Quiz Set - Aritra Aich

In memory of Adarsh
AICH
2018
AICH In memory of Adarsh 2018 1 / 130

Rules
Remember to use all the information in the slides
Usually +10/0 on bounce and +10/-5 on pounce if not otherwise
mentioned.
QM is Ganesh Gaitonde.

WRITTEN ROUND

1||okazyvaietsya, ona golubaya = "it is conﬁrmed, she is
blue"
Usually twins share 99.99% of their DNA and gene expressions.
However Scott and Mark Kelly, 54 year-old twins, who now live in the
US, did something which resulted in 7% divergence in their gene
expression.

Both were astronauts

2||’IDK’
K, is a ﬁctional character ﬁrst portrayed in a 90s movie, inspired by real-life
murderer who eluded justice by assuming a new identity. The character has
been referred to indirectly/directly in pop culture – like in the movie
American Sniper,Link 80 debut album 17 Reasons. Time magazine once
referred to Bin Laden as "a geopolitical K".

Keyser S¨oze

3||Am a man
This Roman ruin is called the after the Latin word for a place of
public performance, especially of formal poetry. This term is now a default
name for theatres, whether given to drama or ﬁlm. Give this name, and
identify the West Asian capital for extra bonuses.

Odeon Theatre
(Bonus: Amman, Jordan)

4||World’s top gold producer
ID O In order to show support for the ’O’, there was rise in popularity of the
name ‘Aoyun’ among Chinese babies. The ﬁrst such surge came in 1992.
About 680 such names were registered at the time. In 2001 another 553
babies were named Aoyun, and in 2008, a total of 4783 babies were named
the same. In its abbreviated form ,it means ’O’ in Mandarin Chinese.

Olympic(s)

5||So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all ...
ID Y
In the past France issued Y to the convicts who had served forced labour
post serving their sentence. This Y made them outcasts.Also, A famous
holder of Y was Jean Valjean of Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo. Y
was also used in the Russian Empire issued specially as a license for
prostitutes.This was also used by a lot of Jewish women(who did not
practise prostitution) to escape the Pale of Settlement and seek higher
education in major Russian cities. This was the theme of a famous ’lost’
silent drama ﬁlm Y.

Yellow passport/Yellow ticket/Yellow Pass/Internal Passport

6||’The Fall of Arthur’
’Bored of the ’ is a parody of . This short novel was written
by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, who later founded National
Lampoon. Names and words in the various languages are parodied
with brand names that mimic their sounds. There are many topical
references, including once-popular brand names.
Some of the characters are : Goodgulf Greyteeth, Dildo Bugger of Bag
Eye, Frito Bugger and Spam Gangree. Simply identify the original work
that has been parodied.

7||’Baby, you got what you want and now I’m paying for it’
They are on the seven summits as deﬁned by the Italian mountaineer
Reinhold Messner. That is the highest mountain on each continent. In
each case, name the peak from it’s geographical coordinates.
1) 3.06 degrees south, 37.36 degrees east.
2) 32.65 degrees south, 70.02 degrees west.
3) 27.99 degrees north and 89.93 degrees east.
For bounce:
For bounce:
(only 3)/(only 2) gives 5 points
Any two gives 10 points
All 3 gives 15 points

Kilimanjaro
Aconcagua
Everest

8||Randy Keith Orton
This questions are on words or names that end in the letter ’i’. In each
case, give the word from the definition. All three answers have the same
number of letters.
1) Brand X has shipped 880,000 units of budget product line
online in the second quarter of 2016, 920,000 in second quarter of
2017 and 1,500,000 in 2018 first quarter. FITB
2) Secondly, Chinese ideographs that are used in Japanese writing in
addition to the kana syllabary.
3) Finally, a hoofed mammal with striped legs that’s a close relative of
the giraffe.
For bounce:

