GRAY MATTER General Quiz

Finals

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QUEST - DSCE Quiz Club

ROUND 1

DRIES+10/0

+5 on Pass

1.

Calloway said X was called "The Buzz" when he and others performed it in the 1930s.In 1955 it was recorded in a performance by Bill Bailey. He performs a tap routine, and at the end, backslides into the wings. The French mime artist Marcel Marceau used it throughout his career (from the 1940s through the 1980s), as part of the drama of his mime routines. In Marceau's famous "Walking Against the Wind" routine Marceau pretends to be pushed backwards by a gust of wind.In the 1950s, Dick Van Dyke performed a similar variation of X in his comedy routine called "Mailing A Letter On A Windy Corner".

ID X

Answer :

Moonwalk

2.

In 1965, Luciano X, the oldest of four children, was a 30-year-old salesman in Treviso. He saw a market for colourful clothes, and sold a younger brother's bicycle in order to buy his first second-hand knitting machine. His initial small collection of sweaters received a positive response in local stores in the veneto region, and soon after he asked his sister and two younger brothers, Gilberto and Carlo, to join him. In 1965, the entity known as the "X Group" was formed.

Id X.

Answer :

Benetton

3.Francis Nolan is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Cambridge.

Nolan’s most famous creation?

Answer :

Creator of Parseltongue (Harry Potter)

4.

X Yatra begins from A’s temple in Triprayar and ends up at D’s Temple in Payyammal. It is customary to visit the four temples in the order A,B,C,D respectively. A pilgrimage to these temples on a single day during the holy month of Karkkidakam believed to shower blessings and ensure prosperity.

ID X,A,B,C,D

Answer :

X : Nalambalam

A : Rama

B : Bharata

C : Lakshmana

D : Shatrughna

5.

X Y is sometimes used to refer to a typical male in some contexts. For example, the first name listed on a form is often X Y, along with a fictional address or other fictional information to provide an example of how to fill out the form. The name is also used frequently in popular culture, for example in the Frank Capra film Meet X Y. X Y was also the name of a 2002 American television series. Similarly, a child or baby whose identity is unknown may be referred to as Baby Y.

This practice is widely used in the United States and Canada, but is rarely used in other English-speaking countries including the United Kingdom itself, from where the use of "X Y" in a legal context originates. The name Joe Bloggs is used in the UK instead.

What is X Y ?

Answer :

John Doe

6.

‘X’ was given his name because of an unfortunate incident. Before he was born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted male children, young ‘X’ was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring . It was then that he earned the name ‘X’. After his younger brother was born, they switched to treating him as a boy.

ID X

Answer :

Nathuram Godse(Nath in Marathi is nose ring)

ROUND 2

Your LossMy Gain

Cumulative Scoring(n+1)*10 for right answer-5n for wrong answerWhere n = No. of teams who’ve passed

1.

The band changed their name to X, after a member of the Charles Manson cult (aka the Manson "family") famous for serving as his getaway driver. X is a common Armenian surname, originating from an Arabic/Persian word, meaning a butcher or slaughterer, and an Armenian suffix.

ID the band

Answer :

Kasabian

(Qasab means Slaughter in Arabic)

2.

How is this street more popular?(answer is not contained in the cropped part)

Answer :

Hollywood Walk of Fame (Vine Street in Hollywood, California)

3.

This logo has finally been dropped. ID the logo.

Answer :

The Senna-logo tribute from the Williams F1 cars

4.

In 1933 André X and his brother Édouard X introduced the first countrywide French restaurant listings and introduced a system for ranking food, later extended to the rest of the world. X reviewers (commonly called "inspectors") are completely anonymous; they do not identify themselves, and their meals and expenses are paid for by the company founded by the X brothers, never by a restaurant being reviewed. The New Yorker article states: 'X has gone to extraordinary lengths to maintain the anonymity of its inspectors. Many of the company’s top executives have never met an inspector; inspectors themselves are advised not to disclose their line of work, even to their parents; The inspectors write reports that are distilled, in annual meetings at the guide’s various national offices, into the ranking.

