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QUIZCON'23
U25 Quiz
PRELIMS
QM - ARKADIPTA & SHAMBO
Rules:
• There are 20 questions
• There are 5 “*” marked questions, multiples of 4 (4,8,12,16,20).
• These questions will be accountable in case of a tie. If still the tie is not
resolved, then who gave the first wrong answer in the “*” marked
question will be eliminated.
• Top 8 teams from prelims will qualify in the Finals.
• Quiz masters can change some rules of the quiz according to their
comfort and Quiz Master’s decision is final.
• Hints are highlighted with color.
Statutory Warning
Googling is harmful for quiz
ALL THE BEST!!!
1.
•Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on
his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.
•On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ”
along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building.
•The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have
a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and
think about a statement, situation, or action.
•The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
2.
What is this meme referring to
3.
•Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in
modern-day Tibet.
•It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake
Rakshastal, demons used to.
•This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be
‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language.
•What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’
while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
4.*
• A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our
Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for
which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020.
• During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course
by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country
during the time of war.
• This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities
of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange
programs.
• Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
5.
What has been blanked out in the following
meme?
6.
•The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski,
Rico & X.
•The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved.
•To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in
other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name).
•Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances
made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always
protected.
7.
• Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not
due to the decrease in air quality.
• In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced
Y to replace the air frequently.
• The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for
replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading
to worse more infection ridden air.
• Id X and Y.
8.*
• These lines have recently surfaced over
the internet and are trending with a lot
of creators using this in their creations.
• The piece has resulted in the sudden
boost of popularity in our country of
the original creators who started the
trend.
Id the piece and how do we know this?
9.
• During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped
something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an
ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more.
• Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1
of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes.
• In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted
with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable.
• What did the cricketers do?
10.
• X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century
Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first
completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its
volume "X in America".
• Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi
Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is
X".
• Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest
airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France.
• Identify X and Y.
11.
• "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in
1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site.
• 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to
widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident
with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to
become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with
anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of
this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the
Fukushima plant meltdown.
• Which creation?
12.*
• GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is
created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep
learning to produce human like text.
• Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as
input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X
and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal
combination of objects.
• Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
13.
• Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and
surprisingly all were well fed.
• Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds
of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional
requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery.
• People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home
mostly became a driving factor for recruitment.
• What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
14.
• The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's
Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet
fortune, married and called himself as X.
• Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It
was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is
papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing
popularity at the time due to the Spreckels.
• Id X.
15.
• X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were
first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y.
• Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a
common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this
with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the
world.
• However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms
of Y are dominant.
• What is being explained?
16.*
• Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in
size and there are no snakes to speak of.
• But there can be no doubt on its
importance for the control of the Western
Black Sea.
• This year a new postal stamp featuring the
island began circulation. What heroic act of
defiance is this poster commemorating.
17.
• Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many
people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere.
• X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally
during summer months.
• Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that,
"The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and
betting without having proper knowledge of the law."
• However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling.
• Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
18.
• Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make
better out of the best.
• Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons
for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer
Olympics.
• The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the
navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes
inciting fear on their onlookers.
• Id X and Y.
19.
The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is:
• Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of
the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform.
It is still used in small stations in India.
• The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the
platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be
struck 2 times before the train left the platform.
• This inspired the phrase meaning __.
• Id the phrase.
20.*
• The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which
dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country.
• The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool
used by people to roam on its terrain.
• The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment
during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged
enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the
summer heat.
• Id the country and the product X.
A Quick Run Through
1.
•Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on
his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.
•On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ”
along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building.
•The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have
a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and
think about a statement, situation, or action.
•The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
2.
What is this meme referring to
3.
•Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in
modern-day Tibet.
•It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake
Rakshastal, demons used to.
•This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be
‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language.
•What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’
while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
4.*
• A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our
Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for
which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020.
• During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course
by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country
during the time of war.
• This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities
of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange
programs.
• Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
5.
What has been blanked out in the following
meme?
6.
•The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski,
Rico & X.
•The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved.
•To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in
other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name).
•Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances
made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always
protected.
7.
• Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not
due to the decrease in air quality.
