Concurso'16 The General Quiz - ISHYA 2016

The General Quiz
R&D by
Team QSI-Batch_14
For ISHYA 2016

Arun S
Athira S
Jose Mathew
Manas Sharma
Nadi Dixit
Sowmya
THE CREW

X was the man booker prize winner under the category of fiction
in 2002. According to X, none of the emotions portrayed in his
book was merely fiction but was based on the research he did on
Simba, a wonky legged lion(a downside of too much inbreeding)
who was a resident of the Trivandrum Zoo. In fact all the animals
described in the book except the doomed Orang-utan can be
found living in the Zoo. With one failed book behind him, X had
spent 6 months in south India in 1996. In fact, even the central
theme of the novel, where religion and zoology are intertwined
in an intricate balance is said to be inspired by his stay in Kerala
and especially his time in Thiruvananthapuram, which has a
multitude of faiths to offer. Who is X? Which novel? Images
follow.
*Q1. 1+1

Among other things, X is the proud owner of a 1976 Austin Citron
green Leyland Mini 1000 with a matte black bonnet. The car had
multiple anti-theft features including an external padlock for the
door and a removable steering wheel which proved instrumental
in stopping the theft of his pride possession. The car thief had
managed to break the padlock and even hotwire the car, only to
realize that the car lacked a steering wheel. Top gear praised the
car for being “reasonably priced”, its quirkiness being an
extension of the man himself. X recently took his mini on a Joy ride
around Buckingham palace back in September 2015. The car was
laden with gifts so he had to recreate a stunt he pulled off in 1994
for an entirely different reason. Who is X and What stunt?
Q2.

Q3.
This is a creative comic spoofing something from the realm of
science. What is blanked out?

Momentum (Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle)

The X syndrome a disorder that manifests in infants and is
characterized by multiple, symmetric, circular skin creases, or
bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that
are present at birth. These crease which often disappear as
the baby grows, are similar to those found on Bibendum, one
of the oldest surviving trademarks and the mascot of a world
famous company. Give me X, a term which arises from this
chance similarity to the company mascot. Images follow.
Q4.

In 1955, a Bollywood movie directed, produced by and Starring Raj
Kapoor along with Nargis Dutt took the film industry by storm,
becoming the highest grossing Indian film of 1955 at around 20
million rupees. The film has made lasting effects in Indian history
including causing the erstwhile MPs (both Lok Sabha and Rajysa
Sabha)to demand an increment of their salaries by one rupee, even
though the pay revision had happened in 1954. One of the songs used
in the movie, where the singer asserts his pride in being an Indian
despite his clothes being from other countries, became, and remains,
a patriotic favourite among many Indians. It is often referenced,
including in an acceptance speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2006
by Bengali author Mahasweta Devi and gained international fame,
particularly in the Soviet Union. Which movie? Which song? Images
follow.
*Q5 1+1

Shree 420 – Mera Joota Hai Japani

In the 1950s, India was going through a nationwide famine. X in a
historic blunder decided to import wheat from USA. The wheat
was of inferior quality and was mixed with a contaminant that
would soon result in an epidemic of epic proportions. The
government had failed to perform quality checks on the
shipments before distribution and hence the seeds of this weed
found its way to the masses. Even when it started appearing, the
government did not take adequate measures to control its
outgrowth. What resulted was an invasive species taking roots all
over India. The people who were fed up with the incompetency of
the government nicknamed the plant as X grass as they saw it a
gift of the erstwhile government. Which plant? X?
Q6.

According to an interview with Corriere Della Sera, Iron Maiden
lead singer Bruce Dickinson announced the track ‘Tears of a
clown’ was inspired by X’s life. Dickinson calls it his “favourite
song” on the new set, musing on the tragedy of Xs’ apparent
happiness and eagerness to spread the laughs, when he was
struggling with depression and illness on the inside. It appears as
track nine on the new LP and was written by Maiden’s Adrian
Smith and Steve Harris. When he recorded the song, Bruce was
unaware of the subject of the song but left him in awe at the
struggles of X after the identity was revealed to him. Which
great artist? Lyrics follow.
Q7.

All alone in a crowded room
He tries to force a smile
The smile it beamed or so it seemed
But never reached the eyes, disguise
Masquerading as the funny man do they despise
The false smile maketh of the man
Glass empty or half full
Try to make some sense or sorrows drown
All looks well on the outside
Underneath the solemn truth
There’s something that inside has died
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he’s feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it’s all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned
Tears of a clown

The trio was created by X during one of his stays at the Townsville
prison. X through an anonymous phone call had extracted the
original recipe used to make his arch enemies and made his own
alterations to it to make them “tougher” and more “manly”. The
variations were based on items that were available to him in the
prison, including snips (underarm hair), snails (escargot from the
prison cafeteria), a puppy dog tail, and some murky black slime on
the prison toilet as the “Extra ingredient” to the concoction. The
choices for the same is based on the nursery rhyme “What are
little boys made of?”. Who is X? By what name do we know the
trio?
Q8.

Mojo JOJO and the RowdyRuff boys

Lichtenberg-Figuren or "Lichtenberg dust figures" are
branching fractal patterns that appear on the surface or
interior of insulating materials. It is possible for one to get a
Lichtenberg figure on his or her skin, the causative of which is
also coincidentally one that can be classified under Lichtenburg
Figuren. What causes such figures to form on these “very
special” set of people? Images follow.
Q9.

