Apr'14 gen finals

Alok Singh
#APR’14
#BITSHydQuizClub

 Give ONE WORD for the list on each slide
 8 Questions
 Written Round
 +5/correct answer
 +10 bonus if all answers are correct

A US Air Force Stealth Bomber
A mid-size car from Dodge (1989-1995)
A 2012 Malayalam movie| A 2008 English movie
directed by Frank Miller
A NASA Space Rover

A city in Valencia, Spain
An Indian Pharmaceutical Company (Gujarat Based)
A file for storing metadata
A SUV by Pontiac

A mythological figure
A moon of Saturn
A BioShock/Portal/Astroboy character
An Indian Bicycle Company

A DoTA Hero
A Motorola Mobile Phone
A short story by Vladimir Nabokov
A 2007 Battlestar Galactica TV Film

A type of dance
A short jacket with long sleeves
A popular SUV in India
A WWII military operation

A web browser
A 2007 film starring Keira Knightley
A brand of soy milk
Nickname of an Indian celebrity

An aviation term
A cricketer’s nickname
A 2008 Indian animated movie
A Bee Gees song

An edible item
A character from Planet of the Apes
An encryption technique
American public gaming corporation that owns hotels
and casinos

Infinite Bounce
15 Questions
+10/-10 for pounce

 _X_ is a Grammy winning band. One half of the _X_ duo,
described the album's title as encapsulating _X_’s interest in the
past, referencing both technology and the human experience:
“We were drawing a parallel between the brain and the hard
drive.“
 _X_ felt that while current technology allows for an unlimited
capacity to store recorded material, the content produced by
contemporary artists had diminished in quality. Their goal was
therefore to maximize the potential of infinite storage by
recording a sprawling amount of elements. The duo pointed to
the process as being further inspiration for the album's title, as
they sought to make connections out of the random series of
ideas.
 Band? Album?

 Mentioned as being "still a terminal disease in some parts of the
Galaxy," this disease seems rife amongst the population of Betelgeuse
5, the fifth planet of the sun Betelgeuse. It killed off the father of
Ford Prefect when he was so embarrassed that Ford could not say his
birth name, "Ix", and this embarrassed Ford and resulted in him being
mocked during school.
 The disease _X_ means “a painful feeling of distress caused by the
consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour.”
 What is this fictional disease X?

 In Jan 2014, NASA’s Chandra X-Ray
Observatory captured the image
of cloud of material that ejected
from the explosion of a nearby
star.
 It was given the nickname,
cosmic “____ __ ___” as an
allusion to an infamous event of
the 80s.
 Fill in the blanks.

Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17,
1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister.
Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office,
she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years
before the epithet became associated with British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher.
 During a meeting with President Nixon, he told her that he
would trade any three American generals for General Moshe
Dayan. “Okay,” she said, “I’ll take _________, ________, and
__________.“

Hailed as the father of his country, and the leader who was "first in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen", _X_ was the
dominant military and political leader. As a tribute to _X_’s
contributions, construction of a monument was proposed.
After initial deliberations, the work of the monument began. The design
selected for the monument, however, was severely criticized by many
calling it “A stalk of asparagus” and “The big furnace chimney on the
Potomac Flats”.
Who is the leader? Monument?

The oldest ___ ___are believed to have originated
from the so-called "Russian Mountains", which were
specially constructed hills of ice, located especially
around Saint Petersburg.
In Scandinavian languages, the ___ ___ is referred as
“mountain-and-valley railway.”
Fill in the blanks.

 The fossilized bones of this genus of dinosaur were discovered
by Suresh Srivastava of Geological Survey of India between 1982
and 1984 in the Narmada River valley in Rahioli in the Kheda
district of Gujarat.
 This was a new species of dinosaur and was named _____
narmadensis, which means “princely lizard from the Narmada
Valley”.
 FITB.

Following are the names of the mountains on Saturn’s moon,
Titan. FITB.
Angmar Montes
Dolmed Montes
Erebor Mons
Echoriat Montes
______ Mons
Gram Montes
Irensaga Montes
Merlock Montes
Mindolluin Montes
______ Montes
Mithrim Montes
Rerir Montes
Taniquetil Montes

Islington Green School is a North London school for students
of age group 11-16. Owing to their musical talents, a group
of its students got a lifetime opportunity to be the part of a
legendary act in 1979. However, instead of applauding the
students, the Inner London education authority branded the
act as "scandalous”.
Who are these children? What was this “scandalous” act?

"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought
control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone."

