Fresher's Quiz 2017 @ Thapar University

FRESHER’S QUIZ
2017
Thapar Quizzing Club, Literary Society
Thapar University

RULES OF THE GAME
3
● Teams of upto 3.
● 48 questions. 5 rounds.
● 1 Bonus Question in the end.
● Marking scheme would be explained before each round.
● Questions are in Infinite Pounce format.
● For pounce, raise your hand and one of the QM’s will come to you. You
could also shout ‘pounce’ calmly.
● Clichéd rule but need to put it here. No Googling.

“Pressing buzzers are like
proposing to a girl ... you must
do it fast, or others will take that
chance.
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- True experience of several tQc folks

Pounce and Bounce
Appetizers
5
1

Pounce - +20/-10
6
Bounce - +10
10 Clockwise – 10 Anti Clockwise
20 Questions

QUESTION 1
●This is a form of alternative medicine originating from China.
●This massage therapy called myofascial decompression has been characterized
as pseudoscience since there are no evidence that it does any benefit for the
body.
●Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow somewhat introduced this to the Western
world back in 2004.
●In 2016, a certain individual was in full display of its effects on a world stage
which brought the limelight back to it. What is it?
7Clockwise Begins

8
* Slide intentionally left blank *

AND THE ANSWER IS…
Cupping Technique
Michael Phelps in the Rio
Olympics 2016
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QUESTION 2
10
●This is a slow cinema film without any actors, dialogue or narrative. This eight-
hour film features hundreds of sheep simply standing in fields with very little
movements.
●Identify the name of the movie from the poster.

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13
Baa Baa Land
Here’s to the one who dream…
of sheep.

QUESTION 3
14
●Which company’s logo is actually the cross section of the motor it uses?
● The logo is referring to the main body as representing one of the poles that stick
out of a motor's rotor, with the second line representing a section of the stator.
●This logo is designed by RO-Studio, a design firm.
Hint next slide

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17
Tesla Inc

QUESTION 4
18
●‘What's new’ was the early concept for the website's name which later led to the
creation of the mascot which is actually the shortened version of the phrase.
●The mascot is described as genderless, timeless and digitless.
●Name the mascot. (The website will not fetch points)

19

20
Snoo, the Alien
The mascot of Reddit.

QUESTION 5
21
●Described as an ‘important member of the Wimbledon family’, Rufus is doing a
certain job for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for the past 10
years.
●He works with Imogen Davis, director of Avian Environmental Consultants who is
also his social media manager.
●What is his nature of job?

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24
Scarer of birds
Rufus is the tournament’s official
bird scarer, tasked with
frightening pigeons away from
the courts.

QUESTION 6
25
●Amsterdam’s Eenmaal was an experimental pop up restaurant that was
launched in June 2013 and aimed to break a social taboo.
●One visitor summed up the concept behind Eenmaal particularly well by
commenting, 'this restaurant transforms an uncomfortable situation into
something comfortable’.
●This is believed to be one of the world’s first restaurant catering to a certain kind
of diners. Who are they?
Hint next slide

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28
Solo Diners
It aims to break the social taboo
associated with eating alone.

QUESTION 7
29
●The following is from a patent for a shoe created by a very famous person who
aimed to recreate a step live on stage.
●The shoes were patented in 1992 and the mechanism of the step was kept a
secret until that person died.
●What is it about?

31

32
Michael Jackson’s 45
degree lean
This gravity defying step was a
part of the Smooth Criminals
video.

QUESTION 8
33
●The original vision of the creator of this service was to create a tool that would
help employees provide unfiltered feedback to their employers.
●He realized that friends may want to provide constructive feedback as well so he
launched this service in November, 2016 and his ultimate goal was 1,000
feedbacks.
●But that was not successful enough. So inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping
Point he used the connectors concept (people who knew everyone).
●This service however became the talking point world over when Snapchat rolled
out an update that lets users share links to website inside the snaps.

