Revels 2018: Lone Wolf quiz finals

Revels 2018: Lone
Wolf Quiz
Finals

RULES
● 12 questions
● Infinite bounce +10|0, starting from 1, to 12
● Pounce +10| -5
● Prelims scores do not carry over
● Bottom 4 at the end of this round will be eliminated

Q1. Name the Literary work
The Family Guy episode “One If By Clam, Two If By Sea” involves a
subplot with Stewie trying to refine Eliza Pinchley, his new Cockney-
accented neighbor, into a proper young lady. He makes a bet with
Brian that he can improve Eliza's vocabulary and get her to speak
without her accent before her birthday party. This sub-plot is a
glaring parody of a certain Literary work, and the episode also
features the song “Life of The Wife”, another reference to said work.

Q2. What distinction does he hold?
Wataru Masaka, standing at 5’ 7”, is an American retired
professional basketball player. Born in 1923, growing up he
was a regular target of racial discrimination owing to his
ethnicity. Despite this he made it to his high school
basketball team. After high school, while many Japanese
Americans were being sent to internment camps due to
The Pearl Harbour attacks, he attended junior college at
Weber Junior College and won them two championships.
In 1947, he was selected to play for The New York Knicks,
and made history by achieving a certain distinction, which
seems rather surprising now.

He was the first non-white player to play in
The NBA

Q3. Name the characters, or the video game
thus made
In 1981, ________ attempted to purchase the license for the Popeye
comic strips in order to make a video game based on the love triangle
between Popeye, Olive, and Bluto. However, they failed at procuring
the license, and instead went with three characters in a love triangle,
who were similar in stature, but went on to become iconic in their
own right.

Q4. ID X
In 2005, at a celebration honouring Alan Greenspan, who was about to retire as chairman of the
US Federal Reserve, X delivered a controversial paper that was critical of the financial sector. In
that paper, "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?", X "argued that disaster
might loom."
The response to this paper at the time was negative, with X being called ‘misguided’, and
‘luddite’. However his views began to be seen as prescient by January 2009, during the 2008
economic crisis. X was interviewed extensively about the same for this reason in the Academy
Award winning documentary Inside Job(2010)

Q5. What is being talked about?
Other names for this include
● La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb)
● Le Rasoir National (The National Razor)
● Le Vasistas or La Lucarne (The Fanlight)
● La Veuve (The Widow)
● Le Moulin à Silence (The Silence Mill)
● La Cravate à Capet (Capet's Necktie, Capet being Louis XVI)
● Les Bois de Justice (Woods of Justice)
● La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique(The Patriotic Shortener)

Q6. FITB
In January 1967, NASA experienced its first major space age tragedy, and wanted to set up a
program on safety protocols and promote awareness about the same.
At the time, ______ , a fictional ace pilot was a household name, and was chosen by the astronauts
to be the mascot of NASA’s safety program. During the Apollo 10, which was essentially a dry
run for the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon, the modules were named after ______ and
another character from the same series. Scientist noted that the ______ module was lost and
never found, and is still floating around in space.
Through the end of the '60s and beyond, ______ has continued to be an enduring and friendly icon
for NASA — representing not only safety but also a curiosity and wonder.

Q7. What is the new nation called?/FITB
________is a group of people who have joined together to establish a new nation. They have
adopted a constitution and they intend to access outer space free of the control of existing
nations. They are in the process of electing a 150-member parliament and they plan to seek
recognition as a nation state. Their first satellite, named ________-1, was launched into space on
12 November 2017.
Legal scholars doubt that ________-1 can be regarded as sovereign territory, and The Space
Kingod of ________ has yet to achieve recognition as a nation state

Q8. ID the phrase
“X” didn't originate from that literal interpretation. Instead, the
phrase originally was used in conjunction with a type of horse race
popular in England in the 16th century.
Englishmen on a “X" would follow a lead horse that could go off in any
direction. The other riders had to follow the leader's course
accurately at precise intervals, kind of like wild _____ following their
leader in formation.

