The third edition of Whose Session Is It Anyway, nobody's least favourite quiz is marked by... well, nothing very new. Another set of interesting questions, with a focus on pop culture and contemporary events.

1. Whose Session is it
anyway? 3.0
The Qs are made up
and the points don't
matter.
With Ser Pounce’s
blessing here’s hoping
for an ample number
of Pounces.

2. 1. “In a not so future LA, master chefs rule the
town like crime lords and a bloody culinary war is
raging. On one side are the Internationalists,
blending food from all over the world; on the
other, the ‘Vertical Farm’, adept of organic,
vegetarian and macrobiotic dishes. Both sides
want Jiro, a renegade sushi chef.”
This is the premise of GET JIRO, a dystopian graphic
novel by Joel Rose and X.
ID X.

4. Safe?

5. Anthony Bourdain

6. 2. The X test gauges whether a computer based
synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to
evoke laughter from people. It was proposed by X at a
TED conference in 2011 as a challenge to software
developers to have a computerized voice master the
inflections, timing and intonations of a speaking
human.
X also lost his voice after surgery for cancer. He employed a
Scottish Company Cereproc which custom tailors text to
speech software for voiceless customers who record their
voices at length before losing them. He publicly used the voice
they devised for him in his March 2010 appearance on Oprah!
ID X.

7. Safe?

8. Roger Ebert, Ebert test

9. 3. This artist became deaf at a young age , a
byproduct of tapestry cartooning which carried with it
a chemical hazard leading to deafness. From then on,
he was withdrawn, obsessed with his health and
focused on painting royalty and secretly did prints of
war. The following depicts one of his most famous
paintings.
“The men to be shot have a horrified impotence in the face of
soldiers with rifles, an impersonal, godless, lethal force. The
key figure in the painting has yellow pants and a blazing white
shirt, his eye bulges with terror. He throws his arms out as
though throwing his whole life in extremis in the face of his
murderers. The arms portray crucifixion and the blood
beneath, the red of an abattoir.
Most of the victims have faces. Their killers, do not. Welcome
to the ‘modern’ world.”

10. Safe?

11. 3rd May 1808, Francisco Goya

12. 4. A Japanese animation film studio based in
Tokyo, the name was chosen by the founder
from the Italian noun X, based on the Libyan-
Arabic name for the hot desert wind of that
country, the idea being that the studio would blow
a new wind through the anime industry.

13. Safe?

14. Studio Ghibli

15. 5. What is this region in
Argentina called, named
so due to its location
between the two rivers,
Parana and Uruguay?

16. Safe?

17. Mesopotamia or the land between two rivers.

18. 6. In an Instagram post shared by costume
designer Sinead O Connor, were pictures of
Indian brothers Kasam and Juma holding up a
piece of fabric with intricate ‘Aari’ work on display.
It is a fine chain stitch traditional to the Kutch
Area of Gujarat.
Where have we recently seen this work?

20. Safe?

21. Beauty and the Beast

22. 7. What chance discovery takes its name from its
discoverers, Schrader, Ambros, Ritter and Van
Der Linde?
A lethal cholinergic agent, where death can occur
from within 1-10 min after direct inhalation of
lethal dose.

23. Safe?

24. Schrader
Ambros
Gerhard
Ritter
Von Der Linde

25. 8. When the image of a face hits the retina of the
eye, it is converted to electrical signals. These pass
through 5-6 sets of neutrons and are processed at
each stage stage before they reach the ‘face’ cells.
Thus the brain receives highly processed info about
the shape and features of a face. One way in which
the brain might identify faces is simply dedicate a
cell to each face. Indeed there are cells that
respond to images of specific people. They are
known to Neuroscientists as X cells after one such
cell in an epilepsy patient undergoing surgery in
2005 responded when the patient was shown
images of the age defying actress. The cell didn't
fire when any other image was shown including an
image with her the then husband.

26. Safe?

28. 9. When asked about
why he made this
famous quote, he
replied, “Your ancestors
asked the right questions
which we scientists are
still struggling with.”
What is this famous
quote?

29. Safe?

31. 10. Gurinder Chadha’s latest offering is a
historical drama ‘Viceroy’s House’. The cast
features Hugh Bonneville, Gilian Anderson, Om
Puri and Huma Qureshi among others.
Chadha adopted the classic concept of ‘Upstairs-
Downstairs’ to tell the story of both the aristocrats
and the proletariat. Interestingly the popular
British TV series X shares the format as well as
the lead actor Hugh Bonneville.
“When we started the movie, there was no X, we
were so pissed off when it aired.”-Chadha

32. Safe?

33. Recommended watch if you miss characters who
have been killed off in GOT

34. 11. In the late 1940s a cornucopia of of
pharmaceutical discoveries was tumbling open in
labs and clinics across the nation.
Which drug was milked to its last droplet during
WWII?
1939 saw the drug being re-extracted from the
urine of patients who had been treated with it to
conserve every last molecule.
To put things in perspective, in 1942, Merck
shipped its first batch of this drug, it was only 5.5
grams representing half of the entire stock of the
drug in the American continent. Fortunately in the
early ‘50s, it was produced in the numbers of
thousand gallon vats.

