Held as part of Quizzes in Insomnia 2017 - the annual fest of IISER, Mohali.

2. Quizmasters:
Virendra, Anubhav & Shagun
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3. From what is considered to be the major part of the domain of Entertainment, Music-Movies are
kept at a low in this quiz and much (more?) of the inclination, henceforth, can be found on the
technical and some other flourishing forms of “Entertainment” and how they interact with Science
& Technology. Also, a man can indulge in other types of entertainment, some find “Politics”
entertaining and some find reading this slide entertaining(?). The quiz may not suit someone’s
definition of entertainment though it will try to “entertain” your interests in this business of
knowledge to it’s best.
Let’s get started.

4. The quiz will proceed forward in Four rounds.
Written Prelims followed by Finals consisting of IB
(Forward and Reverse), Differential and Long Visual
Connect.

5. PRELIMS ANSWERS
Videos have been omitted.

6. Question 1.
Take points for identifying both the creations, and not one, in this video clip.

7. Pride and Prejudice
Fight Club

8. Question 2.
This mobile application, also available as a browser-
extension, blocks the HTTP requests thus hindering the
tracking of your web habits. This also enhances the speed as
the data now has to travel to lesser nodes. This is now owned
by Cliqz, a German company co-owned by Mozilla.
What apt name is given to this app owing
to it’s ability to tackle tracking ?

10. Question 3.
Katie was the unaired lead in the Unaired Pilot of X. The
role was played by actress Amanda Walsh, “a street-
hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable
interior”. She works at the cosmetics counter of a
department store.
The pilot episode in which she starred, went unaired
as the audience did not like the way Katie was mocking
the two other main characters, therefore she was
replaced by Y, a milder version who was more caring
and sweet.
Identify Y.No points for X alone.

11. X – The Big Bang Theory
Y - Penny

12. Question 4.
If you will search Froogle.com, you will be directed to the
online shopping website of which company ?
The website lets you compare prices by using Google’s Web Crawler database to index
product data from the websites of vendors instead of using paid submissions.

13. Google Product Search, later renamed as Google Shopping

14. Kyle Craven got famous as ___ ____ _____when his friend Ian Davies who has been his friend since the
elementary school days posted a picture of him on Reddit. The picture that he had posted had
made him an internet sensation and soon one could see the market flooded with all the goods
including mugs and T-shirts with that picture printed on them. This incident made Kyle so famous
that Walmart and other stores had to pay him royalties to use his picture. In total he earned a sum
of $20,000 and a lots of dates. The description of the picture is “a plaid sweater, red face, squinted
eyes and a puffed-out jaw.”
Fill in the blank with the name with which he is famous ?
Question 5.

15. Bad Luck Brian

16. Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts, X and Y
– this group of people are known by a famous name in the tech world.
X and Y went on to establish a giant in Silicon Valley, which along with other companies by
the members of this group came to be known as “Fairchildren”.
X has a very famous law named after him which states that “the number of transistors per
square inch on integrated circuits has doubled every year since their invention.”
Identify X and Y.
(no part points)
Question 6.

17. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel.
Law talked about is Moore’s Law

18. Question 7.
Boral is a village situated on the edge of Kolkata, far from the modern air, you can still see a profusion of
rocky, garishly painted houses here. The village is not famous except that it was where a classic (Y), based on
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s work, was made. This came into the light of the villagers only when
someone put up a bust of X and made them realize that Y was based here. The house that appears in that
famous debut of X remains in a dilapidated state around a corner.
Identify X. What famous work was Y ?

19. Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali

20. Question 8.
Ford just agreed to invest a billion dollars in Argo AI, which had existed for only 2 months.
Last year, a company Otto was formed which was snapped up by Uber for $680million. Otto was formed by
the members leaving an ambitious project in automotive industry under the name of company X.
Similarly companies called Aurora and Neuro.ai opened last year to supplement this task, though not in
partnership with X. Sebastian Thrun was the first head of this ambitious project and left in 2014 to focus on
his online education startup Udacity Inc. The founders of all these companies worked together prior to
forming their own companies to contribute to this ambitious project. This 6 year old project was finally spun
off in form of a new company by X. These category of engineers are not very common therefore they are
enjoying tremendous demand for their talents.
What ambitious project ?

22. Question 9.
This road exists in Southern California and
offers a scenic view of the Hollywood Hills.
The road has been made famous when David
Lynch directed X was released in 2001.
According to Lynch, “You feel the history of
Hollywood in that road” and this was the
emotion that inspired Lynch for the title.
What Hollywood classic is
this ?

24. Question 10.
Chris Messina never patented this idea of his which he first declared in a tweet in 2007, though the
“channels” were already being defined using this on Internet Relay Chats since 90s. This idea has been
reported in a New Yorker blog post as “a more sophisticated, verbal version of the dread winking emoticon
that tweens use to signify that they’re joking.”
Messina has also co-founded a company named Citizen Agency which specializes in developing community-
centric strategies around product research, design and marketing.
What idea was first proposed via the above tweet?

