Gen quiz done at Alma Fiesta 2020, cultural fest of IIT-BBS.

1. Gen quiz
Prelims by Ankit Singh

2. First rule of the quiz is

3. Other rules are
● 15 questions in all. 1-9 is a point each.
● No negs: you can resort to creative writing.
● Part points at QM’s discretion.
● 10-15 are (*)ed questions and are worth two points each.
This will be used in the case of tie.
● If tie still persist, countback will be used to resolve ties.
● Twenty-one points in all. Six teams qualify for the final.
● QM isn’t the god, he is the dictator.

5. Q1: What is being described here?
As hot air rises, a Rayleigh–Taylor instability is formed, and air is drawn
upwards and into the structure (similar to the updraft of a chimney),
producing strong air currents known as "afterwinds", while, inside the
head of the structure, the hot gases rotate in a toroidal shape. When the
altitude is low enough, these afterwinds will draw in dirt from the ground
below to form the stem of the structure.
After the mass of hot gases reaches its equilibrium level, the ascent stops,
and the structure starts flattening to the characteristic shape, usually aided
by surface growth due to the decaying turbulence.

6. Q2:
A famous example to cite the practicality of the second law of
thermodynamics is as follows: After Y fell and shattered, it would be
highly unlikely but not impossible to put Y back together as it has a state
of lower disorder, which is why 160 men failed.
What is Y?

7. Q3: Name this world famous island.
The etymology of the name of this island might either be traced back to
the Ancient Greek word kapros meaning "wild boar" but it could also
derive from Latin for goats. Fossils of wild boars have been discovered,
lending credence to the "kapros" etymology.
On the other hand, the Romans called it the "goat island".
Finally, there is also the possibility that the name derives from an
Etruscan word for "rocky", though any historical Etruscan rule of the
island is disputed.

8. Q4
In 1983 a Korean Airlines airplane was shot down by the USSR for
violating Soviet airspace.This incident prompted Ronald Reagan to
release which technology for civilian use?

9. Q5
Charles Marie de La Condamine brought this item from Ecuador and
introduced samples these to the Royal Academy of Sciences in France in
1736. Till that time, there was still no generally accepted English name
for this item, until Joseph Priestley observed that it served him very well
during his daily note keeping work for his experiments. Priestley wrote a
letter describing the corrective properties of this item and gave it a name
that referred to these properties, after which Edward Narine began
marketing objects with this name.
What word, now used as a generic term for this item, resulted from
Priestley’s observations?

10. Q6: Who is the movie based on?
Bodyguard is a 2016 film written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia .
The film was first shown in the 34th Fajr International Film Festival
Parviz Parastoui, stars as the lead in the movie.
Bodyguard is the story of a middle-aged man who protects high-ranking
political figures. However, he gets into trouble when a suicide bomber
wearing an explosive vest approaches the vice president. The director of
the film stated "some parts in Bodyguard take inspiration from his 1999
hit The Glass Agency.

11. Insert video of the film’s trailer

12. Q7: Which entity?
Blue-ringed octopuses are four highly venomous species of octopus that
are found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia. They
can be identified by their yellowish skin and characteristic blue and black
rings that change colour dramatically when the animal is threatened.
They are recognized as one of the world's most venomous marine
animals.
In a certain 80s pop culture entity, it is the prominent symbol of the secret
order of female bandits and smugglers, appearing in an aquarium tank, on
silk robes, and as a tattoo on women in the order.

14. Q8: FITB which would remind you of a creation by Namco in 1980

15. Q9: Identify Y
In 1998, Y was part of the first Indian national rugby team to play in an
international event, the Asian Rugby Football Union Championship. He
has played both scrum-half and right-winger positions. In an interview
with Daily News & Analysis, Y announced that he would not return to
the team for the 2009 season.
Maxim named him "the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema". for his work in
parallel cinema films like English, August and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer while
Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema".

17. Q10: Identify X. Name the dish.
Chicken _______ consists of a chicken sautéed in oil with garlic and tomato, garnished with fried
eggs and crayfish.
According to a popular myth, it was first made after X defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of
_________ (1800) south of Alessandria, Italy, when his chef Dunand foraged in the town for
ingredients and created the dish from what he could gather.
According to this legend, X enjoyed the dish so much he had it served to him after every battle,
and when Dunand was later better-supplied and substituted mushrooms for crayfish and added
wine to the recipe, X refused to accept it, believing that a change would bring him bad luck.
British historian Alan Davidson has written that there would have been no access to tomatoes at
that time thereby exposing the myth. The more plausible explanation for the origin of the dish is
that it was created by a restaurant chef to honour X’s victory.

