Enquiry, the quiz forum of Jadavpur University, conducted an orientation session for freshmen on 22nd August, 2019. This is the small set of 24 questions that were run at the session.

2. FRESHERS’ ORIENTATION

3. Identify this “cultural phenomenon”.
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4. Answer
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Loss Meme

5. What is being described here?
“I felt that he was very strong. He was just holding me tight. I'm not sure about
the kiss... it was just somebody celebrating,” X said. "It wasn't a romantic event. It
was just an event of 'thank god the war is over’.” “It wasn't my choice to be
kissed,” X further added. “The guy just came over and grabbed!”
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6. Answer
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V-J Day Kiss
The Kissing Sailor

7. What is X?
Jake Parker, also known as Agent 44, is a comics short-story creator, concept
artist, illustrator, and animator. In 2009, Parker started X, now a popular annual
celebration.
In 2014's X, over 100,000 images were tagged on Twitter.
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8. Answer
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Inktober

9. Identify the woman sitting between Nayantara Sahgal and Rita Dar, both
members of the Nehru family, in this picture clicked in the summer of 1947.
Picture on next slide.
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11. Answer
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Freida Kahlo

12. In preparation for possibly thousands of visitors coming to "____ ____ __" , an
event that started out as a joke on Facebook with millions agreeing to descend
upon ____ __, a small county in X has signed a declaration of emergency. The
elected board of Lincoln County has taken the preemptive measure in anticipation
of an overwhelming number of visitors coming to the county that is home to
5,200 residents.
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Fill in the blanks and give me X.

13. Answer
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Storm Area 51
X: Nevada

14. X is an advocacy group formed on January 1, 2018 by producers like Shonda
Rhimes and performers like Reese Witherspoon to fight workplace sexual
harassment.
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Give me X.

15. Answer
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16. English translation to which Gulzar lyrics:
Give me a smile and lips
Think of kisses as sweet as grapes
Oh sweet and beautiful girl
Dance in the golden light
Like the golden anklets
Like the cooing cuckoo
Like the dancing peacock
Like the golden anklets
Like the cooing cuckoo
Like the dancing peacock
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17. Answer
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Jiya Jale

18. Who is X?
Prior to this career change in 1960, X had to support himself by working various
low paid jobs in Buenos Aires. He had to his name a diploma of a chemical
technician and worked part time as a bouncer in a popular local nightclub. This
career change he attributed to attending a Jesuit confession on Spring Day, a
career in which he got the biggest break in 2013.
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19. Answer
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Pope Francis / Jorge
Mario Bergoglio

20. Identify X.
The Fountain of the Four Rivers was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
for Pope Innocent X. Dedicated to the four river gods, collectively, they represent
four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had
spread: the Nile, the Danube, the Río de la Plata and X.
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21. Answer
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Ganges / Ganga

22. What is X?
According to Sebastien Gabriel, the design of this easter egg, X (released in September
2014) is a play on going back to the “prehistoric ages,” when there was no internet.
X was given the codename “Project Bolan,” which itself is a reference to Marc Bolan, the late
lead singer of 1970’s glam rock band ______. The developers boast that the X can last for
almost an eternity. Or 17 million years to be exact.
The X is played around 270 million times globally every month on desktops and mobiles.
The most number of players come from countries like India, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia.
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23. Answer
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T Rex run

24. What is this technique more
popularly known to us as?
According to Cicero, this method was devised by the Greek poet Simonides of Keos, after he was the
only survivor of a building collapse during a dinner he attended.
The story goes, Simonides stepped outside a banquet hall to meet with two young men. But when he
arrived outside, the young men were not there and the hall was collapsing behind him. Though his fellow
banqueters were too badly crushed by the collapse for their remains to be identified, Simonides was
supposedly able to put a name with each body based on where they had been sitting in the hall. He was
able to remember names with respect to positions or locations.
This insight lead to the development of a technique he called the method of loci and would enable
someone to remember anything by associating it with a mental image of a location.
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25. Answer
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Mind Palace /
Memory Palace

26. Name both the character
and the inspiration.
Now popularly associated with the face of Tom Ellis, this fictional character’s
appearance was based on _____Robert Jones in 1989. (one could even say that
this was the first time an anti-heroic supernatural character was based on such a
person.) The depiction has percolated from the Sandman novels to the
standalone spinoff, and even the very recent comic series, The Wicked + The
Divine.
[Picture on next slide]
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28. Answer
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Character: Lucifer
Inspiration: David Bowie

29. Located in Koltushi, near St.
Petersburg, Russia, whose
statue is this?
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30. Answer
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Ivan Pavlov

31. In this scene from “Asterix in
Britain”, identify the group
making a cameo appearance.
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32. Answer
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The Beatles

33. Unusual winners of
which distinction?
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The American Fighting Man (Representing US troops in the Korean War) 1950
The Inheritor (Americans aged 25 and under at that time) 1966
The Computer 1982
The Endangered Earth 1988
You 2006
Donald Trump 2016

34. Answer
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TIME Person of the Year

35. On 11th April, 2011, this Google Doodle was
created to commemorate the 50 year Anniversary
of which breakthrough event?
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36. Answer
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Yuri Gagarin being the first
person to go to space.

37. Connect these two pictures, having been
captured in 1966 and 2010 respectively,
often perceived as ‘payback’.
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38. Answer
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Ghost goals (scored and denied respectively) in England vs.
Germany matches in the World Cup.

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In their debut appearance in “____ gets the boot (1940)”, they were named
Jasper and Jinx, after which they were renamed. How do we better know Jasper
and Jinx as?

40. Answer
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Tom and Jerry

41. In ancient Egypt, ____ were highly revered and praised for killing mice, rats
(which threatened food supplies), and snakes - especially cobras.
1. What creature is this?
2. What did the Egyptians call this creature after the sound they make? A
breed of rare spotted ___ called the Egyptian ___ exists to this day.
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42. Answer
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Cats
Mau

43. What name has been blanked out?
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44. Answer
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Schrödinger
(after Erwin Schrödinger, the
physicist)

45. Look at this meme.
Understand why the Meme Man is
referring to a bottle of water as
“Enslaved Moisture”.
Then work out what he is referring to by
“Enslaved Autism” on the next slide.
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Vaccines
“vAcCiNeS cAuSe AuTiSm”

48. The director (but not writer) of the third film in the series (1991) wanted to make
another sequel. He had received many requests to make the fourth movie. He said
to The Times of India about the plot of fourth film: "Making a _____ _____ movie
without ….. and …. (lead actors) is unthinkable. The only way I can do a fourth is by
taking the story forward and introducing _____ and _____ ‘s sons," he said. The
idea to weave a story around the next generation came from a line from the
introductory song in the second movie of the series.”
1. What series? (Alternatively, fill in the dashed blanks)
2. What song?
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Goopy Bagha
Song: 'Mora dujonai rajar
jamai in 'Hirak Rajar
Deshe' — "aar ache
polapan, ek khan ek khan”

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Who tweeted this?
(Person was in the news 16 days ago)

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Sushma Swaraj

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What product?
Amidst an economic slowdown, the company X might be laying off around 10000
employees. It was founded by the Chauhan family in 1929 and is named after a
place in Mumbai.
Gopalmath’s Ashwatthama’s crippled henchman with a fascination for
umbrellas will probably not be able to save the company from the slowdown no
matter how much product he consumes after dipping it in his tea.
Product is a household name. Product and company are almost synonymous.

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Parle-G