In 2008, an activist group purchased a plot in the Louisville
cemetery in the name of a certain Mathew Prescott who was
then a living member of the organization. The placement of the
plot was strategic as it was placed right next to the final resting
place of a very famous entrepreneur. Inscribed on the epitaph
was a seemingly harmless poem . The true purpose of the
epitaph however, was to make a very serious allegation against
the business of the entrepreneur in question. Who? Which
organization was responsible for this stunt? The poem is in next
slide.
*Q10. 1+1

“Kind friend of chickens,
Today we honour your memory,
Our love for you continues.
Rest in peace.
Those suffering and
Unable to move
Remembers you.
Each one striving for
Salvation.
Brother,
In us as in you
Remain
Dreams for the
Souls of the voiceless”

X was a surprisingly gifted semi-secret artist and among other things was an
extremely enthusiastic amateur musician. He started drawing at the age of 44
in 1962, after a series of amicable arguments about art vs. science with his
artist-friend Jirayr “Jerry” Zorthian — the same friend to whom X’s timeless
ode to a flower was in response. Eventually, the two agreed that they’d
exchange lessons in art and science on alternate Sundays. X then went on to
draw countless sketches from strippers, naked women, puppy dogs and even
his own children under the pseudonym OFEY as he wanted to sell his artworks.
“My friend Dudley Wright suggested “Au Fait,” which means “It is done” in
French. I spelled it O-f-e-y, which turned out to be a name the blacks used for
“whitey.” But after all, I was whitey, so it was all right.” This is X trying to
describe the rationale behind him using choosing a pseudonym. Identify X.
Images follow.
*Q11.

The term ‘X’ is prominent in the contemporary discussion of Latin
American Politics. According to the BBC, a common element of X
is a clean break with what was known at the outset of the 1990s
as the 'Washington consensus', the mixture of open
markets and privatisation pushed by the United
States". According to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a X
president herself, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Lula da Silva of
Brazil and Evo Morales of Bolivia were "the three musketeers" of
the left in South America and ushered in X. Id the term X, which is
a variant of the term used to describe harmful algal blooms,
caused by a few species of dinoflagellates.
*Q12.

In 2004, WWF Australia started discussions with an advertising
agency Leo Burnett Sydney, to "discuss ideas for engaging
Australians on the issue of climate change“, upon the release of
a set of very concerning climate data. X was originally
envisioned under the working title "The Big Flick" and WWF
Australia presented their concept to Fairfax Media who, along
with the erstwhile Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, agreed to
back the event. The first edition of the event was held on 31st
March in Sydney at 7:30 PM local time. This year is the 10th
Anniversary of the Sydney event, with the Indian initiative
taking up the challenge of going solar under the hash tag
#GoSolar . Id X.
Q13.

In formal game theory terms, X is a non-chance, combinatorial game
with perfect information. This means that no dice are used in
decision making and that all outcomes are combinatorial with all
moves visible to both players. Perfect information ensures that
players can theoretically know about all past moves. X, which
literally means “encircling game” in Chinese, is an abstract strategy
board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more
territory than the opponent. The game originated in ancient China
more than 2,500 years ago, and is one of the oldest board games
played today. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a
cultured Chinese scholar in antiquity. X recently made news when a
feat previously thought to be impossible was accomplished by an AI
owned by Google by acquiring London based AI firm Deep Mind in
2014.Which game? Name of the AI? Image follows.
*Q15. 1+1

In English, X means the peak of perfection, a concept
which easily transfers over to the fictitious name of a
company in a cartoon, movie or book. In the Y show, X
features prominently as a running gag featuring
outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically
at the worst possible times, hence making the choice of
name ironic. What generic corporate that makes
practically everything imaginable?
A creative Illustration for one of their products follow.
Q17.

According to his great-grandmother Old Nan, his real name is
Walder. “No one knew where ‘X’ had come from,” she says,
“but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it.
It was the only word he had.”
X is possibly the victim of an extreme case of “expressive
aphasia”. This normally involves a localized stroke that
damages the front and left side of the brain, but other causes
include a blow to the head, or a tumor. X has limited mental
capabilities (even though he seems to understand and
respond to complex instructions) but Given X’s enormous
height and girth, it is more likely that X was dropped on his
head as a baby. Who is this gentle giant ?
Q18.

Q19.
Logo of which band of masked Charlatans?

At an open end of the room on the left, a wide-eyed bull stands
over a woman grieving over a dead child in her arms. The
center is occupied by a horse falling in agony as if it had just
been run through by a spear or javelin. The large gaping wound
in the horse's side is a major focus of the painting. Under the
horse is a dead, apparently dismembered soldier; his hand on a
severed arm still grasps a shattered sword from which a flower
grows. On the open palm of the dead soldier is a stigma, a
symbol of martyrdom derived from the stigmata of Christ. A
light bulb blazes in the shape of an evil eye over the suffering
horse's head (the bare bulb of the torturer's cell). X's intended
symbolism in regard to this object is related to the Spanish
word for light bulb. Which painting? Who is X?
*Q20. 1+1

Rules:-
1) This is a bounce-pounce round.
2) 10 points for a right answer (direct or pounce),
-5 for a wrong answer on pounce, no points for a
wrong answer on direct.
3) Questions 2,6 and 10 have bonus questions of
5 points each. You can answer these only if you
get the main question. But there is no negative
marking for making a mistake on the bonus, even
on pounce.
ROUND -1
SAHARA – the Dry Round ;)

In 2006, X became the first indigenous person to
become the president of an American country. In
2013, his official plane was stopped in France and
searched for a certain cargo Y, causing a
diplomatic incident. What was the cargo?
Q1.

