Les Quizerables - A General Quiz by Thapar Quizzing Club

Les Quizerables
Generally, a general quiz.
By - Samarth and Tushar

Instructions, more like guidelines
● 35 B/P Questions (+10/-5) + Bonus for some questions.
● Q1 - Q16 clockwise, rest anti-clockwise.
● QMs’ decisions will be final.
● Seniority card will not be entertained.
● Use of “That’s what she said” is highly discouraged.
Good Luck!

SAFETY SLIDE
Kevin for a change, cuz why not.
For the rest of the
quiz...

Question 1
In 1971, X released a song named Y. Near the beginning and the end of
this beautiful song, there is a field recording of Liverpool fans singing
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ superimposed over the music. Towards the
closing seconds of the song, it is even possible to hear the fans chanting
‘Liverpool’.
Sadly, there is no verified explanation as to why exactly X used this
recording in the song. Give X and their song Y.

Kevin for a change, cuz why not.

Answer:
X - Pink Floyd
Y - Fearless

Question 2
In his entire career X was fired only once; club Y have the distinction of
being the club that fired him.
The official version is that X was fired for various breaches of contract
including unauthorised payments to players. After he was sacked by Y,
he took them to an industrial tribunal and was counter-accused of
intimidating behaviour towards his office secretary because he wanted
players to get some expenses tax free.
X reportedly blanked her for six weeks, confiscated her keys and
communicated only through a 17-year-old secretarial assistant. The
tribunal concluded that X was "particularly petty" and "immature". Give X
and bonus points for Y.

Answer:
X - Sir Alex Ferguson
Y - St. Merrin

Question 3
X was a talented musician, an outstanding law student, an ex-FBI Agent
and an ex-navy commander but is best known for one of the biggest
scandals of all time.
X once said, “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits.” Pretty ironic considering that he is a renowned quitter.
ID X.

Question 4
The word X was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2016.
Surprisingly enough, the word made its first appearance way back in
1976, in Richard Dawkins’ book, The Selfish Gene. He used it to explain
the spread of ideas and all sorts of cultural phenomena, like melodies,
catchphrases, fashion, and even the technology of building arches. The
word itself is in fact the shortened form of Y, which itself stems from the
Ancient Greek word for imitating. Give X.

Question 5
Whose Profile and what is being talked about?

Question 6
In this weird pre-wedding German tradition, friends and family of the
bride and groom come together and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and the bride
and groom have to clean up the mess. This way they get to practice
'working together in difficult times.' What do they do?

Question 7
In 1848, The Cooper Union of Advancement of Science and Art in the
East Village of Manhattan, New York, had an invention X whose
application was yet to be invented 4 years later. Peter Cooper, the
inventor believed that the use of X will come sooner or later. The later
invention is said to be a great solution to the then problem of New York,
increasing population and lack of space. What was that invention?
The later invention was not an invention as such, primitive versions of it
were in use for more than 2000 years.

Question 8
In 1887, a famous author wrote a groundbreaking story, which went on to
be famous globally. However, in 1893, the author decided to retire,
introducing the death of the protagonist. In turn the enormous reader
base, obviously upset by this termination, protested on the roads by
wearing black armbands in mourning. Therefore, the author has to revive
the character and start the second term of his writings. The stories
became so popular that they were the second most circulated and
translated books in the world after The Holy Bible. Name the author and
the book.

Answer
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes.

Question 9
In 1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing The Tonight
Show reruns on the weekends. He wanted to save those reruns for the
extra vacation days he was planning to take during weekdays. NBC
wanted to fill those weekend slots so they hired X to develop a show Y.
ID X & Y.

Answer
X - Lorne Michaels
Y - SNL

Question 10
Seth Everman holds the record for the most liked youtube comment since
October 2019. The comment is currently at a whopping 2.4M likes. The
comment was made under the Grammy winning “Bad Guy” video of
American pop star Billie Eilish. What was this comment?

Question 11
The intellects and artists of the city, Y, on the construction of X signed a
manifesto which said, “We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects,
passionate lovers of the beauty, until now intact, of X, hereby protest with
all our might, with all our indignation, in the name of _ _ _ _ _ _ taste
gone unrecognized, in the name of _ _ _ _ _ _ art and history under
threat, against the construction, in the very heart of our city, of the
useless and monstrous Y.”
Identify X and Y.

Answer:
X - Paris
Y - Eiffel Tower

Question 12
Bak was the chief sculptor of the pharaoh Akhenaten, whom we see
along with his wife Teheri in this work, kept in the Egyptian Museum,
Berlin.
Dated back from 1365 BC, this is considered the earliest surviving
example of what?
(Image follows)

Question 13
For most of history, X in a painting or photo was considered radical, and
even Mark Twain once wrote, “A photograph is a most important
document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity
than a silly, foolish X caught and fixed forever.”
The absence of X can be evidently seen in the photos and paintings of
the past.
This has obviously changed over the years as X is considered to be an
important element of a photo and is appreciated by the capturer in
present day. X?

