BESU QUIZ

MANIAC
BEINGS
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This UNESCO World Heritage Site stretches for
more than 30,000 hectares, between the
foothills of a volcano and the valley of the Rio
Grande River. It is an exquisitely blue
landscape shaped by the cultivation of a plant
which has found use since the 16th century.
What product of the plant is the most popular,
worldwide?
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• Which Cricketer was called ‘The Maritzburg
Mamba’ because of his unique and lethal(for
the opposition of course) abilities?
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Complete the list

  Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and ___
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• In the 1933 Old Trafford test match between
England and West Indies, bowler bowled a
delivery that turned unexpectedly turned
from the off to the leg and which left the
batsman stumped out. The batsman while
returning to the pavilion, remarked, ‘Fancy
being done by a bloody ___________’.
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• In a laboratory at University of Cambridge,
the coffee pot was located in one of the
rooms, to which people working in the lab
used to come to have a sip. But very often the
trips to the coffee pot used to become
useless, as it was found to be empty.
• This problem was solved by the invention of a
new technology. Guess!!!
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• The very earliest known examples of the graphic are
attributed to Harvey Ball, a commercial artist in
Massachusetts. He devised the face in 1963 for an
insurance firm that wanted an internal campaign to
improve employee morale. Ball never attempted to
use, promote or trademark the image; it fell into the
public domain in the United States before that could
be accomplished. As a result, Ball never made any
profit for the iconic image beyond his initial $45 fee.

• The figure has become iconic throughout the world.

Which figure?
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____ was a brand of cigarette introduced in the
UK in 1991 by entrepreneur BJ Cunningham,
who established a company calling itself The
Enlightened Tobacco Company. It marketed
itself as the only brand that was completely
honest about the dangers of cigarette
smoking.
What was so enlightening about it?
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"The length of the film should be directly related to

the endurance of the human bladder"

"I've become a body of films, not a man. I am all

those films"?

Shares a habit with our very own Subhash Ghai.

Who?
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• X weighs 6 3/4 pounds, and stands 13 1/2
inches high. It was named by Margaret
Herrick, the librarian, who remarked in 1931
(upon seeing X), "Why it looks like my Uncle
X!“. X ?
 12 answers
• 1– tata airlines
• 2– tequilla
• 3 – jonty rhodes
• 4 – micheal jackson
• 5 – chinaman
• 6 – webcam
• 7 – SMILEY
• 8 – DEATH ciggerates
• 9 -- alfred hitchcock
• 10 – OSCAR STATUE
ROLLING STONES
• TENDULKAR’S MEAUSERMENT TAKEN FOR
MADAM TUSSADS’
• The company was established in 1975
• In 1999, the company was restructured and
was given the contemporary name, Baud
Telecom Company. However, it is widely
known on a day-to-day basis as BTC Networks
• The website doesn’t mention anywhere what
was the name of the company between 1975
and 1999. Why?
• Bin Laden Telecommunications 
• Was the youngest MLA from Maharashtra in
1962 and has held different portfolios at the
state level
• Was considered for the post of Maharashtra
Chief Minister in 1980 but lost out to AR Antulay
• Elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 to the from
Amaravati.

• What next on July 19, 2007?

• MRS PRATIBHA PATIL
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a
serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail. A
famous organic chemist claimed that one
night he dreamt of the Ouroboros, and that
led to his discovery of something huge the
next day.
What was the discovery?
• BENZENE RING
In Japan, who or what are the Nijuuhibaku???

Possible Hint: There are/were only 165

Nijuuhibaku
• Nijuuhibaku= “Twice Bombed”.These are double A-bomb
survivors
• The number of people killed by the atomic bomb in
Hiroshima was more than 80,000. In an amazing story of
luck and survival, nearly 200 people lived through the
Hiroshima bombing and sought refuge in Nagasaki only to
face the same terrible fate 3 days later.

• Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Hideo Nakamura told

the story of those survivors in Twice Bombed, Twice
Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
The Sanskrit name for this syllable is Pranava, from a root
nu “to shout,
sound, praise”, verbal pra-nu- being attested as “to make
a humming or
droning sound” in the Brahmanas, and taking the specific
meaning of "to
utter the syllable" in the Chandogya Upanishad and the
Shrauta Sutras. The
Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the
explanation of the syllable.
Which syllable are we talking about?
• a. A 1928 recording by Louis Armstrong and
his orchestra named after a slang term used in
the Jazz world for marihuana

b. A term used by geocachers to refer to those

not involved in or aware of the sport of
Geocaching

c. A term inducted into the OED in 2003

standing for a person lacking a skill
• MUGGLE
Queen Sofia of Spain, Queen Paola of Belgium,
Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and
Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, if
they so wish to, can exercise a
privilege known as “Privilege du Blanc” or
“Privilege of the White”.

What is the “Privilege du Blanc”?

