Quiz

1. MS HALL QUIZ
03/03/2015
•40 Questions
•Half Answer-0.5
•Full Answer-1.0
•Questions 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40 are star marked questions.
ANKUR SINGH

2. Question 1
•X is a family-owned global fashion accessory
manufacturer and retailer with acting headquarters
located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Organised into three
business units: X Europe, based in Italy; X Emerging
Market (Asia, Pacific, Africa and Latin America), based in
Singapore, and X Protective (worldwide B2B operations),
based in the Netherlands, the organisation has a retail
presence in over 70 countries and production facilities in
26 countries. It was started by Tomáš X. Identify X

3. Answer 1
Bata

4. Question 2
United States Bullion Depository often known as X,
is a fortified vault building located adjacent to X,
Kentucky, used to store a large portion of United
States official gold reserves and occasionally other
precious items belonging or entrusted to the
federal government. The exact amount of bullion
stored at X is classified, known only to the United
States Treasury and the United States Department
of Defence. Identify X.

5. Answer 2
Fort Knox

6. Question 3
This memorial is found in
Torun, Poland which is his
birthplace.
Whose memorial?

7. Answer 3
Copernicus

8. Question 4
Fill in the blank…Excerpts from the television commentary during the
England - Pakistan Test series in 2011-12.
David Lloyd - ...During the Lancashire leagues, derby games used to be
very competitive and local teams across the road would _________ the
other if they lost. Literally _________ them.
Waqar Younis – Excellent, is that the origin of the term?
David Lloyd – I don’t know. But it would be very funny if someone carried
buckets to _________ Lords.

9. Answer 4
Whitewash

10. Question 5
Name the chemical element which was first
isolated by Berzelius and takes it name from
Persian for "gold like" because its chief
mineral is similar to gold and also finds
mention in the Bible?
If you arrange all the elements of the Periodic
Table alphabetically, this element will be at
the very end of the list.

11. Answer 5
Zirconium

12. Question 6
The table below lists the number of ‘peaks’ in
which popular edible brand? Size Peaks
Mini 3
35g 9
50g 11
75g 11
100g 12
200g 15
400g 15
750g 17

13. Answer 6
Toblerone Chocolate

14. Question 7
Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay in 1849,
in which he argues that individuals should not
permit governments to overrule their
conscience and that they have a duty to avoid
allowing such submission. This essay
influenced Mahatma Gandhi and his idea of
Satyagraha. Under what two-word title is this
essay more famous as?

15. Answer 7
Civil Disobediance

16. Question 8
Steve Jobs supposedly met Drew Houston in
2009 to buy his startup and incorporate it into
Apple. However, Houston sent Jobs away
empty-handed. When Jobs took this idea
forward with iCloud, he specifically criticized
Houston’s product. ID the product, which has
more than 25 million users today

17. Answer 8
Dropbox

18. Question 9
• Y wanted to do medicine, but couldn’t get
a seat. So she did biology before training
in the UK to be a brewmaster. Y became
India’s first female brewmaster only to
find that breweries in India did not want
women on the ground. Today she’s made
it large elsewhere, and her mantra is “The
difference lies in our DNA”.

19. Answer 9
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

20. Question 10
In 1987, “Mendax” formed a hacking group called the
International Subversives. Mendax wrote the rules of his
group: "Don't damage computer systems you break into
(including crashing them); don't change the information
in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your
tracks); and share information". What was Mendax’s real
name?

21. Answer 10
Julian Assange

22. Question 11
Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home
Base, Watertown Strip, Homey
Airport and Groom Lake have all
been used to refer to this place.
How do we know it better?

23. Answer 11
Area 51

24. Question 12
Which Global company started in
1983, HQ'd in NY, gets its name from
a portmanteau of two words:
1. the Latin word for 'truth'
2. the Greek word for 'separating
circle'?

25. Answer 12
Verizon , from veritas and horizon

26. Question 13
A Japanese jeweler is selling a
solid gold replica of X's left foot.
The asking price for the 55-pound
statue is $5.25 million.
The detailed golden foot -- the
statue is complete with blood
vessels and swirls of skin on the
bottom of the toes -- was created
by Tokyo-based jeweler Ginza
Tanaka

27. Answer 13
Lionel Messi

28. Question 14
The direct translation of this dog breed’s name was adopted for use in the
official breed registry; however, at the conclusion of World War I, it was
believed that the inclusion of the word “______" would harm the breed's
popularity, due to the prevailing sentiment of the era. The breed was
officially renamed by the UK Kennel Club, a name which was also adopted by
many other international kennel clubs. Eventually, the appendage "wolf dog"
was dropped. The name remained for five decades, until 1977, when
successful campaigns by dog enthusiasts pressured the British kennel clubs
to allow the breed to be registered again as _______.
Which dog breed?

