General Quiz , League Matches , Quiz Master Soumik Choudhury

1. General Round
Final / Round Match Set 1

2. Q 1
• During the Presidential election of a West African country
in 2005, a party named ‘Congress for Democratic Change’
had backed the candidacy of X. X in spite of being much
popular in his country had to face the hurdle of his lack of
education, being popularised by his opponent. X had lost the
final round to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by 60-40.
• In 2014, he ran for election to the Senate as a ‘Congress for
Democratic Change’ candidate and had won it.
• Identify X whose son have conquered New Delhi ?

3. Safety first

4. A 1
George Weah

5. Q 2
•X is a demon in German folklore. It is associated with the
Legend of Faust, where John Faust , a scholar who in order
to seek all knowledge and magic powers had summoned the
Devil to crack a deal. And Devil sent his representative X.
According to the story X had to serve Faust for several years
and then Faust was to be enslaved forever.
• Now, if you add the French counterparts of words such as
‘of’, ‘the’, ‘great’ in front of X, and two ‘large domesticated
wild oxen with shaggy hair, humped shoulders and large
horns mostly found in Tibet’ you get to revisit your
childhood.
• Give me X.

6. Safety first

7. A 2
X: Mephistopheles

8. Q 3
•

9. • These documents talk about something being handed over
in exchange of a 7.2 million USD. What is being talked about,
also known as ‘Seward’s Folly’ or ‘Seward’s icebox’.

10. Safety first

11. A 3
Alaska being transferred to Americans

12. Q 4
• According to Norse mythology, X is a series of future
events, including a great battle, foretold to ultimately result
in death of number of major figures, the occurrence of
various natural disasters and subsequent submersion of
world in water.
• Interestingly in Bengali literature, we have got the
reference of X in a story called ‘Debotar Durbuddhi’ by Y.
• Identify X and Y

13. Safety first

14. A 4
X: Ragnarok
Y: Sukumar Ray

15. Q 5
• Being himself a Republican Ludwig Van Beethoven had
huge admiration and respect for X. Hence, he dedicated his
third symphony to X by naming it after him. Beethoven
compared X with greatest consuls of Ancient Rome.
• But, when Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven’s secretary informed
him about things X had done, Beethoven broke into rage and
exclaimed ‘So he is no more than a common mortal’, thus
tore down the title page and named it ‘Sinfonia eroica’.
• Give me X

16. Safety first

17. A 5
Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Symphony was named Bonaparte

18. Q 6
• The phrase originates from a pre match TV show before a
Man City vs Everton match.
• The two gentlemen involved in the discussion was Richard
Keys and Andy Grey. And they were discussing about the
Ballon D’Or nominees CR7 and LM10. While Andy was all
praise for the Argentine, but also pointed out although
Messi had scored so many goals in Spain, it will be tough for
him to score against EPL teams.
• And for that, he coined the famous line, ‘Can he do it on a
_____________________?’
• Fill in the blanks (anything close will do)

19. Safety first

20. A 6
Cold Rainy Night at Stoke

21. Q 7
• These are the mandatory specification for X.
• Overall length: 10.95 cm
• Length of Barrel : 5.40 cm
• Length of longer spigot : 3.49 cm
• Length of shorter spigot : 2.06 cm
• Material : Dense wood usually Lignum Vitae
• What is being talked about?

22. Safety first

23. A 7
Bails

24. Q 8
• Identify the gentleman.
• P.S: His band has got a funny name.

25. Safety first

26. A 8
Jared Leto as Kurt Cobain.

27. Q 9
• Recently scientists of Adelaide University have found
living large South American ‘horned frogs’ who have bite
force that matches the majority mammal predators.
• Researchers have studied their ‘bite-force’ of these frogs
and fascinating fact is that these frogs have been named
after X, as X frogs, due to their spherical shape and large
mouth.
• Give me X.

