RVQC 2021-22 Freshers Finals

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Freshers'
Quiz
2022
Finals

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RULES
• 8 questions
• Clockwise order (1-8)
• +10/0 on bounce
• +10/-5 on pounce
• QM is Gawd
Dries 1

Q1
During the Cold War, Americans planned espionage operations
meticulously - their agents had Russian clothes, spoke the language like
natives and were equipped with the latest in spy gadgets. But time after
time they were unmasked by the KGB. This was accomplished by closely
examining the forged passports. The forged passports,held by the spies,
were made to match the genuine ones in every aspect(like print
,font,size, paper quality, watermark) but one. Next slide features the
forged Russian passport ( left) and genuine one(right). The Russian
authorities identified the fake passports based on a simple detail which
the Americans missed to replicate. Find the fault in forging.

Russians used to use cheap quality steel for their
staples. Therefore it used to rust often and they had
to tape their passports. However the American
forgeries used stainless steel which did not rust.
ANSWER

Q2
Jennifer’s husband had warned her before they got married that
taking his surname could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday
life. And sure enough, right after the wedding, problems began.
When Jennifer tries to buy tickets online, after changing her name,
she gets the error message on most of the websites. The error was “
surname field can not be blank”.
Id the surname which lead to such error.

The surname was Null.
“Null” could cause problems for software interacting with a database.
This is because the word 'null' can be produced by a system to indicate
an empty name field.
ANSWER

Q3
The episode surrounding MGM’s 1932 film, Rasputin and the Empress,
centred around the infamous Russian mystical figure Grigori Rasputin,
began the custom of displaying this particular text before every film or
show.
The trouble began when their portrayal of exiled Rasputin’s murder,
Prince Yusupov and more specifically, his wife’s, wasn’t , liked by the
Yusupovs and this prompted Irina Yusupov to sue MGM and managed
to win about $25,000.
What become a staple introduction to greet viewers, that prevents any
such recurrence?

Q4
Famous examples of prehistoric art depict scenes of animals and humans in
various hues, drawn accurately to represent the real life creature (Image in
next slide). However, in northern Spain’s Atxurra Cave, archaeologists
discovered a treasure trove of prehistoric art, named as the Ledge of Horses.
Some of these paintings differed from the norm as parts of figures seem to
overlap (Image in next slide). Moreover, archaeologists were puzzled as to why
they were drawn miles deep into the dark cave, away from the sunlight. But
when they recreated the situation to the way the early man would have been in,
by using ____, they understood as to why the figures were drawn the particular
way, with some calling the paintings, the precursor to ___.
Put funda as to what the archaeologists observed.

ANSWER
When a flickering torch is held up to prehistoric cave paintings they
appear to "move." This has led some researchers to theorize that they
were intentionally designed to create this effect, which would make them
a precursor to modern cinema.

Q5
Special in it's category, X was developed by Paul C. Fisher and his
company independently. After countless experiments, he decided to use
tungsten carbide and compressed nitrogen to cause flow of the
substance in X while in outer space. Ever since the idea was pitched to
NASA, it has been extensively used in space missions.
This particular object X also made an appearance in a 2009 Bollywood
film.
ID X

ANSWER
X - SPACE PEN OR ASTRONAUT’S PEN

Q6
On December 7, 1941, a Pennsylvania dentist named Lytle S. Adams was on vacation
in the southwest at the famed Carlsbad Caverns, home to about a million X, he had
been particularly impressed with them during his time in New Mexico. After hearing
about the Pearl Harbour incident, he plotted a very unique idea for revenge. On
January 12, 1942, he sent his plan to the White House: We could demolish Japanese
cities by strapping tiny incendiary bombs to X, which they would carry into the all
the nooks and crannies of the cities on the island. Dropped from a bomber at dawn,
the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the X, which
would then disperse and roost in eaves and attics in a 20–40-mile radius (32–64 km).
The incendiaries, which were set on timers, would then ignite and start fires in
inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper constructions of the Japanese
cities that were the weapon's intended target.
ID X

