Apotheosis 2016Inter NIT Written Quiz

Questions by Aakash Bhadoria

Anam Hilaly

Eeshaan Vernekar

Ketan Kishore

Neel Karnik

Nishant Nihar

Rahul Sanghavi

Sagar Raja

Sayondeep Sadhu

Vishal Anand Gupta

Rules 1)The quiz consists of 60 questions divided across 5 sections. Each

section has 12 questions consisting of 2 star marked questions each which will be used to resolve ties.

2)Every question is worth 1 point.

3)Spelling mistakes are acceptable as long as the answer is phonetically right.

4)Questions involving a real life person , last name will fetch full points unless stated.

5)Questions involving fictional characters the full name or commonly known name will be sufficient.

A big thanks to all the proctors for making the questions and the NIT’s taking part in the quiz.

Happy quizzing

Business &Technology

#1Put funda associated with this formula

Facebook News Feed

#2“Where the truth doesn’t hide , where the truth doesn’t hurt “ is the masthead of which online news source ?

Faking News

#3 *ID the person to whom this business card belongs to

Walt Disney

#4Going as far as 1878 this technology still finds its application in modern day electronics. In the current version basic TRS is still used (tip ,ring and sleeve) where tip and ring transfer signals to the left and right whereas the sleeve acts as the ground.

Id this technology currently in news due to its omission from an upcoming product.

3.5mm Audio Jack

#5Connect

Times Group

#6The X effect gets its name from a video game. It occurs when people devote too much time and attention to an activity that it begins to “pattern their thoughts , mental images and dreams.”

ID X

Tetris

#7ID the company blanked out from the poster

Turkish Airlines

#8*Funda behind the advert ?

#9ID the logo

#10Put funda

Panama Papers

#11A X is a clause in an executive employment contract that provides the executive with several severance package incase the executive loses his or her job through restructuring , by being fired or even scheduled retirement.

This can be in the form of cash , equity other benefits and is often accompanied by an accelerated vesting of stock options.

ID X

Golden Handshake

#12ID the blanked

out part

GST

General

#13X is a hamlet and a census designated place that is located within the town of Mount Pleasant , New York. A Wagner fan led to its name and maintains its association with death by being the final resting place of several celebrities such as Lou Gehrig , Robert De Niro Sr , Ayn Rand , Rachmaninoff etc

ID the name of the hamlet

Valhalla

#14 *The roots of the word X lie in Greek mythology namely the legend of Y , the Greek demigod. Legend has it that Y would love to torment Greek travelers who would pass by the wilderness between the Greek city states. When a traveler passed by Y’s hiding place , y would gently rustle the bushes causing a sense of apprehension in the traveler. The traveler would pick up his pace and y would once again repeat the same trick. By this time the traveler would breathe heavily , his heart begin to pound. Another rustle would see the traveler run as fast as he could to flee from the forest. Never would the unsuspecting traveler re-enter the forest without a feeling of apprehension. Thus the term X originated. Part points applicable

ID X & Y

X=Panic ; Y=Pan

#15What iconic image is being paid tribute ?

Tank Man

#16The X were an East Germanic tribe or group of tribes who were first mentioned in Roman history by Pliny the Elder(77CE). The term X has now become synonymous with careless destruction owing to accounts by Roman writers describing the violent behavior of X and their sack of Rome in 455 CE.

ID X

Vandals

#17A Turkish Bath or X is the Turkish variant of the Roman bath distinguished by a focus on water as distinct from ambient steam. In India we know X as a popular soap brand made by Unilever which has aloe , neem and tulsi as its primary ingredients.

ID x

Hammam

#18Known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants this island covers roughly 65 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean and is located around 2300 miles from the Chilean coast. Its claim to fame is an array of almost 900 giant stone figures that date back to several centuries. The island was christened Parseiland or X by Dutch explorers in the honor of the day of their arrival.

ID X

Easter Island

#19 *The Twenty Committee oversaw the World War 2 anti-espionage and deception operation of the MI5. Nazi agents in Britain -real and false were captured ,turned themselves in or simply announced themselves and were used by the British to broadcast disinformation to their Nazi Controllers.

ID the funda behind the name of the committee(twenty).

20 is XX in Roman numeral ie Double Cross

#20In the 1780’s when dentistry was in its infancy , dentures with human teeth could cost around £100 making it prohibitively expensive. Human teeth were obtained from poor live donors or by scavenging graves. However after 1815 there was a great spurt of the supply of human teeth making human dentures affordable.

What was the reason behind the sudden supply of human teeth?

Teeth were scavenged from the bodies of soldiers at Waterloo.

#21What is the significance of

this note ?

