The Tides of Time Quiz - Finals - Waves, 2016

The Tides of Time Quiz – Waves, 2016
Ze Finale
RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY -
LUCKY KAUL AND ROSHAN DATTATRI

The Deal
4 Rounds.
Write Bros I – 9 Questions.
Infinite Bounce/Pounce I – 10 Questions.
Write Bros II – 7 Questions.
Infinite Bounce/Pounce II – 14 Questions.
Total – 40 questions – Maximum of 420 points to be scored.
Okay, Vices Quiz is over. I geddit.
Waves – The Tides of Time Quiz Lucky Kaul and Roshan Dattatri November 5, 2016

Winning Score – 190/420.
Second – 160/420
Third – 145/420

Let’s begin!

Write Bros I
#ExplainAMoviePlotBadly
9 Questions.
+10/0 for each correct and +10 bonus if all correct.

For Audience
Patrick Stewart sets up a school for dangerous adolescents where none of the staff have any
teaching qualifications.

X-Men

Let’s really begin the round now. :P

1
An underage girl runs away from a Kansas farm with 3 unemployed drifters, does drugs and goes
on a killing spree.

2
Frog will not fuck a horny pig woman

3
Innocent staff turned into teapot, clock & candlestick rely on Stockholm Syndrome to save
themselves & loved ones

4
Reclusive weirdo and his mutant employees lure children into his production buildings with
sweets then dispose of them one by one

5
Hamlet with Lions, but better than Hamlet. Also singing.

6
An alcoholic orphan and his boss burn down his family home.

7
Mentally unstable billionaire wants to make home great again, is criticised by clowns

8
A young man forcibly binds other men and photographs them for money.

9
Old man obsessively stalks teenage girl.

KIDSEXCHANGE

The Wizard of Oz

Muppets (any version will do)

Beauty and the Beast

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Lion King

Skyfall

The Dark Knight

Spiderman

Twilight

Infinite Bounce/Pounce - I
11 Questions.
+10/0 on Bounce. +10/-10 on Pounce.
Let’s go!

1
The actor L (on the left) played the character Z in the first two movies of a certain movie series
A, eponymous with the book series it was adapted from. However, he passed away due to
pneumonia on 25/10/2002 in London. L was a lifelong friend of Peter O'Toole, and L's family
wanted O'Toole to replace L as Z for the remaining movies. However, there were concerns about
insuring O'Toole for the remaining movies, thus the actor R (on the right) was picked ahead of
him to play Z.
Just give me Z (Surname will do)
(Image on next slide)

Safety Slide

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

2
The Briish-French built Aerospatiale/BAC X and the Soviet built Tupolev Tu-144 were the only
two __________ transports to have ever operated commercially. First flown in 1969, the X
entered service in 1976 and remained in service for 27 years before being discontinued in 2003,
following the crash of Air France Flight 4590 from Paris to NYC on 25/7/2000 16:43 Central
European Time, which killed 113 people, including crew, passengers and four people on the
ground.
Identify X.

Concorde

3

It was found that the X, the term being searched for, had not 'cleared its neighbourhood'. This is
what caused the event in question to occur in August 2006.
What happened on August 2006(circled)?
FYI The sharper spike in the search trends was in July 2015

Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet

4
A conspiracy theory says that X is dying of cancer, which is why he's bald, and he dreams up
everything. This is why his life seems to be a disaster with nothing ever really working in his
favour. The theory says that X is channeling all his sadness into dreams.
X is?

Charlie Brown (Peanuts)

5
● Crushed under the shock wave caused by the explosion
● Lethal acceleration
● Lethal whiplash
● Crushed on landing
● Baked for 30 seconds at 300-450 degrees centigrade
● Scorched by molten lead
● Oxygen depletion due to the combustion of nitrogen in the high temperature caused by the explosion
● Irradiation by X rays and Gamma rays from the surroundings
● Inhalation of particles from nuclear fallout
● High X ray dose from lead lining irradiated by beta rays
All these are ways by which X should have died. Who is X and when should X have died?

