General Quiz hosted by Sumit Katre and Snehil Mishra for Spectra, ECE student council of NIT Goa.

1. SPECTRA QUIZ
QM: Snehil Mishra
Sumit Katre

2. Rules:
◦The Quiz will consist of 3 Rounds, 27 Questions
◦Each round will have it’s own specific set of rules
◦Quizmaster’s decision is final

3. Basic Quizzing Terminology
◦ Infinite Bounce : Assume the direct question is to Participant 1, the
question is passed until Participant 4 answers. The next direct
question goes to Participant 4. (Assuming clockwise)
◦ Pounce : If a question is meant for Participant 1 but if other
participants believe that they know the answer then they can pounce
on that question by sending their answers on chat to the host before a
stipulated time.

4. Round 1:
◦12 Questions
◦Clockwise Rotation, Infinite Bounce
◦+10 for a direct answer(No negatives)
◦+5 for Bounce(No negatives)

5. Q1.
◦ The influenza pandemic from 1957 to 1958 was caused by the H2N2
virus. The total death count of this short, yet impactful pandemic was
1.1 million deaths recorded Worldwide.
◦ During this period there was a huge demand of eggs in USA.
Government had to import eggs from overseas to cover the heavy
demand.
◦ Why was such a huge demand of eggs at that period?

6. Safety Slide:

7. Ans:
◦ Eggs are used to produce influenza
vaccine

8. Q2.
◦ _ _ _ _ _ is a book by James Bowen that later adapted into a film by the same
name in 2016.
◦ _ _ _ _ _ is about a stray ginger cat, Bob, that changes the life of James Bowen, a
homeless London street musician and recovering drug addict.
◦ The title is a spoof of a play by Tennessee Williams.
◦ FITBs.

9. Safety Slide:

10. Ans:
◦ A street cat named Bob
◦A streetcar named Desire (play)

11. Q3. FITB
◦ A United Kingdom-based company named ‘My Baggage’ has
launched a very bizarre product which is needed for all those who are
stuck at home in this lockdown.
◦ The official website says, “We are offering Brits living overseas the
chance to buy authentic ___ from the UK to remind them of home."
◦ What product did they launch?

12. Safety Slide:

13. Ans:
◦ Air

14. Q4.
◦ In the mid-90s, Pfizer, currently in the news for Corona vaccine,
synthesized Sildenafil (compound UK-92,480) at Pfizer's Sandwich,
Kent, a research facility in England. It was initially studied for use in
hypertension (high blood pressure) and angina pectoris (a symptom
of ischemic heart disease).
◦ Now it sold under a different brand name, a brand that stood the
test of time. Which brand?

15. Safety Slide:

16. Ans:
◦ Viagra

17. Q5. Identify X.
◦ X was formed in founded on 26 April 1903 by three Basque students. These
founders saw the new club as a youth branch of their childhood team Athletic
Bilbao. X and Athletic Bilbao used to buy Blackburn Rovers' blue and white
kits in England.
◦ In late 1909, Juanito Elorduy, a former player and member of the board of X,
went to England to buy kits for both teams but failed to find Blackburn kits to
purchase; he instead bought the red and white shirts of Southampton. X adopted
the red and white shirt but opted to keep their existing blue shorts whereas the
Athletic Bilbao switched to new black shorts.

18. Safety Slide:

19. Ans:
◦ Atletico Madrid

20. Q6. Give X.
◦ The term possibly originated from The X, a horse race in England, founded by
the 12th Earl of X in 1780. The 19th Earl has since claimed the X name was
originally only given to one other sporting event: Rugby league fixtures between St
Helen’s at one end of the family's Knowsley estate and Wigan at the other.
◦ The other theory involves Shrovetide football, an early, unofficiated version of both
association and rugby football. Since the 12th century, two teams from opposite
sides of the river that runs through the town of Ashbourne in X play a game called
the Royal Shrovetide Football Match.

21. Safety Slide:

22. Ans:
◦ Derby

23. Q7. ID X
◦ "Hova" Hova, short for J-Hova, is a play on the word Jehovah, the
Hebrew word for God. X has called himself the "god" of rap. In his
"Rhyme No More" he states, "They call me J-Hova cause the flow is
religious."
◦ X’s gift for rhyming and ability to craft songs in a matter of minutes could
be seen as some as a gift from God. According to MTV, X doesn’t even
write down lyrics to his songs before recording them.
◦ Who is X?

