Finals of the QMQ conducted by Pranav, Ninaad, and Shreyan on 20/11/18

1. QMQ 10/11/18
By Pranav, Ninaad, Shreyan
Finals

2. Pounce and Bounce
+10/-5

3. 1) This has happened only 5 times during X’s career.
What?
1) March 8, 1971: by Joe Frazier (Madison Square Garden, New York)
2) March 31, 1973: by Ken Norton (Sports Arena, San Diego)
3) February 15, 1978: by Leon Spinks (Las Vegas)
4) October 2, 1980: by Larry Holmes (Caesars Palace, Las Vegas)
5) December 11, 1981: by Trevor Berbick (Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau,
Bahamas)

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5. Answer :
•X – Muhammad Ali
•His only 5 losses during his career.

6. Q2. Switzerland submitted all of these for the
“UNESCO intangible cultural heritage”. Id X.
The Vevey winegrowers' festival
The Basel Fasnacht
Transhumance in the Swiss Alps
The Easter processions in Mendrisio
Swiss graphic and typographic design
Avalanche risk management
X
The craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking

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8. Answer :
X - Yodelling

9. Q3. XY?
The term XYs was used to describe the look of the followers of a certain
movement, who referred to themselves as Xs, signifying that they had a X, fear, or
respect for God. Emulating Hindu and Nazarite holymen, these "Xs" grew matted Ys
of hair, which would become known to the world as "XYs" - the hair-style of the Xs.

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11. Dreadlocks

12. Q4. Connect (Inexhaustive)
Stromberg
HaMisrad
Kontoret
Kontton
Le Bureau
La Job

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14. Adaptations of The Office in different countries

15. Q5. X? Why was it’s height increased? What is the 1937
incident?
In late 1929, Alfred E. Smith, the leader of a group of investors erecting X,
announced that they were increasing the height of the building to 1,250 feet from
1,050. Although it was initially suspected that this was done to make X the tallest
building in the world at the time. The additional 200 ft mast was said to have an a
rather ambitious purpose, catering to a certain industry.
However, commercial viability of this was still minuscule. Even the Germans, who
dominated that field had not asked for it. Dr Hugo Eckener flatly said that it was not
practical, as many crewmen were required for it.
The project was up in the air until 1937, when an infamous industry that got
extensive media coverage caused the industry in question to effectively die out.

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17. X- The Empire State Building (The mast on top of it)
Making The Empire State Building a mooring station
for Blimps
The Hindenburg Disaster

18. Q6. What was special about the palace? (Image)
In the cold winter of 1739–1740, Anna Ivanovna gave an order to build a palace
made of in St. Petersburg. The palace and the surrounding festivities were part of
the celebration of Russia's victory over the Ottoman Empire. She ordered the
architect Pyotr Yeropkin to design the building. It was built under the supervision of
Georg Krafft who left a detailed description of the palace. The palace was 20
meters tall and 50 meters wide.
Empress Anna died the following year and the castle did not survive the next
summer. The Russian reading public was made aware of Anna's mock palace in
1835, when Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) described her escapade in one of the
first historical novels in the language.

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21. It was made of Ice

22. Q7.
The X website was created by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high-school
student in Moscow, Russia. Ternovskiy says the concept arose from video chats he
used to have with friends on Skype, and that he wrote the first version of X in "two
days and two nights".
Ternovskiy chose the name "X" after watching The Deer Hunter, a 1978 film set in
the Vietnam War in which prisoners of war were tortured by being forced to play Y.
Ternovskiy built the site on an old computer he had in his bedroom. The site initially
had 20 users, and then it doubled daily for a period, according to Ternovskiy in
2010. He discusses that he did not advertise or post his site anywhere; in fact,
people starting talking about the website and knowledge of it gradually spread by
word of mouth.

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24. X - ChatRoulette
Y- Russian Roulette

25. Q8. X? (Image on next slide)
No discussion of X is complete without a mention of that other X. So, who’s the real
X? You’d assume since the adult contemporary X came first and is the guy most
non-wrestling nerds know about, he’s the one that owns he name, but nope,
according to the US Patent Office, Steve Borden owns the rights to the name X.
The longstanding rumor is that wrestler X lets musician X use the name for a very
reasonable fee of one dollar per year.

