Conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 20th March 2023. Themed on fun facts and amazing fundas on general topics. The set above consists of questions from qualifiers round conducted for each branch in NITW.
The document provides information about an upcoming quiz competition to be held on February 4th, 2023 in Behala, Kolkata. It gives the details of the sponsor, organizer, venue, timings, prize money and directions to reach the venue. The quiz will have a preliminary round followed by a final round with the top 8 teams. The first, second and third prize winners will receive trophies and cash prizes.
The document describes the rules and questions for "The Biz-Tech Quiz" hosted by IIT Kanpur Quiz Club quizmaster Anshul Roy. It contains 20 multiple choice questions across various topics like business, technology, entertainment, and history. The rules specify the scoring scheme and that the quizmaster's decisions are final.
1. Sony is the major electronics maker whose name comes from the Latin word for sound. It was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka.
2. The picture depicts John F. Kennedy, who had back problems and preferred to read newspapers standing up. Taken in 1961, the photo became iconic during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The picture is called the "Burden of Leadership", taken by George Tames for the New York Times.
3. Disney originally planned to adapt several of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for a live-action/animation film in the 1940s, but found The Snow Queen character too difficult to adapt for modern audiences. The deadlock was recently broken with
Literary Affairs Committee (LAC), SVNIT Surat presents India Quiz 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day 2022. This was the final round for the final 8 teams, out of 400 teams, all across India.
This quiz was hosted on 15th May 2022 as a part of Phoenix, the technology festival of the Future Institute of Engineering and Management (FIEM). It was an open-to-all general quiz with alphabetical prelims. The top 10 teams qualified to the finals. The winner ended the quiz with 145 points, while the other positions were decided by pounce in the very last question.
Conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 20th March 2023. Themed on fun facts and amazing fundas on general topics. The set above consists of questions from qualifiers round conducted for each branch in NITW.
The document provides information about an upcoming quiz competition to be held on February 4th, 2023 in Behala, Kolkata. It gives the details of the sponsor, organizer, venue, timings, prize money and directions to reach the venue. The quiz will have a preliminary round followed by a final round with the top 8 teams. The first, second and third prize winners will receive trophies and cash prizes.
The document describes the rules and questions for "The Biz-Tech Quiz" hosted by IIT Kanpur Quiz Club quizmaster Anshul Roy. It contains 20 multiple choice questions across various topics like business, technology, entertainment, and history. The rules specify the scoring scheme and that the quizmaster's decisions are final.
1. Sony is the major electronics maker whose name comes from the Latin word for sound. It was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka.
2. The picture depicts John F. Kennedy, who had back problems and preferred to read newspapers standing up. Taken in 1961, the photo became iconic during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The picture is called the "Burden of Leadership", taken by George Tames for the New York Times.
3. Disney originally planned to adapt several of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for a live-action/animation film in the 1940s, but found The Snow Queen character too difficult to adapt for modern audiences. The deadlock was recently broken with
Literary Affairs Committee (LAC), SVNIT Surat presents India Quiz 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day 2022. This was the final round for the final 8 teams, out of 400 teams, all across India.
This quiz was hosted on 15th May 2022 as a part of Phoenix, the technology festival of the Future Institute of Engineering and Management (FIEM). It was an open-to-all general quiz with alphabetical prelims. The top 10 teams qualified to the finals. The winner ended the quiz with 145 points, while the other positions were decided by pounce in the very last question.
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Ambika and Rajat for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
General quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 8th April 2022, as a part of a trilogy of quizzes for the college fest Spring Spree 2022. The set has both the Prelims and Finals which include various questions on wide range of topics and quite derivable answers.
In-house sci-tech filler quiz for HighQ 2023 set by Bisma Khan, Sehajpreet Kaur, Prachi Goyal, Subham Priya, and Mallika Ghosh. HighQ Day-1 (16.02.2023).
The document discusses Don Bosco School in Liluah. It provides details about the school's location and mentions that it was founded in 1958. It has provided quality education to students for over 60 years and is known for its emphasis on moral values and discipline along with academics.
This document contains a 12 question business quiz with trivia questions ranging from identifying companies, products, people and important events. Some of the questions identify Charles Wang's philanthropic organization (Smile Train), the movie and gadget that inspired the popular Talkboy toy (Home Alone 2, Talkboy), the founder of Essential General Trading LLC (Raj Kundra), the social audio app launched in 2020 (Clubhouse), the Pepsi drink released in the 1990s (Crystal Pepsi), the actor and company used in a COVID-19 ad campaign for local stores (Shah Rukh Khan, Cadbury), the special toilet paper installed at an airport (to wipe smartphones), the soap brand and new variant
The document describes an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Roman de la Aventure on 8th January 2022 at the Seoraphuli Satyajit Ray Auditorium in Kolkata, West Bengal. Teams of up to 2 members can register for Rs. 20 per team. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals where cash prizes will be awarded to the podium winners.
