Agnitus 2k16 finals

AGNITUS 2K16
FINALS
Researched and Conducted by Arjun

ROUND 1
• 8 Question Clockwise
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce
• +10 & -10 for a Pounce
• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question
• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next
Question.
• Here we go…

1
• Named after his father A. C. Moosa, Mosons group was
founded by Mr. MP Anwer in 1976 in Thalasseri. Started
off with a coconut manufacturing unit, the legacy was
continued when the company successfully produced Extra
Virgin type oil for the first time in India.
• The flagship brand of the company was launched in 2009.
This Rs 330cr “valued” brand was believed to be named
after the lead character from a 1889 work published from
Thalasseri.
• Just identify the brand?

Indulekha
• The lead character of the first “perfect” novel in
Malayalam literature by O. Chandumenon.
• Recently acquired by Hindustan Unilever for Rs 330cr.

2
• In the late 1940s, inspired from René
Lacoste's shirts, Tibby Wegner, an
Austrian footballer approached a British
sporting legend to launch a Tennis
apparel brand named after him. Finally
launched at Wimbledon in 1952, the
brand was an immediate success.
• The brand's logo is a laurel wreath. It
was based on the original symbol for
Wimbledon. And was previously the
clothing sponsor of Andy Murray.
• Identify this brand named after a former
Table Tennis World Champion?

• Fred Perry was the last Britton to win Wimbledon and Davis
cup before Andy Murray, Surprisingly he was 1929 world
Table Tennis Champion also.

3
• This is a photoshopped picture of late Princess
Diana meeting Kate Middleton and
contemplating the new born Royal baby. Even
though the creator was unknown, the picture
was highly praised by the internet media for it’s
perfection.
• But the original picture of Diana was taken
from a 1997 photograph of her meeting a world
famous person. Diana was very tall and in high
heel, has to bend down to talk this person
giving much respect, who was short.
• Who was this person? Or from where was this
photo of Diana taken?
(Pic Follows)

4
• After the de-recognition of student study circle by IIT
Madras last year, students from IIT Bombay and TISS
created their own version of study circle as a mark of
solidarity.
• They named their club after three prominent social
reformers of the country. Two from Maharashtra and one
from Tamilnadu.
• Either list out all the three or just name the club.

5
• This 1998 biopic opens with the words of Stanley Wolpert:
Few individuals significantly alter the course of history.
Fewer still modify the map of the world.
Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-
state.
________ ___ ______ did all three.
• Either identify the movie or Fill in the blank.

6
• Who in 1989 translated 33 African poems from 13 African
countries, to which he received a thanks giving letter from
Nelson Mandela?

7
• The Great Fire of London was occurred from 2
September to, 5 September 1666. It consumed 13,200
houses, 87 parish churches and destroyed the homes of
70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.
• But one of the useful aftermath of this great fire saved the
life of thousands of people in future. How?

Burning down the remaining bacteria of
the Great Plague of London (1665-1666)
• Fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much
unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which
transmitted the plague preventing subsequent major
outbreaks.

8
• Couple of months back Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat
(TNTJ) had issued a Fatwa on products from ‘Patanjali’
group.
• What was the reason behind this ban?

• Varies Patanjali products used cow urine as a key
ingredient. TNTJ says their use was considered ‘haram’
(forbidden) in Islam.

Round 2 : List it.
• 10 answers
• 3 points each
• Sorry, no bonus points if you correct all the 10.
• Please number from 1 to 10 and try to write only 10
answers, will count the first 10 answers only 
• Here we go…

List out the top 10 Batsmen in test cricket
as per latest ICC Rankings.
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

Check and spelling
• 1. Steven Smith
• 2. Kane Williamson
• 3. Joe Root
• 4. Hashim Amla
• 5. David Warner
• 6. Younus Khan
• 7. AB de Villiers
• 8. Angelo Mathews
• 9. Misbah Ul Haq
• 10. Ajinkya Rahane

ROUND 3
• 8 Question Anti Clockwise
Question.
• Here we go…

1
• Once there was a time Heroine was smuggled from
Turkey to US through France. The operation
reached its peak in 1960s & 70s, when it provided
the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the US
and Canada. The police term for this scheme
inspired the title of a 1969 book which was made to
a 1971 Hollywood movie. ( Incidentally this was the
first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for
Best Picture)
• Identify this term/book or the movie which also
shares its name with a UK-based fashion brand
known for its little annoying abbreviation.

