Inter Branch Quiz 2023 - Qualifiers
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The document outlines the rules and structure of a quiz consisting of 20 questions, each worth ten points, covering diverse topics such as literature, history, and product marketing. Participants are encouraged to guess answers as there are no penalties for incorrect responses, and the quiz emphasizes original thought over external research. It also includes specific examples and questions that engage with cultural and historical trivia.
Inter Branch Quiz 2023 - Qualifiers
- 2. Rules ● There are 20 questions in the branch qualifier. ● Each question carries ten points and there are no negs. So feel free to guess. ● Part points will be given wherever applicable. ● Mention your Team Name, Members’ Names, Contact Number of one of the team member on the A4 Paper given and start writing your answers. ● There are in-built tie-breakers. ● Quiz master’s judgement is absolute. ● This quiz is to test your brain, not Google’s.
- 3. Question 1 The third chapter of Bhagavad Gita deals with Krishna educating Arjun about the path of action or Karma Yoga. To illustrate this further, he gives the example of King Janaka in the following verse from 3.20: कमर्हणैव ह सं सद् धमाि थता जनकादय: | लोकसंग्रहमेवा प सम्पश्यन्कतुर्हमहर्ह स || 20| Translating to: By performing their prescribed duties, King Janak and others attained perfection. You should also perform your duties to set an example for the good of the world. It appears that certain government officials were avid readers of this verse and thus it is somehow connected to all of us here. Where have we seen this?
- 4. Question 2 A special agent with US Law Enforcement working on a cold-case homicide investigations since 1980 came up with a clever idea for solving the cases by printing the pictures and case information on X and supplied them throughout US prisons. Each set of X consisted of 54 different pieces which the inmates would keep staring at, for many minutes, in their leisure time, thereby stirring a psychological effect. Inmates who came across these information could give hints to the officials for few perks. Previously used fliers and footage techniques did not work as effectively as this method. ID X
- 5. Question 3 It was 16th century that marked history when pure and solid _______(7) was found in mines of Borrowdale, England. The mined mineral, being in same colour and soft, was confused with another metal ore X and was thus called with the same name X. This discovery made the mines in Borrowdale extremely valuable as wrapping brittle little sticks of this solid mineral tightly in sheep skin became popular. Later when science advanced, it was discovered that there is no X in the mineral, yet the layman still calls these sticks X. What are we talking about?
- 6. Question 4 Eleven babies have been born in X, and none of them died as infants, thereby making X's infant mortality rate 0%. What's crazier is why the babies were born there in the first place - these weren't unplanned births. In the early 1900s, nearby nations like Chile and Argentina began to develop an obsession with X and a desire to claim it as their own. In 1977, a pregnant Argentinian woman was flown from Argentina to X where she later gave birth to the first baby born in X. Argentina essentially thought that since this child was born in X, he could be the first citizen, making Argentina the rightful owner of that territory. Even though Chile agreed to this for a year, later they too become ambitious and sent a Chilean couple to X, where they not only birthed but conceived a child. ID X.
- 7. Question 5 (Video on next slide) In 1949, Teresa Brewer who was still a struggling artist singing at night clubs, signed a deal with London Records. After the release of a few singles which did not catch much attention, they released what was meant to be a throwaway song titled ‘Put Another Nickel In’ which ended up selling a million copies. The song was then recreated multiple times and eventually reached the Indian marketing team of X which sampled the song for the advertisements of their extremely popular product Y. ID Y, which is something we’ve loved right from our childhood to this day.
- 9. Question 6 It is generally assumed that this phrase comes from Native American warfare practices, from a centuries-old practice involving the literal _______(7), seen among the Native American tribes of North America. There is an Iroquois folk legend about two leaders who convinced the five great nations – the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca – to stop fighting and form a confederacy. To celebrate the peace, they hid their weapons under the roots of a large, white pine tree, and an underground river washed them away. Hence under certain circumstances, this phrase is used. ID the phrase.
- 10. Question 7 These ship containers are being used for a specific purpose in some dense colonies of Delhi, where building a permanent structure is a challenge due to space constraints. The purpose was a flagship initiative of Delhi Government, for which they were praised throughout the world. What are these being used for?
- 11. Question 8 Ford recently released a new edition of its iconic explorer SUV to celebrate something in a new way. In order to commemorate the occasion, Ford released a video about 2 weeks ago, that includes Bryan Cranston talking about this particular edition of Ford and the absence of certain essential parts in this model. ID the occasion and the reason behind scrapping off these parts.
