BUZZINGA THE GENERAL QUIZ

BUZZINGATHE GENERAL QUIZFINALS

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1.Quatorzime is one of the enviable jobs around: They are professional dinner guest. Why are they employed?

His job is to be the 14th person at a function or dinner whereas he would join if the total number of guests totalled 13 which is considered by some people to be unlucky

2 What does this probability graph indicate?Hint : it reaches exact 1 at a value of 367?

Probablity of two people having the same birthday date in a group of n people

3Edward Headrick was hired as toy company Wham-Os general manager and VP of marketing. Headrick took a hands on approach to the business and helped refine what was then known as the Pluto Platter into a more easily controlled toy wed all come to know as the __________.Headrick remained very involved in _______ design and ______ sports over the course of his life. Upon his death in 2002, his last wishes were honored and he was cremated, the ashes mixed with plastic polymer, and the mixture then molded into a set of memorial ______s given to family and close friends (some were also sold to benefit the The Ed Headrick Memorial Museum).FITB

Frisbees

4She is sharbat gula. She was living in Pakistan on fake documents, prompting authorities to launch a probe.Four officials were suspended recently for allegedly issuing fake Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) to Sharbat Gula and her two sons .According to Pakistani officials, Gula applied for a Pakistani identity card in the northwestern city of Peshawar in April 2014, under the name Sharbat Bibi. What is her claim to fame?

5Jaipal Singh founded Jharkhand Party on March 5, 1949 at a large conference inRanchi. This party was in news in 2009 when a Jharkhand Party candidate Raja Peter defeated sitting Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shibu Soren by over 9,000 votes.How is Jaipal Singh connected to the field of sports?

Captain of Indian Hockey Team in 1928 olympics

6 X and Y became friends in the 1890s, thanks in part to Ys lifelong fascination with technology and new inventions. So great was X and Ys mutual admiration that each man even claimed the other had once cured him of an illness. In his autobiography, X wrote that when he was bedridden from sickness as a young man, Ys captivating novels had been a much-needed solace that helped jump-start a recovery. After the two became friends, X repaid the favor when he cured the writer of a severe bout of constipation by having him stand on a high frequency oscillator.

7A _______ is a unit of volume used for dry measure in the UK. Outside of the wine industry the use of _______ as a unit of measurement has fallen out of favor, the legacy of the ______-size wine cask lives on as a slang ______ _____ to informally denote that the amount of something is quite sizable.1 _______ roughly equals 108 Gallons.

8ID the Painting and painter.

Portrait of Friedrich NietzscheBy Edvard Munch (of The Scream fame)

9Lathyrism is a neurological disease of humans and animals caused by eating legumes of the genus lathyrus, mainly Lathyrus sativus or grass-pea. The patient gets paralyzed from the lower limbs or develops an inability to move from the waist down. Grasspea has often been eaten during famines because they can grow in drought conditions. The artwork Thanks to the grasspea, an aquatint, shows its use as a famine food but also the ill-effects of eating it.Identify the painterHow do we better know grass-pea in India? (Hint - Contextual, was in news few months ago)

Francisco GoyaKhesari Dal

10 His first and most famous novel was banned in several countriesas well as some U.S. schoolsbecause of its subject matter and what Catholic World reviewer Riley Hughes called an "excessive use of amateur swearing and coarse language" One diligent parent counted 237 appearances of the word "goddam" in the novel, along with 58 of "bastard", 31 of "Chrissake" and six of "fuck". He dated Oona O'Neill( who later got married to Charlie chaplin), daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill.The 2000 film Finding Forrester in which Sean Connery plays a reclusive author was loosely based on the life of this author who passed away in 2010. Name him and his most famous novel?

11The "Great Sign" is the roadside sign used by this company during their original era of expansion in the 1950s-1970s. It was perhaps their greatest advertising. It was extremely large and eye-catching, but was expensive to construct and operate. The manufacturer of the sign was Balton & Sons Sign Company. In 1982, following Wilson's departure, the Companys board of directors made the decision to phase out the "Great Sign" in favor of a cheaper and less catchy backlit sign. Wilson was angered about this, saying, "It was the worst mistake they ever made". Wilson so loved the sign that it was engraved on his tombstone. Name the company.