Act I, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens:
Painter: "Y'are a dog."
Apemantus: "Thy _____ of my generation. What's _____, if I be a dog?"
Act IV, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus:
Demetrius: "Villain, what hast thou done?"
Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo."
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our _____."
Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy _____.“
The excerpts above are the earliest examples of ?

 Rowneybury House ,also known as
_______ Palace , is a Grade II
listed building in the United
Kingdom that was previously
owned by footballer _X_.
 _X_ bought the 1930s Georgian
style house for £2.5 million in
October 1999. The house is
located within 17 acres of land, in
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
The house is equipped with a
recording studio, gym and a
snooker room, along with seven
bedrooms.
 FITB – “royal house”

Origin of this term is attributed to the following letter by science fiction author K.W.
Jeter to the magazine Locus, printed in April 1987:
Dear Locus,
Enclosed is a copy of my 1979 novel Morlock Night; I'd appreciate your being so good as
to route it Faren Miller, as it's a prime piece of evidence in the great debate as to who
in "the Powers/Blaylock/Jeter fantasy triumvirate" was writing in the "gonzo-historical
manner" first. Though of course, I did find her review in the March Locus to be quite
flattering.
Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we
can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something
based on the appropriate technology of the era; like ‘________', perhaps.
—K.W. Jeter

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of
carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure.
Multi-walled CNTs can be thought of as
multiple layers of carbon nanotubes
embedded or rolled up in each other as a
tube.
 Image on the right shows a type of multi-walled
carbon nanotube. Named after a
country, what is it known as?

 Lamborghini has come up with a single-seat,
600HP concept car as a birthday present to
itself in honor of its 50th anniversary.
 According to Walter De Silva, head of design
for VW group, “It is designed purely for hyper-sophisticated
people who want only the most
extreme and special things in the world. It
represents hedonism taken to the extreme, it
is a car without compromises”
 Further he clarifies, ““Extreme” is putting it
incredibly lightly, and as a reminder, “______”
roughly translates to “selfish.”
 What is the car aptly called? (FITB)

 6 Questions
 Theme : CURSES, like James Dean and “Little Bastard” Curse
 Infinite Bounce
 +10/-10 on Pounce

1.
First, the world denounces Henry as a cheat.
Then, police consider charges against Woods after
a mysterious car smash. And, last night, Federer
finally lost a tennis match! Susie Mesure asks the
question: ________, the best a man can get?

 _X_’s brother and sister both died in separate plane crashes in 1944 and 1948,
respectively.
 _X_'s younger brother, was assassinated in 1968.
 _X_’s youngest brother, survived a plane crash in 1964. In 1969, he was driving a car
that went off a bridge, causing the death of his companion.
 In 1984, _X_’s younger brother’s son died of a drug overdose. Another son, died in a
skiing accident in 1997.
 In 1999, _X_ Jr., his wife and his sister-in-law died when the small plane he was
piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
This curse has been haunting the _X_ family since 40s. Which is this unfortunate
family?

 Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed
curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball
team by deceased _X_ founder of _Y_.
 The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the _Y_’s
anger over treatment of one of his store-front statues, which was
thrown into the Dōtonbori River by celebrating Hanshin fans following
their team's victory in the 1985 Japan Championship Series. As is
common with sports-related curses, the curse was used to explain the
team's subsequent 18-year losing streak. Some fans believed the team
would never win another Japan Series until the statue had been
recovered.
 X? Y?

__X__ fans attempted various methods over the years to exorcise their
famous curse. These included placing a __X__ cap atop Mt. Everest
and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional
exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray
painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to
say "Reverse the Curse"; and finding a piano owned by ___Y___ that he
had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts
farm, Home Plate Farm.
What is this curse about/called? X? Y?

Boston Red Socks sold Babe “The Bambino” Ruth to
New York Yankees in 1919-20 season.

Louis, Alexander and Richards have attempted to launch new
sitcoms as title-role characters. Despite acclaim and even
respectable ratings, almost every show was canceled quickly,
usually within the first season. This gave rise to the
term ____ curse: the failure of a sitcom starring one of the
three, despite the conventional wisdom that each
person's ______ popularity should almost guarantee a strong,
built-in audience for the actor's new show.
What curse?

