Practice quiz series 1. IIT BHU

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Prehilanth Quiz
Series - 1
Quizmaster : DVS Aditya

2.  The person shown in the picture is a civil
engineer. Identify this pioneer in the field of
Computer Science.

3.  Development of the X platform began on 1
October 2007. The site was launched in April
2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath,
and PJ Hyett after it had been made available
for a few months prior as a beta release.
 The site provides social networking-like
functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using
wiki software called Gollum) and a social
network graph to display how developers
work on their versions of a repository and
what branch is newest.

4.  X was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon
Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon).
 As a young man X emigrated with his family to the United States,
where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both
English and Arabic.
 In the Arab world, X is regarded as a literary and political rebel.
His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern
Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the
classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
 X's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-
six poetic essays. Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s
with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of
the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and
with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published
in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. Having been
translated into more than forty languages

5.  The supermarket is what Erving Goffman might call a
total institution. Its occupants (food from around the
world) are kept compliant by an unprovable belief
system. If they are good and obey the gods, they will one
day be chosen and taken to the “Great Beyond” (outside
the gleaming automated doors in a cart).
 But they will only get picked if they remain pure of
spirit; the “unfresh” get tossed into a dusty bin by a
sadist tormentor (actually just a teen bored with his job.)
This fear prevents sausages and buns from getting
intimate, despite their urges to conjoin.
 What is this paragraph referring to ?

6.  The picture on the left is that of Rini Simon
Khanna and the guy on the right is Shammi
Narang. Both of them used to be news anchors for
Doordarshan .
 Even though you may not have seen them before
on TV, millions of people hear their voices daily.
 Where ?

7.  Australia : More than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared
themselves members of X in the 2001 census. The Australian
Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release in response
to media interest on the subject. The ABS announced that any
answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to
be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of
making misleading or false statements on the census.
 Canada : In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their
religion as X. This fact was referenced by the prime minister's
office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form
voluntary.
 England & Wales : In England and Wales 390,127 people
(almost 0.8%) stated their religion as X on their 2001 Census
forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and
making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.
 Id X

8. Identify the company and
also give the funda. A
point for each of them.

9.  X is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published
by the indie studio Hello Games for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft
Windows. The game was released worldwide in August 2016.
 X’s gameplay is built on four pillars — exploration, survival, combat
and trading. Players are free to perform within the entirety of a
procedurally generated deterministic open universe, which includes
over 18 quintillion (1.8×1019) planets,[a] many with their own sets of
flora and fauna.
 Nearly all elements of the game are procedurally generated, including
star systems, planets and their ecosystems, flora, fauna and their
behavioural patterns, artificial structures, and alien factions and their
spacecraft. The game's engine employs several deterministic
algorithms such as parameterised mathematical equations that can
mimic a wide range of geometry and structure found in nature.
 Art elements created by human artists are used and altered as well
within these generation systems. The game's audio, including ambient
sounds and its underlying soundtrack, also use procedural generation
methods from base samples created by Paul Weir and the musical
group 65daysofstatic.

10. FITB

11.  This is because most of them (the
people who control these) are right
handed, because of which they
control the head with their
favourite hand.
This is the answer to what
question ?

12.  X is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television
network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the
world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. It has since
been syndicated to many countries around the world. It rebroadcast same-
day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p.m. (ET/PT) until the
network's closure in 2013. Since August 24, 2015, Pop currently airs same-day
episodes of the soap as part of their primetime lineup. The series was created
by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was a
story editor for X and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by
William J. Bell. In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal
through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC.
 Due to the series' success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on
April 21, 1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the
Bradys. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of
them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series'
Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on
February 3, 2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on X this year,
appearing on the show more or less since her first appearance in 1973. Susan
Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on X in all five decades it
has been on air.
 We know it mainly because it has been heavily referenced and mildly
satirized in another very popular TV Show. Identify X.

