LitSoc Buzzer Quiz 2014-15, Compiled Questions

Shankar Narayanan, Nithin Ramesan & Vishal Katariya

 All questions on the buzzer
 Once a team buzzes, they have to answer in
10 seconds
 If they get it right, +10. If wrong, -10.
 If no team buzzes, both teams can write
down the answer for a chance to get +5, with
no negatives if its wrong.
 Overall 8-9 questions in each set.

 For this question, I want you to connect the
list of entities on the next slide. The list is a
non-exhaustive, finite one.

 2005 – podcast
 2009 – unfriend
 2012 – GIF (verb)
 2013 - selfie

 Following is a quote by PG Wodehouse. I
want you to identify what X is.

 If it were not for quotations, conversation
between gentlemen would consist of an
endless succession of X’s.

 The next slide shows an image of the
formative stages of the mascot of a world-famous
company.

 The mascot, now
too, is world famous
and is known simply
as the _____ Man.
Which company?

 The next slide contains the origin of a phrase,
now commonly used in daily life. What is the
phrase?
 The phrase is X, not a single word.

 Sudanese player Manute Bol, playing
basketball in the United States, didn’t have
very good English. Every time he threw a bad
pass, he would say X instead of the
grammatically correct __ _____. This stuck,
and eventually, most of his teammates
started using X too.

 “My bad” instead of “my fault”

 All of these are prefixed to a single word Y to
specify the different types of Y.
 Give us Y.

 Green, red, anti-, X-, blue, white, red-green,
gold, silver, jewel, red-green-blue-gold,
bizarro red, red-gold, magno-, slow, black,
orange, pink, periwinkle.

 What is being talked about?

 An X is a shortening of unterseeboat.
 These were used by the country of its origin
as efficient fleet weapons.
 However, their most effective use was in the
implementation of an economic blockade
during the Second World War.

 This is the explanation for a famous festival. I
want the name of the festival, and also the
name of something that will be in bold in the
next slide, which is used symbolically.

 A farmer traps the devil each time the devil tries to make
him his slave. Each time the devil promised the farmer all
the comforts in life, if he agreed to be his slave after 7
years.
 Each time the devil returned, the farmer traps the devil
with a trick, till the devil again promised him 7 years of
comforts. After this happened for the 3rd time, the devil
begged him to release him on the condition that he would
provide a life of luxury.
 Now, after this farmer died, the doors of heaven were
closed to him as he had lived his entire life off the devil.
When he turned to hell, the devil gave a howl of terror and
barred the door. As the farmer was in darkness, the devil
contemptuously throws him a lamp.

 Halloween
 Jack ‘O Lantern

 The Saltire of St. Andrew. The Cross of St.
George. The Saltire of St. Patrick.
 Together, these make up something that was
recently in danger of vanishing from a certain
region of the world. What?

 This company’s German subsidiary, known as
Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or
Dehomag, helped the Nazis during the Holocaust by
supplying its punched card technology to keep track
of prisoners in concentration camps. It is also alleged
that they helped the Nazis out during the initial
nationwide census that they used to identify Jews,
Gypsies and other “undesirable” ethnic groups.
 The company has since distanced itself from the
actions of its subsidiary.

 The next slide describes a museum. I want
the name of the museum.

 Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the
cylindrical building, wider at the top than at
the bottom was conceived as a “temple of
the spirit”. It moved into these premises in
1959, and is considered to be a landmark
work of 20th century architecture. If no one is
buzzing, image on the next slide.

 The Guggenheim Museum, New York City

 What currently stands at this site?
 The site has changed hands many times, but
it has always retained the name given by a
certain Count Peter, who derived it from his
place of origin.

 Count Peter of Maurienne, a province in
Sabudia, France was given the land between
the Strand and river Thames to stay. Count
Peter left the place to St. Bernard, and the
place became “Hospital of St. Bernard”. Many
centuries later, Henry VII built an enormous
hospital on the site, which was misused by
loiterers and vagabonds.

