Lockdown Pe Quiz by CPQ | Discord Edition | Manu Sudhakar & Aravind Anil
- 1. Lockdown Pe Quiz CPQ Discord Series General Quiz Set & Hosted by: Manu Sudhakar & Aravind Anil 30/5/2020
- 2. ▪ 3 Rounds 🡪 27 Qs ▪ R1 – Written Round (5 Qs) ▪ R2 – Clockwise (9 Qs) ▪ R3 – Written Rd (4 Qs) ▪ R4 – Anti Clockwise (9 Qs) 30/5/2020 THE DEAL___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 3. ▪ Here’s a portrait of “CIDs from Kerala” drawn by Akhil Ghosh (@prozac_3). ▪ They take their team name from the “CIDs from India” trilogy that came out between 1987 and 1990. ▪ ID all 3 movies? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – SAMPLE 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 5. ✔ Nadodikkattu ✔ Pattanapravesham ✔ Akkare Akkare Akkare 30/5/2020 ANSWER___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 6. ▪ Themed Written Rd 🡪 5 Qs ▪ +10 per question ▪ Free Pounce – i.e., All teams can attempt every questions without negs, before each question closes. ▪ Tag @@qm in your #teamx channel to answer 30/5/2020 ROUND - 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 7. • A few years back, this person was prompted to make a movie Le ____ with a different dimension after he got a Virtual Reality gear. • In order to blend that required element in his film, he sought the help of Grace Boyle, the founder of Feelies, a London based company that has developed the technology to disperse it during a film. • The movie’s name alludes to the specific lingering element (and not to be confused with the surname of another famous individual), which is a constant companion of the heroine. • Who? • FITB to complete the name of the movie? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 8. ✔ AR Rahman ✔ ‘Le Musk’ ▪ Smell/ Olfactory Sense of Musk perfume 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 1 30/5/2020 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 9. ▪Written Rd 🡪 5 Qs ▪Theme: AR Rahman 30/5/2020 ROUND - 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 10. ▪ Pictured is a Tamil song from early 2000s, fully shot in a single location in Kerala that incidentally shares its name with an Indian icon from a different field who became popular only a few years after the release of this movie. ▪ The movie featuring this song is loosely based on an early 19th C English novel, and was directed by a gentleman born in Kochi. ▪ ID the location? ▪ Also ID the work this movie is based on? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 2___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 12. ✔ Dhoni ✔ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 2___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 13. •Another snip from the same song, “Konchum Mainakkale” from Kandukondein Kandukondein. •Simply ID the person whose mask is being worn by these dancers? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 3___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 14. ✔ Subramania Bharathi 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 3___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 15. •Yamla Pagla Deewana 2, a 2013 sequel produced by Dharmendra, was the most recent movie directed by a gentleman, who has a unique claim as far as AR Rahman is concerned, set almost 28 years ago. •ID the director? OR •What unique claim, that is all set to be broken soon? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 4___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 17. ✔ Sangeeth Sivan ✔ Yodha, the only Malayalam movie of AR Rahman so far (Aadujeevitham will be his second) 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 4___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 18. • This music album by AR Rahman is largest-selling non-film album to date of the first record company in India to be 100% foreign-owned. In the music reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa aired in Zee Keralam TV, Sujatha, one of the featured singers recalls the proud moment of launching this album in a stage built in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, during the Golden Jubilee of our Independence. • One of its tracks was sung by a someone (in his only collaboration with AR Rahman) who died soon after the release of this album. • Which album? • Also ID the singer (full name required)? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 5___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 19. ✔ Vande Mataram ✔ Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 5___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 20. ▪ Clockwise 🡪 9 Qs ▪ +10 per question ▪ Pounce – +10/ -5. i.e., tag @@qm in your #teamx channel ▪ Bounce – via Voice channel. Bangalore Bounce followed. 30/5/2020 ROUND - 2___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 21. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ What popular Carnatic raga - one of the 72 Mela karthas (parent ragas) - gets its name because its tortuous movements invoke the manner of a naga (snake)? ▪ The name of the raga doesn’t include any synonyms of naga/snake, but is a figurative reference to it. 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 6
- 22. ✔ Sankarabharanam 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 6___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 23. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ In 1971, Nicaragua came out with this series of stamps on 10 equations that changed the face of the world (shown in chronological order). ▪ What’s the first one on the list? Give the answer as LHS=RHS. 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 7
