Across The Universe Quiz @IIM Kozhikode

Quizmaster: Kshitij Kapoor
Atharva
IIM Kozhikode

During the time of the Crusades the members of a certain
secret Muslim sect engaged people to terrorize their
Christian enemies by performing murders as a religious duty.
These acts were carried out under the influence of hashish,
and so the killers became known as X , meaning eaters or
smokers of hashish. X evolved into the word Y.
The word Y derives it’s meaning from the very act
mentioned above of murdering, looting et al
Mention X or Y.
Question 1

The name of this Japanese City means little beach. Around
2006, the city inhabitants and the administrations noted that a
certain person was gaining widespread international
popularity and thus decided to associate with the person. It
sent that person a set of the city’s famous lacquer chopsticks, a
DVD about the city and a letter wishing him the best. As the
person became even more popular in early 2008, it began to
organize parties, posters and T-shirts in support.
Why the association ? Give Funda.
Question 2

The city is called Obama. This was the time when Obama’s
Presidential campaign was on in the United States of
America

The author Larry Niven, in a 1973 English novel written by him
describes a free transfer booth that could take any one
anywhere on Earth in milliseconds. The plot centers around a
television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent
role in inciting a post-robbery riot in Los Angeles, seeks to
independently investigate the teleportation system for the
flaws in its design allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur.
The free transfer booth and the incidents that occur have
served as the originating source of a phenomenon which of
lately has increasingly gained popularity in India & abroad.
What ?
Question 3

• Has a degree from M.I.T in Electrical Engineering.
• Works for a company named “Path-E-Tech
Management”.
• Made about 10 Million dollars by investing in stock
options for a company called ZYMED, spent the entire
fortune on a "Cray 9" Supercomputer.
• Invented a new data encryption program called P.H.B.
Question 4

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals Then something
happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to
talk. We learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas,
enabling human beings to work together, subdue the impossible . Mankind's
greatest achievement have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures
by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes will become
reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are
unlimited. All we need to do is to make sure that we keep talking.
The above piece was written and spoken by an eminent person in a British
Telecom Television advertisement. However, what made it more popular was a
certain X done by Y. The portion blanked out in red was used entirely in X, and
the text portion blanked out in yellow was taken as the title of X. (The portions
blanked in black have been done so as they would have been a distinct help
towards working out answer)
Mention either X or Y.
Question 5

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals Then something
happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to
talk. We learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas,
enabling human beings to work together, subdue the impossible . Mankind's
greatest achievement have come about by talking. And it's greatest failures
by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes will become
reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are
unlimited. All we need to do is to make sure that we keep talking.
Talked by Stephen Hawking, the starting blanked-by-red part of this piece was
used in Pink Floyd’s song Keep Talking
Hence,
X is the song Keep Talking
Y is Pink Floyd

• This company initially used to sell soap and
baking powder. In 1892 to increase sales they
began packaging something with each can of
baking powder. In time this thing became
more popular than the baking powder itself.
• They had the first product with a Barcode
• Give me the company.
Question 7

Osama Bin Laden with his 21 siblings

• Whose vital stats are 19-19-19?
Question 9

• X was asked many times during his career why he
chose the number Y. Finally on November 3,
1993, he gave an answer :
“ The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had
to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I
chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen,
Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my
desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘Y will do’. I
typed it out. End of story. ”
• He described his choice as 'a completely ordinary
number. In fact it's the sort of number that you
could without any fear introduce to your parents'.
Question 10

• X – Douglas Adams
• Y - 42
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

• The whiteface is the highest status in the X hierarchy and
the oldest of modern X archetypes. When whitefaces
perform with other X, they usually function as the straight
man, or the leader of the group.
• Accompanying whiteface is another X character known as
an auguste or red X. The augustes are the ones who’re
generally clumsy and repeatedly get themselves into
accidents.
• The character X adopts an eccentric character of some
type, such as a butcher, a baker, a policeman, a housewife
or hobo. When working in a traditional trio situation the
character will play "contre-auguste" (2nd, less wild auguste)
and can side with either of them.
Question 11

