General Quiz

1. A General Quiz
63RD QUIZ MEET OF DELHI-42

2. Rules
- 20 questions
- Infinite Bounce and Pounce
- Civilized pounce: +15, -10
- Uncivilized pounce: +10, -10
- Direct: +10, -10
- Pay attention to the text in italics
- No blocking hints
- QM is Rustagawd

4. 1.
Franz X was (1734-1815) was a German physician who developed a theory of animal
magnetism, which he claimed was an invisible natural force exerted by animals, and
believed would have beneficial effects like healing. A gentleman named James Braid
used this theory to develop the practice of hypnotism and hence to Xise came to mean
as to hypnotise someone. While that definition is archaic now, the word Xise in modern
language means ‘to hold the attention of someone entirely, so that they can’t think of
anything else’.
What word is X or Xise?

6. Mesmer/Mesmerize

7. 2.
X is a combination of four different swimming styles - breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly
stroke and freestyle – in a single race. If swum by one swimmer, the event is called an
individual X and if swum by a team, it’s called an X relay. The word X literally means ‘a
varied mixture of people or things’.
If it helps, the men’s individual X events were won by Michael Phelps (200m) and
Kosuke Hagino (400m) and both the women’s individual X events were won by Katinka
Hosszú. Both the relay events were won by USA.
What’s the good word?

9. Medley

10. 3.
Somniosus microcephalus is a large shark of the family of sharks called sleeper sharks,
which are known because slow swimming, low-activity level, and perceived non-
aggressive nature. Somniosus microcephalus were in news because a 400-year-old shark
from the species was named the longest living vertebrae animal by a team of scientists
in August. The more common name of the species comes from the fact that it is
localized to the waters of North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean.
What is the most common name of this species? (image follows)

13. Greenland Shark

14. 4.
Death metal growls, as heard in the audio, are usually called as X vocals, because of
their close similarity to the guttural voice of this iconic character. Who is being talked
about?

16. Cookie Monster vocals

17. 5.
This feature in the Indian city is an believed to be an outcome of caste led beliefs dominating the
Indian culture in the past. The Brahmins are said to have practiced this to differentiate
themselves from the other common class. Eventually it became an off shoot and even the non-
Brahmins started following this, leading to the present-day distinctive feature of the city. It is
also suggested that this practice helps ward off the summer heat.
What feature am I talking about?

19. Blue colored houses in Jodhpur

20. 6.
When this herb is crushed, a chemical called nepatalactone is released which binds to
the olfactory receptors in the nose of many felines, leading them to display such
behavior as rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, pawing at it, licking it, and
chewing it. Therefore, it gets its common name for the strong attraction most felines
(particularly those of the commonly domesticated kind) have towards it. What’s the
name?

22. Catnip/Catmint

23. 7.
The earliest predecessors of these entities were black bags and Halloween masks. Later
versions included wigs and the modern versions come up with built-in air conditioning
and even communication systems.
What unique entities are these, which most of us have seen?

25. Daft Punk helmets

26. 8.
X was an ancient Indian philosopher and is among the most prominent females who figure
in the Upanishads. In particular, she’s been shown to participate in the brahmayajna, a
philosophical debate in which she challenges the sage Yajnavalkya with questions on the
issues of soul or atma. Many hymns in the Rigvedas are attributed to her.
Y was another ancient Hindu philosopher mentioned in the Upanishads alongside X, and
was one of the wives of the sage Yajnavalkta, who also engages in a dialogue with him on
the nature of soul/atma and has hymns attributed to her.
Both these women have been seen as symbols of spirit of enquiry and of the educational
opportunities available to the women in India and therefore institutions in New Delhi are
named after both X and Y.
Who are these women, X and Y? (part points applicable)

28. X: Gargi, Y: Maitreyi

29. 9.
If X is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of any kind of
alcoholic beverages, Y is a county where the sale of alcohol is permitted and Z is a
county between “X” and “Y”, which allows alcohol to be sold in certain conditions but
not with the same amount of freedom as in Y, then what are X, Y and Z?

31. Dry County, Wet County, Moist County

32. 10.
What is represented in the graphs shown below, which essentially depicts two curves:
first being the normal score curve which plots the pattern of runs when there is no
interruption and a side expects to bat the full quota of its over, and the second one
being the target score curve which is used to set revised targets? Designed by a civil
engineer from Kerala, this method has been used by the now-defunct ICL and was in
news last month after being implemented in the Tamil Nadu Premier League now
instead of D/L method.