12There are only three people in the field of sports to have received Padma Vibhusan. Two are Vishwanathan Anand and Sachin Tendulkar. Who is the third?

Edmund Hillary

The sign of four

Written round+5 for each part

SET 1X lived in Cuba from 1939 until shortly after the Cuban Revolution. He lived at Finca Viga, in the small town of San Francisco de Paula, located very close to Ys Modelo Brewery for Z in Cotorro, Havana.In 1954, the owner of Y threw X a party when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature soon after the publication of his novel W in which he honored the company by mentioning its Z. A sign at the event read Y welcomes the author of B".This is the passage where he mentions the product:He sent two beers.I like the beer in cans best."But this is in bottles, Z, and I take back the bottles.Thats very kind of you the _____ ______ said. Should we eat?

SET 2Three different movies with the same name X were released in 1971, 1995 and 2005 respectively. The movie released in 1995 had a pair W, who later became real life couple, essaying the role of the main leads. The leading lady replaced the original choice Y subsequent to an unfortunate incident. There is however one common person Z in the star cast of all the three movies. W,X, Y and Z

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SET 1X lived in Cuba from 1939 until shortly after the Cuban Revolution. He lived at Finca Viga, in the small town of San Francisco de Paula, located very close to Ys Modelo Brewery for Z in Cotorro, Havana.In 1954, the owner of Y threw X a party when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature soon after the publication of his novel W in which he honored the company by mentioning its Z. A sign at the event read Y welcomes the author of B".This is the passage where he mentions the product:He sent two beers.I like the beer in cans best."But this is in bottles, Z, and I take back the bottles.Thats very kind of you the _____ ______ said. Should we eat?

Set 1W= The old man and the seaX= Ernest HemingwayY=BacardiZ=Hautey Beer

SET 2Three different movies with the same name X were released in 1971, 1995 and 2005 respectively. The movie released in 1995 had a pair W, who later became real life couple, essaying the role of the main leads. The leading lady replaced the original choice Y subsequent to an unfortunate incident. There is however one common person Z in the star cast of all the three movies. W,X, Y and Z

Set 2W=Kajol and Ajay DevganX= HulchulY= Divya BhartiZ= Amrish Puri

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13X, meaning exceeding treasure, was a heavily armed trading ship belonging to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, that finds its mention in pirate folklore.X was on its way from Mocha in Yemen to Surat along with its escort Fateh Mohammed, when it was captured by the English pirate Henry Every on 7 September 1695.Despite being outnumbered, Every managed to capture the two ships and went away with a loot of 600,000 including 500,000 gold and silver pieces, making it one of the most profitable and biggest pirate raids in history.The raid soured Mughal and British relations to the point that Aurangzeb closed all Company factories, and almost decided to attack and expel all Englishmen in India. As fate would have it, the English pacified him and would stay in India.Give X, whose looting almost expelled all British from India.

Ganj-i-Sawai (anglicized as Gunswoy)

14 The following is the list of womens singles winners at the Asian Table Tennis Championships for the years mentioned.

What happened, that Japan was able to break the stranglehold of China in 1996?1976 Zhang Li (China)1978 Cao Yanhua (China)1980 Qi Baoxiang (China)1982 Cao Yanhua (China)1984 He Zhili (China)1986 He Zhili (China)1988 He Zhili (China)1990 Qiao Hong (China)1992 Tang Weiyi (China)1994 Deng Yaping (China)1996 Chire Koyama (Japan)

He Zhili, who was the champion thrice from 1984 to 1988, and fed with up with the fixing of matches between Chinese players, migrated to Japan and married a Japanese. She changed her name to Chire Koyama and represented Japan

15Beer enthusiastsPregnant WomenPeople who work outPeople with steroids and high cholesterol People dressed in striking colors

This is a list of possible answer to one of an eternal question.

16To address a perennial problem in certain competitions in this sport, this organisation has been using TW3, introduced in 2012 under a former Olympians guidance. TW3 replaced Greulich & Pyle, which had been in use since 2005.

What are we talking about? Who was the former Olympian?

