2. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Rules
• 21 questions – for shagun.
• 4 star marked questions – 3, 8, 13, and
18.
• 6 teams move on to the finals.
3. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q1.
• For years, super-fans of X have put all his
work under a microscope and come to the
theory that his films exist within the same
world.
• While talking to Australia's the Project, the
Oscar winner confirmed the theory, but also
added that there are some movies of his that
are movies that characters in other movies of
his would watch - essentially, fictions inside a
fiction.
4. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q2.
• Orissa X is a geographically tagged product of Odisha. Also known
as "Bandha of Orissa", it is made through a process of tie-dying the
warp and weft threads to create the design on the loom prior to
weaving. It is unlike any other X woven in the rest of the country due
to its design process, which has been called "poetry on the
loom." This design is in vogue only at the western and eastern
regions of Orissa; similar designs are produced by community
groups called the Bhulia, Kostha Asani, and Patara.
• Saris made out of this fabric feature bands of brocade in the borders
and also at the ends, called anchal or pallu. Its forms are
purposefully feathered, giving the edges a "hazy and fragile"
appearance. This silk has been registered for protection under the
Geographical indication of the Trade Related Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS) agreement. In 2007, it was listed as "Orissa X"
under the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India.
• Identify X? (Picture on next slide)
6. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q3*.
• X is an antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish
plan for global domination.
• The text was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into
multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early
part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its
publishers, X is the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where
Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish hegemony by
subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and
the world's economies.
• Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed
throughout the US in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler was a major proponent.
It was studied, as if factual, in German classrooms after the Nazis
came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent
by The Times of London in 1921.
• ID X, please.
7. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q4.
• X was originally designed and programmed by Russian
programmer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984,
while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of
the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.
• He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix ____,
and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
• X is a popular use of the four-element special case of
polyominoes. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed
by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge.
Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at
least 1907,
• Id X, often rated as one of the most popular things of it’s type.
8. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q5.
• Tradition suggests that Thomas Wolsey first served X with Y
at a banquet in 1509. It isn't entirely clear where he got the
idea to put the two together, though X had been known in
Europe since Roman times, when they were used to help with
labour pains and bad breath. They were known to have anti-
inflammatory properties.
• And as a dairy product, Y was more associated with peasant
fare than the kind of banquets fit for a king, though there is a
link back to medieval Bavaria, when baskets of X were hung
to encourage the cows to provide better milk yields.
• The combination could also have originated at wedding
breakfasts in rural France, which used to include a tradition of
X with Y.
9. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q6.
• Vinyl records used to play music were banned by the
Nazis during their occupation of France. Hence,
underground venues sprang up where French youth
would gather to dance to the forbidden sounds of jazz
and swing, giving rise to particular word, initially used
to refer to any place which stored these records. The
word remained after the war, spreading through
Europe to refer to any establishment of this sort.
• It travelled to America — likely in the mind of returning
GIs — and began to take root in North America as well.
• It’s shortened version, at one point described a type
of dress worn to such establishments. Now use of the
shorter form is commonplace.
10. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q7.
• X, “a Bemusement Park”, was a temporary art project
organised by street artist Banksy opened in Weston-super-
Mare in England in late August 2015.
• Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana,
a disused lido, was "a sinister twist on Disneyland“. Banksy
described it as a "family theme park unsuitable for
children.“
• Banksy created ten new works and funded the construction
of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists of the
60 Banksy originally invited to participate.
• For one exhibit, the books of Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer
of Weston-super-Mare, a British criminal, novelist and
former politician, were burned each day in a fire pit.
13. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q8*.
• An X is a terse saying, expressing a general truth,
principle, or astute observation, and spoken or written
in a laconic and memorable form. X literally means a
"distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in
the Xs of Hippocrates.
• Examples include:
• “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience
deceptive, judgement difficult.”
• “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely.”
• “Who controls the past controls the future. Who
controls the present controls the past.”
• ID X, please.
14. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q9.
• X’s contributions to the science fiction genre as publisher were so significant
that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes
called "The Father of Science Fiction".
• In 1925, X founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor
of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the
first television broadcasts.
• X was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry, importing radio parts from
Europe to the United States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless." In
April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about
both electronics and radio, called "wireless" at the time.
• Under its auspices, in January 1909, he founded the Wireless Association of
America, which had 10 000 members within a year. In 1913, he founded a
similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which became Science and
Invention in 1920.
• In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction
Convention are named the “Xs”.
15. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q10.
• X is a town on the Coromandel coast. It is believed to
have existed since the 3rd century BCE, and was called
“Maisolos” by Ptolemy.It was an important port and the
word muslin originated from the name Maisolos,as it was
an important trading centre for the commodity.