• In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced
Y to replace the air frequently.
• The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for
replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading
to worse more infection ridden air.
• Id X and Y.
8.*
• These lines have recently surfaced over
the internet and are trending with a lot
of creators using this in their creations.
• The piece has resulted in the sudden
boost of popularity in our country of
the original creators who started the
trend.
Id the piece and how do we know this?
9.
• During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped
something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an
ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more.
• Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1
of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes.
• In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted
with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable.
• What did the cricketers do?
10.
• X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century
Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first
completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its
volume "X in America".
• Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi
Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is
X".
• Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest
airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France.
• Identify X and Y.
11.
• "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in
1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site.
• 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to
widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident
with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to
become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with
anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of
this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the
Fukushima plant meltdown.
• Which creation?
12.*
• GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is
created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep
learning to produce human like text.
• Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as
input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X
and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal
combination of objects.
• Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
13.
• Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and
surprisingly all were well fed.
• Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds
of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional
requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery.
• People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home
mostly became a driving factor for recruitment.
• What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
14.
• The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's
Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet
fortune, married and called himself as X.
• Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It
was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is
papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing
popularity at the time due to the Spreckels.
• Id X.
15.
• X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were
first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y.
• Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a
common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this
with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the
world.
• However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms
of Y are dominant.
• What is being explained?
16.*
• Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in
size and there are no snakes to speak of.
• But there can be no doubt on its
importance for the control of the Western
Black Sea.
• This year a new postal stamp featuring the
island began circulation. What heroic act of
defiance is this poster commemorating.
17.
• Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many
people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere.
• X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally
during summer months.
• Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that,
"The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and
betting without having proper knowledge of the law."
• However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling.
• Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
18.
• Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make
better out of the best.
• Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons
for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer
Olympics.
• The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the
navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes
inciting fear on their onlookers.
• Id X and Y.
19.
The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is:
• Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of
the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform.
It is still used in small stations in India.
• The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the
platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be
struck 2 times before the train left the platform.
• This inspired the phrase meaning __.
• Id the phrase.
20.*
• The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which
dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country.
• The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool
used by people to roam on its terrain.
• The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment
during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged
enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the
summer heat.
• Id the country and the product X.
ANSWERS COMING UP
1.
•Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on
his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.
•On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ”
along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building.
•The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have
a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and
think about a statement, situation, or action.
•The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!
2.What is this meme referring to
OceanGate Implosion incident
3.
•Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in
modern-day Tibet.
•It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake
Rakshastal, demons used to.
•This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be
‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language.
•What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’
while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
Lake Manasarovar is a freshwater lake
Lake Rakshasthal is a saltwater lake
4.*
• A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our
Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for
which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020.
• During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course
by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country
during the time of war.
• This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities
of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange
programs.
• Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
IIT KGP launches MBBS Course
5.
What has been blanked out in the following
meme?
Google Maps
6.
•The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski,
Rico & X.
•The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved.
•To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in
other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name).
•Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances
made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always
protected.
Private
7.
• Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not
due to the decrease in air quality.
• In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced
Y to replace the air frequently.
• The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for
replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading
to worse more infection ridden air.
• Id X and Y.
X: Cigarettes
Y: Planes
8.*
• These lines have recently surfaced over
the internet and are trending with a lot
of creators using this in their creations.
• The piece has resulted in the sudden
boost of popularity in our country of
the original creators who started the
trend.
Id the piece and how do we know this?
The Nepali song – Badal Barsa Bijuli
The duo dance posted in Instagram with this audio
as background music by princykhatiwada & prismakhatiwada
9.
• During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped
something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an
ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more.
• Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1
of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes.
• In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted
with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable.
• What did the cricketers do?
England players wear wrong names on their
jersey as a tribute to Alzheimer's society.
10.
• X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century
Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first
completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its
volume "X in America".
• Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi
Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is
X".
• Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest
airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France.
• Identify X and Y.
X – Tintin
Y – Charles de Gaulle
11.
• "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in
1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site.
• 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to
widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident
with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to
become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with
anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of
this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the
Fukushima plant meltdown.
• Which creation?
