Content from the Preliminary Written Round of the Lone Wolf Quiz, Waves 2018 conducted at BITS Goa.

1. The Waves Lone Wolf Quiz 2018 – The Prelims
Crafted and hosted by – Lucky Kaul

2. All present (and not present) here, some of whom I’ve known for more
than 2 years.You inspire me to keep setting better stuff.

3. Shubhankar Bahl
Varun Rustagi
Ashish Singh
Krittibas Majumdar
Gaurav Haloi
Mayukh Nair
Preetham Upadhya

4.  25 questions
 1 point per correct answer
 Part points wherever applicable
 No negatives
 Top 8 lone wolves into the final
 Prelim scores to be carried forward
 Please refrain from using unfair means

5.  Roha is a small taluka in Raigad district of Maharashtra,
located around 120km Southeast of Mumbai.
 Thokur is another small village located in Karnataka, about
16km from Mangaluru.
 Which marvellous man-made corner piece that spans a length
of 740km, are they the end points of?

7.  Since 1880, six of such items have been
used at this location (and one room in
particular since 1909).While four are
named after people, the fifth one was
originally created for the owners of the
C&O Railway (and later donated to this
room), and the last one was named after
this British vessel owing to its timbers
being used to make it and gift it away.
 What am I talking about, that has graced
the presence of 20 people till date?
 What 8-letter determined name does the
present one have?

9.  He was selected for the task after a series of gruelling tests
undertaken by 50 other fighter pilots like him. Among other
things, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial
lights at a facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for "latent
claustrophobia“. He was then sent for an year for further training
somewhere else and mastered a language after spending 6
hours everyday for 3 months. Finally, he had to get acquainted
with local food in order to deal with it during the task.
 What is this the backstory of?

11.  Research suggests that the distinctive characteristic of a
certain class of consumables is an evolutionary ploy to
stop/poison mammals who eat the pods and destroy their
seeds. However, the substance present in them that does so to
animals, is tolerated by birds which are able to digest it,
encouraging seeds to germinate, and by spreading their
droppings all over help the parent plant disperse the seeds.
 What exactly does the above reasoning explain?
 Alternatively, you could give me a four-word LA-based answer
from the world of entertainment.

13.  Samir Mondal is one of the more noted Indian watercolour
artists. A winner of multiple awards, his artworks usually see
prices between INR 1 Lakh and 7 Lakh.
 Except, he donated three of his artworks for free as part of a
project in 2007 where they were used to demonstrate
somebody’s uniqueness.
 What had he contributed these works for? Some examples of
his works follow.

17.  This was one of the posters of which edition of the Summer Olympic Games?
(Give the city OR the year)

20.  The scientific reason for a particular observation in a food item
is actually a reaction between the chemicals of its two distinct
regions.The reaction happens as a result of overcooking it in a
certain way, leading to the formation of Iron Sulphide at the
border of its two regions and hence, causing a deviation from
the perfect inner look.
 What is the item in question?

22.  In a 1987 interview, he had the following to say regarding the
name of his most famous creation, the idea for which originated
from one of his previous creations called Li’l Folks:
 "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and
has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity.“
 What name, also used to denote a kind of inadequacy?

24.  Recently,Virat Kohli came up with a pair of sneakers that he
himself designed under his newly launched brand, One8.
 What exactly, as per him, was signified by this particular
design element of the shoe, as shown?
 Image follows.

27.  Vincenzo and Giacomo Barbato are two designers from Italy
who in 2012 founded a clothing company called _____ ____
after finding out that the name was never trademarked.
 Their logo became the subject of a lawsuit by a global giant,
to which the Intellectual Property Office responded by
saying that the logo is made from an alphabet. Since an
alphabet is not edible, the (quite) visible alteration made to it
did not amount to copyright infringement.
 Which brand did the Barbatos found?

29.  In a normal distribution curve, the probability of rejecting
something is determined by the area outside that enclosed by its
mean and its nearest specification limits (distance from mean).
 One such situation involves this limit reaching a particular
number of standard deviations away from the mean, which gives
rise to a term in the world of management.
 What term? Image follows.

32.  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origins of this
phrase lie in the sport of horse racing.
 While racing, jockeys needed to keep a tight hold or grip on their
reins in order to encourage the horse to run.The phrase was
used to denote a situation where anyone who was far ahead
could slack off, loosen his reins and comfortably achieve glory.
 What extensively used phrase is this?

34.  It is the term used for finely divided, open material that will glow
under a shower of sparks. It is thus the combustible material that
is used to start a fire. Gathering and storing it in a dry place has
been proven to be vital in many survival situations.
 What term, that shares its name with a technological sensation?

