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THE QUIZ

Of the Quiz Club, for the people, by the freshers.
Raj K
Siddharth J
Sukanto G

Pounce
(+10,-5)
 20 questions

1
 Sitter, identify.
 1.Knowledge of Literature - Nil.
 2.Knowledge of Philosophy - Nil.
 3.Knowledge of Astronomy - Nil.
 4.Knowledge of Politics - Feeble.
 5.Knowledge of Botany - Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poison
generally. Knows nothing of practice gardening.
 6.Knowledge of Geology - Practical, but limited. Ability to differentiate
between different soils.
 7.Knowledge of Chemistry - Profound.
 8.Knowledge of Anatomy - Accurate, but unsystematic.
 9.Knowledge of Sensational Contemporary Literature - Immense.
 10. Plays the violin well.
 11.Expert boxer.
 12. Has good knowledge of law

2

Don’t tell me it’s slidenafil citrate. How do you commonly know it as? Hint: apart from
it’s primary usage, it’s also used for treating pulmonary hypertension and alitiude
sickness.

3
A song called "Jonny Q" became extremely popular in Night Clubs,
bars and restaurants around Australia and especially so in the
Sydney Region in early 2000. How do we better know the song
in India?

3
 Jaane Kyun (Dil Chahta Hai)

4

Payback time! Identify ‘X’

5

This sportsperson has a nickname he rather likes, with
Biblical connotations. Nike designed him the special
logo that you see on the shirt, to go with the name.
Who?

5
 LeBron James (King James)

6

 Pink Floyd. Named after the blues artists,
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

7

No kidding. Which country’s currency?

7
 Niue, a Polynesian Island

8
Q (because we’ve had enough of X’s) is a concept often
associated with the Indian state of Goa. Derived from
the Portuguese word socegado ("Quiet"), it is normally
mistaken for the relaxed, laid-back attitude towards life that
is said to have existed historically in Goa, a
former Portuguese territory. What Q actually means,
according to most experts is a contented form of life
existent in the state. Goa is described by a Sunday
Times writer as "South Asia’s Latin Quarter: indulgent,
tolerant, capricious, steeped in a tropical lassitude and
wedded to the sea."[1] The concept may also carry negative
connotations such as "indolence"[1] and in recent years it
has been suggested that the relaxed Goan culture of Q has
given way in the face of modern stresses.

9
Members of all the teams / bands were killed in
plane crashes.

10
Kids of The Beatles’ members

11
On February 26, 1993, at 12:17 p.m., a Ryder truck filled with
1,500 pounds (680 kg) of explosives, planted by Ramzi
Yousef, detonated in the underground garage of the structure.
The blast opened a 100 foot (30 m) hole through five sublevels
with the greatest damage occurring on levels B1 and B2 and
significant structural damage on level B3. Six people were killed
and 50,000 other workers and visitors were left gasping for air
within the 110 story towers. Many people inside the structure
were forced to walk down darkened stairwells that contained no
emergency lighting, some taking two hours or more to reach
safety. What am I talking about?

13

What do you called this phenomenon as?

14
The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle loosely
based on the American television game show Let's
Make a Deal. A famous example is quoted below.
“Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of
three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats.
You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's
behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a
goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it
to your advantage to switch your choice?”

Name the Indian counterpart of the show hosted by
Aman Verma during the last decade.

15

Which medieval structure once existed here?

15
The Bamyan Buddhas. Destroyed by Taliban in 2003.

16

 Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad in the movie
‘Jobs’.

17
Seen in Melbourne, what is the name of this lane?

19

What did these guys create?

19
 Instagram - photo-app acquired by Facebook.

20
 The following is the extract of a poem written by James X about the place :

I remember the day when I first came here
And smelt the sweet ____________ air
The trees and ground covered with snow
Gave us indeed a brilliant show
To me the place seemed like a dream
And far ran a lonesome stream
The wind hissed as if welcoming us
The pine swayed creating a lot of fuss
And the tiny cuckoo sang it away
A song very melodious and gay
I adored the place from the first sight
And was happy that my coming here was right
And eight good years here passed very soon
And we leave you perhaps on a sunny noon
Oh __________ we are leaving you now
To your natural beauty do I bow
FITB

20
X = Abbott
The place is Abottabad, where Osama Bin Laden was
found.

1

 Id this legendary comic genius.

2

These weapons were used in WW II. They are M1 carbines. Who manufactured
them?

