Not At Your VIT's End - Answers

Round 1: UNESCO World
Heritage Sites

1
This is a fictional location from the world of Game of Thrones which makes
regular appearances in the fifth and the sixth season of the show.
The establishment housed skinned faces on its walls and according to the
production designer, the aesthetics of the capsules made out of the walls
containing the faces were inspired by the photos clicked at a UNESCO World
Heritage site closer to our home. Tourists often refer to this site as a part of a duo
with the other of the duo located just 100 kms away and being a similar type of
UNESCO World Heritage Site as well. The site, which provided inspiration for this
set design, is alphabetically the second one in the aforementioned duo.
Which site, closer back to home, provided the inspiration behind the aesthetics of
this fictional site?

2
Several scientists have pointed out that the following chemical reactions are the
reason for something observed by people worldwide.
It started with these atmospheric oxidation processes:
2Cu + O2 → Cu2O
2Cu2O + O2 → 4CuO
The abundance of seawater in the vicinity and the rise of sulphur levels in the
atmosphere gave rise to the following green and blue hydrated salts:
2CuO + CO2 + H2O → Cu2CO3(OH)2
3CuO + 2CO2 + H2O → Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
4CuO + SO3 +3H2O → Cu4SO4(OH)6
What was the world famous result of these chemical reactions?

Colour of the Statue of Liberty

3
Gothic architecture was considered as a dislike of this particular country for a
long time and due to the insurge of patriotism in the end of 18th century and the
start of 19th century, one example of such architecture in this country was used
more as a battle arsenal rather than the purpose it was supposed to serve.
However, major renovation projects were started from the 1830s to return it back
its original glory, thanks to the vast architectural descriptions of it in an 1830
source making the natives realize its inner beauty even under bad conditions.
What sizzling example of Gothic architecture are we talking about? Take a hunch
as to what caused the major renovation projects of it to be kickstarted.

Notre Dame Cathedral
Hunchback of Notre Dame

4
This marathon race is held in late February or early March every year for the
extreme from across the world for a distance of about 40 kilometres in total.
The recommended dress code for the marathon includes a balaclava, face tape,
goggles or glasses, windproof jackets & pants and thick gloves. Before every
edition of the marathon, drilling machines are used to estimate if the marathon
can be held as planned. Some of the participants even mention that the sounds
they hear during the run motivate them to run twice as faster.
What is the venue of this marathon, which could easily be one of the biggest
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world?

5
Unknown to many, this isolated place which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
had been transformed into a natural reserve by the late 1950s.
A particular freelance writer even wrote stories about it being transformed into a
natural reserve by his father who was a Navy officer. Lot of animals like tortoises,
ducks, geese, springboks, bonteboks, leopards etc. were brought here by his father
by using a Navy ship. The place only became recognized as a UNESCO World
Heritage site in late 1990s after it was deemed to be no longer usable for its actual
intended purpose and also because of its national historical importance.
Which place am I talking about?/ What was its claim to fame? What apt nickname
did the author give to the aforementioned ship?

6
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, young children in a certain Far East nation
commonly sighted and read stories about these two ﬁctional characters in their
textbooks. Both the characters had an illustration on the cover of the textbooks.
Both of the pair were best friends and would enact embarrassing childhood
moments. Thus, many have compared this pair to a pair from the West who have
been familiar to us since childhood. The illustration of the girl turned out to be
the inspiration behind some aspects of the look of an unintentional social media
sensation that rose to fame sometime in the second half of 2021.
Which pair from the West is commonly compared with this pair? The looks of
what were inspired by the illustration of the girl?

Jack and Jill
Red light, green light doll in Squid Game

7
M. Mishra is an Indian classical singer. His most famous work is seemingly one
that contains only two extremely familiar lines that talks about learning to travel
in the path of love.
A lot of people became fans of this short musical piece because of the creative
context it was used for. People later discovered that there is actually no “full
version of the song” because only the two lines were specifically used for the
aforementioned context in the first place. Some even found it ironic that it was
not a full fledged song considering the fact that the context it was used for was
related to certain music-associated entities but rather sneakily.
What was Mangal Mishra’s arguably most famous work used for?