19. Q11 :X and fill either of the blanks
The name of the city X is widely attributed to Sanskrit, which was the literary
language employed by the Buddhist kingdoms which ruled over the area during
its earliest recorded period. The city’s name may be also derived from the
Sanskrit name for "City of Flowers," The city began to be known as X by the era
of Emperor Akbar. The current name is said by some to have been based upon the
Persian for “________ town" or, more literally, “________ city," though
transcription errors and linguistic shifts may account for the city's new name. One
theory suggests that the city’s name is derived from the Persian name, meaning
"place of first arrival" as X was considered as the first city in the Indian
subcontinent by travellers from Central Asia.

20. Q12: Identify the band Z and the track Y.
Z’s keyboard player David Paich wrote the song, and explained in the
liner notes of Z Best Ballads compilation: "At the beginning of the '80s I
watched a late night documentary on TV about all the terrible death and
suffering of the people in Y. It both moved and appalled me and the
pictures just wouldn't leave my head. I tried to imagine how I'd feel about
if I was there and what I'd do.’
David then decided to paint a positive picture of Y through the lyrics.
Interestingly Paich had never been to Y when he wrote the song.

21. Q13
Y was named in honor of King Z of Spain. Spanish explorer Ruy López
de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands of Leyte
and Samar as _______ after the then-Prince of Asturias.
Eventually the name Las Islas ________would be used to cover all the
islands of the archipelago. Before that became commonplace, other
names such as Islas del Poniente (Islands of the West) and Magellan's
name for the islands San Lázaro were also used by the Spanish to refer to
the islands.
Which country (Y) thus got its name? Identify Z.

22. Q14
X became a well-known style of sunglasses when Y landed on a beach in
the Philippines in World War II and newspaper photographers snapped
several pictures of him wearing them.
That became a lasting image of the Second World War.
Bausch & Lomb dedicated a line of sunglasses to him in 1987 which they
named “The General”.
X and Y please.

23. Q15
This is a lego set celebrating the women of NASA, based on a
submission to the Lego Ideas site by Maia Weinstock, the deputy editor
of MIT News. Identify all four women celebrated here. List contains a
scientist from the Apollo 11 project, the lady dubbed as “Mother of
Hubble”, the first American woman to go to space and the first African-
American woman in space.

26. Submit your answer sheets…!

27. Answer time...

28. Q1: What is being described here?
As hot air rises, a Rayleigh–Taylor instability is formed, and air is drawn
upwards and into the structure (similar to the updraft of a chimney),
producing strong air currents known as "afterwinds", while, inside the
head of the structure, the hot gases rotate in a toroidal shape. When the
altitude is low enough, these afterwinds will draw in dirt from the ground
below to form the stem of the structure.
After the mass of hot gases reaches its equilibrium level, the ascent stops,
and the structure starts flattening to the characteristic shape, usually aided
by surface growth due to the decaying turbulence.

29. Answer
Formation of a Mushroom cloud

30. Q2:
A famous example to cite the practicality of the second law of
thermodynamics is as follows: After Y fell and shattered, it would be
highly unlikely but not impossible to put Y back together as it has a state
of lower disorder, which is why 160 men failed.
What is Y?

31. Answer:
Humpty Dumpty

32. Q3: Name this world famous island.
The etymology of the name of this island might either be traced back to
the Ancient Greek word kapros meaning "wild boar" but it could also
derive from Latin for goats. Fossils of wild boars have been discovered,
lending credence to the "kapros" etymology.
On the other hand, the Romans called it the "goat island".
Finally, there is also the possibility that the name derives from an
Etruscan word for "rocky", though any historical Etruscan rule of the
island is disputed.

33. Answer:
Capri

34. Q4
In 1983 a Korean Airlines airplane was shot down by the USSR for
violating Soviet airspace.This incident prompted Ronald Reagan to
release which technology for civilian use?

35. Answer:
GPS

36. Q5
Charles Marie de La Condamine brought this item from Ecuador and
introduced samples these to the Royal Academy of Sciences in France in
1736. Till that time, there was still no generally accepted English name
for this item, until Joseph Priestley observed that it served him very well
during his daily note keeping work for his experiments. Priestley wrote a
letter describing the corrective properties of this item and gave it a name
that referred to these properties, after which Edward Narine began
marketing objects with this name.
What word, now used as a generic term for this item, resulted from
Priestley’s observations?

37. Answer:
Rubber

38. Q6: Who is the movie based on?
Bodyguard is a 2016 film written and directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia .
The film was first shown in the 34th Fajr International Film Festival
Parviz Parastoui, stars as the lead in the movie.
Bodyguard is the story of a middle-aged man who protects high-ranking
political figures. However, he gets into trouble when a suicide bomber
wearing an explosive vest approaches the vice president. The director of
the film stated "some parts in Bodyguard take inspiration from his 1999
hit The Glass Agency.