Godzilla
12.*
• GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is
created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep
learning to produce human like text.
• Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as
input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X
and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal
combination of objects.
• Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
Dali - Wall-E = Dall-E
13.
• Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and
surprisingly all were well fed.
• Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds
of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional
requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery.
• People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home
mostly became a driving factor for recruitment.
• What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
Pyramids of Giza
14.
• The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's
Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet
fortune, married and called himself as X.
• Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It
was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is
papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing
popularity at the time due to the Spreckels.
• Id X.
Sugar daddy
Picture Unrelated
15.
• X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were
first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y.
• Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a
common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this
with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the
world.
• However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms
of Y are dominant.
• What is being explained?
X: Soccer (Association Football)
Y: Football
16.*
• Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in
size and there are no snakes to speak of.
• But there can be no doubt on its
importance for the control of the Western
Black Sea.
• This year a new postal stamp featuring the
island began circulation. What heroic act of
defiance is this poster commemorating.
Snake Island heroes who had reportedly told the
Russian forces to "Go fuck themselves" after being
ordered to surrender.
17.
• Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many
people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere.
• X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally
during summer months.
• Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that,
"The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and
betting without having proper knowledge of the law."
• However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling.
• Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
Dream 11.
"The competitions where success depends upon a
substantial degree of skill are not gambling and it
is not a mere game of chance."
18.
• Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make
better out of the best.
• Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons
for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer
Olympics.
• The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the
navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes
inciting fear on their onlookers.
• Id X and Y.
X: Michael Phelps
Y: Sharks
19.
The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is:
• Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of
the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform.
It is still used in small stations in India.
• The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the
platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be
struck 2 times before the train left the platform.
• This inspired the phrase meaning __.
• Id the phrase.
Nau do Gyarah (9+2=11)
Meaning something/somebody has left or
escaped.
20.*
• The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which
dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country.
• The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool
used by people to roam on its terrain.
• The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment
during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged
enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the
summer heat.
• Id the country and the product X.
Country - Afghanistan
Company - Toyota
Thanks for Participating in
the Prelims
We will declare the finalists & come back with the
Finals shortly. Stay tuned.
U25 GENERAL QUIZ: PRELIMS - QUIZCON 23

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U25 GENERAL QUIZ: PRELIMS - QUIZCON 23

  • 1. QUIZCON'23 U25 Quiz PRELIMS QM - ARKADIPTA & SHAMBO
  • 2. Rules: • There are 20 questions • There are 5 “*” marked questions, multiples of 4 (4,8,12,16,20). • These questions will be accountable in case of a tie. If still the tie is not resolved, then who gave the first wrong answer in the “*” marked question will be eliminated. • Top 8 teams from prelims will qualify in the Finals. • Quiz masters can change some rules of the quiz according to their comfort and Quiz Master’s decision is final. • Hints are highlighted with color.
  • 3. Statutory Warning Googling is harmful for quiz
  • 5. 1. •Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. •On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ” along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building. •The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and think about a statement, situation, or action. •The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
  • 6. 2. What is this meme referring to
  • 7. 3. •Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in modern-day Tibet. •It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake Rakshastal, demons used to. •This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be ‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language. •What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’ while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
  • 8. 4.* • A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020. • During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country during the time of war. • This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange programs. • Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
  • 9. 5. What has been blanked out in the following meme?
  • 10. 6. •The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico & X. •The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved. •To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name). •Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always protected.
  • 11. 7. • Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not due to the decrease in air quality. • In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced Y to replace the air frequently. • The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading to worse more infection ridden air. • Id X and Y.
  • 12. 8.* • These lines have recently surfaced over the internet and are trending with a lot of creators using this in their creations. • The piece has resulted in the sudden boost of popularity in our country of the original creators who started the trend. Id the piece and how do we know this?
  • 13. 9. • During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more. • Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1 of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes. • In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable. • What did the cricketers do?
  • 14. 10. • X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its volume "X in America". • Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is X". • Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France. • Identify X and Y.
  • 15. 11. • "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in 1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site. • 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the Fukushima plant meltdown. • Which creation?
