The General Quiz which was conducted by Tarun Mascarenhas on 19 January 2018.

1. Run up to Nihilanth
General Quiz
Tarun Mascarenhas

2. Bounce and pounce
 10/0 on bounce
 10/-5 on pounce

3. 1
 Organizer Cyrus Gorimar from Opium Events says,
“I tried to get them down in 2007 but it didn’t work
out for whatever reason. I’ve kept trying and this
past April I tried again and finally got them.”
Gorimar also tells us that the _____ are very
particular about their sound and are coming to India
with almost 9000 kilograms of gear.... “The only
thing we are giving is the PA and stage,” says
Gorimar.
 What is he talking about?

4. 1
 Dream Theatre, India concert

5. 2

6. 2

7. 3
 Connect

8. 3
 Betelgeuse

9. 4
 X is a non-empty computer program which takes no
input and produces a copy of its own source code as its
only output.
 The name was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his
popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal
Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van
Orman X (1908–2000), who made an extensive study of
indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following
paradox-producing expression, known as X's paradox:
 "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation"
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

10. 4
 Quine

11. 5
 Connect

12. 5
 Bohemian Rhapsody
 Scaramouche, Fandango, Galileo

13. 6
 X, or savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes. It has
been described as brothy or meaty.
 People taste X through taste receptors that typically
respond to glutamate. Glutamate is widely present in
meat broths and fermented products, and commonly
added to some foods in the form of monosodium
glutamate (MSG).

14. 6
 Umami

15. Group Theory
 Written
 Groups and their members
 FITBs
 5 points per question
 Eg: Pandavas: Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula
and ___________.

16. 1.____________: Jonny Buckland, Will Champion,
_____ ________ and Guy Berryman
2.The ______ ________: Placido Domingo, José
Carreras and ___________ ___________
3.______ ______: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
and Thomas Bangalter.
4._______: Dominic Howard, Matt Bellamy, Chris
Wolstenholme

17. 5. ____________: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis,Charles
Williams, Owen Barfield, Warren Hamilton....
1. Three Musketeers: __________, ___________,
and __________
2. The Bee Gees: Robin, Maurice, and Barry _______
3.________’s _______: Fatso, Stinky, and Stretch
4.________ ________: Moe and Curly Howard, and
Larry Fine

18. 10. The ______, ______ and _______: (In order)
_______ ____________, Lee Van Cleef, Eli
Wallach
11.The _______ Brothers: Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and
_______ ______
12. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

19. Exchange sheets!
 5 points per question

20. 1.Coldplay: Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris
Martin and Guy Berryman
2.The Three Tenors: Placido Domingo, José
Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti
3.Daft Punk: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and
Thomas Bangalter.
4.Muse: Dominic Howard, Matt Bellamy, Chris
Wolstenholme

21. 5. Inklings: (Most famously) JRR Tolkien, CS
Lewis,Charles Williams,....
1. Three Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
2. The Bee Gees: Robin, Maurice, and Barry Gibb
3.Casper’s Uncles:Fatso, Stinky, and Stretch (funda)
4.Three Stooges: Moe and Curly Howard, and Larry
Fine

22. 10. The Good, Bad and Ugly: (In order) Clint
Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
11.The Marx Brothers: Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and
Groucho Marx
12. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
Conquest/Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death

23. 7
 Folklore links X to the tale of Dulla Bhatti, whose real
name was Abdullah Bhatti and lived in Punjab during
the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar. He was regarded
as a hero in Punjab, for rescuing Punjabi girls from
being forcibly taken to be sold in slave market of the
Middle East. Amongst those he saved were two girls
Sundri & Mundri, who gradually became a theme of
Punjab' folklore. As a part of X celebrations, children go
around homes singing the traditional folk songs.
 ID festival X

24. 7
 Lohri Festival

25. 8
 Which city was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra
Señora la Reina de _____ del Río Porciúncula
("The Town of Our Lady the Queen of ____ on the
River Porciúncula")
 The blank is its current name
 Purposely not indicative of length.

26. 8
 Los Angeles
 El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los
Ángeles del Río Porciúncula

27. 9
 This 2 pound coin
was minted in
2013 for the 150
th
Anniversary.
 What does the
amusing edge
inscription read?
 Close enough
funda will do.

28. 9
 Mind the Gap

29. 10
 What is the vehicle registration code for Telangana?
(TN is Tamil Nadu)

30. 10
 TS

31. 11
 Everyone knows about Rani Padmini’s later life.
She was the wife of Ratan Sen of Chittor. And the
whole Allaudin Khilji ‘affair’. But nevermind.
 She was from the Singhal kingdom. Where was this
kingdom situated?

32. 11
 Sri Lanka

33. 12
 Google doodle on 9
th
Jan for whose 96
th
birthday?

