Hari Parameswaran

Only one rule that matters (or maybe two)

QM rules, OK

It’s only a quiz – don’t get your knickers in a twist

There’ll be a couple of written rounds

5 points per question5 points per question

All easy questions meant to get points on the board

Each question in regular rounds is 10 points

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WRITTEN ROUND 1WRITTEN ROUND 1

In the early 80s, Fred Cohen was working on his PhD thesis – focusing on “program that can 'infect' other programs by modifying them to include a, possibly evolved, copy of itself”. His thesis advisor, who had an interest in molecular biology, came up with the name “Virus” for them.“Virus” for them.

Said Advisor later went on to come up with the concept of DNA computing.

He’s better known for being part of a group where two of the group came up with various systems – and his job was to break them. He broke 42 such systems, before conceding defeat on the 43rd. Who?

Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA)

• This musical instrument takes its name from a type of long drum used in the area of Provence. Of course, the musical instrument we are referring to is much smaller, and is generally adorned with zils. and is generally adorned with zils.

• It is referenced in the title of one of 3 songs that appeared twice in the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the other two being “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Walk this way”.

Tambourine

Generally termed as Phospenes, these have been described in literature as early as the 5th C BC. Physiologist Evangelista Prukinye was the first to study them extensively, and identified types like deformation phosphenes and types like deformation phosphenes and pressure phosphenes. A common type of brief, recurrent vertical phosphene has been termed as “Moore's lightning streaks”. What do we more commonly know it as?

“Seeing Stars” when subjected to a trauma

Of course, the objective of the quest was to get back 4 items, but most people don’t remember the names of Vishalya Karani, Suvarna Karini or Sandhana. However, almost everyone knows the name of the 4th target of the quest. What is the name of the 4th target of the quest. What is it?

Sanjeevani/Mritasanjeevani

This mathematical concept, which literally means “ratio-number”, was introduced in a 1614 book written by the 8th Laird (a Laird ranks below Baron and above Esquire) of Merchiston(Scotland). (Scotland).

This book is the reason why most people remember him, though he himself felt his most important work was the religious “A PlaineDiscovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John”, where he computed the date of the apocalypse to be 1688 or 1700.

Logarithm

The primary reason for the event was merely a quest for gunpowder – they had arms but very little ammunition.

Of what is generally (but incorrectly) thought of as the primary reason, there were only 7 people as the primary reason, there were only 7 people that benefited - Jean de la Corrège, Jean Béchade, Bernard Laroche, Jean-Antoine Pujade, Hubert de Solages, De Witt, and a man identified only as Tavernier.

What event are we talking about?

The storming of the Bastille

This Italian term, originally used for confectionscontaining a variety of chopped and usually candied fruits, was later also used for one of the earliest flavors of bubble gum created by Thomas Adams, along with Spearmint, Thomas Adams, along with Spearmint, BlackJack, and Clove.

It is generally known as a flavor of ice-cream to us, but the inventor of that ice-cream, Roy Motherhead, claimed he named it after his daughter.

It’s also the name of a Ray Charles song.

Tutti-Frutti

This iconic photograph, which Life magazine included in it’s “100 Photographs that changed the world” was taken on 24th December 1968 on a Hasselblad 500 EL by William Anders.

Climber and photographer Galen Rowell called Climber and photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken”

What term, describing a regular event that only a few select individuals have seen directly, is used to refer to this photograph.

Earthrise – taken fromApollo 8

ROUND 1

Infinite Bounce

Questions carry 10 pointsQuestions carry 10 points

Any variation from this will be

described in the question

The legendary professor of Applied

Mathematics at MIT did the work that he is most recognized for whilehe was at Bell Labs. One way to look at his seminal result is about the difficulty of simulating a quantum system – it stated that the simulation of a quantum system to finite that the simulation of a quantum system to finite accuracy cannot be done by a classical computer in polynomial time, unless the problem of factoring integers can be as well.

One implication of this result is that if you could do so, you could break RSA. Who is this scientist?

