Iiser mohali quiz with answers

1. This particular product created by Chef Narendra
Singh Javarta, Head Chef at __________ India and his
team, was introduced keeping in mind the love of ‘X’
flavour amongst the Indian audience. Ingredients
used are soft buttery flavoured dough rolled over
tasty vanilla ‘X’, milk, cream, sprinkled with finely
powdered cardamom sugar which adds a unique
flavour. It’s pure veg without any eggs. Although this
product by the food chain was soon taken out of the
market, it left an impression on a certain section of
audience. The advertisement for this product goes. Id
the dish XY and the food chain in ques.

• 2. In the pic shown below from ‘Suits – Season 1’ , lead
character ‘Harvey Specter’, an attorney, is seen in a legal dispute
with a Cab Driver, who represents himself in Court. During the
scene, the cab driver impresses the Judge with his arguments;
to which the judge turns over to Harvey, who in turn calls him
“X”, making a direct reference to a literary character who also
happens to be a lawyer.
• Id the character “X” and the piece of literature it belongs to.

• 3. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a book, which if you wish to buy
now would cost you around 170-200 INR depending
upon the online retailer or the shop.
• However, around mid June, 2014 this book (1st edition)
was sold for around $305,000 at an auction house
namely Christie’s. This was thrice as much as the
expected estimate price of the book by Christie’s, but
ultimately they weren’t surprised given the popularity
of something which led to this huge soar in the price of
the book. This set a world auction record for the author
of that book, breaking his previous record of $205,000
for the same book, this time around 2011 when it
actually featured in the above mentioned something
for the 1st time.
• What led to the auction of this book and thereby the
soar in its price?

• 4. While watching a Zakir Khan stand-up comedy show,
where he was explaining the emergence of creativity from
constraints; a Marathi actor by the name of Bharat
Dabholkar, who used to be a copywriter, struggled with
both Hindi as well as English came up.
• So what he did, was start playing in his strengths and made
a mix of English and Hindi, which gave rise to a creative
field in its own, for example – “Sun yaar, can you please
come here”.
• This form of creativity from Bharat Dabholkar gave rise to
something very popular today in India.
• What am I talking about?

• 5. Although no definite record is mentioned as to when
and how this activity got started, scientists like to
believe that it was the general motion of frogs that
gave humans the idea behind this pastime.
• Research undertaken by a team led by French Physicist
Lyderic Bocquet discovered that an angle of 20*
between the object and the surface must be
maintained. They were also surprised to discover that
changes in speed and rotation does not change the
fact.
• Several nicknames have been given to it around the
world with most of it involving ‘Frogs’ such as in
Bengali, Bosnian, Croatian, Yugoslavian, Bulgarian,
Telegu, Greek, Macedonian etc.

• 6. In the 3rd Chapter of ‘I am Malala’, it is mentioned
that Malala Yousufzai found some children on the
street going through garbage. She wanted to help
them but she couldn’t, which at least showed her
caring nature from the very onset of her childhood.
It is due to this caring nature she felt, “I wish I had
that”, just so that she could help those kids.
• As a little girl, she and her friend Safina would
watch it daily in Television and would pray for
having one of those. Every kid those days would
easily relate to this never dying wish of having that
item, which anyways was a hugely popular selling
item back then.
• What particular item am I talking about?

• 7. Assuming that it wasn’t intentional the most popular
theory states that the soil it was built on wasn’t strong
enough to support the weight – basically it had too
much sand and silt in it from the flooding of a nearby
river estuary. On the south side the soil is more
compressible, which is why it sank in that direction. As
the lower part started to shift early on, the subsequent
levels were built trying to compensate, thereby
resulting in what we see it as today.
• For years scientists and engineers have studied the
cause behind it and tried to fix it, not just to satisfy
their curiosity but also to prevent any impending
danger or accident.
• One of the leaders thought it represented a downside
on their country’s self-esteem and tried to rectify it, but
in vain.

• 8. Charles Robinson Sykes, a graduate of London’s
Royal College of Arts designed it in order to
immortalise the love affair between John Walter
Montagu and his secretary Eleanor Thornton which
is popularly known as ‘X’ and was eventually
presented in Feb 1911.
• However Sykes was later commissioned by the
same company to make a slightly different version
of ‘X’ which would suit the needs of the then
models released by the company. This version
which was also based on Eleanor was called ‘Y’ and
was released in 1934.
• Id X,Y and why was this change made from X to Y.

