December Quiz Session

Q1.
“For most of history, X was a woman.” This is a famous
Virginia Woolf quote.
X is also described as a network of activist and hacktivist
entities. Known for their projects like Operation Darknet
and Project Chanology, X originated in 2003 on the
imageboard of 4chan.
The supporters and members of X are seen at protests
wearing Y masks, a popular mask used in protests.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Anonymous
Y = Guy Fawkes

Q2.
X is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer and
DJ. Initially becoming the lead singer of the alternative rock band
The Sugarcubes, X rose to prominence as a solo artist with albums
like Debut (1993), Post (1995) and Homogenic (1997), while
collaborating with a range of artists.
Nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, one Academy Award, and two
Golden Globe Awards, X won the Best Actress Award at the 2000
Cannes Film Festival for her performance in the Danish musical
drama film Y.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Björk
Y = Dancer in the Dark

Q3.
X is an illustrated manuscript hand-written in an unknown
writing system. X has been carbon dated to the early
fifteenth century and may have been composed in Northern
Italy during the Italian Renaissance.
Named after a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912,
X has been studied by many professional and amateur
cryptographers, but nobody has been able to decipher the
text. The mystery and origin of X has excited popular
imagination making the manuscript the subject of different
speculations.
Identify X.

Q4.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward), a former US
Army soldier was convicted in 2013 for violating the Espionage Act
after disclosing classified military documents that included Army
reports that came to be known as ‘Iraq War Logs’ and ‘Afghan War
Diary’, to a non profit media organization X . This was the first
most important news leak to be associated with X.
Criticized as well as praised by people, companies like eBay, Pay-
Pal and AMAZON froze its assets and refused to do business with X
in 2010 which prompted an ‘Operation Payback’ often described as
a cyberwar.
Name X.

Q5.
X is a tone poem by Richard Strauss composed in 1896.
X became particularly well known after its use in 2001: A
Space Odyssey.
X is also the name of a philosophical novel by Friedrich
Nietzsche.
Identify X.

ANSWER
X = Also sprach Zarathustra
(Thus spoke Zarathustra)

Q6.
X (probably 1340-1418) was a successful French scribe
and manuscript-seller. After his death, X developed a
reputation as an alchemist believed to have discovered
the Y and achieved immortality.
X and Y have been referenced many times in the first
book of the Harry Potter series, with a chapter of the
book named after X.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Nicolas Flamel
Y = Philosopher’s Stone

Q7.
X is a name given to an organization that on six occasions has posted a
set of puzzles and alternate reality games to possibly recruit code
breakers/linguists from the public. The first internet puzzle started on
January 4, 2012 and ran for approximately one month and this
continued each year.
Focusing heavily on data security, cryptography, and stenography X
had been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the
internet age”. Speculations about X include that the puzzles are a
recruitment tool for the NSA, CIA, and MI6 or that it is an alternate
reality game.
The plot of “Nautilus”, Episode 2 of Season 4 of the TV show Person of
Interest features a large-scale game very similar to X.

Q8.
X is an actor who had acted in five feature films all of
which were nominated for Academy Award for Best
Picture.
X started his career with The Godfather with longtime
friend Al Pacino. Years after his death X appeared in
archive footage in a sixth feature film The Godfather Part
3 which went on to be nominated for Academy Award for
Best Picture as well.
Identify X.

Q9.
Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature X refused it
saying that he always declined official honors and that “a
writer should not allow himself to be turned into an
institution.”
X was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political
activist, biographer and literary critic, also noted for his
open relationship with another prominent feminist
philosopher.
Identify X.

Q10.
X and Y are acclaimed directors who along with
Guillermo del Toro are collectively known as “The Three
Amigos of Cinema”.
Y was the first director of his nationality to be nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Director whereas X was
the first director of his nationality to win the Academy
Award for Best Director.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Alfonso Cuarón
Y = Alejandro González Iñárritu

Q11.
X was an American rock singer and songwriter. One of the
biggest female rock stars of her era, her fourth album,
Pearl, which released three months after her death reached
number one on the Billboard Charts. X rose to fame as the
lead singer of the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the
Holding Company, finally leaving the band to continue her
work as a solo artist.
An encounter in a hotel with X has been the inspiration
behind a famous song Y by another renowned Canadian
singer.
Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X = Janis Hoplin
Y = Chelsea Hotel

Q12.
The phrase “The Three B’s of Classical Music” is
attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van
Beethoven and X.
X was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic
period. Hector Berlioz, the French Romantic composer,
used to be one of the Three B’s before X was substituted
in his place by German conductor and composer Hans
von Bulow.
Identify X.

Q1. What has been blacked out ?