Imperial Blue “Men Will Be Men” ads

8
The Yellow Fleet consisted of ﬁfteen ships and sailors from seven European
countries and the USA.
Because of a certain happening this year that lasted about a whole week, media
houses around the world recounted the last time it happened, the victims of
which were the Yellow Fleet in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this case, it lasted
for eight whole years. They got their name because of a visible change that was a
consequence of their long duration stay at the concerned location.
What were the Yellow Fleet the victims of? Why were they called so and what
caused it?

Blocking of the Suez Canal
Desert sands coating their skin, making them look yellow

9
SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour was a spacecraft that was at the top of the Falcon
9 rocket which was launched in the middle of last year. The mission was the first
manned mission by SpaceX and also was the first manned American mission after
the last flights of the NASA space shuttles.
As the two astronauts prepared to board the spacecraft, they played a playlist
among which one was considered literally apt. This was apt because it made a
reference to Americans returning to the darkness of space in style, similar to
return of the artist(s) with this hit.
Which electric song was aptly played just before the launch of the spacecraft?

10
This sandstone pit is very close to the east coast of the US but is not on it and was
listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It has been morphed
into a county park today.
The ﬁrst recorded use of it was in the end of 17th century for local churches and
tombstones. However, one century later, it was bought by a French-American and
as a consequence of the purchase, much of its resources was consumed to
accomplish an important mission at a location 40 kms north of this place.
What was the pit consumed for in the end of 18th century?

11
In the 2010 Winter Olympics, a German luger ﬁnished second in one event of the
sport. However, he encountered a dental problem while celebrating his result
post his race. This had to be ﬁxed by his mother back home who was a dentist by
profession.
In what unusual way did he get this problem?

Bit his medal too hard while posing for photographers

12
Like several other national post services, Canada Mail has a particular system of
rules associated with assigning postal codes to area, which are alphanumeric of the
format A1A1A1.
There is one special postal code, however, which breaks this system of rules. The
postal code is an alternative arrangement of an alphabet and a number despite the
facts that the ﬁrst number in this case means it’s a rural area and that the ﬁrst
alphabet means it’s a locality in Canada’s second biggest city, Montreal. The
recipients of such letters addressed to this postal code are the employees of Canada
Mail themselves. This practice was started to not have much of undelivered stock
during the winters and also to respect the sentiments of the senders by replying.
What is special about the letters addressed to this postal code? What is the apt
numerically stylized postal code?

Letters addressed to Santa Claus
H0H0H0

13
The people of this tribe are observed to be residing in parts of a certain area of
dispute in India.
One particular word of the language of this tribe is "kechoo" which refers to an
entity that only some people of this tribe can possibly see in daily lives and is also
named after a Britisher whose surname is a portmanteau of his father’s and
mother’s surnames.
What?

14
About 200 miles northwest of Stockholm lies a Swedish resort town.
McDonalds planned to open up a branch here in 1996 but due to the sparse
accessibility of the resort through usual transport, they thought it would be a
better idea to place the restaurant inside the resort. The restaurant now operates
pretty much like every McDonald’s restaurant around the world except for one
important feature that supports a facility of the resort itself.
What is the singular unique difference of this branch of McDonalds?

Ski-thru instead of a drive-thru

15
An opera house in Chicago keeps reusing some amounts of a mixture of wax and
white plastic as a prop for some of their productions.
Large amounts of this mixture were donated to the opera house about three
decades ago after it was no longer usable for its original intended purpose.
What was the mixture’s original intended purpose, the evidence of which is seen
every winter around the world?

16
In an episode of the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie look back to a statement in an
old newspaper article about a historic event made by a NASA scientist and a
founding member of the National Hydrogen Association.
The statement said that hydrogen was not responsible for the quick catastrophe
but rather the coatings of aluminium and iron oxide on the cotton skin were
which could have formed the volatile thermite in those conditions. Thus, the pair
decide to test two scaled models, one with just coatings and one with both
coatings and hydrogen. The latter one took much lesser time for this process of
sorts to get completed thus proving that the theory was proven false or busted.
The theory behind the cause of which event was tested here?

17
In an episode, Adam and Jamie test a particular famous escape plan from the
Alcatraz island prison. They saw if the three convicts had any chances of
surviving with the plan as there was no news from them post the attempt.
For this, everything had to be done precisely like the facts mentioned in the FBI
case files which included the innovative use of a certain entity. This entity was
first used by the inmates to mask the noise from the guards when working
towards the escape involved a lot of noise. The guards would not find the entity’s
use strange because of it being a common hobby among inmates. The same entity
was then used in a modified way to pump air into a raft made by the convicts out
of prisoners’ raincoats. The escape plan turned out to be plausible.
What is the entity in question?

