Credenz 2012 Quiz Finals

QUIZ
@
CREDENZ 2012
Final Round

RULES
• Quiz master is
always right

FORMAT
• Infinite Bounce unless stated otherwise
• 18 + 18 dry questions , 6 + 6 written rounds
• First 18 questions will move - clockwise
• 1-2-3-4-5-6
• Next 18 questions will move counter-clockwise
• 6-5-4-3-2-1

SCORING
• For dry questions
• +10 for correct answers
• No negatives on passed questions
• Partial points on discretion of QM
• If no team answers, next question goes to same team
• You’re allowed 3 chances in the entire quiz to pounce on someone
else’s question - +10 to all correct teams, -5 if you’re wrong
• For written
• +5 for correct answers
• No negatives

“When I was young, there
was an amazing publication
called The Whole Earth
Catalog, which was one of
the bibles of my generation.
It was sort of like Google in
paperback form, 35 years
before Google came along. It
was idealistic and
overflowing with neat tools
and great notions.”

What has been blanked out
from the back cover of the
1974 issue of the publication?

According to legend Parashurama, the avatar of
Vishnu, retrieved ________ from the sea by
throwing his axe into the sea whereupon the sea
fell back to the place where his axe fell. Hence
this place is also called Parshurama Kshetra.

The ______ Hindu Permanent Fund was
established by the philanthropist Ammembal
Subba Rao Pai in Mangalore, India, on 1 July
1906. It’s latter day avatar became a nationalized
bank in 1969.

_______ is a narrative device in Punjabi Folk
music. It's creation has been attribute to
Muhammad Alam Lohar who derived it from
reading early Sufi spiritual writings.

Originally, the device was used as an innocent
observer to make incisive observations - often
humorous, sometimes sad but always touching. It
was only later on that it was transformed by other
singers to represent a young girl, the form one
may have observed in Bollywood songs.

Research and Intelligence
Analysis Wing Bureau ?

DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE
INTELLIGENCE

THE BIG MAC INDEX

INDIA DOES NOT SERVE BEEF.

When Takashi Hashiyama decided to auction off the collection
of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation,
including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he
contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's International
and Sotheby's Holdings, seeking their proposals. Both firms
made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough
to get Hashiyama’s business.
Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions,
Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who
would hold the auction.
When the houses were unable to reach a decision, Hashiyama
told the two firms to play _________ to decide who would get
the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks
strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide
between two things which are equally good".

The nickname X was first
given to Y by his
grandparents. It came
about due to a
resemblance to the
character "X X" from Y's
favorite television
program as a child.
The player himself has
said about it "I have
grown to appreciate it
because it's unique. It's
not everyday an athlete is
nicknamed after a
cartoon character!"

“Before 1986, Hong Kong cinema was firmly rooted in two genres:
the martial arts film and the comedy. _______ was not terribly
popular because audiences had considered it boring, compared to
fancy kung-fu moves or graceful swordplay of the wu shu epics.
What moviegoers needed was a new way to present _______ - to
show it as a skill that could be honed, integrating the acrobatics
and grace of the traditional martial arts. And that's exactly what
John Woo did. Using all of the visual techniques available to him
(tracking shots, dolly-ins, slo-mo), Woo created beautifully
surrealistic action sequences that were a 'guilty pleasure' to watch.
There is also intimacy found in the ________ - typically, his
protagonists and antagonists will have a profound understanding of
one another and will meet face-to-face, in a tense Mexican standoff
where they each point their weapons at one another and trade
words.”

What did John Woo originate in For A Better Tomorrow?

Spoof on which company’s logo?

According to a poll by Fuji Research Institute, the greatest
Japanese invention of the 20th Century
1. X
2. Y
3. Sony Walkman
4. Home Computer Console
5. Compact Disc
6. Compact Cameras
7. Films of Akira Kurosawa
8. Poketto Monsters
9. Automobile related technology
10. Sushi

Totaling time + Audience
questions

What comprises of The Magician, The High
Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The
Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength,
The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The
Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil,
The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun,
Judgement, The World and The Fool.

Written by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn
Ulvaeus, and lyricist Tim Rice, this song was part of
Chess, a musical based on the 1972 “Match of the
Century” between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky.
Chess had a troubled run both in London’s West End
and on Broadway, but the song charted worldwide,
reaching #3 in the US.

The song was covered by Mike Tyson in 2011.

What do the letters ‘S.F’ stand for and mean?

