Gaming, Minimalist and General Quiz

The G(aming), M(inimalist)and
G(eneral) Quiz
(from Hasta La Vista – theFarewellPubQuiz)
- Aveek Kumar Baruah

NOLAN BUSHNELL AND TED DABNEY FOUNDED THE
GROUNDBREAKING GAMING X CO. IN 1972, WHICH WAS A
PIONEER IN ARCADE GAMES, HOME VIDEO GAME CONSOLES,
AND HOME COMPUTERS. IN 1977, NOTICING HOW MUCH MONEY
VIDEO ARCADES WERE MAKING FROM THE GAMES THEIR
COMPANY SOLD, NOLAN BUSHNELL DECIDED TO START A FAMILY
RESTAURANT CHAIN ‗CHUCK E. CHEESE’S‘ THAT WOULD ALSO
FEATURE VIDEO GAMES.
X IS ALSO A TERM USED IN THE JAPANESE GAME "GO", AND IT IS
EQUIVALENT TO THE TERM "CHECK" IN CHESS.

In 1984, this former NFL coach and TV analyst XY had to be coaxed by
EA Sports execs into lending his name to the game. He's glad he did.
In 2013, the 25th edition of the Y NFL franchise (XY Football before
1993) was released. To date, it has sold 85 million copies and brought
in more than $3 billion in revenue. XY‘s licensing deal has helped push
his net worth north of $100 million. The franchise is updated each year
and is the best-selling sports video game of all time in the US.
Identify the person XY or the game franchise!

One-hit wonder duo, Buckner & Garcia, hit the
Billboard Top 10 in March 1982 with the song ―X
Fever," inspired by the hugely popular arcade
game. The duo released a concept album of the
same title, made up entirely of songs about video
games, using sound effects from those games. None
of the other tunes — including "Frogger's Lament"
and "Do the Donkey Kong" — found similar chart
success.
What is the name of the album/song??

Although Pong was the first video game to attain popular
appeal, but this was the first commercially marketed video
game was, which was released in 1971, a year before
Pong. Though it wasn't a success initially, its distinctive,
colorful, shiny fiberglass structure has made it a collector's
item for gaming enthusiasts now. Identify the game.

This Steven Spielberg movie X, which was a huge hit in
movie theaters, spawned a widely derided video game
blamed for hastening Atari's decline as the dominant
gaming console. It is one of the most infamous failures in the
industry's history. Rushed to market to capitalize on the film's
popularity during the holiday season of 1982, its game play
confused players and its sluggish sales contributed to Atari's
fall from its perch atop the video game universe. The
website Gamesradar.com recently named X the worst
video game of all time.

The Seattle Mariners are an American Major League Baseball team
based in Seattle, Washington. A video-game company, based in
nearby Redmond, Washington, purchased the Seattle Mariners in
1992, at the urging of local politicians who wanted the new owners to
keep the team in the city. The Mariners are one of the only three
Major League Baseball teams under corporate ownership.
The name of the company can be roughly translated from Japanese
to English as "leave luck to heaven."

In the classic video game Donkey Kong, the hero was
originally named Jumpman. The eponymous Donkey Kong
character is the game's de facto villain and is the pet of a
carpenter named Jumpman. Jumpman was later named X
by members of the Nintendo of America's staff because of
his resemblance to their landlord, X Segali.
We now know Jumpman very famously as X.

In 1999, resulting from the shootings at Columbine High
School in Littleton, CO, and worrying about bad press, the
video-game console Sega Dreamcast was released in the
U.S., with a modification to the set used in Europe and Asia.
This cause was further facilitated by games like The House
of the Dead 2 and Confidential Mission, which blocked out
using an official accessory imported from other countries. In
the wake of this, third parties began manufacturing this
accessory, most prolific of which was by ‗Mad Catz‘, which
became the de-facto for use in the United States.

Official Sega Dreamcast Light Gun

 ―____ _ __ ____" is a warning that an explosive detonation in a
confined space is imminent. It originated with miners, who needed
to warn their fellows that a charge had been set. It was both a
command to the torch man, and a warning to all around. This
phrase is used extensively on film and TV sets by the special
effects department whenever setting off effects charges of any
nature (from weapons that fire blanks to a blood squib to huge
fireballs). It serves as a warning to the crew that a loud sound is
imminent and as a final warning to stop the shot if there are any
problems in any department.
 Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) uses it to warn her son John before
the T-800 blows through a security door of the Cyberdyne Lab in
the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

In 1998, Springfield kids were stoked about a yard work simulator. Widely
considered a pre-monition to this modern simulation game in urban legend
circles. This game was available as an app for the iPhone, iPod
Touch and iPad for a time.

Trivia: The phrase ―Woh sattar (70) minute‖ is no longer valid now
because duration of Hockey matches have been reduced to 60
minutes!

