Legacy- The College Gen Quiz at Fortitude 2020 (Prelims)

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5. Bawana Boys 1. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The India Today fact checking website, as is obvious from it’s name, checks viral stories for factual validity. When found to be untrue, these stories are rated on a scale of upto 3 X. 1 X represents a Half True story, 2 Xs stand for Mostly lies and 3 Xs mark a story to be absolutely false. The reason for using the X (a member of the animal kingdom) as a rating system is exemplified by the famous Hindi phrase Y. X and Y ?

6. Bawana Boys 2. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Devil's Due Comics is a published based in the US known for their indie comic books. They gained attention in 2018 because they released comic books based on some very prominent real people. Simply identify.

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9. Bawana Boys 3. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This is Riley, a volunteer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He uses his nose to sniff out threats to the artworks which may be invisible to the naked eye – helping keep the museum’s collection of paintings and artifacts in prime condition – especially textiles, wood, or other organic materials. How exactly does Riley help the museum? Considering what he does, it might be a good idea to keep him away from a few Damien Hirst works.

11. Bawana Boys 4. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims A couple of years back, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern started a new campaign against a certain injustice. She cited quite a few examples, including at The Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Central Park Zoo, Starbucks and Ikea. There are many online blogs/forums dedicated towards pointing out this injustice, with slogans such as “It’s not a very important country most of the time.” What “injustice”?

12. Bawana Boys 5. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Amongst various theories trying to explain the term, one claims it is a corruption of the French word for egg. Another theory suggests that passion was the driving element for the participants to continue the activity, no matter their level of expertise. The idea here is that if the person is playing purely for his passion then they are less likely to be getting paid for it. What are these theories speculating?

13. Bawana Boys 6. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The term originated in the 1960s when the hotel industry placed notices in hotel rooms asking guests to reuse their towels to save the environment. The hotels enjoyed the lower laundry costs. X (the term) is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company's products are more environmentally sound. Another example of X would be an area rug labeled “50% more recycled content than before.” Give the term

14. Bawana Boys 7. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Shown on next slide, is X mocking Ys ad campaign.What message did Y want to convey in its campaign.Also, what is X?

16. Bawana Boys 8. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims After events of the last couple of months or so, a “definition” has been circulating online. The definition being: “to value yourself and your mental health enough to up and leave a room/ situation/ environment in which your authentic self is not welcomed or wanted” Give me the word.

17. Bawana Boys 9. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims These lines were written by 2 very different people after their visit to a certain place.Give both the people and the place.

18. Bawana Boys 10. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The Hindi name of what, is because of the fact that when the Britishers first brought the seeds to India, they planted it at a place called Kandaghat?

19. Bawana Boys 11. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The term came about as a result of a trend called reduplication wherein nonsense rhyming terms would be employed for dramatic effect.The first known use is attributed to Billy De Beck who used it in an October 1923 cartoon where he said,” You dumb ox, you gotta get that stupid look off a your pan, you gimme the ______ _______. In 2005, we heard this in the movie Madagascar where the visiting New Yorkers give King Julian‘s assistant Maurice the ________ _________.

20. Bawana Boys 12. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This viral artwork was on display at Art Basel Miami Beach. The Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan, had made several models first, first in resin, then in bronze, and in painted bronze (before) finally coming back to the initial idea which he went ahead with. Priced at $150,000, the art has left visitors stumped and has been ridiculed. “The genius of Cattelan’s ______ is that it draws out the mainstream media’s suspicion that all contemporary art is a type of emperor’s new clothes foisted on rich people,” Half Gallery owner and art dealer Bill Powers said. People always like to dismiss modern art as simplistic, often remarking, “I could make that.” The go-to comeback to this statement is, “Yeah, but you didn’t. Cattelan put questions regarding the piece’s fate to rest, stating that the motif could be replaced and still be called an original. Name the art in question.

21. Bawana Boys 13. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims A new pilot program uses a species of bird to keep track of illegal fishing. Scientists fitted the birds, who are known for following fishing vessels, with GPS trackers and Radar “pingers”, in a device roughly the weight of a golf ball, that could senses a ships radar at a distance of upto 5 km, and logs the GPS locations. However, the same scientists acknowledged an issue - if word about this technology was widespread enough illegal fishers might just shoot down the bird in question, in some sense reversing the metaphor that the bird is often referenced in. What bird/what metaphor?

