Themed quiz conducted during NITTFest '17 - the annual inter-departmental fest of NIT Trichy.

1. LitSexy
Kuchu
Kanmani
Thyan
It’s up to the organizers...
Twin #2

2.  There are 36 riddles in this test.
 Not more than 2 heroes per cohort.
 Maximum of 2 cohorts per contingent.
 Usage of unfair means will lead to divine
retribution.

3. Greek/Roman
31%
Indian
31%
Norse
8%
Japanese
3%
Chinese
3%
Egyptian
5%
Christian
5%
Irish
8%
Mayan
6%
SPLIT

4.  A 2016 American thriller film starring Daniel
Radcliffe takes its inspiration from the real-life
story of FBI agent MichaelGerman.
 It traces the protagonist's 20 month stint
undercover among supremacists and right wing
militants.
 Its title is a Latin word that is frequently used in the
German language as a synonym for the word
'Reich'.

6.  ______ in ancient Greece, was a god of marriage ceremonies,
inspiring feasts and song. He also lends his name to a genre of
Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to
the groom's house in which the god is addressed.
 He was the son of a muse, Clio or Calliope or Urania or
Terpsichore. He was supposed to attend every wedding. If he
didn't, then the marriage would supposedly prove disastrous,
so the Greeks would run about calling his name aloud. He
presided over many of the weddings in Greek mythology.
 He was generally represented in art as a young man wearing a
garland of flowers and holding a burning torch in one hand.

8.  In Chinese mythology, he is the ruler of the kingdom of
Diyu.
 In both ancient and modern times, he is portrayed as a
large man with a scowling red face, bulging eyes, and a
long beard. He wears traditional robes and a judge's cap or
a crown which bears the character for "king".
 He typically appears on Chinese hell money in the position
reserved for political figures on regular currency.
 He always appears in a male form, and his minions include
a judge who holds in his hands a brush and a book listing
the name of every soul.

11.  “____________ ___________” is a song byThe Doors, off of
their 1971 album, L.A.Woman. It was the last album
recorded by Jim Morrison before he died.. Lyrics include,
“what are they doing in the ___________ ___________ / to
please the lions this day / I need a brand new friend who
doesn’t bother me…/ why did you throw the Jack of hearts
away / it was the only card in the deck that I had left to play.”
These lyrics, written by Morrison, were almost
foreshadowing his death, as if Jim knew his life would end
soon; by mentioning the ____________, he most likely was
referring to how a certain character from mythology was
transformed into a flower when he died, and thus, Jim
probably knew he would be immortalized after his death.

13.  This name originates from Zulu myth and is used
to describe 'serpent race from the sky'.The
conception of this was inspired by David Icke's
conspiracy theory that the world is run by a
secret group of shape-shifting reptilian
humanoids.
 This group claims to be part of the 'immune
system of the universe, wiping out disorder and
free will wherever they find it‘
 These being have also featured prominently in a
certain entertainment context.

15.  ______ is a mythological Greek hero, the son of
KingTelamon and Periboea, and the half-brother ofTeucer. He
plays an important role, and is portrayed as a towering figure
and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad.
He is described as a warrior of great stature, colossal frame and
strongest of all the Achaeans. He was trained by
the centaur Chiron, along with Achilles.
 He was considered to be the second greatest warrior in the
Greek army atTroy, next to Achilles.
 A certain European football club named themselves after this
Greek hero. He also prominently features in the logo of the
club.

18.  Ragaraja is an esoteric language with 1000
possible commands/instructions. Although it
is named after a Mahayana Buddhist deity, it
was inspired by a Hindu god's mount.The
mistaken reasoning that this mount wrote an
ancient text in 1000 chapters is what gives
this language its wide array of instructions.
This name signifies the epitome, a channeling
of urge into compassion for and towards
every human being.

20.  _____ is the shield carried primarily by Zeus, which he
sometimes lends to Athena.
 According to some sources though, it might not have
been a shield but rather a goat skin cloak worn over
garments as an extra protection.
 In today's world, the word retains its meaning for
protection in the sense that "doing something under
someone's _____ " means doing something under the
protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or
benevolent source.

22.  The PopolVuh is the most important Mayan
text, containing creation stories and
adventures of Mayan heroes.
 The image on the following slide is that of a
God, who is a one-dimensional vegetation
spirit, embodying something that the Mayans
strongly identify with as a vital force in their
culture.