34
Rise in popularity after the Snapchat update

35

36
Sarahah
Sarahah means honesty or
frankness in Arabic.

QUESTION 9
37
●Which Indian concept is this book and Venn
Diagram referring to?

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40
Jugaad

QUESTION 10
41
●This word which means a massive, inexorable force, campaign, movement, or
object that crushes whatever is in its path comes from Hindi.
●Its origin lies in Jagganath, a Hindu god, the Lord of the World.
●The city of Puri in eastern India is the site of an annual festival in his honor at
which the image of the god is carried on a gigantic wheeled vehicle 45 feet high
drawn through the streets by pilgrims. It was said (mostly inaccurately) that
fanatical followers would throw themselves under the wheels.
●This image contributed to the meaning of the word in English. What is the word?

43

44
Juggernaut

QUESTION 11
45
●Alappuzha, also known as Alleppey, is the administrative headquarters of
Alappuzha District of Kerala state of southern India.
●It is famous for its exotic backwaters, beaches, temples and spa centres. It is
also famous for its numerous rivers crisscrossing the Sea and is home to many
canals, backwaters, beaches and lagoons.
●It has also been given an epithet which likens it to someplace else. What?
Anti Clockwise Begins

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48
Venice of the East

QUESTION 12
49
●The Four Asian Tigers, or Four Asian Dragons are high-tech, industrialized
nations and have become top-level education centres. The role of Confucianism
has also been used to explain the success of these countries, due to the implied
work ethic.
●Two of these countries are South Korea and Hong Kong (China). Name the other
two. (Part points for each)

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51
Singapore and Taiwan

QUESTION 13
52
●Which person from the world of the world of
architecture is this TIME cover honouring?

53

54
Buckminster Fuller
He popularized the geodesic
dome and Carbon 60 molecule
was named in honour of him -
fullerene

QUESTION 14
55
●Cubism is an early 20th century art movement, considered to be the bridge
leading to the 20th century Modern Art. In Cubist artwork, objects are broken up,
analyzed, and restructured in an abstract form; so instead of a single viewpoint,
the subject can instead be represented in a greater context.
●Two famous artists are known to have pioneered this era of art. One of them is
George Braque. Who is the other one?

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58
Pablo Picasso

QUESTION 15
59
●X is Thailand's leading travel retail group, based in Bangkok. The company is the
largest duty-free retailer in the country.
●X bought Y for 39m pound in 2010 and loaned it 100m pound for various tasks
and waived off this loan in 2014 when it did quite good in its field.
●This investment proved to be huge when Y did something exceptional in 2015 for
which they had odds of 5000 to 1.
●ID X and Y

60

61
X – King Power
Y – Leicester City FC

QUESTION 16
62
●Renard Numbers is a system of preferred numbers proposed by Charles Renard,
a French Army Engineer in the 1870’s. In it the interval from 1 to 10 is divided into
5,10,20 or 40 steps.
●Preferred Numbers are standard guidelines for choosing product
dimensions/specifications used in the industry.
●Certain institutions follow a variation of the RN series in which 1:10 is divided
into 3 steps – 1,2,5 to simplify the nature of a certain job.
●This theory has been the reason behind which act, which was termed as ‘adding
the missing link’?

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Introduction of the ₹200
note
It is the missing link between ₹100
and ₹1000.
This series already had ₹100 and
₹500.

QUESTION 17
65
●This structure was commissioned by the French President in 1984 and designed
by architect I.M.Pei.
●People did not like this new addition to an existing landmark - thought that its
modernist style was inconsistent with the French Renaissance style and the shape
being an unsuitable symbol of death from ancient Egypt.
●Critics even questioned that the architect I.M. Pei was insufficiently French to be
entrusted with the task of updating a treasured Parisian landmark.
●Which structure?