 What position am I talking about?

 The first was Isaac Barrow. The second was
Sir Isaac Newton. The current is Michael
Green. The previous one was Stephen
Hawking. Others include Charles Babbage
and Paul Dirac too.

 Lucasian Chair for Mathematics, Cambridge

 The next slide shows an image which
represents a particular Billboard-topping
song in term of a graph/chart.
 ID the song. That’s it.

 Where in the world of sports would we see
this list of occupations?

Gambler and other "lowlifes", also
messengers
City guard or policeman
Innkeeper
Merchant/Moneychanger
Doctor
Weaver/Clerk
Blacksmith
Worker/Farmer

 The picture has prompted criticism that the
principles of the owner of the car are being
comprised by this particular model.
 What does this recently released picture
depict? Be specific.

 The Batmobile from Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice.

 Identify the subject of the portrait.

 This
legendary
folk hero of
Switzerland
overthrew
the tyrant
Gessler of
Austria.

 I can describe an axe entering a human skull
in great explicit detail and no one will blink
twice at it. I provide a similar description, just
as detailed, of sex, and I get letters about it
and people swearing off. To my mind this is
kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately,
in the history of the world, sex has given a lot
of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering
skulls, well, not so much.

 G. R. R. Martin, on why there’s so much sex in
Game of Thrones.

 Fill in both blanks. If first is right and second
wrong, no negs.

 Designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph
________, an architect from Yorkshire, it was
made with a low centre of gravity, and was
known for its speed and ease of pulling.
 They became extremely popular in New York
towards the end of the 19th century.
 However, their use declined in the 1920s, and
the last license to own it was relinquished in
1947.
 A surviving one is operated currently by the
________ ________ Museum, and one is on
display at the Remington museum.

 Hansom
 Sherlock Holmes

 Apologize, by One Republic

 Identify what I am talking about.

 Steve Wozniak got the inspiration for this
from a particular John Draper, also known as
Captain Crunch (the mascot of a breakfast
cereal at the time). With every box of this
cereal, you would get a blue whistle free,
which would emit a sound of 2600Hz, which
led to the name Cap’n Crunch, for what he
originally made.

 Identify the monument in the next slide

A __________ is "an idea, behavior, or style that
spreads from person to person within a culture." A
_________ acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas,
symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from
one mind to another through writing, speech,
gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena
with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept
regard ____________ as cultural analogues to
genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and
respond to selective pressures.

 I am the punishment of God...If you had not
committed great sins, God would not have
sent a punishment like me upon you.
 It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others
must fail.

 X is a special camera. An image follows on the
next slide.
 I want to know what it’s special feature is.

 X – Lytro
 It uses Light Field
Technology, where
is captures not only
just the pixels, but
also the direction
from which light
strikes it.

 You can focus on any part of the image after
you take the photo!

 He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot,
there is really only one photo of him in existence.
 Now if you had asked me the odds of X ever saying
that line to me, I’d say it had about the same
likelihood as Jimi Hendrix telling me he had a new
guitar riff. And yes, I’m aware Hendrix is dead.
 But he was. And he had a great sense of humor
about the strip I had done, and was very funny, and
oh yeah….
 …He had a comic strip idea he wanted to run by me.

 Bill Watterson.
 The question is taken from a blog post of
Steve Pastis, who worked with Watterson on
Pearls Before Swine briefly.

 Identify the person from the world of films.
He is depicted as ‘X’ in the question.
 I want the first blank. The second blank is
something different.

 His full name is X Horrendous Haddock the
Third, the Hope and Heir to the Tribe of the
Hairy Hooligans. He is the son of the Chief,
thus making him heir to the tribe.
 In the first film he is 14 years old, in the series
he is 15 years old and 20 in the second film.
 He has the most rare and intelligent species
of _____ in the film.

