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QUANTA PRESENTS
TRIVIUM 2016
THE ANNUAL QUIZ OF TECHNIVAL
QM: Sahil H.R.
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20 questions
No negatives
Top 6 teams will go through to the finals
Starred questions to be used for breaking ties
If still unresolved, then countback shall be done
QM’s decision is final and binding on all
All the best

1.
Which word in Latin means “the place
where three roads meet” ?

2.
Which website’s slogan claims that it is:
“The front page of the internet”?

3.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is the great-
grand uncle of which renowned Bollywood
actor?

*4.
William Moulton Marston is credited as the creator of the systolic blood
pressure test, which became one component of the modern polygraph
invented by John Augustus Larson in Berkeley, California. Marston's wife
Elizabeth Holloway Marston is said to have suggested a connection between
emotion and blood pressure to William, observing that, "[w]hen she got mad
or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb”.
But apart from being a psychologist and an inventor, he also had another
profession. He created the famous character A, after being highly influenced
by two women, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne.
Give me A.

5.
B is an online website portal for online trading, investments and
stock marketing. The company was founded in February 2000 by
entrepreneur Shripal Morakhia. B is ranked as the 2nd largest stock
broker portal and has its branches in 575 cities in India. The tagline
of B is “Your guide to the financial jungle”. The name B is a pun on
the name of a fictional character from a very famous novel, which
was also made into a movie later.
What is B?

6.
Indian playback singer, Lata Mangeshkar initially refused to
accept her first Filmfare award in the year 1958. Later, the
organisers did something to overcome the problem
temporarily and she took the award after this.
What was the reason for her initial refusal to accept the
Filmfare award in 1958?

A6.
She refused to accept the Filmfare in 1958 because the
statue was of a woman with no clothes on and she didn’t
like this idea.
To overcome this problem, the organisers wrapped the
statue in a handkerchief and presented it to her which she
accepted.

7.
As depicted in the opening sequence of each episode, C were
created by Professor Utonium in an attempt to create the "perfect
little girl" using a mixture of "sugar, spice, and everything nice".
However, he accidentally spilled a mysterious substance called D
into the mixture, creating, instead of the "perfect little girl", three
girls (each possessing one of the above elements dominating her
personality), and granting all three superpowers including flight,
super strength, super speed, near invulnerability, x-ray vision, super
senses, heat vision, energy projection, invisibility, and control over
lightning.
Give me C and D for half a point each.

A7.
C: Powerpuff Girls
D: Chemical X

*8.
A Leo Burnett team comprising of Nima Namchu and Nitin Berry
were working for a Reebok campaign in 1996-97. Their job was to
assign a certain character to three sportspersons.
They coined the sobriquet “The Assassin”, “The Viper” and “The E”
for the trio. The first two names did not stick and soon faded from
public memory. The third name, however, became synonymous
with the sportsman worldwide and is still used today when his
reference is made. It was coined because although he didn’t play
aggressive, he did not crumble under pressure either.
Give me E (the nickname).

*A8.
“The Assassin” was M. Azharuddin and “The Viper” was Anil Kumble. The third
person was none other than “The Wall”.

9.
This puzzle was invented by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in
1883. There is a story about an Indian temple in Kashi Vishwanath which
contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64
golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient
prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the
immutable rules of the Brahma, since that time. According to the legend,
when the last move of the puzzle will be completed, the world will end.
If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a
rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would
take them 264−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 turns to finish, or about 127 times the
current age of the sun. Which is this puzzle that has the capital of a
country as a part of its name?

10.
The headline of a leading national daily on July 31,2013
was:
At 66, Mother ______ gets ready for her 29th baby.
What was the name of the baby?

11.
F was born in February 1984 out of Richard Saul Wurman's
observation of a powerful convergence among three fields. The
very first F included a demo of the compact disc, the e-book and
cutting-edge 3D graphics from Lucasfilm, while mathematician
Benoit Mandelbrot demonstrated how to map coastlines using his
developing theory of fractal geometry.
F was acquired by The Sapling Foundation in November 2001.
Give me F.

*12.
G holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity
University, Lucknow. G was the first runner-up in Femina Miss India
Indore in 2013. She has also appeared in an ad for Cadbury Dairy
Milk Silk Bubbly and has also endorsed other brands like Garnier
Fructis, Gionee Elife, Imperial Blue and Aircel.
G made her Bollywood debut this year.
Who is G?