Question 14
During the pilot chapter of X, the main character is seen wearing a pair of
goggles. Y quickly realised that these were going to be a pain to draw
every week, as he had to draw the light reflecting off them. He created
the Z as a replacement, in order to have something that was easier to
draw. He may have come to regret this decision, as almost every
character in X wears the Z. Z became an iconic globally recognised
element of the series X.
Identify X and Z.

Answer:
X - Naruto
Z - Headband/Ninja Band

Question 15
Camembert is a type of soft, creamy cheese, made from the cow’s milk
and primarily produced in Normandy.
About which famous 20th century painting, its painter once said that it
was inspired by, “the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the
sun”.
(Image follows)

Answer:
The persistence of memory by Salvador Dali

Question 16
X is a song by the British punk rock band Y. It was released as a single
from the band's 1979 double album X. This apocalyptic, politically
charged rant features the band's post-punk sound, electric guitar and
vocals.
X was named after a phrase used in a BBC show during WWII:
"Good morning America, this is X"
ID X.

Question 17
These were created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita. Kurita says that he drew
inspiration for them from manga and international signs for bathrooms.
Now, more than 1,800 of them exist. Kurita’s original 176 of them—now
part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
The best part? We don’t need to tilt our heads sideways to understand
them.

Question 18
The phrase is generally understood to be referencing the stereotypically
overweight sopranos of the opera. The imagery of Wagner's opera cycle
Der Ring des Nibelungen and its last part, Götterdämmerung, is typically
the one used in depictions accompanying reference to the phrase.
The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who is traditionally
presented as a very buxom lady. Her farewell scene lasts almost twenty
minutes and leads directly to the finale of the whole Ring Cycle. As
Götterdämmerung is about the end of the world (or at least the world of
the Norse gods), in a very significant way a slight alteration of this phrase
comes true.
The phrase cautions against assuming that the current state of an event
is irreversible and clearly determines how or when the event will end.
What phrase?

Answer:
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.

Question 19
X is a word meaning ‘Humanity’ coming from Zulu and Xhosa origins. It
can also be roughly translated to ‘I am because we are’.
In October 2004 Mark Shuttleworth, a South African entrepreneur and
owner of a UK based company, created X carrying forward the ideology
that a person with X is open and available for others, affirming of others,
does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has
a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs
in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or
diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ID X.

Question 20
After the ____ _______, eight-year-old X was imprisoned and then
never seen in public ever again. His parents were executed and,
afterward, he was horrifically abused, neglected, and left isolated in a
prison cell. He died of Tuberculous at 10-years-old. His body was buried
in secret in a mass grave. Years later, dozens of men came forward
claiming to be him because a Bourbon restoration was a possibility and a
successful claimant could then potentially find himself in a position of
tremendous power.
Who were X’s parents?
(Image next slide)

Answer:
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Question 21
By 2015, according to ABC News, Sammy was well into elementary
school and his dad, Justin Griner, had been experiencing six years of
kidney failure requiring near-daily dialysis treatments. In a twist of fate
that the family never could have predicted, the popularity of Sammy's
picture allowed them to receive a welcome surge of attention for their
online GoFundMe campaign, where fans of the picture donated over
$100,000 to fund both a kidney replacement operation and hospital care
for Sammy's dad. True success.
What did Sammy's picture become popular for?

Question 22
In 2019, X, not particularly known for his writing, released the first volume
of a children’s fantasy book series, The Wizenards, published through his
multimedia content company Granity Studios including his
autobiography, The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, in 2018. Most recently, X
was working with Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho, author of the book The
Alchemist on a new children’s book aimed at inspiring underprivileged
children to overcome adversity. However, soon after an infamous
incident, Coelho deleted the draft they were working on saying that it
didn’t make sense anymore,for obvious reasons.
Identify X and the reason that Coelho deleted the draft.

Answer:
X - Kobe Bryant and the draft was deleted because of his death.

Question 23
Recently, an EDM song by Emo G Records has hit the Top 10 on
SoundCloud charts. The solo producer of the song once again is in the
news due to his second ever song release after ‘RIP Harambe’. At the
time of writing it has racked up 2.77 million plays and spawned remixes
from artists as notable as Netsky. Due to this success the net has been
obsessed with “EDM”. Name the song and the famous personality.

Question 24
X, a science fiction author, devised three laws of Y in his 1950 collection
Z. Y words has its origin from Czech meaning “forced labor, compulsory
service, drudgery". However, philosophers detected some major
loopholes in the foundation of the laws. These laws and loopholes were
exploited in the 2004 movie Z. Id X, Y and Z.

