Quiz of the Week (BITS Pilani), March 2014

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QUIZ OF THE WEEK

MARCH 2014

BITS - PILANIQM: Angad Vijaya Raghavan

Las Reglas• Total of 42 questions.

• Six **-marked questions (Q.6, Q.12, Q.18, Q.26, Q.33, Q.36) carry 2 points each. (6 X 2 =12 Points)

• Questions 21 to 25 are about song-titles/etymology. Each of these questions carry 2 points. (5 X 2 = 10 Points)

• Question No.42 is a List It! (8 Points)

• All other questions are 1 point each (30 X 1 = 30 Points).

• Total Points = 60.

Let us start the quiz on an auspicious

note…

1.The ____________, literally meaning “auspicious dawn”

is a Sanskrit poem that is a collection of hymns or verses

recited at early morning to awaken the deity in Hinduism.

In Sanskrit literature, the ____________ finds its first

mention in the Bālakāṇḍa of Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa, where

Sage Viśvāmitra calls out to Rāma to wake up.

The most well-known work in this regard is recited at

Tirupati to awaken the deity thereat. A rendition of the

poem by <Answer to Q.4> is extremely popular and is

played daily in many homes and temples of South India.

Answer on next slide…

1.Suprabatham

“Su” Good/Auspicious

“Prabath” Morning/Dawn.

2.____X_____ was dining with many Spanish nobles when one of themsaid:

“Sir ____X_____, even if your lordship had not travelled the world,there would have been, abundant great men knowledgeable incosmography and literature who would have started a similar adventurewith the same result.”

_____X_____ did not respond to these words but asked for a whole__Y__ to be brought to him. He placed it on the table and said: 'Mylords, I will lay a wager with any of you that you are unable to make thisstand on its tip like I will do without any kind of help or aid.'

And so the story goes that ____X____ showed everyone present that“once the feat has been done, anyone knows how to do it.”

What popular phrase/term is derived from this tale? ( XY)


2.

3.

Who is this

li’l kid?

Location:

Jakarta,

Indonesia


3.

The one and

only

Baracko

Barner himself.

(Barack

Obama)

4.

The question you throw in so that no one goes home with a zero.

No clues. No nothing. Only answer.


4.

M S Subbulakshmi.

“The Eight Note” might just fetch you points as well.

5.A “_____ film” is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder

of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express

purpose of distribution and entertainment.

The very first recorded use of the term is in a 1971 book by Ed Sanders

about the Charles Manson Family, where he alleges that they were

involved in making such a film in California to record their murders.

The metaphorical use of the term "_____" to denote killing appears to be

derived from a verb for extinguishing a candle.

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang

Dictionary in 1874 as a "term very common among the lower orders of

London, meaning to die from disease or accident."


5.“Snuff” Films

**6.

The word X, literally meaning “Publicity”, was a policy that called

for increased governmental openness and transparency.

It was often paired with Y, lit. “Restructuring”, this called for a

complete revamp of the political and economic system.

It is almost agreed among all geopolitical scholars that if it weren’t

for the implementation of these 2 policies by Mikhail Gorbachev,

the Soviet Union would still be intact today.


**6.X = Glasnost

Y = Perestroika

7.Among the many things named in X’s honour, the following form a non-exhaustive list-

• Asteroid No. 4293 X (The more appropriate number _____ was taken up by Einstein).

• Distinguished President of the HG Wells Society, London. Wells, he says, was a great inspiration for all his works.

• X Institute for Modern Technologies, Sri Lanka’s premier research institute.

• A proposed outer-expressway in Colombo is to be named the XExpressway in his honour.


7.Sir Arthur C Clarke

8.They say that the program was so secretive that only a grand total

of about 300 people were aware about the goings on. Among the

administration, this included the PM Indira Gandhi, her two

defence advisors, Intelligence Heads and Chiefs of Defence Staff.

It was jointly led by three renowned scientists, namely Dr. Raja

Ramanna, Dr. PK Iyengar and Dr. Homi Sethna.

Operation A-B happened on May 18th, a day marked as “B

Jayanthi” on the Indian Calendar.

At successful completion, Dr. Ramanna is said to have relayed to

the PM - “Mission Accomplished. The B is now A.”


8.Operation “Smiling Buddha”. (1 point)

Pokhran-1, First Nuclear Test at Pokhran (0.5 points)

9.

X is a nominative–accusative, primarily suffixing agglutinative

language, and has an object–verb–subject word order. It has a

number of unusual grammatical features, but it has an extremely

regular morphology.

It’s most popular reference material is “The X Dictionary”, written

by Mark Okrand, the founder of the language, published by Pocket

Books.


9.X = Klingon

10.Exhaustive List. ID these women/What are they known for?

