This quiz was conducted at IIT BHU Varanasi on 7th February 2015 as a part of the Quizzing Championship for the session 2014-15. This is a 18+ quiz and contains adult content.
2. Finals.
⢠32 questions. 16 clockwise. 16 anticlockwise.
⢠Infinite pounce. +10/-10
⢠People who get offended with stuff like AIB Roast may leave the room.
⢠This quiz contains nudity. And dirty stuff. And unreadable books. And
unlistenable singers.
⢠Statutory warning: Sleep-deprived quizmasters are dangerous.
Especially while conducting a dirty quiz.
⢠Let the game beginâŚ
3. ⢠Shown beside is Kintyre, a peninsula in
western Scotland, in the southwest of
Argyll and Bute. The region stretches
approximately 30 miles (48 km), from
the Mull of Kintyre (subject of the song
of the same name by Paul McCartney)
in the south, to East Loch Tarbert in the
north.
⢠What unofficial âruleâ or âguidelineâ in
entertainment industry is said to involve
Kintyre?
4. Mull of Kintyre test.
⢠It was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British
Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the United Kingdom to decide
whether an image of a man's penis could be shown.
⢠The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it
depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the
vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was higher
than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland.
⢠In 2000, a BBFC spokeswoman commenting upon the criteria that the
BBFC uses for classification denied that this test existed.
5. ⢠A devil's advocate is someone who, given a certain argument, takes a
position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative
position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate or to explore
the thought further.
⢠During the canonization process employed by the Roman Catholic
Church, Aroup Chatterjee, the author of the book Mother Teresa: The
Final Verdict, testified against the late nun as a so-called devil's
advocate.
⢠However, which British-American columnist was famously asked to
testify against the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2002? Why?
7. ⢠X is the only woman in the United States known to be running an
organised crime gang. Initially trapeze artists, her group of performing
catwomen, âX and her Abrocatsâ, is unsuccessful, and so the women
train as cat burglars instead.
⢠Her group evolves into an all-lesbian organisation, based in Harlem,
known as the Cement Mixers. It is later known that X became a lesbian
after she was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 12.
⢠The Rolex GMT-Master reference 6542 is nicknamed after X.
⢠Identify X.
9. ⢠X and his ex-girlfriend, Y, an ex-Miss India and model, attracted
controversy in India, when the pair posed nude in a print ad for Z. The
social service branch of the Mumbai police had registered a case in
August 1995 after X and Y posed in the nude, wearing only shoes and
a python wrapped around them. Another case was filed under the
Wildlife Protection Act against the advertising agency for illegal use of
the python. The case lasted for 14 years, after which the courts
acquitted the accused.
⢠Identify either both X and Y, or only Z.
11. ⢠Which term was developed (and was later added to the dictionary) to
describe the famous Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy on
1st February, 2004; which has gained wide popularity since then?
13. ⢠It is a worldwide movement against victim-blaming, survivor-shaming,
and rape culture. Originated in Toronto in 2011, it started as a direct
response to a Toronto Police Services officer perpetuating rape myths
by stating âwomen should avoid dressing like ___s in order not to be
victimizedâ. The march and the issues it addresses have struck such a
chord that marches have been organized in over 200 communities in
North, Central & South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
⢠Name the movement.
15. ⢠On 6 February 2009 in an incident of moral policing a group of men
who claimed to belong to Sri Ram Sena attacked a group of women in
Mangalore, India. Later that month, Muthalik announced an action
plan to target couples found dating on 14 February, Valentine's Day. A
protest was started by a group of young women, called the â___ ___"
campaign, where they urged a peaceful protest to all of India, by
sending ___ ___ to Muthalik's office on Valentine's Day.
⢠Which famous campaign is being talked about?
17. ⢠The San Francisco Armory, also known as The Armory, is a historic
building in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. The building
was constructed as an armory and arsenal for the United States
National Guard in 1912â1914 and designed with a castle-like
appearance in a Moorish Revival style. After 1976, the building was
largely unused for the next 30 years. Who, in 2006, bought The Armory
for $14.5 million?
19. ⢠Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (now grey-haired, and
called "Lady Fairchild"), Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (now in her 20s)
and Wendy from Peter Pan (now in her 30s, and married to a man in his
50s named Harold Potter) are visiting the expensive mountain resort
"Hotel Himmelgarten" in Austria on the eve of World War I (1913â1914).