Q9. What was the purpose of this additional
connection?
The controllers of the first Xbox
console had an extra connection a few
inches off the USB plug. This was an
intentional design feature done to
solve a problem which was common
for console gamers at that time
(Although it is unlikely to happen now
owing to wireless controllers being the
norm)

To prevent the console from getting pulled
down when someone trips on the wire

Q10. FITB/ Which painter was being talked about?
One of the scenes in the 2015 sci fi film Ex Machina involves the two main characters, Nathan, and Caleb, talking about
the differences between a human and an AI while looking at a painting by a painter, whose name has been blanked out
in the script given below:
NATHAN: Look over here. You know this guy, right?
CALEB: _______.
NATHAN: _______. He let his mind go blank, and his hand go where it wanted. Not deliberate, not random.
Someplace in between. They called it automatic art.
NATHAN gazes at the canvas.
NATHAN: Let’s make this like Star Trek, okay? Engage intellect.
CALEB: ... What?
NATHAN: I’m Kirk. Your head is the warp drive. ‘Engage intellect’. What if _______ had reversed the
challenge? Instead of trying to make art without thinking, he said: I can’t paint anything unless I know
exactly why I’m doing it. What would have happened?
CALEB: He’d never have made a single mark.
NATHAN: See? There’s my guy. There’s my buddy, who actually thinks before he opens his mouth. He’d
never have made a single mark. The challenge is not to act automatically. It’s to find an action that is not
automatic. From talking, to breathing, to painting.

Q11. ID X and the name of the autobiography
X’s 2017 autobiography, titled __ _________ ___, a reference to a
critically acclaimed novel by Vikram Seth, explores his life in a
personal capacity rather than the many professional hats he has
donned over the years.
In the book, he speaks about his illustrious journey in the movie
industry, his relationships with his close friends and colleagues, and
even touches upon his childhood, where he claimed to have been
bullied for his weight issues and his effeminate side.

X- Karan Johar
An Unsuitable Boy

Q12. What did Catherine of Braganza
popularize in Britain?
Travel back in time to 1662, when Catherine of Braganza (daughter of Portugal’s King John IV)
won the hand of England’s newly restored monarch, King Charles II, with the help of a very large
dowry that included money, spices, treasures and the lucrative ports of Tangiers and Bombay.
This hookup made her one very important lady: the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
When she relocated up north to join King Charles, she is said to have packed ___ ______ as part of
her personal belongings; it would also have likely been part of her dowry. A fun legend has it
that the crates were marked Transporte de Ervas Aromaticas - although it is probably not true.
When Catherine arrived in England, __X__was being consumed there only as a medicine,
supposedly invigorating the body and keeping the spleen free of obstructions. But since the
young queen was used to sipping the pick-me-up as part of her daily routine, she no doubt
continued her habit, making it popular as a social beverage rather than as a health tonic

ROUND 2:
WRITTEN ROUND
THEME: 24 hours posters

RULES
● Identify the cities from the posters.
● 7 questions
● +5 for every right answer
● +10 bonus for getting 5 correct, an additional +10 for getting all 7 right.

Q1. Expand IPoAC, and put funda
● IPoAC is an Internet protocol which was proposed by D. Waitzman on April 1,
1990, and was described in RFC 1149
● IPoAC has been successful implemented, but for only nine packets of data,
with a packet loss of 55% (due to operator error), and a response time ranging
from 3000 seconds to over 6000 seconds. Thus, this technology suffers from
poor latency. Nevertheless, this can be used to transfer large amounts of data
by using sneakernet.
● Although collisions are unlikely, packets can be lost

IP over Avian Carriers/
They use pigeons

Q2. Which TV show?
Andrew Davenport, a writer for a certain TV show, on where he got the inspiration
for it:
“ I was fascinated by the moon landings. It struck me as funny that, at this pinnacle
of human achievement, the figures that emerged in bulky spacesuits from landing
capsules are like toddlers, with oversized heads and foreshortened legs – and they
respond to the excitement of their new world by bouncing about. So I devised
characters based on spacemen.
I wrote the scripts in a caravan on the set in which I lived for weeks on end because
I had to adapt to the capabilities of the performers – at the start, they said they
couldn't walk on grass because their costumes were too unwieldy. The worst times
were when it had been raining for days, and I'd have to set the action indoors
because it was too wet to film outside. “

Q3. Name the song and the artist
David Paich, who was responsible for the lyrics of the song ______, had in fact, never been to
______.
“One of the reasons I was in a rock band was to see the world. As a kid, I’d always been
fascinated by ______. I loved movies about Dr Livingstone and missionaries. I went to an all-boys
Catholic school and a lot of the teachers had done missionary work in ______. They told me how
they would bless the villagers, their Bibles, their books, their crops” - this is where the hook line
came from
Furthermore, Paich said that he wrote about the landscape from what he read in National
Geographic, and romanticised the lonely life of a missionary based on how he had imagined it.