13.
In the 1980s, Hiroshi Ueda worked for the Minolta camera
company, and was a keen photographer.
Once, while at the Louvre museum in Paris, he asked a child to take
a photo of him with his wife. But as soon as he stepped away, the
child ran away with his camera.
What solution did he come up with to solve this problem?

A13.
Invented the selfie-stick

14.
H is a very famous YouTube entertainer.
While watching a news channel's coverage of the Kashmir floods in
2015, the anchor chose to ask a mother who had lost her child
some insensitive questions. H felt that he had to do something. So,
he uploaded a video on Facebook that mocked the anchor. The
video went viral overnight and so he made his YouTube debut in
June 2015.
Who?

15.
Identify this TV actress who was shrouded in controversy earlier this year.

*16.
Identify the author of this book, on which the movie ‘The Social Network’ is
based.

18.
Launched in Hong Kong, which brand’s product is this?

19.
Identify the name of the movie from which this song has been
taken.

*20.
The next slide shows a picture of 19-20 Portugal Place in Cambridge, U.K.
It was here on 18th October 1962 that Cambridge police were allegedly called
to a disturbance involving exploding firecrackers being thrown down to the
street. The owners had thrown an extravagant party to celebrate something
very prestigious.
Which famous person, who lived in this house with his wife, had thrown the
party?
Clue: If you know the person, then you will almost surely know why he had
thrown the party.

*A20.
Dr. Francis Crick
He named the house where he lived as “The Golden
Helix”(as can be seen in the pic). He had thrown a
party to celebrate the winning of the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1962, of course.

ROUND 1: OFF THE MARK
•Six questions
•Clockwise
•Infinite bounce only
•+10 for correct and no negatives

1.
In the world of finance, if a start-up
company that is valued at over $1 billion is
called a Unicorn, then what is the name
given to a former Unicorn that is now
valued at less than $1 billion?

2.
The Romans at first used this word to mean "having that
first which ought to be last," like having a cart ahead of the
horse that is pulling it. This word was used to describe
something that was out of the normal or logical order or
position. The current meanings of this word in English have
these roots. These meanings were borrowed into English in
the 16th century. Which word am I talking about?

3.
Think a little bit and then tell me the name of Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, which was released in
October 2012.

4.
Who is this person who played the role of ‘The Scarecrow’ in a 1978 American
musical adventure film called ‘The Wiz’?

5.
In the year 2015, for the first time ever, Oxford Dictionaries’ ‘Word of the Year’
was not a ‘word’, literally. Announcing it on its official blog, Oxford Dictionaries
explained that X was given the crown that year because it best reflected the
ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.
Oxford University Press partnered with SwiftKey to explore frequency and
usage statistics for some of the most popular ______s across the world, and X
was chosen because it was the most used ______ globally in 2015. SwiftKey
identified that X made up 20% of all the ______s used in the UK in 2015, and
17% of those in the US.
Most, if not all, of us have used X in our day-to-day conversations. What is the
good ‘word’?

6.
Digicel is a mobile phone network provider
operating in 33 markets across the Caribbean,
Central America, and Oceania regions.
In August 2016, who was appointed as the
company’s ‘Chief Speed Officer’(CSO) under a
lifetime deal?

ROUND 2: JIO MERE LAAL!
•Twelve questions
•Six clockwise and six counter-clockwise
•Unlimited pounce (+10/-10)
•Infinite bounce (+10/0)

1.
Earlier this month, Goa Tourism department launched a vessel that
could run on both, land and water. It is a first of its kind facility
being used for civilian purpose (joy rides) in India. What is the name
given to these amphibious vessels?

2.
This is Virender Sehwag’s tweet about which cricketer?

3.
He was an engineer who quit his job at a chemical company to become a stand-up
comedian, only to fail miserably. Desperate to support his pregnant wife Jeannie, he
agreed to guide two criminals through the chemical plant where he previously worked
so that they could rob the playing card company next to it. During the planning, the
police inform him that his wife had died in a household accident. Grief-stricken, the
engineer tried to withdraw from the plan, but the criminals strong-armed him into
keeping his commitment to them.
Once inside the plant, they encounter security personnel, a shootout ensues, and the
two criminals are killed.
The engineer then jumps into the chemical plant's waste pound lock and is swept
through a pipe leading to the outside. Once outside, he discovers to his horror that
the chemicals have permanently disfigured him. The engineer's disfigurement,
compounded with the loss of his family, drives him completely insane.
Who is born thus?

