The General Quiz of Quizzitch Cup 2020

1. Qureka Prelims
The General Quiz

3. Rules
• 20 Questions, 1 mark each.
• Half marks will be allotted on Quizmaster’s decision
• Write at least one name and phone number on the sheet.
• Star marked questions 5,10,15 and 20 will be used as tie-breakers.

4. 1. Starting off with a sitter!
ID X,Y and what event this speech had been
prepared for (Be specific!)
• Thirty years after the event , an undelivered speech prepared for President
Richard Nixon came to light.
• Discovered in the archives of the Nixon Administration by the
historian James Mann in 1999, the speech was composed by Nixon’s then
speechwriter, William Safire, to be used if a certain mission failed.
• Excerpts- “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the _______ to
explore in peace will stay on the ________ to rest in peace. These brave
men, X and Y , know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also
know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are
laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth
and understanding”.

5. 1. Starting off with a sitter!
ID X,Y and what event this speech had been
prepared for (Be specific!)
• Thirty years after the event , an undelivered speech prepared for President
Richard Nixon came to light.
• Discovered in the archives of the Nixon Administration by the
historian James Mann in 1999, the speech was composed by Nixon’s then
speechwriter, William Safire, to be used if a certain mission failed.
• Excerpts- “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the _______ to
explore in peace will stay on the ________ to rest in peace. These brave
men, X and Y , know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also
know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are
laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth
and understanding”.

6. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin if they
couldn’t come back to Apollo 11 from the surface
of the moon

7. 2. FITB

10. 3. ID the company X and the game Y
• The program won the Guinness World Record for the longest-running
video-game series in 2012, three decades after its debut
• Now, to the surprise of its most ardent fanatics who thought X had
abandoned the market, the company is planning to update its Y
application for the first time since 2006
• As X was unveiling the 2020 version of Y, Laminar founder Austin
Meyer was in Orlando, Florida, at an airline industry conference.
Rather than making its announcement there, X chose gaming industry
show E3 in Los Angeles as its venue prompting experts to say that this
was “Ferrari launching its new model through Uber”

13. 4. ID the album cover by one of the most
famous British bands in history
• The Wikipedia entry for the album has this comment on the main
sleeve image:- "The album's cover image was inspired by the idea that
people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting
burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands,
one man on fire
• "Getting burned" was also a common phrase in the music industry,
used often by artists denied royalty payments. Two stuntmen were
used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-
retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by
a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at the Warner
Bros studios in Los Angeles

15. Wish you were here, Pink Floyd

16. 5****. ID this international activist
• X is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she
was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for
three months.
• In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war
and armed conflict". She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel
Prize.
• Last week, she came back into the news when she met Donald Trump at
the Oval Office and Trump asked her “They gave you the Nobel Prize for
what?” attracting the ire of netizens all over the globe

19. Nadia Murad

20. 6. ID this technology X
• X is a technique for human image synthesis based on artificial intelligence.
It is used to combine and superimpose existing images and videos onto
source images or videos using a machine learning technique known
as generative adversarial network. The phrase “X" was coined in 2017
• Because of these capabilities, X has been used to create fake celebrity
pornographic videos or revenge porn
• X has been used to misrepresent well-known politicians on video portals or
chatrooms.
• Recently, it came back into the news when a X image of Jim Carrey as Jack
Nicholson in The Shining became popular and the Internet lost its mind

22. Deepfake

23. 7. ID this lady
• Born in Kapurthala, Punjab to a non-political family in 1938, X did her schooling from Convent
of Jesus and Mary School in Delhi and completed her MA in history from Delhi University's
Miranda House college.
• Her entry into politics was accidental. Her father-in-law was a Cabinet minister in Indira
Gandhi’s government. Indira Gandhi noticed her work and nominated her as a delegate of the
United Nations Commission on the issue of status of women.
• She started her political career from Uttar Pradesh as a Member of Parliament from Kannauj
constituency in 1984. In 1984, she became a minister in Rajiv Gandhi's government
• She also served as a Union Minister during 1986-1989. She first served as the Minister of State
for Parliamentary Affairs and later as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office
She was appointed as the Governor of Kerala in March 2014, but resigned after few months.

25. RIP

26. 8. Origin of which phrase?
• Steve Carell gets most of the credit for the phrase X after popularizing it
on The Office, but the true origins of the phrase go back much further than
Michael Scott
• The joke is a twist of a much older British phrase that tracks back more
than a century to some point in the Edwardian period (1901-1910). There,
the line was "as the actress says to the bishop," in reference to actresses
— whose company could be purchased after performances — confessing
their sins to clergymen.
• That phrase has been used with some frequency in film and literature,
including in a test reel for Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, where it was turned
into "as the girl said to the soldier." That version is considered to be the
first recording of a “X" joke.

28. That’s what she said

29. 9. ID X
• How I Won the War is a 1967 British black comedy film directed and
produced by Richard Lester, based on a novel of the same name
by Patrick Ryan. The film stars Michael Crawford as bungling British
Army Officer Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody and X (in his only non-
musical role, as Musketeer Gripweed)
• During filming, he started wearing round "granny-like" glasses, which
he continued to sport nearly constantly for the remainder of his life,
becoming one of his most distinctive trademarks.

