Gen Quiz Finals TT'20

Gen Quiz @ QI ‘20
Hosted by Ayush Malviya, Anish Bharatrajan,
Sanchit Sahay

Written Round 1
+10/-0
ID these famous TV Shows
based on the Season wise
IMDb Rating Chart.

Dries - 1
+10/-5
● Pouncing and Bouncing
● Clockwise
● Submit Pounces to [ ]

Q1. ID X & Y
In January 2020, this Fortune 500 company (X) announced that it will put
sustainability at the core of its venture choices.
In their annual letter, the CEO said that awareness is dynamic, and he thinks
that the world is on the edge of a major reshaping of finance.
Going with their vision, X decided that before the end of this year, it would
start divesting their resources from any company which generates more than a
quarter of its revenue from Y.
This move was welcomed by everyone, albeit some outlets believed that it would
not make much of a difference in the long run.
Few even thought this announcement was just greenwashing, since X has a long
history of voting against climate action, and joked how this move is ironic,
given that the name X essentially describes Y.

Q2. What’s special about these flights?
Flights going from Hong Kong to New York usually cost more
than $2500, that too if you've booked your tickets well
enough in advance.
In May, Kayak, a popular travel website put up tickets lower
than $200 from a particular airline for the same route.
Naturally, this came as a surprise to everyone. However upon
further investigation, users found out something interesting
about these flights which, along with the fact that the
travel time for these flights are about 7 hrs more than the
regular ones, justified the discount.

Q3. ID X and the trait.
In a 2017 interview, this acting coach talked about a former project
he was a part of.
He was signed to train X, and said that he had to study a bit of
biology for his job.
Amylase are digestive enzymes, and begin to decompose whenever
applied on dry skin.
As a result, the person he was coaching developed a certain habit,
because his prosthetics continuously kept slipping off whenever he
spoke.
Eventually, this habit was incorporated into his character.

Joker, Heath Ledger - Keeps licking his lips

Q4. The following slide contains excerpts from a poem by a
German author. Just identify the subject of the poem.
It is night, and the city is deserted.
The lucky ones are at home, or more likely there are none left.
... four people remain
the usual cast, so-to-speak:
the man behind the counter, two men and a woman.
...They don’t say a word, and why should they?
Both of them smoking, but there is no smoke
..The other man is by himself
remembering a woman,
she wore a red dress, too.
That was ages ago.
He likes knowing women like this still exist
but he’s no longer interested.
No wonder,
that this man is turning his back on you.

Q5.(2+3+5)
__ _____ (pictured in next slide) the alter ego of American singer X, a character
she uses as the protagonist for her set of albums and EPs, also known as the Y saga.
While describing the character, X said that she is an indentured android who becomes
aware of the unfairness she and her fellow robots suffer at the hands of the ruling
humans. Her self-understanding comes to a head when she is marked for disassembly
after falling in love with a human, and discovers while on the run that she is the
fated saviour, foretold to free the androids from their secondary citizenship and
unite the two races.
She returns to Y, a few years later as the Electric Lady, ready to save humanity
throughout time from the Great Divide, a secret society that is using time travel to
suppress freedom and love even in our era.
Whose alter ego is being talked about? ID X. (2 points).
ID Y, also the name of a super influential sci-fi book/movie. (3 points)
The lead character in Y inspired the look of another very famous fictional
character, first introduced in the last quarter of 20th century.(5)

X - Janelle Monae
Y - Metropolis
Character - C3PO

Q6.What was the headline
Google’s image recognition neural network been “taught” to
identify features such as buildings, animals and objects in
photographs.While doing so it creates hallucinatory images of
animals, buildings and landscapes which veer from beautiful to
terrifying.
The Guardian posted an article about this and showed one of the
images created by it, based on the image and the context they
gave it a very apt headline
This headline is meant as an answer to a question posed by a man
in the 1960s, a question which went on to inspire a 2 part film

Q7.FITB and what rule which has come into play since a bit
more than a decade ago
While the legality of this seems questionable, here’s what
director X had to say in a recent interview with Vanity Fair:
_____, lets them use _______ , but they are quite particular
about it’s usage and this rule quite annoying in certain
genres.
He also went on to say that, he has probably ruined every
movie-goers future experiences by coming out with this
information

Apple’s iPhone. Villains aren’t allowed to use one.

Q8.Put Funda
There is a 24 step Procedure to design X with appropriate Dimensions.
The following are the initial 5 steps to make the outline:
(1)Start off by drawing a line AB of the given length from left to right
on the lower portion of a cloth
(2) Draw AC perpendicular to AB, making AC equal to 4*AB/3. From AC mark
off D such that AD = AB. Join BD.
(3) On BD, mark off E such that BE = AB.
(4) Draw a line FG parallel to AB through E such that F is on line AC
and FG = AB.
(5) Join CG.

Q9. What do these 59000 frivolous people have in common.

Q.10 ID the quote
A particular quote, later made into a meme was originally heard in a scene from the
2004 comedy film.
In the following slide, is the conversation in which the quote was first heard.
X : (the quote)
Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart.
X: I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a
trident.
X: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should probably find
yourself a safe house or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're
probably wanted for murder

Written Round 2
+10/-0
5 Questions about heists
and robberies

Q1.
Harry Winston is a jewellery and luxury store; a subsidiary of the
Swatch Company.
In 2009, a criminal gang comprising of 4 men, known as the __ ____
stormed the Paris store and escaped with jewellery worth 85 million
pounds.
When investigations began, identification became impossible, because the
robbers had employed the safest tactic they could think of - they were
disguised as ___.
What was this gang known as, fitting, given they were stealing diamonds?
What was their disguise?

