Quiz Meet, QC IITK 8/2/2014

Anshul Kumar RaiGeneral

In Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63, Jake Epping (or George Amberson as he calls himself) is in charge of producing a play for his students. He chooses to produce one based on ‘12 Angry Men’, but renames it ‘The Jury’. Why?

Answer Because he wanted to cast girls too

X on two separate occasions has insisted that the Y’s initial price was just a coincidence, and that they did not even know the number had religious implications. Unfortunately for X he cannot keep his story straight. 

“I simply like triple digit numbers with all the things I’m involved with, the cost of making it was around $540 or there a bouts and we agreed on the best markup, retail price above the cost of building it, which worked out to a number. Z then tacked on the cents to make it an eye-catcher price for the ads with the sale and promotion publications of it to the public.”

“I was into repeating digits, and then we came up - Z worked a deal to sell his computers wholesale price to the store for $500 bucks. what should the retail be? Add a third on. that puts it at about this number, because its all one digit, to me that's just an easier way to type.”

X, Y, Z. Or X, Z (people) and funda

Answer X – Steve Jobs Y – Apple 1 Z – Steve Wozniak Funda – Price of Apple 1 was $666.66

Press Reviews for what?

Chicago Tribune : "The dedicatory remarks by the President will live among the annals of man."

Chicago Times : “The cheeks of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances.”

Harrisburg Patriot and Union : “We pass over the silly remarks of the President; for the credit of the Nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall no more be repeated or thought of.”

Answer Lincoln’s Gettysburg address

- Toni Kroos & Franck Ribery in a 6-0 Bayern Munich victory over Hertha Berlin- Marco Reus & Mike Hanke in a 3-0 Borussia Monchengladbach victory over FC KolnWhat specific occurences involving these players in the two games above happened in the 2011-12 Bundesliga season?

Answer Rock Paper Scissors for deciding who takes the free-kick

An arxiv paper discussing something. The velocity is chiefly dependent on the shape

(circular, square), and the initial spin provided. The number can be calculated thusly. What?

Answer “The physics of Stone Skipping” To calculate the number of bounces.

X is named after Equus caballus Y = (X/3) is named after Equus asinus

Give two terms X and Y.

Answer Horsepower (750 watts) Donkeypower (250 watts)

Humor identification is a hard natural language understanding problem. We identify a subproblem — the “X” problem — with two distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemismsfor sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic domain. We address this problem in a classification approach that includes features that model those two characteristics. Experiments on web data demonstrate that our approach improves precision by 12% over baseline techniques that use only word-based features.

A “X” joke is a type of double entendre. We define three functions to measure how closely related a noun, an

adjective, and a verb phrase are to the erotica domain. Noun sexiness function NS(n), Adjective sexiness function

AS(a), Verb sexiness function VS(v) What does this paper claim a Machine Learning approach for? <detailed summary on the next slide>

Answer Using machine learning to figure out if

it's appropriate to introduce “That's what she said!” after a given sentence.

In the mid 1970s certain scientists employed by the US Department of Energy claimed they were looking for either 'bare bottoms' or 'naked beauties' to help them with their research. The search was serious and they finally found one in 1978. Today there is an entire factory called the beauty factory that produces a large number of these bottoms for research purposes. In lazy quiz master parlance, put funda

Answer bottom and beauty were the two names in contention

for one of the third generation quark flavours i.e. the one codenamed ‘b’. And because this quark was difficult to be produced in its undisguised form (they always came as a quark-antiquark pair) they claimed they were looking for either ‘bare bottoms’ or ‘naked beauties’.

“Waterboarding is how we _________ terrorists.”

FITB for this quote by Sarah Palin.

Answer “Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”

David CrossSeth RogenLucy LiuJackie ChanAngelina Jolie

How do we better know this group?

Answer The Furious Five from Kung Fu Panda

Pratik RathGeneral

Sheikh Omar Saeed is most well known for his role in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. He was arrested by Pakistani police on February 12, 2002, in Lahore, in conjunction with the Pearl kidnapping, and was sentenced to death on July 15, 2002 for killing Pearl. His judicial appeal has not yet been heard. The delay has been ascribed to his purported links with MI6.Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar carried out kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of the new appointed Minister for Home Affairs India. At least three dozen murder cases were registered against Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar in Srinagar, India, including some high-ranking Indian officers.Who are we missing out?