Trials by Trivia - The General Quiz: A quiz on random general trivia was held under Parakh 2.0: the Quizzing Festival of Quiz Club IIT Patna in August 2022.
Breads of India - A Quiz by Dr Anmol Dhawan (BCQC InFest 2022)Anmol Dhawan
A small ten-question quiz on 'Breads of India' by that I had set for the 2022 edition of the annual quiz festival InFest organised by the Boat Club Quiz Club, Pune. Hope you enjoy it!
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Aishani and Zubair for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
This document provides information about the structure and rounds of a quiz competition called "Finals". It discusses 4 rounds: 1) Listing names of Param Veer Chakra recipients, 2) A clockwise round with 8 questions worth various points, 3) A written round with questions about Google Doodles of Indians, and 4) An anticlockwise round with 8 additional questions. Sample questions from some of the rounds are also provided about topics ranging from history to popular sweets.
1. The document contains a 20 question political quiz with rules stating cameras must remain on and the top 6-8 teams will qualify for finals.
2. The questions cover topics like movies, buildings, political movements, paintings, protests, elections, perfume scents, capital cities, literature, leaders, apps, paintings, laws, currencies, fashion, actors, games, movies, elections, and freedom fighters.
3. The questions require identification of terms, people, places, artworks, policies and their relationships to the clues provided in the questions.
Literary Affairs Committee (LAC), SVNIT Surat presents India Quiz 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day 2022. This was the semi-final round for the final 8 teams, out of 400 teams, all across India.
This document provides 10 multiple choice questions about a quiz competition hosted by RV QuizCorp. The questions cover topics ranging from history and literature to current events and pop culture. Participants are given points for correct answers and deducted points for incorrect answers. The quiz is timed and follows specific rules regarding bouncing and pouncing on questions.
The Open General Quiz at Micanvas 2019, the marketing festival at MICA, Ahmedabad
Winners: Abhinav Dhar and Kushan Patel
Runners-up: Shashwat Sinai Salgaocar and Yuthish
The document discusses an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Antardwand Inter Hostel. It provides details about the rules and structure of the quiz, including the number of questions, points awarded and deducted for correct and incorrect answers, and hints being provided for some questions. It then presents several sample quiz questions on topics like monuments, hackers, diseases, inventions and more, asking players to provide the missing details.
This MELAS Quiz was held on 12th March,2022 and hosted by Subhadra and Nitesh for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
This Orientation Quiz was held in January 2022 and set by Shiva as part of our orientation session 2022 . The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QM.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.
This document appears to be a quiz with 25 questions related to various topics. It provides the rules for the quiz, indicating there will be 25 total questions with some marked as star questions to break ties. It asks participants not to search for answers online and indicates the quiz master is "Gawd". It then presents the first 25 multiple choice or fill in the blank style questions covering topics like Greek letters, movies, mythology, and more.
The Comics and Cartoons Quiz- NSIT Quiz Fest 2015nsitqc
The Comics and Cartoons Quiz at the NSIT Quiz Fest 2015, conducted by the NSIT Quiz Club from 20th-22nd March. See the videos and audios for the questions here- http://goo.gl/Cv1yzP
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Ambika and Rajat for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
General quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 8th April 2022, as a part of a trilogy of quizzes for the college fest Spring Spree 2022. The set has both the Prelims and Finals which include various questions on wide range of topics and quite derivable answers.
In-house sci-tech filler quiz for HighQ 2023 set by Bisma Khan, Sehajpreet Kaur, Prachi Goyal, Subham Priya, and Mallika Ghosh. HighQ Day-1 (16.02.2023).
The document discusses Don Bosco School in Liluah. It provides details about the school's location and mentions that it was founded in 1958. It has provided quality education to students for over 60 years and is known for its emphasis on moral values and discipline along with academics.