• When Marco Polo visited the place circa 1289-1293,he
called the place Mutfiliffn.
• The East India Company also built its first factory in India
here and it became a 17th-century trading port for
French, British and Dutch ships.
• A currently mid-sized public sector bank was also
established here in 1923.
• ID X, please.
16. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q11.
• X, is a road in Lutyens' Delhi, which was formerly
called Albuquerque Road. The name of the road
commemorates the martyrdom of Mahatma
Gandhi. He spent the last five months of his life, or
144 days, as guest of the Birla family, at Birla
House (situated on this road).The Birla residence
was purchased by the Government of India in
1966 to house the Gandhi Smriti.
• The National Defence College of India is situated
right next to the Gandhi Smriti.
• Simply ID X, please.
17. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q12.
• Starting with only a group of 10 in 2009, it now has 40 members, made up
largely of Sydneysiders.
• During the famous Sydney test for the past 6 years, they are seated in rows
of 10, divided on geographical lines. This year there was a South Coast row,
consisting of fans from Minnamurra and Kiama. Next year, there will be a
crew from Coffs Harbour and the central coast.
• Their kit includes a silver wig, a suit, and a microphone sporting Channel
Nine's Wide World of Sports logo and a number, from one to 40, according
to which row and seat they are placed in.
• Their goal is to fill an entire bay and to have day two become a celebration
of _________ , just as the third day has become Jane McGrath Day, when
fans are encouraged to wear pink in honour of the McGrath Foundation, a
charity raising the awareness of breast cancer.
• According to Michael Hennessy- "To be honest, being Gen X, I've only
really seen him at his best commentating but if you look back and dig a bit
deeper he was a flamboyant all-rounder, great leggie, an aggressive
batsman and you just love him more and more.
• This group is known as X in honour of this cricket legend.
• Id X
18. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q13*.
• The Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India,
is an imposing gateway which was built under the
patronage of Nawab Asaf-Ud-dowlah in 1784.
• It is an example of Awadhi architecture. Being an
entrance to the city of Lucknow, Russell, the reporter
of The New York Times who accompanied the
victorious British army that entered Lucknow in 1858,
after India's First War of Independence, had called the
stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil
the most beautiful and spectacular cityscape that he
had ever seen, better than Rome, Paris, London and
Constantinople.
• This grand sixty foot tall structure was used in
something that symbolizes modernization. What?
19. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q14.
• X is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss
canton of Grisons, where it has official status alongside German and Italian
and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in X-speaking areas.
• X has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since
1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian
since 1996.
• X is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire,
which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages
previously spoken in the area, although X retains a small number of words
from these languages.
• The earliest writing identified as X dates from the 10th or 11th century,
although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several
regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a further
shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival and the start of a
language movement dedicated to halting the decline of the language.
• ID X, please.
20. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q15.
• This version of "Unchained Melody” stayed
at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart,
selling more than 1.8 million copies and
becoming the best-selling single of 1995.
• How do we know one of the people from
the duo now?
• <Video on next slide>
22. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q16.
• X Vedanta is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious
practice. X refers to the idea that the true Self, Atman, is the
same as the highest reality. It gives "a unifying interpretation
of the whole body of Upanishads“, providing scriptural
authority for the postulation of the non-duality
of Atman and Brahman. It emphasizes Jivanmukta, the idea
that moksha is achievable in this life.
• The principal, though not the first, exponent of the X Vedanta-
interpretation was Adi Shankara in the 8th century.
• In contrast, the Y Vedanta school believes that God (Vishnu,
supreme soul) and the individual souls exist as independent
realities, and these are distinct.
• ID X and Y.
23. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q17.
• “Doin’ It with Class: The X Dot to Dot” is a
connect-the-dots book by X.
• It was released by Sugoi Books (the same
people responsible for the Drake Coloring
Book).
• “We’re taking X, in all her beauty and self
confidence, and exploring her image, putting
her body in lots of different scenarios,” said a
Sugoi spokesperson.
• ID X, please.
24. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q18*.
• The story of the city of X is recorded in Genesis 11:1–9.
• Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people
migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar.
People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a
tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves,
so that they not be scattered over the world.
• God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked
that as one people with one language, nothing that they
sought would be out of their reach. God went down and
confounded their speech, so that they could not understand
each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and
they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called X.
25. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q19.
• The following are excerpt from a book called Bard of the
Deal by Hart Seeley. What is the book about?
30. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q1.
• For years, super-fans of X have put all his
work under a microscope and come to the
theory that his films exist within the same
world.
• While talking to Australia's the Project, the
Oscar winner confirmed the theory, but also
added that there are some movies of his that
are movies that characters in other movies of
his would watch - essentially, fictions inside a
fiction.
32. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q2.