Peter Shor

This memorial at _______was funded by lawyers of the American Bar Association. It commemorates an event that took place almost 800 years ago. The same event is referenced in the Kipling poem that goes“And still when mob or Monarch lays

Too rude a hand on English ways,

The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,

Across the reeds at ________.

And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,

And crowds and priests and suchlike things,

Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings

Their warning down from ________!”

All 3 blanks are the same, the name of a place where this memorial is found. What does it commemorate?

The signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede

This Australian Doctor, Scientist, and later Politician has his name associated with 2 things of interest in a quiz such as this – one is that he was one of the 2 referees in the famous game of football –considered to be the first one that followed the Australian Football rules – held between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar on 7 August 1858.

The question is about the second – his friend The question is about the second – his friend Ferdinand Von Mueller named a genus of flowering plants after him. The seeds of two species in the genus is edible, and in fact is among the most popular nuts in the world.

These nuts are always sold unshelled, because it takes a pressure of more than 300 pounds per square inch to crack it open.

Name it.

Macadamia – after John Macadam

In 1964, this future congressmanbecame the first American, and the first High School student, to break the 4 minute mile, doing soin 3:59.0. He set the US record in 1965 with 3:55.3, with that also being the high school record for 36 years (and in fact he still holds 5 of the 6 fastest miles in US High School history). ESPN has rated fastest miles in US High School history). ESPN has rated him as the best high school athlete of all times, with Tiger Woods coming in number 2.

In the 1968 Olympics, the highlight of the track and fields event was the 1500 m finals, pitting him against Kip Keino. He lost the gold to Kip.Name this Republican from Kansas.

Jim Ryun

The Bayterek tower is one of the landmarks of Astana, Kazhakstan. It takes its name from the Kazhak for “Tall Poplar tree”, with the tower representing a Poplar tree, with the egg of a legendary bird on top of the “tree”. This mythical creature from Persian mythology dwelt creature from Persian mythology dwelt on top of the world tree Gaokerana.

In Salman Rushdie’s debut novel, the ruler of Calf Island has a name that is the anagram of this mythical bird.

Name this mythical creature.

Simurg. Rushdie’s debut novel was Grimus

The United States is the 3rd largest producer of Allium Cepa, after China and India.The rather common phenomenon that accompanies its use can be attributed to a class of organic molecules known as amino acid of organic molecules known as amino acid sulfoxides. In certain situations, enzymes called allinases are released, and the amino acid sulfoxide rearrange to form syn-Propanethial-S-oxide.

What phenomenon are we talking about?

In Jeopardy style - Why do we tear up while cutting Onions?

The man on the right is one of the senior partners in Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown. He has been the national president of the American Jewish Committee, and in this role has testified before the Senate on terrorism. He has also been on the board of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.About his first meeting with the person who made his About his first meeting with the person who made his name famous in 1975, he said "He came in, we clicked, he stayed. We've had a great, fun time. He was a wonderful guy then, and he's never changed.“

What’s the story here?

Bruce Ramer. He was also the attorney for Steven Spielberg, who decided to name the Shark in Jaws after him.

The term is used for a raised road or railway line, built up using an embankment over water or marshland. An example here this road to the Rincon Island in Ventura County, CA. There’s a famous one in Bombay too that was constructed by the British in 1838.

The “reason” they got this name may not be The “reason” they got this name may not be what you think – it is taken from the Latin for “heel”, maybe because the earth used in construction was consolidated using trampling techniques.

Causeway (as in “Colaba Causeway” etc.). Calx is a term for the heel.

The lines below are the translation of the first stanza of a hymn that is generally attributed to a Benedictine Monk known as Paul the Deacon who is supposed to have written it sometime in the 8th Century.

“So that these your servants can, with all their voice, to “So that these your servants can, with all their voice, to

sing your wonderful feats,

clean the blemish of our spotted lips. O Saint John!”

The origin of the melody is not as well known.

