Prelims of the SpEnt Quiz conducted at Instincts 2016, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai by Q Factorial - the SSN Quiz Club.

1. Instincts ‘16
SpEnt Quiz Prelims

2. Rules
• Questions are numbered 1 – 25.
• There are 5 starred questions (Q2, Q9, Q13, Q19, Q23) that will be used to
resolve ties. If you’re tied on starred questions as well, we’ll apply sudden
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3. Q1
• Statistics of X in the Indian League for X's sport :
• 2012 –
• Match: 5; Category:Flyweight; lost to Manjit Kolekar by KO in Round 2
• Match: 11; won against Aya Saeed Saber by unanimous decision in Round 3
• 2013 –
• Match: 18; Category: Strawweight; lost against Irene Caballo in Round 1 by
forfeit
• Match: 23; lost against Daizy Singh in Round 3 by unanimous decision.
• Identify X.

4. *Q2
• The 'Seven Screen Experience' is a style of filming, patented by X, that
involves the use of 7 screens in the theatre – three at front, one on
the floor, one on the ceiling, and one on both the right-hand and left-
hand sides of the space. The concept was inspired by a show by
Burberry in Beijing in 2011.
• It was first used in X's film Cruel Summer, which released in 2012,
and was surprisingly received well, given that it was one of X's 'ideas'.
• ID X.

5. Q3
• “Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is a risqué 1982 coming-of-age teen
comedy film that is notable for being the debut of the actor X and
also featuring early appearances by future stars such as Forest
Whitaker and Sean Penn. Interestingly, this is the only movie in which
X was credited with his original surname; in order to avoid
accusations of nepotism owing to the immense popularity of his
director-uncle Y, X changed his surname soon after the release of the
film, inspired by a Marvel Comics superhero.
• ID X and Y.

6. Q4
• Robbie Fowler, December 1995 and January 1996.
• Dennis Bergkamp, August and September 1998
• Cristiano Ronaldo, November and December 2006
• X, January and February 2015.
• Y, October and November 2015.
• Solve for X and Y.

7. Q5
• Seen in the image is the initial design sketch of a certain character.
However, the character in question does not appear as shown here in
the final draft, as she underwent a huge change after the creators
listened to X.
• Identify the change that the character underwent, and give me X.

9. Q6
Whose baseball career is
depicted in the image on the
right?

10. Q7
• Tony Dyson, a long-time special effects director who worked on films
such as Superman 2 and Moonraker, passed away recently. He is most
famously known as the father of X, which has featured in books,
comics, video games, and the movies of the franchise it belongs to.
Dyson originally built 8 models of X, which were dreamt up by _____
and drawn by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. He then worked on all
the instalments of X over the years and also lived to see Y take life
and form.
• ID X and Y.

11. Q8
• Mildronate is a clinically used anti-ischemic drug manufactured and
marketed by Grindeks, a company based in Latvia. It is used
excessively by many ex-Soviet doctors as prescriptions for heart
conditions and can be bought online.
• On January 1st 2016, what decision was taken regarding this
chemical, and how has it been in the news recently?

12. *Q9
Identify the actor.

13. Q10
• “Made it to the finals as a player...made it to the finals as a coach too.
It's really unfortunate that World Cup keeps eluding X.”
• Aakash Chopra tweeted the above message recently. ID X, and also
tell us why / when this tweet was posted.

14. Q11
• According to X, his son Julian inspired this song's title with a nursery
school drawing. Fans have constantly speculated that the song is
about the drug LSD, but X denies this, saying he was inspired by Alice
in Wonderland; other band members also agree with this story.
• Give me X and the song.

15. Q12
• In March 2003, _______ model Gisele Bundchen was offered special
intensive training in flag-waving ahead of the 32nd ________ Grand
Prix. This is because organisers wanted her to do a better job than X,
the previous year's flag waver, who had gotten "distracted" and failed
to notice Y crossing the finish line. Alerted to his mistake, he had then
enthusiastically waved the flag at the next driver past, which
happened to be Takuma Sato; this meant Sato had technically won
the race despite trailing Y by almost two entire laps. "X is very little,"
Y noted. "I didn't see the flag though; that's the only thing I noticed.“
• ID X and Y.

