The finals of Artificial Intelligence(General Quiz) conducted at NMAMIT, Nitte along with the answers.

2. Round 1

3. 1. Id X
―X‖ is a global set of conferences owned by the
private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to
disseminate "ideas worth spreading". It was
founded in 1984 as a one-off event held annually
from 1990 in Monterey, California. They address
an increasingly wide range of topics within the
research and practice of science and culture. The
speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to
present their ideas in the most innovative and
engaging ways they can.

4. TED (Technology, Entertainment
and Design)

5. 2. Id X
―X‖ works in the Army while his wife and mother
live in Morena. He surprises his seniors in the Army
with his athletic skills. He participates in the Indian
National Games and wins the gold medal in the
steeplechase event 7 years in a row but is later
forced to become a notorious baaghi.

6. Paan Singh Tomar

7. 3. Id the structure and legend
There is a widely spread story that ―X‖ decided to
build the luxurious hotel after he was refused entry
to one of the city's then grand hotels, Parke's
Apollo Hotel, as it was reserved to whites (mostly
british) only. Another belief is that ―X‖ was built as
a result of the request of the editor of the then
Times of India who felt a hotel worthy of Bombay
was needed.

8. The Taj and Jamshedji Tata

9. 4. Whose famous words are these ―LSD
was one of the best things I‘ve done in my
life‖.

10. Steve Jobs

11. 5. Identify
An on-going petition, called ―X for World Heritage,‖
claiming ― X is a masterpiece of human creative genius and
is also of universal human value― aims at getting X tagged
as a potential ―World Heritage Site‖ by UNESCO.
The petition is based on the view that X is ―predestined to
become the first ever digital World Heritage Site as it is a
pioneer project of the digital age, carrying the ancient idea
of common and free knowledge into the third millennium.‖
The claims finds some support from the fact that
UNESCO has recognized abstract ideas such as flamenco
dancing and French cuisine.

13. 6. FITB
Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw quotes ―If a man
says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or
he is a ___________‖

14. Ghurkha

15. 7. Identify
Dacunha associates is an advertising firm with its
headquarters situated in Colaba Mumbai. Started in
the late 50s, they became increasingly popular for
their creativity and revolutionary advertising
techniques.

16. AMUL ad campaigns

17. 8. Identify this mega structure.
One of the earliest known references to this myth appears
in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William
Stukeley. Stukeley wrote that, "This (...) makes a
considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be
discerned." X is a maximum 9.1 m (30 ft) wide, and is
about the same color as the soil surrounding it. Based on
the optics of resolving power only an object of reasonable
contrast to its surroundings which is 70 mi or more in
diameter would be visible to the unaided eye. The apparent
width of the X from the ____ is the same as that of a
human hair viewed from 2 miles away. To see the X would
require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal
(20/20) vision.

19. 9. Id the two characters.

20. Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots
for the 2012 Olympics in London,
England.

21. 10. FITB
• 109:23:38 Mr. X: I'm at the foot of the ladder. The
LM footpads are only depressed in the surface
about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to
be very, very fine grained, as you get close to it. It's
almost like a powder. Ground mass is very fine.
• 109:24:13 Mr. X: I'm going to step off the LM
now.
• 109:24:48 Mr. X: _____ ___ ______ _____ ___
_ ___; ___ _____ ____ ___ _______. (Long
Pause)

22. That's one small step for a man; one
giant leap for mankind.

23. 11.
When its name was changed some years
ago, Outlook Magazine called it ―The biggest
sex change in the History of Modern India‖.
What?

24. Victoria Terminus being renamed
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

25. 12.
X was first granted permission to start operations in
India by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in
April ‘07. In exchange, the US Government allowed
the import of mangoes from India after a gap of 18
years.
Mangoes for what?

26. Harley-Davidson

27. 13.
India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give respect to my parents, teachers and elders and treat
everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness.
Who wrote the Indian National Pledge ?

28. The Indian National Pledge was written by
Swami Vivekananda.

29. Round 2

30. 1. Id X
• After India played its first match in the 1936
Olympics, ―X‘s‖ magical stickwork drew crowds from other
venues to the _______ field. A German newspaper carried a
banner headline: 'The Olympic complex now has a magic
show too.' The next day, there were posters all over Berlin:
Visit the _____ stadium to watch the Indian magician X in
action.
• After seeing his prolific play at the 1936 Berlin
Olympics, Adolf Hitler offered him German citizenship and
an offer to promote him to the rank of a Colonel (which
he, of course, refused).
• In Holland, the authorities broke his ―modus operandi‖ to
check if there was a magnet inside.

31. Major Dhyan Chand

32. 2. Id this gruesome act.
The first time a European saw formal seppuku was the
"Sakai Incident" of 1868. On February 15, eleven
French sailors of the Dupleix entered a Japanese town
called Sakai without official permission. Their presence
caused panic among the residents. Security forces were
dispatched to turn the sailors back to their ship, but a
fight broke out and the sailors were shot dead. Upon
the protest of the French representative, financial
compensation was paid and those responsible were
sentenced to death. The French captain was present to
observe the execution. As each samurai committed
ritual disembowelment, the violent act shocked the
captain, and he requested a pardon, due to which nine
of the samurai were spared.

