Quiz

1. SPQC Season 5
Pranav Kundra
Yash Saraiya

4. “I want to be the best… there ever was…
To beat all the rest, yeah!, that’s my cause…
I’ll search across the land, look far and wide…
Release from my hand the power that’s inside…”
Where would you find it?

6. The ads of this product featured a bunny made by
Ramdas Padhye and Aparna Ramdas.
The bunny was long eared and jumped on the
screen presenting the brand, "eh he he". The voice
over was done by Ramdas himself, and the ad made
the product a household name in India. Name the
product.

8. X was developed and produced by Nabisco in 1912 at its
Chelsea factory in New York City, which was created
primarily to target the British immigrants.
Some say that it was named X because the word "just
seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds".
A TV for a campaign, though, showed a false etymology
where, when at a board meeting, one of the boards
members is asked for his opinion. The member, who
just ate a cookie and does not have any milk to wash it
down responded "I don't know", which is heard by
everyone as 'X'. ID X.

10. X derives from a word in a Polynesian language
meaning ‘fast’.
It refers to a web environment where the content is
modified by users.
The first example of X dates back to 1995.
Then , it was described as a basic version of an online
database.
Today it is a very popular mode of gaining information.

11. Wiki

12. According to a theory, the Vikings used to clink their
pewter vessels against each other' as if to slosh
poison from one vessel to another.
The "clinking" ritual was a gesture to prove the
safety of the drink; that they hadn't poisoned their
rival's drink.
What did this lead to the origin of?

13. The tradition of ‘Cheers'

14. R.K. Narayan
R.K. Laxman
What does R stand for?

15. Rasipuram

16. When eaten, the consumer's energy and physical
health are restored to their fullest; the effects are
typically almost instantaneous for the
recipient, making these a great asset both in and
out of battle. One X can keep a person full for ten
days, though some who have eaten them have
become hungry sooner, due to their naturally 'larger
than humans' appetite.
One of the words from the two-worded X can
literally be translated to "sennin" and "zu", which
means a hermit's bean.
ID X.

17. • Senzu Bean

18. The first X was an out-of-office message. The day was
August 30, 1998.
The creators spent the last week of August 1998 to go
to the Burning Man festival. But before they could
engage in some radical self-expression and/or radical
self-reliance in the Nevada desert, they needed
something a little less radical: a way to let people know
they were away. They decided on a little icon -- the
Burning Man logo -- and placed the spare stick figure
behind the company image. They published the new
image to their site on the World Wide Web.
The resulting little portlogo was intended as "a comical
that they were ‘out of office’. As it happens with these
things, today, X is more than an out-of-office message.

19. Google Doodles

20. • "Maradona good. Pele better. X“
• ID X

21. • George Best

22. • X's Mate, also known as the "Two-Move
Checkmate", is the quickest possible checkmate in
chess.
• It only occurs if the white plays extraordinarily
weakly, or rather "unwisely".
• Although, many people know of the method, not
many have been able to achieve this feat as it is
very rare when something like this actually takes
place.

23. • Fool’s Mate

24. Connect

25. J.A.R.V.I.S.

26. • X didn't have naturally black hair. He was born a
blonde, and when he got older, his hair became
sandy blonde. So,
• he dyed them black and eventually always kept it
as black.
• Presently, there are an estimated 50,000 people in
the world that make a living as X's impersonators.
• Ironically, before he died of drug overdose, he had
applied to become an undercover narcotics cop.
• Later, his autopsy report suggested his blood
stream consisted of 10 different drugs.

27. • Elvis Presley

28. Time in a Language Without Tense
This paper outlines a framework of the temporal
interpretation in X with a special focus on
complement and relative clauses. It argues that not
only does X have no morphological tenses but there
is no need to resort to covert semantic features
under a tense node in order to interpret time in X.
Instead, it utilises various factors such as the
information provided by default aspect, the tenseaspect particles, and pragmatic reasoning to
determine the temporal interpretation of sentences.
In short, which language does not have the concept
of tenses ?

29. Chinese
It applies to almost all versions like Mandarin etc.

30. ID the movie.
The name
and the plot
of the movie
inspired a
very popular
cheat code in
one of the
GTAs.

31. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Flying Cars]

32. • If you X too hard, you can fracture a rib.
• If you try to suppress a X, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
• If you keep your eyes open by force when you
X, you might pop an eyeball out.

33. • Sneeze

34. The word X is a combination of two words, the first
meaning “weird” or “strange” and the second
meaning “appearance”. The term is used a short
form of the phrase, “X seiyoku”.
In native slang, X is used as an insult roughly
equivalent to “pervert”.

