1. WELCOME

2. KUMARANS
INTER STREAM QUIZ
SENIORS
AUG 2012
By
Sudarshan, Sashank & Suresh

3. Format
• This quiz consists of 5 rounds
• Rules for each round will be explained at
the beginning of the round
• Quiz master is God for the next hour or
so…

6. Rules
• This round consists of 6 questions
• You have to identify and write your answer
• + 5 for every correct answer
• If you get all 6 correct, a bonus of + 20
• No Negative marking in this round
• You can get a max of +50 in this round

7. 1. Identify

8. 2. Identify

9. 3. Identify

10. 4. Identify

11. 5. Identify this animal

12. 6. Identify

13. Answers written?

14. 1. Identify

15. JACQUES ROGGE, PRESIDENT IOC

16. 2. Identify

17. CURIOSITY – ROVER THAT LANDED ON MARS

18. 3. Identify

19. FERNANDO ALONSO, F1 DRIVER – FERRARI

20. 4. Identify

21. CYRUS MISTRY WITH RATAN TATA.
CYRUS HAS BEEN NAMED SUCCESSOR
OF RATAN TATA AT TATA SONS

22. 5. Identify this animal

23. AARDVARK

24. 6. Identify

25. Pranab Mukherjee – President of India

28. Rules
• This round consists of 12 questions on
Infinite Bounce
• The first 6 will be clock-wise and the next 6
will be anti-clock-wise
• + 10 for every correct answer
• No Negative marking in this round

29. Question 1
Queen Elizabeth II declared the 2012
London Olympic Games open on 27 th
July 2012.
When was the last time she did a similar
act of declaring an Olympic Games
open?

30. It was the 1976 Montreal
Games, Canada.
She was the Head of State of
Canada.

31. Question 2

33. Question 3
A Reuters dispatch in 2008 from Afghanistan
recounted an incident in the evening hours of
how a set of robbers in Mazar-e-sharief
stripped a car of its wheels, mirrors etc. as
nobody was around. The robbers left a note on
the car “Tulsi Zindabad”.
Further the Reuters dispatch stated that you
couldn’t meet / call any Afghani at 830 pm in
the evening as they were busy watching!
What were the Afghans busy with?

34. They were busy watching the Hindi TV serial
“KYUNKI SAAS BHI KABHI BAU THI”.
Tulsi Zindabad was with reference to the main
character Tulsi in this serial

35. Question 4

37. These penalties are called “Panenka
penalties” named after the Czech footballer
Antonín Panenka .
Panenka won the 1976 European
Championship for Czechoslovakia where in
the final against West Germany he scored
the winning penalty in the shootout with a
softly chipped ball up the middle as the
goalie dived away.

38. Question 5
In the 19th Century they were sold under
brands like Major Grey’s (or) Bengal Club
and shipped to Europe and were treated
on par with Luxury goods
They are either wet or dry, and they can have
a coarse to a fine texture
Types of these include Tamarind, Ridge
gourd, Mango, Mint, Peanut, Onion
What is being referred here?

39. CHUTNEY

40. Question 6

41. At the 84th Academy Awards in 2012 it had 10
nominations and won 5 awards
Including Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor

43. Question 7
“I actually feel very embarrassed
because I rejected him as a fast
bowler. However I think I did him
and the game of cricket a big
favour”
Who said recently about whom?

44. Dennis Lillee on Sachin Tendulkar.
Since Sachin went to the MRF
foundation in late 1980s to get trained
as a fast bowler and Lillee told him to
focus on his batting rather than
bowling

45. 8. Connect

46. Jim Corbett National Park

47. Question 9
Mr. William Ortan, President of Western Union in
1876 decided not to pay $ 100,000 as an
investment for an invention.
He declined the investment with a note “After
careful consideration, while it is a very
interesting novelty, we have come to the
conclusion that it has no commercial
possibilities”.
A few years later he said that he could consider the
patent for the same invention, a bargain at $ 25MM.
What is being referred here?

48. Mr. William Orton had rejected
the invention of the “Telephone”
by Alexander Graham Bell.

49. Question 10
X was the idea of David Wallerstein, a Y executive who worked
for a chain of movie theaters in the 1950s and 1960s.
While working at the movie theaters, Wallerstein was tasked
with boosting sales of popcorn and soda. Wallerstein
discovered that it was very difficult to persuade customers to
purchase more than one soda or bag of popcorn.
"I soon discovered that customers could be persuaded to pay
for more up front.”
Although Y executive Ray Kroc was initially skeptical of
Wallerstein's proposal to change Y meals (believing that people
who wanted more fries would buy two bags), he eventually
agreed to try Wallerstein's idea.
The sales results led to the program being rolled out in the
1990’s throughout Y restaurants.

50. Supersizing, McDonalds

51. Question 11
“CQD..CQD..MGY..41.46N 50.14W”

52. This the distress signal sent by
Titanic using radio maritime
signals
Titanic had the call sign MGY
and CQD is understood by
wireless operators to mean “All
Stations: Distress”

53. 12. Connect

54. World’s first wireless TV remote control
invented by Eugene Polley from Zenith
Electronics in 1955.

57. Rules
• This round consists of 8 questions
• This is a Buzzer Round
• + 10 for a correct answer and - 10 for a
wrong answer
• No passing

58. 1. Explain

59. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSOR, LIZARD, SPOCK
popularized by the TV sitcom
“The Big Bang Theory”

60. 2. Identify

61. J Vishnuvardhan who partnered Leander Paes
at the 2012 Olympic games

62. 3. What is this?