24. Safety Slide:

25. Ans:
◦ Jay Z

26. Q8. Give X.
◦ X was founded as a steel trading company on 2 October 1945 in Ludhiana. It was
originally named as & Muhammed by brothers Harikrishnan and
Jayakrishnan and Jagdish Chandra along with Malik Ghulam Muhammad.
◦ After India gained independence, Muhammad emigrated to Pakistan and became
Pakistan's first finance minister. Hence its name was changed to X.
◦ They eventually saw a business opportunity in expanding into manufacturing and
selling larger MUVs and started assembling under license of the Willys Jeep in India.

27. Safety Slide:

28. Ans:
◦ Mahindra & Mahindra

29. Q9. Give X.
◦ Fabbrica D’armi Pietro X SpA Italian-based manufacturer of sporting, military,
and personal firearms, one of the world’s oldest industrial enterprises. The
founder of the business, Bartolomeo X, was known as a maestro da canne, or master
gun-barrel maker, for the republic of Venice.
◦ The X was adopted by the United States Military as their service pistol in 1985. X
is said to be most appearing pistol in the movies. X was John McClain’s choice in
the “Die Hard” films, it was modified and stylized even more for use by the
Clerics in “Equilibrium”, it was carried by Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon.

30. Safety Slide:

31. Ans:
◦ Beretta

32. Q10.
◦ In 1965, Chinese regime had accused Indian army of stealing ‘X’ from a Tibetan
near the Sikkim border. China wrote letter demanding the ‘X’ back from India or
warned the country to stay on toes for a war.
◦ To protest this, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was then a
member of the Parliament marched in front of Chinese embassy in Delhi with
‘X’ carried placards saying, “Eat me but save the world”.
◦ Accusation of stealing what?

33. Safety Slide:

34. Ans:
◦ Sheep

35. Q11.
◦ Samuel Langhorne Clemens used different pen names before deciding on “
“. He signed humorous and imaginative sketches as "Josh" until 1863.
Additionally, he used the pen name "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass" for a series of
humorous letters.
◦ He maintained that his primary pen name came from his years working on
Mississippi riverboats, where two fathoms, a depth indicating water safe for the
passage of boat, was a measure on the sounding line.
◦ What was his primary pen name?

36. Safety Slide:

37. Ans:
◦ Mark Twain

38. Q12.
◦ This is a political cartoon depicting "disunited state" of the colonies, originally
published by the Gazette on May 9, 1754.
◦ By whom?

39. Safety Slide:

40. Ans:
◦ Benjamin Franklin

41. Round 2: Pounce Round
◦6 Questions
◦+10/0 for Direct
◦+5/0 for Bounce
◦+10/-5 for Pounce

42. Q1. Connect
(Exhaustive list.)
Allan Border
Anthony de Mello
Sourav Ganguly
Naimur Rahman Durjoy
Sunil Gavaskar
I.A.K Pataudi

43. Safety Slide:

44. Ans:
◦ Cricketers after whom Test series trophy
played by India are named.

45. Q2. What distinction this movies hold?
1. The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
2. Tiefland (1954)
3. Pakeezah (1972)
4. Boyhood (2014)
5. Mughal-e-Azam (1960)

46. Safety Slide:

47. Ans:
◦ Movies which took longest to make

48. Q3.
◦ They called it Backrub because the program was analyzing the internet’s
“back” links to understand how important websites were and what other
sites they were related to.
◦ By 1997, they had decided that the name wasn’t good enough. They began
to brainstorm different names with their team of Stanford officemates and
finally came up with the name X.
◦ What is X?

49. Safety Slide:

50. Ans:
◦ X- Google

51. Q4. FITB.
◦ Originally named after city's name, this ground was renamed in 1974
in honor of the former Libyan leader following a speech he gave at
the 2nd Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in favor of
Pakistan's right to pursue nuclear weapons.
◦ Which stadium?

52. Safety Slide:

53. Ans:
◦ Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

54. Q5.
◦What word for a "penetration agent", "deep cover agent", or
"sleeper agent" used in espionage jargon was coined by
British author John Le Carre in his 1974 novel, Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy?