22. Bawana Boys 14. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The following picture from the Netherlands represents one of the first visuals we have of X, a popular fictional character that holds contemporary importance. - The character is said to have ridden a donkey and worn a tall bishop's hat as he visited the people at their homes. It was traditional for the children of these homes to put out clogs (shoes with thick wooden soles) stuffed with straw for the donkey to eat. - X made his way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City, where the Anglicization of his name has birthed the moniker by which he is known and loved today. As his stories reached the Americans through Dutch settlements that were streaming in, the practice of putting out straw for the donkey was replicated by replacing clogs with Y, which were more common in the cold weather.

23. Bawana Boys 14. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims How we see X today is largely attributed to the Coca Cola Company and their ad campaign from the 1940s, but the credit for this look should go instead to Thomas Nast in 1863, a 21-year old who merged the tall, straight-bearded character into the all-too-popular propoganda image of Uncle Sam. Nast drew X to resemble a benevolent, obese man who wore a star-spangled jacket, striped pants, and a cap. This was done to "boost the spirits of soldiers and civilians alike because it showed that the spirit of ___ had come to the Civil War". ID X and Y.

25. Bawana Boys 15. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This legend could be attributed to the fact that a nesting X who senses danger may flop down with its head and neck flat against the ground in hopes that potential predators won't spot it. This position gives it an excellent opportunity to camouflage. Another action of the creature which might have given rise to the myth is when the animal gently turns its eggs in the deep nests. What popular myth possibly arose from the animal’s actions?

26. Bawana Boys 16. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims __ Suave , known for his popular Youtube content relating to _________, has released a video highlighting alternate uses of the popular product staple to his content on Youtube.He mentions the alternate uses are ● As a shading tool in arts/drawings. ● To make sticky notes, wrap and stick it up.Works well. ● As a stencil to draw to art by keeping over image and copying it. ● To stick torn pages in books by sticking it from gum side.

27. Bawana Boys 17. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Since their conception in 2002, they have been designed in such a way that they do not really need human control.For co-ordinated halting, there are infrared beacons located at both the ends, when the object in question is in the range of the beacons, they get to know the distance to the beacon, and based on the current speed, the required deceleration is calculated.The power for the objects are given by 4 520V lines which with 1 live wire, 1 neutral and 2 ground wires for safety. What objects are being talked about?

28. Bawana Boys 18. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims For the last Asian games, the entire Indian contingent wore attire sponsored by Li-Ning group - the official sponsor of the Indian Olympic Association. However, the tennis players alone didn’t wear the official attire during matches even though they wore it during training. Due to what practical limitation, did they not wear the official gear?

29. Bawana Boys 19. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims In 1971, renowned journalist and author of a book called Scoop!, Kuldeep Nayar managed to get an interview with someone who widely was known to not speak on the topic. When asked about regrets, if any, the person replied: "I had no alternative; the time at my disposal was so short that I could not do a better job. Given the same period I would do the same thing. However, if I had two to three years, I might have improved on what I did". Who was the interviewee, and what was he talking about?

30. Bawana Boys 20. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The domain of an Eastern European country is popular around the word among doctors who want to create a personal websites. Which country? What two letter TLD?

31. Bawana Boys 21. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims How is this video shot?

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33. Bawana BoysLegacy - College Gen | Prelims Answers following

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35. Bawana Boys 1. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The India Today fact checking website, as is obvious from it’s name, checks viral stories for factual validity. When found to be untrue, these stories are rated on a scale of upto 3 X. 1 X represents a Half True story, 2 Xs stand for Mostly lies and 3 Xs mark a story to be absolutely false. The reason for using the X (a member of the animal kingdom) as a rating system is exemplified by the famous Hindi phrase Y. X and Y ?

36. Bawana Boys 1. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Crow, Jhooth Bole Kauva Kaate

37. Bawana Boys 2. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Devil's Due Comics is a published based in the US known for their indie comic books. They gained attention in 2018 because they released comic books based on some very prominent real people. Simply identify.

