The set prepared by the Quiz Society of Sri Venkateswara College and hosted by me at the annual fest, Nexus 2016.

2. General Quiz

3. Prelims Rules
• There are 25 questions in all.
• Questions 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 are star
marked.
• You are requested to keep your phones on
silent mode.
• Any use of unfair means will result in
disqualification.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

4. 1) Which psychological phenomenon has
been blanked out?

5. 2) Which Country?
In this country, you'd celebrate New year for three days
(that too in the month of April). Aftermath of a much
criticised war has led to it being dubbed the world's
most bombed country. As a tourist you may not be
allowed to get to the highest point and admire the
view but it's okay because the place is still full of
unexploded ammunition. Wildlife enthusiasts won't be
disappointed because mystical creatures which reside
in the wilds of this country include King Cobra, (one of
world’s longest venomous snake which measures
fourteen foot in length) as well as Irrawaddy Dolphins.

6. 3) Give X.
• Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera. They are multicellular organisms that
have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them.
Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely
on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and
oxygen and to remove wastes.
• The mechanism of canal system employed by such organisms has inspired the air
ventilation system of an architectural edifice commonly called as X because it is
shaped more or less like a cucumber.

7. 4)
When it was first invented, people didn’t really
know what to do with it. It was first
commercially used to create reflective leg bands
for pigeon racing. Needless to say, that was a bit
of a niche market, but on a Thanksgiving in the
1940s, Reynolds Metals used it for the same
purpose we commonly use it today reportedly
for the first time. ID this every day object.

8. 5) List Of What? (Non-exhaustive)
• As the Jury Foreman(1989)
• A hot dog vendor(2000)
• A postman(2005)
• As Willie Lumpkin(2005)
• Not Hugh Hefner(2008)
• A radiation victim(2008)
• Not Larry King(2010)
• A Librarian(2012)
• A patient in a mental institution(2013)
• DJ at a strip club(2016)

9. 6)
In a Kannada version of Mahabharatha
written by Kumara Vyasa, the author claimed
that he wrote Mahabharatha by listening to X.
X was part incarnate of Lord Shiva and it was
said that no one can handle a 'furious' X.
Duryodhan counted underestimating X as one
of the three reasons he lost the war. Id X.

10. 7) The given video is the teaser of an
upcoming Netflix animated series for
children. Simply name the series.

11. 8) ID X and Y.
• According to local folklore, the residents of X are Aryan descendants,
who acquired their independence during the Mughal reign when the
Emperor Akbar walked to the village in order to cure an ailment that he
was afflicted with.After having been successfully cured, he put out an
edict stating that all the inhabitants of the valley would never be
required to pay tax. An alternative tradition suggests that X was
founded by remnants of Alexander the Great’s army.
• All outsiders are considered inferior and consequently untouchable.
The people are inaccessible except for the trade of a popular product
Y (named after X) made from the hashish grown here, which is one of
the most sought after in the world.
• The locals claim it to be one of the oldest democracies of the world
with a well-organized parliamentary system, guided by the their deity,
the sage Jamlu, whose decision is undisputable in any conflict, thus
naming X as the Athens of Himalayas.

12. 9)
 In the US state of Nebraska, state senator Ernie
Chambers filed a suit in 2008 against ___, seeking
a permanent injunction against his harmful
activities. The suit was dismissed because ___
could not be notified properly, not having an
address.
 The Judge stated, “Given that this court finds that
there can never be service effectuated on the
named defendant this action will be dismissed
with prejudice.” Who is being talked about here?

13. 10)
• Where would you find the fourth
verse in the picture inscribed?
• (The verse is as follows)
• “When Ivo goes back with the urn,
the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote
return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the
urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the
urn.”

14. 11)
From the Wikipedia article -
“X is an abandoned cryptocurrency that became embroiled in
a trademark infringement lawsuit for using the American
rapper/hip hop artist __________ as its mascot, despite
him not having any affiliation with the project.”
A bit more about the rapper: He has been a source of
controversy and public scrutiny for his conduct at award
shows and on social media. He's one of the best selling
artists of all time (of all time!) and also one of the most
awarded.
The name of X can be worked out if you identify the rapper.
Give X.

15. 12)
• Cape Breton Island is a rocky outcrop at the
Northern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada. Because
of the closure of the island’s steel mill more
than a decade ago, its population has been
steadily plummeting, shrinking by about 1000
people every year. A Canadian DJ by the name
Rob Calabrese has a solution to this problem
given something happens, and for which he
has opened up a website(Screenshot on next
slide). What is the solution?