The Indo-European family of languages probably
originated in the Dnieper valley of South Russia. It is
today spoken from Western Europe to India, and also in
the New World. Name the only major European
language not belonging to this family. The people of
this region are fiercely proud of their culture and
language and their biggest football club once only
signed players from the region, also named after the
language. Bonus points for naming the club.
Q2.

Afterthought
One team gave Hungarian as the answer.
Hungarian is not a relic language, even though it
has non-IE elements. Finnish is a non-IE
languages spoken in Europe, but it too is a recent
introduction, not a relic language. Catalan is an IE
language. Welsh, Breton and Gaelic are also pure
IE, they just belong to a diferent subfamily from
English.

Q3.
X is a geographical perturbance that comes under the
category of cone geysers and was named so in 1870
during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition. It is
one of the most predictable geographical features on
Earth, erupting every 35 to 120 minutes. The geyser, as
well as the nearby X Inn, is part of the X Historic District.
During its early days, X was sometimes degraded by
being made a laundry. The reliability of the said geyser
is paralleled in a Phineas and Ferb episode but in the
setting of Mount Rushmore which is more than 300
miles away from the original location. Give me X.

Welsh names have the format X ap Y. The
Scottish equivalent of 'ap' is _____, and is found
in the names of major characters in Harry Potter,
Jurassic Park and a play by Shakespeare. It is a
common presence in the surnames of Australians
and New Zealanders. Hungry students will also
connect _____ to the colloquial name for a cheap
but filling fast food snack. F.I.T.B.
Q4.

Q5.
X was a grunge band formed in the 1990’s by Y. After Y
sees his wife and one of her professors from her
university together, he changed the band’s direction
into a wholly different type of music: “grunge”. The
band is then named X. Some of the band’s best songs
are Margerine, Shave Me and Politically Incorrect. The
group broke up sometime later because, according to
Kurt Loder, Y holed himself up in his mansion, when
rumors swirled about an out of control narcotic
addiction, which actually turned out to be insulin
because he became diabetic due to his addiction to a

For about 40 years, the capital of a major world
power was a small town. The town's name was
sometimes jokingly written as an acronym,
standing for 'Federal-capital without noteworthy
nightlife' in the local language. Identify the
country. Bonus points for the city.
Q6.

Afterthought
From the end of World War II till German
Reunification, Bonn served as the de facto capital
of West Germany. (Berlin was for East Germany.)
Bonn was chosen partly for its inconvenience, so
that when Germany was united, it would not be a
serious competitor to Berlin for the capital of the
new republic.

The Moscow Metro was initially constructed with
two lines in an X shape. This caused a gridlock at
the central interchange. According to an urban
myth, this problem was solved by Josef Stalin
when he angrily slammed his coffee cup on a
map of Moscow. The engineers got the message
and constructed the _____, which has since been
a staple of large Metro networks. Full points for
the name/ concept. (Or even the Russian name!)
Q7.

The Spanish Constitution
requires all cities to fly the
Spanish flag above the town hall.
The mayor of Gallifa, a Catalan
city respond to this imposition by
exploiting one major loophole in
the guidelines. What loophole?
Note that the flag could not be
covered, disfigured or altered in
any way.
Q8.

The constitution does not specify the size of the flag.
He flew a tiny, almost invisible Spanish flag.

The German State of Bavaria held the copyright for X.
However, instead of publishing as many copies of it as
possible, the authorities decided not to publish it at all. In
2016, following the expiry of the copyright, it was
republished for the first time since the 1950s. The author
originally wanted to call his forthcoming book Viereinhalb
Jahre (des______) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit,
or Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies,
Stupidity and Cowardice but had to settle for a more
succinct version of the same. Which Book?
Q9.

The Great Recession of 2008 hit North America very
harshly. Many retirees saw their savings evaporate
and young people found it harder than ever to find
jobs. In contrast, the larger firms that had caused the
recession were bailed out with public money. Which
international protest event against this state of affairs
did a Canadian anti-consumerist, pro-environment
activist group initiate? Bonus if you name the group.
Q10.

Occupy Wall Street (Adbusters)

Did any of you read Macbeth in school? Do you
remember what the witches on the heath said to him?
"Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam
Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him?”
Do you remember what he said to them?
(A voice from the audience somewhere at the back says,
"That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the
tree unfix his earthbound root?")
Ha! Excellent. But Macbeth was dead wrong. Trees have
unfixed their earthbound roots and are on the move.
- The Briefing, Arundhathi Roy
What is the real-life phenomenon being talked about in
Q11.

