The document outlines the rules and format for a quiz competition titled 'Quizcon’23 Prelims', detailing the question structure, scoring system, and specific notable questions across a variety of topics. Participants face challenges that include identifying characters, events, and concepts from history, film, literature, and culture. The quiz aims to engage participants in a fun and educational manner while testing their knowledge in various subjects.

2. Open General Quiz
QuizCon’23
PRELIMS
By Debanjan Bhattacharjee and Soumyabrata
Chakraborty

3. 3
RULES
• There are a total 26 questions. Questions are in Alphabetical
Order.
• Each Question fetches 1 marks and in case of 2 part-ers each
part fetches 0.5 marks.
• Question 5,10,15,20,25 are * marked questions and will be
used to break ties.
• QMs can change some rules according to their comforts and
QM’s decision is final.
• Googling is injurious to health.
• Top 8 advances to the Finals.

4. LET’S BEGIN

5. 5
A.
• The most challenging task was to continue the excavation
during heavy snowfall in winter. Excavation for _______ was
done from both ends.
• However, as Rohtang pass closes during the winter, the north
end was not accessible during winter and the excavation was
being done only from the south portal in winters. Only about
one-fourth of the entire _____ was excavated from the north
end and three-fourths was excavated from the south end.
• There were more than 46 avalanche sites on approaches to the
tunnel. These were the challenges faced during building the
longest single tube ____ above 10,000 feet. What is being
talked about?

6. 6
B.
• On 21st October 2015 Pepsi released a new version of their
drink called "Pepsi Perfect" for a very particular reason or
should I say as an ode to something. Give me the thing to which
this was a nod to.

7. 7
C.
• This 2023 Spanish film took the internet by storm, a Nicole
Wallace and Gabriel Guevara starrer which was inspired by a
Wattpad story named X(Same as the movie name) written by
Mercedes Ron.
• In this movie a song Y which was composed back in 2003 was
featured which gained a tremendous popularity boost and now
can be seen in majority of Instagram reels. Give me X and Y.

8. 8
D.
• The phrase X first emerged in 2013 on message boards within
4chan and Reddit that were dedicated to making parodies of
existing ____ and started the mocking ____ culture.
• According to some sources, one notable early instance of the
phrase featured the so-called Gnome Child (a character from
the online game Runescape) with the caption: “born just in time
to browse X ____.” Another shows a baby dressed as a police
officer writing a ticket, with the caption “You are getting a ticket
sir, that ____ wasn’t X enough.” Give me X

9. 9

10. 10
*E.
• X was rejected from the US army during the first world war due
to poor eyesight, he thus responded to a Red Cross recruitment
effort and signed on to be an ambulance driver. Interestingly X
is known among the masses for his exceptional writing skills.
• After getting seriously injured in 1918 he returned home and all
these wartime experiences paved the way for his novel Y. The
name Y can be said to have inspired from X leaving the military
behind and returning home.
• X had one of the more tragic deaths where years later he shot
himself with a shotgun due to extreme paranoia and
hypertension. Give me X.

11. 11
F.
• In April 1914, an initiative was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, to form an
International X Federation.
• Another attempt was made in July 1914 during the Mannheim International X
Tournament, but further efforts temporarily came to an end as a result of the
outbreak of World War I.
• In 1920, another attempt to organize an international federation was made at
the Gothenburg Tournament. Players made the first attempt to produce rules for
world championship matches—in 1922, world champion José Raúl Capablanca
proposed the "Y rules": the first player to win six games outright would win the
match; playing sessions would be limited to five hours.
• In 1922, the Russian master Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, while participating in an
international tournament in London, announced that a tournament would be held
during the 8th Sports Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 and would be hosted by
the French X Federation.
• On July 20, 1924 the participants at the Paris tournament founded Z as a kind of
players' union which is prevalent till date. Give me Z

12. 20XX presentation title 12
G.
• X was named after his father's adoptive grandfather. X like his father
knew two things well eating and fighting, they trained and fought
together.
• X was always known to have potential to surpass his father in terms
of wit and strength . In his early teenage while, fighting an enemy
who threatened world annihilation his father sacrificed himself in
order to save everyone but his efforts were in vain as the enemy
regenerated himself and was again ready to fight. X with a broken
arm stepped up and gave us probably one of the most iconic scenes
of a TV show(which I am sure many of us have tried to recreate in
our childhood).In a 2022 animated film we got to see the full potential
of X. Give me X and the iconic scene talked about.