25.  ____ in ancient Greece, was one of the primordial deities.
 He is the personification of the pure, 'upper' air that the gods
breathe, as opposed to "Aer", which the mortals breathed
and "Erebos", the mist of darkness surrounding the
Underworld.
 ____ was hence used in the sense of something permeating
all of heaven as seen in the so-called ____ theories in
physics.
 These theories essentially propose the existence of a
medium that fills space, thought to be necessary for the
propagation of electromagnetic and gravitational forces.

27.  In the video game Smite, players are pit into a
battleground of gods. One of these playable
mythical characters is famous for meaning to
ask the throne of Indra as a boon, but on account
of his tongue being tied by the jealous King of
Devas, instead asked for a bed to sleep.
 This character also has an option in game to don
a ‘skin’. This specific skin is a literary reference
to a Dutch villager who once slept several years
and woke to find his beard a foot long.

29.  This is a cheat code in the strategy game, Age of Empires (Rise of
Rome edition), which when activated will transfer(irreversibly)
the user's control of their current civilisation to all the animals in
the game (except those that can be fished).
 It is a reference to the primordial deity of the Earth in Greek
mythology.
 The namesake hypothesis in modern Ecology proposes that
organisms interact with their surroundings on Earth to form a
synergistic self-regulating, complex system that helps maintain
and perpetuate conditions for life on the planet.
 In other approaches of the same theory, the Earth itself is viewed
as an organism with self-regulatory functions.

31.  C. Raja Mohan is a senior policy advisor, former
columnist of the Indian Express and expert in
Indian foreign policy.
 In 2012, he authored a book about the importance
of naval/maritime strategy.
 The book was a detailed analysis about the fight
between India and China to control ocean waters.
 The title of the book is taken directly from Hindu
mythology, a specific term which suggests
turbulence in ocean waters.

33.  Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragic play. Prometheus was
aTitan who stole fire from the Olympians and gave it to the human
race (which he had helped create).
 He tricked Zeus into accepting sacrifices that were merely bones. He
was hence chained for his wrongdoings.
 A famous work of literature is said to have drawn heavily from
Prometheus Bound.
 The author makes many parallels between Prometheus and the
protagonist along with a contrasting event.
 Both are creators of living things, and both end up getting punished
because of this. Prometheus, though is credited with supporting his
creation viz., humans, in times of peril. On the other hand, the
novel's protagonist denounces his creation.

35.  In the animé Attack ofTitans, ____ was a figure of
ancient Eldian history. She was a Fritz family monarch
and is said to be the first of allTitans. In all illustrations
depicting ____ Fritz, she is shown as a young girl
wearing white robes.
 Her character takes inspiration from a certain entity
from Norse mythology which shares it's name with
her.
 In Norse mythology, this entity is shown to be the
ancestor of all Jotunn (Norse race), which is where the
animé takes its inspiration from.

37.  Greninja is a dual-typeWater/Dark Pokémon introduced in
GenerationVI. Its primary ability is an English word which
generally means "versatile", "mutable" or "capable of
assuming many forms".
 The word itself derives from an early Greek god of rivers,
one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of
the Sea". He was also known to be an elusive shape shifter
who can foretell the future, but only does so to anyone
who is able to capture him.

39.  A goddess in Chinese mythology lends her
name to a series of missions operated by the
CNSA.
 According to lore, she is banned to distant
land to be separated from her lover.
 The third mission involved a vehicle named
Yutu, after her pet which gave her company
after her banishment, literally meaning "Jade
Rabbit".

41.  Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean mystery-thriller directed by
Park Chan-wook.There are a lot of references in the movie
to a certain Greek hero’s story.
 The film follows the story of Oh Dae-su, a businessman -
named after the hero himself.
 As the myth goes, it was Apollo's prophecy that revealed
his fate. In the movie,Woo-jin reveals to Oh Dae-su the
secret of his taboo relationship of which Oh Dae-su had
had no idea.
 The Greek hero gouges his eyes out to avoid seeing a
world that despises his truth, while Oh Dae-su cuts out his
tongue to avoid revealing his truth to his world.