• It is the privilege to wear white when in a
meet with the Pope.
What is so official/significant about the phrase :

"The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are

the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack
a human."
• This is the official 160 Character SMS Phrase used
for the
Guinness Book of World Records Fastest Texter

• On September 5, 2009, Ben Cook set the fastest

texter world record by tapping the Guinness
Book of World Records phrase on his 31st
attempt in 40.72 seconds!!
Every year during Wimbledon, Hamish is
brought thrice a week to the
grounds. His role is as important as that of the
ground staff and technicians.
What is Hamish’s role?
• Hamish is the harrier hawk who is used to get
rid of all the pigeons from the stadium
surroundings.
ENTERTAINMENT
CUM BIZ
• He was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's brand of
Indian nationalism. His family chipped in to send him
to study chemistry in England, India's colonial master,
in 1924.

• Instead, he changed ships and went to Humboldt

Germany, then the world's leader in his subject.

• On a Berlin lake, he met a Lithuanian Jewish socialist

whom he later married. They fled as Germany was
shifting into Nazi hands and founded this company in
the year 1935. Which company
• CIPLA
• In 1999, this brand was banned in America ostensibly
because child labor was used to produce them. The fight
against the widespread use of this by teenagers began
in California in May when a study found that they were
sold by scores of shops without age identification.
• The study also found that Brand was hugely popular in
America and 70% of them did not contain warning label
or tax paid stamps. The alarming factor was that it was
becoming very hip for the teenagers to use them.
• What?
MANGALORE GANESH BEEEDIS
• I owned one of them: a gift from my father for
having secured admission to MBA program. It
was in the year 1996. Later I exchanged it for a
bike in 2001. Still it lingers in me ( or rather
haunts me) in the form of _____ _____ .
RAJIV BAJAJ ABOUT BAJAJ CHETAK
• In 1885, a British businessman sold off his
breweries in Simla, Rawalpindi and Mandalay
to X.
• In 1949, Y owned it and it was positioned as a
form of ‘Som Ras’, ‘The drink of the Hindu
Gods’ and was named after a chain of English
pubs.
• WHAT R V TALKING ABOUT?
OLD MONK
IDENTIFY THE BRAND
• COMMONWEALTH BANK
• 20 slides,20 seconds each, total presentation
time: 6 minutes 40 seconds. What is this
presentation method better known as ?
• PECHA KUCHA
• Which Indian company has announced its
foray into the cold drink market with the
launch of TiON, a cold beverage?
• TATA TEA
• Name the first Indian newspaper to go digital
on the Kindle?
• THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
Many of the public transport buses, you would
notice, have "JNnurm" inscribed on them.
What does this stand for?
• JAWAHAR LAL NEHRU URBAN RENEWAL
MISSION
• Which brand would you associate with
Facebook's three popular games: Farmville,
Cafe World and Mafia Wars?
• Zynga: The world’s largest social games
company
THE
CONNECTING
THREAD
 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
• 12B is a remake of sliding doors

• In 12B, the man’s is life is shown in two parallel timelines,

one if he had boarded a bus, and the other if he hadn't.

• Similarly, Sliding Doors is based on a similar plot where a

lady’s mundane decision of boarding the metro is shown in
parallel timelines.

• The 3 image is that of a butterfly diagram from Digital

Signal Prcoessing.
• All Played Adolf Hitler:
• Sir Alec Guinness, Hitler: The Last Ten Days.
• David Bamber, in Valkyrie
• Robert Carlyle, in Hitler: Rise of Evil
• Bruno Ganz, in Der Untergang( The Downfall)
• Richard Gere, George Clooney and LeBron
James: the only three men to appear on the
front cover of Vogue magazine.
• I’M NOT THERE, a movie inspired by the
events that took place in the life of Bob Dylan.
Actors, in clockwise order starting top left, are
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw,
Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger and
Richard Gere.
• Luis  Enrique (A) , Samuel  Eto’o (B), Gheorghe
Hagi (C) and Figo (D)  have  all  played  for
 Real  Madrid  n   Barcelona  as  well
Pistol hold
V sign hold
Pen hold
Handshake

Various Grips in Table Tennis

Burning Man Festival

Lee Harvey – the guy who started it…

Baker Beach – where he started it
Wicker Man – is said to have inspired him
though he denies it
Neon lit man – today’s version of the fest
THE FINAL
CONNECTION
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PIC 2 – Enzo Ferrari
PIC 3 – Virgin Mary
PIC 4 - Peter Sauber
PIC 5 - How I met your mother at the McLaren’s bar
PIC 6 – Pampas and Campos Grasslands of South America
PIC 7 – Lotus flower
PIC 1 – Williams sister
PIC 8 – Red Bull AD
CONNECT – You know it….f1 teams of 2010.
Note Campos – is now renamed to Hispania Racing Team (of
which Chandhok is a part of)
Mercedes also means Virgin Mary, so PIC 2 actualy covered
both teams 
AU REVOIR