sishyamrita general quiz finals 2015

Sishyamrita ‘15

Special Thanks●Vishal Katariya●Subramaniam B●Gopal Kidao (QFI)

Format of the QuizInfinite Pounce I (120)

Theme Round 1 (50)

Reverse Infinite Pounce (120)

Theme Round 2 (50)

Infinite Pounce 2 (120)

Infinite Pounce 1 +10/-10, +10/0 Bounce

1. Identify the brand parodied by the cartoon (c.a. 2006)

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Don Bradman Cookies99.94 being Sir Bradman’s Test batting average

2. Recently on Twitter, a new trend has caught on where zookeepers started posing in front of the confused animals in this zoo.

This trend gets its name from a portmanteau of the last name of a real-life person and zoo-keeping.

What is the name of this trend?

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Pratt-keeping (from Chris Pratt)

3.While many of us are familiar with this person as a scientist, very few know that this person was a highly accomplished wrestler at the high school level and continued that passion while at Harvard. Like the Winklevoss twins, he was also in the Harvard rowing team and ran a 4 minute 25 second mile run. He was so involved in both his field of interest and wrestling that he created a move called the “Double Tidal Lock” while captaining the Bronx High School wrestling team.

Who am I talking about?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.A broken wand ceremony is a ceremony which is conducted whenever a revered performer dies.In this ceremony, the wand that the magician used before he died or a ceremonial one is broken. This serves as an indication that, along with the magician, the magical power of that wand died.A very well known individual was the first person in the world to have had a broken wand ceremony on his death. In fact, a broken wand ceremony is conducted at his grave every year by the Society of American Magicians.Who?

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Harry Houdini

5. What do we call the drink stored in Codd bottles in Tamil Nadu?

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Goli Soda

6.In 1998, the Simpsons created an episode for the 9th season of the show called “Bart Carny” showing some kids trying out something called “Yard Work Simulator”. A year ago, after a recent announcement at that time, some clever people decided to make fun of this by photoshopping the image with FarmVille and jokingly saying “The Simpsons predicted ___________”.What announcement?<image on next slide>

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Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus Rift

7.In the TV show Community, there was a very elaborate joke set up by the writers where the word beetlejuice was randomly uttered on three different seasons of the show. It is interesting to note that this is based on a folk legend well known to young girls having sleepovers at their friend's’ place.It is said that when the name X is uttered three times before a mirror in candlelight, an apparition will appear in the mirror who is said to reveal to young girls the appearance of their future husband or a Grim Reaper, if they’re destined to die before marriage.

Identify X.

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Bloody Mary

8.“Hot ___? Toxicological concerns and X” is the title of a paper by the Toxicology department of London University which studied the scientific accuracy of a book by a renowned author. It analyses the observations by the narrator of the story - “blazing eyes” and “luminous muzzle” which was attributed to a certain non-metal. It noted that because of the high reactivity, flammability and toxicity of the substance in question, it was highly infeasible for the chemical thus described to exhibit those properties.They noted instead that Uranium was very recently discovered at the time the story was written and concluded that Uranium was a better candidate than the substance mentioned.Which book?

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The blank is Dog and the chemical was phosphorus.

9.The following is a painting titled “Shakuntala looking back at Dushyantha”. She is, of course, the eponymous subject of Kalidasa’s play, with the painting being based on one of the scenes from it.

Two parts:Who is Shakuntala’s son?Who painted this?

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Bharata and Raja Ravi Varma

Bharata is the king who gives his name to our country.

Raja Ravi Varma, of course, doesn’t need an introduction.

10. The following are the words to a song composed by Mozart.Claim to fame?

Oh! Shall I tell you, Mommy

What is tormenting me?

Daddy wants me to reason

Like a grown-up person,

Me, I say that sweets

Are worth more than reasoning

Ah ! Vous dirai-je maman

Ce qui cause mon tourment?

Papa veut que je raisonne

Comme une grande personne

Moi je dis que les bonbons

Valent mieux que la raison.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Alphabet Song/ Baa Baa Black Sheep

11.#TCQVery recently, the Facebook page of the White House changed their profile picture to reflect a hallmark decision taken by the Supreme Court which took place last Friday. The change involved a modification of the graphical version of the White House to embody the winning cause. Pretty soon, a lot of other companies like IGN, MTV, StackOverflow modified their logos in a similar fashion.What change did they make?

