August Quiz of the Month at KCircle

AUGUST
24th QOTM
Quizmaster:Anupam Sinha

TO CONNECT OR NOT TO CONNECT
• 8 Questions written round
• 10 points for each
• 10 points for getting the connect in
first four
• 5 points for getting the connect in the
last four
• No negatives
• 1 try per team per round

1.
• Louis Nicolas Vauquelin was first to
isolate X from crocoite in 1797.
• Crocoite was used as a red pigment.
It’s a compound of Lead, X and
Oxygen.
• Oxide of X was used by the Chinese
in the Qin dynasty to coat metal
weapons found with the Terracotta
Army.
• The colour of Rubies is because the
presence of X.

2.
• X is an integer that is divisible by the sum
of its digits. Xs were defined by D. R.
Kaprekar. The name X is derived from
Sanskrit word meaning joy-giver.

3.
• X (named after its Italian discoverer)is a collaboration begun
in the early 1990s between various national metrology
institutes to measure the X constant by the X-ray crystal
density method to a relative uncertainty of 2×10−8 or
less. The project is part of the efforts to redefine
the kilogram in terms of a universal physical constant, rather
than the International Prototype Kilogram, and complements
the measurements of the Planck constant using watt
balances. Under the current definitions of the International
System of Units(SI), a measurement of the X constant is an
indirect measurement of the Planck constant:
• Y! is a good approximation of X

5.
• X provides a method of representing
and storing graphical-image
information (especially in computer
processing) in an RGB color
space such that a very large number
of colors, shades, and hues can be
displayed in an image, such as in
high-quality photographic images or
complex graphics.
•

6.
• The word X literally means ford-maker in
sankskrit

7. What is “X” ?
• The SI prefix for 10x
is yotta (Y), and for
10−x
(i.e., the reciprocal of 10x
) yocto (y).
These numbers are the largest and
smallest number to receive an SI prefix.

Answers
1. Chromium (Atomic Number 24)
2. Harshad Number (24 is an
example)
3. Avogadro and 24!
4. 12 Apostles and 12 tribes of Israel
5. True colour(24 bit)
6. Theerthankara(24 in total)
7. 24
8. 24 the T.V. series

Cross-disciplinary Creativity
• 10 Questions on cross-over artistry.
• 10 Points for correct answers.
• +10/-5 points for pounce

Salvador Dali and Alice in Wonderland

7.
• She had read Ulysses. She took great
pains to be photographed reading or
holding a book — insistence born not
out of vain affectation but of a genuine
love of literature. Her personal library
contained four hundred books, including
classics like Dostoyevsky and Milton,
and modern staples like Hemingway
and Kerouac. While she wasn’t
shooting, she was taking literature and
history night classes at UCLA. And she
also wrote poetry…
•

• Only parts of us will ever
touch only parts of others –
one’s own truth is just that really — one’s own
truth.
We can only share the part that is understood
by within another’s knowing acceptable to
the other — therefore so one
is for most part alone.
As it is meant to be in
evidently in nature — at best though perhaps it
could make
our understanding seek
another’s loneliness out.

• Life –
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold
glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in a paintings — ah life they
have cheated you

8.
• X was a painter turned inventor. He
invented the first electrical version of Y(in
1837) for which he became famous. Y has
been mostly been discontinued world
wide. X and Y?

Satyajit Ray and Pather Panchali

10.
• X wrote, produced, directed, and
starred in a short experimental film
titled Time Piece, exploring in a
visceral way the effect time-
keeping has on all of us. It
premiered on May 6, 1965 at the
Museum of Modern Art and was
nominated for an Academy Award
in 1966.

Jim Hensen of the Muppets fame

TO DRY TRYING OR NOT TO TRY
• 20 Questions Clockwise.
• 10 points for the correct answer.
• +10 and -5 on pounce.
• Full answer required for pounce.

