Quizzinius 2021 General Quiz

The lyrics of this song include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events
between 1949, the year of the singer’s birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his
album Storm Front. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the
Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States in late 1989. Identify the song and
the artist.
QUESTION NO.1

ANSWER
We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel

QUESTION NO.2
The Following is a clip from Don McLean’s famous song “American Pie” released
in 1971, the lyrics read, “When the jester sang for the King and Queen, In a coat
he borrowed from James Dean”. Identify the Jester and the King, if the thorny
crown refers to the crown of Rock n’ Roll.

ANSWER
Jester - Bob Dylan (refer to “Moss grows fat on a rolling stone”)
;King - Elvis Presley (King of Rock n’ Roll)

QUESTION NO.3
“X” is a song by American Rock band “Y”, released on their debut album “Appetite
for Destruction”. While writing the song, the members ran out of words to write
down for the song, hence the lead singer asked a question, “Where do we go
now?” and everyone felt the phrase fit very well and it resulted in this…
Identify X and Y

ANSWER
X - Sweet Child O’ MineY - Guns N’ Roses

QUESTION NO.4
The following track is the backmasked version of a song released in 1971 that is very
popular. However the band faced enormous backlash when the song was said to
contain backmasked satanic messages. These days the song intro is referred to as the
“forbidden riff” in multiple guitar stores for a completely different reason though. Identify
the song and the band.

ANSWER
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

QUESTION NO.5
The following song is associated with a very tragic inspiration. The musician sang
and recorded his guitar work for the song after his 4 year old son Connor, met with
an untimely demise after falling 50 stories from a New York City Apartment in 1991.
The musician went into severe depression for many months and finally released this
song in 1992 in his album “Rush”. In 1993 the song won 6 grammys including
Record/Song of the year. Identify the song and the musician.

ANSWER
Tears in Heaven- Eric Clapton

RESERVE QUESTION
The following band was first named “Pectoralz”, it was then renamed to
“Starfish”, it was then renamed again into the name we all know it by today.
Their debut album was originally going to be named, “Don’t Panic”, and then
“Yellow”. The reason why it was changed to “Parachutes” was because they
earned a reputation of being depressing. What band am I talking about?

QUESTION NO.1
Since 2018, a sharp increase in knee injuries has been reported. It occurs due to the joints
being forced to move laterally, which is abnormal, considering that they are only meant for
hinge movement. What activity, which took the world by storm, was responsible for this?

QUESTION NO.2
Of all the twitter trends that came up in recent times, #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly was
one of the funnier ones. One such example is, ‘A depressed office worker joins a cult
and destabilizes the government’. Identify the iconic movie that is being talked about
here.

QUESTION NO.3
Towards the end of March 2020, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public
Health released a series of videos starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence
Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle on topics such as washing hands, maintaining social
distancing and listening to experts. Why were these actors chosen?

QUESTION NO.4
. Edward Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is one of the most recognisable paintings in the world. It has
been referenced in movies and videos various times, and as per speculation by fans, was
also the inspiration for the poster for a very popular 1990 movie. The movie later sparked off a
franchise, catapulting the lead actor to stardom. What movie?

QUESTION NO.5
Invented by English inventor Anthony E. Pratt, this game was inititally called ‘Murder!’.
However, the Waddington’s Executive, who purchased the rights to this game, decided
to change the name, to something more palatable. Pratt intended the game to be used
as entertainment for people stuck in shelters during air raids in WWII. What is the game
we are talking about?

QUESTION NO.6
When asked in an interview about his belief in God, X replied, ‘It’s a hard question
because as I said at the start, I think we invented God. So if I believe in God, and I do, it’s
because I think I am God’. Considering the long career that X has had, and the kind of
roles he has played (two in particular stand out with reference to this statement), many
people do claim that ‘There is one god, and he is X’. Identify X.

RESERVE QUESTION
UNO released a holiday version in the US in 2019 to prevent dinner table disagreements.
The new version replaced exactly half of the deck with something different, to prevent
family fights. What did they do?

