ANTARDWANDINTER HOSTEL GENERAL QUIZ FINALS

Dextro• 8 QUESTIONS

• POUNCE +20/ -10• BOUNCE +10/ -0

• HINTS WILL BE GIVEN ON BOUNCE IF REQUIRED

• The infamous monument X was supposed to be destroyed 20 years after its creation. But the creator had an ingenious idea to credit the monument with a scientific purpose.• It is for this purpose that one can find the names of 72 personalities

, associated with science, engraved on X.• Due to a painting campaign, the names including Coriolis, Cauchy,

Coulomb, Carnot and Ampere disappeared but were later restored.• Give me X.

• X- Eiffel Tower

• “On June 21, 2016, in an interview with the magazine Vice, "Guccifer 2.0" stated that he is Romanian. On June 30, 2016, "Guccifer 2.0" stated that he is not Russian. When pressed to use the Romanian language in an interview with Motherboard magazine via online chat, he used such clunky grammar and terminology that experts believed he was using an online translator.……” • This is the wikipedia excerpt describing "Guccifer 2.0". Who/What is

Guccifer 2.0 and why the huge uproar over the nationality?

Guccifer 2.0 is the persona of hacker who hacked into Clinton’s emails and donations list

• Z is the name of two distinct characters in Christian texts. • One character, prominent in music and literature, signifies restoration to

life and is hence used to name Z syndrome in medicine, referring to an event in which a person spontaneously returns to life after resuscitation has been given up. • The other was the patron saint of those affected by the X disease. X was

considered as being untreatable in the early days. Patients were usually quarantined in remote areas and most never came back leading to establishment of X colonies. X colonies were also called Y (derived from Z). • Give me X, Y, Z.

X : Leprosy, Y : Lazarettes , Z : Lazarus

• John X had weird beliefs. He was a Seventh Day Adventist who believed in abstinence to the point that he slept separately from his wife and adopted his children.• He believed that all illnesses can be traced back to either stomach or

reproductive system. To “cure” his patients he recommended a bland diet.• Once he and his brother cooked this bland food in the oven for too long

but still put it through the rollers, the result of which was Y.• Give X and Y.

X : Kellogg, Y : Cornflakes

• This group was formed in November 1975. • Informally known as the

London Club, their "trigger list" consists of 48 entries with the most recent candidature widely publicised though eventually rejected with equal pomp. • Identify the group

The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)

• Known as X, this work of Plato is a Socratic dialogue concerning with justice and the order of a city where democracy is said to be as poisonous as oligarchy and tyranny. Just like Plato's work, a newly announced venture by Y aims at disrupting common practices and bringing about a paradigm shift in its field. Coincidentally, Y, a veteran in his field, named the venture : X. This is despite of him being pretty loud about upholding democratic principles in the past. Give me X, Y.

X : Republic, Y : Arnab Goswami

• On what vehicles would you find these number plates in the state of nevada ?

Driverless Cars

• X is said to be an influential figure in hip hop music noted for his "funky delivery", "boasts", "comical trash talk", and "endless quotables“. X is cited by the likes of Jay-Z and Eminem as a source of inspiration.• X released his first album of spoken word music in 1963, which

was nominated for a Grammy award making this the first of two Grammy nominations X would receive. • X also authored bestsellers like the soul of a butterfly but we

know X for a different reason altogether. How do we know X better ?

X : Muhammad Ali

• AUDIENCE QUESTION• There have been atleast 27 documented incidents of blue ice impacts between

1979 and 2003. These have happened typically near airports.• A rare incident of blue ice caused damage to the roof of a home in Chino,

California on October 20, 2006.• The name comes from the color of the disinfectant used.• What is blue ice?

• It is the human waste that sometimes falls out from the waste collection bin of airplanes. Wrapped in a disinfectant and at low temperatures, it assumes an appearance similar to blue ice.

CHOR BAZAAR

RULES• Written round.• Audio clippings will be played. Teams have to identify the

original/inspired soundtrack, as the case may be.• +10 for each correct answer. NO negatives.• The moment 2 or more teams raise their hands, I will stop playing the

track. The track will be replayed from starting up till that point only.

Answers follow !