1.
• X wants to "build something extraordinary" to keep its
servers -- "the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret
location" -- safe from prying eyes.
• In a post on the website's blog, X has revealed plans to
use "GPS-controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio
equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry
Pi," to build low-orbit aircraft that will float some
kilometers up in the air.
• These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) will act as
satellites, redirecting traffic .
• In 2007, the X reportedly tried to buy the Principality of
Sealand -- a micronation platform in the North Sea off
the Suffolk coast -- for true legal immunity. The
Sealand government, however, did not want to be
involved with X.

2.
• In a January issue of the science
journal Nature, Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York described the cancer-causing POK
erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene, calling it X
in the process.
• Not pleased by the rush of headlines
proclaiming “X causes cancer," X USA
threatened legal action against the center to
have the name of its popular game and
trading card series disassociated from the
gene, reports the latest issue of Nature. The
center has complied with X USA's demands,
and now refers to the gene by the much less-
catchy name Zbtb7. What’s X ?

3.
• X (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He
is commonly referred to in popular culture by
the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He
represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of
Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died
at the Battle of the Alamo.
• X became famous in his own lifetime for larger-than-life
exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his
death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical
proportion. These led in the 20th century to television and
movie portrayals, and he became one of the best-known
American folk heroes.
• The M-28 or M-29 (Named after X ) was a tactical
nuclear recoilless gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile
that was deployed by the United States during the Cold
War. It was one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems
ever built. (pics on the next slide)

4.
• X is a unit of rate of extraction of heat,
used in refrigeration, equal to
one calorie per hour.(All clues in the
question)

5.
• Michael James "Mike" X (born August 19, 1962) is an
American engineer and a NASA astronaut. X is a
veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, both of which
serviced the Hubble Space Telescope (HST),
including the historic final repair mission.He graduated
with a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering in
1984 from Columbia University.
Though Y always claims that he has got an MS(in
mechanical engineering) from MIT it is in fact his co-
astronaut X who has got an MS and PhD (in
mechanical engineering) from MIT. Who’s X ?

6.
• A _______ equivalent dose is a nonstandard unit
of radiation exposure, defined as the additional dose
a person will absorb from eating one ________. The
concept is based on the fact that ______, like most
organic material, naturally contain a certain amount
of radioactive isotopes—even in the absence of any
contamination due to human nuclear endeavours.
This unit was meant to express the severity of
exposure to radiation, such as resulting from nuclear
power, nuclear weapons or medical procedures, in
terms that would make sense to most people. The
major natural source of radioactivity in plant tissue
is potassium, which in nature contains 0.0117% of
the unstable isotope potassium-40 (40
K).

7.
• A _______ is a garment worn around
the neck and chin, and which usually covers
the head(Pic on the next slide). Its use
developed among women in early medieval
Europe. At many stages of medieval culture
it was unseemly for a married woman to
show her hair. Hence _______ was worn. A
________ might be elaborately starched,
and creased and folded in prescribed ways,
even supported on wire or wicker framing.
•

8.
• Patent (pics)by X to do Y. X and Y ?

Michael Jackson to do his famous gravity-
defying lean in Moonwalker

9.
• Richard James Hart (born James Vincenzo _______)
(1892 – October 1, 1952) was the oldest brother of
X(famous/notorious in Chicago) .
• He worked to lose his Brooklyn accent and tried to
disguise his Italian ancestry as well. He enlisted in
the Army in World War I, served in France, and earned
a commission as a lieutenant.
• After the war, he legally changed his name to Richard
James Hart, in honor of , William S. Hart and became a
federal Prohibition agent(ironically enough), making
his home in Homer, Nebraska. Following a series of
successful raids against bootleggers, he gained the
nickname of "Two-gun" Hart. In the mid-1920s, newspaper
reporters learned of his kinship to X; the resulting publicity
forced Hart and his family to move from Homer. Give me
his original surname.