25. HASHTAGS

26. Question 11.
Before rejecting a job at Infosys and turning on to the path of her new career, this lady
was the part of a team of three who developed an app called FontSwap during the final
year of their engineering course. The app let’s users change the fonts in iPhone and
there was not one app which can do this function 7-8 years ago, when they developed
it first. The trio didn’t release the app on App Store because of it’s tedious approval
process.
Who was this lead developer, a recent sensation ?

27. Taapsee Pannu

28. Question 12.
Pop-Up ads for deceptive downloads.
Drive-by downloads.
Hidden iframes that spread malware into websites.
Malicious banners on websites.
Forums, Content management systems, helpdesks etcetera third party applications.
Listed above are some ways by which websites can be infested with advertisements and
are said to be affected by X, which is a portmanteau of two words.
Give me X.

29. MALVERTISING

30. Question 13.
Whose tweet on the
apparent drama
that went underway
?

31. RGV

32. Question 14.
After ISRO’s record breaking launch earlier the last
week, this newspaper’s handle surfaced on Twitter,
facing the criticism-ic wave from many of those who
were proud of this achievement. The criticism was
over a newspaper post in which this newspaper
mocked India after their successful 2013 mission
putting India in one of the elites of space club.
Which newspaper agency ?

33. New York Times

34. Question 15.
Decorating them has been in culture from a long time, indicated by earliest evidences dating back to
3200B.C. At that time, Chinese royalty would tint these growths with things like eggwhites or flower
petals. Around the same time, Ancient Egyptians were also doing this, where the richer Egyptian class
used a darker color to paint them whereas the poorer Egyptian painted them in light colors.
During 14th-17th century in China, artificial outgrowths were available to amplify the statement made
by the length of these and were used to demarcate between the noblewomen and commoners. In
1940s this became a trend with the arrival of Rita Hayworth on the scene of Hollywood.
Today, Fred Slack’s company of which he is a co-founder is one of the biggest which deal in and
produce these kind of decorative stuffs.
What item/trend is this ?
(looking for 4-5 specific words in answer)

35. Decorating the long grown nails.
These days artificial outgrowths are being sold which can be decorated after one attaches it to the already
growing nails to stylize. (? :O)

36. Question 16.
Malaysian agency Angkasa convened a conference of 150 ________ scientists and
scholars in 2006 to combat with this dilemma when one of its member Sheikh
Muszaphar Shukor faced this problem before his journey. His problem was that the
direction of this “vehicle” keeps changing and thus laws to deliver Qibla were
devised as given in the picture(left).
Thus, A Guideline of Performing Ibadah where ?

37. International Space Station

38. Question 17.
This video was released on the 10th Anniversary of founding of this company in 2015, set to the song “Alphabet Aerobics”
by Blackilicious. It celebrates nothing short of an amazing tribute to all different kinds of impossible-to-anticipate genres
that this website has made possible. The momentous effect of this company has helped popular culture to develop by
large amounts.
Which company ?

39. YOUTUBE

40. Question 18.
Veeram X shares its name with a literary masterpiece of 17th
century. The film forms a part of the Navarasa series by director
Jayaraj, which is the emotion of sympathy. The film also takes
inspirations from the Norther ballads of North Malabar region in
Kerala and tells the story of Chandu Chekavar, an infamous warrior
of 13th century North Malabar, played by Kunal Kapoor. In the
words of Kunal, “It is every actors wish to play the character of
_______ (and do some action scenes too!) and thus he immediately
signed it.” The movie ravels that Chandu’s ambition was his tragic
flow which eventually led to the unravelling of his life.
Identify X ?

41. Macbeth

42. Question 19.
What does this map, showing specific
locations, pertains to ?
Main studio is located in Belfast, Northern
Ireland and the locations can be seen
extending to Morocco.

43. Entry to King’s Landing
Entrance to The House of Undying

44. Question 20.
Leon Golden, teaching a Humanities seminar in war literature, was
convinced that there existed a Homeric influence in the novel X. Newspapers
and reading groups speculated over this possibility and came up with
similarities between the main character of the novel, Y and Achilles, like, they
both stew in their tents and refuse to fight, both humiliated and oppressed by
vainglorious commanding officers, they both are devastated by death of a
friend and go on a rampage afterwards. Though Y is not motivated by
revenge like Achilles; instead he has his “heart cracked” by compassion.
Leon finally wrote a book comparing the two characters in 2009.
Identify the novel or the main character Y.

46. This tech giant recently struck a deal with The International Olympic Committee,
worth $800 million, to sponsor Olympic Games till 2028. This tech giant will provide
online computing services and data analytics for sporting contest. It will also help to
develop an online video channel for viewers in the world’s largest consumer market.
Under terms of the agreement, this Asian giant joins The Olympic Partner worldwide
sponsorship program and becomes the official “Cloud Services” and “E-Commerce
Platform Services” partner of the IOC.
Which company ?
Question 21.

48. FINALS
• 6 Teams in finals.
• IB Forward – 19 Questions.
• Differential – 6 Questions.
• IB Reverse – 19 Questions.
• Long Visual Connect – 6 elements.