• Club Name: _. _. _. _. _.
• Office Bearers:
– Great Grandiose Dictator-for-Life, The Ruler Supreme,
The Fearless, The Brave, The Held-high-in-esteem,
_______ the Bold.
– First _____ and El Presidente, The delight of all
cognoscent.
• Meeting Location: Clubhouse in Garage, Tree
Fort, Box of Secrecy
• Official Anthem: “Oh, _._._._._., best club in the
cosmos...”
Question 12

• After the end of the Second World War, there was an
increase in birth rates. In May 1951, Sylvia Porter, a
columnist for the New York Post, used the term ____
to refer to the phenomenon of increased births in post
war America. The generation born between 1940s and
1960s are referred to as the ____ ____ Generation.
Question 13

• Mary Quant ran a popular clothes
shop in Kings Road, Chelsea, London,
called Bazaar, from which she sold her own
designs. In the late 1950s she began
experimenting with clothes, culminating in the
creation of the _________ in 1964—one of
the defining fashions of the decade. Quant
named the dress after her favourite make of
car, the ________.
Question 14

• Market Street is the central street of _____, the
location of several big shops including Bombay Anand
Bhavan and Truth Printing Works.
• Kabir Street is the residence of the elite, while Lawley
Extension is a new upcoming lane housing the rich and
the influential. Ellmen Street, home to the oil-mongers,
is the last street and beyond it lies the river Sarayu.
Other streets include Grove Street and Kalighat Lane.
Between Ellmen Street and the river lie Nallappa's
Grove and the cremation ground. The Untouchables
and sweepers live on the lower banks of the river.
Question 15

The following interesting events happened after the release of
something
• The number plate of a certain Volkswagen Beatle with the
number LMW 281F was repeatedly stolen
• In 1986, the very car was sold at auction for £2,530 and in
2001 was on display in a museum in Germany
• Paul Cole, an American fond of travelling, much to his surprise
became popular worldwide
What is being discussed ? / Give Funda.
Question 16

The events happened after the release of Abbey Road, the Beatles
11th album in 1969. The iconic cover image shown above had the
mentioned Volkswagen Beatle & Paul Cole in the background

• There are many recorded instances of the this, originally known as
the backslide. Similar steps are reported as far back as 1932, used
by Cab Calloway.
• The origin is the pantomime exercise "Marche sur place" created by
mime masters Etienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault and first
recorded on film for Children of Paradise in the 1940s.
• In The French mime artist, Marcel Marceau's famous "Walking
Against the Wind" routine Marceau pretends to be pushed
backwards by a gust of wind.
• On a different note, a NASA astronaut called Eugene Cernan of the
Apollo 17 mission, was the last to do this.
Question 17

• X was born in the kitchen of a Italian
restaurant named “Mama Leoni”.
• He immediately ate all the pasta and
lasagna in sight, thus developing a love
and obsession for lasagna.
• He is pessimistic, sadistic, cynical,
sarcastic, sardonic and a bit obnoxious.
• He also makes snide comments, usually
about his owner’s inability to get a date.
Question 18

• The MIT students calculated my speed to be
around 1046 km/sec, about 3000 times the
speed of light. The total load weight involved
in my transfer is 321000 tones. 214000 living
organisms of the same species are involved in
my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to
reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting
822.6 destinations per second. Who or what
am I?
Question 19

• I Met my best friend Ajit Banarjee under the
Alias Atulchandra Mitra
• My Wife’s Name Satyaboti
• I love My Newspaper Dainik Kalketu with chai
and biscut
You guys used to love me... I think you still do ?
Question 20

