1st Monthly Quiz

1. Quanta
presents its first monthly
‘hv’
QM: Sahil H. Ramchandani

2. Rules
• In case of any doubt in the questions, ask the
QM only.
• Discuss with all the team-mates first and then
gimme one answer only. In case of multiple
answers, the first answer will be taken.
• The decision of the QM shall be final.
• Don’t forget to enjoy the quiz.

3. Round 1-Alphabet Soup
+5 for every correct answer
No negatives

4. A-I
A was a renowned physicist from B. A and his son Aage
were both winners of the C Prize. A won the prize in
1922,whereas his son won the same in 1975.A was a
passionate D player as well. A and his younger bro, Harald
played several matches for Akademisk Boldklub (Academic
D Club),which is a club based in the capital of B. Harald
became a mathematician and an Olympic D player and
represented B’s national team at the 1908 Summer
Olympics in E. An interesting thing to be noted is that one of
A’s sons F (brother of Aage and nephew of Harald) also
represented B in the 1948 Summer Olympics, which was
held in E for the second time. He played a different game
though, which was G. F was named after a renowned
physicist F I(I is the surname),who was a friend of A and
hailed from an island country H. Both A and I have elements
named after them in the periodic table.

5. J-Q
So, Harald and F were uncle-nephew Olympian duo. J(uncle)
and K(nephew) were also an uncle-nephew duo. Both of them
were also winners of the C prize. Interestingly, they had won it
in the same field as A and his son, Aage. J and K were
originally from L. G is believed to be the national sport of L.
The National Sports Day of L is the birth anniversary of a
renowned G player, M. M was a member of the gold-winning
Olympic G team from L in 1928,1932,1936.The nickname of M
was “The N”. “The N of O” is a 1939 American musical fantasy
film produced by MGM and the most well known and
successful adaptation of the 1900 novel “The wonderful N of
O” by L. Frank Baum. O is a word that is informally used to
refer to a person of a particular nationality. O is also an
abbreviation of a unit of mass in some systems of
measurement. 1 O = 0.0625 P. The abbreviation of P comes
from the ancient Roman unit of mass ‘Q’.Q in Latin means
scales/balance and is also a zodiac sign.

6. R-Z
The symbol of the scales is based on the Scales of Justice
held by R, the Greek personification of divine law & custom. R
was among the first generation of twelve Ss. The first twelve
Ss were sons & daughters of T(mother) and U(father).S is also
one of the moons of V. T,U and V are all planets. V is called
“the planet with Ws”. Also, the W circuit (aka W final circuit) is
an electrical wiring technique developed and primarily used in
the country whose capital is E. The W in the circuit starts at
the consumer unit, visits each socket in turn, and then returns
to the consumer unit. Hence the name W circuit. X(father) and
Y(son) hail from this country. They are both winners of the C
prize. An interesting thing to note is that X won the prize for
showing that Z were particles, whereas his son Y won the
same for experimentally showing that Z showed wave-like
behaviour too. A and I were both notable students of X. Gimme
26 (A-Z).

7. ANSWERS ON NEXT SLIDE

8. ANSWERS
A-Neils Bohr
B-Denmark
C-Nobel
D-Football
E-London
F-Ernest
G-Hockey
H-New Zealand
I-Rutherford
J- C.V.Raman
K- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
L-India
M- Dhyanchand

9. ANSWERS
N-Wizard
O-Oz
P-Pound
Q-Libra
R-Themis
S-Titan
T-Earth
U-Uranus
V-Saturn
W-Ring
X-J.J.Thomson
Y-G.P.Thomson
Z-Electrons

10. Round 2
 Infinite Bounce
+10/0
 Pounce
+20/-10
 3 Pounces per team
 No pouncing on direct questions
 Clockwise
 Wait till the pounce is closed in order to
answer directly.

11. 1.
I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not
even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland
dormitory ________ is open on my desktop and some of
these people have pretty horrendous ________ pics. I
almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures
of some other people and have people vote on which is
more attractive.
—9:49 pm
Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are
going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever
be sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of
comparing two people together.
—11:10 pm
Let the hacking begin.
—12:57 am

12. 1.
This was written on
28 Oct 2003.
Whose blog is this?

