Apr'14 gen prelims

<COOL-NAME> QUIZPRELIMS

Alok Singh

#APR’14

#BITSHydQuizClub

RULES 30 Questions

*-ed, Tie Breakers

1. PLACE? FUNDA?

SWEDEN-NORWAY BORDER

2. X on his PhD dissertation:

"It's a study of dust. As simple as that. Dust, in this case, in the solar system. We're actually surrounded by it. The earth moves through a cloud of dust constantly and a lot of it comes down to Earth. My experiment was trying to figure out the motion of that dust. Where it's going, what it's doing, where it came from and what it means in terms of the creation of the solar system." This Newton lookalike scientist has followers all over the world. Name him.

BRIAN MAY

*3. #MAR13 Channel TV2 was forced to apologize for using a screenshot of ______ as a backdrop for a news report about the fighting in Syria. A member of staff found the image online and mistook it for a photograph of the Damascus skyline. Jacob Nybroe, head of news at TV2, said it was a ‘reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures’.

What was the source of this controversial picture?

Larger picture in next slide.

4. #APR11 _________ wanted to buy Rolls Royce but was refused. The car is not sold just to those who wish to buy it. There is a process where it is decided if the person wishing to buy it is fit enough to be its owner or not and money is not just the criteria. The person's entire profile, social standing for the past few years is put under scanner and then decided. Even test drives are given to selected people. ________ apparently tried to convince the brand by saying she is a Hollywood actor et al but things didn't work out in her favor.

Who is this unfortunate Bollywood actress? (April 2011)

MALLIKA SHERAWAT

5.According to Samosapedia:

“____ ____ is to the Indian working class what Castrol super TT is to 4-stroke engines. The characteristic

diminutive serving size of the nation's most beloved beverage imparts upon it an iconic status only rivaled

by Madras coffee or dhabe ki lassi.”What is being described here?

CUTTING CHAI

6.The city of Cape Canaveral is located at the southern tip of a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of Florida. It is due south of the geographical feature Cape Canaveral (known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973).

Area code of this place is of particular interest. It is a three digit number which is very apt for this location.

What is the area code of Cape Canaveral?

*7.

___ ___ is an electronic pop duo whose music and lyrics focus on the hazards of the Internet age, in particular with respect to user privacy and NSA surveillance. The band's primary purpose and musical theme is to examine the increasingly complex relationship between humans and

technology.

What is this band aptly called?

8. #MAY13|DAILYMAIL

“We face ruin.”

9. #2004|2013Mort Crim is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim was born July 31, 1935.

His sexist reactions towards his female colleagues became inspiration for an iconic character.

What did Mort Crim inspire?

RON BURGUNDY

10. ___ ___ is the label given to an influential tactical theory of football in which any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team.

____ _____'s tactical success depends largely on the adaptability of each footballer within the team, in particular the ability to quickly switch positions depending on the on-field situation. The theory requires players to be comfortable in multiple positions; hence, it places high technical and physical demands on them.

What football theory?

TOTAL FOOTBALL

11.

Band’s bassist Tina Weymouth on the origin of the band’s name:

"A friend had found the name in the TV Guide, which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-

and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action.' “

What band?

*12. #JAN14 In Jan 2014, New Zealand’s _X_ joined

Sameer Bandekar, Mark Hawthorne, Wynand Louw, David Odhiambo, Buddhi Pradhan, Sarika Siva Prasad, Richard Smith, Ian Ramage and Courtney Young in the panel for 2014.

_X_’s appointment is historic for the reasons that this is the first time a female has been appointed in the panel in the long history of this game.

Who is X and what is this panel?

KATHY CROSS

13. #FEB14 In order to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon a very ambitious and important initiative – “GI Cloud” which has been coined as ‘__X__’.

_X_ is a portmanteau of two words – one, a form of Hindustani Classical Raga; two, royalty or kingdom in Sanskrit.

What is X?

MEGHRAJ

14. The Crunchies are an industry award given out since 2008 by several technology blogs to the Silicon Valley companies and venture capitalists they cover.

Kickstarter beat out CloudFlare, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber, and walked away with the Crunchie for Best Overall Startup. #Crunchies2014

The award, a plastic sculpture of a primate standing on top of a computer with a bone in his hand is reference to _X_. What is X?

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

15.The following is the reason for what?

Birds position themselves in “aerodynamically optimum positions” whilst specifically timing

the flapping of their wings. Researchers established that birds flap their wings at just the right time so as maximize an updraft and

minimize a downdraft. The complex mechanisms involved specify extraordinary

consciousness and capability of birds to respond to the wing path of close by flock-

mates.

V FORMATION

*16. #TOP10What is the following list about? Fill in the blanks.

