The CURIE-OUS Quiz!

Researched and conducted by Vishnu Subrahmanyam and Anurag Panicker

CLOCKWISETeams can pounce for +10/-10.Infinite Bounce. Each question carries 10 marks.

1)I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland dormitory ________ is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous ________ pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some other people and have people vote on which is more attractive. 9:49 pm Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together. 11:10 pm Let the hacking begin. 12:57 amThis was written on 28 Oct 2003. Whose blog is this?

Ans. Mark Zuckerberg.

2)Divya Narendra (Zuckerberg) was the biggest thing in a campus that included 19 Nobel Laureates, 15 Pulitzer prize winners, 2 future Olympians and one movie star.The screen writer of The Social Network Aron Sorkin wrote that the movie star reference was to a famous personality who helped with inside stories of the Harvard campus.Who?

Ans. Natalie Portman

3)This photo was taken from a cafeteria in 1961. Where?

Ans. Disneyland!

4)X is an ad-supported peer to peer program developed by Bram Cohen and X, Inc. X was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins.

Y is a freeware, ad-supported, proprietary product owned and developed by X, Inc. With over 100 million users it is the most widely used X client outside China; globally only behind Xunlei.Its name comes from the SI prefix "micro-", referring to the program's small memory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger programs.

X = BittorrentY = Torrent

5)128036 or __________ ____________ is a main belt asteroid discovered in 2003at the Astro nomical Observatory of Mallorca, Spain and named after its most famous resident.FITB.

Ans. Rafael Nadal.

6)In June 2012, the Uruguayan government, under President Mujica, announced plans to legalise state-controlled sales of X in order to fight drug-related crimes and health issues. The government stated that they would ask global leaders to do the same. Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa praised the decision as "courageous".The law intends to reduce the profit of organized crime, as well as reducing the violence related with it and the social problems associated with it. In doing so, Uruguay became the first country to do legalise it.ID X.

Ans. Cannabis and hence weed!

7)Similar games include bossaball, jianzi and sipa.The Wat Phro Kao temple in Bangkok has a painting of Hanuman playing it, on its walls.Thailand has won 22 gold medals out of 33 at the Asian Games since the sports inception in Beijing, 1990.

Ans. Sepak Takraw.

8)He was born to S.Nair and Savithri Devi on 6th February 1983. He has one elder brother and a sister. His brother Dipu Santhan owns a music company in Kochi and his sister Nivedita is a television actress in Kerala.His brother in law,Madhu Balakrishnan is a famous South Indian playback singer. Even he is quite famous(or rather,infamous!),but in another unrelated field altogether. Identify.

Ans. Sreesanth.

9)X is a 2011 Indian film in X language Directed by Suveeran. It is the first feature film to be made in this language. The film was screened at various film festivals where it won rave reviews. It released in theatres in Dakshin Kannada region on 9 June 2011.X won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film while Malayalam actress Mallika got a special mention from the National Film Award jury for her performance in the film.

Ans. Byari.

10)This is the first ever google doodle.

What was it celebrating?

Ans. Burning Man Festival.

Cover Your Ears!The round consists of covers of famous theme music. Id what is it a theme of?Teams can pounce for +10/-10.Infinite Bounce. Each question carries 10 marks.

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ANTICLOCKWISETeams can pounce for +10/-10.Infinite Bounce. Each question carries 10 marks.

1)The authors preferred title for this book was "Four-and-a-Half Years Of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity And Cowardice" but the publisher thought otherwise. In its first year in 1925, this book sold only 9000 copies. However in another 8 years time, the book sold an estimated 1.5 million copies. Name the book and its author.

2)X entered the Guinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest. He entered television work with an appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant. He was also used by the UK Ministry of Defence to head the Armys anti-drugs TV campaign. A best-selling author, his first book , titled Facing Up, went into the UK top 10 best-seller list. His television show went on to become the number one cable show in all of America and now reaches a global audience of over 1.2 billion viewers. In March 2012, the channel terminated its productions with X due to contract disputes. Id X.

