Admiral General Quiz

Hosted by:
Dr. Sudipto Bhattacharya
Manavi Muralidhar
Aniket Chakrapani
Amey Karpe

 Prelims will be in the form of 25 questions
written on a single piece of paper
 Each question carries 1 point
 Some questions are star marked. In case of a
tie, the team with more star marks will qualify
 In case a tie persists, Sudden Death will be
used.
 Obey your (Quiz) Master!
 All the best!

According to Deakin and Al Wear, these are the 4
Characteristics which are used as the definition for X:
 The application of a wide range of electronic and digital
technologies to communities and cities
 The use of ICT to transform life and working
environments within the region
 The embedding of such ICTs in government systems
 The territorialisation of practices that brings ICTs and
people together to enhance the innovation and
knowledge that they offer.
 What is ‘X’, a term which (hopefully) will be used for
Vellore in the near future.

 In 1833, the ship Tuscany sailed into Calcutta carrying
100 tonnes of X in its hold.
 This commodity was a surprise to everyone there, with
one person going as far as asking the captain whether
X grew on trees in America.
 The import of X to India by Frederic Tudor continued
for around 4 decades.
 X was never imported to India after that.
 The import of X to India received many special
subsidies including being unloaded directly to
warehouses, and being unloaded at night, and X was
stored in poorly ventilated rooms called the "Bombay X
House", "Calcutta X House" and "Madras X House".
What is X?

 X is an optical illusion first presented by a Swiss
Crystallographer(and named after him).
 The X has two possible interpretations

 No visual clues are given regarding the depth and
either shape is perceived depending on distance
and angle from which the cube is seen.
 What?

 Bomis was a dot-com company launched in 1996
by Tim Shell, Michael Davis and Y.
 Bomis supported the creation and spread of free
content on the internet and its most famous
products were “Bomis Premium”, “Bomis Babes”,
“Bomis Babe Report” and “Bomis Browser”.
Advertising through these was its main source of
revenue.
 Nupedia was formed as a subsidiary of Bomis by
Larry Sanger and Y in 2000 as an online Free
Encyclodepia which was written and reviewed by
experts in that field.
 X was formed in 2001 by Sanger and Y, as a
website which allowed collaborative content
modification.
 Give X and Y.

X – Wikipedia
Y – Jimmy Wales

X was a very important part of Ancient
Egyptian culture and was the staple drink
of poor Egyptians as well as central to the
diet of wealthy Egyptians.
There is evidence of wages being paid in
the form of X and workers building the
pyramids of Giza were given X three times
a day as a part of their rations.

 X also figures prominently in Egyptian
literature and sayings. For example in this
inscription dated to around 2200 BC…
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is
filled with X.
 The following is from the Instructions of Ani:
[your mother] sent you to school when you
were ready to be taught writing, and she
waited for you daily at home with bread and
X.
 Give X

•In the comic given on the next slide, a
name has been blanked out.
•Which Indian Politician who, interestingly,
did retweet this comic as well?

 A common misconception centered around the
product X was that it was modeled after Y.
 The misconception is supplemented by the fact
that X had perfect Aryan looks (Blonde hair, Blue
eyes) and was proportioned strikingly similar to Y.
The misconception lead to a belief that X was
generally used as a tool for Nazi propaganda.
 The misconception was proved to be just that. The
creator of X is in fact from Denver, Colorado and
had nothing to do with Y or Nazism.
 Give X and Y.

X – Barbie
Y – Eva Braun

The following slide has a cropped out
photo of a poster for the TV show ‘Fresh
Off The Boat’
Judging by the elements in the photo,
which famous painting is being parodied?

Jennifer Lee "Jen" Taylor is an
American voice actress best known for her
roles as __________ in
various Halo games; Zoey in Left 4
Dead; Princess Peach, Toad & Toadette in
various Mario games; and Lina,
Windranger, Puck and Medusa in Dota 2.
She however, has a more recent claim to
fame. What is her latest project? (FITB)

Voice of Cortana, the Microsoft assisstant

 Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod was
an exotic dancer during World War I.
 During World War I, the Netherlands remained
neutral. As a Dutch subject, she was thus able to
cross national borders freely. To avoid the
battlefields, she travelled between France and the
Netherlands via Spain and Britain, and her
movements inevitably attracted attention.
 Why would her movements ‘attract attention’ and
what do we better know her as (same as her stage
name)?

