Latest Quiz from Quanta - The Official Quiz club of NIT Goa 3 hv

1. The February
monthly 2016
GREETINGS.

2. Much fancy. Very wow
February monthly
 GREETINGS.
 (I had lots of time to do fancy stuff)

3. I’m Soham. I’m the QM. Listen to the
QM. 
 Standard quiz, general as you know. 5 rounds. We don’t have buzzers. It’s
sad really.
 Ill explain the rules as we go on.
 Don’t cheat. This is no minor exam. ;)

4. I
 10 questions
 Infinite bounce
 +10 for correct
 No negatives
 Pounce to death
 +10 for pounce

5.  X was an American computer programmer ,entrepreneur and web
‘hacktivist’ whose leading contributions included development of web
feeds format RSS, web.py frameworks and social news site reddit. He
focussed his work on civic awareness ,activism and the stop online piracy
act.
 He decided to commit suicide following potential imprisonment and
severe fine. He was finally inducted into the internet hall of fame after his
death ,as a recognition of his work. Id X

6. Aaron Schwartz

7.  All You Need Is Kill (Japanese: Ōru Yū Nīdo Izu Kiru?) is a military science
fiction The novel was Sakurazaka's breakthrough science-fiction manga. it
covered the plight of Keiji Kiriya as he fought a never-ending alien
onslaught. He would die a number of times in the process
 This was because he had managed to accidentally kill a Mimic antenna and
take over its power. It was later released in English by Viz Media under
their Haikasoru imprint. In 2014 it was made into a Hollywood movie .
Which Hollywood movie? Pic on next slide

9. Edge of Tomorrow

10.  X is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer. His
style of production originally used high-pitched vocal samples from soul songs
incorporated with his own drums and instruments. He later broadened his
influences to include 1970s R&B, baroque pop ,trip hop , arena rock , house
,folk ,alternative , electronica…..blah blah blah
 An outspoken and controversial celebrity, x has often been a source of
controversy due to his appearances at award shows and various television and
radio interviews. X also shows runs his own record label GOOD Music and has
directed several short films. If you type www.loser.com in your web browser,
you’ll be redirected to X’s wiki page(it has been recently changed to Y’s page).
(Don’t touch your phone) -_-
 Who is X ?
 +5 for Y

11. X-Kanye west
Y-Donald Trump (whom else)

12.  All media in which X appears portray him as intellectually brilliant, cultured
and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music and cuisine. He is
frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals, the most famous example
being his admission that he once ate a liver "with some fava beans and a
nice Chianti" (a "big Amarone" in the novel). He is well-educated and
speaks several languages, including Italian, German, Russian, Polish,
French, Spanish, and, to some extent, Japanese. He is deeply offended by
rudeness, and frequently kills people who have bad manners. Prior to his
capture and imprisonment, he was a member of Baltimore, Maryland's
social elite, and a sitting member of the Baltimore Philharmonic
Orchestra's board of directors.
 Gimme X

13. Hannibal Lecter

14.  His real name is Glen Jacobs. He earned a degree in English literature at
Northeast Missouri State University, where he played both basketball and
football. Most fans are aware that he is very outspoken in terms of politics and
is even a member of the Free state Project. He hosted a podcast titled ‘The tiny
Political Show’ under the pseudonym YX(YX being a pun related to a famous
character played by Orson welles) and ran a blog called the adventures of X at
adventuresofX.com and is also a contributor to LewRockwell.com
 If at all that wasn’t surprising enough, he even owns an insurance company
with his wife called the Jacobs Agency, which is located in tennesse
 How do we know him better…..or who is X?
 Also give me Y

15. Y=Citizen X=Kane

16.  Mr X is a cartoon dog who appeared in the late 1950s and the early 1960s
television animated series Rocky and his friends and the Bullwinkle show,
produced by Jay ward. He recently was the lead , so to say, in a 2014
animated film who was voiced by Ty Burell in which he adopts a boy and
they embark on a time travelling journey.
 Identify X

17. Mr Peabody
 The movie is Mr Peabody and Sherman.

18.  The oldest known version has been traced back to Egypt during the XXVI
dynasty, and this Egyptian version was known as Rhodopis (or Rhodope).
In this version, Rhodopis (or pink cheeks) is a beautiful foreign slave with
light skin. There is also an ancient Chinese version of this tale called Ye
Xian. Ye Xian is an orphan who finds comfort in a friendship with a
beautiful fish, who is actually the reincarnation of her mothers spirit. The
fish is later killed and eaten by her stepmom, later leading to a train of
events of the story we all know.
 The main character of the tale we all know is named so because she slept
by a particular type of rock in the fireplace which made her dirty due to its
ashes.
 Name the tale of the lead character

19. ‘Cinder’ella

20. Connect.
 Dustin Hoffman
 Jackie chan
 Seth rogen
 Lucy liu
 James hong
 Jack black
 David cross
 Angelina jolie
 Randall duck kim

