Quiz conducted by me at the IIT-KGP Quiz Club on 2nd August, 2012

1. 1) ________ is a business model by which a
product or service (typically a digital offering
such as software, media, games or web
services) is provided free of charge, but a
premium is charged for advanced features,
functionality, or virtual goods. The word
________ is essentially
a portmanteau combining the two aspects of
this business model. FITB.

2. Freemium

3. 2) This band was formed in Birmingham in 1978, where
they would become the resident band at the city's Rum
Runner nightclub. At the club the founders were doing
jobs such as working the door and deejaying for £10 a
night. They began rehearsing and regularly playing at
the venue. There were many nearby nightclubs, and the
one "significant" one, where bands such as The Sex
Pistols and The Clash played gigs, was called
Barbarella's. They would go on to name the band after
the villain from Barbarella, a French science-fiction film
starring Jane Fonda. The villain, played by Milo O'Shea,
is named "Dr. __________".
Story of which band ?

4. Duran Duran

5. 3)The _________ uses 4 motorized winches
positioned at each corner at the base of the
covered area, each of which controls a
Kevlar cable connected to a dolly. By controlling
the winding and unwinding of the cables, the
system allows the dolly to reach any position in
the three dimensional space. The inputs of
_________’s pilot are processed by software
which forwards the commands to the winches
via fiber optic cables. Two of the Kevlar cables
also have fiber optic cables woven into them to
carry commands to the device and the remote
head, and bring the device's HD signal back to

6. Spidercam

7. 4) Connect the following elements :

8. • Randal Flagg - A recurrent character in several
Stephen King books including The Stand, Eyes of the
Dragon and The Dark Tower series.

9. Man In Black

10. 5) This is a theorem from Principia Mathematica written
by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. PM is
an attempt to derive all mathematical truths from a well-
defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic
logic. So what mathematical truth follows from this
theorem?

11. 1+1=2

12. 6) The Scunthorpe problem was named after an
incident in 1996 in which residents of the town
of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England
were prevented from creating accounts with
AOL. Years later, Google's filters apparently
made the same mistake, preventing residents
from searching for local businesses that
included Scunthorpe in their names. What is the
Scunthorpe problem?

13. The Scunthorpe problem occurs when
a spam filter blocks something because
the text contains a string of letters that are
shared with an obscene word.

14. 7) X refused to attend the Booker Prize
ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in
advance whether he had won for his work A. He
was one of two considered likely to win, the
other being Y for his book B. The judges
decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony,
giving the prize to Y. Both novels had been
seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize
and the dramatic literary battle between two
established and reputed authors made front
page news. Id X and Y.

15. Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
William Golding, Rites of Passage

16. 8) There were 3 inaugural inductees into the
comic-book hall of fame. 2 of them were Jack
Kirby (inventor of Captain America) and Carl
Barks (Duckburg and its inhabitants). Who was
the third?

17. Will Eisner (Eisner Awards/ Will Eisner Hall of
Fame)

18. 9) These are 2 paintings by German romantic
landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. These are
have said to inspired the setting for something. What?

21. Waiting for Godot

22. 10) These are the 4 lesser known faces. Who is the 5th
and the most famous person that completes this list?

24. 11) This is Gregory Maguire, an
American novelist for both
children and adults. His more
popular novels include titles
such as Wicked (made into a
musical which is the 12th longest
running show on
Broadway), Son of a Witch, A
Lion Among Men, Confessions
of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror
Mirror and Lost. What are these
and Maguire’s other works
about?

25. Revisionist retellings of popular children’s
classics

26. 12) Poster for something
that was first in a way
but is generally
disregarded and
something else is
considered to be the
first. Spin a tale.

27. The credit of being the first Indian movie which
is generally given to Raja Harishchandra
since Shree Pundalik was a photographic
recording of a popular Marathi play, and
because the cameraman was a British
national and the film was processed in
London.

28. 13) These 3 gentlemen saw a British horror film called
Dead of Night together in 1946. The movie has a
circular structure so that after four parts the end was
identical to the start. The central character of the story
wakes up from a nightmare only to find that the
experiences from his dream are real. In the midst of
the mayhem, he wakes up relieved to find that it was all
a dream. Later in the day the experiences from the
dream start to happen again in real life. In other
words, the story evolves over time, but ends up exactly
where it started. Their discussions about the movie led
to the development of what?

29. The Steady State Theory

30. 14) ________’s (B) regular golfing partner was a
businessman called John Blackwell. One day Blackwell
mentioned that his cousin’s husband was the architect
Ernö _______ (A). Ernö _______ (A) was one of post-war
Britain’s most prominent and notorious architects and
designers. A Jewish-Hungarian émigré, he was one of
the leaders of the so-called ‘Brutalist’ movement. He
was a highly flamboyant character with a love of fast
cars, cigars and young women, and was thought by
some to be rather a bully: there were stories that he was
given to frog-marching uncooperative clients out of his
offices. _______ (B) liked the name ‘_______’ (A) and
thought he might be able to use it. Such character traits,
one might have thought, would have made him a hero.
Instead he ended up as a villain.
FITB

31. A – Goldfinger
B- Ian Fleming

32. 15) ‘________ (a Movie) ’ (1979) by William Burroughs is
not a movie. Nor is it a screenplay for a movie, at least in
the usual sense. It is a book – a novella, in fact – and
one unconnected with the film ________, which came
three years later. Neither did Burroughs’ book deal with
any of the themes of the film. ’________ (a Movie)’ in
fact took its title and theme from an earlier book, ’The
_______’, by Alan E Nourse. Both books dealt with a
crisis in medical care leading to the sale of black-market
supplies (such as scalpels, or blades). ‘_______’, the
film, took its title from the Nourse and Burroughs books,
after the director had bought the rights to the title (for a
pittance) and then took the project in a completely
different direction.
All identical blanks. Fill em’ up.

33. Blade Runner

34. 16) Unlike most other proper names in _____’s (A)
works, which often tended toward the onomatopoeic and
parodic , _______ (B) had a concrete starting-point. He
was named after _______ (B), a village in Hampshire,
and more specifically after a prep school in the town,
_______ (B) House, where _______ (A) stayed as a guest
on and off from 1903. _______ (A) liked _______ (B) so
much that in 1910 he bought a house in the village
called _______ (C). _______ (C) became _______ (B)’s
family name. _______ (B) House thus supplied the
dynastic title, and _______ (C), _______ (A)’s more
modest accommodation, the humbler family name.
Identify A and the character B.

35. A – P. G. Wodehouse
B – Emsworth
C - Threepwood

36. LVC