The Prelims Round for Maiden Musings Quiz hosted at XLRI on 23rd August 2019

1. Prelims – The Answers
It is always good to know the correct stuff.

2. • X means Om, a sacred sound and symbol. According to Hindu mythology, it is said
to be Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva all together. It is also one of the names of Lord
Vishnu, the 409th Name as per the Vishnu Sahasra Nama. X is also the
(almost)name of a recent Bharat Ratna recipient.
• Y is the commonality among below pictures
1) ID X and Y

3. X- Pranav & Y- Roshan
Your Quiz Masters for today :p

4. 2) Gimme X.
The word X is derived from the Greek and Latin word Y, meaning “study of the true
sense”.

5. X - Etymology, Y - Etymologia

6. A artist describes the inspiration for his painting, X, as follows:
“One evening I was walking along a path, city was on one side and the fjord on the
other- the sun was setting, and the clouds turned blood red. I sensed a X passing
through nature; it seemed to me that I had just heard the X. I painted this picture,
painted the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. This became X”
3) Give X, a very famous Painting

7. Scream

8. In the words of Barney from HIMYM -
“The XY (aka the Bridesmaid Paradox, Sorority Girl Syndrome, and for a brief window in
the mid-90s, the Spice Girls Conspiracy) is when women appear hot as a group, but not
individually. The minute you start pulling them out of the group, their flaws are too
horrible to ignore.”
4) Give XY

9. Cheerleader effect

10. 5) Give X or the first phrase of this law for half points.
X signed a confession to the rape charge on forms that included the typed statement: "I
do hereby swear that I make this statement voluntarily and of my own free will, with no
threats, coercion, or promises of immunity, and with full knowledge of my legal rights,
understanding any statement I make may be used against me."
The prosecutors convicted X, based on the above written confession.
However, after several appeals, this decision was overruled by the Supreme Court bench,
stating that no confession could be admissible under the 5th Amendment ______ clause
and 6th Amendment ______ clause.
This led to beginning or officializing of something known as the X’s rights.

11. X - Miranda Rights
or
“You have the right to remain silent.”

12. 6) Give X, Y and Funda
X had a good weather on this particular day and so Kokura was saved.
After some days, the weather at Kokura was bad and so it was saved again but Y
wasn’t that lucky.
From this, the phrase “Kokura Luck” has come to mean the avoidance of some
great misfortune.
What is the misfortune that Kokura avoided. Give Funda.
Also give X and Y.

13. X – Hiroshima Y – Nagasaki
• Little Man’s primary target was Hiroshima, backup target was Kokura.
• Fat Boy’s primary target was Kokura, backup target was Nagasaki.
Kokura was the backup target for the "Little Boy" on August 6, 1945, so if
Hiroshima had been clouded over, the first atomic bomb would have been
dropped on Kokura.
Kokura was the primary target for the "Fat Man" on August 9, 1945, but on
the morning of the raid, the city was obscured by clouds and smoke. Since
the mission commander Major Charles Sweeney had orders to drop the
bomb visually and not by radar, he diverted to the secondary target,
Nagasaki.

14. 7) Gimme the Actor
This actor’s inputs influenced many things about his character, including most of
the character’s background story, his womanizing ways and his stupidity. This
character wasn’t originally meant to be stupid but the actor felt that bringing in
such a trait would connect better with audiences and it did. His character went
on to become famous for his stupidity. Later a spin-off was also created by the
name of the character but that didn’t do as well as the original.
Give me the actor.

15. Joey
Matt LeBlanc

16. 8) Give X, a name which all of us are familiar with
The name X originates from the late 17th century in London, when a literary
club met at a pie shop owned by pastry chef Christopher Catling. The group
was called X club and took its name from an abbreviated version of the
owner’s name.