Poleward Migration of
Forests due to Climate
Change

Expurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging
anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an
artistic work. Bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the
practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from
books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition
of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to
make them more suitable, in his opinion, for women and
children. A ___-____ edition is such a bowdlerized text,
deriving from a particular practice regarding classical and
Renaissance works of art. FITB.
Q12.

The written theme round
• The round consists of 5 written Questions with a
central theme.
• This round contains risk of conceding negatives.
• Each right Answer gets you 10 points.
• The marks for the theme will be mentioned on the
slides.
• Please pounce wisely of you are going for the
theme – Exchange your answer sheets after you’re
done.

X got some press coverage right after her birth as the country's
"Centennial Baby", having been the first baby born on July 1,
1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada's official founding via
the Constitution Act, 1867. X suffered frequent sexual abuse as a
child, a fact she would not reveal publicly until 2014: she was
molested by a female babysitter from ages 6 to 10, raped by a
25-year-old man when she was twelve, and gang-raped by her
boyfriend and six of his friends when she was 14.. She became a
company spokesperson for FrogAds, Inc. in March 2012. In
February 2014, she stripped for a Valentine’s Day-themed ad for
PETA, urging dog lovers to cuddle up with their pets during
winter. In July 2015, X wrote an open letter to Russian
President Vladimir Putin asking to prevent the passage of the
Q1. +50/-20

X composes and plays his own music. He sang in
the 2008 independent comedy-drama film, “How to
Be”. X is better known as an actor and made his
debut in a popular 2006 film as Y for which he had
to learn how to scuba dive as he told Scholastic
magazine in an interview. In 2009, he portrayed
Salvador Dali in Little Ashes. In 2010, X was named
one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people
in the world and in the same year was ranked in the
Forbes celebrity 100. On 19th Feb, 2014, Timur
Kryachko, a Russian astronomer named an asteroid
Q2. +40/-15

X is the second DreamWorks character related to
the protagonist to change a decision regarding
the protagonist. Rameses II, the first to do so,
initially allowed Moses and the Hebrews to leave
Egypt, but pursued them to the Red Sea trying to
kill them. X’s likings include getting caught in the
rain, singing, prospect of true love, having a
family among others; dislikes include
entrapment, judgement, disrespect and X’s
former home. Powers include advanced Kung Fu
abilities, boxing strength and a few more. Who is
Q3. +30/-10

Which Company’s slogans?
 1969–1978: Quality Is Our Recipe (this slogan is still
shown on the X logo today.)
 1977–1980, 1987: Hot-N-Juicy
 1977: We fix 'em 256 ways
 1980–1981: X Has the Taste You Crave
 1981–1982: Ain't No Reason to Go Anyplace Else
 1982–1985: You're X Kind of People
 2005 – present: It's good to be square
Q4. +20/-5

Q5. What is blanked out? +10/0

X got some press coverage right after her birth as the
country's "Centennial Baby", having been the first baby born
on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada's official
founding via the Constitution Act, 1867. X suffered
frequent sexual abuse as a child, a fact she would not reveal
publicly until 2014: she was molested by a female babysitter
from ages 6 to 10, raped by a 25-year-old man when she was
twelve, and gang-raped by her boyfriend and six of his
friends when she was 14. She became a company
spokesperson for FrogAds, Inc. in March 2012. In February
2014, she stripped for a Valentine’s Day-themed ad for PETA,
urging dog lovers to cuddle up with their pets during winter.
In July 2015, X wrote an open letter to Russian
Q1. +50/-20

X composes and plays his own music. He sang in the
2008 independent comedy-drama film, “How to Be”. X
is better known as an actor and made his debut in a
popular 2006 film as Y for which he had to learn how
to scuba dive as he told Scholastic magazine in an
interview. In 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dali in Little
Ashes. In 2010, X was named one of TIME magazine’s
100 most influential people in the world and in the
same year was ranked in the Forbes celebrity 100. On
19th Feb, 2014, Timur Kryachko, a Russian astronomer
named an asteroid that he discovered as 246789 X as
a tribute to him. Give me Y.
Q2. +40/-15

Which Company’s slogans?
 1969–1978: Quality Is Our Recipe (this slogan is still shown
on the X logo today.)
 1977–1980, 1987: Hot-N-Juicy
 1977: We fix 'em 256 ways
 1980–1981: X Has the Taste You Crave
 1981–1982: Ain't No Reason to Go Anyplace Else
 1982–1985: You're X Kind of People
 2005 – present: It's good to be square
Q4. +20/-5

WENDY’S “Square” Burgers

Names ‘invented’ by Authors

Q1.
EMS Namboodiripad, known popularly as EMS, was
the first Chief Minister of Kerala. As a member of
the Communist Party of India (CPI), he became the
first non-Indian National Congress chief minister in
the Indian republic. In 1964, he led a faction of the
CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of
India (Marxist), or CPI(M). EMS had a stutter when he
used to make his speeches. A journalist is said to
have asked him if he always had this issue. What
was his tongue in cheek reply?