Question 25
In 2017, a terrorism-inspired children’s board game was designed by
Muhammad Ramadan Al-Amriti, an employee of the Hamas Interior
Ministry. He called it “Reaching Jerusalem” based on the classic game X.
The game glorifies the Hamas terror group. In a post on his Facebook
page, Al-Amriti said the purpose of the game is to teach Palestinian
children the proper tenets of Islam and “that return to the homeland will
be achieved only through resistance and jihad.”
In the game, players attempt to reach Jerusalem, which on the board is
illustrated by the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, with their
advances helped via Hamas made rockets and underground attack
tunnels. Like in the classic game, players must avoid landing on IDF tanks
and helicopters. ID X.

Question 26
Claudius was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy. Because
he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a
young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office
until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula.
Caligula was an emperor who once said “Let them hate me as long as
they fear me”. He was assassinated and Claudius was said to have had a
hand in the assassination.
Which two fictional characters did this duo inspire?

Answer:
Tyrion Lannister and Joffrey Baratheon

Question 27
The word X first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or a
simpleton.
The modern meaning emerged as a term for a politician who was doing
nothing in the office at the expense of his constituents.That led to the
more generalised word “to X”, which means to do nothing.
In the present day though, the word is mostly used in the world of art.
Identify X.

Question 28
Known better today as?

Question 29
One of the worst civil wars of the last decade was the one that took place
in Ivory Coast that saw nearly 2000 people losing their lives.
The issues of xenophobia and unemployment were prominent issues of
the civil war and, United Nations even after repeated interventions failed
to resolve the conflict. However an unexpected ceasefire resulted from a
historic achievement of the country in the mid-2000s after which its
protagonist made a dramatic appeal on national TV that had its desired
impact of securing a truce between the government and the rebels.
Who was this unlikely saviour, who ranks this achievement over his many
other glories? What historic feat did the country achieve?

Answer:
Didier Drogba leading Ivory Coast’s first ever World Cup qualification in
2006.

Question 30
The incident took place on 1 February 1981, when Australia played New
Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third of five such
matches in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground.With one ball of the final over remaining, New
Zealand required a six to tie the match. To ensure that New Zealand did
not get the runs they needed, the Australian captain, Greg Chappell,
instructed his bowler (and younger brother), Trevor Chappell, to do
something out of the ordinary. This action was legal at the time, but
nevertheless seen as being against the spirit of cricketing fair play. The
action was banned after it received widespread criticism after this
incident.
What action did Trevor Chappell indulge in?

Answer:
He bowled an underarm ball.

Question 31
This photograph was captured by the photojournalist, David Duncan, for
LIFE magazine in the 20th century.
This photo began to circulate around the internet a few years ago and
many believed that the library books reflected an infamous event of that
time period. Many magazines like The Guardian intended to capitalise
over this photo by dramatising it and presenting false information about
the reality of the situation. Which event?

Question 32
Around the “traditional” date of Memorial Day (May 30) and again for a
day or two around July 12, New Yorkers become intrigued by an unusual
circumstance that allows the setting sun to be seen on all streets headed
east and west simultaneously, provided that you have a clear view down
to the New Jersey horizon. Indeed, it is not unusual, on those special
evenings, to see people clustered on the corners of favored cross streets,
watching the setting sun as it aligns with Manhattan’s canyons of brick,
glass and steel, creating dramatic vistas.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist from Manhattan, NY termed the
event as X, a wordplay, noticing celestial similarities associated between
the original word and this phenomenon.
(Images follows)

Question 33
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
While the 30 km wide territory with just 14,000 people seems
insignificant on the global scale, it has attracted many tech companies of
a certain field since it hosts the rights to a certain entity.
Companies have shelled out thousands of dollars (record being $101,500
as of today) to use the territory’s ‘resource’. What is this entity?

Question 34
Bhaskara Sethupati was a minor when his father, the Raja of Ramnad
died in late 1800s. According to a British policy, such minor zamindars
were to be trained by a Court of Wards until they come of age.
He was taught English, Western etiquette and made to travel around
India and Ceylon to become worldly-wise. But he disappointed his tutor
at the end of his study when he preferred Sanskrit poetry to English
classics and said that he had moorings in Indian culture and arts.
What prestigious invitation did he receive a few years later, because of
his scholarship? Which guest from his kingdom did he send instead of
going himself?

Answer:
To speak at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893.

Question 35
Few know that X had the guts to defy the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler in his own
backyard. It is said that X leading the Y contingent refused to salute
Hitler during the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The only
other contingent to such defiance was the American contingent and as
the Nazi leader watched on, Jesse Owen and X set the track and field on
fire in their respective competitions.
While Hitler arrived for the guard of honour, X made a huge political
statement in a grand gesture of defiance. This went largely unnoticed
back in the world but it created quite a stir in Germany. ID X.

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