Another Benedictine Monk, Guido of Arezzo, who lived in the 11th C. used it for teaching his students – and that is how this hymn is still remembered. How did this other Benedictine immortalize this hymn?

He came up with the Solfege - Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La – based on this hymn

This three word phrase originated from the autobiography of Leslie Paul, the founder of Woodcraft Folks, a movement for children and young people similar to the Scouts.

After John Osborne wrote his acclaimed 1956 play, a press officer used this phrase to publicize it. Soon press officer used this phrase to publicize it. Soon the term got applied to writers whose works were characterised by outspoken dissatisfaction with the status quo (“The Establishment”, or “The Man”) .

In India, the phrase is known in a cinematic context. Who would it be associated with in India?

Amitabh Bachchan (Angry young man/men)

The “Business Insider” article in 2010 that looked at “The 20 Richest People Of All Time”

(excluding Monarchs) pegged him at number 16, with his peak fortune estimated at USD 68.5 billion, most of it due to the 1200 sq mile estate billion, most of it due to the 1200 sq mile estate that he held in New York state.

What, targeted at the "application of science to the common purposes of life" did he found in 1824, along with Amos Eaton, a lawyer and convicted forger who got into the sciences while at prison and later went on to become a scientist.

Stephen Van Rensselaer set up the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

While today the term is quite familiar to software developers and users, finding use in C++, Word Processing and the Web, among others, the term had been used earlier in the manufacturing and publishing industry.

The origin of the term is from weaving – It’s basically The origin of the term is from weaving – It’s basically the term in French used for a device user in the loomto keep the cloth stretched to the proper width during weaving. The term is derived from the Latin word for Plank or a small piece of timber. In turn it comes from the Indo-European roots which mean “to cut out” –there’s also a term for a place of worship that gets it’s root from the same place.

Template. A “temple” is an area that is cut out for worship

SCORES ETC.

WRITTEN ROUND 2WRITTEN ROUND 2

- 5 points per question

- Remember that all of these have quite simple answers.

Zea Mays L is the only important cereal indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, likely originating from Mexico.Based on the quality, quantity and pattern of endosperm composition in the kernel, it can be classified into 5 types – four of which are classified into 5 types – four of which are

Dent

Flint

Flour

Sweet

What is the fifth type, characterized by a very hard endosperm containing only a small portion of soft starch?

Pop Corn.

The European explorer who discovered it in 1642 thought that he had reached the place shown in the image on the left (which has a name similar to that of a New York borough –both of which mean “Land of the Dutch State-General”), and named it after that. When he was proven wrong, cartographers named it after General”), and named it after that. When he was proven wrong, cartographers named it after the area highlighted on the right.

New Zealand, after Zeeland

It is in this book, published in 1902, that we get the first glimpse of a character. In the chapter titled

“Kensington Gardens” it reads“If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night growing upside down, and they say that at night there are also drowned stars in it. If so, _____ sees them when he is sailing across the lake in the Thrush's Nest…. No one who is human, except ______ (and he is only half human), can land on the island, but you may write what you want (boy or girl, dark or fair) on a piece of paper, and then twist it into the shape of a boat and slip it into the water, and it reaches _____'s island after dark. “

Which character?

Peter Pan

It’s not really known which people came up with this children’s game – but it’s played all over the world. One conjecture is that the Romans used it to train their soldiers.

The first written reference comes to us from The first written reference comes to us from England, where the name is in reverse order of how it’s known now. One book described it as follows - “They play with a piece of tile or a little flat piece of lead, upon a boarded floore, or aniearea divided into oblong figures like boards”.

What game are we talking about?

Hopscotch

This is a portrait of the grandchildren of a man who was described as “the soul of the movement that led to the founding of Amherst College”. While he was also well known as a lawyer, the granddaughter on the left eclipsed his fame. fame.

Her work was published only after her death, and the major themes included gardens, gospel poems and poems addressed to an unknown master, most people associate her work with dying and death.

Who?

