Megaflame quiz, part of Hans Raj quiz fest, Con Qurso

2. Researched and Presented by:
Raman Umamaheswaran
Balasubramanyam Pattath
Darshan Regi Kalathil

3.  Very grateful to our reviewer, Captain:
Major Chandrakant Nair

4.  Jeopardy
 9X5 grids with 10,15,20,25,30 each
 A team must have correctly answered a 10 pointer to move on to
the 15, and so on.
 In the case of completion of all 10 pointers, a team can choose 15
pointer, and so on.
 Pounce carries same positives and negatives as the value of the
question. No pouncing on direct.
 Team which answers on the bounce gets to choose next question.
 In case one team gets half an answer right and it passes to the
other team,even if they get both answers, part points will be given
to both. Not full points.
 Quizmasters’ decisions are final.

5. 1 2 3 4 5
Music &
Myth
10 15 20 25 30
Etymology 10 15 20 25 30
Games 10 15 20 25 30
Architecture 10 15 20 25 30
Food &
Fashion
10 15 20 25 30
Literature 10 15 20 25 30
Art 10 15 20 25 30
Movies 10 15 20 25 30
Ent. 10 15 20 25 30

7.  According to the lead vocalist of Iron Maiden Bruce
Dickinson, the band originally wanted X – a legendary actor
and veteran ofAmerican horror film-to read the
introductory spoken passage to their song “The Number of
the Beast”.
 However they had to settle for English actor Barry Clayton
as he refused to do it for anything less than 25,000 pounds.
 Interestingly, he later went on to read the spoken word part
in Michael Jackson’sThriller in 1983.
 Identify.

11.  X is an exalted goddess in the RigVeda but less prominent in
post-Rigvedic texts. She is often spoken of in the plural, "the
Dawns."
 She is portrayed as warding off evil spirits of the night, and
as a beautifully adorned young woman riding in a golden
chariot on her path across the sky.
 Due to her color she is often identified with the reddish
cows, and both are released by Indra from theVala cave at
the beginning of time.
 Identify.

15.  X, one of the most sought after music teachers of his time was
appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg
court, a post he held from 1774-92 and dominated the Italian
Opera scene inVienna, helping to develop and shape many of
the features of operatic compositional vocabulary.
 His music slowly disappeared from repertoire from 1800 – 1868
and was rarely heard after that.The revival of interest in his
music in the 20th century was due to the dramatic and highly
fictionalized depiction of his rivalry with a contemporary in
both a play and a movie.
 Identify X and the contemporary.

19.  "San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
You've hosted me since nineteen sixty three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die
And long ago I stopped askin' why"
 These are lyrics from a 1969 song.
 Identify the singer.
 How did it cause “quite a stir” when it debuted?

23.  The story goes that Zeus was in the form of an A , when an eagle started chasing
him. Zeus sought the protection of X.
 Assuming one thing led to another, the end result was that Zeus bedded X in his
current form.
 On that same night, X also had sex with her mortal husband Tyndareus, thus
conceiving 2 children by Zeus and 2 byTyndareus.
 However, when it came to delivering those children, probably because of the fact
that Zeus was in the form of A, X did something quite unusual, to say the least.
 This led to the birth of Helen, Castor, Pollux and Clytemnestra.
 Give A(the form Zeus was in)
X( the person)
and what did she do?

28.  It's clear that the allusion in the phrase was about
interactions amongst the rural poor in their expected
whereabouts and how privy they were to the local news and
hearsays.
 Most of us might know it as the Motown song, recorded by
Gladys Knight & the Pips in 1967 and by Marvin Gaye in 1968.
 Which phrase?

32.  These taxi-autos have longer-than-usual front mudguards and
extended mudguards on the rear wheels which are also used as
seats when space becomes a necessity, accommodating 8-10
people on average.They are found in several parts of North India
commonly between the Haridwar-Rishikesh route and places in
Haryana.
 Apart from the nickname ‘mosquito’, these taxi-autos are called
______ because of their deviations from a usual auto’s design and
hence their similarity in appearance to the common depiction of
something in sedentary position.
 FITB.
 Image in next slide.