10.
• The charango is a small Andean stringed
instrument of the lute family, 66 cm long,
traditionally made with the shell of the back of
an __________. Primarily played in traditional
Andean music, and is sometimes used by
other Latin American musicians. Many
contemporary charangos are now made with
different types of wood. It typically has 10
strings in five courses of 2 strings each, but
other variations exist.

11.
Who is this man (his profession) and why
has he covered himself in a plastic bag
(pics on the next slide)?

• Cohanim(Kohens) or Jewish Priests. To
prevent himself getting contaminated
when the plane flies over a grave yard.

12.
• The word X comes from the title of an 1882 play
of the same name, by dramatist Victorien Sardou,
written for Sarah Bernhardt.The play was first
performed in the United States in 1889. Bernhardt
played Princess X , the heroine of the play. During
the play, Bernhardt, a notorious cross-dresser,
wore a X . Women's-rights activists adopted the
fashion. Men began to wear them with city clothes
after 1924, led by Britain's Prince Edward. Since
the early part of the 20th century,
many Haredi and other Orthodox Jews have made
Xs a standard part of their costumes
•

13.
• X –Y (where X is the source/origin and Y the colour itself)
was a bituminous pigment, intermediate in tint between burnt
umber and raw umber, which was one of the favorite colors
of the Pre-Raphaelites.
•
X-Y was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from
white pitch, myrrh, and the ground-up remains of X, both
human and feline. As it had good transparency, it could be
used for glazes, shadows, flesh tones and shading. However,
in addition to its tendency to crack, it was extremely variable
in its composition and quality, and since it
contained ammonia and particles of fat, was likely to affect
other colours with which it was used..
It fell from popularity
during the 19th century when its composition became more
generally known to artists. The Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward
Burne-Jones was reported to have ceremonially buried his
tube of X-Y in his garden when he discovered its true
origins.

14.
• The Red Avadavat, Red Munia or Strawberry
Finch (Amandava amandava) is a sparrow-sized bird
of the Estrildidae family. It is found in the open fields
and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a
cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in
their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian
Subcontinent in the Monsoon season. The species
name of amandava and the common name
of avadavat are derived from the city X from where
these birds were exported into the pet trade in former

15.
• Who and what’s the occasion ? (Pic on the
next slide)

• First ever broadcast of live public
entertainment, by the famous Australian
soprano Dame Nellie Melba

16.
• Jaroslav Drobný (12 October 1921
in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 13 September 2001
in London, United Kingdom) was a former World No. 1
amateur tennis champion as well as being an ice
hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team. He
left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as
an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of Great
Britain in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1954, he
became the first and, to date, only player to
____________

• The only player with an African Citizenship
to have won a Wimbledon

17.
• This monument in Xian, China is
dedicated to X. The city of Xian was the
starting point of X. Identify X.

18.
• X is an Ashkenazi Jewish dish made from
a poached mixture of ground boned fish, such
as carp, whitefish or pike, which is typically eaten as
an appetizer.
• Although the dish historically consisted of a minced-
fish forcemeat stuffed inside the fish skin. Since the
19th century the skin has commonly been omitted
and the seasoned fish is formed into patties similar
to quenelles or fish balls. They are popular
on Shabbat and Holidays.
• Preparation of X with sugar or black pepper is
considered an indicator of whether a Jewish
community was Galitzianer (with sugar) or Litvak(with
pepper), hence the boundary separating northern
from southern East Yiddish has been dubbed "the X
Line". (Pic on the next slide)

19.
• X (5 August 1950 – 25 May 2013) was
an Indian political leader belonging to Indian
National Congress from Chhattisgarh state. He was
the leader of the opposition in the Chhattisgarh
Vidhan Sabha from 2004 to 2008. In 2005, he
played a top role in organising the Salwa Judum
movement against Naxalites (Maoists)
in Chhattisgarh. He was a Minister of Industry and
Commerce in the Ajit Jogi cabinet since the state
formation in 2000 to 2004. He was assassinated by
naxalites on 25 May 2013 in a Maoist attack while
returning from a Parivartan Rally meeting organised
by his party in Sukma.