33. Harakiri

34. 3. Id the
personality and
his Tamil
counterpart.

35. Sarvajna and
Thiruvalluvar

36. 4. Identify the significant roles these players
played in their respective games.

37. Jerry West who inspired the NBA logo
and Stefan Edberg‘s distinctive serve
inspired the Australian Open logo.

38. 5. Significance??
*Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department in 1909*
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too
much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the
nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running
with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose
all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at
Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait
train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on
that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."
It is on display at the Railway Museum in NewDelhi. Any guesses why this
letter was of historic
value?

39. It apparently led to the introduction of
toilets on trains.

40. 6.
The MIT students calculated my speed to be
around 1046 km/sec, bout 3000 times the speed
of light. The total load weight involved in my
transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms
of the same species are involved in my transfer. I
have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours
across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per
second.
Who or what am I?

41. Santa Claus

42. 7.
• This village in Raichur district of Karnataka has sporadic electric
supply and no internet access. It has no English signboards. Two
explanations regarding its name are given:
• 12th Century Kannada poet Allama Prabhu initially named it as
―Gavi Gallu‖ meaning ―Cave of Stone‖.
• It was originally called ―Kodava Gallu‖ meaning ―Singing
stone‖, after the sound the river makes on striking the rocks.
• On being informed of a certain co-incidence, the inhabitants of the
village said that they were very proud of this fact even though it was
purely
• co-incidence. What?

43. The name of the village is ―Google‖

44. 8. Identify
Some say that the Chinese government used it as a
tool for tactical training, and that it has influenced
Seung-Hui Cho, who massacred 32 people at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University in
2007.
All we know is its sale is banned in Brazil.

45. Counter-Strike

46. 9. TIME COVER PAGE DATED: Feb. 22, 1937.
Identify his name, title & the reason why he was on the
cover page.

47. Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan,
the last Nizam (or ruler) of the Princely State of
Hyderabad and of Berar.
During his days as Nizam, he was reputed to be the
richest man in the world, having a fortune estimated at
US$2 billion in the early 1940s.
At that time the treasury of the newly independent
Union government of India reported annual revenue of
US$1 billion only.
He was featured on the cover of TIME magazine &
believed to have remained as the richest man in South
Asia until his death in 1967.

48. 10.
Chaturanga the precursor of _____ originated in
India during the Gupta dynasty (c. 280 - 550 CE).
Both the Persians and Arabs ascribe the origins of
______to the Indians. Chaturanga in Sanskrit
literally means an army of four divisions or four corps
referring to four divisions of an army, viz.
elephants, chariots, cavalry, and infantry.

49. Chess

50. 11. No comments …
Pollock to Sangakkara, another fuller length delivery
outside the off stump, Sangakkara goes for the drive
and ends up hitting it in the air towards point, didn't
get his foot to the pitch of the ball but went through
with the shot - X swoops forward and takes it inches
away from the ground. Y is heard commenting "The
Z has got another wicket".

51. X- Hashim Amla
Y- Dean Jones
Z - Terrorist

52. 12. Grease lightning
He gave up on his dream of being a pace bowler
because his friends said that he could run faster than
he could ever possibly bowl. Who?

53. Usain Bolt

54. 13. Identify who or what?
He paused to calculate the optimal turbulent laminar
transition trajectory before it. The man can carry out a
multi-variable physics calculation in his head to
compute the exact trajectory required. Almost
certainly the flow around the ball must have changed
from turbulent to laminar several meters from the
target. Mr. ------- was applying some very
sophisticated physics."-thus concluded a team of
scientists analyzing a scene in 2002. What are they
talking about?

55. Bend it like beckham

56. 14. My name is …….
Pyarelal's ( of Laksmikant Pyarelal fame ) Goan
Music teacher is well known to Hindi Film
viewers ? Why ?

57. Anthony Gonsalves

58. 15.
Brad barker was a very popular radio star and
mimic back in the hayday of the radio. he was
called "the man with the timber wolf howl"
.Which world famous animal we have all heard
was actually brad barker using his gifted vocal
cords?

59. For LEO – the MGM Lion

60. 16. The design of the bridge shown below (between Mainland
China and Hong Kong) has a specific purpose.. What?

61. Mainland China follows the Left Hand system
of driving (like India) while Hong Hong
follows the Right Hand system (like USA).
This bridge is designed to shift the lanes of
traffic accordingly

62. 17. Id the 22
significance.

64. 18. Were you good in algebra. Solve for X,Y,Z.
• ―X‖ neither invented the ―Z‖, nor held the first patent.
• ―X‖ was credited for the invention solely because he owned a power
company, later known as General Electric.
• In reality, ―Z‖ were used as electric lights 50 years prior to ―X's‖
1879 patent date in the U.S.
• ―Y‖, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same ―Z‖ in
Britain one year prior to ―X's‖ patent date.
• ―Y‖ even publicly unveiled his carbon version of ―Z‖ in New
Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before ―X‖.
• ―X's‖ invention was a carbon copy of ―Y‘s ‖ invention.
• ―Y‖ took ―X‖ to Court for patent infringement. The British Courts
stood by their patent award for the light bulb to ―Y‖, and ―X‖ lost
the suit.

