General quiz, MIT Manipal: Finals

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▸SURYA SHEKHAR CHAKRABORTY

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+10/0 on the bounce
No part points on pounce, part points
available on bounce
QM is God
 “Block Hints” will be conveniently ignored if
the QM feels so.

1 X! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my _______ lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
X! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-
crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here ______! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.
Identify X

2
X’s glass, is an English glass about the size of an
ordinary drinking glass but with only about one-
quarter of its capacity; the glass creates
the illusion of being full by means of a depression
in its bowl, which in fact is almost solid. It owed its
origin to the clubs of 18th-century England, where
the X had to remain sober enough to carry out his
office.
This is because, a X is someone who conducts or
stays in charge of a major public speaking event
such as civic events, service
organization meetings, and banquets of various
purpose.
Identify X.

3
Tommy Nutter (17 April 1943 – 17 August 1992),
was a British tailor, famous for reinventing
the Savile Row suit in the 1960s. He described his
suits as a "cross between the big-
shouldered Miami Vice look and the authentic
Savile Row." He created the clothing of The
Joker worn by Jack Nicholson in the 1989
film ’Batman’.
In the late 60’s, three gentlemen wearing his suits
became a worldwide sensation. Although, no one
is quite sure why it was three and not four
gentlemen.
What is being talked about?

4 Abe Saperstein from Chicago’s north side was the
manager of the newly formed team _____ _______. A
master promoter, Saperstein re-christened the team as the
New York X _____ _______ in the belief that the name
would make the team a greater draw in places like Illinois
and Iowa by giving the impression that they had traveled
far to be there.
The shortest member of the Basketball Hall of Fame,
Saperstein also thought that attaching X to the squad’s
name would help advertise it as an all-black basketball
team at the height of the X Renaissance. Not until 1968 did
the team actually play a game in X.
What is the name of the team?

5 During the Gulf war, Saddam Hussein ordered the
scorching of over 600 oil wells. Steve McCurry, a
keen war photographer took this photograph of
camels escaping the heat and fire. Thus resulted,
one of the more iconic images of that war.
Picture on the next slide
Steve McCurry’s greater claim to fame however
came in the mid 80’s, came in the dusty Nasir
Bagh refugee camp on the edge
of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Which greater claim to fame?

6
The word X was coined by the Caracci family of Italy who
defended the practice as a counterweight to idealization
and to reserve the right to ridicule. In the 18th century, X
became connected with journalism and was put to virulent
use by political commentators.
In the 1880’s, the photo process engraving made it possible
to illustrate daily newspapers, bringing X to the notice of the
general public. In the 20th century, X became a part of the
editorial, sports and theatrical sections of the news.
What is the good word?

7 In an episode of the famous show ‘Last Week Tonight’, John
Oliver tackled something known as ‘Native Advertising’. This
was in response to the recent trend in advertising wherein
media bodies would post advertising content that would be
disguised in the form of regular editorials.
Hence, there remained an issue of the general public not being
able to distinguish between advertising and actual reporting. In
the same episode, we come to know that the practice in ethical
journalism that makes this distinction is known by the same
name as the concept that was introduced by Thomas Jefferson
regarding the functioning of the United States Government and
it’s supposed ‘freedom’ from something?
What concept/name?

SEPARATION OF CHURCH
AND STATE

8
Used to mean someone rescued at the last minute, the
phrase originated in Victorian London, and not in a particular
sporting arena as is often assumed.
As the story goes, one night a guard at the Horse Guard
Parade was famously accused of being asleep on duty. He
denied the charge and claimed he had heard Big Ben chime
13 times at midnight, instead of the usual 12.
The clock mechanism was checked and a cog was
discovered out of line, meaning Big Ben would indeed chime
13 times instead of 12. On that evidence, the guard was
freed – literally _____ __ ___ ____.
Give me the phrase.

“
+10 for each correct answer.
 Stake +5/-5
No negatives if teams do not stake.
QM is God.