The women meet by chance and begin to exchange erotic stories
from their pasts.
⢠Name the famous novel.
21. ⢠The flatworms âfightâ using two-headed
dagger-like parts which are pointed,
and white in color. Their mating ritual
involves a violent battle during which
two hermaphroditic flatworms attempt
to pierce the skin of one another with
one of their dagger-like parts. One
organism will inseminate the other; this
flatworm becomes the father. The
sperm is absorbed through pores in the
skin, causing fertilization in the second,
who becomes the mother.
⢠What is this process called?
23. ⢠When Samuel L. Jackson pulls out his wallet in Pulp Fiction, this is what is
says on it.
⢠âNow give me back my wallet.â
⢠âWhich one is it?â
⢠âIt's the one that says ___ ___ on it.â
⢠Origin of which famous phrase?
25. ⢠X Y was a website that used hidden services available through the Tor
network. The site hosted child pornography images and videos of
underage males, females and young adults ranging up to 17 years of
age. As of June 2013, the website hosted about 1.4 million pictures.
Videos had been available on the site since November 2012.
⢠X had, even before this site, become synonymous with âa sexually
precocious child,â largely because of the two movies (one released in
1962 and the other in 1997) and the book by the same title.
⢠Identify X Y.
27. ⢠X is the name given to the rivalry between the pornographic
magazines Playboy and Penthouse during the 1960s and 1970s. Each
magazine strove to show just a little bit more than the other, without
getting too crude.
⢠The name is a pun on Y, a series of three wars fought between Rome
and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were probably
the largest wars that had ever taken place.
⢠Identify X and Y.
29. ⢠It is a beef stew for which various recipes exist, and some sources say its
ingredients may vary according to whatever is on hand. Most recipes
involve meat and offal from a calf, though, making the stew something
of a luxury item on the trail. Alan Davidson's Oxford Companion to
Food specifies meats and organs from a freshly killed unweaned calf,
including the brain, heart, liver, sweetbreads, tongue, pieces
of tenderloin, and an item called the "marrow gut" and lots of Louisiana
hot sauce.
⢠Name the stew.
31. ⢠Shown here is a short, sometimes sleeveless,
loose-fitting nightgown or negligee intended
as nightwear for women. It sometimes has
formed cups called a bralette for cleavage
with an attached, loose-fitting skirt falling in
length usually between the upper thigh and
the belly button. The garment is often
trimmed with lace, ruffles, appliques,
marabou fur, bows, and ribbons, optionally
with spaghetti straps. Sometimes it is made
of sheer or translucent fabric such as nylon
or chiffon or silk.
⢠What is it called?
35. ⢠The only name that seemed apt for this product was of the Indian god
of love, Kamaraj . But it also happened to be the name of the ruling
Congress president K. Kamaraj, thus creating a problem. The second
hunt for a name zeroed in on X, meaning protection, which was the
brainchild of an IIM student and went on to create history in the
countryâs family planning movement.
⢠It led to S. Krishna Kumar, former Union minister of state for family
welfare, who as district collector of Ernakulum in the early â70s led the
massive X campaign in Kerala, earning the nickname X Kumar.
⢠Identify X.
37. ⢠This ad ran on the day of
Barack Obama's first
presedintial inauguration
and quickly went viral.
⢠Identify the advertiser.
38.
39. ⢠During World War II, there were rumours that Hitler ordered production
of inflatable dolls with the following specifications:
⢠a)blond
⢠b)blue eyed
⢠c)large breasts
⢠The officer directly responsible for this project was S.S. commander
Heinrich Himmler.
⢠Why was it supposed to be produced?
40. For German soldiers.
⢠They were used as a tool to satisfy the sexual needs of German soldiers,
to prevent them to engage in unprotected sex.
⢠To tackle syphilis and gonorrhea in the soldiers.
41. ⢠What does the graph show?
⢠Why the sharp peak in 1977?
42. Vasectomy vs. tubectomy.
⢠The sudden rise in vasectomy was due to the compulsory men
sterilization plan by Sanjay Gandhi in 1976-77.
43. ⢠X, codenamed âCynthiaâ, was useful Britain's Secret Intelligence
Service (MI6) in1938 for her work in helping the Alies understand how
the Enigma machine was used and that Polish mathematicians were
breaking Enigma ciphers. According to a source, a love affair that she
conducted with the Italian naval attachĂŠ Admiral Alberto Lais was
especially productive and gained western Allied leaders early strategic
insight into Axis war plans in the Mediterranean.
