Run up to Antaragni General Quiz

Run-Up to Antaragni
General Quiz
By: Vinamra and Siddharth

Rules
1. 30 questions in total, all infinite bounce and pounce.
2. +20/-10 on pounce and +10/0 on bounce.
3. Let’s Begin.

Ques 1.
The original title of the story, as published in New World Writing, was X-18.
Acquiescing to his publisher’s qualms about confusion with the similarly themed
novel Mila 18, Y dragged his title through a sequence of changes: X-11 (which was
deemed too similar to the contemporary film Ocean’s 11), followed by X-17 (which
posed the same problem with Billy Wilder’s war movie Stalag 17), and then X-14
(which Heller’s publisher thought just didn’t sound funny enough). Finally, the writer
landed on X-Z.

Ques 2.
The Germans officially referred to the offensive as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein
("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), while the Allies designated it the Ardennes
Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the X" was coined by contemporary press
to describe the X in German front lines on wartime news maps.
Give me X.

Ques 3.
In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford University's
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their
counterparts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before Amazon, before
eBay, the seminal act of e-commerce was a Y. The students used the network to
quietly arrange the sale of an undetermined amount of X.

Ques 4.
An applicant has sought the X through the Right to Information Act (RTI). Vivek
Kumar, a senior official with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in New Delhi,
confirmed receiving an RTI application enquiring about the X. The X stay with the
Indian prime minister. The procedures are explained to the premier by the country's
national security advisor as and when he or she assumes office.

Ques 5.
_____, is an Indian technology demonstration and remote sensing CubeSat
satellite which was operated by the X. Built under the guidance of Dr. N. S. Vyas, it
is a nanosatellite which will be used to provide data for agriculture and disaster
monitoring. It is a 3-kilogram (6.6 lb) spacecraft, which measures 34 centimetres (13
in) in length by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in height and width. Its development
programme cost around 25 million rupees. _____ was launched on 12 October 2011
into low Earth orbit by a PSLV-CA C18.

Ques 6.
As Constantine Porphyrogennetos' warnings show, the ingredients and the
processes of manufacture and deployment of X were carefully guarded military
secrets. So strict was the secrecy that the composition of X was lost forever and
remains a source of speculation. It remains a matter of speculation and debate, with
various proposals including combinations of pine resin, naphtha, quicklime, calcium
phosphide, sulfur, or niter.

Ques 7.
Medieval printing presses did not contain the letter thorn so the letter y was
substituted owing to its similarity to some medieval scripts, especially later ones.
What did this lead to?

Ans- "Ye" is also sometimes used to represent an
Early Modern English form of the definite article "the",
such as in "Ye Olde Shoppe"

Ques 8.
For the past 20 years, Zhang Fuguan has hardly parted from his boat.
Everyday, at 7 am, the 68-year-old man goes aboard the boat and sweeps it clean.
At 6 pm, he locks the cabin doors, checks the moorings and is the last man off the
boat.
Once every two years he leads a group of four workers, including his son, to
dismantle the wooden boat and furniture aboard into some 500 pieces and then
paint them, piece by piece.
"The work has always been done in the summer because it's easy to dry the paint,"
he said.
Of course the boat he looks after is not common. What is so special about his boat?

Ans- On July 23, 1921, 13 delegates of the Chinese
communists nationwide gathered in a French
concession building at 76 Xingye Road in Shanghai to
hold the CPC's 1st National Congress. The meeting was
interrupted by French policemen.
So the delegates gathered on the boat and the
Chinese Communist Party was founded at the end of
the congress.

Ques 9.
The item that set him apart was the self-scouring steel plow, which was pioneered
in 1837 when X fashioned a Scottish steel saw blade into a plow. Prior to X's steel
plow, most farmers used iron or wooden plows to which the rich Midwestern soil
stuck, so had to be cleaned frequently. The smooth-sided steel plow solved this
problem, and greatly aided migration into the American Great Plains in the 19th and
early 20th centuries. Who is X?

Ques 10.
In some international treaties and agreements, XDRs are used to value penalties,
charges or prices. For example, the Convention on Limitation of Liability for
Maritime Claims caps personal liability for damages to ships at XDR 330,000.

Ans- Special Drawing Rights. Currency issued by the
IMF.

Ques 11.
In Greek mythology, X was the only child of King Menelaus of Sparta and his wife,
Helen of Troy. X means “messenger”. X, and particularly its pronunciation, is
famous for other reasons.

Ques 12.
Many farmers in Yorkshire believed that, for an hour over midnight on Christmas
Eve, bees hum a carol of praise to Jesus Christ. So strong was this belief that when
they didn’t do so on Christmas eve of 1752, the villagers were convinced that the
change that was enforced that year was the work of Satan. Conflicting accounts
report that the bees remarkably adapted and buzzed on the Christmas Eve despite
this change. What could possibly cause bees to give Christmas of 1752 a miss?

Ans- Shift to Gregorian Calendar.

Ques 13.
During the economic crisis of 1837, he lost most of his wealth when the price of
indigo fell. By 1839 he sold most of his property and avoided bankruptcy. However,
in 1853 he founded The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which later
merged with the Standard Bank to form Standard Chartered Bank in 1969. Who and
what did he establish in 1843?

Ans- John Wilson - The Economist

Ques 14.
The issue started when X posted pictures of her on Facebook in which she is
addressing the audience at the Harvard University at its India Conference on March
7-8, 2015. It was followed by a series of articles published in the newspapers in X's
state. However, Harvard University confirmed that X had not delivered any speech
or lecture at the conference and was present only as a member of the audience.
She allegedly went on stage after the conference was over and clicked a few
photographs and published it in various newspapers. Identify X.

