litsoc main quiz 2017 - prelims
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litsoc main quiz 2017
gaf/ananth ‘stan’ sundararaman/kat/menonprelims
● 30 questions● No negatives● No star questions● We hope you have a outSTANding
UTime.
Here is a picture of a spaghetti spoon. Why does the spoon have a hole in the middle? In other words, it solves a problem that people always have when cooking spaghetti; how does it solve that problem?
1.
2.
Shown in this video from 1935 is the story behind X. The idea for X came about when two brothers Édouard and André of Clermont-Ferrand in France, attended the Lyon Universal Exposition in 1894.
<insert video>
3.“Drink DB export, save our _ _ _ _ _ _ _” is a campaign that was started by DB breweries in New Zealand over the last month. It consisted of installing machines in malls, theatres and other public spaces. The machines themselves consisted of a wheel of small steel hammers spinning at 2,800 rpm. It also included a vacuum system that removed the 200 grams of the end product. The whole process takes five seconds.
A critical part of the project involved securing a two-year deal between DB export and a company named DryMix.
What is the whole campaign aimed at?
4. X is a 2011 non-fiction book written by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. It’s full title is X: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. Its website carries the following text.
X is a bold effort to make sense of the future of work. No one else is doing serious thinking about a force that will lead to a restructuring of the economy that is more profound and far-reaching than the transition from the agricultural to the industrial age.
What is the name of this book, that is a play on an American rock band that was founded in 1991?
5. Below are two comic covers. What were they inspired by?
The following slide shows the five most prominent designs of a certain type of building around the world. They are taken from a book that catalogues a total of 193 entries. After studying and compiling the 193, they converged on this list of 5 designs. The name of this book is also the type of building studied. What building?
6.
7.The following slide has the logo of an entity that was started in 1935. It attracted the elite of New York City until its closure last year in July.
Which entity?
8.In the early 1990s, X wrote a script for _ _ _ and met with 20th Century Fox executives to pitch his project. X says of the meeting, “They said, ‘Oooooohkaaaaaay – a three-hour long epic? Sure, that's just what we want. Is there a little bit of Terminator in that? Any Harrier jets, shoot-outs, or car chases?' I said, 'No, no, no. It's not like that.'”
The primary inspiration for X to make _ _ _ was that he wanted to fund a trip to the location of the _ _ _.
FITB.
9.Asao Tokolo, a 46-year-old artist had this to say about his creation:
“I was thinking of something like a coloring picture that everyone can add their own color to. White against indigo blue — it’s a very clean-cut expression.”
The design comprises 45 interconnecting pieces forming a checkered pattern. Use of the color indigo is intended “to express a refined elegance and sophistication.”
10.An explanation for the name of which product (or) FITB?
● As our lead did, people associated it with speed - shiny fast engines and cars.
● In design terminology, '_ _ _' refers to the non-webpage parts of the interface - the toolbars, tabs and buttons - because our design philosophy was "Content, not _ _ _" - putting our focus on minimizing the amount of UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name it '_ _ _'.
11. Who’s story is being narrated in this video?
12.______ ___ ______ is a board game cafe chain in Toronto. Its name is a play on a popular children’s board game and the primary beverage it serves. Changing the last word of the board game alone leads to the answer.
What is the name of the cafe?
13.Connect:
● Animal Circus, Seasons 4-5● Coldplay, Season 3● Dr. Feelgood, Season 1-2● Michiel Huisman, Season 4-6● Mastodon, Season 5● Molotov Jukebox, Season 1-3 and 6● Of Monsters and Men, Season 6● Sigur Ros, Season 4● Ed Sheeran, Season 7
14
This food item is believed to have been invented in North America by Dutch settlers, and they were initially called oliekoeks (Dutch for oilcakes). The shape that is most commonly associated with them today was apparently invented by a shiphand in 1847. Dissatisfied with the rawness of the center part, he punched it out using a pepper box, solving the problem and resulting in the item’s characteristic shape.
Which food item?
15.Weird Al Yankovic is a musician who parodies popular songs and makes them funnier. Listen to this excerpt from one of his songs and identify the name of the song.