65. X – Thomas Alva Edison
Y - Joseph Swan
Z – Electric bulb

66. 19. What came in to existence as a result??
________were introduced by the governing body,
after the infamous Antonio Rattin incident when the
Argentinian captain failed to understand that he had
been sent off in a match against England at Wembley.
The language barrier was clearly a problem in
international matches. The referee in that match, Ken
Aston came up with the idea while he drove
home: ‖As I drove down Kensington High Street, the
traffic light turned red. I thought, ‗Yellow, take it easy;
red, stop, you‘re off ‘.‖

67. Red and yellow cards

68. 20. FITB
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.
Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the ______ _______!

69. The Big Bang

70. 21. What did this incident lead to??
• Local police officers had allegedly targeted and mistreated Bouazizi for years,
regularly confiscating his small wheelbarrow of produce. On the morning of 17
December, he started his workday at 8 a.m. Just after 10:30 a.m., the police began
harassing him again, ostensibly because he did not have a vendor's permit.
• Regardless, Bouazizi's family claims he was publicly humiliated when a 45-year-old
female municipal official, Faida Hamdi, slapped him in the face, spat at him,
confiscated his electronic weighing scales, and tossed aside his produce cart. It was
also stated that she made a slur against his deceased father. Bouazizi's family says
her gender made his humiliation worse.
• Bouazizi, angered by the confrontation, ran to the governor's office to complain
and to ask for his scales back. Following the governor's refusal to see or listen to
him, even after Bouazizi was quoted as saying "'If you don't see me, I'll burn
myself',‖ He acquired a can of gasoline from a nearby gas station and returned to
the governor's office. While standing in the middle of traffic, he shouted "how do
you expect me to make a living?‖ He then doused and set himself alight with a
match at 11:30 a.m. local time, less than an hour after the altercation.

71. Revolution in Tunisia and the
uprising in the neighboring countries

72. 22. Id X.
X‘s contribution to the country has come to light in
the context of the movement for the introduction
of the ______ _____. It was him who had mooted
the idea of the ______ _____way back in the
1960s based on his study on the Ombudsman's role
in the Scandinavian countries. It is said that he, at
the behest of Nehru coined the term ______.

73. L M Singhvi and Lokpal

74. 23. FITB
• Jawaharlal Nehru • V P Singh
• _________ _____ • P V Narasimha Rao
• Lal Bahadur Shastri • Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• _________ _____ • H D Deve Gowda
• Indira Gandhi • Inder Kumar Gujral
• Moraji Desai • Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Indira Gandhi • Dr. Manmohan Singh
• Rajiv Gandhi

75. Gulzarilal Nanda

76. 24. Id the movie and what is so special
about the scene shown below.

77. Pursuit of Happyness and the guest
appearance of Chris Gardner himself.

78. 25. I like a little twist in my tongue.
• Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was a British fossil
collector, dealer and palaeontologist who became known around the world
for a number of important finds she made in the Jurassic age marine fossil
beds at Lyme Regis where she lived.
• Anning continued to support herself selling fossils. Her primary stock in
trade consisted of invertebrate fossils.
• It was dangerous work, and she nearly lost her life in 1833 during a
landslide that killed her dog Tray.
• She struggled financially for much of her life.
• After her death her unusual life story attracted increasing interest. Charles
Dickens wrote of her in 1865 that "[t]he carpenter's daughter has won a
name for herself, and has deserved to win it.‖ In 2010 the Royal Society
included Anning in a list of the ten British women who have most
influenced the history of science.
• We know her for a completely different reason.

79. She sells sea shells on the sea shore!!!!

80. Round 3 - Connect

81. 1.

82. Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael:
TMNT.

83. 2.

84. • Club 27/Forever 27 Club
• It is a name for a group of influential rock and blues
musicians who all died at the age of 27.
• The 27 Club consists of two related phenomena, both
in the realm of popular culture.
• The first is a list of five famous rock musicians who
died at age 27—Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis
Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain.
• The second is the idea that many other notable
musicians have also died at the age of 27.

85. 6

87. Chiranjeevas

88. 4.

89. Abottabad
Major James Abbott ( after whom
the city is named)
Osama Bin laden
Ground Zero, New York
Al Queda flag

90. 5.

91. Liril Girls
Karen Lunel (the first Liril girl)
Tara Sharma
Priety Zinta
Deepika Padukone

92. 6.

93. Mac OSX versions
Cheetah – 10.0
Puma – 10.1
Jaguar – 10.2
Panther – 10.3
Tiger – 10.4
Leopard – 10.5
Snow Leopard – 10.6
Lion – 10.7
Clue: Kodiak – the public beta

94. LVC – Long Visual Connect

95. +120/-60

96. +100/-50

97. +80/-40

98. +60/-30

99. +40/-20

100. +20