SCUDERIA FERRARI, THE FERRARI STABLE

The codling moth are known as an
agricultural pest, their larva being the
common apple worm or maggot. Their
genus provides the name of a widely used
application in the world. Which
application?

• The House of __X__ was the reigning family of the
Kingdom of Hawaii between the unification of the
islands by __X__ I in 1810 and the death of __X__
V in 1872
• X is also a part of the Pacific Ocean to the West of
Hawaii, named by Japan, unrelated to the ruler.
The name roughly translates to "wave that winds
up with the turtles"(directly "turtle contact wave")
because the area was known for its turtles.
• X is also an iconic fictional attack that takes
milliseconds to charge and ages to yell out :D

"Back to the Start", a film by Johnny Kelly, depicts the
life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into
an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors
of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future.
Coldplay's haunting classic 'The Scientist' is
performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for
the soundtrack of the short film entitled, "Back to the
Start." Both the film and the soundtrack were
commissioned by _________ to emphasize the
importance of developing a sustainable food system.

Though ________ was always the title character, his
original moniker was "Spider," and the strip was
about the wacky shenanigans of a kid going to
college. Early on in the series, _______ "accidentally"
joined the Army. This was meant to be a one-off
storyline poking fun at military life. But with America
just entering into the Korean War at the time,
__________'s military antics proved especially
popular -- so it was decided he would not return to
school after all.

X's father, Robert, a scholar and professor at
Columbia University of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist
studies, was the first westerner to be ordained as
a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He gave his children a
Buddhist upbringing. X's given name comes from
the Tibetan term Dbuma Chenpo (from
Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning "Great
Middle Way") while her middle name Karuna
means the “perfect virtue of compassion”.

The name X came from the creator's favorite horse
on their Tennessee farm which died a few months
before the product started selling. However in the
UK and Ireland, what Americans called X was sold
under the name Y. In 1990, recognizing growing
globalization and the need for stronger branding
worldwide, the company changed the name to X.
However in 2008 the company has also re-
registered the Y brand as a trademark in the UK
and soon started selling it in an attempt to cash in
on retro revival appeal.

"It was back in 1990 that I set out on a project in memetic
engineering. The X-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out
of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on
the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, the labeling of posters
or their ideas as "similar to the X" or "_______-like" was a recurrent
and often predictable event. It was the kind of thing that made you
wonder how debates had ever occurred without having that handy
rhetorical hammer. "

"So, I set out to conduct an experiment - to build a counter-meme
designed to make discussion participants see how they are acting as
vectors to a particularly silly and offensive meme...and perhaps to
curtail the glib X comparisons.
I developed Y's Law of X Analogies: As an online discussion grows
longer, the probability of a comparison involving X or ______
approaches one. "

Caravaggio (1986) Throat sliced open
War Requiem (1989) Shot in the hand and then has a bayonet run through his body
The Field (1990) Falls over a cliff whilst running from a herd of stampeding cows
Lorna Doone (1990) Punished by drowning in a mire
Clarissa (1991) Stabbed with a rapier
Patriot Games (1992) Beaten, impaled on a boat anchor and then blown up
Scarlett (1994) Stabbed to death
GoldenEye (1995) Crushed to death
Airborne (1998) Shot in the chest
Essex Boys (2000) Gunned down
_____ (2001) Shot full of arrows
Don’t Say A Word (2001) Buried alive
_____ (2002) Shot
Henry VIII (2003) Hung By Chains
The Island (2005) Hung by a cable after having been shot through the neck by a grappling hook
Far North (2007) Frozen
Outlaw (2007) Shot multiple times
The Hitcher (2007) Shot
Red Riding : TYOL 1973 (2008) Shot
Ca$h (2010) Shot, body disposed of in a car compactor
Death Race 2 (2010) Shot in the chest
Black Death (2010) Quartered while also suffering from the Bubonic Plague
Age of Heroes (2011) Firefight with enemy forces
______ (2011) Beheaded

The phrase “___________” is an idiomatic
expression used to convey surprise or
astonishment but it can be also used sarcastically
in response to an obvious statement. The image
of X was taken from a scene in the 1988 black
comedy film Vampire’s Kiss, which revolves
around a troubled literary agent’s descent into
madness after convincing himself that he is
turning into a vampire. His unique facial
expression was taken from a particular scene in
which X’s character Peter Loew torments his
secretary in a disturbing manner.

The cocktail X is made by adding 1 oz. Grenadine at the
bottom, 1 oz. Crème de Menthe in the middle and 1/2
oz. each of rum and banana liqueur at the top.