Redmi
Kanji
Okapi

9||Science
In each case, give the term from the description. All three begin with the
same five-letter prefix.
1) In biology, firstly, a term referring to any process actively used by
living things to maintain stable conditions necessary for survival, such
as temperature, blood oxygen, water and sugar.
2) Secondly, a DNA sequence of around 180 base pairs which occurs in
all metazoa. Genes containing this element encode DNA binding
proteins that regulate gene expression and control morphogenesis and
cell differentiation.
3) And, finally, in mathematics, a correspondence between two figures,
surfaces or other geometrical objects defined by a one-to-one mapping
that is continuous in both directions.
For bounce:

Homeostasis
Homeobox
Homeomorphism

10||Força Barca
On 13th September 2014, FC Barcelona hosted Athletic Bilbao in a home
game at the Nou Camp. Despite hosting the game, Barcelona chose to
wear their third kit, the senyera kit for this home game, a decision for
which they had contacted the La Liga regulatory authority way back in
June 2014. Why did this happen?

11th September - National Day of Catalonia. (unofficial)
13th September - 300th Anniversary of Barcelona’s fall to Prince Philip’s
siege. (official) Either will suffice

11||Lack of winners?
The 2008 Olympics women’s 100m sprint medal winners were unique in
two ways. First, all the medalists were from the same country. Give me the
second. The second phenomenon happened under a very diﬀerent
circumstance in the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Two silver and no Bronze medals were awarded. Even after photoﬁnish
medalists could not be separated.
In 2000 Olympics, Marion Jones was stripped of the gold medal following
doping case. But IOC decided against upgrading the silver medalist,
Ekaterini Thanou’s medal to a gold as she was also named in a doping
case. Hence, two silver and no gold medals were awarded.

12||A winning streak?
This iconic image was captured after an American fad reached British
shores and prompted merchant seamen Michael Angelow to promptly cause
hysteria in the second test of the 1975 England- Australia Series at Lord’s.
The British newspapers gave page one coverage to Angelow and remarked
that Angelow’s antic had been the ‘ﬁnest shot at Lord’s
yesterday’.Australia however batted on and won the series 1-0. In a 2015
tribute the Irish band The Duckworth-Lewis Method chose the image for
their album ‘Sticky WIckets’. Put Funda/Fundaez.

The ﬁrst streaker in the history of English cricket.

13||’IDK’
Although the current rules of chess require a pawn that reaches the eighth
rank to be promoted to a different piece, that was not always the case. A
certain Law XIII allowed 1.b×a8=P! in the first picture. It was also
possible to checkmate black in one move in the second picture. What
changes were made and what is the new Law. Be specific.

Present rule that requires a pawn that reaches its eighth rank to be
immediately replaced by the player’s choice of a queen, knight, rook, or
bishop of the same color

14||Connect
ID any two for 10 points.

Events which made their ﬁrst appearance in the Asiads 2018
Rollersports(Skateboarding and Rollerskating, eSports, Kurash, Jiu Jitsu,
Pencak Silat, Contract Bridge, Jet Ski, Sambo, Paragliding, 3 vs 3
Basketball

15||Knuff hints
Young Boston intellectuals in the early 1800s used a humorous code of
abbreviated phrases, like “KC,” or “knuff ced”; “KY,” “know yuse”; and
“OW,” “oll wright.” And while most of them eventually fell out of fashion,
one abbreviation persisted.
, a cousin of all right, was a common 19th-century affirmative
that indicated everything was in order. Thanks to a series of lucky breaks,
its jokey abbreviation survived — and even ended up being (arguably) the
first word spoken on the moon.
What was the abbreviation and what did it mean?

O.K.
All correct/Oll Korrect

16||Etymology II
This cry was originally used by German Knights during there Jew Hunts
and in its entirety means: " Jerusalem is lost to the inﬁdels and we are on
the road to paradise". What phrase?
.

HIP HIP HURRAH
HIP was an acronym for ’Hiersolyms est perdita’ meaning ’Jerusalem is
destroyed’ and hu-raj is slavonic for ’paradise’.

17||MUSIC
Ringo Starr is to Sentimental Journey
George Harrison is to All Things Must Pass
John Lennon is to John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Paul McCartney is to
What am I talking about and FITB

Debut solo album of the members of the Beatles
McCartney is the debut album

18||Probably the easiest
A snip from a letterboxd list called ‘Film Posters ’.
A reference to some recent film. Blanks indicative. Became a rather
popular meme after the film released. Fill the blanks and give me the film.