42. Bawana Boys 3. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This is Riley, a volunteer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He uses his nose to sniff out threats to the artworks which may be invisible to the naked eye – helping keep the museum’s collection of paintings and artifacts in prime condition – especially textiles, wood, or other organic materials. How exactly does Riley help the museum? Considering what he does, it might be a good idea to keep him away from a few Damien Hirst works.

44. Bawana Boys 3. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Sniffs out insects

45. Bawana Boys 4. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims A couple of years back, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern started a new campaign against a certain injustice. She cited quite a few examples, including at The Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Central Park Zoo, Starbucks and Ikea. There are many online blogs/forums dedicated towards pointing out this injustice, with slogans such as “It’s not a very important country most of the time.” What “injustice”?

46. Bawana Boys 4. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Maps without NZ

47. Bawana Boys 5. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Amongst various theories trying to explain the term, one claims it is a corruption of the French word for egg. Another theory suggests that passion was the driving element for the participants to continue the activity, no matter their level of expertise. The idea here is that if the person is playing purely for his passion then they are less likely to be getting paid for it. What are these theories speculating?

48. Bawana Boys 5. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Why is 0 called ‘love’ in tennis

49. Bawana Boys 6. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The term originated in the 1960s when the hotel industry placed notices in hotel rooms asking guests to reuse their towels to save the environment. The hotels enjoyed the lower laundry costs. X (the term) is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company's products are more environmentally sound. Another example of X would be an area rug labeled “50% more recycled content than before.” Give the term

50. Bawana Boys 6. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims GreenWashing

51. Bawana Boys 7. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Shown on next slide, is X mocking Ys ad campaign.What message did Y want to convey in its campaign.Also, what is X?

53. Bawana Boys 7. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims X- Nandos Y - Burger King - no added preservatives to the burgers

54. Bawana Boys 8. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims After events of the last couple of months or so, a “definition” has been circulating online. The definition being: “to value yourself and your mental health enough to up and leave a room/ situation/ environment in which your authentic self is not welcomed or wanted” Give me the word.

55. Bawana Boys 8. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims To Meghan Markle

56. Bawana Boys 9. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims These lines were written by 2 very different people after their visit to a certain place.Give both the people and the place.

57. Bawana Boys 9. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Sabarmati Ashram

58. Bawana Boys 10. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The Hindi name of what, is because of the fact that when the Britishers first brought the seeds to India, they planted it at a place called Kandaghat?

59. Bawana Boys 10. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Shimla Mirch

60. Bawana Boys 11. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The term came about as a result of a trend called reduplication wherein nonsense rhyming terms would be employed for dramatic effect.The first known use is attributed to Billy De Beck who used it in an October 1923 cartoon where he said,” You dumb ox, you gotta get that stupid look off a your pan, you gimme the ______ _______. In 2005, we heard this in the movie Madagascar where the visiting New Yorkers give King Julian‘s assistant Maurice the ________ _________.

61. Bawana Boys 11. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Heebie Jeebies

62. Bawana Boys 12. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This viral artwork was on display at Art Basel Miami Beach. The Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan, had made several models first, first in resin, then in bronze, and in painted bronze (before) finally coming back to the initial idea which he went ahead with. Priced at $150,000, the art has left visitors stumped and has been ridiculed. “The genius of Cattelan’s ______ is that it draws out the mainstream media’s suspicion that all contemporary art is a type of emperor’s new clothes foisted on rich people,” Half Gallery owner and art dealer Bill Powers said. People always like to dismiss modern art as simplistic, often remarking, “I could make that.” The go-to comeback to this statement is, “Yeah, but you didn’t. Cattelan put questions regarding the piece’s fate to rest, stating that the motif could be replaced and still be called an original. Name the art in question.