16.Witold Pilecki was a volunteer who compiled important information about a specific place. Based on his description of the place, ID the place:
“When marching along the gray road towards the tannery in a column raising clouds of dust, one saw the beautiful red light of the dawn shining on the white flowers in the orchards and on the trees by the roadside, or on the return journey we would encounter young couples out walking, breathing in the beauty of springtime, or women peacefully pushing their children in prams — then the thought uncomfortably bouncing around one’s brain would arise . . . swirling around, stubbornly seeking some solution to the insoluble question: Were we all . . . people?”
17.Adult members of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus were called “coney” until the 18th century. This word soon fell out of favour, though, because of the similarity of its pronunciation to another word used as a vulgarity. As an alternative, a rhyming word was proposed, which to this day is used as an alternative word to refer to this species and its relative.
What word?
18. New changes in the Swedish primary school curriculum mean that students are going to be learning programming from a younger age. Along with programming, another measure to improve digital competence is aimed at teaching kids to recognize X, a hot topic in Sweden at the moment, with even the King emphasizing the importance of source criticism.
"There has been some naivety when it comes to the information society. An idea that all knowledge is just a short click away and we don't need to know as much as we needed to before”, an administrator pointed out.
What two-word term, one that we’ve been hearing a lot recently, is X?
Paolo di Verachi is an Italian designer who holds the Guinness World Records for World’s Most Expensive Tequila and Cognac Bottles. He has recently also come up with the world’s most expensive water bottle at $60,000 per bottle. The next slide has an image of the bottle. This water bottle is called Tributo a __________. From the image, FITB.
19.
20.In the mid-1940s, this international football club started the concept of ‘penyes,’ which comprised of influential and wealthy fans who could also help the club financially. The penyes were responsible for the bulk of the sponsorship when they club built their iconic venue in the mid-1950s and are still important in club affairs. The ‘penyes’ were primarily a response to General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, who proved to be extremely hostile towards the club.
Which club?
21.A book display for which franchise?
22. Project 2061 is a long-term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology. To achieve that goal, Project 2061 conducts research and develops tools and services that educators, researchers, and policymakers can use to make critical and lasting improvements in the nation’s education system.
This text is taken from the AAAS website. The goal of the project is to educate the populace of America sufficiently before a certain event. What event/Why is is called Project 2061?
23. A graph of what?
24 The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 book by Arthur Koestler that deals with concepts of philosophical psychology. It contributes to the longstanding debate surrounding the mind-body problem (i.e, the question of how the mind and the body interact, and if they’re fundamentally divorced from each other or not).
Masamune Shirow, the creator of a certain franchise, was inspired by the contents of the book to create his franchise, even going so far as to draw inspiration from the title to name it.
Which franchise, that deals with similar themes?
25. Third Man _______ is a new establishment opened in Detroit that is rolling back the years. In order to do what they do, they had to order eight machines from Germany - some to process seven-inch items, and some to process twelve-inch items.
What is Third Man’sbusiness? Or just FITB.
26. Jann Haworth is an American born artist who moved to London in 1961. Haworth married Peter Blake, with whom she created many artworks including X.
The original concept for X was to have the subjects dressed in their new "Northern brass band" uniforms appearing at an official ceremony in a park. For the great crowd gathered at this imaginary event, the members had also submitted a list of characters they wanted to see in attendance.
Blake and Haworth decided to pasted life-size, black-and-white photographs of all the approved characters onto hardboard, which Haworth subsequently hand-tinted.
What is X?
“We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard, and the name of the first ship that goes to Mars - not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is Heart of Gold.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, X emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
X, and which novel?
27.
During the US presidential election of 2008, this company was running out of funds. They needed to raise funds in some form and decided to capitalise on the Obama McCain rivalry. They therefore decided to purchase 1000 boxes of something, and rebrand 500 of those as Obama O’s and the other 500 as Cap’n McCain’s. They sold these as special products and donated 5% of profit to the respective campaigns. Now this company has a net worth of many billion dollars.
What is the company, and what did they market/sell to raise money?
28.
Who recently released his autobiography, “Red”?
29.
30.What does the blue portion represent? This is relevant only in some parts of the world.
please hand in your sheetswe will discuss answers now
Here is a picture of a spaghetti spoon. Why does the spoon have a hole in the middle? In other words, it solves a problem that people always have when cooking spaghetti; how does it solve that problem?
1.
measures quantity per serving
2.