Emily Dickinson

After the US declared war on the Germans during WW II, Coca Cola stopped sending their products to Germany. Max Keith, who oversaw their operations in Germany was in a bind. Short of material, he cobbled together a concoction based on leavings from other food industries – including leftovers from cheese concoction based on leavings from other food industries – including leftovers from cheese production, the fibrous remains of apples that had been used in cider manufacture, and fruits from Italy. After the war, the new drink got folded back into the Coke family.

What did he call this drink?

Fanta

While this phrase was in common usage among basketball players, it suddenly gained popularity after the release of the film “Clueless” in 1995.

After Manute Bol died last year, a story started floating around that he was the one who had floating around that he was the one who had invented it. While that’s most likely untrue, it is correct that he was the first pro-basketball players to use it.

What “Mea Culpa” variant are we talking about?

My Bad

If the 10th anniversary can be represented using the first picture, and the 25000th

performance on 18th Nov 2012 by the picture below, then what was the controversy what was the controversy created by Wikipedia in 2010?

They gave away the ending of “The Mousetrap”

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ROUND 2

All questions carry 10 pointsAll questions carry 10 points

Some may have 2 parts for 5 points each

His cogomen supposedly means “Skilled with a javelin”. His wife Claudia has been canonized as a Saint in the Greek Orthodox church.

One legend says that he was born under the Fortingall Yew (in Perthshire, Scotland), considered to be among the oldest trees in considered to be among the oldest trees in Europe. The McLaren clan in Scotland claim to be blood-kin to him.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church recognize him as a saint.

Name this character, who plays a small, but pivotal role in the Bible.

Pontius Pilate (“Pilum”)

We’re talking about two words, both of which are used in the following exchange in one of the Spider-Man movies

Peter Parker: Spider-Man wasn’t trying to attack the city,

he was trying to save it. That’s ___W1___.

J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. ___W1__ is

spoken. In print, it’s ___W2___

The first word originated in an old French word that comes The first word originated in an old French word that comes from the Latin word that meant “a little book”

Among other obsolete meanings, OED also lists

A leaflet, bill, or pamphlet posted up or publicly circulated…

It is in a special form of the third meaning that the word still survives today

The second word derives from an alteration of the Latin Scandalum - “cause of offense or stumbling.”

W1 – Slander

W2 - Libel

This form of hallucination was first described in literature by French surgeon Ambroise Paré, in his 1511 book on Gunshot wounds. Upward of 50% of the patients reported it after the procedure.

Since leprosy patients don’t report anything of this sort, it is thought that the hallucination is due to the abruptness of the event.abruptness of the event.

Vilayanur S Ramachandran has proposed a theory, which he calls the Central Deafferentiation hypothesis, and that has been gaining traction as the potential cause for this hallucination.

What is it more commonly known as?

Phantom Limb

Though he compiled the first French dictionary “Thresor de la Langue Françoyse, tant

Ancienne que Moderne”, with about 18,200 headword entries, that’s not how we know his name today.

Though he served as the French Ambassador to Though he served as the French Ambassador to Portugal from 1559 to 1561, where he negotiated the marriage of Princess Marguerite to King Sebastian of Portugal - that’s not why his name is known.

His name is known today because Carl Linnaeus decided to name a genus of plant after him. Who?

Jean Nicot

In what could perhaps be served as a

cautionary tale for those who rely exclusively on Wikipedia, consider this – On the etymology of this term for the liquid or semi-solid form of a particular natural substance, Wikipedia states that it “originated in the Sanskrit, where we find the words jatu, meaning "pitch," and jatu-

krit, meaning "pitch creating", "pitch krit, meaning "pitch creating", "pitch producing”

Most other sources indicate (including Wiktionary) indicate it comes from the Gaulishterm for “resin, gum”. The Sanskrit dictionary does indicate “Shilajatu” could refer to this, but other than that – I couldn’t find any indication that Wikipedia is correct. So what was it that Wiki was explaining the etymology of?