3

All of us have seen this image(which has been blanked out). What is it exactly?
Where?

4
 The shape of the S symbol differs slightly from the shape
commonly seen in English-language books. While the English S
symbol leans to the right, the German symbol (used throughout
Central Europe) is upright, and the Russian variant leans to the
left.
 Identify S

5

 On 5 November 2011, at the
annual fireworks display at
Edenbridge, Kent, a 12
metre tall bonfire effigy
shown in the image was
unveiled. To what event was
it a direct reference to?

5
 This is an effigy of Mario Balotelli. Balotelli and his
friends set Balotelli's house on fire when a firework was
let off in it, and later that week Balotelli was unveiled
as Greater Manchester's ambassador for firework
safety. The next day, he celebrated his goal by
unveiling a shirt with the words: "Why always me?" on
it.

7
We seldom know this personality as an artist of such stunning
paintings, but evidently he was one in his youth. Who is the
artist of these paintings?

8

On whose grave do you expect to see this?

9
 The W campaign in its present form was started by Juan Mann on
December 1, 2004 when he began doing a certain thing in the Pitt
Street Mall in central Sydney. In the months prior to this, Mann had
been feeling depressed and lonely as a result of numerous personal
difficulties. However, a random reception of the thing from a
stranger made an enormous difference, with Mann stating that "...I
went out to a party one night and a completely random person
came up to me and gave me it. I felt like a king! It was greatest thing
that ever happened."[2]

 Mann carried the now iconic “_______" sign from the outset.
However on his first attempt in his hometown, where he returned
to find that he was the only person he knew, as his friends and
family had moved away, he had to wait fifteen minutes before an
elderly lady came up to him and gave him it.
 W pls

9
The “FREE HUGS” campaign

10
 When Odysseus left
for the Trojan War, he
left the old man on
the right in this
illustration in charge
of his son,
Telemachus (the
young guy on the
left). What was the
old chap’s name?

11

 Parody Awards
 Golden Raspberry, The Ignobel, The Darwin
Awards, The Pigasus Awards, The Golden
Fleece awards.

12
This Da-Vinci illustration is said to be the first
time X was conceived. What is X?

13

 Who? Where is
this? Half points
for both.

13

 Neil Armstrong. Purdue University

14
 In politics, a X is a situation in which
a seat in a deliberative assembly is
vacated during that assembly's
term. Such a situation arises through
the death, resignation or
disqualification of the sitting
member. Xs have the effect of
eliminating or reducing
representation for the member's
constituency. Accordingly, many
jurisdictions provide by law for the
speedy filling of these vacant seats.
Xs can also occur in non-
governmental assemblies, such as
boards of directors and committees
of voluntary organisations.
What 2-word term is X?

14

 Casual Vacancy. JK Rowling’s latest book.

15

 Matt Lewis(played Nevil Longbottom in HP
series and the second, well, Justin Bieber.

16

An inverse of Stockholm syndrome called “Y" has
been proposed, in which abductors develop
sympathy for their hostages. It was named after an
abduction at the Japanese Embassy in ___, in
1996, when members of a militant movement took
hostage hundreds of people attending a party in
the official residence of Japan's ambassador. Within
a few hours, the abductors had set free of most of
the hostages, including the most valuable ones,
due to sympathy. Id Y

17

 This song's reign at number one in the United
Kingdom occurred as the region was hit by
______, which led The Sun to humorously
suggest the two events were related, with the
media referring to it as the "Rihanna Curse.“
The same ‘curse’ hit Romania as well as New
Zealand. And as the song went down the
charts, the ______ ended.

Identify the song and FITB

17

 Umbrella ; Extreme flooding and storms.

18

 After a successful career as a drummer and drum
teacher of drum technique, X, an electrical
engineer by profession, started selling drums,
cymbals and drum-related accessories in
London. Musicians like Ritchie Blackmore(Deep
Purple), Jim Sullivan and Pete Townshend(The
Who) suggested he should sell guitar equipment
too. As a response, he came up with a product
which revolutionized live music and music in
general. Identify X or the company he
subsequently started.

18

 Marshall amps, Jim Marshall

19

 X was among the Elite Panel umpires of ICC.
He umpired in 128 tests and 181 ODI’s from
1989-2009. Earlier, he was a FIFA referee in
the World Cup qualifier between El Salvador
and the Netherlands Antilles in 1988. Soon
after this, X had to retire from football
refereeing because the FIFA age limit for
referees was lowered to 45. However, this
allowed him to pursue his career as a cricket
umpire.