 1999- Garrison Heart
 2000- Barry Sanders and Dorsey Levens
 2001- Eddie George
 2002- Dante Culpepper
 2003- Marshall Faulk
 2004- Michael Vick
 2005- Ray Lewis
 2006- Donovan McNabb
 2007- Shaun Alexander
 2008- Vince Young
 2009- Brett Favre
 2010- Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu
 2011- Drew Brees
 2012- Peyton Hillis
 On the right is the list of all the
“victims” of this curse.
 The curse is associated with a
product of the company _X_ and its
yearly editions.
 _X_ is an American company
headquartered in Redwood,
California. Trip Hawkins, the
founder of _X_ started this company
in 1982. In terms of revenue, _X_ is
third largest company in its
segment which is headed by a
Japanese company.
 What is this curse called? What
product of company _X_ is
associated with it?

People appearing on the cover of EA’s
Madden NFL Football – slump in form/career
threatening injuries in the next season

Infinite Bounce
12 Questions

The core philosophy of the language is summarized by the
document "The Zen of __X__", which includes aphorisms such
as:
 Beautiful is better than ugly
 Explicit is better than implicit
 Simple is better than complex
 Complex is better than complicated
 Readability counts
This language has “funny” origins coming from Britain. What is this
language?

Football is the most popular sport in Greenland with about
5,000 players. However, Greenland is not a member of FIFA
and can therefore not play in the FIFA World Cup. In
addition to FIFA, Greenland is neither a member of
CONCACAF or UEFA. This is because Greenland doesn’t
clear one of the basic requirements needed by these
bodies.
Why is Greenland not part of the FIFA/CONCACAF/UEFA?

Inventor C.L Sholes, who put together the prototype
of first commercial ______ in a Milwaukee machine
shop back in 1860s, invented X.
During early years Sholes was criticized of having
implemented X in his machine just to slow down its
users to prevent it from jamming. Implementation
of X, however, was for exactly the opposite reasons,
which was proved and universally accepted later.
What is X?

 In ancient Greek, the word ______ means bow, as
well as “the arrows shot from the bow”—and really
just archery in general. In the story of Hercules,
the mythical hero had to face twelve Labours. The
second challenge he faced was the Hydra—a
serpent with nine heads and poisonous blood. The
Hydra was seemingly invincible—chopping off one
of its heads only caused it to grow two more heads
in that spot. Hercules eventually defeated it by
cauterizing each neck with a torch after slicing off
a head. Then, after removing the Hydra’s final
head, Hercules dipped his arrow tips in the blood—
he “made his _____ poisonous.”
 What word? (this word is derived from the blanked Greek word)

 Greek word – toxon (bow)
 Picture : Toxotes, Greek Archers in Age of Mythology

 What is being described here?
“The central boss depicts the figure of Sophrosyne, the personification
of temperance and moderation, seated on a chest with a lamp in her
right hand and a jug in her left, with various attributes such as a sickle,
fork and caduceus around her. The four reserves on the boss, each
contain a classical god, together with elements. The reserves around
the rim show Minerva presiding over the seven liberal arts: astronomy,
geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic and grammar, each with
relevant attribute. The remainder of the surface is decorated with gilt
renaissance strap work and foliate motifs in relief against a rigid silver
ground.”

A mythical beast with man’s face, lion’s body and
scorpion’s stinger.
A slow mythical chameleon in Zulu tradition sent by
sky-god for certain disclosure.
If these two are the 2nd and the 3rd, which is the 1st?

Rounding bottom in a stock is an indication of a positive
market reversal, meaning expectations are gradually shifting
from bearish to bullish. _X_ is the slang term given to this
rounding bottom phenomenon.
 What is the slang for this technical analysis term?

 ___ ___ originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of
the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. ___ ___ eventually became famous for all
African-American regiments formed in 1866.
 Some sources assert that the name was given out of respect for the
fierce fighting ability of the 10th Cavalry. Other sources assert that
Native Americans called the black cavalry troops “___ ___" because of
their dark curly hair.
 A famous artist looked at ___ ___ as symbol of black resistance and
recorded a song in 1980 alluding to 10th Cavalry’s fight for survival.
 FITB.

Buffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta:
There was a buffalo soldier in the heart of america,
Stolen from africa, brought to america,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

 The world's first ____ ____ ____ was established in 2009 in
Harardheere. Open 24 hours a day, it allows the interested
people to earn as much as $10 million for every successful
operation.
 While there are no credible statistics available, reports from
various news sources suggest that over 70 entities are listed
on the Harardheere ____ ____ ____. According to a former
‘associate’ who spoke to Reuters, "The shares are open to all
and everybody can take part by providing cash, weapons or
useful materials. . . .“
 FITB.