  • 16. 12.* • GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep learning to produce human like text. • Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal combination of objects. • Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
  • 17. 13. • Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and surprisingly all were well fed. • Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery. • People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home mostly became a driving factor for recruitment. • What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
  • 18. 14. • The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet fortune, married and called himself as X. • Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing popularity at the time due to the Spreckels. • Id X.
  • 19. 15. • X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y. • Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the world. • However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms of Y are dominant. • What is being explained?
  • 20. 16.* • Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in size and there are no snakes to speak of. • But there can be no doubt on its importance for the control of the Western Black Sea. • This year a new postal stamp featuring the island began circulation. What heroic act of defiance is this poster commemorating.
  • 21. 17. • Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere. • X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally during summer months. • Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that, "The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and betting without having proper knowledge of the law." • However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling. • Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
  • 22. 18. • Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make better out of the best. • Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer Olympics. • The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes inciting fear on their onlookers. • Id X and Y.
  • 23. 19. The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is: • Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform. It is still used in small stations in India. • The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be struck 2 times before the train left the platform. • This inspired the phrase meaning __. • Id the phrase.
  • 24. 20.* • The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country. • The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool used by people to roam on its terrain. • The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the summer heat. • Id the country and the product X.
  • 25. A Quick Run Through
  • 26. 1. •Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. •On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ” along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building. •The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and think about a statement, situation, or action. •The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
  • 27. 2. What is this meme referring to
  • 28. 3. •Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in modern-day Tibet. •It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake Rakshastal, demons used to. •This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be ‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language. •What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’ while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
  • 29. 4.* • A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020. • During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country during the time of war. • This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange programs. • Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
  • 30. 5. What has been blanked out in the following meme?
  • 31. 6. •The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico & X. •The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved. •To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name). •Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always protected.
  • 32. 7. • Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not due to the decrease in air quality. • In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced Y to replace the air frequently. • The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading to worse more infection ridden air. • Id X and Y.
  • 33. 8.* • These lines have recently surfaced over the internet and are trending with a lot of creators using this in their creations. • The piece has resulted in the sudden boost of popularity in our country of the original creators who started the trend. Id the piece and how do we know this?
  • 34. 9. • During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more. • Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1 of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes. • In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable. • What did the cricketers do?
  • 35. 10. • X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its volume "X in America". • Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is X". • Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France. • Identify X and Y.
  • 36. 11. • "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in 1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site. • 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the Fukushima plant meltdown. • Which creation?
  • 37. 12.* • GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep learning to produce human like text. • Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal combination of objects. • Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
  • 38. 13. • Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and surprisingly all were well fed. • Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery. • People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home mostly became a driving factor for recruitment. • What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
  • 39. 14. • The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet fortune, married and called himself as X. • Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing popularity at the time due to the Spreckels. • Id X.
  • 40. 15. • X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y. • Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the world. • However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms of Y are dominant. • What is being explained?
  • 41. 16.* • Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in size and there are no snakes to speak of. • But there can be no doubt on its importance for the control of the Western Black Sea. • This year a new postal stamp featuring the island began circulation. What heroic act of defiance is this poster commemorating.
  • 42. 17. • Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere. • X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally during summer months. • Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that, "The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and betting without having proper knowledge of the law." • However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling. • Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
  • 43. 18. • Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make better out of the best. • Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer Olympics. • The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes inciting fear on their onlookers. • Id X and Y.
  • 44. 19. The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is: • Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform. It is still used in small stations in India. • The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be struck 2 times before the train left the platform. • This inspired the phrase meaning __. • Id the phrase.
  • 45. 20.* • The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country. • The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool used by people to roam on its terrain. • The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the summer heat. • Id the country and the product X.
  • 47. 1. •Elon Musk bizarrely rocked up to Twitter HQ with an item as he closes in on his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. •On Wednesday (October 26), the Tesla CEO tweeted “Entering Twitter HQ _ _ _ _ ” along with a clip of himself in the lobby of the Twitter building. •The meaning of the blanked out phrase is to tell someone to process and have a think about what had been said before reacting to it. It’s a way to pause and think about a statement, situation, or action. •The item he carries is used in day to day life. Name the item and the phrase.