39. Insert video of the film’s trailer

40. Answer:
Qassem Soleimani

41. Q7: Which entity?
Blue-ringed octopuses are four highly venomous species of octopus that
are found in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia. They
can be identified by their yellowish skin and characteristic blue and black
rings that change colour dramatically when the animal is threatened.
They are recognized as one of the world's most venomous marine
animals.
In a certain 80s pop culture entity, it is the prominent symbol of the secret
order of female bandits and smugglers, appearing in an aquarium tank, on
silk robes, and as a tattoo on women in the order.

43. Answer:

44. Q8: FITB which would remind you of a creation by Namco in 1980

45. Answer:

46. Q9: Identify Y
In 1998, Y was part of the first Indian national rugby team to play in an
international event, the Asian Rugby Football Union Championship. He
has played both scrum-half and right-winger positions. In an interview
with Daily News & Analysis, Y announced that he would not return to
the team for the 2009 season.
Maxim named him "the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema". for his work in
parallel cinema films like English, August and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer while
Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema".

47. Answer:
Rahul Bose

49. Q10: Identify X. Name the dish.
Chicken _______ consists of a chicken sautéed in oil with garlic and tomato, garnished with fried
eggs and crayfish.
According to a popular myth, it was first made after X defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of
_________ (1800) south of Alessandria, Italy, when his chef Dunand foraged in the town for
ingredients and created the dish from what he could gather.
According to this legend, X enjoyed the dish so much he had it served to him after every battle,
and when Dunand was later better-supplied and substituted mushrooms for crayfish and added
wine to the recipe, X refused to accept it, believing that a change would bring him bad luck.
British historian Alan Davidson has written that there would have been no access to tomatoes at
that time thereby exposing the myth. The more plausible explanation for the origin of the dish is
that it was created by a restaurant chef to honour X’s victory.

51. Answer:
Napoleon
Marengo

52. Q11 :X and fill either of the blanks
The name of the city X is widely attributed to Sanskrit, which was the literary
language employed by the Buddhist kingdoms which ruled over the area during
its earliest recorded period. The city’s name may be also derived from the
Sanskrit name for "City of Flowers," The city began to be known as X by the era
of Emperor Akbar. The current name is said by some to have been based upon the
Persian for “________ town" or, more literally, “________ city," though
transcription errors and linguistic shifts may account for the city's new name. One
theory suggests that the city’s name is derived from the Persian name, meaning
"place of first arrival" as X was considered as the first city in the Indian
subcontinent by travellers from Central Asia.

53. Answer:
● Frontier /Forward
● Peshawar

54. Q12: Identify the band Z and the track Y.
Z’s keyboard player David Paich wrote the song, and explained in the
liner notes of Z Best Ballads compilation: "At the beginning of the '80s I
watched a late night documentary on TV about all the terrible death and
suffering of the people in Y. It both moved and appalled me and the
pictures just wouldn't leave my head. I tried to imagine how I'd feel about
if I was there and what I'd do.’
David then decided to paint a positive picture of Y through the lyrics.
Interestingly Paich had never been to Y when he wrote the song.

55. Answer:
Z: Toto
Y: Africa

56. Q13
Y was named in honor of King Z of Spain. Spanish explorer Ruy López
de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands of Leyte
and Samar as _______ after the then-Prince of Asturias.
Eventually the name Las Islas ________would be used to cover all the
islands of the archipelago. Before that became commonplace, other
names such as Islas del Poniente (Islands of the West) and Magellan's
name for the islands San Lázaro were also used by the Spanish to refer to
the islands.
Which country (Y) thus got its name? Identify Z.

57. Answer:
Y: Phillipines
Z: King Phillip II

58. Q14
X became a well-known style of sunglasses when Y landed on a beach in
the Philippines in World War II and newspaper photographers snapped
several pictures of him wearing them.
That became a lasting image of the Second World War.
Bausch & Lomb dedicated a line of sunglasses to him in 1987 which they
named “The General”.
X and Y please.

59. Answer:
Y: General MacArthur
X: Aviator

60. Q15
This is a lego set celebrating the women of NASA, based on a
submission to the Lego Ideas site by Maia Weinstock, the deputy editor
of MIT News. Identify all four women celebrated here. List contains a
scientist from the Apollo 11 project, the lady dubbed as “Mother of
Hubble”, the first American woman to go to space and the first African-
American woman in space.

62. Answer:
Margaret Hamilton, Nancy Grace Roman, Sally Ride, Mae
Jemison