34. Jayadevan system/VJD method

35. 11.
X is defined as a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to
the victim with the intent of making them doubt their own memory and perception. X
was derived from the title of a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton and the subsequent movie
adaptations, which itself stems primarily from a scene in which the husband uses the
___ ______ in the attic which cause the other ______ of the house to dim, which is then
used to convince the wife that she’s going insane and is seeing and hearing things.
What is the term X?

37. Gaslighting

38. 12.
This compound word/phrase is used to refer to postponing consideration or action on
something, and is derived from the custom of placing pots which don’t require
immediate attention to the rear of a stove.
Another form of this word refers to a technique used in wildfire events in which a new
fire is created along the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire.
What is this word, which can be arrived at by removing one letter from the name of an
English football club?

40. Backburn/backburner

41. 13.
The earliest use of this sign is seen as a gesture used Gautama Buddha referring to the
expulsion of demons and removal of sickness or negative thoughts. It is also seen in
Italian and Mediterranean culture as a sign to ward off bad luck when confronted with
unfortunate circumstances. What is this gesture, first introduced in music by a
psychedelic rock band named Coven in 1969?

43. Sign of the horns

44. 14.
X I also known as X the Great, was a Hawaiian king who
conquered most of the Hawaiian Islands, and established the
kingdom of Hawai’i in 1810. He is remembered for a lot of things,
among them his laws which protected human rights, but his
name is known in pop culture for something entirely different,
and only because it was an easy name to remember. The
translation in the native language is also ‘The Lonely Old’ quite
different from what its translation is supposed to be in the
language of the pop-culture entity.
What/Who is X?

46. Kamehameha

47. 15.
Real name Ellie, this character originally appeared in The New X-
Men run by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely and featured
prominently in The Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John
Cassaday. Funnily enough, her mutant name is most commonly
known to most public due to another character from a movie in
the last one year named after her, but having a completely
different power set, appearance, personality, and backstory,
selected by the writers only because they liked the name. Of
course, the original source of the name remains unchanged.
Who is this character, after hearing whose name, Emma Frost,
who was her mentor, commented, “Wow, we really have run out
of names.”?

49. Negasonic Teenage Warhead

50. 16.
X is a type of bullet consisting of a soft core, often lead, covered by a
shell of harder metal, and the name X is derived by this description.
The name of the bullet inspired the name of the 1987 war-movie
movie X after the director discovered the name while going through
a gun catalogue.
What is the name X (more than one word)?

52. Full metal jacket

53. 17.
What is the name of this album, taken from a Dutch
artistic movement from the early 1900s? While
majority of the artwork from this movement was
restricted to the three primary colors and black and
white, the album art (and The White Stripes in
general) which references the movement uses red,
black and white as the main colors.

55. De Stijl

56. 18.
In the Christian year, each day is associated with one or more saints and that day is referred to
as the X day or X of that particular saint. The word X in this context means “an annual religious
celebration, a day dedicated to a particular saint” and not its usual celebratory meaning. X was
in news as Mother Teresa’s death anniversary (5th September) was made her X day after she was
canonized by the Pope.
What’s the good word?

58. Feast

59. 19.
X, particularly in the United States, is the practice of arbitrarily denying or limiting financial
services to specific neighbourhoods, generally because the residents are poor or are people of
color. The name arises from the fact that in 1930s the government sponsored Home Owners’
Loan Corporation developed color-coded maps of American cities that used racial criteria to
categorize insurance and lending risks and black and poor neighbourhoods were circumscribed
by a certain color lines to indicate their undesirability.
What is the practice X, which had long-lasting damaging effects on the housing market of the
United States?

61. Redlining

62. 20.
Although in most English-speaking countries, this word is used to denote a hunter or a
warrior, because of obviously mythological reasons, in American English it refers to a
stupid or dimwitted person. The latter usage became popular in the 1930s after Elmer
Fudd was constantly referred to by Bugs Bunny as a “poor little ______”, calling him
sarcastically an incompetent hunter.
What word, also the name of a mythological figure?

64. Nimrod

65. FIN.