Waves'14 Open Finals

Welcome to the finals of the
Waves’14 Open Quiz
QMs
Bala &ACP

Rules
 5 rounds
 Points and format will be explained
 No gadgets
 A special mention to Harish Krishna V for helping us

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Rd1: Infinite Pounce Clockwise

1. What is the Glomar response?
The Glomar Explorer was a large salvage vessel built by the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) for its covert "Project Azorian"—an attempted
salvaging of a sunken Soviet submarine. In February 1975, aware of the
pending publication of a story in the Los Angeles Times, the CIA sought to
stop the story's publication. Journalist Harriet Ann Phillippi requested
that the CIA provide disclosure of both the Glomar project and its
attempts to censor the story, to which the CIA chose to “X" both the
project's existence and its attempts to keep the story unpublished. The
"Glomar response" as it was dubbed has since had bearing in FOIA cases
such as in the 2004 lawsuit American Civil Liberties Union v. Department
of Defense, wherein Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected the
Department of Defense and CIA's use of the Glomar response in refusing
to release documents and photos depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

We can neither confirm nor deny...

2. ID X
 X Roussimoff was unofficially crowned "The Greatest
Drunk on Earth“. for once consuming 119 12-US-fluid-
ounce (350 ml) beers (over 41 litres) in 6 hours. The
Fabulous Moolah writes that X drank 127 beers in
a Reading, Pennsylvania, hotel bar and later passed out
in the lobby. The staff could not move him and had to
leave him there until he awoke from his slumber.
 When X underwent surgery in 1987, his size made it
impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a
dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol
tolerance ("it usually takes two liters of vodka just to
make me feel warm inside") was used as a guideline
instead. This guideline is still used today to help others
with similar issues.

3. X? #kolstylz
X are phenomena said to arise when a number of rats
become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck
together with blood, dirt, ice, feces or simply knotted.
The animals reputedly grow together while joined at
the tails. The numbers of rats that are joined together
can vary, but X formed naturally from a large number
of rats are rarer. The phenomenon is particularly
associated with Germany, where the majority of
instances have been reported. Historically, there are
various superstitions surrounding this phenomena ,
and they were often seen as a bad omen, particularly
associated with plagues

4.
Boong-Ga Boong-Ga , is an arcade game developed by
a South Korean company, Taff System. It is the first
arcade game to simulate kancho - a popular prank in
Japan. he object of Boong-Ga Boong-Ga is to score
points by spanking or performing kancho. A plastic
finger is attached to the machine for players to perform
the latter. The game features eight characters players
can punish: "Ex-Girlfriend", "Ex-boyfriend",
"gangster", "Mother In Law", "Gold-digger", "child
molester" and "Con-artist". During gameplay, the
facial expression of the chosen character is displayed
on a monitor. What is Kancho and why would this
game be quite familiar with fans of the Manga
“Naruto”?

5.
Christine R. Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and
currently a visiting professor at Harvard) and is the author of the book
"Pink Globalization: X’s Trek Across the Pacific“. She was quoted as
follows
“X is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend.
But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits
like a two-legged creature. And if you are ready for your mind to be just a
little more blown, the character we all know as X is actually a British girl
who loves apple pie, and is the daughter of George and Mary White. She
has a twin sister. She's a perpetual third-grader. She lives outside of
London. I could go on. A lot of people don't know the story and a lot don't
care,“
Which iconic character whose expressionless mug has been featured on
countless toys, not to mention bowling balls, motor oil, a Fender Strat, a
pricey Judith Leiber clutch and men’s underwear is being described here?

6.
 The following was a poll conducted to come up with
a suitable name for the colour of X. The name
Cosmic Latte was chosen despite the popularity of
Cappucino Cosmico as it was felt that X’s colour was
similar to that of a Starbucks latte. ID X.
 Pic on next slide.