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Made the white house a rainbow house to support legalized same-sex marriage

12.A/An X is a small decorative line added as embellishment to the basic form of a character. This is present when letters are separated into distinct units to be typeset. We classify ____s into two types X, and Y, where Y is French for “without X”.X?

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Serif

End of Round 1, Scores Please!

Theme Round 1

Flags made from Indigenous food. +5/0 (50 points)

1.ID the components

2. ID the fruits

3. ID the red colored fruits and the country

4. ID both fruits used

5. ID all components

6. ID the confectionary

7. ID the country

8. ID the country

9. ID all three components (be specific in the middle element)

10. ID the country

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1.Tuna (fish) and rice

2. Lime, Pineapple and Passionfruit

3. Rambutan and Lychee / Vietnam

4. Dragon Fruit and Star Fruit

5. Bleu/Blue cheese, Brie cheese and grapes

6. Flag is Turkey, hence Turkish Delight

7. Thailand

8. Lebanon

9. Basil, Spaghetti and Tomatoes

10. Indonesia

Infinite Pounce 2 +10/-10, +10/0

13.Oncquest Labs is an Indian national network of laboratories, and they say that they offer the most advanced pathological tests that can form the basis of accurate treatment. However, X related tests remain their major focus.

Identify which disease/condition their major focus is.

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Cancer

Oncology : Latin for the study of cancer.

14. We notice that the title of this Haruki Murakami novel is 1Q84 instead of 1984. What rationale did Murakami use in giving this title?

The number 9 sounds like the English letter Q and it serves as a perfect placeholder.

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15.X is a word that was popularized in English 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing "The Satanic Verses".More recent famous X’s include the one declared against Pokemon by the United Arab Emirates since it promoted gambling and the theory of evolution and one issued by Egypt’s Grand Mufti against “Who wants to be a millionaire?”, both in 2011

What’s the good word?

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Fatwa

16.X market is a term which is used to describe a positive trend in the stock market where investors rush to invest in stock and therefore increase the amount of capital in the market. X gets its name because of the way X’s attack.Y market is a term which is used to describe a situation in a stock market where the prices of shares and other securities start falling due to frantic selling by a majority of the investors. The term comes from the phrase “Don’t sell the Y-skin before you kill the Y”, referring to Y-skin sellers who tried to create an advance booking system in London, often before the Y’s are killed.Z market is a term which describes a market where there is no uptrend or downtrend, indicating that the investors are too afraid to invest any money. ID X, Y and Z

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X - Bull, Y - Bear, Z - Chicken

17.X and Y faced off for the 35th time on the 6th July 2014. Both of their coaches had also played 35 times against each other. Thus, this makes this event a one-of-a-kind event where the teachers show off their might through their disciples, very much like the old Karate Kid movies.Interestingly, before the match, X and Y respectively won 18 and 16 games against each other while their respective coaches had 25 and 10 wins when they played against each other.Between X and Y - Y ended up being victorious in the face off.

ID X and Y and their respective coaches.

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X - Federer (Stefan Edberg)Y - Djokovic (Boris Becker)

18.“There is a great classic Looney Tunes cartoon where Tweety Bird drinks a Jekyll and Hyde formula and becomes a big hairy monster,” recalled Renaud. “The idea of something cute becoming something monstrous is an appealing thought. We always laugh because the Ys, although they’re Ys that work for a bad guy, are not really evil at all.”Here, Renaud refers to one of the directors of the movie X.Identify X and Y.

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Minions and Despicable Me

19.In the Game of Thrones series, one of the most powerful weapons in that universe is called Valyrian steel, which is said to have been forged by blacksmiths who were masters of magic.Valyrian steel was most probably inspired by a kind of steel called X steel which was manufactured in India and in the Middle East, most notably in the city of X it was named after. Valyrian and X steel both have a flowing water pattern on the surface and were tough, resistant to shattering and incredibly sharp edges. Recent analysis of X blades discovered they had carbon nanotubes and cementite nanowires, which proved that they were indeed superior to other kinds of steel.ID X <Image on next slide>

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Damascus Steel

20.To the right, you can see the sheer ingenuity of Amul in their wordplay for this advertisement, inspired by a famous poem.The choice of quote is ironic because the poem is a eulogy about a captain who had died despite achieving great things. The poem is about a real person who the poet Walt Whitman greatly admired. In fact, in his lectures about that individual’s death, he would recite the poem as a token of respect and remembrance.

