quizzinga 2015 - a general quiz

QUIZZINGA 2015 – A GENERAL QUIZ

JAIDEEP KUMAR DUTTA

Q1.• X is a non-medical term describing a range of injuries to the neck caused by or

related to a sudden distortion of the neck associated with extension, although the exact injury mechanism(s) remain unknown.

• Although X is commonly associated with motor vehicle accidents, usually when the vehicle has been hit in the rear; however, the injury can be sustained in many other ways, including headbanging, bungee jumping and falls.

• Also the name of a critically acclaimed 2014 Hollywood movie. Id.

Q2.• X is one of the world's largest annual hacker conventions, held every year in

Las Vegas, Nevada. The first X took place in June 1993. Federal law enforcement agents from the FBI, DoD, United States Postal Inspection Service etc regularly attend X.

• Additionally, X is an alert state used by the U.S. Armed Forces. It prescribes 5 graduated levels of readiness (or states of alert) for the U.S. military, and in increasing severity, to match varying military situations.

• Give X.

Q3.• X is a line of digital media players. Designed as small dongles, the devices play audio/video

content on a high-definition television or home audio system by directly streaming it via Wi-Fi from the Internet or a local network. Users select the media to play using mobile apps and web apps or alternatively, content can be mirrored from a web browser running on a PC.

• The first-generation X, a video streaming device, was announced on July 24, 2013. Over 20 million units have been sold globally since launch, and it was the best-selling streaming device in the United States in 2014. Since X's launch, it has handled more than 1.5 billion stream requests. A second-generation X and audio-only model called X Audio were announced in September 2015.

• Identify the device X.

GOOGLE CHROMECAST

Q4.• Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal–London–

Delhi route. On 23 June 1985, the Boeing 747-237B ("Emperor Kanishka") was destroyed by a bomb at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m). It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace.

• It was the first bombing of a 747 jumbo jet, in which a total of 329 people were killed. The majority of the victims were Canadian citizens of Indian ancestry. The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history. It was the deadliest terrorist attack involving an airplane until the September 11, 2001 attacks.

• What was identified as the cause for this attack?

• The attack is thought to have been a retaliation against India for the operation carried out by the Indian Army Operation Blue Star to flush out several hundred Sikh militants, who were within the premises of the Golden temple, Amritsar.

Q5.

• When the Y brothers first approached Warner Bros studio about this movie project they had a projected budget of over $80 million. The studio balked at the idea of giving them that much and instead offered them $10 million to shoot the film. The brothers spent the entire $10 million on the film’s opening sequence and impressed the studio so much that they were given the initial asking budget to finish the movie and bring their vision to life.

• Which iconic movie project is being talked about ?

Q6.

• X was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He accidently fulfilled a prophecy, which said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus bring disaster to his city and family. When the truth was discovered, his wife-mother hanged herself, and X gouged out his own eyes. They had four children together.

• The legend of X has been retold in many versions, and was used by Y to name and give mythic precedent to the Y complex. In his book The Interpretation of Dreams first published in 1899, he proposed that an X desire is a universal, psychological phenomenon innate to human beings, and the cause of much unconscious guilt.

• Give X and Y both.

X – OedipusY – Sigmund Freud

Q7.

• The best known process was to use ammonium ferric citrate & potassium ferricyanide coated on paper/cloth, to reproduce images. The result is a copy of the original image with the clear background area rendered dark and the image itself reproduced as a white line.

• An advantage is that the reproduced document will have the same scale as the original. Another quality is that the dark blue background makes it difficult to add new information to the image.

• Which commonly used word is derived from this now-obsolete technology?

BLUEPRINT

Q8.

• According to cnet.com, it is meant to be a sentimental experience. It lets members on the Web or mobile either watch a personalized movie, view a collection of their top photos, or read a "thank you" card from the company, depending on how much content they have posted to the service.

• What ?

FACEBOOK LOOKBACK VIDEO

Q9.

• X built his career on creating tricks and illusions-freeing himself from chains and making an elephant disappear. He was also interested in exposing fraud and showing how people could be tricked into believing something was real when it wasn't.