ANSWER
They removed the red and the blue
cards. (The Democrats and the
Republicans)

QUESTION NO.1
The name of this item X, can be traced back to South Korea, where actor Jung Il-
woo, who ordered a drink at a café likened its taste to that of Y, a type of Korean
toffee. This soon become a vastly popular drink that everyone started making at
home, because of quarantine all across the world. Name X and Y.

ANSWER
Dalgona Coffee, Honeycomb/Dalgona

QUESTION NO.2
A pretty easy one:
The concept of a mafia "X" was a creation of MarioPuzo, and the film resulted in this
termbeing added to the common language. Don Vito Corleone's line, “ I'm gonna make him
an offer he can't refuse", was voted the second-most memorable line in cinema history in
AFI's100 Years...100 Movie Quotes by the American Film Institute, in 2020. Identify X.

QUESTION NO.3
First used as reaction in 2017 to a Tumblr user stating how he wished that French were made the national language in
certain non-francophone speaking countries after the revolutionary war, this was a still from a film that gained
momentum on social media in 2020. Although the character is seen to be holding a goblet of wine nowadays, back in
2017, what was he holding in the original picture? Also, name the film and the actor playing the character. (Here’s a
picture of the Tumblr Macro to which the still was used as a reaction to)

ANSWER
A can of Monster Energy Drink. Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio

QUESTION NO.4
What is this called? How is the word X that has been removed, associated with something in
the recent times? (Extra points for stating the significance of the other words as well)

QUESTION NO.5
X, the global vaccine drive led by WHO and two other organizations aims to provide and
distribute vaccines to the entire world. All organizations and laboratories working to
create a vaccine, are enrolled under X. Name X, and also the two organizations which
are co-leading this humongous drive.

ANSWER
X-COVAX
The organizations are GAVI AND CEPI

ANSWER
Famous personalities who passed away in 2020.

Chinese apps that were banned in 2020
ANSWER

QUESTION NO.8
•The name X is derived from a Latin word meaning "wreath", itself a borrowing
from a Greek word meaning "garland”. The name was coined by June Almeida
and David Tyrrell who first observed and studied human X. As more of these
emerged, 4 sub classifications were made; AlphaX, BetaX, DeltaX and
GammaX. What is X?

QUESTION NO.9
What do the dots on this map represent? (Specific answer please!)

ANSWER
Names of characters in Money Heist

QUESTION NO.10
“I try to go up a bit more on the right, it doesn’t work, go on the left, doesn’t work
so I sit back down and thought about Niki Lauda, his accident, thought it couldn’t
end like this, it couldn’t be my last race, it couldn’t finish like this, no way, so I try
again,” he said. “Then there’s the less pleasant moment where my body start to
relax, I’m in peace with myself and I’m going to die.” Who said these words?

QUESTION NO.11
Remember this? Social media
filled up with snippets of this book
during the initial stages of
lockdown. Try and name the book
and its author.

ANSWER
The eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz

QUESTION NO.12
Villagers in the Indian ancestral home of X painted slogans on roads wishing her victory
on Thursday, as Y, her Democrat running mate in the U.S. presidential election, moved
closer to the White House. Z, located about 320 km (200 miles) south of Chennai, is
where X’s maternal grandfather was born more than a century ago. X, who was born to
an Indian mother and a Jamaican father who both immigrated to the United States to
study, visited Z when she was five and has repeatedly recalled walks with her
grandfather on the beaches of Chennai. Name X, Y and Z.

ANSWER
Thulasendrapuram, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden

QUESTION NO.1
What would you find a top of this mountain?

QUESTION NO.2
Where would you find Pura Penataran
Agung Lempuyang a Hindu temple, that
became a tourist hotspot, after pictures like
these went viral on Instagram?