Shown in this video from 1935 is the story behind X. The idea for X came about when two brothers Édouard and André of Clermont-Ferrand in France, attended the Lyon Universal Exposition in 1894.
<insert video>
michelin man logo
3.“Drink DB export, save our _ _ _ _ _ _ _” is a campaign that was started by DB breweries in New Zealand over the last month. It consisted of installing machines in malls, theatres and other public spaces. The machines themselves consisted of a wheel of small steel hammers spinning at 2,800 rpm. It also included a vacuum system that removed the 200 grams of the end product. The whole process takes five seconds.
A critical part of the project involved securing a two-year deal between DB export and a company named DryMix.
What is the whole campaign aimed at?
sand / “save our beaches”
4. X is a 2011 non-fiction book written by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. It’s full title is X: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. Its website carries the following text.
X is a bold effort to make sense of the future of work. No one else is doing serious thinking about a force that will lead to a restructuring of the economy that is more profound and far-reaching than the transition from the agricultural to the industrial age.
What is the name of this book, that is a play on an American rock band that was founded in 1991?
race against the machine
5. Below are two comic covers. What were they inspired by?
black mirror
The following slide shows the five most prominent designs of a certain type of building around the world. They are taken from a book that catalogues a total of 193 entries. After studying and compiling the 193, they converged on this list of 5 designs. The name of this book is also the type of building studied. What building?
6.
parliament/legislature
7.The following slide has the logo of an entity that was started in 1935. It attracted the elite of New York City until its closure last year in July.
Which entity?
four seasons hotel
8.In the early 1990s, X wrote a script for _ _ _ and met with 20th Century Fox executives to pitch his project. X says of the meeting, “They said, ‘Oooooohkaaaaaay – a three-hour long epic? Sure, that's just what we want. Is there a little bit of Terminator in that? Any Harrier jets, shoot-outs, or car chases?' I said, 'No, no, no. It's not like that.'”
The primary inspiration for X to make _ _ _ was that he wanted to fund a trip to the location of the _ _ _.
FITB.
titanic
9.Asao Tokolo, a 46-year-old artist had this to say about his creation:
“I was thinking of something like a coloring picture that everyone can add their own color to. White against indigo blue — it’s a very clean-cut expression.”
The design comprises 45 interconnecting pieces forming a checkered pattern. Use of the color indigo is intended “to express a refined elegance and sophistication.”
2020 olympic logo
10.An explanation for the name of which product (or) FITB?
● As our lead did, people associated it with speed - shiny fast engines and cars.
● In design terminology, '_ _ _' refers to the non-webpage parts of the interface - the toolbars, tabs and buttons - because our design philosophy was "Content, not _ _ _" - putting our focus on minimizing the amount of UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name it '_ _ _'.
chrome
11.
Who’s story is being narrated in this video?
sakajawea
12.______ ___ ______ is a board game cafe chain in Toronto. Its name is a play on a popular children’s board game and the primary beverage it serves. Changing the last word of the board game alone leads to the answer.
What is the name of the cafe?
snakes and lattes
13.Connect:
● Animal Circus, Seasons 4-5● Coldplay, Season 3● Dr. Feelgood, Season 1-2● Michiel Huisman, Season 4-6● Mastodon, Season 5● Molotov Jukebox, Season 1-3 and 6● Of Monsters and Men, Season 6● Sigur Ros, Season 4● Ed Sheeran, Season 7
cameos by musicians/bands in
GoT
14
This food item is believed to have been invented in North America by Dutch settlers, and they were initially called oliekoeks (Dutch for oilcakes). The shape that is most commonly associated with them today was apparently invented by a shiphand in 1847. Dissatisfied with the rawness of the center part, he punched it out using a pepper box, solving the problem and resulting in the item’s characteristic shape.
Which food item?
doughnuts
15.Weird Al Yankovic is a musician who parodies popular songs and makes them funnier. Listen to this excerpt from one of his songs and identify the name of the song.
yoda
16.Witold Pilecki was a volunteer who compiled important information about a specific place. Based on his description of the place, ID the place:
“When marching along the gray road towards the tannery in a column raising clouds of dust, one saw the beautiful red light of the dawn shining on the white flowers in the orchards and on the trees by the roadside, or on the return journey we would encounter young couples out walking, breathing in the beauty of springtime, or women peacefully pushing their children in prams — then the thought uncomfortably bouncing around one’s brain would arise . . . swirling around, stubbornly seeking some solution to the insoluble question: Were we all . . . people?”
auschwitz
17.Adult members of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus were called “coney” until the 18th century. This word soon fell out of favour, though, because of the similarity of its pronunciation to another word used as a vulgarity. As an alternative, a rhyming word was proposed, which to this day is used as an alternative word to refer to this species and its relative.