• Jim Wesley was a drummer who worked with X in his club
gigging days (1980-1981). But he later quit the band to go and
sell carpets because there was no money to be made as a
musician back then.
• Jody Perpick is a Canadian former musician and current Sound
Engineer for X . He got married almost at the same time when
Jim Wesley had quit the band. Perpick was once a part of X's
group during his early days but quit to concentrate on the
Sound Equipment for X as he achieved success.
Question 21

Jimmy Quit…
Jody got married…
I shoulda known we’d never get far….
Oh when I look back now..
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice….
Ya - Id always wanna be there….
Those were the best days of my life…
Back in the Summer O’ 69
Bryan Adams

• Crystal City in Texas has erected a statue in the
city centre to honor the most famous
consumer for an agricultural product. Crystal
City is known as the ____ Capitol of the
World.
• The Plaque in the statue reads:
– “This statue is erected in tribute to Elzie Crisler
Segar”.
• Who is this consumer & what is the product?
Question 22

• They are referred to by their numbers, indicated on the
tags seen on the chests of their distinctive orange or red
shirts. The three most common numbers are 176-167,
176-671, and 176-761. In fact, no digits other than one,
six, or seven appear on their tags. They live in a small
tumbledown hide-out.
• They have been known by these numbers since their
childhood, and they don't even know their real names
themselves.
• They have almost identical personalities. 176-167 is very
fond of prunes.
• Who am I talking about?
Question 23

• According to Google these are the top 10 searched women
on the internet.
• Avril Lavigne
• Paris Hilton
• Miley Cyrus
• ____________
• Britney Spears
• Rihanna
• Beyonce
• Madonna
• Kesha
• Lady Gaga
Question 24

• For his contributions to the development of quantum
electrodynamics, X was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro
Tomonaga.
• X assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a
member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger
disaster.
• X was a keen popularizer of physics in both his books and lectures,
notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's
Plenty of Room at the Bottom.
• Freeman Dyson once wrote that X was "half-genius, half-buffoon",
but later revised this to "all-genius, all-buffoon". Name X.
Question 25

___________________________ X 2
Just another blunder
Just another lousy call
Just another clap of thunder
And apologies ring hollow
From the guilty in Whitehall
And there's no hint of sorrow
Just the whitewash on the wall
Just one man dead
And nothing is gained
Nothing at all
And Jean Charles de Menezes remains
___________________________
During a 2011 tour, this artist added the above para to an existing, iconic song
while it's live performance. The para refered to an unfortunate event which had
happened in London some years ago .
The title of the song and the blanks are the same. Fill in the blanks
Question 26

This paragraph was included to criticize the London Police role
in the Jean Charles de Menezes killing. He was a Brazilian man
shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the
London Underground by the London Metropolitan police, after
he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the
previous day's failed bombing attempts.
Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd

• The author titled his book "Four and half years
of Fighting against lies, stupidity and
cowardice" - the publishers, knowing better,
thought the title outrageously long and funny,
and suggested ______ -_______ instead.
Question 27

• Originally created in the town of Athani which
is located 150 Kms from Belgaum on the
border of Maharashtra. This thing made from
buffalo skin, was spotted by a trader from
Mumbai and was marketed under the name of
a different town to mask the place of origin.
Soon the changed name became the defacto
name by which this thing began to be called.
What are we talking about?
Question 28

• The word X is a shortening from Ancient Greek word meaning
"something imitated", and it was coined by the British evolutionary
biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)as a concept
for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of
ideas and cultural phenomena.
• Proponents theorize that X may evolve by natural selection in a
manner analogous to that of biological evolution.
• X do this through the processes of variation, mutation,
competition and inheritance, each of which influence it’s
reproductive success. Xs spread through the behaviors that they
generate in their hosts. Xs which propagate less prolifically may
become extinct, while others may survive, spread and (for better or
for worse) mutate. Give X.
Question 29