⢠X reported to have later said about her sexually active war years,
âAshamed? Not in the least, my superiors told me that the results of my
work saved thousands of British and American lives⌠It involved me in
situations from which ârespectableâ women draw backâbut mine was
total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods.â
⢠Identify X.
46. ⢠In the early days of the film porn industry, people called âXâ were
employed by film studios to âarouseâ the male participants prior to
filming scenes. They would perform sexual acts on the actor. They were
also required to keep the actors âcleaned upâ between scenes and
were normally considered to be part of the makeup department.
While X are almost entirely a thing of the past, there are some studios
that still employ them â particularly in âgang bangâ type scenes. Digital
cameras and drugs like Viagra have removed much of the need for X.
⢠What were they called?
48. ⢠___ Condoms, a small US consumer products development company
founded by inventor Danny Resnic, began development and clinical
research of three new types of condoms in 2005. The brand has
patented the condoms made of silicone that were designed to
improve sensation from the inside rather than from the outside like
rolled latex condoms. The ___ Anal Condom, an insertable condom for
the receptive partner, is the first condom ever proposed for anal sex
protection. The brand's innovation was acknowledged in 2013 by the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York Times as the most
innovative example for reinventing the condom.
⢠FITB.
50. ⢠This magazine, best known for its topless female centerfolds, was
launched by Ashok Row Kavi and Anthony Van Braband. It was first
published in 1971, and often is known to be the Indian equivalent to
Playboy. Under editor Derek Bose, however, this magazine was
reformatted to remove nudity and target a younger demographic in
2005.
⢠Which magazine?
52. ⢠In native slang, X is used as an insult meaning roughly "pervert" or
"weirdo". The word X is a compound of two words : one meaning
"change", "weird", or "strange" and other meaning "attitude" or
"appearance". The term is usually used as a shortened form of the
phrase (X seiyoku).
⢠Identify X.
54. ⢠The Party at Kitty and Stud's, better known under the title Y is a 1970
softcore film. It was X's first film, and also his first starring role, for which
he worked two days and was paid $200. X has said in interviews that
he did the film out of desperation after being bounced out of his
apartment and finding himself homeless for several days, sleeping in a
bus station.
56. ⢠This organization became internationally known for organizing
controversial topless protests against sex tourism, religious institutions,
sexism, homophobia and other social, national and international
topics.
⢠Facebook initially blocked their page because it suspected it was
pornographic. In addition, X has displayed several provocative images
on its Facebook page, including images of X activists taking a
chainsaw to the heads of Vladimir Putin and Kirill I of Moscow, who
were depicted covered in blood.
⢠Which organization?
59. ⢠She was born on December 25, 1977 in New Delhi. She worked as a
fashion and swimwear model prior to working in the field which made
her famous at the age of 29.
⢠In June 2013, she announced her retirement from that field to focus on
her mainstream career and personal life. She is reportedly debuting in
Bollywood with an independent film project at hand. She played the
lead role of "Isis" in the mainstream horror film Isis Rising: Curse Of The
Lady Mummy.
⢠Who are we talking about?
61. ⢠According to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, X, an
11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, rode naked â only covered in
her long hair â through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a
remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his
tenants.
⢠Also, the phrase âY Zâ for a voyeur originates from later versions of this
legend in which a man named Z had watched her ride and was struck
blind or dead.
⢠Solve the variables.
63. ⢠Protima Gauri Bedi was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent and
also the founder of Nrityagram, a dance village near Bangalore.
⢠By the late 1960s, she was a prominent model. After her marriage with
Kabir Bedi in 1969 (and birth of Pooja Bedi in 1970), she again came
into the news in 1974 for doing something.
⢠What?
65. ⢠ASCII porn âsometimes typographically euphemized as âASCII pr0nââ
describes pornographic images consisting of ASCII art. Net artists in the
late 1990s returned to the form, for instance the work shown below,
named X ASCII, is a rendering of the famous 1972 movie X Y, which
shared its name with the nickname of a certain W. Mark Felt, who
became famous in a unrelated field in the same year.
⢠X Y?
67. ⢠With a brief to âbreak the internetâ, the famous photographer, Jean-
Paul Goude, who did his pioneering work in the 70s and 80s, went
through his old works and recreated a 1976 photograph of model
Carolina Burmont, which has created a recent sensation.
⢠What is being talked about?