35. Hentai
No more comments…

36. • St Nicholas was merged with a father to create X.
Washington Irving's History of New York (1809)
described X as person who lost his bishop's
apparel, looked like a thick-bellied Dutch sailor
with a pipe in a green winter coat.
• In the earlier parts of 20th century, the image of X
as a benevolent character became reinforced with
its association with charity and
philanthropy, particularly by organizations such as
the Salvation Army. Volunteers dressed as X
typically became part of fundraising drives to aid
needy families.

37. • Santa Claus [derived from St Nicholas]

38. • What is special about "Marcha Real", or the
Spanish National Anthem?

39. • It has no official words, only the tune.

40. • Master Higgins loses a life whenever he touches
an enemy, an enemy's attack or a fire roast, or
when he falls into a pitfall or a body of water.
Moreover, he also has a health gauge that starts
out with 11 points, which gradually depletes over
time or whenever Higgins trips in his path. When
Higgins' health gauge reaches zero, he will lose his
life. To replenish his health, Higgins can pick up
numerous fruits on his path. Finding a bee-like
fairy known as Honey Girl will grant Higgins
invincibility for fifteen seconds and allow him to
kill enemies with a single touch.
• What am I talking about?

41. • Adventure Island

42. • X, also known as Kumar Shri X or Smith was a
noted Test cricketer who played for the English
cricket team.
• He is widely regarded as one of the greatest
batsmen of all time. Unorthodox in technique and
with fast reactions, he brought a new style to
batting and revolutionised the game.
Previously, batsmen had generally pushed
forward; X took advantage of the improving
quality of pitches in his era and played more on
the back foot, both in defence and attack. He is
particularly associated with one shot, the leg
glance, which he invented or popularised.
• Which famous tournament is named after X?

43. • Ranji Trophy

44. • Max Eisenhardt was born to a German Jewish family. His
mother, father, and sister were executed and buried in a
mass grave, but Max survived.
• Escaping from the mass grave, he was ultimately captured
yet again and sent to Auschwitz.
• While at Auschwitz, he reunited with a Roman girl named
Magda, with whom he had fallen in love when he was
younger,
• and with whom he escaped the prison camp during the
October 7th 1944 revolt. Following the war,
• he and Magda moved to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.
Magda left him and later died.
• Wanted by the authorities at Vinnytsia, while searching for
Magda, Max paid a Romanian forger to create the cover
identity of "Erik Lehnsherr, the Sinte gypsy".
• What is Max popularly known as?

45. • Magneto

46. Connect the
pictures.

47. • Cadbury Dairy Milk

48. • X, once meant “beholden to no man”, but its more
recent version is a far cry from the original.
Also, the Great Goddess, the Greek’s
Aphrodite, for example, was considered to be a X
goddess - i.e. she was a woman of independent
means. In 1953, some people also gave X the
meaning of "naive or inexperienced person".

49. • Virgin

50. • Name the product advertised.

52. In the UK, X originally referred to a practice
undertaken by colleges and legal
practitioners, introduced by a ruler who believed it
would help in the harvest of grapes.
A large number of affluent people would move to a
different place during this time, leaving their
house empty.
But X in the modern sense is relatively new.
Once restricted to the rich and generally drawing
disapproval from society, it has now become
widespread among the middle/working classes.

53. Vacation!

54. • X, comes from the 19th century American slang term
______, meaning anything excellent.
• The Country Club in Atlantic City lay claim to the first use, as
mentioned on the USGA website. In 1962 the US
greenkeepers' magazine reported a conversation with Ab
Smith. He recounted that, in 1898/9, he and his
brother, William P Smith, and their friend, George A
Crump, who later built Pine Valley, were playing at Atlantic
City, when Ab Smith's second shot went within inches of
the target. Smith said "That was a ____ of shot. A wager
was made which Smith subsequently won. The three of
them thereafter referred to his score as a X. The Atlantic
City Club date the event to 1903.
• Whether this claim is an exaggeration or not, the word X is
certainly derived from the American vox pop term 'a
_____of a score' and hence a X.

55. Birdie

56. A Syrian, who is the vice president at Boomtown
Hotel Casino in Reno, Nevada,
Abdulfattah “John” Jandali never got to meet his son
whom he had given up for adoption.
He often expressed great regret saying that even if
they met, he wouldn’t not know what to say.
He is also estranged from his daughter, noted
American novelist Mona Simpson.
ID this world famous son.

58. Id. Extra points for full name.

59. Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the
Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the
device, which he named after his childhood hero
Tom Swift ("Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle").