- 12. Question 9 According to detective Silvano Vincenti, ____(4) Gherardini was married to a silk merchant, and started living with her daughter after her husband’s death. After her death due to the plague in mid 1500s, she was buried in beneath a chapel. He explains that she died aged 63 which might have been the reason for her having no facial hair. In the expedition in 2011, the bones of Mrs. Gherardini were found in the same chapel as they were known to be buried at, and c-14 tests almost confirmed Vincenti’s assumption, but her skull couldn’t be retrieved to reconstruct the face, leaving the question still open. What was the expedition about?
- 13. Question 10 North Face, an outdoor recreational products company, developed these gloves which were supplied as official merchandise for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. As shown in the image, the gloves have the thumb and index finger part in red colour to showcase something perfectly for Instagram moments. Why were these gloves made this way?
- 14. Question 11 The size of the Empire State Building shrinks while moving from bottom to top. It has five major floor area reductions. This design of the building is inspired from X which is very commonly used by kids because the architects behind this building wanted to achieve the tag of tallest building in the world. Even though it is not exactly the tallest structure, designing it in the form of X gives it such a look. It even held that record till World Trade Center came up. What is X?
- 15. Question 12 Based on the data released by Apple Inc. in September 2018, what does this map represent?
- 16. Question 13 UPS is the world's largest shipping and delivery package company. Reportedly, none of its trucks do X. In the US, people drive on the right side and as a consequence, there is an issue at signals. UPS estimated that a lot of time and fuel is getting wasted due to this. Hence the company created an algorithm that created some special routes which eliminates X most of the times even if the route is longer. What is the algorithm about?
- 17. Question 14 The Toyota Hilux is a series of pickup trucks in production since 1968. Their high level of durability and reliability despite sustained heavy use has got them to feature on journeys to the Arctic and even a victory at the Paris-Dakar Rally. They allow transport of small, heavy items and also shift people around very quickly. Over the past decade, they have emerged as the favoured vehicle of choice of a set of people, where they sport something in black-and-white. This use has been compared to light tanks used by Germany during their Blitzkrieg campaigns in World War II. Where is the Hilux the preferred vehicle of choice?
- 18. Question 15 One commodity brought from a Portuguese colony in East Africa to India was a fruit that Indians had not yet seen. It was sold under the name of the nation from which it came, but Indians could not pronounce it correctly and soon it got corrupted to the version we all know it as. ID the fruit and nation.
- 19. Question 16 A description of a very annoying group of people is explained as follows: “The Xs may appear quiet but they are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. A Minimus Wagus is X's natural prey. Minimus Wagus unassumingly walks into X's vast territory. The X adjusts her posture and is ready to strike. She attacks with full force with various techniques, causing chaos and confusion. Minimus Wagus never stood a chance. X is victorious, her meal comes, her hunger for attention fulfilled. ID X.
- 20. Question 17 X released a comedy album that talks about himself and his achievements, with the title of it being him embracing his famous nickname. Though it was released around 6 months before he won the world championship in the field he is known for, most of the poems in the album were apt with the album title. This also helped in intimidating his opponents before a match and he gained notoriety as an eloquent trash-talker. ID X.
- 21. Question 18 The poet Sappho was an intellect who wrote many love poems to women. Though many poems were destroyed, the few remaining poems speak clearly to the poet's love and infatuation with women. Sappho's writings are very erotic, something uncommon, especially for _____(5) of that era — Sappho may have been the first _____(5) to do so. As the poet is a resident of the isle of ______(6), an ancient Greek island, the term X came into usage. ID X.
- 22. Question 19 Xs didn't just conceal the injuries but also saved the lives of soldiers. After WW1, many returned home with severe ____(4) injuries that required more elaborate surgery. Some parts of the body were missing and many worried about what others would think of their appearance. American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd came in and started making Xs. First she would make a cast of the soldier's ____(4) and then craft X with thin copper. She painted them on the spot to match the soldier's skin. She also used real hair on X to recreate some parts. ID X.
- 23. Question 20 The makers of this series prepared the script 8-9 years ago, but the research required for this topic took time and it was released recently. This series addresses a very serious issue, and the cops dealing with it came up with an idea X which is the only way to fight it. The word X exactly was not used, but it was used to invalidate the existing ____, making it worthless. After X actually happened in 2016, the makers were bombarded with messages saying what you wrote actually happened, and had to change the entire script adapting to the new system. ID X.
