Lone Wolf 2015 Finals - IIT Delhi

Rules
All questions Infinite Pounce +10/-5
Bounce +10/0
Part points to be specified
QM is. That’s all that you need to know.
60 questions total
◦ 1st round 12 questions written
◦ 21 questions dry (clock)
◦ 6 question special round (written)
◦ 21 questions dry (anti-clock)

Pokemon Round!?!
All answers are directly linked to pokemon names
Written. 12 questions, +10 each
All questions are answerable even if you, like the QM, know
exactly nada about Pokemon
Disputes shall be resolved by third party experts (aka Pratyush
and pokemonDB)
Sample question:
This onomatopoeic word is used to describe kissing. Ans Smooch.
Pokemon: Smoochum
Geddit?

Q1)
_______ are one of the best index fossils known (i.e. it is
frequently possible to link the rock layer in which a particular
species has been found to specific geological time periods.)
They’re an extinct group of molluscs (marine invertebrates)
of the class Cephalopoda. Their fossil shells usually take the
form of planispirals which gave rise to their name from
tightly coiled ram horns. FITB.

Q2)
[WIKI COPY] The word ____ comes from the Tuscan
language, where it is the past participle of the verb
dire (to say), with the meaning of “said”, as in the
locution “the said story”. It was first used with its
associated English meaning in 1625. Similar marks
however, have been seen in Cuneiform in neo-
Assyrian tablets (900-600BC) with identical
meaning. For the Chinese, _____ corresponds with
two horizontal lines.

Q3)
A 134-year-old 5-inch by 15-inch strip of tinfoil,
scored with a series of dots by a stylus on a rotating
cylinder, was retrieved from the Schenectady
Museum in New York by archivists Schneiter and
Hunter teaming up with Berkeley physicist Carl
Haber. Haber used a 3-D image scanning device to
render the tinfoil into a topographical map
resolving dots at depths of 100 microns. It was
then translated into digitized sound by a
sophisticated computer software program. What
was heard?

Q4)
Quote from Conservapedia “Biology exhibits numerous invariants -- aspects of the
biological world that do not change over time. These include basic genetic processes
that have persisted unchanged for more than three-and-a-half billion years and
molecular mechanisms of animal ontogenesis that have been constant for more than
one billion years. Such invariants, however, are difficult to square with dynamic
genomes in light of conventional ______ _______. Indeed, Ernst Mayr regarded this
as one of the great unsolved problems of biology.
In his paper Dr.Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Lönnig Senior Scientist in the Department of
Molecular Plant Genetics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research
employs the design-theoretic concepts of irreducible complexity (as developed by
Michael Behe) and specified complexity (as developed by William Dembski) to
elucidate these invariants, accounting for them in terms of an _______ __________
_______.”
These two blanks are sources of enormous debate for Bible Belt
proponents and are an all-round source of controversy. FITB

Q5)
In radiation oncology, the X is the space in the
periphery of the main target of radiation therapy,
and has been defined as the volume receiving
between 80% and 20% of isodose. This name
originates from optical equivalents where the
source is only partially obscured. Y is the subset of
X with full occlusion. Y?

Q6)
X is the name of the 18th Terry Pratchett novel. The
name in the book references a key element in the
plot of the Phantom of the Opera, which the book
parodies. The name is also a pun on a type of ball
made popular in mainland Europe in the 17th and
18th Centuries. They became associated with
looseness due to the anonymity they offered and
this reputation for unseemly behaviour, unescorted
women and assignations motivated a change of
name, to the Venetian ridotto. X?

Q8)
In the local language, X was called “metoh
kangami”. In 1921 Charles Howard-Bury of the joint
Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society
expedition heard this appellation from his guides
and noted that he believed "[they] were probably
caused by a large 'loping' grey wolf”. Henry
Newman, a contributor to The Statesman
mistranslated “metoh” (meaning wild) as “filthy”
and came up with a more artistic substitution that
led to the present name. X?

