The first hub quiz of 2015 at NIT Silchar

1. HAPPY NEW YEAR
HUB QUIZ
NIT SILCHAR
Aveek Baruah

2. OBLIGATORY
MINIMAL ROUND :P

6. Rockstar

19. QUIZ SHURU KIYA JAYE!

20. Composition of?

21. INR 10 COIN

22. The NASA space power facility in Ohio is the world’s largest vacuum
chamber, and recently was the site of a viral video demonstrating one
of Galileo’s famous experiments.
For what purpose was this location used in 2012?
<www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-
CfukEgs>

23. AVENGERS OPENING SCENE
<HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=PNGZUESOZZI>

24. Knights who were part of France's Order of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1587,
wore a special cross, or le cordon bleu, around their necks. The French
phrase came to be associated with honor, achievement, and a delicious
chicken dish. When passenger ocean liners started to race across the
Atlantic in 1830, they did so for the Blue Riband, a coveted prize that didn't
actually exist in physical form until 1935.
What modern practice have these events given rise to?

25. BLUE RIBBONS FOR 1ST PLACE
WINNERS

26. The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus first mentioned the ritual in the
play "Agamemnon“. In modern history, perhaps the first instance was
when President James Madison stepped off a riverboat to this ritual in
1821. By 1902, it was was a more inclusive symbol of hospitality for railroad
passengers. It was re-associated with royalty of a different kind, when it
debuted at an awards show in 1961.
What ritual?

27. THE RED CARPET

28. In 2005, Sony BMG released a 3-CD set entitled “Electric 80s”, a
compilation of "the greatest Eighties electric hits". The cover art for
this was peculiar for the fact that it confused retailers about the price
of their own wares, resulting in customers buying the CD at much less
than the printed price. It also messed with stores' inventory tracking
systems, as for every sale of the Electric 80s, they inexplicably
recorded a sale of singer Jack Johnson's new CD ”In Between
Dreams” instead.
Why this confusion?

30. Wayne McLaren was a former professional rodeo rider who appeared in small parts in
various television series and movies (primarily Westerns) throughout the 1960s and
1970s, and he modeled for print advertising between acting jobs in the mid-1970s.
David McLean, appeared in many television and print advertisements starting in the
early 1960s. He also starred in the short-lived 1960 television Western Tate, and he
played roles in numerous television series and feature films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Eric Lawson, is another television actor who appeared in advertisements between
late 1970s to 1980s.
All three of them died due to lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(a lung disease).
Find a connect between these three that would paint their death ironic.

31. MARLBORO MEN

32. These two oft-confused buttons find their origin in the device ‘Anita
Mk VII’ manufactured by Bell Punch Co., Uxbridge, England in 1961.
They stood for ‘Clear Register’ and ‘Clear Keyboard’ functions. This
schema was continued in later models, where one button served to
clear just the input buffer, and another cleared the contents of the
entire register.
The prevailing common confusion between the buttons is what leads
people to doubt their efficacy, leading users to press it numerous
times. What aspect of a common technology is being talked about
here?

33. C AND CE BUTTONS IN CALCULATORS

34. In the middle of the Depression, Sylvan Goldman, an Oklahoma grocer,
acquired several Humpty Dumpty stores and tried to make them
profitable. It turned out to be a bad decision and Goldman's chain was
in trouble. He studied his shoppers, looking for clues in their actions that
would help him restore profitability to his enterprise.
These observations led to his instructions to employee Fred Young for a
certain contraption, in 1936. But it wasn’t an instant success as folks
preferred to stick with what they knew rather than play around with an
unusual-looking contraption. Goldman didn’t give up, and hired decoy
shoppers to use the gizmo throughout the store, so providing a visual
demonstration of what this innovation could do. He also stationed
someone at the front door to greet patrons and offer it to them as they
entered.
What invention is being talked about?

35. Shopping Carts

36. What are Jarns, Quimps, Nittles & Grawlixes types of, in graphic
literature (coined by Mort Walker in his book The Lexicon of
Comicana in 1980)?

37. Types of Cussing

38. Playtex is a brand name for undergarments, baby products, gloves, feminine products and
sunscreen, founded in 1947, by the International Latex Corporation (ILC).
In the 1960s, after much trials and tribulations, Playtex received a contract from an organization
Y for successfully designing X.
Recounted from an eponymous book –
“ILC’s team , a motley group of seamstresses and engineers, led by a car mechanic and a
former television repairman, manages to convince Y to let them enter their X in a closed,
invitation-only competitive bid at their own expense. They spend six weeks working around the
clock—at times breaking into their own offices to work 24-hour shifts—to arrive at a ___ solution
that starkly outperforms the two invited competitors. In open, direct competition with larger,
more moneyed companies, ILC manages to produce a superior X by drawing on the craft-
culture handiwork and expertise of seamstresses, rather than on the hard-line culture of
engineering.”
What did Playtex create/X?

39. X=Spacesuits (for the Apollo 11 mission)
Y=NASA

40. X, developed a taste for Western music when he was studying engineering in Mysore in the
1990s. He suggested to his father Y that he buy the rights to Billy Joel's song We didn't start
the fire for a certain purpose.
ID X,Y and what did the song inspire?
<www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50p-XScreM>

41. X=Akhilesh Yadav, Y=Mulayam Singh Yadav
Promotional song for SP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awDYK97PQz0

42. Tweets by whom, and on what occasion?

43. By the Twitter account @1984Bhopal,
a detailed account of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (on its 30th
anniversary)

44. Connect

45. David Bowie, Peter Murphy, Robert Smith and Neil Gaiman inspired the look of
Dream (of Sandman series)

46. In Cambodia, a special kind of pizza called ‘Happy Pizza’, due the unusual toppings on it. Why is
it named so?

47. Cannabis/Marijuana Toppings

48. X was originally developed by Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and
Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus, and acquired by Google in
September 2009. Not only does it stop spammers but it helps digitize books, by crowdsourcing the
job. While digitizing books, sometimes the character recognition is unsatisfactory, so the computer
my save some gibberish of a sentence without knowing any better, which is where X comes into
the picture.
X has helped digitize the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books, and as of
2012, thirty years of The New York Times had been digitized.
In 2012, X began using photographs of house numbers taken from Google's Street View project, in
addition to scanned words.
X is reported as being used over 100million times a day.
ID X (be specific!)

49. ReCAPTCHA

50. Connect
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yhD
QvxA5c>

51. HALO
In video: HALO (high altitude, low opening) jump
In pictures: Halo (an optical effect)
Halo (the video game)

52. Croton capitatus, also known as woolly croton, goatweed or X, is a plant distributed across the
southern United States, and elsewhere.
For the famous author Y, it was not
intentional in Y’s part to name
something major in the books after
the plant X. It was only after the books
were published, when a friend
reminded her of seeing the plant in
the Kew Gardens, UK many years
beforehand that Y speculated that
the name had remained in her
subconscious ever since.
ID X and Y.

53. X=Hogwort
Y=J.K. Rowling

54. On October, 2014, senior Google executive Dr. Alan Eustace’s ordeal began in an
abandoned runway in Roswell, New Mexico and took a total of 12 hours, in a suit that
featured an elaborate life support system in case anything went wrong. Unlike his Austrian
predecessor who was met with much fanfare a few days earlier, Alan had been preparing for
this event in secrecy for 3 years. What feat did Alan achieve?

55. Highest Free-Fall Record
The previous record was set by Felix Baumgartner