QUIZCON 2023 TECHNO INDIA SALT LAKE FINALS: OPEN GENERAL QUIZ: A QUIZ ON VARIOUS, MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. BY DEBANJAN BHATTACHARJEE AND SOUMYABRATA CHAKRABORTY.

1. Open General Quiz
QuizCon’23
FINALS

2. 2
RULES
• There are 3 Rounds.
• There are 2 Pounce/Bounce round and 1 written round.
• QMs can change some rules according to their comforts and
QM’s decision is final.
• Googling is injurious to health.

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ROUND 1
Pounce/Bounce Clockwise

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RULES
• There are 8 questions
• Direct Question fetches +20 for correct answer.
• Pounce : +20/-10 ; Bounce : +10/0

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1.
• What is the one-word title of Carlos Ghosn's 2004 memoirs, the
title referencing the change that he brought about in the
automobile industry? After his fall from grace later on, a LRB
article joked that he could have added a -y to the title of the
book.

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Safety Slide

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Shift

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2.
• According to a 2014 paper, which person from mythology may
have had an AIP mutation causing early onset autosomal
dominant pituitary gigantism, with a possible pituitary tumour
pressing on his optic chiasm causing visual disturbance that
would have made it difficult for him to see small fast moving
objects?

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Safety Slide

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Goliath

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3.
• There are various stories about the origin of the phrase X. The
most prominent of them being:
• A law passed by Sir Francis Buller in 17th century, which limited
the maximum thickness of the stick with which it was
permissible for a man to beat his wife
• The correct depth at which a seed needs to be planted in the
ground to ensure it germinates properly
• A method by which brewers once tested the temperature of
beer
• Id the phrase

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Safety Slide

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Rule of Thumb

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4.
• 80-year-old Tatsuo Horiuchi from Japan is known all around the
world for his incredible drawing skills. However, he doesn't use
pencils, pens, or paint for his art. Instead, he creates
masterpieces in X!
• Around 20 years ago, before retiring, Horiuchi thought that he
needed a new challenge in his life. So he settled on painting.
However, he didn't want to spend money on art supplies-he
decided to use his PC. But he didn't go for any fancy digital
drawing software either and opted for X.

16. 20XX presentation title 16

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Safety Slide

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Microsoft Excel

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5.
• In honour of this Bollywood legend's birthday, Google hid an
Easter egg in the search Bar. Wherein reproducing an iconic
1970's dialogue would result in a calculator popping up with a
solitary digit on display Which iconic Bollywood dialogue? No
points for movie / character.

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Safety Slide

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Kitney Aadmi the?

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6.
• We all know how lucrative markets outside Europe are for
European football clubs. But in this age of globalization and
capitalism, the clubs have understood that to cater to this
growing, diverse market, they will also need to adopt certain
practices that will bode well to these type of audiences when
they play outside Europe.
• So with reference to this, can you tell me what did Real Madrid
do to show their commitment towards cultural sensitivities?

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Safety Slide

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The club crest of Real Madrid does not feature the traditional
Christian cross on clothing sold in some Middle East countries

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7.
• Astronauts live a tough time up in space since many of their
common habits have restrictions. One of such common
everyday acts is X which astronauts try not to do while they are
in the space
• The reason to this goes as "The food mixture taken in usually
contains all three physical phases and due to weight of all three
being different and gravitational force acting on earth, X is
possible. Whereas in space, the gravity,which is essential for X
to happen, is absent and hence a person trying X would throw
up entire food mixture."

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Safety Slide

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Burping

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8.
• Give me the three word name of this tool used by rescue
workers throughout the world

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Safety Slide

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Jaws of Life

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ROUND 2
Written

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RULES
• There are 8 questions
• Write the answers in the sheet.
• Staking is allowed
• Staked: +20/-10 ; Non-Staked: +10/0
• Do not Prompt out the Answers.

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1.
• Put Funda and write what is being described here/or what is
being referenced here.

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2.
• Whose voice can we hear speaking about the greats of Satyajit
Ray

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3.
• Emory ____ was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 27,
1958. Emory learned to play chess as a child.
• He served in the United States Air Force as a sergeant, where
he "excelled as a linguist.“
• He learnt Spanish through being an exchange student in
Mexico. Emory later on became an American chess
International Master, described by grandmaster Maurice Ashley
as "a trailblazer for African-American chess". Give me the name
of his 'G'reat Elder son.