18. 13) Give X.
• The Santhals are a tribal community that constitutes
more than 50 per cent of West Bengal’s tribal
population. According to the Santhals, X was not a
mythical character but a historical icon who resisted
the outsiders, the Aryans, before the birth of Christ.
When he defeated the Aryans repeatedly, then a
woman was sent (by the Aryans) to deceive him and
thus society was defeated. Otherwise, eastern India,
including Bengal, was under the control of indigenous
societies and was called Bongadisum.
• This alternative version of the popular and widely
known myth has been in news due to something very
melodramatic.

19. 14) Give funda.

20. 15)
• On the morning of 7th April 2012, a three-alarm
fire broke out at an Oklahoma City apartment
complex leaving one person hospitalized for
smoke inhalation and five units damaged.
• The local station KFOR Channel 4 was among the
first to arrive on the scene for the purpose of
reporting.
• The happenings of the day(notably the channel
footage) have been immortalized by the Internet
– they are now an integral part of pop culture.
• What is being talked about here?

21. 16) Give X.
Excerpts from a review by Harold Bloom, a Yale professor and
published in Wall Street Journal. ID the book.
"Taking arms against X, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet
taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you
won't end it. The X epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some
time, as J.R.R. Tolkien did, and then wane.."
"..In an arbitrarily chosen single page–page four–of X, I count 7
cliches..“
"..Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read
anything better, X's author will have to do..“
Furthermore, the reviewer calls the academy "more tiresome than
grotesque" and the intramural sports "bizarre".
The review is titled "Can 35 million book buyers be wrong? Yes."

22. 17)
Supremo was a comic book character in the
series The Adventures of X. Supremo was the
brainchild of Pammi Bakshi, editor
of Movie magazine, who developed the series for
her magazine's publisher, India Book House (IBH),
under their imprint Star Comics. In the comics,
Supremo was an alter ego of the actor X.
Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large
glasses which resemble welding glasses, a skin-
tight costume with a wrap which resembles those
worn by fishermen on India's western coast, and
a chakra pendant. Id X.

23. 18) Give X.
Colonel Thomas Young was tasked with re-
locating the people of Raisina village when
Lutyen’s Delhi was being built as the capital of the
Raj. He established a colony with his name, but
locals soon colloquialized it to X.
Another etymology of X attributes its naming to a
maharaja of Nepal as a token of his friendship
with British.
X is seen as a haven for refugees, with many
arriving at the Partition, alongside Iranian and
Afghan refugees.

24. 19) Connect.
•

25. 20)
• West Side Story and No Country For Old Men
are the only two films to achieve a certain feat
in the history of Academy Awards. What is
that milestone? #Oscars #Kolstylz

26. 21)
• The Douglases were one of Scotland's most powerful
families, and certainly the most prominent family in
lowland Scotland during the Late Middle Ages. The
Douglases became so powerful that by the early fifteenth
century they were seen as a threat to the stability of the
nation.
• In 1440, the 16-year-old William Douglas, 6th Earl of
Douglas and his younger brother were invited to dine with
the ten-year-old King James II of Scotland. The occasion
was organised by the Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton.
While they ate, a black bull's head, the symbol of death,
was brought in and placed before the Earl. The two
brothers were then dragged out to Castle Hill, given a mock
trial and beheaded.
• What in the world of fiction has been inspired by this real
life incident?

27. 22) Give X and Y.
• X is an oil painting by 17th-
century Dutch painter Johannes
Vermeer. It is a tronie(a painting
depicting an exaggerated facial
expression) of a girl with
a headscarf and an earring. The
painting has been in the
collection of
the Mauritshuis in The
Hague since 1902. A historical
novel, also entitled X was
written by Tracey Chavelier, in
which Johannes Vermeer
becomes close to a fictional
servant named Griet. A film
based on this novel was
released in 2003 starring Y as
Griet.

28. 23) What is being talked about?
• Rik Coppens of Belgium was probably the first
to try this in an international against Iceland in
1957.
• Jesper Olsen, André Piters and Robert Pirès
can also be associated with this kind of an
incident.
• Sergio Álvarez Conde has recently been on the
receiving end of something similar.

29. 24) Currency of which place?

30. 25) Give X and Y.
• Excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s campaign speech from 1984:
“America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your
hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs(‘the song Y’)
so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own X. And
helping you make those dreams come true is what this job
of mine is all about.”
However Y was not the kind of song that a presidential
candidate would refer to while talking about the American
dream. Y is, in fact, a song which lampoons the actions and
policies of the US government. The song deals with the
futility and negative effects of the Vietnam War on
Americans and the treatment of Vietnam veterans on their
arrival back home. Reagan, having no knowledge of X’s
political views said these lines thinking that X would
endorse him.

31. Answers

32. 1) What psychological phenomenon has
been blanked out?