37.  ____ is a stock prefix we've all seen. Anything prefixed by ____ is
automatically assumed to anachronistically represent the early-to-
middle ages, particularly middle age England.
 However, the vast majority of the usages are unintentional
grammatical errors, as the actual pronunciation of ____is exactly
like that of an article used in modern English, and was used to that
effect in medieval times.
 The similarity in pronunciation stems from the fact that ___ uses a
now-defunct letter of the alphabet and not the modern letter used
to currently write it.
 What word and what letter?

41.  X is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused
gaze of a battle-weary soldier, but the symptom it describes
may also be found among victims of other types of trauma. It
has been described as "The look in their eyes was like the life
was sucked out of them."
 The phrase was popularized after Life magazine published
the painting Marines Call ItThat X byWorldWar II artist and
correspondentTom Lea, a portrait of a marine at the Battle
of Pelieu.
 What phrase?

45.  In Chinese, X is referred to as “Bai Mu” or “White Eye”, in the sense that
while the pupil is used for vision the white of the eye cannot see.
 In Japanese, it is called either “tsuri”(fishing) or “arashi” (blindly laying
waste)
 InThai, “Krean” has been adopted to refer to those who engage in the
act. “Krean” is the word for a close cropped hair-style mandatory in
school, thus equating them to schoolboys.
 In Sinhala, it is known as “Ala Kireema”, which can mean “turning into
potatoes” or “sabotage”.
 In English,X presumably originated from Old Norse. Another meaning
for X is the fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook
from a moving boat. However, the more widely common usage of it
probably reflects the original Norse meaning: antisocial, quarrelsome
and slow-witted creatures.

50.  The phrase has an actual name: Unrelenting Force.
 As with most sentences and phrases in the language, it
consists of three words, meaning “Force” “Balance”, and
“Push”
 What popular phrase?
 Don’t jump off a cliff yet, give us the language too.

54.  This image is from a game called Deus Ex.
 Understandably, upon its release, it caused a little
controversy, which was explained away by the developers.
 A year later, the controversy reached a whole new level,
especially because of the explanantion.
 Funda.
(image in the next slide)

57.  “When people complained, we just explained that it had been
destroyed by terrorist attacks.We start the game with the
Liberty Island statue having been destroyed by terrorists a few
years before.We just said that the towers had been destroyed
too. And this was way before 9-11.Years.That’s kind of
freaky. ”

59.  _____ ________ is one of three proteins in the mammalian signaling
pathway, which transmits vital information required for development to
embryonic cells. Both parts of its name have different origin stories.
 The second part is the name given to the gene which encodes the proteins.
It's name was given so because, if there is a loss of function of the gene, the
embryo is covered in small denticles(small pointy projections), resembling a
________.
 The first part was named later, after the three homologues of the gene were
discovered.The other two are Indian ________and Desert ________.This one
was so named by one of its discoverers, after he saw a _____comic his
daughter was reading.
 The discovery of the gene in question won them a Nobel Prize in 1995 so
don't curl into a ball of discontent just yet, because it isn't something we
made up and it is indeed a gaming question.

63.  “They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever
Spartan I wanted.You know me. I did my research.Watched
as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the
others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural
leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no
one saw, but me. Can you guess...? Luck.”
 X's words toY.
 Yeah, Microsoft definitely has a LOT to live up to.

67.  This myth charged that a spate of gruesome child suicides occurred, and
were consequently covered up, just a few days after the game was released
and that children who were saved from killing themselves started showing
erratic and dangerous behavior.
 The thing responsible for the suicides was specifically a tune within the
game, which, according to the theorists, acted as a digital drug of sorts, and
its frequency was such that it was audible only to children of a certain age.
 Even though the above claims are unverified, the original tune did include
binaurial sounds, which led to migraine headaches and drastic feelings of
unease, reported by children.This was subsequently fixed in the international
release.
 The main factor behind the myth’s enduring popularity, is the fact that the
franchise has in the past been associated with inducing well-documented
mass seizures among children.
 What is this myth popularly known as?

73.  On Sep 19,20 2014,The Red BullWorld Series Cliff Diving
Championships leg was held at a location with a certain
architectural wonder in the backdrop.This ‘fish-scaly’
wonder has been characterised by critic CalvinTomkins, as "a
fantastic dream ship of undulating form in a cloak
of titanium,“ and it was designed by X, born Owen Goldberg.
 Identify the architectural wonder.
 How do we know Owen Goldberg today?