Don’t Feel So Good, Avengers: Inﬁnity War

19||...Doli Saja ke Rakhna...
Carl Linnaeus ﬁrst showed his Systema Naturae to Isaac Lawson,a Scottish
physician(later served in the British army) and Frederik Gronovius,a Dutch
scholar and they liked it so much that they got it published at their own
expense.
This forged a friendship between Linneaus and Lawson who corresponded
with each other for quite some time .
When Lawson died in 1747 Linneaus named a genus after him,Lawsonia.
How do we better know the only species of this genus?

Henna

20||Twice the rainbow
When seen from the ground this is invisible to the naked eye; this eﬀect in
the structure is visible only when viewed from above on equinoxes . It was
discovered by accident in 1940 when RAF pilot P.Groves was ﬂying over it
and captured the now famous photograph. What was it?

The great pyramid of Giza has 8 sides

21||Elementary
A famous ﬁctional character’s great uncle made these paintings.Give the
(Sur)name of the painter and the famous character.

Horace Vernet, famous character is Sherlock Holmes Claude Joseph
Vernet/Carle Vernet - will still give you 10 points

22||Anyone with the answer can share it with me
alligator, anteater, armadillo, auroch, axolotl, badger, bat, beaver, buﬀalo,
camel, chameleon, cheetah, chipmunk, chinchilla, chupacabra, cormorant,
coyote, crow, dingo, dinosaur, dolphin, duck, elephant, ferret, fox, frog,
giraﬀe, gopher, grizzly, hedgehog, hippo, hyena, jackal, ibex, ifrit, iguana,
koala, kraken, lemur, leopard, liger, llama, manatee, mink, monkey,
narwhal, nyan cat, orangutan, otter, panda, penguin, platypus, python,
pumpkin, quagga, rabbit, raccoon, rhino, sheep, shrew, skunk, slow loris,
squirrel, turtle, walrus, wolf, wolverine, wombat.
The above all is a exhaustive list of “anonymous” animals which can be
seen online when one clicks on X.
Give X/Put Funda.

All shared Google Docs feature a row of these animal icons. The images
are assigned to every user currently viewing the ﬁle who wasn’t directly
invited to view it.

23||Part two
X is a Sanskrit word literally meaning “circle”. It is a spiritual symbol in
Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the universe. As a motif, Xs often
exhibit radial symmetry.
The term is also used in a political context to refer to several south-east
Asian kingdom-states which did not conform to European and Chinese
views of a territory deﬁned state, and whose polity was deﬁned by its
centre rather than its boundaries.
While X’s depictions usually contain doorways, it was mentioned in Y that
they are placed on doors and passages, a statement which also serves as an
important plot point. Id X and Y.

X-Mandala
Y-Sacred Games

24||Know your QM
Z is a delectable food item popular the world over, with the New York
Mayor recently in embroiled in a debate over the right way to eat it.
Y is a famous Scotsman, and had this to say about an incident often called
Z-gate. “He was livid. His ﬁsts were clenched,” revealed Y. “I was in
control, I knew it. Anyway, the next thing I knew I had Z all over me.”
“They say it was X who threw the Z at me but, to this day, I have no idea
who the culprit is.”
The odds on X being the guilty party had been set at 20-1, but a ﬂurry of
bets on him saw those odds tumble and made bookmakers suspicious.It is
rumoured that X’s teammates found the odds too good to resist and bet
heavily on. A Paddy Power spokesman said: “The usual suspects were
entering the frame but one man seemed to be attracting far more attention
than the others.
In 2011, it was revealed in a radio interview that it was indeed X who had
used Z as a projectile.
Identify X, Y, Z, and tell me what was Z-gate.

