Smarticus 2.0 is a pop culture and current affairs quiz conducted at P A College of Engineering during Technix 2019. The presentation include answers.

1. SMARTICUS 2.0 PRELIMS

2. RULES
• 20 Questions
• Multiples of 5 are tie breaker questions.
• 6 teams go to the next round
• No using mobile phones

3. 1.
• • _____________ is an online flash player based game on
Facebook by the matchmaking site Shaadi.com to help raise
awareness of dowry harassment in India. (5,6)
• This game’s name is a wordplay on another very famous game.
(5,5)
• Image follows.

5. • Angry birds
• Angry brides

6. 2.
• This is a shade of nail paint being sold in the campus store of a
very famous company X and is aptly named ______ butterfly
blue, _____ being a nod to the domain the company is in.
• • Identify this giant.

7. 2.

8. • Facebook
• Social Butterfly

9. 3.
• Mobius strip is a 2-dimensional
sheet with only one surface.
Where in this tech savvy world
would you have seen it almost
on a daily basis?
• Significance that has recently
come up?

10. • Google drive logo
• Avenger endgame

11. 4. IF YOU ARE PHILEMAPHOBIC YOU FEAR
WHAT?

12. KISSING

13. 5. SUZUKI HAS PLANNED A NEW INITIATIVE FROM
2020 THAT WILL GREATLY HINDER SALES BUT
WILL HIGHLY BENEFIT THE ENVIRONMENT. WHAT
IS IT?

14. STOP THEIR DIESEL LINE.

15. 6. “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE”
• The above caption was the first post of a recently
verified/started Instagram account. ID the account.

16. CIA

17. 7. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA OFFERS A
COURSE THAT….
• "The course explores such themes as using X as a metaphor for
both physiological and psychological human conditioning,
adapting exercise and preparation for achieving personal goals
and the science behind injuries and the recovery process. The
idea of exploring limitations of humanity while using pop
culture and comic book heroes as a reference point is actually a
very interesting one that could be applied in a variety of
different fields, from marketing to sports management. "
ID the course.

18. SCIENCE OF BATMAN

19. 8. WHICH APP WILL INDIAN RAILWAYS USE TO
CONNECT IT’S EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE
COUNTRY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION?

20. MICROSOFT KAIZALA

21. 9.
• In 1983 X asked John Sculley, Pepsi’s youngest ever CEO and
president “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your
life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
• The question was so convincing John Sculley left Pepsi and
joined as the CEO of Y.
• ID X and Y

22. • X – Steve Jobs
• Y - Apple

23. 10.
IMPORTANCE
OF THIS
LETTER?

24. GANDHI'S LETTER TO HITLER.

25. 11. CONNECT BIG BANG THEORY AND
KATRINA KAIF

26. KUNAL NAYYAR AKA RAJ KOOTHRAPPALI FROM
BIG BANG THEORY IS MARRIED TO ISABEL
KAIF(KATRINA'S SISTER)

27. 12. AD REPRESENTING WHAT?

28. ITS AN AD BY SPIELBERG FOR GEORGE LUCAS,
WHEN STAR WARS TOOK OVER JAWS IN TERMS
OF BO !

29. 13.
• When "X" was first introduced in India, "X" was marketed under
a name "Y". The term "Y" suggested that "X" would not tarnish,
unlike preferred metals or alloys then. The term "Y" is still used
in some parts of South India.
Whats "X" and "Y" ?

30. • X=stainless steel
Y= eversilver

31. 14.
• This person has gone through most number of assassination
attempts including the weird one's like a blasting cigar and an
infected Swim Suit. Name him.

32. • Fidel Castro it is !!.....a total of 638 attempts were made to
assassinate him...he survived ol ov them..!!!

33. 15.
• David Byrne & Beck Henson are Alternative Rock artists,
Marc Seales- a Blues artist
&
Beethoven was a composer.
Yet there's a connection to all of them.
What??

34. THE SONGS/TRACKS BY THESE ARTISTS
APPEARED AS SAMPLE MUSIC ON WINDOWS
OS.

35. 16.
• "X" was originally a Marathi. "X" worked as a carpenter before
"X" joined Public Transport. "X" is India's answer to Chuck
Norris. We know "X" very differently. Who is "X"?

36. • MIND IT!!! The answer is Shivajirao Gaikwad a.k.a Rajnikanth.

37. 17,
• This Arabian deep fried sweet is given to poor during Ramazan
and is very famous in Indian Subcontinent. In parts of Pakistan
it is used as cure for headache. Which sweet?

38. JALEBI

39. 18.
• This Term, used to describe something hugely successful, be it
movies or books or albums ... Was initially used in WW-II.
There were special kinds of bombs, which Royal air force of
England used in their Air raids at Germany ....
These bombs were so destructive that they cleared up entire
blocks and rows of houses ... Hence these were called X.
Today we use it very differently ... What is X?

40. BLOCKBUSTER

41. 19.
• According to Sir Edward Henry, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB, CSI,
KPM, what can be classified into loops, central pocket loops,
double loops, arches, tented arches, whorls and accidentals?

42. FINGERPRINTS

43. 20.
• On December 7, 2016, what caused the famous Indian
comedian Radhika Vaz to write in a Times of India column,
“ladka hua ki ladki”?

44. THE US ELECTION RESULTS: DONALD
TRUMP HUA KI HILLARY CLINTON?

45. 21.
• The Jawab Mosque in the Taj Mahal complex is technically
useless, since it faces the east and cannot be used for prayer
assemblies. Why was it built in the first place? Hint: It was
built inside the Taj Mahal complex

46. • To maintain the Taj’s symmetry. There was already a mosque to
the left of the Taj Mahal, and there needed to be one on the
right. Hence, the mosque was called “Jawab”.

47. 22.
• Which massively famous entertainment icon suffered a severe
cerebral concussion when he fell from a height, and was
treated not be trained surgeons and doctors, but by men and
animals on royal duty?

48. HUMPTY DUMPTY

49. 23.

50. FEVICOL

51. 24.

52. MOTHER’S DAY

53. 25.

54. OREO

55. 26.

56. KATIE BOUMAN
BLACK HOLE PHOTO

57. 27. ID X
• known as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn; literally: 'vibrating sound')
in China, is an iOS and Android media app.
• Owned by ByteDance, the app was launched as Douyin in China in
September 2016 and introduced to the overseas market as X one year later.
• As a separate app from X, Douyin is available from the developer's website
and has maintained the same app title since its launch in September
2016. Part of its popularity is attributable to its marketing campaigns,
launching several activities with Chinese celebrities to engage their fans'
interest. For example, its marketing campaign in 2018 Spring Festival Gala
alone brought an increase of 70 million daily active users

58. TIK TOK