Q2.
• X is an American science fiction tv series created by Justin Roiland and
Dan Harmon. This series originated from an animated short parody
film of Back to the Future.
• This series mocks several other films or tv series as well as pop cultures.
Charlie and the Choclate Factory, Inception, Jurassic Park, Mad Max Fury
Road etc.
• It’s theme is inspired from Doctor Who and Farscapes to add the essence
of “super sci-fi.”
• However, a food item Y has become very popular among its viewers due to
its mention in the series. Some of the fans created nuisance in stores
demanding that particular food item Y. Several videos of outbursts for that
item went viral on social medias.
• ID X and Y.

ANSWER
X= RICK AND MORTY
Y= SCHEZWAN SAUCE

Q3.
•The X on the Y: A Christmas Tradition is a 2005 children's picture
book, written by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell, and
illustrated by Coë Steinwart. The book tells a Christmas-themed story,
written in rhyme, that explains how Santa Claus knows who is naughty
and who is nice. It describes elves visiting children
between Thanksgiving and Christmas eve, after which they return to
the North Pole until the next holiday season.
•Recently, the term has been surfacing through social medias and
gained a lot of popularity. (Image next slide)
•Id X and Y.

Q4.
•The term X comes from an Italian word. Since the middle ages
until late 17th century some Catholic popes and Bishops who
had taken vows of chastity, and therefore usually had no
legitimate offspring of their own, gave their nephews such
positions of preference as were often accorded by fathers to
son.
•Recently in India, “X rocks” was said by Varun Dhawan in IIFA
2017 created a huge controversy leading him to tweet an
apology. The term has been much discussed on social medias
since then.
•Id X.

Q5.
•Aleksandr Sokurov held the record of shooting a 96 min. long
documentary in one shot. However, on 7th November, 2004; an episode
of X aired on Indian television almost 111 minutes long and the whole
sequence only one shot.
•This currently holds the title of the longest shot in Limca Book of World
Records and Guiness Book of World Records too. The episode was
named as Inheritance.
•This was a special episode of that show and was run continuously
without any commercial breaks.
•Id X i.e. the show.

Q6.
•1. Jury in a trial.
•2. Hot dog Vendor
•3. life savior of a young girl
•4. victim of a bus accident
•5. Security guard
•6. Librarian
•7. Bus Driver reading a book by Huxley
•8. Beauty pageant judge.
This is a non-exhaustive list of
something. Put Funda.

Q7.
What
are the
names
hidden
beneath
the
colored
boxes?

ANSWER
Y= PADMAVATI
R= TASLIMA NASRIN

Q1. WHO FROM WHICH MOVIE
?
ID this man,and this film where he had a supporting
cameo role.

ANSWER
• Sir Elton John
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Q2.
Gotham by Gaslight, written by
Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola is
a DC comics one-shot, where a
Victorian-era Batman fights against
Jack the Ripper. The story shows
Bruce Wayne studying in Vienna
where he strikes up a friendship
with X.
(picture shown in next slide)
Identify X.

Q3.
“I think it definitely involved a lot, my engagement into
what’s happening in Latin America and the rest of the
world, in a way. It really had a big impact and it
reaffirmed many things. It surprised me in many ways
that I never thought it was gonna surprise me. What was
amazing was the experience of having travelled there… I
had to live that journey to understand what was
happening and be able to portray it”- actor Gael Garcia
Bernal on portraying an iconic 20th century figure.
Incidentally he portrayed the figure on-screen twice in
his career.
Who ?

Q4.
In 2010, Mr. and Mrs. Panvalkar from the posh
Chowpatty area of South Mumbai made news for their
obstructionism when asked to vacate their apartment by
a local developer, Rohan Landscapes who wanted to
demolish the existing building to make way for a high
profile collaboration.
However, this deal fell through since it dragged on for
too long, with the Panvalkar family holding on despite all
odds. The famous Lodha group jumped in and took the
partnership forward, with the project expected to be fully
operational by 2018.
Which famous project was this, whose owner had high
praise for the city’s real estate scene ?

Q5.
This quote occurs in the second season of
the anime ‘Arakawa under the Bridge’ when
the characters are discussing the proper
method to have a tea party and a
suggestion is made to tie the hair
backwards in a ponytail–like knot in the
classical style of Nobunaga, in order to
properly have a tea drinking ceremony.
What remark, made about the way to
prepare tea and tie hair am I talking about ?

Answer
Ah. I see you are a man of culture as well

Q6.
Sufferers of O, are characterized by intense and often
delusional distrust of their partners. The syndrome is
also called morbid jealousy and is often associated with
alcoholism and sexual dysfunction. It can also be found
in the context of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
What is O ?