66

67
The Louvre Pyramid
It is the entrance to the Louvre
Museum in Paris.

QUESTION 18
68
●This paradox occurs when a group of people collectively decide on a course of
action that is in absolute counter to the preferences of many (or all) the
individuals in that group.
●The members mistakenly believe that their personal preference is opposite to
that of the group, and therefore do not raise objections. A common phrase
relating to it is a desire not to "rock the boat".
●This term was introduced by management expert Jerry B. Harvey in his 1974
article. Name the paradox.

69

70
The Abilene Paradox

QUESTION 19
71
●This is a popular belief that the First War of Indian Independence was fought in
1857. However, the first recorded revolt against the British took place in 1806 in
town in South India. The cause of the revolt was the ban on religious marks on the
forehead of Hindu soldiers and the forced shaving off of the beards of the Muslim
soldiers by the Madras Army.
●Another reason was the presence of Tipu Sultan’s family, whom the sepoys
thought would lead the revolt.
●Name this town whose name means the place where the Hindu god Murugan
appeared to attack his enemies.

72

73
Vellore
In Tamil, the word vel means spear that is seen as the weapon of Hindu god
Murugan and oor means place.

QUESTION 20
74
●The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a bimonthly magazine devoted to
scientific humor, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal.
●Since 1991, this magazine holds an annual ritual in autumn to celebrate ten
‘achievements’ in scientific research. ‘The Stinker’ is the official mascot.
●What is the ritual which is given to honor achievements that first make people
laugh, and then make them think?

76

77
Ig Nobel Prizes
These prizes are parody of the
Nobel Prizes.

Written Round
5 Topics, 10 questions – Are you Game?
78
2

Correct - +10
79
Technology
Literature
Sports
Food
Film & Music

QUESTION 21
80
●At the request of a customer in the Cricket Club of India, Bombay Nelson Wang,
a Chinese from Calcutta, who worked as a caterer created this dish which has
become synonymous with Chinese food in India.
●He started by taking the basic ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped
garlic, ginger, and green chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put
in soy sauce instead, followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself; the result was
the now-famous dish.
●What is it?
Food

QUESTION 22
81
Food
●Print advertisement for which product?

QUESTION 23
82
●This is an Indian publishing company, founded in Kolkata in 1936. The logo of
this company was designed by Satyajit Ray, who asked for just a ‘few books’ as
his fee.
●They have published all of Chetan Bhagat’s books, and some of Ruskin Bond’s
books. Identify the publisher.
Literature

QUESTION 24
83
●This English author is one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.
● His most popular characters include millionaire Bertie Wooster, the immaculate
Psmith and the wise-cracking butler Jeeves. Name the author.
Literature

QUESTION 25
84
●In 2012 when this software giant was about to unveil a new product, they
thought of redesigning its logo which would reflect their new design language-
Metro used in the product.
●Pentagram was chosen as the design agency and during one of its meeting with
the executives of the company, Paula Scher asked one question which left the
company baffled.
● Your name is _______. Why are you a flag?
● So the company did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original
meaning and bringing _______ back to its roots.
Tech

QUESTION 26
85
●Its story starts with the Latin term Libra Pondo, meaning “pound in weight” which
was abbreviated to lb. When lb became standard, it was often drawn with a little
bar across the tops of both letters to show it was connected.
●Its meaning began to bifurcate - In chess, it represents a move that results in
checkmate. In proofreading, it means a space should be inserted. On Swedish
maps, it represents a lumber yard.
●This is the history behind which commonly used thing on social media?
Tech
Hint next slide

86
This is a manuscript written by Newton which shows one of the early version.

QUESTION 27
87
●Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer from one of the distant regions from India who
won the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016.
●He won it for his innovation Ice Stupas, which is an ingenious idea to build
artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures
could transform an arid landscape into an oasis.
●His story is one of the most inspirational stories ever and has been loosely the
inspiration behind a certain well known character. Who?
F & M