13.  X , also known as AGRINL (AGRINL) and EGF-like, fibronectin type-
III and laminin G-like domain-containing protein (EGFLAM), is a
protein that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene.
 X is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in
Japan by Shigeru Sato. It is described to nimble and have shocking
electric effects.
 What is the protein named after ?

14. This is an ad campaign by
which company ?

15.  Which were the first couple to be shown in bed together
on primetime TV when the show aired on ABC between
1960 and 1966?
 This was a time when it was still taboo, hence these guys
were the only ones who could have pulled it off without
pissing off the general population.

16.  Diameter – 85 millimeters
 Weight – 500 grams
 Composition – 6 grams of gold with 99.99% purity
and the rest is 92.5% pure sterling silver
 Cost - $564

17.  The idea for X’s old fashioned food was inspired by Dave
Thomas’s trips to “Kewpee” Restaurants in his home of
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
 Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child “Melinda
Lou Thomas”. Photographs of her were displayed at the
original X restaurant until it closed.
 X’s superiority is stressed through their slogan “Quality is
our recipe”.
 Notable menu items include the “Frosty” synonymous to the
“Soft Serve” of McDonald’s.
 Identify X.

18. Connect

19.  Vaadhoo is one of the totally inhabited islands of Raa Atoll.
Maldives. Total population of the inhabited island was more
than 500 in 2007.
 The beach in Vaadhoo is often called the “Sea of Stars”.
 What is the speciality of this island ?

20.  This was the form in which this item was packed in medieval times. It
was also used as a form of currency. What is it shown in the picture ?
Hint:- Think of iconic revolutions in world history.

21.  The ____ ____ ____, Mumbai, India, is a registered non-
profit public charitable trust. It was established in
February 1991. It promotes Islamic Da’wah - the proper
presentation, understanding and appreciation of Islam, as
well as removing misconceptions about Islam - amongst
less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.
 FITB

22.  X attacks its opponents by thrusting up into the
air.
 Y attacks its opponents by swiping down.
 These actions are metaphorically related to the
movement of Z.
 What are X,Y and Z ?

23.  X was an English actor and musician and stood at 3 ft 8
in tall, was born and educated in Birmingham, Kent.
 He was invited by a lady to join a troupe of dwarves.
This was his first taste of show business.
 He joined a circus for a brief period of time. He later
learnt ice skating and appeared on many ice shows.
 He was then recruited for his most iconic role.
 Name X and the role he played.

24. FITB

25. Connect this to a very famous film. Bonus
points for identifying what he is writing.

26.  The word was originally two Latin terms,
"locum" meaning in place of, and "teneris"
meaning holding, together the phrase applied
to anyone "holding in place of" someone else.
Over time the word ‘locum’ developed into
what it is today. It is possible that when the
English heard the French pronounce the
compound word X, they perceived a slurring
between the first and second syllables. Today,
most English speaking nations except the
United States pronounce X the way the English
do.

27. Answers

28.  The person shown in the picture is a civil
engineer. Identify this pioneer in the field of
Computer Science.

29.  He built the world’s first programmable
electromechanical computer.
 I repeated the question as a tribute to the person and
so that people won’t forget this guy again.
Konrad Zuse

30.  Development of the X platform began on 1
October 2007. The site was launched in April
2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath,
and PJ Hyett after it had been made available
for a few months prior as a beta release.
 The site provides social networking-like
functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using
wiki software called Gollum) and a social
network graph to display how developers
work on their versions of a repository and
what branch is newest.

