Lot of the Things (General quiz) prelims 2019, Quitzkrieg, the annual quizzing festival 2019 under Pulse 2019, AIIMS New Delhi Set by Munavvir, Pravar and Sathvik

2. Quitzkrieg ‘19

3.  ______ Bundo, also known as Bunny of the
United States (BOTUS), is a rabbit belonging
to the family of Mike Pence, the 48th and
currentVice President of the United States.
When Pence asked about his price, his
previous owner said: “____ __ __ _____"This
inspired him to name the bunny after X.
 ID X

5.  Researchers opine that X probably suffered from
hypothalamic obesity. Somnolence is present in 40%
of cases.The presence of hyperphagia and obesity are
obvious pointers to the same since X is known for
insatiable appetite.The presence of sham rage in
hypothalamic obesity also fits X. X once famously
drank two thousand pitchers of water. Polydipsia is a
well-known feature of diabetes insipidus, which in
turn is a part of hypothalamic obesity.The fatigue of X
can be attributed to his low metabolic rate and lack of
growth hormone, thyroid hormone and
gonadotropins.
 ID X

6.  Kumbhakarna

7.  What is being
shown here?

9.  The Inuits are known for their cool-headedness
and usually top the list in cultures with gentle
parenting. Inuit parents have an array of stories
to help children learn respectful behavior. It
helps them form good habits and prevents
temper tantrums.There's one story of the X,
which helps kids learn to keep their hats on in
the winter. "Our parents told us that if we went
out without a hat, the X, coming from the sky
are going to take your head off and use it as a
soccer ball”
 What is X?

11.  Though red colour has the least scattering as it
has the highest wavelength, the lateral
peripheral vision of yellow is 1.24 times greater
than the red colour. So even if a person is not
looking straight, he can spot yellow.Yellow can
also be spotted even in the rain, fog and dew.
 This is the reason why a certain service is
traditionally associated with the colour yellow.
 What is this service?

13. FITB

15.  "Let's Call theWholeThing Off" is a song
written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
for the 1937 film ShallWe Dance.The song is
most famous for its “You like X And I like Y.”
 In the song this difference between X and Y
serves to identify class differences. However
the modern idiom that alludes to this line, in
fact, is used to imply that such differences are
trivial and immaterial. ID X and Y

16.  Pot-ay-to, Pot-ah-to/Tom-ay-to,Tom-ah-to

17.  In August 2015 the management of a certain
museum in X had installed mist sprinklers to
cool the air near the entrance of the museum.
 Tourists from a certain country Y found this
installation distasteful and highly insensitive.
A tourist from Y said that he was shocked
when he saw the “showers.”
 ID X and Y.

19.  X- Auschwitz
 Y- Israel

20.  A Piranha Plant, known as Packun Flower in
Japan is a leafy, green stalk toppedVenus
Flytrap with a white-spotted red or green
globe and sharp teeth reminiscent of
piranhas. Piranha Plants usually grow in
pipes, but sometimes they may also simply
stick up from the ground.
 Where would you have seen these plants?

22.  X was developed for the adult entertainment industry as
a cash alternative payment system for performing
anonymous transactions. X allows consumers of adult
entertainment to perform transactions without using
any personally identifiable information. X also benefits
adult businesses with zero chargebacks and freedom
from dealing with traditional financial institutions.
 ID X (a pun on the name of the most well known
alternative payment network)

24. Following slides show few paintings from Desi painter
Bhaskar Chitrakar’s ____ - _____ series , the art style being
inspired from a school of painting which originated in 19th
century West Bengal in the vicinity of aTemple dedicated
to a goddess , thus the school sharing it's namesake with
the temple.
The second inspiration is quite obviously a Mexican artist ,
and the series aims to give colourful representations of
women beyond common gender stereotypes.
Pick the correct words from the 2 inspirations and arrive at
the alliterative title of the series.