29. Answer 14
German Shephard /Alsatian

30. Question 15
The franchise began with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team,
the Detroit Gems of the NBL. The new team began playing in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, calling themselves the _____ in honor of
the state's nickname. They won five championships in Minneapolis,
propelled by center George Mikan, who is described by the official
website as the league's "first superstar". After struggling financially
in the late 1950s following Mikan's retirement, they relocated to
their current location before the 1960–61 season.
Which franchise?

31. Answer 15
Los Angeles Lakers

32. Question 16
•A summary of X's special qualities:
•With X, Y would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted,
whatever his aim, and X would never fail, and if he threw it
at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from
his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he
wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside
his tunic.
•X ?

33. Answer 16
Thor’s Hammer(Mjölnir)

34. Question 17
The Bone Wars, also known as the "Great Dinosaur Rush", refers to a period of intense
fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a
heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.
In 1877 Marsh wrote a short two-paragraph article for the American Journal of Science
that didn't have illustrations and included only a description of the animal's vertebral
column. Marsh named the creature ________, meaning "deceptive lizard". In that
same year, in another short article in the same journal, Marsh claimed finding another
dinosaur based on a description of the pelvis and vertebrae. He named this one X.
The X soon went on to become one of the most famous dinosaur species of all time. A
nearly complete skeleton found by Marsh was mounted in Yale's Peabody Museum.
There it captured the public's imagination as did a beautiful illustration Marsh
published in US Geological Survey, 1895.
In his rush to beat Cope, Marsh had made a mistake, however. The _______ was not a
separate species, but simply a juvenile example of X. In 1903 Elmer Riggs of the Field
Museum in Chicago was studying Marsh's work when he found this mistake:
X?

35. Answer 17
Brontosauras

36. Question 18
• In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a
patent for X. Vitale called her invention a "package saver" and
used that term also as the title of her patent, but it has since
been renamed the “X" since that has become its most common
use. The patent (#4,498,586) was filed on February 10, 1983,
and issued on February 12, 1985.
X ?

37. Answer 18
Pizza Saver

38. Question 19
•Company X was created in 1665 by Louis XIV’s Minister
of Finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to break Venice’s
monopoly in a particular field. X supplied the most vitals
raw materials for the location Y pictured that came up in
1684 and as a result, this fact is reflected in the logo of
X.
•Gimme X and Y. Also identify the event taking place.
•Image in the next slide.

39. Question 19

40. Answer 19
Treaty Of Versailles

41. Question 20
• ID X.
Jerry Haleva is an American actor famous for his physical similarities to X.
All of his film roles are based on this. He’s acted in movies like:
• Hot Shots! (1991)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)
• Live from ________ .

42. Answer 20
Saddam Hussein

43. Question 21
What practice was started in 1301 by King
Edward I after his win over the native
provinces of Wales?

44. Answer 21
He had defeated the native princes of Wales, and
hence the King named his son “Prince of Wales”.
Since then the eldest son of the King or Queen of
England has traditionally been given this title.

45. Question 22
This poem was written after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Repeated
metaphorical reference is made to this issue throughout the verse. The
"ship" spoken of is intended to represent the United States of America
with Lincoln at the helm as referenced in the title, while its "fearful trip"
recalls the troubles of the American Civil War.
Which poem? Poet?

46. Answer 22
“O Captain! My Captain!” By Walt Whitman

47. Question 23
This form of Indian folk drama begun in the early eighteenth
century in Maharashtra, as entertainment for encamped
armies. In many forms of Indian folk theatre, men are cast in
the major roles. A woman, however, plays the leading female
role in this one. These plays, which are known to be bawdy,
have become commercially successful in the twentieth century.
Name this hilarious form of drama. (Pun intended)

48. Answer 23
Tamasha

49. Question 24

50. Answer 24
Karmakar’s Algorithm

51. Questions 25
xkcd mocking what?

52. Answer 25
The Chronicles Of Narnia

53. Questions 26
Technically a sharbat, this “Refresher of Soul” is a slightly too-sweet concentrate of the kind introduced
into India by the Mughals. The ingredients include the essences of coriander, orange, pineapple,
carrot, rose petals, spinach and mint.
It is generally mixed with cold water/milk/lassi and consumed, though it can also be had from the
ice-candy (Chuski) vendors who stand with containers of ice and among other flavours, bottles of the
concentrate.
Its appearance and its flavour even moved the 20th-century Urdu poet Sa'il Dehlvi to verse. Its colour
"enchants your heart" and its fragrance "outstrips that of the flowers," he wrote. "Never has there
been a sharbat like _____, and never will there be.“Identify.

54. Answer 26
Rooh-Afza

55. Questions 27
X is a one-movement work of music that is episodic
yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring
a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and
tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a
sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a
set of variations. The most famous use of the word
X is as part of the name of a song which, strictly
speaking, is not an X.

