Iimi mridang this_is_quiz-finals

Finals
IIM Indore - Mridang 2013
Quizmaster:
Abhishek Upadhya
Content Research:
Rajni, Arindam, Sushan, Vignesh, Abhishek

Writer‟s Block
1. 6 questions.
2. 5 marks each
3. No negatives.
4. All answers to be written in the sheet given.

1.
In 1995, the Muslim Sharmon Shah was given the name X by
his Imam. The new name he was given quickly garnered major
attention upon his NFL debut. Some commentators mistakenly
believed that he was the son of former basketball great Y. He
also wore number 33, the same number that Y had made
famous.

In 1998, Y filed a lawsuit against X, stating that there were too
many similarities between the two. He felt that X was making
profits and sponging off the name and number he made famous
in the 1970s.
He won a court order that required X to drop part of the name
off his jersey. In addition, all Dolphins jerseys with the
_________ name and #33 were immediately pulled from the
shelves and merchandising catalogs.
X maintains that he chose the #33 as his uniform number not
because of Y, but because of former Dallas Cowboys running
back Tony Dorsett. After the lawsuit, X changed his name in
2000.

Name the basketball legend Y.

2.
• 1897 Keyboard Instruments (reed organ, pianos in
1900)
• 1903 Furniture
• 1914 Harmonicas
• 1922 Audio Equipment
• 1942 Guitars
• 1954 Small engines and vehicles/watercraft
• 1959 Sporting Goods (starting with archery)
• 1959 Music Schools
• 1961 Metal alloys
• 1965 Band Instruments (trumpet first)
• 1971 Semiconductors
• 1984 Industrial Robots
• 2000 Recorded Music

ID the diverse company

3.
____________ is a term in the computer industry
that describes a product, typically computer
hardware or software, that is announced to the
general public but is never actually released nor
officially cancelled.
__________ was coined by a Microsoft engineer
in 1982 to describe the
company's Xenix operating system, and first
appeared in print in a newsletter by computer
expert Esther Dyson in 1983. It became popular
among writers in the industry as a way to
describe products they felt took too long to be
released.

5.
Famous theoretical physics joke.
“Milk production at a dairy farm was low so the
farmer wrote to the local university, asking help
from academia. A multidisciplinary team of
professors was assembled, headed by a
theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive
on-site investigation took place. The scholars
then returned to the university, notebooks
crammed with data, where the task of writing the
report was left to the team leader. Shortly
thereafter the farmer received the write-up, and
opened it to read on the first line: "Consider a
______ ____ in vacuum. . . ."

6.
Before the railways (railroads) came, there was
no particular reason why people in Bristol (2º 35'
West), England should keep the same time as
people in London. At that time there was no
practical way of communicating information
about time over a distance.
When the telegraph made such communication
possible, Bristol adopted this clock. It has two
minute hands.
Put funda about why
the extra hand is
necessary.

1.
X- Karim Abdul-Jabbar
Y-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

4.
Highest Shoplifted items in these geographies

5.
Spherical Cow

“assume that there is a spherical cow in
vacuum…. This result works”

6.
The black minute hand shows Greenwich Mean
Time and the red minute hand shows Bristol
time

Clockwise – infinite Bounce

 +10 for correct answer ( on Direct and Pass). No Negatives.
 Infinite Bounce – If you answer a question, the next direct goes to
the team sitting next to you. If no one answers, the next question
goes to the next team.

 12 questions.

1)
 It contains 15 kg of gold threads and
consists of 47 pieces of cloth and
each piece is 14m long and 101 cm
wide. It is made of 670 kg. of pure silk
bout 658 sq. meters long.
Traditionally embroidery was done
manually but now it is aided by
computer to improve the speed of
finishing. It amounts to about 4.5
million dollars and is made annually.
What am I talking about?

1. Kiswah-cloth that covers the
Kaaba in Mecca

2)

 Which piece of stationery gets its
name because it was originally
watermarked with such images?

2.
 Foolscap paper (from Fool‟s cap)

3)
 ___________was the principal or co-
discoverer of ten elements: plutonium,
americium, curium, berkelium, californium,
einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium,
nobelium and element 106, which was
named after him. He has 50 books and 500
journal articles to his credit
 He received so many awards and honors that
he was once listed in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the person with the longest
entry in Who's Who in America.
 No other person has had an element publicly
named after him while he was alive. FITB

4) What annual event is taking
place?

