QMQ 4/9/16

QuizMeet Quiz
4th September, 2016

Round 1 : Word/Phrase Origins
 12 questions
 Name the word/phrase
 Infinite bounce, pounce
 +10/-10 on the pounce
 +10 on the bounce

#1 X?
 Today, applying an X suggests a practical approach to problem
solving, but it was actually a violent way to settle marital
disputes.
 A judge, Sir Francis Buller, ruled that "a man was entitled to
beat his wife with a stick provided it was no thicker than his
_____", the Glasgow Herald stated in 1886.
 However, in the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins,
X is additionally defined as a method by which brewers
once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They
dipped a _____ in the brew.

#2 What’s the good word?
 The Federal prisoners of war are confined within a stockade 15
feet high, of roughly hewn pine logs, about 8 inches in
diameter, inserted 5 feet into the ground, enclosing, including
the recent extension, an area of 540 by 260 yards. A railing
around the inside of the stockade, and about 20 feet from it,
constitutes the X, beyond which no prisoner is allowed to go,
day or night, under penalty of being shot.
 Another variation, this one using the hyphenated version of the
word was used by printers – not to refer to the time to go to
press, but to describe how the press should be configured. It
was common to talk about the type “not coming outside of the
X on the press.”

#3 Two surprisingly plausible origins for a
phrase, provided by Urban Dictionary.
What phrase?
 In olden times when food was scarce, people would leave the
bones, fat and undesireable portions behind after eating their
meal. These second-rate items would be used for soup the next
day, so as such, the poor-quality leftovers would X.
 In the days of the industrial revolution and early mass-
production, assembly workers would occasionally find a
defective or out-of-tolerance part which was not suitable for
use. This part would be sent back to the smelting room to be
melted down and re-cast a second time. Since the smelting was
done in a giant ___, these defective parts had X.

#4 Phrase?
 This phrase comes from the ninth-century Ireland. When the
Danes conquered the Irish, they imposed an exorbitant X Tax on
the island's inhabitants.
 They took a census (by counting Xs) and levied oppressive sums
on their victims, forcing them to pay by threatening to have
their Xs actually slit.
 Thus, paying the tax was actually ______ _______ ___ ____.

#5 X?
 Thieves used to X to trip them. Once the victim was on the
ground, the thieves would have ample opportunity to rob them.
 Another theory has to do with executions by suspension hanging
at Tyburn in England. It’s believed that people were
occasionally hired to hang on to the victim’s ____ to give them
a quicker death.
 Suspension hanging typically results in a much slower death
than long drop hanging, and the extra weight on the victim’s X
could potentially make the rope mercifully work a little faster.

#6 Phrase?
 There is a story about it which associates it with the efficiency
of Cornish beam engines. It is said that such engines in the
Newcomen era of the eighteenth century could pump 38,000
gallons of water out of a tin mine while burning only 24 bushels
of coal.
 The idea is that the rate of talking is so great that when other
people say merely a _____ words, the speaker gets in ________.
It’s also sometimes used to describe rapid heartbeat in times of
danger, and to refer to other fast-moving or fast-changing
things (like dogs’ tails).

#7 Phrase? Usage?
 The phrase comes from the expression X meaning that the best cure
for what ails you is to have some more of it. In ancient times it was
literally used to say that if a ___ were to bite you, putting the ___’s
____ into the wound would heal it. "Like cures like".
 This remedy is not recommended because it doesn’t really work very
well but it still works about as well as most other remedies these days.

#8 Named after whom?
 A species of fungus native to Malaysia was described as new to
science in 2011. It produces X-like rubbery orange fruit bodies
that have a fruity or musky odour.
 Like an X, they will resume their original shape if the water is
squeezed out.

#9 Y is a derivative of X.
X and Y?
 X Year or Shmita, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural
cycle observed in contemporary Judaism. During Shmita, the land is
left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity—including plowing,
planting, pruning and harvesting—is forbidden by Torah and Jewish
law.
 Biblical X is a weekly day of rest or time of worship. It is observed
differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion
in several other faiths. Though many viewpoints and definitions have
arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual
tradition of "Remember the X day, to keep it holy".
 Y, from Hebrew, has now come to mean a rest from work, or a break,
often lasting from two months to a year.

 In the process of setting electoral districts, X is a practice
intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or
group by manipulating district boundaries.
 The word, used for the first time in 1812, was created in reaction
to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts
under Governor Elbridge _____.
 In 1812, Governor Gerry signed a bill that redistricted
Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. When
mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said
to resemble the shape of a __________.