28. Safety first

29. Pacman Frogs

30. Q 9
•

31. Safety first

32. Rani Rasmoni, because she was a ‘Sudra’

33. Q 10
• In the world of music, an octave is 8 notes; now if numbers
are assigned to each one of them then C being the 1, D being
2……… A being the 7, and C in the next octave is 8 and so on.
• Now in February 2011 a certain Youtuber Michael Blake in
order to test what _____ would probably sound like at 157
beats per minute used following notes in order. (The Bold and
italic one in the next line denotes higher octave).
• E-C-F-C-G-D-B-A-G-C-D-A-D-E-D-E-C-F-A-D-A-F-E-E-C-E-D-B-
D-G and so on.
• Fill in the blanks

34. Safety first

35. The Sound of Pi

36. Q 11
• This was used in a much talked about advertisement
which showed a hand writing the above equation with
a Parker pen. Equation of what?

37. Safety first

38. V is Vermouth
G is Gin
And this is the equation of Martini

39. Q 12
• In French, ‘Marionette’ means ‘Little Mary’. In France it
can refer to any kind of _______, but outside of France the
word means only ‘String ______’.
• Seeing marionettes, however, might immidiately make
you connect them to a very famous book cover.
• So, what are Marionettes?
• On which book’s cover would you have famously seen
Marionette?

40. Safety first

41. Puppet Strings or String Puppets
The Godfather by Mario Puzo

42. Q 13
Identify the Personalities from the next four slides. Each
fetches you 10 points.

43. # 1

44. # 2

45. # 3

47. 1. Schrodinger
2. Heisenberg
3. Charles Dickens
4. Pythagoras

48. General Round
Set 2

49. Q 1
• Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was an influential Italian publisher
and businessman. He had established his own publishing
house in Milan in 1954.
• Its’ first published book was the autobiography of a Prime
Minister of a newly liberated country, X.
• However, in 1956 an Italian journalist had shown him the
manuscript of Y, written by Boris Pasternak. The novel back
then was rejected for publication in USSR. But, Giangiacomo
had smuggled it stating “Not to publish a novel like this
would constitute a crime against culture”.
• He had also sold the film rights of that book to MGM for
450,000 USD. Give me both X and Y.

50. Safety Slide

51. A 1
X : Jawaharlal Nehru
Y : Dr. Zhivago

52. Q 2
• In 1992, Quentin Tarantino released his first full length
feature film Reservoir Dogs, a classical independent crime
thriller, In the opening of the film Mr. Brown (played by
Quentin himself) remarks that X’s 80’s pop-banger Y has
got to be a ‘metaphor for big d**ks.’
• Later during a party celebrating the release of the film, X
handed Tarantino an autographed copy of X’s latest record.
The autograph read: “Quentin, it’s about love not d**k”
• Give me X and Y
• Hint : London Thumakda by Labh Janjua

53. Safety Slide

54. Loudspeaker te, ‘Madonna’ vajdi;
Ho ‘Like a virgin’ Aithe Utthe Kehndi

55. Q 3
• On May 2, 2007, an exhibition match was held between
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the capital city of Nadal’s
home island, Palma De Mallorca.
• The contest was won by Nadal 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (12-10).
• The contest itself was one of a kind in the history of
Tennis. What was so special about it?

56. Safety Slide

58. Q 4
• In 1980, Captain Charles _______ was managing land in
Ireland when poor harvest struck. The lord whose land he
was managing offered to reduce the rents of his tenants,
but the offer was unsatisfactory.
• Tenants then refused to do anything with Captain
_______. The lands were left untended, shops would not
sell to his family, and post was not delivered to his house.
• In the end, the protest was successful and ______
became synonymous with targeted ostracism.
• Fill in the blank.

59. Safety Slide

60. A 4
Boycott

61. Q 5
• X is a term with ironic connotation and portmanteau of
two words, coined for the first time in ‘Wired’ magazine in
1997.
• It depicts the combination of legislative actions and
technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to
regulate their domestic internet activity like blocking access
to the certain foreign websites, slowing down cross-border
internet traffic, filtering key words out of searches etc etc.
• What is the term that has been aptly used to describe the
barrier China has put to control and contain internet usage.

