Lakshay Gautam (02-08-2016)

INFORMAL
QUIZ MEET
DELHI-42
LAKSHAY GAUTAM
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RULES
• 15/-10 on pounce
• 10/0 for a Direct Question
• 10/0 for a Passed on Question
• Quizmaster is not God but your Daddy
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QUESTION 1
According to a Fox News article from September 2013,
scientists at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
accidentally created an iconic artefact. Scientists there found
a way to make ___ that bounces off of ___. They’re not
interested in satisfying various fan groups, but are more
interested in using this knowledge to move towards quantum
computing. What is needed to create this is a power source
and emitter, a crystal, a containment field, and a negatively
charged fissure, and the colour depends on the crystals
used. What are they attempting to create?
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QUESTION 2
This is an actor playing the role of a lineage of Ninja warriors
initially in the 1980s and then in this 2003 Direct-to-DVD
series. In a 2004 film, the actor reprised a role, which was
named after the same Ninja character, supposedly the 14th in
the line. Which character?
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QUESTION 3
In writing his own tombstone, X penned a lengthy memorial listing
many of his great accomplishments, from “author of the
Declaration of Independence” to “founder of the University of
Virginia.” However, he did forget one small achievement: the
tombstone fails to mention that X was once
_________________________.
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THOMAS JEFFORSON
DIDN’T MENTION HE WAS
POTUS.
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QUESTION 4
The popular hip-shaking dance, the X, got its name from the
whisking motion required to make Y. X was made the official
music/dance of the Dominican Republic by Rafael Trujillo. In one
version, the dance originated from the enslaved laborers working
in sugar beet fields. These workers were connected to one
another by a chain strapped to their ankles and had to walk in
such a manner as to drag one leg.
Also, Y is a quite popular culinary component in many dishes and
requires a lot of whisking and shaking to prepare. X or Y.
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QUESTION 5
X was contested as a team event in the Summer Olympics at
every Olympiad from 1900 to 1920. Originally the competition was
entered by groups called clubs. A country could enter more than
one club in the competition, making it possible for one country to
earn multiple medals. This happened in 1904, when the United
States won all three medals in this event, and in 1908 when the
podium was occupied by three British teams.
During its time as an Olympic sport, it was considered to be part
of the Olympic athletics program.
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This is a picture of the westernmost cluster of islands of the
Netherlands named as X which translate to “Sea land” in
English. Y is named after this place and is much more
popular than it all around the world. Y was named as such
because it’s also a cluster of islands. The founder of Y earlier
thought of Y as Staten Landt after the southernmost tip of
Argentina as he thought he had landed on Argentina.
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QUESTION 7
The first recorded use of __________ was in an 1873 editorial
in The Baltimore American, which suggested that excess drinking
could be curtailed if saloon owners insisted on a ________ policy,
meaning that each man should be responsible for his own bar tab.
It was a point of pride among the immigrants of the country @ to
never be beholden to anyone and to only purchase what they
could afford. This attitude was pervasive throughout the
community.
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QUESTION 8
It turns out Mark Zuckerberg is a ________ fan … or at least
his The Social Network incarnation is. At one point, the Facebook
creator (Jesse Eisenberg) creates a fake Facebook account to
cheat on his art history final. Look in the top left corner of the
screen, and you can see that the name of the faux Facebook user
is X.
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QUESTION 9
This is an excerpt from the International Dark Matter conference
held at Sheffield UK-”The X dark matter experiment, which
operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground
Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has
completed its silent search for the missing matter of the
universe.
Today at an international dark matter conference (IDM 2016)
in Sheffield, U.K., X scientific collaborators presented the
results from the detector’s final 20-month run from October
2014 to May 2016. The new research result is also described
with further details on the X Collaboration’s website”
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QUESTION 10
• White represents birth and a new seed
• Yellow the sunlight that works on a new seed and begins
its life
• Orange the power of the sun to help the seed grow
• Green is seen as the plant sprouting
• Blue is the sky the plant grows toward
• Purple represents the sky at dawn
• Brown the ripening of the plant
• Red is again seen as the sun
• Black is the darkness beyond it
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QUESTION 13
The following slide contains the logo of an International
Organization which maintains lodges all over India. The logo
consists four other logos which represent the four regional
branches of the organization in India.
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QUESTION 14
The locality/structure X was named as such because the land
here had white-colored sand. It has been speculated that it was
constructed by Shah Alam II, the nominal Mughal emperor of
India in the 1761-1806 CE period, whose actual area of control
spanned a small territory in the environs of Delhi. Shah Alam II is
said to have been fond of excursions across his limited domain,
from the Red Fort to the another area by the name Y which is
near X, leading to the sarcastic verse, Sultanat-e-Shah-e-Alam,
Az Dilli ta Y (The dominion of Emperor Shah Alam, begins from
Delhi and ends at Y).X is located along this route, and its masonry
has been dated to the Shah Alam period.
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60/-30
A X is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic
waves through amplification by stimulated emission. The first X
was built by Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and H. J.
Zeiger at Columbia University in 1953. Townes, Nikolay
Basov and Alexander Prokhorov were awarded the 1964 Nobel
Prize in Physics for theoretical work leading to the X. X are used
as the timekeeping device in atomic clocks, and as extremely low-
noise microwave amplifiers in radio telescopes and deep
space spacecraft communication ground stations.
Image on next slide
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30/-15
In 1942 the word began being used in newspapers; an article from
the Bellingham Herald on July 27th has the headline “Those ‘Big,
Beautiful’ Bombs Are Called ______________ by Germans.” The
earliest _____________ appear to have been the invention of the
British Royal Air Force, and are described at the times as
weighing two tons, being about six feet in length, and possessing
of “very great destructive power.”
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