Inter-hostel General Quiz Finals, NIT Allahabad

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INTER HOSTEL GENERAL QUIZ FINALS

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• 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.

• “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.

• 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 ?

• 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 ?

• 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.

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
1. Ladki Kyun, Hum Tum
2. Babuji Dheere Chalna, Aar Paar
3. Hotel California, Eagles
4. Koi Mil Gaya, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
5. Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle Ka Naata Koi, Aa Gale Lag Jaa
6. Urvashi Urvashi, Hum Se Hai Muqaabla

Laevo Round
• 8 QUESTIONS
• POUNCE +20/ -10
• BOUNCE +10/ -0
• HINTS WILL BE GIVEN ON BOUNCE IF REQUIRED

• “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 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.

• 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.

•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?

• 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?

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

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
THE END

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.

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?

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 ?

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 ?

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?

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?

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.

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.
BACK

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.

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