20.
• The snakehead murrel , Channa striata,
is a species of snakehead fish. It is also
known as the common
snakehead, chevron snakehead,
and striped snakehead. It is native
to South and Southeast Asia, and has
been introduced to some Pacific
Islands and Madagascar. Its used in
cuisine throughout SE asia. Why does it
become important in India during
Mrigashira Nakshatra?

Fish used in fish-medicine of the Baithini Goud
brothers

AV Round
• 8 Questions
• 10 points
• +10/-5 pounce

2. Identify this third member of a trio whose
first two members are rather well known

Dr. Jearl Walker of Resnick, Halliday and
Walker fame

3.The movie “A” is based on a play of same name by “B” in 1953. B dramatized a
certain gruesome event “C” of late 1600s. The play is an allegory of “D” that
happened between late 1940s to 1950s . A,B,C and D please

• A- The Crucible
• B- Arthur Miller
• C- Salem Witch Trials
• D- McCarthyism

4.
• X is a popular dance of Greek origin,
choreographed by Giorgos Provias
for the 1964 film Y. It is not a
traditional Greek folk dance, but a
mixture of the slow and fast versions
of the hasapiko dance. The dance,
and the accompanying music by
Míkis Theodorakis, are also called
______dance, ______, or "the dance
of ________".

5.
• Age of Consent is movie based
on X’s story. The movie also was
the debut of an actress Y.
• Sirens is a movie that is partly
based on the life of X (role played
by Sam Neil). This movie was the
debut of an Australian
supermodel Z. X,Y, and Z please

• X- Norman Lindsay
• Y- Helen Mirren
• Z- Elle Macpherson

• The title for the Bond novel “Golden Eye”
was taken from Carson McCullers’ novel
“Reflections in a Golden Eye”

7.
• X is a 1990 American biographical drama
film directed by Philip Kaufman and stars
Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros, and Uma
Thurman. It is loosely based on the book of
the same name by the French author Y,
and tells the story of Y’s relationship with
_________and his wife, June.
• The film was nominated for Best
Cinematography at the 63rd Academy
Awards. It is the first and, to date, only
Oscar-nominated film to be released with
an NC-17 rating

8.
• The film tells the forgotten story of Andree
Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling,
who was the last model of impressionist painter
X and the first actor in the films of his son, the
film director Y . Andree was the link between
two famous and widely acclaimed artists, a
father and son. As the father is at the end his
brilliant career, the son is still searching for
himself, his great career as one of the most
celebrated movie directors having not yet
begun.

9.
• X is the title of a 1981 film adaptation
of Klaus Mann's novel X , directed by
István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria
Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen.
• The film adapts the story of Y and Z by
having the main character Hendrik
Höfgen abandon his conscience and
continue to act and ingratiate himself
with the Nazi Party and so keep and
improve his job and social position.
• X,Yand Z (X can be derived by
shortening Y)

Mephitso, Mephistopheles and Dr. Faustus

• 20 Questions anticlockwise.
• 10 points for correct answer
• +10/-5 on pounce.

1.
• What word has been blocked out ? (Pic in
the next slide)

2.
• X is a word derived from latin for "belly" + "speak" .
• Patterned on Greek engastrimythos, literally "speaking in
the belly," which was not originally an entertainer's trick
but rather a rumbling sort of internal speech, regarded as
a sign of spiritual inspiration or (more usually) demonic
possession.