21. Kung fu panda voice actors

22.  Summoning monsters to do your bidding, recording their names in
strange electronic tomes, holding millions of children in its thrall is some
of the interpretations made by some paranoid members of the Christian
community.
 With correlations to ancient texts on demonology and creatures pulled
from “pagan” worship, the Christian community was concerned about what
X might do to children.
 They even began to believe that X’s theme song said ‘I love you Satan’
when played backwards.
 Gimme X

23. pokemon

24.  Thomas bangalter and guy-manuel de homem-Christo were originally in a
rock band together called Darlin’, which disbanded after a short period of
time, leaving the two to experiment musically on their own. The duo
became X releasing its debut album Y in 1997 to highly positive reviews.
 Gimme X
 +20 for Y

25.  X- daft punk
 Y-Homework

26. Le Scores?

27. II
 Infinite bounce
 +20 for correct ans
 No negatives on direct
 Pounce to death
 +20/-10 for pounce

28.  Which famous phrase originated from a puzzle where one has to connect 9
dots arranged in a square grid with 4 lines drawn continuously, without
pen leaving the paper?

29. Think outside the box!

30. What piece of music?
 The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music
for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's
a specific problem — solve it."
 The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-
da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said
"and it must be 3.25 seconds long."
 I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's
like making a tiny little jewel.
 In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so
sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd
finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like
oceans of time.

31. Any guesses now?
(I probably look like a fool if someone
already got it)
½ points if you get it now

32. Windows 95 startup tune

33.  Runner up for the name was “Ike”, suggested by founder Syd Cassyd. In
this case, he was naming it after the Iconoscope tube, which incidentally
got its name from the Greek εἰκών (“image”). So even had it been named
“Ike”, it would have still ultimately been named after “image”. “Ike” was
rejected as members thought that people would think the name was
coined after Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 Pioneering TV engineer (and third American Academy of Television Arts
President) Harry Lubcke suggested that the name “Y” be used, named after
the “image orthicon tube” that was nicknamed the “Y”. The Academy
members liked it, but felt is should be more feminine, to match the
statuette, so switched it to the name “X”, a very slight change from the
original ‘Y’.
 Gimme X and Y

34.  X- emmy
 Y-immy

35. This man played a vital character in
harry potter. Which character?

36. The sorting hat

37. Who dis?

38. Barrack Obama

39.  Flip Baber aka johnnyrandom says, “as a little kid, I was a bit of a recluse,
spending most of my time learning through my ears. What I heard in music
and what I heard in my immediate surroundings overlapped from the
start”.
 This is what lead him to create this masterpiece. Identify the instrument
used.

41.  The biological reason why we can’t resist X is because sustained eye
contact with Ys significantly raises oxytocin levels in both humans and ‘Y’s,
which encourages love , trust and bonding.
 What is X and Y

42. X- puppy dog eyes
y- puppies or dogs

43.  This is Hawaiian airlines flight HA458. it took of from Tokyo on january 1st
2016 and landed in Honolulu in Hawaii in 8 hours and 13 minutes. What was
special about that flight?

44. It took off in 2016 and landed in 2015

45.  1)Justin Beiber-baby ft Ludacris
 2)Rebecca black- Friday
 3)<CORTANDO DO BATAO>
 4)PSY- Gangnam style
 5)Miley Cyrus- wrecking ball
 6)Miley Cyrus- we can’t stop
 7)Nicki Minaj- anaconda
 8)strong- Rperry2012
 9)Nicki Minaj - stupid hoe
 10)Justin Beiber – boyfriend
 LIST OF WHAT?

47. In 1880 Captain Charles X was managing land in Ireland when poor harvests
struck. The lord whose lands he was managing offered to reduce the rents of
his tenants, but the offer was unsatisfactory. The tenants then refused to have
anything to do with Captain X. The lands were left untended, shops would not
sell to his family, and post was not delivered to his house. Supplies were
shipped to the estate from England since no one would deal with him in
Ireland. In the end the protest was successful .
The word X in term became synonymous with “targeted ostracism”
Gimme X

48. X- boycott

49. Le scores?

50. specials
 5 questions each
 +20/-10 on direct
 +20/-20on pounce
 Infinite pounce

51. Id the woman on the left

52. Jayalalitha

53. Sunil dutt was cast in this movie called yaadein which was
113 minutes long which put him in the Guinness book of
world records for something. What thing?

