The document appears to be a quiz with 24 questions about various topics. Some of the questions reference pop culture like movies and music, while others cover history, science, and geography. The questions are meant to be challenging and include word puzzles, riddles, and logic problems. The quiz is described as "rigged to be very fun" rather than purely testing factual knowledge.

1. Eclectiza Scibitech Quiz –
Prelims

2. • 24 questions, many two-parters.
• Internal Tie breakers.

3. • Disclaimer…
• This quiz has been rigged
• …to be very fun!

4. Q1
• Blue Curacao, Bailey’s Irish
cream and Smirnoff Creamsicle
vodka cooler topping, Molly’s
pub presents to you – the ____
___.

5. Q2
• According to the product listing,
the TwelveSouth “New X” candle
is 100% soy wax and has scents
of “mint, peach, basil, lavender,
mandarin, and sage.”
• What smell if this 24$ candle
trying to emulate?

7. Q3
• The X-breaking virus affects a certain plant, where it infects the bulb
and causes the cultivar to “break” its lock on a single colour, causing a
myriad of intricate bars, stripes, streaks, featherings or flame-like
effects of different colors. However, this also weakened the plant,
making those affected by the virus harder to find/grow.
• This virus is largely responsible for which West-European
phenomenon, an analog to which, some experts argue, we are
apparently seeing occur nowadays?

8. Q4
• What name is blanked out?

9. Q5
• A certain three-word term refers to an overarching view of the
surroundings from an elevated perspective.
• The title of Target’s webpage that documents its’ “Behind-The-
Scenes” activities, replaces the first word of the term with a certain
animal.
• What is the name of the webpage?

10. Q6
• Pugashev’s X is a demanding aerobatic
maneuver, used usually to demonstrate
the supermaneuverability of an
Aircraft, and has seen some
use in combat scenarios.
• An airplane flying at a moderate speed
suddenly raises the nose momentarily to
the vertical position and slightly beyond,
before dropping it back to normal flight. It
uses potent engine thrust to maintain
approximately constant altitude through
the entire move.
• Being a defensive maneuver, what is X,
named after an organism with a similar
iconic defence maneuver?

11. Q7
• The “Jeevan X”, made by Neelavasant Medical Foundation seeks to
repurpose what commonly-found household item in rural indian
villages, into iodine patches, to address an issue of iodine deficiency
thought to be the cause of many medical problems among rural
Indian women?

12. Q8
• Animal Ambition (released with the
subtitle Animal Ambition: An Untamed
Desire to Win) is the fifth studio album by
American rapper 50 Cent, who also
served as executive producer. The album
was released on June 3, 2014, by G-Unit
Records and Caroline Records.
• Unfortunately, this album wasn’t very
well received; As of December 2014, the
album has sold 124,000 copies in the
United States.
• However, 50 Cent took a certain business
decision back in 2014 to “stay with the
times”. Four years later, he said, “Imma
keep it real; I forgot I did that shit”.
• What was ‘that shit’?

13. Q9
• Back in the 90s, when UDP ports were assigned more freely by the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, UDP Port number 666 was
assigned for the use by which software, which, by 1995, was installed
in more computers than Windows 95?

14. Q10. What caused this specific traffic jams to
occur at the same timeframe?

15. Q11
• Historically, people of this unique profession have usually preferred a
Mercedes-Benz. The latest user, however, noted for his preference of
the practical over the flashy, seems to have preferred a Hyundai
instead, specifically one of the Santa Fe models. In addition, it is
reported that the narrow body of the Hyundai allows for guards to
stand along the car as it is driving down crowd-lined streets.
• What replacement of the antiquated sedia gestatoria are we talking
about?

16. Q12
• Since the launch of their first outlet in Pune in 2003, Jaydeep Barman
and Kallol Banerjee, IIM-Lucknow grads and co-founders of this
company, have frequently been asked about the origins of its name.
• Its name, oddly enough, was taken from that of a certain African
Nation. “We had read that it meant ‘The Land of the Incorruptible’.
That sounded nice,” says Banerjee.
• Which African Nation?

17. Q13
• Burger King thought it was being
clever when it debuted an ad last
April, where it included a two-word
phrase in front of a question asked by
this gentleman to the right.
• Burger King faced severe backlash for
this ad, claiming that this sort of
guerilla advertising was very invasive.
• In response, many Burger King haters
also vandalized its Wikipedia page so
that the ad backfires on Burger King
before a certain entity put a stop to it.
• What two words?

18. Q14
• When Yugoslavia was dissolved and renamed into Serbia and
Montenegro, it retained it's original code top-level domain (X).
Later in 2007, I.e a year after Serbia and Montenegro split and
Montenegro achieved independence, it got its own domain ( Y ).
• Id X and Y.

19. Q15
• Nestled in the western central highlands of the Sierra Madre, Paracho
is a tiny Mexican hamlet. According to legend, a priest with the
original Spanish conquerors decided locals in the village should be
taught a craft to support their economy. Thus the town and it’s 30000
inhabitants manufacture and use this object as part of their daily
lives.
• The industry, in a slump for a while now, was recently revived due to
the popularity of this object, owing to a 2017 film. Costs for these
items range from around 2,000 Mexican pesos ($104 dollars) to those
made with fine wood that fetch up to 20,000 pesos ($1,042 dollars).
• What film? What object?

