Quanta - The official Quiz Club of NIT Goa presents Fresher's Intro Quiz Presented by Soham Kamat Contributors - Soham Kamat, Sahil Ramchandani, Mohit Paurana, Rajat Govekar, Sauvik Senapati and Eeshaan Vernekar

1. QuantaNITG presents
*drumroll*
freshers’ intro quiz

2. Rules/How to join the club?
First and only rule of quiz club is always talk about quiz club(can anyone tell
me where that reference is from)
Just walk in when we’re having a quiz
 All are welcome, we usually have a quiz once a month when maximum
people are free
 No entry fee
 If you request, we can add you to our WhatsApp group which we use
whenever we discuss “policy” (lol we just joke around really)
 We’ll probably be making tsirts/shirts (for which you’ll have to pay obv, if
you want them that is…

4. Q1
 FLIPKART was started off in a flat whose number was 610, in a housing
society in Bangalore. What did they do to immortalize the number?

5. Held on (6/10)/year

6. Q2
 Rock’s law or “_____’s” second law states that cost of semiconductor chip
fabrication plant doubles every four years
 FITB

7. Moore
 Gordon Moore, co-founder of intel

8. Q3
 It is believed that, X was a large canon, which was used during the English
Civil War (1642-1649) in the siege of Colchester(13 June 1648 – 27
August1648). It was strategically placed on the wall next to St Mary’s
Church. A shot from a parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the
wall beneath the ground. The Royalists, or Cavaliers attempted to raise X
on to another part of the wall, but because the cannon was so heavy that
they couldn’t place it back. Identify X
 (try relating it to something which is famous for the same reason)

9. Humpty Dumpty

10. Q4
 Forces from USA went to Iraq but faced a big problem, i.e the sand from
the sandstorms would block their guns. So they placed a peculiar order of
one million of some product to protect their guns. What did they order to
protect their guns?

11. Condoms

12. Q5 what is common among the
following movies?
 The world is not enough(1999)
 Cecil b. demented(2000)
 Crouching tiger, hidden dragon(2000)
 Perfect strangers(2003)tacolino(2004)
 National treasure (2004)
 Tentacolino(2004)
 King kong(2005)
 Kidnap(2008)
 Red(2010)
 Highway(2014)

13. Stockholm syndrome
 The person who gets kidnapped falls in love with the kidnapper

14. Q6
 __.______ is an application debugger included with the windows operating
system. It is usually named, among other things, dwwin.exe. The original
diagnostic name of the tool was “Sherlock”, the idea being that is would
collect error information following a problem. Starting with windows vista
__.______ has been replaced by “Problem Reports and Solutions”
 FITB

15. Dr.Watson

16. Q7

17. The last pic was a poem consisting
entirely of Xisms
 “Xisms" are unconventional words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms,
and semantic or linguistic errors in the public speaking of X. The term has
become part of popular folklore and is the basis of a number of websites
and published books. It is often used to caricature X. Common
characteristics include malapropisms(use of a word in incorrect contexts),
the creation of neologisms(new words), spoonerisms(an error in speech or
deliberate play on words ), stunt words and grammatically incorrect
subject–verb agreement.

18. ‘Bush’isms

19. Q8
 X was started by Ranbir singh and Gurbax singh in 1937 as a distributor for
a Japanese company shionogi.
 The owners now are Shilvinder and Malvinder singh

20. Ranbaxy
the name is a portmanteau of Ranbir
and Gurbax

21. Q9
 In Middle English, “pygg” referred to a type of clay used for making
household objects like jars. People also saved money in kitchen pots and
jars made of pygg,called “pygg jars”. By the 18h century, the spelling of
“pygg” had changed and the term “pygg jar” had evolved to X.

22. Piggy Bank

23. Q10 Who is George Lazenby referring
to?

24. Sean Connery(previous James Bond)
Bond in the video says,"this never
happened to the other fellow"

25. Q11
 Mir Rajan Negi, was the goalkeeping coach of the Indian women’s hockey
team which won the gold at the 2002 commonwealth games. Where was it
held and which character is based on the life of Negi?

26. Kabir khan in chak de india
manchester

27. Q12
 In the history of Manchester united, Munich air disaster is considered to be
its darkest moment in which so famed “busby babes” were present on that
plane. 20 odd people were killed due to some failure experienced on the
plane. They were returning from X after playing with Y. identify X and Y

28. x= Belgrade y= red star Belgrade

29. Q13
 “when I’m 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I’ll be reading Harry
Potter. And my family will say to me, after all this time? And I will say,
‘______’
 -X
 Fill in the blanks and also give me X

30. ‘Always’
X= Alan Rickman

31. Q14
 The early days of motor travel took place on primitive roads that were
littered with stray horseshoe nails. Punctures (flat tires) were all too
common, and required the motorist to remove the wheel from the car,
demount the tire, patch the inner tube, re-mount the tire, inflate the tire,
and re-mount the wheel.
 To alleviate this time consuming process, Walter and Tom Davies of
Llanelli, Wales, invented the spare tire in 1904. their company, X iron
Mongers, had agents distributing the X(which was the device used to
alleviate the process even further) to the United States, Belgium, France,
and Italy.

32. Stepney

33. Q15
 The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard
Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make up a
nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would
supply a meaning for it. After a performance one evening, he gave his staff
cards with the word X written on them, and told them to write the word
was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the
language.
 The most detailed account of this supposed exploit (in F. T. Porter’s
Gleanings and Reminiscences, 1875) gives it’s date as 1791. the word,
however, was already in use by then.
 What is the word X?

34. QUIZ

35. Thank you for bearing with us