1
While X is often acknowledged as the author of this
heartbreaking piece of ‘literature’, recent research into
the subject suggests that this might very well have
been a ‘concoction’. There were other material just like
this, much before when X was supposed to have
written this. For example In 1906, when X was just a
just a small boy, an advertisement for a unused baby
carriage was published.
What are we talking about?

2
Drew Bundini Brown [1928-1987]
apart from being an occasional actor
was also a ‘cornerman’. In the mid
60’s he came up a with a certain
verse that is now commonly
attributed to X. This particular verse
was heavily revisited in 2016.
At the time of Bundini’s death, “'They
clipped the wings off the ________,''
X sobbed.
Which verse?

3 The following passage appeared with a date of May 8, 1793 in a
collection of the decrees made by the French National Convention.
Boldface has been added to excerpts:
“The people’s representatives will reach their destination, invested
with the highest confidence and unlimited power. They will show
great character. They must consider that _____ ____________
follows inseparably from _____ ______. To their energy, to their
courage, and above all to their prudence, they shall owe their
success and their glory.”
The blanked out parts form a quote that is attributed to a character
whose death inspired the beginnings of a famous pop culture icon.
Which quote?

4 This paranoid monologue was wholly improvised by X,
including what would become the movie’s most famous
line. (The film's screenwriter, Paul Schrader, later said, “It’s
the best thing in the movie, and I didn’t write it.”)
X got the line from Bruce Springsteen, whom he’d seen
perform in Greenwich Village just days earlier, at one in a
series of concerts leading up to the release of ‘Born to
Run’. When the audience called out his name, The Boss
did a bit where he feigned humility and said,
“___ ______ __ me?” Apparently it stuck in X’s mind.
Guessing from the famous line, give me X and the movie.

5
Clarence B. Jones was a part of the group that prepared one of
the most legendary drafts of all time. The draft required utmost
secrecy to maintain it’s impact. Thus, it was decided that it would
be prepared in the lobby which would be harder to wire tap as
compared to the hotel rooms, where the entourage was staying.
While the initial ideas were along the lines of a religious sermon,
the group saw it as an a opportunity to stake an ideological and
political marker in the debate over civil rights. Others felt that it
would be wise to address the students who were about to march
that day.
Which draft?

6
How did this Grammy winning song,
“If I could fly” by Joe Satriani
become famous for the wrong
reasons, in 2010-2011?
Give me the exact reason.

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
ANSWERS

ERNEST HEMMINGWAY- “FOR SALE,
BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN”

“  +10/-10 on the pounce
available on bounce
QM is God
 “Block Hints” will be conveniently
ignored if the QM feels so.

1
In the decades since the publication of X, there have been
numerous comparisons to the novel Y, which had been
published 17 years earlier, in 1932. While members of the
ruling class of X use brutal force, torture and mind control to
keep individuals in line, but rulers in Y keep the citizens in line
by addictive drugs and pleasurable distractions.
In October 1949, after reading X, the author Y sent a letter to
his counterpart and wrote that it would be more efficient for
rulers to stay in power by the softer touch by allowing citizens
to self-seek pleasure to control them rather than brute force
and to allow a false sense of freedom:
Identify the novels.

2
This particular report was
written by William Willett in
1914, to put forward a certain
proposal. He also happens to
be the Great Grandfather of
Coldplay Singer, Chris Martin,
who wrote the song ‘Clocks’ in
the album 'A Rush of Blood to
the Head‘.
What was the proposal about?

3
The cost of advertising through this method is assumed to
cost the advertiser between $1million to $4 million. It is
somewhat cheaper when compared to a spot on Superbowl
which usually costs the advertiser close to $3.8 million, for a
display of 30 seconds. Apart from grabbing multiple eyeballs
of people close by, it also provides the unusual advantage of
free advertisement on multiple TV shows. This is especially
effective during the early parts of the year.
What advertising is this?