X – SPIRIT OF ECSTASY
Y – THE KNEELING LADY
TO SUIT THE VISION OF DRIVERS DRIVING NEW SPORTS CAR
MODELS BY ROLLS ROYCE

• 9. What exactly happens here is that, the two forces, the
gravitational force and the frictional force act in opposite
direction and balance out each other, while the normal
reaction from the wall is what keeps the motion going.
• However its not that simple, the frictional force exerted
won’t act until a minimum velocity is reached to attain
maximum friction which would balance out the gravitational
force, or otherwise if the later is greater the activity in
question won’t happen.
• It still won’t happen since this entire science is talked about a
point mass, and the reality does not involve a point mass. So
the key to making it real is ‘Leaning’. While one leans and
performs this activity, it creates an angle, which in turn
creates a torque on the opposite side. Maintaining the correct
angle means the torque balances out the other forces and the
impressive display continues.

MAUT KA KUWA/ WELL OF DEATH/
WALL OF DEATH

• 10. This place gets its name from a Lieutenant
Governor of Punjab, Sir Donald Friel _________
with an addition to the common Hindi term for
‘Neighbourhood’.
• Lord Elgin, the British Viceroy of India (1862–63),
liked the area so much that at one point he
suggested it be made the summer capital of India.
• It is known as ‘Little Lhasa’ because of its large
population of Tibetans.
• Id the place

MCLOED GANJ
• SIR DONALD FIREL MCLOED
• NEIGHBOURHOOD MEANING GANJ

11. Id the instrument and the
composer of the track originally

CHURCH ORGAN/ PIPE ORGAN
• HANS ZIMMER

• 12. After the launch of something around mid 2016, the
craze for all these apps weren’t so much high as it was
about few months later when people started to be smart
and lazy, both at once. Therefore the downloading of all
these apps increased heavily to an extent it started crashing
the play store and Apple store many times, around 2016
end and early 2017 and so on....
• What was the reason behind the heavy downloading of all
these apps

• 13. Who is all set to join this elite list of people?
Also what is this a list of (Inexhaustive)
• Carrie Fisher
• Bill Nye
• Stephen Hawking
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Buzz Aldrin
• LeVar Burton
• Steve Wozniak
• Stan Lee
• Elon Musk

• 14. It gets its name from Malay word “person” and
Indonesian word “Forest”, meaning “Person of The
Forest”. Actually the word was used for “Forrest
Dwelling Human”.
• If the guide at Nandankanan zoo is to be believed,
there is only one of it left in this entire country,
which is in that zoo. Although certain Quora users
have reasons to believe that there is another one at
the Kanpur zoo, UP.
• What name?

15. Anuj Dhar in his 2012 book “India’s biggest cover-up”
wrote about the detailed scam involving the _______
treasure estimated to be worth $700,000. Which treasure
and the person involved with it.

• 16. It has happened 4 times in total. Here is the list:
• Rik Coppens (Belgium vs. England 1957) – Belgian striker Rik
Coppens might have been the inventor of it along with Andre
Pitiers and they eventually won 8-3.
• Johan Cryuff and Jesper Olsen (Ajax vs. Helmond sport 1982) –
They were leading 1-0 when this happened and they won the
match 5-0
• Thierry Henry and Robert Pires (Arsenal vs. Man City 2005) –
When it went horribly wrong
• And then for the last time in 2015, when players “X” and “Y”
successfully did it against Celta Vigo.
• What am I talking about and who are “X” and “Y”.
• 1st part – 5points; X&Y together – 5 points

TWO TOUCH PENALTY
MESSI AND SUAREZ

• 17. At present the “World’s Highest Railway Station” is situated in China with the
Xining-Golmud-Lhasa Railway line and the highest point being Tanggula at 16,627
ft. It is followed by Peru with the Lima-huancayo Line and the highest point being
Ticilo at 15,843 ft.
• India takes up the 22nd position with Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, and Ghum
being its highest point at 7,405 ft.
• However a proposed project coming up in a certain country would connect the X-Y-
Z Railway Line covering 498 kms. When this Railway line gets started, it will be the
“World’s Highest Railway Station” at an elevation of 17,582 ft. The status as of
such is that:
• Survey – done
• Feasibility Report – done
• Submission to Govt. Institution for appraisal – done
• Approval by Govt. Institution – yes
• Land Acquisition – no
• Construction – no
• Which country is this Railway Line coming up?