20. Q16
• Joseph Dombey, A French physician and
botanist, was sent by France to negotiate with
recent-ally USA, for grain exports way back in
1793. Unfortunately, he was set upon by
pirates supported by the English government,
and his guise of being a Spanish sailor fell
apart and he was imprisoned in Montserrat,
where he died before he could be ransomed
to the French.
• Had he successfully completed his voyage by
meeting Thomas Jefferson, the two objects he
possessed in the journey may have changed
the entire world as we know it, leaving a
certain Indian neighbor to be the only
member of an otherwise already small and
exclusive club.
• What two objects?

21. Q17. Two consecutive entries of the Oxford
English Dictionary, 2015 edition. What are X and
Y?
Face
[/feɪs/] n.
(Lat: faccia)
1. The front part of a person's head from the forehead to the chin, or the
corresponding part in an animal.
2. The surface of a thing, especially one that is presented to the view or has a
particular function.
X [/feɪs/wɪð/tɛrz/ʌv/ʤɔɪ] n.
(Lat: facies gaudium lacrimae)
1. (Description of X)
2. Most popular Y
3. Means of expressing personal opinion

22. Q18
• A collaboration between which two giants
of the fashion industry?

23. Q19
• What is causing this cluster of
galaxies to look like so? What is
the nickname given to them
because of said cause?

24. Q20
• What have I blanked out? Which
line of devices would you find
this?

25. Q21
• What makes Chaprah ki Chutney,
a delicacy in the Bastar Region of
Chattisgarh, so spicy is the
presence of a certain acid in it,
due to a particularly hard-to-
obtain ingredient.
• What acid? What ingredient?

26. Q22
• The protected island had fixed visiting months, and any other time of
year had bad conditions made it impossible to climb steps up to the
areas, if the rockfalls around the time weren’t trouble enough.
Unfortunately, during the right visiting months, the film crew had to
work while being intruded by the pesky, social Fratercula arctica,
residents of the island.
• How did the director work around this problem they were facing?
• What is the name of the island?

27. Q23. A still from Futurama. What other number is
referenced most frequently in Futurama? What
are they collectively known as?

28. Q24 Jordan Mechner filmed his brother David performing certain stunts.
These videos were later rotoscoped to be the base for a realistic
animation employed in what 1989 classic which may be familiar to us?

29. Answers:

30. Q1
• Blue Curacao, Bailey’s Irish
cream and Smirnoff Creamsicle
vodka cooler topping, Molly’s
pub presents to you – the ____
___.

31. The Tide Pod.

32. Q2
• According to the product listing,
the TwelveSouth “New X” candle
is 100% soy wax and has scents
of “mint, peach, basil, lavender,
mandarin, and sage.”
• What smell if this 24$ candle
trying to emulate?

33. New Mac(book) smell

34. Q3
• The X-breaking virus affects a certain plant, where it infects the bulb
and causes the cultivar to “break” its lock on a single colour, causing a
myriad of intricate bars, stripes, streaks, featherings or flame-like
effects of different colors. However, this also weakened the plant,
making those affected by the virus harder to find/grow.
• This virus is largely responsible for which West-European
phenomenon, an analog to which, some experts argue, we are
apparently seeing occur nowadays?

35. Tulipomania

36. Q4
• What name is blanked out?

37. Steve Irwin.

38. Q5
• A certain three word term refers to an overarching view of the
surroundings from an elevated perspective.
• The title of Target’s webpage that documents its’ “Behind-The-
Scenes” activities, replaces the first word of the term with what
animal?

39. A Bull’s Eye View

40. Q6
• Pugashev’s X is a demanding aerobatic
maneuver, used usually to demonstrate
the supermaneuverability of an
Aircraft, and has seen some
use in combat scenarios.
• An airplane flying at a moderate speed
suddenly raises the nose momentarily to
the vertical position and slightly beyond,
before dropping it back to normal flight. It
uses potent engine thrust to maintain
approximately constant altitude through
the entire move.
• Being a defensive maneuver, what is X,
named after an organism with a similar
iconic defence maneuver?

41. Cobra.

42. Q7
• The “Jeevan X”, made by Neelavasant Medical Foundation seeks to
repurpose what commonly-found household item in rural indian
villages, into iodine patches, to address an issue of iodine deficiency
thought to be the cause of many medical problems among rural
Indian women?

43. Bindi.

44. Q8
• Animal Ambition (released with the
subtitle Animal Ambition: An Untamed
Desire to Win) is the fifth studio album by
American rapper 50 Cent, who also
served as executive producer. The album
was released on June 3, 2014, by G-Unit
Records and Caroline Records.
• Unfortunately, this album wasn’t very
well received; As of December 2014, the
album has sold 124,000 copies in the
United States.
• However, 50 Cent took a certain business
decision back in 2014 to “stay with the
times”. Four years later, he said, “Imma
keep it real; I forgot I did that shit”.
• What was ‘that shit’?