Q4. What did X invent?
In the mid- 1970s, X, a teacher of design, was looking for a way to
demonstrate 3D motion to his students. One day, he found himself
looking at the river Danube, when he noticed how the river moved
around the pebbles on the river bed.
X took inspiration from this and began experimenting at his mother’s
flat with wood, rubber bands, and paper clips to make a prototype.
He decided that he needed some sort of code to give a sense of
movement to the user, and chose the simplest - primary colours.

Q5. ID X and Y
X was a quarterly journal of Southern Sudanese politics and current events published by the
Southern Sudan Association in London between 1970 and 1972. Enoch Mading de Garang was
the journal's co-founder and editor-in-chief. It was closely linked to the Southern Sudan
Liberation Movement (SSLM), the political arm of Anya-Nya, a collection of Southern Sudanese
separatist movements formed during the First Sudanese Civil War. The journal was published in
large part to generate wider support for the South Sudanese cause.
The phrase X referred to the oppression to hide the political strife in South Sudan and to
prevent it from gaining wider attention. X is meant to evoke another phrase Y which was used
to describe similar political division, and isolation between 1945 - 1991, and also evokes the
natural geography of the Sudanese region.

X- Grass curtain
Y- Iron Curtain

Q6. ID the country
Mount Lovćen makes the hinterland to the
coastal town of Kotor and has two imposing
peaks, Štirovnik; 1,749 m (5,738 ft) and
Jezerski vrh; 1,657 m (5,436 ft).
The etymology of the country it is located in is
believed to come from the dark appearance of
this Mountain and its surrounding forests
during certain times of the year

Q7. What did he create thus?
Vincent Connare, a typographer was tasked to work on Microsoft Bob, a program to make
computers more accessible for children. One of the parts of the program had a talking dog,
“Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman”, he decided and went through The Dark Knight, and
Watchmen and attempted to recreate the fonts.
“I could have scanned it in and copied the lettering, but that was unethical. Instead, I looked at
various letters and tried to mimic them on screen. There were no sketches or studies – it was
just me drawing with a mouse, deleting whatever was wrong.”, he said, “I didn’t have to make
straight lines, I didn’t have to make things look right, and that’s what I found fun. I was breaking
the typography rules. My boss Robert Norton, whose mother Mary Norton wrote The
Borrowers, said the “p” and “q” should mirror each other perfectly. I said: “No, it’s supposed to
be wrong!” There were a lot of problems like that at Microsoft, a lot of fights, though not
physical ones.”

Q8. Name the movie it first featured in
Wadi-rum is a valley cut out of sandstone and granite in
Jordan. Nowadays it is popular among Sci-Fi directors owing
to its red sand resembling that of Mars. Movies shot here
include The Martian, and Prometheus.
However, Jordan’s tourism industry kicked off when shots
of Wadi-rum featured in a historical drama in the 1960s..

X is often referred to as “___ ___ ________” outside the scientific
community. This name comes from a book of the same name by
Nobel Physics prize winner and Fermilab director Leon Lederman.
The purpose of the book was to explain the significance of the project
in lieu of funding getting cut, and Lederman initially referred to X as
the “The big goddamn ________” and reflected the same in the title.
However Lederman's editor decided that the title was too
controversial and convinced him to change the title.

The God Particle/ The Higgs Boson particle

Q10. What dish is being talked about?
The origins of this dish are disputed. One specific claim is recounted by Ali Ahmed
Aslam, A pakistani chef, proprietor of a restaurant in Glasgow:
“On a typical dark, wet Glasgow night, a bus driver coming off shift came in and ordered a
chicken curry. He sent it back to the waiter saying it's dry. At the time, Dad had an ulcer
and was enjoying a plate of tomato soup. So he said why not put some tomato soup into
the curry with some spices. They sent it back to the table and the bus driver absolutely
loved it. He and his friends came back again and again and we put it on the menu”

Q11. What caused this huge increase in
prices?
Aaron Parsons, a physicist at UC Berkley, is currently trying to upgrade his radio telescope,
called the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), to a total of 350 antennas in South
Africa. But this week, he found that the GPUs he needs to process data from all those antennas
doubled in price — from $500 to $1,000 apiece. That will cost an extra $32,000 that won’t go to
paying extra graduate student researchers.
“I kind of rolled my eyes a little bit,” Parsons tells The Verge. “I usually think of __X__ as some
kind of peripheral thing, and I was surprised and a bit annoyed to discover that it’s impacting the
bottom line of our telescope.”