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28. Sting

29. Q9. ID The Band
During a live performance in 1998, the frontman of this band accidentally knocked a
microphone over, causing it to crack once it hit the ground. The microphone's
owner appeared on stage to say "I'd like to thank ________ for breaking my f*cking
microphone."
Thus, owing to this incident, the band incorporated the lead singer’s name into the
name of their band, and the rest is history.

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31. Breaking Benjamin

32. Q10. ID The work
It is apparent that _________ was influenced by various weapon manuals of his
period. In his most famous work, we see a number of different weapons, however
the musket is the most prominent. Three of the most prominent musketeers are
shown performing the three steps in using a musker - Loading with powder, firing
the musket, and finally cleaningthe barrel by blowing off residual powder. Their
poses match almost exactly with diagrams from manuals such as “The Exercise of
Arms”. (Images in the next slide)

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35. Night watch
By Rembrandt

36. Round 2: Only Heart Reacts for LDQ <3
Written
Some of our immediate seniors gave us questions they love!
Brownie points for guessing who set which question

37. Q1: ID X
England’s Sunday Times, responding to an anonymous tip that X was the book’s real author,
hired Duquesne University’s Patrick Juola to analyze the text of __, using software that he
had spent over a decade refining. One of Juola’s tests examined sequences of adjacent
words, while another zoomed in on sequences of characters; a third test tallied the most
common words, while a fourth examined the author’s preference for long or short words.
Juola wound up with a linguistic fingerprint—hard data on the author’s stylistic quirks.
He then ran the same tests on one of X's books plus three stylistically similar crime novels by
other writers. Juola concluded that X was the most likely author of __, since X was the only
one whose writing style showed up as the closest or second-closest match in each of the
tests. After consulting an Oxford linguist and receiving a concurring opinion, the newspaper
confronted X, who confessed.

38. Q2
The soldiers that are handed this beret are quite prominent on TV on certain
occasions, when handed a specific assignment. Although they are never quite seen
wearing this beret.
Which group of soldiers?
Image on next slide

40. Q3)
J.K Rowling isn't a big fan of country or language diversification or their stereotypes
in the book, a result of which is that most of the books have British centric
Hogwarts, except in goblet of fire, where there's the quidditch world cup and the
Tri-Wizard Tournament in which the stereotypical accents have been used.
There's one more case of rather unusual language stereotype, which only Harry
witnesses, at some part in the book. The type of entity involved in this exchange of
dialogue holds an importance in quite a few places in the plot if the books.
Give funda. Which incidence or entity am I talking about?

41. Q4)
The Telstar series ushered in a new era of space communications. A joint venture
between AT&T and NASA, Telstar 1 was the first satellite that relayed TV signals
through space across the Atlantic in 1962. Something was designed and named as
a tribute to this in a very different field, that has since gone on to become the de
facto depiction of its generic object in popular culture.
Looking at the accompanying picture, identify what object was designed as a
tribute to this iconic satellite series.

43. Q5)
In 1825 New York City had commissioned X to paint a portrait of Lafayette in
Washington, DC. While he was painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from
his father that read, "Your dear wife is convalescent".
The next day he received a letter from his father detailing his wife's sudden death
and immediately left Washington for his home at New Haven, leaving the portrait of
Lafayette unfinished. By the time he arrived, his wife had already been buried.
Who is X and what is his most famous invention?