Color Name Credit
Number of votes from
JHU astronomers
Cosmic Latte Peter Drum 6
Cappuccino Cosmico Peter Drum 17
Big Bang
Buff/Blush/Beige
Many entrants 13
Cosmic Cream Several entrants 8
Astronomer Green Unknown 8
Astronomer Almond Lisa Rose 7
Skyvory Michael Howard 7
Univeige Several entrants 6
Cosmic Khaki Unknown 5
Primordial Clam
Chowder
Unknown 4

The average colour of the universe

7.
 The X scene was shot outside the Tomnadashan Mine
cave 4 miles from the Perthshire village of Killin. For
the 25th anniversary DVD, Michael Palin and Terry
Jones returned to be interviewed but they could not
remember the location. They wandered up and down
the hills for hours and, in desperation, asked the locals,
saying that they couldn't miss it as it had a killer X in
it. This prompt was insufficient and so the couple
performed a comic turn in front of the nearby loch to
general amusement: "It was priceless stuff, and some
of the looks they were getting were unbelievable.“

7 cont.
 The X was portrayed in the movie by a real X and
also a prop. The woman who owned the real X was
unhappy with the amount of fake blood used in the
scene. The scene has a parallel in the early story of
the Roman de Renart in which a foe takes hubristic
pride in his defeat of a ferocious X. The idea for the
X in the movie was taken from the façade of the
cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. This illustrates
the weakness of cowardice by showing a knight
fleeing from a X

The rabbit scene/Rabbit of Caerbannog

10. ID X.
It soon came to light that the aircraft involved in the accident had been
brought into the country in dubious circumstances. Supposed to be a
“gift” by a “foreign disciple” to Dhirendra Brahmachari, a “holy man” with
enormous influence on the prime minister and X, it was allowed to be
imported in defiance of all rules. Moreover, one month before the
disaster, the director general of civil aviation, Air Marshal J. Zaheer, had
informed his superiors in writing that X was “violating safety regulations
and thus endangering his own life and the lives of others”. Zaheer wanted
this matter to be brought to the PM’s attention “quietly”. Somehow, this
did not happen, but X saw the relevant file. What followed was typical.
Within hours, the air marshal was sacked and replaced by his deputy,
G.R. Kathpalia, “who used to be dutifully in attendance on several of X’s
flights”. ID X, who is also considered by some, as the person responsible
for the general reluctance of a large number of people in Northern India
to commit to family planning

Sanjay Gandhi. The aircraft in question was ironically the same one in
which he died after crashing it near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi

11.
 In 1974, it was noticed that X’s condition was
deteriorating. They decided to fly him to Paris for
examination - and he was issued an Egyptian passport
that listed his occupation as “King “,though it had been
some time since he had any royal duties . He was
received at Le Bourget airport, just outside Paris, with
the full military honours befitting a king. In Paris, he
was diagnosed and treated for a fungal infection and
during the examination, it was discovered that he had
suffered from arthritis, poor circulation and appalling
dental condition.” Microscopic inspection of the roots
of his hair proved that the X’s hair was originally red,
which suggests that he came from a family of redheads.

11 (cont.)
 However, a website run by the L'Oréal Group
states that microscopic inspection by L'Oréal
researchers revealed that “X was naturally blond
and that he used a coloring agent (probably henna)
to give his hair red highlights. Who was the subject
of this very thorough examination?

12.
The inspiration for this sportsperson X’s habit came from watching his father do
the same while he worked. His father actually clarified and said it stretched even
farther back in the lineage, "As far as I can remember it originated from my
granddad”.
In 1989, the Chicago Tribune did an in-depth report on what X’s quirk actually
meant and decided the move fit in with anthropologist Desmond Morris'
categorization of the "Concentration Y." Quoting Morris about this classification:
“The gesture gradually revealed itself, not so much as a pure 'concentration'
gesture, but as a 'please leave me in peace' gesture ... Once the action was
understood as a social rejection gesture, it began to fit in with the infantile breast
rejection movement”.
Name this sportsman whose jersey number was the first jersey that Miami Heat
ever retired.

Michael Jordan and his infamous tongue wag( Miami Heat
retired Jordon’s no 23, despite him never playing for them,
as a mark of respect).