36.  The process behind the manufacture of an item by ______ is
actually a defensive response to foreign objects.
 When some foreign body, such as sand, a parasite or some other
organic material, manages to make its way inside, it comes in
contact with its mantle, a layer that protects the _____’s internal
organs. In response, the mantle begins to deposit a substance
called nacre (with Calcium Carbonate as a major constituent) onto
the foreign body. Layers of nacre hold the entire structure tightly,
finally transforming into the shape that we see.
 What is being described above?

38.  In the mid-1950’s, she was a ticketing agent for British Overseas
Airways Corporation who was struggling to balance between her
work and passion. In 1956, she found an agent in Michael Brown,
who met her through an upcoming celebrity, and on knowing her
passion gave her an year’s pay in order to pursue her passion for a
year;The result of this gesture paying off in 1960.
 Which cold-blooded celebrity introduced Brown to the person
above?
 What exactly is this the backstory of?

41.  A slight dig into something will have you find that the public is
also open to suggest names for them, for which it should meet
certain fundamental criteria.
 The name should be short and readily understood when
broadcast. In addition, it must not be culturally sensitive and
not convey some unintended and potentially inflammatory
meaning. Such a name is retired after use and is not meant to
be used repeatedly owing to what it gets associated with.
 What can the common man thus suggest names for, otherwise
picked from a pre-defined list made in 2004?

43.  Speaking to CineSecrets a long time ago, Nick Maley summarised
about how a certain personality had inspired the look of one of his
team’s famous creations – his picture happened to be on the wall
behind the designs, and the wrinkles around his eyes somehow got
worked into the final design. Over the days, ____ changed from a
lively, tall, skinny character to how we best know him today.
 The final step in that transformation was that ____ should have no jaw
fitted.That allowed more freedom for expression but it also meant
that the skin hung loosely below the cheeks and that gave the creation
in question an older, rather chinless look.
 What creation? Whose looks are said to have partly inspired it?

45.  This term first came into use in the United States in the early
1960s in order to manage something. For the same, the
country was divided into many zones and for each of them
proposed improvement plans (and did something as a part of
it), - the whole idea being given a name to give a sense of
improved speed and efficiency of this government entity.
 The usage of this term has also percolated in India, though it
has a different official name here.
 What term (in the US context) is this?

47.  The first in a set of six was installed on 1 Nov 1987 in New Delhi on the
70th anniversary of a revolt that occurred in another part of the world a
few days before. Every year, on 22 April, this specimen witnesses a
certain group of people gather around it in order to pay their respects.
 The others can be found in Kolkata,Vijaywada, (another one in) New
Delhi, and two other locations – except the final two ceased to exist
following a political event earlier this year.
 What exactly am I talking about?

49.  This is a memorial stone jointly
laid by Denmark and Germany
that commemorates something
that happened during the Battle
of Dybbol in 1864.
 What exactly happened for the
first time during this battle, that
has received worldwide
recognition and appreciation
ever since?

51.  These devices are used to manipulate nanometer and
micron-sized dielectric particles by exerting extremely small
forces via a highly focused laser beam.
 Due to their sensitive nature, they are used to manipulate
and study single molecules by interacting with a bead that
has been attached to that molecule – for example the
interaction between DNA and proteins and enzymes.
 What devices am I talking about?Who came up with one of
its earliest prototypes in 1970, while working in Bell Labs?
 Image follows.

55.  International orange is a color used in the aerospace industry to set
objects apart from their surroundings.Two other variations of it
exist – one of which is used generally by military contractors.
 The other variation is trademarked in the context of one globally
renowned entity, where this variation blended better with the
natural setting, as opposed to a black and yellow striped
alternative that was proposed to ensure its better visibility to ships.
 Which entity, whose name is actually a misnomer? Image follows.

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58.  While some believe that the presence of this motif in a
popular artwork had to do with incorporating the ideas
behind the theory of relativity, the creator himself rejected it,
saying that he was inspired to incorporate it on noticing what
happened to a piece of Camembert cheese when kept in the
sun for sometime – they were the tender, extravagant and
solitary paranoiac-criticalCamembert of time and space – to
quote the man himself.
 What am I talking about?

60.  Tony Swatton is a self-trained blacksmith from England who runs a
web-series called Man At Arms where he shows the backstory of
props and artefacts that have graced the world of popular culture
over the years.
 In S1E2 of Man At Arms, he shows the making of something from
the previous century, that involves him using a grinder, a plasma
cutter and a blast furnace where the metal heats to over 1500
degrees in order to achieve the intended performance.
 Which sartorial item does he make in that episode? Images follow.

64.  Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UneNt1LWc

66.  Video of the song Daanah pe Daanah follows. In an interview to
newspapers, the male singer Akhtar Zahri cites that the original
song involved a father introducing his sons to a particular region.
 Which region, whose name, as per a theory, comes from the
Sanskrit words for strength and high?
 Zahri also says that the melodies from this region are different
from those in its neighboring ones, where they are derived from
the four-beat gait of a horse.
 What are the melodies from this region derived from, hence
making them a beat of six?

67.  Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3F7kcLrGvA