Quiz of the Month - November 2012 by DBQC members Hadi Nishad and Monishita Dey

1. Prelims

2. 1
FITB
• ______________--> C. N. Annadurai
• Odai Pillayar Koil --> M. G. Ramachandran
• Auxilium college Roundana --> K Kamaraj
• Kalyana Mandabam --> Periyar E.V.
Ramaswamy
• Kangeyanallore Road --> B.R Ambedkar

3. • Chittoor Bus Stand.
• These are the people whose statues are found
at various locations in Vellore.

4. 2
Who/What made this game?

6. • PETA.

7. 3
X, according to legend, died of complications resulting from
a strained bladder at a banquet. As it was considered
extremely bad etiquette to leave the table before the meal
was finished, he stayed until he became fatally ill. This
version of events has since been brought into question as
other causes of death which include murder by his student,
suicide, and mercury poisoning among others, have come
to the fore.
Id X.

8. • Tycho Brahe

9. 4
An eleven-year old boy from Chandigarh reportedly issued a legal notice to a
company raising objection to the use of his first name X in their ad, citing the
reason as harassment by school mates due to similarity in names. He claimed
Rs. 1 Crore in compensation and asked for the removal of the ad.
The company has said that the advertisement is a work of fiction, and that
the characters and situations are fictional and do not in any way represent a
situation close to an eleven-year old and that while it sympathises with the
child in question, the character in question is not X but XY.
It said that the name XY was selected, post looking at phone books plus an
extensive Google search in order to ascertain the non-existence of any such
person - so as to avert causing offense to anybody inadvertently.
Give me XY.

10. • Hari Sadu.

11. 5
• In cricketing parlance, the word “X" is used to describe the
stock delivery of a left-arm "unorthodox" spin bowler
(though some reserve it for the googly delivery). The name
has its origins in a Test match played between the West
Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the year
1933. Elliss "Puss" Achong, was a left-arm orthodox
spinner, playing for the West Indies at the time. According
to folklore, Achong is said to have had Walter Robbins
stumped off a surprise delivery that spun into the right-
hander from outside the off stump. As he walked back to
the pavilion, Robbins said to his teammates "Fancy being
done by a bloody X!", leading to the popularity of the term
in England, and subsequently, in the rest of the world.
• What term?

12. • Chinaman.

13. 6*
• The 2010 Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks were a series of attacks by
sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in
Egypt. On 1 December 2010, three Russians and one Ukrainian
were seriously injured within minutes of each other, and on 5
December 2010 a German woman was killed, when they were
attacked while wading or snorkeling near the shoreline. The attacks
were described as "unprecedented" by shark experts.
The attacks also sparked conspiracy theories about possible
involvement by ________. Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha, the
governor of South Sinai, told the state news website egynews.net:
"What is being said about the X throwing the deadly shark [in the
sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs
time to confirm."
• X?

14. • Mossad/Israel

15. 7
• The film is called both X2 and X3 in media
reports. The lead actor confirmed that on similar
lines as with the Rambo franchise (where the first
movie was called First Blood, then came Rambo
and then Rambo 3), the film will be called X3. The
Director also clarified the title to another media
source, stating "The film is titled X3, not X2.“
• X3's script had to be re-written because it was
too similar to Spider-Man 3.
• Which movie?

16. • Krrish 3.

17. 8*
• There have been some theories on this phenomenon, with the most prevalent
being the tendency for Wikipedia pages to move up a "classification chain."
According to this theory, the Wikipedia Manual of Style guidelines on how to write
the lead section of an article recommend that the article should start by defining
the topic of the article, so that the first link of each page will naturally take the
reader into a broader subject, eventually ending in wide-reaching pages such as
Mathematics, Science, Language, and of course, ___________. The phenomenon
has been known since at least May 26, 2008, when a wiki page was created by
user Mark J. Two days later, it was mentioned in episode 50 of the podcast
Wikipedia Weekly, which may have been the first public mention of it.
Following the chain consists of:
• Clicking on the first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link
• Ignoring external links, links to the current page, or red links
• Stopping when reaching "____________", a page with no links or a page that does
not exist, or when a loop occurs.
• What am I talking about?

18. • All (Wikipedia) pages lead to philosophy

19. 9
• X is a small town and comune of approximately 12,000
inhabitants in the Province of Palermo, Italy. The most
notable recent event in X was the arrest in 2006 of
Bernardo Provenzano, "Boss of Bosses", who had been
in hiding for more than 40 years. This gave rise to much
celebration. "Liberation Day" on April 11 (the date of
Provenzano's capture) and naming a street "11 Aprile"
shows just how much the arrest has affected X.
Gaetano Riina, X's recent mob boss, was arrested on
July 1, 2011.
• X?

20. • Corleone.

21. 10
• "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
• The program on the computer did not run correctly
because of the input errors into the system—computing
(because of the garbage in, garbage out rule) the wrong
question thus giving a "wrong" answer.
• It was observed that the answer given was right if the
question was assumed to be in base13. X later joked about
this observation, saying, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't
write jokes in base 13."
• What am I talking about?/X?

22. 42

23. 11
• This is a picture of Lake Lauenensee,
Switzerland. It is also referred to as the X Lake.
Who is X?

24. • The Chopra Lake after Yash Chopra.