This document contains a 12 question business quiz with trivia questions ranging from identifying companies, products, people and important events. Some of the questions identify Charles Wang's philanthropic organization (Smile Train), the movie and gadget that inspired the popular Talkboy toy (Home Alone 2, Talkboy), the founder of Essential General Trading LLC (Raj Kundra), the social audio app launched in 2020 (Clubhouse), the Pepsi drink released in the 1990s (Crystal Pepsi), the actor and company used in a COVID-19 ad campaign for local stores (Shah Rukh Khan, Cadbury), the special toilet paper installed at an airport (to wipe smartphones), the soap brand and new variant
The document describes an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Roman de la Aventure on 8th January 2022 at the Seoraphuli Satyajit Ray Auditorium in Kolkata, West Bengal. Teams of up to 2 members can register for Rs. 20 per team. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals where cash prizes will be awarded to the podium winners.
Trials by Trivia - The General Quiz: A quiz on random general trivia was held under Parakh 2.0: the Quizzing Festival of Quiz Club IIT Patna in August 2022.
Breads of India - A Quiz by Dr Anmol Dhawan (BCQC InFest 2022)Anmol Dhawan
A small ten-question quiz on 'Breads of India' by that I had set for the 2022 edition of the annual quiz festival InFest organised by the Boat Club Quiz Club, Pune. Hope you enjoy it!
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Aishani and Zubair for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
This document provides information about the structure and rounds of a quiz competition called "Finals". It discusses 4 rounds: 1) Listing names of Param Veer Chakra recipients, 2) A clockwise round with 8 questions worth various points, 3) A written round with questions about Google Doodles of Indians, and 4) An anticlockwise round with 8 additional questions. Sample questions from some of the rounds are also provided about topics ranging from history to popular sweets.
1. The document contains a 20 question political quiz with rules stating cameras must remain on and the top 6-8 teams will qualify for finals.
2. The questions cover topics like movies, buildings, political movements, paintings, protests, elections, perfume scents, capital cities, literature, leaders, apps, paintings, laws, currencies, fashion, actors, games, movies, elections, and freedom fighters.
3. The questions require identification of terms, people, places, artworks, policies and their relationships to the clues provided in the questions.
Literary Affairs Committee (LAC), SVNIT Surat presents India Quiz 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day 2022. This was the semi-final round for the final 8 teams, out of 400 teams, all across India.
This document provides 10 multiple choice questions about a quiz competition hosted by RV QuizCorp. The questions cover topics ranging from history and literature to current events and pop culture. Participants are given points for correct answers and deducted points for incorrect answers. The quiz is timed and follows specific rules regarding bouncing and pouncing on questions.
The Open General Quiz at Micanvas 2019, the marketing festival at MICA, Ahmedabad
Winners: Abhinav Dhar and Kushan Patel
Runners-up: Shashwat Sinai Salgaocar and Yuthish
The document discusses an upcoming quiz competition hosted by Antardwand Inter Hostel. It provides details about the rules and structure of the quiz, including the number of questions, points awarded and deducted for correct and incorrect answers, and hints being provided for some questions. It then presents several sample quiz questions on topics like monuments, hackers, diseases, inventions and more, asking players to provide the missing details.
This MELAS Quiz was held on 12th March,2022 and hosted by Subhadra and Nitesh for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
This Orientation Quiz was held in January 2022 and set by Shiva as part of our orientation session 2022 . The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QM.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.
This document appears to be a quiz with 25 questions related to various topics. It provides the rules for the quiz, indicating there will be 25 total questions with some marked as star questions to break ties. It asks participants not to search for answers online and indicates the quiz master is "Gawd". It then presents the first 25 multiple choice or fill in the blank style questions covering topics like Greek letters, movies, mythology, and more.
The Comics and Cartoons Quiz- NSIT Quiz Fest 2015nsitqc
The Comics and Cartoons Quiz at the NSIT Quiz Fest 2015, conducted by the NSIT Quiz Club from 20th-22nd March. See the videos and audios for the questions here- http://goo.gl/Cv1yzP
The Thomas and Martha Wayne Memorial Comic Book Quiz
conducted by Jaikaran Mansingh and Sriram Gonakoti during Vibes '14, the annual literary event of KMC,Manipal.
The document describes a sci-fi quiz with multiple rounds and questions. Some of the rounds include dry questions with single letter answers, theme rounds involving cosplay and movies where the Statue of Liberty is destroyed, and written rounds about science fiction drugs. Questions cover topics ranging from movies like Planet of the Apes and Dune to books like Brave New World and Neuromancer. The quiz tests knowledge of sci-fi films, novels, TV shows, characters, and concepts.
The Thomas and Martha Wayne Memorial Comic Book Quiz
conducted by Jaikaran Mansingh and Sriram Gonakoti during Vibes '14, the annual literary event of KMC,Manipal.