1. __________, India - 4,483 ft #LatestEntryOct132. _____K_____, India – 3873 ft3. _____K____, India - 3,519 ft 4. State Street Center, USA - 3,501 ft5. Bilaspur, India - 2,631 ft6. Cheriton Shuttle, United Kingdom - 2,595 ft7. Jhansi, India - 2,526 ft8. East Perth, Australia - 2,526 ft9. Kalgoorlie, Australia - 2,493 ft10.Sonepur, India - 2,421 ft11.Flinders Street, Australia - 2,323 ft

LONGEST PLATFORMS

1. GORAKHPUR2. KOLLAM3. KHARAGPUR

17. #JAN14 University of Cumbria is offering two courses from this summer, “Certificate of Achievement in Sustainable Exchange”, to be taught at Cumbria’s London campus, and the “Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership”, which will be taught at the Lake District campus.

The courses are to be run by the university's new Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), in an effort to “study the experience of facilitating payments by one complementary currency system”.

What makes these courses unique? (And maybe outrageous)

BITCOINS FOR TUTION FEES

18.The Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was a Red-Eye flight. What is a Red- Eye flight ?

 The flight which departs late in the night and reaches early morning. This causes

sleep deprivation hence red-eye.

19. DAILYMAIL|FEB13 WHAT DOES IT DEPICT?

PISTORIOUS-STEENKAMP CASE

20. Dumbo the Flying Elephant is an aerial carousel-style ride located in Fantasyland at five Disney parks around the world. The original attraction opened at Disneyland in October 1955, three months after the park opened.

During his 1957 visit to Disneyland, former United States President Harry S. Truman politely declined a ride on Dumbo.

Why did he skip this world famous ride?

REPUBLICAN

21.Picture on the right depicts one of Dali’s many works.

This picture depicts an ancient story, which has been asked again and again in quizzing circuits.

What story does this picture depict? (name of painting)

METAMORPHOSIS OF NARCISSUS

*22. In S3E13B of Powerpuff Girls Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, HIM, and Princess Morbucks join together to form a super villain team called ____ ___ ___, which is a pun on a famous music band and its album.

This episode has many references to the band. The picture on the right is captures on such moment where these super villians pose as cover picture of band’s album.

Name the band.

(* for naming the album/pun)

23._X_ is the term coined by 20th Century Artist Thomas Wilfred to refer to art created from light. _X_ as conceived, was a self-contained and silent art, not to be combined with music or dance. Though Wilfred intended the term to refer to any art created using light, its use was never widely adopted. Contemporary use of the term by artists is mostly artists creating works utilizing Wilfred's visual vocabulary.

As of today, we know _X_ as a flagship product of a company _Y_.

X and Y?

X-LUMIA|Y-NOKIA

24.“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my

autograph”

Who was this entertainer?

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

*25. _X_ on _Y_:

"It was the girls on the King's Road who invented the _Y_. I was making easy, youthful, simple clothes, in which you could move, in which you could run and jump and we would make them the length the customer wanted.

_X_ named _Y_ after her favorite car. What is Y?

( * for both X and Y)

MARY QUANT | MINI SKIRT

26. According to newly released __X__: The Official Photo Book, published to mark 40 years since __X__ won Eurovision, the band's style was influenced in part by laws that allowed the cost of outfits to be deducted against tax – so long as the costumes were so outrageous they could not possibly be worn on the street.

So the credit for the glittering hot-pants, sequined jumpsuits and platform heels that _X_ wore at the peak of their fame is now being given to the Swedish Tax laws.

What band is _X_?

ABBA

27.______ ______ are a type of hair style. Associated with the underground punk movement of the 1980s, it brings up questions such as “How does he keep them that way?” or “How many people’s eyes has she poked out?”.

What is this bizarre hairstyle called?

(* for exact term)

LIBERTY SPIKES

28. The initial idea that came to JWT was ‘Blood, sweat and _Y_’. From this concept of giving your blood for the game, came the term and concept of ‘_X_Y_’.

_X_ _Y_ campaign can be interpreted for four sets of people: First are the aspiring players across the nation who are not only passionate about the game but play it too.

Second are those that watch the game and cheer for the team Third are those who may not play or watch the game but are patriotic and thus support the national team.

Fourth is the team itself, the players on the field and the rest of the team.

What is this XY campaign?

29.According to the legend, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armor he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw the posy to his loved one and shouted “____ ____ ____".

What did the knight shout?

FORGET-ME-NOT

30.Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked this song at

No. 52 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, asking, "How could such an inoffensive condiment inspire a

song that unfolds in so many different, annoying ways?”

What song is this?

THE KETCHUP SONG