Mata Hari, she worked as a double agent

 In chaos theory, ____ _____________ _______ is
the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which
a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear
system can result in large differences in a later state.
 For example, the randomness of the outcomes of
throwing dice depends on this characteristic to amplify
small differences in initial conditions—the precise
direction, thrust, and orientation of the throw—into
significantly different dice paths and outcomes, which
makes it virtually impossible to throw dice exactly the
same way twice.
 FITB with the name of a famous 2004 movie named
after this phenomenon.

 The picture on the following slide is of two
women Senators, Carol Mosely and Barbara
Mikulski.
 Mikulski was the first Democratic woman to
be elected to the senate. Mosely was the first
black woman to be elected to the Senate.
 Both revolutionary in their thinking, they made
a change in the Senate in 1993, the effects of
which can still be observed. What change?

Lobbied to allow women to wear pants on
the Senate floor

The series X (started in 1988) dramatically
unfolds the past 5000 years of India’s
history.
It was narrated by Om Puri and has seen
the likes of many actors such as
Naseeruddin Shah, Irrfan Khan, Alok Nath
etc.
Which iconic series?

The image on the next slide is a Batman –
centric take on a commonly used
psychological testing technique.
Interestingly, it also connects to another
character in the comic universe.
Name the testing technique.

A 'familiar form of address: friend, mate’
 Which word, in the news for recently being
added to the Oxford Dictionary?

 Though the setting of her childhood was an
influence on her work, only one character in
the books is directly drawn from the
surroundings: X, the whose dropped word-
endings are a Chepstow speciality. In shape
he's modelled on the Welsh chapter of Hells
Angels who'd swoop down on the town and
hog the bar, "huge mountains of leather and
hair".
 Which author and character?

In early 2002 the subject of the photo was
identified as Sharbat Gula (born 1972) a
woman who was living as a refugee in
Pakistan during the time of the Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan when she was
photographed.
The photographer was particularly
captivated by her striking green eyes.
Which iconic photograph?

Whose tweets?
(More on next slide)

Ingress is an augmented-reality massively-
multiplayer online role-playing location-
based game created by Niantic Labs. The
game was originally exclusively for Android
devices, and was made available for
Apple's iOS in 2014.
 This game served as the basis for what
game coming up in 2016 which would let
all our childhood dreams come true?

 Commissioned into the Household Cavalry in
1996, X served as an officer of the British
Army till 2002.
 In 1999, his unit was posted to Kosovo, and
his unit was responsible for directing NATO
bombardment of Serbian positions.
 X carried his guitar through the deployment,
strapped to the outside of his tank. His
interaction with Russian soldiers here served
as the inspiration of his song “No Bravery”
 Identify X, who became a household name
after a very famous song in 2004?

Google Doodle for?
Very specific answer needed.

The region of space that is an ideal
distance from the home star so that it’s
surface is not too hot and not too cold is
referred to as the ______________ zone.
Earth, of course, lies in a _____________
zone, wedged between Venus and Mars,
both of which currently do not support life.
FITB taking inspiration from the world of
literature.

Though movie is based on Greek
Mythology, the main character himself is
named after his Roman avatar.
All other characters of the movie are
named after their Greek avatars.
Which movie?

Hercules (By Greek mythology, he should
be named Heracles)

Questions will follow an infinite pounce and
bounce pattern
On pounce, scoring will be +10/-10
On bounce, scoring will be +10/0
You cannot pounce on a direct question
In case no team gets the question on
bounce, the next question stays with the
same team.

Which “country” does this countryballs
comic mock?
Bigger picture on next slide

 X is a term used in the military for an enlisted
man assigned to a Commissioned Officer.
 The X is responsible for the upkeep of the
officer’s uniform, driving his vehicle and
digging his foxhole in combat.
 The name X is derived from a term meaning
the officer’s pack saddle
 We have all come across X in a totally
different context and he debuted in this form
in a comic in 1939.

 While promoting her Living Proof line in 2013,
X was asked about The Y’s impact on pop
culture. "It's never honestly been a big deal to
me," the star admitted. "It's a big deal
because of Chris McMillan and a ______ I
think a lot of people, a lot of gals, kind of
thought was fun.”
 Earlier in 2011, she had called it ‘ugly’ and
one of the hardest ________ to maintain.
 Who on what?

X – Jennifer Aniston
Y – The Rachel

Depicted on the next slide are styles of
painting of 3 artists. ID all 3.