This document summarizes a quiz competition held by the IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club in February. The written round consisted of 6 questions testing participants' ability to describe how movies would make sense if viewed from back to front. The questions covered movies like Thor, Gran Torino, and Pretty Woman. Correct answers received +5 points each, with +10 for a bonus question that was answered with a winking emoji.
The document provides a quiz for a sci-fi trivia game with 25 questions. It includes questions about movies, books, characters, and other elements from science fiction works. The questions cover topics like Jurassic Park, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars, Dune, Wall-E, Blade Runner, and more. It also includes "safety slides" that would reveal the answers after participants answer to check their responses. The top 8 teams with the most correct answers would advance to the finals.
Science fiction genre in movies and tv showsmehmetkocer
The document provides a history of the science fiction genre in movies and TV shows from 1902 to 2011. It discusses major themes and influential films from each decade, including A Trip to the Moon (1902), Metropolis (1927), Forbidden Planet (1956), Star Wars (1977), The Matrix (1999), and Inception (2010). It also analyzes themes in films like Back to the Future, Fringe, Plato's Allegory of the Cave in The Matrix, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The document discusses changes made to the Chrome Incognito mode alert message in early 2022. The old version included a reference to "surveillance by secret agents" that some users found offensive or trivializing of real issues. The new version provides a more straightforward description of what Incognito mode does and does not do without implied humor. It also discusses the Rumpler Tropfenwagen automobile and its appearance in the film Metropolis. Finally, it identifies Eddie the Head as the mascot for the band Iron Maiden based on various clues about his appearances and awards.
Scintillations General Quiz 2014-Prelims w/ answersAbhinav Sridharan
The document provides biographical information about an individual referred to as X. It states that X was born to a family of grocers and described as an average student but keen debater. X traveled extensively, including to religious sites, and spent time wandering and with sadhus in the Himalayas. X later obtained a degree in political relations and image management from the USA.
The rise of retrofuturism has introduced a fantastical new line with the DC Bombshells -- heroines without the men, all set in World War II. Their aesthetic and clever adaptation mirrors the best of steampunk rewriting. There's also Gotham by Gaslight, JLA: Age of Wonder, The Golden Age, Batman: Leatherwing, Batman/Houdini, and more. Marvel has offered their own retellings, in the alt-Battleworld, with J. Michael Straczynski's Golden Age-style The Twelve, and with even earlier fantasies back to 1602: Witchhunter Angela. Who's doing it right, and how steampunk are these stories?
(Presented at Clockwork Alchemy, May 28 2016, San Jose, CA)
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions on various topics. It begins with an introduction by Bhaskar Sharma of Blogbusters, and includes sections on engaging rules and answering questions. The questions cover topics like natural disasters, literature, films, music and more.
This document provides an overview of science fiction as a genre of imaginative fiction that explores futuristic settings involving science, technology, space travel, and other speculative elements. It discusses how science fiction examines the potential consequences of scientific innovation on politics, identity, morality, and social structures. The document then highlights some of the most influential science fiction authors and classic movies in the genre. It concludes by listing some currently popular science fiction books, graphic novels, and video games.
The document discusses various topics including scat singing in jazz, movie scenes and plot details, urban legends, historical figures and events, and notable people from literature and history. It touches on films like Titanic, Jurassic Park, Rosemary's Baby, and The Pride of Yankees. It also mentions the Lincoln Memorial statue, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, Lou Gehrig, and Kubla Khan. Several questions are posed and answered about these different topics in 3 sentences or less.
Here are some fictional theories based on the prompts:
- The Theory of Bokanovsky's Process: This theory, proposed in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, suggests that through advances in artificial wombs and cloning techniques, a single ovum could be stimulated to develop into multiple viable embryos through a process of budding and proliferation, allowing for mass production of human beings optimized for various predetermined roles in a highly regimented caste system.
- The Theory of Relativity: Proposed by Albert Einstein, this theory suggests that the passage of time is experienced differently depending on relative motion and the effects of gravity. An astronaut traveling at near light speed to a distant planet would age only a small amount due to
The document contains a quiz on speculative fiction with questions about authors, works, concepts, and characters. It includes questions about Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery, Damon Knight who founded the SFWA, George R. R. Martin's first novel Dying of the Light, constructed languages and the Tower of Babel symbol, Iain M. Banks' novel Excession, Gary Brandner's horror classic The Howling adapted into a film by Joe Dante, Michael Moorcock's science fiction works and music career, Stephen King's The Shining and the announced sequel Doctor Sleep, Arthur C. Clarke's quote about advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, and the fictional universe described in Ursula K. Le
This document appears to be a quiz about pop culture and movies. It consists of 6 rounds with questions on topics like a real-life crime inspired by a video game, famous literary figures backing legal cases, and movie franchises. The response format involves selecting difficulty levels for questions and accumulating points by answering correctly or passing to other players. The focus is on testing participants' knowledge of the connections between real events and fictional works in media.
