NIT SILCHAR Quiz Fest-----Zugzwang:The General Quiz---Prelims

3.  There are a total of 31 questions. In case of tie,
star mark questions will be used and if tie still
persists, “sudden death” will be used.
 All odd numbered questions except Q.No 1 is star
marked.
 Don’t google. Googling can give u information but
no knowledge.
 Every question has ample hints so read the
question carefully and take a calculated guess.
 Quiz Master is the gawd so u better know it.
 Eight best teams qualify(6 teams+ an all girl’s team
+ all first year team)

4. Which recent 2014 movie’s name casting
was done in the reverse order in keeping
with the theme of the movie,ie persons
appearing last came first in the list.

5. Theory of everything!!

6. The Persians always dropped the ‘S’ or
replaced it with ‘H’. The Greeks tended to
drop even the ‘H’. What consequence did
this have for Geography or perhaps for
History?

7. Sindhu/Hindu/Indus and thus India

8.  The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants,
common in Black communities of the United States, where
participants insult each other until one gives up. It is customary for
the Dozens to be played in front of an audience of bystanders, who
encourage the participants to reply with more egregious insults to
heighten the tension and consequently, to be more interesting to
watch. Among African-Americans it is also known as "capping",
"clowning", "ranking", "ragging", "sounding", "joning", "woofing",
"wolfing", "sigging", or "signifying",while the provocations
themselves are known as "snaps".
 Comments in the game focus on the opposite player's intelligence,
appearance, competency, social status, financial situation, and
disparaging remarks about the other player's family members—
mothers in particular ("yo′ mama...")—are common. So what did it
inspire in recent times that was trending in all social media few
months back?

11.  A three-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh has
set a new record in archery and entered India
Book of Records. X from Vijayawada has
become the youngest archer to enter India
Book of Records by scoring 388 points from
two distances, seven and five meters. X is the
sister of late Indian archery coach Cherukuri
Lenin.
 Who is this phenomenal archery prodigy?

14.  Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd is an Indian
company based in Noida, Uttar
Pradesh which holds the master
franchise for X in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh, and also for Dunkin' Donuts in
India.It is a part of the Jubilant Bhartia Group.
 The first X in India opened in New Delhi in
1996 and operates 749 stores in 152 Indian
cities as of May 2014.
 Some poular advertising of X are shown in
the next slide.

18.  X Y (born 16 August 1989, Madras, Tamil
Nadu, India) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-
handed opening batsman. He plays in the Indian
Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings.
 His personal explanation of his unusual name.
"My grandfather was a scientist. He wrote a letter
to Z and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea
[what the letter was about] even though I've read it.
My mother was a physics graduate and she
teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm X”.
Yis my father's name.
 Paati hint on the next slide.

21.  Ramanujam's first biographers describe him as rigorously
orthodox. Ramanujam credited his acumen to his family
goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for
inspiration in his work,and claimed to dream of blood drops
that symbolised her male consort, X, after which he would
receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content
unfolding before his eyes. He often said, "An equation for me
has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God”.
 X is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu who is also the
supreme god Krishna. Rig Veda describes him as “like some
wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming”. He is known
primarily as the 'Great Protector' who specifically defends and
protects his devotees in times of need.
 X pls….

23.  The film was originally going to be shot in
Toronto but due to the SARS scare at the
time, the director moved it to another location
. However some parts of a famous song in
the movie are shot in Toronto.
 This is supposedly a remake of the movie
Anand with X and Y reprising the roles of
Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bacchan
respectively.
 Movie pls!!

25. The French chemist Jean Baptiste Perrin
proposed this name in X’s honour in 1909.
American chemistry textbooks picked it up
in the 1930’s. X never attempted to
measure it. The numerical value was first
estimated by the Austrian physicst Johann
Josef Loschmidt in 1865 using Kinetic
theory of Gases. What?

27. A New York ad agency tried marketing
laundry detergent to Arab consumers
through the use of sequential pictures
showing laundry being cleaned. However,
the advertisers didn’t realize something
and their ad actually depicted the
detergent soiling the clothing after
washing.
What was the glitch??

