shubhankar bahl (10-10-2015)

General QuizBy Shubhankar Bahl

Round 1 Rules• 2 Hints for each question. • Any team can pounce after Hint 1, do not publically

reveal the answer. Simply raise your hand and note it down on a piece of paper. 20 points for correct answer, - 10 for incorrect.

• No pounce after hint 2.• The Team, whose turn it actually is, can publically

answer without negative marking after Hint 2.• Question will pass to next team if previous team is

unable to answer.

Question 1

Hint 1: Measured by topographic prominence, Xis the third most prominent peak after MountEverest and Aconcagua.

Hint 2: Located in the U.S.A., Its name wasrecently changed to X which is the KoyukonAthabaskan word similar to ‘high’ or ‘tall’.

Answer 1

Mt. DenaliPreviously known as Mt. Mckinley, the tallest mountain in

North America.

Question 2

Hint 1: X denotes a start-up company whose valuation has exceeded (the somewhat arbitrary) $1b dollars.

Hint 2: X is also the National Animal of Scotland.

Answer 2

Unicorn

Question 3Name the organisation.Hint 1: The Governor of this organisation is Haruhiko Kuroda.Hint 2: Prior to the Meiji Restoration, this country’s feudal fiefs all issued their own money, hansatsu, in an array of incompatible denominations. The organisation was created to solve this problem.

Answer 3

Question 4Name X. Hint 1: The X effect will give the impression that the sun is rising earlier than it actually should. Depending on the meteorological situation, the effect will present the sun as a line or a square, made up of flattened hourglass shapes.

Hint 2: The effect and this island share the name, which is also a Russian Nuclear test site.

Answer 4

Novoya Zemlya Effect

Question 5

Hint 1: It is the only island on Earth shared by three sovereign nations.

Hint 2: It is the largest Island in Asia.

Answer 5

Borneo

Question 6Connect to a Company.Hint 1: One of three original founders of this company emigrated to Pakistan after the Partition of India, which also resulted in a change of name for the company.

Hint 2: Aerostaff Australia, Gippsland Aeronautics, Ssangyong

Answer 6

Mahindra & MahindraOriginally founded as Mahindra and Mohammad by K.C. Mahindra, J.C. Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed. The three companies mentioned are owned by Mahindra.

Question 7Hint 1: X is the name of these ratings, similar to ‘Mirchies’ awarded by Radio Mirchi for Bollywood films, and are awarded by the Washington Post in a column called “Fact checker” which also checks statements made by the two sides in the US Presidential Elections. Since both sides fib on a regular basis, the ratings are based on how ‘economical with the truth’ the statements made are.

Hint 2: X is a marionette (a wooden puppet that is maneuvered with wires) and not a puppet (controlled by hand that occupies the interior of it) made by Mr. Geppetto.In the story written by Carlo Collodi however, he if often called, improperly, puppet, hence the misunderstanding.

Answer 7

Pinocchio

Question 8What are we talking about?Hint 1: A Polish chemist, Kazimerz Funk, is considered to be the first person to formulate the concept.

Hint 2: Funk named them Vital Amines but the name was later modified due to some errors made by Funk.

Answer 8

Vitamins

Question 9What are we talking about?Hint 1: A new fad that has gone viral among US women is going under the knife to change the shape & size of their feet so that they look better in shoes or fit into smaller sizes. Dr. Ali Sadrieh, the podiatrist who popularized this procedure named it ________ surgery

Hint 2: X, a European folktale, is also called ‘The Little Glass Slipper’ in English.

Question 10Name the city.Hint 1: Its old name is Yerba Buena. It was renamed X when John. D. Sloat claimed a then Mexican region in the Mexican American War.

Hint 2: This city contains a famous bridge found on the logo of a company headed by John Chambers.

Answer 10

San Francisco

Question 11What are we talking about?Hint 1: The term is thought to originate with carpenters who used the width of their X instead of rulers for measuring, imposing its use as an inaccurate but reliable standard of measurement.

Hint 2: The Term is Rule of X

Answer 11

Question 12What are we talking about?Hint 1: A Gambler, a city guard, an innkeeper, a merchant, a doctor, a weaver, a blacksmith and a farmer standing in order.Hint 2: Years active: 6th Century India to Present Day. Includes Rooks and bishops.

Answer 12

Chess

Question 13

What are we talking about?Hint 1: X It carried out a few assassinations of British officials, most notable of Lt. Col. William Curzon-Wyllie. The Secret society was also involved in the famous Nasik Conspiracy case of 1909.

Hint 2: Founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1903. It was initially founded at Nasik as Mitra Mela and grew to include hundreds of nationalists and political activists.

Answer 13

Abhinav Bharat Society

Question 14Who are we talking about?Hint 1: “The guy who digitised wall street”. Identify this Indian origin personality.

Hint 2: The founder of TIBCO, also the First Indian origin person to own an NBA team.

Answer 14

Vivek Ranadive

Question 15Name X(left) and Y(right), No part points.Hint 1: World War II saw the painters of these two paintings rise to international fame.

Hint 2: Famous quotes

X – “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

Y – “I may be drunk miss, but in the morning I’ll be sober and you’ll still be ugly.”

Answer 15

X – Adolf Hitler

Y- Winston Churchill

Scores please. *looks at SMG*