Nikhil Kumar Gupta (30-01-2016)

Jisko Aana Hai Aao Quiz
By Nikhil Kumar Gupta

Rules
 Direct: +10
 Pass: +10
 Pounce +20/-10
 QM is neither omnipotent nor benevolent but he
is God.

Written Round
 2 points for every correct answer no negs.

Questions
 1. early 15c., from Latin
_______ "a hearing," past
participle of ______ "hear".
Official examination of
something, which originally was
an oral procedure. What word
am I talking about?

 2. Cross section of what that falls in a list with
guitars and startups.

 3. What are these called? (Hint: a pun on the
word for a moving mechanical device made in
imitation of a human being.)


 5. In addition to being huge battle robots of
death, the ________ _______ also boast a
blind spot in excess of 300 degrees. The thing
can't turn its head.
 This is not a minor issue. That up there is an X
trying to shoot an enemy ship that's flying past
it. That's as far as it gets; it's like a huge,
muscular guy who happens to have his head
frozen in a neck brace due to a crippling spinal
injury. The only difference being that guy could
still conceivably punch an enemy by swinging at
him wildly.
 What am I talking about? (Where you have first
seen it will do as long as you be specific where
exactly)

 6. According to an urban
myth, what do the new
(issued in 2011) Canadian
Dollar bills smell like when
rubbed at a specific “panel”
on the note?

 7. Parks and Recreation pulled out all the stops for its season six
finale, with an imposing cameo from none other than X and
Madmen’s John Hamm.
 X appeared early in the hour-long special, playing herself as a
keynote speaker in the National Parks Conference.
 After bumping into Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) in the corridorX
encourages her to take a new job with the National Parks Service in
Chicago.
 ‘You know how I feel about Chicago,’ said the X, 50, who was
dressed in a fetching high-necked polka dot dress.
 Completely star struck and physically dwarfed by X Leslie bumbles
through the conversation: Nervously shouting and instigating a
cringingly embarrassing high five.
 ‘I agree with you on all things, throughout history and until the end of
time forever,’ gushes Leslie, nodding inanely.
 ‘Well I hope you take the job,’ replies X, whose ‘Let’s Move’ fitness
campaign was incorporated into the script of the widely-popular NBC
comedy.
 ‘Change happens one person at a time,’ she adds, with the gravitas
of a presidential speech

8. Tell me the name or the ruler of
this country.


Answers
 1. Audit
 2. DSLR
 3. Otamatone (Automatone not accepted as
answer)
 4. Locations of SAP Labs (:P)
 5. Imperial Walker/ AT-AT Walker/ Empire
Strikes Back/ Battle of Hoth.
 6. Maple syrup
 7. Michelle Obama
 8. Latveria/ Doctor Doom

Question 1
According to Twitter accounts like HistoricalPics, the sight of
___ _____ _______ __ ______ for the very first time in 1937
was scandalous enough to cause a car accident . Except that
it didn't. And it wasn't the first time _____ ____ ______ __
______.
According to the City of Toronto Archives, it was not only
staged, but that they have plenty of other photos of _____
_______ ______ that predate this one.
And if you spend even half a second looking at the image,
you'll notice plenty of clues that it's a staged photo.
For example, there is not a single dent on the car.
FITB, or give the general theme of the photograph.

सुरक्षा
फिसल पट्टी

Question 2
In 1988, Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout!
Records, saw the band play an early show and
signed the group to his label. In 1989, the band
recorded its debut extended play, 1,000 Hours.
Before 1,000 Hours was released, the group
dropped the name Sweet Children; according to
Livermore, this was done to avoid confusion
with another local band Sweet Baby. The band
adopted the name X, due to the members'
fondness for cannabis.
Give X

Question 3
A "X" is a military member who relies heavily on presentation
software to the point of excess. Some junior officers spend the
majority of their time preparing ___________ ______. Because
of its usefulness for presenting mission briefings, it has become
part of the culture of the military, but is regarded as a poor
decision-making tool. As a result, some generals, such as
Brigadier-General Herbert McMaster, have banned the use of
___________ in their operations. In September
2010, Colonel Lawrence Sellin was fired from his post at
the ISAF for publishing a piece critical of the over-dependence
of military staffs on the what is being talked about and bloated
bureaucracy.
Give X or give funda. (Only X accepted in pounce)

Question 4
Albert Wegener was born in 1880 in Berlin. Always restless and
more of a doer than a thinker, he switched his college major
from astronomy to meteorology because “astronomy offered no
opportunity for physical activity.” Upon graduation, Wegener
signed on for meteorological expeditions to Iceland and
Greenland in 1906 and 1908.
While on tour in 1910, Wegener noticed something remarkable
about the coastlines of South America and Africa. He was not
the first scientist to notice this , but one of the first to
think that it was important.
What did Wegner notice which ultimately led to the
proposition of a widely accpeted theory today?

Answer
He noticed the perfect fit
between the coastlines of South
America and Africa (like the
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle)
Led to the discovery of
Continental Drift

Question 5
About what did Mark Twain said the following?
“It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that
can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old
and weak and the young and frail enter without
hesitation or complaint upon such incredible
journeys and endure the resultant miseries
without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in
fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the
impulse is, the act born of it is beyond
imagination, marvellous to our kind of people, the
cold whites.”

Question 6
She appeared in an unfinished novel
of writer Rushwa’s and there are
some British documents that say
Azizan Bai (a rebel in the 1857 war)
claims to have been taught by her.
But largely, it is difficult to separate
fact from fiction about this person.

Question 7
The following slide contains the picture of a
coelacanth, a fish discovered in 1938 at a time
when all scientists believed that this fish had
been extinct for 80 million years. What semi-
scientific term has been attributed to this fish
based on the fact that it has remained
unchanged for over 400 million years, and is a
close relative of the fish that, hundreds of millions
of years ago, was the
first creature to crawl out of the sea onto land—
the first amphibian, the first land creature.

