FSI Potpourri Quiz

Prelims
The boot is on the
other foot
IIM Ahmedabad
12th 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
whats prohibited
Write all team member names, phone numbers and
emails

Q1 ID X.
Chuck Wepner claimed it was based on his life. Some
elements resembled incidents from Joe Fraziers life.
Other possible references suggested have been a
certain X Marciano and X Graziano. Of course, the
answer and X are same. What?

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.

* 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!"

Q4 A map of what?
Images on the next slide. The answers not Africa

Q5 ID X?
X was in the Indian team which toured England in 1932 and
played the first test match India ever played. Xs 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.

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).
Xs 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.

** Q7 The man in the picture.

Image on next slide.

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.
Xs 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 Xs elderly son

* 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?

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 products version from Tamil Nadu.
What?

Q11 What event? Exhaustive

Year
1982
1988

Winner
Australia
Australia

1993

England

1997

Australia

2005

New
Zealand
Australia

2009

England

2013

Australia

2000

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.

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
Xs 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.

Q14 ID both the people.

* Q15 Answer very specifically

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