16. *Q13
• “The producers wanted creatures that had a high level of
sophistication but were nevertheless very realistic and as engaging as
the characters themselves."
• Shown above is a quote made in June 2015 by the CEO of Prana
Studios, a visual effects company based in Los Angeles. An Indian
subsidiary of the company based in Mumbai came into the news
around the same time for its contribution to something from the
world of entertainment. What am I talking about?

17. Q14
• X is a pop-culture phenomenon whose origins can be traced back to a
group of Californians in 1971 who called themselves the Waldos. The
story goes that one day the Waldos agreed to meet at a particular
time in the afternoon in order to search for an abandoned ________
crop they had learned about. Although their effort was unsuccessful,
their agreed-upon meeting time has since evolved into a universal
codeword for an activity that is still illegal in many parts of the world.
Alternative apocryphal origin stories for this include X being the
preferred hotel room number of the Grateful Dead whenever they
toured, and X being the total number of chemical compounds in
________.
• Identify X.

18. Q15 Identify X
• Dutch – De Fukkers,
• Belgian – Foute Vrienden,
• Brazilian – Amigos da Onça
• Greek – Wanted
• Swedish – Radiostyrd
• Spanish – Sinvergüenzas
• Egyptian – Al Mohayesoon
• UK – Comedy kitchen
• US – X

19. Q16
• "Everyone was very surprised," said X. "The referee came over and
asked me 'Is that legal?' Of course it was legal. I passed the ball
forward, Olsen came running in from outside the area. Later there
was a lot of talk about it, among the media, the fans, everyone asking
if it counted. "
• Given above is the description given by X about a famous innovation
of his from the 80s. The innovation was recreated successfully by two
prominent La Liga stars recently; an unsuccessful attempt at the same
was also made in the Premier League 11 years ago.
• ID X, and what was his innovation?

20. Q17
• Todd Carmichael, CEO and co-founder of La Colombe Coffee Roasters,
said at the launch of LYON, "Sustainable coffee — specifically, coffee
that is traded above fair prices and grown using earth conscious
methods — not only adds much needed global biodiversity, but
provides support for millions of families and communities in the
developing world… We are excited to be working with and supporting
the X foundation, as we find it, as well as its namesake, uniquely
qualified to carry out our hope, to make our planet a better place."
• X is a person who recently spoke about the impact of climate change
on a global stage. ID X.

21. Q18
• Before August 8, the odds were stacked against a certain John Pyrke
at 5000/1, but he nevertheless wagered £20, trusting the side he
supported. He stood a chance to win £100,000 had he waited till May
15th 2016, but backed out and won nearly £30,000, saying “I want to
just enjoy the game, whereas the bets are spoiling the game and the
fun“. Another fan, who stood to win £250,000 from a £50 bet on the
same team, cashed out recently for £72,000.
• These are already record sum for individuals betting in this arena.
Which side did these two gentlemen bet on, whose odds have now
reduced from 5000/1 to 5/4 and on whom there are still 23 gamblers
resisting the temptation to cash out early, with one punter in line for
a potential £100,000 win?

22. *Q19
• “Rajavin Paarvaiyile” is a 1995 Tamil film directed by Janaki Soundar,
with music by Ilayaraja.
• The protagonist of the story is one Vijay, who develops a strong dislike
for love after the death of his best friend Chandru, who commits
suicide after being dumped by his lover. However, in a classic twist of
fate, Vijay ends up falling in love with a girl himself, and what follows
is the “caste / status vs. love” battle that is a characteristic feature of
many a Kollywood film.
• Though this film wasn’t a great hit, it featured something that no one
will probably be able to witness now, or for that matter, ever again in
Tamil cinema. What am I talking about?