31. John Lennon

32. 10*****) The ___ (3) ___(3) Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of
measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test
of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different
countries. It "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible" by comparing the
prices of ___(3) ____(3)s in different countries.
The index, created in 1986, takes its name from the ___(3) ____(3), sold by one of the
most recognized American corporations in the world.
The corporation established by the two brothers Richard and Maurice in the year 1940
now has stores in over a 100 countries across 37,855 outlets. However, their iconic Golden
Arches logo was introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. Although, the
original mascot of the franchise was referred to as "Speedee", in 1962, the double Golden
Arches replaced Speedee as the universal symbol. Another associated mascot which
continues to be associated with the corporation was introduced in 1965 and appeared in
advertising to target their audience of children.
FITB

34. Big Mac
(The Big Mac Index)

35. 11. ID the lady and the brand
• Gabrielle Bonheur X Y was a French fashion designer and
businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Y brand, she was
credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the
constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing a sporty,
casual chic as the feminine standard of style.
• She sang in a cabaret frequented by cavalry officers. X made her stage
debut singing at a cafe-concert in a Moulins pavilion, La Rotonde. It
was at this time that Gabrielle acquired the name “X" when she spent
her nights singing in the cabaret "Who Has Seen X ?"
• Others believe “X" came from Qui qu'a vu X , or it was an allusion to
the French word for kept woman, cocotte.

38. 12. What commonly used B-School term?
• There is a legend in the mathematics community that centres around
Henri Poincaré, the famous mathematician, meting out sweet, sweet
justice to a dishonest baker
• He suspected that a dishonest baker was cheating him on the weight
but he couldn't just pick up a loaf of bread and present it as evidence
as some error was expected to be present while making a loaf of
bread.
• Thus, he bought and weighed his bread for a year, and charted the
weight and finally used this concept to prove that the bakers were
cheating their customers.
• The name is derived from the shape of the chart that Poincare drew

40. Bell curve

41. 13. Which song?
• X is a 1970 song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is built upon
a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology,
with singer Robert Plant's howling vocals mentioning war-making
and Valhalla. The song was included on their third studio album, Led
Zeppelin III and released as a single
• The song was a part of the soundtrack of Thor:Ragnarok, Jack Black’s
School of Rock and Shrek the Third
• The lyrics also did much to inspire the classic heavy metal myth, of
Viking-esque figures on an adventure, themes which have been
adopted in the look and music of bands such as Iron Maiden

43. Led Zep’s Immigrant Song

44. 14. ID the character X and the popular meme
Y
• The precise origin of the X character is unclear, but a popular legend is that the name
was derived from Samuel Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy, New York who supplied
rations for American soldiers during the War of 1812. There was a requirement at the
time for contractors to stamp their name and where the rations came from onto the food
they were sending. Wilson's packages were labeled "E.A – US." When someone asked
what that stood for, a co-worker jokingly said, "Elbert Anderson [the contractor] and X "
referring to Wilson, though the "US" actually stood for United States.
• X didn’t get a standard appearance until the well-known “recruitment” image of X was
created by James Montgomery Flagg . It was this image more than any other that set the
appearance of X as the elderly man with white hair and a goatee wearing a white top
hat with white stars on a blue band, a blue tail coat and red and white striped trousers.
• The image was originally used to recruit people for the army during WW II but has now
found its place in pop culture as the Y meme which borrows heavily from the original
recruitment image

47. 15****. What is the common phrase?
• The notorious bank robber John Dillinger was the first person to be
given the title of ‘X’ by the FBI, gangster Al Capone being the second
• To avoid getting caught, he would rob banks in different states.
This meant that pre-FBI America had jurisdictional fights over him and
ergo, couldn’t get to him.
• Dillinger’s legacy will always be remembered for two reasons: to catch
him, America gave birth to the FBI and he was the reason they put the
F in FBI.
• Hollywood made a movie about him, called X, in 2009 where Johnny
Depp played Dillinger. An Eminem song and a 2011 Megadeth single
share the same name

49. Public Enemy #1

50. 16) PUT FUNDA

53. 17. What is being talked about?
• In a TED talk by Harvard professor, Rohit Deshpande titled “The
Ordinary Heroes of the ___” he talks about leadership driven from
the bottom of the hierarchy.
• He says while recruiting these heroes, they are brought from small
towns in India and colleges on the basis of personality traits such as
benevolence, etc rather than grades which explains the heroic
behaviour of the employees on that fateful night.
• The employers have won an International Hermes Award for this
innovation in HRM for developing this program.
• What/Who?

55. Taj
On 26th November, 2008 none of the employees
escaped without trying rescue the guests, despite
having many opportunities to do so. This has gone
on to be a subject of several case studies

56. 18. Which behemoth?
• When the Future Group recently cut X’s shelf space by nearly a third in the
washing powder segment to make space for their own line of detergent
liquid and powder products, X decided to launch their own washing
powder after three decades.
• The move is reminiscent of the introduction of Wheel detergent in 1988 to
take on Nirma, which had dislodged Surf as washing powder of choice in
middleclass and lower-middleclass Indian homes
• The new liquid detergent product from the parent’s portfolio, Love Home
and Planet, will be their fifth fabric wash brand
• The company accounts for a third of India’s Rs 24,000 crore laundry
market.

58. HUL

59. 19. Q&A section of which product on Amazon?

62. • 20******)
• X was chosen as the TIME Person of the Year 2006, for generating content for
multiple websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc. (the list goes
on).
• A 2014 New York Daily News article named the 2006 award as one of the ten
most controversial "Person of the Year" moments in the history of Time.
• Many felt that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad better deserved the award, as was shown in a poll by TIME
Magazine.
• The choice was criticized for being very idealistic and short-sighted, which
ignored the existence of many prominent individuals that had shaped the events
of the past year.
• Identify X.

64. You!