Season Finale - The Farewell Quiz 2016-17

SEASON FINALE
- THE FAREWELL
QUIZ
Quizmasters : Aditya ,Vaishakh, Anant, Yamya and Kartik

1.
• The person in the picture is Emmanuel Santos
and a work of his was badly received and became
an object of jokes on the internet in late March
2017. He had this to say to defend himself-
• “It is impossible to please the Greeks andTrojans.
Neither did Jesus please everyone.This is a
matter of taste, so it is not as simple as it seems.
What matters is the impact that this work
generated.There is always the possibility of
making a difference, I was prepared for all this.”
• What is the criticized piece of art?

2.
• According to theVice President of
Content Acquisition at Netflix,
Netherlands, Kelly Merryman the
company uses an almost illegal way of
deciding which shows to bring their
website.This helps them find out what
is popular amongst kids and teenagers
and what does well with them.This is
supposedly why Prison Break was
included in their streaming service.
• What is this approach?

Keeping track of Torrent
websites

3.
• Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as
Possible) is a musical piece by
John Cage. It was originally
written in 1987 for organ and is
adapted from the earlier work
ASLSP 1985; a typical
performance of the piano
version lasts 20 to 70 minutes.
• The name As Slow as Possible
is also an unintended pun to a
feat known as Halberstadt
performance for which a special
organ was constructed.
• What is the feat tried?

4.
• A love letter from X to a woman named
Milena could have been sold as a short story.
It starts off deceptively normal: “Last night, I
dreamed about you.” X, though, isn’t being
cute. He really had a dream, and he was
going to tell her every crazy detail.
• “We kept merging into one another. I was
you, you were me,” X wrote. It seems kind of
sweet, but then it takes a turn. “Finally, you
somehow caught fire.”
• In his dream, X started to beat this woman
with his coat.Then he realized that he was on
fire and he was beating himself with a coat.
But it wasn’t doing any good. “In the
meantime, however, the fire brigade arrived
and somehow you were saved,” X wrote. “But
you were different from before, spectral, as
though drawn with chalk against the dark.”
• Whose eponymous styled love letter?

5.
• ____________, contrary to what it suggests, is not a German
invention. It was introduced as a part of the British Merchandise
MarksAct, which took effect on August 23, 1887. According to
Werner Abelshauser, economic historian at University of
Bielefeld, Germany, “This was particularly aimed at Germany
because people suspected that Germans were copying British
products.” Abelshauser believed that two notions played a role in
creating the law: on the one hand, there was the aim to protect
British consumers from buying shoddy imitations of the high-
quality cutlery made in Sheffield. On the other hand, German
mechanical engineering - which was already superior to the
British even then - was supposed to become stigmatized by
being given a negative label.
The plan,however, backfired as "___________" ultimately
developed into a sign of quality and became a very common
practice ever since the MadridAgreement Concerning the
International Registration of Marks of 1891 was signed, in which
most trading nations agreed to use a standardized version of
_______.This practice was soon adopted by other countries.

• Ans: Made In Germany label.The move gave the world
“Made In _________(country)” label.

6.
• Dubbed as Crashgate by some in media, the Renault
Formula One Crash Controversy was a sporting scandal
perpetrated by the Renault F1 team who ordered Nelson
Piquet, Jr. to crash deliberately during the 2008 Singapore
Grand Prix, to gain sporting advantage for his Renault
team-mate Fernando Alonso. On 28 September 2008, on
the 14th lap of the Singapore race, Piquet crashed into the
circuit wall at turn 17, necessitating a safety
car deployment.The other Renault driver, Fernando
Alonso, had previously made an early pitstop, and was
promoted to the race lead as other cars pitted under
safety car conditions. Alonso subsequently won the race
after starting 15th on the grid.
• In response to the scandal, Renault's main sponsors “X”
and Mutua Madrileña ended their sponsorship
agreements with Renault early, within a week after the
FIA's decision and right before the next race, the 2009
Singapore Grand Prix, with the team removing their logos
from the cars before the event.
• What is X?

7. • In the FRIENDS Season 8 Episode “The OneWhere
ChandlerTakes a Bath”, in the beginning we see Joey
Tribbiani wearing a shirt with the name “Captain Billy
Burke”.Whether it was used to pay tribute to this
personality is unknown, however, it still acquires a lot
of significance.To what incident will you associate Billy
Burke?

