Not the earliest, but it's finally here! The Fresher's Quiz 2023 ! ❤️ 👪Teams of 1/2/3 🗓️Date: Today, 26th Sep ⌛Time: 6.30PM 📍Location: LT 1 Do not forget to REGISTER on the FORM given in the QR code before coming to the event! Get pens! No pre-Reqs! Come for a fun night of quizzing and all the best for the inductions! 🍻😎

1. PRELIMS

2. PREAMBLE TO THE QUIZ
We the people part of this Quiz,
resolve not to indulge in measures that will
upset the quiz master.
Neither do we support ideas that will cripple
the sporting nature of the quiz(by indulging
in wrongdoings)
Further, accept the Quiz Master as the supreme
being who’s word runs the land
and finally, wish each team the best of fun for this quiz.

3. RULES
● 20 QUESTIONS
● QUESTIONS 3, 6, 12 AND 20 ARE
STARRED AND WILL BE USED FOR
TIEBREAKS
● TOP 8 TEAMS QUALIFY FOR FINALS
● HAVE FUN!

4. GENERAL GANIMA
SCI-BIZ-TECH MELAS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 SELF EXPLANATORY 2
MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT.
LITERATURE AND ART
3 4
GAMES, ANIME,
MANGA,CARTOON AND
COMICS
SCIENCE, BUSINESS AND
TECHNOLOGY

5. GENERAL

6. QUESTION 01
The following picture shows David
Singmaster, a mathematics professor at
London South Bank University.
However, he is best known in the world
of puzzles for being an early adopter
and promoter of ______ ____. In his book
Notes on ______ “Magic ____” he
develops the Singmaster notation which
allows the recording of ______ ____
moves and is still widely used to this
day. Fill in the blanks / What is
Singmaster notation used for?

7. ANSWER
Rubik’s Cube

8. QUESTION 02
Eleven babies have been born in X, and remarkably, none of them died as
infants, rendering X's infant mortality rate a perfect 0%. What's even more
astonishing is that these births weren't mere unplanned. During the early
20th century, neighboring countries like Argentina and Chile developed an
obsession over X and wished to claim it as their own. In 1977, a pregnant
Argentinian woman was transported from Argentina to X, where she
eventually gave birth to the very first child born within X's borders making
him X's first citizen. Argentina harbored hopes that this child's birthplace in
X would solidify their claim as rightful owners. Although Chile initially
agreed to this proposition for a year, they subsequently dispatched a
Chilean couple to X, who not only birthed a child but even conceived one
there, making their own stake in X's future. Identify X.

9. ANSWER
Antarctica

10. Question 03
The X-Y ________ controversy started in 1699 but broke out in full force
in 1711. X had published his ideas first in 1684, but Y claimed that he had
started working on it in 1666. The controversy did not subside until X’s
death in 1716, after which it ceased to interest Y too. The modern
consensus is that the two men developed their ideas independently.
Identify X and Y.

11. ANSWER
The Leibnitz-Newton Calculus
Controversy

12. Question 04
In March 2007, the first trailer for the highly
anticipated GTA IV(pictured) was released
onto the Rockstar Games website. Viewership
was so high that it crashed Rockstar's site.
Several users helped to post mirrors of the
video on different sites, but 4chan user Shawn
Cotter did something that boomed in
popularity at the start of the next month.
What did he do that can still be seen around
the Internet today?

14. Question 05
On May 28, 1991, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Sony
proudly revealed that it was working with Nintendo to create a version of
the Super NES with an in-built CD drive. Later Nintendo backed out of
this deal to partner with a Dutch company X instead, Sony proceeded
with their project leading to the birth of the PlayStation arguably the
biggest console today
Identify X.

15. ANSWER

16. GANIMA

17. QUESTION 06
X is an anime series that follows an adolescent girl Y in suburban Japan,
and her relationship to the Wired, a global communications network
similar to the internet. This series X features surreal and Avant Garde
imagery and explores topics like reality, identity and communication.
Critics and fans have praised X for its originality, visuals, atmosphere,
themes, and its dark depiction of a world fraught with paranoia, social
alienation, and reliance on technology considered insightful of 21st
century life. This show was also in the spotlight this year when
MyAnimeList was hacked and all anime titles in the database were
replaced with "Let's all love Y" a phrase that was often repeated in the
series.
Identify X and Y.

18. ANSWER
X- Serial Experiments Lain
Y- Lain/Lain Iwakura

19. QUESTION 07
X is an iconic Japanese mecha anime series released in 1995 which has
been credited with revitalizing and transforming the giant mecha genre
and also aided in the growth of the global spread of Japanese animation.
The final 2 episodes of this series were rather controversial for its lack of
focus towards plot resolution and the fan backlash was so immense that
the show creator Y and Studio Gainax released a movie titled Z , that
served as an alternate ending of sorts to the final 2 episodes of the anime
. The anime references Freud and features imagery from various religions
across the world and is generally famous for being considered as hard to
understand. Nevertheless, X spawned a huge franchise with 4 films that
were released between 2007 and 2021, and has record product sales in
Japan and strong sales overseas.
Identify X.

20. ANSWER
Neon Genesis
Evangelion

21. QUESTION 08
This product(pictured) contains salt, spices, flavor
enhancers and key ingredient that lends its.
name to the product. It was sold in communist
Yugoslavia, Hungary and USSR. This seasoning is
used to add flavor to broths, stews and sauces and
coincidentally shares its name with a manga/anime
character. It is said that the creator of this
manga/anime series purposefully named these
warriors after this key ingredient.
Identify the character, who shares his name with
the above mentioned product. He undergoes
massive transformation throughout the series and
suffers from an inferiority complex.
Identify the Character/Product.