• The first few parts center around a pair of commandos named Bill
Rizer and Lance Bean (who were originally modeled after action
movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, both
icons during the 1980s) who fought against alien invaders that
attempted to invade the Earth by infiltrating their planet in the
distant future of the 27th century.
• Voiceovers were done by a local Los Angeles DJ Hollywood
Hancock, but scrapped later in production due to budget overruns.
• The original part had them fighting against the Red Falcon
organization at the Galuga islands, while the next part dealt with
the alien's possession of the GX Army in South America.
• What is being talked about here?
Question 30

• Katherine Mayo, a racist american author wrote a
book in 1927 in which she talked about the weak
sexuality of Indian males which lead to
masturbation, rape, homosexuality and
premature pregenancies. She questioned India's
nationalistic leaders, treatment of women etc. as
well. Years later, a movie was created with the
same title, the makers saying their work was 'a
challenge to this book, in an attempt to evict
from the minds of the people the scurrilous work
that is Miss Mayo's book'. What work?
Question 31

Question 33
"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same ________
______________________________
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
______________________________
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
______________________________

It all started with a BIG BANG!!

• It is an edible fruit produced by any of several
species in the Rubus genus of the Rosaceae
family. The fruit is botanically termed an
aggregate fruit.
Question 34

BlackBerry
• Mike Lazaridis is the Founder and Vice
President of Research In Motion

• The creator’s comments on this have been
faithfully recorded: ``I worked on the
details... gave him a shock of black hair
eternally dangling over his right eye. I made
him clutch a rather over-worked bristling -----
---- in one hand...''
What am I talking about?
Question 35

Gattu, the Asian Paints mascot

• Shown above is Paolo Uccello's depiction of Saint George
and the Dragon, c. 1470. The painting is regarded as a
classic illustration of a situation X. X has also entered
colloquial English and is a commonly used phrase to
describe a certain case/situation. What ?
Question 36

• Which common phrase (prevalent with respect
to corporate & business meetings) originates
from the Dilbert comic strip shown above ?
Question 37

Powerpoint Poisoning/Death by ppt
• The criticism of slide-based presentations referring to a
state of boredom and fatigue induced by information
overload during presentations such as those created by
the Microsoft application PowerPoint

• He founded the quiz club at St. Stephens, New
Delhi in 1970s. He stood for union elections
under the slogan “_______ ________, Jeetega
Zaroor” and went on to officiate as the
president of the college union. Who ?
Question 38

• The name Olympic Goal is used to describe a
particular type of goal in football. The name is
derived from a goal by the Argentine player
Cesáreo Onzari against the then Olympic
champions Uruguay at Buenos Aires on October
2, 1924. The legality of this type of goal has been
questioned. The most famous instance of this was
Celtic's 1950's midfielder Charlie Tully whose
goal was disallowed by the referee. However he
scored again almost immediately and this time the
goal was allowed. How is the goal scored?
Question 39

Scored directly from a corner kick

• Name: __________
• Identity/Class: Human/extra-dimensional hybrid, armed with advanced
technology
• His Job: Defender of the Earth and the spaceways.
• Affiliations: Agent of the World Government
• Enemies: The 12 criminals viz Teja, Vikal, Morpho, Computo, Mohini,
Paras, Gravito, Kineto, Sonic, Venom, Durgati, Chhalasur
• Known Relatives:
– Father --------------------- Dr. Om Swarup (a brilliant scientist);
– Mother -------------------- Parchhaayee;
– Maternal grandfather - Kaala Saaya (ruler of the parasites from the 13th
Dimension)
• Base of Operations: Outer space
• Powers/Abilities: Yogic powers of concentration, immunity to radiation.
Question 40

• It was Jaya Bhaduri , his FTII Classmate, who changed
his complicated first name into a much simpler one.
And he is known by this name in Bollywood.
• His family was into horse breeding and he had always
nursed an ambition to join the Indian Army. He had
even qualified for the prestigious Armed Forces
Medical College but due to the request of his mother,
he couldn’t.
• A recipient of the prestigious Padma Shree award, he is
amongst the few actors who has shot movies in Kabul
and not once. Identify the actor.
Question 41

• An advertisement for what?
Question 42

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