- The document discusses various trivia questions related to movies, TV shows, books and games. It includes 20 trivia questions in the first round about topics like Friends, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Marvel and DC.
- It then has another 20 trivia questions in the second round on similar pop culture topics, asking players to identify characters, plot points, references and more from shows, movies and novels.
- Many of the questions require analyzing images or passages to deduce the answers related to details from various fictional works. The trivia game covers a wide range of popular culture franchises testing players' knowledge.
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This document provides details of an India quiz finals being conducted virtually, including the names of the 8 participating teams, the quizmasters, and rules for the competition. It notes that there will be 4 written rounds consisting of 3 questions each, with +/- scoring for quick responses. Teams are provided contact information for who to send test and actual responses to. Sample questions are provided for the first written round on letters.
This document provides instructions for an India quiz being held, including how to submit answers via a Google Form, rules for scoring, and qualifications for the top 8 teams. It also includes a sample question about a television show from the early 1990s that featured various stock characters in different episodes.
This document appears to be a quiz with questions about various topics including history, pop culture, science and more. It contains 30 questions with the first 10 being regular questions and questions 11-20 marked as starred. Questions 21-30 have two parts each. Participants are asked to submit their answers via a Google form. The questions cover topics like the origin of terms like "jade", people like Yoko Ono, landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, and movies/TV shows like Fight Club.
BCQC Fundraiser: FINALS Food and Drinks Quiz by Pranav Floyd Joshi, Aditya Ga...Boat Club Quiz Club Pune
This document appears to be the transcript of a food and drink trivia quiz. It includes 5 written questions about food science in the first round. It then discusses the rules for subsequent rounds, which will involve 17 questions on infinite bounce with plus or minus 10 point pounces allowed. The questions cover topics like plants that smell like marijuana, racist incidents in soccer, literary references to sherry and amontillado, the origins of peach melba, searching for the diner in American Gothic, nicknames of first ladies and the origins of dishes, Thomas Keller's pop-up restaurant Ad Hoc, the colonial history of Run and the nutmeg trade, unique whiskey aging processes, and regional foods from Angus, Scotland.
BCQC Fundraiser: ELIMS Food and Drinks Quiz by Pranav Floyd Joshi, Aditya Gad...Boat Club Quiz Club Pune
This document contains a quiz on food and drink topics conducted by Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi, Krish Ashok, and Aditya Gadre. It includes 20 multiple choice questions about topics like Anthony Bourdain's TV shows, dishes named after diseases, coffee filters, IKEA's Swedish meatballs, drought resistant crops, beer shampoo, the origins of tapas, and more. It also includes 6 starred bonus questions about aluminum kitchens on zeppelins, Andy Warhol's soup cans, velveting meat in Chinese cuisine, Aunt Jemima, the windowpane bread test, and the origins of baptism.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice and open-ended questions covering topics like movies, current events, history and pop culture. It includes sections on Simpsons references, questions that will "blow your mind", and internet humor. The quiz has images, clues and puzzles to solve. Participants were led to believe it was a serious quiz but it turns out to be a comedic take on quiz shows.
The document provides a quiz with 25 questions covering topics like Solitaire, Tesla Motors, WeChat, Grumpy Cat, and book rankings. It tests knowledge of history, current events, technology, and pop culture. The questions are in multiple choice or short answer format. Correct answers are provided for the first 16 questions.
This document contains a series of doppelgänger comparisons between cricketers and non-cricketers, where the non-cricketer is shown and the reader must identify which cricketer they most resemble. It includes 8 sets of comparisons between cricketers like Brett Lee, Kevin Pietersen, and Dale Steyn and non-cricket celebrity lookalikes such as Chris Jericho, Matt Dillon, and Daniel Craig. The reader is asked to view each non-cricketer and answer which cricketer they most closely resemble physically.
This document contains 6 questions about test cricket batting graphs of different players. Each graph shows a player's runs scored in each innings without distinguishing not outs. The scales on the graphs vary between questions. Players included are Wasim Akram, Marvan Atapattu, Wally Hammond, Everton Weekes, Mark Waugh, and Ajit Agarkar.
