MS HALL QUIZ

03/03/2015

•40 Questions

•Half Answer-0.5

•Full Answer-1.0

•Questions 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40 are star marked questions.

ANKUR SINGH

Question 1

•X is a family-owned global fashion accessory manufacturer and retailer with acting headquarters located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Organised into three business units: X Europe, based in Italy; X Emerging Market (Asia, Pacific, Africa and Latin America), based in Singapore, and X Protective (worldwide B2B operations), based in the Netherlands, the organisation has a retail presence in over 70 countries and production facilities in 26 countries. It was started by Tomáš X. Identify X

Answer 1

Bata

Question 2

United States Bullion Depository often known as X, is a fortified vault building located adjacent to X, Kentucky, used to store a large portion of United States official gold reserves and occasionally other precious items belonging or entrusted to the federal government. The exact amount of bullion stored at X is classified, known only to the United States Treasury and the United States Department of Defence. Identify X.

Answer 2

Fort Knox

Question 3

This memorial is found in Torun, Poland which is his birthplace.

Whose memorial?

Answer 3

Copernicus

Question 4

Fill in the blank…Excerpts from the television commentary during theEngland - Pakistan Test series in 2011-12.

David Lloyd - ...During the Lancashire leagues, derby games used to bevery competitive and local teams across the road would _________ theother if they lost. Literally _________ them.

Waqar Younis – Excellent, is that the origin of the term?

David Lloyd – I don’t know. But it would be very funny if someone carriedbuckets to _________ Lords.

Answer 4

Whitewash

Question 5

Name the chemical element which was firstisolated by Berzelius and takes it name fromPersian for "gold like" because its chiefmineral is similar to gold and also findsmention in the Bible?

If you arrange all the elements of the PeriodicTable alphabetically, this element will be atthe very end of the list.

Answer 5

Zirconium

Question 6

The table below lists the number of ‘peaks’ inwhich popular edible brand? Size Peaks

Mini 3

35g 9

50g 11

75g 11

100g 12

200g 15

400g 15

750g 17

Answer 6

Toblerone Chocolate

Question 7

Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay in 1849,in which he argues that individuals should notpermit governments to overrule theirconscience and that they have a duty to avoidallowing such submission. This essayinfluenced Mahatma Gandhi and his idea ofSatyagraha. Under what two-word title is thisessay more famous as?

Answer 7

Civil Disobediance

Question 8

Steve Jobs supposedly met Drew Houston in 2009 to buy his startup and incorporate it into Apple. However, Houston sent Jobs away empty-handed. When Jobs took this idea forward with iCloud, he specifically criticized Houston’s product. ID the product, which has more than 25 million users today

Answer 8

Dropbox

Question 9

• Y wanted to do medicine, but couldn’t get a seat. So she did biology before training in the UK to be a brewmaster. Y became India’s first female brewmaster only to find that breweries in India did not want women on the ground. Today she’s made it large elsewhere, and her mantra is “The difference lies in our DNA”.

Answer 9

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Question 10

In 1987, “Mendax” formed a hacking group called the

International Subversives. Mendax wrote the rules of his

group: "Don't damage computer systems you break into

(including crashing them); don't change the information

in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your

tracks); and share information". What was Mendax’s real

name?

Answer 10

Julian Assange

Question 11

Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Homey Airport and Groom Lake have all been used to refer to this place. How do we know it better?

Answer 11

Area 51

Question 12

Which Global company started in 1983, HQ'd in NY, gets its name from a portmanteau of two words:

1. the Latin word for 'truth'

2. the Greek word for 'separating circle'?

Answer 12

Verizon , from veritas and horizon

Question 13

A Japanese jeweler is selling a solid gold replica of X's left foot. The asking price for the 55-pound statue is $5.25 million.The detailed golden foot -- the statue is complete with blood vessels and swirls of skin on the bottom of the toes -- was created by Tokyo-based jeweler Ginza Tanaka

Answer 13

Lionel Messi

Question 14

The direct translation of this dog breed’s name was adopted for use in the official breed registry; however, at the conclusion of World War I, it was believed that the inclusion of the word “______" would harm the breed's popularity, due to the prevailing sentiment of the era. The breed was officially renamed by the UK Kennel Club, a name which was also adopted by many other international kennel clubs. Eventually, the appendage "wolf dog" was dropped. The name remained for five decades, until 1977, when successful campaigns by dog enthusiasts pressured the British kennel clubs to allow the breed to be registered again as _______.

Which dog breed?