33. 1)Phantom Limb Syndrome

34. 2) Which country?
In this country, you'd celebrate New year for three days
(that too in the month of April). Aftermath of a much
criticised war has led to it being dubbed the world's
most bombed country. As a tourist you may not be
allowed to get to the highest point and admire the
view but it's okay because the place is still full of
unexploded ammunition. Wildlife enthusiasts won't be
disappointed because mystical creatures which reside
in the wilds of this country include King Cobra, (one of
world’s longest venomous snake which measures
fourteen foot in length) as well as Irrawaddy Dolphins.

35. Laos

36. 3) Give X.
• Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera. They are multicellular organisms that
have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them.
Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely
on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and
oxygen and to remove wastes.
• The mechanism of canal system employed by such organisms has inspired the air
ventilation system of an architectural edifice commonly called as X because it is
shaped more or less like a cucumber.

37. 30 St Mary Axe or The Gherkin

38. 4)
When it was first invented, people didn’t really
know what to do with it. It was first
commercially used to create reflective leg bands
for pigeon racing. Needless to say, that was a bit
of a niche market, but on a Thanksgiving in the
1940s, a Reynolds Metals used it for the same
purpose we commonly use it today reportedly
for the first time. ID this every day object.

39. Aluminum Foil

40. 5) List Of What? (Non-exhaustive)
• As the Jury Foreman(1989)
• A hot dog vendor(2000)
• A postman(2005)
• As Willie Lumpkin(2005)
• Not Hugh Hefner(2008)
• A radiation victim(2008)
• Not Larry King(2010)
• A Librarian(2012)
• A patient in a mental institution(2013)
• DJ at a strip club(2016)

41. Stan Lee Cameos

42. 6)
In a Kannada version of Mahabharatha
written by Kumara Vyasa, the author claimed
that he wrote Mahabharatha by listening to X.
X was part incarnate of Lord Shiva and it was
said that no one can handle a 'furious' X.
Duryodhan counted underestimating X as one
of the three reasons he lost the war. Id X.

43. Ashwathama

44. 7) The given video is the teaser of an
upcoming Netflix animated series for
children. Simply name the series.

45. Beat Bugs

46. 8) ID X and Y.
• According to local folklore, the residents of X are Aryan descendants,
who acquired their independence during the Mughal reign when the
Emperor Akbar walked to the village in order to cure an ailment that he
was afflicted with.After having been successfully cured, he put out an
edict stating that all the inhabitants of the valley would never be
required to pay tax. An alternative tradition suggests that X was
founded by remnants of Alexander the Great’s army.
• All outsiders are considered inferior and consequently untouchable.
The people are inaccessible except for the trade of a popular product
Y (named after X) made from the hashish grown here, which is one of
the most sought after in the world.
• The locals claim it to be one of the oldest democracies of the world
with a well-organized parliamentary system, guided by the their deity,
the sage Jamlu, whose decision is undisputable in any conflict, thus
naming X as the Athens of Himalayas.

47. X- Malana
Y- Malana Cream

48. 9)
 In the US state of Nebraska, state senator Ernie
Chambers filed a suit in 2008 against ___, seeking
a permanent injunction against his harmful
activities. The suit was dismissed because ___
could not be notified properly, not having an
address.
 The Judge stated, “Given that this court finds that
there can never be service effectuated on the
named defendant this action will be dismissed
with prejudice.” Who is being talked about here?

49. God

50. 10)
• Where would you find the fourth
verse in the picture inscribed?
• (The verse is as follows)
• “When Ivo goes back with the urn,
the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote
return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the
urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the
urn.”

51. The Ashes Urn

52. 11)
From the Wikipedia article -
“X is an abandoned cryptocurrency that became embroiled in
a trademark infringement lawsuit for using the American
rapper/hip hop artist __________ as its mascot, despite
him not having any affiliation with the project.”
A bit more about the rapper: He has been a source of
controversy and public scrutiny for his conduct at award
shows and on social media. He's one of the best selling
artists of all time (of all time!) and also one of the most
awarded.
The name of X can be worked out if you identify the rapper.
Give X.

53. Coinye West

54. 12)
• Cape Breton Island is a rocky outcrop at the
Northern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada. Because
of the closure of the island’s steel mill more
than a decade ago, its population has been
steadily plummeting, shrinking by about 1000
people every year. A Canadian DJ by the name
Rob Calabrese has a solution to this problem
given something happens, and for which he
has opened up a website(Screenshot on next
slide). What is the solution?

57. Americans are invited to this island if
Donald Trump becomes the US
President

58. 13) Give X.
• The Santhals are a tribal community that constitutes
more than 50 per cent of West Bengal’s tribal
population. According to the Santhals, X was not a
mythical character but a historical icon who resisted
the outsiders, the Aryans, before the birth of Christ.
When he defeated the Aryans repeatedly, then a
woman was sent (by the Aryans) to deceive him and
thus society was defeated. Otherwise, eastern India,
including Bengal, was under the control of indigenous
societies and was called Bongadisum.
• This alternative version of the popular and widely
known myth has been in news due to something very
melodramatic.