First Banknote of Independent Pakistan

#22The X cocktail is a layered shot composed of coffee liqueur , Irish cream and a triple sec. The name X refers to its use from the US X Stratofortress , a long range bomber. Another story about its name is that the head bartender named it after his favourite band X. The drink apparently became popular in North London during 2009 when Nicklas Bendtner changed his jersey number earning him the nickname X.

ID X

B-52

#23Originally the X was intended for the Suez Canal. As the Canal neared construction in 1869 , French sculptor Bartholdi tried to convince Egyptian Government to let him build a structure inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes at its Mediterranean end, Bartholdi envisioned a 90 ft statue holding a massive torch which would serve as a lighthouse to guide ships. The project failed to take off but Bartholdi persisted with the idea and was unveiled as we know it now in 1866.

ID X

Statue of Liberty

#24X are a very popular article of casual dress around the world coming in various fits such as slim, straight, anti -fit , tapered etc. The word X has been in used since the late 15th century. Originally coming from the Latin Janua “Genoa” where the fabric was first produced.

ID X

Jeans

MELA

#25The X , by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. It has been declared as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the X is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

X , please

Babel Fish

#26 *X is a 2008 animated film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley based on an ancient epic.

In the director's words, the film is "a tale of truth, justice and a woman’s cry for equal treatment."

The title of the film is derived from the fact that the female protagonist of the epic sings a bunch of Annette Hanshaw songs to express herself.

Sita Sings the Blues

#27Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopaedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. It was initiated under the internal codename “X”, which is quite apt considering that it could be reckoned as one of the most reliable dispensers of knowledge during that time.

X, please.

Gandalf

#28 X is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II by.

These films were partly responsible for keeping the animation studios open during the war—by producing such training films, the studios were declared an essential industry.

The name X is derived from military slang used for a state of utter confusion and chaos.

Private SNAFU

#29 X is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was first published in the May 6, 1950 issue of Collier's. Later that same year the story was included in Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (1950) The name of the short story comes from the name of a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow, published in 1920. In 2008, the post-apocalyptic game Fallout 3, a Mister Handy Robot recites this poem for the long dead children of the family he belonged to. The robot reciting the poem is a reference to the story, as well as the content of the poem itself. In 2015, shortly after Leonard Nimoy's death, a concept album was released featuring Nimoy's 1975 reading of the short story, set to music by producer Carwyn Ellis under the pseudonym Zarelli. ID the short story or album

There Will Come Rains/Soft Rains

#30 Jeevan Naiya is film made by Himanshu Rai’s Bombay Talkies in 1936. The lead pair of the movie, Najm-ul-Hasan and X (Himanshu Rai’s wife), fell in love with each other and eloped mid-production. The studio therefore suffered severe financial losses and a loss of credit among bankers in the city while the runaway couple made merry. Sashadhar Mukherjee established contact with the runaway couple and managed to convince X to return to her husband. The shooting resumed and this, in the most improbable way, become a milestone in Bollywood history.

ID X and the movie’s most significant contribution to Bollywood. Part points applicable.

X=Devika Rani ; First movie of Ashok Kumar who was cast as Najm-ul-Hasan’s replacement

#31Chekhov, In a letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889, Anton Chekhov expressed that "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." This led to the inception of the phrase X, which is one of the most famous mechanics of achieving a ‘plot twist’s a narrative.

X, please

Chekhov’s Gun

#32X &Y is a psychedelic rock band from the 60’s once fronted by the legend, Janis Joplin.

X is a term used to refer to a surveillance state or a snooping state.

The term, Y, usually refers to a company that does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies to form a corporate group.

Name the band

Big Brother and the Holding Company

#33 *X is a Trojan aristocrat who appears in stories about the Trojan War. In Homer's Iliad he is portrayed as an energetic and impetuous warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between Troilus and Cressida. In Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida he is portrayed as an aged degenerate and coward, who ends the play by telling the audience he will bequeath them his "diseases".The plot function of the aging lech X in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's famous works has given rise to the English terms a ______, from Chaucer, meaning a person who furthers other people's illicit sexual amours; and to ______, from Shakespeare, as a verb denoting the same activity. _________ is essentially a reaction of panic in elected officials who must either tailor their views to public opinion or risk losing their existing or potential seat. X, please

Pandarus

#34The short film "Dirty Laundry" created by Adi Shanker, featured X reprising his role of Y.

When asked why did X return to this role he said: "I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Y & his fans."

The short film features Y who has gone to get some laundry done, sees a gang harassing the localites, and confronts them hard.

The character Y has seen a happy revival in 2016.

