Finals of Quiz of the Month April 2011 by Omkar Kamalapur and Annesha Sil

1) This house in Eldon, Iowa has become
something of a tourist attraction with many
tourists queuing up have their pictures taken in
front of it. Why?

Grant Wood’s—American Gothic

2)
 A better known by the title B, is a 1970 softcore film, which has the
distinction of being C’s first film and also his first starring role, for which he
worked two days and was paid $200. _C has said in interviews that he did
the film out of desperation after being bounced out of his apartment and
finding himself homeless for several days, sleeping in a bus station. In his
own words : "It was either do that movie or rob someone because I was at
the end - at the very end - of my rope. Instead of doing something
desperate, I worked two days for $200 and got myself out of the bus
station". The actor also called the film "horrendous" and commented "By
today's standards, the movie would almost qualify for a PG rating.
The phrase "B" went on to be used as a nickname for one of the most
famous screen characters "D" portrayed by "C" and is now always
associated with "D" or "C".
Give me B, C and D.

• B Italian Stallion
• C Rocky Balboa
• D Sylvester Stallone

3) In the 1970s the company ran an advertising campaign where the following
mathematical formula was displayed on a piece of paper. The result was that they
received several inquiries from the scientific community for the meaning of the
formula, as they could not figure it out. Who was behind it and what was the funda
behind the equation?

Parker Pen ad for the perfect
Martini.
• The formula was actually a humorous representation
for the recipe of a Martini: 3.5 shots of gin(G) and
half a shot of vermouth(V) over 4 parts H2O3 (water
cubed = ice), finished off with three stirs (the
3×360°)!!!

Google April Fool Day Jokes.

• Pigeonrank, GoogleGulp, GmailMotion..

5)
 In 1993, The Major League Baseball decided to
realign its leagues into 3 major divisions (from 4)
and give the team with the next best record a Wild
Card Entry into the playoffs. At the meeting that
took place to decide upon the rule, all but one of
the team owners voted to accept the change. The
one owner who did not said,” I made my
arguments and went down in flames but history will
prove me right”

Now, over 15 years later, the concept is now
universally accepted as being great for the sport
having produced 4 wild card teams that have gone
on to win the World Series.

6)
 X-ian engineering is the process of breaking down
complex products into its fundamental components and
then building the product again in the cheapest way
available. This ensures simpler and easier ways to
handle processes and products. Indians and South
Asians are known for this method. The company Y
intended to convey deep frugality and a willingness to
challenge conventional wisdom applied to
engineering, technological innovation, and new product
development. The name originated from India, and was
named following the Z, Y's most pathbreaking product
in its field. It is associated with the sentence "Getting
more [services] from less [resources] for more
[people]".
Gimme X, Y and Z

• X: Gandhi
• Y: Tata
• Z:Nano

7) Parody of a famous painting. Which
one?

These five won Best Director Oscar when
Martin Scorcese was nominated and lost.

• Finally he won the Oscar with Departed

9)
 Dr T. Pandey in her thesis The cultural subjugation of
Bharat by India, talks of X who she says –
 “is obviously someone who has made the transition
from Bharat to India, and is secure and confident of
her new status.
 An example of this is her control over Manoj, which is
symbolic of Indias command over the multitudes of
‘Bharat’. At the end of every episode, X holds out the
promise of another unequal encounter…”
 Who is X?

10)
Niue is an island country in the Pacific Ocean, and is
associated with both the United Kingdom and
New Zealand for various political and diplomatic
functions. In honour of the upcoming royal
wedding of Prince William and Kate
Middleton, the country has issued a set of
commemorative stamps. Each set consists of a
pair, one stamp featuring the Prince, the other
featuring Middleton.There was something
unusual about the way the stamps have been
designed, which caused a minor controversy
because some people interpreted the design as

There's a perforation that separates
the two stamps.

11)These four companies combined
together to form what famous
company now?