On April 4th2015, a team of 34 officers and
soldiers of the Indian Army began an
expedition to scale the Everest.
As a part of the mission, the army will be
contributing to a national campaign which
was launched on October 2, 2014 by Modi.
Give funda

Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan
The Indian Army is to pick up 4,000 Kg of
trash from the Summit of the Everest,
including old tents, oxygen cylinders and
even corpses.

This Album was inspired by a George
Orwell novel.
There are various similarities between the
album and the novella, especially in the
personification of the animals with Pigs
representing Politicians and Dogs
representing businessmen.
Id Band and album

 The following slide contains an image of a
truck designed by Daimler
 Wolfgang Bernhard, the head of the Bus and
Truck division of Daimler in a 2015 statement
said that the truck would make the job of the
driver less tedious and the design could save
up to 5% more fuel that normal trucks. He
also said that the design would be ready for
the market only by 2025.
 What is special about this truck?

Songs inspired by famous people

Written Round
8 questions total
+10 for each correct answer, and a bonus
+10 for getting all right.

The following are lyrics from a song by
Johnny Wakelin called ‘The Black
Superman’
Given on the following slide are a few
lyrics containing clues as to the identity of
the person on whom the song is based.
ID Y.

 This here's the story of X
 Who changed his name to Y
He knows how to talk and he knows how to fight
And all the contenders were beat out of sight.
 Sing, Y, Y,
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
 Y, was known to have said
You watch me shuffle and I'll jab off your head
He moves like the black superman
And calls to the other guy I'm Y catch me if you
can.

X wrote this song for Y after her father
passed away. She came home from the
hospital , drenched and covered in tears. X
started crying and he kept asking her
"What can I do for you? Tell me how can I
help?" She looked up at him and said "Just
hold me cause you're the only thing that
can fix me right now”
Which iconic, fairly recent song was born
as a result?

The singer had this to say about his iconic
song – ‘In the autumn of 1970 I had a job
singing in the school system, playing my
guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the
veranda one morning, reading a biography
of X, and suddenly I knew I had to write a
song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. He had
an illness and so did his brother Theo.’
ID the famous personality.

 X’s first version of “Y” from 1973, was a
tribute to Marilyn Monroe. Following Diana’s
death, lyricist Bernie Taupin rewrote the
words to describe Diana’s circumstances, and
Sir Elton played it at the princess’ funeral on
September 6, 1997. As the world mourned,
copies of the single flew off the shelves, and
“Y 1997” remains one of the two best-selling
singles of all time
 Name the famous song Y.

X never confirmed that her song "Dear
_________" (which included the line "Don't
you think I was too young / To be messed
with?") was written about her rumored fling
Y, but he certainly thought it was. In 2012,
he told Rolling Stone the song "humiliated"
him, adding, "I will say as a songwriter that
I think it's kind of cheap songwriting.”
Just give Y.

 Noel Gallagher of Oasis had this to say about
his song ‘Live Forever’ in a statement to The
Guardian - "I heard this song called 'I Hate
Myself and I Want to Die' and I thought, I'm
not having that, I cannot have this American
rockstar who everybody is lauding as a
genius with all the money in the world sitting
there in his mansion on smack saying that.
What d'you want to die for?"
 Who is the ‘American Rockstar’ being spoken
about?

 Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman wrote “______ __
_____" after reading books about X while on tour with the
band.
 The lyrics detail X's surgical experiments on patients at
the during World War II. X's explorations were conducted
on such groups as dwarfs and twins, and included both
physical and psychological examinations.
 "Sewn together, joining heads. Just a matter of time 'til
you rip yourselves apart", a line from the penultimate
verse, is a reference to the allegation X stitched together
twins, one of them deformed; "the hunchback was sewn
to the other child, back to back, their wrists back to back
too.”
 ID X.

X and Y were allegedly good friends at one
point in time, indicated by the fact that X’s
solo was featured in one of Y’s songs.
X wrote one of his most iconic songs for
Y’s wife. That, as one might imagine, put a
strain on their friendship.
Who are X and Y?

X – Eric Clapton
Y – George Harrison

 So the Vogelfluglinie is a rail corridor
between Copenhagen(Denmark) and
Hamburg(Germany).
 It was created as the most direct route to join
the two cities.
 What makes this truly unique is a 19
kilometer link between Rodby(Denmark) and
Puttgarden(Germany).
 This is however, going to be replaced by a
tunnel system by 2021.
 What?

The train is transported across the North
Sea aboard a ferry.

