1. presents
‘Normally Distributed’
11 00 PM Thu 23 June 2011 @ A2 Teams of 2
A Générale Quiz on RAND(0,M) topics!
QM: Arif

2. Rules
• Thou might find some hints from some of the
titles of the questions.
• Thou shalt scribe your answers legibly.
• Thou shalt not question the QM’s KQ !
• Thou shalt find a partner or else go solo.
• Thou shalt mention your names/Team name
Quiz (etymology acc. to one school of thought) : (Latin)Qui es, meaning "Who are you?

3. 1. (Are IQ’s normally distributed?)
• X is a best-selling and controversial 1994 book by the
Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and
American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles
Murray.
• According to Charles Murray, “When the late Richard
Herrnstein and I published X eleven years ago, the
furore over its discussion of ethnic differences in IQ
was so intense that most people who have not read
the book still think it was about race. Since then, I have
deliberately not published anything about group
differences in IQ, mostly to give the real topic of X—
the role of intelligence in reshaping America’s class
structure—a chance to surface.”
• Identify X

4. Ans
• The Bell Curve

5. 2. (It takes three to tango!)
Whose organization chart?

6. Ans.
• ‘Triad’ structure (Triad Society)
• describes many branches of Chinese criminal
organizations based in Hong
Kong, Vietnam, Macau, Taiwan, China, and
also in countries with significant Chinese
populations
• The famous movie ‘Infernal affairs’ deals with
the triads of Hong Kong

7. 3. (Bloody Job!)
In Anglo-Indian English, the term X referred to any festival
or entertainment, but especially ceremonies of the
Mourning of Muharram. In origin the term is a corruption
by British soldiers of "Ya Hasan! Ya Hosain!" which is
repeatedly cried by Shia Muslims as they beat their chests
throughout the procession of the Muharram. Yule and
Burnell were looking for a catchy title for their work of a
glossary and decided upon this since it was a "typical and
delightful example" of the type of the highly
domesticated words in the dictionary and at the same
time conveyed "a veiled intimation of dual authorship".
What is X?

8. Ans
• Hobson-Jobson:
• a historical
dictionary of Anglo-
Indian words and
terms from Indian
languages which
came into use
during the British
rule of India

9. 4.(QED) Connect

11. Ans
• All are winners of The Fields Medal, (officially
known as International Medal for Outstanding
Discoveries in Mathematics)

12. 5. (Magna Opera)
• Maradona and Sachin Tendulkar belong to an
exclusive club of sportspeople with respect to
a literature aspect. What is it?

13. Ans
• Only two sportsman to have been honoured
with an Opus published on their story
• Kraken Opus is a publishing company which
produces premium, outsized editions on
subjects including sports teams and celebrities
, and on broader topics

15. 6.Funda?

17. Ans
• A snapshot of the menu
from El Bulli (,a Michelin
3-star restaurant near the
town of
Roses, Catalonia, Spain, r
un by celebrated chef
Ferran Adrià. It has been
described as "the most
imaginative generator of
haute cuisine on the
planet” and rated the
best restaurant!

18. 7. (The good, the bad and the
revolutionary!)
You must have heard of Spaghetti Westerns but what is the name
given to the subgenre of Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" (dating from the
mid 1960s to early 1970s), which were set in and around Mexico and
dealt with overtly political themes?

19. Ans
• Zapata Westerns after the Mexican
revolutionary :Emiliano Zapata Salazar

20. 8.(Word Play anyone?)
• “Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life ”.
Which company has this slogan?

21. Ans
• BenQ
• Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life

22. 9 . Connect to a marketing technique

25. Ans
• Guerilla marketing : an unconventional system of
promotions that relies on time, energy and
imagination rather than a big marketing budget.
• In the words of the Father of Guerrilla
Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, this describes
guerrilla marketing:
• "I'm referring to the soul and essence of guerrilla
marketing which remain as always -- achieving
conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with
unconventional methods, such as investing
energy instead of money.

26. 10.
• Exclusive list of two German songs .Funda?

28. Ans.
• Only Beatles’ songs to be recorded in a foreign
language by them

29. 11.(War is Raw)
• Logicomix is “a comic book about the quest
for logical certainty in mathematics. The story
spans the decades from the late 19th century
to World War II, a period when the nature of
mathematical truth was being furiously
debated.”
The main protagonist of the story is X. Who is X?

31. Ans
• Bertrand Russel

32. 12. (Go,ogle at these!)

33. Ans
• Google doodle

34. 13.(Be afraid, be very afraid!)
• This phrase originates from a 1996 book, X and Y:
Achieving Rapid Dominance by Harlan Ullman and
James Wade and published by the US National Defense
University. According to the book:
“To affect the will of the adversary, Rapid Dominance will
apply a variety of approaches and techniques to achieve
the necessary level of X and Y at the appropriate strategic
and military leverage points. This means that
psychological and intangible, as well as physical and
concrete effects beyond the destruction of enemy forces
and supporting military infrastructure, will have to be
achieved.”

35. Ans
• Shock and Awe

36. 14. Connect
“The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
which Man deemed old two thousand years ago,
match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
a rose-red city half as old as time.”
--John William Burgon

37. Song

38. Ans
• Petra in Jordan
• Song by Petra (the Christian rock band)

39. 15.(Is Calypso cricket burning?)
Identify the guy!

40. Ans
• Chris Gayle at the premier of Fire in Babylon

41. 16. (It takes a lot to tonga!)
Funda?

42. Ans
• Historic Picture shows how the first satellite
dish in the country that helped a technology
company set up round-the-clock
communication link with its US offices arrived
on a bullock-driven cart in 1985 in Millers road
office, Bangalore of Texas Instruments .
It helped TI become the first multinational to
set up a software design centre in India and
pioneer the country’s IT revolution 25 years
ago.

43. 17 . A, B and C are in fact related to each other
A’s words:
• "I Invented and designed Cricket Max because
I felt it was time to provide to our spectators
and TV viewers a game of cricket that was
short in duration, very colourful, kept some
old traditions and highlighted the best skills in
the game."
• "Kerry Packer sure did change the game back
in the 70s, but now it`s time for Cricket Max to
take the excitement of cricket through to the
next century."

44. B is connected with this guy.

45. C started his own career in South
Australia, where he played with considerable
success from 1977 and 1982. In 2004 he became
an ICC match referee.

46. Ans
• A- Martin Crowe
• B-Russel Crowe (that guy is John F Nash-
subject of A Beautiful Mind)
• C- Jeff Crowe

47. 18 . Connect

50. Ans
• Venice –Italy
• Cosa nostra (Our thing) – mafia of Sicily
• Mediterranean sea map
• Still from Sound of Music shot in Salzburg, Austria
• Rubik’s cube : Hungarian Horror
• Turkey
• Greece crisis
• Japan crisis
• Great Wall of China

51. • So the connection is the popular nursery rhyme:
“Long legged Italy,
Kicked poor Sicily,
Right into the Middle,
Of the Mediterranean Sea,
Austria was Hungary,
Took a bit of Turkey,
Dipped it in Greece,
Fried it in Japan,
And ate it off in China.”

52. 19. (Vedanta Resources mines iron ore)
“The X is also the first Indic text to mention Iron
(as śyāma ayas, literally "black metal"), so that
scholarly consensus dates the bulk of the X
hymns to the early Indian Iron
Age, corresponding to the 12th to 10th
centuries BC or the early Kuru kingdom.”

53. Ans
• Atharva Veda

54. 20. (Yeh sab public he!) Connect

55. Ans
Loki
• Norse mythology : God of fire
• Bottle Gourd: loki in Hindi
• IIMK shared drive