12)
Shanti Bhushan was recently appointed co-
chairman of the Lok Pal drafting committee as
a result of the Anna Hazare-led agitation.
Bhushan is a former Law Minister (during the
Morarji Desai government in the late 70s) and
has been associated with many significant
cases in Indian legal history. In one such case,
he represented a politician called Raj Narain in
a case in the Allahabad High Court, in which
seven charges were made against another
politician. Five of the seven charges were
rejected, but the prosecuted party was found

Indira Gandhi
This led to her disqualification as an MP (the
case was about electoral malpractice), and
was the immediate cause for her declaration
of the Emergency in 1975.

Various Chandramukhi’s in the Devdas
movies
• Vyajanthimala – Devdas [1955]
• Indrani Haldar – Debdas [2002]
• Madhuri Dixit – Devdas [2002]
• Kalki – Dev D [2009]
• Chitrangada Singh – Aur Devdas [2009]

14)
The Oxford English Dictionary recently
announced the latest revisions to the
dictionary. Causing predictable outrage in
particular was the inclusion of such
'initialisms' as OMG, LOL, and even WAG.
Perhaps the most interesting addition was
another internet favourite. This is a sense (i.e.
another form) added to a verb (whose use as
a verb has always been irritating to some). The
OED says this "may be the first English usage

15)
 The typeface used in the X wordmark is Rotis
Semi-sans.
 The right-pointing carat character over the t is
intended to indicate the company's orientation
to the future. The character is similar to an
accent mark in music.
 It was previously incorporated in Bermuda but
since 1 September 2009 has been
incorporated in Ireland.
 William D. Green is presently Chairman and
CEO of this.

16)
 The Dignity Revolution is a series of street
demonstrations which started in December in the
country X. The protests were sparked by the self
immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi and led to
the ousting of the President of X. It has created a
domino effect in the Arab block, affecting
Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon
and the most recent Egypt. The protests and
resultant political crisis have generally been
dubbed the Y Revolution by foreign media in
keeping with the naming of 'colour revolutions'
(related movements that develop in a society).

• X-Tunisia

• Y-Jasmine Revolution

17) Just like many fans of Sherlock Holmes visit 221B
Baker Street, why have crowds of people started
gathering at Fiskargartan 9, on the Island of
Sodermalm?

Part of the Millennium Tour
• This is where the fictional character of Lisbeth
Salander lives. The Millenium Series is a three
book series.

18)
 X was, according to the New Testament, one of
the twelve original apostles of Jesus.
Of the twelve, he alone is reported to have kept a
"money bag" ( but he is best known for his role in
betraying Jesus into the hands of Jewish religious
authorities.
Y is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as
a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the
Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur
fatally wounded.
Tradition varies on his relationship to Arthur, but
he is best known today as Arthur's illegitimate son

Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape

19)
 A popular beverage gets its name from a Greek
Athlete in classical times who was reputed to have
phenomenal strength. He was said to have supported
the roof of a collapsing building in which the
mathematician, Pythagoras, was teaching, thus
saving his life. The beverage advertises itself as must-
have energy drink. Name the Beverage.

20)
Hurley, I; Hershlag, N; Woodward, J (October 1998).
"A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic
Production of Hydrogen from Sugar". Journal of
Chemical Education 75 (10): 1270.
• Baird, AA; Kagan, J; Gaudette, T; Walz, KA;
Hershlag, N; Boas, DA (August 2002). "Frontal
lobe activation during object permanence: data
from near-infrared spectroscopy". NeuroImage
16 (4): 1120–6. doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1170.
PMID 12202098.
• Put Funda.

• N Hershlag refers to Natalie Portman. These
are scientific papers that she has co-authored.
Incidentally she is probably the only Oscar
Winner with an Erdos number.

21)
According to the author, Dennis Lehane this
novel is a tribute to “Gothic settings, B
movies, and pulp.” He described the novel as a
hybrid of the works of the Bronte sisters and
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Which book?

