Quiz Meet Quiz

QuizMeet Quiz
17th April, 2016

Elims - Rules
• 18 questions, written round.
• Each part gets 1 point.
• Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.
• Teams of 3 or less.
• Winner takes all.
• Everything else is at the discretion of the Quizmaster.

1. X?
X comes from the Middle English word ____.
The original sense was ‘a ball of thread’; hence one used to guide a
person out of a labyrinth.
Eventually, X started to mean anything that hints at a solution.

2. What is the objective of this game?
From a Wired article,
S.M.T.H is a smartphone game available on Android, but not the
App Store. Apple determined the game was “encouraging
behavior that could result in result in damage to the user’s
device,” and thus did cast S.M.T.H out of its walled garden
paradise. App creator Petr Svarovsky told WIRED that he was
disappointed by the ban. The 50-year-old from Prague said he
had hoped to have people shatter as many iPhones as possible.

Send Me To Heaven
The goal is to throw your phone as high as you can,
then catch it.

3.
Although changes of _______ state occur on the sub-microscopic level,
in popular discourse, the term X refers to a large increase.
X is a two word term

• 4. "...there are apparently eight possible ways to insert it
into the machine, only one of which is correct. What
happens if I do it wrong? I try inserting the ____ sideways.
Ah, the designer thought of that. A little study shows that
the case really isn't square: it's rectangular, so you can't
insert a longer side. I try backward. The ________ goes in
only part of the way. Small protrusions, indentations, and
cutouts, prevent the ________ from being inserted
backward or upside down: of the eight ways one might try
to insert the ________, only one is correct, and only that
one will fit. An excellent design."
• What is being referred to?

• 5. Towards the beginning of the 1996 season, according to
football agent Barry Silkman, X was offered to Newcastle
United for £1.2 million, but the club turned down the offer
after watching him, claiming that he was not good enough for
the English First Division. In 1996, X received the award for
Ligue 1 Player of the Year.
• More importantly, in 1995, Blackburn Rovers manager Kenny
Dalglish had expressed interest in signing X and Christophe
Dugarry, to which team owner and chairman Jack Walker
reportedly replied, "Why do you want to sign X when we have
Tim Sherwood?”
ID X

6. Fill in the blanks
The ______ procedure word was originated in 1923, by Frederick Stanley Mockford
who was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be
understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency.
He proposed the word ______ from the French "m'aider", a shortened version
of "venez m'aider" meaning "come and help me"

7. What is blue ice?
There were at least 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts in the
United States between 1979 and 2003. These incidents typically
happen under airport landing paths as the mass warms sufficiently to
detach from the plane during its descent. A rare incident of falling blue
ice causing damage to the roof of a home was reported on October 20,
2006 in Chino, California.
The name comes from the blue color of the disinfectant.

Biowaste mixture of human waste and liquid disinfectant that freezes
at high altitude

8. X?
______ announced X on April 1, 2004 with an unprecedented and
unbelievable free 1GB, compared to ________’s 2MB. The
announcement of X was written in an unserious language normally
seen in April's fools jokes, tricking many into thinking that it was an
April's fool joke. In reality, it was a double fake, in that the announced
product was serious.

9. Reimagination of which epic?
From superstar creator Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman & Robin, The Invisibles), comes
18 Days, the story of three generations of super-warriors, meeting for the final battle of their age.
“The War begins with the clash of super-titans, armed with incredible weaponry. The characters are
huge, cool, easy to identify with, to cheer or hiss at. The stakes are high, as is the body count. The
vistas are spectacular. We think we know who the bad guys are… and who the good guys are… In 18
Days, however, a character’s strength often proves to be his downfall or weakness— This is not a
Lord of the Rings or a Star Wars where the good guys win because they are right. The ‘good guys’ in
18 Days are forced to cheat and lie and break rules to win.” -Grant Morrison
Visuals on the next slide

10. Fill in the blank
The term _________ comes from the X‘s reputation as the barbarian
people who sacked and looted Rome in AD 455. The X were probably
not any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but
writers who idealized Rome often blamed them for its destruction.
However, the X did intentionally damage statues, which may be why
their name is associated with the _________ of art.

12.
James Burrows is an American TV director, who helped make shows like
"Cheers" and "The Big Bang Theory". A group of actors from a TV
sitcom will be reunited for a special episode in Feb 2016. Burrows had
famously directed its pilot in 1994.
Which sitcom?