35. Safe?

36. FUQ: What could they have administered that
reduces the urinary excretion of penicillin?

37. 12. Thotha Vaikuntham, a painter from
Telangana is known for his colourful depictions
with a distinct splattering of bright reds and
yellows.
In an article posted by The Deccan Chronicle, a
certain idea was suggested that would allow the
artist’s works accessible to the ordinary people
who cant afford his original art pieces.
So what was this suggestion?

39. Safe?

41. 13. Karsten Warholm won the 400m hurdles
event in the World Athletics Championship at
London recently becoming Norway’s first world
track champion in 30 years.
He couldn't believe that he had won and asked a
photographer to pinch him. He also aped a
famous Norwegian painting, arguably the most
famous one due to its constant appearance in
Pop Culture. ID the painting.
Not stopping with this, he also found an object in
the crowd and ran the victory lap with it
reinforcing a myth started by Wagner’s ‘Der Ring
des Niebulgen’ in the 1870s due to the efforts of
a certain Carl Emil Doepler. What?

42. Safe?

44. 14. Nestlè Australia and New Zealand as part of
updating their global campaign, reimagined the
Nestlè bear used to promote products popular
with children. They uploaded it on Instagram,
using a real costume for their mascot. They took
down their proposed design in a few days
because of a reason pointed by their Instagram
followers. What's the reason?

45. Safe?
Really NSFW

47. 15. Researchers in the US have looked at serious
drug side effects reported to the FDA over a 10-
year period. In particular, they were interested to
see how often reports of certain behaviours such
as X were linked to a group of drugs called
dopamine receptor agonists. These drugs (such as
Pramipexole) mimic the effect of dopamine on the
brain. They are most commonly used to
treat Parkinsonism and other conditions such
as RLS and acromegaly. It has been hypothesised
that due to its involvement in the reward system,
dopaminergics increase the risk of X. ID X.
X is something that will be commonly seen in the
area adjoining our college on the dates 19, 20, 26
and 27th of August 2017.

48. Safe?

49. Compulsive gambling
For all those interested…

50. 16. Asterix was first published as a serial in the
first issue of the Pilote comics magazine. Rene
Goscinny wrote the books while Albert Uderzo
illustrated them until the death of Goscinny aged
51. Uderzo then carried on the series. Why is it
that some character's hair colour keeps changing
throughout the series?

51. Safe?

52. Uderzo is colour blind.

53. 17. Here's another little something homebuyers
should consider when considering the location,
loction, location of their dream home. Recently,
it's been shown that there's a correlation between
your proximity to a Starbucks and your home
value, and that your house is worth more if you're
closer to Starbucks than to a Dunkin' Donuts
shop. What is this effect known as, which is also
associated with saxophonist Kenny G who was
responsible for bringing it to Starbucks? ID X
Effect.

55. Safe?

56. Kenny G, one of the earliest investors of
Starbucks, was the one who goaded Starbucks
founder Howard Schultz by calling him up
repeatedly and telling him of the great drink that
was sold by another company called Coffee
Bean. It was essentially a milkshake. Hence the
Frappuccino.
Frappuccino effect

57. 18. Identify the company which recently released
instructions on how to convert one of their
products into a GoT inspired winter fur a la Chez
Stark.

58. Safe?

59. IKEA
FUQ: Indian Company which manufactures all the
swords, Valyrian or otherwise?

60. 19. Identify the syndrome that plagued this
individual.

61. Safe?

62. Syndrome could be puberty.
Basically, a child with permanent teeth growing
under the milk teeth.

63. 20. Residents of Huangzhou, China chose not
use their government's $24 million USD
investment. It was part of the X sharing
programme started to make the average Chinese
citizen's day easier. What was this programme?
It was one of the steps taken by the CPC to
‘beautify’ the city in order for the 2016 G20
summit to be a successful one.

64. Safe?

65. Cycles

66. 21. ID the composer who apart from winning the
usual Academy Award and the Grammy has also
been bafflingly awarded the Golden Raspberries
for his work in ‘Butterfly’.
ID the film from which this piece of music is.

67. Safe?

68. Ennio Morricone
The Hateful Eight

69. 22. The baristas go through rigorous interviews
and background checks and need to be escorted
by “minders” to leave their work area. There are
no frequent-customer award cards, because
officials fear the data stored on the cards could
be mined by marketers and fall into the wrong
hands. Where is this ‘Stealthy Starbucks’ or
‘Store No. 1’ as the recipes cryptically say?

70. Safe?

71. CIA HQ, Langley, Virginia
FUQ: ID

72. 23. This is Gothic Chief Metric, a character from
Asterix and The Goths.
He shares the dreams of a Pan-European
hegemony, just like his real life counterpart.
Who is he modelled after? Someone known to all
quizzers.
The character’s name came about due to his real
life counterpart’s efforts to create a coherent
metric system and a single currency.

74. Safe?

76. 24. What is this a list of?
a) Short- 240 ml -smaller of the original two
b) Tall- 350 ml-larger of the original two
c) _______-470 ml- Large in the Romance
languages
d) _____-590 ml-Italian for Twenty
e) ______-920 ml Italian for Thirty

77. Safe?

79. 25. ID the artist who made these Mughal
Miniatures.

82. Safe?