- 24. Answers
- 25. Question 1 The third chapter of Bhagavad Gita deals with Krishna educating Arjun about the path of action or Karma Yoga. To illustrate this further, he gives the example of King Janaka in the following verse from 3.20: कमर्हणैव ह सं सद् धमाि थता जनकादय: | लोकसंग्रहमेवा प सम्पश्यन्कतुर्हमहर्ह स || 20| Translating to: By performing their prescribed duties, King Janak and others attained perfection. You should also perform your duties to set an example for the good of the world. It appears that certain government officials were avid readers of this verse and thus it is somehow connected to all of us here. Where have we seen this?
- 26. Answer NITW logo
- 27. Question 2 A special agent with US Law Enforcement working on a cold-case homicide investigations since 1980 came up with a clever idea for solving the cases by printing the pictures and case information on X and supplied them throughout US prisons. Each set of X consisted of 54 different pieces which the inmates would keep staring at, for many minutes, in their leisure time, thereby stirring a psychological effect. Inmates who came across these information could give hints to the officials for few perks. Previously used fliers and footage techniques did not work as effectively as this method. ID X
- 29. Question 3 It was 16th century that marked history when pure and solid _______(7) was found in mines of Borrowdale, England. The mined mineral, being in same colour and soft, was confused with another metal ore X and was thus called with the same name X. This discovery made the mines in Borrowdale extremely valuable as wrapping brittle little sticks of this solid mineral tightly in sheep skin became popular. Later when science advanced, it was discovered that there is no X in the mineral, yet the layman still calls these sticks X. What are we talking about?
- 30. Answer Why graphite in pencils are called lead
- 31. Question 4 Eleven babies have been born in X, and none of them died as infants, thereby making X's infant mortality rate 0%. What's crazier is why the babies were born there in the first place - these weren't unplanned births. In the early 1900s, nearby nations like Chile and Argentina began to develop an obsession with X and a desire to claim it as their own. In 1977, a pregnant Argentinian woman was flown from Argentina to X where she later gave birth to the first baby born in X. Argentina essentially thought that since this child was born in X, he could be the first citizen, making Argentina the rightful owner of that territory. Even though Chile agreed to this for a year, later they too become ambitious and sent a Chilean couple to X, where they not only birthed but conceived a child. ID X.
- 33. Question 5 (Video on next slide) In 1949, Teresa Brewer who was still a struggling artist singing at night clubs, signed a deal with London Records. After the release of a few singles which did not catch much attention, they released what was meant to be a throwaway song titled ‘Put Another Nickel In’ which ended up selling a million copies. The song was then recreated multiple times and eventually reached the Indian marketing team of X which sampled the song for the advertisements of their extremely popular product Y. ID Y, which is something we’ve loved right from our childhood to this day.
- 35. Answer Y - Maggi
- 36. Question 6 It is generally assumed that this phrase comes from Native American warfare practices, from a centuries-old practice involving the literal _______(7), seen among the Native American tribes of North America. There is an Iroquois folk legend about two leaders who convinced the five great nations – the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca – to stop fighting and form a confederacy. To celebrate the peace, they hid their weapons under the roots of a large, white pine tree, and an underground river washed them away. Hence under certain circumstances, this phrase is used. ID the phrase.
- 38. Question 7 These ship containers are being used for a specific purpose in some dense colonies of Delhi, where building a permanent structure is a challenge due to space constraints. The purpose was a flagship initiative of Delhi Government, for which they were praised throughout the world. What are these being used for?
- 40. Question 8 Ford recently released a new edition of its iconic explorer SUV to celebrate something in a new way. In order to commemorate the occasion, Ford released a video about 2 weeks ago, that includes Bryan Cranston talking about this particular edition of Ford and the absence of certain essential parts in this model. ID the occasion and the reason behind scrapping off these parts.
- 41. Answer Women’s Day They scrapped off the parts invented by women (rear view mirror, heater, GPS, etc.) to mark the importance of women in the automobile industry.
- 42. Question 9 According to detective Silvano Vincenti, ____(4) Gherardini was married to a silk merchant, and started living with her daughter after her husband’s death. After her death due to the plague in mid 1500s, she was buried in beneath a chapel. He explains that she died aged 63 which might have been the reason for her having no facial hair. In the expedition in 2011, the bones of Mrs. Gherardini were found in the same chapel as they were known to be buried at, and c-14 tests almost confirmed Vincenti’s assumption, but her skull couldn’t be retrieved to reconstruct the face, leaving the question still open. What was the expedition about?