• 18. Legends have it that the first ever murder took
place in this present day country “X”. Cain, a farmer
was the firstborn of Adam and Eve who killed his
brother Abel, a shepherd on Mount Qasioun near
“Y” (The capital city of X). He did so because both of
them made sacrifices to God but only Abel’s
sacrifices were answered.
• “Y” is a city which gets its name from a variety of
cotton fabric rich in exquisite patterns; the patterns
which are in turn seen in the steel swords named
after the city itself. These swords were feared and
revered by the crusaders for their extremely sharp
edges.
• Id X&Y

19. Founded by John C ______ in 1922,
it is the largest Civil Engineering
Construction company in India,
headquartered in Mumbai. Id the
company.

• 20. It was created by the sculptor Lee Lawrie with
the help of Rene Paul Chamberlain and was
installed in 1937. however, when it was unveiled in
1937, there were protests from people claiming
that it resembled a particular dictator “X”. Later
painter James Montgomerry Flagg said that it
“looks too much as X thinks he looks”. Ever since
this piece has been appropriated as a symbol of
‘Objectivist’ movement, started by Russian author
Ayn Rand and therefore closely associated with one
of her novels.
• It has featured in almost every episode of TV Series
“30 Rock”
• What am I talking about? Also Id the Dictator X

• 21. She's one of the very few Indian singers to have
sung for a Hollywood movie. Her track R.I.P.
composed by AR Rahman was a part of Oscar
winner director Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours.
• She is the only singer who has appeared on all 4
seasons of Coke Studio (India)
• Id the singer.

• 22. The cup is approximately 18 inches high, the body is
finely engraved with 3 king cobras forming the handle.
The doomed lid is surmounted by an elephant. The
inscription on the cup’s wooden base reads: THE
__________ CUP. The Cup is competed for the Sport
“X”, but the climate of India during the 1870’s suited
other sports like Tennis and Polo and not “X”. Therefore
the members of the __________ club, wanted to
disband the club but keen on maintaining the name of
the club they withdrew the funds from Club’s Bank
which were in Silver Rupees, melted them and made
this cup.
• The cup has been competed for annually since 1879,
and the only winners have been England (74 times) and
Scotland (40 times), with the later being the most
recent winner.
• Id the club/cup and the sport in question

• 23. Originally titled, “Driving to X” the song had begun
as a lyric, Robert Plant (the lead singer) had been
inspired to write in the autumn of 1973 after a long,
seemingly never-ending drive through “the waste
lands” as he put it, of southern Morocco. Nothing in
fact to do with the similar name of a place in the
Northern region of an Asian country, as one might most
obviously think hearing the name “X”.
• Later on the name of the song was changed to just “X”.
In 2010, Robert Plant said that, “I wish we were more
remembered for “X” than “Y” (their most popular and
remembered track)”.
• “X” belongs to the album “Physical Graffitti”
• Id the songs X&Y

• 24. Lauren Hutton tops the list with 26. Karen
Graham follows her with 20 along with Jean
Shrimpton.
• X is also at 20, whereas Cindy Crawford is at 18 and
following her is Claudia Schiffer with 16, along with
Amber Valetta and Jean Patchett.
• If things go accordingly to X, she might be the one
to top the list beating Lauren Hutton
• Id X and what am I talking about?

• 25. Dr. Devi Shetty was a well known name long before
he started ‘Narayana Hrudayalaya’ in the Indian
medical world. In 1989 he performed the first neo natal
heart surgery in India on a 9 day old baby. He served as
the personal physician of Mother Teresa. In 2000 he
established Narayana Hrudayalaya a multi special
hospital centre on the outskirts of Bangalore. The heart
division is said to be the largest in the world with 1000
beds and performing over 30 major heart surgeries a
day which also provides cutting edge medical care at a
fraction of what it costs elsewhere in the world. He also
received Padma Bhushan in 2012.
• The Industrialization of healthcare prompted The Wall
Street Journal to describe Dr. Shetty as the “______
_______” of Heart surgery
• FITB