• Ans:The firefighter who died on Sept 11, 2001 at the
WorldTrade Center

8.
• Ecstacy is a 1933 Czech-Asutrian romantic drama film
directed by Gustav Machaty. It was a highly controversial
movie in its time because of scenes in which “X” swims in the
nude and runs through the countryside naked. It is also
perhaps the first non-pornographic movie to portray sexual
intercourse and female orgasms, although never showing
more than the actors’ faces. After completing the film, the
18 year old actress fled from her husband, Friedrich Mandl,
who . In her autobiography “Ecstacy and Me”, X described
him as an extremely controlling husband who strongly
objected to her simulated orgasm scene in Ecstasy and
prevented her from pursuing her acting career. She claimed
she was kept a virtual prisoner in their castle home, Schloss
Schwarzenau.It is believed that he hated the movie so much
he reportedly bought as many copies of Ecstasy as he could,
to prevent it from being screened in public.
• Who was this actress?

• Ans: Hedy Lamarr, the inventor of basic technology of
Wi-Fi,CDMA and Bluetooth

9. • In 1965, ITC launched the “____ ___ ____ ____”
campaign, for itsWills Navy Cut brand, to mark a
paradigm shift in product development - a filter that
enhanced taste. Filter tip cigarettes were meant to be
"safer":They were the tobacco companies' response to
medical studies waking up to the negatives of smoking.
To leverage the campaign, ITC created many
properties around it, the most famous being the “____
_____ ____ ____” contest to select the perfectly-
matched couples. It was as celebrated as the beauty
pageants of today; tennis player and Davis Cupper,
Premjit Lall and his first wife, were once the winners
from Calcutta.The contest was launched in the late-
60s and lived through the 80s, with a seven-year pause
in the interim.
• FITB

• Ans: Made For Each Other campaign

10. • ___________which helps track loan defaulters and
conducts recovery operations.What’s new, you may
ask. Manju Bhatia runs an agency that hires only
women as recovery agents
She started _______in 2003 with three agents.
______works only with public sector banks (PSB)
because Bhatia finds private sector banks lacking in
empathy. PSBs, on the other hand, understand the
customer and are always willing to give them another
chance. “They look at customers as a long-term
relationship and are very considerate in dealing with
them,” she says.

11. • All My Children (AMC) is an American television soap
opera that aired onABC for 41 years, from January 5,
1970, to September 23, 2011. It is set in PineValley,
Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which
is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb
of Rosemont. Known for being first new network
daytime drama to debut in the 1970s, it is remembered
for its contribution to the American sitcom
“F.R.I.E.N.D.S”. How is thisTV Show associated with
F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

• Ans:The main characters from the show are named
after All My Children (1970) characters. Ross for Ross
Chandler, Joey for Joey Martin, Chandler for the
Chandler family, Monica for Monique/DaisyCortland,
RachelGreen for JanetGreen, and Phoebe for Phoebe
TylerWallingford.

12. • X was one of the earliest knownAncient Greek Dark
Wizards and his work is still a lasting aspect of dark
magic to date. It is believed that X may have been a
distant ancestor of Salazar Sytherin, as X was the
earliest known Parselmouths, Slytherin was a
Parselmouth himself, and the gist of Parseltongue is
known to be hereditarty. X is best known as the first
wizard to hatch a Basilisk.X, in a way, laid down the
foundation of one of the very important aspects of the
Harry Potter world.What was his infamous
contribution? Also, give me X.

• Ans: Herpo the Foul – First wizard to successfully
create a Horcrux.

SPORTS ROUND
• Brought to you byYamya Rastogi

13. • A _________ is a ball from a left arm bowler that is
bowled over the wrist and turns to the opposite way to
an orthodox left arm spin.
• It is an unorthodox bowling style as the bowler uses his
wrist to generate spin rather than his fingers.The
direction of the turn after pitching the ball is the same
as that of a traditional right-handed off spin bowler.
• The _________ is a rare style of bowling because of the
difficulty to control the leg spin.
•
Q1

14. Whose journey to what?
• 1st round: Malaysian Suffian Abu Bakar 15-7,15-12
• 2nd round: Indonesian Hadiyanto 15-0,15-10
• Quarter-final: Danish Dane Svend Pri 15-4,15-4
• Semi-final: Danish Dane Morten Frost Hansen 15-8,15-10
• Final: Indonesian Liem Swie King 15-3,15-10
Q2

• Prakash Padukone- All EnglandOpen BadmintonChampionshipin (1980).

15. • “As long as I can remember, speed and machines have
been a part of me,” X said in the spring of 1966 as he
returned to auto racing after a crash in Canada in 1965
that almost took his life.
• X , an Englishman(who died recently) will be most
widely remembered for his unique achievement in his
field.
• Through the mid-1960s he was one of the towering
figures along with Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jackie
Stewart and Dan Gurney.
• Id X and what was the unique achievement?
(Image to follow)
Q4

JOHN SURTEES - the only man to win the world championship on both two and
four wheels.