- 43. Answer To confirm whether Lisa Gherardini was the inspiration behind of Mona Lisa
- 44. Question 10 North Face, an outdoor recreational products company, developed these gloves which were supplied as official merchandise for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. As shown in the image, the gloves have the thumb and index finger part in red colour to showcase something perfectly for Instagram moments. Why were these gloves made this way?
- 45. Answer Designed to show a heart in red when making the Korean finger heart gesture
- 46. Question 11 The size of the Empire State Building shrinks while moving from bottom to top. It has five major floor area reductions. This design of the building is inspired from X which is very commonly used by kids because the architects behind this building wanted to achieve the tag of tallest building in the world. Even though it is not exactly the tallest structure, designing it in the form of X gives it such a look. It even held that record till World Trade Center came up. What is X?
- 47. Answer Pencil
- 48. Question 12 Based on the data released by Apple Inc. in September 2018, what does this map represent?
- 49. Answer Most used messaging app by nation
- 50. Question 13 UPS is the world's largest shipping and delivery package company. Reportedly, none of its trucks do X. In the US, people drive on the right side and as a consequence, there is an issue at signals. UPS estimated that a lot of time and fuel is getting wasted due to this. Hence the company created an algorithm that created some special routes which eliminates X most of the times even if the route is longer. What is the algorithm about?
- 51. Answer It eliminates all the routes that have left turns from the drivers’ paths
- 52. Question 14 The Toyota Hilux is a series of pickup trucks in production since 1968. Their high level of durability and reliability despite sustained heavy use has got them to feature on journeys to the Arctic and even a victory at the Paris-Dakar Rally. They allow transport of small, heavy items and also shift people around very quickly. Over the past decade, they have emerged as the favoured vehicle of choice of a set of people, where they sport something in black-and-white. This use has been compared to light tanks used by Germany during their Blitzkrieg campaigns in World War II. Where is the Hilux the preferred vehicle of choice?
- 53. Answer Why so many Toyotas are used by ISIS
- 54. Question 15 One commodity brought from a Portuguese colony in East Africa to India was a fruit that Indians had not yet seen. It was sold under the name of the nation from which it came, but Indians could not pronounce it correctly and soon it got corrupted to the version we all know it as. ID the fruit and nation.
- 56. Question 16 A description of a very annoying group of people is explained as follows: “The Xs may appear quiet but they are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. A Minimus Wagus is X's natural prey. Minimus Wagus unassumingly walks into X's vast territory. The X adjusts her posture and is ready to strike. She attacks with full force with various techniques, causing chaos and confusion. Minimus Wagus never stood a chance. X is victorious, her meal comes, her hunger for attention fulfilled. ID X.
- 57. Answer Karen
- 58. Question 17 X released a comedy album that talks about himself and his achievements, with the title of it being him embracing his famous nickname. Though it was released around 6 months before he won the world championship in the field he is known for, most of the poems in the album were apt with the album title. This also helped in intimidating his opponents before a match and he gained notoriety as an eloquent trash-talker. ID X.
- 59. Answer Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
- 60. Question 18 The poet Sappho was an intellect who wrote many love poems to women. Though many poems were destroyed, the few remaining poems speak clearly to the poet's love and infatuation with women. Sappho's writings are very erotic, something uncommon, especially for _____(5) of that era — Sappho may have been the first _____(5) to do so. As the poet is a resident of the isle of ______(6), an ancient Greek island, the term X came into usage. ID X.
- 61. Answer Lesbian
- 62. Question 19 Xs didn't just conceal the injuries but also saved the lives of soldiers. After WW1, many returned home with severe ____(4) injuries that required more elaborate surgery. Some parts of the body were missing and many worried about what others would think of their appearance. American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd came in and started making Xs. First she would make a cast of the soldier's ____(4) and then craft X with thin copper. She painted them on the spot to match the soldier's skin. She also used real hair on X to recreate some parts. ID X.
- 64. Question 20 The makers of this series prepared the script 8-9 years ago, but the research required for this topic took time and it was released recently. This series addresses a very serious issue, and the cops dealing with it came up with an idea X which is the only way to fight it. The word X exactly was not used, but it was used to invalidate the existing ____, making it worthless. After X actually happened in 2016, the makers were bombarded with messages saying what you wrote actually happened, and had to change the entire script adapting to the new system. ID X.
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