13. Which song?
Over the years, a number of people have put forth the opinion
that the song's opening guitar arpeggios bear a close
resemblance to the 1968 instrumental "Taurus" by Spirit.
In May 2014, Spirit's bassist Mark Andes, and a trust acting on
behalf of Wolfe (who died in 1997), filed a copyright
infringement suit against ___ ________ and injunction against
the "release of the album containing the song" in an attempt to
obtain a writing credit for the deceased guitarist.
On 11 April 2016, a Los Angeles court ruled that there were
enough similarities between the song and the instrumental for a
jury to decide the claim and a trial was scheduled for 10 May.

14.
X is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. The
name roughly translates to ‘all demons’ or ‘all demon place’ which is
why it has its present meaning, “wild and noisy disorder or confusion;
uproar.”
X?

16. Connect
Punjab
North-West Frontier Province (Afghania)
Kashmir
Sind
Baluchistan

Pakistan
The word was coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in the
pamphlet “Now or Never” issued on January 28, 1933 as an acronym of
the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India — Punjab,
Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan. An i was later added to the
English rendition of the name to ease pronunciation.

• 17. In colloquial English, X is generally synonymous with Y,
but many contemporary scholars observe a distinction
between the two: Y refers to a complex branching
(multicursal) ______ with choices of path and direction;
while a X is unicursal and has only a single, non-branching
path, which leads to the center.
• Pliny's Natural History mentions four ancient Xs: the
Cretan X, an Egyptian X, a Lemnian X, and an Italian X.
X and Y?

• X – Labyrinth
• Y – Maze

18.
• From a New York Times article,
• HONG KONG — Chinese Communist Party leaders are afraid that the Dalai Lama
will not ____ __ _________. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly
warned that he must ____X______, and on their terms.
• Tensions over what will happen when the 14th Dalai Lama, who is 79, dies, and
particularly over who decides who will succeed him as the most prominent leader
in Tibetan Buddhism, have ignited at the annual gathering of China’s legislators in
Beijing.
• Party functionaries were incensed by the exiled Dalai Lama’s recent speculation
that he might end his spiritual lineage and not ____X______. That would
confound the Chinese government’s plans to engineer a succession that would
produce a putative 15th Dalai Lama who accepts China’s presence and policies in
Tibet. Their anger welled up on Wednesday, as it had a day earlier.
45

Round 1
MIB
Clockwise[12 Questions]
Pounce: +10/-10
Bounce: +10/No Negatives

1) Id X and Y.
Once upon a time, before there was Brangelina or Kimye,
there was X and Y. They were a couple possibly more iconic
than any other Hollywood romance since 1961 – the year the
they first met on a TV commercial set.
Their love was so perfect and envied by many until X and Y’s
‘parents’ broke the news that the couple has decided to call it
quits after 43 strong years on Valentine’s Day in 2004.
Apparently, they felt that they needed some quality time
apart, according to their ‘business manager’, Russell Arons. He
added, “Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance
has come to an end,” but the two ‘will remain friends’.

Answer: This is binary for I’m feeling lucky.

3) Id X & Y.
One of the most prevalent assumptions—especially in movies like
The Omen and in the death metal world— X is one of Satan’s
symbols. This assumption is based in the idea that it’s a ________
of Christ’s ultimate sacrifice, but that’s only half true . As the story
goes—and it’s a story that can be traced back to some of the
earliest Christian writings of men like St. Clement of Rome, St.
Ignatius of Antioch, and Eusebius of Caesarea—St. Peter was
__________ in Rome by the order of Emperor Nero, who was
making a stand against the then-burgeoning religion of
Christianity. Not wanting to dishonour the supreme sacrifice that
Christ had already made, Peter requested X. The X then became a
symbol of Y, worn by those who, in the same spirit of Peter, wish to
pay respect to the sacrifice made by Christ.

Answer : The Upside-Down Cross Is A
Respectful Symbol/ Symbol of humility.

4) Id X & Y.
X was one of the finalists of the beauty pageant Miss India
1998, along with Gauri Pradhan Tejwani. In 1998, X appeared
in a song "Boliyan" of the album "Saawan Mein Lag Gayi Aag"
with Mika Singh. In 2000, X made her début with TV series
Aatish and Hum Hain Kal Aaj Aur Kal, both aired on Star Plus.
In mid-2000, X won the lead role of in one of Y’s very famous
productions. X holds the record of winning five consecutive
Indian Television Academy Awards for Best Actress (Popular),
four Indian Telly Awards. X had a fallout with the producer Y
and she left the show in June 2007 and was replaced by
Gautami Kapoor. She made her comeback in May 2008 in a
special episode.

