The Quiz Club and Mathematics Society of St Stephen's College presents to you Mathopolis 2.0, this time in the form of a numbers quiz, with general questions with any connection to a number.

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4. Q 1.
X is considered an all-time cult classic female-centric film known as
one of the most important films to have sensitively talked about
rape. Although the film is considered to be the career-best
performance of its female lead, people still remember the film
because of the dialogues of its supporting actor Y, which
eventually earned him the National Film Award for best supporting
actor.
One of the best remembered dialogues of Y from the film involved
a weight which is supposed to be lethal, sending the person
straight to the heavenly abode.
Identify the movie X, supporting actor Y, and the weight.

6. A1.
X - Damini
Y - Sunny Deol
Dhai Kilo ka Haath

7. Q2.
X is a phenomenon common in many sports but specially
and popularly in Y, where it is rare. X first originated in 1858
and got printed in 1865. The first instance of X in Y is
attributed to the famous Surrey professional, Stephenson. A
higher version of X is sometimes called Lupenreiner or
zuivere. X is based on a number to which one casually
attributes spoiling of tasks.
ID X and Y

9. A 2.
X - Hattrick
Y - Cricket

10. Q3.
The following is a transcript from a viral YouTube video.
"This is not submitting."
*Multiple clicks*
"I don't know what to do."
*Submits*
"Oh my f**king god. Jesus Christ."
*Sigh*
Where have we seen this?

12. A3.
4 seconds left to
upload AP Exam

13. Q4.
The song’s connection to football originates in Belgium
and spread through Italy after a visit from Club Brugge
fans, and it proved so inspirational it even turned
Francesco Totti into a fan of the band.
“I had never heard the song before we stepped on the field
in Bruges,” he said after hearing the song burst out from
the stands. "Since then, I can't get the 'Po po po po po po
po' out of my head. It sounded fantastic and the crowd was
immediately totally into it."
Most recently, we would've heard the song during the 2018
WC, at a top German club's home stadium and at the
Etihad for their most valuable player.
ID song.

15. A4.
Seven Nation Army

16. Q5.
This iconic number is mentioned only once in the
book/film , part of a sentence delivered in a chilling
tone, that brooks no response. The speaker, filled with
rage, pronounces this number to make those he is
speaking to aware of the true nature of the person he
is replacing. Only one precocious listener managed to
take the hint, a major plot point at the end of the
film/book.
Identify the line containing the number and what that
specific number refers to.

18. A5.
Turn to page 394, Werewolves

19. Q6.
Connect
Kalidasa
Abul Fazl
Faizi
Ramprasad Sen

21. A6.
All are Navratnas of their respective
emperor’s courts.

22. Q7.
As the sole surviving member of this group at the
time, X during his interrogations revealed he was
told that the moment you are killed in the ______
against India, his body would emit divine glow and
an intoxicating fragrance, before the he would rise
to heaven, to be awarded with Y.
ID X and Y

24. Q8.
In the film ____, a male "happiness distributor" tries
to Come to terms with his life and and joins college
again after almost 10 years. On seeing racial abuse
hurled by a professor at his friend, he goes on to
give several examples to prove the richness and
genius of his country. One of the examples was the
invention of X, which his friend later calls the gift of
Y, which the professor may grant him.
ID X and Y.

25. A7.
X - Ajmal Kasab
Y - 72 Virgins (Houri)

27. A8.
X : 0
Y : Aryabhatta

28. Q9.
Connect the following:
● The opening lines of famous speech delivered by an
iconic American president in the 19th century.
● A cricketing belief in one of the preeminent nations of
the sport.
● One of the most unstable and rarest occurring
radioactive elements, named after a European
country.
● The first celestial phenomena of its kind to be
photographed

30. A9.
87

31. Q10.
X is derived from an ancient system of Arabic
numerology called abjad. This system of numerology
has a long history dating back to the Urgarty
manuscripts 1500 years before the birth of Jesus. In
this system each letter is assigned a certain number
between 1 and 1000. The numbers related to the
words are then added and one reaches a number
signifying the word. The digits of X add up to 21.
X is also famous through cinema, appearing as the
title of the latest film in a franchise by Akshay Kumar.
ID X

33. A 10.
786

34. Q11.
In the Yajur Veda, there is a mention of the concept
of numeric X. In various vedic literature, X has been
denoted and compared by various God names
(particularly the avatars of Vishnu with the value
increasing with a later avatar). A description of X can
be used to characterize "The act of sharing
Happiness". The full explanation of X wasn't known
to the mankind until 19th century, when one man
didn't believe what he found.
ID X

36. A 11.
Infinity

37. Q 12.
X is a tool/invention made more than 2000 years ago.
Among the elements of X, one finds a sequence of 4
similar elements. Originally denoting 4 consecutive
numbers, these elements have made it through more
than 2 milleniums to still perform the same function
but with 4 different consecutive numbers, each now
denoting two more than the original number.
What's X and what are the 4 elements?

39. A12.
X - Calendar
The elements are September, October,
November, December.
7,8,9,10 --> 9,10,11,12

40. Q 13.
Royal inscriptions in North India during the ancient
and early medieval period would often indicate
numbers with certain words. Bhumi, meaning the
Earth, would be used to refer to the number one.
Kara, meaning hands would refer to the number
two. Loka or world/domain would be used instead
of the number three.
What then, was the word used for the number
four?

42. A13.
Vedas

43. Q 14.
This assigned number has several alleged
origins/influences. In mainstream media, the X prefix
indicates the special permission granted to the assigned
individual, and the specific number after X is a reference by
the creator to the British code-breaking of the Zimmerman
Telegram in WW1, which was coded with X75. Another
source may have been in the 1550-1600s, when this number
was used to indicate a high degree of confidentiality.
What permission(which is also the title of something we see
this in) and what number?