13. 13
H.
• As per tradition, every year the Indian government hosts a 'X
Ceremony', a few days before the Budget is presented, marking
the official kick-off of events.
• An Indian dessert is prepared in a large vessel and served to
the finance ministry staff. This act reiterates the Indian tradition
of starting something auspicious with a sweet delicacy.

14. 14
I.
• After the Pakistan vs. West Indies T20 cricket match in 2006, X
gave an interview that gathered over 200,000 views in over 10
years on Youtube uploaded by paddy2667 on Jan 5th 2011.
• X said something that is used till date as a catchphrase to refer
a cricket team’s performance. Give me X and the phrase.

15. 15
*J.
• X is a Chinese Novel published in the 16th century and is regarded
one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels.
• In this novel a monk at Jingtu Temple was motivated by seeking
better translations of Buddhist scripture at the time, left Chang'an in
629, in defiance of Emperor Taizong of Tang's ban on travel.
• Helped by sympathetic Buddhists, he traveled via Gansu and
Qinghai to Kumul (Hami), thence following the Tian Shan mountains
to Turpan. He then crossed regions that are today Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, into Gandhara, in what is today
northern Pakistan, in 630.
• Xuanzang traveled throughout India for the next thirteen years,
visiting important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, studying at the ancient
university at Nalanda, and debating the rivals of Buddhism. Give me
X.

16. 16
K.
• In 2016 the film "Shorgul" was released. Although it was a flop
but the only redeeming factor about it was one of its songs 'Tere
Bina' sang by Arijit Singh. The interesting part of the song is its
lyricist(X) who is a celebrated politician and judicial member.
Give me X

17. 17
L.
• The "Man of the Hole" or the Tanaru Indian was an indigenous
person who lived in the Amazon rainforest was
dubbed/nicknamed as X. He was the sole inhabitant of the
Tanaru Indigenous Territory. On 24th August 2022 he was found
dead in his last home. Give me X i.e the nickname given to him.

18. 18
M.
• X also known as the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico in
Italian is a project to protect the city of Venice, Italy and the
Venetian Lagoon from flooding.
• The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile
gates installed at the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets that
are able to isolate the Venetian Lagoon temporarily from the
Adriatic Sea during high tides.
• The name X is said to have an inspiration from a biblical
character who was known for doing something similar of what
the project is doing. Give me X.

19. 20XX presentation title 19

20. 20
N.
• X is a festival observed in ______ at a predefined time
according to Hindu Calender. X roughly translates to ‘newbody’.
• It is the re-embodiment of the gods when they relinquish their
old bodies and assume a new one. However, the Brahma
padartha (soul-substance) remains the same. The soul or the
Brahma is transferred from the old idols to their new bodies in a
highly technical and conspicious manner, prescribed and
inherited from generations by the Daitas and the Rakshaks.
Give me X which is observed in a gap of 12 to 19 years

21. 21
*O.
• Students and a professor of neuroscience have found
“America’s favorite Y” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least
for lab rats.
• In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness
of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, they found rats formed an equally
strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating X
and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or
morphine and a specific environment.
• They also found that eating X activated more neurons in the
brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse. Id X

22. 22
P.
• Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said the move was
a matter of “good sense.” The move reportedly comes five
years after a previous government had shelved plans regarding
it.
• Sanguiliano mentions it comes in reference to the procedure
followed in other important tourist destinations in Europe like the
tomb of Napolean and Westminister Abbey. The proceeds
received from here on will be split with the culture ministry
receiving 70 per cent to help cover maintenance and cleaning
costs and the remainder going to the Rome diocese.

23. 23
Q.
• These are the ingredients to what “Royal Dish”?

24. 20XX presentation title 24

25. 25
R.
• “X” was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently
developed by the “X” Development Core Team.
• “X” is an implementation of the “Y” programming language. It
also combines with lexical scoping semantics inspired by
Scheme. Moreover, the project conceives in 1992, with an initial
version released in 1995 and a stable beta version in 2000. X is
open source and available across widely used platforms like
Windows, Linux, and macOS.

26. 26
S.
• The term is of obscure origin. A popular theory holds that it
comes from the position of ballparks in relation to the sun.
Supposedly, late 19th-century ballparks were laid out so that the
pitcher looked in a westerly direction when facing the batter and
the relative direction of the arm of some pitchers gave rise to a
term.
• What term used for a certain kind of athlete, primarily used in
boxing, but also used in other sports and otherwise, are we
referring to?