• 26. IAS officer Rajeev Sharma literally sounded like the _____
______ for around 2 minutes at the 103rd Indian science
congress on 5th Jan, 2016 at the University of Mysore.
• What he was trying to show is that if done correctly it could
cure psychosomatic disorders, because “most problems in the
universe have simple solutions” as he quoted Albert Einstein.
• Instead of following up on the scientific thoughts, he quoted
NaMo and said that traditional methods must be used for
sustainable solutions. The benefits of performing it according
to Sharma, additional commissioner at Kanpur, are "excellent
exercise for rectal muscles, prostrate, urinary tract, lower
abdomen, diaphragm, chest and neck muscles”.
• He further adds, “There is so much blood circulation that it
will turn white hair to black“. But he finishes his speech by
saying, “But it should be learned from an expert or it could
rupture your lungs”.
• What exactly is he talking about, that he himself performed at
the Science Congress?

• 27. While playing GTA Vice City 5, you would come across this house. This
house a fictional representation of a real house belonged to a very famous
man, who surprisingly has a Guinness Book of World Record for owning the
world’s largest collection of personal scrapbooks. Proper Pic in next slide.

PLAYBOY MANSION – HUGH HEFNER

• 28. This town is mentioned in the Mahabharata as the
capital of Lord Krishna’s arch nemesis, King Shishupala of
the Chedis.
• In more recent times, this city was a strategic trade centre
and military outpost for the Mughals.
• While it was known for its vast fortresses, today it is known
by the gorgeous Sarees that bear its name.
• Hint: Rajmukar rao was seen selling those same sarees, in
the movie “Bareilly Ki Barfi”
• Id the town.

• 29. He is till date the only cricketer to remain Not-out and yet
retired from international cricket. It happened so in the 1983
Barbados Test against India, when he
retired out on 154 to
rush home to visit his
ailing daughter. Two
days later his daughter
died and it was
unanimously decided
that he should be
made retired not out.
This is the only such
instance in intl. cricket.
Id the cricketer

• 30. The Yale School of Management names its
deanship chair in honour of “X” as she gifted an
undisclosed amount to its alma mater becoming its
biggest alumni donor and the first woman to endow
deanship at a top business school.
• She has made a gift to endow the deanship of the
school and inaugurate the Fifth Decade Innovation
Fund, making her the most generous graduate of
Yale School of Management in terms of lifetime
giving.
• Id X

• 31. Below shown is the picture of a watch "Patek Phillipe"
owned by X. it was gifted to him in 1943 by Y, via Ilia, who
in turn happens to be the grandson of famous author Z. Ilia
went to Tibet along with his partner to examine the
possibility of constructing a road from India to China
through Tibet and during this journey he gifted X the watch
from Y.
• X,Y,Z
• X,Y – 5 pts
• Z- 5 pts

• X – DALAI LAMA
• Y – FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
• Z – LEO TOLSTOY

• 32. In January 1975, with the permission of the King
of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the first
American tourist party was allowed into the
country. The official tour began in Paro, northern
Bhutan and included a visit to the Tiger’s Nest, the
ancient Buddhist monastery and then they returned
to India via Nepal and Sikkim. They were even
introduced to the then King of Sikkim (the last king).
• Who served as their Sirdar (Guide) throughout the
entire tour, who also introduced the entire
American Group to his home in India for a farewell
celebration?

• 33. What happened was that a piece of foam insulation
broke off from the external tank and struck the left
wing of the orbiter. In the previous instances, there
were minor damages seen due to this foam shedding,
but some engineer’s suspected that the damage this
time was much more serious. However, the managers
limited the investigation confirming that they could not
have fixed it if it had been confirmed.
• So they went ahead with the same, and the damage
which was suspected to be much more serious, allowed
hot atmospheric gases to penetrate and destroy the
internal wing structure, causing the entire body to be
unstable and therefore break apart.
• What did this eventually lead to, which could have been
saved had this not happened for another 16 mins.