The document is a cricket quiz containing 20 multiple choice questions related to cricket history and trivia. It provides details and context for various unique or unusual cricket stats and events that occurred throughout history. The questions cover topics like unusual batting and bowling feats, unique player achievements and records, rare occurrences and rule changes in matches, and interesting facts about certain cricketers.
This document provides questions and answers about the flags of various nations, territories, and other entities around the world. It covers topics like changes to national flags over time, meanings behind flag designs, and inspiration or history related to certain flags. In total there are 25 multiple choice questions about the flags of places like Germany, Scotland, Gibraltar, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Estonia, Switzerland, Catalonia, Iraq, the East India Company, Georgia, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Brazil, Nepal, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, the Confederacy, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, several Arab countries, Fiji, and Mars.
The document contains 30 geography questions with multiple choice answers. It covers topics like seas named after colors, mountain ranges, islands, peaks, winds, currents, countries and their flags/names, provinces, lakes, time zones, cities, regions, deltas, and more. The questions require identifying places, geographic features, and locations based on clues provided in the questions.
The document is about a written round for a quiz competition. It provides instructions that +5 points will be awarded for each correct answer to the first 5 questions and an additional +5 for identifying the running theme in the 6th question. The 6th question asks participants to identify the city from the coat of arms for each of the images. The last part provides multiple choice answers about international movie festivals and awards. The summary is in 3 sentences as requested.
The document contains 10 slides showing results from the Nighthawk Boat Club Open over 3 sessions in June and July 2012. Each slide includes a picture and score that is 5 points lower than the previous slide, with the lowest being +5 points. The slides provide a long visual connect of results from the boat club competition.
The document appears to be notes from research conducted by Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair on the Nighthawk Boat Club Open sessions held on June 9th-10th and July 22nd, 2012. It includes terms, definitions, and numbered entries with associated scores. The research notes were created on November 21st, 2012.
1. The document discusses 10 questions with answers about various topics such as publications, activism cases, missiles in Pakistan, voices in a conversation, chemical elements, musical instruments, mythology, actors, occupations and birthdays.
2. The questions cover diverse fields like literature, history, science, arts and current affairs.
3. Expert summaries are provided for each question concisely explaining the key details and connection between ideas.
The document appears to be notes from research sessions on various topics held by Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair at the Nighthawk Boat Club Open in June and July 2012. The notes include questions on topics like chemical groups, time zone concepts, children's games, user interfaces, musical tuning styles, causes of accidental death, fashion brands, and world leaders. For each question, the document provides an answer term or short phrase in bold.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
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2. Elimination round
• 20 one-point questions
• 5 two-point questions at the end (will remind about this after Q20)
• Sudden death from question #1 to pick finalists in case of ties
3. 1
• The character _______ _______ first made an appearance in a
concept album about an alien rock star who is sent to Earth to save it
from an apocalypse. He is assisted by the Spiders from Mars on his
mission. He is hailed as a saviour and amasses a huge fan following.
• Overcome by the luxuries that he receives, he loses sight of his
mission and ends up being torn apart and killed during a stage
performance.
• What character am I talking about?
4. • Ziggy Stardust, David
Bowie's alter ego in the
early 1970s.
• No points for David Bowie
5. 2
• Some "facts" about this device:
• Unpatented
• Hidden in a photo frame
• Wrist mounted
• Susceptible to low-wavelength visible range EM radiation
• What device?
7. 3
• The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or linguistic relativity, posits that the
language one speaks constrains one's perception and thoughts. This
is a key idea in the Ted Chiang short story "The Story of Your Life",
where humanity makes contact with a race of aliens whose language
allows them to perceive time non-linearly.
• What was the name of the Amy Adams starring movie adaptation
of this story?
9. 4
• The series revolves around the adventures of a super-soldier,
considered to be an orphan. As he travels through space and time
hunting down twelve fugitives, he learns that he is the son of a human
scientist and an alien from the seventh dimension. The leader of the
aliens (Black Shadow) sent his daughter to seduce the scientist, but
she fell for him instead.
• Perhaps due to the interspecies pairing, the child's appearance was
very similar to the father. In the present, the super-soldier must find a
way to travel to the seventh dimension and defeat Black Shadow.
• What series?
10. • Captain Vyom
• The character of his
father Om is also
played by Milind
Soman.
11. 5
• While he had dabbled in writing books and comics, he first got
significant attention for "The Egg," a story about a man who dies and
learns that he will be reincarnated as every living thing in the universe.