13. A1-Mark Zuckerburg

14. 2.
X is a horizontal line used in mathematical
notation. It may be placed over a
mathematical expression to indicate that it is
to be considered grouped together, or
alternatively it may function as a binary
connective between arguments appearing
above and below it.X is Latin for "bond",
"fetter", "chain", or "tie", which is roughly
suggestive of some of the uses of the symbol.
X was developed in the 12th century by the
Moroccan mathematician Abu Bakr al-Hassar

15. 2.
X can be used to express division. The
numerator appears above X and the
denominator beneath it. Vulgar
fractions are a common special case of
this usage.
Identify X.

16. Answer
Vinculum

17. 3.

18. 3.
Identify this famous
author.

19. Answer 3.
Stephenie Meyer

20. 4.
1.How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy
lectures involving quantum mechanics!
2.But a time I spent wandering in bloomy night;
Yon tower, tinkling chimewise, loftily opportune.
Out, up, and together came sudden to Sunday rite,
The one solemnly off to correct plenilune.

21. 4.
The previous slide contains examples of a
style of writing.
There is also a full-length novel that has
been published using the same style of
writing.
Identify the style of writing/language or
give me the funda.

22. Answer 4.
Pilish
The letters in the consecutive words
are the same as the digits of π(pi).

23. 5.
X is a mythical creature.In Greek tradition, it has the
haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the
face of a woman. She is mythicized as treacherous and
merciless. Those who cannot answer her riddle suffer a
fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are
killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.Unlike the
Greek X which was a woman, the Egyptian X is typically
shown as a man (an andro X). In addition, the Egyptian
X was viewed as benevolent in contrast to the
malevolent Greek version.
What is X?

24. A.5-Sphinx

25. 6.Name the person for whom this
one is made.

26. A.6-Satnaam Singh

27. 7.
X was the youngest of four brothers,born
in Consett, County Durham, England.His
parents were Eric, a farmer and company
director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge), who
married on 29 June 1945. His three older
brothers were Paul, who died as an
infant, Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist who
narrowly lost the United Kingdom
Independence Party leadership election in
2000, and Rupert.
His film career began with a supporting part in
the 'unofficial' James Bond movie Never Say
Never Again (1983) .

28. 7.
We know him due to his role as the
protagonist of a famous British sitcom,which
he had himself co-created and co-written
and which ran from 1 January 1990 to 15
December 1995.
The character was originally developed by X
while studying for his master’s degree at
Oxford University.X describes the character
as “a child in a grown man’s body”.
Gimme X.

29. A.7-Rowan Atkinson

30. 8.
He was born to S.Nair and Savithri Devi on 6th February
1983. He has one elder brother and a sister. His brother
Dipu Santhan owns a music company in Kochi and his
sister Nivedita is a television actress in Kerala.His
brother in law,Madhu Balakrishnan is a famous South
Indian playback singer.
Even he is quite famous(or rather,infamous!),but in
another unrelated field altogether.
Identify.

31. A.8-S.Sreesanth

32. 9.
“ I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming
again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It
will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I
don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty
has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they
must go out together.’”
He was born just after Halley’s comet appeared in
1835, and he died of a heart attack one day after
it appeared at its brightest in 1910.So who said
the above in the year 1909 ?

33. A 9.
Mark Twain

34. 10.

35. 10.
She was born on 2 February 1952 and is the eleventh and
current President of South Korea. She is the first woman
to be elected as President in South Korea, and is serving
the 18th presidential term.
Name her.

36. A.10
Park guen-hye

37. 11.

38. 11.
What is the symbol of NSS based on?

39. A.11
The giant Rath Wheel of the world famous Konark Sun
Temple (The Black Pagoda) situated in Orissa, India.

40. 12.

41. 12.
He (c. 1758 – December 8, 1831) was an Irish architect,
best known for designing the White
House in Washington, D.C.
Who is he?

42. A.12
JamEs hoban

43. 13.

44. 13.
His full name is Osama bin
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.
What does ‘bin‘ in his name stand
for ?

45. A.13
Son of

46. Round 3
 Infinite Bounce
+10/0
 Pounce
+20/-10
 Three pounces per team
 No pouncing on directs
 Anti-clockwise
 Wait till the pounce is closed in order to
answer directly.