63. Bawana Boys 12. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Confusion by Maurizio Cattelan

64. Bawana Boys 13. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims A new pilot program uses a species of bird to keep track of illegal fishing. Scientists fitted the birds, who are known for following fishing vessels, with GPS trackers and Radar “pingers”, in a device roughly the weight of a golf ball, that could senses a ships radar at a distance of upto 5 km, and logs the GPS locations. However, the same scientists acknowledged an issue - if word about this technology was widespread enough illegal fishers might just shoot down the bird in question, in some sense reversing the metaphor that the bird is often referenced in. What bird/what metaphor?

65. Bawana Boys 13. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Albatross

66. Bawana Boys 14. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The following picture from the Netherlands represents one of the first visuals we have of X, a popular fictional character that holds contemporary importance. - The character is said to have ridden a donkey and worn a tall bishop's hat as he visited the people at their homes. It was traditional for the children of these homes to put out clogs (shoes with thick wooden soles) stuffed with straw for the donkey to eat. - X made his way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City, where the Anglicization of his name has birthed the moniker by which he is known and loved today. As his stories reached the Americans through Dutch settlements that were streaming in, the practice of putting out straw for the donkey was replicated by replacing clogs with Y, which were more common in the cold weather.

67. Bawana Boys 14. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims How we see X today is largely attributed to the Coca Cola Company and their ad campaign from the 1940s, but the credit for this look should go instead to Thomas Nast in 1863, a 21-year old who merged the tall, straight-bearded character into the all-too-popular propoganda image of Uncle Sam. Nast drew X to resemble a benevolent, obese man who wore a star-spangled jacket, striped pants, and a cap. This was done to "boost the spirits of soldiers and civilians alike because it showed that the spirit of ___ had come to the Civil War". ID X and Y.

69. Bawana Boys 14. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Santa Claus, Stockings

70. Bawana Boys 15. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims This legend could be attributed to the fact that a nesting X who senses danger may flop down with its head and neck flat against the ground in hopes that potential predators won't spot it. This position gives it an excellent opportunity to camouflage. Another action of the creature which might have given rise to the myth is when the animal gently turns its eggs in the deep nests. What popular myth possibly arose from the animal’s actions?

71. Bawana Boys 15. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Ostriches bury their heads in sand when threatened.

72. Bawana Boys 16. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims __ Suave , known for his popular Youtube content relating to _________, has released a video highlighting alternate uses of the popular product staple to his content on Youtube.He mentions the alternate uses are ● As a shading tool in arts/drawings. ● To make sticky notes, wrap and stick it up.Works well. ● As a stencil to draw to art by keeping over image and copying it. ● To stick torn pages in books by sticking it from gum side.

73. Bawana Boys 16. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Rolling Paper

74. Bawana Boys 17. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Since their conception in 2002, they have been designed in such a way that they do not really need human control.For co-ordinated halting, there are infrared beacons located at both the ends, when the object in question is in the range of the beacons, they get to know the distance to the beacon, and based on the current speed, the required deceleration is calculated.The power for the objects are given by 4 520V lines which with 1 live wire, 1 neutral and 2 ground wires for safety. What objects are being talked about?

75. Bawana Boys 17. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims DMRC Trains

76. Bawana Boys 18. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims For the last Asian games, the entire Indian contingent wore attire sponsored by Li-Ning group - the official sponsor of the Indian Olympic Association. However, the tennis players alone didn’t wear the official attire during matches even though they wore it during training. Due to what practical limitation, did they not wear the official gear?

77. Bawana Boys 18. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims No Pockets for Balls

78. Bawana Boys 19. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims In 1971, renowned journalist and author of a book called Scoop!, Kuldeep Nayar managed to get an interview with someone who widely was known to not speak on the topic. When asked about regrets, if any, the person replied: "I had no alternative; the time at my disposal was so short that I could not do a better job. Given the same period I would do the same thing. However, if I had two to three years, I might have improved on what I did". Who was the interviewee, and what was he talking about?

79. Bawana Boys 19. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Cyril Radcliffe

80. Bawana Boys 20. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims The domain of an Eastern European country is popular around the word among doctors who want to create a personal websites. Which country? What two letter TLD?

81. Bawana Boys 20. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims Moldova, .md

82. Bawana Boys 21. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims How is this video shot?

83. Bawana Boys 21. Legacy - College Gen | Prelims VR 360 degree cam

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