COLLAPSE OF COLUMBIA SPACE
SHUTTLE
• DEATH OF KALPANA CHAWLA

• 34. In the OSCAR nominated movie, “The Darkest
Hour”, Gary Oldman presents a scintillating portrayal of
Winston Churchill that has won him praises and laurels
all across the Globe, along with the OSCAR nomination
for ‘Best Actor’.
• Being true to History itself, the film has 3 speeches of
Churchill in it:
• His first speech as PM to the House of Commons:
“Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” (May 13, 1940)
• His first Radio Speech as PM: “Be Ye Men of Valour”
(May 19, 1940)
• His speech after the success of a partivular Operation :
“___ _______ ________ __ ____ _______” (June 4,
1940). This speech was also recounted earlier during
the mid summer last year.
• Which speech and how was it recounted last year?

• 35. They were originally called “Whipple-Scrumpets”
before publication, and during the early editions they were
shown as African Pygmies. However the author later
rewrote them to be white-skinned and golden haired. They
insist on maintaining their native clothing: Men wear skin,
women wear leaves and children wear nothing. They love
practical jokes, are mischievous, sing songs and are very
good at improvising. They sing at every child’s demise.
• However, in the 1971 rendition they were shown as orange
skinned, green haired men in striped shirts and baggy
pants.
• Girls who are often found in High schools and sororities
with orange skin of their own brought on by excessive use
of fake tanner are teased by the same name.
• Who? Mention the author as well.

• 38. “I was holidaying in Hawaii and I was called
back by my boss Mr. Ranjan Kapur. I wrote that song
at the back of a boarding pass. Also we didn’t use a
choreographer. We wanted her to be as
spontaneous as possible. We took 14 takes but used
the first one.” ---- Piyush Pandey on the story behind
the iconic ad
• Which ad? Explain the scenario to get points.

• 39. In the 18th century work, “On Crimes and
Punishments”, Italian Enlightenment writer ‘Cesare
Beccaria’ argued against _______ _______. Soon after
Tuscany (a region in Italy, also famous for Virushka
Wedding, its capital, Florence, is home to some of the
world’s most recognizable Renaissance art and
architecture) abolished it becoming the first civil state
in the world to do so.
• On this day (Nov 30 – Also known as Cities for Life day)
world cities celebrate the first abolition by illuminating
a symbolic monument such as Colloseum, etc.
• FITB, with something that was a raging issue in Indian
Supreme Court about a year ago, with certain people
deciding whether to abolish it or not.

• 40. Below shown is the pic from the show X&Y
portrayed by actors Michael Weston and Stephen
Mangan. Based on a bitter known fact that X&Y were
friends, and they found a common spot of interest
when it came to ‘Supernatural’ elements.
• X believed that all that stuff was utter junk and rubbish
and he spent half his career going around telling people
that Psychics and Mystics were talking out of their
minds. On the other hand Y believed in Supernatural
and Life after Death, which gave them a meeting point
of discussion and argument.
• However the Major Irony lies in their works; where X is
a noted person in a field related to Supernatural world,
Y who believed in such stuff is known to create one of
the most logical, reasonable, calculative and straight-
headed character ever (Although some might call him a
maniac as well, cause to catch one you need to be one).

HARRY HOUDINI AND SIR ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE

• 41. The shot came from the east, which made him
realise that they set up in the wrong direction.
• Thereafter setting up in the right direction, he
measured it to be about 1900 yards away. His superiors
advised him to stand down, or else it would expose
their position. He then rectified his measure, and said
its 2100 yards away, to which his partner said, “Its
impossible”. But when he spot it, accurately it was his
partner who advised he’s got to take it.
• He then took this impossible task, after analysing the
wind speed and direction keeping in mind an
impending sandstorm, and maintaining a particular
angle accordingly. The task was successful and it took
place in 2008, right outside Sadr City, which he
describes as “Straight-up-luck”.
• Who is ‘he’ here and what am I talking about?

• 42. Its been 16 years since this incident happened and
it is still fresh in all of our minds. Although at the time
of this incident and the subsequent years after that ‘X’
did not regret one bit doing it, despite it meeting with
mixed reviews. But last year, ‘X’ revealed that he
regrets the decision and remarks that his decision was
a result of heat of the moment and adrenaline rush. He
also cited that it created a negative image of himself in
public domain.
• He says and I quote, “Everybody says its one of the
most iconic moment. But I wouldn’t do it again. I came
from a very conservative and shy family. It just
happened in the heat of the moment. I am normally
very docile, but the atmosphere that prevailed there
turned me differently. There were better ways to
enjoy”.
• Which iconic incident am I talking about?

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