4
“Only X knows the way to stop Isis - through a
foreign policy that cuts off their funding and
supplies at the source.
Only he has been outspoken in his
condemnation of the oppression of Kurds in
the Middle East at this crucial time, with the
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces about
to defeat Isis in their capital of Raqqa.
"Along with her toffee-nosed millionaire
colleagues in the________ , she has brought
nothing but instability to this region,” their
statement read.
This was a statement
made by a volunteer
group, that has been
fighting ISIS, alongside
the Kurds in Syria. This
was released in the early
parts of this year.
Who are these
volunteers? [General
Idea is fine]
What were they aiming to
do with this statement?

BRITISH VOLUNTEERS
CAMPAIGNING FOR JEREMY CORBYN

5 The setting for this work of fiction was heavily
inspired by a famous Edward Hopper painting,
“House By The Railroad”
[Picture on the next slide]
The lead character of X was considered as a living
Edward Hopper painting by his eccentric creator,
the figures of which usually appear isolated or
captive with their thoughts in a claustrophobic
(psychological) space: Someone who was trapped
and unable to escape.
Which work of fiction?

6 In 2007, X began its "In An X World" campaign in which the
company posted various, often fanciful scenarios of what the target
audience might think would constitute a perfect, or "X", reality.
In 2008, an ad placed in Mexican publications and on Mexican
billboards featured a map of the U.S. and Mexico with the
boundaries between the two as they were prior to the 1836 Texas
Revolution and the Mexican–American War. Media outlets reported
on some American consumers' reactions at the ad's perceived
insensitivity to immigration issues.
X responded that the ads were purely whimsical, with no political or
nationalist agenda, but its critics were adamant. X later issued a
public apology and withdrew the ad.
X?

7
This form of white whiskey was named after the time
of the day it was produced in, usually to avoid
detection. While popularized by English smugglers at
first, it later became a rage in the Appalachian trail.
The picture on the next slide is an image from
Harper's Weekly 1877, showing production in
Kentucky.
What was it called?

8
During the unofficial Olympic Games of 1906, held in
Athens, a rather unusual event took place. In this
Pistol event, The shooters used wax bullets but no
gun powder. Instead the primer was all they needed
to propel the wax bullet. Like fencing, the athletes
wore a mask and a handguard was fitted to the gun in
order to protect the shooter’s hand.
[Picture on the next slide]
What event was this?

“  +10/-10 on the pounce
available on bounce
QM is God
 “Block Hints” will be conveniently ignored
if the QM feels so.

1
In recent years, X has seen a lot of renovation. There is now
an underground museum open to the general public. "In-
Residence” programs were started for writers, artistes,
innovators, where they were invited to come and stay, work
on projects and go back as messengers of development and
social cause,” says Mathew. From writer Amitav Ghosh to
artist couple Subodh Gupta and Bharti Kher, several notables
have already been artists in residence.

2
Ted Nash, pictured here with his Grammy awards one of
them being this year's Grammy for 'Best Instrumental
Composition. The Composition is titled “Spoken at
Midnight” and is part of Nash's spoken word and
orchestral project.
Speaking about the inspiration behind the creation:
“You can feel the emotion in his delivery. It gives you
goosebumps" said Nash, describing why he found it so
fascinating when he stumbled upon it five years ago. "He
spoke in a very narrow range, so the resulting thematic
material stayed contained to smaller intervals”
What was the inspiration?

3
In early orchestras the most prominent and high profile
member of the orchestra was the musician who played
the lead (or first) violin. Naturally, there would also be
other violinists in the string section of the orchestra but
these would not be as important or honored as the lead
violinist. These other violinists were referred to as the
______ _______ .
This lead to an expression that means to convey that
some entity or someone is not important or significant in
comparison to their counterpart.
Identify the expression or FITB.

PLAYING THE SECOND
FIDDLE/ SECOND FIDDLES

4
Ligne Claire (French for “clear line”) is a style of drawing
comic books featuring clear strong lines all of the same
width and no hatching. Contrast is downplayed, while cast
shadows is often illuminated. The style features strong
colours and a combination of cartoonish characters against
a realistic background.
The major exponent of this style of art was also the
protagonist of a movie by Steven Spielberg.
What am I talking about?