ID X and Y

Thomas Jane as the Punisher

#35This Hollywood production X features both original and existing music tracks. The theme, “______”, was also the theme song of the 1966 Italian film Y whose title character has a cameo appearance in this movie. The film also features a few famous pieces of western classical music, including Beethoven's "Für Elise" and "Dies Irae" from Verdi's Requiem. In a scholarly essay on the film's music, it is noted that the vast majority of film music borrowings come from films made between 1966 and 1974 and argues that the political and musical resonances of these allusions situate X squarely in the Vietnam and Watergate era.

X and Y, please

X= Django Unchained ; Y= Django

#36 Originally, co-creator of the NBC TV show X, Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of X ambiguous so it could refer to either "Uncle Sam" or the United Nations.

Concerns by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer legal department about using "U.N." for commercial purposes resulted in the producers' defining the acronym as a fictional organisation.

This cold war era counter espionage TV Series was adapted to the big screen in 2015 and received a largely positive to mixed response.

ID the TV series X.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Sports

#37 In November 2009,Thierry Henry was embroiled in the handball controversy during a World Cup qualifier. Also, Tiger Woods made headlines for all the wrong reasons after his car crash following which his series of affairs was exposed. Around the same time ,Roger Federer was knocked out of ATP World Tour by 6th seed Nikolai Davydenko in a shock defeat. What were these 3 events collectively called as?

The Gillette Curse

#38Before playing in the NBA , Wilt Chamberlain played for X , an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism , theater and comedy. Starting in 2007 X conducts an annual draft before the NBA draft in which they invite players to join them and only a few of the selected players agree to join X

Notable draft picks include Tim Howard (2009) , Lionel Messi (2011) , Landon Donavan (2014) and Dude Perfect ( 2015)

ID x

Harlem Globetrotters

#39This guy stood 12th at the 1992 World Diving Championships. However, his desire to represent Britain at the Olympics led him to support his coaching by selling perfume and jewellery out of a briefcase. This is referenced when he changed careers later in life.

Who and what am I referring to?

Jason Statham ; Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels opening scene

#40 He is a 7 times Grand Slam winner tennis player. He got a popular nickname by his fans because of his tenacity on the court. A famous brand is named after him and that brand got the logo from his nickname. Identify the player and his nickname

Rene Lacoste ; The Crocodile

#41*The English version of the 16th verse in Chapter 3 of the Gospel of John : “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” What iconic catchphrase in the world of sports entertainment did this lead to ?

Austin 3:16

#42Boxing is known as the sweet science. This is reflected in the nickname X given to both X Ray Robinson and X Ray Leonard. Jake Lamotta of Raging Bull fame quoted that he fought X Ray Robinson so many times that he almost got diabetes.

ID the common nickname X

Sugar

#43The most distinctive part of the logo dates back to 13th Century when there was an abundance of bears and strawberry trees.The seven stars represent Ursa Major. The colour of the stripes was a matter of economics- mattresses were made using red and white striped cloth and the excess fabric made for a cheap resource for weaving shirts giving rise to their nickname los colchoneros ( the mattress makers)

ID the club

Atletico Madrid

#44 *In 1987 German ice hockey club ECD Iserhorn was staring at bankruptcy. In order to keep their team afloat they struck a deal with a X who agreed to give the club USD 900,000 in exchange for promoting X’s Green Book- a collection of ramblings and political philosophies on their jerseys. As a show of support fans would turn up in desert robes . Due to increasing pressure from German media , the federation who were against associating the sport with “ crime and terrorism”, the players returned to their old jerseys .

ID X

Muammar Gaddafi

#45 The defensive line of Rangers FC during late 1940s and early 1950s was so good that most people in Scotland knew the term because of this lineup, rather than the politics during those times. What term?

Iron Curtain

#46 John Woodcock, a noted cricket writer once said about him, "It's no use asking an Englishman to bat like X . For, it would be like expecting a greyhound to win the London Derby“. One of India’s most successful captains , He was married to a former Miss India. Identify him.

Mohammad Azharuddin

#47X is a phenomenon in distance running, such as marathons or road running (as well as other sports), whereby an athlete who is too out of breath and tired to continue suddenly finds the strength to press on at top performance with less exertion. Some scientists believe X to be a result of the body finding the proper balance of oxygen to counter the buildup of lactic acid in the muscles. Others claim X are due to endorphin production, while still others believe it to be purely psychological. The phenomenon has come to be used as a metaphor for continuing on with renewed energy past the point thought to be one's prime, whether in other sports, careers, or life in general. X?

Second Wind

#48Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and an Olympic Sport. The governing council of the sport decided to rebrand itself to World Taekwondo for marketing and branding purposes to dissociate itself with the very popular acronym X which is used as a “universal prerogative” .