Maria-Teresa di Fillipis Lella Lombardi

10. (Continued)

Divina Galicia Desiré Wilson

10. (Continued)

Giovanna Amati


10.

Only female F1 Grand Prix drivers.

Numerous other women have had long careers

as test-drivers, but only these five have ever

started a Grand Prix.

11.


11.Jordi Cases, a regular club member, sued FC Barcelona over

financial malpractices during the Neymar transfer. Led to the

resignation of Club President Sandro Rosell.

**12.Recipients of a specific honour/award. Also, blanked out person

is a very unique recipient. Who?


**12.Award = Nishaan-E-Pakistan (1 point)

Awardee = Morarji Desai (only Indian recpient) (1 point)

13.William of X (c. 1287–1347) is remembered as an influential

medieval philosopher and nominalist, though his fame as a great

logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him, known as X’s

Y (spelling varies).

The term Y refers to distinguishing between two hypotheses either

by "shaving away" unnecessary assumptions or “cutting” apart two

similar conclusions.

The principle states that - one must proceed with simpler theories

until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The

simplest available theory is always preferable, even if it isn’t most

accurate.


13.X = Occam or Ockham

Y = Razor

Principle of Occam’s Razor

14.The original statue was unveiled at the Pompidou Centre in Paris

on Sept 26th, 2012. Exhibition organiser Alain Michaud has

described it as:

"...against the tradition of making statues in honour of certain

victories. It is an ode to defeat".

A replica was installed in Doha, Qatar in November 2012.

The sculpture was later removed, because Islamic scholars

protested, saying it encouraged idolatry worship and glorified acts

of violence. Since then, it rests at the Museum for Modern Art,

Doha.

<Continued on next slide>

14. (Continued)

Jean Paul Engelen, Director of Public Art (QMA), said that he

expects the sculpture to be equally popular in Qatar:

"… It’s done in the same style as Greek Mythological statues, but

this glorifies human defects instead. It shows that although we

sometimes treat ___________ like gods, they’re not - they’re just

human beings.”

What statue are we talking about? Give fund.


14.The Head-butt Statue

Or

Zidane head-butting

Materazzi

15. In the next two slides, you will find snapshots of two very unique

scorecards.

Observe, think and tell a story.

<Pictures on next slide>

15. (continued)

15. (continued)


15. Only instances where both team-captains

scored centuries in the same ODI.

16. A few years ago, TheOffside.com ran a report with this pic and the

following title.

“Andres Iniesta went boom. Then ____________ went boom-boom.

Now we have before us, the Andres Iniesta boom-boom boom!”

What is this a reference to?

Tell a story.


16.

He’s not the only one who nailed it that day.

17.Despite numerous biographies, XY’s life is shrouded inmystery. She was born X Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris.Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue deBelleville.

She was named X after the World War I British nurse X Cavell,who was executed for helping French soldiers escape fromGerman captivity.

Y – French colloquialism for "sparrow" – was a nickname shereceived 20 years later.

XY’s music has been so influential that films such as SavingPrivate Ryan, Inception, Bull Durham, The Dreamers andMadagascar 3 all have her songs in them.


17.Edith Piaf

**18. X and his brother Frank were Confederate guerrillas during the

Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities

committed against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one

gang or another, they robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains.

Popular portrayals of X show him as a sort of Robin Hood.

On April 3, 1882, X was killed by Y, who was a member of the

gang living in his house and who was hoping to collect a state

reward on X’s head.

X has had numerous films based on his life, having been portrayed

by Robert Duvall, Rob Lowe, Colin Farrell et al. Most recently in

an Oscar-nominated film in 2007, he was portrayed by Brad Pitt

(with Casey Affleck as Y).


**18.

X = Jesse James (1 point)

Y= Robert Ford (1 point)

19.Part of the tasks listed under the Great Trigonometric Surveyof India (19th C.) was the measurement of the exact height ofMt. Chomo-Lungma, which many suspected to be higherthan Mt. Kanchenjunga, the then purported highest peak.

After numerous exercises, averaging out a series of measurements and accounting for atmospheric distortion, a highly exact number was obtained and it was found that the world had a new highest peak.

Sir AS Waugh - the head of the GTS - did something a littleunder-handed to ensure that people did not question theaccuracy of his results, and label them as approximations.What jugaad did Sir Waugh indulge in, that was notdiscovered until a century later?


19.Sir AS Waugh deliberately submitted theheight of Mt. Everest at 29,009 ft. althoughthe actual calculated height was exactly29,000 ft.

20.This was one of the first published advertisements

using a famous literary work as a conceptual parody.

The literary work is still considered among the most

openly racist and class-segregative publications in

circulation.

<Picture on next slide>

While it mixed exhortation to empire with sombre

warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the

United States Of America understood the phrase

"_____ ____ _______" as a characterization for

imperialism that justified the policy as a noble

enterprise.