Answer Maulana Masood Azhar

"Russian Mountains” were specially constructed hills of ice, located especially around Saint Petersburg. They consisted of slides which were built to a height of between 70 and 80 feet, consisted of a 50 degree drop, and were reinforced by wooden supports. The Russian Mountains of Belleville were constructed in Paris in 1817 with key features as we see them today. The name Russian Mountains to designate a X is preserved in most Latin languages. Ironically, the Russian term for X is "американские горки" ("amerikanskiye gorki"), which means "American Mountains". What is X?

Answer Roller Coaster

Several theories regarding the origin of the name X exist meaning "the snow on the other side”, “Women of Ice” and “Icethrone of God”. In local indigenous mysticism, X represents Taita (Father) whereas neighbouring Tungurahua is seen as mother. It was host to a bloody war in 1531 and also features on Y’s coat of arms. However, it is much better known for another record it holds, which prominently was also the last answer of a recent show won by an Indian origin student.

Answer X-Chimborazo Y-Ecuador

X has been described as the "father of chemical warfare" for his work developing and deploying chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I for trench warfare. Gas warfare was the war of the chemists, with X pitted against French Nobel laureate chemist Victor Grignard. Regarding war and peace, X once said, "During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country." This was an example of the ethical dilemmas facing chemists at that time. X was a patriotic German who was proud of his service during World War I, for which he was decorated. He was even given the rank of captain by the Kaiser, rare for a scientist too old to enlist in military service. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, yet there were moves to strip him of the award because of his work on gas warfare. He pointed out, rightly, that most of Nobel's money had come from armaments and the pursuit of war. After Hitler's rise to power, the government forced X to resign from his professorship and research jobs because he was Jewish.

AnswerFritz Haber

A X is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell's explosion that was later filled with red resin. Mortar rounds landing on concrete create a unique fragmentation pattern that looks almost floral in arrangement. Because _________ was a site of intense urban warfare and suffered thousands of shell explosions during the ________ War, the marked concrete patterns are a unique feature to the city. Throughout the city, explosion marks have been filled with red resin to mark where mortar explosions resulted in one or more deaths. The Xs are disappearing as the asphalt is replaced.

AnswerSarajevo Rose

In 984, Ibn Sahl presented this in a Baghdad court in the manuscript ‘On Burning Mirrors and Lenses’. It was rediscovered by Thomas Harriot in 1602, who however did not publish his results. In 1621, X derived a mathematically equivalent form, that remained unpublished during his lifetime. René Descartes independently derived the law using heuristic momentum conservation arguments in his 1637 treatise Discourse on Method. Rejecting Descartes' solution, Pierre de Fermat arrived at the same solution based solely on his principle of ________. It was claimed Descartes had seen X's paper and concocted his own proof. We now know this charge to be undeserved but it has been adopted many times since. Both Fermat and Huygens repeated this accusation that Descartes had copied X. In French, this is called "la loi de Descartes”. What is being talked about?

AnswerSnell’s law

Agatha came once, she shall come again 6 years later and so forth, as shall Estelle and Frank. Adrian shall take Agatha’s place next year and we pray we would never need Zelda. Alice was the first to come, while Bob was the first guy and Onil was the first Indian. As years have passed we have seen some Spanish and French unlike earlier. Some famous names we have heard are now retired due to their popularity. What is being talked about?

AnswerNaming system of tropical cyclones/hurricanes

X was born in Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh and was brought up in Dharavi, Mumbai. He studied till 7th grade after which he started selling pens on the streets by dancing to Bollywood songs. He was also employed in a ________________ factory along with his father. While working, he entertained his coworkers by imitating Elvis Presley. His popularity among coworkers and officers of the factory by his performance earned him the nickname X.

AnswerJohnny Lever

Tobias Geffen was an American orthodox rabbi who served as the leader of Congressional Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia. By virtue of his location of residence and position, he became a rare common man to achieve some feat after a lot of queries from his community all over the US. His findings also triggered a few changes, after which he finally gave out a certification to all Jews. "With the help of God, I have been able to uncover a pragmatic solution according to which there would be no question nor any doubt concerning ________________", he wrote. What feat did he achieve?

Answer Was told the Coca Cola formula to certify it was Kosher

Who is the person being referred to?He had his own idiosyncratic vocabulary: He called children ‘epsilons’. Although an atheist, he spoke of "The Book", an imaginary book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems. He said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book." He himself doubted the existence of God, whom he called the "Supreme Fascist”. He accused the SF of hiding his socks and Hungarian passports, and of keeping the most elegant mathematical proofs to himself. When he saw a particularly beautiful mathematical proof he would exclaim, "This one's from The Book!". This later inspired a book entitled Proofs from THE BOOK.

Answer Paul Erdos