Answer:
X - Smriti Irani
Y - Ekta Kapoor

5) What is being described over here?
…the six colours [which includes the white canvas
background] thus combined reproduce the
colours of all the nations, with no exception. The
blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of
Greece, the tri- colours of France, England and
America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, the
yellow and red of Spain next to the novelties of
Brazil or Australia, with old Japan and new China.
Here is truly an international symbol.

6) Give me X. (pic on the next slide)
Ford has always been a top runner in the field of automobiles as
they are today as well. They started the era of affordable cars so
that majority of the people could have the luxury of owning one.
But sometimes the best make mistakes as well. In the year 1971,
Ford introduced the compact super seller, X. The car sold
successfully in the United States, but the company noticed a rather
low sale rate in Brazil. They could not figure out as to why this was
happening until they realized that X, in Brazil, meant “small male
genitals”. Now, who would want to buy that right? What confused
people even more was that, Ford, an automobile company was
selling “X”.

7) Give me X./ Identify the original ritual.
• During the celebration of the religious holiday Thaipusam, Hindus
declare their devotion to Lord Murugan by X. It is mainly observed in
countries where there is a significant presence of Tamil community
such as India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, Thailand and
Myanmar.
• In Tamil Nadu, they celebrate their devotion to the birth of Lord
Murugan and his killing of Soorapadman, a vengeful spirit, with a
spear . Over time, the rituals have become more dramatic, colourful,
and bloody. Some devotees even pull large wagons with ropes
attached to their bloody backs.

Answer: Piercing various parts of the body

8) Which mission are we talking about?
Who are pursuing this mission?
The mission relies on building the lightest spacecraft ever flown -
a tiny ‘nanocraft’ weighing less than a gram which would be
fitted with a small sail.
Back on Earth a huge array of laser beams will be fired up into
space, coming together to form a 100 gigawatt beam of light
which will blast the tiny craft off into the solar system,
accelerating to speeds of 100 million miles per hour.
Although Voyager One has ventured outside the Solar System,
and is currently in interstellar space, no spaceship has ever
reached another star system.

Answer:
Breakthrough Starshot by Stephen
Hawkings and Yuri Milner.

9) Which village?
It is a small village south of Birmingham , England.
It was developed as a model village by George
_______ to give the company’s workers improved
working conditions.
While other suburban Birmingham railway
stations feature the normal yellow and green
corporate livery, its railway station is instead
painted ________ purple.

10) Id X.
X is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to the
Guangdong and Fujian provinces of China, and now
cultivated in many parts of the world. The fresh fruit has a
"delicate, whitish pulp" with a floral smell and a fragrant,
sweet flavor. Since this perfume-like flavor is lost in the
process of canning, the fruit is usually eaten fresh. China is
the main producer of X, followed by India (Bihar accounts
71% of annual production in India), with production
occurring among other countries in Southeast Asia, the
Indian subcontinent and South Africa.

11) What/Who is being talked about here?
As may be seen on picture here, In Rome the doctors do appear,
When to their patients they are called,
In places by the ______ appalled,
Their hats and cloaks, of fashion new,
Are made of oilcloth, dark of hue,
Their caps with glasses are designed,
Their bills with antidotes all lined,
That foulsome air may do no harm,
Nor cause the ______ man alarm,
The staff in hand must serve to show
Their noble trade where'er they go.

Answer : This popular 17th-century poem
describes the plague doctor's costume.

12) FITB.
___ ______ were conceived to be more like "tricked
out" cars as compared to Matchbox cars which were
more city or "real life" cars. There were sixteen castings
released in 1968, eleven of them designed by Harry
Bentley Bradley. The first one produced was a dark blue
Custom Camaro. Bradley was from the car industry and
had designed the body for the (full-sized) Dodge Deora
concept car and the Custom Fleetside, (based on his
own customized 1968 Chevrolet C-10 Fleetside).

Written Round
MINIMALIST POSTERS
Superheroes or Villains Who has
Featured in at least a Movie or a
T.V. series
Differential Scoring: 5*(number of teams
who got the answer wrong)

LIST-IT
Points will be mentioned before every list-it.
Every entry is for 5 points.
No negatives.
The answers will be considered serially.

1)Bonus +5 If you get everything.
Time: 90 seconds.

1)List out all the Indians(Indian citizens) who
have won a Nobel Prize.

Answers:
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. C.V. Raman
3. Mother Teresa
4. Amartya Sen
5. Kailash Satyarthi

2)Bonus +10 for getting everything.
Time: 90 seconds.