17. KitKat

18. X is an ancient form of torture practiced by the Chinese, in particular the courts of the Han
dynasty. Chinese X was a punishment for nobility since it left no marks and a victim could
recover relatively easily and quickly.
9) Give X

19. Tickle Torture

20. 10) Give X
The original company came into existence in 1872 in Switzerland, when Julius took over his
father's mill. He quickly became a pioneer of industrial food production, aiming to improve the
nutritional intake of worker families. Julius was the first to bring protein-rich legume meal to
the market, and followed up with a ready-made soup based on legume meal in 1886. In 1897,
Julius founded the company X GmbH in the German town of Singen, where it is still based
today.
In parts of China, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Mexico,
Malaysia, Brunei, German-speaking countries, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Poland and France, “X” is still synonymous with the brand's “X- Würze" (in Spain and
Mexico, it is sold under the name Jugo), a dark, hydrolyzed vegetable protein-based sauce
which is very similar to East Asian soy sauce, except it does not actually contain soy.
However in India and Malaysia, X is synonymous to a completely different thing. One of the
most popular brand ever in India.

21. Maggi :D

22. 11) Give X
• X is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes
used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music,
the term X more properly denotes a particular music style that evolved out of the
earlier genres ska and rocksteady.
• The 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists X as a word that can
mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row“.
• Bob Marley is said to have claimed that the word X came from a Spanish term for
"the king's music“.

23. X - Reggae

24. 12) ID the blank

25. Zorro

26. 13* Give the conferred name
Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both left and right
appendages (such as the hands).
Who in Indian mythology is famously ambidextrous and what name is conferred
to said person due to that?

27. Sabyasachi.
Arjun was also known as Sabyasachi.

28. 14*
Andhra sugars Ltd. is not your everyday sugar company. What is so special
about them?

29. Andhra Sugars Ltd. supplies rocket fuel (liq. H2) to
ISRO

30. 15) What first?
X’s earliest example can be dated back to 1948 when “The Cathode Ray amusement
Device” was patented by Thomas Goldsmith and Estle Mann.
It was an analog device that allowed the user to control vector drawn dot on a screen to
simulate a missile to be fired on the target.
This was never marketed nor sold to the public, but was patented
What concept, a very big in the tech world, is being talked about here ?

31. The Video Game
This the first video game to be ever made !!

32. 16) Give X
X is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the
creation and distribution of eBooks“. It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and
is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts
of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-
lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any computer. As of March 2014,
X claimed over 45,000 items in its collection.
The name of this undertaking might be as a tribute to an individual who did
something in the 1400s which helped immensely in spreading of knowledge. Which
these people hoped their undertaking would do in today's world.

33. Project Gutenberg

34. 17)
In 1825, painter Samuel M. received a letter from his father through a horse
messenger that informed him of his wife's bad health. The next day he received a
letter from his father detailing his wife's sudden death. But in spite of leaving
immediately, by the time he arrived, his wife had already been buried. This inspired
him to build the concept of what standard of transmission of data, one may even
call rhythmic in nature?

35. Morse code

36. 18) A very generic trait, which is not that common
This extremely generic word, _______, means fluid/moisture in Latin. It was initially used
to represent the four essential fluids according to Greek medicine, blood, phlegm, black
bile and yellow bile. It was believed that the imbalance in these liquids is the reason for
different personality traits, thus you express the personality which is based on the excess
of one of the liquids.
Later on, Shakespeare incorporated characters in his plays which prominently had one of
these traits. Following him, a lot of playwrights of the Elizabethan era often incorporated
such characters, but those characters often went to extremes. Thus, the plays were called
_______ plays because of this hyperbole and thus, _______ later became a personality
trait of its own.
ID this trait, some sense of which was all (are recommended to) have.

37. Humor/Humour

38. 19) FITB
Kintsugi, also known as Kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by
mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered _____, a
method similar to the maki-e technique. This is to symbolize that even broken objects
arent worthless and can be made worthy

39. Gold

40. 20) What is Pula, we have seen in fair abundance recently
The official currency of Botswana is called Pula. The people of Botswana named it
themselves; to indicate something which was very precious to them. What is the meaning
of Pula?

41. Rain