Q2.X is a standard element of Indian, particularly Konkani,
cuisine, derived from the Portuguese carne de vinha
d'alhos(Literally meat, wine and garlic),a dish
of meat (usually pork) marinated in wine and garlic. In its
basic structure, it was the Portuguese sailor's 'preserved'
raw ingredients, packed in wooden barrels of alternate
layers of pork and garlic, and soaked in wine. This was
'Indianized' by the local Goan Christian cooks, by the
substitution of palm vinegar for the red wine and the
addition of dried 'red' chili peppers with additional spices
to evolve into the local and easy to pronounce
"X”. Nowadays, the Anglo-Indian version of X is
marinated in vinegar, sugar, fresh ginger, and spices
overnight, then cooked with the addition of further spices.
What fiery-hot dish X?

Vindaloo (Indianization of vinha d’alhos)

Q3.The X is a hip-length tailored coat for men or women,
with a mandarin collar. Unlike the achkan, which falls
somewhere below the knees of the wearer, the X is
shorter, resembling a military-style jerkin. It began to be
marketed as the X in Europe and America in the mid-
1960s. It was briefly popular there in the late 1960s and
early 1970s, its popularity spurred by growing awareness
of foreign cultures, by the minimalism of the Mod
lifestyle and, in particular, by the Beatles and
subsequently the Monkees. Several villains in the James
Bond film series, including Dr. No, Karl
Stromberg and Kamal Khan, appear wearing the X.
Ironically, a certain person rarely wore the X himself,
preferring instead the more traditional achkan/sherwani
or Western suit-and-tie. Name X.

Q4.
On November 24th 1973, a United States Navy
Douglas Super DC-3 airplane was forced to land on
Sólheimasandur’s black sand beach in the south of
Iceland after experiencing some severe
icing. Amazingly, the crew all survived the impact, but
the plane was abandoned rather than recovered, the
weather beaten remains still seated at the original
crash site. The interior of the DC-3 plane has been
completely gutted of seats and any hallmarks of a
military aircraft by 40 years of extreme weather.
Although it is missing its tail and half of both wings,
the rest of the plane’s shell is amazingly well
preserved. Why has this piece wreckage come to the
limelight, in the context of the Indian film industry?

It featured in the song sequence for ‘Gerua’ in
‘Dilwaale’

Q5.
X and Y are often thought of as variants of each other,
but that isn’t so. X is an Odia Brahmin surname used by
the Utkala Brahmins. The families with that surname
once expertised 10 granthas (books) assigned
to Vedas especially Shukla Yajurveda, hence the origin
of the surname, a condensation of the Sanskrit phrase
दशः ग्रन्थाध्यययन् दाशः, or the one who is well versed in all
the ten tomes of the Vedas. Y on the other hand is a
Sanskrit word implying devotion or service to God. It is
a surname found over most of India, most commonly
among Punjabi Brahmins, Maulika Kayasthas of Bihar
and Bengal, and among Bengali Vaidyas (sometimes in
the form Y-Gupta). Give me the two sound-alike
surnames.

Q6.
The X was a small Indian copper coin. The coin was first
introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his rule of India
between 1540 and 1545, along with Mohur, the gold coin
and Rupiya the silver coin. Later on, the Mughal Emperors
standardised the coin along with other silver (Rupiya) and
gold (Mohur) coins in order to consolidate the monetary
system across India. Watch Your Language lists the coin
as one of the possible sources for the English phrase Y
(which appends an ‘n’ to X), due to its small worth when
contrasted with the sterling, but provides other sources as
well. Y, ironically, has nothing to do with Hell and
punishment. A famous line containing Y is responsible for
making the usage of religious slander (like ‘hell’)
acceptable to use in film dialogues. Give Y (bonus points
for X).

Q7.
In Mexico it is called ‘refresco’ (a local soft drink
brand). In France, it is a ‘pot-de-vin’ (a pot of
wine). In Brazil, it is a ‘cervejinha’ (Portuguese
for a small beer). In Malaysia, it is called ‘kopi
duat’ (kopi means coffee). Along the same lines,
what is it known as in India? (specific answer
needed)

Chai-paani – Indian slang meaning a bribe
(variants like rishvat, baksheesh, etc. get
only half the points)

Q8.
The X temple is a famous temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan,
which is dedicated to the 14th century Hindu sage X. The
temple was created following X’s mysterious disappearance
from Deshnoke. The temple is famous for the approximately
20,000 kabbas contained in the temple. Many people travel
great distances to pay their respect. There is a local story
explaining the origin of the kabbas. According to this
version, a 20,000 strong army deserted a nearby battle and
came running to Deshnoke. Upon learning of the sin of
desertion, punishable by death, X spared their lives and
offered the temple as a future place to stay, but turned them
into kabbas as punishment. The kabbas are treated with
utmost regard. The only replacement for a kabba is its
replica in silver. White kabbas are the most sacred of all. ID
X, and explain what a kabba is.

Karni Mata Temple (a kabba is a rat of the
temple)

X is a protest song that became an anthem of the
US Civil Rights Movement. Girija Kumar Mathur
composed its literal translation in Hindi, Y, which
became a popular song during the 1980s. The
song was used as a propaganda tool by the
government of Indira Gandhi during the
Emergency. In Kerala, the song was translated by
N. P. Chandrasekharan and became popular in
college campuses in the late 1970s. X was a
prominent song in the 2010 Bollywood film My
Name is Khan. Identify X or Y (or any other
variant).
Q9Q9.