2)List all the football players who has won the top
goal-scorer and best player award at the same
World cup.

Answers:
1. Garrincha(1962)
2. Mario Kempes(1978)
3. Paolo Rossi(1982)
4. Salvatore Schillaci(1990)

3) Bonus +10 if you get everything right.
Time: 90 seconds.

List out all the presidents of U.S.A. who got
shot.

Answers:
1. Abraham Lincoln(April 14, 1865)
2. James A. Garfield(September 19, 1881)
3. William McKinley(September 6, 1901)
4. John F. Kennedy(November 22, 1963)

Round 3
MIB
ENT
Anti-Clockwise[16 Questions]
Bounce: +10/no negative
Pounce: +10/-10

1) Id X.
In 1966, London-based session guitarist X joined the blues-
influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul
Samwell-Smith. ____ soon switched from bass to lead guitar,
creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck. Following
Beck's departure in October 1966, the Yardbirds, tired from
constant touring and recording, began to wind down. ____
wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars,
and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and
bass, respectively. Vocalists Steve Winwood and Steve
Marriott were also considered for the project.The group never
formed, although ____, Beck, and Moon did record a song
together in 1966, "Beck's Bolero", in a session that also
included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

2) Id X and Y.
X is the forerunner to Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin.
Y premiered in 1960, modeled after The
Honeymooners, the first made-for-TV primetime
cartoon. ____ was the first portly animated husband
who had a hot wife, not enough brains for his schemes
and a bad temper. Yet, he loved his family. The show,
produced by Hanna-Barbera, fancifully depicted the
lives of a working-class Stone Age man, his family, and
his next-door neighbor and best friend.

Answers:
X- Fred Flinstone
Y- The Flinstones

3) Id the book.
"grip[s] the reader from Page One" and is set in a
"magnificent" fantasy world that is "mystical, but still
believable." - Lauren K. Nathan of the Associated Press
the plot is "complex and fascinating" and the book is "rich and
colorful" with "all the elements of a great fantasy novel". -
Steve Perry told readers of The Oregonian
"many fans of sword-and-sorcery will enjoy the epic scope of
this book" but felt that the book "suffers from one-
dimensional characters and less than memorable imagery.“ -
John H. Riskind of The Washington Post

4) Id X.
X was born in New York City to a family of Belorussian Jews. Through
his father Moshe, a former rabbinical student and anti-Zionist, he was
descended from a distinguished rabbinical dynasty. In late 1919 Moshe
and his wife Marutha (née Sher) became American citizens, and
changed the family name from Mnuchin to _______. X’s sisters were
concert pianist and human rights activist Hephizibah, and pianist,
painter and poet Yaltah. He performed for Allied soldiers during World
War II and, accompanied on the piano by English composer Benjamin
Britten, for the surviving inmates of the Bergen-Belsen concentration
camp after its liberation in April 1945. He returned to Germany in 1947
to play concerto concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic under Wilhelm
Furtwängler as an act of reconciliation.

5)Id X.
The X manga are written by Shigenobu Matsumoto, and published by
Shogakukan in the CoroCoro Comic magazine. The manga series has
not been licensed for the U.S., although there has been an North
American created comic book by Dreamwave Productions. There are no
plans for the Japanese manga to be acquired by any U.S. publishing
company. The first TV series originally premiered in Japan on October
21, 2002 and ran until April 4, 2003. The story centers around the ____
____ X, which revolves around five civilizations fire, water, darkness,
light & nature.
The English-language version of the series was produced by Hasbro
Studios and Plastic Cow Productions and made a truncated three-
episode preview premiere on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on
February 27, 2004.

Answers:
These were the films which won the best film in foreign
category when Indian films were nominated.
Nights of Cabiria(Italy) won instead of Mother India (1957)
Pelle the Conqueror(Denmark) won instead of Salaam
Bombay(1988)
No Man's Land(Bosnia-Herzegovina) won instead of
Lagaan(2001)

7) This is Bill Nighy. How do we better know
as?(he has acted in one of the most famous
series of movies)

Answer: Davy Jones of the Pirates of the
Caribbean

8) Id the show.
In 1968, parent-run organizations, particularly Action for Children's
Television (ACT), began to protest about what they perceived as
excessive violence in Saturday morning cartoons. Most of these
shows were Hanna-Barbera action cartoons like Space Ghost, The
Herculoids and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, and virtually all of
them were cancelled by 1969 because of pressure from the parent
groups. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured four
teenagers—____ Jones, ______ Blake, _____ Dinkley, and
________ Rogers and ______ ___ who solve mysteries, involving
supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and
missteps.