44. Q6)
X, born in Ahmedabad in 1924, broke into the Indian test side on the back of some
fine allround performances in the domestic circuit which included a 152 against
Holkar in the 1951 Ranji final.
An off break bowler, he bowled with a jerky action, the result of a broken arm at the
age of 10. He made his debut in 1955 but his claim to fame came against Australia
in 1959 which etched his name in the annals of India cricket, something which was
not broken until 40 years later by another legend of the game.
ID X and his claim to fame

45. ANSWERS
Exchange your sheets!

46. Q1) JKR
"May the Force be with you all. And also, cheesy nachos."
Shriya

47. Q2) President’s Body Guards
KB

48. Q3) Boa Constructor saying “Adios Amigo” in Book 1
Ass-wine

49. Q4) Adidas Telstar Football
Mukund

50. Q5) Samuel Morse, Morse Code
AB

51. Q6) Jasubhai Patel
Mayank

53. DRIES II
+10/-5

54. Q11
The word 'X' originates from a French term which means lucky charm. This was
used to describe anything that brought luck to a household. The word was first
recorded in 1867 and popularised by a French composer Edmond Audran who
wrote the opera La ________, performed in December 1880.
The term is a derivative of the word '_____' meaning sorceress or witch. Before the
19th century, the word '______' was associated with inanimate objects that would
be commonly seen such as a lock of hair or a figurehead on a sailing ship. But from
then on until the present day, the term was then seen to be associated with good
luck animals, objects etc. The word is now associated with marketing

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56. MASCOT

57. Q12
Traditionally found in Arunachal Pradesh, Tapyo and its use in food is a perfect
example of the brilliance of the Aparani natives.
It is made by drying up Pila, a clear-ruby coloured liquid prepared by passing cold
water through the ashes of burnt local greens and shrubs. It pairs wonderfully with
alcohol and the Aparani’s have pinches of it with their local wine or beer.
Tapyo is used as a substitute of a certain product since it wasn’t always easily
available in Arunachal Pradesh until recently.
Name the product/item

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59. Salt

60. Q13
XY was first prepared in the kitchen of Krishna Raja Wadiar IV’s palace, by a palace
cook named Kakasura Madappa.
Madappa made a concoction of gram flour, ghee and sugar, and when asked his
name very creatively(or not) said “XY”, where the word Y means ‘sweet’ in the local
language
Give me XY

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62. Mysore Pak

63. Q14. ID the country Shown is the old flag of the Kingdom of X,
which represented the royal monarchy, which
was red, with a triple-headed white elephant,
Erawan (or Airavata) on a pedestal beneath a
parasol. This expressed the ancient name of
the country, "Land of a Million Elephants".
They waged war with Pathet Lao, who used
the country’s current flag, and were
overthrown.
To date, this remains one of only two
countries(The other being Cuba) with a
communist regime and no communist
symbolism on their flag.

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65. Laos

66. 15) What is unique about these 3 comic books?

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68. Answer : These comics made by Dan Panosian were
only made for the movie Logan.

69. 16) The following is an IMDb summary.
Id X & Y and the man responsible for us
“remembering” this incident.
In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as
two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. X, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Y stands near the edge of the
ring, warily pawing the air as X comes at him. A couple of punches land, but the fighters maintain their upright postures.

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71. Answer : X - Mike Leonard; Y - Jack Cushing; Thomas
Alva Edison/Black Maria Studios

72. 17)
The image (on the next slide) is from the movie Deadpool 2.
a) Which movie is it a reference to?
b) Which person is it a reference to?

74. Safety Slide

75. Le Miserables
Hugh Jackman

76. 18)
Looking at the video on the next slide,
a) Name the movie and the music composer.
b) X was a part of an orchestra that depicted this
piece on a global stage. ID X and tell me where this
piece was played

78. Safety Slide

79. a) Chariots of Fire
b) Rowan Atkinson at the London 2012 Opening
Ceremony

80. 19) What did Ronaldo do to counter the side-effects?
What did Lineker do?
Brazilian superstar Ronaldo was found to be overweight during Copa America 99.
Every possible way was explored to get him to drop some pounds and the team
doctor gave him a laxative named Xenical which was very effective. However, the
medicine was not without side-effects and was a source of big embarrassment for
Ronaldo and evoked comparisons with Gary Lineker at the 1990 World Cup (vs. the
Republic of Ireland).

81. Safety Slide

82. Answer : He wore a diaper.
Lineker pooped on the field.

83. Q20) The blank originates from Siberia, Japan and
China, and caused a sensation when it came to NY.
FITB

84. Safety Slide

85. Mandarin Duck