General Quiz by Nikhil Kumar Gupta

1. The General Quiz
-by NKG

2. Question 1

3. Question 1

4. Answer 1
• Wiki’15

5. Question 2
• A ______ salad is a salad of romaine lettuce
and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese,
lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire
sauce, garlic, and black pepper.
• Despite popular belief, it was not named after
somebody the king of diamonds in a
traditional deck of playing cards represents.

6. Question 2
• A ______ salad is a salad of romaine lettuce
and croutons dressed with parmesan cheese,
lemon juice, olive oil, egg, Worcestershire
sauce, garlic, and black pepper.
• Despite popular belief, it was not named after
somebody the king of diamonds in a
traditional deck of playing cards represents.

7. Answer 2
• Caesar

8. Question 3
• It is said when Julius was young he was
kidnapped by pirates on the way to study
oratory. They wanted 50 X(money at the time)
ransom. He made friends with the pirates and
he was later freed when Caesar's uncle paid
the money. Once he was freed he had the
pirates executed.
• What is X, which is a Latin term for “weight,
sum of money/gold”.

9. Question 3
• It is said when Julius was young he was
kidnapped by pirates on the way to study
oratory. They wanted 50 X(money at the time)
ransom. He made friends with the pirates and
he was later freed when Caesar's uncle paid
the money. Once he was freed he had the
pirates executed.
• What is X, which is a Latin term for “weight,
sum of money/gold”.

10. Answer 3
• Talents

11. Question 4
Identify the person on the right. This was one of the
most widely criticized moments of this guy’s life.

12. Question 4
Identify the person on the right. This was one of the
most widely criticized moments of this guy’s life.

13. Answer 4
• (then) President George H.W. Bush, being
supposedly amazed by a barcode scanner.

14. Question 5
• It is presented as the famous last excuse for Fascism in Italy. In
1936 the American journalist George Seldes complained that
when his fellow-countrymen returned home from holidays in
Italy they seemed to cry in unison: 'Great is the Duce; the
______ ___ __ ___' And no matter how often they were told
about Fascist oppression, injustice and cruelty, they always
said the same thing: 'But the ______ ___ __ ____.‘
• The truth being that much of the repair work that helped
achieved this was done before 1922, when Mussolini came to
power.

15. Question 5
• It is presented as the famous last excuse for Fascism in Italy. In
1936 the American journalist George Seldes complained that
when his fellow-countrymen returned home from holidays in
Italy they seemed to cry in unison: 'Great is the Duce; the
______ ___ __ ___' And no matter how often they were told
about Fascist oppression, injustice and cruelty, they always
said the same thing: 'But the ______ ___ __ ____.‘
• The truth being that much of the repair work that helped
achieved this was done before 1922, when Mussolini came to
power.

16. Answer 5
• The Trains Ran on Time

17. Question 6
This 1976 National Geographic photograph from 1976 is what inspired the pop star X to
pen down the song Y; and not his/her fasination with aristocracy.

18. Question 6
This 1976 National Geographic photograph from 1976 is what inspired the pop star X to
pen down the song Y; and not his/her fasination with aristocracy.

19. Answer 6
• X- Lorde
• Y- Royals

20. Question 7
• Bergen County, New Jersey, is the last remaining county that
prohibits this particualr activity on a particular day for secular
reasons voted to keep by residents through numerous
referendums.
• However, in 2012, the laws were relaxed slightly for one particular
day in 161 years, the reason being Hurricane Sandy
• What am I talking about?

21. Question 7
• Bergen County, New Jersey, is the last remaining county that
prohibits this particualr activity on a particular day for secular
reasons voted to keep by residents through numerous
referendums.
• However, in 2012, the laws were relaxed slightly for one particular
day in 161 years, the reason being Hurricane Sandy
• What am I talking about?

22. Answer 7
• Shopping on Sundays

23. Question 8
• ”……It started with the Maharashtra government
announcing a ban on sale of beef in the state
a move, which led to massive debates online and
offline, spiraling into the ‘beef controversy’,”
Yahoo said in a statement.
• It further said: “Fuelled further by the mob
lynching at Dadri, the ‘cow’ became the icon of
discussions on ‘intolerance’, sparking the ‘award
wapsi’ campaign, and even stalling the Parliament
proceedings at one point”
• What is Yahoo! trying to justify?