59. X- Mahishasura

60. 14) Give funda.

61. Bridge Of Spies

62. 15)
• On the morning of 7th April 2012, a three-alarm
fire broke out at an Oklahoma City apartment
complex leaving one person hospitalized for
smoke inhalation and five units damaged.
• The local station KFOR Channel 4 was among the
first to arrive on the scene for the purpose of
reporting.
• The happenings of the day(notably the channel
footage) have been immortalized by the Internet
– they are now an integral part of pop culture.
• What is being talked about here?

64. 16) Give X.
Excerpts from a review by Harold Bloom, a Yale professor and
published in Wall Street Journal. ID the book.
"Taking arms against X, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet
taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you
won't end it. The X epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some
time, as J.R.R. Tolkien did, and then wane.."
"..In an arbitrarily chosen single page–page four–of X, I count 7
cliches..“
"..Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read
anything better, X's author will have to do..”
Furthermore, the reviewer calls the academy "more tiresome than
grotesque" and the intramural sports "bizarre".
The review is titled "Can 35 million book buyers be wrong? Yes."

65. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone

66. 17)
Supremo was a comic book character in the
series The Adventures of X. Supremo was the
brainchild of Pammi Bakshi, editor
of Movie magazine, who developed the series for
her magazine's publisher, India Book House (IBH),
under their imprint Star Comics. In the comics,
Supremo was an alter ego of the actor X.
Supremo conceals his identity by wearing large
glasses which resemble welding glasses, a skin-
tight costume with a wrap which resembles those
worn by fishermen on India's western coast, and
a chakra pendant. Id X.

67. X- Amitabh Bachchan

68. 18) Give X.
Colonel Thomas Young was tasked with re-
locating the people of Raisina village when
Lutyen’s Delhi was being built as the capital of the
Raj. He established a colony with his name, but
locals soon colloquialized it to X.
Another etymology of X attributes its naming to a
maharaja of Nepal as a token of his friendship
with British.
X is seen as a haven for refugees, with many
arriving at the Partition, alongside Iranian and
Afghan refugees.

69. X- Jangpura

70. 19) Connect.
•

71. All are Harvard dropouts.

72. 20)
• West Side Story and No Country For Old Men
are the only two films to achieve a certain feat
in the history of Academy Awards. What is
that milestone? #Oscars #Kolstylz

73. Only films directed by more than 1
person to win Best Picture Oscar

74. 21)
• The Douglases were one of Scotland's most powerful
families, and certainly the most prominent family in
lowland Scotland during the Late Middle Ages. The
Douglases became so powerful that by the early fifteenth
century they were seen as a threat to the stability of the
nation.
• In 1440, the 16-year-old William Douglas, 6th Earl of
Douglas and his younger brother were invited to dine with
the ten-year-old King James II of Scotland. The occasion
was organised by the Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton.
While they ate, a black bull's head, the symbol of death,
was brought in and placed before the Earl. The two
brothers were then dragged out to Castle Hill, given a mock
trial and beheaded.
• What in the world of fiction has been inspired by this real
life incident?

75. Red Wedding

76. 22)
• X is an oil painting by 17th-
century Dutch painter Johannes
Vermeer. It is a tronie(a painting
depicting an exaggerated facial
expression) of a girl with
a headscarf and an earring. The
painting has been in the
collection of
the Mauritshuis in The
Hague since 1902. A historical
novel, also entitled X was
written by Tracey Chavelier, in
which Johannes Vermeer
becomes close to a fictional
servant named Griet. A film
based on this novel was
released in 2003 starring Y as
Griet.

77. X- Girl with a Pearl Earring
Y- Scarlett Johansson

78. 23)
• Rik Coppens of Belgium was probably the first
to try this in an international against Iceland in
1957.
• Jesper Olsen, André Piters and Robert Pirès
can also be associated with this kind of an
incident.
• Sergio Álvarez Conde has recently been on the
receiving end of something similar.

79. These are the instances of penalty
passes in football.

80. 24) Currency of which place?

81. Portuguese Goa

82. 25) Give X and Y.
• Excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s campaign speech from 1984:
“America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your
hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs(‘the song Y’)
so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own X. And
helping you make those dreams come true is what this job
of mine is all about.”
However Y was not the kind of song that a presidential
candidate would refer to while talking about the American
dream. Y is, in fact, a song which lampoons the actions and
policies of the US government. The song deals with the
futility and negative effects of the Vietnam War on
Americans and the treatment of Vietnam veterans on their
arrival back home. Reagan, having no knowledge of X’s
political views said these lines thinking that X would
endorse him.

83. X- Bruce Springsteen
Y- Born in the USA