Q9)
______ follow the oldest known living lineage of
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods),
which means they are more closely related to
lungfish, reptiles and mammals than to the
common ray-finned fishes. Since there are only two
species of _______ and both are threatened, it is
the most endangered order of animals in the
world, especially given its unique location of the
only non-extinct order in its taxon. FITB.

Q10)
While in the navy, kissing the gunners daughter
meant being bent over a cannon and then caned
on the behind, the more dangerous punishment
involved getting intimate with the notoriously
sharp clawed captain’s daughter (since it could only
be administered under his authority). How do we
better know the captain’s daughter?

Q11)
The order X is further classified into the sub-order
Haplorhini (dry-nosed) and Strepsirrhini (wet-
nosed). These two sub-orders further branch
taxonomically to the infra-orders Simiiformes,
Tarsimiiformes and Lemuriformes, although infra-
orders are not part of the general taxonomic
classification system. What order?

Q12)
_______ is a party game created by Whit Alexander
and Richard Tait in 1998 after Richard spent a
weekend playing games with another family and
recognized the need for a game involving a variety
of skills. It is described by parent company Hasbro
as “The Game for your whole Brain” involving
activities in various categories designed to
challenge differing talents: Creative Cat, Data head,
Word Worm and Star Performer. FITB.

Q3)
A 134 year-old 5-inch by 15-inch strip of tinfoil,
scored with a series of dots by a stylus on a rotating
cylinder, was retrieved from the Schenectady
Museum in New York by archivists Schneiter and
Hunter teaming up with Berkeley physicist Carl
Haber. Haber used a 3-D image scanning device to
render the tinfoil into a topographical map
resolving dots at depths of 100 microns. It was
then translated into digitized sound by a
sophisticated computer software program. What
was heard?

A3)
Mary had a little lamb / Mareep

A4)
Evolution, Intelligent Design Theory / Eevee

Q5)
In radiation oncology, the X is the space in the
periphery of the main target of radiation therapy,
and has been defined as the volume receiving
between 80% and 20% of isodose. This name
originates from optical equivalents where the
source is only partially obscured. Y is the subset of
X with full occlusion. X and Y?

A5)
X: Penumbra
Y: Umbra
Umbreon

A6)
Masquerade, Maskerade
Masquerain

A8)
Abominable Snowman
Abomasnow

A10)
Cat o’ nine tails
Ninetales

Q14)
“We grant, and of our liberality we bountifully bestow upon the
aforesaid Very Reverend Grand Master of the Religion and Order of
Saint John of Jerusalem, in feudal perpetuity, noble, free and
unencumbered, our cities, castles, places and islands of Tripoli, _____
and Gozo, with all their cities, castles, places and island territories; …..
so that they may hereafter hold them in feudal tenure from us, as Kings
of both Sicilies, and from our successors in the same kingdom, reigning
at the time, under the sole payment of a ______; which every year, on
the Feast of All Saints, shall be presented by the person or persons duly
authorised for that purpose, into the hands of the Viceroy or President,
who may at that time be administering the government, in sign and
recognition of feudal tenure…”. How is this feudal grant between the
highlighted Grand Master and the Holy Roman emperor inexorably
linked to the world of entertainment?

A14)
Tribute of a Maltese Falcon

Q16)
The Australian cricketer X got his nickname Y reportedly from
Graham Swann’s brother Alec. Alec states: “Despite a relatively quiet
start to his county career, it became obvious fairly quickly that he
was extremely enthusiastic about the game.
And that is a polite way of putting it. The first to practice and the
last to leave, hitting balls in every spare minute, X certainly gave
himself every chance of doing well. There was even a rumour going
around that his girlfriend Amy – now his wife – used to put balls in
the bowling machine for him when he couldn’t find a colleague to
assist. His enthusiasm, unsurprisingly, drew the odd comment from
his team mates and this is where the Y probably came from. While
sitting round during a rain break or after practice, a sarcastic remark
concerning X’s love of the game will have been thrown his way.”