24. Question 8
• ”……It started with the Maharashtra government
announcing a ban on sale of beef in the state
a move, which led to massive debates online and
offline, spiraling into the ‘beef controversy’,”
Yahoo said in a statement.
• It further said: “Fuelled further by the mob
lynching at Dadri, the ‘cow’ became the icon of
discussions on ‘intolerance’, sparking the ‘award
wapsi’ campaign, and even stalling the Parliament
proceedings at one point”
• What is Yahoo! trying to justify?

25. Answer 8
• Declaring “cow” as The ‘Personality of the
Year’ 2015

26. Question 9
• In 2011 Chinese government banned a certain
kind of TV shows as they “lacked positive
thoughts and meanings”. Thus, shows like Dr
Who, Samurai Jack and Dragon Ball Z Cell Saga
were banned?
• What kind of shows were banned?

27. Question 9
• In 2011 Chinese government banned a certain
kind of TV shows as they “lacked positive
thoughts and meanings”. Thus, shows like Dr
Who, Samurai Jack and Dragon Ball Z Cell Saga
were banned?
• What kind of shows were banned?

28. Answer 9
• Shows involving Time Travel.

29. Question 10
• Lyft is a privately held American transportation
network company based in San Francisco. The
company's mobile-phone application facilitates
peer-to-peer ridesharing by connecting
passengers who need a ride with drivers who
have a car.
• Recently a company has invested $500 Million in
this ride-hailing service, which seems to be a
counterintuitive move, as it might result in lesser
cars on the road. Which company?

30. Question 10
• Lyft is a privately held American transportation
network company based in San Francisco. The
company's mobile-phone application facilitates
peer-to-peer ridesharing by connecting
passengers who need a ride with drivers who
have a car.
• Recently a company has invested $500 Million in
this ride-hailing service, which seems to be a
counterintuitive move, as it might result in lesser
cars on the road. Which company?

31. Answer 10
• General Motors

32. Question 11
• We are all aware of the “monkey-selfie” controversy of 2013, but in
2015 the issue managed to make headlines once more…
• Some coverage of the monkey selfie controversy last year identified
the macaque as female. The photographer David Slater identifies
the monkey as female in his book, Wildlife Personalities. PETA’s own
president, Ingrid Newkirk, identified the monkey as female in a
2014 essay arguing that the monkey should own copyright in the
photos.
• Male Sulawesi crested macaques (also known as Celebes crested
macaques and black macaques) are about twice the size of female
macaques. They also have “enlarged canine teeth compared to
females.” The monkey in the famous “selfie” photo does not have
enlarged canine teeth compared to juvenile monkeys.
• What’s the controversy about?

33. Question 11
• We are all aware of the “monkey-selfie” controversy of 2013, but in
2015 the issue managed to make headlines once more…
• Some coverage of the monkey selfie controversy last year identified
the macaque as female. The photographer David Slater identifies
the monkey as female in his book, Wildlife Personalities. PETA’s own
president, Ingrid Newkirk, identified the monkey as female in a
2014 essay arguing that the monkey should own copyright in the
photos.
• Male Sulawesi crested macaques (also known as Celebes crested
macaques and black macaques) are about twice the size of female
macaques. They also have “enlarged canine teeth compared to
females.” The monkey in the famous “selfie” photo does not have
enlarged canine teeth compared to juvenile monkeys.
• What’s the controversy about?

34. Answer 11
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a male
Sulawesi crested macaque named Naruto,
arguing that the monkey owns a copyright in
the famous “monkey selfies.”

35. Question 12
• in 1950, when the International Organisations Division
(IOD) was set up by the CIA under Tom Braden. It was this
office which subsidised the animated version of George
Orwell's Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz
artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's
international touring programme. Its agents were placed in
the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel
writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know,
it promoted something that was supposed to bring people’s
attention away from social issues and social ills and was
used as a weapon in the propaganda war against the Soviet
Union.
• What was it that the CIA covertly promoted?

36. Question 12
• in 1950, when the International Organisations Division
(IOD) was set up by the CIA under Tom Braden. It was this
office which subsidised the animated version of George
Orwell's Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz
artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's
international touring programme. Its agents were placed in
the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel
writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know,
it promoted something that was supposed to bring people’s
attention away from social issues and social ills and was
used as a weapon in the propaganda war against the Soviet
Union.
• What was it that the CIA covertly promoted?