5 _____ ____ is an unincorporated community located
within X Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey,
United States. In the 1870’s, this New Jersey community
suddenly became famous worldwide and attracted a lot of
tourists. The reason being, one man’s “creation” had
started attracting a lot of interest in the neighborhood.
The image on the next slide is an illustration of a famous
title given to this person.
Two parts:
Who is being talked about?
Which title?

6
X was originally a textile manufacturing company for
more than 100 years before it became a conglomerate
holding company. It was purchased by _______ _____ in
1964 after then-president Seabury Stanton reneged on
his verbal agreement to pay $11.50 for each of his
shares in the company and instead offered $11.375 per
share in writing. _______ _____was so upset by the
slight reduction in price that he bought enough shares in
the company to become the majority shareholder and
made his first board decision: Stanton was fired.
Identify the company and FITB

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY,
WARREN BUFFETT

7
Recently, in order to determine Maria Pilar Abel
Martinez’s heritage a certain body was exhumed, 28
years after it was buried. This was done to prove her
claim to a certain estate. The body when exhumed,
drove the surrounding people to overwhelming
emotions, when something was found to remain in the
“10 past 10” position despite the passage of time.
What is “10 past 10” referring to exactly?

8
“These are the children of liberalization who have
not grown up with X. They do not share the same
nostalgia factor which the earlier generation did”
This has been cited as the reason for the
proposition to change the “eye” to something
else.

1 The Arthur Ashe Courage Award (sometimes called the Arthur
Ashe Award for Courage or Arthur Ashe for Courage Award) is
an award that is part of the ESPY awards.
Although it is a sport-oriented award, it is not limited to sports-
related people or actions, as it is presented annually to
individuals whose contributions "transcend sports". Often these
figures are also athletes who have been at the top of their sport,
such as Muhammad Ali, Dean Smith, and Cathy Freeman.
The 2008 award was given to a duo because of something they
were involved in, about a few decades prior.
Video on the next slide.
What are we talking about?

2
This gentleman here is Bao
Tialing, a photographer for
Chengdu Economic Daily. In
recent years back he came up
with an iconic photograph titled
‘The Final Game’. The prevalent
feeling of that photograph was on
the lines of ‘What could have
been’ and how the best players
don’t often reach the summit of
their sport.
It was taken on the aftermath of
which event?

3
What
happens at
the end of
this video?
Hint: Iconic
in the wrong
sense.

4
“It was a wet day. We had to get a wicket. There was
big storm in Brisbane that afternoon so the ball was
wet,” recalled X
“In those days, batting second with a rain-rule was very
tough. They were at the crease and were going crazy.
But also in [our] defence, our players couldn’t hold the
ball as it was a very wet outfield,” he reminisced.
X said he had already seen Y running towards the non-
striker’s end, and also _____ raising his hand as if
signaling, ‘I am not coming’.
The Prelude to which event is being talked about here?

5 President Ferdinand Marcos sought to hold the event in his
country and sponsor it in order to divert attention from the social
turmoil that the country was experiencing,
having declared martial law three years earlier (1972).
In the lead-up to the event as well as each of their other two
encounters, X verbally abused Y. X nicknamed Y "The Gorilla",
and used this as the basis for the rhyme, "It will be a killa and a
_____ and a chilla when I get the Gorilla in ______," which he
chanted while punching an action-figure-sized gorilla doll.
X: "I like to get a man mad, because when a man's mad, he
wants ya so bad, he can't think, so I like to get a man mad.“
Give me X and Y.

6 "We played that game with boots and rifles," X said.
"After the game we celebrated until we cried.
"It felt like we had done justice, well maybe not justice
but made good for the mothers who had lost sons in
the Y.
"For that goal I thought Shilton was going to clatter
me. But it was like he'd taken a Xanax, he pulled out.
"A little guy of 1.67 metres beat a big guy of 1.88
metres to the ball... but ____ ___ ____. It was like I
robbed their wallets!
Identify Y and what is being talked about here.