25. 12
• Film School Rejects asked Skyfall producers, and keyholders to the
James Bond universe, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli why
X, who has long told anyone who’d listen he wants to make a Bond
film, has yet to do so. Here was Broccoli’s response:
• Well, early on it was very sweet, because when he was a young
filmmaker he approached my father. My dad said, ‘Yeah, kid, ya
gotta get some more [films] under your belt. Years later, when he
did Y, my father wrote to him about how much he loved it. X then
sent a really sweet note saying, ‘Now will you let me direct a Bond
movie?’ [Laughs] My father said, ‘Now I can’t afford you!’ That’s the
way of the world.
• X.

26. • Steven Spielberg.

27. 13
Happy Halloween. Which movie is being
referred here?

28. Back to The Future

29. 14
• X may have originated in the city of Piedras Negras,
Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass,
Texas,or in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, at a restaurant
called the Victory Club, owned by Rodolfo De Los Santos. In
1943, the wives of ten to twelve U.S. soldiers stationed at
Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on
a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had
closed for the day. The maître d'hôtel, Ignacio "X" Anaya,
invented a new snack for them with what little he had
available in the kitchen and served them.
• When asked what the dish was called, he answered, "X's
especiales". As word of the dish traveled, the apostrophe
was lost. What did he serve them?

30. • Nachos.

31. 15
• In the 1933 movie Karma what first did Devika
Rani and Himanshu Rai achieve?

32. • First kiss in Indian cinema.

33. 16*
• Israel: Israel Israeli
• Belgium: Jan met de Pet
• Costa Rice: Juan Perez
• Poland: Jan Kowalski
• Slovenia: Janez Novak
• India: Ashok Kumar
• USA:?

34. • John Doe.(Placeholder names in different
countries.)

35. 17
• Any body passing through solid matter (usually at high velocities)
will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter (the "silhouette
of passage").
• Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble
tunnel entrances; others cannot. Corollary: Portable holes work.
• All principles of gravity are negated by fear
• Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. (In
other words, cats heal fast and/or have an infinite number of lives.)
Corollary: Cats can fit into unusually small spaces.
• Everything falls faster than an anvil.
• Any vehicle on a path of travel is at a state of indeterminacy until an
object enters a location in the path of travel.
What are these?

36. • Laws of Cartoon Physics.

37. 18
• Though many have been related, a definitive
back-story has never been established for X,
and his real name has never been confirmed.
He himself is confused as to what actually
happened; he says, "Sometimes I remember it
one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to
have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!
Ha ha ha!“
X?

38. • Joker.

39. 19*
• Taken from the Uncyclopedia page :Making up X quotes.
“Why the hell do you people keep quoting me?”
~ X on this page
“Quotes are like my penis, everybody has seen it and they laugh
uncontrollably.”
~ X on this page
Officially listed as the National Sport of England, making up X quotes is
widely regarded as the greatest spectator sport ever invented, with
the possible exceptions of Sudden Death Twister and Sockey.
• And remember:
• “The key to making up X quotes is to add '~ X' at the end.”
• ~X

40. • X-Oscar Wilde.

41. 20
• The phrase X was popularized by a little children's story
published by John Newbery in London in 1765. X is a
variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of X, the
nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell,
who goes through life with only one shoe. When she is
given a complete pair by a rich gentleman, she is so happy
that she tells everyone that she has two shoes. Later,
Margery becomes a teacher and marries a rich widower.
This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness
has been rewarded, a popular theme in children's literature
of the era.
• Which phrase?

42. • Goody two-shoes.

43. 21
Screenprint on Frank D’Amico’s wall in Kick-Ass.
Artist?

44. • Andy Warhol.

45. 22
• For the first 19 years of its existence the company's English
name was "Legend". In 2002, Yang Yuanqing came to the
conclusion that the company would have to abandon the
use of the Legend brand name in order to develop outside
of China, as the "Legend" name was already in use by a
large number of other businesses worldwide, and its
ubiquitous nature made it impossible to register in most
markets.In April 2003, the company publicly announced its
new name which was a portmanteau of Legend and a latin
ablative for new.
• Which company?

46. • Lenovo.

47. 23
• Urbandictionary: Device used to notify others
that they are in the presence of a dickhead.
The point may be reinforced by the wearer
displaying said item at alternative angles,
particularly back-to-front especially when
facing the sun.
What?

48. • Baseball Cap.

49. 24
• His stage name is an alteration of a latin phrase which
translate's to good voice. It is said he was nicknamed
this by his friend Gavin Friday. Initially he disliked the
name but when he learned it loosely transalated to
good voice, he accepted it. He's been known by the
first part of this nickname since the late 70's. He was
given an honorary knighthood by the queen and was
listed as one of the greatest Briton in a poll conducted
among the general public, despite the fact that he is
Irish.
• Who?

50. • Bono.

51. 25*
• X was a part of a smoking club in high school called the
Choom Gang. X had strict protocols for his weed-happy
group. As a member of the Choom Gang, exhaling
prematurely got you penalized. If you failed to hold the
smoke, "you were assessed a penalty and your turn was
skipped the next time the joint came around." "When a
joint was making the rounds, X often elbowed his way in,
out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!,' and took an extra hit." X
also invented "roof hits" in which the Choom Gang would
roll up the windows of a car and smoke inside. Once all the
weed was gone, they would tilt their heads back and suck
in the remaining smoke from the car ceiling.
Who is X?

52. • Barack Obama.