Sometime in 2013 Kolkata traffic police came up with an
innovative message hoarding focusing on the importance of
following traffic rules. Anuj Roy, officer in-charge of Kolkata
traffic police, told PTI that the idea was thought up to attract
the attention of the youth who often failed to acknowledge
traffic rules which not only endangered their safety, but also
slowed down traffic.
What did Kolkata police use for message hoarding?

Following is the conversation just before this iconic picture
was clicked:
Borman: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's
the ___ coming up. Wow, is that pretty.
Anders: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled.
Borman: (laughing) You got a color film, Jim?
Anders: Hand me that roll of color quick, will you...
Lovell: Oh man, that's great!
Name this iconic photograph (+5). What/where/context?(+5)

“A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of
_______. All the powers of old Europe have entered
into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and
Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and
German police-spies.”
FITB(+5). Opening lines of which book? (+5)

Following is a non-exhaustive list of laws. What are these laws about?
1. Any body passing through solid matter (usually at high velocities) will
leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
2. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel
entrances; others cannot.
3. All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
4. Any vehicle on a path of travel is at a state of indeterminacy until an
object enters a location in the path of travel.

According to Indian mythology, Nalayani was the daughter of
Nala and Damyanti. She wanted a husband who was
truthful, strong, courageous, handsome and loving. So she
prayed to Lord Shiva for years to get herself a perfect
husband who possessed all these qualities. Pleased by her
devotion, Lord Shiva agreed to fulfill her wish.
Who did she get?

 …Shiva, pleased with her devotion, told her that no man possessed all the
qualities. But she was resolute in her wish. Then Lord Shiva grants her wish saying
that she would get the same in her next birth with five husbands.

Some of the awards won by this organization are:
National Award for E-Governance (2007-08)
Genius of the Web Award (2007)
Best Value Leisure Product (2008)
Bank Retail Excellence Award (2005)
Most Innovative Product (2007)
Path Breaker Award (2003, 2004)

Units of Measurement
7 Questions
Infinite Bounce, +10

0.
Thomas Fink, in The Man's Book, defines beauty both in terms of
ships launched, and also in terms of the number of women that one
woman will, on average, be more beautiful than. One _X_ is the
quantity of beauty to be more beautiful than 50 million women, the
number of women estimated to have been alive in the 12th century
BC. 1 milli_X_ is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single
ship. Negative values have also been observed—these are measured
by the number of drowned ships.
 What is X?

______, like most organic material, naturally contain a
certain amount of radioactive isotopes—even in the absence
of any artificial pollution or contamination. The ______
equivalent dose, defined as the additional dose a person
will absorb from eating one _______, expresses the severity
of exposure to radiation, such as resulting from nuclear
weapons or medical procedures, in terms that would make
sense to most people.
 FITB.

_X_ is the unit of energy. 1 _X_ = 6 x 10^13 J.
_X_ is used by geologists when describing the energy
of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and asteroid
impacts.
_X_ derives its name from a real event that
happened sometime in the past.
What is _X_?

The _Y_ is a measurement of Twitter followers relative to
celebrity _XY_. The measurement was standardized when _XY_
achieved half a million Twitter followers, with the effect that
_XY_ now has 4.9 _Y_ himself.
 _XY_ is an American actor, blogger and writer, best known for his
portrayals of a character on an iconic Sci-Fi TV Series.
 Who is this person?

This is a unit of hype, derived from _XY_’s famous words.
Some multiples are:
1 kilo_Y_ — famous for 10.42 days.
1 mega_Y_ — famous for 28.5 years.
What is the value of 1 Y? Who is this person?

1 kilowarhol — famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. wonder".
1 megawarhol — famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years.

The Thaum is a measuring unit used in the _X_’s series of _Y_ novels
to quantify magic. It equals the amount of mystical energy required to
conjure up one small white pigeon, or three normal-sized billiard
balls. It can, of course, be measured with a thaumometer, and regular
SI prefixes apply (e.g. millithaum, kilothaum).
Parodying the introduction of the metric system later _Y_ novels refer
to the introduction of the newer unit Prime to avoid arguments
around standard sizing of pigeons. It is more reliably defined as the
magical energy required to move one pound of lead one foot.
 Who is X? What is the novel series Y?

The _Y_ is approximately six months, specifically six months in the
future, and named after columnist _XY_who repeatedly used the
span in reference to when a determination of Iraq's future could be
surmised.
_XY_ is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a
twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written
extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East,
globalization, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer
Prize three times.
 Who is XY?

+1 for naming each person – non exhaustive list
5 sets of 2 slides each
For connect, marking as indicated on slide
MAX 40 Points
HINT – Company founders is not the answers

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