Q7
Indrajit Hazra, in his weekly ‘Red Herring’ column of the Economic Times, gave the
following account of a particular object which he found while rummaging in his
cupboard:
“ There it was, a thing from the deep past, a black rectangular enigma with curved
silver corners so smooth that Euclid would have trouble conjuring it up in a Class 12
online test even after being enabled with an off-screen cheat sheet.
Near the top of the smooth, dark-iced rectangular surface were seven silver
flattened dots, a variation of the star cluster Pleiades. Next to this gnomic symbol
was written in a slanted style, reminiscent of a time when people conducted
business over martini lunches also in a slanted style, the word : _____”
ID the object/FITB

Q8
The term "X marketing" is inspired by a synonymous strategy from another field. It
employs atypical tactics to achieve an objective and traces its origins to a book by
Leo Burnett's creative director Jay Conrad Levinson of the same name.
Opposed to such as print, radio, television, and direct mail which lose popularity,
marketers and advertisers here have to find new strategies to get their commercial
messages to the consumer. X marketing focuses on taking the consumer by surprise
to make a big impression about the product or brand. This in turn creates buzz about
the product being marketed. It is a way of advertising that increases consumers'
engagement with the product or service, and is designed to create a memorable
experience. This finds greater outreach by word of mouth and hence focuses on
impact rather than frequency. It also reduces cost for the campaign, making it easier
for smaller establishments to take over larger enterprises.
ID X.

ANSWER
X - GUERILLA
GUERILLA MARKETING

RULES
• 8 questions
• Each carries +10/0
• Answer all together and send
to the respective pounce-in-
charge
• Seplings dnot mater
Caught my eye

Q1
In 1978, unemployment was high by post-war UK standards and the
Conservatives in the opposition, hoping for a sudden election approached
Saatchi & Saatchi to come out with an iconic poster. The poster's design was a
picture of a snaking dole queue outside an unemployment office. Above it was
the slogan "X isn't working" with the phrase "Britain's better off with the
Conservatives" in a smaller text below which was a clever pun for the
situation.
The picture in the poster originally planned for 100 extras to be used for the
picture. However, only 20 volunteers from the Hendon Young Conservatives
turned up to be photographed. The desired effect was achieved by
photographing the same people repeatedly and then striping them together.
Id X

Q2
Ashok Lalla, a digital business advisor to
various brands and ad agencies, tweeted a
full page ad brought out by X in January,
2019, on its lack of readability, to which the
founder Kunal Shah replied that they will
learn from their mistakes as it was their
first ad. Id X that went on to become well
credited in bringing out some of the most
innovative ads ever.

Q3
As a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in the late
1930s,the American government brought out a series of iconic
posters to promote tourism of American national parks, all
bearing the title of See America.
Inspired by these, X brought out a similar series titled ‘Visions of
the Future’ to promote the hype behind possible space tourism.
Not going to be left behind in recent times, Y too decided to bring
out their posters for the same. Gimme X and Y (Images on slides
that follow)

Q4
After debuting to the world in 1946, the X quickly became a
symbol of Indian hospitality. But this one wasn’t demure or
subservient. In his iconic and rather ahead of time posters, the X
was out there to see the world, have fun, break a leg and even get
into trouble. In Rome, he was fishing coins out of the Trevi
Fountain, in Paris, he was peddling contraband, in Bondi, he was
ogling at sunbathers, in Kenya, he gets into some serious trouble,
while in New York, he is cosplaying as a Playboy Bunny.
Gimme X

Q5
To advertise
their twin
tipped product,
who brought
out the
following ad?

Q6
This picture was a very creative ad
campaign by McDonald’s Italy at one of
their outlets, hinting at a feature of their
restaurant.
What feature were they trying to depict
through this?

Q7
Id the subject
of this poster

Q8
Motorola's Moto X stands out amongst
its competitors in a number of ways. It is
not just another Android smartphone.
Customizable back panels and front
color tones appeal to a wider range of
users. Given below is one of their
unique ads in a magazine. Put funda as
to why this ad is unique.