28.  A Metasyntactic variable is a specific word or
set of words identified as a placeholder in
computer programming.These words are
commonly found in source code and are
intended to be substituted to be applicable
to the specific usage before compilation.
 ID this programming language that uses
'spam' 'ham' and 'eggs' as variables and give
the reason for the usage of these words.

30.  Python
 Monty Python’s Spam
and eggs sketch

31.  Vespertilio 2:522.
 Eptesicus 4:203.
 Myotis 5:464.
 Barbastella 4:455.
 Artibeus 4:196.
 Tadarida 5:057.
 Macrotus 7:358.
 Antrozous 3:599.
 Nycteris 4:2510.
 Molossus 4:4911.
 Corynorhinus 5:0412.
 Lasiurus 7:27
 This the soundtrack of
a 2005 movie.
 ID the movie and give
the funda behind the
names of the tracks.

32.  Batman Begins
 All track names are genera of bats

33.  Gotham by Gaslight was a steampunk
graphic novel by BrianAugustyn and Mike
Mignola. Set in the 19th century, it follows
BruceWayne becoming Batman while X, a
serial killer is wreaking havoc in Europe.
 Jackson Pollock was widely noticed for his
technique of pouring or splashing liquid
household paint onto a horizontal surface.
Based on his painting style, give me a three
word nickname which is a play on X.

35.  Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, andVirginia San Fratello, an assistant
professor at San José State University in California, came
up with the idea to build something(s) across the Mexico-
USA border in 2009.It finally came to life at an event on
July 29 in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where a slatted
border fence separates it from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
According to Rael, "The wall became a literal fulcrum for
U.S.-Mexico relations and children and adults were
connected in meaningful ways on both sides with the
recognition that the actions that take place on one side
have a direct consequence on the other side, “What did
they build across the border?

37.  Vanitas: X Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987) is
an artwork created by Canadian Jana Sterbak,
first displayed at Montreal's Galerie Rene Blouin.
As suggested by the title, the work is considered
within the genre of "vanitas", a category of art
showing death and decay.The work included
either $260 or $300 worth of X, as of its 1991
showing. A pop culture event in 2010 hadY
wearing a dress whose similarity to the artwork
was pointed out by many critics.
 Who isY and what is X?

39.  Meat Dress
 Lady Gaga

40. At AuctionArt Paris, this weapon — has sold for
€162,500 ($183,000).The rusty, 7mm pocket
revolver was found by a farmer in a field in the
northern French village of Auvers-sur-Oise in the
1960s. It was passed down through the family
before later being put up for auction and
eventually displayed at the ___ ____ Museum in
2016.
For which disputed task - the lead up to which
was beautifully portrayed in a 2017 experimental
animated film, was this weapon used?

43.  Identify these 2
sportswomen,
represented as the
twins fromThe
Shining

45.  Where does the Potassium -
Kazakhstan joke come from?

47.  In a catalog assembled for the 2014Venice
Biennale what is referred to as “the
architectural space in which bodies are
replenished, inspected, and cultivated, and
where one is left alone for private reflection -
to develop and affirm identity.”?

49.  So ____ came in [to the audition], and I didn’t know who he was, I’d never
heard of him in my life before. [So] in the audition, like an actor sits in a
chair, [and] I’m here and you’ve got a camera and you read the lines
and… but ____ just jumped on the furniture. He leapt on the chairs, he
went on the floor, he was coughing up – he said he’d based his audition
on his cat, coughing up fur balls. I mean he was leaping over the backs
of the chairs and the tables, and stuff went flying, and he was doing
all the physicality. I was kind of a bit of taken aback, right?This guy’s
pretty over the top. But what ____ was doing, in his own clever way, was
he was saying, without saying it: ‘Guys, I can give you a performance,
not just the voice. I can actually be ______.'”
 This is a visionary filmmaker talking about the audition for a certain
character ,which led to give us one of the best performances (though the
man behind it is underrated imo) of all time, and the actor becoming a
specialist in these kinds of performances.
 Identify the role.