45. A 14.
X - 00, License to Kill

46. Q 15.
Considered by some to be the most frequently
translated literary product of India, X is Attributed
to various authors. X has travelled widely and been
translated and adapted into a huge number of
languages, of these the major one being the
Persian and Arabic masterpiece Kalila wa Dimnah,
titled so after the names of two jackals who were
the doormen of a lion's court. Indologist Max
Muller wrote about X saying 'it is extremely likely
that fables, in particular Y fables, had their
principal source in India'.
ID X and Y.

48. A15.
X - Panchatantra
Y - Animal

49. Q16.
Bands X and Y are different in several ways. While X is from
Europe, Y is from America; X has retained its members since its
conception, while Y, has had to change members, keeping two
members constant. Stylistically as well X and Y are very far
apart. However they both have a song titled with the same
name. Both these songs are considered one of the best works
by their respective artists and talk about a certain struggle. In
the case of X it is about separation with a loved one,
questioning the idea of unity, amidst other interpretations,
while Y talks about war and the struggles one goes through
after war has taken its toll on the individual.
Identify the song and the two artists.

51. A16.
X - U2
Y - Metallica, Song - One

52. Q 17.
One of the news programs by Aaj Tak is called X,
and shares its name with a David Dhawan movie
starring Sanjay Dutt and Govinda as conmen. X
can be understood in the case of the news
program to be about how consequences are
greater than the sum of their factors, and in the
case of the movie, as a faulty addition sum
representative of swindling or conning someone.

54. A17.
Ek Aur Ek Gyarah

55. Q18.
The term lingchi first appeared in a line in Chapter 28 of the
third-century philosophical text Xunzi. The line originally
described the difficulty in travelling in a horse-drawn carriage on
mountainous terrain, and later this term took on a completely
different meaning which had an only slight connection to the
original description. Just like the horse carriage travels over
mountainous terrain very very slowly and causes the riders
immense pain prolonged further by the slowness, lingchi came
to be used for X. X finds several references in pop-culture, with a
Taylor Swift song comparing it to the pain of slow breakup, and
a mention in the finale of Rush Hour 3. X as a technique for a
certain purpose only got banned in 1905.
Identify the practice X.

57. A18.
X - Death by a thousand cuts

58. Q19.
There have been many questions as to why this specific
value was chosen for a certain act performed by a rather
strange character. One fan theory on Reddit actually did
the math, and came up with a possible explanation,
calculating the various possibilities of the fates of the 24
characters in the story. One of the characters presented
a complication, due to the nature of their fate, which the
theorist accounts for by giving a probability of two-
thirds. The eventual calculation yields a value about
thirteen million nine hundred thousand, a 1% deviation
from the value given in the work.
What are we talking about?

60. A 19.
Dr. Strange in Infinity
War '1 future'

61. Q 20.
Taking inspiration for its title from martial arts
movies such as Enter the Dragon and X, Y is the
debut album of this group, released in 1993. The
group(founded a year before Ys release) is widely
considered to be the most influential hip-hop
group, helping New York City return the genre to
national prominence, and paving the way for now
household names of the genre to gain success.
ID X and Y

63. A 20.
X - 36 Chambers of
Shaolin
Y - Enter the Wu-
Tang Clan (36
Chambers)

64. Q 21.
"At first glance, it may seem surprising that an agency whose focus lies in
science and technology should devote such an emphasis to an ancient
superstition, but for one thing: X". The incident regarding X did force this
organization to reconsider naming schemes. The superstition mentioned
has numerous postulations, with folklore historian Donald Dossey
ascribing it to the Norse myth which began with the gods having a dinner
party, when the trickster god Loki showed up uninvited and had Balder
assassinated. The superstition associated with X later morphed into
paraskevidekatriaphobia which should give you a famous 12-movie
franchise Y of a specific subgenre. The subgenre comes from a type of
instrument/tool and they way it is used to carry out the user's purpose.
ID X and Y

66. A 21.
X - Apollo 13
Y - Friday the 13th

67. Q 22.
X among his many epithets and titles is known and
depicted as Y named after a certain mutilation in X's
body. Several stories try and explain why. One, attributes
the mutilation to a certain short-tempered warrior, who
lost his cool when X told him he could not meet X's
father who was resting. Another attributes it self-
mutilation. When X was compelled to carry out the task
he was doing, he broke the implement being used to
complete the task. In order to keep up the pace, X
mutilated himself in order to create an analogous
implement to finish the task.
Identify X and Y.

69. A 22.
X - Ganesha
Y - Ekdanta

70. Q 23.
Certain inaccuracies plague the work X. According to
historians, as their opponents had attacked their state in
the time of a religious festival, the government did not
want to start a war, but decided to send the king and his
personal bodyguards to the battle site in order to contest
the threat posed by the invaders and to not be seen as
sympathizers of the same. On their way to the battle site,
the bodyguards were joined by several other forces of
neighbouring city-states bringing their number to about
5,000-6,000.
Which work are we talking about?

72. A 23.
300

73. Q 24.
The Japanese name for the X, a type of mini-boss in a
video game franchise, can be translated to Y. The name Y
comes from a certain established mythical collective. The
Y are guardians of certain domains and find parallels in the
Hindu collective known as the Z despite the Z being
exactly double the number of Y. This doubling of number
comes from combining the domains of the Y. Some sects
and scriptures consider Vishnu, representing 'zenith', and
Brahma, representing 'nadir', to be a part of Z. However,
considering these two as well would lead us to change the
name of Z.
ID X, Y, Z

75. A 24.
X : The Elite Four
Y : Four Heavenly Kings
Z : Ashtadikpala