Mini Gen Quiz Prelims

1.

• The ________________ campaign is a series of advertisements all following the same basic template. Against an all-white minimalist background, a man dressed in casual clothes introduces himself as X, while a man in a more formal suit-and-tie combination introduces himself as Y. The two then list out their features, where X is shown as formal, polite, although boring and only related to work, and is shown to be somewhat frustrated by the easy , casual and laid back Y, thus striking a chord with the users. X and Y?

Get a Mac, Windows vs Mac

2.

• ID the author of this book.

• Kailash Satyarthi

3.

• Accompanying image. In the Civil war era, Prisoner of Wars were kept at bay by a 17 foot high fence surrounding the prisons. In case one of them escaped, a further perimeter like the one shown in the picture was established, beyond which any person if seen was shot dead. What term did it lead to in the modern lingo?

• Deadline

4.

• Connect:

Angriest Man in Brooklyn Merry Friggin’ Christmas (Nov.)Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.Absolutely Anything

• Robin Williams’s last projects.

5.

• Which divisive book did the author Dorothy Parker dismiss as , “It is not a novel that should be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

• Atlas Shrugged.

6.

• Funda.

7.

• These two directors and friends made an agreement when shooting to give each other 2.5% of the profits that their respective film franchises made. While one of these movies, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, was a success (it earned $300 million at the box office), it was completely dwarfed by the other movie, which later grew into a franchise worth $27 billion, ensuring that the lucky guy earned millions for doing nothing.

• Give me the two directors and the franchise.

• George Lucas, Steven Spielberg • Star Wars

8.

• The word X means a literal or metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. The term originates from a allegorical reference to the chariot car of the deity Y, which was rumored to crush devotees under its wheels.

• X and Y.

• Juggernaut, Jagannath.

10.

Which word’s disambiguation page on Wikipedia includes the following?

• the process of splitting an audio stream into separate audio files

• a set of microprocessor execution techniques • a type of term definition • the problem in natural language processing of

deciding where sentences begin and end

• Disambiguation

11.

• According to Bertrand Russell’s ‘A History of Western Philosophy’, Pythagoras, believed that the entire world can be explained through mathematics. He extended his philosophy to try and explain even music through mathematics. While his theory did not survive for too long, his endeavour to try and explain music through mathematics seems to have resulted in certain mathematical terms having musical ring to it.

• Harmonic mean and Progression.

12.

• Ronald McDonald

13.

• Complete this tweet following Sunderland’s 8-0 defeat to Southampton:

“It's all over. 8-0. Sunderland will now officially be the biggest catastrophe to leave Southampton since the _____.”

• Titanic.

14.

• This xkcd is a reference to what?

• Fermat’s Last Theorem

15. Taken from an Oatmeal comic, what are these portraying?

• Wikipedia donations.

16.

A certain gentleman from Italy became the third and latest to join this list in 2014. The following slide has a picture of the first person in that list. What list am I talking about?

• Suarez’s biting victims.

17.

What mental condition would you be suffering from, if you believed that you were the star of an imaginary reality TV series?

• The Truman Syndrome

18. Which song thus helps you stay alive?

The song “_______" is used to train medical professionals to provide the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR.

Per sources (see below):

This is because of the fact that the song has a consistent 104 beats per minute, which is close to the recommended compressions per minute needed for a CPR (100 - 120 compressions per minute).

As per the American Heart Association, it provides the ideal rhythm in terms of beats per minute for hands-only CPR and Another Study conducted by the University of Illinois College of Medicine found that the quality of CPR while listening to “________" was actually better.

• Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees.

19.

• To whom did Charles Lindbergh remark:

• “Your mission was of greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before”

• Michael Collins. The third astronaut who went to space with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

20. ID

• Jayalalithaa