QUESTION NO.3
Historically speaking, what would you be travelling by, if you were to go from
Southampton to New York while stopping over at Cherbourg, France and
Queenstown in Ireland? While returning, you would be stopping over at Plymouth
instead of Queenstown.

QUESTION NO.4
X is an American adventure reality game show in which teams of two travel across the world.
The contest is split into legs, with each leg requiring teams to deduce clues, navigate
themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and
travel by airplane, boat, taxi, and other public transportation options on a limited budget
provided by the show. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs, while the
first team to arrive at the end of the final leg wins the grand prize of US$1 million. The series
has been hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality Phil Keoghan since its
inception in 2001. What is X?

QUESTION NO.5
What in India has, with a route length of 68,155 km has various sections, like
Eastern, Konkan, North East Frontier and Central under its purview?

QUESTION NO.6
X, also called Dondurma has recently gained a lot of popularity on social media after
videos of vendors playing tricks with the customer went viral. Found mainly in the
Middle East, this food item is made with whipped cream, mastic and salep. What is
X?

QUESTION NO.7
What is this transportation system called,
that uses cable-driven cars to connect
points along a steep incline? By definition,
it uses two counterbalanced passenger
cars attached to opposite ends of the
same cable, which is looped over a pulley
at the upper end of a track that is found
mainly in mountainous regions of
Switzerland.

QUESTION NO.8
This is a fictitious town in Surrey, England, located to the south of
London. What is this town I’m talking about, that has its most famous house as
No. 4 Privet Drive?

QUESTION NO.9
What is this the plan of? Which city
would you find this in?

ANSWER
Anne Frank’s Secret Annex, Amsterdam

QUESTION NO.10
This village in Britain has a name that was coined in 1869 by a local tailor as a
publicity stunt, that aimed at having the longest name of a station in the
continent. Literally meaning St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel
near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave.
Having the longest name in the world, what is this village commonly called?

ANSWER
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

QUESTION NO.12
Approximately 1.5km long, this island in Japan is also known as X Island.
Outnumbering humans at the ratio of almost 36:1, these animals were
introduced on this island long ago to combat rodents on fishing ships.
Nowadays, these animals survive on food given by tourists visiting the island,
or the 5 residents of the island. What is X?

RESERVE QUESTION
What would you observe in places like Norway and Alaska that are the
result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind?

QUESTION NO.1
. In recent times (2020) , Artificial Intelligence has solved a very
complex NP-complete problem in Biology that has remained
unsolved for the last 50 years. The problem was first
formulated by Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Christian
Anfinsen who first hypothesized that such a thing could be
done during his 1972 acceptance speech. What is the name of
the AI model and what problem is being referred to here?

ANSWER
Alphafold (2) , Protein Folding Prediction

QUESTION NO.2
With the advent of games like Cyberpunk 2077 and the rapid
growth in Artificial Intelligence complexity, Nvidia has released its
latest line of High Performance Turing GPUs under the famous
RTX series. What is the full form of RTX?

ANSWER
Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme

QUESTION NO.3
After the company was sold to different partners by chemist John
Stithe Pemberton, they started maintaining a secret behind the
production of their main product. This secret has been dubbed, “The
best guarded secret of the world” and rightfully so, the documents
containing the secret have been very fiercely guarded by keeping
them under lock in the Sun Trust Bank in Atlanta, and only 2 officials
from the company know the details of the documents. What does
that document contain?

QUESTION NO.4
In 1796, a man by the name of Edward Jenner performed a series of
experiments wherein he took the pus from a cowpox blister in a milkaid’s
hand and rubbed it against an 8 year old boy’s skin. However it was only in
the 1960s when his efforts could industrially be put to use. What was he
trying to do?

ANSWER
Create a vaccine for Smallpox

QUESTION NO.5
“X” rebranded itself in 2020, after 2 years of a brutal tariff war against
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
"The brand integration not only marks the completion of the largest
telecom merger in the world, but also sets us on our future journey to offer
world-class digital experiences to one billion Indians on our strong 4G
network," Ravinder Takkar, managing director and chief executive officer
at X, said in a statement. What is X?