54. He was the only actor

55. On the note of records and Bollywood, Jagdish Raj also
holds a Guinness record for doing something 144 time.
What?

56. He played a police inspector 144 times

57. Aaaaand another one
kaho na pyar hai is also a Guinness world record holder for
having 92 somethings. What things?

58. Awards( I agree this one was lame)

59. What’s special about this Shyam
Benegal movie?
(pretty sure it’s a
record)
(didn’t find a
Guinness one
though)

60. It had 5 lakh producers!!!

61. X special
 After seeing next slide, gimme X

63. Points for
1,2,3 and 4

68. Le scores?

69. IV
 +20/0 on direct
 +20/-10 on pounce
 3 pounces limit

70.  The Xs, or Society of Friends, are a Christian denomination with a long history of social
reformation. Xs played a strong role in the abolition of slavery and many philanthropic
businessmen of the Victorian era were Xs. Founded by George Fox as an alternative to
Church of England worship in the 17th century the Society of Friends was soon named
Xs. How did they get this name? Two stories exist. The first is that early followers of Fox
were so taken with religious mania that they shook(in context shook is a synonym of X),
while they preached. The other supposed origin of the term comes from Fox’s
autobiography. Charged with blasphemy for his new theology Fox was taken before the
magistrates. Fox was defiant and “bade them tremble at the word of the Lord.” One of
the magistrates retorted that the only person to X in the court was Fox himself.
 X is also the name of an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, founded by
Henry Parsons Crowell in 1888 and has been owned by pepsico since 2001

72.  Xs were once a highly fashionable form of art which displayed their
subjects in outline with no other features. Portraits of this type have the
benefit of being cheap and quick to make compared to painted portraits.
During the Seven Years War the state of French finances became parlous.
The finance minister of the time was Etienne de X who, to save the French
economy was forced to put in place harsh measures to raise funds. The
nobility and clergy who were normally not called on to pay taxes but
Silhouette levied taxes on various luxuries which hit the wealthy. Because
of this he was ridiculed and forced from his position. His name became
attached to anything seen as cheap. When profile portraits became
popular they were sneered at as cheap (or to use the French “à la X”) and
the name stuck.

73. silhouettes

74. this is the only known motion picture film of X
photographed in 1909 using Ys kitenograph camera. It
also shows what are believed to be his daughters Clara
and Jean. Gimme X and Y

75. X-Mark Twain
y- Thomal Edison

76. Who are these guys?

77. 13 dwarves from J.R.R Tolkien’s The
Hobbit

78. This is a clip from Phineas and ferb. It is a
reference to which famous movie?

79. 2001: a space odyssey

80. Identify……….

81. The commentator :p

82. Ritchie Benaud

83.  When it debuted in 1888 , it was a drab scientific publication of 98 pages
wrapped in a plain brown cover. That’s how it remained for 16 years when
the printer told the editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor that he had 11 pages to fill.
Grosvenor grabbed a package from the imperial Russian Geographical
Society containing some of the first photographs of Lhasa, Tibet, which
was then considered one of world’s most exotic places. He selected 11 and
sent them to the printer , certain he would be fired and ridiculed. When
the issue came out in January 1905, the opposite happened. People
stopped Grosvenor on the streets to congratulate him. This led to the birth
of ______?

84. National Geographic Magazine

85. Identify the name of this mascot and
identify the event

86. Appu the elephant,
Asian games 1982 India

87. Funda?

88. This is the ‘pun’da

89. What has been blanked out derives
its name by combining the greek
words for light and birth.

91. Le scores?

92. V- theme round
 Guess the theme and answer the questions
 Write your answers on a piece of paper
 +20/0
 Q1 & Q2 +40 -20 for theme
 Q3 & Q4 +30 -10 FOR theme
 Q5 +10 no negatives
 If you guess right now ,+100

93. Identify this guy
he’s the name behind the
big name in computer
software

94. Paul Allen
co founder of microsoft
 And he named it too

95.  His birth name is Dwane michael carter Jr. He shot himself with his
stepfathers gun when he was 12 and it missed his heart by 2 inches. He
says that that’s his inspiration for writing raps.
 He has been the news recently for appearing in a super bowl commercial
with George Washington.

96. Lil’ wayne

97.  Born on 1 July 1961, in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk. She was the
fourth of five children of John spencer, Viscount Althorp and his first wife,
Frances. She was engaged in a rather lavish manner.
 Her engagement ring was a large £30,000 (£94,800 in today's terms) by
Garrard. The sparkler consisted of 14 solitaire diamonds elegantly
surrounding a 12-carat oval blue Ceylon sapphire set in 18-carat white
gold. It now sits on X’s finger.
 Her funeral was viewed by 2.5 billion people!!
 Give me her name and X

98. Princess Diana. X= Kate Middleton

99. Whose grave?

100. F. Scott Fitzgerald
 The line on the tombstone is the last line in his novel, The Great Gatsby

101.  The birth name of brand ambassador for this company is H.M.R
chakravarthy. She later changed her name to just H.M . She was born on
October 16 1948 in ammankundi into the tamil speaking iyengar family of
chakravarthys.
 The compay spoken of above teased the advertisement of one of their
competitors who claimed that they would award Rs 1 crore to anyone who
can find a better product then theirs.
 Gimme the brand (who many consider to be famous because of H.M)

102. Kent

103. THEME : last names of justice league
superheroes.
 Barry ALLEN – The Flash
 Bruce WAYNE - Batman
 DIANA of Themyscira - Wonderwoman
 Clark KENT - Superman
 Alan SCOTT – Green Lantern

104. Le fin.
 Any ties to be settled?

105. Give me his full name (in case there’s
tie)(if there isn’t give it to me anyways)

106. The name’s Bloom, Stuart Bloom

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