47. 1.
In 1833,Samuel Hunter Christie published
his 'diamond' method in a paper on the
magnetic and electrical properties of
metals. However, the method went
unrecognised until 1843, when X proposed
it, in another paper for the Royal Society.
Although X presented it as Christie's
invention, it is his name, rather than
Christie's, that is now associated with the
device.
What am I referring to?

48. A.1
The Wheatstone Bridge

49. 2.
Natalie McDonald was a young Canadian fan
of X and suffered with a terminal illness,
leukemia. A friend of her mother's wrote
to the creator of X to ask her to write to
Natalie. The creator did not receive the
letter until after a holiday, and though
admits to fearing it was "too late", wrote
back only to find out from Natalie's
mother that she had passed away. Then
the creator decided to honour the girl by
a mention in X.
What’s X?

50. A.2
Harry Potter
Her name was mentioned in The
Goblet of Fire.

51. 3.Identify the Organisation

52. A.3
The United Federation Of Planets

53. 4.
In layman’s term the X effect refers to people doing
certain things because other people are doing
them, regardless of their own beliefs, which they
may ignore or override. The perceived "popularity"
of an object or person may have an effect on how
it is viewed on a whole. For instance, once a
product becomes popular, more people tend to
"get on the X" and buy it, too. The X effect has
wide implications.This effect is noticed and
followed very much by youth, where for instance
if people see many of their friends buying a
particular phone, they could become more
interested in buying that product.
Identify X.
(Pic on next slide)

54. 4.

55. A.4
Bandwagon

56. 5.
1."Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (dear old queen,
referring to Queen Victoria)
2,"Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (customary to kiss)
3.”The Lord is a shoving leopard." (a loving shepherd)
4."A blushing crow." (crushing blow)
5."A well-boiled icicle" (well-oiled bicycle)
6."You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." (lighting a
fire)
7."Is the bean dizzy?" (Dean busy)
8."Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to
another sheet." (Someone is occupying my pew. Please
show me to another seat.)
9."You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted
a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town
drain." (You have missed all my history lectures. You
have wasted a whole term. Please leave Oxford on the
next down train.)
10."A nosey little cook." (cozy little nook).
Identify the speech error.

57. A.5
Spoonerism

58. 6.
In 1996, the Minister of Railways
changed the name of V.T.
station to Chhatrapati Shivaji
Terminus in honour of the
great Maratha
king Chhatrapati Shivaji.
Name the Minister.

59. A.6
Suresh
Kalmadi

60. 7.

61. 7.
His name is Jeffrey “Jeff”
Preston Bezos.
He is an American entrepreneur.
What is his claim 2 fame?

62. Answer 7.
He is the founder and
CEO of Amazon.com
(Look at the
background)

63. 8.
"For me, being ___ has been my favorite year of my life. I
like all the possibilities of how you're still learning, but
you know enough. You still know nothing, but you know
that you know nothing. You're old enough to start
planning your life, but you're young enough to know
there are so many unanswered questions. That brings
about a carefree feeling that is sort of based on
indecision and fear and at the same time letting loose.
Being ___ has taught me so much.”Being a close friend
of actresses Dianna Agron and Selena Gomez, she has
dedicated “___” to them.
Which age in her life is the singer talking about?

64. A.8 22

65. 9 – Identify this creature

66. A.9.
Thestral

67. 10 – Connect these prime ministers

68. 10.
TL: Yitzhak Rabin,5th PM of Israel
TM: Golda Meir,4th PM of Israel
TR: Julia Gillard,27th PM of Australia
BL: Janet Jagan ,PM of Guyana from 6 March 1997 to 19
December 1997
BM: David Ben-Gurion,1st PM of Israel
BR: P.J.Nehru,1st PM of India
What’s common to them?

69. A.10
All of them are atheists

70. 11. Identify the company

71. Answer 11.
Xerox

72. 12.
Identify the band

73. Answer 12.
The Barenaked Ladies

74. 13.

75. 13.
This is the first Google Doodle
ever.
It was made in August 1998 when
the company was in its infancy.
Why was it made?

76. A.13
In honour of the Burning Man
festival of 1998. It was
designed by Page and Brin
themselves to notify the
users of their absence in case
their servers crashed.

77. THE END
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