Q12. What is being demonstrated?
Shown in the image in the next slide is a historical demonstration in
1887. The central “weight” is Kaichi Watanabe, one of the first
Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK. Sir John Fowler
and Benjamin Baker of Imperial College.
Fowler and baker represent the __________s with their arms in
tension and the sticks under compression, and the bricks the
__________ end piers which are weighted with cast iron.

RULES
● 6 questions
● +5 for every right answer
● +10 bonus for getting more than 3 correct
● +20 bonus for getting all 6 correct
● The answer to question 1 is connected to the answer of question
2, that of question 2 to 3’s, and so on, and finally the answer to
question 6 is connected to question 1

Q1.
"that I would like to make very clear at the very outset. Don't get carried away by
my name – _____. I am not revealing a secret, I am saying something that I have said
many times, in writing or on TV, in public...I am an atheist, I have no religious
beliefs. And obviously I don't believe in spirituality of some kind."
A lesser known fact is that X is a very vocal atheist, and even raised his two
children without any religion. His two children also have gone on to forge their own
path in The Indian Film industry, both as film directors and actors.

Q2. ID The movie
Although the movie grossed ₹1.64 billion (US$25 million) worldwide,
the rights to the story of the film was bought for a meagre sum of ₹1,
and an additional clause stating that part of the profits would go to
the author’s charitable trust.
He did this as he hoped that the story would inspire Indian youth

Q3. ID X & Y
In an interview, X warned youngsters not to try the Y, since it is difficult to do, and
that they should be focusing on the basics instead.
“I learnt it while playing Tennis ball cricket”, he said, “With a tennis ball, it works
even if it hits the toe of the bat, with a regular ball, you need to hit the centre so it’s
quite dangerous”

Q4. What famous brand was established
thus?
In the early 20th century, Mysore was the largest producer of
___________ in the world, and it was exported to Europe and from there
to the rest of the world. During the First World War, large reserves
of __________ were left over because they could not be exported due to
the war. In order to make good use of these reserves, Nalvadi
Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of Mysore established the
Government ____ Factory in Bangalore.

Q5. FITB
The painting in the next slide is titled, “The Last Effort and Fall of ____ ______”, painted by Henry
Singleton.

Q6. Which place? Why did it become
famous? (Image in the next slide)
It is believed that Lord Rama visited this place during his Vanavasa, and
settled in its rugged hills, which now known as Ramadevara Betta in Kannada.
Although the town is known for its sericulture and silk industry, being called
the Silk City of India, it is better known for its hills appearing in a famous
context in 1975.

Q1.
"that I would like to make very clear at the very outset. Don't get carried away by
my name – _____. I am not revealing a secret, I am saying something that I have said
many times, in writing or on TV, in public...I am an atheist, I have no religious
beliefs. And obviously I don't believe in spirituality of some kind."
A lesser known fact is that X is a very vocal atheist, and even raised his two
children without any religion. His two children also have gone on to forge their own
path in The Indian FIlm industry, both as film directors and actors.

X- MS Dhoni
Y- Helicopter Shot

Ramnagara
Sholay was filmed here

Q1. What did he do to prove his conjecture?
In 2009, in a tongue-in-cheek act to prove his conjecture that time
travel to the past is effectively impossible, Stephen Hawking held a
party open to all which was complete with food and iced champagne.
At the end of the party he said he had proved his conjecture right.

He sent the invites after the party.
No one showed up

Q2. What does this organization do?
During the build up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Korean businessman Moon-Sang-Ju founded
an organization to promote global harmony, and to reaffirm the fact that the world is one.
Though his organization was met with some criticism, owing to South Korea’s boisterous sports
culture which encourages hooliganism, it is 100,000 members strong and was once again
working during Pyeonchang Winter Olympics this year.
The members of this organization have learned many different languages over the years,
including Russian, English, Chinese, and Japanese.