• He serialised his next story ___ _______ online, and then sold it as an
ebook for just 99 cents. It became a bit of a sensation, turning into a
properly published book and eventually a movie.
• What is this book/movie?
13. 6
• Exploring themes of eugenics and genetic discrimination, _________
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and a
Golden Globe for Best Original Score.
• In the story, ________ is the name of an aerospace conglomerate
where the protagonist wants to fulfil his dream of going to space.
• _________ is actually a reference to the four nucleobases of DNA
(guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine).
• What movie (same blank everywhere)
15. 7
• Master Control Program (MCP) was intended as an operating system
of sorts, to oversee all of the other programs in the mainframe. MCP
went rogue and started assimilating other programs to expand its
power over the mainframe. A group of engineers decided that a
security program, _____, was the best chance to rein in MCP and
regain control of the system. They entered the mainframe and freed
______ from MCP's restrictions. ______ was then able to limit MCP's
powers and get the system back to normal operation.
• What is the blank?
17. 8
• Earth is at risk of creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the
known universe. When attempts to have a dialogue with the
governments of Earth fail, aliens decide to resurrect Earth's dead as
ghouls. The hope is that the crisis will force Earth to listen to the aliens
and stop development of the weapon.
• This is the plot of what cult classic sci-fi movie?
19. 9
• Arthur C Clarke's first novel:
• 1948: Published as a novella, "Against the Fall of Night“
• 1953: Expanded and republished as a novel under the same name
• 1956: Expanded, rewritten and published as a novel, __________
• Clarke chose to rewrite his first book to showcase the experience and
skills he had acquired since the original print in 1948.
• The republished book quickly became a definitive must-read in the
field.
• What was this book? (Blank has multiple words)
21. 10
• Set in apartheid-era South Africa, "Alive in Joburg" is a 5-minute
mockumentary about alien refugees who reach earth in 1990 and their
interactions with the white and black population of South Africa.
• A lot of the 'interviews' in the mockumentary were actually previously
filmed (real life) clips of South Africans talking about Nigerian and
Zimbabwean refugees.
• The concept of the mockumentary was later expanded into a full-
length movie that was well received.
• What movie?
23. 11
• The concept itself has existed at least since 1904, in a short story
written by a British soldier.
• While the most well-known use of the concept was not in a sci-fi
context, there have been several memorable sci-fi movies/TV shows
that have used the idea well. Examples include Source Code, Edge of
Tomorrow and Palm Springs.
• What concept is this?
24. • Characters being stuck in a
time loop
• Most famous example is
Groundhog Day
25. 12
• Connect (non-exhaustive) :
• A dead lover's personality aggregated from social media and downloaded
into a new body
• Continuously tracked social scores that are updated after every human
interaction
• A pick-up artist/digital torturer and a husband who disagrees with his wife's
desired abortion discuss men's rights over Christmas
• A post-apocalyptic survivor on the run from an unassuming but deadly
automated drone
• An interactive 'choose-your-own-adventure' story about a guy designing a
'choose-your-own-adventure' story
• A focus-group driven popstar slowly breaks down after a robot version of her
goes to market
27. 13
• Part sci-fi comedy, part advertisement for Head & Shoulders,
___________ was a humorous adaptation of a sci-fi horror story
written by Don Jakoby.
• A nitrogen based life form lands on earth via a meteorite, rapidly
becoming a major threat to humanity. The aliens are finally defeated
using the shampoo.
• It contains selenium, which is (correctly) hypothesised to be fatal to the
aliens because arsenic is poisonous to carbon based life-forms.
• Nitrogen and selenium have the same relative positioning in the
periodic table as carbon and arsenic.
• What movie?
29. 14
• An example of a self-fulfilling prophecy in science fiction, _______
_____ tells the story of a time traveller who sees the apocalypse in the
future.
• The return to the present changes him irrevocably, to the point where
his warnings about the impending doom are ignored and he is
insulted.
• He exacts his revenge by wreaking havoc on the world, creating the
future he saw while time travelling.
• The idea for this came from the feelings inspired by an iconic guitar
riff.
• What are the blanks?
30. • Iron Man (by Black Sabbath)
• Ozzy Osbourne remarked that
the opening riff of the song
sounded like “a big iron bloke
walking about”.The lyrics
were written to fit that.
31. 15
• Adjacent to the Euphrates and Tigris sectors in space, this entity had a
lot of difficulty getting up and running.
• The first three attempts were destroyed in construction, and the fourth
disappeared mysteriously.
• What am I talking about?