A16)
X: Mike Hussey Y: Mr. Cricket

Q17)
All human voices have two distinct vocal registers: “head”
and “chest”. Most people can sing tones up to a certain low
pitch in the “chest” register and up to a higher pitch in the
head register with an even higher falsetto that relies neither
on “head” nor on “chest” support. Trained singers can
control their voices to the point that the ranges between
the two registers overlap and they can sing continuously
and switch between the registers with ease. In ________, a
singer can switch between the registers several times in
only a few seconds at high volume. FITB with an alpine
singing technique.

Q18)
The reason behind what police procedure
(popularized by cop shows) is stated to be as
follows: “Experienced radio operators know that
the first syllable of a transmission is frequently not
going to be understood, but it is a necessary part of
tuning in. Also, radios using vacuum tubes used a
small motor-generator that needed to be spun up
in the initial 1/10th of a second. Hence, preceding
every code with a ____ gives time for the generator
to spin up to power and also allows for the garbling
of the first syllable”.

A18)
10 codes (‘10-4’ etc)

Q19) (hint on next slide)
What was composed of:
1. The Steel Pillar of Strength and Power (Marvin’s artificial
leg)
2. The Golden Bail of Prosperity (The small golden box that
renders the Infinite Improbability Drive functional)
3. The Perspex Pillar of Science and Reason (The Argabuthon
Scepter of Justice)
4. The Silver Bail of Peace (The Rory Award For The Most
Gratuitous Use Of The Word "Fuck" In A Serious Screenplay)
5. The Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality (The
reconstituted Ashes)

A19)
Wikkit gate in H2G2 (Wicket gate)

Q20)
Give an ent connect for the pig latin words translating to (inexhaustive)
1. Biggest adversary
2. Penis Envy
3. Beast of abundant dispute
4. Surrendering Ass
5. Home of international pancakes
6. Machine of freedom
7. God from the machine
8. Land of complications
9. Eye diseases / eye sores
10. Rapist bird

Q22)
X made a serendipitous discovery of his product Y,
testing it on his own cuts and burns. He was,
however, unable to sell any to drug stores until he
travelled around New York state, burning his skin
with an acid or flame in front of an audience and
then using his miracle product, while
demonstrating the healed scars of past injuries. X
lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Y
that he claimed his longevity to having eaten a
spoonful daily. X & Y?

A22)
X: Robert Cheseborough Y: Vaseline

Q23)
A certain series’ name is actually a description
depending upon the type of antigens expressed to
the glycoproteins haemagglutinin and
neuraminidase contained within its members.
What series?

A23)
Influenza A virus (H1N1, H5N1, H1N2 etc.)

Q26)
X discovered a method of staining nervous tissue with silver.
This silver staining method was also used by X to identify an
intra-cellular reticular apparatus that bears his name.
However, despite his staining method showing individual
neurons, X was a firm believer of the theory that the entire
nervous system is a single cell. Santiago Ramón y Cajal used
X’s method to prove the existence of the neuron, for which
he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 with X.
Undaunted, X used his Nobel acceptance speech as a
dissertation of the very same hypothesis that his co-
recipient had effectively disproven. Which mule-headed
scientist?

Q27)
What did the following description from Mark Twain’s
Roughin It (about his travels through the American West in
the 1860s) inspire? "He is a long, slim, sick and sorry looking
skeleton, with a grey wolfskin stretched over it, a tolerably
bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression
of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and long
sharp face with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a
general slinking expression all over. He is a living breathing
allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out
of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and
even fleas would desert him for a velocipede. He is so spiritless
and cowardly that while his exposed teeth are pretending a
threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it".