20. (continued)

Snapshot of the

advertisement in

question.

Basically, fill in

the blanks.


20.The White Man’s

Burden

Questions 21-25.

• The next 5 questions are for 2 points each.

• Each question involves identifying a song and composer/singer

in question.

• Song etymology/short/snippets are provided.

• If you are not a fan of the swinging sixties and the eclectic

eighties – you are advised to make good use of the resources you

have on campus, while the opportunity exists.

• Let us proceed…

21.The song “Y” was written by X, one of her earliest works. It uses

imagery such as changing size after taking pills or drinking an

unknown liquid. It is commonly thought that these are also

references to the hallucinatory effects of psychedelic drugs, such

as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.

With its enigmatic lyrics, "Y" became one of the first songs to

sneak drug references past censors on the radio. X herself was a

well known member of the “Beat Generation”, and experimented

with numerous psychedelics while writing her songs.

It remains among the most referenced songs from the 1960s, and

was most recently covered in Arabic in the film “American

Hustle” (2013) by Mayssa Karaa.


21.Y = White Rabbit (1 point)

X = Grace Slick (1 point) or Jefferson Airplane (0.5 points)

22.In an interview, X cites the second side of The Beatles album Abbey Road

as one of its primary musical influences.

The song is effectively a medley of three distinct pieces fused into one: it

begins as a gentle, melodic piano ballad, depicting a scene of two old

classmates reuniting in an ________ __________; this segues into a

triumphant and up-tempo jazz-influenced section featuring a clarinet and

saxophone solo, followed by a rock and roll section.

On May 6, 1977, before the song's official release, X dedicated the song to

his friend Christiano’s local eatery, located in Syosset, New York.

In fact, X goes on to say that the song's famous signature line, was actually

spoken to him by a waiter at Fontana di Trevi when asking him for his

selection of wine.


22.X = Billy Joel (1 point)

Y = “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”

(1 point)

“A bottle of white, a bottle of red, perhaps a bottle

of rosé instead?"

23.

ID the song and the band.

<AUDIO REMOVED>

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tfUaBezFo


23.“Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.”

(1 point)

Band = Pink Floyd (1 point)

24.X about "_______ ______ ______ ___ _______ __ _ _____ ____"

“It's [the song] kind of about a lady, and she's getting on in years, and

she's stuck in this _____ ____….So here she is working in this little

place, and then an old flame comes in, and he's probably driving a nice

car and looking kind of sharp—not a fancy car, but he's moved on. And

then she sees him, and at first she doesn't even remember who he is,

and then she realizes who it is. She's just too embarrassed to say

'hello.'”

The length of the song's title was a reaction by the band to

the fact that most of its songs featured one-word titles. The

song is often referred to simply as “_____ ____" by the

band and its fans.


24.“Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a

Small Town” (1 Point)

Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam (1 Point)

25.The music video for this song features the members of the band

dressed in women's clothes, parodying the long-running British

soap opera “Coronation Street”.

The video depicts the lead vocalist as a housewife, loosely based

on Bet Lynch, who wants to "_____ ____" from his life.

Although Lynch was a blonde in the soap opera, the vocalist

thought he would look too silly as a blonde and chose a dark wig.

While British sense-of-humour propelled the song to No.3 in the

UK, classic US conservatism saw it banned on MTV, purportedly

for “encouraging deviant tendencies among impressionable

teenagers.”


25. (continued)


25.

“I Want To Break Free” (1 point)

Band = Queen (1 point)

**26.Four minimalist posters of recent films. Very simple. ID Maadi.

( 4 * 0.5 Points)

(A)


**26.Four minimalist posters of recent films. Very simple. ID Maadi.

( 4 * 0.5 Points)

(A)

**26. (continued)

(B)


**26. (continued)

(B)

**26. (continued)

(C)


**26. (continued)

(C)

**26. (continued)

(D)


**26. (continued)

(D)

27. X has come into general use to refer to an ineffectual dreamer, appearing in several dictionaries. The American Heritage

Dictionary defines a X as shown below. X?

The Secret Life of


27.

28.The Harley-Davidson XR-750 is a racing motorcycle made

by Harley-Davidson since 1970, primarily for dirt track

racing, but also for road racing in the XRTT variant, and was

hugely popular in the dirt-racing circuit.

The XR-750 shot to cult-popularity because of one particular

man, who is most associated with it and used it extensively

from 1970-77. So much so that one of his original bikes is in

the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

“America on the Move” exhibit. Who?

<Picture on Next slide>

28. (continued)


28.Evel Knievel

29.

This is a snippet from South Park - Season 14, Episode 2

It parodies a very famous incident.

Give details. Be specific.

<Video on next slide>

29.(continued)

• <Video Removed>

• Watch scene ~between 18:00-20:00 in SP S14E02


29.

