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1. Qriocity 13 – Beta
Prelims
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3. Rules
• 20 questions
• Multiples of 5 are star questions that would
help resolve ties.
• If there still exists a tie, Inky pinky ponky shall
be used
• Google shall not be your team mate.

4. • Image shown Is a scene from the movie X, directed by Y. It
is the only film with candlelight scenes in which the candles
are the only actual light source on the set. Y along with his
cameraman innovated to achieve this . They filmed with a
specially adapted high-speed f/0.7 Zeiss camera lens
originally developed for NASA to be used in satellite
photography. The lenses allowed many scenes to be lit only
with candlelight, creating two-dimensional, diffused-light
images reminiscent of 18th-century paintings. ID X and Y
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5. Answer
• X-Barry Lyndon
• Y-Stanley Kubrick

6. FITB
• ______ was founded in the 17th century but officially became a
company in the 19th century under Alan 'Y'. Today, ______
continues to achieve excellence across a wide range of industry
sectors and markets, employing some 170,000 people in 170
countries. The current CEO and Chairman, 'XY', is a keen modernizer
and continues to grow the business in the financial sector and in
high-end technologies. 'XY' maintains a 51% majority
ownership/control of the common stock, as the controlling
stockholder of _________. This allows for the prevention of any
hostile takeover attempts of the company by a corporate raider or
nefarious individual, attempting to seek control of the vast 'y'
empire. Another 30% of the common stock is in friendly hands of
allies of xy. Therefore, any hostile takeover attempts of
_______would be unlikely.
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7. Answer

8. ID X
X was a famous physicist and Chemist, born in
Spring Grove ( now Brightwater ) in New
Zealand. Quite a accomplished scientist of his
time, he received many awards like the
Rumford medal, Elliott Cresson Medal and the
Matteucci Medal. He once famously remarked
" All science is either physics or Stamp
collecting". Ironically, he recieved the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry while the Nobel Prixe for
Physics eluded him.
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9. Answer:
 Ernest Rutherford

10. ID the person
• This American Business
Magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film
maker and philanthropist displayed signs of mental
illness, as early as the 1930s, primarily obsessive-
compulsive disorder. Close friends reported that he
was obsessed with the size of peas, one of his favorite
foods, and used a special fork to sort them by size. one
of his obsessions included hygiene, he always insisted
on using tissues to pick up objects, so that he could
insulate himself from germs. He would also notice
dust, stains or other imperfections on people's clothes
and demand that they take care of them.
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11. Answer
• Howard hughes

12. ID X
• Expedition 31 was the thirty-first long-duration mission to the
International Space Station (ISS). It began with the Soyuz
TMA-18 undocking in May 2012 with the three new
crewmembers (Dimitri Rezinov, Mike Massimino and X). The
only known goal of Expedition 31 was for X to install his
team's deep field space telescope on the ISS. The three
astronauts were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan on May 10, 2012. The return was delayed by ten
days on October 18, 2012.
ID X
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13. Answer
• Wolowitz from TBBT

14. • “Chennai City Gangsta” is a song featuring in
the upcoming Tamil film “Vanakkam
chennai”, composed by Anirudh and lyrics by
hip hop thamizha. 3 of its 4 credited singers
are anirudh, hip hop tamizha and hard kaur.
“Who” is the fourth singer?
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15. Answer
• Country Chicken!! xD :D

16. • _______is an annual international photographic
competition during September, organized worldwide by the
Wikipedia community members. Participants take pictures
of historical monuments and heritage sites in their
region, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. The aim
of event is to highlight the heritage sites of the participating
countries.
• The first ________ competition was held in 2010 in the
Netherlands. The next year it spread to other countries in
Europe and according to the Guinness Book of Records, the
2011 edition of the _______ broke the world record for the
largest photography competition. In 2012, the competition
was extended beyond Europe, with a total of 35
participating countries.
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17. Answer

18. FITB
• A _____ is a type of cartridge for a firearm that
contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot. When
fired, the ______ makes a flash and an explosive
sound (report) and cycles the firearm's action.
________ are often used for simulation (such as
in historical reenactments, theatre and movie
special effects), training. _______ cartridges
differ from dummy cartridges, which are used for
training or function testing firearms; these
contain no primer or gunpowder, and are inert.
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19. • Blanks