63. WEBCAM

64. 4. Identify

65. LOUVRE AT PARIS

66. 5. Identify

67. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

68. 6. What just happened here?

69. May 6, 1954 - Roger Bannister ran the
first sub 4 minute Mile

70. 7. Identify

71. Mariah Carey

72. 8. Identify

73. Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
and Michael Collins

76. Rules of BOOMERANG
• Correct answer +20; Wrong answer -10
• Question assigned to random team
• The team to which question is assigned can
answer or boomerang it to any other team
• Boomerang can continue till all teams are
exhausted
• If receiving team answers correctly they get
+20; the team that last boomeranged will
get -10

77. SAMPLE
In 1888, an elephant carrying
sleepers for the Assam Railway
& Trading company for laying
tracks was found to have dark
coating on its legs. What
discovery did this lead to?

78. Ready?

79. FIRST TEAM IS….

81. Question 1
Nick Newlife from Oxford placed a bet of
£1,520 at odds 66 to 1 ten years ago with
Bookmakers William Hill. But he died in 2009
and left his entire estate including the 2003
betting slip to the charity organization
OXFAM.
This betting slip in 2012 won them £100,000.
What was the bet?

82. The bet was that Roger Federer would win
7 Wimbledon Titles

83. SECOND TEAM IS…

85. 2. Connect

86. SCIENTOLOGY
It is a body of beliefs and related practices
created by L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986),
starting in 1952, as a successor to his
earlier self-help system, Dianetics which
has been become a religion.
This religion being practiced by Tom Cruise
and being imposed on their daughter Suri
resulted in Katie Holmes filing for divorce

87. THIRD TEAM IS….

89. 3. Connect
Along with the Indian Army, Indian Navy & Indian
Air Force there are 3 other paramilitary forces that
guard our nation.
The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) guards the
border in the heights, the Border Security Force
(BSF) guards the borders in the plains & jungles.
Name the 3rd paramilitary force that watches over
internal security of our county.

90. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State / Union
Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and
contain insurgency.

91. FOURTH TEAM!

93. 4. Connect

94. The equestrian events at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic
games were not held at Melbourne, Australia due to
strict quarantine regulations. Hence this event was held
in Stockholm, Sweden earlier that year.

95. FIFTH TEAM IS…

97. 5. What are we talking about?
Cheetah Flex
carbon fibre
transtibial
Categories 2-9
Build Weight -
512g
Build Height -
411 mm
Max Weight -
147 Kg

98. Oscar Pistorius’ Prosthetic Limbs

99. SIXTH TEAM IS…

101. 6. What?
Rule 1: one foot shall remain in contact with
the ground at all times.
Rule 2: front leg on making contact with the
ground shall straighten at the knee and stay
that way till the body has passed over it.
What are we talking about?

102. Rules of Race Walking

103. SEVENTH TEAM IS…

104. 8

105. Question 7
What are Foetus, Log, Yearner,
Soldier, Freefall, Starfish the different
forms of?

106. Human Sleeping Positions

107. LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST

108. 7

109. Question 8
This game has its origins in Maharashtra and in
ancient times was played on ‘raths’ (or) chariots,
and was known as “Rathera”. It is one of the
traditional sports in India and is a modified form of
“Run Chase”. The game is played between two
teams, one of whom is the Runner team and the
other the Chaser team. It is played in 2 innings by
12 players on each side with initially 9 players
starting the game and 3 are kept in reserve.
Which game?

110. Kho-Kho

113. Rules
• 6 questions of standard quizzing on Buzzer
• For each correct answer +10 points and wrong answer -10
points
• The answers to each of these 6 questions are connected
by a common - Theme / Word / Concept / Person – this
will lead you to the LINK
• Teams should guess and write down the LINK on paper
(not shout out)!
• If you guess the LINK correctly i.e. connecting theme /
word / concept / person after the first two questions, you
get plus 60 points, next two ,you get plus 40 points and
last two you get plus 20 points
• There is a constant negative of 20 points for wrong
guesses (any number of guesses allowed but for every
wrong guess – 20 points)

114. 1. What happened next?

115. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in
May 1991

116. 2. Identify

117. CHARLES DE GAULLE OF FRANCE

119. 3. Identify
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by
Frederick William Stevens with influences from
Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and
Indian (Mughal and Hindu) traditional buildings.
Was built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden
Jubilee of Queen Victoria on the location of the
old Bori Bunder Station.
Its name was changed to its present one in March
1996 and is simply known as VT (or CST/CSTM)
What are we talking about?

120. Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus

121. 4. Identify

122. JOHN F KENNEDY

124. 5. Identify

125. INDIRA GANDHI

126. 6. Identify

127. HAL

129. The LINK is names of
“Airports”
1. Rajiv Gandhi International (Hyderabad)
2. Charles de Gaulle (CDG Paris)
3. John F Kennedy (New York)
4. Chatrapati Shivaji International (Mumbai)
5. Indira Gandhi International, New Delhi
6. HAL Airport, Bangalore

130. PLEASE WAIT TILL THE
SCORES ARE TABULATED

131. AND THE WINNER IS…