The Prestige

The Prestige
A General Quiz
Quizmasters: Srikanth & Ashish
May 22, 2014

Rules
• 20 questions.
• No negative marking.
• +1 for every correct answer.
• Question number 5,10,15 & 20 are star(*) marked.

2.
• The X Awards have been awarded annually since
1946 to living persons who have made major
contributions to medical science or who have
performed public service on behalf of medicine. They
are administered by the X Foundation, founded
by advertising pioneer _____ X and his wife _____
______ X. Eighty-six X laureates have received
the Nobel Prize, including 32 in the last two decades.

3.
These were the three candidates in a 2012 contest:
• Bossa Nova
• Carnavalesca
• X
X won, by the way. What was this for?

7.
• ID the person in the picture.

8.
• In June 1999, X was introduced in Bhutan and
Bhutan became the last nation in the world to have
X. A study conducted by some Bhutanese academics
found that X has caused strong desire for western
products among the people of the country and
resulted in the increase in crime rate.
• What was X?

9.
• The history of X has been intrinsically linked with the
extraction of phosphate. This island was annexed by
Germany in 1888 and incorporated into
Germany's New Guinea Protectorate. During second
world war Japanese troops occupied X on 26 August
1942. The Japanese troops built an airfield on X which
was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943,
preventing food supplies from being flown to X.
• X became self-governing in January 1966. On 31
January 1968, following a two-year constitutional
convention, X became the world's smallest
independent republic.

10*.
• Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled
by X’s family and managed X's eldest daughter Y.
• The Fininvest group is composed of a number
important companies: Mediolanum, Mondadori,
Mediaset, Medusa Film, Z etc.
• Identify Z.
We don’t really know Z as a company.

11
• X is a character in 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 “X" and are narrated by Frontline's Will
Lyman. The advertisements first began appearing in
the United States in 2006 and have since then
become an Internet meme.

The Most Interesting Man In The World

Ayrton Senna’s statute at Immola

13.
• ID. (Hint: Everyone knows his wife!)

Prince Philip (Husband of Queen Elizabeth)

14.
• What starts with-"The appointed day has come......"
and ends with-"we bind ourselves afresh to her
service"?

Nehru’s ‘Tryst With Destiny’ speech

16.
• One of the voice is of Kishore Kumar’s (obviously!)?
Who is the other singer?

18.
• This hard-working country got a new national holiday
in 2014 with the introduction of "Mountain Day",
supposedly to encourage citizens to appreciate
mountains in the country. This adds to other 'natural'
holidays such as "Greenery Day" and "Ocean Day",
and other interesting days such as "Respect for the
Aged Day".
• Which country?

20*.
• Where is this memorial located ?

At the location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated
in Sriperumbudur

Infinite Bounce
• +15/-5 on pounce.
• +10 on IB.

1.
• An artist's works were first revealed in 2013 when a
hacker infiltrated email accounts of his family
members. An institute in Dallas, Texas is hosting an
art exhibition from April to June 2014, titled "The Art
of Leadership" displaying the artist's portraits of
renowned world leaders. One of his paintings is a
portrait of Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan
Singh (Image on the next slide).

2.
• In March 2014, physicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics announced finding evidence
that pointed to the existence of 'gravitational waves',
which supports the 'cosmic inflation' theory which
postulates events in the immediate aftermath of the
Big Bang. The Economist newspaper headlined its
article about this announcement: "_____ flexes its
muscles". What was the blank, and why?

"BICEP" - BICEP2 was the name of the telescope (at the
South Pole); BICEP stands for "Background Imaging of
Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization".

3.
• "Travails of Chachi" is a non-fiction book set in New
Delhi and UP, and is authored by Louise Khurshid,
wife of Union Minister Salman Khurshid. The book
was unveiled at the 2014 Jaipur Literature Festival in
January 2014.The book was launched by the socially
ubiquitous Suhel Seth, after the original guest was
unable to come. Who was this guest?

Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda died a couple of
days before this event, amidst scandal.

4.
• The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books is an annual
award for the previous year's best general science
writing and best science writing for children. The
nominees and winners are decided by the Royal
Society, the UK national academy of science. The prizes
were established in 1988 and were known as
the Science Book Prizes until 1990 when they were
sponsored by Rhône-Poulenc and became known as
the Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books. Between
2000 and 2006, following the merger of Rhône-Poulenc
with Hoechst AG to form X, the prizes were renamed
the X for Science Books.
• ID X.

