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PRESENT

The Commander General

Quiz
Presented by
•Varun B Rao
•Anand M S
 Heartfelt Thanks to
• Prof. K R Savithri for ensuring that today happened

• Prof. S V Sathish for his invaluable support and guidance

to the Quotient Quiz Club

• The Department of Telecommunications

• All the participants

• The World Wide Web for its vast reserve of information

 BRIEF OVERVIEW
• 4 Rounds inclusive of 1 LVC

• Scoring pattern shall be elucidated at the start of

each round

• The collective IQ of the audience is ALWAYS

greater than the collective IQ of the participants.
We need no proof.

• The Quizmasters’ decision is final, binding, and

will not change even in the face of clinching
evidence to the contrary
 ROUND 1 : FRIENDLY FIRE
• 6 Questions : Clockwise

• Fairplay enabled

• +10/-10 on Fairplay

• +10/0 on a Direct/Pass
1. What famous, unsuccessful incident does the following picture
depict?
Operation Valkyrie
2. Which European football club
was founded as a cricket club in
1899 by British expatriates Alfred
Edwards and Herbert Kilpin from
Nottingham, and in honor of its
origins, retained the English
spelling of its city's name, instead
of changing it to the local spelling?
 A C Milan

That is why they call themselves A C “Milan” and not A C “Milano”

3. In 1982, toothpaste salesman Dietrich
Mateschitz was surprised that certain Mr Taisho
was in the top 10 list of tax payers in Japan and
that he owned Krating Daeng (“water buffalo”).
This product had listed taurine as one of its
ingredients, which was effective for jet lag.

Mr M, inspired by this idea created his empire

based on Krating Daeng. He said, “I was most
fascinated by Zeus the king of Gods - the way
he came to see Europa and got transformed.” By
what name is Krating Daeng known to us?
Red Bull gives you Wiiings!
4.
• S for Stupendous!
• T for Tiger, ferocity of!
• U for Underwear, red!
• P for Power, incredible!
• E for Excellent physique!
• N for… umm… something... hmmm, well, I'll
come back to that…
• D for Determination!
• U for... wait, how do you spell this? Is it "I"??

Monologue of the alter ego of which fictional

character?
5. Connect (non-exhaustive)

• Mr. Wilson from Home Improvement

• Charles Townsend in Charlie’s Angels

• Kenny McCormick from South Park

• Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget

• Mammy Two Shoes in Tom and Jerry

Unseen faces on TV
6. A Frank Zappa and The Mothers of
Invention concert was held in the casino's
theatre. In the middle of Don Preston's
synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place
suddenly caught fire when somebody in
the audience fired a flare gun into the
rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the
"some stupid with a flare gun" line. The
resulting fire destroyed the entire casino
complex, along with all the Mothers'
equipment. What in the lords name,
resulted from this?
END OF ROUND 1
Score time!
 ROUND 2 : ARTILLERY
• 6 Questions : Counter - Clockwise

• Fairplay enabled

• +10/-10 on Fairplay

• +10/0 on a Direct/Pass
1. The original of this was developed
after a worker at Rowntree's factory in
York put a suggestion in the suggestion
box for a snack that a 'man could have
in his lunch box for work'.
It was launched in September 1935 in
the UK as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp.
It was later renamed in 1937 to a brand
that we are all familiar with.
What?
2. It lasts 200 days for an average
family of five, uses a combination of
paddy husk ash and tiny silver
particles.

The company can afford to produce

this on the cheap because India
produces 20 million ton of paddy husk
ash each year as a byproduct of rice
milling.

What are we talking about?

3.

• James Bond = Agent 007

Enemy : GoldFinger
Boss : Q

• __________ = Agent 000

Enemy : Yellow Pinkie
Boss : Double Q

Fill in the blank.

Pretty nostalgic one… Cartoon Network
is just not the same nowadays, is it?
4. FIA President Max Mosley instead
attended the funeral of X which took place
on May 7, 1994 in Salzburg, Austria. 
Mosley said in a press conference ten
years later, "I went to his funeral because
everyone went to Y's. I thought it was
important that somebody went to his.“

ID X and Y.
X – Roland Ratzenberger Y – Ayrton Senna
5. “_____ _____” has the looks of James Dean and
Fonzie (from “Happy Days”) and the voice of Elvis
Presley and resides in Aron City.

The director says that the name “_____ _____” was

inspired from the episode of the Brady Bunch wherein
Greg Brady wants to be a rock star.

Many Celebrity guests on the show include Mick Jagger,

Weird Al Yankovic, Farah Fawcett, Capt. America,
Velma Dinkley etc.

Simply. Fill in the blank.

6. In medieval England, there was a practice of
allowing peasants to take any deadwood from
the royal forest that they could reach with a
shepherd's crook or a reaper's billhook.
What is the significance of this in the modern
English language?
The origin of the expression – “By hook or crook”
END OF ROUND 2
Score time!
 ROUND 3

VENI VIDI VICI – THE LVC

 GUIDELINES
• 12 slides in 4 slabs of 3
• All visuals are related by a “theme”
• Slab 1 : +40/-20
• Slab 2 : +30/-15
• Slab 3 : +20/-10
• Slab 4 : +10/0
• Teams can answer once per slab
SLAB 1
END OF SLAB 1

• +40/-20
• Who dares wins!
SLAB 2
 END OF SLAB 2

• +30/-15
• Any brain-waves? An epiphany perhaps?
SLAB 3
 END OF SLAB 3
• +20/-10
• Come on now! Think.. Think…
SLAB 4
END OF SLAB 4
• +10/0
ANSWER SLIDES
LIC (Jeevan Bhima Policy)  Jeevan Bhima Nagar
Soundarya ‘s character - Ganga Ganganagar
Jayprakash Narayan  JP nagar
C. Rajagopalachari Rajajinagar
V.V. Giri Girinagar
Kamal Nehru Kamalanagar
Sanjay Gandhi Sanjaynagar
Ghulam Nabi Azad Azadnagar
Thyagaraja  Thyagarajnagar
Rabindranath Tagore RT nagar
Victoria Terminus / Shivaji Terminus
Shivajinagar
Vijaya Bank  Vijayanagar
Indira Gandhi  Indiranagar
END OF ROUND 3
• Score Time
ROUND 4 – LAST MAN STANDING
 GENERAL OVERVIEW
• 6 Questions
• Fairplay disabled
• Teams are expected to provide the
complete funda for full points
• Administering part points is left to the
discretion of the quiz-masters
• +15 / 0
1. Surprisingly, Cameroon has been identified as
the country with the most number of phishing
sites on the internet.

Yella ok… Cameroon yaake?

Its domain name is .cm

People register fake sites with famous names

under .cm because of its proximity to .com
2. This was a popular E-mail forward which joked about the
way something came into existence. What does this depict?
3. Why are buttons on women’s clothing on the left
as opposed to men’s being on the right?
In Aristocratic England, men used to dress
themselves whereas the high class
women had maids to dress them.

The buttons were placed on the left to

make it easier for maids (standing
opposite to the women) to button them up.
4. Yeh kya hua…?
Maldives is under threat of being completely
submerged due to global warming.

To raise awareness, a pact to battle Global

Warming was signed underwater.
5. Put funda.
The demand for the shirt of Cardiff City's new loan signing,
hometown boy Craig Bellamy, was so rabid that the official
club shop ran out of "Y's" and "9's" after selling 3,000
"Bellamy 39" shirts in 3 hours.

So they started selling "Bellam 3” shirts!

 6.

1.
END OF ROUND 4
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