45. He’d asked for payment via Bitcoin for his
album.

46. Q9
• Back in the 90s, when UDP ports were assigned more freely by the
IANA, UDP Port number 666 was assigned for the use by which
software, which, by 1995, was installed in more computers than
Windows 95?

47. Doom.

48. Q10. What caused this specific traffic jams to
occur at the same timeframe?

49. Path of totality of the Solar Eclipse.

50. Q11
• Historically, people of this unique profession have usually preferred a
Mercedes-Benz. The latest user, however, noted for his preference of
the practical over the flashy, seems to have preferred a Hyundai
instead, specifically one of the Santa Fe models. In addition, it is
reported that the narrow body of the Hyundai allows for guards to
stand along the car as it is driving down crowd-lined streets.
• What replacement of the antiquated sedia gestatoria are we talking
about?

52. Q12
• Since the launch of their first outlet in Pune in 2003, Jaydeep Barman
and Kallol Banerjee, IIM-Lucknow grads and co-founders of this
company, have frequently been asked about the origins of its name.
• Its name, oddly enough, was taken from that of a certain African
Nation. “We had read that it meant ‘The Land of the Incorruptible’.
That sounded nice,” says Banerjee.
• Which African Nation?

54. Q13
• Burger King thought it was being
clever when it debuted an ad last
April, where it included a two-word
phrase in front of a question asked by
this gentleman to the right.
• Burger King faced severe backlash for
this ad, claiming that this sort of
guerilla advertising was very invasive.
• In response, many Burger King haters
also vandalized its Wikipedia page so
that the ad backfires on Burger King
before a certain entity put a stop to it.
• What two words?

56. Q14
• When Yugoslavia was dissolved and renamed into Serbia and
Montenegro, it retained it's original code top-level domain (X).
Later in 2007, I.e a year after Serbia and Montenegro split and
Montenegro achieved independence, it got its own domain ( Y ).
• Id X and Y.

57. • .yu and .me

58. Q15
• Nestled in the western central highlands of the Sierra Madre, Paracho
is a tiny Mexican hamlet. According to legend, a priest with the
original Spanish conquerors decided locals in the village should be
taught a craft to support their economy. Thus the town and it’s 30000
inhabitants manufacture and use this object as part of their daily
lives.
• The industry, in a slump for a while now, was recently revived due to
the popularity of this object, owing to a 2017 film. Costs for these
items range from around 2,000 Mexican pesos ($104 dollars) to those
made with fine wood that fetch up to 20,000 pesos ($1,042 dollars).
• What film? What object?

59. The guitar in Coco.

60. Q16
• Joseph Dombey, A French physician and
botanist, was sent by France to negotiate with
recent-ally USA, for grain exports way back in
1793. Unfortunately, he was set upon by
pirates supported by the English government,
and his guise of being a Spanish sailor fell
apart and he was imprisoned in Montserrat,
where he died before he could be ransomed
to the French.
• Had he successfully completed his voyage by
meeting Thomas Jefferson, the two objects he
possessed in the journey may have changed
the entire world as we know it, leaving a
certain Indian neighbor to be the only
member of an otherwise small and exclusive
club.
• What two objects?

61. The standard for the kilogram and metre.

62. Q17. Two consecutive entries of the Oxford
English Dictionary, 2015 edition. What are X and
Y?
Face
[/feɪs/] n.
(Lat: faccia)
1. The front part of a person's head from the forehead to the chin, or the
corresponding part in an animal.
2. The surface of a thing, especially one that is presented to the view or has a
particular function.
X [/feɪs/wɪð/tɛrz/ʌv/ʤɔɪ] n.
(Lat: facies gaudium lacrimae)
1. (Description of X)
2. Most popular Y
3. Means of expressing personal opinion

64. Q18
• A collaboration between which two giants
of the fashion industry?

65. Sabyasachi and Christian Loubotin.

66. Q19
• What is causing this cluster of
galaxies to look like so? What is
the nickname given to them
because of said cause?

67. Gravitational lensing, and…
• The Cheshire Cat

68. Q20
• What have I blanked out? Which
line of devices would you find
this?

69. • Incoming call vibration pattern,
OnePlus 5 series.

70. Q21
• What makes Chaprah ki Chutney,
a delicacy in the Bastar Region of
Chattisgarh, so spicy is the
presence of a certain acid in it,
due to a particularly hard-to-
obtain ingredient.
• What acid? What ingredient?

71. Red ants!

72. Q22
• The protected island had fixed visiting months, and any other time of
year had bad conditions made it impossible to climb steps up to the
areas, if the rockfalls around the time weren’t trouble enough.
Unfortunately, during the right visiting months, the film crew had to
work while being intruded by the pesky, social Fratercula arctica
,residents of the island.
• How did the director work around this problem they were facing?
• What is the name of the island?

74. Q23. A still from Futurama. What other number is
referenced most frequently in Futurama? What
are they collectively known as?

75. 1729, taxicab numbers.

76. Q24 Jordan Mechner filmed his brother David performing certain stunts.
These videos were later rotoscoped to be the base for a realistic
animation employed in what 1989 classic which may be familiar to us?

77. Prince of Persia!