5.
• In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP's Prime
Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest
elections from the Vadodara constituency in Gujarat.
Since 1991, this seat has always been won by the BJP
(except in 1996).The winner of the 1991 election
rode a political wave and a cultural phenomenon,
that swept India a few years before; both were
associated with the temple town of Ayodhya. If one
of these waves was the Ram Mandir agitation, what
was the other phenomenon, and who was this MP (a
lady)?

Deepika Chikhalia, who played "Sita" in the
Doordarshan TV serial "Ramayan".

6.
• Speaking about the launch of a political party in Pakistan in
March 2014, its rebellious founder Arslan-ul-Mulk said in his
founding address:
• "Is today's Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had
envisioned? Is this a state where all are equal and enjoying
the fruits of freedom? The present leadership, both political
and bureaucracy, has lost the essence of why Pakistan was
created."
• He also announced that the leaders of his party would sit on
strike in front of the Punjab Assembly demanding acceptance
of the Police Reforms and Anti Torture Bill 2014.
• What is this party appropriately named?

7.
• The X is a transnational Islamic political organization
which was founded in Egypt in 1928 by the Islamic
scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna. It began as
a Pan-Islamic, religious, and social movement by the end
of World War II. The X had an estimated two million
members.Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the
Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its
"model of political activism combined with Islamic
charity work“. In 2012 it became the first democratically
elected political party in Egypt, but it is considered a
terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain ,
Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab
Emirates.

8.
• On July 7th 1896, the _____ _____showcased six
films at the Watson Hotel in Mumbai and this
marked the birth of Indian cinema as we know it
today. The ______ ______were French
Cinematographers who arrived in India after having
proved their cinematic excellence in Paris. The six
films screened that day were Entry of
Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A
Demolition, Ladies and Soldiers on
Wheels and Leaving the Factory.

9.
• The picture shows a mountain in the Himalayan
mountain range, lying in the Pithoragarh district of
Uttarkhand, India near Sinla pass. It is considered
sacred by Hindus. Its appearance is distinctly similar
to Mount Kailash in Tibet. Near this mountain lie
Parvati Lake and Jonglingkong Lake. Jonglingkong
Lake is sacred, as Manasarovar, to the Hindus.
What is this mountain called? and why?

It's the Om Parbat, as it is most popular known,
beacuse its distinct snow pattern forms the Hindu
symbol of "aum/om".

10
• Big Four is the colloquial name for the four main banks in
several countries, where the banking industry is
dominated by just four institutions . In the United States,
the "big four" banks hold 39% of all U.S. customer
deposits (as of 2009), and consist of:
• JPMorgan Chase
• Bank of America
• Citigroup
• ______ ______
• Fill in the blanks.

11.
• An integral part of the Wimbledon tennis
tournament for the last many years, Rufus went
missing for a few days during the two weeks of the
2012 tournament. He was in a car when he was
kidnapped (which may not be, technically, the best
term to describe his misfortune). Rufus was found a
few days later and was able to resume duties at
Wimbledon once again. He usually goes to work in
the mornings before and evenings after play.
• Who is he and what does he do?

Rufus is a hawk used to scare away pigeons from the
courts and preventing additional, unplanned white
markings on the hallowed grasscourts.

12.
Part of whose diary? Put the funda.
• “…How long have you been here? She seems to be
trying to remember. Three weeks. What is this? I
show her a pencil. A pen. A purse, key, diary and
cigar are identified correctly. At lunch she eats
cauliflower and pork. Asked what she is eating she
answers spinach. When she was chewing meat and
asked what she was doing, she answered potatoes
and horseradish. When objects are shown to her, she
does not remember after a short time which objects
have been shown…”

Differential
• 2n + 5 marking scheme.
• ‘n’ is the number of teams not/incorrectly
answering.

1.
• Ernst Hess was a German commander during the
First World War. Baptised a Protestant, he had a
Jewish mother and was thus regarded a 'full-blooded
Jew' by Nazi race laws. Although finally thrown in
concentration camp in 1941, he survived the war to
become president of the German Federal Railways
Authority. What was so special about him escaping
the holocaust?
• Image on the next slide ( might help!).

Only Jew saved by Hitler. He was the commanding
office of Hitler during World War I.