X = We Shall Overcome
Y = Hum Honge Kaamyab Ek Din

Q10.
X is a waterfall in South India on the river Kaveri. It is
located in the Dharmapuri district of the southern
Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is sometimes referred to
as the "Niagara of India". With its fame for medicinal
baths and hide boat rides, it is a major tourist
attraction. Carbonatite rocks in this site are
considered to be the oldest of its kind in South Asia
and one of the oldest in the world. This is also the site
of a proposed project to generate drinking water. The
name of this waterfall comes from
two Kannada words, smoke and rock; literally
translating to smoking rocks, describing the smoky

Hogenakkal Falls (hoge = smoke and kal =
stone/rock)

Q11.
Sansarpur is a village in Jalandhar district in
the Indian state of Punjab. As of
2001 India census, Sansarpur had a population of
4061. This village is around 300 years old. Five
families at that time came to this village and
descendants of them are called 'Kullar’ or ‘Kundhi’.
Among all the Indian cities, towns and villages,
Sansarpur has produced the largest number of X for
the country. In its heyday, it had given rise to 14 X,
for India, Kenya and Canada. Therefore, it is known
as the Mecca of Indian _____. In recent years, its
returns in this aspect have been declining, partly due
to negligence by governing bodies. What is this
village famous for?

For producing Olympic hockey
players – 14 of them in fact.

Q12.X has been observed since 2000 to promote peace. The date
corresponds to the day in 1952 when students from
the University of Dhaka, Jagannath University and Dhaka
Medical College, demonstrating for the recognition
of Bengali as one of the two national languages of East
Pakistan, were shot dead by police near the Dhaka High Court
in the capital of present-day Bangladesh. In respect of the
martyrs — students Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam, Borkot and others
who died during the protest at the University of Dhaka on
February 21, 1952 — the people in Bangladesh celebrate X by
laying down flowers to the Martyr's Monument (Shoheed Minar)
and replications of that monument. The people organize social
gatherings, where they honor their culture, and hold literary
competitions, draw Alpana on the roads, eat festive meals and
listen to event themed songs, e.g. the "Amar Bhaiyer Rakte
Rangano" ("Coloured in the blood of my brother"). X is
celebrated all over the world in countries like
Canada, Chile, Russia, Philippines, Egypt and India. What

Rules
• This is a bounce-pounce round.
• 10 points for a right answer (direct
or pounce), -5 for a wrong answer on
pounce, no points for a wrong
answer on direct.

Q.1
X, also known by its Bayer designation Alpha
Scorpii (abbreviated to α Scorpii or α Sco), is the
fifteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky and the
brightest star in the constellation Scorpius, and is
often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion". X is a
supergiant and is one of the largest and
most luminous observable stars. The name of this
star, derives from the Ancient Greek for "equal/rival
to ____ ", due to the similarity of its hue to Y. The
comparison of X with Y may have originated with
early Mesopotamian astronomers. However, some
scholars have speculated that the star may have
been named after Antar, or Antarah ibn Shaddad, the
Arab warrior-hero celebrated in the pre-Islamic
poems Mu'allaqat. Give me X (no points for Y).

Q2.
L'Inconnue de la Seine or "The Unknown Woman of the Seine"
was an unidentified young woman whose putative death mask
became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900.
Her visage inspired numerous literary works. In the United States,
the mask is also known as "La Belle Italienne". In the following
years, numerous copies were produced. The copies quickly
became a fashionable morbid fixture in
Parisian Bohemian society. Albert Camus and others compared
her enigmatic smile to that of the Mona Lisa, inviting numerous
speculations as to what clues the eerily happy expression in her
face could offer about her life, her death. And her place in the
society. Critic Al Alvarez wrote in his book on suicide, The Savage
God: "I am told that a whole generation of German girls modelled
their looks on her." Besides all this, this face has often been
referred to as ‘the most kissed face of all time’. Why? Image
follows.

She was the face of the first
CPR doll

Q3.
X was first isolated from the destructive
distillation of indigo, a plant used to
produce blue dye, in 1826. In 1834, it was
also isolated from coal tar. Further
attempts by several scientists yielded X by
different processes and, in 1841, C. J.
Fritzsche gave this blue oil the name “X”,
from the specific name of one of the indigo-
yielding plants, in turn being derived from
the Sanskrit nīla, dark-blue, and nīlā, the
indigo plant. What aromatic compound X?

Q4.
The registered patent No. 6,469 starts, “Be it known that
I, X, of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, in the
state of Illinois, have invented a new and improved
manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers
with a steam boat or other vessel for the purpose of
enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to
enable them to pass over bars, or through shallow
water, without discharging their cargoes.” It is the only
United States patent ever registered to a person of X’s
profession. X conceived the idea of inventing a
mechanism that would lift a boat over shoals and
obstructions in rivers when on two different occasions
the boat on which he travelled got hung up on
obstructions. ID X.

Black Hand (Unification or
Death)

Q7.
The icon used in all of Y’s projects is a reference to the
Xs collected by École Centrale's Networking Students'
Association. One day, people from the VIA association
(VIA is a students’ network association with many
clubs, one of them being Y) at École Centrale came
back drunk with a X. They then began a X collection
(which is now quite impressive, it must be said).
Sometime later, the Y project began and they decided to
use the X as their logo. The X icon design was changed
from a hand drawn low resolution icon to a higher
resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by
Richard Øiestad. What common roadside item X, and
the organization Y?