77.  Having left Britain in 1915, he originally travelled to oversee
another British architect’s work in a city and thereafter
elected to set up practice in the city. Capable of being both
passé and chic, he created the city’s first reinforced concrete
porch whilst around the same time producing a
Lutyenesque-Byzantine chapel.
 Who am I talking about?
 For what did he design the chapel?

81.  Based in Fort Kochi, about 10 km away from Ernakulam,
the Jewish Synagogue was built in the year 1568. It was
destroyed by the Portuguese in 1662 and was rebuilt later
after two years by the Dutch.The place shares its wall with
the Mattancherry Palace from where it got its
name Mattancherry Synagogue.
 The huge 45 ft ClockTower which was added in the 18th
century has 4 dials showing numerals in 4 languages.
 Name all four.

83.  Hebrew
 Arabic
 Malayalam
 Latin

85.  The frame was initially designed to be bolted together, but
was redesigned in 1950 using stainless steel, which allowed
the frame to be formed by a seamless piece of metal, giving
it a smoother appearance. Bovine leather replaced the ivory-
colored pigskin which was used for the original pieces.
 What, that has been in constant production since 1929?
 Who designed it?
 Image in next slide.

90.  In the late 1960s, 9 objects that had been intended for a specific purpose
were sent to theTate, as a gift are now placed in a permanent, exclusive
room, thereby resisting any attempt to mix these with more accessible
examples.
 They were intended for the exclusive area of something housed in a
‘lean, mean and devastating, a black sentinel, on top of narrow pillars with
expensive materials - hand-cast bronze beams, travertine stone, darkened
glass which made clear that this austerity is a matter of aesthetic choice
rather than economic necessity’[Guardian 2002].This building, which was
commissioned in 1954 and finished in 1958 marked a decisive moment in
American corporate architecture having appeared before its completion
in the 1957 film Sweet Smell Of Success.
 What were these 9 objects?
 Which building?

95.  After graduating from Parsons and working for labels like
DKNY and Oscar de la Renta, he returned to India in 1994 to
start his own brand. He is a member of the Jodhpur royal
family and his designs reflect Rajasthani heritage. His Brand
India image had copyrighted the designs for Bandgala
jackets and Jodhpurs.
 He is also known for designing a limited edition packaging
for Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky.The design is inspired
by his own trademark Bandgala jacket and the pack is
“crafted to deliver a unique experience to whisky lovers.”
 Name this Indian designer.

99.  The X's are applied to them in a process that is described as
“akin to offset printing.” Blanks sit on a special conveyor belt
that has a dimple for each to sit in, and roll through a
machine where vegetable dye is transferred from a press to a
rubber etch roller that gently prints the X on each piece.
 The printer can stamp some 2.5 million an hour. Some do
make it off the conveyor belt without the X but they are
rejected.
 X?

103.  The factoid contained in the famous dialogue points to the
fact that Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) could have
been used to treat him, and there are three things you're not
allowed to have whilst on them. Because of his profession,
he would have been aware of this fact, and so he was
cracking a joke for his own amusement and hinting that he
hadn't been taking his meds, not to mention the fact that he
was making the hearer uncomfortable.
 Who am I talking about?
 What(roughly) is the famous dialogue?

107.  X Fashion is a fashion subculture that originated in Japan but has
now expanded all over the world.
 It espouses aVictorian-era style outlook and the original(or
"classic") look was that of a knee-length skirt or dress, assisted by
a petticoat or corset, but has now expanded to sub-subcultures
like Gothic, Punk, Sweet,Sailor,Casual,etc.
 The proponents of X fashion insist that despite its name, it's main
focus was on being cute, elegant and modest , rather than
"pandering to pedophiles"(a gothic X proponent's words, not ours)
 What is this fashion subculture called?