Images of the Book on the Next Slide

• All operations by the Indian Armed Forces.
• Virat, Woodrose, Polo, Cactus, Bluestar, Vijay,
Meghdoot, Black Tornado

23)These are two poems which were
constructed by using quotes made by X. Gimme
X
"Challenge to a Cynic" "On Good and Evil"
It is obvious to me
You are a cynic. Who the good guys are in this
Because show me where one
I have ever said And who the bad guys are.
That there's absolute proof The bad guys are the ones
Who say Israel is a stinking
That nothing that man corpse,
Has ever conducted And should be wiped off
Or engaged in, The face of the earth.
Has had any effect,
That's not a good guy.
Or no effect,
On climate change.

24)
 “’In Canada, I used to deejay, and they used to have daytime dances in the
early nineties, because ______ parents were really strict, and wouldn’t
allow their kids to go out at night, so they had daytime dances, and I would
deejay them. So there were always fights at these dances. It was
like…these ______ fights, you know, it was like AAAAGH (* with a weird
arm movement similar to someone attacking*) and I used to watch.
Anyway this fight broke out at one of the dances, and in Canada there are a
lot of new _______ and young , but these were like real village kids, and
now they had come to the big city…and this fight breaks out and this other
kid runs up to the fight, where I was standing to watch, and he says, “ Hey,
nobody fight today, okay, or ‘Y’ ”.”’

 The above was an excerpt from one episode of the "India Questions" series
of NDTV in which X, was invited for the talk.

• X-Russell Peters

• Y-Somebody gonna get hurt real bad

25)
 The (queen victoria), on reading __X___ by
____Y_____, was so impressed that she asked for an
advance copy of the author's new book. Much to her
dismay, instead of a literary wonder, she received a
mathematical monster called

"An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their
Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and
Algebraic Equations".

Identify X and Y

26)
• TTT is made from a secret formulation that
dates back to the times of the Chinese
emperors. The Aw brothers, Aw Boon Haw
and Aw Boon Par inherited the formulation
from their father who left China. They call it
TTT, after Boon Haw,a gentleman who was
instrumental in devising the remarkable
selling strategies that made TTT a household
name. What?

27)
In 1955 members of both Lok Sabha and Rajya
Sabha made an unusual demand to increase
their salary by Re. 1.

Why ??

• Their Salary was Rs 420/- and since the
number has a largely negative connotation
they wanted their salaries to be increased by
one rupee.

28)
X is a shield volcano, similar in morphology to the
large volcanoes making up the Hawaiian Islands.
The edifice is about 600 km (373 miles) wide and
stands nearly 22 km (14 mi) above the
surrounding plains(a little over twice the height of
Mauna Kea as measured from its base on the
ocean floor). The summit of the mountain has six
nested calderas (collapse craters) forming an
irregular depression 60 × 80 km (37 × 50 mi)
across and up to 3.2 km (2 mi) deep. The
volcano's outer edge consists of an
escarpment, or cliff, up to 8 km (5 miles) tall. X

Olympus Mons( Latin for Mount
Olympus) on Mars, highest mountain
in the solar system.

Death Certificate of Subash Chandra
Bose
 The alleged death of Subhas Chandra Bose, the
supreme commander of Azad Hind Fauz and Free
India Legion in a plane crash in Taiwan on August
18, 1945, has long been the subject of dispute.
The third Indian commission that was appointed
for enquiring into this confirmed in its report
tabled in parliament in May 2006, that Bose's
death was staged to facilitate an escape to the
USSR.

 The copy of the death certificate in the

30)
A teacher at The Episcopal Academy in Merion,
Pennsylvania, X attended that school from 1950-
1964. He received his bachelor's degree in
English from Dickinson College, graduating in
1968. A self-taught artist and graphic designer, X
has free-lanced as a lettering artist and logo
design specialist since 1976. Known for his unique
calligraphic art, which he began developing in the
late 1960s and early 70s, X featured those and his
essays in the book Wordplay, published in 1992.

X lends his name to a famous literary character Y.

X : John Langdon, Robert Langdon is
named after him. He also helped
design the ambigrams.

31)X?
• X is a combination of African and Brazilian martial
arts. Some proponents believe that it was first
created and developed by slaves brought to Brazil
from Africa who used it as a way to practice their
martial arts moves while making it appear to be a
game or dance. Since the slave-masters forbade any
kind of martial art, it was cloaked in the guise of an
innocent-looking recreational dance.