4.Groundhog day
 It is celebrated on February 2 in the United
States and Canada.
 According to folklore, if it is cloudy when
a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this
day, it will leave the burrow, signifying
that winter-like weather will soon end. If it is
sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its
shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and
the winter weather will continue for six more
weeks.
 The largest Groundhog Day celebration is
held in Punxsutawney every year which is
also portrayed in the 1993 movie Groundhog
Day

5
 During the days of the Normans, the
French and Dutch peasants wore a
particular type of wooden footwear.
These peasants sometimes trampled
the crops of their lords if they thought
they were being treated unjustly. A
word in the English language has
been derived from this damage. Which
one?

5.Sabotage
 Wooden footwear: sabots

6) Id X and the movie
 As a producer, X tried to give the directing duties for this
film to numerous colleagues, because he was afraid he
couldn‟t do the story justice it deserves.
 He was turned down by Scorsese (who was interested
but ultimately felt it was a subject that is better done by
a director of a particular ethnicity), Polanski (who didn‟t
feel he was yet ready to tackle the subject), and Billy
(who turned it down because was in retirement).
 Billy convinced “X” to direct the movie himself.
 About 40% of the film was shot using a handheld
camera. Filming was completed in 72 days, four days
ahead of schedule.
 Harrison Ford was offered the title role but
declined, saying that some people would not be able to
look past him as a star to see the importance of the film.

6.
 X: Steven Spielberg
 Movie: Schindler‟s List

7.Australian sporting team
nicknames
 Australian Rugby Team – Wallabies
 Australian Football Team – Socceroos
 Australian Hockey Team –
Kookaburras

8)
 "I'm sorry, Mr. --------, but you just
don't know how to use the English
language. This isn't a kindergarten for
amateur writers".
 This was the reason given by the Editor
of San Francisco Examiner for sacking a
journalist under its pay. The journalist
went on to become one of the world's
greatest writers and became the first
British writer to win Nobel Prize for
literature.
 Identify the sacked journalist.

9)
 Arthur C. Clarke explains:
"... by the 22nd century, scientists have
used the names of all the Greek and
Roman mythological figures to name
astronomical bodies, and have thus
moved on to Hindu mythology"
 Therefore, what was the name to
given to the "first" alien spaceship to
be encountered by humans (initially
mistaken to be an asteroid)?

9.
 Rama!!

 From the novel Rendezvous with
Rama.
 The space probe sent to intercept is
called Sita.

10) Id the element
 This element is derived from
German word, means "evil spirit", the
metal being so called by miners,
because it was poisonous and
troublesome (polluted and degraded
the other mined elements, ).
 Other sources cite the origin as
stemming from silver miners' belief
that this element had been placed by
goblins who had stolen the silver

10.Cobalt (Evil Spirits were
called ‘kobolds‟)

11)
 X has been overlooked for the Physics Nobel Prize on
more than one occasion.
 Several physicists wrote a letter to the Swedish
Academy, protesting that X should have been awarded
a share of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize for the X-
diagonal representation (also known as X-Glauber
representation ) in quantum optics, for which Roy J.
Glauber won his share of the prize
 X said "The 2005 Nobel prize for Physics was awarded
for my work, but I wasn‟t the one to get it. Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for work
based on my research.”
 About having been denied the Nobel in 1979 as well, X
said, "Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow and Abdus
Salam built on work I had done as a 26-year-old
student. If you give a prize for a building, shouldn’t the
fellow who built the first floor be given the prize before
those who built the second floor?"

12)
The strong sunlight while above deck on an
oceangoing vessel could require minutes of
adjustment to the dim lighting below deck. With
virtually no light sources below deck, sailors
would have to rely heavily upon their eyes to
adjust. In the critical moments of modifying the
rigging, navigating, and especially during battle,
those minutes were too precious. A simple
adjustment of the ___x___ might have saved
time when going between decks. ______ who
often went above and below deck, used ___x___
to adjust for the darkness when suddenly going
below deck.

This is said to an explanation for a very popular
myth/stereotype.

12.
 Pirates wearing one-eyed patches

Moja hi Moja
 Music album covers made out of
socks.
 Just name the artist/band.
 6 covers, 5 points each
 If you get all 6,
you get 10 points
bonus.

AntiClockwise – infinite Bounce

 +10 for correct answer ( on Direct and Pass). No Negatives.
 Infinite Bounce – If you answer a question, the next direct goes to
the team sitting next to you. If no one answers, the next question
goes to the next team.

 12 questions.

1.