- 25. ✔ 1 + 1 = 2 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 7___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 26. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ Victor Magnotta was a Vietnam veteran from New York who would go on to work as a stunt driver in films. ▪ After his return, over dinner with two gentlemen, (one of whom was with him at NYU), he mentioned what some of the Special Forces would do to themselves to prepare for a mission and that:- ▪ “..in Saigon, if you saw a guy like that,….that usually meant those people were ready to go into a certain Special Forces situation … you knew that that was a special situation – commando kind of situation, and people gave them wide berths ….They were ready to kill…” ▪ What would this inspire? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 8
- 27. ✔ The Mohawk in Taxi Driver 30/5/2020 ANSWER - 8___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 28. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ This was coined in 1688 to describe a condition seen in mercenaries travelling abroad. Over the next two centuries it was considered a disease with a pathological basis so much so that patients were bled as part of treatment, and it was listed as a contributory cause of death in Civil war soldiers when the real cause was probably a complicating infection or other underlying disease. ▪ Today it is a benign word with no morbid connotations at all. ▪ What word which, clearly, is not what it used to be? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 9
- 30. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪In 1930, Morarji Desai resigned as Deputy collector of a certain district, and later from the civil service, after an enquiry found him guilty of inaction during a Hindu-Muslim riot in 1928. ▪Which district? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 10
- 32. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪What decision of the early 1990s did Melina Mercouri, Greek minister for Culture, decry with the statement “Coca-Cola has won out over the Parthenon”? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 11
- 33. ✔ The decision to award the symbolic centennial Olympics (1996) to Atlanta instead of Athens 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 11
- 34. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪Who, in a reversal of roles, took this photograph? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 12
- 36. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪This is a comparison by Robert Muylaert of grainy footage of two tragic events captured on black and white film. ▪“Both documentaries show dramatic sequences with the endings that everybody knows, even if we don’t want to; the same movement, rhythm, and accuracy of their inexorable trajectories that will not be altered until reaching the target, like a torpedo or a guided missile that once released never returns. The same highly dramatic soundtrack could be used in both films.” ▪If the second event was the assassination of JFK, what was the first one ? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 13
- 37. ✔ Ghiggia’s winner for Uruguay against Brazil at the Maracanzo 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 13
- 38. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ Whose biography, by Douglas Coupland, has a subtitle which, in a nod to a moment in this cinema, suggests a complete lack of familiarity with the subject's field of expertise. ▪ Also ID this cinema? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 14
- 39. ✔ Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work ✔ Annie Hall by Woodie Allen 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 14
- 40. ▪ Written Rd 🡪 4 Qs ▪ Theme: WARS ▪ +10 per question ▪ Free Pounce – i.e., All teams can attempt every questions without negs, before each question closes. ▪ Tag @@qm in your #teamx channel to answer 30/5/2020 ROUND - 1___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 41. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ “Britain from Above” was a 2008 docu-series that looked at the transformation of the landscape and impact of industrialization and urbanization after WW2. ▪ The pre-1940s data sourced from another country’s records. ▪ What was the source? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 15
- 42. ✔ Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance pictures 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 15
- 43. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ The ‘________ _____’ Tournament is an Under-12 football tournament, started by the Premier League in 2011. This was initially to be played annually until 2014 to mark an anniversary (but has been continued) and takes place in a historic Belgian city, with the featuring teams from countries that was part of an iconic moment of friendship. ▪ Last year’s edition had Anderlecht, Club Brugge, Hertha Berlin, Cologne, Marseille, PSG, Man City, Burnley, Stoke city, Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace. ▪ Name the tournament? ▪ Also ID the venue? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 16
- 44. ✔ Christmas Truce Tournament ✔ Ypres 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 16
- 45. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ What French term, that means “front of an army”, referred to a formation that moved ahead of the main army? ▪ Now it denotes anything modernist/ experimental in art, literature or theatre and is used in the sense of being ahead of society. ▪ (You can give either the French term, or a derived English word which means forefront.) 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 17
- 46. ✔ Avant Garde ✔ Vanguard 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 17
- 47. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ There was this group of troops who would be thrown ahead of the avant garde, almost a suicide mission, who didn’t have much of chance. ▪ What two word English phrase, from Dutch for “lost troops” were this lot called? ▪ It now means a wish unlikely to be fulfilled. 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 18