Answer:
Scooby Doo
The other characters were:
Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers

9) FITB.(pic on the next slide)
Chand Baori is one of the deepest and largest step
wells in India, located in Rajasthan. It was constructed
to store water for a long time, since there is scarcity
of water in Rajasthan. There are 16 storeys that
extend to 100 ft, and 3500 steps that are beautifully
patterned to lead down to the cool water. The Baori
and its stairs have been featured in a Hollywood film
___ ____ ______ _____.

Answer : The prison in The Dark Knight Rises.

10) Id X.
X was born in Allahabad in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
His father was a wrestler. His mother died when he was 6. He
had to learn music without his father's knowledge, for his
father wanted him to become a wrestler. He did go to the
Akhada and train with his father for some time, although he
also started learning music and practising at his friend's
house.
“I was not any good at wrestling. I went there only to please
my father. But maybe because of the strength and stamina I
built up then, I'm able to play the _______ even to this day.”
-- X

11) Give me the series.(no points for getting
X)
With Majin Boo defeated, peace returns to Earth. Son ____ is
a radish farmer. His family and friends live peaceful lives.
However, a new threat appears in the form of Beerus who is
the God of Destruction . Considered the most terrifying being
in the entire universe, Beerus is eager to fight the legendary
warrior seen in a prophecy known as the Super Saiyan God.
The series retells the events from the last two X films, Battle of
Gods and Resurrection 'F', before proceeding to an original
story about the exploration of alternate universes.

Answer:
Dragon Ball Super
X: Dragon Ball Z

12) Id X, Y & Z.
X is a novel written by Y, first published in 1936. The story
is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia,
during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It
depicts the struggles of young Z, the spoiled daughter of a
well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at
her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds
herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea. X was made
into a movie and the casting was widely praised. At the
12th Academy Awards, it received ten Academy Awards
(eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen
nominations.

Answer:
X: Gone with the Wind
Y: Margaret Mitchell
Z: Scarlett O’Hara

13) Id X. Recently X was in the news for what?
X moved to Mumbai after his graduation. He termed it as "a
natural immigration as a graduate of the institute." He pointed out
that "Ninety-five per cent of the technicians of the Mumbai film
industry are alumni of FTII, Pune.”X made his debut in sound
design with the 1997 film Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus
One, directed by Rajat Kapoor. He got his big break with the
critically acclaimed 2005 film Black, directed by Sanjay Leela
Bhansali. He subsequently engineered sound for major
productions like Musafir (2004), Zinda (2006), Traffic Signal (2007),
Gandhi, My Father (2007), Saawariya (2007) and Dus Kahaniyaan
(2007).

Answer:
Resul Pookutty becomes first Asian to win Golden Reel Award.
He won the best sound for the documentary “India’s Daughter”.

14) Id X,P,Q,R.
X was inspired by the lead vocalists of The Solids’ idea to "write about
our friends and the stupid stuff we did in New York", where they
previously worked as writers for Late Show with David Letterman,
among others. The two drew from their friendship in creating the
characters. P is based loosely on Bays, and Q and R are based loosely
on Thomas and his wife. Thomas' wife Rebecca was initially reluctant to
have a character based on her, but agreed if they could get Alyson
Hannigan to play her. Hannigan was looking to do more comedy work,
and was available. Josh ______ and Jason _____, who were cast as P
and Q, respectively, were not well known, though _____ had been a
cast member on the short-lived Freaks and Geeks and a recurring guest
star on Judd Apatow follow-up Undeclared.

Answer:
X- How I Met Your Mother
P- Ted Mosby
Q- Marshall Eriksen
R- Lilly Aldrin

15) Id X.
X is Akshar's brainchild that began in February
2012 and exploded on the pop culture scene of
Cinema of India. Each film/T.V. show is portrayed
graphically in the limited space that he works on.
His posters have caught the eye of Facebook users
around the World since it became viral through
Social Networking Forums such as Facebook and
Twitter.

Answer:
Minimal Bollywood Posters

16) Why does he dial 62442?/
What is the significance of the number 62442?
In Harry Potter& the Order Of the Phoenix, when
Mr. Weasley escorts Harry to his hearing, they
arrive at the Ministry of Magic through the
visitor’s entrance, which is a broken phone booth.
Mr. Weasley dials 62442 on the broken phone and
then the booth slides underground.

Answer:
62442 when typed into T9 format, spells into
magic.

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