ANSWERS1. Ladki Kyun, Hum Tum2. Babuji Dheere Chalna, Aar Paar3. Hotel California, Eagles4. Koi Mil Gaya, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai5. Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Naata Koi, Aa Gale Lag Jaa6. Urvashi Urvashi, Hum Se Hai Muqaabla

Laevo Round• 8 QUESTIONS

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• “At the airport I would observe that people travelling back from Thailand would return loaded with X. I figured that these were high in demand with their relatives back home. I concluded that there was business to be done here” This is the inspiration behind a very famous brand of X, Y in the words of the founder Binod Chaudhary.

X : Noodles, Y : Wai-Wai

• X Parliament is an expression used to describe an assembly too easy for minorities to disrupt. It is a reference to the Parliaments of country X in 17th and 18th century. It can be credited to the fact that any single member of the X parliament had an absolute veto and this veto came to be abused making it difficult for meaningful and orderly debate and decision-making to take place. • Which country was X.

X : Poland

• Proposed by Australian inventor professor David Solomon, this "product" was tested against things like water, tear, fire etc. by a lot of excited YouTubers from UK in 2016. But the latest controversy rose from one of its constituents which enraged a certain community in UK and reminded about a similar uprising in 1857. What is the "product" being talked about ?

The new 5 pound polymer note in UK uses cow fat

• The X Directive is the code name of a directive meant to stop Israel’s enemies from using captured soldiers as bargaining chips and calls for troops to open fire when one of their own is being captured even if it causes the death of their comrade. The order has been long criticised and was executed during the 2014 Gaza War costing the lives of at least 135 civilians and was termed by Amnesty International and other NGOs as a war crime. • X was considered the greatest military commander in history who

committed suicide by poisoning himself to prevent capture by the romans. • References to X have been commonly used in many films and TV series.

X : Hannibal

•There exists a place by the name Point X. It is called the point of inaccessibility and is supposed to be the most remote place on Earth•Point X is not on land. In fact it is the furthest point from any landmass and at the right time of day and closest to the ISS than any other point.•. The name X is derived from a sea-faring, anti-hero character from one of Jules Verne’s novels but is notorious for a different reference to pop culture.

•What is X?

X : Nemo

• Max Heiliger was a fictional name heavily associated with the Third Reich.• The name was supposedly a cynical joke since the word Heiliger loosely

translates to “holy saint”. Such humor was not uncommon in Nazi circles as some gas chambers were named Himmelstrasse or the “heaven street”.• The importance of this pseudonym cannot be emphasized enough,

with some historians going so far as to say that the despotic Nazi rule was premised upon this.• In what way did this name/ persona signify the oppressive regime?

Max Heiliger was the name of the fake account holder that the Schutzstaffel(SS) used to deposit all money, riches and property that they collected from the Jews.

• Walter Cronkite was a broadcast journalist active in the period 1937-1981. He was cited as “the most trusted man in America” after an opinion poll.• He worked with CBS and was the first to break the news of an event

X. In doing so, he had to break into the television airwaves while the camera was set up because of the magnitude of the news and the constant influx of information.• What is the event X?

The death of John F Kennedy

• X is company that has long been associated with Thomas Edison and began with the development of glass encased incandescent lamp, the first company to do so.• The company then moved on to production of lanterns, petri dishes

and eye lenses. • However, their most famous product in this field is Y, which is

considered to be a quality standard in recent times.• Give me X and Y.

X : Corning, Y : Gorilla Glass

SOLD !!• This is an auction based round.• After the question has been displayed, the teams are

allowed to bid as much as they can (with a maximum of their obtained points and minimum of 30) or not at all.• The teams win the bid win when they quote the maximum

points for gamble.• They can either win the quoted points or end up losing half

of that much depending on their answer.• For all other teams, regular pounce is valid. (+20/-10)• In case of an undecided bid, they round commences on

pounce.(+20/-10)

• There exists a set of four “objects” recently named X, Y, Z and W.• X is associated with the “Land of the rising sun”• Y refers to a region in Russia.• Z refers to a region in USA.• W is named after a personality Yuri W who is said to have

made pioneering contributions to the field.

• Where would you find these “objects”?

These are the newly named heavy elements – Nihonium, Moscovium, Tenessine and Oganesson, hence, periodic table.

• This is a picture of the material required for packing a certain infamous product. Name the product.

Samsung Galaxy S7

• What you see here is a description to a certain event Y that happened on the 6th of December. However, this poem is copied in rhyme and rhythm from another poem which describing an infamous incident X that happened in the UK in 1605 :

Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The X I know of no reason Why the X Should ever be forgot! • The critically acclaimed movie Z that was based on

this incident. Identify X, Y and Z.

