The Pounce & Bounce Round for Maiden Musings Quiz hosted at XLRI on 23rd August 2019

1. Pounce & Bounce! - 1
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+15/-10 on Pounce
+10/0 on Bounce

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3. The X Defense is a defensive tactic used by a targeted firm in a hostile takeover situation. In
a X defense, the target firm then tries to acquire the company that has made the hostile
takeover attempt. In an attempt to scare off the would-be acquirers, the takeover target
may use any method to acquire the other company, including dipping into its war chest for
cash to buy a majority stake in the other company.
X shares its name with a very popular video game.
1. Give X

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5. Pacman

6. The adjacent screengrab is from a playlist titled
X Y. The 5-word prefix X comes from a British
compilation series released by Sony and
Universal Music since 1983.
Y is a political event that gained a lot of
international press coverage in the recent past.
2. Give XY

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8. X - Now That’s What I Call
Y - Brexit

9. From the very first game in the Civilization series, through to today, X, the
supposedly peaceful Nobel nominee, has been famous for one thing: dropping
nukes.
In the original game, this was because of a bug. X was obviously given the lowest
possible default aggression score, 1, because he is a very peaceful leader. However
if a player adopted democracy, the aggression score would drop by 2 points. In X's
case, this would loop the score upto 255 due to datatype overflow, making X a
trigger-happy nuke lover. In the later games, this ironic feature for X stayed as a
tribute.
ID the personality
3. Give X

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11. Gandhi

12. During the funeral scene of Endgame everyone stands still but Mantis sways in a
rocking motion. Give Funda.
4. [Spoiler Alert] Give Funda

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14. Mantis sways in a rocking motion, behavior
typical of a mantis

15. 5. What inspired this development?
Engineer Wei Shen led a team of researchers from Monash University has
developed a low cost, efficient device which spells out your blood type almost
instantaneously and it works according the ABO system
This has led to it being used in natural disasters, where there is a lack of trained
personnel.
What inspired this development?

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17. Tom Marvolo Riddle’s First Horcrux,the
sentient diary which wrote back

18. 6. Who on what?
X answered to a question in an interview: “Therefore the A are immortal in a sense.
I had to use immortal, I didn't mean that they were eternally immortal, merely that
they are very longaeval and their longevity probably lasts as long as the
inhabitability of the Earth.
The B of course are quite obviously - wouldn't you say that in many ways they
remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be
Semitic. C are just rustic English people, made ______ because it reflects (in
general) the ______ reach of their imagination - not the ______ reach of their
courage or latent power.”
Who on what? (A,B,C - any one leads to the other 2)

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20. JRRT about Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits

21. 7) Give X
X is made by a process using ammonium ferric citrate and potassium ferricyanide. In this
procedure a distinct compound is formed and the process is also known as cyanotype. The
paper is impregnated with a solution of ammonium ferric citrate and dried. When the
paper is illuminated a photoreaction turns the trivalent (ferric) iron into divalent (ferrous)
iron. The image is then developed using a solution of potassium ferricyanide forming
insoluble ferroferricyanide with the divalent iron.
The result is a copy of the original image with the clear background area rendered dark and
the image reproduced as a white line. The image is stable. A big quality is that the dark
background makes it difficult to add new information to the print, therefore a X cannot
easily be altered
Introduction of the X eliminated the expense of photolithographic reproduction or of hand-
tracing of original drawings. By the latter 1890s in American architectural offices, a X was
one-tenth the cost of a hand-traced reproduction. The X is still used for special artistic and
photographic effects, on paper and fabrics.

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23. Blueprint

24. 8) Usually you don’t associate him as a Singer
Identify the singer.

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26. Robin Williams
In the 1980 Popeye movie

27. 9)
Four paintings are shown here. These were made in the 1920s to promote something.
Which entity commissioned the artist to paint these? Who is the artist?

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31. Norman Rockwell was commissioned by General
Electric (GE) to capture the profound change which
the new electric light brought to American life.

32. 10) What famous conspiracy theory?
The 1975 film Barry Lyndon chronicles the exploits of an 18th century Irish
adventurer. The movie required scenes to be shot in the dim light of candles
because the era in the movie preceded the invention of the light bulb. The
equipment of the time was not advanced enough to capture a clear shot in this low
light. But, the director procured new advanced cameras which allowed him to shoot
such scenes. Conspiracy theories suggest that the director got these cameras in lieu
of a project that he worked on.
Which director? What project?

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34. Stanley Kubrick filmed the Apollo 11 moon
landing

35. Pounce & Bounce! - 2
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+15/-10 on Pounce
+10/0 on Bounce

36. 11
This song by Queen has borrowed some scenes from which film?