2
• “Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea
which at a distance of 20 meters transforms
into the portrait of X (Homage to Y)” is a
1976 painting by Salvador Dalí.
• This curious painting, at a closer look
appears to be just that, Gala looking out the
window, but from a distance (say 20m)
appears to be the portrait of X.
• Identify X?
• Born as Elena Ivanovna Diakonova in 1894
in Kazan, Russian empire, and the model of
many paintings by Dali, who was Gala?
• Dali gave homage to Y through this painting,
who was suicide in 1970. Also identify Y?
(Pic Follows)

X- Abraham Lincoln, Y- Mark Rothko
• Gala was Salvador Dali’s wife. (see the gif image)

3
• The most amazing fact about the duo X and Y is that both
were born in Tamilnadu and shares the same date of
birth!!! 1 March 1926.
• At the age of 8, X migrate to Bombay with his father and
started a bicycle repair shop. Later he founded Dalit
Muslim Suraksha Maha Sangh in 1984 in Mumbai.
Amitabh Bachan’s character in the movie “Deewar” was
inspired from X’s life.
• Mani Ratnam’s movie “Nayakan” was based on Y. It uses
the life of Y as a reference point.
• When Y died a aged death in Tamilnadu in 1988, his body
was taken to Mumbai in a chartered flight by X as per Y’s
wishes.
• Identify X & Y?

• X –Haji Mastan
• Y –Varadarajan Mudaliar

4
• Whose smile was once Albert Camus compared to that of
the Mona Lisa? He once owned a copy of this item.
• Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem in 1934 as a tribute to
this. Often called “Ophelia of the Seine”, the earliest
mention can be found in Richard Le Gallienne's 1900
novella The Worshipper of the Image, in which an
English poet falls in love with this, eventually leading to
the death of his daughter and the suicide of his wife.

The model of CPR doll
• L’inconnue de la Seine (“The Unknown Woman of the
Seine”)

5
• In computer science, what term is used to describe
“putting files infected by computer viruses into a special
directory, so as to eliminate the threat they pose, without
irreversibly deleting them”.?
• Also the title of many science fiction movies, this term is
often used in connection to disease and illness.

6) What am I talking about?
• Damien Lewis: Age 44, Reddish hair with resemblance to X
makes him the most favorite in the list. He is nicknamed Ginger X.
• Edris Elba: If he is selected. Then he must be the first black X.
• Tom Hardy: His flexible body and action makes him the most
popular one in the race.
• Robbie Williams: He once imitated X in his video song titled “
Millennium”.
• Michael Fasbender: Age 38. The German-born actor exhibited
great skills while portraying Macbeth and Steve Jobs. Also his
handsome look gives him an additional advantage.
• David Beckham: There were some rumors that Beckham was
selected but he denied all.

7
• “Receive and respond to notifications in an instant. Track
Your daily activity. Start a work put using only your voice.
Never lose your boarding pass. With X, important
information and essential features are always just a raise
of the ___ away”.
• Advertisement of a product which is marketed and
distributed in India by Redington and Ingram Micro.
• Just identify this product?

8
• His real name was Guan Moye. His popular name,
meaning "don't speak“ was the warning given him by his
parents fearing the Mao Zedong Government.
• Identify him?

Round 4 : Written Round
• 6 Questions
• 5 points each
• Again Sorry, no bonus
• Here we go…

Quotes of 2015 from the
SPORTS WORLD
Questions

1
•“Getting a Hundred in 31 balls was
unheard of. I took 31 balls to get off
the mark”
• Whose quote? What was the occasion?
• (2.5 points each)

2
•“I didn’t even get married in white”
• What was US tennis player Bethanie Mattek-Sands
complaining about?

3
•“ It would be having a more open,
honest relationship with my ex-wife”
• Whose reply, after being asked what he would change
most in his life and career as he approaches 40?

4
•“I am a mountain goat that keeps
going and going and going. I cannot
be stopped. I just keep going”
• Before his re-election for a “fifth” term, who was quoted
like this?

5
•“I never dreamt I’d be able to get eight
wickets in a spell. My previous best
ever bowling was seven for twelve
against Kim Bolton School Under-15s”
• Whose quote after his career best performance?