Id X

Answer :

Michelin

5.

Griffin talked about the show's origins :My wife Julann just came up with the idea one day when we were in a plane. I was mulling over game show ideas, when she noted that there had not been a successful "question and answer" game on the air since the quiz show scandals. Why not do a switch, and give the answers to the contestant and let them come up with the question? She fired a couple of answers to me: "5,280" – and the question of course was "How many feet in a mile?". Another was "79 Wistful Vista"; that was Fibber and Mollie McGee's address. I loved the idea, went straight to NBC with the idea, and they bought it without even looking at a pilot show.

Which show??

Answer :

Jeopardy!

6. Connect

Answer :

Conflict Kitchen(it’s a restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves foods from nations with which the US is in conflict!! Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Afghanistan)

ROUND 3

Destiny’s Child

+15/-5

Categories

Mythology

Entertainment

Sports

Politics

Current Affairs

Tech.

Biz.

???

Round 4

Connect..!!

Answer :

Back

Round 4

SanjayaHanumanBarbarikaArjuna

The only four people to have heard the Mahabharata from Lord Krishna himself.

• The Adventurer

• Singin' in the Rain

• Cops

• Project A

• The Notebook

Connect!

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Scenes from the movie Barfi! are copied exactly from these movies

‘X’ resides and trains in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas .‘X’ was (in his words), "offered to represent Italy" in 2002, but refused because "I am an Indian and want to contribute to the country that I was born in”.

ID X

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Shiva Keshavan (Luge)

X, a 12 year old boy wrote this letter to newly elected US president Franklin Roosevelt. ID X.

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Fidel Castro

IUPAC name :4-[(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)methyl]-N-(4-methyl-3-{[4-(pyridin-3-yl)pyrimidin-2-yl]amino}phenyl)benzamide

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Glivec or Imatinib

The Indian Supreme Court on April 1 denied a patent for the Novartis breakthrough medicine Glivec® (imatinib mesylate).

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Sony Rolly

X was born in New York City to a mother of Jewish heritage and his father was an Italian American U.S. Air Force pilot. After he contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months his mother gave him to her aunt and uncle for adoption. X did not meet his biological mother again until he was 48.Although X was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive-parents, who attended synagogue regularly, he remained a religious sceptic. X states: "While I think I am religious in one sense, the particular dogmas of Judaism are not dogmas I subscribe to. I don't believe that they are real. They're interesting stories. They're interesting mythology, and I certainly respect people who believe these are literally true, but I don't...I see no evidence for this stuff."

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Larry Ellison (Co-founder and CEO of Oracle)

During World War II, X was largely ignored by the Germans during the Blitz due to the lack of heavy industry such as steelworks or shipbuilding that would have made it a target, although it was still affected by the rationing and influx of refugees fleeing London and other cities. It has been claimed that Adolf Hitler gave instructions that X should not be bombed as he was impressed by its architecture and had plans for it to be his capital should Germany win World War II.

ID X

Answer :

Back

Round 4

Oxford

ROUND 4

All roads lead to Rome

+10/-5

Theme - 100

X is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the ________ preceding _______Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover.

Id X.

Theme - 80

X said this about the vehicle Y."I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.“

ID X.

Theme - 60First patented image for what?

Theme - 40

This was a letter written to Steven (well that’s obvious! :P) about a specific role by a specific person.Id the guy who wrote this letter.

Theme - 25

Id the guy who plays Romeo in the above play.

Theme - 15

Connect

James A. GarfieldWilliam McKinleyJohn F. Kennedy

Theme - 10Id this famous extract!

ANSWERS :

1. Good Friday2. X : Henry Ford ; Y : Ford Model – T3. The Derringer pistol4. Daniel Day Lewis letter to Steven Spielberg rejecting

the role of Lincoln.5. John Wilkes Booth6. Presidents assassinated in office.7. Extract from the Gettysburg address.

Theme : Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.