• This person, in his later years, started to expose frauds that had successfully fooled many scientists and academics. He was especially critical of the production of "spirit photographs" in which the ghost of a well-known figure appeared to be present with someone. To demonstrate his point, he had himself photographed with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Of course it wasn't really Lincoln-it was trick photography.

• Identify this famous entertainer (pic in next slide).

• Harry Houdini

Q10.

• X is an international pharmaceutical company in the Y universe. Founded in the late 1960s, it is portrayed in the games as a major international player in pharmaceutical goods and medical supplies, along with more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering.

• The company is also presented as having a more public face, producing cosmetics, consumer products and foods. One of X's subsidiaries consists of a private military company with a highly trained security force.

• X established multiple secret research facilities to develop various bio-weapons, with its most prominent research facility located in the Arklay Mountains, just outside of Raccoon City.

• Which company/corporation is being described ?

• Y being the Resident Evil Series

Q11.

• Upon arriving at Princeton, this person was invited to Dean Eisenhart’s office. The dean’s wife greeted him and offered him a cup of tea. The following dialogue ensued: Dean’s wife: “Would you like cream or lemon in your tea, Mr. _____?” He replied (without thinking): “I’ll have both, thank you.”

• What did the lady famously reply, which eventually became the name of a book authored by this person?

Q12.

• It is an iconic photo taken by Alberto Korda on March 5, 1960 at a memorial service for victims of an explosion. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to X's facial expression, which showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say that the photo showed X's firm and stoic character.

• It has been called a symbol of the 20th century and the world's most famous photo. It has been reproduced more than any other image in photography. Jonathan Green, director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, has said that "It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears whenever there's a conflict. There isn’t anything else in history that serves in this way".

• Which photograph?

CHE GUEVARA’S GUERRILLERO HEROICO PHOTO

Q13.

• Although E. L. Thorndike developed an early X, Frederick J. Kelly was the first to use such items as part of a large scale assessment. While Director of the Training School at Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia State University) in 1915, he developed and administered the Kansas Silent Reading Test.

• The first large scale assessment using only Xs was the Army Alpha, used to assess the intelligence and more specifically the aptitudes of World War I military recruits. X is particularly popular in the United States, though India also uses X to a fair extent.

• What is being talked about?

MCQ

Q14.

• FIFA series vice-president and general manager David Rutter claims that his team has been working to overcome the technical challenges for this addition.

• “It’s been in the pipeline for a few years, and really it was just a case of making sure that the game was in a good enough state for it the work properly,” said Rutter. “We needed to have tools and technology in place that could differentiate ______. Plus, we had to factor in the time and effort required for travelling around the world to scan faces and heads, record motion capture, etc. It’s been on the to-do list for a while.”

• What will be this major addition to FIFA-16 ?

FIFA 16 TO ADD WOMEN'S TEAMS FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT WILL INCLUDE12 INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

Q15.• In December 1971, Deep Purple were in Switzerland to record their album

'Machinehead'. On the eve of the recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held at the Montreux Casino. The place suddenly caught fire, which destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment.

• As the members of the band watched the fire from their hotel room, they noticed the fire from the burning casino also lent the entire Lake Geneva a massive hazy covering. This ultimately lent its name to a famous song , which occurred to bass guitarist Roger Glover.

• Which hit song ?

SMOKE ON THE WATER

Q16.Which action-mystery movie is being parodied here ?

Q17 : WHAT’S BLANKED OUT?• The following is a list of the 10 most popular websites worldwide according to Alexa Internet as of

August 11, 2015, and those sites' corresponding rankings on SimilarWeb as of August 11, 2015.

Q18.

• An old advertisement for which product ?

Q19.

• While cadavers had been used previously, “Sierra Sam” was the 1st X, created by Samuel W. Alderson at his Alderson Research Labs (ARL) and Sierra Engineering Co. in 1949 under a contract with the US Air Force. Sierra Sam was much taller and heavier than an average adult male. In 1971, Sierra Sam was succeeded by Hybrid-I.

• What was Sierra Sam the first of its kind ?

CRASH TEST DUMMIES

Q20 : CONNECT (NON- EXHAUSTIVE)

• These all are its subsidiaries