• Orissa X is a geographically tagged product of Odisha. Also known
as "Bandha of Orissa", it is made through a process of tie-dying the
warp and weft threads to create the design on the loom prior to
weaving. It is unlike any other X woven in the rest of the country due
to its design process, which has been called "poetry on the
loom." This design is in vogue only at the western and eastern
regions of Orissa; similar designs are produced by community
groups called the Bhulia, Kostha Asani, and Patara.
• Saris made out of this fabric feature bands of brocade in the borders
and also at the ends, called anchal or pallu. Its forms are
purposefully feathered, giving the edges a "hazy and fragile"
appearance. This silk has been registered for protection under the
Geographical indication of the Trade Related Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS) agreement. In 2007, it was listed as "Orissa X"
under the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India.
• Identify X? (Picture on next slide)
35. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q3*.
• X is an antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a Jewish
plan for global domination.
• The text was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into
multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early
part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its
publishers, X is the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where
Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish hegemony by
subverting the morals of Gentiles, and by controlling the press and
the world's economies.
• Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed
throughout the US in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler was a major proponent.
It was studied, as if factual, in German classrooms after the Nazis
came to power in 1933, despite having been exposed as fraudulent
by The Times of London in 1921.
• ID X, please.
36. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A3.
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or The
Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned
Elders of Zion
37. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q4.
• X was originally designed and programmed by Russian
programmer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984,
while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of
the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.
• He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix ____,
and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
• X is a popular use of the four-element special case of
polyominoes. A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed
by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge.
Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at
least 1907,
• Id X, often rated as one of the most popular things of it’s type.
39. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q5.
• Tradition suggests that Thomas Wolsey first served X with Y
at a banquet in 1509. It isn't entirely clear where he got the
idea to put the two together, though X had been known in
Europe since Roman times, when they were used to help with
labour pains and bad breath. They were known to have anti-
inflammatory properties.
• And as a dairy product, Y was more associated with peasant
fare than the kind of banquets fit for a king, though there is a
link back to medieval Bavaria, when baskets of X were hung
to encourage the cows to provide better milk yields.
• The combination could also have originated at wedding
breakfasts in rural France, which used to include a tradition of
X with Y.
41. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q6.
• Vinyl records used to play music were banned by the
Nazis during their occupation of France. Hence,
underground venues sprang up where French youth
would gather to dance to the forbidden sounds of jazz
and swing, giving rise to particular word, initially used
to refer to any place which stored these records. The
word remained after the war, spreading through
Europe to refer to any establishment of this sort.
• It travelled to America — likely in the mind of returning
GIs — and began to take root in North America as well.
• It’s shortened version, at one point described a type
of dress worn to such establishments. Now use of the
shorter form is commonplace.
43. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q7.
• X, “a Bemusement Park”, was a temporary art project
organised by street artist Banksy opened in Weston-super-
Mare in England in late August 2015.
• Prepared in secret, the pop-up exhibition at the Tropicana,
a disused lido, was "a sinister twist on Disneyland“. Banksy
described it as a "family theme park unsuitable for
children.“
• Banksy created ten new works and funded the construction
of the exhibition himself. The show featured 58 artists of the
60 Banksy originally invited to participate.
• For one exhibit, the books of Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer
of Weston-super-Mare, a British criminal, novelist and
former politician, were burned each day in a fire pit.
47. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q8*.
• An X is a terse saying, expressing a general truth,
principle, or astute observation, and spoken or written
in a laconic and memorable form. X literally means a
"distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in
the Xs of Hippocrates.
• Examples include:
• “Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience
deceptive, judgement difficult.”
• “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely.”
• “Who controls the past controls the future. Who
controls the present controls the past.”
• ID X, please.
49. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q9.
• X’s contributions to the science fiction genre as publisher were so significant
that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes
called "The Father of Science Fiction".
• In 1925, X founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor
of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the
first television broadcasts.
• X was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry, importing radio parts from
Europe to the United States and helping to popularize amateur "wireless." In
April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about
both electronics and radio, called "wireless" at the time.
• Under its auspices, in January 1909, he founded the Wireless Association of
America, which had 10 000 members within a year. In 1913, he founded a
similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which became Science and
Invention in 1920.
• In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction
Convention are named the “Xs”.
50. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A9.
• Hugo Gernsback
• Award: Hugos
51. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q10.
• X is a town on the Coromandel coast. It is believed to
have existed since the 3rd century BCE, and was called
“Maisolos” by Ptolemy.It was an important port and the
word muslin originated from the name Maisolos,as it was
an important trading centre for the commodity.
• When Marco Polo visited the place circa 1289-1293,he
called the place Mutfiliffn.
• The East India Company also built its first factory in India
here and it became a 17th-century trading port for
French, British and Dutch ships.