23. Q20
• X is referred to as “The Art of Eight Limbs” on account of the fact that
the body mimics weapons of war by using eight points of contact as
follows. The hands become the sword and dagger; the shins and
forearms are hardened in training to act as armour against blows, and
the elbow is used to fell opponents like a heavy mace or hammer; and
the legs and knees became the axe and staff. The body thus operates
as one unit, with the knees and elbows constantly searching and
testing for an opening while grappling and trying to spin an enemy to
the ground for the kill. A famous practitioner of the art is Tony Jan.
• ID X.

24. Q21 Who about what?
• “This was a novel I wrote about 17 years ago. At that time it was
bizarre and offbeat. It's twenty years later than Psycho. It was not
ahead of its time, but it was in Tamil. It was my first big novel. I had
written short stories and screenplays, but never attempted a novel.
One of my friends pushed me to do it. It was for a weekly magazine
and I wrote for about 36 weeks.”
• “It’s called Dayam. It's about an intellectual caught within the
confines of paranoid schizophrenia, who is also a psychopath, and is
left in an asylum. Luckily for me, it was published; otherwise, they
would have said that I picked up (the movie) directly from Hannibal
Lecter by Thomas Harris, though I had finished writing Dayam at least
7 years earlier.”

25. Q22
• X’s real name is hardly ever mentioned in the franchise, but we get a
glimpse of it when they give ____ a shoebox with her belongings to
him. In the movie, her name is Olivia Mansfield, which is a tongue-in-
cheek reference to the field of her work, while in the spin-off books
written by other authors, her name is Barbara Mawdsley.
• X is described as a woman who only believes only in the facts and
logistics rather than actual intuition; however, there are times when
she will act on impulse, such as when she refuses to turn ____ in to
the CIA despite him being rogue and claims that she trusts him.
• Give me X / How do we know this person better ?

26. *Q23
• Connect the following Grecian cities:
1. Olympia, Ellis
2. Delphi
3. Nemea, Corinthia
4. Isthmia, Sinton

27. Q24
• Much speculation has surrounded the use of these elements in the
logo. Some say that it’s because they form an acronym, while others
believe that they represent the characters in the show, however, the
only plausible explanation is that they correspond to the props that
the characters use in the opening sequence.
• Incidentally, this feature also makes an appearance in the final
episode, when the characters all lay down their ____
• Put funda.

28. Q25
• The finger wag. It was Dikembe Mutombo's distinctive gesture, the raising
of his right index, the shaking of said finger from side to side – a universal
gesture familiar to babies, grandparents and everyone in between, all
across the planet: "That was a no-no." Once upon a time, a certain NBA
official named Rod Thorn and his boss, NBA commissioner David Stern,
tried to take that gesture away from Mutombo. "We thought he was
getting carried away with it; players were getting upset. I told him: 'You've
already blocked his shot, and now, in his mind, you're trying to humiliate
him, too,'" said Thorn.
• Mutombo argued, refusing to accept the notion of an outright ban, and
pretty much refusing to let the conversation end until Thorn backed down.
What eventually emerged was a compromise. What was the compromise?

29. Answers

30. Q1
• Statistics of X in the Indian League for X's sport :
• 2012 –
• Match: 5; Category:Flyweight; lost to Manjit Kolekar by KO in Round 2
• Match: 11; won against Aya Saeed Saber by unanimous decision in Round 3
• 2013 –
• Match: 18; Category: Strawweight; lost against Irene Caballo in Round 1 by
forfeit
• Match: 23; lost against Daizy Singh in Round 3 by unanimous decision.
• Identify X.

31. Answer
• Ritika Singh

32. *Q2
• The 'Seven Screen Experience' is a style of filming, patented by X, that
involves the use of 7 screens in the theatre – three at front, one on
the floor, one on the ceiling, and one on both the right-hand and left-
hand sides of the space. The concept was inspired by a show by
Burberry in Beijing in 2011.
• It was first used in X's film Cruel Summer, which released in 2012,
and was surprisingly received well, given that it was one of X's 'ideas'.
• ID X.