 This is a Latin phrase that means, “with all other
things same or held constant”. These clauses are
most widely used in economics, where the
outcome of a market in response to a certain
variable parameter is studied with all other
market determinants held constant.
 For example, economists might say that “higher
interest rates will lead to lower inflation,
________________”, which means that they will
stand by their prediction about inflation only if
nothing else changes apart from the rise in the
interest rate.

 Which delicious confection?

 It consists primarily of sugar, honey and almonds.
The city of Lubeck in Germany is renowned for the
quality of this confection, with about 66% almond
content. It is made in the shapes of fruits and
animals.
 In Germany, it is made in the shape of a certain
animal, and these are distributed on New Year’s day
for good luck.
 The etymology however is unclear, it seems to have
originally been called “March bread” in England,
now it possesses a more Mediterranean name.

 This was the logo of the
company, formed by a
candlemaker and a
soapmaker, from England
and Ireland respectively, who
emigrated to the US. They
married a pair of sisters and
their father-in-law
persuaded them to become
business partners.

 Significance of this quote in the world of
tech?

 Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our
earthly form and ascending into the next
stage, the cloud.
 The cloud, or Brahman as the Hindus call it, is
the All, surrounding everything. It is
everywhere; immaterial, yet very real.

 Piratebay’s message to users when it moved
onto the cloud.

 The description of the origin of a song is
given in the next slide. Give the song.

 Shortly after the song's release, speculation
arose that the first letter of each of the title
nouns intentionally spelled LSD.
 However, the writer clarified that he admired
the works of Lewis Carroll and the inspiration
for the song reminded him of a passage in
Through the Looking Glass where Alice floats
in a "boat beneath a sunny sky“.

 Lucy in the Sky with Diamondss

 A set of 4000 islands, known as Si Phan Don in
the local dialect appear on this river. The river
has the broadest waterfall on Earth, known as
the Khone Falls. The terrain of this river made it
impossible for any industrial activity, and since it
didn’t lead to inner China, the French expedition
was unsuccessful in making a ship pass through.
 The river is home to the critically endangered
Irrawaddy dolphin which inhabits brackish
waters, such as the Chilka Lake in Orissa.

 As there are 14
people on board,
it is believed that
Rembrandt fitted
himself in as the
man looking at
the viewer.
 The painting was
one of those
stolen from the
Isabella museum
in 1990 and hasn’t
been found till
date.

 The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

 Hanging of Ajmal Amir Kasab

 It’s themes include conflict, greed, the
passage of time, and mental illness, the latter
partly inspired by the deteriorating mental
state of one of the members of the group.
 It was named temporarily named Eclipse but
was renamed to it’s current name after
Eclipse (by another group called Medicine
Head) was a flop.

 Give me the phrase whose origin I’m
describing.

 English dramatist John Dennis invented a
gadget for imitating the sound of _______
and introduced it in a play in the early 1700s.
The play flopped. Soon after, Dennis noted
that another play in the same theater was
using his sound-effects device. He angrily
exclaimed, "That is my ______, by God; the
villains will play my _______, but not my
play." The story got around London, and the
phrase grew out of it.

 Stealing someone’s thunder

 He stands in front of a big screen with a well-designed
presentation that shows off the
product. He wears a black shirts and jeans,
just like X.
 He even copies X’s presentation secrets, such
as a slide that says ‘One more thing’ before
launching a new product.
 He is called China’s X. Which company does
he represent, and who is X?

 X – Steve Jobs
 Xiaomi

 X was named as Japan’s mascot for the 2014
FIFA World Cup.
 There is a parallel 11 ______’s, their leader
being X.
 This partnership between Adidas and the
____ company is part of Adidas’ “Engine
Project”, which encourages players in
uniform to act as a single Engine and foster
unity.

 This is a variation of a very popular logo,
released after a particular incident. What
incident?

 A comedian intended to “make a statement”
about his feelings as well as those of the
public after a particular incident. What
incident?

 He attacked Rupert Murdoch during his trial

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