This document contains questions and answers from an invicta quiz finals competition. It lists 31 multiple choice questions on various topics ranging from pop culture to history to science. The questions would be asked to participants in a quiz competition format with points awarded for correct answers on direct questions and points deducted for incorrect answers.

1. INVICTA FINALS
Researched and Conducted By:
Aditya, Manish, Yallaling

2. Rules of the Game
All Questions on the Pounce and Direct
+10/-5 on the pounce
+10/0 on the direct

3. Q1) Why is there a hole in a spaghetti holder.
Put Funda.

6. Q2) The phrase X generally refers to a married,
white, middle-class woman who lives in the
suburbs and has school-age children. She is
sometimes portrayed in the media as busy or
overburdened and driving a minivan or SUV. She is
also described as putting the interests of her
family, and most importantly her children, ahead
of her own. The phrase takes its name from a
particular activity which is quintessential to her.

8. Soccor Mom

9. Q3) What is a discussion in which members
attempt to assign blame for a particular deed
called ? A pun on something which you would
have supposedly done in your design projects.

11. Blamestrorming

12. Q4) This olive green Manhattan brand sweater “a
blend of acrylic, mohair and Lycra with
five-button closure (one button absent), with two
exterior pockets, a burn hole and discoloration
near left pocket and discoloration on right
pocket” — sold for a whopping $334,000 at an
auction. Who was the more famous owner of this
iconic sweater.

15. Q5) The X is the world's largest office building, with
about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2
) of space. The site
originally chosen was Arlington Farms which had a
certain constraint which eventually led to name of X.
Concerned that the new building could obstruct the
view of Washington, D.C., from Arlington Cemetery,
President Roosevelt ended up selecting the Hoover
Airport site instead. The building retained its original
layout because a major redesign at that stage would
have been costly, and Roosevelt liked the design.
Freed of the constraints of the asymmetric Arlington
Farms site, it was modified into its current form. Id X

18. Pentagon

19. Q6) Sotheby’s said in a statement to the Financial Times: “We
have talked with the successful purchaser who was surprised
by the story. We are in discussion about next steps. The
website MyArtBroker.com, which resells X’s art pieces, said Y
had enjoyed annual increases in value of about 20% in recent
years. “Prices now are regularly exceeding £115,000 for signed
authenticated prints,” said its co-founder Joey Syer. How did a
damaged good have an increase in its value as a result of
someone’s “creative desire to destroy”?

22. Q7) X gained his nickname after his habit of
wearing a black and yellow sweater with hooped
stripes with the Phoenix Jazzmen. Bandleader
Gordon Solomon thought he looked like a
common insect, which prompted the name “X"

24. Sting

25. Q 8) What from the
world of pop culture
was inspired from the
hairstyle of women
during the Mexican
revolution.

27. Princess Leila
Hairstyle

28. Q9) Muammar Qaddafi had a crush on X.
Sometimes referring to her as his ‘African
princess’, he had a Libyan composer write a song
called ‘Black Flower in the White House,’ and had
a homemade scrapbook filled with photos of X. Id
X.

31. Q10) Ancient Chinese physicians kept a small
ivory "medicine doll" in their desks to help them
treat certain patients, the reason that the had to
do this as these patients had to respect a certain
taboo imposed upon them by their society. Put
Funda.

33. They were not allowed to show skin
to males other than their husband.

34. Q 11) Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a
comprehensive theory about the nature and
development of human intelligence. It was first
created by the Swiss developmental
psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). The theory
deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how
humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use
it. He believed infants in the early stages of
development lack object permanence (the
understanding that people and things still exist even
when you can’t see them). This explains what
behavior that many of us have used on little children.

37. Q12) In 1999 a certain phrase used by Pepsi in 1998
made it to the hearts and minds of people in India
owning to Mr. X who took the advertising slogan and
elevated it to a motto for life. Mr. X is part of an
exhaustive and honorable list of 21. For points Id Mr.
X and the phrase.
#knowyourquizmaster

40. Q 13) Y introduced the chemical Sildenafil, the
active drug in X, as a heart medication. During
clinical trials the drug proved ineffective for heart
conditions. But men noted that the medication
seemed to cause another desired effect. Y
conducted clinical trials on 4,000 men with this
problem, and saw the same results.
Enter the age of the little blue pill !
ID x

43. Q 14) The X is a "fist-load, claw-like" weapon,
originating from the Indian subcontinent, designed
to fit over the knuckles or be concealed under and
against the palm. It consists of four or five curved
blades affixed to a crossbar or glove, and is
designed to slash through skin and muscle. The
most well-known usage of the weapon was by the
first Maratha emperor Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
who used a bichuwa and X to defeat the Bijapur
general Afzal Khan. Id X

45. Baghnakh (tiger claw)

46. Q 15) A heated argument followed up with a
Mexican standoff was a result of the way in
which people count 3. Put Funda.