34. 12
 Nobel prize winning biochemist Har Gobind
Khorana

35. 13
 In 1855, an entrepreneurial Scotsman named
Edward Abraham Dyer, father of Colonel Reginald
Edward Harry Dyer of Jallianwala Bagh massacre,
set up a brewery in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh.
 It later changed hands and became X. X has been
in the news recently.

36. 13
 Mohan Meakin

37. 14
 Connect

38. 14
 People called on for Seth Meyer’s Golden Globes
opening- “Jokes Seth can’t crack”

39. 15
 This player is currently in Cologne receiving treatment
on a thigh injury.
 But while he's there, the 32-year-old opened his own
kebab shop, with two fellow co-owners which attracted
over 1,000 hungry fans to its opening.

40. 15
 Lukas Podolski

41. 16

42. 16
 Knuckles

43. 17
 What happens after this? Describe the celebration.
 https://youtu.be/cJNDLlTLx98?t=27

44. 17
 Starlin Castro’s Fake Press Conference

45. 18
 Instead of relying on CGI, for the vast fields shown
around the protagonist’s farm, this director decided on
the real deal; even though the film had a budget of $165
million.
 "Luckily, Zack had grown a bunch of _____, so I said,
'How much can you really grow practically?'" he told
The Hollywood Reporter. "In the end, we got a pretty
good crop, and we actually made money on this."
 Give the director and film

46. 18
 Christopher Nolan
 Interstellar

47. 19
 ID the organisation whose logo is given here

48. 19

49. 20
 Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil has opened up his
15-acre palace grounds to vulnerable people of a
certain section of society. He is the son and
probable heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat
in western India, will run the centre with his
organisation The Lakshya Trust.
 He was ostracised by his family in 2006 for a
particular reason, hence making this cause a
personal one.

50. 20
 LGBT
 He came out as gay in 2006.

51. 21
 Give funda

52. 21
 UIDAI data center at Hebbal, Bengaluru

53. 22
 ID all 4

54. 22
 Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narasimha Rao and
Chandrashekar and Sonia Gandhi in Parliament

55. 23
 In light of the recent sad reports of Team Indus
pulling out of the Google Lunar X Prize competition.
 Expand ECA

56. 23
 Ek Choti Asha

57. 24
 Give
funda

58. 24
 Ancient African Nuclear Reactor
 No natural reactors exist today, as the relative
density of fissile uranium has now decayed below
that needed for a sustainable reaction. Pictured
above is Fossil Reactor 15, located in Oklo, Gabon.

59. 25
 Funda

60. 25

61. 26
 A full meltdown has been avoided so far at Japan's
40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Neverless, as far away as Tokyo, 240 kilometers to
the south, the city government says small amounts
of the radioactive iodine and cesium have been
detected in the air.
 The government distributed 230,000 units of X
tablets as a precautionary measure.
 Give X and funda

62. 26
 Potassium iodide
 It has been shown to protect the thyroid gland from the
radioactive form of iodine released by nuclear accidents
or emergencies that could lead to thyroid cancer.
 Thyroid cancer ended up being the biggest negative
health impact caused by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor
disaster

63. Recycled fundae
 Credits to my quizzer friends from Goa.
 Nathan, Annie,

64. 27
 This is Gary Connery. What’s his claim to fame?

65. 27
 The Queen’s stunt double for the London Olympics
opening.

66. 28
 Which tech company has used the tagline “I think
therefore _____”, changing just one letter from the
original.

67. 28
 IBM

68. 29
 Which institution grew out of a ‘laboratory’ set up in
the 1920s by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in
Presidency College, Calcutta?

69. 29
 ISI

70. 30
 ID the company

71. 30
 21
st
Century Fox

72. 31
 This is the chemist
Stephanie Kwolek, the
developer of a life saving
substance.
 What is her claim to fame?

73. 32
 Who or what are Mogul, Muse, Marvel, Mountaineer
and Marksmen

74. 32
 The Trumps (their chosen secret service
codenames) for Donald, Melania, Ivanka, Donald Jr
and Eric respectively.

75. 33
 After exhausting big cats, what are now being
named after california landmarks?

76. 33
 Apple OS releases (Yosemite, Sierra)

77. 34
 Established in 2007, the OHA, a consortium of 84
firms to develop open standards for mobile devices.
Member firms include HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel,
Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Google,
Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile,
Sprint Corporation, Nvidia, and Wind River
Systems.
 Expand OHA

78. 34
 Open Handset Alliance

79. 35
 Given that the
mother is a Sri
Aurobindo devotee
and the chid is
named after the
forthcoming tenth in
a particular series,
name the kid.

80. 35
 Kalki Koechlin with her mother Francoise Amandie