Q2
Ashok Lalla, a digital business advisor
to various brands and ad agencies,
tweeted a full page ad brought out by
X in January, 2019, on its lack of
readability, to which the founder
Kunal Shah replied that they will
learn from their mistakes as it was
their first ad. Id X that went on to
become well credited in bringing out
some of the most innovative ads ever.

Air India’s Maharajah
ANSWER

Q5
To advertise
their twin tipped
product, who
brought out the
following ad?

McDonald’s was going to be “open all night
every night”. ie, 24/7
ANSWER

Q7
Id the
subject of
this poster

Colour of phone changed with
button press
ANSWER

Round 3
Fast - Track
Novel round

RULES
• 8 genres, one question in each
• Each team picks one genre and
attempts to answer
• Team with lowest points picks their
genre first and so on
• After a particular genre is picked, no
other team can pick the same genre
Fast Track

RULES
• If answered correctly, +30
• If answered incorrectly, negatives
as follows:
• First team : 0
• Second team: -2
• Third team: -4 and so on
• Last team: -14
Fast Track

India Mythology Sports Movies
Art Marvel/DC Business Technology

India
This structure is the memorial of a historical event
which had happened at this location. It was announced
during “X” held in 1911, which was held for a grand
total of 3 times in different years. Lots of money was
spent for X as it was attended by royalty and high
ranking officials. It was aimed to be a showcase of
power and might of the rulers, thus it was held at a
location which had a rich history of royalty.
The picture was taken in a park where remainders of
India’s colonial era have been placed as a tourist
attraction, but not been taken care of anymore. What
was the event , and what is X?

X - Delhi Durbar of 1911,
Event - King George V and Queen Mary the emperor and
Queen consort of the British empire announced the shift of
the capital of the empire from Calcutta to Delhi.
ANSWER

Mytho
The series has ample references and parallels to religion and myth, so it’s
not surprising that X plays a crucial element in the naming of objects.
For example, a ship in the series is called Skidbladnir, it was believed to be
so large that it could fit all the Gods in it, and the planet Harvest(from the
series) has location names derived from X.
What genre defining series is this, first released in 2001, and got its sixth
installment in 2021.
The protagonist’s armor would make you think of a weapon only meant
for the worthy.
ID the Game and X

Halo series, X - Norse Mythology
ANSWER

Sports
In 2000, Brazilian inventor Heine Allemagne developed "Spuni" (pronounced
SPOO-nee, from espuma). Its first use in a professional level was in the 2001
Brazilian Championship, Copa João Havelange.
An international patent application for "Spuni" was filed by its inventor on March
31, 2000 and the patent granted on October 29, 2002. The most common version
used today is “9-15”.
Technical details: contains water (~80%), butane gas (~17%), surfactant (~1%), and
other ingredients including vegetable oil (~2%). The liquefied butane expands when
the product is ejected. The butane evaporates instantly, forming bubbles of gas in
the water/surfactant mixture.
2011 was the first time this substance was used by national teams.
What am I talking about here?

Vanishing spray in football
ANSWER

Movies
X is a science fiction movie released in 1954.To achieve a
major and iconic sound effect they used a tar resin coated
leather glove and rubbed it along the string of a double bass.
In 2014 in the remake of X, they used dry ice sublimating on
a metal vent and dragged a large wooden crate along a
polished floor.
What feat were they trying to achieve? And ID X.

Godzilla’s roar,
X- Godzilla
ANSWER

Art
The picture (Image next slide) is a comic made in the style of a
particular famous artist.The comic is a drawing of an extremely
popular picture which can be considered as modern art, and one of
the most retweeted pictures of all time. The drawing is accurate
albeit with the phototaker being replaced by the artist and the phone
being replaced by a lobster.
This is in homage to the artist, a surrealist artist known for his bizarre
works. ID the artist and the person who he replaced in the original
picture.