X-Cesc Fabregas
Y-THE SIR ALEX
Z-Pizza

25||’IDK’
The following are excerpts from a review by the gaming blog Kotaku - “Like
many other extended franchise juggernauts, X has been around in some
form or another for a long time. Originally released as an open-source
application and carefully iterated upon over the years, it’s been through its
fair share of reimaginings, reboots, and back-to-basics redesigns. Today’s X
is the most technically advanced version yet, but as we all know, it takes
more than eye-popping visuals and high-tech peripherals to make for a truly
meaningful experience. X is best understood as a freeform co-op experience
where partners work together to achieve one or more user-deﬁned goals.
It’s most often played in groups of two, but sometimes more. Broadly
speaking, each match-up follows a similar structure - all players are helping
one another to achieve a similar goal, and if they work well together, every
player can “win”. Take a closer look, though, and you’ll see how creative X
teams can be, combining inventive techniques with high-level mechanical
mastery to achieve unusual but no less satisfying victories.” Id X.

X is Sex

26||’Slumdog Millionaire’
What show won the 2018 Emmy Award for ’Outstanding Directing for a
Variety Special’ despite not doing very well in terms of viewership?
Previous winners include ’Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary
Special’,’Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening
Ceremony’,’Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony’.
The 2017 Emmy award for this category was also won by Glenn Weiss for
an older edition of the same show.

The Oscars/90th Academy Awards Show

27||The next slide might help
The #dearMoon Project is a SpaceX lunar tourism mission and
conceived and ﬁnanced by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Its key
component is a private spaceﬂight involving Maezawa, several and
one or two astronauts on board SpaceX’s BFR spacecraft on a circumlunar
trajectory around the Moon. According to Maezawa, the objective of the
project is to have six to eight accomplished to travel with him for
free around the Moon on a six-day tour. Maezawa expects the experience
of space tourism will inspire the accompanying in the creation of
new .

group of artists/artists/art project

28||English Vinglish
Connect
Figure : V S Naipaul
Figure : Radha Viswanathan

Figure : Karunanidhi
Figure : Koﬁ Annan
Figure : Nargis Rabadi

Celebrity Deaths in 2018

29||Gather the clues
What does this plaque commemorate?

The ﬁrst meeting of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes

30||
In the UK ’X’ has been another word for “an especially loud fart” since the
early 15th century, with the first known documented instance appearing in
1425.
The word "X" appears to have previously entered the English language
sometime around the 14th century in reference to blowing a horn. Besides
these definitions, it eventually came to mean "to deceive" or "cheat" in the
early 16th century from one Old French of the same definition. As for the
other common meaning for the word- "surpass" or "beat"- that appears to
have first popped up in the late 16th century, first referenced in card games.
As for how the surname, "X" came about, this is in many cases from the
Old French meaning “maker of ’t’ets. However, perhaps the most famous
"X", appears to have gained his surname from a German word meaning
"drum". His ancestors later changed the name to "X"

TRUMP

31||Alt-origins
The story of is based on The Sun, the Moon, and Talia, in which a
married king finds a girl (Talia) he can’t wake while out on a hunting trip.
He subsequently rapes her, resulting in her becoming pregnant. When the
king later returns to have sex with her again, he finds her awake with twin
babies. Rather than be upset when he tells her how she became pregnant,
she falls in love with him. Later, the king’s wife finds out and kidnaps the
girl and her children and attempts to have the twins fed to the king. After
that, she prepares a bonfire to burn Talia alive, only to have the king
discover this after hearing Talia’s screams. The king then had his wife
killed and discovered that his chef actually hid the children.
Now the king married his mistress and they lived happily ever after, with
the last line of the story, originally published in the 1634 Pentamerone
collection of fairy tales by Giambattista Basile, being (translated): “Lucky
people, so ’tis said, Are blessed by Fortune whilst in bed.”

The Sleeping Beauty

32||Worldplay
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has a curious line painted
through the building. The building also has two diﬀerent addresses and
telephone area codes. Further, because of the layout of the building, it’s
jokingly referred to as "the only library in the U.S. with no books and the
only opera house in the U.S. with no stage".

Built on the Canadian-US border. Intentionally built on the border in the
early 20th century, the building was placed such as Mrs. Martha Stewart
Haskell and Col. Horace “Stewart” Haskell wanted both Canadians and
U.S. citizens to have access to the library and opera house.