ICONIC MOMENTS IN
SPORTS
ANSWERS

BLACK POWER SALUTE
TOMMIE SMITH
JOHN CARLOS

4 “It was a wet day. We had to get a wicket. There was
big storm in Brisbane that afternoon so the ball was
wet,” recalled X
“In those days, batting second with a rain-rule was very
tough. They were at the crease and were going crazy.
But also in [our] defence, our players couldn’t hold the
ball as it was a very wet outfield,” he reminisced.
X said he had already seen Y running towards the non-
striker’s end, and also _____ raising his hand as if
signaling, ‘I am not coming’.
The Prelude to which event is being talked about here?

127
JONTY RHODES
RUNNING INZAMAM
OUT, 92’WC

1
FUNDA/ What is the purpose of this font?

2
The phenomenon shown on the next slide is a rare
event that happens in New York. The name given to
this phenomenon is derived from a famous monolithic
structure, often assumed to be paying homage to the
sun.
What is the good word?

3
“On the year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in
Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor,
hard-working Georgian cobbler named
Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's pious mother
named him after the husband of Mary,
mother of Jesus. But names were not to stick
very long to this newest subject of the Tsar;
he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David,
Nijeradze, Chijikov and Ivanovich until at
length he acquired the pseudonym of
______.”
Time Magazine excerpt for the person who’s
face has been blanked out here.
Identify.

4 On this route, in order to keep costs low, journeys were carried out
by hitchhiking, or cheap, private buses that travelled the route. There were
also trains that travelled part of the way, particularly across Eastern
Europe through Turkey and to Tehran or east to Mashhad, Iran. From these
cities, public or private transportation could then be obtained for the rest of
the trip.
The bulk of travelers comprised Western Europeans, North Americans,
Australians, and Japanese. Ideas and experiences were exchanged in well-
known hostels, hotels, and other gathering spots along the way, such as
Yener's Café and The Pudding Shop in Istanbul, Sigi's on Chicken Street in
Kabul or the Amir Kabir in Tehran.
However, the 70’s Iranian revolution alongwith the Yom Kippur war in Syria,
led to the closure of this route, especially to westerners.
What was the name of this route? [picture on the next slide]

5
While critics lost no time in proclaiming him to be India’s first
post-modernist writer, his second book on Bollywood attracted
criticism from most. Most claim that the superstar protagonist
in his book, Ashok Banjara was based on Amitabh Bachchan.
Despite the fact that in the novel, Bachchan exists as a rival to
Ashok.
The writer later clarified that Ashok Banjara was a pseudonym
used by him, when he wrote articles protesting ragging on the
DU campus.
Who?

6
Identify this movie from the 70s. An
actor who played the character on the
right in a sequel also played another
character in an 80s movie whose
name is mentioned somewhere in this
shot.
Name that movie too.

7
When John Sculley joined Apple, he found that the company
was essentially divided into two warring factions. The Macintosh
team consisted of the group tasked to create the computer of the
future and were granted various perks not given to other
employees. The Apple II team however was tasked with
producing the money making machine for Apple. And thus
resulted multiple conflicts between the two factions. The two
teams however, were located on adjacent buildings separated by
a street.
What term did John Sculley use to describe that street, often
used in the context of International Relations?

8 A video about a soap dispenser has recently gone viral. Richard
Whitney, from tech-company Particle, explained why soap
dispensers and other technology have these problems
He said: ‘The soap dispenser uses near-infrared technology, which
sends out invisible light from an infrared LED bulb for hands to
reflect the light back to a sensor.
‘The reason the soap doesn’t just foam out all day is because the
hand acts to, more or less, bounce back the light and close the
circuit.
‘If the reflective object actually absorbs that light instead, then the
sensor will never trigger because not enough light gets to it.’
What’s the hilarious (and politically incorrect) outcome of this?

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