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4.
• One of the pioneers of rock and roll handed music, Elizabeth
Cotten wad left handled and so she would play the guitar
holding it in an upside down position. By what name is this
technique popularly known?

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5.
• Koshary also known as the “Food of the Poor” is a popular dish
in Egypt which has its origins in India. The Koshir was a
breakfast dish that consisted of lentils, wheat, chickpeas, garlic
and onions cooked together in clay pots. Name this Indian dish.
• Similarly when this Indian dish traveled to Europe, by what
namedid it become popular there?

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6.
• Björn Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and musician.
He is best known for playing the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's
1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.
He also played a minor role in Ari Aster's 2019 folk horror film Midsommar.
• Film historian Lawrence J. Quirk commented in his study The Great
Romantic Films (1974) that some shots of Andrésen "could be extracted
from the frame and hung on the walls of the Louvre or the Vatican".
Following the Cannes Film Festival a year after the premiere of Death in
Venice, Andrésen received international headlines as "the most beautiful
boy in the world".
• Andresen became so influential during in the 1970's that he has been said
to inspire the way male characters are drawn in a particular art style since
then. This art style is also gaining huge popularity in India. Can you give
me what am I talking about?

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7.
• Connect the following

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8.
• According to a popular but unverified legend, X was invented by
the Italian ____ friar Marco d’Aviano after the Battle of Vienna
• The Viennese bestowed the name "Kapuziner", possibly in the
18th century, on an early version that included whipped cream
and spices of unknown origin. The Italian X was unknown
outside Italy until the 1930s. It is sometimes said to have been
born in the coffee houses of Trieste and other Italian areas of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 20th century

41. Answers

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1.
• Put Funda and write what is being described here/or what is
being referenced here.

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X(previously twitter)

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2.
• Whose voice can we hear speaking about the greats of Satyajit
Ray

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Wes Anderson

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3.
• Emory ____ was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 27,
1958. Emory learned to play chess as a child.
• He served in the United States Air Force as a sergeant, where
he "excelled as a linguist.“
• He learnt Spanish through being an exchange student in
Mexico. Emory later on became an American chess
International Master, described by grandmaster Maurice Ashley
as "a trailblazer for African-American chess". Give me the name
of his 'G'reat Elder son.

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Andrew Tate

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4.
• One of the pioneers of rock and roll handed music, Elizabeth
Cotten wad left handled and so she would play the guitar
holding it in an upside down position. By what name is this
technique popularly known?

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Cotten Picking

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5.
• Koshary also known as the “Food of the Poor” is a popular dish
in Egypt which has its origins in India. The Koshir was a
breakfast dish that consisted of lentils, wheat, chickpeas, garlic
and onions cooked together in clay pots. Name this Indian dish.
• Similarly when this Indian dish traveled to Europe, by what
namedid it become popular there?

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Khichdi and Kedgeree

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6.
• Björn Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and
musician. He is best known for playing the 14-year-old Tadzio in
Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann
novella Death in Venice. He also played a minor role in Ari Aster's
2019 folk horror film Midsommar.
• Film historian Lawrence J. Quirk commented in his study The Great
Romantic Films (1974) that some shots of Andrésen "could be
extracted from the frame and hung on the walls of the Louvre or the
Vatican". Following the Cannes Film Festival a year after the
premiere of Death in Venice, Andrésen received international
headlines as “the most beautiful boy in the world".
• Many people say his unique looks went on to inspire the character
designs of many popular X characters. And started a trend of people
appreciating a certain type of beauty standard in males. Give me X

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Anime/Manga

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7.
• Connect the following

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Bikini

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8.
• According to a popular but unverified legend, X was invented by
the Italian ____ friar Marco d’Aviano after the Battle of Vienna
• The Viennese bestowed the name "Kapuziner", possibly in the
18th century, on an early version that included whipped cream
and spices of unknown origin. The Italian X was unknown
outside Italy until the 1930s. It is sometimes said to have been
born in the coffee houses of Trieste and other Italian areas of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 20th century

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Cappuchino

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ROUND 3
All Pounce

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RULES
• There are 8 questions
• Only Pouncing is allowed, No Direct or Bounce.
• Pounce: +20/-10
• Do not Prompt out the Answers.