22. ANSWER
Vegeta

23. QUESTION 09
Infernape(pictured), a Fire and Fighting type
Pokémon
from the Sinnoh region of the Pokémon, was
rumored to have been based on Sun
Wukong, from the Chinese epic, Journey to
the West. However, Pokémon fans and
theorists believe that the inspiration behind
Infernape is rooted in another mythological
character, which also justifies both its Fire
and Fighting type. Moreover, this character
has also been said to have inspired Sun
Wukong.
Identify the mythological character.

24. ANSWER
Hanuman

25. QUESTION 10
The earliest examples of this activity were
via Activision's 1981 newsletter,
Activisions, where players would
photograph the time on their screen and
submit them to the publication. However,
a community would only really form
around this activity in 1993, with the
release of the game Doom(pictured).
Doom included a feature that allowed
players to record and play back gameplay
using files called demos, which would
revolutionize this activity. Identify this
hobby, which saw an uptick in popularity
during the lockdown.

26. ANSWER
Speed-running

27. SCI-BIZ-TECH

28. QUESTION 11
Teiyu Goto, the mastermind behind this choice, explains:
“Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors
to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which is
why we went with icons or symbols, and I came up with the A-B-C-D
combination immediately afterward. I gave each symbol a meaning and
a color. The A refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one’s head or
direction and made it green. B refers to a piece of paper; I had it
represent menus or documents and made it pink. The C and D represent
‘yes’ or ‘no’ decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively.
People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to
management that that’s what I wanted.”
What choice is he talking about? What do A,B,C and D stand for?

29. ANSWER
PlayStation symbols

30. QUESTION 12
The Indiana ____ Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting
of the Indiana General Assembly. The bill attempted to set a value to a
certain widely used ratio, based on a method to square a circle. The bill,
written by a physician who was an amateur mathematician, passed vote
after vote because of the technical nature of the bill that other politicians
did not understand. However, it never became law due to the timely
intervention of Prof. C. A. Waldo of Purdue University, who coincidentally
happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.
FITB (non-indicative blanks).

31. ANSWER
The Indiana Pi Bill, which attempted to
pass a law that fixes the value of pi at
exactly 3.2

32. QUESTION 13
On DD-MM-2004, Google unveiled a product known as "X." Many initially
believed X to be a hoax, as the date of its release was widely associated
with pranks, and it boasted a remarkable 250 times more storage space
than its closest competitor at the time, "Y." It wasn't until the following
day that people came to realize X was indeed a legitimate and
groundbreaking service.
Identify X and Y?

33. ANSWER
X-> Gmail
Y-> Yahoo

34. QUESTION 14
Lush Cosmetics is a UK brand which in 2014 launched a chain of cosmetic
products with the label ‘Smuggler’s Soul’. This chain caused quite a stir in
India as its label carried with it the picture of an infamous Indian.
The line of products is available as perfume, body spray and a moustache
wax with the last one also named cheekily after this Indian. The company
described its products, which consists of Indian Sandalwood Oil, as
dangerous and intoxicating and gave the concept behind using this
image, “It highlights the illegal trading and smuggling that is happening
in the sandalwood trade and thus we used this picture!”
Identify the infamous Indian.

35. ANSWER
Veerappan

36. QUESTION 15
Paul C. Fisher was a technical pioneer, scientist and philosopher. In 1965
to develop this particular object, Fisher perfected a part of it using a
thixotropic substance, which remains semisolid until the shearing action
of the rolling ball inside liquefies it. The cartridge was pressurized with
nitrogen so that it didn't rely on the normal forces that act to make such a
product work.
It was dependable in freezing cold and desert heat and could also be
used
underwater and upside down. Fischer spent over a million dollars on R&D
on this object. Interestingly due to rumor and a movie reference this
object is thought to cost millions of dollars and be used in a highly
specialized manner and conditions but it costs around 25 dollars only and
is available to general public for normal use. Where have we seen a
reference about this invention?

37. ANSWER
Space pen from 3 Idiots.

38. MELAS

39. QUESTION 16
X and Y are two very famous personalities. Here are some of the common
facts about X and Y.
● share the same birth year (1987).
● left their town as a boy.
● became world champion in 2022.
Identify X & Y.

40. ANSWER
Messi and Ash

41. QUESTION 17
X and Y are two famous sports apparel/footwear companies started out
by 2 brothers , which ended up in a rivalry most evident in the ‘Z Pact’ ,
which stated that none of these companies would try to sign the player,
before Y broke the pact and signed the player .
The deal was announced to the world when Z asked the referee to stop
the game so that he could tie his shoes in the hopes that the cameras
pointed at the shoes.
Identify Z & Y.

42. ANSWER
Z-> Pelé
Y->Puma

43. QUESTION 18
Identify the blanked out video.

44. ANSWER
Gangnam Style

45. QUESTION 19
On January 31, 2020, World Athletics (formerly known as International
Amateur Athletic Federation), the governing body for professional track
and field, issued new guidelines concerning shoes to be used in the
upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The major changes of these guidelines
state that the "sole must be no thicker than 40mm" and that "the shoe
must not contain more than one rigid embedded plate or blade (of any
material) that runs either the full length or only part of the length of the
shoe.
These changes were in response to a shoe released in 2017 which gave
the runners an “unfair” advantage, a case of mechanical doping, as the
shoe used new materials like Pebax foam and carbon fiber.
Identify the Shoe.

46. ANSWER
Nike Vaporfly

47. QUESTION 20
The following is a clip from the Futurama episode “The Series Has
Landed”. What is ‘Craterface’ a reference to?

48. ANSWER
A Trip to the Moon, one of the first sci-fi
films and widely regarded as a landmark
film in cinema's origins, pioneered
several fantasy elements of storytelling
and special effects.