 Force 10 from Navarone is a novel written by
Alistair Maclean, later adapted into a movie.
 In the novel, Capt Keith Mallory and his team
are supposed to recue a number of partisans
from behind enemy lines.
 The reason their mission is called Force 10 is
explained in the novel by their CO, Capt
Jensen, RN as them causing a “metaphorical
storm” by defeating the German Army.
 Why would a “Metaphorical storm” be called
Force 10?

Force 10 is used to denote Storm on the
Beaufort Scale

Given on the next slide is a schematic of a
famous recent murder. ID the murdered
and (alleged) murderer.

Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius

The following slide is a scene taken from
the TV show Hannibal
What iconic movie does it pay tribute to?

There has been only one time(in recent
memory at least), a post from the subreddit
India was the first post on the front page of
reddit.
What post, from end July 2015 is this?

 In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The 37's"
(first aired 1995), X, portrayed by Sharon
Lawrence, was one of many humans
abducted by an alien race in 1937, only to be
found in cryo-stasis on a planet on the other
side of the galaxy.
 What is interesting is X actually went missing,
in the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
 Identify this first female recipient of the
Distinguished Flying Cross

Following are three Pearls Before Swine
comics which have been drawn by a guest
artist. Just give me his name

 This famous sculpture was administered by the
United States Lighthouse Board till 1901, and
among its original purposes was to be used as a
lighthouse.
 However, when the torch on this statue was
illuminated, it was described as “more like a
glowworm than a beacon.”
 Subsequent efforts to improve its effectiveness as
a beacon failed, and it was transferred to the War
Department in 1901.
 It is currently maintained by the National Park
Service.
 What?

Set of 8 questions.
Each slide carries +5 for the correct
answer
The answer of every question(unless
specified otherwise) connects to a bigger
theme.
Points distribution for theme is in the form
of slabs of 2 questions each.
You can try for a theme only once per slab

 X ran into controversy recently after The Sun,
a British tabloid, dug up an old photograph of
X doing the Nazi salute
 What is interesting is, the home movie from
which this photograph is sourced is from
1933, when she was 7 years old.
 Most people, of course, consider this
controversy extremely stupid considering X is
an 89 year old, highly respected statesperson
of international repute.
 X?

 After his death, X’s ashes were poured into urns which
were sent across India for memorial services.
 Most were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on
12 February 1948, but some were taken away.
 Some of X’s ashes were scattered at the source of
the Nile River and a memorial plaque marks the event.
 On 30 January 2008, the contents of another urn were
immersed at Girgaum Chowpatty(Mumbai).
 Another urn is at the palace of the Aga
Khan in Pune(where X had been imprisoned at one
time)
 One urn is in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake
Shrine in Los Angeles.
 X?

Identify the artist
More images on next slide.

 Among the first successfully mass produced
computers, it was an 8-bit Home Computer
first sold in 1982
 It is listed in the Guinness Book of World
Records as the highest selling single
computer model of all time till it was
discontinued in 1982
 Having a 64kB RAM and 20kB ROM, it was
considered revolutionary at the time
 Identify this computer, which parents seem to
love bringing up whenever anyone talks about
growth of technology.
 (Answer does not connect to the theme)

 Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, X is ranked
15th in the Forbes list of Billionaires
 X has a fascination with Space travel, and in
2000 set up Blue Origin, a human spaceflight
Startup company.
 Blue Origin revealed, in September 2011, that it
had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a
short-hop test flight.
 Identify this American entrepreneur and investor,
famous for another company, who has been
ranked the second best CEO by Harvard
Business Review.

 X created a Google+ account soon after G+ was
created, saying he sees it as a "validation for his
vision" of online social networking.
 By July 2011, X had become the most followed
user on Google+, outranking Google co-
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
 His public profile is minimal with one photo and a
bio that reads "I make things".
 X has also voiced himself on an episode of The
Simpsons titled "Loan-a Lisa", which first aired on
October 3, 2010. In the episode, X tells Lisa that
she does not need to graduate from college to be
wildly successful, referencing Bill Gates and
Richard Branson as examples.
 Who is X?

#Kolstylz
The leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution,
X took control from Mohammed Rehza
Pahlavi, the earlier Shah of Iran.
Referred to by titles like Imam, Ayatollah
and Grand Ayatollah; identify this
Statesman

Preserved at the National Air and Space
Museum, the Spirit of St Louis was a
custom built, single engine, single seat
monoplane.(Image on next slide)
The flew for only one year, from 1927 to
1928, when it was retired.
Officially known as the Ryan NYP, the NYP
is a reference to a famous flight for which
this plane was created.
Who was its famous pilot?

