Prelims of the lone wolf general quiz conducted by Pranav Iyer at Revels 2018

1. Revels ‘18
Lone Wolf Quiz
Conducted by Pranav Iyer

2. RULES
● 25 questions
● Write your answers on the given sheet
● No negative marking
● Q 4,8,12,16,20 are *marked and will be used to resolve ties
● 20-25 are worth 2 points
● Top 12 participants qualify
● No Google, Bing, Yahoo, Duck Duck Go etc

3. Q1. ID X
The X party was a revolutionary socialist party founded in October 1966.
At its inception, The X party’s core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the
behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in
Oakland, California. In 1969, community social programs became a core activity of party
members.
Party members were involved in many fatal firefights with police including Huey Newton
allegedly killing officer John Frey in 1967 and the 1968 Eldridge Cleaver led ambush of
Oakland police officers which wounded two officers and killed Panther Bobby Hutton.
In 2018, The movie ‘X’ dealt with many political themes, and intentionally placed a
poster of the Hip Hop group Public Enemy, who drew controversy for their politically
charged lyrics, and their embracing of the culture of The X party.

4. BLACK PANTHER

5. Q2. What’s the good word?
________ is derived from the Italian word, meaning ‘scratched’. It is
also derived from a technique which involves scratching through one
layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it.
This technique was primarily used by potters who would glaze their
wares and then scratch a design into it.

6. Graffiti

7. Q3. Where would you find this? Who is it a
tribute to? (0.5 pts each)

8. Rahul Dravid at The Chinnaswamy Stadium

9. *Q4. What were these sounds being
recorded for?
On February 16, 2002, New Zealand and England played a largely insipid ODI
at Wellington, remarkable only due to the spectacular collapse of The English
batting.
Replying to a modest 244 for 8, the visitors stumbled to 89 all out against
some wobbly medium-pace of Andre Adams and part-timer Nathan Astle.
During the innings break, however, _____ _______, stood on the pitch with
microphone in hand, and directed the crowd to howl, growl, and roar from the
stands. These sounds were later edited, mixed, and packaged and used in a
now famous context

10. The sounds of the Battle Scenes in The
Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

11. Q5. Who is the language inspired from?
_______ is an esoteric programming language inspired by X’s one liners. Shown
below is the program to print “Hello World” in _______
IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "Hello, World!"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

12. Arnold Schwarzenegger

13. Q6. Which movie was screened?
Theatres were initially shut down during the 1980's following a wave of ultraconservatism,
spearheaded by Saudi Arabia's clerics who viewed Western movies as sinful.
Saudi Arabia has now held the first public screening since the ban was lifted, playing possibly
the most sinful production ever created by Hollywood and one of the worst reviewed movies of
2017: ___ _____ _____
The substantially better Captain Underpants was screened next. Saudi authorities hope there
will be at least 300 cinemas with 2,000 screens in the country by 2030.

14. The Emoji Movie

15. Q7.
In image processing, _____ ___
______noise is a form of noise that is
sometimes seen in images. It can
be caused by sharp and sudden
disturbances in the image signal.
It presents itself as sparsely
occurring black and white pixels.

16. Salt & Pepper noise

17. *Q8. What do these myths explain?
The ‘Moon Rabbit’ is a tale in both Asian, and Aztec mythology.
In East Asian folklore, the Moon Rabbit is shown with a pestle and
mortar, the contents of which differs among Korean, Chinese, and
Japanese cultures.
In a Mexican folk tale, the god Quetzalcoatl, who was then living on
Earth as a man, was tired after walking for a long time. A rabbit who
was grazing nearby offered herself as food to save his life.
Quetzalcoatl, moved by her noble act, elevated her to the moon

18. Pareidolia on the moon/ Pattern on the
moon

19. Q9. What is being talked about?
Although this tradition now has nothing to do with nationalism, and the Nazi ideology, it
was initially conceived by a man named Carl Diem, a secretary of sports who proposed
the idea to the Nazi government.
Whether or not Diem meant it, the tradition fit neatly within The Nazi ideology, with the
1500 mile journey across Europe reinforcing the idea of a shared Aryan heritage
between the ancient power and the new one. The route happened to go through
Czechoslovakia, where the stream of Nazi propaganda that surrounded it inspired some
members of the ethnic German minority to clash with member of the Czech majority.
Two years later, Hitler would invade and occupy part of Czechoslovakia, where he
claimed the German minority was at risk

20. The Olympic torch relay

21. Q10. What is the old name of this move?
Shown is Irish professional wrestler Finn
Balor performing his signature move The
1916. The move is named after the year in
which The Irish Easter uprising, an armed
insurrection to end the British Rule.
However, before he joined The WWE, the
move was known by a different name and
was changed owing to WWE’s PG rating
not wanting references to blood. The old
name was a direct reference to another
infamous event in Derry, Ireland which
happened 36 years ago.

22. Bloody Sunday

23. Q11. ID X
The manga and anime series Inuyashiki is among many other series to
feature a ‘cameo’ by X .
In the manga, X appears on a news channel reacting to a giant meteor
which is about to crash into Earth and says, “In three days, a giant
asteroid will crash into the Earth. I've lived long enough. I've done
everything I wanted to do. I get to go out on top . There's nothing left
for me to prove. So all bets are off now. Steal, rape, kill, do your worst,
you fucking scumbags! As of this moment, murder is now legal!”,

24. Donald Trump

25. *Q12.
Edouard Manet’s
illustration of which
literary work?