Question 8
Interestingly, the origin of X was more
because of the medicinal properties that the
ingredients used proffered than as a sweet.
It is said that these X were given to teenage
girls to keep their raging hormones under
check. In fact treatment, and not
indulgence, was what led to the discovery of
some of the popular X including methi,
makhana and sonth.
What is X?

Question 9
In 2013's Wimbledon tournament,
seven-time Wimbledon champ Roger
Federer was told his shoes were too
much and he would need to switch them
for the next match. This was done to
uphold a tradition that dates back to the
1800s and which the US Open has let
go in 1972. What tradition/what was
wrong with Fedex’s shoes? Need both.

Question 10
A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in
order to magically take on the sins of a person or
household. Traditionally, the food was believed to
absorb the sins of a recently deceased person, thus
absolving that person's soul. Consequently, sin-eaters
supposedly carried the sins of all people whose souls
they "ate."
In anthropology and the study of folklore, sin-eating is
classified as apotropaic ritual and a form of religious
magic.
Mah koosan is, in what specific fashion did the ritual
meal take place?

Answer
The food was handed across
or placed on the corpse of
the recently deceased person
for consumption.

कागज का आदान-
प्रदान

Answers
 Kane in Alien (1979)
 John Merrick in The Elephant Man(1980)
 The Horned King in The Black Cauldron (1985)
 Gilbert Colvile in White Mischief (1987)
 Mr Ollivander in Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone (2001)
 Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm in Hellboy (2004)
 Professor Oxley in Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
 The Doctor / The War Doctor from Doctor Who
(TV Series)(2013)

Question 11
The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 45 metres (148 ft) of
water in the Antikythera shipwreck off Point Glyphadia on the Greek
island of Antikythera. The wreck was found in April 1900 by a group
of Greek sponge divers, who retrieved numerous artefacts, including
bronze and marble statues, pottery, unique glassware, jewellery,
coins, and the mechanism.
Generally referred to as the first known analogue computer, it was
used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical
and astrological purposes, as well as the Olympiads, the cycles of
the ancient Olympic Games.
It is not known how the mechanism came to be on the cargo ship,
but it has been suggested that it was being taken from Rhodes to
Rome, together with other looted treasure, for what purpose?
(Hint: it is estimated to have been created around the late second
century BC)

Answer
In support of a triumphal
parade being staged by
Julius Caesar

Question 13
Gurugram-26th Decemeber
Panji-28th December
New Delhi-30th December
What??

Question 14
The night before the first fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston, on February 24, 1964,
the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” featured Clay and Liston's sparring partners as guests. Harvey
Jones brought with him a lengthy rhyming boast from Cassius Clay:
Clay comes out to meet Liston and Liston starts to retreat,
If Liston goes back an inch farther he'll end up in a ringside seat.
Clay swings with a left,
Clay swings with a right,
Just look at young Cassius carry the fight.
Liston keeps backing but there's not enough room,
It's a matter of time until Clay lowers the boom.
Then Clay lands with a right, what a beautiful swing,
And the punch raised the bear clear out of the ring.
Liston still rising and the ref wears a frown,
But he can't start counting until Sonny comes down.
Now Liston disappears from view, the crowd is getting frantic
But our radar stations have picked him up somewhere over the Atlantic.
Who on Earth thought, when they came to the fight,
That they would witness the launching of a human satellite.
Hence the crowd did not dream, when they laid down their money,
That they would see a total eclipse of Sonny.
— Cassius Clay, As read on CBS' I've Got a Secret

Jesse Bowdry brought a much
terser written message from Sonny
Liston:
Cassius, you're my _______
______ ____, so please don't let
anything happen to you before
tomorrow night.
— Sonny Liston, As read on
CBS' I've Got a Secret

In 1971, three medical professors at the
Duke University School of Medicine
collaborated on The Anatomical Basis of
Medical Practice, an anatomy textbook
that has since become equivalent of “cult
hit” among medical students in the USA
for featuring what exactly?

Question 17
Liu DeJian, the chairman of NetDragon
Websoft, sought permission from the CBS
broadcasting network in the US to create a
$160m homage in the form of their HQ in
the south-eastern province of Fujian, which
was built between 2008 and 2014 and is
the only officially-licensed ____ ____
replica building in the world.
Image on next slide

Answer
The building is shaped like the USS Enterprise

Question 18
Give Funda behind this giant metal spehere lying at
about the center of Zagreb,
Croatia

Answer
It is the central piece of a ambiental installation
called Nine Views. At the center of town lies a
giant ball representing our sun. And dotted
throughout the city are the planets in our solar
system.

Question 19
Jeff DelPapa (aka "rjnerd"), notes that the "_______
_______" made the leap to electronic communication in
late 1979 on the "SF-Lovers" mailing list hosted by the
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the time, the list
participants were discussing the first Star Trek movie,
and Roger Duffy, the moderator of the list, put
appropriate _______ _______ on messages when he
compiled them in digest form. Soon there was a new
kind of forum for fans who wanted to converse: Usenet
newsgroups, the earliest Internet discussion groups.
The phrase "_______ _____" first appears in
a posting about the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath
of Khan, in 1982.

Question 20
Eddie Eagan, USA
Jacob Tullin Thams, Norway.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger, East Germany
Clara Hughes, Canada
Give connect (5 points)+What is special about
third entry?(5 points)

Answer
Connect: Only four athletes to
have won medals in both the
Winter and Summer Olympics
Part 2: Luding-Rothenburger is the
only athlete to ever win medals in
both Winter and Summer Games
in the same year (1988)

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