Cut the Crap Quiz (General Quiz)

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No Animals were harmed during the making of the quiz.

ROUND 1: Written
8 Questions
Scoring: +15/0
Write all the answers on your sheet

Q1.
An apocryphal or a fabricated story recounts that the 12th
century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting
expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he
came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans.
The grateful king named the town “the town of boiled beans",
which eventually evolved into X. Suryanath Kamath has put
forward an explanation of a possible floral origin of the name,
being derived from the vernacular term for Pterocarpus
marsupium (also known as the Indian Kino Tree), a species of
dry and moist deciduous trees, that grew abundantly in the
region.
Give X

Q2. What is X(brand)?
X was made in 1952, famously because the then
Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned
that Indian women were spending precious foreign
exchange on beauty products, and personally
requested J.R.D Tata to manufacture them in India.

Q3. Identify the company from its logo that also
highlights the "31 flavors" it promised its customers
- one variety each day of the month.

Q4.
What does a person suffering from
Paraskavedekatriaphobia fear?
Hint: Look hard at the word

Q5.
The photo on the next slide has been cut-pasted
millions of times. What’s so special about this
photo?

Q7.
In the early 1970s, a stoned hippie arrived in
Benares looking for nirvana.But when he asked a
sadhu he was dragged to the top of a hillock, his
head was shaved and then he was allowed to go.
This weird experience resulted in his returning to
his returning to his country to set up what ?

Q8. ID X
X is India’s own card payment scheme. Like all
other card payment schemes,notably Visa and
MasterCard, it was created to ensure cashless
transactions.
The scheme was conceived by National Payment
Corporation of India (NPCI), agovernment agency,
an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India and an
umbrella institution for all retail payment systems
in the country.

ROUND 1: Answers
10 Questions
Scoring: +15/0
Write all the answers on your sheet

Q2.
X was made in 1952, famously because the then
Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned
that Indian women were spending precious foreign
exchange on beauty products, and personally
requested J.R.D Tata to manufacture them in India.

Q4.
What does a person suffering from
Paraskavedekatriaphobia fear?
Hint: Look hard

ROUND 2: Bollywood
Minimalist posters
4 Questions
Scoring: +15/-5
Pounce & write down your answer on your sheet

ROUND 3: Hollywood
Minimalist posters
5 Questions
Scoring: +15/-5
Pounce & write down your answer on your sheet

ROUND 4: Pounce++
9+1 Questions
+30/-5 for Pounce
+50/-15 for Powerplay

1.
The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising
campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer, produced by the
marketing firm Euro RSCG for Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma
Brewery.The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's
most interesting man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will
Lyman. The advertisements first began appearing in the
United States in 2006 and have since then been adapted
into a certain thing which you have come across on the
Internet.

2.
In the original ending, the X killed Y in the movie Z. The
Censor Board did not agree with this ending, saying that its
vigilante aspect undermined the rule of law and could
adversely influence naive young minds. So, a new ending
was created that showed the police running in at the last
moment, arresting Y, and specifically telling the X that only
the law has the right to punish criminals. The original
ending was restored in the 204-minute director's cut.
Give X, Y and Z.

Ans.
X - Thakur
Y - Gabbar Singh
Z - Sholay

4. There’s a video on the next slide
The name of the short movie is “Lebe Jetzt” and
stars Michael Steiner, his wife Eliese Steiner and
Salman Khurshid (Minister of External Affairs in the
UPA Govt).
Who is Michael Steiner?

Ans. German Ambassador to
India (since March 2012)

The "nine dots" puzzle. The
goal of the puzzle is to link
all 9 dots using four
straight lines or less,
without lifting the pen and
without tracing the same
line more than once. The
solution to the puzzle led
to a famous expression.
What?
Solution on next slide
6.

Ans. (applies to the question
as well)
Think outside the box

7. ID X (novel)
X is a French historical novel, first published in 1862, that is
considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In
the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by
its original French title, however several alternatives have
been used. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the
1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and
interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of
ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
Examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates
upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design
of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice,
religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial
love. X been popularized mainly through a film starring Hugh
Jackman, Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.

8. ID X
“X" is spelled out in 45-foot-tall (14 m) white capital letters,
and is 350 feet (110 m) long. It was originally created in
1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate
development, but it garnered increasing recognition after
the sign was left up. The sign was a frequent target of
pranks and vandalism, but it has since undergone
restoration, including the installation of a security system to
deter vandalism. The sign is protected and promoted by the
Fox Sports Detroit Sign Trust, a nonprofit organization, while
its site and the surrounding land is part of Griffith Park.

9.
Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers whose families
opposed their marriage would jump off a cliff to prove their
love. But women, when their turn came after seeing their
men jump off, would get cold feet and return home, and
marry someone else .This is considered to be the origin of
which phrase?

Example for Question-10: Connect

Ans: Saif Ali Khan
The link that connects all products is that Saif Ali Khan
endorses all of them.

Ans. Biocon
•Biocon's first major expansion was in 1987, when ICICI
Ventures supported creation of a venture capital fund of US$250,000.
•Biocon Biochemicals of Ireland was acquired by Unilever in 1989. In
1997, this minority share was sold to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
In 1998, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s fiancé John Shaw personally raised $2
million to purchase this from ICI. John Shaw left his position as
chairman at Madura Coats to join Biocon and became Biocon’s vice
chairman in 2001.
•Federation University(formed from Ballarat University): Alma Mater of
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw where she graduated top-of-the-class
•Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw worked as a trainee brewer at Carlton and
United Breweries.
•Slide-4: John Shaw
•Slide-5: Childhood photo of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

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