Indiana Jones – should have died in a
nuking event in the lead-lined fridge

6
Kyle Craven's popularity originated from his high school yearbook photo posted to the social
news website Reddit by his friend Ian Davies on January 24, 2012 at 2:15 UTC. It quickly became
a popular Image macro on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, and was turned into
t-shirts, stuffed animals and novelty items sold by Walmart and Hot Topic. Volkswagen and other
companies paid to use his picture in their advertising campaigns. Craven works for his father's
construction business building churches.
What or how is Kyle Craven better known to us as? (Image on next slide)

(Not his yearbook photo)

Bad luck Brian

7
The Second Law of Thermodynamics deals with entropy, which in simple terms is a measure of
disorder. This law is explained using X. After X fell and shattered, it would be highly unlikely (not
impossible) to put X back together, in a state of lower disorder, which is why 160 men couldn't
take X back to the original state.
What is X?

Humpty Dumpty!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Four-score Men and Four-score more
Could not make Humpty Dumpty what he was before

8
If you had woken up late today, you might have missed the chance to win the massive cash prize
in the Wipro Quiz this morning.
Normally, people who go for the same purpose as X went for are offered Hitokage, Zenigame or
Fushigidane.
However, since X woke up late, these three were unavailable.
As a result, what did X get stuck with?

Pikachu!

9
The USS __________ (SSBN-642) was a Benjamin-Franklin class
Ballistic Missile submarine. Called Kamfish by the crew, it was one of
only two ships to be named after a monarch.
The Hawaiian Monarch after whom this Navy vessel was named also
inspired the naming of something that appeared in manga. It's debut
in this manga was in the fourteenth chapter whose name in turn, was
inspired by one of the best selling singles of all time by Culture Club.
Identify the Hawaiian Monarch.

Kamehameha

10
On May 27 1985, the 3,940km Will Rogers Highway (also known as the ‘Mother Road’) was
officially removed from the United States Highway System.
Part of a later Academy Award nominated film’s storyline revolves around how the vibrant
highway-side fell into decline after it was bypassed when the highway was superseded.
Parts of the road were disposed off, and it is no longer possible to drive uninterrupted all the
way from Chicago to Los Angeles
Various sections of the road itself have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A) How is Will Rogers Highway popularly known as?
B) Why this question in a Tides of Time Quiz?

A – Route 66,
B – The highway removed, and the focus of
the story in Cars(2006)

Write Bros - II
7 Questions.
+10/0 for each right, +10 bonus for all right.
Theme – Famous Pairs (think little broad plis)

1
A lot of fans believe that ________ , now not really existent, could have actually grown up to become
what The Big Bang Theory (the TV show) today is.
A fan on Tumblr makes a remark between _________ and TBBT as follows –
“AND NO IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INCEST. I just put X as Leonard because he's the main character
(and shortest), and Y as Penny because she's the sole blond girl. It's not supposed to be an exact copy,
but everyone on Tumblr is freaking out!”
Also, one of the conversations between X and Y is somehow thought to be related to TBBT –
X: “Y, this is not the Big Bang theory I thought you were talking about!"
Y: "Oh well - a little dress-up's always fun!“
Z: "Yeah right, especially when X gets to date you before I do...."
X and Y please.

2
Following are pictures from the menu card of a famous restaurant whose idea was
conceptualised by a famous duo of X and Y in 1994 , and the idea was materialised into reality
with the opening of these restaurants in 1996.
For full points, either name the restaurant or give me both X and Y.

3
X was founded by 1997 by a Mr. Randolph with an initial objective to sell items over the internet,
however we today know it for “sales” in a specific domain, mostly memberships, and not exactly
selling “items”. By 2013, it became big enough to host its own awards ceremony. Interestingly, X
offers unlimited vacation time for salaried workers and allows employees to take any amount of
their paychecks in stock options.
Now Y is a word which has been used in many contexts in many different ways. One of its usages
is in the context of an effect occuring due to the release of cytokines and prostaglandins as part
of the inflammatory response.
Y (almost) also happens to be the name of a flagship brand of ice creams by Mother Dairy.
Thanks to a Twitter user in January 2009, we get to hear X and Y together regularly these days.
X and Y please!

