the awesome quiz night finals

By:

Tarun Ruchandani

Prashanth Kanduri

The Finals !

1. If an aircraft's main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo is termed Fuselage, what is the tail assembly called? It gives stability to the aircraft and controls the flight dynamics of pitch and yaw.

Empennage

2. Fill In The Blank!

(In chronological order)

Jay Garrick

Barry Allen

_______

Bart Allen

Wally West or Flash 

3. Connect The Above

1. P versus NP problem

2. Hodge conjecture

3. Poincaré conjecture

4. Riemann hypothesis

5. Yang–Mills existence and mass gap

6. Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness

7. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Millennium Prize Problems

4. What Is This XKCD Strip

Referring To ?

The Discovery Channel OST

5. In this non-exhaustive but chronological list, fill in the blank.

New Delhi, India

Milan, Italy

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Montreal, Canada

Nairobi, Kenya

Bali, Indonesia

Poznań, Poland

_____________

Cancún, Mexico

Durban, South Africa

Copenhagen, Denmark(COP 15)

6. ID The Picture

Fortress of Solitude(Superman’s

Secret Hideout)

7. Connect the three pictures.

Tesla.1.nVIDIA’s Tesla2.Prestige-Tesla

3.Tesla Roadster

8.Dan Gookin got started with computers back in the post vacuum tube age of computing: 1982.

His big break came in 1984, when he began writing about them.

Applying his flair for fiction with a self-taught knowledge of computers, Gookin was able to demystify the subject the subject and even dared to add humour to his work.

In 1990, he went to a popular publishing house with a proposal. From that initial meeting unfolded the idea for an outrageous book, which blossomed into an international bestseller with thousands of copies in print and many translations.

Name The Series.

For Dummies.

9.

Due to millions of dollars of loan from New York banks to buy sugar, the only written copy of this particular document was deposited as the only collateral of value at hand by the company which was reaching bankruptcy then. It lay there till 1925.

Today this document if located safely in a heavily guarded safe-deposit box in the basement of SunTrust Bank, Atlanta (Georgia). What does this document contain?

Coke's secret formula

Contd…

10. Connect The Following

Famous Places :

Place where Squash tournaments were

promoted by World Squash Federation

(WSF)

11. X is a type of a flying machine which mainly achieves lift by being lighter than air through natural buoyancy.

They were operated by the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG (DELAG). DELAG, the first commercial airline, served scheduled flights before World War I. Around 1930s, these used to be operated for regular trans-atlantic flights. Its demise although occured due to the Y disaster in 1937.

X=Zeppelin Y=Hindenburg

12.I failed to get a seat – again,too many people on the train.We're stuck in a tunnel;everybody's sighing;we're not moving.I breathe in –'Let me know your peace and grace.'I breathe out – 'And help me share it with the people here.'Breathe in.Breathe out.For the sake of my sanity.For the sake of your kingdom.

What Are The Above Verses About ?

Prayers released by the Church of

England to help people handle

Monday Morning blues.

13.

This entire franchising operation was sold in 1964 for $2 million. Following the buyout, a food lab found that it consisted solely of sugar, flour, salt, black pepper and monosodium glutamate (MSG).

The proprietor concluded that it was entirely possible that, in the years since he sold the chain, later owners had begun skimping on the recipe to save costs.

Contd…

He expressed his anger at such changes, saying:

"That friggin' ... outfit .... They prostituted every goddamn thing I had. I had the greatest gravy in the world and those sons of bitches-- they dragged it out and extended it and watered it down that I'm so goddamn mad!"

What chain are we talking about?

KFC

14.

Directed by Samuel Bayer, the video was based on the concept of a school concert which ends in anarchy and riot.

Inspiration was taken from Jonathan Kaplan’s 1979 movie ‘Over the Edge’, as well as the Ramones film ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’.

The video featured the band playing at a pep rally in a high school gym to an audience of apathetic students.

The video ends with the students destroying the set and the band’s gear, which was the result of genuine discontent as the extras that filled the bleachers had been forced to stay seated through numerous replays of the song. Identify.

Sweet Child o’ Mine

15. Connect ‘em.

Jackie Chan

16.Connect ‘em again !

Thunderbolt

17. Video.Who is being parodied

in this South Park episode?

Richard Dawkin

18.

Christopher Nolan incorporates this structure in one of his movies, to it as an example of realization, as one character uses it purposefully to get behind a guard, then forces himself to realize it is an illusion and thus creates a sheer drop in front of him on which he then throws the guard off.

What structure are we talking about?

Penrose Stairs

Time For Turning Some Tables Around Now!

6By9 Round!

19.