Bitumen

The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee led by Senator Dodd subpoenaed him to testify and termed him as “the number one scientific name in virtually every major activity of the Communist peace offensive in this country”.Communist peace offensive in this country”.

An event in 1962 had Life Magazine come out with a critical article, titled “A Weird Insult from Norway”, although a similar event in 1954 did not raise any issues.

Which eminent personality are we talking about?

Linus Pauling. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee

When Time released the “The Time 100”, a list of the 100 most influential people from the 20th

century, it had only one person in the list who it did not name.

The article started with “Almost nobody knew The article started with “Almost nobody knew his name. Nobody outside his immediate neighborhood had read his words or heard him speak. Nobody knows what happened to him..”

Where would you have found this person on June 5, 1989?

He was at Tiananmen Square facing off the tanks

The surname of this famous character likely has its origin from Old French, where it was applied to skilled men, who were so dexterous that they appeared to have four hands. It was first recorded in England after the Norman conquest.

The natives called him Macumazahn, which meant “Watcher-by-night”.“Watcher-by-night”.

He has been portrayed on screen by, among others, Stewart Granger, Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery and Patrick Swayze.

Name this character, who first appeared in a book that was released as "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written”

Quatermain, Allan

Despite the popular name, the reasons for this 20th century

conflict lay elsewhere.

The smaller of the two countries had a much higher population, but due to US patronage, its economy was much more developed compared to its larger impoverished neighbor.

The 3,00,000 or so citizens of the smaller country who had taken up residence in the roomier country were despised by the populace, and they began to push out the smaller countries populace, and they began to push out the smaller countries citizens out, sometimes with violence.

It was in this context that another set of interactions, unrelated to politics, happened between the two countries, which proved to be the flashpoint of war.

By 20th century standards, it was a rather “tame” war, with 4000 causalities.

The formal peace treaty was signed after several years, in 1980.

What was the popular name for this war?

The Football/Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras

As per his memoirs – “Having spent a year and a half wandering through Malay, Indonesia, Indo-China, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and China, in the summer of 1916, I landed in San Francisco”.

Here, he says that the local newspapers had carried the headlines “Mysterious Alien reaches America”.Seeing this, he decamped from the hotel room, and went to Stanford (woo hoo), and met the brother of his friend. Stanford (woo hoo), and met the brother of his friend.

It was this friend who suggested he change his name to avoid recognition, and this was how he ended up with the name he is generally known by. As he says, “Accordingly, the same evenings ______ was born in the campus of Stanford University”.And it was during his two month stay at Stanford that he met his first wife, Evelyn Trent.

Name him, and what he founded – in Mexico, and later (from an Indian context) in Tashkent.

M N Roy (originally Narendra Nath Bhattacharya) – founded the Mexican Communist Party and was one of the co-founders of the CPI.

Giovanni Battista Giraldi (Cinthio)’s short story “Un Capitan Moro”, first published in 1565, may have found it’s inspiration in the Arabian Nights tale “The three apples”, though there are some who say it is based on a true incident that took place in Venice in 1508.The question, however, is about another work that Cinthio’s story inspired. While there is no direct Cinthio’s story inspired. While there is no direct evidence of this, the factors that lead to the conjecture is the nationality of the protagonist, and the name of the heroine – in both books it is based on the Greek for “unfortunate”.

In 2006, a Hindi movie adaptation of the latter work was released to great acclaim.

What’s the story here?

Othello

WHO maintains an “Essential Drugs List”- a list of drugs that are considered essential in tackling diseases – since 1977

The drug shown below comes in this list under the following categories - Preoperative medication and

sedation for short-term procedures, Antidotes and

other substances used in poisonings (Specific), and MydriaticsMydriatics

It is a naturally occurring alkaloid, typically extracted from a plant which gets its name from the Italian for “Beautiful Woman”.Identify this drug, which in turn gets its name from a character in Greek mythology whose name mean “She who cannot be turned”.

Atropine, after Atropos