- The document describes rules for a freshers meet, including points system for different answers and resetting score by saying "Peter". - It includes questions and answers on topics like LEGO's ad campaign, Icelandic dating app to prevent incest, Nadia Comaneci scoring the first perfect 10 in gymnastics. - Final questions and answers cover topics like the term "magic negro", a nail polish shade named "Haram-Bae", inspiration for the Instagram trend "#WWgotyourback", and Jon Hirschtick funding SolidWorks from his time on the MIT Blackjack team.

1. Freshers Meet
QM : Mrudang ‘Mrufanf’ Mathur

2. Rules
• +15/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• Screaming ‘Peter’ resets your score to 0 (*cough* Varun *cough*)

3. Q: Who’s ad campaign ?

5. A: LEGO

6. Q: What unfortunate situation ?
• The Islendiga-App or “App of Icelanders” is a dating app made by
three students from the University of Iceland.
• It leverages a database called Islendigabok or “Book of Icelanders” to
prevent natives from finding themselves in a particularly unfortunate
situation.
• All one needs to do is bump phones while dating to avoid this
situation.

8. A: Sleeping with a relative
• The app accesses genealogy records of the users to determine if
they’re related. Since Iceland has a small population the chances of
incest are very high.

9. Q: Who is X and what was the result ?
• In the run up to the 1976 Montreal Olympics, official timekeepers of
International Olympic Association Omega, suggested a certain
modification be made to the boards at the event.
• This was to cover for a particular result. The Olympic Committee shot
down the idea as being impossible.
• In a strange turn of events that exact result was achieved by X

11. A: X is Nadia Comaneci . She scored a perfect
10 in Gymnastics, the first in Olympic history.

12. Q: What is the name of the sixth shade ?
• Orly, in collaboration with MuslimGirl.com, recently launched six
shades of nail polish dubbed ‘Halal Paint’. It allows prayer water to
pass through and thus putting it within the religious guidelines.
• Five shades of it are named “Wallah Bro Wipe Out” ,“What the
Fatima?”, “Ig-Noor the Haters” , “The Perfect Amani-cure” and
“#MuslimGirlFire”.
• The sixth shade is named after a pop-culture icon. Terms from Islamic
jurisprudence and millennial lingo are clubbed to form this name.

14. A: Haram-Bae

15. Q: FITB
• The _____ _____ is a supporting stock character in American
cinema who is portrayed as coming to the aid of a film's white
protagonists. _____ _____ characters, who often possess special
insight or mystical powers, have long been a tradition in American
fiction.
• In the run up to the 2008 American Presidential Election , Barrack
Obama was often referred to as a _____ _____. This is because many
felt he wasn’t authentic and existed only to assuage white guilt.

17. A: Magic Negro

18. Q: What inspired this Instagram trend ?

20. A: Wonder Woman #WWgotyourback

21. Q: What is canine brachycephaly ?
• A new study published in Current Biology aims to unlock the secrets
of canine brachycephaly. In order to determine what causes canine
brachycephaly, researchers used an X-ray process called computed
tomography to analyze 374 dogs that were brought into a veterinary
service.
• This genetic mutation has been known to cause serious health
problems, especially breathing problems, in dogs that posses it.

23. A: Smooshed Face genetic mutation

24. Q: What reference to literature is being made here ?

26. A: Animorphs

27. Q: What is it commonly known as ?
• Xylaria polymorpha (images next slide) is a saprobic fungus. It is a
common inhabitant of forest and woodland areas, usually growing
from the bases of rotting or injured tree stumps and decaying wood.
It has also been known to colonize substrates like woody legume
pods, petioles, and herbaceous stems. It is characterized by its
elongated upright, clavate, or strap-like stromata poking up through
the ground, much like ______.

30. A: Dead Man’s Fingers

31. Q: What legal precedent ?
• Tata Sons recently filed a case in the Delhi High Court alleging that 35
unidentified email ids were being used since December 2015 to
circulate “unwarranted, defamatory and baseless allegations
questioning the integrity and educational qualification” of one of its
officials.
• After one of the defendants couldn't be served judicial summons at
his address Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw approved the use of an
alternative.
• This case set a new legal precedent for courts in India.

33. A: WhatsApp can be used to serve summons

34. Q: Connect

36. A: USAF Aircraft

37. Q: Which high profile writer ?
• WordStar (image next slide ) is a word processor application that had
a dominant market share during the early- to mid-1980s. It was
published by MicroPro International, and written for
the CP/M operating system but later ported to MS-DOS.
• While its user base has almost gone extinct , WordStar still has the
solid fan following of one high level writer. The writer came onto the
popular consciousness in the past decade and every installment of his
most famous series has been written on WordStar.
• The next one ( eagerly awaited by fans ) is being written on it as well.

40. A: George RR Martin

41. Q: Identify X and Y
• A Shepard tone is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine
waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch of the
tone moving upward or downward, it is referred to as the Shepard
scale.
• This creates the illusion of a tone that continually ascends or
descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or
lower.
• Its spectrogram (next slide) is often called an audio X due the
similarity of their patterns and motion.
• It was brought to the attention of the public recently, in the score of Y.

44. A: X - Barber Pole , Y - Dunkirk

45. Q: What is special about this toilet paper ?
• The following slide contains reviews of toilet paper on Amazon.
• It’s a double ply toilet paper and retails for $12.
• It sold out really quickly after its initial offering

48. A: Donald Trump’s tweets are printed on it.

49. Q: What is the project called ?
• Shahak Shapira is an Israeli-German writer who started an internet
project to shame 12 tourists visiting a memorial.
• Mr Shapira's trick was to design the website so that hovering over the
images (next slide) strips away the background of the memorial and
replaces it with scenes from _____________ _____, leaving the
unwitting young selfie-takers suddenly surrounded by emaciated
bodies and corpses.
• The name is a pun on the tragedy for which the memorial was built.

52. A: Project Yolocaust

53. Q: Why are these people in news?

55. A: Ahmed Patel RS elections, cross voting

56. Q: What is this word X and what was behind this
seemingly innocuous travel guide?
• This is an excerpt from the wiki travel page for a certain island
• X culture reflects its riotous mix of races and cultures. The native people of
X are the Flong, but they are outnumbered by the European settlers known
as the colons. Naturally, there has been considerable intermarriage
between the two groups, and these descendants are known as semi-
colons. In the past twenty years, many of the nation's younger generation
have become increasingly influenced by modern western culture, most
notably by elements of the Hip-Hop, Rap, and Rastafarian subcultures. This
generation has often been labelled as the apostrophes.
• X also saw a rise in popularity due to the prevalence of computer screens.
It is a word with consists of a portmanteu of a French and a Dutch word.

58. A: Sans Serif, the island is Sans Seriffe. An april
fools prank by the guardian

59. Q: Where did he get the money ?
• Jon Hirschtick is a CAD software developer, founder and former CEO
of SolidWorks, a popular solid modeling 3D CAD and CAE system
for Microsoft Windows, and Onshape, a cloud based CAD program.
• Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters degree from MIT, graduating
in 1983 and 1986.
• He set up SolidWorks with a million dollar investment from his
savings. He earned the money from extra-curricular activities while at
MIT.

61. A: MIT BlackJack Team

62. FIN