62. Safety Slide

63. A 5
Great ‘Firewall’ of China

64. Q 61. Stockholm 1912 -
Italy 2 0 0
France 1 1 0
Switzerland 1 0 0
2. Antwerp 1920 -
Belgium 2 1 3
Italy 1 1 0
France 0 1 0
3. Paris 1924 -
Luxembuorg 1 1 0
France 1 0 2
Greece 1 0 0 ………

65. ………… 6. Berlin 1936 -
Nazi Germany 5 5 2
Italy 1 4 0
Austria 1 1 2
7. London 1948 -
Finland 2 1 1
Austria 1 2 1
Italy 1 1 2
• No longer in operation since then, What is being talked
about?

66. Safety Slide

67. A 6
Art Competitions at Olympics

68. Q 7
There have been 12 ‘X’ puns used by this young British
meteorologist. Give me X

69. Safety Slide

70. Star Wars

71. Q 8
• The ‘Rumi’ gate in Lucknow built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula has
been one of the greatest but not much highlighted
architecture, it is the gateway of Asafi Imambara.
• The ‘Rumi’ darwaja and the great Persian, Islamic scholar
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ‘Rumi’ had no connection whatsoever,
except the fact that both had ‘Rumi’ in their names.
• So, what importance does the word ‘Rumi’ have in the Islamic
world, that so many things and people have been named after
it.
• Second part, how did Jalal ad-din Rumi helped a certain
woman who hails from 928 km west of Lucknow to keep calm?

72. Safety Slide

73. • ‘Rumi’ means Roman.
• Mithali Raj was reading ‘The Essential Rumi’

74. Q 9
তীর এঁকেছ েমকরড,
কেোথোয় কতোমোর তীরন্দোজ
কতোমোর কেতো ‘X’ দো,
আকমররেোর ক োলন্দোজ
• Extending his support towards the Peasant uprising at
Naxalbari, X had written a play named তীর.
• After the split in CPIM, CPIM had painted the
abovementioned prose on the walls.
• Give me X.

75. Safety Slide

76. Utpal Dutta

77. Q 10
• ‘The man in the high castle’ is a novel written by Philip K
Dick set in 1962. It won the Hugo award for Best Novel in
1963. In 2015, the book was adapted as a multi-season TV
series with Philip’s daughter Isa Dick Heckett serving as
one of the producers.
• The plot of the novel can be guessed by this map
presented by Philip himself. (Next slide)
• What is the plot summary?

79. Safety Slide

80. Alternative ending of WW2, that is of Axis
winning

81. Q 11
• Identify the two celebrities who
are cross-dressed.
• Not gonna give any hints for the
male.
• The woman is a British actress.
Identify her.

82. Safety Slide

83. • David Bowie and Tilda Swinton

84. Q 12
• Identify the song and (the band or the singer)
• About this British musician and singer-songwriter, David
Grohl on the website of Foo Fighters had written “F*ck
Elvis and Keith Richards, X is the King of Rock ‘n Roll.

85. Safety Slide

86. •‘Ace of Spades’ by Motorhead
•Lemmy Kilmister

87. Q 13 aka Game-changer
• In the Texas Hold’em poker game, a starting hand consists
of two hole cards, which belong solely to the players, and
remain hidden for the rest of the bidding.
• Now, Texas Hold’em has a wide variety of nicknames for
the pair of cards. When a player announces his hand he or
the commentators uses these nicknames to declare them.
• Example: Suppose, if the commentator says,
“ Here you go an ‘Asterix and Obelix’” that means the player
has got a ‘Pair of Ace and 8’- A (Asterix), 8 (Obelix looks like
an 8 because of his fat tummy).
• It can be abbreviation or can have meaning imbedded in it
as well

88. Guess Nickname#1
• Gorilla in the Mist
• Joseph Kevin Keegan
• Kenny Dalglish
• Elvis Presley

89. Guess Nickname#2
• Kalashnikov
• King Arthur
• Anna Kournikova
• Big Slick

90. Guess Nickname#3
• Tri Nitro Toluene
• Audi
• Dime (US Currency)
• Tension

91. Guess Nicknames #4
• Infinity on the side
• Lacey (after Shoe laces)
• Snowmen
• Piano Keys

92. Safety Slide

93. #1- Pair of Kings (KK)
#2- Ace and King (AK)
#3- Pair of 10 (T ‘n T)
#4- Pair of 8 (looks like snowmen)

