Gen quiz finals organised at Alma Fiesta 2020, the cultural fest of IIT-BBS.

1. Gen quiz
Finals by Ankit Singh

2. First rule of the quiz is

3. Pounce and Bounce!
● 12 questions in this round: 6 clockwise and 6 anticlockwise.
● Teams on direct can play for +10/0. You can pounce on your direct
for +20/-20.
● Other teams can pounce for +10/-5 or +20/-20 as per their
convenience. If you are pouncing for +20 then write ‘#’ just beside
your answer, else I will assume that you are playing a 10-pointer.
● QM isn’t the god, he is the dictator.

4. Q1: FITB and identify Y.
___ _____ ____ is a 1976 non-fiction book written by Y and Carl Bernstein about
the Watergate scandal. A follow up to their 1974 book All the President's Men,
This book concerns itself with the final months of the Presidency of Richard
Nixon including battles over the Nixon White House tapes and the impeachment
process against Richard Nixon.
The book was the last collaboration between Y and Bernstein; quite dissimilar in
personality, and with different approaches towards their newfound wealth, they
soon went their separate ways. The pair did reunite in print for the first time three
and a half decades later, for a Washington Post op-ed column in 2012.

6. Answer

7. Q2: Identify X and Y
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical drama film. It is based
on the true story of X’s challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters
during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship
1972 match versus Y in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Director Edward Zwick explained the meaning of the film's title: "You
have Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon calling X; you have Brezhnev
and the KGB agents following Y. Both of these men were pawns of their
nations.

9. Answer
X: Bobby Fisher
Y: Boris Spassky

10. Q3: Which drink?
Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A
teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two
limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white rum
completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-
handled spoon. Later it evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same
ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured
into a chilled coupe glass.
It was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and
President John F. Kennedy. Also, it was easily available in the USA
during WW2 due to Roosevelt’s Good Neighbour policy.

12. Answer
Daiquiri

13. Q4
The name Y was created as a clipped compound of the names of the two states
that unified to create the country.
The name of one of the states is derived from the Swahili words tanga ("sail")
and nyika ("uninhabited plain", "wilderness"), creating the phrase "sail in the
wilderness". The name of the other one comes from "zenji", the name for a local
people (said to mean "black"), and the Arabic word "barr", which means coast or
shore.
Name the country Y.

15. Answer
Tanzania

16. Q5
There are five bungalows in Lok Kalyan Marg. Bungalow 1,Lok Kalyan
Marg is a helipad for the service of PM which is being used since 2003.
Bungalow 3 is the guest house for the PM’s guests. 5 Lok Kalyan Marg
at present is the Private Residential Zone for the PM and 7th is his office.
Bungalow 9 is occupied by the force Y, is housed and also has a tennis
court.
Y was recently in news, thanks to a recent modification about its
functioning. Y please.

18. Answer
Special Protection Group (SPG)

19. Q6: Which event is Green talking about?
Looking for Alaska is divided into two halves and narrated by main
character Miles Halter. Rather than the typical numerical system, each
chapter is denoted through the number of days before Alaska's death or
the number of days after. The genesis of this structure resulted from John
Green's influence of public reactions to this event. In an interview with
Random House Publishing, Green recalled that newsreaders stated that
people would now view the world through the lens of either before or
after this event. “We look back to the most important moment in our
history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and
what we are now. So I wanted to reflect on the way we measure and think
of time.”

21. Answer
9/11

22. Q7: Name the country and the capital.
It was originally the site of a town meaning "Blue Forest" in the the
Malagasy language and was established by a community of Vazimba, the
island's first occupants. Merina King Andrianjaka, who migrated to the
region from the southeast coast, seized the location as the site of his
capital city. According to oral history, he deployed a garrison of 1,000
soldiers to successfully capture and guard the site.The hill and its city
retained the name until the reign of King Andriamasinavalona, who
renamed it X ("City of the Thousand") in honor of Andrianjaka's soldiers.

24. Answer
Madagascar
Antananarivo

25. Q8
_____ _____'s Handball Maradona (referred to in title as _____
_______'s Football) is a multiplatform traditional soccer/football
simulation video game that was released in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC,
Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game allows players to control
legendary goalkeeper _____ _______. The game's title refers to the "hand
of God" goal scored by Diego Maradona against England at the 1986
FIFA World Cup.
FITB with someone who was as involved in the Hand of God as
Maradona.

27. Answer
Peter Shilton

28. Q9
The Wikipedia page of ___ has been defaced recently,
with unidentified users changing the firm's name and
adding the names of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and V.
Vijaya Sai Reddy as founders of the firm alongside Bruce
Henderson. This comes after the consulting firm submitted
their report "Strengthening Andhra Pradesh through
balanced and inclusive growth". Which consulting firm?

30. Answer
Boston Consulting Group

31. Q10
Clyde ______ built his own aircraft and flew it in 1911, the first to fly
between the Mississippi River and the Rocky mountains. When bankers
in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to
Wichita, where the company is presently headquartered. ______'s
nephew bought the company from him and took it to the great heights.
The naming convention of ______'s product is alliterative.
FITB.

33. Answer
Cessna

34. Q11: Y
Y is a parody of a famous book series Z. This short novel was written by
Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, who later founded National
Lampoon. The parody generally follows the outline of Z, including the
preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Z’s
author made serious (e.g., "He would have finished him off then and there,
but pity stayed his hand. It's a pity I've run out of bullets, he thought, as he
went back up the tunnel..."). Names and words in the various languages are
parodied with brand names that mimic their sounds (e.g., Moxie and Pepsi
replace Merry and Pippin).
I won’t make the question boring. Just give me Y.

