The document contains a quiz with pun-filled questions about various topics in history, science, and pop culture. Some questions test knowledge of famous figures like Mozart and Da Vinci, while others involve connecting clues to identify concepts like types of alcohol or famous board games. The quiz utilizes wordplay, references to movies and TV shows, and requires lateral thinking to arrive at the correct answers.

1. QC meet questions
by
Gokul S Nair

2. All typos and puns in the quiz are intentional.

3. 1. No points for X on the bounce..
An X is a mass found trapped in the Gastrointestinal system . In medeival times X
s were beleived to be an antidote to any poison. As a prince once famously said,
“Just chuck a X down their throats..” .
To treat gastric phytoXs in humans, Y has often been proposed as a treatment. Y
was initially invented in 1886 as a substitute to morphine. Y will dissolve
completley dissolve a X in about half the cases.
If you cannot find Y, Z will do instead , but be careful that it doesn’t cause
dyspepsia.

5. X = Bezoar
Y = Coca Cola
Z = Pepsi

6. 2.
Difficile lectu is a canon composed as a practical joke by X.
The song goes “Difficile lectu mihi mars et jonicu difficile”
The intent being that when the singer , Johaan Nepomuk Peyerl would sing the song, due to his Bavarian
accent, “Lectu mihi mars” would resemble the Bavarian “leck du mi im Arsch”, which basically translates to
“Lick my Ass”.
And to add salt to the wound, X had the song :”O du eselhafter Peirel” (O you asinine Peyerl) scheduled
immediatley afterwards.
Who was this epic rapper who could give Skrillex a run for his money ?

8. Ans : Mozart
Mozart and Skrillex face off
in “Epic Rap Battles of History”

9. 3.
Connect the two lists.. there is a one to one correspondence
Plato Leonardo Da Vinci
Aristotle Giuliano da Sangallo
Heraclitus Michelangelo
Euclid or Archimedes Bramante
Apelles Raphael
Hint to be given if needed

11. Ans : Raphael’s “The School of Athens”

12. 4. ID this infamous card

14. Ans : Miss Universe 2015

15. 5.
X : the game was a board game released in 1989 . In X : the Game players
compete in two parts. In the first part, players circle the board, feeding money into
the eight available properties, then bidding on those properties (not being able to
see how much the property is worth) and collecting X cards. When all the
properties are gone, the negotiation phase begins. Players use their X cards to
buy and sell properties, some cards award huge payoffs for specific sets. After
each player has passed their turn, the property values are revealed, and the
player with the most money wins (usually in the $400-$600M range).
X’s tagline goes : “It’s not whether you win or lose , but whether you win”
The game was a huuge flop.

17. Ans :

18. 6. What was the purpose of these contraptions in
the 1890s ?

20. To let babies who were inside apartments get “fresh”
air.

21. 7. Not MA1010
“If you make a machine that can swap minds of two people, but cannot swap them
back for the same two people ,and if the minds of N people have been swapped
amongst each other , it is possible to return all people to their original minds using
just two extra people who had not been part of this process before”
This is the first mathematical theorem that was invented for the purpose of a TV
Show. Which TV Show ?

23. Ans : Futurama

24. 8.
In the U.S. , liquor must be made from “natural” sources such as grains , grapes or
fruit. That makes alcohol made from petroleum illegal.
There is literally only one way to differentiate between the two and that led a
famous physicist to quip : “Alcohol is illegal in the U.S. unless it is __________” .
This is something not many Americans would be comfortable with.
FITB. How do you differentiate between the two types of alcohol ?

26. Ans : Radioactive, Radiocarbon dating

27. 9. A song by Don Mclean . F.I.T.B in both this slide
and the next.
He describes the song as “Basically in ________ ___ things are heading in the wrong direction. Life is
becoming less idyllic. i don’t know if you consider that right or wrong, but it is a morality song in a sense.”
A paradoy of this song won an award from the National Museum of Mathematics on 14th March 2015.
The name of the song is also the same as that of a very famous film series.

28. A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew that if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance ,and maybe they’d be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
___ ___ ___ _____ ____

30. Ans : American Pie ; The Day the Music Died
The song is a tribute to Buddy Holly.
The name of the song is American Pie.
The math parody being American Pi.

31. 10.
Dutch sailors brought X and other alien species to the island of Mauritius . X
plundered the dods’ nests and ate their eggs. This, along with other factors, led
the dodo to go, well, the way of the dodo.
A popular fan theory goes that this is the reason the birds hate the X so much in Y.
This could also be supported by the fact that Dodos were flightless birds .

33. X - Pigs ; Y- Angry Birds

34. 11. Dam Dam Dam
The Mohnee and Edersee dams were a source of hydroelectric power for the
Germans and thus very well guarded during World War II. They were thus
protected against attack by anti-aircraft guns and safety nets in the river for
submarines.
The British however knew everyday Physics better than Germany. They created
specially designed drum shaped bombs which would spin backwards at 200 rpm
before dropping.
What common act which all children love doing did the British deploy to ensure
these bombs hit their targets ?

36. Ans : Skipping stone bombs

37. 12. An opening question for the close
Till the 1988 Seoul olympics, doves of peace would be released at the opening
ceremony of the Olympics.
This tradition has, however, been stopped.
What happened at the 1988 Olympics to cause this ?

38. Ans :
The doves went and rested on the olympic torch. Thus , when the flames were lit,
the Olympic stadium became , temporarily, the world’s largest barbecue party.