33. Answer
• Kanye West

34. Q3
• “Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is a risque 1982 coming-of-age teen
comedy film that is notable for being the debut of the actor X and
also featuring early appearances by future stars such as Forest
Whitaker and Sean Penn. Interestingly, this is the only movie in which
X was credited with his original surname; in order to avoid
accusations of nepotism owing to the immense popularity of his
director-uncle Y, X changed his surname soon after the release of the
film, inspired by a Marvel Comics superhero.
• ID X and Y.

35. Answer
• X: Nicolas Cage (He was credited as “Nicolas Coppola” here for the
first and last time in his career)
• Y: Francis Ford Coppola

36. Q4
• Robbie Fowler, December 1995 and January 1996.
• Dennis Bergkamp, August and September 1998
• Cristiano Ronaldo, November and December 2006
• X, January and February 2015.
• Y, October and November 2015.
• Solve for X and Y.

37. Answer
• X: Harry Kane (Spurs suck btw)
• Y: Jamie Vardy

38. Q5
• Seen in the image is the initial design sketch of a certain character.
However, the character in question does not appear as shown here in
the final draft, as she underwent a huge change after the creators
listened to X.
• Identify the change that the character underwent, and give me X.

39. Answer
• X: Let It Go
• Elsa was intially supposed to be the villain of the story, but the
scriptwriters felt that the song “Let It Go” was too nice to be sung by
a villain, and so they made her “good”.

40. Q6
Whose baseball career is
depicted in the image on the
right?

41. Answer
• Micheal Jordan

42. Q7
• Tony Dyson, a long-time special effects director who worked on films
such as Superman 2 and Moonraker, passed away recently. He is most
famously known as the father of X, which has featured in books,
comics, video games, and the movies of the franchise it belongs to.
Dyson originally built 8 models of X, which were dreamt up by _____
and drawn by concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. He then worked on all
the instalments of X over the years and also lived to see Y take life
and form.
• ID X and Y.

43. Answer
X: R2D2
Y: BB8

44. Q8
• Mildronate is a clinically used anti-ischemic drug manufactured and
marketed by Grindeks, a company based in Latvia. It is used
excessively by many ex-Soviet doctors as prescriptions for heart
conditions and can be bought online.
• On January 1st 2016, what decision was taken regarding this
chemical, and how has it been in the news recently?

45. Answer
• Mildorate was added to the list of banned substances by the WADA;
as a result, Maria Sharapova has now been suspended from playing
tennis.

46. *Q9
Identify the actor.

47. Answer
• Concept art of Elijah Wood as the Joker!

48. Q10
• “Made it to the finals as a player...made it to the finals as a coach too.
It's really unfortunate that World Cup keeps eluding X.”
• Aakash Chopra tweeted the above message recently. ID X, and also
tell us why / when this tweet was posted.

49. Answer
• X: Rahul Dravid
• Chopra tweeted this after the India U-19 team, which was coached by
Dravid, lost to West Indies U-19 in the final of the U-19 Cricket World
Cup last month.

50. Q11
• According to X, his son Julian inspired this song's title with a nursery
school drawing. Fans have constantly speculated that the song is
about the drug LSD, but X denies this, saying he was inspired by Alice
in Wonderland; other band members also agree with this story.
• Give me X and the song.

51. Answer
• X: John Lennon
• The song is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

52. Q12
• In March 2003, _______ model Gisele Bundchen was offered special
intensive training in flag-waving ahead of the 32nd ________ Grand
Prix. This is because organisers wanted her to do a better job than X,
the previous year's flag waver, who had gotten "distracted" and failed
to notice Y crossing the finish line. Alerted to his mistake, he had then
enthusiastically waved the flag at the next driver past, which
happened to be Takuma Sato; this meant Sato had technically won
the race despite trailing Y by almost two entire laps. "X is very little,"
Y noted. "I didn't see the flag though; that's the only thing I noticed.”
ID X and Y.