37. Answer 12
• Abstract art.

38. Question 13
• Operation INFEKTION was a KGB disinformation
campaign. The Soviet Union used it to undermine
the United States’ credibility, foster anti-
Americanism, isolate America abroad, and create
tensions between host countries and the U.S.
over the presence of American military bases
(which were often portrayed as the cause of X).
• The USSR abandoned the operation after
Gorbachev came to power (and needed American
help to deal with his own country’s X problem)
• What is this problem X?

39. Question 13
• Operation INFEKTION was a KGB disinformation
campaign. The Soviet Union used it to undermine
the United States’ credibility, foster anti-
Americanism, isolate America abroad, and create
tensions between host countries and the U.S.
over the presence of American military bases
(which were often portrayed as the cause of X).
• The USSR abandoned the operation after
Gorbachev came to power (and needed American
help to deal with his own country’s X problem)
• What is this problem X?

40. Answer 13
• AIDS virus
• The campaign spread information that the
United States invented HIV/AIDS as part of a
biological weapons research project at Fort
Detrick, Maryland.

41. Question 14
• X is a space-filling substance or field, thought
to be necessary as a transmission medium for
the propagation of electromagnetic or
gravitational forces.
• The word X comes from “Adhar” which meant
it was the basis or medium for the
propogation of all types of electomagnetic
waves.

42. Question 14
• X is a space-filling substance or field, thought
to be necessary as a transmission medium for
the propagation of electromagnetic or
gravitational forces.
• The word X comes from “Adhar” which meant
it was the basis or medium for the
propogation of all types of electomagnetic
waves.

43. Answer 14
• Aether/ether

44. Question 15
Sketches of the Sphinx by the
Dane Frederic Louis Norden
were created in 1737 and
published in 1755. Thease
sketches have helped debunk
which still popular myth
regarding The Sphynx?

45. Question 15
Sketches of the Sphinx by the
Dane Frederic Louis Norden
were created in 1737 and
published in 1755. Thease
sketches have helped debunk
which still popular myth
regarding The Sphynx?

46. Answer 15
• Napoleon's canon fire destroyed the Sphinx’s
nose and lips.
• They couldn’t have because Napolean only
invaded Egypt in 1798.

47. Question 16
• Xing is an Internet meme involving the music video for
the 1987 ____ Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a
hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at
hand, but actually leads to Astley's video. The link can
be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the
user cannot determine the true destination of the link
without clicking. People led to the music video are said
to have been Xed. Xing has extended beyond web links
to playing the video or song disruptively in other
situations, including public places, such as a live
appearance of Astley himself in the 2008 Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

48. Question 16
• Xing is an Internet meme involving the music video for
the 1987 ____ Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a
hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at
hand, but actually leads to Astley's video. The link can
be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the
user cannot determine the true destination of the link
without clicking. People led to the music video are said
to have been Xed. Xing has extended beyond web links
to playing the video or song disruptively in other
situations, including public places, such as a live
appearance of Astley himself in the 2008 Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

49. Answer 16
• Rickrolling

50. Question 17
• Cracked author Dan O’Brien- “…People who buy the book (which you can
do right here or here) might notice that I've curiously left out every
president that's still alive currently. Well, when you do the kind of research
associated with this subject matter, certain flags are raised, flags that the
government takes notice of, Flags I know intimately. While working on this
book, I made the very misguided decision to write and publish a (satirical)
article on Cracked advocating committing certain crimes against the
president. (I'm going to pause briefly to say that I, Daniel O'Brien, in my
capacity as an Internet role model, in no way endorse committing any
crimes against presidents. Non-presidents, too. I'm a really swell guy!). In
addition to having to take the article down, I also get stopped and pulled
aside at airports five out of six times that I fly.
• Nothing makes a joke funnier than a long explanation of what's funny
about it, and apparently O'Brien was forced to live through this particular
form of post-joke hell for a majority of the two hours he was questioned.
• My question, what is the book about/what is its title? The book has a 4.1
rating on Goodreads.