Ans- Misa Bharti, daughter of Lalu Yadav

Ans- Indian startups chosen as case studies at
Harvard University.

Ques 16.
X Industries has come a long way since its inception in 1926, when X Gandhi
started a soda fountain in 1926. He passed on the business to his son, Ranchod Lal,
who ran a one-man operation. Eventually, Ranchod Lal's sons, Ramchandra and
Lakshman, inherited the business and they were instrumental in giving a new
direction to the company. The duo imparted a new vision to the venture. Identify X

Ques 17.
#kolstylz
John Godwin from Godalming was announced as the winner of a Royal Society of
Chemistry (RSC) competition to find a solution to a 40 year old problem.
What was the problem?

Ans- He solved the Italian Job cliffhanger ending.

Ques 18.
The marble slab was cut by an artist named Agostino di Duccio, who planned to
turn it into a statue of Hercules. Di Duccio abandoned his sculpture, which was
originally to be installed in a Florentine cathedral, and the marble was unused for 10
years until another sculptor, named Antonio Rossellino, decided to work with it.
Rossellino also abandoned his work because he found marble too difficult to sculpt.
What resulted?

Ques. 19
There are technically five separate versions of Expressionist artist X’s most famous
work, Y. The first two, from 1893 and created with tempera and crayon on
cardboard, are located in the National Gallery in Oslo and the Z, respectively. A
privately owned third version created in 1895 with pastels recently sold for nearly
$120 million at auction. Yet another version from 1895 is a black and white
lithograph. A final version, done in 1910 by X due to the popularity of the previous
incarnations, is also held in the Z, and it made headlines in recent years for being
stolen in 2004 and recovered in 2006. GIve X and Y.

Ans- Edvard Munch’s The Scream

Ques 20.
German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was drawing his map of the Novus
Mundi (or New World) in 1507 he marked it with a certain name He later regretted
the choice, omitting the name from future maps, but it was too late, and the name
stuck. What name?

Ans- America after Amerigo Vespucci

Ques 21.
An extract written 2 decades ago. Just identify X and Y.
Dear Reader:
I will be stopping X at the end of the year. This was not a recent or an easy
decision, and I leave with some sadness. My interests have shifted, however, and I
believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small
panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic
compromises. I have not yet decided on future projects, but my relationship with
Universal Press Syndicate will continue.
Sincerely,
Y

Ans- X- Calvin and Hobbes, Y- Bill (Watterson)

Ques 22.
While it typically refers to someone with a strong dedication to a particular set of
beliefs, the term “X” originally had a series of much more literal meanings. In its
earliest incarnation in the 1700s, the expression described condemned men who
struggled the longest when they were executed by hanging. The phrase later
became even more popular after 1811’s Battle of Albuera during the Napoleonic
Wars. In the midst of the fight, a wounded British officer named William Inglis
supposedly urged his unit forward by bellowing “Stand your ground and X … make
the enemy pay dear for each of us!” Inglis’ 57th Regiment suffered 75 percent
casualties during the battle, and went on to earn the nickname “the Xs.”

Ques 23.
One of the most popular theory about the origin of the phrase X is, In 1837, the
Marquis of Waterford—a known lush and mischief maker—led a group of friends on
a night of drinking through the English town of Melton Mowbray. The bender
culminated in vandalism after Waterford and his fellow revelers knocked over
flowerpots, pulled knockers off of doors and broke the windows of some of the
town’s buildings. To top it all off, the mob literally painted a tollgate, the doors of
several homes and a swan statue with _______. Give X.

Ques 24.
This quote is often attributed to either F Scott Fitzgerald or his contemporary,
Ernest Hemingway. There is no evidence in the collected works of either writer to
support that attribution; the idea was first associated with Fitzgerald in a 1996
Associated Press story, and later in Stephen Fry’s memoir More Fool Me. In
actuality, humorist Peter De Vries coined an early version of the phrase in a 1964
novel titled Reuben, Reuben.
What quote?

Ques 25.
When she began research in Berlin in the early 1900s, she found herself at the
receiving end of so much prejudice from male scientists that she was forced to
work from an old carpentry shop. In 1918, she discovered protactinium in
collaboration with Otto Hahn. She was forced to leave Germany for Sweden after
the Nazis came to power where she continued her research into fission.
In 1997, the IUPAC formally approved the naming of element no. 109 in tribute to
her. Who?

Ques 26.
In 2005, researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
have changed the name of POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene (a gene found to
cause cancer) to the more unobtrusive Zbtb7 due to legal pressure from which
company?

Ans- Nintendo (The gene was initially named
Pokemon)

Ques 27.
One theory for the origin of this term is that it may be an alteration of the word
'coney' used for rabbits. Another theory suggests that the animals were brought to
Europe by way of a particular place, leading people to think they had originated
there. That place was also frequently used in English to refer generally to any far-
off, unknown country, and so the name may simply be a colorful reference to the
animal's foreignness. Which animal?

Ques 28.
This mathematician wrote a book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances,
said to have been prized by gamblers. He is also reported to have correctly
predicted the day of his own death by noting that he was sleeping 15 minutes
longer each day. He did indeed die on 27 Nov 1754 - a date he predicted in
advance. Who, well known for his theorem combining complex numbers and
trigonometry?

Ques 29.
Operation Lal Dora is often called India's 'Thin Red Line' moment in history. It was
an aborted military intervention that called for the amphibious landing of troops
from the 54th Division to help the PM of which African country fend off a coup?

Ques 30.
To commemorate the successful conclusion of negotiations, Mussolini
commissioned the Via della Conciliazione, and signed the Lateran treaty along with
Pietro Gasparrion behalf of the Kingdom of Italy in 1929. What was established
thus?

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