QUESTION NO.6
The terms "X" and "Y" are thought to derive from the way in which
each animal attacks its opponents. That is, a X will thrust its horns up
into the air, while a Y will swipe down. These actions were then
related metaphorically to the movement of a market. If the trend was
up, it was considered a X market. If the trend was down, it was a Y
market. What is X and Y ?

RESERVE QUESTION
Google used a 53-qubit processor to generate a sequence of millions of
numbers. Though these numbers appeared randomly generated, they
conform to an algorithm generated by Google. A classical
supercomputer checked some of these values and they were correct.
Google’s quantum computer, named Sycamore, claimed something
because it reportedly did the task in 200 seconds that would have
apparently taken a supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. What is
this claim all about?

QUESTION NO.1
Creating much buzz after a leak from the MCUconfirming that actor X would be
starring in the film Y, releasing late this year, this movie will be director Taika Waititi’s
second film in the franchise. Although X isn’t a new face for us superhero fans, he was
originally part of a different ‘Cinematic Universe’. Name X and Y.

ANSWER
Christisan Bale, Thor; Love and Thunder

QUESTION NO.2
A universally famous plant, Flora colossus, is a result of intensive research in
“Quasi – dimensional, super positional engineering.” The origin of this plant is
deliberated upon, one theory stating its origin on Planet X, while the other theory
suggests its origins in Puerto Rico, where it is said to be an important plant of the
indigenous tribe called ‘Taiino’. What am I talking about?

QUESTION NO.3
Harold Joseph “X” Y is one of Tony Stark's closest friends and his
personal chauffeur who formerly worked as his personal bodyguard and
Head of Security of Stark Industries. This man was almost
killed during Aldrich Killian's War, which motivated Stark to get revenge
on the Mandarin, who he believed was behind the attack. After his
recovery, X continued to faithfully serve as Stark's friend and employee.
Name X and Y.

QUESTION NO.5
Born in the Netherlands, X began his criminal activities by operating as an arms dealer
and assassin-for-hire primarily in South Africa. After having his grandfather killed by
the Black Panther in the 19th century, X developed a lifelong hatred towards Wakanda,
and was eventually recruited by N'Jobu to steal a stockpile of Vibranium to aid him in
a revolution. X sold his entire stock to Y, only to have his arm cut off, that was later
replaced with a Vibranium powered prosthetic limb. Name X and Y.

QUESTION NO.6
"X is real? Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful,
horrific weapons to ever torment the universe. I would very much like to go there,
please." What is X and who would like to go there?

ANSWER
Nidavellir, Rocket Racoon

QUESTION NO.7
•Connect:
1.FedEx Postman
2.Drunk gambler
3.Bus driver
4.Museum Security Guard
5.Beauty Pageant Judge

ANSWER
Cameo characters of Stan Lee

QUESTION NO.8
This particular scene occurs in the middle of the Avengers’ time heist, as
Captain America steals the Mind Stone, hidden inside Loki’s sceptre, from the
SHIELD agents who confiscated it at the end of the Battle of New York.
Disguised in a nanotech replica of his costume from Avengers (2012), he boards
an elevator with the group, standing quietly at their centre.But instead of turning
things into a small box brawl, Captain America takes what he’s learned from the
‘present’ to do something much sneakier to escape with the sceptre. What does
he do, and to whom?

ANSWER
Whispers “HAIL HYDRA” to Rumlow

QUESTION NO.9
Name the two creatures depicted in this mural from Thor: Ragnarök.

ANSWER
Fenris the wolf, Sleipnir the 8 legged Horse

QUESTION NO.10
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are two Sokovians who were
experimented upon, by HYDRA agent Baron von Strucker using the
mind stone. Being the only two survivors of his experiments, this duo
come to be known as the “X”. Unknown to most, who is the father of
these two characters? Also name X

RESERVE QUESTION
Identify this villain

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