THE REAL QUIZ BEGINS…
Chapter 3: General
Quiz

• X is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. To
become a member of a state-level association, one needs to be introduced
by another member and also pay an annual fee.
• The logo of X is derived from the emblem of the Order of the Star of India,
India's highest order of chivalry during the British Raj and also its Coat of
Arms.
• On the 27th of November 1927, a group of 45 people representing
associations located in different parts of India got together at the Roshnara
Club in Delhi to take some concrete initiatives towards the formation of such
an organisation. It was decided that the headquarters of the organisation
will remain at Delhi itself. W.J. Cullen and J.E. McDonell temporarily held the
positions of Honorary Joint Secretaries of the provincial board. In the year
1928, the previously formed provincial board was dissolved and X as we
presently know it was formed. R.E. Grant Govan was named the first
President of the board, while Anthony S. DeMello was announced its first
Secretary.

Board of Cricket Control in India
BCCI

Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, and two band members. The
song is an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music
industry of the late 1970s. Don Henley called it ―our interpretation of the high life
in Los Angeles‖ and later reiterated: ―It's basically a song about the dark underbelly
of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew
a lot about.‖ In the 1980s some Christian evangelists alleged that the title of the
song referred to a San Francisco building that was purchased by Anton LaVey and
converted into a Church of Satan. Other rumors suggested that the reference was
to the Camarillo State Mental Hospital.
Which iconic song?

 X is the name of a set of mythical islands whose story dates back
to an 8th-century Iberian legend. When the Muslims conquered
Hispania, six Christian Visigothic bishops and their parishioners boarded ships
and fled. After days, or maybe weeks at sea, they arrived at the isles of X
where they decided to settle and raise a new civilization. They burnt their
boats to permanently sever their links to their barbarian-dominated
homeland.
 Author, activist and trained architect Arundhati Roy wondered if by
calling their tower X, the ―Y hope to sever their links to the poverty and
squalor of their homeland and raise a new civilization?"

Identify the man standing with
Alice Cooper

Of what Indian national significance is the circled area, situated in Farkhor,
Tajikistan??

Farkhor Air Base – India‘s one and only
military base outside its territory

Back in 2011, militant Islamist group al-Shabaab in
Somalia banned the Samosa, ruling the popular
snacks ‗offensive‘ on religious grounds. The ban on
samosas was the latest in a string of bizarre rulings
from the organisation, which has been likened to
the Afghan Taliban. For instance, earlier that year
the group introduced a blanket ban on the playing
or watching of football in the country.
What was the exact reason for the ban on Samosa?

The samosa‘s supposed
resemblance to the Christian Holy
Trinity!

Mathur/Mattur, a village near Mangalore, Karnataka holds a rare distinction in
India. An old Bajaj Discover advertisement had featured this village, highlighting this
fact.
Some other places sharing this same feat are -
 Mohad, District: Narasinhpur, Madhya Pradesh
 Jhiri, District: Rajgadh, Madhya Pradesh
 Kaperan, District: Bundi, Rajasthan
 Khada, District: Banswada, Rajasthan
 Ganoda, District: Banswada,Rajasthan
 Bawali, District: Bagapat, Uttar Pradesh
 Shyamsundarpur, District: Kendujhar, Odisha

These are villages in India where Sanskrit is used in everyday
communication. In Mattur, over 95% of inhabitants,
permeating all castes speak Sanskrit natively since
childhood.

This item of clothing was popularized, when an extremely famous
Indian posed for Vogue in 1964 wearing his trademark garment,
making it an instant hit. A year later the fashion skyrocketed when it
was sported by the Beatles when they performed in New York and
later by talk show host Johnny Carson, footballer Joe Namath, The
Monkees and singer Sammy Davis Jr. (who was reported to own two
hundred of them).
After the fad ended within a few years, it became a symbol of dated
clothing. In the Austin Powers movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s,
about a spy who is frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the 1990s,
Austin Powers wears this garment, used to express his geeky hipness
and awkwardness.

Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nehru Jacket

X was born a Chitpavan Brahmin at a nativity mission center Pune
District into a Marathi family. His father, was a post office employee.
At birth, he was named Ramachandra. Young Ramachandra was
brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having
his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring (nath in
Marathi) for fear of a curse that had killed his 3 elder brothers in their
infancy. It was then that he earned the nickname, by which he is
known widely today. After his younger brother was born, they
switched to treating him as a boy.
He met his end on November 15th, 1949.

On 25 August 1991, a young boy XY in Helsinki began a project, announing this system in
a Usenet newsgroup:
―Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) _____ (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486)
AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any
feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my _____ resembles it somewhat (same
physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll
get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most
people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement
them :-)
X (Y@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable
(uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-
harddisks, as that's all I have :-( ―
Id XY. What did his project ultimately result into?

XY = Linus Torvalds
Formation of the Linux kernel

It is a common Assamese surname. Originally the title was conferred for most of class
of officers in the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam and literally means a "Leader
of 3000 men―. Those bearing this surname and its derivatives are traditionally Hindus
by faith and have been a key contributors to the growth of Assamese community.
One eminent personality bearing this surname:
(more clues in next slide)

Barua/Baruah/Barooah
Littérateur Lakshimnath Bezbaruah

A poem quoted at the beginning of which famous graphic novel?
For want of a ___
the shoe was lost,
For want of a shoe
the horse was lost,
For want of a horse
the knight was lost,
For want of a night
the battle was lost,
So it was a kingdom
was lost –
All for the want of a ___.