3.
• The X effect occurs when people devote
sufficient time and attention to an activity
that it begins to overshadow their
thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
• People who indulge in X for a prolonged
amount of time may then find themselves
thinking about ways different shapes in
the real world can fit together, such as
the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the
buildings on a street. In this sense,
the X effect is a form of habit

4.
• 23andMe is a privately held company
based in Mountain View, California.
• What does it do? (All the clues in the
name)

5.
• X is a type of curry which
involves frying marinated pieces of meat or vegetables in
oil and spices to produce a dry, thick sauce. As the dish
includes green chillies, a X can range in heat from a
medium dish to a very hot one. Other main ingredients
include bell pepper, onion and tomato.
• From the times of the Chinese when it was created as a
way of using leftover meat, the chillies have helped to
disguise any disagreeable taste. The name comes from
combination of Bengali word for spicy food and
Urdu/Persian word for suitable for a diet.
• X has become the most popular dish in UK Indian
restaurants.

6.
• Valley of the X is a novel by American
writer Jacqueline Susann, published in
1966. The “X" within the title is
a slang term for downers (people suffering
from depression); originally short for Y the
term came to refer to
any barbiturates used as sleep aids.
It is a roman à clef novel that depicts the
private lives of the real-life rich and famous
under a veneer of fiction.

7.
• In july 2012 the Damson Dene Hotel located in the Lake District of
northwestern England, replaced the traditional Gideon Bible with
“X”
• Hotel owner Jonathan Denby told NBC News that in a secular
society, it was “wholly inappropriate” to put a religious book in
someone’s bedroom. He confessed that the novel, which started
life as Twilight fan fiction, wasn’t his first choice of replacement. “I
was thinking originally of putting in a book by Ayn Rand — Atlas
Shrugged was my first thought,” he said, but “because everybody
is reading ”X”, we thought it would be a hospitable thing to do, to
have this available for our guests, especially if some of them were
a little bit shy about buying it because of its reputation.”
• The move has also attracted the ire of local parish priest Michael
Woodcock, who told the Westmorland Gazette that “it is a great
shame that Bibles have been removed from rooms and very
inappropriate to have been replaced by “X”

8.
• X is commonly used to describe wild or erratic behavior, but the phrase
actually began its life as a medical term. The saying was popularized in the
18th and 19th centuries, when European visitors to Malaysia learned of a
peculiar mental affliction that caused otherwise normal tribesmen to go on
brutal and seemingly random killing sprees. The operative word of the
phrase is derived from the “Amuco,” a band of Javanese and Malay warriors
who were known for their penchant for indiscriminate violence—was initially
a source of morbid fascination for Westerners.

9.
• In 1932, X was commissioned by John D. Rockefeller to
create a mural for the walls of New York’s Rockefeller
Center. Given the theme of “Man at the Crossroads
Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a
New and Better Future,” X responded with a
revolutionary work that referenced scientific progress,
civil rights and the plight of the working class. He also
included a depiction of Y —a move that offended the
sensibilities of his wealthy patrons. When X refused to
remove Y from his mural, the Rockefellers had the work
covered over with canvas frames and then later
destroyed. X would go on to paint another version of his
Rockefeller mural—this time titled “Man, Controller of the
Universe”.

10.
• A __________ (from the French for gliding door) is a
latticed grille made of wood, metal or a combination of the two.
• _________s fortified the entrances to many medieval castles,
securely closing off the castle during time of attack or siege. They
were mounted in vertical grooves in castle walls and could be raised
or lowered quickly by means of chains or ropes attached to an
internal winch.
• There would often be two _________s to the main entrance. The
one closer to the inside would be closed first and then the one
farther away. This was used to trap the enemy and often, burning
wood or fire-heated sand would be dropped onto them from the
roof.There were often arrow slits in the sides of the walls,
enabling archers and crossbowmen to eliminate the trapped group
of attackers. (Pic on the next slide)
•
•

11.
• X are very small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired
from being baked in pans with shell-shaped depressions. (Pic on the next
slide)
• The most famous instance of involuntary memory by Proust is known as the
"episode of the X ," from In Search of Lost Time.
• “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate
than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary
thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my
senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. ”
•

• Molosser dogs named after Molossia
region of ancient greece. Chinese used
these dogs during their incursions into Leh

13.
• The yawn reflex has long been observed and
considered to be contagious. Observing another
person's yawning face (especially his/her eyes),
even reading, or thinking about yawning, or looking
at a yawning picture can cause a person to yawn.
In short contagious yawning is also considered to
be a proxy for empathic capacity.
•
A 2007 study found that young children suffering
from X do not increase their yawning frequency
after seeing videos of other people yawning, in
contrast to typically developing children. What
were these children suffering from ?