49. Q 16) 'I am a football fan. I've followed the Premier
League since its inception and if I had some money
for every time someone asked me what the offside
rule was then I would be a very rich man.‘ says one
Mr. Wolfsun who did something in 2012 so that he
would not have to explain this rule to people again
and again. What exactly did he do?

52. Q17) Pepsi at one point of time had become the
sixth largest navy in the world. Put Funda.

55. Q18)The reason for this strange behavior in
crocodiles is because it helps them with basic
digestion, according to the Miami Science
Museum. X is especially beneficial for crocodiles
who eat whole prey, particularly animals with
shells and tough bones.
X also might enhance a crocodile's swimming
skills -- a definite advantage for these aquatic
reptiles. It helps crocodile stay underwater.

58. Q 19)Prince X met the woman who would
completely change his life in June 1931. At a
party hosted by Lady Furness, the prince was
introduced to Wallis Simpson, a sophisticated,
charming and charismatic American woman who
had recently moved to London with her husband.
She immediately captured the king's interest and
later captured his heart. By 1934, the two had
undoubtedly become lovers. The monarchy was
not pleased with the pairing, however, and
refused to allow a marriage between the future
king and an American divorcee.
As a result of
this love story
what happened?

61. Q 20) Nightingale floors are floors that make a
chirping sound when walked upon. These floors
were used in the hallways of some temples and
palaces, the most famous example being Nijō
Castle, in Kyoto, Japan. Dry boards naturally
creak under pressure, but these floors were built
in a way that the flooring nails rub against a
jacket or clamp, causing chirping noises. What
was the primary aim of installing these in the
castles?

65. Q 21) X is the last engineering college set up by the
British in India. It is also the first college in india to
have an electronics and telecommunications
engineering education. Id X whose motto is
‘Onwards on wings’

68. Q 22) Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces
the conventional manual flight controls of an
aircraft with an electronic interface. The
movements of flight controls are converted to
electronic signals transmitted by wires (hence the
fly-by-wire term). The first craft to use FBW
system was an era defining craft which was used
to cover one of the largest distances ever travelled
by man. Name the project - which helped us make
giant leaps - the craft was associated with.

71. Q 23) X is a public college located in lahore. When
established, X was the first of its kind in Pakistan
(then India) and the second oldest of its kind in
South Asia. X also boasts of notable alumni
Bhagat Singh being one of them. ID x.

73. National College of Arts, Lahore

74. Q 24) The term X is popularly used in engineering,
business and technical fields to describe a group
within an organization given a high degree of
autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, with
the task of working on advanced or secret
projects. It was made popular by a group of the
same name in Lokheed Martin which helped
develop several aircrafts, including the worlds
fastest aircraft SR71. ID X

76. Skunkworks

77. Q 25) X is an MNC, which was quite popular for
making business machines, developed the
technology of Y while trying to develop
holographs. This technology has since then been
adopted worldwide for almost all inventory
management tasks, which one can see commonly
in grocery stores. ID X and Y

79. X - IBM
Y - Barcode Reader

80. Q 26) During partition, the states of India and
Pakistan were dividing all the resources between
them. When it came to the ownership of the
presidential buggy (then viceroy’s buggy), the
ownership was decided by a unique way. This way is
also quite popular in the world of sport. How was
this decided?

83. Q 27) Richard Tyler Belvins, a gamer from America,
was the most subscribed creator on the streaming
service Twitch, before leaving the platform last
year. He is very well known for playing the online
multiplayer game X which recently released a
character skin based on him to highlight his
contribution to the popularity of the game. Richard
also popularly goes by the name Y (once found all
over Japan). ID X and Y.

86. Q 28) The term X came from the fact that detergent
and soap companies sponsored these periodical
radio shows. However the term also stuck to
television shows which were dealing especially with
domestic situations and frequently characterized
by melodrama and sentimentality (Typical Saas
Bahu serial). What is X?

88. Daily Soaps

89. Q 29) Bill Clinton, a Democrat, on his presidential
visit to India was offered a ride on an elephant. He
was interested first but he declined the offer as it
was a bit ironic in US political circles. Why did he
decline the offer?

92. Q 30) The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle, also known as
the SLR (Self-Loading Rifle). It has been a part of
many conflicts across the globe.
One individual rifle found in New Delhi is always
guarded by soldiers from Army, Airforce and the
Navy.
Where is this rifle located?

95. Q 31) Swedish Automotive company X places a
ghost logo on its vehicles as a tribute to the fact
that their factory is a disused swedish air Force
hanger whose insignia was the ghost
ID X which is known for its hypercard

98. Q 40) Why is this video relevant in the history of
internet?

99. First Youtube video with 1m views