Artist- Salvador Dali
Original person- Bradley Cooper
ANSWER

CU/DC
The two comic book universes came together when the two physical incarnations of their
respective universes (referred to as "the Brothers") became aware of each other after eons
of slumber (Image in next slide). To prevent the Brothers from destroying each other,
characters from each universe battled to determine which universe would survive. Access, a
character, served as a gatekeeper who became stuck while traveling between the two
universes.
When the battles were finished, neither universe was willing to go. To prevent their total
destruction, the Spectre and the Living Tribunal created an _______ universe, in which only
Access and Doctor Strangefate (the amalgamation of Doctor Fate, Doctor Strange and
Professor X) knew the truth about the merge. The two characters fought against each other
to reverse (in the case of Access) or preserve (in the case of Doctor Strangefate) the change.
Given above is the fictional origin story for X comics. ID X.

Business
A company X was started by Charles Ranlett Flint and Thomas J Watson Sr on 16th June
1911. At that time, there were few inventors who invented some technologically
advanced devices. All of them had separate companies and services.
Charles Flint merged those 4 companies into one new company called ‘Computing-
Tabulating-Recording Company’. In 1914, Thomas Watson joined the company and
brought a lot of changes and improvements to the company. In 1924, the company’s
name was changed to X.
X was one of the key companies involved with NASA in the moon landing of 1969.
X is also credited with the invention of the world’s first smartphone which was launched
on 23rd November 1992 which was designed by X and manufactured by Mitsubishi
Electric
ID X.

Tec
h
In 1990, Tom Claudell, an employee at Boeing
Computer Services Research was asked to
create a replacement for large plywood boards
with wiring instructions for each aircraft built.
Claudell and his co-worker David Mizell
proposed a head-mounted display for
construction workers that superimposed the
position of cables through the eyewear and
projected them onto multipurpose reusable
boards. Claudell and Mizell coined the term X for
this technology.
ID X.

RULES
• 6 questions
• Answer all otgether and send to
pounce-in-charge
• Points are question dependant
• Seplings dnot mater
CONNECT

Q1
From X to Y. On the occasion of Z.
Who / What are X,Y & Z?
In 1998, A topped B as the #1 box office movie of all time. In
congratulations,X bought this full-page ad in Variety, in which the
crew jumps out of the sinking ship and into the ocean of second
place. Here’s the fully-sized ad.
ID A and B as well.
+3 for each part…..+15 MAX

Q2
+20 for the overall connect…….brownies for individual posters

Q4
+20 for overall connect…..2.5 for parts

Q5
Connect the tweets to identify the event
+15 for the event…

Q6
+15 for connecting the pictures
The man on the right
appeared in an ad for a
certain product:
“If you are a buying a ____,
don’t compromise. It will
haunt you every evening.”
Despite making ‘not-so-
pleasant looking ads’ and
using negative words like
‘envy’ and ‘haunt’, the brand
struck the right chord.

X=GEORGE LUCAS,
Y=JAMES CAMERON,
Z=Titanic dethroning Star Wars as #1 Box office movie of all time.
A=TITANIC,
B-STAR WARS
ANSWER

Vatican’s Top 10 a.k.a The Ten Commandments of Music
1. Thriller by Michael Jackson
2. Achtung Baby by U2
3. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis
4. Supernatural by Carlos Santana
5. Graceland by Paul Simon
Vatican-issued list of top 10 albums of all time
ANSWER
6. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
7. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
8. The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
9. Revolver by the Beatles
10. If I Could Only Remember My Name by David
Crosby

The SEVEN DEADLY SINS
From top left : Sloth, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Envy and
Greed.
ANSWER

Overall - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IMAGES
1 HIS GRAVE .
2 HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
3 ONLY HIS ‘SECOND BEST BED’.
4 HIS WIFE ANNE HATHAWAY
ANSWER

The event.
ICC 2019 MEN’s ODI WC…..(the super over win)
ANSWER

The First picture is of a demon from japanese folklore aka “oni”,
second is the picture of the man who used to play the the green
devil in the “onida” ads.
ANSWER

RULES
• 8 questions
• Anti - Clockwise order (8-1)
• +10/0 on direct
• +10/-5 on pounce
• QM is Gawd
Dries 2