26. ‘Raven’ by Edgar Allen Poe

27. Q13. FITB
Mantra 3.1.6 from the Mundaka Upanishad:
_________ ______ nānṛtaṃ
satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ
yenākramantyṛṣayo hyāptakāmā
yatra tat satyasya paramaṃ nidhānam

28. Satyameva Jayate

29. Q14. Name the country
According to the most popular and accepted etymology, in 1499, an
expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the country’s coast. The
stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the navigator,
Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, so he named the region
_________, or "Little Venice". The Spanish version of _________ gave the
name of the country.

30. Venezuela

31. Q15. ID X
Ailsa Craig is an island of 99 hectares (240 acres) in the outer Firth
of Clyde, 16 kilometres (10 miles) west of mainland Scotland.
From the mid-nineteenth century the island has been quarried for
its rare type of micro-granite with riebeckite (known as "Ailsite"),
which is used to produce 60% of the world’s X’s . Ailsa Craig
produced two types of granite, Blue Hone and Common Green.
Blue Hone has very low water absorption, which prevents the
action of repeatedly freezing water from eroding the stone. Ailsa
Craig Common Green is a lesser quality granite than Blue Hone. In
the past, most X’s were made from Blue Hone but the quarry is
restricted by environmental conditions that exclude blasting.

32. Curling stones

33. *Q16.
Statue of whom at a certain
city in Guntur district,
Andhra Pradesh?

35. Tenali Rama

36. Q17. FITB
The invention of the _____ is commonly associated with Bursa, Turkey. As the
Ottoman Empire grew, so did the use of the ______, and soon weavers began using
their knowledge of carpetry to embroider intricate designs on them. By the 18th
century _____s began to feature loops in order for them to be hanged, and these
looped _____s began to be called havla, which later became havlu. In fact the word
‘_____’ comes from the Turkish word meaning ‘with loops’. Despite their popularity,
they did not become affordable until the 19th century, with the increase in cotton
trade and industrialization.

37. Towel

38. Q18. What phenomenon is being talked about, that you
have probably experienced in the duration of this quiz?
The exact cause of ___ __ ___ ______ phenomena is unknown, but many explanations
have been proposed.
The direct-access view postulates that he rememberer has direct access to the
target word's presence in memory, even though it cannot be immediately recalled.
The blocking hypothesis states that retrieval cues elicit the retrieval of a word
related to the target that then blocks the retrieval of the correct word that is the
person recognizes that the related words are incorrect but cannot retrieve the
correct word because it is inhibited.

39. Tip of The Tongue

40. Q19. Name the town, which rose to
prominence in Jan 2016 in the world of
entertainment.
The community thrived primarily as a fishing community for over 200 years. Its
economy shifted to that of a Boston area summer colony starting in 1845, when
Richard Dana, a Boston-based poet, built a house in the town. Over the next fifty
years, development of summer houses along the coastline established the
community as Boston society's community of choice for summer residency. The
trend continued with designs by other notable architects, such as "Sunny Waters",
designed by John Hubbard Sturgis for his older brother, Russell, in 1862.
In order to prevent confusion with a larger town in New Hampshire, the official
name of this town was suffixed to indicate it’s Geographical location.

41. Manchester-by-the-sea

42. *Q20. This line of guitars is inspired by whose
works?

44. H. R. Giger

45. TWO POINTERS

46. Q21. Star Wars parodies of which two
thematically similar paintings?
a)

47. b)

48. a) Washington crossing The Delaware

49. b) Napoleon crossing The Alps

50. Q22.
‘Deconstructed’ food is a modern approach to plating up food where the different components
of the dish are disassembled and then reassembled.
Given in the next slide are the deconstructed versions of two dishes. IDENTIFY BOTH DISHES

51. a)
b)

52. a) Samosa
b) Taco

53. Q23. Name X and Y (Full names only)
A certain Brian Hugh Warner, while starting off his career in 1989, chose the name XY - taken
from the names of two of who he believed were ‘two of America’s biggest icons in the ‘60s’
X was taken from the first name of one of the best known ‘sex-symbols’ from the 1950s-60s.
Y on the other hand is the last name of someone who believed in ‘Helter Skelter’, a term he took
from the Beatles' song of the same name to describe an impending apocalyptic race war, and
was also the founder of a cult involved in a series of murders.

54. Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Monroe, Charles Manson

55. Q24. Name the character.
What is special about the incantation?
The wizard from DC Comics ______’s name is derived from his powers:
He possesses the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of
Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. He is
said to be one of the first superheroes in the DC Universe.
Later in the comics, by speaking the magic word ‘VLAREM!’ he gains additional
powers from the fictional gods of the comics.

56. SHAZAM
‘VLAREM’ is an anagram of Marvel
S The wisdom of Solomon;
H The strength of Hercules;
A The stamina of Atlas;
Z The power of Zeus;
A The courage of Achilles;
M The speed of Mercury.

57. Q25. What were the two items given by Surya
to humanity?
In Hindu myth, Jamadagni was the father of Parashurama, and was known for his skill with the
bow and arrow. He would often shoot arrows at a target, and his loyal wife, Renuka, would fetch
his arrow for him.
One day, owing to the scorching heat, Renuka was compelled to sit in the shade of a tree owing
to her head and feet being scorched by the sun, but could not rest long as she did not wish to
anger her husband. She instead persevered and returned with the arrow. Seeing his wife having
to suffer in the heat angered Jamadagni who began shooting arrows towards The Sun.
A scared Surya appeared in human form in front of Jamadagni and asked him to stop. Surya then
presented two inventions to help his wife shield herself from the heat.

58. Umbrellas
Sandals