6
•“I’m a totally normal guy, I’m the
normal one”
• When asked how he would describe himself, this is what
Jurgen Klopp said when he faced the media for the first
time as Liverpool manager. He was actually referring
another press conference by a person that happened way
back in 2004.
• Who was that person? which resulted in the media giving
him a nickname, and many football memes.

Quotes of 2015 from the
SPORTS WORLD
Answers

1
•“Getting a Hundred in 31 balls was
unheard of. I took 31 balls to get off
the mark”
• Whose quote? What was the occasion?

• Sunil Gavaskar when AB de Villiers scored a 31 ball
hundred.

Sepp Blatter
• Before his fifth term as FIFA president.

Stuart Broad
• After his 8/15 at Trent Bridge against Australia.

Jose Mourinho, The Special One

ROUND 5: 15 Pointer
• 6 Question Clockwise
Question.
• Here we go…

1
• Nobody has any idea about how this mistake
happened. Most of the people think that the
person in charge must be a Manchester United
supporter and thought nobody will notice. Or
probably just wanted to troll X.
• As of April 2014, the Indian government had
decided to drop the image because of its "poor
quality", rather than admitting it's mistake. As
usual, various government institutions kept
shifting the blame onto one another.
• What am I talking about?

Is this John Terry in the Gold Flake
Statutory warning? 

2
• Samajwadi Party bought rights to a 1989 classic
song for their 2014 election campaign. Inspired from
this song, they created their own version of the song
called “Mann se hai Mulayam….aur irada loha
hai!” (He is soft-hearted but iron-willed).
• The song’s lyrics mention iconic socialist leaders
like Ram Manohar Lohia ,Jai Prakash Narayan,
Charan Singh etc… The song seems to sound like
a much softer version from the original but still
attempts to deliver a strong message to garner
support from the people.
• Just identify the original song?

And the answer is…
• Video Removed.

3
• As said by photo journalist Pablo Bartholomew,
• During 1970s there was a collaboration between two
Delhi colleges St Stephen’s and Miranda House.
Whenever St Stephen’s would need women actors, they’d
get them from Miranda House; whenever Miranda House
would need male actors, they’d come from St Stephen’s.
• So what was resulted out of this collaboration between
these two Delhi colleges in 1970s? That also gave
Bartholomew a rare and now ‘astonishing’ photograph of
two well known Indians.

Mira Nair and Shashi Tharoor as Cleopatra and
Antony in the play Cleopatra by Mira Nair

4
• Born in Munich, Germany, Walter Sickert was a painter and
printmaker who lived in London. A prominent figure in the
transition from Impressionism to Modernism, he took a keen
interest to portray crime scenes in his works.
• During early 2000s, American novelist Patricia Cornwell,
purchased 31 of Sickert's paintings. After closely examining the
plots of these paintings and comparing the DNA of Sickert with
Mitochondrial DNA from one of more than hundreds of letters
by a person from 1888 to 1891, she claimed that she has
proved some conspiracy theory which was originally
developed by English journalist and author Stephen Knight in
1976.
• What was her claim?
(Pic Follows)

Walter Sickert and his paintings

He was Jack the Ripper
• Many of Sickert’s painting were actually resembling
Ripper’s crime scenes.

5) Who is the missing person?Also identify
what list is this?

Angela Merkel
• Women to become TIME person of the year

6
• Unlike other sporting icons Christiano
Ronaldo don’t have any tattoos on his
body. The reason behind this is due to a
certain ‘practice’ he undergo once in every
six months.
• Why Christiano Ronaldo don’t have any
tattoos on his body?

Blood donation
• He donates blood twice a year.
• Tattoo stains will spread in blood and will cause cross-
contamination and diseases like hepatitis

Round 6 : Long Visual Connect
• 12 visuals will be shown one by one
• Give me the over all connect between these visuals
• In Exhaustive list
• Points at each visual is shown
• This is the last round, all the best!
• May the force with you…

What’s the Connection?
• Peter o‘Toole
• Paul Allen
• Dustin Hoffman
• Robert De Niro
• Wole Soyinka
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Cristina Fernández Kirchner
• Desmond Tutu
• Gautami
• Innocent
• Mamta Mohandas
• Yuvraj Singh

Thank You 
• Arjun
Contact:
9645553735
m.arjunknr@gmail.com

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