51. Question 17
• Cracked author Dan O’Brien- “…People who buy the book (which you can
do right here or here) might notice that I've curiously left out every
president that's still alive currently. Well, when you do the kind of research
associated with this subject matter, certain flags are raised, flags that the
government takes notice of, Flags I know intimately. While working on this
book, I made the very misguided decision to write and publish a (satirical)
article on Cracked advocating committing certain crimes against the
president. (I'm going to pause briefly to say that I, Daniel O'Brien, in my
capacity as an Internet role model, in no way endorse committing any
crimes against presidents. Non-presidents, too. I'm a really swell guy!). In
addition to having to take the article down, I also get stopped and pulled
aside at airports five out of six times that I fly.
• Nothing makes a joke funnier than a long explanation of what's funny
about it, and apparently O'Brien was forced to live through this particular
form of post-joke hell for a majority of the two hours he was questioned.
• My question, what is the book about/what is its title? The book has a 4.1
rating on Goodreads.

52. Answer 17
• How to Fight Presidents, which is about “how
to beat the crap out of every single lunatic
who ran this country(USA).”

53. Question 18
• This term comes from the fact that “___” used to be a
generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, rube,
unsophisticated, poor, or simpleton. More precisely, it
was once a common term for “country bumpkins” or
“hicks”, usually seen incorrectly as inherently stupid by
“city” folk.
• This term was propogated by automobile interests who
were trying to get pedestrians off the road, and their
legacy is that today this term describes a crime in the
United States.
• What term am I talking about?

54. Question 18
• This term comes from the fact that “___” used to be a
generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, rube,
unsophisticated, poor, or simpleton. More precisely, it
was once a common term for “country bumpkins” or
“hicks”, usually seen incorrectly as inherently stupid by
“city” folk.
• This term was propogated by automobile interests who
were trying to get pedestrians off the road, and their
legacy is that today this term describes a crime in the
United States.
• What term am I talking about?

55. Answer 18
• Jaywalking

56. Question 19
• Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 –
c. 160) was an important
leader in early Christianity.
His theology rejected the
deity described in the
Hebrew Scriptures and in
distinction affirmed the
Father of Christ as the true
God. The Church Fathers
denounced Marcion, and
he chose to separate
himself from the proto-
orthodox church.
• What is Marcion’s greateast
contribution to Christianity
as we know it today.

57. Question 19
• Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 –
c. 160) was an important
leader in early Christianity.
His theology rejected the
deity described in the
Hebrew Scriptures and in
distinction affirmed the
Father of Christ as the true
God. The Church Fathers
denounced Marcion, and
he chose to separate
himself from the proto-
orthodox church.
• What is Marcion’s greateast
contribution to Christianity
as we know it today.

58. Answer 19
• invented the Bible as you know it.
• Before Marcion, the Christian Bible as we
know it did not exist. There was no known
segregation between the "Old" (Jewish) and
"New" (Christian) Testaments before him. It
was just hundreds of different stories in free
circulation: multiple books of revelation, too
many gospels to count, and more coming in
every week.

59. Question 20
• His origin runs parallel to that of Batman's sidekick,
Robin -- both characters were raised in the circus by
trapeze-artist parents who were murdered by
criminals, prompting their sons to mete out justice in
pastels. But the Boy Wonder was whisked away to
stately Wayne Manor, He had no such luxury. In fact, he
began his crime-fighting career at the tender age of 14,
with an equally tender murder spree. Growing up with
the Jupiter Circus, He was hardened by years of
executing songbirds and running headfirst into brick
walls.
• Who is he?

60. Question 20
• His origin runs parallel to that of Batman's sidekick,
Robin -- both characters were raised in the circus by
trapeze-artist parents who were murdered by
criminals, prompting their sons to mete out justice in
pastels. But the Boy Wonder was whisked away to
stately Wayne Manor, He had no such luxury. In fact, he
began his crime-fighting career at the tender age of 14,
with an equally tender murder spree. Growing up with
the Jupiter Circus, He was hardened by years of
executing songbirds and running headfirst into brick
walls.
• Who is he?

61. Answer 20
• Super Commando Dhruv

62. Question 21
• The Ambubachi mela is a 4 day festival/Mela
that is celebrated in Assam once a year and
was in news recently. It's the time of the year
when the Kamakhya temple is closed for 4
days and also many tantric saints show
themselves only at this time of the year. What
does this Ambubachi mela celebrate or
commemorate?

63. Question 21
• The Ambubachi mela is a 4 day festival/Mela
that is celebrated in Assam once a year and
was in news recently. It's the time of the year
when the Kamakhya temple is closed for 4
days and also many tantric saints show
themselves only at this time of the year. What
does this Ambubachi mela celebrate or
commemorate?

64. Answer 21
• Kamakhya Devi’s annual menstrual cycle