Q2. What law was this, which today seems unimaginable,
especially in and around the United States?
In 1969, Sherry Holper and Benny Taylor hatched a rather
elaborate plan to plunder the Royal Bank of Canada’s Freeport
outlet.
Among other intricacies, the basic reason for selecting
Freeport as a target was a legal reason, which aided their
plans for entry and taking over of the bank significantly.

Q3. What business did they supposedly start, or what
activity did their business involve?
The Banco Central in Fortaleza, in 2005, was looted using a
basic technique, reproduced several times in movies and TV
shows.
For this purpose, the robbers - a crew of 25 men - started a
small business near the bank. Everyday, their equipment would
come in, and while they pretended they were working, they
were essentially executing their plans.

Q4. FITB, or what is this trilogy?
Ronnie Leibowitz is a convicted Israeli thief, who was given the
moniker “ofnobank”, a combination of the words meaning __ and
bank.
It was alleged that he used a __ while entering and exiting his
targets and placed his __ inside of a truck while needing to
disappear quickly. But Leibowitz refutes this claim and says he
only used another apparatus, closely linked with a __, to hide
his identity and that is how the name stuck.
Not officially recognized, but it’s possible that a certain
trilogy was inspired by his acts in part, if not in totality.

Q5. Who was the thief, or what does Gaza mean? Who was
X’s friend?
X is an Italian Opera singer and celebrity.
In 1962, she visited her friends who resided in Braine-
l'Alleud, where one of her necklaces was stolen.
It remained a mystery for the longest time, until her friend
happened to pick up a piece of music by Rossini titled “La
Gaza Ladra”, and figured out who the actual thief was.

The Pink Panthers, Disguised as women

Magpie / Thieving Magpie
Tintin

Q1. Where is X located?
Reporters without borders is an independent NGO which issues press
releases and reports in various languages about the state of freedom
of information throughout the world.
When searching for a medium where they could publish news without
government censorship, they discovered that countries with press
censorship often have large communities engaged in a particular
activity. This ultimately led to the design and construction of X, a
hub housing a collection of otherwise inaccessible journalism from
all over the world.

Minecraft Server, The Uncensored Library

Q2.What was the concern?
The Cassini-Huygens probe was made to enter Saturn’s
Upper atmosphere and burn up and get destroyed because
it had reached the end of its life and could not
function for much longer.
This was done for obvious data collection reasons and
also to address another very important concern.

Could kill any alien lives on Saturn’s Moons.

Q3.ID X,Y,Z
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, X was the
most portrayed ‘human’ character of all time in TV and
Film with 254 appearances, X beat Hamlet by 48
portrayals.
X has been played by over 75 actors in film and TV with
Y, Will Ferrel, Johnny Depp being a few of the most
recent ones.
However if the ‘Human’ constraint is relaxed, Z takes the
top spot with 272 appearances.

X - Sherlock Holmes Y - Henry Cavill Z - Dracula

Q4.The most popular entry is missing from this list,ID and
what connect do these people have

Anthony Hopkins,People who have played Hannibal Lecter

Q5.Why was the change made
The Book ‘The Far Side of the World’ is the 10th part in the
Aubrey-Maturin Series, it follows the main characters account
of ‘The War of 1812’.
The Movie Adaptation of it directed by Peter Weir was named
‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’ and was
almost fully adapted from the book’ The Far Side of the
World’ except for one major change.
The Setting of the movie was changed to 1805 as opposed to
1812(Of the book).

1812 - War against USA (wouldn’t be a commercial success)

Q6. ID X and Y
X and Y are both characters that were created in 1963 during the
height of the American Civil Rights Movement. Although originally
they were just created as generic characters and were underselling
characters.
This changed when a certain Chris Claremont took over and took the
opportunity to introduce racial and prejudice undertones. He gave X
and Y the dynamic that Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had.
Both MLK and Malcolm X were the two sides of the coin fighting for
the same cause, likewise X and Y also emulated the same in their
world.

Q7. How did they die and what caused it?
The Conqueror is a 1956 film starring John Wayne as Genghis
Khan, it was shot principally near the Utah-Nevada border to
emulate a Mongolian Theme, the film went on to be a flop and
has a place in the ‘50 worst Films of a all time’.
Shooting Started in 1953 and by 1980 91 people out of the 220
member cast had died of similar causes, Professors at the
University of Utah were classifying this as an epidemic due
to the astonishing numbers.

Died from cancer due to nuclear testing

Q8.Who is X and where do we know him from.
X is a 2007 song by British artist Lily Allen, the lyrics were
basically describing her youngest brother X’s life and was
criticising him for laziness.
Although since then X has gone on to achieve much greater
heights than his sister, and has had multiple Emmy Nominations
In 2019 Lily said that she no longer performs the song or talks
about it, out of respect to her brother.

Alfie Allen, Theon Greyjoy from GOT

Q9.Who are the clients and what body part.
Shintaro Hayashi has been manufacturing prosthetic body parts
for the last 2 decades. He only manufactures a certain body part
at around $3000 each.He carefully crafts custom ones as per the
customers required dimensions and chooses from over a 1000
possible skin tones to get a perfect match.
His clients end up different coloured ones for different
seasons(Tan for summer,pale for winter and so on)
His clients mostly are people who have given up a certain
lifestyle and want to go unnoticed in society and get jobs.

Joining the Yakuza. Cutting off the little finger

Q10.
Shown in the next slide is an art style
The name of this art style is a pun on the objects used to
design it and a famous art movement

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