QUESTION 28
89
●To honour whom has The Pantone Colour Institute developed a new shade of
colour called Love Symbol #2?
●This person from the world of music began using his name as Love Symbol #2 in
1993. However, since only a few knew how to pronounce his name correctly he
switched back to his original name.
●The creation of this colour is inspired from the late music icon’s custom made
Yamaha piano. The color pays tribute to his mark on music, art, fashion and
culture, according to a press release from the artist's estate.
F & M
Hint next slide

90
The Colour
Custom Yamaha Piano

QUESTION 29
92
●The origin of the scoring system of this sport is unknown. One plausible
hypothesis points to a French origin since in the early middle ages, 60 was a very
key number in France in the same way that 100 is today. That's why the words for
seventy, eighty and ninety in French are based on sixty.
●Also at that time there was a coin in circulation called a "gros denier tournois"
which was worth 15 deniers. So the public could bet on the game using this coin
and going to sixty.
●Which sport?
Sports

QUESTION 30
93
●Atlanta Hawks are a professional
basketball team based from Atlanta,
Georgia in the NBA.
●Their logo has been popularly
nicknamed after its resemblance to
something. What ?
Sports

Answers
94
Exchange your sheets

QUESTION 21
95
●At the request of a customer in the Cricket Club of India, Bombay Nelson Wang,
a Chinese from Calcutta, who worked as a caterer created this dish which has
become synonymous with Chinese food in India.
●He started by taking the basic ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped
garlic, ginger, and green chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put
in soy sauce instead, followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself; the result was
the now-famous dish.
●What is it?
Food

96
Chicken Manchurian

QUESTION 22
97
Food
●Print advertisement for which product?

98
Nutella

QUESTION 23
99
●This is an Indian publishing company, founded in Kolkata in 1936. The logo of
this company was designed by Satyajit Ray, who asked for just a ‘few books’ as
his fee.
●They have published all of Chetan Bhagat’s books, and some of Ruskin Bond’s
books. Identify the publisher.
Literature

100
Rupa Publications

QUESTION 24
101
●This English author is one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.
● His most popular characters include millionaire Bertie Wooster, the immaculate
Psmith and the wise-cracking butler Jeeves. Name the author.
Literature

102
P.G. Wodehouse

QUESTION 25
103
●In 2012 when this software giant was about to unveil a new product, they
thought of redesigning its logo which would reflect their new design language-
Metro used in the product.
●Pentagram was chosen as the design agency and during one of its meeting with
the executives of the company, Paula Scher asked one question which left the
company baffled.
● Your name is _______. Why are you a flag?
● So the company did less of a re-design and more to return it to its original
meaning and bringing _______ back to its roots.
Tech

104
Windows logo

QUESTION 26
105
●Its story starts with the Latin term Libra Pondo, meaning “pound in weight” which
was abbreviated to lb. When lb became standard, it was often drawn with a little
bar across the tops of both letters to show it was connected.
●Its meaning began to bifurcate - In chess, it represents a move that results in
checkmate. In proofreading, it means a space should be inserted. On Swedish
maps, it represents a lumber yard.
●This is the history behind which commonly used thing on social media?
Tech
Hint next slide

106
The Octothorpe Symbol
Octothorpe—“octo” because it
has eight points, and “thorpe”
because of football hero Jim
Thorpe.

QUESTION 27
107
●Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer from one of the distant regions from India who
won the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2016.
●He won it for his innovation Ice Stupas, which is an ingenious idea to build
artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures
could transform an arid landscape into an oasis.
●His story is one of the most inspirational stories ever and has been loosely the
inspiration behind a certain well known character. Who?
F & M

108
Phunsukh Wangdu
From 3 Idiots

QUESTION 28
109
●To honour whom has The Pantone Colour Institute developed a new shade of
colour called Love Symbol #2?
●This person from the world of music began using his name as Love Symbol #2 in
1993. However, since only a few knew how to pronounce his name correctly he
switched back to his original name.
●The creation of this colour is inspired from the late music icon’s custom made
Yamaha piano. The color pays tribute to his mark on music, art, fashion and
culture, according to a press release from the artist's estate.
F & M
Hint next slide