19

 Steve Bucknor. Has the distinction of being
an ICC umpire as well as a FIFA referee.

20
 Connect the actor/director in 1 to the Nobel
Laureates in 2 and 3.

1 2 3

20

 Pic 1-Sheldon Leonard
Pic 2-Robert Hofstadter/Leon Cooper

Their names served as the names of the main
characters of "The Big Bang Theory" i.e
Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter.

21

 The flag of X is often confused with the flag of
Y which is the opposite of it. In 1906, to put
an end to the argument of Turkey that the
flag of X took its roots from Christianity, it
was decided to promote officially the idea
that the X flag had been formed by reversing
the federal colours of Y, although no clear
evidence of this origin had ever been found.
Id X and Y.

21

 X: Red Cross Y: Switzerland

22

 It is generally accepted that this pattern appears
on the body of the Death-Head Hawk moth.
However, contrary to popular belief, the pattern
is a portrait photography by Philippe Halsman in
collaboration with Salvador Dali, called "In
Voluptas Mors". It is a surrealistic portrait of Dali
beside a large skull, in fact a tableau vivant
composed of seven nudes. Halsman took three
hours to arrange the models according to a
sketch by Dali. Put funda.

23
 A statue of John X, sits in the institution named in his
honour. Despite the name of the place, the statue does not
depict his true likeness, as the sculptor had no accurate
image to work from. The statue claims that it depicts John X
Founder, 1638, but in reality X was a contributor, not the
founder; the institution was founded in 1636; and the statue
is actually a likeness of someone else. The sculptor used a
student as a model.
The statue is located centrally in X Yard. Tour guides often
tell visitors it is good luck to rub John X's left foot. There is,
however, among the residents of the institution a
longstanding tradition of urinating on the statue at night.

24

 This sci-fi sound effect was developed by
sound designer Ben Burtt as a combination of
the hum of idling interlock motors in aged
movie projectors and interference caused by
a television set on an unshielded microphone.
Burtt discovered the latter accidentally as he
was looking for a buzzing, sparking sound to
add to the projector motor hum. What are we
talking about?

Id Pix Round

 Written.
 +15, -5

1

What’s so special about this place? Special respect for telling it’s name.

1

 Point Nemo. The point in the Ocean farthest
away from landmass. Basically the worst
place to get drowned.

2

Ever wondered what ACME stands for?

2

A Company That Makes Everything

3
 Snoop Dogg has now changed over to
reggae, and has rechristened himself as
Snoop Lion.

4

Id this latest gaming console. What’s so special about it? 5 + 10.

4

 Ouya, the first gaming console that runs on
Android.

5

Where would you see this camera?(a 2 MP one)

6

Where does one see this?

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Round 3

Back Talk. One question directed to each team. +15. After passing, + 5.

1

 It translates as “The Base”. It operates as a
network comprising both a multinational,
stateless army and a radical ______
movement calling for global Jihad and a strict
interpretation of a certain law.

1

 What is Al-Qaeda?/ What does Al-Qaeda
translate as?

2

 Felix Baumgartner. He set the world record
by reaching an estimated speed of 1,342
kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach
1.24, on 14 October 2012.

2

 Who was the first human to break the sound
barrier without a vehicle?

3

 It is the content that is not part of the Surface
web, which is indexed by standard search
engines.
 Most of the Web's information is buried far
down on dynamically generated sites, and
standard search engines do not find it.

3

 What is the Deep Web/deepnet/invisible net?

4

 This is what he says- “"However, since I
manifest their worst nightmare (systematical
and organized executions of multiculturalist
traitors), they will probably just give me the full
propaganda rape package and propagate the
following accusations: pedophile, engaged in
incest activities, homosexual, psycho, ADHD,
thief, non-educated, inbred, maniac, insane,
monster etc. I will be labeled as the biggest
(Nazi-)monster ever witnessed since WW2."

4

 Give any excerpt from Anders Behring
Breivik’s manifesto.

5

 It’s Kia Siverbrook. Internationally, he has
9,716 of them registered at the international
X document database. They have applications
in a variety of products such as computers,
smartphones, LCD screens, digital cameras,
robots, digital pens and industrial and office
printers.

5

 Who has the highest number of registered
patents in the world?

6

 His full name is Aliaune Damala Badara ____
Thiam

6

 What is Akon’s full name?

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