Gerrymandering.
(Gerry, Salamander)

 An X is a performance in Indian classical music, especially the
Hindustani classical music, that features a duet of two solo
musicians. The word literally means "entwined twins." The duet
can be either vocal or instrumental.
 What defines X is that the two soloists be on an equal footing.
While any Indian music performance may feature two musicians, a
performance can only be deemed an X if neither is clearly the
soloist and nor clearly the accompanist. In X, both musicians act as
lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two
performers.

#12 X Y?
 The English word Y was derived, via Spanish then French, from an
Arabic word.
 X is from Florida Xs, where the fruit is naturalized. The Oxford
English Dictionary dates the first use of X Y to 1905, in an issue of
Country Gentleman, which described the fruit as "the finest on
the market. It is aromatic, juicy, and highly superior to the
_____.”
 Identify this fruit whose dessert lost out to KitKat for Android 4.4.

Round 2 : Explain the photograph
 Simple, put as much funda as you can
 5 pictures
 Write down your answers on your sheet
 Differential Scoring; 5*(no. of teams getting it wrong)
 No negatives.

Sweden switching to right-hand drive.

Round 3 : Star Wars Album Covers
 6 album covers reimagined as Star Wars characters
 Name the artist
 Write down your answers on your sheet
 +5 for each correct answer, +10 for all correct
 No negatives.

Round 4 : Dries
 12 questions
 Infinite bounce, pounce
 +10/-10 on the pounce
 +10 on the bounce

#1 Name the movie.
 X is a 1966 British Dystopian science fiction drama film based on
the 1953 novel of the same name. The film takes place in a
controlled society in an oppressive future in which a fireman,
whose duty it is to burn all literature, becomes a fugitive for
reading.
 What is so special about the opening credits of the movie?

Fahrenheit 451. The movie's opening credits are spoken
rather than displayed in type, which is a representation of
what life would be like in an illiterate culture.

#2 Scene from The Simpsons paying tribute to
which painting? By whom?

#3 X, Y, Z?
 The book X was published in the same year that Y fled the
Himalayan kingdom. It is not a political book: instead it tells the
story of ______'s friendship with a Chinese boy, whose plane crashes
in the Himalayas. When ______ goes to rescue him, he encounters
Tibetan monks and the mythical yeti - the Abominable Snowman.
 At a ceremony in Brussels in June 2006, Y presented a Tibetan butter
lamp to the Z Foundation.
 The award was accepted by Z's widow, Fanny Rodwell. Her
voice trembled slightly as she spoke.
 "We never thought that this story of friendship would have a
resonance more than 40 years later," she said.

X: Tintin in Tibet; Y: The Dalai Lama
Z: Herge

#4 What am I talking about?
 The original ships used on the packaging were the Grand Turk
and the Friendship.
 Other ships used on the packaging include the John Wesley,
Salem, Birmingham, Maria Teresa, Propontis, Recovery, Sooloo,
Star of the West, Constitution, Java, United States, and
Hamilton.

#6 This is a trailer for an upcoming AI horror/thriller
movie named Morgan. What makes it special?

#7 X?
 X is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It
appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and
exclaims, "Behold the X who takes away the sin of the world.
 This term is used generally in Roman Catholic masses. It is
thought to have originated because the ____ is most often
sacrificed. Giving rise to the term “sacrificial ____.”
 Nowadays, ironically, the phrase X is more popular as the name
of a metal band.

#8 Name the character.
 In 2010 it was discovered that male mouse urine contains a
specific component that invokes inherent sexual attraction to
the scent and which also stimulates female memory and
conditions sexual attraction to the airborne odours of the scent
owner.
 The component was named after an archetypal cold, aloof
romantic hero, the protagonist of an 1813 novel.

Filming of Van Damme’s Volvo Ad.

#10 Song by Weird Al called Bob. Funda?

Palindromes.
I, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see god?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi," I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda
Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

#11 X?
 An X is a judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards
recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no
official standing in the territory within which it resides. The term
may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who
intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations.
 The term comes from the notion of justice proceeding "by leaps“.
 In India, Khap panchayats who take decisions hastily without abiding
by the penal code are generally termed as X
 The phrase is popular in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand and
is still in common use.

#12 X, Y, Z?
 X were working on the song Y and they had recorded a work in
progress version of it. This unfinished version leaked out to radio
stations and naturally this pissed them off since they were control
freaks and they traced it back to Z.
 On April 13, 2000, X filed a lawsuit against Z. X alleged that Z was
guilty of copyright infringement and racketeering.
 This led to the shutting down of Z which is widely considered to
be the father of piracy websites.