4.
A famous politician, currently a member of the Lok
Sabha, founded the quiz club at his alma mater, St.
Stephen’s college in Delhi in the year 1974.
Referring to his initiative in St. Stephen’s, he says, "It
was the first college Quiz Club in the country and is
still in existence, a model for others.“
Who am I talking about?

5.
Gajanan Mithaiwala, used to have a mithai maker named
Jakku. One day Jakku left the milk boiling and forgot about
it. He returned only when the milk had nearly dried up and
was reduced to a brown paste. He added some sugar to it,
and it tasted lovely. That is how this mithai was born. He
then named this mithai after his daughter.
Slight variations of the above story exist. These stories
describe the invention of which famous mithai?

6.
This is a 1903 advertisement for which famous product that is used worldwide?

7.
This is a certain Mr. Santosh Lal. He passed away in 2013. He is the actual
‘inventor’ of something that has been internationally popularised by another
famous personality that all of us know about, say X. Santosh Lal’s name has
resurfaced recently due to X. What was his invention?

8.
Identify this medical practitioner who is the founder of a huge chain that is present
not only in India but also in Dhaka, London and Dubai. He was the recipient of the
Padma Shri award in 2012. Most of us may not have seen his picture but we have
certainly read his name numerous times. His son is a trichologist.

8.
Dr. Mukesh Batra
Everyone please go and check your spam folder today.

9.
Sattarbuksh is a parody café located in Karachi, Pakistan. It came into the
limelight recently because of a special pizza that it made. The two halves of the
pizza have tiny flags of India and Pakistan as shown. The Indian side is
vegetarian and the Pakistani side has beef in it! What is the name given to this
unusual pizza?

10.
This band was initially named X. It changed its name to Y, because of the
vocal chemistry between two of the band members which helped them
to work on new material. One of the members of the band used to drive
by a particular landmark in Santa Monica, California, USA everyday after
practice and it grabbed its attention. The other members of the band
liked how it sounded. Hence, they changed the band’s name yet again,
to Z, which was a slight variation in the spelling of the name of the
landmark. They could then easily buy the domain name that they
wanted.
Z named its debut album as Y.
What is Z, the current name of the band by which it is famous?

10.
LINKIN PARK
Named after Lincoln Park in California,USA

11.
Fill in the blank with a name to identify the subject of this joke.

12.
In ‘The Devil & Simon Flagg’(1954) by Arthur Porges, the Devil asks Simon
Flagg to set him a question. If the Devil succeeds in answering it within 24
hours then he takes Simon’s soul, but if he fails then he must give Simon
$100,000. Simon poses the question: ‘Is ____________ correct?’ The Devil
disappears & whizzes around the world to absorb every piece of mathematics
that has been created. The following day he returns and admits defeat:
‘You win, Simon’, he said, almost in a whisper, eyeing him with ungrudging
respect. ‘Not even I can learn enough mathematics in such a short time for so
difficult a problem. The more I got into it, the worse it became. Non-unique
factoring, ideals - Bah! Do you know’, the Devil confided, ‘not even the best
mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours-have solved it? Why,
there’s a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who
solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he’s given up’.
What was the question that was asked by Simon?

12.
Is Fermat’s Last Theorem correct?

AUDIENCE QUESTION
It was originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial
release was called "Presenter", developed by Thomas Rudkin and
Dennis Austin of Forethought, Inc. In 1987, it was renamed to its
current name due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the
name coming from Robert Gaskins.
What important piece of software am I talking about?

ROUND 3: LINKED LISTS
• Each team will be given one question(clockwise)
• The teams can answer it or pass it to the team of their
choice
• This will go on till the question is answered or all the
teams have attempted it
• Choose the team to which you will pass after seeing the
question
• The question will still pass if answer is incorrect
• One pounce per team is allowed(+15/-15)
• Scoring pattern is shown on the next slide

ROUND 3: LINKED LISTS
The scoring will be as follows:
1st team: +30/-25
2nd team: +25/-20
3rd team: +20/-15
4th team: +15/-10
5th team: +10/-5
6th team: +5/0

1.
The following slide contains a video clip from the
movie “The Theory of Everything”.
All you have to do is answer the question that
Stephen Hawking poses in the clip in one word.

1. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE ANSWER

2.
Baby Gaga is an ice-cream that was invented by Matt O’Connor. He claims that it is a
healthy alternative to the other ice-creams that are available in the market. It contains
a special ingredient, P, that is not found in any other ice-cream.
The ice cream went on sale on 25 February 2011. Within a week of going on sale, the
ice cream was seized by officers of Westminster Council to test whether it was suitable
for human consumption.
Founder Matt O'Connor says that:
'The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. No-one's done anything interesting with ice
cream in the last hundred years’.
'We've came up with a method of infusing ice-cream with P. We wanted to completely
reinvent it’.
'And by using P we've definitely given it a one hundred percent makeover. It’s just one
of a dozen radical new flavours we've invented. We want to change the way people
think about ice cream'.
What is this special ingredient that makes Baby Gaga different as well as controversial
as compared to all its competitors?

3.
Estádio Milton Corrêa, usually known as Zerão, is a multi-
purpose stadium located in Macapá, Brazil. It is used
mostly for football matches. The stadium has a maximum
capacity of 10,000 people and was built in 1990. The
stadium is nicknamed after the neighbourhood it is located
in.
What unusual circumstance about this stadium’s midfield
line makes it different from the midfield lines of all other
stadia in the world?

3.
Zerão means Big Zero (Zero latitude). The
name of the neighbourhood where it is
located is Marco Zero (Mark 0). The
midfield line of this stadium exactly
coincides with the Equator of the Earth.

4.
This item was invented on February 10, 1983 by Carmela
Vitale, a 46-year old woman living in USA. She noticed that
the containers that were used sagged at the centre
because of the steam emanating from the contents in
them.
Thus, there was a need to create something that was
lightweight and inexpensive and also resisted heat. Hence,
this item was invented by her.
What is the item that I am talking about?

5.
Toshiyuki “Harold” Sakata was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional
wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal for the United States at the
1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting. He was also an actor. In
which famous 1964 movie belonging to a popular movie franchise did he play
the villain in?

5.
HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF ODDJOB IN THE JAMES BOND
MOVIE
GOLDFINGER

6.
This image shows the world’s first what?

6.
It is the world’s first
photocopy(Xerox)

AUDIENCE QUESTION
Identify this actress from her lips!

ROUND 4: LONG CONNECT
• Six slides with 5 pictures each
•Connect them all to give the common theme
•Points for connect are mentioned after each slide
•You may choose whether you want to identify ALL
the 5 people in a given slide for +10
•If you get even a single person wrong, then -10
• All answers to be written down

They were all teachers at some point

ANSWER
All of them are engineers!

ROUND 5: BUZZER PE BOOTY
• 6 questions on the buzzer
• Teams can choose their score(20/25/30)
• Negatives will have the same magnitude as postives
• If score isn’t chosen by a team before giving the answer,
then default is 20 points
• Other teams can answer on infinite bounce if answer
given is incorrect or question is unanswered
• +10/0 on infinite bounce (counter-clockwise)

On your marks
Get set
Ready?
And…

1.
“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is the seventeenth episode of the seventeenth season of
The Simpsons. This episode ends in a Bollywood style dance to a song from a 1970
Hindi movie. Who is the famous singer of this song(video below)?

2.
You will find this statue at a particular restaurant in North Goa. Just tell me whose
statue is this?

2.
This is the statue of the notorious criminal,
Charles Sobhraj. It is located at the entrance of
the ‘O Coqueiro’ restaurant in Porvorim,
Bardez. He was caught in this restaurant in
April 1986.

3.
W is the only child of X(father). She was born shortly after midnight
on a particular day in August 1919.
As Stanley Wolpert, an Indologist, records in X’s biography: "Oddly
enough, precisely twenty-eight years to the day and hour before
the birth of X's other offspring, Y". Her premature arrival was
unexpected — her parents were at the theatre, but "were obliged
to leave their box hurriedly." She was a dark-eyed beauty, lithe and
winsome. She had her mother's smile and was pert or petulant as
only an adored child is wont to be.
But, if X had only one child, then who/what was the other offspring,
Y?

3. PAKISTAN
Dina Wadia(W), the only daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah(X) was
born shortly after midnight on 15th August 1919. Precisely twenty-
eight years later, at midnight of 15th August 1947, Jinnah’s other
offspring Pakistan(Y) was born.

4.
This is a picture of Pambar falls located at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. Due to an iconic
ad that was shot here in 1974, it was renamed as ______ Falls, after the product that
was advertised. Karen Lunel was the first lady who endorsed this product. Others
include Preity Zinta and Deepika Padukone. The product isn’t as popular now as it was
then. So, what is the palindromic name of the product that fills the blank above?

4. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THE ANSWER

5.
This is an Amul ad poster for which movie?

6.
What is the controversial line used by PETA on this poster that has been
blanked out? The line is inspired from something that happened quite recently
and was in news.

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