E X A M P L E P R E S E N T
D I F F E R E N T I A L S C O R I N G ( X 5 )
Rd2: Make a pun out of the movie
by connecting to the sports person

Answer
 The Silence of the Lahm
 The silence of the lambs
 Philipp Lahm

A N S W E R S F O L L O W
Exchange sheets

Robben Hood (prince of thieves)
 Robin Hood, prince of thieves
 Arjen Robben

Teenage Mutant Ninja Skrtels
 Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles
 Martin Škrtel

Riquelme for a Dream
 Requiem for a Dream
 Juan Riquelme

Guti and the Beast
 Beauty and the Beast
 Guti (José María Gutiérrez Hernández)

The Usual Busquets
 The Usual Suspects
 Sergio Busquets

Klose Encounters of the Third Kind
 Close encounters of the third kind
 Klose

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Rd3: Infinite Pounce Counter-
clockwise

1.
In ancient Rome, merchants used the Latin term libra pondo to mean
"one pound in weight." Libra, as the name of the constellation suggests,
means “scales" or "balances," while pondo comes from the verb pendere,
"to weigh.
By the fourteenth century the abbreviation "lb" for libra had made its way
into English as a unit of weight. As a hangover from medieval times,
writers often added a bar called a "tittle" or "tilde," tying the letters
together and signalling that it was an abbreviated version of a longer
word. Though "lb" survives to this day, its barred counterpart grew
increasingly stylized, written down in haste by harried merchants,
mathematicians, and scientists (Isaac Newton possessed an especially
florid version) so that "℔" has now become which familiar punctuation
mark?

2. Which temple?
This temple's kitchen is considered as the largest kitchen in
the world. Tradition maintains that all food cooked in the
temple kitchens are supervised by the Goddess Mahalakshmi,
the empress of Srimandir herself. It is said that if the food
prepared has any fault in it, a shadow dog appears near the
temple kitchen. The temple cooks, or Mahasuaras, take this
as a sign of Mahalakshmi’s displeasure with the food, which
is, then, promptly buried and a new batch cooked. Cooking is
done only in earthen pots with water drawn from two special
wells near the kitchen called Ganges and Yamuna. There are a
total of 56 varieties of naivedhyas offered to the deities. Name
this temple whose name has been lent to the English language
to describe a mercilessly destructive and unstoppable force.

3. What am I talking about?
 The oldest form of it is the Greek playwright Aristophanes'
work Lysistrata, an anti-war comedy. The female characters in
the play, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, lead the same.
 One of the more recent instances was in October 1997, when
the chief of the Military of Colombia, General Manuel Bonnet
publicly called for it among the ________ of the Colombian
left-wing guerrillas, drug traffickers, and paramilitaries as part
of a strategy—along with diplomacy—to achieve a ceasefire.
 More instances of the same have happened in Kenya, Liberia,
Naples, Togo and most recently against Russians in Crimea with
the slogan, “Don’t give it to the Russians.”

4.
 This image was shared on 9gag after Germany
defeated France 1-0 in the quarterfinals on the 4th of
July, 2014. What is this image referring to?

The Maginot Line, a series of fortifications,
which was by passed by Germany during
WWII.

5. Exhaustive connect. Also, FITB and how was it
in the news recently?
 Merly Streep in Silkwood
 Naomi Watts in Mulholand Drive
 Angeline Jolie in Gia
 Anne Hathaway in Brokeback mountain
 Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball
 Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut
 Marisa Tomei in Wrestler
 _______ never
 Kirsten Stewart in On the Road

 Charlize Theron in Monster
 Helen Hunt in The Sessions
 Scarlett Johansson in the phones
 Jessica Chastain in Lawless
 Jodie Foster in The Accused
 Hillary Swank in Boy’s Don’t Cry
 Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky
 Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures, Jude,
Hamlet, Titanic, Iris, Little Children and The
Reader

Seth McFarlane’s “We Saw Your Boobs” in
Oscars 2013.
Jennifer Lawrence and oh, well...

Wrist callus caused by computer mouse usage

7.
 Samoa, an island nation situated in the pacific, did
something very unique back in 2011. With a falling
US economy, they decided that it was more
beneficial to improve ties with Australia and decided
to go ahead with this unique move. What did they
do? (Visual in the next slide).

(Courtesy: Anirudh Parthasarathy) Answer
 Changing the time zone

8. Identify the country and the issue.
 The Economist, the popular British magazine,
often lands itself into controversy for its blunt
presentation of the situation. For instance, in
China, distributors destroy the magazine or remove
articles with content that the government objects.
However, 31 editions of the magazine were banned
in a country over a map issue. Identify the country
and the issue.

(Courtesy: Anirudh Parthasarathy) Answer
 India and the map of J&K.