JLA: The Nail
For want of a nail
The shoe was lost…

After being denied Cray supercomputers as a result of a technology embargo,
India started a program to develop an indigenous supercomputer in collaboration
with Russia. For the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in the field, X was
established as a research and development organization under the Department of
Electronics and Information Technology in 1988 and Vijay Bhatkar was hired as the
Director. After a run of 3 years and an initial funding of Rs. 30,00,00,000, in 1990,
X produced a prototype and was benchmarked at the 1990 Zurich
Supercomputering Show.
Some of its other famous developments are –
1. Namescape, the search engine for the Aadhar unique-ID project
2. BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) a Linux-based general
purpose operating system
3. Anvaya, a workflow environment for automated genome analysis

Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing
(CDAC)

From the French X, meaning forty. Adding the suffix –aine to
French numbers gives a degree of roughness to the figure (like –ish in
English), so the modified word Y means about forty. Originally when a
ship arriving in port was suspected of being infected with a
malignant, contagious disease, its cargo and crew were obliged to
forego all contact with the shore for a period of around forty days.
This term came to be known as period of Y.
Give Y

X (the bird) is named after X (the country) despite there being no such birds in the
namesake country.
The bird was first introduced to Europe via trade routes from the country X(who in
turn got them from the Americas). People started referring to them as "those X
birds," since as far as they knew, that's where they came from. The name stuck.
More interesting is that X‘s are often named for where people thought they came
from. For instance, the french word is "dinde" from "d'inde" or "from India". In
Portuguese, they're called Peru.
Identify X

The mosque Imambara, Hooghly, West Bengal was built in the
year 1861, on the land given by Mir Keramat Ali, who installed a huge
clock there, having two dials. It has been functioning without fail since
it was bought in 1852 from abroad for Rs. 11721 from the same
manufacturers of the much more famous X. Hence it is also called
the X of Murshidabad.
Id X.

Founded in 1727, it is the first of the planned cities in
India. Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the brilliant architect
created the plans in proportion to olden Hindu discourse on
architecture known as ‗Shilpa Shastra‘, the art of Indian
building. It is surrounded on 3 sides by hills and a city wall
with 7 large gates, which were closed by the sentry in the
evening, only to be opened again in the morning.
In 1878, the markets and houses facing main road were
painted uniformly, to honour arrival of Prince of Wales (later
King Edward VII). Even now, in the old section of the city,
this practice is still followed.

Identify this magazine founded
DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell
Wallace in 1922. Until 2009 it
was the best-selling consumer
magazine in the United States.
(shown alongside is the first
issue)

 Shares his birthday with the Father of the Nation
 He graduated with a first-class degree in Philosophy from the Kashi Vidyapeeth in 1926.
He was given a title which meant ‖Scholar‖. Although the title was a bachelor's
degree awarded by the Vidya Peeth, it stuck as part of his name.
 Translated Marie Curie‘s biography when he was in prison during Independence
movement
 Vijayghat Samadhi
 On October 19, 1965, gave the seminal ‗Jai Jawan Jai Kishan‘ slogan at Urwa in
Allahabad that became a national slogan.
 Died in Tashkent, the day after signing the Tashkent Declaration (in former USSR) with
Pakistan‘s Ayub Khan

2nd Prime Minister of Independent India
Lal Bahadur Shastri

 In computer engineering, it is the length of one cycle of
the computer‘s system clock.
 In chemistry and physics, it is the amount of time it takes light to
travel a distance of one centimeter — about 33.3564 picoseconds

Organisational structure of? (hint: formed in September 1968)

Research and Analytics Wing
(RAW)

The X family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by
the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. Farmer suggested in two "biographies" of
fictional characters, that the real meteorite which fell near X in Yorkshire, England, on
December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants
of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high
intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good
or evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life
originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few
hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty, Phileas Fogg, the Time
Traveller, Tarzan, and Doc Savage.
The X Universe is a term coined by Win Scott Eckert to denote an expansion to the
original X family, by documenting crossovers between fictional characters from various
media and genres. Eckert and other writers have further brought into the X Universe
characters who have appeared in literary fiction – including penny-dreadfuls, pulp
comics, Victorian, Romanticism and Renaissance literature, steampunk, Gothic
novels, fairy tales, mythology and folklore – as well as in film, television programs,
comic book series and graphic novels, radio shows, and even video games.

Wold Newton Family/Universe
(named after the Wold Newton meteorite crash in 1795)

X was born in Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Soviet Russia. In 1931 his
family moved to Moscow. He served in the Soviet Army during
the World War II. In 1946 he was admitted to Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute. X received his Kandidat of
Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree from Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute in 1954. Subsequently he was
hired by the department of physics at the Moscow
Engineering Physics Institute, as an assistant. Since 1977 he was
a Professor of the "General Physics" chair. He remained a
faculty member of the institute until his death.
Identify X.

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