55. Safety Slide:

56. Ans:
◦ Mole

57. Q6.
◦ Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi popularly known by his stage name X,
was an Indian actor who acted in around 300 films. It was Guru Dutt
who gave him the name X. Because of his brilliant portrayal of
certain character which he would go on to do lot in his career.
◦ Id X.

58. Safety Slide:

59. Ans:
◦ Johnnie Walker

60. Round 3:
◦9 Questions
◦Anti-Clockwise Rotation, Infinite Bounce
◦+10 for a direct answer(No negatives)
◦+5 for Bounce(No negatives)

61. Q1.
CONNECT

62. Safety Slide:

63. Ans:
◦Ryan Reynolds

64. Q2. CONNECT (OTHER THAN THE OBVIOUS ONE).
IT’S A NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST.

65. Safety Slide:

66. Ans:
◦Match Group Companies.

67. Q3.
What unique feat have these movies achieved?
◦ The Godfather
◦ Vertigo
◦ Boyhood
◦ Notorious
◦ Citizen Kane
◦ Rear Window
◦ Casablanca
◦ Three Colors: Red

68. Safety Slide:

69. Ans:
◦ Metascore of 100

70. Q4. Id X and original movie director.
◦ X is a TV series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley with the same name as
movie-verse it is based upon. The directors of original film were impressed by
Hawley's script and agreed to be named as executive producers. As with the original
film, each episode begins with the superimposed text:
“This is a true story. The events depicted took place in [location] in [year]. At the request of the
survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it
occurred.”
◦ As with the film, this claim is untrue. Showrunner Noah Hawley continued to use the
movie director's device, saying it allowed him to "tell a story in a new way".

71. Safety Slide:

72. Ans:
◦ Fargo
◦Coen Brothers

73. Q5.
◦ Graph depicts a new formula
given by scientists, y=16ln(x) +31.
◦ This study debunked the idea that
y=7x.
◦ What is x and y?

74. Safety Slide:

75. Ans:
◦ X- Dog Year’s
◦Y- Human Year’s

76. Q6. Give X and Y.
◦ X was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall
of the Aztec and Mayan Empire and brought large portions of what is
now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early
16th century.
◦ Y was a second cousin of X. Twelve years after X conquered the
Aztecs, Y did the same to the Incas (present day Peru). Both separately
brought down the two most powerful empires in the New World at that
time.

77. Safety Slide:

78. Ans:
◦ X- Hernán Cortés
◦Y- Francisco Pizarro

79. Q7.
◦ Dadaria (Chhattisgarhi: ददरिया) is one of various types of folk-songs
or field-songs of the state of Chhattisgarh in India. In the late 1980s,
the singing of these songs by any man before a woman or women in
private were socially unacceptable due to intimate language of these
songs which had developed mostly as 'question and response' between
a male-female duet.
◦ A famous song ___ _ _ from the movie Delhi-6 has been adapted
from a Dadaria.
◦ Which song?

80. Safety Slide:

81. Ans:
◦ Sasural Genda Phool

82. Q8. Give X and Y.
◦ In Indian subcontinent X is a very famous delicacy. It was introduced to
medieval India by Persian invaders. X is made with a fermented batter of
all purpose flour and yogurt.
◦ Y is a variation X. Y originated in the Mughal kitchens in Fatehpur Sikri.
Prince Jahangir was bored of having the regular delicacies and demanded
that he wants to eat something new. One cook remembered about dish X
from Persia. The cook gave it a twist and added the Indian urad dal and
deep fried it in oil and soaked it in sugar syrup.

83. Safety Slide:

84. Ans:
◦ X- Jalebi
◦Y- Imarti

85. Q9.
◦ The Mahabharata narrates the story of a hunter who becomes an
instrument for Krishna's departure from the world. The hunter Jara,
mistook Krishna's partly visible left foot for that of a deer, and shot an
arrow, wounding him mortally.
◦ After Jara realized the mistake, while still bleeding, Krishna told Jara, "O
Jara, you were "A" in your previous birth, killed by myself as ____ in Treta
Yuga. Here you had a chance to even it and since all acts in this world are
done as desired by me, you need not worry for this".
◦ Identify A.

86. Safety Slide:

87. Ans:
◦ Vaali

88. THANK YOU
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