28. The advertisers didn't realize Arabic was
read from right to left !!

29. Zubeen Garg is the Music director

30. He founded the Quiz club at St. Stephens
New Delhi in the early 1970s. He stood for
union elections under the slogan “______
zeetega zaroor” and went on to officiate as
the President of the College Union.
Who??

31. Shashi Tharoor

32.  X-Y babies are human offspring, created through a
specialized form of in vitro
fertilization involving cytoplasmic transfer in which the
future baby's mitochondrial DNA comes from a third
party. The procedure is intended to
prevent mitochondrial diseases including diabetes
mellitus and deafness and some heart and liver
conditions. It is the subject of considerable controversy
in the field of bioethics. The procedure is not currently
approved for general use in any country aside from
the United Kingdom, which legalised it in February
2015.
 What very appropriate yet “anti-sanskari” name is
given to it?

34. The Khitai tribe from Mongolia captured
Northern China in the 10th century A.D.
and later moved in various directions. This
resulted in a name for the region, which
apart from its use in the Russian now
survives only in the Business world.
What?

36.  There are many interpretations of this song:
 Some think this song is about someone who percieves the
world in a logical rather than an emotional way, as a X does to
his work, and tries to apply this logic to the relationship he is in
but soon realises that logic cannot be applied to everything
and that he is feeling emotional instead and ignores the logic.
Obviously he wants to try again now as he realises his
mistake.
 Some believe that this song meant how love is so powerful,
but you dont know it until the one that you truly love is actually
gone.
 Some other sources states that "The X is Dan.", with Dan
referring to Dan Keeling, the A&R man who signed the band to
Parlophone.

40.  A red Indian chef had three squaws in three tepees.
When he came home from hunting he never knew
which squaw was in which tepee because it was so
dark. One day he killed a hippopotamus, a bear and a
buffalo. He put one hide from each animal into each
tepee, so that when he came home late he could feel
inside the tepee and would know which squaw was
which.
 After a year all the three squaws had children. The
squaw on the bear hide had a baby boy, that on the
buffalo hide had a baby girl and the squaw on the
hippopotamus had a girl and a boy.
 Either tell us the moral of the story or why it was used
for.

41. The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal
to the sum of thesquaws on the other two
hides.
One more way of remembering
Pythagoras theorem!!

42.  X is a live video streaming app available on iOS developed by
team headed by Ben Rubin. It quickly found popularity on
micro-blogging site Twitter after its debut on the
website Product Hunt in March 2015 and the South by
Southwest Interactive Festival.
 The X or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a
small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family
(Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus Suricata. X
live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of
the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and
in South Africa.
 In the 2012 movie Life of Pi, the floating island is inhabited by
tens of thousands of X, in an environment and grouping unlike
real X(pic next slide)

45.  X wrote one of the finest novels ever to feature chess – “The
Defence”.
 The plot concerns the title character, Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin. As
a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and an object of
ridicule by his classmates. One day, when a guest comes to his
father's party, he is asked whether he knows how to play chess. This
encounter serves as his motivation to pick up chess. He skips school
and visits his aunt's house to learn the basics. He quickly becomes a
great player, enrolling in local competitions and rising in rank as a
chess player. His talent is prodigious and he attains the level of
a Grandmaster in less than ten years. For many years, he remains
one of the top chess players in the world, but fails to become a world
champion.
 However X is best known for his best-seller Y. In his spare time he
composed many fine chess problems. Give me X and Y.
 (Hints: Y sounds very Bong, no offence!!)