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1.
• Sudharma is a newspaper published from the city of Mysore in
Karnataka. Established in the year 1970, the circulation of the
paper is mainly through post, a method that its founder resorted
to when news vendors refused to stock his paper. Sudharma
has a circulation of 3,500, and the annual subscription fee is Rs
500. Eleven years agoSudharma gained an online avatar as
well - the e-paper is available for free. In its current iteration,
Sudharma runs over two pages: page 1 carries news, page 2
has features from contributors. Apart from domestic
subscribers, the edition also reaches readers in Germany,
Japan and Sri Lanka.
• What’s so unique about this newspaper

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Safety Slide

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Sanskrit Newspaper

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2.
• This flowering plant gets its name from the shape of its leaves.
These leaves are shaped like teeth and they reminded the
French of the maw of a large carnivore. Hence they named the
flower X, which is derived from the literal French translation of
'teeth of the …..’

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Safety Slide

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Dandelion

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3.
• X syndrome is a category of conditions in which a person
experiences their ____ acting seemingly on their own, without
conscious control over the actions. There are a variety of clinical
conditions that fall under this category, which most commonly
affects the left ____.
• In the 1964 film Y, the eponymous character, played by Peter
Sellers, apparently has X syndrome, as he can't stop himself
from doing the ____ salute giving the syndrome its official name
Y.
• Give X and Y.

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Safety Slide

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X – Alien Hand Syndrome
Y – Dr Strangelove Syndrome

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4.
• This is the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple in Kerala. The
temple has been the talk of town ever since people have
become aware about the controversial temple policy regarding
women not being allowed to enter the temple premises.
• However there is another unique fact about this temple. During
the annual Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrimage festival, the
pilgrims to this temple have to perform a special ritual in the
process of their pilgrimage which is quite extraordinary. Can you
tell me what?

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Safety Slide

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The pilgrims have to visit a mosque and a church
before entering the temple

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5.
• The A and B are the brightest.
• The C is located inside B, and is fainter and harder to see than
A and B.
• The dark D is the closest, so it's fairly difficult to see.
• The E is the farthest and the widest, making it the most difficult
to see
• . The F is the narrowest among all, and the G is located
between the E and G, also very narrow.
• What am I talking about?

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Safety Slide

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Saturn Rings

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6.
• This action has been used as a form of communication and
music for millennia across cultures.
• However, a study on the physics of it was never done before. A
recent study showed that it one of the fastest recorded angular
accelerations that humans can perform. It also proved that skin
friction is essential to provide the necessary acceleration.
• Therefore, this study proves that a certain action from a few
years back would have been scientifically impossible.
• What does this study analyse? What specific action is talked
about here?

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Safety Slide

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Snapping of fingers. It was impossible for thanos to snap his
fingers while wearing the infinity gauntlet

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SCORE CHECK

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7.
• Julius Caesar, apparently helped shape the thinking of Y. In
shooting X, whom he considered a tyrant like Julius Caesar, Y
expected to be admired like Brutus, Shakespeare's "noblest
Roman of them all." (A 2006biography of Y was entitled
American Brutus.)Another contemporary observer compared
X's long railroad journey home to Springfield, with the funeral
train's frequent stops in major cities, to Antony's display of
Caesar's murdered body.
• X and Y?

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Safety Slide

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X – Lincoln Y – John Wilkes Booth

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8.
• They started off in the post-war years in the 1940s and 1950s,
organized by Mother's Unions and Women's Institutes in rotary
clubs and civic centres to try and distract men scarred by war
from drinking away their sorrows.
• Soon the men taking part realized that they could transplant the
bit that they enjoyed away from the bit they didn't (which is the
overly preachy surroundings) and moved it into their favourite
watering holes.
• What thus started?

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Safety Slide

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Pub Quizzing

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FINAL SCORES
Thank You

86. References - Thejaswi
Udupa Sir and IEM
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