31. GitHub

32.  X was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon
Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon).
 As a young man X emigrated with his family to the United States,
where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both
English and Arabic.
 In the Arab world, X is regarded as a literary and political rebel.
His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern
Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the
classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
 X's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-
six poetic essays. Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s
with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of
the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and
with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published
in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. Having been
translated into more than forty languages

33. Kahlil Gibran

34.  The supermarket is what Erving Goffman might call a
total institution. Its occupants (food from around the
world) are kept compliant by an unprovable belief
system. If they are good and obey the gods, they will one
day be chosen and taken to the “Great Beyond” (outside
the gleaming automated doors in a cart).
 But they will only get picked if they remain pure of
spirit; the “unfresh” get tossed into a dusty bin by a
sadist tormentor (actually just a teen bored with his job.)
This fear prevents sausages and buns from getting
intimate, despite their urges to conjoin.
 What is this paragraph referring to ?

35. Sausage Party

36.  The picture on the left is that of Rini Simon
Khanna and the guy on the right is Shammi
Narang. Both of them used to be news anchors for
Doordarshan .
 Even though you may not have seen them before
on TV, millions of people hear their voices daily.
 Where ?

37.  All Hindi and English in-train and in-station
voice messages and announcements of the Delhi
Metro, Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon, Mumbai
Metro, Bangalore Metro, Jaipur Metro and the
upcoming Hyderabad Metro Rail are also
recorded in Narang's and Khanna’s voices
respectively, thus ensuring yet again that their
voice is heard by millions on a daily basis .
Metro

38.  Australia : More than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared
themselves members of X in the 2001 census. The Australian
Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release in response
to media interest on the subject. The ABS announced that any
answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to
be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of
making misleading or false statements on the census.
 Canada : In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their
religion as X. This fact was referenced by the prime minister's
office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form
voluntary.
 England & Wales : In England and Wales 390,127 people
(almost 0.8%) stated their religion as X on their 2001 Census
forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and
making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.
 Id X

39. Jedi

40. Identify the company and
also give the funda. A
point for each of them.

41. Non
Alcoholic
Budweiser

42.  X is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published
by the indie studio Hello Games for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft
Windows. The game was released worldwide in August 2016.
 X’s gameplay is built on four pillars — exploration, survival, combat
and trading. Players are free to perform within the entirety of a
procedurally generated deterministic open universe, which includes
over 18 quintillion (1.8×1019) planets,[a] many with their own sets of
flora and fauna.
 Nearly all elements of the game are procedurally generated, including
star systems, planets and their ecosystems, flora, fauna and their
behavioural patterns, artificial structures, and alien factions and their
spacecraft. The game's engine employs several deterministic
algorithms such as parameterised mathematical equations that can
mimic a wide range of geometry and structure found in nature.
 Art elements created by human artists are used and altered as well
within these generation systems. The game's audio, including ambient
sounds and its underlying soundtrack, also use procedural generation
methods from base samples created by Paul Weir and the musical
group 65daysofstatic.

43. No Man’s Sky

44. FITB

45. Malia Obama

46.  This is because most of them (the
people who control these) are right
handed, because of which they
control the head with their
favourite hand.
This is the answer to what
question ?

47. Why are most muppets
left handed ?

48.  X is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television
network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the
world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. It has since
been syndicated to many countries around the world. It rebroadcast same-
day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p.m. (ET/PT) until the
network's closure in 2013. Since August 24, 2015, Pop currently airs same-day
episodes of the soap as part of their primetime lineup. The series was created
by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was a
story editor for X and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by
William J. Bell. In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal
through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC.
 Due to the series' success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on
April 21, 1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the
Bradys. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of
them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series'
Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on
February 3, 2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on X this year,
appearing on the show more or less since her first appearance in 1973. Susan
Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on X in all five decades it
has been on air.
 We know X mainly because it has been heavily referenced and mildly
satirized in another very popular TV Show. Identify X.

49. Days of Our Lives

50.  X , also known as AGRINL (AGRINL) and EGF-like, fibronectin type-
III and laminin G-like domain-containing protein (EGFLAM), is a
protein that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene.
 X is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in
Japan by Shigeru Sato. It is described to nimble and have shocking
electric effects.
 What is the protein named after ?