Who was the inspiration for ‘O Captain! My Captain’?

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Abraham Lincoln

21.When X decided to name its flagship car after the internal code name they used for it, Peugeot said that they couldn’t, because Peugeot, in France, had trademarked all names consisting of three digits with a 0 in the middle. Despite this, X wanted to maintain a 3 digit name. Thus X named their product Y by changing a single character, and the name has lasted till now, with it being one of the iconic products in its class.In fact, it was ranked number 5 in the 1999 Car of the Century poll and is only of two cars in the top 5 to remain in active production.What car model is being talked about?

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The Porsche 911It was internally named the Porsche 901 during development.

22.Which mathematician’s 2012 biography was titled The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick?

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Benoit. B. Mandelbrot

23.X is a product which was invented by the Y family which was first created in the town of Alba in Italy. It was initially made as a solid block, but later made into something more creamier, which was dubbed as “Supercrema” and later modified into the form that we are familiar with today. The first consignment of X was manufactured on 20th April 1964 and was an instant success. In fact, it was so popular that a French senator proposed a tax increase on palm oil from 100 euros to 400 euros per metric tonne, as it was a major component of X. This led the tax to be dubbed as the “X tax”.Furthermore, Y consumes 25% of the world hazelnut supply and X’s composition has been incorporated into Y’s other products.X and Y please?

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Nutella and Ferrero

24.As his first exercise with the actors who portray the central trio, Alfonso Cuarón, who directed one of the films in the series, assigned them to write an autobiographical essay about their character, written in the first person, describing their life as they grew up, including the character's emotional experience. Of X's essay, Cuarón recalls, "X didn't deliver the essay. When I questioned why he didn't do it, he said, 'I'm Y; Y wouldn't do it.' So I said, 'Okay, you do understand your character.'"

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Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)

End of Round 2, Scores Please!

Theme Round 2

Infinite Pounce 3 +10/-10 , +10/0

Stamps (Mixed Bag) +5/0

1.ID the building

2. ID the flower

3. ID the statue depicted

4. ID the painting

5. ID the invention

6. ID the writer

7. ID the waterfall

8. ID the art form

9. ID the character

10. ID the person commemorated

Exchange Sheets Please

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Answers1. The Gherkin3. Bamiyan Buddhas5. Archimedes’ Screw7. Angel Falls9. Aquaman

2. Rafflesia4. The Great Wave off Kanagawa6. Edgar Allan Poe8. Flamenco10. Rube Goldberg

25.Jared Leto is playing as the Joker in the upcoming TV series Suicide Squad based on the DC miniseries of the same name.This photo is the earliest indication of Jared Leto’s role as it is evident that he is paying homage to a very famous graphic novel featuring the Joker. Which comic is being referred to?

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The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

26.During the 1870s, the Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition was launched to explore the north-eastern area of Wyoming.While exploring an area with high densities of a particular geological feature, they found one such specimen which followed a very high degree of regularity. They observed a frequency of once every 74 minutes with very little deviation, hence they decided to name it X.Since then, it has been open only to observation by tourists, although in the near future, it might be closed due to volcanic activity in that region.What is X?

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Old Faithful

27. Fill in the first blankWhen analysing the work of this particular author, people noted a similarity between his work and a famous musical opera composed by Richard Wagner, which had similar names.They had similar themes where instead of the variety of characters found in the book series, the opera was themed on Vikings, gods and mythical beasts. The opera ends in a tragedy with all gods and Valhalla destroyed as a result of this struggle.

The story written by the author also features a struggle over several generations, albeit with a different aim and a positive ending. When the author was questioned by his publishers over the similarities between his and Wagner’s work, he replied “Both X’s were _____, and there the resemblance ceases.” What is X?