46. X: Vladimir Nobakov
Y: Lolita

47.  Better known as The million Y Temple, the
construction is an unconventional
contemporary Buddhist temple in the Khun Han district
of the Sisaket province. It is constructed by using a
million X’s of something. The project began back in
1984 in an effort to promote recycling and clean up the
landscape. The residential Buddhist monks simply
encouraged everyone in the area to bring them X’s to
create a temple complex.
 However since the completion of the temple more and
more buildings have been added. ”The more X’s we
get, the more buildings we make,” says Abbot San
Kataboonyo.(pic next slide)

51. 1. Very recently, NOIR 43, a line of fashion apparel,
was launched by 2 celebrities at the Amazon
India Fashion Week.
The menswear line is inspired by military
uniforms and the imagery of Kolkata in the
1940s, while the women wear line reflects the
glamour of that era and has a chic and
sophisticated take on midi-length skirts, palazzos
and Peter Pan-collared blouses.
What, however, was the main inspiration behind
the dresses?

53. The photo on the next slide is of the
Palace Bristol Hotel, located at Karlovy
Vary in the Czech Republic.
What is its main claim to fame?

55. Images of the hotel were used in The
Grand Budapest Hotel movie posters

56. 3. FITB-
In Norse mythology, _____ is a series of future
events, including a great battle foretold to
ultimately result in the death of a number of major
figures (including the gods Odin, Thor and Loki,
among others), the occurrence of various natural
disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the
world in water.
Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile,
the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the
world will be repopulated by two human survivors.
(Hint: The answer, already known to comic book
fans, again became famous in October last year)

57. Ragnarok

58. Few people know that it was Maniram Dewan who
first informed the British about the Assam tea
grown by the Singpho tribe.
In the mid-1840s, after resigning as
the Dewan of the Assam Tea Company due to
differences of opinion with the company officers,
he established his own tea garden at Chenimora
in Jorhat, thus becoming the first Indian to grow
tea commercially in Assam.
Today that tea garden is known for what other
reason?

59. The Tocklai Experimental Station/Tea
research Institute is situated here.

60. In 2008, Carlos Ramirez, an Oakland based
artist, was attempting to draw a comic
character known as the “Rape Rodent”
(picture on next slide).
However, he ended up drawing something
else, similar to its image, which has now
become a symbol of a popular 21st century
phenomenon.
What?

62. The Troll-face meme

63. 9. In 1504, Christopher Columbus was in
present day Jamaica. He and his crew had
eaten a great deal of the inhabitants' food,
and soon enough, the inhabitants refused to
feed them anymore.
As a result, to convince the inhabitants of his
power, so that they resumed giving food to
them, Columbus used an unique strategy.
The strategy used something which occurs
naturally, and which was also in the news
very recently.
What strategy?

64. He told the locals that he would make the
moon disappear and then bring it back.

65. This is the founder talking about how he named his creation.
Name what he created-
“One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was
thinking _____ is a good name. And then a waitress came,
and I said, "Do you know about _____?" And she said yes...
…And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went onto the
street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know
_____?" People from India, people from Germany, people
from Tokyo and China … they all knew about _____. _____ is
a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So
easy to spell, and globally known…”

67. Connect this non exhaustive list and FITB-
 4001 Ptolemaeus (1949)
 4003 Schumann (1964)
 4110 Keats (1977)
 4009 Drobyshevskij (1977)
 4017 Disneya (1980)
 4028 Pancratz (1981)
 4124 Herriot (1986)
 4538 _____ (1988)
 4264 Karljosephine (1989)
 4508 Takatsuki (1990)

68. Vishyanand
All of them are official names of minor
planets.

69. 11. Give funda for this tribute to LOTR made
by Google in Google Maps (image in next
slide)
The funda has a special significance on this
date.

71. It was one of the many Easter eggs
provided on Google Maps

72. 12. In 2006, artist-writer Jason Wee
presented Self-Portrait (No More Tears Mr.
Lee), a portrait of X made from 8,000
plastic shampoo bottle caps placed on an
angled pedestal (image on next slide).
The title references Johnson & Johnson's
baby shampoo and the iconic 1965
moment when X cried on TV while
announcing _____ 's separation from
Malaysia.
Id X, and why he was in the news recently.

74. Lee Yuan Kew
He died on 23rd March this year.

75. Ad for what??