Q7.
In the MCU film, Iron Man, X appears at
a gala cavorting with three blonde
women where Tony Stark mistakes him
for Hugh Hefner. In the theatrical
release of the film, Stark simply greets
X as “Hef” and moves on without seeing
his face; another version of the scene
was filmed, where Stark realizes his
mistake, but X graciously responds,
“That’s okay, I get this all the time”.
Who ?

Q9.
The person in this picture (image on next slide) is
Griffin Kiritsy. He graduated from the University of
New Hampshire in 2011 with a B.A in English
Literature. He currently works as a school teacher in
Boston.
In a Reddit AMA, Griffin Kiritsy wrote that – “It was
an interview for Reader’s Digest I did in 2007 as a
X. The topic was people that are in touch with
technology, and since I played Halo and had a
laptop and a sidekick, I was allegedly in touch with
technology. The caption under the photo was
something like “X Griffin Kiritsy” and it went on
Reader’s Digest online, and subsequently entered
into the web forever and became a meme”.
Which meme ?

Answer
• College Freshman Meme

Q9.
This actor, shown wearing a brown paper bag written, "I
am not famous anymore”(a reference to one of his rather
eccentric tweets), announced his retirement from public
life, but ended it in just three weeks,in 2014.
In 2016,Lindsay Lohan did the same thing.
Who is he ?
(Image on the next slide)

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Q1.
 X is a contemporary Bengali author who is most
famous for a quartet, whose 2nd part earned him the
Sahitya Academy Award. The month of September
marked 50 years of his literary career. He created a
detective character by the name Y. His book Z has been
translated to English, which involves four friends who
take on the society to change it for better. Later, they
are able to create an Utopian village in the mountains.
 Identify X and Y
 Bonus for Z

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ANSWER
 X = SAMARESH MAJUMDAR
 Y= ARJUN
 Z= GORBHODHARINI

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Q2.
 X is an Australian singer-songwriter who goes by the
stage name Y.
 His debut album was ‘Built on Glass’. His cover of ‘No
Diggity’ was his first rise to limelight.
 His name Y is a homage to another Jazz artist.
 Name X and Y.

ANSWER
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X= NICK MURPHY
Y= CHET FAKER

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Q3.
 The city of Bhagyanagar, established in 1591, gets its
name from Bhagwati, a local dancing girl, whom the
founder of the city had fallen in love with. She later
converted to Islam and adopted the title X. The current
name of the city is also derived from X. Which city is
being referred to?
Bonus points for X

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Q4.
 X is a stew popular in Middle East which always includes wheat or
lentils, introduced to India during the Mughal period.
 This is derived from an Arabic dish Y.
 Identify X and Y

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ANSWER
 X= HALEEM
 Y= HAREES

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Q5.
 This is the only known case of a parasite assumed to be
functionally replacing a host organ.This parasite enters fish
through the gills, and then attaches itself to the fish's ____.
The female attaches to the _____ and the male attaches on
the gill and arches beneath and behind the female.
 It also shows another interesting phenomena regarding
reproduction. If there is no female present, within a pair of
two males, one male can turn into a female after it grows to
10 millimetres (0.4 in) in length.
 What is the organ it replaces?

ANSWER
Tongue Eating Louse
(Cymothoa exigua)
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Q6.
 This word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός, which is
taken from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) meaning "to tear
flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer". Current usage also is
a form of ‘hurt’. Which word is being referred to?

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Q7.
 Susan Bennett is an American voice over artist, whose
voice has been used in numerous local and national
television advertisements for Ford, Coca-Cola,Fisher-
Price, McDonald's, The Home Depot,Goodyear, Visa,
Macy's, Hot Pockets, Club Med, and Cartoon Network,
among others.
 What is she actually famous for?

ANSWER
The voice of Siri
(Not Carly Rae Jepsen, no)
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Q8.
 X is an Indian scientist who was a member of the team
that invented the CMOS image sensor, which is now
used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras to
those in space telescopes.
 X had worked for NASA for 15 years as senior research
and scientist before quitting in 2008. He has 87
patents to his name.
 X is also a film director, producer and screenwriter who
had won a National Film Award for Best First Film of a
Director for his movie Y in 2012.
 Identify X and Y.

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ANSWER
 X= BEDABRATA PAIN
 Y= CHITTAGONG

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Q9.
Lucifer, a show that is currently airing on Fox TV, is about the
Devil himself, who comes to Los Angeles and takes on the
persona of Lucifer Morningstar- the "devilishly" handsome
and rich owner of the nightclub 'Lux' who teams up with
Detective Chloe Decker from the LAPD as they investigate
homicides.
 Lucifer originally started out as a character in the X comic
series created by three people, Y being most prominent and
well-known among then. Lucifer later became the
protagonist of the spin-off comic book series Lucifer written
by Mike Carey, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
 Name X and Y.

ANSWER
 X= SANDMAN COMICS
 Y= NEIL GAIMAN
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