20. Who about whom ?
• "I was one of the jury members at the
National awards committee that chose X as
the best actor for______. His performance
in _______ moved me. I was looking for a real
person to carry this character. I needed to
believe the character, his emotions and his
journey. Who else but X could give me what I
wanted?"
9

21. Answer
• Bharat Bala about Dhanush.

22. FITB
________is a genus of about 240 species of herbs
and shrubs in the sunflower family , native to
subtropical and tropical regions from western North
America to South America. The species ______
rebaudiana, commonly known as sweet
leaf, sugarleaf, or simply ______, is widely grown
for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener and sugar
substitute, ________'s taste has a slower onset and
longer duration than that of sugar, and some of its
extracts may have a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste
at high concentrations.
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23. • Stevia

24. ID X
• X was a series of economic measures taken by
the United States President in 1971 including
unilaterally canceling the direct convertibility
of the United States dollar to gold. It helped
end the existing Bretton Woods system of
international financial exchange, ushering in
the era of freely floating currencies that
remains to the present day.
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25. Answer
• Nixon Shock

26. ID X
• The verbatim description offered by its inventor Maya
Hansen, goes: "...X is a super-soldier solution. It's a bio-electronics
package, fitted into a few billion graphite nanotubes and suspended
in a carrier fluid. A magic bullet, like the original super-soldier
serum—all fitted into a single injection. It hacks the body's repair
center—the part of the brain that keeps a complete blue print of
the human body. When we're injured, we refer to that area of the
brain to heal properly. X rewrites the repair center. In the first
stage, the body essentially becomes an open wound. The normal
human blueprint is being replaced with the X blueprint. The brain is
being told the body is wrong. X protocol dictates that the subject be
placed on life support and intravenously fed nutrients at this point.
For the next two or three days, the patient remains unconscious
within a cocoon of scabs. X uses the nutrients and body mass to
grow new organs. Better ones..."
12

27. Answer
• Extremis

28. What are these?
• Spot
• Weave
• Kites
• Plush
• Frame
• Streak
• Blush
• Carve
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29. Answer
• Screens at Escape Cinemas

30. AV question
• What is this Ad for?
14

31. Answer
• Tamil editions of The Hindu.

32. ID X
• X is a high person in the Gelug or "yellow Hat"
school of Tibetan Buddhism, founded by
Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). The name X is a
combination of the Sino-Mongolian word for
"vast sea" a Tibetan word meaning
"guru, teacher, mentor"
15

33. Answer
• Dalai Lama

34. AV question
• The opening tune of the following audio clip is
“inspired” from what?
16

35. Answer
• Super Mario BGM.

36. FITB
• ______ in London, is owned by the X family
and run by an older family member Garrick
X, known only as Mr. X. He has been serving as
the family shopkeeper at least since the
1930s, and remembers every Y he's ever sold.
The X family are widely acknowledged to be
the best Y makers in Britain, and rank among
the finest Y makers in Europe. Y making has
been the family business since 382 B.C.
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37. Answer
• Ollivander’s Wandshop

38. What mask?
• X's mask, which he considers his true "face", is
a part of fabric made from a material derived
from the technologies of Y, and it is blank
except from the front, where two viscous
liquids, one black and one white, are between
two layers of latex. The liquids continually
shift in response to heat and
pressure, forming symmetrical patterns like
those of a psychological test while never
mixing, thus never producing a gray color.
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39. Answer
• Rorshach Mask

40. • The movie is well known for "X Parodies". One scene in
the film, in which Y launches into a furious tirade upon
finally realizing that the war is truly lost, has become a
staple of internet videos. In these videos, the original
audio of Ganz's voice is retained, but new subtitles are
added so that he now seems to be reacting instead to
some setback in present-day politics, sports, popular
culture, or everyday life. The parodies, as well as the
film itself, have also gained a cult following, spawning a
community of YouTube users who call themselves
"Untergangers",devoted to the practice of making X-
related videos. ID The Film X
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41. Answer
• Downfall

42. • Humans, along with their closest relatives chimps and
gorillas, are pretty much the only animals that have
fingerprints. The only other is the X, a marsupial that is
separated from Humans by 70 million years worth of
evolution. A trained expert would have trouble telling
human and X fingerprints apart, even using a microscope.
One can see a comparison of X and human fingerprints on
the left. While the two look quite similar in the larger
view, it's under the even higher resolution of an electron
microscope that they really look pretty much
indistinguishable.
• ID the animal X
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43. Answer
Koala Bears
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