• A currently mid-sized public sector bank was also
established here in 1923.
• ID X, please.
52. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A10.
• Machilipatnam or Masulipatam
53. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q11.
• X, is a road in Lutyens' Delhi, which was formerly
called Albuquerque Road. The name of the road
commemorates the martyrdom of Mahatma
Gandhi. He spent the last five months of his life, or
144 days, as guest of the Birla family, at Birla
House (situated on this road).The Birla residence
was purchased by the Government of India in
1966 to house the Gandhi Smriti.
• The National Defence College of India is situated
right next to the Gandhi Smriti.
• Simply ID X, please.
55. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q12.
• Starting with only a group of 10 in 2009, it now has 40 members, made up
largely of Sydneysiders.
• During the famous Sydney test for the past 6 years, they are seated in rows
of 10, divided on geographical lines. This year there was a South Coast row,
consisting of fans from Minnamurra and Kiama. Next year, there will be a
crew from Coffs Harbour and the central coast.
• Their kit includes a silver wig, a suit, and a microphone sporting Channel
Nine's Wide World of Sports logo and a number, from one to 40, according
to which row and seat they are placed in.
• Their goal is to fill an entire bay and to have day two become a celebration
of _________ , just as the third day has become Jane McGrath Day, when
fans are encouraged to wear pink in honour of the McGrath Foundation, a
charity raising the awareness of breast cancer.
• According to Michael Hennessy- "To be honest, being Gen X, I've only
really seen him at his best commentating but if you look back and dig a bit
deeper he was a flamboyant all-rounder, great leggie, an aggressive
batsman and you just love him more and more.
• This group is known as X in honour of this cricket legend.
56. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A12.
• Ritchie Benaud Support crowd.
57. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q13*.
• The Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India,
is an imposing gateway which was built under the
patronage of Nawab Asaf-Ud-dowlah in 1784.
• It is an example of Awadhi architecture. Being an
entrance to the city of Lucknow, Russell, the reporter
of The New York Times who accompanied the
victorious British army that entered Lucknow in 1858,
after India's First War of Independence, had called the
stretch of road from Rumi Darwaza to Chattar Manzil
the most beautiful and spectacular cityscape that he
had ever seen, better than Rome, Paris, London and
Constantinople.
• This grand sixty foot tall structure was used in
something that symbolizes modernization. What?
58. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A13.
• Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation logo
59. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q14.
• X is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss
canton of Grisons, where it has official status alongside German and Italian
and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in X-speaking areas.
• X has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since
1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian
since 1996.
• X is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire,
which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages
previously spoken in the area, although X retains a small number of words
from these languages.
• The earliest writing identified as X dates from the 10th or 11th century,
although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several
regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a further
shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival and the start of a
language movement dedicated to halting the decline of the language.
• ID X, please.
61. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q15.
• This version of "Unchained Melody” stayed
at number 1 for 7 weeks on the UK Chart,
selling more than 1.8 million copies and
becoming the best-selling single of 1995.
• How do we know one of the people from
the duo now?
• <Video on next slide>
63. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A15.
• Bronn from Game of Thrones
64. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q16.
• X Vedanta is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious
practice. X refers to the idea that the true Self, Atman, is the
same as the highest reality. It gives "a unifying interpretation
of the whole body of Upanishads“, providing scriptural
authority for the postulation of the non-duality
of Atman and Brahman. It emphasizes Jivanmukta, the idea
that moksha is achievable in this life.
• The principal, though not the first, exponent of the X Vedanta-
interpretation was Adi Shankara in the 8th century.
• In contrast, the Y Vedanta school believes that God (Vishnu,
supreme soul) and the individual souls exist as independent
realities, and these are distinct.
• ID X and Y.
66. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q17.
• “Doin’ It with Class: The X Dot to Dot” is a
connect-the-dots book by X.
• It was released by Sugoi Books (the same
people responsible for the Drake Coloring
Book).
• “We’re taking X, in all her beauty and self
confidence, and exploring her image, putting
her body in lots of different scenarios,” said a
Sugoi spokesperson.
• ID X, please.
68. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q18*.
• The story of the city of X is recorded in Genesis 11:1–9.
• Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people
migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar.
People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a
tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves,
so that they not be scattered over the world.
• God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked
that as one people with one language, nothing that they
sought would be out of their reach. God went down and
confounded their speech, so that they could not understand
each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and
they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called X.
69. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A18.
• City of Babel or Tower of Babel
70. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
Q19.
• The following are excerpt from a book called Bard of the
Deal by Hart Seeley. What is the book about?
71. THE NSIT QUIZ CLUB
A19.
• Humorist and reporter Hart Seely has turned Donald
Trump’s interviews, speeches, and tweets into a hilarious
poetry book.