Q1
ID the game by the viewership/player count vs time graph
given below:

Q2
The 2001 movie X was said to posses many parallels with 1969 movie
______ Shome. The blank indicates the name of the protagonists in both
the movies.
Amitabh Bachchan is the narrator of both the movies, the lead actress is
named Gauri in both the movies. In addition to this the actress who
played the heroine in ____ Shome played the hero’s mother in X. Both
these films were shot in the Kutch region of Gujarat.
The initial cut of the movie X was 7 and half hours.It gained India’s
official entry into the academy awards making it the third Indian film to
achieve this feat.
ID X and FITB

X - Lagaan
ANSWER
The protagonist
of the movie
Lagaan is called
Bhuvan and the
name of the 1969
movie is “Bhuvan
Shome”.

Q3
The Global heat map, published by the GPS tracking company Strava,
uses satellite information to map the locations of subscribers to the
company's fitness service and illuminating areas of activity. Most parts
of the United States and Europe, where millions of people use some type
of fitness tracker like fitbit, show up on the map as blazes of light
because there is so much activity. However, Nathan Ruser , a student
then , noticed that the map is also detailed enough to potentially gives
away sensitive information about a subset of Strava users X. locations
where one would expect scattered pinpricks of activity, were lit up in
the map due to use of health tracking devices by X.
Identify X

ANSWER
The locations of military
personnel who were serving
in Afghanistan, Syria, Iran
etc would also light up on
the map.

Q4
A chicken gun is a large-diameter, compressed-air gun
used to fire bird carcasses (Picture on next slide). It was
capable of firing bird carcasses at up to 400 miles per
hour (640 km/h), although most tests were conducted
with muzzle velocities around 270 miles per hour (430
km/h). Put funda as to why it was developed and where is
it used.

ANSWER
Frozen Chickens are fired at really high speeds onto the windshield
of an airplane or into the rotating engine to simulate a bird strike
thus testing the integrity of the glass and the engine.

Q5
● Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers
● City guard or policeman
● Innkeeper
● Merchant/Money Changer
● Doctor
● Weaver/Clerk
● Blacksmith
● Worker/Farmer
Where in the world of sports would you come across practitioners
of the aforementioned occupations in that order, from left to right?

ANSWER
These are the
occupations of the
8 pawns on the
chess board

Q6
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the PHS
and the CDC on a group of nearly 400 African Americans with syphilis. The men were not
informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result.None of the
infected men were treated with penicillin despite the fact that, by 1947, the antibiotic was
widely available and had become the standard treatment for syphilis.The 40-year
Tuskegee Study was a major violation of ethical standards, and has been cited as "arguably
the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history."
One of the ways it came into popular consciousness was through Truth: Red, White &
Black,published in 2003, which served as source material for a popular 6 episode show
released in 2021. The character states that his regiment of African American soldiers were
given a tetanus shot by the Army, but in reality, they were trying to develop X. He was the
only one who survived the procedure making him the first Black X. (start audio at 1:19
mark upto 2:30)
ID X and the show.

ANSWER
X - Super Soldier
The show is “The Falcon
and The Winter Soldier”

Q7
John Dennis was a playwright in the early 1700s who invented a
new method for producing the sound of X for his new drama
production. Something about metal balls being rolled around in a
wooden mustard bowl. Anyway, after his play failed and was
canceled, Dennis was outraged when he found out his
“patented” technique was being used in a production of
Macbeth. Dennis was quoted saying “Damn them! They will not
let my play run, but they _______________”
Id the famous idiom/FITB.

Q8
Money makes everyone do things they might not one hundred percent
believe in and it appears that X is no exception to it true.
X’s horoscopes, drawn for Austrian nobleman named Hans Hannibal
Hütter von Hütterhofen, indicate his side-business of practicing as an
astrologer , when not trying to figure out the secrets of planetary
motion,as it was provided decent money, despite his own personal
ambiguity on the same. He is said to have once written "God provides
for every animal his means of sustenance - for an astronomer he has
provided astrology."
Id X

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