60. Born on 8 November 1966, X played football and was
first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12.
He was chosen to play for Warwickshire. His football
career was marked by injuries, causing him to remark
later in life, "Perhaps I was doomed when it came to
football" said X.
In mid-1984, he had a trial with Rangers, the club he
supported as a boy. He seriously injured his
knee, smashing the cartilage during training. X
continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing
a cruciate ligament during a squash game. He has also
been awarded 15 Michelin stars in total and currently
holds 14.
Identify X.

61. • Gordon Ramsay

62. ID

63. Tasmanian Devil

64. ID
Distributed by
RKO Radio Pictures(Original)
Paramount Pictures (1991 re-release)
Warner Bros. (Current)
Release date(s)
May 1, 1941
Running time
119 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$839,727
Box office
$1,585,634 (United States)
IMDB
8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Starring
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy
Comingore, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins,
George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul
Stewart, Ruth Warrick, Erskine Sanford,
William Alland

66. Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; born May
25, 1944) is an English-born American film
director, puppeteer, and actor who created and
performed the Muppet characters Miss Piggy and
Fozzie Bear along with Jim Henson in The Muppet
Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in
Sesame Street. His work as a film director includes
1986's Little Shop of Horrors remake and Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels.
However, most of us will know him for another
role, for which he only gave his voice, albeit in a way
that would make his English ancestors turn in their
graves.

68. ID or Connect (non exhaustive list). After the
connect is guessed, points for guessing each item.
Drukyul
Zhong Guo
Misr
Ellas
Suomi
Nippon
Hint available upon request.

69. Bangladesh
China
Egypt
Greece
Finland
Japan
What they call their country.

70. What do you (informally and sometimes
derogatorily) call someone who suffers from
Gynecomastia ?

71. Gynecomastia /ˌ
ɡaɪnɨkɵˌmæsti (derogatory
ə/
terms include moobs [for male boobs] and bitch
tits) is the benign enlargement of breast tissue in
males

72. English :
Hindi :
Tamil :
Telugu :
Odia :
Kannada :
Hollywood
Bollywood
Kollywood
Tollywood
Ollywood
?

73. Sandalwood

74. • Different languages call this phenomenon by
representing different birds. "Hen" is used in
Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French; while
"chicken" is used in
Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Afrikaans and Korean.
• While, the Japanese term for X translates to "bird
skin." But, most commonly "geese" are used to
represent it.
• The medical term for X is cutis anserina, and X
takes place due to cold or strong emotions of
fear, nostalgia, pleasure, euphoria or arousal.

75. • Goose bumps

76. X is a daily webcomic which has been running daily
since May 31, 2008. The comic's tagline describes it as
"Daily Lessons in Science, Literature, Love and Life". It is
authored by research scientist Dante J.T. Shepherd, and
was started when he was a research professor at the
Fred Paulson Institute. The site takes a novel approach
to the webcomic genre in that it features a photograph
(or a series of them) with text, graphs and sometimes
comics drawn on a chalkboard and expressively framed
by the author. This novelty is discussed in the comic
itself as an intentional decision. The webcomic is
approached as a continuing college class, including
recitations, homework, and supplemental
material, even going so far as to label the individual
comics as "Lessons" and the authors as "Faculty." The
strip consists already of over 1639 lessons (including
recitations).

77. Surviving the World

78. Think Entertainment Business and Connect

80. On June 3rd 2009, she was 'killed' and this led to
protests and pleas to bring her back.
"Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy heart that I
have to announce that I will be shutting down the
Save X campaign and everything associated with it.
Unfortunately, due to personal and family issues
arising from my going public last week, I am forced
to take this decision." -The founder Puneet Agarwal
said on the Save X website.

81. Savita Bhabhi

82. Connect

83. Operating Systems’ Inventors

84. Connect

85. Premier Padmini

86. • Every year, about 19 billion X bricks are produced. That
translates to 2.16 million X elements are molded every hour, or
36,000 per minute! The X manufacturing process is so precise
that only 18 out of 1 million X bricks produced is considered
defective. X manufactures about 306 million tiny rubber tires
every year? That's more than any other tire manufacturers in
the world.
• - There are about 62 X bricks for every one of the world’s 6
billion inhabitants.
• - Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing
with X bricks.
• - More than 400 million people around the world have played
with X bricks.
• - More than 400 billion X bricks have been produced since 1949.
Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth
and the Moon ten times over.
• - 7 X sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
• - The X bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.

87. • LEGO

88. MEGA CONNECT

99. Star Cable Network