110
Prince
His full name is Prince Rogers
Nelson.

QUESTION 29
111
●The origin of the scoring system of this sport is unknown. One plausible
hypothesis points to a French origin since in the early middle ages, 60 was a very
key number in France in the same way that 100 is today. That's why the words for
seventy, eighty and ninety in French are based on sixty.
●Also at that time there was a coin in circulation called a "gros denier tournois"
which was worth 15 deniers. So the public could bet on the game using this coin
and going to sixty.
●Which sport?
Sports

112
Tennis
Originally it was 15, 30, 45 and 60. Later 45 got simplified to 40.

QUESTION 30
113
●Atlanta Hawks are a professional
basketball team based from Atlanta,
Georgia in the NBA.
●Their logo has been popularly
nicknamed after its resemblance to
something. What ?
Sports

114
Pacman

Vintage is Gold
Written Part 2
115
3

Correct - +5
116
All Correct - +5
6 Questions

Answers
123
Exchange your sheets

124
Facebook

125
PlayStation

126
Skype

127
Twitter

128
YouTube

129
Instagram

Long Connect
Got the Patience?
130
4

Correct - +5
131
4 Questions
All Correct - +10
Connect on Bounce will be given in each Q

QUESTION 37
132
●A 20-year old singer came into Henry Hane’s tattoo shop. She wanted a tattoo of
her Father’s mom, Cynthia who was also a singer. She already had a few tattoos,
including a Native American feather on her forearm, an image of cartoon
character Betty Boop on her lower back and an Egyptian ankh symbol between her
shoulder blades.
●Hate tried to emulate the old-fashioned look of the images she had picked. “I
didn’t realize at the time it would be one of the most recognized tattoos on the
planet,” he said. “Of course, I don’t get any money from it, although it is always
being reproduced everywhere.”
●Who is this personality who got this famous tattoo made?
+60 / 0

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135
Amy Winehouse

QUESTION 38
136
●"Craigslist" is a song and single by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a style parody of Y,
and contains lyrics inspired by postings at the online classified advertising
service, Craigslist.
●Yankovic described the idea of the song coming about thinking how it would be
"anachronistically weird" for X to scream about Craigslist.
●Give me X.
+45 / -15

138

139
Jim Morrison

QUESTION 39
140
●Sadgasm was a grunge band formed by Homer Simpson during the 1990s. The
band was originally formed in the 1990s as an inoffensive, urban light, hip hop,
smooth grooves outfit.
●After Homer sees Marge and one of her professors from her university together,
Homer changes the band's direction into a wholly different type of music: Guitar
Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energy or "grunge". The band is then named
Sadgasm.
●This is a short clip of their song ‘Shave Me’. I need the band which was most
likely the inspiration behind Sadgasm and also who is the inspiration behind
Homer’s character.
+30 / -20

142

143
Kurt Cobain

QUESTION 40
144
●Last month, Fender officially launched a series of new artist signature models,
one of which is based on the guitar X used during one of his most famous
performances. He concluded the performance by sacrificing the guitar in a way.
●Fender created the model to honor the 50th anniversary of that iconic
performance, which permanently altered the course of rock music.
●X is quoted as saying, "The time I ______ my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You
sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." Who is X here?
+15 / -25

146

147
Jimi Hendrix

Part of the 27 Club
It is a notional roll of remembrance, celebrating
popular musicians who died at the age of
twenty-seven.
149

Short and Simple
The Quickie
150
5

Pounce - +20/-10
151
Bounce - +10
8 Questions

QUESTION 41
152
●Contrary to what people think, this spice is not named after the word for sugar,
but instead is a corruption of an Arabic term for “Wood from China”.
●What favourite addition to Biryanis is this?