Q28)
There were originally 8 in the list. The most famous
is X - a 20th Century inclusion due to the enduring
popularity of a song about X. X's story was
originally written in verse by Robert L. May for
the Montgomery Ward chain of department
stores in 1939, and published as a book to be given
to children in the store at a particular time of the
year. Id X.

Q29)
The C# language was originally named Cool (C like
object oriented language) but due to trademarking
limitations, C# was adapted. Aside from the musical
reasons and the inherent reference to C, what
word-play on C++ was cited by Microsoft's Anders
Hejlsberg as the reason behind the name?

Q30)
“U. N. Owen was her?” is the theme song for the
Extra Stage Boss level stage in the Touhou Project, a
series of vertical-scrolling 2D shooting games
developed by Shanghai Alice. The name U.N. Owen
is a tribute to a 1939 book where Ulick Norman
Owen and Una Nancy Owen are a couple who host
a dinner party on an island, albeit being absent
throughout the night. Their names, which are
shortened as “U.N. Owen,” can be read as a pun
and a homophone for “unknown.” Which famous
and common quiz question book?

Q31)
A ___________ was a composer and performer of
Old Occitan (southern France) lyric poetry during
the Middle Ages. A female ________ is usually
called a trobairitz. The texts of ________ songs
deal mainly with themes of chivalry and courtly
love and various humorous or vulgar satires. Binary
– FITB.

Q32)
X being a popular play was frequently put up in
theatres at the brink of bankruptcy. As a result, X
became associated with a curse and in the
theatrical community, the name X is never spoken
inside a theatre and instead the euphemism Y is
used. Other origin stories to this superstition refer
to the premiere of the play when an actor was
stabbed and killed on stage and black magic was
performed, so that no one but the original director
would be able to successfully direct the play. X and
Y?

A32)
X: Macbeth
Y: The Scottish Play

Q33)
What Rajput martial form does Sir Ravindra Jadeja
pay homage to during his 50 celebration against
England in July 2014?

50 Shades of Grey
Written
6 questions
+5 each
Common Theme connecting all 6 questions to be revealed with answers
(no points for theme)

Q34)
In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of
an eleven-feathered peacock. This brightly hued
peacock, called the "Bird", was adopted due to the
increase in Y. As a result, the peacock became a
marketing tool, in the hopes that people tuning
into X would purchase Y. Indeed, the first
broadcasts began with a still frame of the Bird. X
and Y?

Q35)
There are 2 Ig Nobel winners in this category – both
Americans. In 1998 Troy Hurtubise won for
developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that
is impervious to grizzly bears. In 2013, the late
Gustano Pizza was posthumously awarded for his
electro-mechanical system that drops a hijacker
through trap doors, seals him into a package, then
drops the encapsulated hijacker through the
airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors, whence
he parachutes to earth, where police, having been
alerted by radio, await his arrival. Which category?

Q36)
Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from
a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981 leading
to the final act in their completion of a certain
quartet. They became the first ever to complete
that quarter and hence were assigned the exclusive
_____ numbers (____ #1 and #2, respectively).
FITB. Hint: A separate award was also developed
for the night category

Q37)
Complete the look of the dandy:
◦ Dark Coats
◦ Full length trousers
◦ Immaculate shirt linen
◦ Elaborately knotted cravat
◦ Boots polished with Champagne
◦ Clean shaven and general personal hygiene
◦ Bespoke headgear and perhaps a walking stick
◦ __________

Q38)
She used to host a weekly Hindi music countdown
show, Oye, for a music channel in the 1990s. How
do we know the daughter of Savita Chibber and
Colonel Chibber?

Q39)
Hardtack is baked and made from flour, water, and
sometimes salt. To soften, it was often dunked in
brine, coffee, or some other liquid or cooked into a
skillet meal. Baked hard, it would stay intact for
years if it was kept dry. As a result it was commonly
used for military campaigns and sea voyages. For
long voyages, hardtack was baked four times,
rather than the more common two, and prepared
six months before sailing. How does this connect to
the world of entertainment in 2003.