9. Whose name has been blanked out?

10. Put funda
 Why has this man been modelled in this
fashion? Or just put funda behind this model

This is the cortex man. It shows how the
brain sees the body

11.
 Almost one fourth of child births handled by male
doctors in 19th century Vienna resulted in the death
of the baby or the mother or both. Ignaz Semmelweis
found the reason for the deaths and came up with a
simple 20 second solution that would drastically
reduce the number of deaths. But his solution was
not accepted by the gentlemanly doctor community
who had Semmelweis kicked out of Vienna
maternity hospital.
 What was his solution?

He asked doctors to wash their hands
 He found that doctors often went to assist births
immediately after doing autopsies.
 But the community rejected his proposal because
doctors are gentlemen and "gentlemen's hands are
always clean."

12.
 This flower stack is called Bathukamma
and is named after the festival during which
these are prepared. The festival typically
coincides with the first day of Navaratri.
 This year however, people made these during
summer, to bring out the celebratory mood.
 Why were they celebrating?

Formation of Telangana
 Bathukamma

D O N ’ T W O R R Y , I T I S M O S T L Y L I T , M Y T H
A N D A R T . O R W O R R Y .
+ 1 0 F O R E A C H . W R I T T E N .
Rd4: Poke’mon Round- Gotta
answer ‘em all

1. What is the good word?
 Gengar is a shadow type first generation
Pokemon whose design inspiration includes
the Chestire cat. It has the ability to hide
perfectly in the shadow of any object,
granting it exceptional stealth. Gengar are
possibly derived from the word X, which is
fitting for a Pokémon with a habit of
pretending to be a person's shadow. The
kanji can also be read as gen and is used in
words meaning phantom or illusion.
 The word X derived from German folklore is
considered a harbinger of bad luck.

2. What extinct group of animals?
 Omanyte is first generation
rock/water Pokemon resurrected
from the now infamous Helix fossil.
Both its design and name is
inspired from a particular class of
marine, invertebrate animals.
 These molluscs are more closely
related to living coleoids (octopus,
squid etc.) than they are to
shelled nautiloids such as the
living Nautilus species. However,
Omanyte is also derived from
ōmugai, japanese for Nautilus.

3. What is the alleged inspiration?
 Milotic is said to be the most
beautiful of all Pokémon. When
there are fights going on, it has
the power to calm angry
feelings and end arguments by
releasing a wave of energy.
 Milotic may be a combination
of aquatic, melodic, or lotic.
 However, its characteristics can
be a reference to a certain
Alexandros of Antioch.

4. What do LGM and BEM stand for?
 These two pokemon named Elgyem and Beheeyem.
Their names are a reference to the two most
common kinds of extra-terrestrials , usually
abbreviated as LGM and BEM respectively.

5. Identify the possible inspiration
 The two Pokemon showed are Rayquaza and Yvelta.
It is said that both their names and the design has
been inspired by a mythical creature.
 Besides the similarity in their names. These two
pokemon have the highest base stats for the flying
type. Rayquaza has a Airlock ability that stops all
weather effects.
 Which mythological God of wind do the possibly
draw inspiration from?

6. Identify X and Y
 This Pokemon Cresselia, has the power to
dispel nightmares, and holding one of its
feathers is said to bring happy dreams.
Often seen as the opposite of Darkrai, it
has yellow, X-shaped ornaments on the
sides of its head.
 It is a female only Pokemon and the name
is partly derived from goddess Y.
 Y is the sister of Helios and said to have
been the lover of mortal, Endymion.
 Y is also a character played by Kate
Beckinsale in Underworld series.

A N S W E R S T O F O L L O W
Exchange answer sheets

 Little Green Men
 Bug Eyed Monsters

X- Crescent, Y- Selene, the moon goodess

8 S L I D E S
E A C H C O N N E C T S T O A C O M M O N T H E M E
E X H A U S T I V E
Rd5: LVC

The ISL teams’ logos
1. Kerala Blasters( named after the Master Blaster himself)
2. NorthEast United( 8 stars on the logo depicting the 8 states involved)
3. Delhi Dynamos( a single football stud in motion)
4. Mumbai city( the logo has a local train)
5. Pune City (the two horses on the logo)
6. F.C.Goa( The gaur is the state animal of Goa and on the team logo)
7. Atletico de Kolkata( the winged tiger on the logo)
8. Chennaiyin FC

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