian Economy• Off the Track, Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice• Challenge before the Nation

• Pranab Mukherjee

23.• Slay the Nemean Lion.

Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra.Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis.Capture the Erymanthian Boar.Clean the Augean stables in a single day.Slay the Stymphalian Birds.Capture the Cretan Bull.Steal the Mares of Diomedes.Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon.Steal the apples of the Hesperides (He had the help of Atlas to pick them after Hercules had slain Ladon).Capture and bring back Cerberus.

• What am I talking about?

12 Labours of Hercules ( Herculean Task)

24.

• "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain".

• The coincidental downfall of one hero named X and the passing of another person Y with the same last name within a few days is too irresistible to not remark on.

• Identify X and Y ?

Y- Niel Armstrong and X- Lance Armstrong

25.

• The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface shaped like a saddle. In a cartesian coordinate system, a hyperbolic paraboloid can be represented by the equationThis is a hyperbolic paraboloid that opens up along the x-axis and down along the y-axis.The hyperbolic paraboloid, when parametrized as has Gaussian curvature and mean curvature .

• You might have possibly eaten it.

• Pringle Chips

26. Identify the connect ?

• MRF

27. Put Funda ???

• "The Idea Man""The Detail Man""The Inside Man" "The Bankroll" "The Getaway""The Getaway""The Eye In The Sky""The Basher" "The Grease Man" "The High Roller" "The Rookie"

• Ocean’s eleven

28. Identify the connect ?

• 3 cars of Volkswagen • 1st – Passat ( “Trade winds “ in German )• 2nd –Golf• 3rd -Beetle

29.

• What connects the following to Indian History?

• Maulvi Ziauddin, a Pashtun insurance agent• Ichiro Okuda• Matsuda• Orlando Mazzotta, an Italian nobleman

• Subhash Chandra Bose’s Pseudonyms in exile

30. Google doodle for what ??

• Star Trek

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