How do we better know Skipper, Kowalski,
Private and Rico?

It turns out the expression is written in the script
simply as “annoyed grunt”. It was inspired by Jimmy
Finlayson from the Laurel and Hardy movies. The
reasoning goes that Finlayson would want to say
damn but in those times he couldn't and had to settle
for a substitute. A shortened version of this
expression was used because it made for better
pacing.

Interestingly, despite it’s popularity and regular
usage, it continues to appear in the script as ‘annoyed
grunt’. What's the expression?

Rachael Nedrow, a Chinese American from
Portland, Oregon is an online personality
who posts Sport stacking videos on YouTube.
She is also unofficially the second fastest
female Sport Stacker in the world.

Nedrow’s video were found by the music
artist X and her voice was sampled by him in
two tracks, one of them going on the become
his most commercially successful track - Y

X – SKRILLEX
Y – SCARY MONSTERS AND NICE SPRITES

Stjarnan F.C. is an Icelandic sports club specialising in
football, located in Garðabær, which currently plays
in the Úrvalsdeild (Men's Premier Division) league in
the Icelandic football division system, having won
promotion in the fall of 2008.
However, the team has become famous
internationally due to something unique they started
recently, making them an internet sensation. What?

A _________ is a metal
grate with parallel bars
typically used for grilling
meat, fish, vegetables.

The term _________ is now used as an umbrella
terms for related codes of a certain game. Originally,
it referred to the sport's playing field due to the its
patterned markings which give it the appearance of
a _________.

A __________ is a small icon adjacent to a post or an
article to indicate the availability of an RSS feed, or
to allow users to share the information via social
media. The term used in this context refers back to
the square, pillow shape of ________.

From the The Guiness World Records certificate –
X in <location> is the world's largest comprehensive Hindu
temple. It measures 356 ft (109 m). long, 316 ft (96 m). wide
and 141 ft (43 m). high, covering an area of 86,342 sq ft (8,021.4
m2). The grand, ancient-style, ornately hand-carved stone
temple has been built without structural steel within five years
by 11,000 artisans and volunteers. His Holiness <person>,
revered spiritual leader of <organization>, consecrated the
temple on 6 November 2005. X showcases the essence of
India's ageless art, borderless culture and timeless values.

Three temples, the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, the
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam, and the
Annamalaiyar Temple in Thiruvannamalai, all located in Tamil
Nadu, India, are claimed to be larger than X. The trustees of
these temples have reportedly disputed the Guinness World
Record.

SWAMINARAYAN AKSHARDHAM IN DELHI

According to the British tabloid press, Pippa Middleton is currently
in a relationship with George Percy, heir to the Duke of
Northumberland. He is known by a nickname, derived from his
residence, Alnwick Castle, shown below. What is this nickname?

Hans Zimmer on Ujam.com
“We need to hear your voices! Now and Loud! We
are creating the sound of a worldwide chant.
Everyone come and be part of it. It's easy: There is
no such thing as out-of-tune, no timing we can't fix
later. If you mumble, growl, scream or whisper, it's
all good. Make it yours. If you only get halfway
through, no problem! Do it alone, bring your
friends, but do it with energy and commitment. Let
your voice be heard and be a part of our adventure!"

Many North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
militaries refer to these incidents as blue on blue,
which derives from military exercises where NATO
forces were identified by blue pennants while and
Warsaw Pact forces were identified by orange
pennants. Another term for such incidents is fratricide,
a word that originally refers to the act of a person
killing his brother. What is the more commonly used
military term?

What do the following make up?
• Mitra Bhedha (The Loss of friends)
• Mitra Laabha (Gaining friends)
• Suhrudbheda (Causing dissension between
friends)
• Vigraha (Separation)
• Sandhi (Union)

X has always called Y her mentor. He handpicked
her for films when she was just 16, and he 42, and
also groomed her for the line of work you would
now associate her with.

X – JAYALALITHA
Y – M G RAMACHANDRAN

X used to sing in trains around the Sion station in
Mumbai where one fine day filmmaker Anand
Surapur came across her and offered her to sing for an
album. It was in his office that music director Y came
across her. So impressed was Y by the texture of her
voice that she offered her to sing the song Z. When X
was asked the meaning of her offbeat song and she
says, "Z matlab poora satyanash"

X – DURGA
Y – SNEHA KHANWALKAR
Z – CHI CHA LEDAR

“All happy families are alike but an unhappy
family is unhappy after its own fashion.”