153

154
Dal Chini
From Darr-e-chini, i.e wood from
China.

QUESTION 42
155
●As per research scholars, this gentleman got his popular nickname from the fact
that he used to practice a lot under the moonlit sky.
●Who was he?

156

157
Dhyan Chand

QUESTION 43
158
●The General Electric plant in Schenectady has the ZIP Code 12345.
Coincidentally it shares the code with a special place due to which it receives a lot
of letters.
●Its workers during that time devote their lunch break to respond to these letters.
●Why?

159

160
It gets letters from
children during Christmas.
North Pole has the same ZIP Code
and children address their letters to
Santa to 12345.

QUESTION 44
161
●These are buildings in Hong
Kong.
●Why are there gaps/holes in
them?

162

163
To allow Dragons to pass through.
Legend holds that dragons live in the mountains and hold positive and powerful
energy. This energy blows through Hong Kong daily as the dragons make their way
from the mountains to the sea to drink and bathe.

QUESTION 45
164
●This is the logo of an organization in Canada
which improve the quality of life of certain group
of people.
●Which group?

165

166
Alzheimer’s Disease
The Alzheimer Society's Forget me not symbol represents memory loss, a key
symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.

QUESTION 46
167
●Which anniversary is this Google Doodle
celebrating?

168

169
First Expedition to South Pole
The doodle appeared on 14th December, 2016 and it marks the 105th anniversary of
expedition was led by the Roald Amundsen to reach the South Pole.

QUESTION 47
170
●In the late 1990’s BMW equipped its 5 Series cars with GPS. The company was
flooded with calls from angry German men and as a result of which it had to
recall its navigation systems and made some changes.
●What made the customers furious?

171

172
The GPS was voiced by a woman and the men did not want
to take directions from a woman.

QUESTION 48
173
●The Netherlands woman national football
team like the men’s had this as the crest
logo on their shirts.
●In July 2017 some change was made
which was heralded across the world.
●People called it a great move; simple but
fantastic and badass.
●What change was made?

174

175
The Lion was changed
to Lioness

177
Happy Accidents of the Swing or simply The Swing is a famous painting by Jean-
Honore Fragonard. The painting captures the joyous and carefree attitude typical
of rococo art.
When she was designing the first concept art for X, artist Lisa Keene made her
own digital version of The Swing because she felt that the painting matched the
character.
In Y, The Swing makes another appearance during a song where the character
mimic’s the same pose.
ID X and Y.

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181
X – Tangled
Y – Frozen

CREDITS
● Abhinav Choudhary
● Mokshlakshmi Bhan
● Omisha Sharma
● Rajenki Das
● Soham Banerjee
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● Abhishek Jain
● Harjas Singh Bami
● S Rishiraj
Special thanks to -

EXTRA QUESTION 1
184
●X were ships used for a very specific activity. These kind of ships were very
important during the major wars, i.e. WW2, Korean War and The Gulf War. But they
were operational after the wars too.
●One might’ve heard X in a very different context. First officially released as part
of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was included in the standard
install of Windows 3.1 in 1992, replacing Reversi from Windows 3.0. In Windows 8
and later X is not included, but Microsoft Studios published an updated version of
it, developed by Arkadium, on Windows Store.
●What is X?

186
Minesweeper

EXTRA QUESTION 2
187
●Tata has entered the contraceptive business with a new product, targeting
truckers of India. They aim to increase awareness about family planning and safe
sex through this company.
●For this, they named their company in a very strategic way, making a pun on
something which is usually present on all trucks.

188
Use Dipper at Night

EXTRA QUESTION 3
189
●Moby Dick is a novel written by Herman Melville during the period of American
Renaissance. It follows the story of Captain Ahab, who is set for seeking revenge
on Moby Dick, a whale, for having bitten his leg off.
●Name the whaling ship that Captain Ahab commandeers during his quest.

190
Pequod

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