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39. 12
The name of this film studio came from the nickname given to the WWII Italian
aircraft Caproni Ca.309. The Italian noun of the name is based on the Arabic
name for the sirocco, or Mediterranean wind, the idea being the studio would
"blow a new wind through the animation industry.” The last film made by a
founder of the studio was about the life of a Japanese WWII fighter aircraft
designer.
Which film studio? Who is the founder?

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41. Studio Ghibli & Hayao Miyazaki

42. 13)
Engineer Louis Mcmanus’ wife served as a model for it. The wings in it
represent the muse of art and the atom represents the electron of science.
This design was selected after 47 rejected ideas.
‘Ike’ was one of the names suggested for it, but was not chosen because it
was also President’s Eisenhower’s nickname.
What am I talking about?

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44. Emmy

45. 14) FITB
The _______ index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to
whether currencies are at their correct level. It has been published by that paper annually
since then . The index is published as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power
parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market
exchange rates result in a sample basket of goods costing the same in different countries.
In the _______ Index, the basket in question is a single ______ X. The ______ was chosen
because it is available to a common specification in many countries around the world.
Thus, the index enables a comparison between many countries' currencies.
It was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make
exchange-rate theory more digestible. Yet the _______ index has become a global
standard, included in several economic textbooks and the subject of dozens of academic
studies.

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48. Big Mac Index

49. 15) How were the Uruk Hai chants recorded?

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51. In a cricket match between NZ and Eng, fans were offered the opportunity to
make a cameo appearance (in audio form only) for the upcoming Lord of the
Ring film.
Peter Jackson and his sound technicians appeared at Westpac Stadium in
Wellington, NZ to lead a crowd of 20,000 rowdy cricket fans in chanting,
screaming and grunting. This was the sound used as Uruk Hai chanting.

52. 16)
● Green - severe weakness
● Red - causes faster weakness than Green. Also causes mood swings and mutations
● Anti - No effect on Kryptonians but lethal to humans
● X - Gives humans Krypton-like powers
● Blue - Works on Bizarro like Green works on Superman
● White - Kills all plants
● Gold - removes superpowers permanently
● Black - splits Superman into two - good and evil
● Pink - ?
Just give me what the Pink Kryptonite does.

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54. Turns Superman gay

55. 17) Atleast the seniors should know this :p
X paper is made from thin and lightweight "rag fibers" (nonwood plant fibers) such as flax,
hemp, sisal, rice straw, and esparto. It may be transparent, colored and flavored. It has a
high filler content and a basis weight of 18-28 g/m². Among the fillers used are calcium
carbonate to influence the permeability and color, magnesium carbonate, or titanium
oxide, Sodium potassium tartrate (Seignette salt), sodium and potassium citrate are used
as a combustion regulator in X. X needs to be permeable. Permeability is measured in
CORESTA units. US commercial X brands have permeability between 14 and 51 CORESTA
units.

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57. Rolling Paper

58. 18)
In 1991 in a small precision-molding shop in Midland, Michigan, a molding press that was
meant to turn injections of liquid Silicone into flexible, one-piece precision valves wasn't
working quite right. After days of rethinking the valve's design, Paul Brown, the shop's
owner, came up with a valve that's a little silicone dome with right-angled slits cut in its
top. When pressure was applied, the dome's slits opened like flower petals and released
the contents. When the pressing stopped, the air sucked back into the dome caused it to
retract, and the slits to close.
In addition to having big customers such as Gerber and NASA, and eventually selling his
company for $93 million, Brown's invention caused a revolution in the FMCG industry.
Where is his invention used?

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60. In Ketchup packaging
This valve was used in the upside-down ketchup bottles, to prevent
ketchup from leaking out.
Ketchup sales were stagnant until that point because it was very
inconvenient to use, but significantly increased after this upside-
down bottles were introduced.

61. 19)
In ancient days, it was observed that the shade of the tree was frequented by merchants
and traders. The tree provided a shaded place for a village meeting or for merchants to
sell their goods. The Portuguese who saw this named the tree after the local term of
merchants.
What is the name of the tree and what is the local word?

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63. Banyan trees got their name from baniya, the
term for trader in many Indian languages

64. 20) The Last Savaal
Mel Blanc is the voice artist behind famous Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny,
Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzales, Barney Rubble, Foghorn Leghorn, and bunches
more. Known as the "man of a thousand voices", he actually claims roughly 400 voices.
Based on what he worked on, can you guess what's aptly written on his gravestone?

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