18
This episode of the Mythbusters was to test the plausibility of certain ﬁctional
entities seen by many of us over the last two and a half decades or so.
Before the test was put into action, some prerequisites such as the processes like
the ones shown in the further slides were necessary to make the real life versions
of these entities. Adam and Jamie then had several exercises that involved one of
them repeat the words of the other just before the test.
The plausibility of what entities were tested in this episode which was eventually
considered plausible post the test?

19
This about 50 year old myth was put into test by the pair of Mythbusters. One of the
supposed proofs for the myth was an image where a certain person was well lit
despite being in a shadow at a place that had only one single source of light with
supporters claiming that there was a secondary light source such as a filmlight.
Therefore, to really test the authenticity, Adam and Jamie recreated the same using a
scale model involving a single lamp and a mixture of portland cement and charcoal
powder, which according to scientific experiments were similar aesthetically and
with respect to reflectivity of the surface seen in the original image. It turned out the
scale model of the person had a similar level of illumination due to the surface
reflectivity, thus proving the myth to be busted.
What myth was tested here?

20
Adam and Jamie tested a myth believed to be true according to certain boards
visible in certain establishments. While testing the myth, Adam calls a mobile
phone situated in a chamber containing some organic compounds in the air and
jokingly says “Hello, explosion? He never answers his phone.” in a light-hearted
way to convey that the myth was busted.
However, there was an alternative theory to what might be the real cause. This
was attributed to people getting in and out of their cars during the time they do a
related activity. This was believed to generate an electrostatic charge due to
rubbing of their clothes with the car seat and thus resulting in the catastrophe.
The alternative theory was ultimately regarded plausible through a test.
What myth was tested in this episode?

Mobile phones in petrol bunks lead to explosions

21
An Australian based NGO specializing in treating blindness and other vision
problems, decided to expand to impoverished areas in Oceania in the early 2010s
to treat people who could not afford the usual prices for the vision treatments.
Thus, for this expansion, they decided to aptly have a fellow Oceanian, X, as their
ambassador. X even visited Fiji to support the patients mentally before and after
their treatments provided by this NGO. This move was apt because X himself
suffers from severe astigmatism due to which we all, oddly, have never seen him
without something. X acquired an apt nickname back in the early 2000s when he
was just emerging because of his look reminding people of “someone else” who
was also becoming an emerging name back then and will also come back to the
limelight at the very beginning of next year.
ID X. What was this nickname of his?

22
Early this year, a Chinese drone company in collaboration with a university set
the Guinness World Record for the longest animation performed by unmanned
aerial vehicles using LEDs on the drones.
The drone animation paid tribute to which 19th century ﬁgure? What two-word
nickname did Guinness World Records aptly give to this display?

23
In 2006, to mark the 500th anniversary of the formation of it, a march on foot
traversing about 700 kilometres consisting 80 of its former members was held.
The route taken for the march was the exact same as the ﬁrst members of it took
when they were summoned to a location about 700 kilometres south of the
starting point, which was a fortress (also now a UNESCO World Heritage site)
situated at the foothills of the south-facing Alpine slopes.
The 500th anniversary of which colourful group of people was celebrated in this
manner?

The Vatican army (Papal Swiss Guard)

24
These makeshift photo studios on the streets close to these famous landmarks of
the same city, were specialized in a speciﬁc type of photography. They were one
of the only shops in the locality which were open around the clock along with
barber shops and woodsellers on the same streets.
Photos of children and youths were free of cost and the photographers ate lunch
after a few minutes after their work to get some fresh air. The photo studios only
came up in 2000 after a major ﬂaw was discovered in the previous system of
clerks with them being given bribe easily by greedy families.
What specialization of photography? Where were these photo studios located
close to?

Corpse photography
Ghats of Varanasi

25
Back in the mid 19th century, the Empress of France was a traveller regularly
shifting between palatial residences of the time.
Thus, packing of her voluminous outﬁts and fragile jewellery needed some skill
and expertise. This is when she got in touch with a consultant to ﬁnd the
appropriate design of the baggage needed for packing such items and also
literally laying down a layout of how to pack them. This partnership resulted in
skyrocketing the consultant’s career to nationwide fame a few years later.
Who was this consultant, whose name is now immortalized famously?

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