  • 48. Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!
  • 49. 2.What is this meme referring to
  • 51. 3. •Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal are 2 lakes side-by-side in modern-day Tibet. •It is said that, in Lake Manasarovar, gods used to bathe, while in Lake Rakshastal, demons used to. •This is very obvious from the fact that the Lake Rakshastal is said to be ‘lifeless’, ‘the dark lake of poison’ in Tibetian Language. •What is the logical reasoning behind naming a lake ‘Gods bathe here’ while another being ‘Rakshasas bathe here’ ?
  • 52. Lake Manasarovar is a freshwater lake Lake Rakshasthal is a saltwater lake
  • 53. 4.* • A premier institute of our country established 4 years after our Independence has recently been in news for launching a course for which it wasn't primarily established in accordance to NEP 2020. • During the Chinses Invasion of 1962, the Institute reduced its course by 1 year just to create more graduates who would help the country during the time of war. • This institute has more than 30 MOUs signed with other universities of Germany, France, Spain, UK, Australia for student exchange programs. • Name the institute and the course for launching which it is in news.
  • 54. IIT KGP launches MBBS Course
  • 55. 5. What has been blanked out in the following meme?
  • 57. 6. •The Penguins of Madagascar involves 4 members: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico & X. •The fourth member is the youngest and the most loved. •To avoid getting harmed, he is always kept uninvolved in missions or in other words he is kept X (A clever use of his name). •Contradictory to his name, he is always present in public appearances made by the penguins in the movie. But by default, he is always protected.
  • 59. 7. • Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for X being banned from Y was not due to the decrease in air quality. • In fact Xs being allowed in Y led to better air quality for all passengers as it forced Y to replace the air frequently. • The actual reason X is banned from Y is due to the extra cost Ys had to incur for replacing air. Without Xs, Y now uses a mixture of recycled and fresh air leading to worse more infection ridden air. • Id X and Y.
  • 61. 8.* • These lines have recently surfaced over the internet and are trending with a lot of creators using this in their creations. • The piece has resulted in the sudden boost of popularity in our country of the original creators who started the trend. Id the piece and how do we know this?
  • 62. The Nepali song – Badal Barsa Bijuli The duo dance posted in Instagram with this audio as background music by princykhatiwada & prismakhatiwada
  • 63. 9. • During the 3rd day of 5th Test match at Ashes 2023, the English players swapped something between themselves to support certain people suffering from an ailment and spread awareness about accepting and helping them more. • Furthermore, a stump from the pitch was removed to drive home the fact that 1 of 3 people in the UK would go on to suffer from this ailment in their lifetimes. • In appreciation of this event, the official X(twitter) handle of the society posted with the hashtag #CricketShouldBeUnforgettable. • What did the cricketers do?
  • 64. England players wear wrong names on their jersey as a tribute to Alzheimer's society.
  • 65. 10. • X is the protagonist of one of the most popular comic series of 20th century Europe which was criticized as being rabidly anti-Communist for its first completed edition and was subsequently accused of being anti-American for its volume "X in America". • Y, who was one of the most influential statesmen who fought against the Nazi Germany in WW II famously said that "In the end, my only international rival is X". • Having rewritten the present constitution of a European nation, the busiest airport of the EU is named after Y, the former president of France. • Identify X and Y.
  • 66. X – Tintin Y – Charles de Gaulle
  • 67. 11. • "Castle Bravo" was a nuclear test conducted by USA at the Marshall Islands in 1954. Unfortunately a Japanese ship was in the vicinity of the test site. • 23 crewmen suffered from acute radiation symptoms as a result. This led to widespread protests from the Japanese, with the people comparing this incident with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • The entire event inspired the creation of a cultural icon, which would go on to become extremely popular among the citizens. It became synonymous with anything disastrous be it a nuclear bomb or earthquakes. The best example of this is when the Google searches for this creation skyrocketed after the Fukushima plant meltdown. • Which creation?