4
X , a versatile batsman, is the first from his country to score over 10,000 test runs and also one of
the only four batsmen of his country to have 10000+ runs in ODIs. He is probably one of the best
batsmen in his country even though his ODI average is a paltry 33.37. He has played for as many
as 11 domestic teams across different countries including Sussex, Somerset and Adelaide Strikers.
Y , on the other hand, is a well known bowler, who, amongst other records, has this infamous
record of being the player who had to wait for the most tests (103) before playing at Lord’s! – no
other player had to wait for these many tests.
Thanks to the skills of both X and Y on the field, fans know c (X) and b (Y) (i.e. caught X and
bowled Y) as the most common bowler-fielder combination in cricket till date.
X and Y?

5
While the members of this quite literally historical duo are completely unrelated to each other, they
together made big news in India in 1996.
X – a European who was no more than five feet tall - had a 50-inch waist by the end of her life, a fact
supported by the auction of her equally large-sized nightgown in 2009. Interestingly, she proposed to
her husband for marriage and not vice versa. She also is believed to be first carrier of a subtype of
Haemophilia – one that her children suffered from as well. It is also believed that as many as six
assassination attempts were made on her and her popularity only rose with each assassination.
Y , on the other hand – a smart and well respected person of his time is in a way responsible for the
establishment of the Indian Navy. His admiral, Mr. Angre is believed to be the “Father of the Indian
Navy” as Y and Angre fought many Naval battles along the coastline, one of the most popular ones
being against the Siddis of Janjira.
Give me X and Y. (2.5 points each)
For the remaining half points, tell me why X and Y together made news in India in 1996?

6
X A. Segale , born in 1935, is an American businessman and real estate developer. He has been
involved in various development projects in the Seattle area since the 1950s.
In 1981, a major company was renting one of Segale’s properties to establish their American
headquarters. The company, while preparing for the release of something that would go on to
establish their name in our childhood, had issues with paying rent – this angered the landlord,
Segale.
The company ultimately convinced Segale that it will pay the rent – and legend goes that whether
the rent was paid or not, Segale was immortalised in the venture released itself as a tribute, by
changing the name of the protagonist in this release, to X, after Segale.
While not fully confirmed, it is believed that correspondingly Y made his way into our childhood
thanks to one of the board members of our company walking across a pizzeria near the company
headquarters. X and Y are consistently heard of together.
X and Y?

7

7. Q
What you saw on the previous slide, was of course, a map of Japan. Now those two blanks are areas
which almost all of us would have surely heard of in some way or the other. Identify these two areas.
As per the International _________ Society, for most years the people of X were dominant in _______
, however later in the Sengoku era, groups rose all throughout Japan and within all these groups,
finally developed two groups – those of X and Y.
It is believed that group X met its fate because its General was misinformed and in a 1581 attack had
its people slaughtered in a ten-to-one battle – a typical tactic used in ______ warfare to forestall an
attack – leaving not a very large number of X people.
Y too was threatened that time however they escaped the fate of X.
After WW2, the world was free and open to travel around and thus X and Y people spread
themselves across, with most of these people working like ordinary people however passing on their
extraordinary skill to those who felt were worthy of learning them.
What are X and Y, whose names we have repeatedly heard in our childhood?

Answers

X – Dexter , Y – Dee Dee

Bubba Gump Shrimp co (or) Forrest
Gump and Bubba

Netflix and Chill!

X – Jayawardene and Y - Muralitharan

X – Queen Victoria
Y – Shivaji
Change of name from VT to CST station in
Mumbai.

X – Mario, Y – Luigi.