A great opening sentence that's been basically
stripped of meaning by everyone always quoting
it, mangling it, using variations on it as voice-
over intros to their indie films, but is still pretty
great. Which book is it from?

_________ is a food products MNC that claims world
leadership in fresh dairy products and also in bottled
water. Due to its narrow focus and relatively small size,
_______ is potentially an attractive takeover target for its
competitors. In mid-July 2005, the share price of the
company rose 20% within two weeks on rumours of a bid
approach by PepsiCo.

Upon realising that a takeover of a this "national
treasure" by a foreign company was indeed possible in
the capital markets, the "economically patriotic"
government stepped in by drafting a law to protect
companies in "strategic industries" from takeover. This
has been dubbed the "_______ Law".

________ International Inc. is a corporation based in San
Francisco that offers its users hospitality exchange and social
networking services.

___________ is the practice of moving from one friend's
house to another, sleeping in whatever spare space is
available, floor or couch, generally staying a few days before
moving on to the next house.

The _______ project was conceived by Casey Fenton in 1999.
According to Fenton's account, the idea arose after finding
an inexpensive flight from Boston to Iceland. Fenton
randomly e-mailed 1,500 students from the University of
Iceland asking if he could stay. He ultimately received more
than 50 offers of accommodation.

During the 1950s, this drink was going out of
style. For whatever reason, people started
thinking of it as something low class, only
consumed for the side effects. To turn the tide,
the Pan-American Bureau for the drink poured a
ridiculous $2 million a year into making
Americans love it again. To do this, they recruited
sociologist John B. Watson. Watson struck on a
practice that within a year was followed by 80%
of businesses. What did Watson create that
revived the industry?

When the band was working on the album, most of
the songs didn't have titles. They referred to this as
"The Religious Section" or "The Mortality Sequence."
This is one of a few songs by the band to use a
female vocal. Alan Parsons, who produced the
album, brought in a singer he knew of named Clare
Torry. Parsons explained in Rolling Stone - "She had
to be told not to sing any words: when she first
started, she was doing 'Oh yeah baby' and all that
kind of stuff, so she had to be restrained on that. But
there was no real direction - she just had to feel it."
The band said in 1998 interview - "We’d been
thinking Madeleine Bell or Doris Troy and we
couldn’t believe it when this housewifely white
woman walked in. But when she opened her mouth,
well, she wasn’t too quick at finessing what we
wanted, but out came that orgasmic sound we know
and love."

Patent #6,469 for "A Device for Buoying Vessels
Over Shoals“ is the only patent held by an
American President.

Tributes to which
album cover?

Because of the then democratic nature of the existing
line, X felt that he had to make use of new and
unconventional advertising methods. He designed the
costumes for Y, a 1980 film, the success of which led to a
long-term collaboration with the world of film. Y is all
about X. In two hours it parades every single line across
the screen: formal, semi-formal, casual, daytime,
evening, leisurewear, underwear, accessories. The pretext
is how these sartorial choices define the protagonist,
though really we are watching how his clothes define the
Y name; literally brand creation on film. The public
developed an increasingly insatiable demand for his
minimalist style and in the 1980 awards season, X went
from an unknown designer to becoming synonymos with
style. It took years for other designers to catch on. By
2001, X was acclaimed as the most successful designer to
come out of his country.

From Uncyclopedia –
_______ was an action-packed buddy comedy
series that ran from 1542-1549, featuring
philosophers X and Y as themselves. The series
was noted for its recurring themes of theological
introspection, philosophical anthropology, the
study of the nation-state, and use of cardboard
boxes that could turn into any machine they
wanted it to.

Raj Patel is yet another new student at ________. Raj
is of Indian descent and lives with his father Ravi, his
mother Mona and his sister Tina. He befriended X
after moving to town. Raj’s favorite hobby is
filmmaking. He is an expert on no budget special
effects, and builds his own models for science fiction
movies. He is well liked at school, but sometimes his
filmmaking gets on people's nerves. Ravi Patel is a
doctor who wishes his son would take up more
serious issues, while Mona is more supportive. Tina
is a year younger than Raj, but she is such a good
student that she was moved up a grade so that both
she and Raj are in the same year as the rest of the
gang.

On May 24th, 2011, the President and the First
Lady paid a visit to the Queen of England at the
Buckingham Palace. During the presidential
couple’s visit, a peculiar photograph of the couple
looking rather startled was taken by a Reuters
photojournalist. The President’s summit with the
British royal family was widely covered by the
British news media and the photograph was
featured two days later as “Picture of the Day” by
The Telegraph.

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