In Honour of the Shadiest Connects
in 4 years of IITD Quizzing

A34)
X: NBC
Y: Colour / colour TV

Q40)
Prof. John Long and team from Flinders University,
Australia published their research about an extinct
bony fish species called Microbrachius dicki in
Nature in January 2015. The discovery was made as
he was looking through a box of ancient fish fossils,
when he noticed that one of the M.
dicki specimens had an odd L-shaped appendage.
Another fossil had a small bony structure at their
rear that locked to this L-shaped appendage. What
monumental discovery?

Q41)
In which decidedly non-entertainment location
would you find Xavier lifting cars down at the
entrance, Iceman, Wolverine & Beast doing heavy
lifting nearby, Storm & Colossus at the end, and
Vulcan & Havok lifting cars up at the end. HINT: The
answer turns up with appalling regularity in ScEnt
questions.

A41)
Robots at the Tesla Factory

Q42) Id the tank playing Djokovic
in this Jan ’15 CGI vid (mute)

Q43)
The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended
copyright terms in the United States. Since the Copyright
Act of 1976, copyright would last for the life of the author
plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate
authorship. The Act extended these terms to life of the
author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship
to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication,
whichever endpoint is earlier. However, this act is derisively
called the ______ _____ Protection Act due to fierce
lobbying by a certain Company to avoid public domain
entry of the earliest ______ _____ films. FITB.

Q44)
“King ______:
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!
Catesby:
Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.
King _______:
Slave! I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
FITB with the name of the Shakesperean play. Also,
identify the historical battle during which this scene is
set.

A44)
Richard III, Battle of Bosworth Field

Q45)
William Jones, (1675-1749) was a Welshman best
known for his proposed use of what currently
ubiquitous thing due to the Greek work
“peripheria” for perimeter?

Q46)
What historically
correct version of
a major
controversy is
being referenced
in this clip?

A46)
No Christians martyred in the Colosseum

Q47)
Gemini 6 had an eerie experience when astronauts
Wally M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford
reported a UFO sighting to Mission Control just
prior to their re-entry on December 16, 1965. "We
have an object, looks like a satellite going from
north to south, probably in polar orbit.... Looks like
he might be going to re-enter soon.... You just
might let me pick up that thing.... I see a command
module and eight smaller modules in front."
Obviously a prank, give funda.

A47)
They reported sighting Santa Claus

A48)
Gangs of Wasseypur opening

Q49)
Ron Cobb, one of the designers in an epic sci-fi film has the following to
remark about a name in the movie: “Science fiction films offer golden
opportunities to throw in little scraps of information that suggest
enormous changes in the world. There's a certain potency in those kinds
of remarks. X Y for instance is almost a joke, but not quite. I wanted to
imply that poor old England is back on its feet and has united with the
Japanese, who have taken over the building of spaceships the same way
they have now with cars and supertankers. In coming up with a strange
company name I thought of British Leyland and Toyota, but we couldn't
use "Leyland-Toyota" in the film. Changing one letter gave me X, and Y
was a Japanese neighbor of mine." Which film? For bonus 5 points –
give me XY.

Q50)
Whose body was described as such by the British victors? “….. He was
identified as the fat officer who had fired hunting weapons at the
attackers, and his body was found in a choked tunnel-like passage near
the Water Gate. The body was wounded a little above the right ear, and
the ball lodged in the left cheek, he had also three wounds in the body,
he was in stature about 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) and not very fair, he was rather
corpulent, had a short neck and high shoulders, but his wrists and ankles
were small and delicate. He had large full eyes, with small arched
eyebrows and very small whiskers. His appearance denoted him to be
above the Common Stamp. And his countenance expressed a mixture of
haughtiness and resolution. He was dressed in a fine white linen jacket,
chintz drawers, a crimson cloth round his waist with a red silk belt and
pouch across his body and head. He had lastly his turband and there
were no weapons of defence about him.”