- 48. ✔ Forlorn hope ✔ (from verloren hoop, Dutch for “lost troops”) 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 18
- 49. ▪ Anti-Clockwise 🡪 9 Qs ▪ +10 per question ▪ Pounce – +10/ -5. i.e., tag @@qm in your #teamx channel ▪ Bounce – via Voice channel. Bangalore Bounce followed. 30/5/2020 ROUND - 4___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 50. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ The monument X was the world’s tallest structure for a brief period, for just 5 years in the 1880s, after which it was overtaken by another structure Y in the late 1880s. ▪ Although the construction of X began in the mid 1850s, it was halted for a period of over 20 years due to lack of funds, and the internal political scenario of that country. It also bears an inscription which translates to “Our Language, Our Country, Our Nation, Welsh forever”. ▪ Y is from a different continent, and owes its origin to a famous event in the 1880s. ▪ ID both structures? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 19
- 51. ✔ X 🡪 Washington Memorial ✔ Y 🡪 Eiffel Tower 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 19
- 52. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ This is the memorial built to commemorate a mutiny that took place in an Indian city in the early 19th C, which is regarded as the first instance of a large scale violent uprising by the Indian soldiers against the British. ▪ Which Indian city, famous for a private university that bear its name, is this? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 20
- 54. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ This 5- letter name is part of the name of, amongst others, a European mountain peak and a tropical Caribbean island. The peak’s name means “villain/ mischief maker with his head in the clouds” in a local language. ▪ Ironically, perhaps, the name in the tropical island is derived from “snow” as it’s a shortened form of the Spanish for “our lady of the snows”. ▪ ID the mountain? ▪ Also ID the carribean island? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 21
- 55. ✔ Ben Nevis, Scotland (Highest peak in the UK) ✔ Nevis (St Kitts and Nevis) 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 21
- 56. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ The Fania All-Stars is an American band formed in the 1960s as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records, the leading salsa music record label of the time. ▪ In the next decade, they notably performed to at a 80,000 seated stadium in the capital of a country from a different continent, which was captured on film and released as Live in ______ (the blank being the continent). This performance occurred at a music festival held in conjunction with the a much anticipated event. ▪ ID the event? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 22
- 57. ✔ Rumble in the Jungle 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 22
- 58. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ This is the logo of a web platform for learning the informatics of a certain specific branch of science through problem solving, and it has an alphabet designed to appear like a famous representation. ▪ The platform itself is named after the first name of a famous individual. ▪ ID the name of platform? ▪ OR What does the logo represent? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 23
- 59. ✔ ROSALIND ✔ Rosalind Franklin’s “Photograph 51” – X Ray Crystallography Image of DNA 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 23
- 60. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ Starting June 1, this American company will be celebrating the first ever “National ________ Week” in USA, by offering the blanked item free for all in their outlets. ▪ The National ________ Day was observed in one particular day in the first week of June since the WWII days in the US, to commemorate the act of The Salvation Army who served this item to the soldiers. ▪ FITB OR What celebration? ▪ Also ID the company? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 24
- 61. ✔ Krispy Kreme ✔ National Doughnut Week 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 24
- 62. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ In The Big Bang Theory, in the episode where Dr. Sheldon Cooper broke up with his girl-friend, he buys a few kittens to give him company. ▪ Being a nerd physicist, he named those kittens after scientists – Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, Rotblat etc. Although his mom observed all those kittens were given “cute Jewish” names, there was another factor from the world of science that connected these names. ▪ What connect? ▪ What did he appropriately name his first cat? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 25
- 64. ✔ Manhatten Project ✔ Robert Oppenheimer 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 25
- 65. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ▪ This is a Volkswagen Ad from 2008. ▪ It features this entrepreneur, who in late 20th C started a company named after his nickname at College. The company was one of the first popular names in its field. ▪ This commercial was directed by Roman _______, the son of an Oscar winning director. ▪ ID the entrepreneur? ▪ FITB OR ID the surname of the director? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 26
- 67. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Excerpts from an interview where this person recollects his first brand endorsement: • “Interestingly, they approached my brother. I was still a minor at that time. He informed my father about this ad offer. We as a family collectively discussed this at length. Everyone at home believed ____ ___was a good brand to be associated with. And that’s how I made my debut in advertising.” • Who? • Which brand? 30/5/2020 QUESTION – 27
- 68. ✔ Sachin Tendulkar ✔ Band Aid 30/5/2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ANSWER - 27
- 69. ▪Fin