16. • ____________ is a mostly grassed banked area in the
grounds of the All England LawnTennis and Croquet
Club where, during the annualWimbledon tennis
championship, crowds of people without showcourt
tickets can watch the tennis matches live on a
giant television screen at the side of Court No.1.
• During television broadcasts of matches, cameras
often sweep over the area, and sports journalists
frequently conduct vox pops and interviews with
members of the crowd.

AorangiTerrace also commonly known as "Henman Hill"

16. • Id the logos
(+10 for each)
1. 2.
3.
Q6

17. Following is the medal summary of an event that
took place at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in
New Delhi , India from 6 to 10 February 2017.
What Event?
Q7

The 2017AsianTrack Cycling Championships.

18. • X is a sports brand which was founded in 1997 in a
three room flat in Sallanches.
• Its international headquarters were opened in
1999 in Domancy , very close to Mont Blanc.
• In 2003 , X joined theTop 10 largest global brands
in Mountain gear.
• The first consumer magazine published by X was
called “Chullanka ”
• X has partnerships with groups such as mountain
guides, national team of young mountaineers and
the Ifremmont Institute of Mountain Medical
Research. It works with advisers in hiking (Hélène
Rochas, GrégoryVollet,Vincent
Delebarre, Dachhiri Sherpa), climbing (David
Caude) and adventure racing .
Q8

19. • X is a strategy in football which refers to ultra defensive
playing style involving defending with nearly your entire
team. Normally a team approaches this method when it
intends to draw the game or defend a narrow margin.
• It is one of several tactics referred to by football fans as
"anti-football," and generally frowned upon by all but fans
of the teams employing it.
• Name the strategy which was also included in FIFA15.
Q9

20. • The tradition is considered an age-old feature of X
tradition, one of the many animal-related practices
that tend to go hand in hand with harvest festivals in
many parts of the country. Y itself involves Z being
released into enclosures, surrounded by men, who are
expected to somehow attach themselves to the animal
for at least a short period of time.
•
• The name of the practice itself comes from (coins) and
(package), referring to a bag of coins that was once
tied to the Z, which the animal-baiters tried to grab.
Although these bags are no longer tied to the animals,
the practice still involves baiters attempting to grab
any part of the animal as it bucks around in the
enclosure.
• X ANDY

• X-Tamil orTamil Nadu
• Y- Jallikattu

21. • It was not until the early 2000s that the country started to
experience totally unsustainable hyperinflation. On 13 July
2007, the government said that it had temporarily
stopped publishing (official) inflation figures, a move that
observers said was meant to draw attention away from
"runaway inflation which has come to symbolize the
country's unprecedented economic meltdown". In 2008,
the inflation rate accelerated dramatically, from a rate in
January of over 100,000% to an estimated rate of over one
million percent by May, and nearly 250,000,000% in
July. As predicted by the quantity theory of money, this
hyperinflation was linked to the Reserve Bank of the
country’s choice to mushroom the money supply. By late
2008, inflation had risen so high that ATMs for one major
bank gave a "data overflow error" and stopped customers'
attempt to withdraw money with so many zeros.
• Which country and which currency

• Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Dollar

22.
• In April 1938, X reportedly reacted to a drug used in a
dental procedure. According to his account, this triggered
a revelatory near-death experience. Allegedly inspired by
this experience, X composed a manuscript, which was
never published, with the working titles of "The One
Command" or Excalibur.The contents of Excalibur formed
the basis for some of his later publications.This theme
would be revisited in Dianetics, the set of ideas and
practices regarding the metaphysical relationship
between the mind and body which became the central
philosophy of Y.
• In May 1950, X 's Dianetics:The Evolution of a Science was
published by pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In
the same year, he published the book-length Dianetics:
The Modern Science of Mental Health, considered the
seminal event of the century by the members of Y. the
members of Y sometimes use a dating system based on
the book's publication; for example, "A.D. 25" does not
stand for Anno Domini, but "After Dianetics".

• Y’s beliefs revolve around the immortal soul,
the thetan. Y teaches that the thetan is the true
identity of a person – an intrinsically good, omniscient,
non-material core capable of unlimited creativity.
Thetans are reborn time and time again in new bodies
through a process called "assumption" which is
analogous to reincarnation. Y posits a causal
relationship between the experiences of earlier
incarnations and one's present life, and with each
rebirth, the effects of the MEST universe (MEST here
stands for matter, energy, space, and time) on the
thetan become stronger.
• X andY

• X- L. Ron Hubbard
• Y- Scientology or church of Scientology

23.
• Created by SydWeller and released on Facebook on January 31,
2017. Syd is a talented illustrator, animator and Adobe Creative
Resident from Florida who coined the idea back in September
2016. She drew them live on her twitch channel over the
weekend.
• The thing continued to gain momentum on FacebookThailand,
which was then picked up by severalThai internet news outlets in
the following days. By February 11th, the thing had reached the
English-speaking Facebook, prompting a flood of spam
comments it.
• On February 14th, a screenshot of a Feminists United Facebook
page calling the thing a “symbol for neo nazis” was submitted to
4chan’s /pol/ board On February 15th,The Daily Dot published an
article titled “A meme war is raging over the future of the thing.
• What is the thing that I am talking about?