Medical tests to determine age of players in age-group cricket in India

BCCIs Age Verification Programme (AVP) in 2012 was advised by Dr. Vece Paes

17The phrase entered the mainstream by way of Tom Wolfe's novelThe Right Stuff.

This term has since been applied metaphorically to any situation in which a person or a group is pushing the limits or doing something new in any area of activity. It is often applied in a self-congratulatory way to highlight the novelty and risk-taking of the activity.

The phrase has its origin in the field of aviation. It is a reference to the flyable portion of the atmosphere around the earth.

Question 18

19The individual sent a short paper to Nature in which he suggested a shorter name on the following grounds:The name X has been suggested by Anderson and Neddermeyer for the new particle found in cosmic radiation. It is felt that the tr is redundant in this word since it does not belong to the Greek root for middle. It would therefore be more logical and also shorter to call the new particle X than a X.Who wrote the letter?Identify the terms -X and X

H J BHABHAX= MesonX=Mesotron

20This motif is a common symbol in heraldry, and has found use in histories in both India and Europe, but with different connotations.In the West, it has denoted a claim to succession or cultural continuity from the heritage of the Roman Empire. It has featured heavily in Byzantine, Holy Roman and Habsburg insignia, where it signified dominion over Church and State, along with dominion over East and West. Even modern day flags of countries and other entities associated with Orthodox Church feature it, though its origins are from the ancient Hittite civilization.In India, it is the representation of the Gandaberunda motif in Hindu mythology as a symbol of strength and is said to have killed the Sharabha beast incarnation of Lord Shiva that was a eight-legged chimera of man, lion and bird. What motif or symbol is this?

Two headed Eagle

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I with the Imperial Banners Insignia of State of Karnataka, inspired by the seal of Kingdom of Mysore

21 Scene from Anurag Kashyaps Gulaal.Which piece of literature is Piyush Mishra performing? Give both poem and poet.

Rashmirathi, by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

22 What does this chart indicate?

23In the third generation Pokemon games Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, the language is inscribed in ancient caves and taverns, visually encoding the instructions for opening the gates inside the three caves that contain the Legendary Titans trio of Regirock, Regice and Registeel.Thus, it appears that the language appears in the game as a sort of ancient language, but there is no official backstory by Nintendo.What language?Many fans, due to the appearance of the three Regis, also call it legendary ______ trio, where the blanked out word is a term from Jewish folklore. FITB

BrailleGolem

24Nottingham Forest F.C. was originally founded in 1865 as Nottingham Forest Football and ____ Club

The blank referred to an outdoor winter sport played on ice, resembling ice hockey, but with a ball

The sport continues to be popular in Russia and the Nordic countries - with many crediting this sport for the more elegant style of play of Soviet / Russian ice-hockey players vis--vis their North American counterparts.

Which sport?

Bandy

THE SIGN OF FOUR AGAIN

SET3W, the war hero after whom Chicagos airport is named, was the son of mob lawyer who was famous by the name Easy Eddie who was an attorney and business partner of the famous gangster X. There was a point when Eddie decided to secretly become an informant for the Internal Revenue Service and it was with his help that the government convicted and imprisoned X for income tax evasion.A 1983 movie Y which is the remake of a 1932 movie of the same name which is loosely based on the rise and fall of X. In the 1983 movie the lead role is by the famous actor Z.

SET4. Hats off- Identify

WYXZ

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SET3W, the war hero after whom Chicagos airport is named, was the son of mob lawyer who was famous by the name Easy Eddie who was an attorney and business partner of the famous gangster X. There was a point when Eddie decided to secretly become an informant for the Internal Revenue Service and it was with his help that the government convicted and imprisoned X for income tax evasion.A 1983 movie Y which is the remake of a 1932 movie of the same name which is loosely based on the rise and fall of X. In the 1983 movie the lead role is by the famous actor Z.

Set3 W=Butch OHareX=Al CaponeY=ScarfaceZ=Al Pacino

SET4. Hats off- Identify

WYXZ

Set4 W=LaadlaX=Dil Hai ki Maanta NahinY=Kabhi Haan Kabhi NaaZ=Baazigar

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