51. Pikachu (Pikachurin)

52.  It’s rumoured that Mew and Ditto are nearly one
and the same, but that Ditto is a failed attempt at
cloning Mew. They both weigh 8.8 lbs, know
Transform naturally, are pink but blue when
shiny, and can learn every move – if only
temporarily for Ditto.
Random Pokemon Fact

53. This is an ad campaign by
which company ?

54. Jeep

55.  Which were the first couple to be shown in bed together
on primetime TV when the show aired on ABC between
1960 and 1966?
 This was a time when it was still taboo, hence these guys
were the only ones who could have pulled it off without
pissing off the general population.

56. The Flintstones

57.  Diameter – 85 millimeters
 Weight – 500 grams
 Composition – 6 grams of gold with 99.99% purity
and the rest is 92.5% pure sterling silver
 Cost - $564

58.  Fun question : What is engraved on the back of
the olympic medals ?
Rio 2016 Gold Medal

59.  The idea for X’s old fashioned food was inspired by Dave
Thomas’s trips to “Kewpee” Restaurants in his home of
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
 Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child “Melinda
Lou Thomas”. Photographs of her were displayed at the
original X restaurant until it closed.
 X’s superiority is stressed through their slogan “Quality is
our recipe”.
 Notable menu items include the “Frosty” synonymous to the
“Soft Serve” of McDonald’s.
 Identify X.

60. Wendy’s

61. Connect

62.  Paavo Nurmi
 Cathy Freeman
 Michel Platini
 Muhammad Ali
 Wayne Gretzky
 Vanderlai de Lima(this year)
People who lit the
Olympic torch

63.  Vaadhoo is one of the totally inhabited islands of Raa Atoll.
Maldives. Total population of the inhabited island was more
than 500 in 2007.
 The beach in Vaadhoo is often called the “Sea of Stars”.
 What is the speciality of this island ?

64. Bioluminescent
Phytoplankton causes the
beach to glow at night

65.  This was the form in which this item was packed in medieval times. It
was also used as a form of currency. What is it shown in the picture ?
Hint:- Think of iconic revolutions in world history.

66.  The iconic event I was referring to was “Boston
Tea Party”. All portrayals of the event show
Tea being dumped in this form
These are Tea Bricks

67.  The ____ ____ ____, Mumbai, India, is a registered non-
profit public charitable trust. It was established in
February 1991. It promotes Islamic Da’wah - the proper
presentation, understanding and appreciation of Islam, as
well as removing misconceptions about Islam - amongst
less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.
 FITB

68. PeaceTV by “Dr.” Zakir
Naik

69.  X attacks its opponents by thrusting up into the
air.
 Y attacks its opponents by swiping down.
 These actions are metaphorically related to the
movement of Z.
 What are X,Y and Z ?

70. X- Bull
Y- Bear
Z- Stock Market

71.  X was an English actor and musician and stood at 3 ft 8
in tall, was born and educated in Birmingham, Kent.
 He was invited by a lady to join a troupe of dwarves.
This was his first taste of show business.
 He joined a circus for a brief period of time. He later
learnt ice skating and appeared on many ice shows.
 He was then recruited for his most iconic role.
 Name X and the role he played.

72.  May he rest in peace
X- Kenny Baker played
the role of R2D2

73. FITB

74. Harambe

75. Connect this to a very famous film. Bonus
points for identifying what he is writing.

76.  300 – Spartan military , this is
Othryades the sole survivor of
the campaign under Militiades
against the Argives. The
inscription was “ I Won “
300

77.  The word was originally two Latin terms,
"locum" meaning in place of, and "teneris"
meaning holding, together the phrase applied
to anyone "holding in place of" someone else.
Over time the word ‘locum’ developed into
what it is today. It is possible that when the
English heard the French pronounce the
compound word X, they perceived a slurring
between the first and second syllables. Today,
most English speaking nations except the
United States pronounce X the way the English
do.

78. Lieutenant