Answer 14

German Shephard /Alsatian

Question 15

The franchise began with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team, the Detroit Gems of the NBL. The new team began playing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, calling themselves the _____ in honor of the state's nickname. They won five championships in Minneapolis, propelled by center George Mikan, who is described by the official website as the league's "first superstar". After struggling financially in the late 1950s following Mikan's retirement, they relocated to their current location before the 1960–61 season.Which franchise?

Answer 15

Los Angeles Lakers

Question 16

•A summary of X's special qualities:•With X, Y would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and X would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.•X ?

Answer 16

Thor’s Hammer(Mjölnir)

Question 17

The Bone Wars, also known as the "Great Dinosaur Rush", refers to a period of intense fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.

In 1877 Marsh wrote a short two-paragraph article for the American Journal of Science that didn't have illustrations and included only a description of the animal's vertebral column. Marsh named the creature ________, meaning "deceptive lizard". In that same year, in another short article in the same journal, Marsh claimed finding another dinosaur based on a description of the pelvis and vertebrae. He named this one X.

The X soon went on to become one of the most famous dinosaur species of all time. A nearly complete skeleton found by Marsh was mounted in Yale's Peabody Museum. There it captured the public's imagination as did a beautiful illustration Marsh published in US Geological Survey, 1895.

In his rush to beat Cope, Marsh had made a mistake, however. The _______ was not a separate species, but simply a juvenile example of X. In 1903 Elmer Riggs of the Field Museum in Chicago was studying Marsh's work when he found this mistake:

X?

Answer 17

Brontosauras

Question 18

• In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for X. Vitale called her invention a "package saver" and used that term also as the title of her patent, but it has since been renamed the “X" since that has become its most common use. The patent (#4,498,586) was filed on February 10, 1983, and issued on February 12, 1985.

X ?

Answer 18

Pizza Saver

Question 19

•Company X was created in 1665 by Louis XIV’s Ministerof Finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to break Venice’smonopoly in a particular field. X supplied the most vitalsraw materials for the location Y pictured that came up in1684 and as a result, this fact is reflected in the logo ofX.

•Gimme X and Y. Also identify the event taking place.

• Image in the next slide.

Question 19

Answer 19

Treaty Of Versailles

Question 20

• ID X.Jerry Haleva is an American actor famous for his physical similarities to X. All of his film roles are based on this. He’s acted in movies like:

• Hot Shots! (1991)

• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

• The Big Lebowski (1998)

• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)

• The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)

• Live from ________ .

Answer 20

Saddam Hussein

Question 21

What practice was started in 1301 by King Edward I after his win over the native provinces of Wales?

Answer 21

He had defeated the native princes of Wales, and hence the King named his son “Prince of Wales”. Since then the eldest son of the King or Queen of England has traditionally been given this title.

Question 22

This poem was written after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Repeated

metaphorical reference is made to this issue throughout the verse. The

"ship" spoken of is intended to represent the United States of America

with Lincoln at the helm as referenced in the title, while its "fearful trip"

recalls the troubles of the American Civil War.

Which poem? Poet?

Answer 22

“O Captain! My Captain!” By Walt Whitman

Question 23

This form of Indian folk drama begun in the early eighteenth

century in Maharashtra, as entertainment for encamped

armies. In many forms of Indian folk theatre, men are cast in

the major roles. A woman, however, plays the leading female

role in this one. These plays, which are known to be bawdy,

have become commercially successful in the twentieth century.

Name this hilarious form of drama. (Pun intended)

Answer 23

Tamasha

Question 24

Answer 24

Karmakar’s Algorithm

Questions 25

xkcd mocking what?

Answer 25

The Chronicles Of Narnia

Questions 26

Technically a sharbat, this “Refresher of Soul” is a slightly too-sweet concentrate of the kind introduced

into India by the Mughals. The ingredients include the essences of coriander, orange, pineapple,

carrot, rose petals, spinach and mint.

It is generally mixed with cold water/milk/lassi and consumed, though it can also be had from the

ice-candy (Chuski) vendors who stand with containers of ice and among other flavours, bottles of the

concentrate.

Its appearance and its flavour even moved the 20th-century Urdu poet Sa'il Dehlvi to verse. Its colour

"enchants your heart" and its fragrance "outstrips that of the flowers," he wrote. "Never has there

been a sharbat like _____, and never will there be.“Identify.

Answer 26

Rooh-Afza

Questions 27

X is a one-movement work of music that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations. The most famous use of the word X is as part of the name of a song which, strictly speaking, is not an X.