43.  Hikayat Seri Rama is the Malay literary adaptation of the Hindu
epic Ramayana, which is believed to be written sometime
between the 7th and 10th century.
 The main story remains the same as the original Sanskrit version
but many aspects of it were slightly modified to a local context.
 One of the changes in the Hikayat was related to the character of
Ravana. In the original Ramayana, he possessed the nectar of
immortality, which was stored inside his belly, thanks to a
celestial boon by Brahma.The Hikayat however, replaced
Brahma, and had someone else give Ravana the boon.
 This character was perhaps the influence of the culture that
started to develop in this region while the adaptation was
written.

45.  This theory by Dr Richard Muller of UC Berkeley proposes
that the Sun may have an undetected companion star in a
highly elliptical orbit that periodically disturbs comets in the
Oort cloud, causing a large increase of the number of
comets visiting the inner Solar System with a consequential
increase of impact events on Earth.
 He proposed this theory in an effort to find out the reason
behind the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs.
 He named this theory after an entity from Greek mythology,
someone who enacted retribution against those who
showed arrogance in front of the gods.

47.  _____ is a style ofAfro-Caribbean music that originated inTrinidad
andTobago during the early to mid-20th century and spread to the
rest of Caribbean Antilles andVenezuela.
 Its rhythms can be traced back to the arrival of French planters and
their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
 It drew uponAfrican and French influences, and became the voice of
the people. It was characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic
vocals, which was most often sung in a French creole and led by a
griot.
 It played an important role in political expression, and also served to
document the history ofVenezuela andTrinidad andTobago.
 Coincidentally, it shares it's name with a mythological character
most remembered for their role in the starting of Homer's Odyssey,
which sets the tone for the entire epic.

49.  A _____ is a female spirit in Irish mythology who heralds the death
of a family member.
 Her name is connected to the mythically-important ‘tumuli’ or
"mounds" that dot the Irish countryside.
 They are often described in Gaelic lore as wearing red or green,
usually with long, dishevelled hair, and can appear in a variety of
forms.They are most often seen as an ugly, frightful hags, but can
also appear young and beautiful if they choose.
 They have a number of references in pop culture, especially in Harry
Potter.The singer Celestina Warbeck is known to perform with a
backing group of _____s, demonstrating not all of them are
malevolent. It also seems fitting that __________ is Seamus
Finnigan’s (the Irish student) boggart.

51.  The 'weather trio' are a set of Pokémon that consist of Groudon,
Kyogre and Rayquaza.
 Groudon possesses the ability to expand continents. It is a
massive, bipedal, dinosaur-like creature covered in red,
segmented plates of thick skin that act as armour. It lends it's
name to a word in the English language owing to it's appearance.
 Kyogre possesses the ability to expand the oceans. It is a massive
whale-like Pokémon with two big pectoral fins, each with four
white square-shaped nails. It has red stripes around its chin, eyes,
dorsal fins, and torso.
 These 2 Pokémon are directly inspired from two mythical beings
from the OldTestament.

53.  The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture of a
famous mythical she-wolf.
 When Numitor was overthrown by his brother Amulius,
the usurper ordered his two grandchildren to be cast into
theTiber River.
 They were rescued by this wolf who cared for them until a
herdsman found and raised them.The sculpture depicts
the wolf taking care of the children.
 This story forms a very important part of the history of a
certain city, and is a big part of the logo of the biggest
football club from that city.

55.  In Norse mythology, ______ is a monstrous wolf.
 He is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th
century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose
Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by
Snorri Sturluson.
 In both texts, he is the father of the wolves, is a son of
Loki, and is foretold to kill the god Odin during the events
of Ragnarök, but will in turn be killed by Odin's son.
 A certain author was inspired by Norse mythology while
writing their works, and she appropriately named one of
the characters after him.

57.  'The _____ __ _____: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One LastTime'
is a posthumous collection of previously published and
unpublished material by Douglas Adams.
 It consists largely of essays about technology and life
experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the
incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time
of his death (same as the blanks).
 The title is a reference to a creature figuring in the Fenian
Cycle of Irish mythology. It is usually used to symbol
intelligence and wisdom.
 The title of the book however, conveys the exact opposite
traits of this mythological creature.

59.  ___ is an Egyptian goddess. She is still widely worshiped by
many pagans today in diverse religious contexts; including a number
of distinct pagan religions, the modern Goddess movement, and
interfaith organizations.
 She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the
patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend
of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden, but she also
listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and
rulers.
 She is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the falcon-headed
deity associated with royalty. She is also known as protector of the
dead and goddess of children.
 Almost ironically (considering her virtues), she shares her name with
a certain global organization which has gained prominence.