27. 27
*T.
• Tuvalu formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island
Country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific
Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii
and Australia. Tuvalu has a population of 11,204.The total land
area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi).
• However, the tiny island nation is of significant importance to
tech companies. For instance, the country recently struck a deal
with GoDaddy for an estimated $10 million a year. Companies
like Verisign pay the country around $5million a year.
• Can you tell me what’s so special about Tuvalu?

28. 28
U.
• Okay so U is utter trash question
• Cengiz …… is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Ligue
1 team Marseille
• His age is currently 26 years
• Put funda and tell me why did I specifically tell you his age :-)

29. 20XX presentation title 29

30. 30
V.
• These are the paintings of which author?
The Wave or My Destiny Mushroom

31. 31
W.
• The beautiful district of X is famous for its large amount of camping
and trekking trails, breathtaking waterfalls, caves, bird-watching
sites, flora, fauna and an overall plethora of magnificent sights.
Tourists are especially delighted by the range of exotic products
including spices, coffee, tea, bamboo products, honey and herbal
plants available here.
• Kanthanpara Waterfalls is one hotspot in X that allures tourists from
all over the world. Apart from these magnificent falls, X calls you to
experience the stunning beauty of Karapuzha Dam, Pookode &
Karlad Lake as well.
• However, in recent times, X has become famous for its
representative, who once allegedly talked about creating a ‘Solanum
tuberosum ad Aurum’ converter. Identify X

32. 32
X.
• About which recent movie is it being talked about?

33. 33
*Y.
• Rishabh Pant - 17.5
• Ravindra Jadeja- 19
• Kagiso Rabada- 19.2
• Johnny Bairstow- 21.8
Connect

34. 34
Z.
• Some scholars think it means "Za pobedy" (for victory)
• Some think it means "Zapad" (West)
• Some think its being simply used to identify which side they are
fighting for and avoid confusion.
• Some think it is being used to demonstrate nationalism and
their love for the ruler.
• What am I talking about?

35. Answers

36. 36
A.
• The most challenging task was to continue the excavation
during heavy snowfall in winter. Excavation for tunnelling was
done from both ends.
• However, as Rohtang pass closes during the winter, the north
end was not accessible during winter and the excavation was
being done only from the south portal in winters. Only about
one-fourth of the entire tunnel was excavated from the north
end and three-fourths was excavated from the south end.
• There were more than 46 avalanche sites on approaches to the
tunnel. These were the challenges faced during building the
longest single tube ____ above 10,000 feet. What is being
talked about?

37. 37
Atal Tunnel

38. 38
B.
• On 21st October 2015 Pepsi released a new version of their
drink called "Pepsi Perfect" for a very particular reason or
should I say as an ode to something. Give me the thing to which
this was a nod to.

39. 39
Back to the Future
The date is the same date in future where
Marty Mcfly ends up in

40. 40
C.
• This 2023 Spanish film took the internet by storm, a Nicole
Wallace and Gabriel Guevara starrer which was inspired by a
Wattpad story named X(Same as the movie name) written by
Mercedes Ron.
• In this movie a song Y which was composed back in 2003 was
featured which gained a tremendous popularity boost and now
can be seen in majority of Instagram reels. Give me X and Y.

41. 41
X - Culpa Mia/My Fault
Y - Gasolina

42. 42
D.
• The phrase X first emerged in 2013 on message boards within
4chan and Reddit that were dedicated to making parodies of
existing ____ and started the mocking ____ culture.
• According to some sources, one notable early instance of the
phrase featured the so-called Gnome Child (a character from
the online game Runescape) with the caption: “born just in time
to browse X ____.” Another shows a baby dressed as a police
officer writing a ticket, with the caption “You are getting a ticket
sir, that ____ wasn’t X enough.” Give me X

43. 43

44. 44
Dank

45. 45
*E.
• X was rejected from the US army during the first world war due
to poor eyesight, he thus responded to a Red Cross recruitment
effort and signed on to be an ambulance driver. Interestingly X
is known among the masses for his exceptional writing skills.
• After getting seriously injured in 1918 he returned home and all
these wartime experiences paved the way for his novel Y. The
name Y can be said to have inspired from X leaving the military
behind and returning home.
• X had one of the more tragic deaths where years later he shot
himself with a shotgun due to extreme paranoia and
hypertension. Give me X.