32. • Babylon 5
• The city of Babylon was
between the Euphrates
and Tigris rivers in West
Asia.
33. 16
• The franchise has been rebooted a few times.
• Initially, it would have been classified more as a horror story than
science fiction, but the latest versions lean more heavily on the sci-fi
angle, describing ______ as an alternate dimension of reality.
• The plan is to siphon off energy from this alternate dimension to solve
an energy crisis on Earth.
• Things go awry, and the protagonist from the prior editions is revived
to fight back and save the planet.
• What franchise?
35. 17
• Whether X should be classified as science fiction or not depends on
who you ask. Most critics would classify it as such, but the author has
resisted this, insisting that X is 'speculative fiction' instead. X contains
a lot of dystopian sci-fi tropes – over-pollution, radiation fallout, a
globally dwindling population, etc. It even won the very first Arthur C
Clarke award. In that context, the author's rejection of the science
fiction label can be seen as petty and contemptuous.
• A sequel to this book was published in 2019 and won the Booker Prize
for that year.
• What is X and who is the reluctant author? (No part points)
37. 18
• In an attempt to fix the future, groups of five people (tactician, medic,
historian, engineer and leader) would 'time travel' into the past by
overwriting the consciousness of people who were about to die.
• As the story progressed, the consciousness transfer technology was
used by a rival faction to overwrite people who weren't supposed to
die too.
• What show am I talking about?
39. 19
• An unabashed love-letter to the Star Trek series, this series has gone
to great lengths to include actors from various Star Trek shows in
major or minor roles.
• Some examples include Marina Sirtis (TNG), Penny Johnson (DS9),
Robert Picardo (Voyager), Tim Russ (Voyager), Brian George (DS9)
and Jason Alexander (Voyager). Jonathan Frakes of TNG fame has
directed some episodes as well.
• What is the name of this Seth McFarlane created show?
41. 20
• The principal events in X were initially supposed to have been
triggered by a graduate student as a part of his thesis in genetics.
• As he worked through the plot, the author concluded that this kind of
research is expensive, and "there is no pressing need to create a
_________".
• Therefore, the only way to make the plot work was to use the
__________ as a way to make profits in the entertainment industry.
• What is X?
44. 21
• Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck are the authors of a series of 9 novels
and numerous spin-off novels/novellas, with the ninth and final novel
set for a 2021 release.
• The series was adapted for television in 2015, but not renewed after
the third season.
• Amazon then took over the rights and released a fourth season in
2019, with another following in December 2020.
• A: What series? and
• B: How do we better know the authors?
• (One point for series, one point for the name)
46. 22
•A: What collection do these books comprise?
•B: And who is the author?
• Rocannon's World
• Planet of Exile
• City of Illusions
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• The Word for World is Forest
• The Dispossessed
• Four Ways to Forgiveness
• The Telling
47. • A: Hainish Cycle
• B: By Ursula K Le Guin
• The word ‘Hain’ or ‘Hainish’ in
answer will suffice for ‘collection of
books’ part of the question
48. 23
• The theory that A is inspired by B comes from the Russian Dmitri
Gusev, who mentioned that the book B was translated under the title A
in some parts of the world.
• There are certainly parallels in the ideas behind A and B - an empire in
turmoil, a leader who interacts with followers via pre-recorded
messages, and a vision of effecting long term changes on the world.
• While there is no evidence suggesting that A’s founder read B, it's a
fascinating theory nonetheless.
• What are A and B? (one point for each)
50. 24
• The Polish Parliament declared 2021 ‘The year of ________ ___,’
commemorating his 100th birth anniversary.
• A recurring theme of his work is the impossibility of communicating
with profoundly alien beings. While this form of first contact is covered
in Fiasco, Eden and The Invincible, the best example is __________.
• Three attempts were made to translate the book to the big screen.
While they met with varying degrees of commercial success, he was
unsatisfied with all of them, as none of them truly captured the
complete strangeness of the setting.
• A: What book
• B: And what author?
• (One point for each)
51. • A: Author is Stanislaw Lem
• B: Solaris, where humans try
to interact with a sentient
ocean
52. 25
• Written in the 1930s, there have been repeated attempts to ban A
around the world due to insensitivity, offensive language, nudity,
racism, challenges to religion and being sexually explicit.
• It was banned for a time in India in 1967, and banned from school
libraries in several parts of the United States.
• Nonetheless, A is considered one of the most influential novels in
history. It shares these characteristics with another novel B.
• Like in this question, both novels are usually mentioned together,
having been prescient in different ways.
• What are A and B? (one point for each)