111.  The X cocktail is a specialty found only in the Downtown Hotel in Dawson
City,Yukon,Canada.
 The 40 year old tradition was started when Capt.Dick, a local eccentric,
found a preserved ___ in a jar, put it in his champagne and knocked it
back until it touched his lips, which is what customers at the bar have to
do once they order this drink. As the locals say,
"Drink it fast or drink it slow.
But the lips have gotta touch the ___"
 So far a total of 8 have been swallowed accidentally or lost, but last year
a customer swallowed it intentionally, paying the fine of $500, so the
hotel are on the lookout for a new ___.
 We are not sure whether we want them to find a new one.
 Give X and FITB

116.  Much attention has been paid to the mystery of what the title of
the novel refers to. In fact, its author has stated that his intention
was to find a "totally neutral title". In one version of the story,
when he had finished writing the novel, the author hurriedly
suggested some ten names for it and asked a few of his friends to
choose one.They chose X. In another version of the story, the
author had wanted the neutral title ____ of Melk ,after one of the
protagonists, but that was vetoed by his publisher, and then the
title X "came to me virtually by chance.”
 The title could also have stemmed fromThe book's last line, "Stat
rosa pristina nomine, nomine nuda tenemus.”The general sense,
as the author pointed out, was that from the beauty of the past,
now disappeared, we hold only the name.
 Give X and FITB.

120.  X recently started showing up at bookstores at short notice,
or sometimes no notice at all, just picking up his books from
the shelves and signing them, prompting several
people(among which he himself was one) to give a term to
these signings, alluding to the fact that they seemed almost
stealthily covert.
 So this mean if you are lucky enough, you might get to meet
X. The stuff of dreams no?
 Give X and the term.

122. Neil GaimanVerified account@neilhimself
Trying to make Ninja signing tomorrow
morning in New York City happen. It's
looking possible.

124.  1816 is well known as "TheYear Without a Summer" due to
abnormally cold temperature globally throughout the year, which
is probably fitting, as it is also remembered as a landmark year in
terms of a certain spectrum of literature as well.
 In fact, the inception of this genre of writing can be narrowed
down to the events spanning 3 days in June inside theVilla Diodati
near Lake Geneva in Cologny, Switzerland, precipitated by what is
best described by X as the "incessant rain of that wet, ungenial
summer".
 Those 3 days produced 3 landmark works in literature of which 2
have unquestionably led to the establishment of this genre.
 What events? What genre?

128.  Instead of X being dropped on the doorstep, the (rather
gruesome) earliest drafts had an unsuspecting civilian, Mr. Puckle,
seeing an explosion out at sea and sailing out in the middle of a
storm to investigate. He then stumbles across two charred bodies
in the ruins of a house with a screaming baby somewhere inside.
 If Mr. Puckle were to have raised X as his own son, that would have
made X the step-brother of Y, whose last name in the earlier drafts
was, in fact, Puckle.
 X andY.

132.  If (I1 - x1) > 0, consumer did not spend all of her income in period 1
▪ Has some residual income (savings)—difference (I1 - x1)—left over for
spending in period 2
▪ If consumer lends this residual at a rate of interest I
▪ Then in period 2 she will not only have residual (I1 - x1) but also
interest on loan of i(I1 - x1)
▪ Residual income plus interest on loan will augment consumer’s
income in period 2
 If consumer spends more than her income in period 1, so (I1 - x1) < 0, she
can borrow income at a rate i to increase her current consumption
▪ Results in a reduction in income available in period 2 of (1 + i)(I1 - x1) < 0
▪ Thus, available income in period 2 is less than I2
 In economics, the point where ‘(I1 - x1) = 0, then (I2 - x2) = 0’ is referred to
by the name of a "tedious old fool” from 500 years ago.

137.  Poem by Samuel Menashe. Name it.
When my mother She who is not All at once
Was a young girl Who she was I could see
Before theWar Waits to be My mother
Reading sad books Yet she is In eternity
By the river Already I told her
Sometimes, she Mother She always
Looked up, wisely Whose child Would be
But did not dream Though not yet The one
The day I would Could not be Whose son
Be born to her An other You see.

141.  Leicester City was founded in 1884 as Leicester
Fosse, playing on a field near Fosse Road.They moved
to _______ Street in 1891 and played there for 111 years,
before moving again, to the Walkers Stadium in 2002.Their
mascot(image) is called _______ the Fox.
 FITB.
 This name in art denotes something that looks ‘sort of like a
cat’s tongue.’What?

145.  The June 1963 edition of Secret Hearts #88(image) by
Arleigh Publishing Corp(now part of D. C. Comics) contains a
line which goes “I’m sorry Nancy, but I’ll have to break our
date! I have an important business appointment. See you
tomorrow night.”
 How did the response to this line contribute something to
the world of art?