  • 69. 12.* • GPT or Generative Pre-trained Transformer is a language prediction model that is created by Open-AI. GPT-3 is the 3rd generation of the model and uses deep learning to produce human like text. • Recently GPT-3 has also been used to produce images with just one line of text as input, this led to creators of GPT-3 naming the program __, a portmanteau of X and Y due to the futuristic model's ability to produce images from surreal combination of objects. • Id the model's name or identity X and Y.
  • 70. Dali - Wall-E = Dall-E
  • 71. 13. • Estimates say around 100,000 people in total were required for this task and surprisingly all were well fed. • Records show enough cattle was killed each day to produce around 4000 pounds of meat. Amount of animal bones near the work site and nutritional requirements of a person doing heavy labour were used to make the discovery. • People getting better and meat rich food than what they could afford at home mostly became a driving factor for recruitment. • What was the workforce creating at such a big scale?
  • 73. 14. • The use of the term X was first recorded in 1923, in an episode of "Fat Anna's Future". It came to use first when Adolph Spreckel's heir to the Spreckel's sweet fortune, married and called himself as X. • Papa Sucker is a candy bar on a stick manufactured by Tootsie Roll industries. It was later renamed as X in 1925 with a slogan "Of all in the pop family, this is papa". The reason for the name change was probably due to the increasing popularity at the time due to the Spreckels. • Id X.
  • 75. 15. • X was a popular name for Y in its homeland in earlier days. When the rules were first being defined it was named ___ Y to distinguish it from the other forms of Y. • Out of habit, some students at Oxford University shortened the term, after a common practice of adding 2 letters to the end of nicknames. Shortly after this with a slight modification, the term changed to X and got popular all over the world. • However this nickname X is still used in most of the countries where other forms of Y are dominant. • What is being explained?
  • 76. X: Soccer (Association Football) Y: Football
  • 77. 16.* • Snake Island is a fraction of a square km in size and there are no snakes to speak of. • But there can be no doubt on its importance for the control of the Western Black Sea. • This year a new postal stamp featuring the island began circulation. What heroic act of defiance is this poster commemorating.
  • 78. Snake Island heroes who had reportedly told the Russian forces to "Go fuck themselves" after being ordered to surrender.
  • 79. 17. • Gambling is banned in almost all states as it is a pure game of luck and many people get addicted to it. But __ games are still played almost everywhere. • X is the most popular form of __ game in India, which has a lot of craze generally during summer months. • Chandresh Sankhla went to the Rajasthan High Court to stop this claiming that, "The public are cheated in the name of X and become culprits of gambling and betting without having proper knowledge of the law." • However the court dismissed the plea affirming that it is not gambling. • Id the company X and the reason given by the court while dismissing the plea.
  • 80. Dream 11. "The competitions where success depends upon a substantial degree of skill are not gambling and it is not a mere game of chance."
  • 81. 18. • Biomimicry is the latest field of inventions which is used to make better out of the best. • Such was a special suit built for X, which was one of the main reasons for the record breaking performance by X in the 2008 Summer Olympics. • The suit was built with inspiration from Y since Ys are experts in the navigation of their habitat when it comes to hunting, sometimes inciting fear on their onlookers. • Id X and Y.
  • 83. 19. The origin of the phrase X is not clearly known. One of the believed reasonings is: • Before the advent of the announcement system in Indian railways, the ringing of the bell was used to alert passengers about the arrival of a train on the platform. It is still used in small stations in India. • The bell was struck 5 times when the train used to reach 2 stations before the platform, 4 times when it reached the station before, and the bell would be struck 2 times before the train left the platform. • This inspired the phrase meaning __. • Id the phrase.
  • 84. Nau do Gyarah (9+2=11) Meaning something/somebody has left or escaped.
  • 85. 20.* • The company X is one of the world's largest producers of a certain product which dominates 90% of the market of an Asian country. • The product is brought illegally into the country and can be clearly seen as a tool used by people to roam on its terrain. • The reason for its popularity can be attributed to an early anti-western sentiment during the Soviet Union's occupancy of the country, the fact that they are rugged enough for the country's terrain and they have air-conditioning to beat the summer heat. • Id the country and the product X.
  • 87. Thanks for Participating in the Prelims We will declare the finalists & come back with the Finals shortly. Stay tuned.