ID x

WTF

India

#49 Khejarli or Khejadli is a village in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India, 26 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of the city of Jodhpur. In September 1731, a royal party led by Giridhar Bhandari, a minister of the maharaja of Marwar, arrived at the village with the intention of taking away something from the village that were sacred to the villagers. They needed that item to produce lime for the construction of a new palace.A local woman called Amrita Devi protested against it because such acts were prohibited by their religion. The feudal party said that they would only cease if she paid them a bribe, which she refused to do because she saw that as ignominious and an insult to her faith. Instead she agreed to give away something else. Soon her example was followed by other members of her tribe and eventually the Maharaja had to withdraw his order. This movement became the forebear of which very successful 20th century movement.

Chipko Movement

#50Located at the bottom of Sabarimala Hills , this post office perhaps may be the only one that doesn’t run all the year.It comes alive sometime in November and period ends towards the middle of January. Functioning 6 days a week from 8 am to 8 pm , the 6 employees led by 23 year old G Sai Prakash have a lot to do. The post office mostly gets invitations for weddings and shop openings. Most of the mail comes from Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh (undivided) and Karnataka.

What is unusual about the post office?

It delivers letters to God

#51

These lines from a poem (lines next slide) whose first stanza is well known to us.

What is the first stanza ?

Ahoroho tabo aahoban procharito, shuni tabo udaro baniHindu, Bouddho, Shikh, Joino, Parosik, Musolmaan, KhrishtaniPurobo poshchimo aase, tabo singhasono pashePremohar hoy gatha Patono obhyudoyo bondhuro pantha,jugo jugo dhabito jatriHe chirosarothi, tabo ratho chakre, mukhoritho patho dinoratriDaruno biplobo majhe,tobo shongkhodhoni baajeShonkoto dukkho trata

Ghoro timiro ghono nibiro nishithe, pirito murchhito desheJagroto chhilo tabo abicholo mongolo, natonayone animesheDuhshopne aatongke, rokkha korile ongkeSnehomoyi tumi maata

Jana Gana Mana

#52 *Connect ( Exhaustive list )

Madhav Pathak , Anish Mukherjee, Akshat Singhal, Hetal Vaishnav , Debhargya Sarkar , Vishnu Jayaprakash , Hamsa Padmanabhan, Sainudeen Pattazhy and Vishwanathan Anand

Indians after whom planets are named

#53How are Hesidros , Hydapses , Hyphasis , Acensines and Hydroatis better known to us ?

The rivers Satluj , Jhelum , Beas , Chenab and Ravi

#54The next slide has a list of names , put funda

#54

2015:Vanya Shivashankar & Gokul Venkatachalam- scherenschnitte & nunatak2014:Ansun Sujoe & Sriram Hathwar- feuilleton & stichomythia2013:Arvind Mahankali- knaidel2012:Snigdha Nandipati- guetapens2011:Sukanya Roy- cymotrichous2010:Anamika Veeramani- stromuhr2009:Kavya Shivashankar- laodicean2008:Sameer Mishra-guerdon

Scripps Spell Bee champions of last 8 years with their corresponding winning words that they spelled correctly

For the last consecutive 8 years Indians have managed to become the champions of the Scripps Spell Bee contest.

#55 Akbar’s proximity and affinity towards Hindu kings might have led to the Shahi khansamas to create a vegetarian delicacy soaked with Mughlai cuisine and thus the dish X is supposed to have born rechristened after Akbar’s famous most courtiers.

ID X

Navratna Korma

#56Viva N Diva, an apparel brand that specialises in ethnic Indian

wear, has roped in X, to front their brand. This move seems to be a part of the brand's campaign, #FaceofCourage, that aims to create more opportunities for people like X in the fashion industry.

Who is the new brand ambassador of Viva N Diva? Funda will work as well

Laxmi Saa = X /Acid Attack Victims

#57According to some versions it is believed that after the death of Sati , Lord Shiva performed the awe inspiring and fearful Tandava dance with Sati’s charred body which came apart into 51 pieces and fell on the Earth.

How are these 51 pieces known to us as ?

Shakti Peeths

#58 *X was a Nobel Prize winning laureate who was born in India in 1857. After confirming his seminal discovery he sent the following poem to his wife .

This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command,Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath,I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting?Thy victory, O Grave?

ID X and the reason he got the Nobel Prize

Sir Ronald Ross ; discovery of malaria

#59The X is an elite household cavalry regiment of the Indian Army. It is the senior most in the order of preference of the units in the Indian Army. What is the primary role of X which is the successor of the regiment raised by Governor General Warren Hastings as his personal bodyguard.

President’s Bodyguard =X

#60X came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts , a junior element of the scouting movement. Y has become a senior figure in the movement with the name Y being adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout Pack.

ID X & Y . Part points applicable

x= Jungle Book ; y = Akela

FIN