7. Q
What you saw on the previous slide, was of course, a map of Japan. Now those two blanks are areas
which almost all of us would have surely heard of in some way or the other. Identify these two areas.
As per the International _________ Society, for most years the people of X were dominant in _______
, however later in the Sengoku era, groups rose all throughout Japan and within all these groups,
finally developed two super groups – those of X and Y.
It is believed that group X met its fate because its General was misinformed and in a 1581 attack had
its people slaughtered in a ten-to-one battle – a typical tactic used in ______ warfare to forestall an
attack – leaving not a very large number of X people.
Y too was threatened that time however they escaped the fate of X.
After WW2, the world was free and open to travel around and thus X and Y people spread
themselves across, with most of these people working like ordinary people however passing on their
extraordinary skill to those who felt were worthy of learning them.
Identify X and Y, two areas you’d have surely heard of in Japan if not any others.

X – Iga and Y – Koga!
You’d have probably heard it from Ninja Hattori

Infinite Bounce/Pounce - II
14 Questions.
+10/0 on Bounce, +10/-10 on Pounce.
Let’s go!

1
It’s interesting to see that while from outside the _________ are basically just tyres, inside them
is a totally different world.
While the _______ may be a pile of tyres on the outside, but on the inside it's a glamorous and
cozy place. It has a high-tech security system, which gets updated from time-to-time. It is even
shown to have air-conditioning, which the ______ use during the heat wave. It also has a secret
candy Spa and a safe. Almost always there is an availability cookies and muffins. Also can be
seen a flag of the owners.
What fictional hideout/enclosure, from the world of television, am I describing?

Ashleys’ Clubhouse in Recess.

2
The initial samples of _______ were made in 1932 with iron carbonyl mixed into
the cellulose acetate carrier. By 1960, the acetate carrier was replaced with long lengths of polyester
base since acetate was prone to chemical instability.
A sticky-shed syndrome occurred with these _____ in the 1970s due to both having slightly different
formulations for the same product by introducing a polyurethane binder that, in time,
turned hygroscopic and broke down as it absorbed water molecules into the long hydrocarbon
molecular chains.
Today while the syndrome is mostly taken care of, it became important to keep the _____ clean to
prevent deterioration of quality – dust or any changes to the chemical composition can severely
destroy the purpose of its use. Very low power vacuum cleaners should be used to remove the dust
or else loss of properties of ______ can occur which in turn will destroy its purpose.
What item is this, for which the usage of pencils is one form of Jugaad to take care of an issue arising
in them?

Magnetic Tape in video cassettes.

3
______ _____ is an annual gathering that takes place at Black Rock City—a temporary
community erected in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. First held in 1986, the event is described
as an experiment in community and art, influenced by 10 main principles, including "radical"
inclusion, self-reliance and self-expression, as well as community cooperation, civic
responsibility, gifting, participation and immediacy.
The community explores various forms of artistic self-expression, created in celebration for the
pleasure of all participants. Participation is a key precept for the community – selfless giving of
one's unique talents for the enjoyment of all is encouraged and actively reinforced.
The festival gets its name thanks to an effigy that is burnt on the Saturday evening.
While we might not have been to the gathering, trivia fans would have heard of it thanks a
famous person visiting that festival – in the process creating what concept in the internet world
in 1998, now observed or seen by us on most of the days of the year?

Google Doodles!
This is the Burning Man festival – and a burning man was the first Google Doodle.

4
In the business world, a modern kind of shoplifting that has recently been affecting business is
an activity most of us have performed in our childhood, and probably still do - called grazing.
What is grazing?

Trying out stuff in window shopping, which
tends to exhaust company supplies , but not
actually buying it.
Like say eating a spoonful of ice cream of Baskin Robbins but not buying it – and yet your tummy
is full.

5
One possible explanation for a certain phenomenon/observation seen/made by most of us goes
as –
Because the company in question had the complete roster for the usage of international players
in their 2005 version – however it was not received for their subsequent 2007 version, as
Codemasters had bought the license of the entire roster for international players and also the
one for all official ICC tournaments for Brian Lara’s International Cricket, 2007. Our company
managed to get licenses for the same only from Australia, England, NZ and SA and thus….”