"The underlying problems of this case concern both the
nature of science and the message of faith," the pope
said. "One day we may find ourselves in a similar
situation, which will require both sides to have an
informed awareness of the field and of the limits of their
own competencies."
Excerpt from a speech that Pope John Paul II made on
Oct 31st 1992. What was the occasion?

1.

The Vatican acquitted Galileo of charges
of blasphemy, and finally acknowledged
that the world is indeed spherical, and
not flat.

2.
After World War I, they were forced to cease aircraft
engine production by the terms of the Versailles Armistice
Treaty.

The company consequently shifted to motorcycle
production in 1923 once the restrictions of the treaty
started to be lifted.

The circular logo or roundel is portrayed as the
movement of an aircraft propeller, to signify blades cutting
through the blue sky – an interpretation that was adopted
for convenience in 1929, twelve years after the roundel
was created.

ID company.

3.

“Le marchand de la mort est mort .”
(The merchant of death is dead)
What did this premature headline in
a French newspaper inspire?

3. NOBEL PRIZES

In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludwig died while visiting
Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously
published Alfred's obituary. It condemned him for
his invention of dynamite and is said to have
brought about his decision to leave a better legacy
after his death.The obituary stated Le marchand de
la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is
dead")and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who
became rich by finding ways to kill more people
faster than ever before, died yesterday.

4.

 On 22nd February, 2010 skaters Meryl
Davis and Charlie White won the Olympic
Silver in the Figure Skating Ice Dance
category at the Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympics.
 In the process, they repeated something
that first gained popularity during the
Beijing Olympics via a group of Israeli
gymnasts.
 What ?

4.

Use of Bollywood numbers for
Dance

The duo used „Dola re Dola‟ from
Devdas.

The Israelis used „Dhoom Taana‟ from
Om Shanti Om.

5.

MgFeTi2O5 is a mineral named
Armalcolite. Where was it first
discovered? How does it get its
name?

5. Mineral first discovered on
the moon by the Apollo 11
astronauts
ARMstrong, ALdrin, COLlins

6.

 This unofficial motto of the US Marine Corps
is an abbreviation for the Mandarin Gongye
Hezhoushe - "Work Together - Work in
Harmony" .

 The term was used in China, starting in 1938,
to refer to small, industrial operations that
were being established in rural China to
replace the industrial centers that had been
captured by the Japanese.

 It is in use as a colloquialism for excited, or
enthusiastic. What ?

7.

In the early days of motor racing, you
could identify the country of the
driver/constructor by looking at the color
of the car. All Italian cars were red
(rosso corsa), the Brits had their British
racing green, the French blue and so on.
What about the Germans? And what
phrase, nowadays mostly used to
denote a particularly common shade of car
paint, especially among German cars did this
give rise to?

8.

X is a geopolitical term originally used to describe
the process of fragmentation or division of a region
or state into smaller regions or states that are often
hostile or non-cooperative with each other.
The term has arisen from conflicts in the 20th
century.
The term is also used to describe other forms of
disintegration, including, for instance, the
subdivision of the Internet into separate enclaves,
the division of subfields and the creation of new
fields from sociology, and the breakdown of
cooperative arrangements due to the rise of
independent competitive entities. (pic on next
slide).

9.

 In a YZ document, mutineers would
sign their names in a circle, so the
authorities could not identify the first to
sign, who presumably would be the
ring leaders.

 An additional reason for the name
comes from the French for ribbon, that
was tied around these petitions.

 What ?

10.
What is being depicted here?

10.
 The Great Fire of London.

 11. Origin of what?
 a. One story is that when X was working as
a waiter for a young couple, he leaned down
and said to the woman, "Honey, you have a
nice ass and I mean that as a compliment."
Her brother, Frank Gallucio, pulled a knife
and slashed X in the face three times before
leaving the bar with his sister.
 b. Another story is that X asked a Sicilian
barber to give him a particular style of
haircut popular with Sicilian gangsters and
the barber refused (perhaps because X was
a Neapolitan), upon which X vandalized the
shop, knocking down a row of personalized
shaving mugs belonging to customers and
the barber then slashed his face with a
straight razor.

11.How Alphonse („Al‟) Capone
got the nickname Scarface

12.
X are a niche phenomenon even among
humans, but researchers at Cornell have found
that their movement can be modeled using
parameters based on the collision of gas
particles. "These are collective behaviours that
you wouldn't have predicted based on the
previous literature on collective motion in
humans,"
Parts of their research were based on
watching YouTube videos.

X?

Thank You.
Hope you enjoyed the Quiz

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