Answer 27

Rhapsody

Questions 28

• “Death by X” is a term used as a criticism of the overuse of X which causes a state of boredom and fatigue induced by information overload. It is argued that X is a convenient prop for poor speakers, it can reduce complicated messages to simple points and it elevates style over substance; and that these three things contribute to its popularity. In fact, there is an Anti X party in Switzerland dedicated to decrease professional use of X and other similar tools, which the party claims "causes national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" and “lowers the quality in 95% of the cases”.

Answer 28

Microsoft PowerPoint

Questions 29

The Birkenhead Drill was so named because the first documented use concerned the wrecking of the Royal Navy troopship HMS Birkenhead in 1852, which was memorialized in newspapers and paintings of the time, and in poems such as Rudyard Kipling's "Soldier an' Sailor Too." . But it is most famously associated with the sinking of another ship. In a non-naval context, this principle was also famously applied during the Siege of Lucknow. How do we better know the Birkenhead Drill?

Answer 29

Women & Children First

Questions 30

• In Dec 2011, The Museum of the City of New York in collaborationwith VandM, released a series of “city life” photos (after going throughover 10,000 negatives) taken by a photographer throughout the 1940sand 50s while employed at Look magazine. Who was this photographer,who at the time of taking these snaps was the youngest ever in Look’shistory?

Answer 30

Stanley Kubrick

Questions 31

X named after the town of X in France is produced in the wine-growing region surrounding the town from which it takes its name. What is X?

Answer 31

Cognac

Questions 32

X(a three word phrase) is commonly used as a boastful claim of dominance over the intended listener. The phrase itself stands out as a noteworthy lyric from the 1968 song "Time of the Season", by The Zombies.

• Denzel Washington playing Coach Boone in Remember the Titans (2000) uses the line to initiate dominance over two student athletes.

• " ____ ____ _____ " is also a line used to demean his female porn partners by the character "Rock Harders" in the film Boogie Nights(1997).

• In the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Angelina Jolie speaks the phrase after taking down adversary Brad Pitt.

• In an episode of Stargate SG-1 Jack O'Neill calls out ____ ____ _____ after finishing off a horde of Replicators, using a new form of weapon. Gimme X.

Answer 32

Questions 33

The term X was coined in 1865 by Rudolf Clausius based on the Greek for ”a turning toward “. The meaning of X radically changes based on the context in which it is used and hence is considered to be difficult to define absolutely. X in a different form is also considered by many to be an abstract causative factor for the evolution of life. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrödinger stimulated research on a large scale on the relation between X and life . In this book, Schrödinger states that life feeds on negative X. Most people probably know X in a way defined by Rudolf Clausius. What is X?

Answer 33

Entropy

Questions 34

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. is an American singer. Shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular theme song to the film Deep Cover. His debut album _________during the recording of which he was charged with murder. The album released in 1993 under Death Row Records made a debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Most of his albums have a part of his name in them. How do we better know Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. ?

Answer 34

Snoop dogg

Questions 35

Brian Philip Calusky is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the Wrecker's Wrecking Crew. The character was created by Len Wein and Sal Buscema and first appeared in Defenders #17. His more famous name is the same as a mechanical device used to drive _____ into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures. The term is also used in reference to members of the construction crew that work with these devices. What is the name?

Answer 35

Piledriver

Questions 36

ID the Flag

Answer 36

Mars

Questions 37

• _____ ___ is an intentional hidden message, feature or a joke in programs, games, web pages etc.

• It first appeared in the game Adventure by Atari where a pixel dot appeared and allowed the player to walk through walls, displaying the game designer’s name.

• Excel 95 had a doom like action game.

• VLC media player’s traffic cone logo changes to a cone wearing a Santa's hat during Christmas.

• More recently typing the words “let it snow” in Google search causes snow fall and frosting of the screen

Answer 37

Easter Egg

Questions 38

•Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila are founders of Y, a company based in Florida, which is one of the world’s best in making high-end versions of a very common product. According to employees, they chose the name Y, because of their fondness towards the hit television show, The X-Files.

•What is Y?

Answer 38

Alienware

Questions 39

•Mexico - ‘refresco’ – (a brand of soft drink)

•Brazil – ‘cervijinha’ – (a small beer)

•Iraq – (a small coffee)

•France or North Africa – un petit cadeau

•Malaysia – kopi duit

•India - ?

Answer 39

“chai pani” (or any other local and spirited euphemism for a bribe)

Questions 40

• From 1884, there were officially two in India: Bombay & Calcutta

•An unofficial one was used by the Railways: Madras

• (soon became de facto)

•One more at Port Blair

•Official one changed in 1905, still used

Answer 40

Time Zones