X = Traffic Cone
Y = VideoLAN (VLC will do)

Q8.
After receiving an interesting proposal from Steve
Hirsch, Founder/Co-CEO of Vivid Entertainment, X has
accepted his offer to star in porn films. In the letter,
Hirsch offered X $1 million to make sultry movies and
represent the company. "I would gladly represent the
company," X said at a recent press conference.
"Working in the porn industry would be a great
opportunity for my career." Vivid Entertainment and X
have already began filming the first porn movie called
"2 Girls 1 Crown." ID X or give funda.

X= Ariadna Gutierrez, Miss Colombia (first
runner-up/temporary winner of the ill-fated
Miss Universe competition)

Q9.
Puck the Faerie Dragon is a highly
mobile ranged intelligence hero in the DotA
universe best known for being an extremely
unpredictable and slippery target. Puck is commonly
played as an initiator and ganker, with spells that are
equally useful for super-aggressive manoeuvers as
well as daring escapes. Puck is a tribute to its
namesake from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream; aside from Puck's impish and playful attitude
which mirrors that of the Shakespearean Puck, its
line "A midsummer nightmare" is also an allusion to
the play. The majority of Puck’s dialogues also pay
homage to the Bard in a certain way. How? Image
follows.

Puck speaks largely in iambic
pentameter

Q10.
X is a psychological phenomenon described in 1973 in
which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have
positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the
point of defending and identifying with the captors. X
takes its roots from the Norrmalmstorg robbery during
which, several bank employees were held hostage in a
bank vault from August 23 to 28, 1973, while their captors
negotiated with police. During this standoff, the victims
became emotionally attached to their captors, rejected
assistance from government officials at one point, and
even defended their captors after they were freed from
their six-day ordeal. The FBI's Hostage Barricade
Database System shows that roughly eight percent of
victims show evidence of X. What is X, which has a very
popular Bollywood reference?

Stockholm Syndrome (seen in
Highway)

Q11.
A Nike advertising campaign has emerged which
describes X as ‘the bullet in the chamber’. The
advert is believed to date back to 2011 but re-
emerged on the morning of an infamous incident
involving X. About the incident, Nike said: “Nike
extends its deepest sympathy and condolences to all
families concerned following this tragic incident. As
it is a police matter, Nike will not comment further at
this time.” Although the ad has since been pulled off,
it remains to this date among the worst advertising
blunders of all time. Incidentally, X was also involved
in a 2008 Nike ad featuring other athletes with a
voiceover saying, “This is my weapon”. ID X.

Q12.
X was an engine manufacturing company founded in
Germany in 1916. Being a German company, as per the
terms dictated by the Versailles Armistice treaty, it had
to cease its aircraft-engine manufacturing after the
end of the First World War in 1918. The company
consequently shifted to motorcycle production as the
restrictions of the treaty started to be lifted in 1923,
followed by automobiles in 1928–29. The logo of this
company has been portrayed as the movement of an
aircraft propeller with the blades cutting through the
sky—but this is not the origin of the logo itself
although it has often been cited so, including a
reference to it in the movie ‘Finding Forrester’. Which
company?

Q13.
Running cable in tight spaces has long posed a problem for
designers and engineers in a wide variety of fields. The human
arm is only so small and so flexible, metal wire snakes can only
handle so many bends and snag frequently, and in many
installations it’s impossible to put the wire in ahead of time or
take apart the structure later to more easily place it. For over a
century X have been employed as cable carriers in all manner of
locations inaccessible to humans. In World War II, engineers at
Offutt Air Force Base used X to run cables inside the B-26 and B-
29 flying fortresses. In the summer of 1981 when Lady Diana
married Prince Charles, X were employed to run cables for
television and radio broadcasts through the walls of St. Paul’s
Cathedral in order to preserve the historic architecture. Despite
advances in micro-robotics and other technological solutions to
the cable-pulling problem, X continue to serve as economical
and easy-to-deploy solutions in a variety of settings. What is X?

Q14.
X is a blanket term with ironic connotations thought to
have been coined in an article in Wired magazine in
1997 and used by international, including Chinese,
media to refer to legislation and projects initiated by
the Chinese government (which is controlled by the
Communist Party of China, CPC) that attempt to
regulate the internet in Mainland China. It is the main
instrument to achieve Internet censorship in China.
These CPC regulations include criminalizing certain
online speech and activities, blocking from view
selected websites, and filtering key words out of
searches initiated from computers located in Mainland
China. What very appropriate term X?

Q15.In 1880 Captain Charles _______ was managing
land in Ireland when poor harvests struck. The
lord whose lands he was managing offered to
reduce the rents of his tenants, but the offer was
unsatisfactory. The tenants then refused to have
anything to do with Captain _______. The lands
were left untended, shops would not sell to his
family, and post was not delivered to his house.
Supplies were shipped to the estate from
England since no one would deal with him in
Ireland. In the end the protest was successful
and _______ became synonymous with targeted
ostracism. FITB.