X: Metallica; Y: I disappear
Z: Napster

#2 Name the company.
 The company X was officially formed in 2012 by the
merger of the Izhmash ___ factory and Izhvesk
Mechanical Unit. However the name X had been a
leading ‘brand’ in its particular field for almost half
a century.. The popular products of this brand
usually carry a number attached to their name
signifying their type.
 They recently underwent a change in their logo,
here’s their old one.

#3 X? What date?
 X Day was coined by Nate Bonilla-Warford, an optometrist from Tampa,
Florida on March 12, 2010. The idea came to him while "thinking about
new ways to promote his business".
 In 2010 McDonald's launched a spring pilot program that took advantage
of X Day. X users who checked into McDonald's restaurants on X Day
were given the chance to win gift cards in 5 and 10 dollar increments.
Mashable reported that there was a "33% increase in foot traffic" to
McDonald's venues, as apparent in the increase in X check-ins.

Foursquare Day.
16th April (4/16)

#4 X?
 The X effect is the tendency of a spell checker to suggest or
autocorrect with incorrect words to replace misspelled words and
words not in its dictionary.
 This term refers to the unhyphenated English word "cooperation"
often being changed to X by older spell checkers with dictionaries
containing only the hyphenated variant, "co-operation".
 X is one of the many cities that claim to be the “heart” of the
Silicon Valley.

#5 X?
 __________.com was a social network service website that
lasted from 1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts
model of social networking. It was named after the X concept
and allowed users to list friends, family members and
acquaintances both on the site and externally.
 X is also a song by The Script and the title of a 1993 comedy-
crime film starring Donald Sutherland and Will Smith.
 X also lends its name to a charity led by actor, musician and
philanthropist, Kevin Bacon.

#6 X?
 The X ISP Speed Index lists the average prime time bitrate for
content streamed to members during a particular month.
 For ‘Prime Time’, we calculate the average bitrate of content in
megabits per second (Mbps) streamed by members per ISP. We
measure the speed via all available end user devices. For a small
number of devices, we cannot calculate the exact bitrates and
streaming via cellular networks is exempted from our
measurements.
 The speed indicated in the X ISP Speed Index is not a measure of
the maximum throughput or the maximum capacity of an ISP.

Electrocuted by Edison to prove that
Tesla’s AC was dangerous.

#8 X, Y, Z?
 Y is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and
slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the
days of Heracles", and his greatest feat was killing the X, a
monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body,
and a serpent's tail.
 X has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with
parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything
composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly
imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
 In the movie Z a pharmaceutical company creates a virus called
X in order to generate a market demand for the antidote it also
created called Y.

X: Chimera; Y: Bellerophon
Z: Mission Impossible II

#9 X?
 Wheels of Zeus was a company founded in 2002 by X, which
made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical
location of enabled objects.
 The licensable technology consisted of 3 components, a Smart
Tag, a Tag Detector and an Internet-based service that could
provide the locations of said tags.
 Like many of X’s ideas, it was a bit ahead of its time. It’s
just that the nascent wireless technology wasn't quite
reliable enough for his ideas.

Wheels of Zeus = WoZ
X: Steve Wozniak

#10 X and Y?
X
 Window from a glass
 Step
 Clock Radio
 iPod
Y
 Window from a glass
 Step
 Cannot afford
 iPod Mini

#11 X: Borat; Y: Nursultan Tuliagby (his
neighbour)

#12 Give the two word term X.
 One of the ironies of being a startup is that when you are small
no one can put you out of business but you. Paradoxically, as
your revenues and market share increase the risk of
competitors damaging your company increases.
 Often the cause is the inability to grow the startup past the
worldview of its founders
 Manuel Molano of the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, a
think-tank, calls this a X syndrome in which firms prefer to stay
small than to grow, mostly because of tax and regulation.
“It’s easier to fly under the radar when you are microscopic,”
he says.

#13 X?
 The X technique is a fictional aversion therapy administered by a "Dr.
Brodsky" at the X medical facility. It involved forcing a patient to
watch, through the use of specula to hold the eyes open, violent images
for long periods, while under the effect of a nausea-, paralysis-, and
fear-inducing drug. The aim of the therapy was to condition the patient
to experience severe nausea when experiencing or even thinking about
violence, thus creating an aversion to violent behaviour.
 In the film, he is conditioned only against Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
“X" is the Italian equivalent of the German name "Ludwig"; it is possible
the name was selected for this reason.
 A image of this technique from the film adaptation is now a popular
stock photo for internet memes.

Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.

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