What word?
bunny
18. New changes in the Swedish primary school curriculum mean that students are going to be learning programming from a younger age. Along with programming, another measure to improve digital competence is aimed at teaching kids to recognize X, a hot topic in Sweden at the moment, with even the King emphasizing the importance of source criticism.
"There has been some naivety when it comes to the information society. An idea that all knowledge is just a short click away and we don't need to know as much as we needed to before”, an administrator pointed out.
What two-word term, one that we’ve been hearing a lot recently, is X?
fake news
Paolo di Verachi is an Italian designer who holds the Guinness World Records for World’s Most Expensive Tequila and Cognac Bottles. He has recently also come up with the world’s most expensive water bottle at $60,000 per bottle. The next slide has an image of the bottle. This water bottle is called Tributo a __________. From the image, FITB.
19.
modigliani
20.In the mid-1940s, this international football club started the concept of ‘penyes,’ which comprised of influential and wealthy fans who could also help the club financially. The penyes were responsible for the bulk of the sponsorship when they club built their iconic venue in the mid-1950s and are still important in club affairs. The ‘penyes’ were primarily a response to General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, who proved to be extremely hostile towards the club.
Which club?
barcelona
21.A book display for which franchise?
lotr
22. Project 2061 is a long-term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology. To achieve that goal, Project 2061 conducts research and develops tools and services that educators, researchers, and policymakers can use to make critical and lasting improvements in the nation’s education system.
This text is taken from the AAAS website. The goal of the project is to educate the populace of America sufficiently before a certain event. What event/Why is is called Project 2061?
next sighting of halley’s comet
23. A graph of what?
fastest balls/etc. recorded
24 The Ghost in the Machine is a 1967 book by Arthur Koestler that deals with concepts of philosophical psychology. It contributes to the longstanding debate surrounding the mind-body problem (i.e, the question of how the mind and the body interact, and if they’re fundamentally divorced from each other or not).
Masamune Shirow, the creator of a certain franchise, was inspired by the contents of the book to create his franchise, even going so far as to draw inspiration from the title to name it.
Which franchise, that deals with similar themes?
25. Third Man _______ is a new establishment opened in Detroit that is rolling back the years. In order to do what they do, they had to order eight machines from Germany - some to process seven-inch items, and some to process twelve-inch items.
What is Third Man’sbusiness? Or just FITB.
records/vinyl records
26. Jann Haworth is an American born artist who moved to London in 1961. Haworth married Peter Blake, with whom she created many artworks including X.
The original concept for X was to have the subjects dressed in their new "Northern brass band" uniforms appearing at an official ceremony in a park. For the great crowd gathered at this imaginary event, the members had also submitted a list of characters they wanted to see in attendance.
Blake and Haworth decided to pasted life-size, black-and-white photographs of all the approved characters onto hardboard, which Haworth subsequently hand-tinted.
What is X?
“We’re thinking about names. The names thing is really hard, and the name of the first ship that goes to Mars - not the name of the whole ship line necessarily but the first ship that goes to Mars … my current favorite is Heart of Gold.” Mirroring the sense of whimsical humor from the novel, X emphasized he liked the idea of the name because “it’s driven by infinite improbability because I think our ship is also extremely improbable. I like the infinite improbability drive.”
X, and which novel?
27.
elon muskthe hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
During the US presidential election of 2008, this company was running out of funds. They needed to raise funds in some form and decided to capitalise on the Obama McCain rivalry. They therefore decided to purchase 1000 boxes of something, and rebrand 500 of those as Obama O’s and the other 500 as Cap’n McCain’s. They sold these as special products and donated 5% of profit to the respective campaigns. Now this company has a net worth of many billion dollars.
What is the company, and what did they market/sell to raise money?
28.
airbnb, cereal boxes
Who recently released his autobiography, “Red”?
29.
gary neville
30.
daylight (savings time)
finals immediately