And thus the other teams’ players, who were
unlicensed, had fake names like V.Seway,
S.Tendehar in Cricket 2007.

6
The National Policy on Education Committee of the Members of Parliament, one that went on to
establish free education under the Ten Year System, was constituted by the Indian Government
in 1967 to consider recommendations of the Kothari Commission – one of them being : “Work
experience should be an integral part of education at the school stage. Work with hands will help
the young to develop insights into productive processes and use of science and inculcate them
respect for manual labour and habits of hard and responsible work.”
This idea, taken forward by the Kothari Commission was finally paid heed to by the Ishwarbhai
Patel Committee in July 1977 and after its recommendations a four word term was coined, which
then made its way into the current school curriculum.
Which four word term, that we’ve all heard of , is this?

SUPW (Socially Useful Productive Work)

7
Urban Dictionary defines this activity as “an entertaining activity that can be done anywhere from a
fifteen minute public speaker, to a two hour lecture. It is not harmful to your health in anyway.”
And a girl by the name of Ashely Cardiff in April 2013 had a shot at this activity as she felt it could
remove her blackheads. She describes her experience as follows –
So, yes, obviously I took great satisfaction in _______________(the activity). But did it actually
remove any blackheads?
Of fucking course not.
It’s _______. I can’t, for the life of me, imagine how mankind could engineer a product that actually
pulls grit out of human pores without it being extremely damaging to, you know, the other parts.
Though ________ wore an extremely accurate impression of my epidermis–it didn’t actually take
anything meaningful up with it.
And then she went on to apply aloe-based creams in order to take care of any probably issues caused
by the activity on the skin.
What well known activity was she trying to perform here?

Applying glue to skin!

8
Says Australian designer James Colmer on conceptualising the idea of _______ around 12-13 years
back –
Throughout history, in every culture there are ancient traces of civilisations and knowledge which
suggests a much more advanced and intelligent race of beings once lived here. In creating a history for
_____, I felt it was important to include these esoterical and mystical influences.
This was an ideal opportunity to introduce the symbolism of the tree of life. When a practitioner uses
the so called “Kundalini” energy, they are creating in their mind an image of the Kabbala around them,
imagining the energy flow in a lightning flash which draws upon the “fire” and sends it up the middle
pillar, through the gates of wisdom, past the reptilian brain, to charge the pineal gland, or third eye of
the mystics.
The design on ______’s back represents the energy lines or “chi” moving toward the key chakra points.
The design also represents an awareness of the inner self.
The bracelet that ______ wears serves a particular purpose as well as being symbolic. The light it gives
off acts as a homing beacon for ______ and also for location purposes.
What did Colmer conceptualise or create with this in mind, something seen by most of us in this
hall?

Jadoo (Koi Mil Gaya)

9
In September 2016, X , in an interview to a few magazines and newspapers finally
agreed that their iconic 1999 song Y has lyrics which actually make no sense.
The lines in the verses and the chorus of Y repeatedly contradict themselves. It’s
entirely unclear if the song is supposed to be a love song, a breakup song or
possibly even about an alien emotion humans don’t even have the capacity to
comprehend.
What was earlier known however that the Swedish songwriter behind the hit, Max Martin,
couldn’t speak amazing English at the time and therefore didn’t realize the song was so
enigmatic. (A problem he occurred even with Britney’s Baby One More Time as he
misunderstood the word “call” for “hit”).
Name the song Y, which came back in news in 2010 thanks to an aeroplane belonging to X being
auctioned and sold to a Bruno Komp.