46. 46
Ernest Hemingway

47. 47
F.
• In April 1914, an initiative was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, to form an
International X Federation.
• Another attempt was made in July 1914 during the Mannheim International X
Tournament, but further efforts temporarily came to an end as a result of the
outbreak of World War I.
• In 1920, another attempt to organize an international federation was made at
the Gothenburg Tournament. Players made the first attempt to produce rules for
world championship matches—in 1922, world champion José Raúl Capablanca
proposed the "Y rules": the first player to win six games outright would win the
match; playing sessions would be limited to five hours.
• In 1922, the Russian master Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, while participating in an
international tournament in London, announced that a tournament would be held
during the 8th Sports Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 and would be hosted by
the French X Federation.
• On July 20, 1924 the participants at the Paris tournament founded Z as a kind of
players' union which is prevalent till date. Give me Z

48. 48
FIDE

49. 20XX presentation title 49
G.
• X was named after his father's adoptive grandfather. X like his father
knew two things well eating and fighting, they trained and fought
together.
• X was always known to have potential to surpass his father in terms
of wit and strength . In his early teenage while, fighting an enemy
who threatened world annihilation his father sacrificed himself in
order to save everyone but his efforts were in vain as the enemy
regenerated himself and was again ready to fight. X with a broken
arm stepped up and gave us probably one of the most iconic scenes
of a TV show(which I am sure many of us have tried to recreate in
our childhood).In a 2022 animated film we got to see the full potential
of X. Give me X and the iconic scene talked about.

50. 50
X – Gohan
Father-Son Kamehameha

51. 51
H.
• As per tradition, every year the Indian government hosts a 'X
Ceremony', a few days before the Budget is presented, marking
the official kick-off of events.
• An Indian dessert is prepared in a large vessel and served to
the finance ministry staff. This act reiterates the Indian tradition
of starting something auspicious with a sweet delicacy.

52. 52
Halwa Ceremony

53. 53
I.
• After the Pakistan vs. West Indies T20 cricket match in 2006,
X(from Pakistan’s Team) gave an interview that gathered over
200,000 views in over 10 years on Youtube uploaded by
paddy2667 on Jan 5th 2011.
• X said something that became goldmines for memers and is
used till date as a catchphrase to refer a cricket team’s
performance. Give me X and the phrase.

54. 54
X – Inzamam-ul-Haq
“Inshallah Boys Played Well”

55. 55
*J.
• X is a Chinese Novel published in the 16th century and is regarded
one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels.
• In this novel a monk at Jingtu Temple was motivated by seeking
better translations of Buddhist scripture at the time, left Chang'an in
629, in defiance of Emperor Taizong of Tang's ban on travel.
• Helped by sympathetic Buddhists, he traveled via Gansu and
Qinghai to Kumul (Hami), thence following the Tian Shan mountains
to Turpan. He then crossed regions that are today Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, into Gandhara, in what is today
northern Pakistan, in 630.
• Xuanzang traveled throughout India for the next thirteen years,
visiting important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, studying at the ancient
university at Nalanda, and debating the rivals of Buddhism. Give me
X.

56. 56
Journey to the West

57. 57
K.
• In 2016 the film "Shorgul" was released. Although it was a flop
but the only redeeming factor about it was one of its songs 'Tere
Bina' sang by Arijit Singh. The interesting part of the song is its
lyricist(X) who is a celebrated politician and judicial member.
Give me X

58. 58
Kapil Sibal

59. 59
L.
• The "Man of the Hole" or the Tanaru Indian was an idigenous
person who lived in the Amazon rainforest was
dubbed/nicknamed as X. He was the sole inhabitant of the
Tanaru Indigenous Territory. On 24th August 2022 he was found
dead in his last home. Give me X i.e the nickname given to him.

60. 20XX presentation title 60
Lonliest Man On Earth

61. 61
M.
• X also known as the Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico in
Italian is a project to protect the city of Venice, Italy and the
Venetian Lagoon from flooding.
• The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile
gates installed at the Lido, Malamocco, and Chioggia inlets that
are able to isolate the Venetian Lagoon temporarily from the
Adriatic Sea during high tides.
• The name X is said to have an inspiration from a biblical
character who was known for doing something similar of what
the project is doing. Give me X.