Q3. How did the feature make the game
more challenging?
Space Invaders is an arcade video game created by Tomohiro
Nishikado and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured
and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production
in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space
Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to
defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many
points as possible.
During development, Nishikado noticed that the computer
hardware was not fast enough to render so many aliens on the
screen, thus slowing the game down when there were a lot of
aliens. However, instead of fixing this, Nishikado left it in and
hence made the game more challenging for its players.

When aliens were shot, the game would
become faster, leading to a scaling difficulty
as the game progressed.

Q4. Which work of art are these posters
inspired from?

‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ by Caspar
Freidrich

Q5. What did they accidentally create, to
enter the snack industry?
Flakall Corporation, a Beloit, Wisconsin animal feed manufacturer switched gears
to producing snack foods, all thanks to the way the company cleaned its machines.
The company’s approach to producing animal feed was to put the material through
a grinder, effectively flaking out the corn to get as much material as possible from
the grain, as well as to ensure cows weren’t chewing any sharp kernels.
The grinder did its job, but it wasn’t perfect, and periodically required cleaning to
ensure it wouldn’t clog. One strategy that Flakall workers used was to put
moistened corn into the grinder. During this process, however, something unusual
happened: the moist corn ran directly into the heat of the machine, and when it
exited the grinder, it didn’t flake out anymore—it puffed up, like popcorn, except
without the annoying kernels.

Q6. What is this cultural aesthetic called?
____________ is a cultural aesthetic that attempts to re-imagine history
as we know it and explores its themes through a technoculture and a
science-fiction lens.
Seminal works include the novels of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia
Butler; the canvases of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Angelbert
Metoyer, and the photography of Renée Cox; the explicitly
extraterrestrial mythoi of Parliament-Funkadelic, the Jonzun Crew,
Warp 9, Deltron 3030, and Sun Ra.
(IMAGES ON NEXT SLIDES)

Q7. Name the brand, and
the founder
“Made in America” is the autobiography of the founder
of one of the quintessentially American corporation of
the world.
A former J. C Penney employee and a businessman, he
promoted the idea of higher volume sales with lower
profit margins, something that is the norm in America
now in his field.

Q8. Who is the movie
based on?
This is the poster of a 2003 romantic drama film,
starring Scarlett Johannsen in the lead role.
The movie is based on a novel, which is a
fictionalized account of a now famous woman in the
17th century.

The Girl With the Pearl Earring by Vermeer

Q9. Put funda
In 1856, as a result of ignorance or the misinterpretation of the Rod of Asclepius by
the Surgeon General of The United States, there was a widespread confusion
regarding the supposed significance of ________ in the field of medicine.
Though historically inaccurate, it was formally adopted by the Medical Department
of The United States Army in 1902, stating that it should be emphasized as a
symbol of neutrality. However it was found that many medical officers were not
happy with the decision as it was chosen as a symbol of neutrality, rather than for
its medical connotations.

The Caduceus being used in medicine

The picture was taken at X’s 72nd Birthday after an event in his honour had
finished. The crowd of reporters were allowed to take photographs, and X ,thinking
the photographers would not react quick enough did something and turned away,
probably to ruin the photo, however the plan backfired.
The editors debated on whether or not to use the picture and Sasse remembers
that “Caveo Sileo, assignment editor, liked it, but the chief editor didn’t. So they
had a conference with the big chiefs upstairs. The picture got okayed, and we used
it”. Since X already had the reputation for being a bit bizarre

Q11. What were the devices used for?
The devices shown in the picture were popular from WW1 to mid
WW2(When they were rendered obsolete). Although they weren’t
very successful, it’s variants were used by many different countries
including Britain, Germany, The US and The Netherlands.
(Images on the next slide)

Aircraft detection(before radars replaced
them)

Q12 ID X.
While working in advertising, and designing book covers for Signet
Press, X couldn’t find metallic letters to go with the moods of certain
books. So, he brought in more Indian motifs and calligraphic elements
to advertising which led to the creation of four Roman fonts (___
Roman, ___ Bizarre, Daphnis and Holiday Script), and numerous new
fonts in his native tongue.

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