Q16.
X is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in
the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The existence of
the village was documented for the first time in 1070, and
historical records show that some twenty years later,
the lord was Adalpertus de Fucingin. X is most famous for its
four traffic signs with its name on them, beside which tourists
stop to have their photograph taken, owing to the identical
spelling to the present participle and gerund of an English
word. The road signs were commonly stolen as souvenirs—the
only crime which has been reported in the village. In 2004,
owing mainly to the stolen signs, a vote was held on changing
the village's name, but the residents voted against doing so.
The local police chief hinted at stricter anti-theft measures,
saying “It may be very amusing for you British, but X is simply
X to us. What is this big X joke? It is puerile." Name the X
village.

Q17.Angle trisection is a classical problem of compass and
straightedge constructions of ancient Greek mathematics. It
concerns construction of an angle equal to one third of a
given arbitrary angle, using only two tools: an unmarked
straightedge, and a compass. The problem as stated is
generally impossible to solve, as shown by Pierre Wantzel in
1837. Wantzel's proof relies on ideas from the field of Galois
Theory — in particular, trisection of an angle corresponds to
the solution of a certain cubic equation, which is not possible
using the given tools. It is, however, possible to trisect an
arbitrary angle by using tools other than straightedge and
compass. Trisection, like many constructions impossible by
ruler and compass, can easily be accomplished by the more
powerful operations of X, a solution attributed to Hisashi
Abe. Huzita's axioms can construct cubic extensions (cube
roots) of given lengths, whereas ruler-and-compass can
construct only quadratic extensions (square roots). What age-

Pick Your Poison
• Teams get to chose one of the 7
themes available.
• Team which have the lowest score
gets to pick first in that order.
• 3 Questions per team.
• Rules are mentioned in the
respective slides.
• Please feel free to ask the QM about
the meaning of the theme.

Take your Pick -
• Punography
• 2MinuteDoodles
• AdHoc
• K.I.S.S.
• Spodermun
• What’s in a name
• All_I_Quote

 +10 for each right answer.
Question will be open to other team with pounce rules (+10/-5)
in effect IFF the team gets it wrong or passes the question.
Punography round revolves around puns and spoonerisms with
points awarded if the team gets the funda right .
Be very specific if you are pouncing or you might end up with
negatives (just a vague description might not be enough to
fetch you points).

1. What pun related to the realms of literature?

2. Pun on what statutory warning?

Do not consume if seal is broken

3. What is blanked out, that would conform to
the definition of a spoonerism?

( I’m not your “person of
interest”!)

Question will be open to other team with pounce rules (+10/-
5) in effect IFF the team gets it wrong or passes the question.
2MinuteDoodles round revolves around Google doodles with
Be very specific if you are pouncing or you might end up
with negatives (just a vague description might not be enough
to fetch you points).
2MinuteDoodles

Q1. Tribute to whom? Which
painting?

Vincent Van Gogh – Starry night

Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday – Tom
and Ben painting the fence

AdHoc round revolves around online and Print Ads with points
awarded if the team gets the funda right .
fetch you points).

Question will be open to other team with pounce rules
(+10/-5) in effect IFF the team gets it wrong or passes the
question.
K.I.S.S round revolves around minimalist works with

Q1. Ad by Greenpeace against what?

Incandescent bulbs – “Ordinary bulbs are
killing the environment” campaign.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

WebComics round involves comic strips with certain pieces of
text banked out. Points are awarded if the team gets the funda
right .
fetch you points).
WebComics

Q2. xkcd comic about what specific
initiative?

Q3.Give the funda. Half points from mentioning
each party involved. (5+5).

The Oatmeal – Funny Junk Lawsuit

Rosetta – Philae probe comet
landing

Question will be open to other team with pounce rules (+10/-
5) in effect IFF the team gets it wrong or passes the question.
What’s in a Name round revolves around word roots
(etymology) and points will be awarded ONLY if you get the
word right.
What’s in a Name

X is a word that comes from the Arabic term ‘ Al Zahr’
which means ‘the dice’. The term came to be associated
with dice during the Crusades and eventually took on a
negative connotation because games of dice were
associated with gambling. X is also the name of a
professional footballer. Give me X.
Q1.

Q2.
The use of the word X could be attributed to early beliefs
that changes in the moon triggered intermittent insanity
in people. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the
Elder argued that the full moon induced insane
individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light
during nights which would otherwise have been dark,
and affecting susceptible individuals through the well-
known route of sleep deprivation. What word?

Q3.
X is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which
the weft passes under two or more warp threads.
This twill weaving produces a diagonal ribbing that
distinguishes it from cotton duck. Historically, X was
made in Nimes, France. It was therefore originally
referred by a French phrase that literally translates to
"fabric from Nimes". The word "serge” in the phrase soon
disappeared and left us with “X” which we continue to
use even today. Give me X.

Audience?
The word X actually originated in the United Kingdom as a
shortened portmanteau of the concerned association name
ie. "socca” . This turned into the word “X" that is still used in
the US, Canada, and Australia. Give me X.

Question will be open to other team with pounce rules (+10/-5) in
effect IFF the team gets it wrong or passes the question.
All I Quote round revolves around Quotations by famous
personalities, with teams getting points only if they name the person
right (Surnames will do).
negatives (just a vague description might not be enough to fetch you
points).

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