FSI PotPourri Quiz Prelims with Answers

FSI Potpourri – Quiz Prelims

The boot is on the other foot

IIM Ahmedabad12th of December, 2014

Faculty Student Interaction Cell

Rules and Regulations• 15 Questions, 1 point each, 10 seconds per question• 3 Starred Questions, 1 Super starred, Used in case of ties• Spelling Mistakes will be tolerated, give full names if possible• Explanations will be given, Hints may be thrown subject to blocks• Electronic Devices need not be OFF but you know what’s prohibited• Write all team member names, phone numbers and emails• Best of Luck!!!

Q1 – ID X.• Chuck Wepner claimed it was based on his life. Some elements

resembled incidents from Joe Frazier’s life. Other possible references suggested have been a certain X Marciano and X Graziano. Of course, the answer and X are same. What?

Answer• Rocky

Q2 – ID X.• It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near

the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. The event was captured in the 1970 documentary movie X. Again X is the answer.

Answer• Woodstock

* Q3 – The speaker?• Who said this?• "What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit,

and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous!"

Answer• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Q4 – A map of what?• Images on the next slide. The answer’s not Africa

Answer• Bantu

Q5 – ID X?• X was in the Indian team which toured England in 1932 and played

the first test match India ever played. X’s main claim to fame was of being the first man to take a wicket for India as well as a five for.• In the first ball of his second over, dismissed Herbert Sutcliffe for 3,

knocking over Sutcliffe's stumps. Then, with the fifth ball of the very same over, he bowled the other opener, Percy Holmes.• Indian batsman C.K. Nayudu claimed in writings that during his first

spell, X was faster than Englishman Harold Larwood, who terrorized Australia in 1932 in the infamous Bodyline series.

Answer• Mohammad Nisar

Q6 – ID X.• X was the first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

(CSIR). X was also the first Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).• X’s major innovation was improving the procedure for drilling crude oil. The

Attock Oil Company at Rawalpindi (representative of Messers Steel Brothers & Co London) had confronted a peculiar problem, wherein the mud used for drilling operation got hardened upon contact with the saline water, thereby clogging the drill holes.• X added an Indian gum, which had the remarkable property of lowering the

viscosity of the mud suspension and of increasing at the same time its stability against the flocculating action of electrolytes. M/s Steel Brothers was so pleased that they offered X a sum of Rs. 1,50,000/- for research work on any subject related to petroleum.

Answer• Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

** Q7 – The man in the picture.• Image on next slide.

Answer• Vittalbhai Patel

Q8 – The person.• X was born in the small village of Janzour, near Tobruk in eastern

Barqa (Cyrenaica) in Libya. Beginning in 1912, X organized and, for nearly twenty years, led native resistance to Italian colonization of Libya. Italian armed forces captured and hanged X in 1931.• X’s final years were depicted in the movie Lion of the Desert (1981),

starring Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, and Irene Papas. It was based on the struggles of X against Rodolfo Graziani's forces.• In 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wore a photograph of X in

Italian captivity on his chest while on a state visit to Rome, and brought along X’s elderly son during the visit.

Answer• Omar Mukhtar

* Q9 – The incident.• The battle of Samara Bend took place in autumn 1223, at the

southern border of Volga Bulgaria. The natives retreated and the invaders pursued them. Then the main native forces ambushed the invaders.• Who were the invaders?

Answer• Mongols

Q10 – What are we talking about?• According to K T Acharya, it most probably originated in Tamil Nadu,

with the earliest mention of it found in Tamil Literature from around 6th century CE.• According to P. Thankappan Nair, it originated in the Udupi town of

present-day Karnataka. This theory is supported by the fact that the version popular across the country is more akin to the Kannada version as compared to the product’s version from Tamil Nadu.• What?

Answer• Dosa

Q11 – What event? ExhaustiveYear Winner1982 Australia1988 Australia

1993 England

1997 Australia

2000 New Zealand

2005 Australia

2009 England

2013 Australia

Answer• ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup

Q12 – ID the “organisation”.• It was founded on 16 December 1899 by English expatriates Alfred

Edwards and Herbert Kilpin, who came from the English city of Nottingham. • In honour of its English origins, it has retained the English spelling of

the city's name, as opposed to the native spelling which it was forced to bear under a political regime.

Answer• AC Milan

Q13 – ID X.• According to Chinese legend, X began the physical training of the

Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu.• The principal Chinese sources vary on their account of X’s origins,

giving either an origin from India or from the Greco-Buddhist traditions of Iranian language speaking Central Asian kingdoms.• Several stories about X have become popular legends, which are still

being used in the Ch'an and Zen tradition.

Answer• Bodhidharma or Damo

Q14 – ID both the people.

Answer• Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady• Big Bang Theory or some variant does not get points, but may be used

in tie breaks

* Q15 – Answer very specifically• What is hosted at http://

info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Answer• The first website on the internet