Bear Grylls

3)The word X means dear, loving and gracious in Slavic; in Ancient Roman, eager and laborious; and in Sanskrit, unification. The word Y, a derivative of the word X, refers to a type of biscuit. A Y consists of a thin layer of rich chocolate sandwiched between two biscuit cookies.ID X AND Y

Milan & Milano

4)This particular breed of dog was bred among the emperors of the Chinese Han dynasty as a lap dog. Particularly auspicious dogs were those who had markings on their forehead resembling the Chinese characters for King or Prince. One of these dogs was famous for saving the life of Dutch ruler William of Orange, and yet another, ironically named Fortune, belonged to Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. These dogs were highly desirable pets in British high society during the Victoria era and Edward VIII, who famously abdicated the British throne in 1936 to marry Wallace Spencer, owned several. In present-day India, they are rarely known by name but are referred to by the name of a company that featured the breed very prominently in its advertisements. Which breed?

Pug!

5)Originally designed by N.G. Pans are under the supervision of __________s art director Walter Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height is 46.5 cm and it weighs around five kgs. Described as "For sheer grace, beauty and artistic merit, it bears comparison with the best of its kind in the world for it is as classic as our most ancient bronzes and as modern as the newest Florentine expressions. What is being talked about ?

The Black Lady of Filmfare Awards

6)This gap in the Western ghats is the lowest pass through the mountain range and is said to have been caused due to rivers flowing in the opposite direction. The gap allows moisture laden Southwest monsoon winds into the Coimbatore region, thus moderates temperatures and generates greater rainfall relative to the rest of lowland TN. Name this gap and in terms of cultural influence what demographic shift was it responsible for? Image in the Next Slide

Palakkad GapPalakkad Gap Enabled the migration into Palakkad of Tamil Brahmins, such as ancestors of the QM himself

7)It gets its name from a French word meaning "to toss food". It originated in the area around present day Nice. It was originally a poor farmers dish, prepared in the summer with fresh summer vegetables. The original used only courgettes, tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, and garlic. Nowadays aubergine is added. Name the dish. Hint: in some other context : He is dying to become a chef

Ratatouille

8)The time was 1883, the year an Indonesian volcano named Krakatoa exploded. Scientists likened the blast to a 100-megaton nuclear bomb. Fully 600 km away, people heard the noise as loud as a cannon shot. Plumes of ash rose to the very top of Earths atmosphere. Something else happened-which arguably gave rise to an idiom in the English language. What idiom?

Once in A Blue Moon

9)X which involves tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting has been named the most dangerous of all sports. Even though through the years safety efforts have led to fewer mishaps, a new report suggests that the sport still continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries than other sports. The researchers behind this study have found from records between 1982 and 2007, that there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in X. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven). The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released its 26th annual report on the topic. Id X.

Cheerleading

10)Otto Schott was a German chemist, and was a good friend of Dr Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss. In 1884, Otto founded Schott & Associates. It was here, during the period 1887 through to 1893, that Schott developed borosilicate glass. The product was named after Jena, their city of origin. It was later renamed, and then renamed again(by the Americans), into its current name. What was the product they invented?

Shotglass!

CONNECTEach correct answer will fetch you +10Written RoundThe final theme will give you +15. You can go for the theme anytime between the five questions as many times as you would prefer.

1)X was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.The X museum is defending its decision to install overhead sprinklers outside the former Second World War concentration camp after tourists said the mist machines reminded them of Nazi gas chambers.ID X

2)X in Hebrew is awwh, meaning "living one" or "source of life", and is related to y, "to live". The name derives from the Semitic root yw.To X God prophetically said, I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over youID X

3)ID The Movie from its Minimalist Poster

4)The reason there is no X for Mathematics is that his wife (sometimes mistress or fiance) had an affair with a famed mathematics professor (actual name of professor varies based on whos telling the story, but most popular go with famed Swedish mathematician Gosta Mittag-Leffler). So he stipulated in his will that there should not be X for mathematics for fear that said famed mathematics professor would win it.Put Funda and ID X

5)X died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906. Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy horse-drawn cart. He died instantly when one of the wheels ran over his head, fracturing his skull.In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.Who is he?

AnswersAuschwitzEveNobel PrizePierre Curie

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