I want it that way by Backstreet Boys

10
The credit for an iconic 1996 moment probably goes to former NBC executive Dick Ebersol, who narrated the
story behind the moment to a sports magazine in 2015.
Ebersol, who passionately believed that _______ was indeed the right choice, recalled his conversation with
Payne about the matter –
It should be _______. _____ may be, outside of perhaps the pope, the most beloved figure in the world,” Ebersol
remembered telling Payne. “In the third world, he’s a hero. He’s a hero and a fellow traveler. To anybody young—
just about—in the United States, he’s a man of great moral principle who was willing to go to prison.”
The committee hesitated because, as Payne said, “Where we’re from, he’s perceived as a draft dodger.”
“He was found guilty, and he was on his way to prison, but the federal court of appeals in the state of New York
threw it out and the Supreme Court refused to intervene three years later. He lost three big-money-earning years.
But he didn’t run away from the country. He didn’t go to Canada. He was willing to stand on his principles.”
Payne finally agreed to have ______ completing the moment.
Who (fill in the blank), and what moment (or event) was Ebersol talking about?

Muhammad Ali lighting the torch at the
Atlanta Olympics.

11
When X died in 2001, there were protest marches in Mumbai where people were grieving over
the loss of X.
Amar Upadhyay, in his words, received phone calls throughout the night till 2 am in the morning
expressing shock over the death of X. There were many who called and abused Ashish Patil,
Nivedita Basu, and a few others for having killed X.
I always wanted something to happen when X died. I was waiting for phone calls and when the
first bell rang I knew I had done it... But I always thought people would feel sad and sleep over it
and forget about it the next day. But what happened came as a complete surprise.. Probably X
touched a chord somewhere because he is one person that everybody wants around him,
someone responsible, ready to take decisions and caring….
Whose death were these people in Mumbai mourning, expecting that he will never come back
again?

Mihir Virani (KSBKBT)

12
The Jameson Raid , one performed in 1895 was a failed raid against the South African
Republic(commonly known as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial statesman Leander Starr
Jameson and his Company troops.
In remembrance of this loss of this otherwise successful man Jameson, X was inspired to pen one of
his most notable works, Y in late 1895. While many feel that Y aims to serve an inspirational
message, it is actually found to be a bitter condemnation of the British Government led by Lord
Salisbury, and the duplicity of its Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, for covertly supporting Dr
Jameson's raid against the Boers in South Africa's Transvaal in 1896, only to condemn him when the
raid failed.
And as expected, just like the spirit that Y embodies, He decided to return to South Africa after his
release and rose to become Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in 1904, leaving office before the
creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 – and during all this time Jameson remained the silent
and dignified man he always was known to be.
X and Y? Y is a very well known work.

X – Rudyard Kipling
Y - If

13
One method of preparing _______ involves usage of cooked egg whites, powdered sugar, and
Tylose, a gum paste powder.
A dough is made from these ingredients, all of which is poured into a plastic bag. Then it is
frozen, after which it is taken out, left to warm room temperature. A little bit of the mixture so
formed is taken and poured on paper following which it is rolled to make the final good.
With names like Viceyo, Acmel, and Winstum in the early 1950s, _________ were almost facing
bans in the United States since they seemed very convincing to everyone, however they weren’t
really the way the general public was perceiving it.
They made their way back into regular circulation in 1970 in US. In India, ________ are made by
the Harnik manufacturing unit in Pune.
FITB, that was in a way a symbolism of swag if we rewind ourselves a few years back.

Sweet Cigarettes!
#ObFoodQ

Last Question
But before that….

Thanks to all participants, organisers and
sponsors.
Hope you enjoyed the quiz! 

Last Question

14
For the __________ to achieve its objective, its creator has applied a few payloads on it, some of
which include –
-> Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer – which will measure the thermal emission and can
be operated during both day and night. Temperature and emissivity are the two basic physical
parameters estimated from thermal emission measurement.
-> ______ Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser - a quadruple mass spectrometer capable of
analysing the neutral composition in the range of 1 to 300 amu with unit mass resolution. This
analyser takes its inspiration from a previous landmark achievement by the creator of ______.
-> Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP) - an absorption cell photometer, measures the relative
abundance of deuterium and hydrogen from Lyman-alpha emission – which can help to measure
the escape flux of H2 Corona.
These are some of the payloads to achieve what objective (or) as a part of what?

Mars Orbiter Mission/ Mangalyaan
Celebrates its 3rd anniversary today.
November 5, 2013.

Thanks! 

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