61.  In the DC universe, the ____ ________ are
biogenetically created entities created by Chang
Tzu's Science Squad.
 They consist ofYurrd - a crocodile like being inspired
from Sobek (Egyptian muse of famine), Rogga - the
fierce warrior who represented destruction and war,
Zorrm - the controller of disease spreading organisms,
using them as a means to spread disease and ill health
and Azraeuz - the silent and deadly killer who
represented death.

63.  We're all familiar with the story of Ekalavya, the
legendary archer who had no guru because he
wasn't a Kshatriya.
 Later, Ekalavya was killed in battle while he was
employed as an archer for King Jarasandha.
 In some versions of the Mahabharata, it is said that
Ekalavya was reborn as someone else, and
managed to seek vengeance for his hardships in his
past life.

65.  Among the pyrethroid compounds, deltamethrin and
cypermethrin are often used to perform this particular
activity.
 Besides the main ingredient pyrethroids, they also
contain a surfactant,Triton-X and an additive,
Piperonyl butoxide which prolong its action by
inhibiting the oxidizing enzymes.
 This paralyzing the nervous system, blocks the
inhibitory pathway and disrupts the voltage gated
chloride channels on the cell membrane, thereby
performing it's action.

66. +

67.  AdamTrbušek, a student of Faculty of Design and
Art atThe University ofWest Bohemia created this
3 tonne concrete statue.
 His inspiration was from a famous artist's similar
depiction of theTitan Cronos, who feared that he
would be overthrown by one of his children and ate
each one upon their birth.

70.  Thalapathi is a 1991Tamil film written and directed by Mani
Ratnam, which stars Rajinikanth, Mammootty and Shobana.
 Rajinikanth plays the role of Surya, a virtuous and honest
orphan who lives in a slum. Mamooty plays the character of
Deva, a powerful man who lives in the same slum.
 When Deva's right hand man was caught molesting a young
girl by Surya, he kills the molester in the ensuing fight angering
Deva. However, after Deva comes to know of the circumstance
surrounding the death, he forgives Surya; following which they
start to develop a close bond due to their shared ideologies.
 This film was written as a modern retelling of a legendary
friendship from Indian mythology.

72.  ____ ____, la dea della vendetta is a 1963 Italian
fantasy film which follows a Dr.Palmer and the
ordeals he faces in saving a village from the wrath
of the goddess of vengeance.
 The title of the movie however, refers to the age of
darkness of humankind where a demon of the
same name, is supposed to reign supreme.
 He is supposed to work towards the end, and
subsequent rejuvenation of the universe, being the
manifestation of all things negative.

74.  In Norse mythology, a ____ is one of a host of female figures
who choose those who may die in battle and those who may
live.
 Selecting among half of those who die in battle, they bring
their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain,Valhalla, ruled over
by the god Odin.
 They also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where
they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty.
 A certain event from the 20th century was named after this
entity, owing to the role they play in Norse mythology.This
entity also lends its name to a movie, which chronicles the
original event.

76.  The voicelines of a character in Smite are lines of
audio that come up in appropriate situations. A
certain god has the following lines of dialogue:
 (at the beginning of a match)"I can't stand
violence, but we can't let them win!“
 (when killing a Jungle Boss)"Pick on someone
your own size!“
 (When taunting)"It's not the size of the
opponent that matters! It's my strength of feet!“
 (When taunting Mercury, God of Speed)"You
know I can run the world in one step, right?"

78.  In theTV series Game ofThrones, the House of
____________ are among the storm lords that
choose to fight for Renly Baratheon during
theWar of the Five Kings. Ser Guyard, known as
Guyard the Green, is a member of King
Renly's Rainbow Guard.They turn to
King Stannis Baratheon after Renly's death.
 They are a reference to a mythological entity
from Irish lore.Their arms are a black crow in
flight, which is a reference to the Irish entity
who appears as a crow flying over the
battlefield, foretelling doom and death.

80.  Quetzalcoatl is the Aztec god of wind and learning.
 Since the sixteenth century, it has been widely held that
the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II initially believed the
landing of __________ _________ in 1519 to be
Quetzalcoatl's return.
 This surprised __________ ___________, as evidenced by
his letter to CharlesV in which he goes to great pains to
present the naive gullibility of the Aztecs.The Aztecs even
described his landing as:
 "You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously
approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you
have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have
briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you"