32)
When asked why he gave the Na’vi’s in ‘Avataar’
blue skin, James Cameron, gave two reasons.
One was trivial (“I just like the color blue”) and
the other more serious. What is the serious
reason?

The Na'vi are blue to create a
conceptual parallel with traditional
Hindu depictions of God (e.g., in the
forms of Vishnu, Shiva, Rama, Krishna,
etc.)

33)
 MazeWar was a game developed in the early
1970’s as a School Work/Study Program by Steve
Colley, Howard Palmer and Greg Thompson.

 To keep it simple, they used an array of 16X16 bits
to define the maze. They added a perspective
view, and it worked quite fast enabling a player to
quickly move in the maze.

 The objective of the game was to simply explore
the maze and "solve" it. They soon got bored of
this, and decided to add a certain feature to it, thus
making MazeWar the first of its kind.

First ever First-Person-Shooter
game.
• They networked across computers, made
it possible for multiple people to play, and
then allowed people to kill each other.

34)

 She attended Rice University and NYU in the
1970's and became known as a socialite in New
York's party circles. At the age of 19, she sold a
story to Simon and Schuster which was never
published. Working as a freelance journalist, she
struggled to make ends meet for many years. In
1994, she became the writer of a humorous
column in the New York Observer which was titled
X. This column was published in an anthology also
titled X. Due to the popularity of this column a TV
Series also was made titled X. Who is she and
gimme X

Candace Bushnell and Sex and the City

35) The first one in this series of three led to the
creation of which game?

Percentage of different kinds of
tweets.

37)
 The Laureus World Sports Awards are awarded annually to
sportspeople who have been outstanding during the
previous year. The Laureus World Sports Awards were
established in 1999 by Founding Patrons Daimler and
Richemont and is supported by its Global Partners
Mercedes-Benz, IWC Schaffhausen and Vodafone. The first
gala was held on May 25, 2000 in Monte Carlo.

 They have various categories such as

 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year
 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year
 Etc.

 Question contd on next slide

 Under what category do these sports people
come under?

 2011: Valentino Rossi - MotoGP
 2010: Kim Clijsters - Tennis
 2009: Vitali Klitschko - Boxing
 2008: Paula Radcliffe - Running
 2007: Serena Williams - Tennis
 2006: Martina Hingis - Tennis
 2005: Alessandro Zanardi - Motor Racing
 2004: Hermann Maier - Alpine Skiing
 2003: Ronaldo - Football
 2002: Goran Ivaniševid - Tennis

Laureus World Sports Award for
Comeback of the Year

38) Andersen's folk tales, told of the
. Ole Lukøje, one of Hans Christian
different dreams X gave to a young boy in a week. X would sprinkle
dust in the eyes of the children. He said:

“There is nobody in the world who knows so many stories as Ole-
Luk-Oie ( X ), or who can relate them so nicely. In the
evening, while the children are seated at the table or in their little
chairs, he comes up the stairs very softly, for he walks in his
socks, then he opens the doors without the slightest noise, and
throws a small quantity of very fine dust in their eyes, just enough
to prevent them from keeping them open, and so they do not see
him. Then he creeps behind them, and blows softly upon their
necks, till their heads begin to droop. But Ole-Luk-Oie does not
wish to hurt them, for he is very fond of children, and only wants
them to be quiet that he may relate to them pretty stories, and
they never are quiet until they are in bed and asleep. As soon as
they are asleep, Ole-Luk-Oie seats himself upon the bed. He is
nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken stuff; it is impossible to
say of what color, for it changes from green to red, and from red to
blue as he turns from side to side. Under each arm he carries an

X-Sandman

Metallica’s song Enter Sandman is
inspired by this fairytale.

British Raj Coat of Arms for pre-
independent India.

40
• This album was on the Billboard 200 for a
staggering 741 straight weeks, the longest run
for any album ever.
• It was a concept album, where all the songs in
the album were unified by a theme that
explored the complexities of human
consciousness.
• The album's themes include conflict, greed,
aging, death and mental illness, and made
some of the most advanced studio techniques

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

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