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RingsThe author of course being J.R.R. Tolkien and the opera being the “Ring Cycle”The quote was “Both rings were round and there the resemblance ceases”

28.In 2004, Russell Peters performed a stand up show for Comedy Now! where he described his experiences performing stand up in South Africa. He recalls one such incident where he visits a casino and read a dealer’s name tag. The name which was mentioned on the tag was “!Xobile”. He talks about his misunderstanding of what the ! indicates and in the process, finds out what that means.In reality, ! is one of the types (alveolar) which are used in people’s names. Variations include | (dental) , || (lateral), (bilabial) , Ꙩ ‡ (palatal)

What do these symbols indicate in African names?

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Tongue Clicks

29.The image you see is that of a giant who is a character in a series of books written by Francois Rabelais.

The character is a friendly giant who provides much amusement to the citizens of Paris where he lives. He is known for a monstrous appetite (like in the image) and was said to have swallowed six pilgrims in a single gulp.

Thus this character lends his name to something (with similar traits), which you would’ve heard of recently (in the past year). What?

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Gargantua from Interstellar

30.To the right is an artist’s depiction of a typical day in a certain place. The place was a creation by one individual who campaigned for children’s education as an MP of the Rajya Sabha.The artist is a person who was notable for his daily illustrations and was the designer of Asian Paint’s logo.ID both individuals mentioned

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R.K. Narayan and R.K. Laxman

31.The Mawlawi order is an order founded in 1273 by the followers of Sufi saint Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi.Rumi once set out to walk in a marketplace taking in the and heard the rhythmic beating of the hammers of the goldsmiths. He heard “la elaha ella'llah” (There is no god but Allah[the God]) being chanted by the apprentices who were beating the gold and went into a trance. He was so filled with happiness that he stretched his hands and spun round and round, thus giving birth to the traditional ceremony followed by that order called the Sema. The Sema ceremony is one of the arts listed in the UNESCO’s list of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.How do we better know the practitioners of Sema?

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Whirling Dervishes

32. The following are the titles of 16 oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge advertising cigars. What is the collection titled?

● A Bold Bluff (Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)

● A Friend in Need● His Station and Four Aces● Pinched with Four Aces● Poker Sympathy● Post Mortem● Sitting up with a Sick Friend● Stranger in Camp

● Waterloo (Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff)

● Ten Miles to a Garage● Riding the Goat● New Year’s Eve in Dogville● One to Tie Two to Win● Breach of Promise Suit● The Reunion● A Bachelor’s Dog

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Dogs playing Poker

33.While there were many theories regarding X, some of which include the binary representation, the refractive angle required to create a rainbow and that it is the exponent of the time required for light to pass through the diameter of a photon, all theories were rejected. The official explanation was

“The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number,

and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought 'X will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

“

ID X

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42

34.Here are the explanations for a list of 4 entities. Identify what it is all about:● It was thought to be a symbol of Saturn from 1557 and was called “ZoSo” because of

what it looked like. No explanation was given by the creator himself.● Taken from Rudolf Koch’s Book of Signs. It’s a circle intersecting three vesca pisces

at 120 degrees from each other. Symbol of a person who possesses confidence and competence.

● Taken from the aforementioned book. Consists of three interlocking rings. Represents the triad of mother, father and child. Also an inverted logo for Ballantine Beer.

● A feather inside a circle, based on the supposed symbol of the Mu civilization.

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The 4 Symbols representing each member of Led Zep

35.Below is the famous Victory Calypso. FITB(s) with the names of two West Indian bowlers who wreaked havoc during the series between England and WI in 1950.

Cricket lovely Cricket,At Lord's where I saw it;Cricket lovely Cricket,At Lord's where I saw it;Yardley tried his bestBut Goddard won the test.They gave the crowd plenty fun;

Second Test and West Indies won.With those two little pals of mine

__(1)__ and __(2)__.

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Ramadhin and Valentine

36.The scientist in question(X) was a pioneer in the field of spectra of elements.In 1859, Kirchhoff suggested that X should try to form prismatic spectra of these colors. After numerous laborious purifications, X and Kirchhoff proved that highly pure samples gave unique spectra. In the course of this work, X came across a sample of mineral water from Dürkheim and performed spectral analysis on the sample. After careful distillation, in the spring of 1860 he was able to isolate 17 grams of the element. He named the element Y, after the Latin word for deep blue.

Most of us would know X for reasons corresponding to a basic chemical test in school labs.

Give us X and Y please.

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X:Robert Bunsen Y:Caesium

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