The following are the ingredients needed to make a very famous drink of sorts:

Mistletoe

Fish

Rock oil got from gold (beetroot juice can be

substituted)

Four-leaved clovers of the tamarind tree

Lobster(for flavour)

Identify the drink.

Getafix's magic portion

20. Video.ID this remarkable moment in history of entertainment.

Marlon Brando’s Oscar rejection based on his

objection to the depiction of American Indians by Hollywood

and television.

21.

In ancient Rome, the famous emperor Nero (best known for fiddling:)) started a tax known as urine tax, later the "legacy" continued as his successor Vespasian imposed tax on public toilets.

Urine was collected in cesspools and used in chemical processes such as tanning, as a source of ammonia and cleaning woollen togas.

When questioned, he merely replied with a phrase that has given way to a specific way of looking at the rich.

What phrase?

Stinking Rich

22.

Zenith Radio Corporation, created the world’s first ______________ in 1950, called "Lazy Bone." However, the Lazy Bone was attached with a bulky cable, which eventually led to customer dissatisfaction. Zenith engineer, Eugene Polley created the improved version which did away with the cable and called it "Flash-matic“, again the first of its kind.

Zenith then came out with the more improved version called "Zenith Space Command“ using ultrasonics technology and since then this invention has been considered as one of the most important contributions by Zenith to man-kind.

Television Remote Control

23. Video.ID The Ad.

The ‘1984’ Apple ad which introduced the

Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first

time

24.

The following is a newly developed index to measure purchasing power in people.

The chart shows that the subject here is most affordable in Canada and most expensive in Brazil with India and Sweden next in line.

It is actually cheaper in Canada than in China, where the product is manufactured.

What is it that we are talking about?

The I-Pod Index

25. ID The Logo.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

26. Connect

Ayrton Senna

27.

Examples of a certain literary device include:

Numerically vague expressions (e.g. "some people", "experts", "many")

Use of the passive voice to avoid specifying an authority (e.g. "it is said")

Adverbs that detensify (e.g. "often", "probably")

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It basically has the effect of softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement through some form of understatement. It helps in creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated.

The word originates from the name of a certain creature of the musteledea family steals eggs from other nests.

Weasel Words 

28.Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi took a radical step to aid the fostering friendship with Latin American countries.

An announcement to this effect was made at an India-Cuba friendship meet the university. Visiting Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque was the chief guest and CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury was the main speaker.

What is it that is being talked about?

Foundation Stone for the Castro Café

in New Delhi

29. Connect. (contd..)

Pegasus

30.

Adam Mathes found that a search for ‘internet rockstar’ returned the website of a Ben Brown as the first result, even though ‘internet rockstar’ did not appear anywhere on Brown’s webpage. What term did he coin to explain this?

Google Bombing

31.Connect

Atoms For Peace

Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar and piano)

Flea (bass, melodica) of Red Hot Chili Peppers

Joey Waronker (drums) of R.E.M

 Mauro Refosco (percussion) of David Byrne

32.

The name of this fabric comes from the Hindi/Persian words for 'milk' and 'sugar'. It is a thin, all-cotton fabric, commonly striped or checkered, used to make clothing for spring and summer wear.

Today, its a widely used fabric for suits, shorts, shirts and robes.

What fabric am I talking about?

Seersucker, from the words 'shir' and

'shakar'

33. What is the creative contribution of the

following to the film world?*40 specially trained Ecuadorian Mountain

llamas,

*6 Venezuelan Red Llamas,

*142 Mexican Whooping Llamas,

*14 North Chilean guanacos (Closely related to the llama),

*Reg Llama of brixton,

*76000 Battery Llamas from 'Llama Fresh Farms Ltd' near Paraguay.

They directed the movie - 'Monty Python

and the Holy Grail'

34. Fill up the series. 

* 1900 to 2000: Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)

* 1800 to 1900: _______X________

* 1700 to 1800: Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765)

* 1600 to 1700: Titus Oates (1649-1705)

* 1500 to 1600: Sir Richard Rich (Lord Rich of Leighs) (1496/7-1567)

* 1400 to 1500: Thomas Arundel (1353-1414)

* 1300 to 1400: Hugh Despenser (The Younger) (died 1326)

* 1200 to 1300: King John (1167-1216)

* 1100 to 1200: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury (c.1120-1170)

* 1000 to 1100: Eadric Streona (died 1017)

X= Jack the Ripper (BBC’s poll for the

worst Britain in each century.)

35.What’s The Good Word?Legend says that during the colonial times in

India, one of the ministers accomplished his tasks impeccably, much to the surprize of the king himself.

So much so that he was made an example to all other ministers in the court.

Today, his name is used to congratulate or praise another person for having done something well.

What's the word being talked about?

Shabaash!

36. Connect

Objectivism

That’s All Folks !