149.  The work, the largest of its kind was finished in 1946. It was
intended as a gift for the then national leader’s 60th birthday. It is
also believed that it was a dedication to a friend, a famous
politician and patriot.
 The idea behind both these dedications are evidenced by the
calligraphic message contained in the work- "A Long Life, a
Peaceful World“, not to mention the artist’s favourite presentation
of something standing with a strong gaze and a spirit of
defiance as a mark of strength and longevity.This work also has
the artist’s seal at the lower left corner, a seal that was impressed
only on paintings for whom the artist was particularly fond of.
 Which artist?Which work?

153.  The bauta (sometimes referred as baùtta) is a mask, today
often heavily gilded, though originally simple stark white,
which is designed to comfortably cover the entire face.They
are typically worn during an annual festival, famed for its
elaborate masks and these are visible in the foreground.A
sporting event involving the use of public ferries is also
depicted.
 What am I talking about?
 What sporting event?

158.  The set was closed to most of the crew after a previous
mishap.Tension was palpable on the set on the day of
filming. Loud gasps were heard when an assistant hairstylist
dropped her comb while grooming. Fortunately, the comb
narrowly missed. When it was touched-off, everything fell
into place.
 What 2005 arrangement?

162.  His creator originally wished X to follow his other characters
in having a full nameYX, but instead opted to have many
details of the character’s life history remain unknown. His
race and origin have not been named in any media, canonical
or otherwise.The make-up artist Stuart Freeborn based X's
face partly on his own face and partly onAlbert Einstein's.
 X’s speech syntax has been analyzed and discussed by
academic syntacticians, who found it somewhat
inconsistent, but could extrapolate that it has object-subject-
verb order.
 Identify X and also give meY(his first name).

166.  This poster inTamil Nadu,
surrounding a 2013 event,
attracted a lot of ridicule on
various social
media sites.
 Explain with 4 proper nouns.
 A similar faux pas
occurred in
neighbouring Kerala,
regarding this CPM
poster.

170.  Don Ameche was a very popular Hollywood star of the 30s and
40s,known for portraying real-life characters. His portrayal of
British-American inventor X was so well acclaimed that “Ameche”
became a slangword forY, a now ubiquitous invention that X
patented. Many critics have noted that this prompted a
generation to use the phrase “You’re wanted on the Ameche”.
 Groucho Marx himself confirms indirectly the pop culture effect of
the term in the movie “Go West”, when he says ‘Y??This is 1870,
Don Ameche hasn’t invented theY yet!’.
 Who is X and what isY
(pic of Ameche on the next slide)

175.  In the next slide is a still from the movieWatchmen.
 It’s not there in the comics, but Zack Snyder through the
following still, caused a bit of a trouble in geek paradise.
 In a nutshell, the theory among some fans is this:The
following act by Nite Owl I deprived the Watchmen universe
of something. What?
 Image in next slide

181.  In April 2013, Apple was sued for selling a song called "I
Got __________" on iTunes for profit, using catchphrases
such as "Ran for my life," and "Oh, Lord Jesus, it's a fire!” as
well as the most famous one.
 Who sued Apple/What is the most famous catchphrase?

189.  Whoosh Innovations have come up with a novel idea to tackle an
environmental problem.
 The company even has a promo video showing ______
triumphantly flopping through the air to Johann Strauss II’sThe
Blue Danube.
 The WhooshTransport Conduit made a special appearance on
HBO and was an instant ‘hit’ with celebrities such as Jon Stewart,
Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers,Tom Hanks, J.J. Abrams and even Mr.
Homer Simpson.
 Give funda.Who orchestrated the ‘hit?’

193.  Although he speaks with a Japanese accent, it is never
explicitely stated that he is from Japan.
 Inspired by Dr.Gori from the series spectreman. His costume
was designed as a tribute to the Japanese series Za
Kagesutaa.(image in next slide)
 Despite being perhaps the most intelligent in the whole
show, he can never seem to make a proper plan, and in the
end, is often defeated by children.
 Who?

198.  1. Awesome Andy
2. Beta Ray Bill
3.Captain America
4.Conan
5.Hulk
6. Magneto
7.Air-Walker
 The above list is exhaustive except for the people of a certain
lineage.
 What feat connects them?
 8.Red Hulk
9.Superman
10.Throg
11.Thunderstrike
12.WonderWoman
13. Rogue