36. Answer

37. Q12: What was this diplomacy called?
The U.S. Table Tennis team was in Nagoya, Japan in 1971 for the 31st
World Table Tennis Championships on April 6 when they received an
invitation to visit China. From the early years of the People's Republic,
sports had played an important role in diplomacy, often incorporating the
slogan "Friendship First, Competition Second". As a result of an
encounter between players Glenn Cowan (of the US) and Zhuang Zedong
(of the PRC), the subsequent exchange of the players came to be known
as the ____-____ diplomacy. The event marked a thaw in Sino-American
relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard
Nixon in 1972.

39. Answer
Ping Pong diplomacy

40. Scores

41. Written round!
● It’s a written round on lego sets.
● There are ten lego sets whose inspiration are horrifying
historical events.
● +10 for each correct answer. No negatives, so let your
creative juices flow.
● Bonus 20 for getting all answer right.

42. Q1:
Though there was no
Reign of Terror
involved while making
this set, identify who’s
being executed.

43. Q2:
This prison was looted after
the fall of Saddam Hussein
but was converted into
detention camp later by the
Americans. This lego set
replicates certain photos
released by CBS News in
April 2004. Which prison?

44. Q3:
Which historic event
does this set depict?

45. Q4:
This one depicts the
Darfur genocide which
started with the Land
Cruiser War in 2003.
Which country is
Darfur located ?

46. Q5:

47. Q6:
The war was a
decisive victory for
the Hellenic League
and led to the fall of
the Achaemenid
Empire. Which war?

48. Q7:

49. Q8:
This battle forms the
centrepiece of William
Shakespeare's play
Henry V, written in
1599. This battle turned
the tides of the Hundred
Years War in the favour
of the English. Which
battle?

50. Q9
Which historic
event?

51. Q10
A bombed refugee
camp in a civil war
at a SAARC
country which
ended in 2009.
Which one?

53. Answer:
1. Maxmillan Robespierre execution
2. Abu Ghraib prison
3. Assassination of Julius Caesar
4. Sudan
5. US Civil War
6. Battle of Gaugamela
7. Nazi concentration camp
8. Battle of Agincourt
9. D-Day landing at Normandy
10.Sri Lankan Civil War

54. Scores

55. Buzinga!
● 10 questions on the buzzer.
● You can play for +10/-10 or +20/-20 as per your convenience.
● You have to tell the value you are playing for before answering.
● If you skip the last point then I will assume that you are playing for
10 points.
● Only one attempt per question.

56. Q1
When Voyager 1 was 6.4 billion km away and
approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, Carl
Sagan proposed the idea of taking one last picture of the
earth. He explained that such a picture would be
meaningful as a perspective on our place in the universe.
How do we better know this picture?

58. Answer
Pale Blue Dot

59. Q2
X is an event held annually in the western United States
at Black Rock City, a temporary city erected in the
Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately
100 miles north-northeast of Reno, and a thriving year-
round culture generated by a global community of
participants.

61. Answer
Burning Man Festival

62. Q3
A popular drink in Scottish bars is called the Adam’s Ale.
Some columnist have dubbed the packaged version of it as
the biggest scam of all time. How do we better know
Adam’s Ale?

64. Answer
Water

65. Q4: Simple Id the man

67. Answer
Jamal Khashoggi

68. Q5:
This is Sequana
Tower. This is the
headquarter of which
hospitality company?

70. Answer
Accor

71. Q6
We all know of the various ways in which information is consistently
limited on the Internet in China. However, these set of legislative actions
and technologies is a portmanteau of a security system that monitors
traffic online, and a national landmark.
What is it called?

73. Answer
The Great Firewall of China.

74. Q7
Where do you find these?

76. Answer

77. Q8 : Fill in Y.
The Y Gap is a break across the North and South American continents within
Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest and mountains in the
northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department and Panama's Y Province.
The Pan-American Highway also has a corresponding gap of 106 kilometres
beginning at Turbo, Colombia, and ending at Yaviza, Panama. Road building
through this area is expensive, and the environmental cost is high.
One option proposed, in a study by Bio-Pacifico, is a short ferry link from
Colombia to a new ferry port in Panama, with an extension of the existing
Panama highway that would complete the highway without violating these
environmental concerns.

79. Answer
Darién Gap

80. Q9
______ was a unit of weight that was introduced in Mesopotamia at the
end of the 4th millennium BC, and was normalized at the end of the 3rd
millennium during the Akkadian-Sumer phase. It was divided into 60
minas, each of which was subdivided into 60 shekels. The use of 60
illustrates the attachment of the early Mesopotamians to their useful
sexagesimal arithmetic. These weights were used subsequently by the
Babylonians, Sumerians, and Phoenicians, and later by the Hebrews.
Something which also defines people possessing natural aptitude or skill,
What?

82. Answer
Talent

83. Before I ask the last question...
I would like to thank team Alma-Fiesta to ask me to be the quizmaster.
Also, I would like to thank each and every one of you for taking part in it,
for staying back and enjoying the quiz and for being an integral part of it.
Without you the quiz would not have been a memorable one.
Also, credits to Sarthak Patnaik for the guinea pig and Puranjan Dev for
the safety slide. :P
Now to the business end...

84. Q10
One of the most popular forms of Japanese wordplay is numeric
substitution—writing numerals in place of words or letters with the same
phonetic value. We do this in English all the time, coming up with half-
numeric sentences like “You are 2 damn 1derful,” or “it’s been 4ever
since I last m8 you.” Kanji can be manipulated the same way, only with
six times as many opportunities for linguistic mischief. In the common
on’yomi reading system, for example, the number 3 can be pronounced
san, while the number 9 can be kyu. So if someone texts you “39” or “3
9,” you can read it as _____ ___. Simple enough, fill in the indicative
blank.

86. Answer: Thank You