Q51)
Recently the IOC vetoed a joint bid by Saudi Arabia
and Bahrain for a future Summer Olympics. The
reason behind this veto is related to the very
nature of the joint bid and the IOC President stated
“a commitment to ‘___-____________’ will be
mandatory for all countries hoping to bid for the
Olympics in the future. This was made very clear in
the Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms and will even be
in the host city contract.” FITB or give funda.

A51)
Non-discrimination. Male events in Saudi Arabia,
female in Bahrain

Q52)
The Oscars’ competitive category for Best Makeup
and Hairstyling was created in 1981, after the
Academy received complaints that the make-up
work in the 1980 film X was not going to be
honoured. Although no award was given to X, an
entire category dedicated to honouring make-up
effects in film was created for subsequent
ceremonies. X?

Q53)
Who about the pronunciation of what: “English
words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root...
and this same Greek word means art as well as
technology. Hence the name ____ …. Insiders
pronounce the _____ as a Greek chi ….. It’s the ‘ch’
sound in Scottish words like loch or German words
like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When
you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal
may become slightly moist.”

Q54)
The US Navy found many elements in the script of
X objectionable – such as its depiction of mutiny
and hence refused to co-operate with the filming.
As a result, the production company was unable to
secure footage of a submarine submerging. After
checking to make sure there was no law against
filming naval vessels, they waited at the submarine
base at Pearl Harbor until a submarine put to sea,
pursued it in a boat and helicopter until it
submerged, giving them the footage they needed
to incorporate into the film. X?

Q55)
X is the leader of the Seeonee pack and is
portrayed as having the character of an English
gentleman. In his honour, the leader of the cub
scouts is also called X. X was succeeded by Phao
after his failure with a young buck and eventually
dies protecting the pack against dhole.

Q56)
Sitter. Who is known as Romeo G Detlev Jr. in
Danish, Marten Asmodom Vilijn in Dutch, Αντον
Μορβολ Χερτ in Greek, Trevor Delgome in
Icelandish, among many others? What is the
reason behind these multiple names? HINT: Try to
read the Greek.

A56)
Tom Marvolo Riddle, so that correct anagram of “I
am Lord Voldemort”

Q57)
This monument at the
cremation site of Rana
Udaybhanu Singh at Dholpur is
a representative of various X in
Rajasthan and Madhya
Pradesh. In English, such
structures are known as Y from
the Greek for “empty tomb”. X
and Y?

Q58)
Ahadi, a king had two sons X and Taka. In a pseudo-Cain and
Abel tale, Taka was jealous of his older brother, the future
king. As a result, Taka plans to have his brother attacked by
a herd of maddened bull. However, in the process, while the
lead bull chases after X, Taka falls afoul of the other bull and
is gored savagely across his left eye. X succeeds in trapping
the lead bull and helps out his younger brother and they
both escape. Taka takes no harm from his injury except for a
scar across his left eye. However, he feels guilty and asks to
be called Y from then on and his family agrees. This is the
canon back story of which two brothers X and Y?

Q59)
During the recent Grexit crisis, the following German response letter
was released:
“The Greek letter is not clear at all, but opens immense room for
interpretation. To mention the three most important points: It includes
no clear commitment to successfully conclude the current programme
and its falls short of a clear freeze of Greek measures. It is totally unclear
how the Greek government wants to pay its bills over the coming weeks
with the current shortfall in tax receipts.
This is why the letter is not in line with the last Eurogroup position. It
rather represents a ______ ____, intending to get bridge financing and
in substance putting an end to the current programme. On this basis it
makes no sense to start drafting a Eurogroup statement on Friday. We
should aim at three things now…”.
The Germans accuse the Greeks of lying and deceiving the Eurozone by
using what two-word reference that fills the blanks?

Q60)
The following ketone’s common name arises from
the fact that its 2D molecular structure resembles a
________. Id.

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