2.
• What does this map depict?

3.
• "Fuleco" is the name of the official mascot for the
2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This represents a
species of an animal native to Brazil and is
endangered. What type of animal is this, which
incidentally rolls up into a ball when faced with
danger?

5.
• On 24 April 1996, Eiður Guðjohnsen came on in the
second half as a substitute for X, in an international
friendly against Estonia. Guðjohnsen and X entered
football history when playing in this international
friendly for Iceland. Give me the funda.

Guðjohnsen came on in the second half as a substitute
for his father, Arnór.

6.
• ______ _______was a legendary king of an
ancient Haihayas kingdom with capital at
Mahishamati which is on the banks of Narmada
River in the current state of Madhya Pradesh. He was
son of Kritavirya, king of the Haihayas. He is
described as having a thousand hands and a great
devotee of god Dattatreya. He was killed by
Parashuram for chopping off the head of his father
Jamadagni.

8.
• X is a non-profit working with children from some of
India’s poorest neighborhoods. X transforms children
out of poverty by nurturing them on a journey from
childhood to livelihood using sport as a mechanism
to institute behavioural change. The X curriculum
focuses on the vital inputs of education, personal
and community healthcare, gender equality and
livelihood to ensure that youth make the right
choices from childhood all the way through to their
post teen years. X, one of India’s leading non-profit
organizations won the coveted Laureus Sport for
Good Award on 26 March, 2014.

9.
• The image on the next slide is a 12th century
Byzantine manuscript of something? What is it?
Hint: The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a
revision of the ________ _______.

What is this list? It’s exhaustive.
• Frank Anthony
• A. E. T. Barrow
• D. Ering
• Marjorie Godfrey
• C. C. Gohain
• Rudolph Rodrigues
• Joss Fernandez
• Paul Mantosh
• Maj. Gen Robert E Williams
• Neil O’Brien
• Hedwig Rego
• Dr. Beatrix D’Souza
• Lt. Gen Neville Foley
• Denzil B Atkinson
• Ingrid Mcleod
• Francis Fanthome
• Dr. Charles Dias
10.

Anglo-Indians nominated to Lok Sabha

11.
• What is this list? (Very specific answer required)
• Nina Bawden—The Birds on the Trees
• J. G. Farrell—Troubles
• Shirley Hazzard—The Bay of Noon
• Mary Renault—Fire from Heaven
• Muriel Spark—The Driver's Seat
• Patrick White—The Vivisector

These were the books shortlisted for The Lost Man
Booker Prize.
The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man
Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel
from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible
for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration; until
1970 the prize was awarded to books published in the
previous year, while from 1971 onwards it was awarded to
books published the same year as the award. The prize was
won by J. G. Farrell for Troubles.

12.
• Prince Harry, a member of the British Royal Family, is
also a British military officer. He has launched a
Paralympics-like sporting event for wounded
servicemen; the first edition is to be held in late
2014. This event takes its name from a famous
poem, which was also the name of a film about
events from another sport that the British love.
• What is this name?

Dr Alzeheimer’s diary
About Auguste D., the first recorded Alzheimer’s
patient by Dr. Alzheimer.

Long Visual Connect
• +5 for individual identification.

Julius Nyerere
First Prime Minister of Tanzania

Dr Ariyaratne
Founder and president of the Sarvodaya
Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.

Gerhard Fischer
German diplomat and ambassador

8. No points for Identification +14/-
5

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan is an Indian educational
trust. It was founded on November 7, 1938 by Dr.
K. M. Munshi.

Vaclav Havel
Last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992)
and the first president of the Czech
Republic(1993-2003).

Coretta Scott King
The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott
King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights
Movement in the 1960s

Desmund Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is
a South African social rights activist and
retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame
during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He
was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town
and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern
Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).

Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social
activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh
(DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a
mother-organization to the Chipko Movement.

Recipients of Gandhi Peace Prize
As a tribute to the ideals espoused by Gandhi, the Government of India
launched the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995 on the occasion of
the 125th birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi. This is an annual
award given to individuals and institutions for their contributions
towards social, economic and political transformation through non-
violence and other Gandhian methods. The award carries Rs. 10 million
in cash, convertible in any currency in the world, a plaque and a citation.
It is open to all persons regardless of nationality, race, creed or sex.

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