53. Answer
• X: Pele (at the Brazilian Grand Prix)
• Y: Micheal Schumacher

54. *Q13
• “The producers wanted creatures that had a high level of
sophistication but were nevertheless very realistic and as engaging as
the characters themselves."
• Shown above is a quote made in June 2015 by the CEO of Prana
Studios, a visual effects company based in Los Angeles. An Indian
subsidiary of the company based in Mumbai came into the news
around the same time for its contribution to something from the
world of entertainment. What am I talking about?

55. Answer
• Prana Studios is the company that created the dragons for Game of
Thrones, Season 5!

56. Q14
• X is a pop-culture phenomenon whose origins can be traced back to a
group of Californians in 1971 who called themselves the Waldos. The
story goes that one day the Waldos agreed to meet at a particular
time in the afternoon in order to search for an abandoned ________
crop they had learned about. Although their effort was unsuccessful,
their agreed-upon meeting time has since evolved into a universal
codeword for an activity that is still illegal in many parts of the world.
Alternative apocryphal origin stories for this include X being the
preferred hotel room number of the Grateful Dead whenever they
toured, and X being the total number of chemical compounds in
________.
• Identify X.

57. Answer
• 420 meme (blank being “cannabis”)

58. Q15 Identify X
• Dutch – De Fukkers,
• Belgian – Foute Vrienden,
• Brazilian – Amigos da Onça
• Greek – Wanted
• Swedish – Radiostyrd
• Spanish – Sinvergüenzas
• Egyptian – Al Mohayesoon
• UK – Comedy kitchen
• US – X

59. Answer
• X: Impractical Jokers

60. Q16
• "Everyone was very surprised," said X. "The referee came over and
asked me 'Is that legal?' Of course it was legal. I passed the ball
forward, Olsen came running in from outside the area. Later there
was a lot of talk about it, among the media, the fans, everyone asking
if it counted. "
• Given above is the description given by X about a famous innovation
of his from the 80s. The innovation was recreated successfully by two
prominent La Liga stars recently; an unsuccessful attempt at the same
was also made in the Premier League 11 years ago.
• ID X, and what was his innovation?

61. Answer
• X: Johan Cryuff
• The innovation in question is the “Passed Penalty” routine (with the
recent example being Messi and Suarez).

62. Q17
• Todd Carmichael, CEO and co-founder of La Colombe Coffee Roasters,
said at the launch of LYON, "Sustainable coffee — specifically, coffee
that is traded above fair prices and grown using earth conscious
methods — not only adds much needed global biodiversity, but
provides support for millions of families and communities in the
developing world… We are excited to be working with and supporting
the X foundation, as we find it, as well as its namesake, uniquely
qualified to carry out our hope, to make our planet a better place."
• X is a person who recently spoke about the impact of climate change
on a global stage. ID X.

63. Answer
• X: Leonardo di Caprio

64. Q18
• Before August 8, the odds were stacked against a certain John Pyrke
at 5000/1, but he nevertheless wagered £20, trusting the side he
supported. He stood a chance to win £100,000 had he waited till May
15th 2016, but backed out and won nearly £30,000, saying “I want to
just enjoy the game, whereas the bets are spoiling the game and the
fun“. Another fan, who stood to win £250,000 from a £50 bet on the
same team, cashed out recently for £72,000.
• These are already record sum for individuals betting in this arena.
Which side did these two gentlemen bet on, whose odds have now
reduced from 5000/1 to 5/4 and on whom there are still 23 gamblers
resisting the temptation to cash out early, with one punter in line for
a potential £100,000 win?

65. Answer
• Leicester City

66. *Q19
• “Rajavin Paarvaiyile” is a 1995 Tamil film directed by Janaki Soundar,
with music by Ilayaraja.
• The protagonist of the story is one Vijay, who develops a strong dislike
for love after the death of his best friend Chandru, who commits
suicide after being dumped by his lover. However, in a classic twist of
fate, Vijay ends up falling in love with a girl himself, and what follows
is the “caste / status vs. love” battle that is a characteristic feature of
many a Kollywood film.
• Though this film wasn’t a great hit, it featured something that no one
will probably be able to witness now, or for that matter, ever again.
What am I talking about?