94. General Round
Set 3

95. Q 1
• Mysorean Rockets are the first iron-cased rockets
successfully deployed for military use ever. Hyder Ali and his
son Tipu Sultan had successfully used them against the
British.
• After the fall of Srirangapatnam, 600 launchers, 700 empty
rockets and 9000 empty rockets were found. And these led
the Royal Woolwich Arsenal to start their own research and
development program in 1801, which later enabled Britain
to use them in Napoleonic War and Battle of 1812.
• During the bombardment of Fort McHenry, these rockets
were being used that inspired a 35 year old lawyer to write
something about it. And thus came the X.
• Identify X and the 35 years old lawyer.

96. Safety Slide

97. A 1
Francis Scott Key
The Star-Spangled Banner

98. Q 2
• The Russo-Polish War or the ‘Thirteen Year’s War’ was a
major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the
Lithuania-Polish Commonwealth.
• The results had gone in favour of Russians because of the
sickening Polish economy could no longer support a war and
joining of Cossacks, the warrior steppe people in favour of
Russia.
• In 1667, the war commenced. Russia captured parts of
South-Eastern Poland. The Pole's and the Russians have
informally nicknamed the area as X, derived from an old slavic
word litterally meaning ‘Borderland’ as it served as the
border b/w Russia, Poland and Cossacks. Id X

99. Safety Slide

100. A 2
Ukrainia or Ukraine

101. Q 3
• One million year B.C is a 1966 British adventure/ fantasy
film starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a
fictional age of dinosaurs and cavemen.
• However the movie is famous for a particular ‘Fur Bikini’
worn by Raquel Welch. It was described as ‘Mankind’s first
bikini’. The publicity photograph of Welch wearing that Bikini
became the best pinup poster and a cultural phenomenon.
• The question is why does a certain Samuel Norton from a
Stephen King novel think that the poster had been a part of a
conspiracy? (Poster in next slide)

103. Safety Slide

104. A 3

105. Q 4
• Charlemagne or Charles ,the Great was the king of
Lombards from 774 and Emperor of Romans from 800. He
united much of the Europe in middle ages, and also the first
recognised emperor of Western Europe since holy roman
empire. (Pic next slide)
• However, due to a copying error several centuries ago,
Charlemagne’s moustache has been a point of debate for
centuries which is till now relevant.
• Where can we see the error

107. Safety Slide

108. A 4

109. Q 6
• Veggietales is an American series of children’s computer
animated television shows, videos, and feature films
featuring anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables in stories
conveying moral themes.
• In this particular video you see a story of a lady
‘Blueberry’. The story is narrated by a ‘French pea’ during
his time in France, when a certain ‘Blueberry’ used to fall
under ‘materialistic temptations’.
• Which novel served an inspiration behind this?

110. Safety Slide

111. Madame Bovary

112. Q 7
• This song by Jyotirindranath Tagore draws its inspiration
from another song Y written by X.
• According to X, “Sirf Shayari aur Maujiki hi mardki aankhon
mein aansu la sakte hai.”
• X was a resident of Gardenreech. Give me X and Y

113. Safety Slide

114. A 7
X = Wajid Ali Shah
Y =

115. Q 8
• The Ad campaign of BSA SLR cycles was quite an
innovative one, they used to publish comic strips depicting
how ‘stars’ at many point of their life owe their success to
the BSA SLR cycles.
• Like, X’s taxi was stalled on the way to Airport, The team
had already boarded; then an young fan lent him her cycle
and X had races his way to the airport and wins Man of the
Match award.
• Similarly Y was on his way to an important Davis cup tie,
He was stuck in traffic and rescued only by the BSA SLR.
• Give me X and Y

116. Safety Slide

117. A 8
X – Kapil Dev
Y – Vijay Amritraj

118. Q 9
• This particular scene in TDKR was shot in 23 Wall St, or the
‘Corner building’ formerly owned by X & Co. (Video next
slide)
• Among the unsuccessful ventures of X , in 1900 Y had once
convinced X that he could build a Trans-Atlantic wireless
communication (sited at Wardenclyffe) that would
outperform the short range radio wave based Telegraph
system of Marconi. X agreed to lend Y $150000.
• But, after signing the deal Y wanted to scale up the facility
by including more of his ideas. This was not liked by X at all
and finally X gave up the Wanderclyff project
• X & Y