Autism or Autism spectrum disorders

14.• This island aka Hashima island (pics next slide) was populated
from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island's most
notable features are the abandoned and undisturbed concrete
apartment buildings and the surrounding sea wall. The island
has been administered as part of Nagasaki city since the merger
of the former town of Takashima in 2005.
• It is known for its coal mines and their operation during
the industrialization of Japan. Mitsubishi bought the island in
1890 and began the project, the aim of which was extracting coal
from undersea mines. As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in
the 1960s, coal mines 1974, and today it is empty and bare,
which is why it is also called Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima
was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after 35 years of closure. Why
was this island in news in the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013
?
•

The lair of the villain Raoul Silvia in the movie
Skyfall

15.
• X is a computer programming jargon term for
a software bug that seems to disappear or alter
its behavior when one attempts to study term is
a pun on the name of Y, the physicist who first
asserted the observer effect of quantum
mechanics, which states that the act of observing
a system inevitably alters its state.
• X occur because common attempts to debug
a program, such as inserting output
statements or running it in a debugger, usually
modify the code, change the memory
addresses of variables and the timing of its
execution.
•

16.
• X is derived from the Old
English bēn meaning “a prayer, a
favor.” By the late eighteenth century,
X had become commonly associated
with the British dialect form, referring
to the joining of neighbors to work on
a single activity to help a neighbor in
need.

Bee in Spelling Bee or Knitting Bee

17.
• Dark Horse Records is a record
label founded by X in 1974.
All his recordings starting with Thirty
Three & 1/3 in 1976 and ending with Live
in Japan in 1992 were released by Dark
Horse Records. The label also released
the albums of Pt. Ravishankar among
other artists. The inspiration for the Dark
Horse logo came from a picture of Y on a
tin box X saw on one of his many trips to
India. X and Y.

George Harrison and Uchaishrava

18.
• In professional boxing, the X
championship of a weight class is a
notional world championship title. It is
initially held at some moment in time by a
boxer universally acclaimed as the best in
the class. Another boxer can win the X
championship only by defeating the
reigning X champion the ring. The X
champion is described as "the man who
beat the man". There is no single canonical
list of X champions at any weight class,
because there is no agreed method of what
to do when the current champion retires or
moves to a different weight class.

19.
• Squealer is a fictional pig from George
Orwell's Animal Farm. Squealer
represents X who was Stalin's protégée
and head of Communist propaganda.
Apart from an infamous pact he also
lends his name to a “cocktail”.
• Throughout the novel Squealer is highly
skilled at making speeches to the
animals. He is also one of the leaders of
the farm. Under the rule of Napoleon,
Squealer does things to manipulate the
animals.

Vyacheslav Molotov
• Of Molotov-Ribbentorp pact and Molotov
Cocktail

20.
• An X(pic on the next slide) is a
typographical symbol or glyph.The
X is usually used to indicate
a footnote, in the same way an
asterisk is. The X is only used for a
second footnote when an asterisk
is already used. A third footnote
employs the double X.

• Famous philosophers caricatured in
Action Philosophers comics
• 10 Questions
• 10 Points Each
TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE

Answers
• Ayn Rand
• Thomas Jefferson
• Plato
• Frederic Nietzsche
• Bertrand Russell
• Rene Descartes
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
• Immanuel Kant
• Lao Tzu
• Aristotle

And this is how it ends…
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