Quizzitch Cup Finale 2014 - National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Quiz hosted by Sudipto Basu (ex-Quiz Inc.).

1. Written round, please don’t shout out your
answers.
•Scoring for individual questions: +10/-0.
•Scoring for attempting the connect theme
indicated on each slide. Negative scores for
wrong attempts.
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LONG CON

2. 1. Comic world!
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+70/-35
Gulo gulo is the largest land-dwelling species
of the family Mustelidae (weasels). It is a
stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely
resembling a small bear than other mustelids.
It has a reputation for ferocity and strength out
of proportion to its size, with the documented
ability to kill prey many times larger than itself.
What is the common name for Gulo gulo?
(An alternative name feeds into the Connect.)
(Photo in next slide)

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Photo.

4. 2. As time goes by…
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+60/-30
A short story by Washington Irving published in
1819 is set in New York's Catskill Mountains
and concerns a titular kindly British-American
villager of Dutch ancestry. The name of the
story?

5. 3. From the look of it…
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+50/-25
Three people co-founded this Santa Clara,
California based tech company in 1993:
Jen-Hsun Huang
Chris Malachowsky
Curtis Priem
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The company's main product is in direction
competition with AMD's Radeon line.

6. 4. X & Y.
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New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch
settlement that was renamed in 1665 in honour of
James II of England (the Duke of X).
The barrier on the northern boundary of the
settlement gave its name to a road, now
emblematic. The road in turn lends its name to
1987 film Y, the most famous line of which can be
traced to Ivan Boesky's May 18, 1986
commencement address at UC Berkeley's School
of Business Administration.
(This line feeds into the Connect.)
(Pic in next slide)

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Map.

8. 5. First instance of?
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"That the Annual Reminder, in order to be
more relevant, reach a greater number of
people, and encompass the ideas and ideals
of the larger struggle in which we are engaged
– that of our fundamental human rights – be
moved both in time and location.
We propose that a demonstration be held
annually on the last Saturday in June in New
York City to commemorate the 1969
spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher
Street..."

9. 6.
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Identify this Hindu god.
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10. 7. Hold it!
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ACS is a psychometric measure of five ways
in which ____ is acted out: misattributing
causation, catastrophic evaluating,
overgeneralizing, demandingness, and
inflammatory labeling.

11. And the answers are…
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…in the next slide!

12. Seven deadly sins
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Gluttony = Wolverine, also known as Glutton.
Sloth = Rip Van Winkle
Envy = NVidia, which is derived from the
Latin word Invidia.
Greed = Wall Street, named after the wall
protecting New Amsterdam.
Pride = Pride Parade or Pride March
Lust = Kamadeva
Wrath = ACS is Angry Cognitions Scale