Please exchange your papers

 X ran into controversy recently after The Sun,
a British tabloid, dug up an old photograph of
X doing the Nazi salute
 What is interesting is, the home movie from
which this photograph is sourced is from
1933, when she was 7 years old.
 Most people, of course, consider this
controversy stupid considering X is an 89
year old, highly respected statesperson.
 X?

 After his death, X’s ashes were poured into urns which
were sent across India for memorial services.
 Most were immersed at the Sangam at Allahabad on 12
February 1948, but some were taken away.
 Some of X’s ashes were scattered at the source of
the Nile River and a memorial plaque marks the event.
 On 30 January 2008, the contents of another urn were
immersed at Girgaum Chowpatty(Mumbai).
 Another urn is at the palace of the Aga
Khan in Pune(where X had been imprisoned at one time)
 One urn is in the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake
Shrine in Los Angeles.
 X?

 Born in Alburquerque, New Mexico, X is ranked
15th in the Forbes list of Billionaires
 X has a fascination with Space travel, and in
2000 set up Blue Origin, a human spaceflight
Startup company.
 Blue Origin revealed, in September 2011, that it
had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a
short-hop test flight.
 Identify this American entrepreneur and investor,
who has been ranked the second best CEO by
Harvard Business Review.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com

#Kolstylz
The leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution,
X took control from Mohammed Rehza
Pahlavi, the earlier Shah of Iran.
Referred to be titles like Imam, Ayatollah
and Grand Ayatollah identify this
Statesman

 Preserved at the National Air and Space
Museum, the Spirit of St Louis was a custom
built, single engine, single seat
monoplane.(Image on next slide)
 The flew for only one year, from 1927 to
1928, when it was retired.
 Officially known as the Ryan NYP, the NYP is
a reference to a famous flight for which this
plane was created.
 What makes this plane quiz worthy? Or who
was its famous pilot?(Pilot connects to the
theme)

Charles Lindbergh.
The first plane to fly across the Atlantic.

X is an American alternative rock band
formed in 1994, and gained popularity for
“Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
X takes its name from a Radio Procedure
word, and they described this as a “fairly
ironic for a rock band to name themselves”
The radio procedure word X means “Will
comply.”
What is X?

The Parthians were an ancient race who
lived in North East Persia.
The Parthians were very skilled Archers
and Horsemen, and among their favourite
maneuvers was to fire a volley of arrows
just before retreating
This gives rise to an English phrase
meaning an insult issued just as the
speaker is leaving.
What is the phrase?

Parting shot(taken from Parthian shot)
AoE players might recall a research called
“Parthian Tactics” for Cavalry Archers
which refers to this.

The following slide has photos from a two
leg fixture between Arsenal and Hamburg
from the Champions League in 2006.
A slight change was made to the jerseys of
both teams for this match in particular.
What change and why?

Both teams had to wear a jersey having
the word ‘Dubai’ on the front for one leg
each of the fixture as UEFA rules do not
permit both teams to have the same
sponsor’s name (Fly Emirates) on the
front.

With the original game released 13 years
back, and its expansion released 12 years
back, this classic Strategy game is getting
a new expansion in the near future(likely to
be officially announced on 2nd October).
Called Tale of the Dragon, this expansion
developed by Forgotten Empires and
SkyBox Labs, will explore China!
Which game?

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a
secure seed bank on the Norwegian island
of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the
remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about
1,300 kilometres from the North Pole.
 A withdrawal from the bank was made for
the first time in 2015. What prompted this
withdrawal?

 Often considered the southernmost point of Africa,
this is actually a little West Northwest of the
southernmost point(Cape Agulhas)
 Originally called the Cape of storms, this was
renamed to X because of the promise of a shorter
trade route to India
 What?

 So far, the most widely accepted theories for the
strange behaviour exhibited have been attributed
largely to memory following a car crash, though many
other theories have been proposed.
 Andrew Norman, a former doctor, however had a
different take on the situation. Norman believes X was
in a fugue state, or, more technically, a psychogenic
trance, a rare, deluded condition brought on by trauma
or depression, which may also have led the writer and
actor Stephen Fry to travel to Bruges in 1995 without
leaving word with his friends or family.
 What strange unsolved mystery has invoked such
theories as explaination?

Disappearance of Agatha Christie

What is so unique about this comic?
Bigger photo on next slide

Last Calvin and Hobbes comic. :’(

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