120. Safety Slide

121. A 9
• J P Morgan
• Nikola Tesla

122. Q 10
• Da Vinci was sitting looking at his easel, in front of the
Mona Lisa thinking “Where did the yellow went!”. Among
the tubes of paint there was a tube of _________, that had
supposedly absorbed all the yellow.
• __________ in ads several years ago demanded to have
an element ‘Irium’ in its composition, which many believe
to be an imaginary one. Though later confirmed Irium was
‘Sodium lauryl Sulphate’, a type of Detergent.
• FITB

123. Safety Slide

124. A 10
• Pepsodent

125. Q 11
• Treatment of what?

127. Safety Slide

128. Writer’s Block

129. Q 12
• ‘Dr. X will see you now, Mr. Y’ is a play written by Laurence
Marks and Maurice Gran.
• A small boy, Y was taken to a local doctor, suffering from
recurring nightmares. The doctor realised that there was
nothing he could prescribe which could help Y. And
suggested Mrs Y to take her son to Vienna, where a
psychiatrist had opened first child psychiatric clinic in the
country.
• X after seeing Y realised that he has been beaten regularly,
that is leading him to a state of depression and requests Y’s
mother to convince his father stop mistreating with him. But
humiliated Y’s father refuses X to see Y again.
•And thus history remains unchanged. Id X and Y

130. Safety Slide

131. X- Sigmund Freud
Y- Adolf Hitler

132. Q 13
Game Changer (Like father, like son /
And here we are, the Game is on)

133. #1
• X was a Danish former professional footballer who played
for Manchester United and voted as IFFHS World’s best
goalie in 1992-93. X had captained the Red Devils in 98-99
that led to the great ‘Treble’.
• Y is also a professional footballer, who had been also a
member of a Premier League winning team. Y has signed an
ambassadorial agreement with ‘Precision Goalkeeping’ that
conducts the release of ‘________logy’(surname)
Goalkeeping range (gloves).
• X and Y
• P.S: There is a joke that, X won PL, retired; Y won PL. But
meanwhile Liverpool couldn’t win

134. #2
• Webb Miller was an American journalist who had covered
multiple events like World War 1, Spanish Civil War, Italian
invasion of Ethiopia. But one of his notable works was
reporting of Salt Satyagraha raid on Dharasana Salt Works,
that turned the opinion against British Empire. In Richard
Attenborough’s Gandhi the character of journalist ‘Walker’
was an adaptation of him. X had played the character of
Walker.
• ________________ is an American sitcom about two
brothers. Y had played the character of elder brother. Y in
real life was detected to be HIV+. Y was also a part of
‘Nicosheen’, a line of disposable E-cigarettes and elated
products. X and Y

135. #3
• This draws its inspiration from an actual cricketing
event. During the 67-68, at Adelaide oval a similar kind
of event had happened. Due to the huge size of
Adelaide Oval X had to pull of such a trick.
• Just a few days ago twitter was flooded with a hashtag
‘#Arnab_did_it. It all started when Y had posted a video
from two years ago when Arnab claimed that the car in
which he was traveling for covering the news, was
attacked two km away from the then CM Modi. Y had
also stated the fact that Arnab had never covered it.
• X and Y.

136. #4
• During the Peshwa Balaji Bishwanath The Maratha empire
was divided among various small chieftains.
• Among them, the ________s got a chance to rule over
Gwalior province.
• X was their last ‘Maharaja’, when the 26th amendment was
passed and ‘Privy Purse’ was decided to be discontinued.
• Y studied economics in Harvard, and received M.B.A degree
from Stanford. Y recently had to step down from the
chairman of the Cricket Association of his state following the
implementation of Lodha Committee.
• X and Y

137. Safety Slide

138. • Peter Schmeichel, Kasper Schmeichel
• Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen
• Dilip Sardesai, Rajdeep Sardesai
• Madhavrao and Jotiraditya Scinidia