This quiz was conducted at IIT BHU Varanasi on 7th February 2015 as a part of the Quizzing Championship for the session 2014-15. This is a 18+ quiz and contains adult content.
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The Dirty Quiz Second Edition IIT BHU Prelims Answers
1. QUIZ Part 2
Directed by Mahendra Mohan Das
with Arun Kumar
Prelims
Second
Edition
2. Prelims.
⢠20 questions.
⢠Top 8 teams will be qualified to the finals.
⢠People who get offended with stuff like AIB Roast may leave the room.
⢠This quiz contains nudity. And dirty stuff. And unreadable books. And
unlistenable singers.
⢠Statutory warning: Sleep-deprived quizmasters are dangerous.
Especially while conducting a dirty quiz.
⢠Let the game beginâŚ
3. 1)
⢠A music video for the track was shot in Los Angeles, California by Colin
Tilley and was released on August 19, 2014. The video broke the 24-
hour streaming record on Vevo by accumulating 19.6 million views in its
first day of release, beating the 19.3 million 24-hour record previously
held by Miley Cyrus for the music video of her song, "Wrecking Ball", in
2013.
⢠Which music video am I talking about?
5. 2)
⢠On 1 August 2012, Amazon UK announced that it had sold more copies
of X than it had the entire Harry Potter series combined, making Y its
best-selling author, replacing J. K. Rowling, though worldwide the Harry
Potter series sold more than 450 million copies compared to X's sales of
60 million copies. It was number one on USA Today's best-selling books
list for twenty weeks in a row, breaking a previous record of 16 weeks
set by In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes by Rosie
Daley and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It also set a record in
the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time.
⢠Which book?
7. 3)
⢠On March 3, 2012, two of the group members, Nadezhda and Maria,
were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member,
Yekaterina, was arrested on March 16. On August 17, 2012, the three
members were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious
hatred", and each was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Two
other members of the group, who escaped arrest after February's
protest, reportedly left Russia fearing prosecution. On October 10,
following an appeal, Samutsevich was freed on probation, her
sentence suspended. The sentences of the other two women were
upheld. In late October 2012, Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were sent
to separate prisons.
⢠Which group is being talked about?
9. 4)
⢠On her Facebook page, Jasmine Tridevil thanked followers for sharing
YouTube videos featuring her. She also hired a camera crew to follow
her around so she can pitch a reality show to MTV. For which act did
Jasmine Tridevil come to news in September last year, the apparent
reason for which, as she quoted, was, âI donât want to date anymoreâ?
11. 5)
⢠This book became an international
bestseller and gained wide publicity.
⢠Reviews on Amazon include:
⢠A must read for students studying
anything to do with gender politics, This
is a deeply insightful and philosophical
read and in many ways.
⢠Simove understands the mind so much
that he's able to explain it in one
simple read. Yes, I read it in one
session! I just can't wait for the sequel.
⢠What is so special about this book?
13. 6)
⢠Several stories about the circumstances of Catherine the Greatâs
death at the age of 67 originated soon after her death. One of the
stories stating that she died on the toilet when her seat broke under
her, is true only in small part: she did collapse in a bathroom from a
stroke, but after that she died while being cared for in her bed.
⢠However, what is the most famous story associated with her death?
15. 7)
⢠Priyesh Trivedi first started drawing X sometime in 2013. X has since
gone on to become extremely popular, and his work has been
compared to the work of Spanish surrealist cartoonist Joan Cornella.
He credits the swift popularity of the strips to âthe love for nostalgia and
the archaic which most of us have that is partly responsible for the
popularity. I always found the visual styling of the educational charts
from the â80s and early â90s very amusing. Most of the people relate to
this style because they probably went to school when these charts
were widely prevalent.â
⢠Identify X.
19. 9)
⢠In ancient Rome, two men taking an oath of allegiance held each
other's ___, and men held their own ___ as a sign of truthfulness while
bearing witness in a public forum.
⢠Which word thus originated? Also, FITB.
25. 12)
⢠Diogenes of Sinope was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders
of Cynic philosophy. When strangers at the inn near which he lived were
expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes,
Diogenes is said to have done something and exclaimed âthis, for you,
is the demagogue of the Atheniansâ.
⢠This is one of the earliest examples of which âpracticeâ?
27. 13)
⢠During World War II, pin-up girls were painted onto the sides of fighter
planes. The military allowed artists to create such artworks for
amusement as well as to boost the morale during the war. Some
sources say that such paintings were approved by US air force also for
giving them a tactical advantage and differentiating enemy fighter
and bomber planes.
⢠Which word, used to describe such pin-up girls, is said to have been
originated from this practice?
29. 14)
⢠Who is being
parodied?
Some of the
real people
involved were:
Rachel Uchitel,
Jamie Grubbs,
Kalika Moquin,
Jamie Jungers,
Cori Rist, Joslyn
James etc.
33. 16)
⢠Kavita Radheshyam is a Bollywood actress who grabbed eye-balls
doing a semi-naked photo shoot for cruelty against animals in India.
⢠Recently, She again did a semi-naked Hot and spicy photo shoot. Who
was it a tribute to?
35. 17)
⢠The name of this place became well-known world-wide as a result of
the nuclear tests. On July 5, 1946, five days after the first nuclear
device (nicknamed Able) was exploded over the place during
Operation Crossroads, the name of this place became immortal for
another reason, when Louis RĂŠard, an engineer, demonstrated
something in at Piscine Molitor, a public pool in Paris, and named it
after this place.
⢠What did he demonstrate? Which place is it named after?
39. 19)
⢠After her feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's The
Girlfriend Experience, she also starred in the black comedy/horror film
Smash Cut, and played a semi-fictionalized version of herself in the
seventh season of the HBO television series Entourage. She has also
appeared in independent films, such as I Melt With You and Open
Windows.
⢠She is a former member of aTelecine, an industrial music band. She has
also written two books, NeĂź Sex, released on 2011 and The Juliette
Society, released on 2013.
⢠Who?