62. 62

63. 63
Mose/Moses

64. 64
N.
• X is a festival observed in the Shree Jagannath Temple at Puri at a
predefined time according to Hindu Calender. X roughly translates to
‘newbody’.
• Lord Shree Jagannath adornes a new body during X. It is the re-
embodiment of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra
and Sudarshan when they relinquish their old bodies and assume a
new one. However, the Brahma padartha (soul-substance) remains
the same. The soul or the Brahma is transferred from the old idols to
their new bodies in a highly technical and conspicious manner,
prescribed and inherited from generations by the Daitas and the
Rakshaks. Give me X which is observed in a gap of 12 to 19 years

65. 65
Nabakalebara

66. 66
*O.
• Students and a professor of neuroscience have found
“America’s favorite Y” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least
for lab rats.
• In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness
of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, they found rats formed an equally
strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating X
and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or
morphine and a specific environment.
• They also found that eating X activated more neurons in the
brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse. Id X

67. 67
Oreo

68. 68
P.
• Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said the move was
a matter of “good sense.” The move reportedly comes five
years after a previous government had shelved plans regarding
it.
• Sanguiliano mentions it comes in reference to the procedure
followed in other important tourist destinations in Europe like the
tomb of Napolean and Westminister Abbey. The proceeds
received from here on will be split with the culture ministry
receiving 70 per cent to help cover maintenance and cleaning
costs and the remainder going to the Rome diocese.

69. 69
Imposition of entry fee on
Rome’s Pantheon

70. 70
Q.
• These are the ingredients to what “Royal Dish”?

71. 20XX presentation title 71

72. 72
King Charle’s Coronation Quiche

73. 73
R.
• “X” was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is currently
developed by the “X” Development Core Team.
• “X” is an implementation of the “Y” programming language. It
also combines with lexical scoping semantics inspired by
Scheme. Moreover, the project conceives in 1992, with an initial
version released in 1995 and a stable beta version in 2000. X is
open source and available across widely used platforms like
Windows, Linux, and macOS.

74. 74
R-programming Language

75. 75
S.
• The term is of obscure origin. A popular theory holds that it
comes from the position of ballparks in relation to the sun.
Supposedly, late 19th-century ballparks were laid out so that the
pitcher looked in a westerly direction when facing the batter and
therelative direction of the arm of some pitchers gave rise to a
term.
• What term used for a certain kind of athlete, primarily used in
boxing, but also used in other sports and otherwise, are we
referring to?

76. 76
Southpaw

77. 77
*T.
• Tuvalu formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island
Country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific
Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii
and Australia.Tuvalu has a population of 11,204.The total land
area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi).
• However, the tiny island nation is of significant importance to
tech companies. For instance, the country recently struck a deal
with GoDaddy for an estimated $10 million a year. Companies
like Verisign pay the country around $5million a year.
• Can you tell me what’s so special about Tuvalu?

78. 78
The domain name . tv is the Internet country code
top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu

79. 79
U.
• Okay so U is utter trash question
• Cengiz …… is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Ligue
1 team Marseille
• His age is currently 26 years
• Put funda and tell me why did I specifically tell you his age :-)

80. 80

81. 81
He is “Under” 17

82. 82
V.
• These are the paintings of which author?
The Wave or My Destiny Mushroom

83. 83
Victor Hugo

84. 84
W.
• The beautiful district of X is famous for its large amount of camping
and trekking trails, breathtaking waterfalls, caves, bird-watching
sites, flora, fauna and an overall plethora of magnificent sights.
Tourists are especially delighted by the range of exotic products
including spices, coffee, tea, bamboo products, honey and herbal
plants available here.
• Kanthanpara Waterfalls is one hotspot in X that allures tourists from
all over the world. Apart from these magnificent falls, X calls you to
experience the stunning beauty of Karapuzha Dam, Pookode &
Karlad Lake as well.
• However, in recent times, X has become famous for its
representative, who once allegedly talked about creating a ‘Solanum
tuberosum ad Aurum’ converter. Identify X

85. 85
Wayanad

86. 86
X.
• About which recent movie is it being talked about?

87. 87
“X”

88. 88
*Y.
• Rishabh Pant - 17.5
• Ravindra Jadeja- 19
• Kagiso Rabada- 19.2
• Johnny Bairstow- 21.8
• Connect

89. 89
All are YoYo test scores of the players

90. 90
Z.
• Some scholars think it means "Za pobedy" (for victory)
• Some think it means "Zapad" (West)
• Some think its being simply used to identify which side they are
fighting for and avoid confusion.
• Some think it is being used to demonstrate nationalism and
their love for the ruler.
• What am I talking about?

91. 91
The Z symbol painted on Russian Military Tanks being used in
the Russia - Ukraine war

92. The Finalists will be
revealed shortly