Y : Babri Masjid Demolition, X : Gunpowder Treason and Plot, Z : V for Vendetta

• In the year 2011, the following is a tweet from Dwayne Johnson.• What is he talking about?

Osama Bin Laden’s Killing

• The species illustrated is named after a certain personality X famed for a distinctive frontal jawline and curvature of the lips.• The creature belonged to a family of

extinct hoofed animals living in the swamp. The size and curvature of the lips would have been especially beneficial for scooping up vegetation.• Give me X.

X : Mick Jagger

• At the height of black death, all ships entering the port town of Venice had to follow a particular procedure. • The procedure was for the ships to wait outside of the city for forty

days to make sure that they did not carry any communicable diseases before the crew was allowed to go ashore.• The word X has been used in similar context and is a modern day

variant of the procedure that was implemented.• Give me X.

X : Quarantine

RISE OF THE REVENANTS• There are 10 categories in this round.• Each team can challenge and will be challenged only once.• The team with the lowest points gets to choose a category and an

opponent to challenge and this progresses in an increasing manner.• If the challenger is unable to answer the question correctly, they

lose 20 points. If both the involved teams cannot get the answer they lose 15 points.•Whichever team gets the answer correct gets 30 points.• The question is restricted to the involved teams.

CATEGORIES

• FOOD• BUSINESS• ETYMOLOGY• SPORTS• ENTERTAINMENT

• SCI-TECH• POLITICAL HISTORY• MYTHOLOGY• FAN-FICTION• INDIA

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FOOD• Historically, X , was generally the rural people’s food in

Punjab as the robust homemade butter-topped X fit the hardworking lifestyle of the village people.• People hailing from Uttar Pradesh shallow fry X and top it

with tomatoes and yogurt to overwhelm its strong peppery and bitter taste, an entirely different style of cooking. • Traditionally, the real X is cooked sans masala, just a dash of

salt and ginger, mixed in with the other ingredients.

X : Sarson Da Saag

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BUSINESS• Founded by Ruben Rousing in Sweden in 1951, X was

named after the shape of their first product. • The shape was soon changed and the technology that has

stood the test of time was integrated into another shape to give X its big commercial breakthrough which we still use almost everyday. The technology was named the most important innovation in 2oth century in its field. • X is now used as a generic name for products serving

similar purposes.• Which company is X?

X : Tetra Pak

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ETYMOLOGY• In the times gone by, an unwelcome visitor would

have been given the cheapest and most common type of food : ____ ________ of mutton

• Which phrase originated from this ?

Cold Shoulder

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SPORTS• The Muta Scale is used by the so called smarks (people

who know too much about wrestling) to estimate and quantify X in a wrestling match. • It is a normalised scale with the Great Muta Vs. Hiroshi

Hase 1992, New Japan Pro-Wrestling match as the reference. • What is X ?

X : Blood Loss

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ENTERTAINMENT• The mall-based pastry chain Cinnabon tweeted a

cinnamon portrait of X. They had to delete the tweet due to an outrage that followed.

• Who was being thus commemorated?

X : Carrie Fisher

SCI-TECH• The Facebook page of the infamous organization X posted

the following : • “The cloud, or Brahman as the Hindus call it, is the All,

surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real. If there is data, there is X”• This was in consequence to a recent technological change

made by X to restructure their database.• What is X?

X : The Pirate Bay

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MYTHOLOGY• Sharvara is the watch dog of Yama in Hindu Mythology.• A similar character in Greek mythology, X, most probably inspired

from its Indian counterpart, guards the gates of the underworld, preventing the dead from leaving.• X is also the name of a computer network authentication protocol

to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner.

X : Cereberus/Kerberos

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FAN FICTION• X is a Celtic baby name which means ‘servant spear’. It is

derived from combining a German name for spear and Celtic word for servant.• It has become very popular in fiction resonating with

futuristic technology, albeit it has nothing to do with spear.• Recently, an attempt at realizing this fiction came closer to

reality and was widely publicised.• What is X and what is being talked about?

X- Jarvis and development of a AI by the same name by Mark Zuckerberg.

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INDIA• Having served the Indian army for 25 years now, X is all set

to retire from its duties and will soon be replaced. Though it continues to remain sturdy, it cannot be trusted with military duties because of its inability to keep up with time and technology• Replacements for the same undergo rigorous tests where

performance under different climatic conditions and terrains such as snow or marshy lands were assessed• Who/What is X.

X : Maruti Gypsy

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