Qryptonite General Quiz Bitotsav 2013 QBIT

4. 1. In the fashion label DKNY, NY stands
for New York. What does DK mean?

6. Donna Karan

7. 2. What has been banked out?

10. 3. “No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have
done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to
qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian
blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian
skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long
Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym
owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle
Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving
this look is ______ _________, who, as we know, was made by
Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
-Tina Fey
Fill in the blank.

12. Kim Kardashian

13. 4. ID the actor.

15. Eric Bana

16. 5. ID the logo. (Shown partially)

18. Tour de France

19. 6. What is the common trait in:

21. Rhotacism
(Replacing one’s Rs and Ls with W’s
while speaking)

22. 7. What does this formula calculate:

24. EdgeRank is the Facebook algorithm
that decides which stories appear in
each user's newsfeed.

25. 8. ID the lady on the right.

27. Shobha De

28. 9. With the advent of reprographic
techniques, the RBI felt the need of
issuing currency notes with new
security features. Along with a
changed watermark, windowed
security thread; one more feature was
added in 1996, as we know today.
What was added to the Indian
Currency Notes in 1996?

30. The image of Mahatma Gandhi was
added

31. 10. This French term refers to people or works
that are experimental or innovative, particularly
with respect to art, culture, and politics. It
represents a pushing of the boundaries of what
is accepted as the norm or the status quo,
primarily in the cultural realm, hence the name
literally means that division of the army that is
the first line of defense.
Some examples include James Joyce and Ezra
Pound in literature, Frank Zappa and Igor
Stravinsky in music, Pablo Picasso and Andy
Warhol in visual arts.
What term are we talking about?

33. Avant garde
(from Van Guards)

34. 11. A world cloud is a bunch of text,
generated from a text provided by the
user. The clouds give greater
prominence to words that appear
more frequently in the source text.
The image is a word cloud created
from a piece of text.
What is the source text?

35. Credits:
wordle.net

37. The ‘Tryst with Destiny’ Speech

38. 12. ID the logo of this Anglo-Italian
company that became (in)famous
recently.

40. (Because of the Italian Chopper Scam)

42. 13. Fill in the blank to complete the
joke.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the
_____ ____ ?
A: To get to the same side.

44. Mobius Strip

45. 14. Whose production company?

47. Sunny Leone

48. 15. X is a company founded in July 2007 and head
quartered in San Francisco, California. It states its
mission as “Connecting the world through games.”
The company was named in honour of X, CEO
Mark Pinchus’s late American bulldog. The dog also
features on the company’s logo.
Which well-known company are we talking about?

51. 16. Tweets from?

54. 17. The Financial Times, first published
in 1888, started a new practice in 1893
to distinguish itself from its rival, The
Financial News, in what the newspaper
described as “a masterstroke which
made it immediately distinguishable
from its main competitor.”
This practice is being followed till
today by certain newspapers.
What are we talking about?

56. They changed the colour of the pages
to salmon pink, something that sets
financial newspapers apart.

57. 18. ID the advertiser.

59. Nikon

60. 19. ID the superhero.

63. 20. In many computer operating systems, a special type
of error message will display onscreen when the system
has experienced a fatal error. Computer users have
dubbed these messages ______ __ _____as they
typically result in unsaved work being lost and often
indicate serious problems with the system's hardware
or software.
Fill in the blanks.

65. Screen of Death

66. 21. The Kumbh Mela is held every
twelve years in these cities of India:
Haridwar
Allhabad
Nasik
________
Give the missing city.

68. Ujjain

69. 22.
Design
of
what?

71. The International Space Station

72. 23. Give the title of the poem.

74. Jabberwockey

75. 24. YKK is a Japanese company that
manufactures _________. They have a
near monopoly over the market and
supply to almost all major and minor
brands of the world.
However, their image is not high
profile due to the ‘placement’ of their
product.
What does YKK manufacture?