24.
• Hong Kong became the point of departure.The vessel was
scheduled to leave in March, but Singh was arrested for selling
tickets for an illegal voyage.After several months he was
released on bail and given permission by Francis Henry May, the
Governor of Hong Kong, to set sail.The ship departed on April 4
with 165 passengers. More passengers joined at Shanghai on
April 8, and the ship arrived atYokohama on April 14. It left
Yokohama on May 3 with its complement of 376 passengers and
sailed into Burrard Inlet.
•
• In 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of
them, 24 were admitted to the desination, but the other 352
passengers were not allowed to disembark, and the ship was
forced to return to India.[1] The passengers comprised 340 Sikhs,
24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects.This was one of
several incidents in the early 20th century in which exclusion
laws were used to exclude immigrants of Asian origin.
• What am I talking about?

25. • On February 5th, 2013, Brian Spinney, who describes
himself as an Iowan father of two and a devoted
Christian, uploaded X which he claims to have
produced many years ago as a high school student in
collaboration with his pastor Jim Colerick at theWest
Dubuque 2nd Church of Christ inWest Dubuque, Iowa.
Made as an attempt of a youth outreach program for
the now defunct church, it backfired due to its funny
enough lyrics and mainly due to its racial issues.
• Give X or the specific line which made it infamous.

• Rapping for Jesus/Jesus Christ is My Nigga

26.
• On October 19, 1991, an unextinguished grass fire in California's
Berkeley Hills quickly turned into a massive suburban firestorm that
engulfed 1,500 acres across southern Berkeley and northern
Oakland. It just so happened that one of those homes destroyed by
the fire belonged to video game designer Will Wright. As the story
goes, Wright was one of the first to react to the blaze and even saved
a neighbor, fleeing with the flames nearly licking at his tailpipe.
• As he surveyed charred remnants of his home and the molten globs
of metal formerly his cars, Wright was surprised by an overwhelming
feeling of apathy. He realized he only needed a few essentials: a
toothbrush, preferably clean underwear, a roof over his head, and
maybe two or three Lamborghinis. Despite this feeling, Wright
enjoyed redecorating his home with new furniture so much that
he decided to give gamers the same experience.
Although it did take a while, but this led to a product we all know and
are very familiar with.
What product?

27. • Before X, Alexey Pajitnov developed something that
can generously be described as a game called Genetic
Engineering. Based on all the information on actual
genetic engineering made public by tight-lipped Soviet
scientific institutions, the goal was to reconfigure four
square pieces into different shapes.
It was a slightly simpler version of a puzzle game
popular in Russia called pentomino, a jigsaw game
consisting of pieces each made of five adjoined
squares, because anything past five was considered
Western luxuriance.
He named X after this game and his favourite sport,
tennis(which funnily he had never seen before)
X?

28. • The prototypical X is an original female character in
a form of entertainment (fanfic/movies/shows) who
obviously serves as an idealized version of the
creator mainly for the purpose ofWish Fulfillment.
She's exotically beautiful, often having an unusual hair
or eye color, and has a similarly cool and exotic name.
She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide
variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or
nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any
realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws —
either that or her "flaws" are obviously meant to be
endearing.
In other words, the term X is generally slapped on a
character who is important in the story, possesses
unusual physical traits, and has an irrelevantly over-
skilled or over-idealized nature.

29. • On the season finale of Koffee with Karan, Karan Johar
hired a panel of various people to decide the awards for
best debut, debutante etc. out of all the guests who
appeared in the show.
For the category of best Debut, AIB comedian Rohan
Joshi was adamant about this.
(pic included)
Name the person.

• a)The Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad, where she solves riots
by giving the cops Pepsi

ART
ROUND
• Rules :
• 8 sets of Geekified Paintings.
• The GoldenTrio, in all their glory, will have to name all
the paintings and their corresponding artists
• The Opposition will have to name the inspiration of
these paintings.
• +50 for correct answers, -50 for incorrect ones.
• P.S:The Opposition will be granted +100 points if the
Trio gets an answer incorrect.

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