FUN FACT Ever wonder why we call junk messages “spam”? Well, wonder
no more. While some have suggested that this was because SPAM (as in
the Hormel meat product) is sometimes satirized as “fake meat”, thus spam
messages are “fake messages”, this potential origin, while plausible enough
on the surface, is not correct based on surviving documented evidence of
when the term started being used to mean junk or unsolicited messages.
The real origin of the phrase comes from a 1970 Monty Python’s Flying
Circus skit. In this skit, all the restaurant’s menu items devolve into SPAM.
When the waitress repeats the word SPAM, a group of Vikings in the
corner sing “SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM,
lovely SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!”, drowning out other conversation, until
they are ﬁnally told to shut it.

33||Guess the prime number
Firstly, the year in which Caligula was proclaimed emperor of Rome,
the atomic number of rubidium, and in Celsius, the normal human
body temperature.
Secondly for ﬁve points, the year BC in which the Roman Republic
began the second Mithridatic War, the atomic number of bismuth and
the number which follows the letter M in the name of a French
electronic music group.
And ﬁnally, the atomic number of vanadium, the number of
chromosomes in human sex cells and the number of the psalm
beginning "The Lord is my shepherd."

Firstly, the year in which Caligula was proclaimed emperor of Rome,
the atomic number of rubidium, and in Celsius, the normal human
body temperature. 37
Secondly for ﬁve points, the year BC in which the Roman Republic
began the second Mithridatic War, the atomic number of bismuth and
the number which follows the letter M in the name of a French
electronic music group. 83
And ﬁnally, the atomic number of vanadium, the number of
chromosomes in human sex cells and the number of the psalm
beginning "The Lord is my shepherd." 23

34||TV Show
The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, in celebration of
its 50th anniversary, has announced that ’S’ will be posthumously inducted
into its Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, which recognizes the work of
pioneers, artists, and innovators who have pushed photography forward.
XY is the biological younger sister of the S, whom she did not meet until
she was 25 years old. In 1993, she married the television writer and
producer Richard Appel. Appel, a writer for The Y, used his wife’s name
for the lead character’s mother, beginning with the episode "Mother Y”

S-Steve Jobs
XY-Mona Simpsons
Y-The Simpsons

35||CONNECT

Sherlock
Robert Downey Jr. played Sherlock in movies
Dr. Gregory House was based on Sherlock Holmes... but Holmes, in
turn, was based on a Doctor that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle knew while
studying medicine, Dr. Joseph Bell, whose specialty was diagnosis.
Benedict Cumberbatch played both Hawking(2004 TV Movie) and
Sherlock(TV Series)

36||The Bro code
Connect and ID the TV series
The SNASA (page 3)
The Cheap Trick (page 86)
The He’s Not Coming (page 27)
The Don’t Drink That (page 7)
The Mrs. Stinsﬁre (page 117)
The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn (page 78)
The Time Traveler (page 46)

The Playbook
HIMYM

37||
The slide contains names of stories of Sherlock Holmes. For each story,
name the corresponding episode in the TV series. This is a very easy
round, so aim for maximum.
The Sign of Four 212
The Adventure of the Empty House
A Study in Scarlet
His Last Bow
A Scandal in Bohemia

The Sign of Three!
The Adventure of the Empty Hearse
A Study in Pink!
His Last Vow!
A Scandal in Belgravia!

38||Progress
In her autobiography Daughter Of The East,a South Asian prime minister
A described her fascination with B. They ﬁrst met when the former
accompanied her father to post-war negotiations in 1972. C is a novel of
1981 which features a character modelled on B. In the book, by making B’s
campaign responsible for the destruction of the ﬁctional midnight’s
children, Rushdie holds her accountable for destroying the promise and
hope of a new future for .

A - Benazir Bhutto
B - Indira Gandhi
C - Midnight’s Children

39||CJI
An older(2017) version of a map depicting what? A more recent version
would not include India in the coloured region.

States where homosexuality is a crime.

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