67. Answer
• Ajith and Vijay starring in the same movie! “Rajavin Paarvaiyile”
remains the only on-screen collaboration of the two actors.

68. Q20
• X is referred to as “The Art of Eight Limbs” on account of the fact that
the body mimics weapons of war by using eight points of contact as
follows. The hands become the sword and dagger; the shins and
forearms are hardened in training to act as armour against blows, and
the elbow is used to fell opponents like a heavy mace or hammer; and
the legs and knees became the axe and staff. The body thus operates
as one unit, with the knees and elbows constantly searching and
testing for an opening while grappling and trying to spin an enemy to
the ground for the kill. A famous practitioner of the art is Tony Jan.
• ID X.

69. Answer
• Muay Thai

70. Q21 Who about what?
• “This was a novel I wrote about 17 years ago. At that time it was
bizarre and offbeat. It's twenty years later than Psycho. It was not
ahead of its time, but it was in Tamil. It was my first big novel. I had
written short stories and screenplays, but never attempted a novel.
One of my friends pushed me to do it. It was for a weekly magazine
and I wrote for about 36 weeks.”
• “It’s called Dayam. It's about an intellectual caught within the
confines of paranoid schizophrenia, who is also a psychopath, and is
left in an asylum. Luckily for me, it was published; otherwise, they
would have said that I picked up (the movie) directly from Hannibal
Lecter by Thomas Harris, though I had finished writing Dayam at least
7 years earlier.”

71. Answer
• Kamal Hassan talking about how Aalavandhan came to be.

72. Q22
• X’s real name is hardly ever mentioned in the franchise, but we get a
glimpse of it when they give ____ a shoebox with her belongings to
him. In the movie, her name is Olivia Mansfield, which is a tongue-in-
cheek reference to the field of her work, while in the spin-off books
written by other authors, her name is Barbara Mawdsley.
• X is described as a woman who only believes only in the facts and
logistics rather than actual intuition; however, there are times when
she will act on impulse, such as when she refuses to turn ____ in to
the CIA despite him being rogue and claims that she trusts him.
• Give me X / How do we know this person better ?

73. Answer
• M, from James Bond!

74. *Q23
• Connect the following Grecian cities:
1. Olympia, Ellis
2. Delphi
3. Nemea, Corinthia
4. Isthmia, Sinton

75. Answer
• These were the ancient sites of the Panhellenic Games.

76. Q24
• Much speculation has surrounded the use of these elements in the
logo. Some say that it’s because they form an acronym, while others
believe that they represent the characters in the show, however, the
only plausible explanation is that they correspond to the props that
the characters use in the opening sequence.
• Incidentally, this feature also makes an appearance in the final
episode, when the characters all lay down their ____
• Put funda.

77. Answer
• The dots in “F.R.I.E.N.D.S”!

78. Q25
• The finger wag. It was Dikembe Mutombo's distinctive gesture, the raising
of his right index, the shaking of said finger from side to side – a universal
gesture familiar to babies, grandparents and everyone in between, all
across the planet: "That was a no-no." Once upon a time, a certain NBA
official named Rod Thorn and his boss, NBA commissioner David Stern,
tried to take that gesture away from Mutombo. "We thought he was
getting carried away with it; players were getting upset. I told him: 'You've
already blocked his shot, and now, in his mind, you're trying to humiliate
him, too,'" said Thorn.
• Mutombo argued, refusing to accept the notion of an outright ban, and
pretty much refusing to let the conversation end until Thorn backed down.
What eventually emerged was a compromise. What was the compromise?

79. Answer
He agreed to stop doing it to
the players he blocked, and
instead started doing the
finger-wagging celebration
at the crowd.