Qryptonite General Quiz Bitotsav 2013 QBIT

2. 1. The following images were taken on two
consecutive days recently. People rejoiced on
seeing the white smoke. What was going on in
the buliding?

4. Selection of the Pope

5. 2. ID the cartoonist.

7. Raj Thackeray

8. 3. The Turing Test is used to tell humans and computers
apart. The most well known use of the test is these
images that we have to type, usually when logging into
some website. What are these pictures of distorted text
called?

10. CAPTCHA

11. 4. In which book will you find the following
chapters:
The Three Aims of Life
The Acquisition of Knowledge
The Art of Scratching
The Conduct of the Well-bred Townsman
The Task of Go-Between
Ways of Making Money
Occasional Profits

13. Kamasutra!

14. 5. This country’s flag portrays the 27
stars as they would be seen by an
imaginary observer an infinite distance
above _________ standing outside the
firmament in which the stars are
meant to be placed. Each star
represents a specific state. The flag
also has the motto “Order and
Progress”.
Which country are we talking about?

16. Brazil

17. 6. ID the iconic series from this
minimal poster.

20. 7. Funda of the Doodle.

22. The Delhi Gang Rape

23. 8. The Football or the Teal Button is the name of a Zero
Halliburton suitcase, believed to be black in colour in the
United States. The Russian counterpart of the Football is
called the Cheget.
The contents of the suitcase have never been made public, or
been put into use.
What do these suit cases contain?

25. Nuclear Launch Codes

26. 9. ID

28. Tarak Mehta

29. 10. Rules of what?
1. All players must wear a _________ mask
2. Any player may declare a new rule at any
point in the game. The player may do this
audibly or silently depending on what zone the
player is in.
3. A player may use the ______ in any way the
player see fits, whether it be to incur injury
upon other players or to gain benefits for
himself.
4. Any penalty legislation may be in the form of
pain, embarassment, or any degradation the
rulee wishes to execute upon the other player.

31. Calvinball

32. 11. What rather famous question does the following
description answer?
Single phase IMs use shorted wire loops on a rotating
armature and obtain their torque from currents
produced in these loops by the changing magnetic field
produced in the stator (stationary) coils.
3 Phase IMs : When three currents flow through the
three symmetrically placed windings, a sinusoidally
distributed air gap flux generating the rotor current is
produced. The interaction of the sinusoidally
distributed air gap flux and rotor currents produces a
torque on the rotor.

34. ‘How does an induction motor start?’

35. 12. ID the last person in this Wikipedia list.

37. Bear Grylls

38. 13. The Wheaton is a
recent unit of
measurement. The base
of measurement is Will
Wheaton, with one
Wheaton representing
half-a-million units. Will
himself has 4 Wheatons.
The milliwheaton is more
commonly used.What is
measured in Wheatons?

40. Number of followers on Twitter

41. 14. “Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man
is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care
of himself without police protection is both. It is as
cowardly to betray an offender to justice, even though
his offences be against yourself, as it is not to avenge
an injury by violence. It is dastardly and contemptible in
a wounded man to betray the name of his assailant,
because if he recovers, he must naturally expect to take
vengeance himself.”
What is this oath better known as?

43. Omerta

44. 15. ID the logo.

46. Google Fiber
The Internet service by Google

47. 16. What is this the list of?
1. AmitabhBacchan
2.The Truth Alone Triumphs
3. A bow and arrow
4. Surdas
5. Benjamin Franklin
6. Samuel Colt
7. London
8. Jack Hobbs
9. Aramis

49. The answers to questions asked in
Slumdog Millionaire

50. 17. A ________ ________ (two words) is a
fraudulent investment operation that pays
returns to its investors from their own money
or the money paid by subsequent investors,
rather than from profit earned by the
individual or organization running the
operation. The ______ _______usually
entices new investors by offering higher
returns than other investments, in the form
of short-term returns that are either
abnormally high or unusually consistent.
Perpetuation of the high returns requires an
ever-increasing flow of money from new
investors to keep the scheme going.
It has been named after Charles _____ , who
became notorious for using this technique in
1920
Fill in the blank.

52. Ponzi Scheme

53. 18. A blue box is an
unauthorized electronic
device that generates the
same tones employed by a
telephone operator's
dialing console to switch
long-distance calls.
Steve Wozniak invented
one of the first blue boxes,
which enabled him to
manipulate telephone
networks.
What is this ‘hacking’ of
telephone networks
called?

55. Phreaking

56. 19. Ad for what?

59. 20. ID.

61. Charlie Chaplin

62. 21. Again, ID.

64. Hugo Chavez