56. Answer 27
Rhapsody

57. Questions 28
• “Death by X” is a term used as a criticism of the overuse of X
which causes a state of boredom and fatigue induced by
information overload. It is argued that X is a convenient prop for
poor speakers, it can reduce complicated messages to simple
points and it elevates style over substance; and that these three
things contribute to its popularity. In fact, there is an Anti X
party in Switzerland dedicated to decrease professional use of X
and other similar tools, which the party claims "causes
national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" and
“lowers the quality in 95% of the cases”.

58. Answer 28
Microsoft PowerPoint

59. Questions 29
The Birkenhead Drill was so named because the first
documented use concerned the wrecking of the Royal
Navy troopship HMS Birkenhead in 1852, which was
memorialized in newspapers and paintings of the time,
and in poems such as Rudyard Kipling's "Soldier an' Sailor
Too." . But it is most famously associated with the sinking
of another ship. In a non-naval context, this principle was
also famously applied during the Siege of Lucknow. How
do we better know the Birkenhead Drill?

60. Answer 29
Women & Children First

61. Questions 30
• In Dec 2011, The Museum of the City of New York in collaboration
with VandM, released a series of “city life” photos (after going through
over 10,000 negatives) taken by a photographer throughout the 1940s
and 50s while employed at Look magazine. Who was this photographer,
who at the time of taking these snaps was the youngest ever in Look’s
history?

62. Answer 30
Stanley Kubrick

63. Questions 31
X named after the
town of X in France is
produced in the wine-
growing
region surrounding
the town from which
it takes its name.
What is X?

64. Answer 31
Cognac

65. Questions 32
X(a three word phrase) is commonly used as a boastful claim of dominance
over the intended listener. The phrase itself stands out as a noteworthy lyric
from the 1968 song "Time of the Season", by The Zombies.
• Denzel Washington playing Coach Boone in Remember the Titans (2000)
uses the line to initiate dominance over two student athletes.
• " ____ ____ _____ " is also a line used to demean his female porn partners
by the character "Rock Harders" in the film Boogie Nights(1997).
• In the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Angelina Jolie speaks the phrase after
taking down adversary Brad Pitt.
• In an episode of Stargate SG-1 Jack O'Neill calls out ____ ____ _____ after
finishing off a horde of Replicators, using a new form of weapon. Gimme X.

66. Answer 32

67. Questions 33
The term X was coined in 1865 by Rudolf Clausius based on the
Greek for ”a turning toward “. The meaning of X radically
changes based on the context in which it is used and hence is
considered to be difficult to define absolutely. X in a different
form is also considered by many to be an abstract causative
factor for the evolution of life. The 1944 book What is
Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrödinger stimulated
research on a large scale on the relation between X and life . In
this book, Schrödinger states that life feeds on negative X.
Most people probably know X in a way defined by Rudolf
Clausius. What is X?

68. Answer 33
Entropy

69. Questions 34
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. is an American singer. Shortly after
graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six
months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after
his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on
several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular
theme song to the film Deep Cover. His debut album _________
during the recording of which he was charged with murder. The
album released in 1993 under Death Row Records made a debut at
No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Most of his albums have a part of his
name in them. How do we better know Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. ?

70. Answer 34
Snoop dogg

71. Questions 35
Brian Philip Calusky is
a fictional supervillain in the Marvel
Comics universe. He is a member of
the Wrecker's Wrecking Crew. The
character was created by Len
Wein and Sal Buscema and first appeared
in Defenders #17. His more famous name
is the same as a mechanical device used
to drive _____ into soil to
provide foundation support for buildings
or other structures. The term is also used
in reference to members of the
construction crew that work with these
devices. What is the name?

72. Answer 35
Piledriver

73. Questions 36
ID the Flag

74. Answer 36
Mars

75. Questions 37
• _____ ___ is an intentional hidden message, feature or a joke in
programs, games, web pages etc.
• It first appeared in the game Adventure by Atari where a pixel
dot appeared and allowed the player to walk through walls,
displaying the game designer’s name.
• Excel 95 had a doom like action game.
• VLC media player’s traffic cone logo changes to a cone wearing
a Santa's hat during Christmas.
• More recently typing the words “let it snow” in Google search
causes snow fall and frosting of the screen

76. Answer 37
Easter Egg

77. Questions 38
•Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila are founders of Y,
a company based in Florida, which is one of the
world’s best in making high-end versions of a very
common product. According to employees, they
chose the name Y, because of their fondness
towards the hit television show, The X-Files.
•What is Y?

78. Answer 38
Alienware

79. Questions 39
•Mexico - ‘refresco’ – (a brand of soft drink)
•Brazil – ‘cervijinha’ – (a small beer)
•Iraq – (a small coffee)
•France or North Africa – un petit cadeau
•Malaysia – kopi duit
•India - ?

80. Answer 39
“chai pani” (or any other local and
spirited euphemism for a bribe)

81. Questions 40
• From 1884, there were officially two in India: Bombay &
Calcutta
• An unofficial one was used by the Railways: Madras
• (soon became de facto)
• One more at Port Blair
• Official one changed in 1905, still used

82. Answer 40
Time Zones