The Assassination of John Lennon

Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon,

allegedly said he was inspired to do so after reading

“The Catcher in the Rye” by JD Salinger.

30.X’s Y were a clique of personalities promoted by X

during the 1960s and early 1970s. These personalities

appeared in X’s works and accompanied him in his

social life. They epitomized X's famous dictum about

the future.

X would simply film them, and declare them as "Y".

30. (continued)

Some of the most famous examples of X’s Ys included people

named as variedly as –

•Billy Name

•Brigid Polk

•Candy Darling

•Cherry Vanilla

•Elecktrah

•Holly Woodlawn

•James Cummons

•Jayne County

•Niki Naranjo

•Paul America

•Sappheo

•International Velvet

•Ultra Violet

•Viva


30.Warhol’s Superstars

31.In the mid-1980s, Alan Moore intended to devote a mini-series to

the Charlton Comics characters recently purchased by DC Comics,

thrusting them into actual Cold War history of a world where

costumed heroes had actually existed in real life and had an active

role since the Depression.

Eventually, negotiations stalled and Moore proceeded to write The

Watchmen, whose characters were loosely based on Charlton Action

Heroes.

X, who would later often ally with the Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) and

also enjoy a major role in the 52, became the basis for Rorschach, a

merciless fedora-clad vigilante who wears a blank mask of shifting

"ink-blot" patterns and takes moral absolutism to its most violent

extreme. X?


31.The Question

32.1919-1924: Pierce Arrow "Series 15".

1924-1938: Lincoln V2 Convertible “Sunshine Special.”

1939-1961: The Cadillac “Queen Mary” and “Queen Elizabeth”, also “ElDorado” and “Cosmopolitan.”

1961-1983: Lincoln “Continental” – various models.

1983-1989: Cadillac Fleetwood Convertible.

1989-1993: Lincoln “Town.”

1993-2000: Cadillac Brougham.

2000-2009: Cadillac DTS.

2009- : General Motors “Model Un-named”, colloquially called as “The _______.”

What exhaustive timeline/list is this?


32.The official vehicle for the POTUS

**33.Person X holds both the extreme superlatives for holding a particular office of power.

His stints included –

a) 1975-77 (President: Gerald Ford)

b) 2001-2006 (President: George W Bush)

Who (0.5)? What office of power (0.5)?

What superlatives (1)?


**33.Donald Rumsfeld.

Secretary of Defense.

He was the youngest person to hold the office in his first term, and the oldest to do so during his second term!

34.Critics have identified these weapons - show-cased in a brief 20

second sequence in a particular film - with a range of possible

allusions/tributes. Put funda. Whose tribute is it to all these films?

-Hammer— The Toolbox Murders (1978)

-Baseball bat— Walking Tall (1973), The Untouchables (1987)

-Chainsaw— The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Evil

Dead II (1987)

-Katana — Seven Samurai (1954), The Yakuza (1975); Shogun

Assassin (1980).

<Pictures on next slide>

34.(continued)


34.

Quentin Tarantino

All these are the weapons Bruce Willis picks up

in Pulp Fiction while proceeding to save

Marcellus Wallace from further pain.

35.

Despite the initial request of the ________ Club that the trophy be

used as rugby's answer to football's FA Cup, the RFU refused to turn

it into a knock-out competition for English club sides.

Instead, each year a game is played between England and Scotland

and whoever wins should keep it for that year. The first official

________ Cup was played on 10 March, 1879. Matches have

continued on an annual basis ever since except for two interruptions

due to the World Wars between 1915–1919 and 1940–1946.


35. (continued)

Currently, this game is

the annual match

between the England

and Scotland at the

Six Nations

Championship.

Name the Trophy.FITB.


35.

The Calcutta Cup

**36.Only 3 X-rated (CBFC, USA) films have ever been nominated

for an Oscar –

a) X by John Schlesinger (1968)

b) A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (1971).

c) Y by Bernardo Bertolucci (1972).

X remains the only one of the 3 to win an award (“Best

Picture”, “Best Adapted Screenplay” and “Best Director”).

Give both X and Y.


**36.

X = Midnight Cowboy

Y = Last Tango in Paris

37.In 1967, Saul Zaentz bought Fantasy Records and offered this

band a chance to record a full-length album on the condition that

they change their name. Never really fond of "The Golliwogs",

the four band members readily agreed. The band eventually

settled on the name: X-Y-Z. The name's three elements come

from the following sources:

-Tom Fogerty's friend Newball, whose first-name was slightly

changed to form the word X.

-A television commercial for Olympia beer ("Y"); and

-The four members' renewed commitment to their band. (Z)


37.X = Creedence

Y = Clearwater

Z = Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)

38.This clip from The Simpsons Season 7,

Episode 9 is a classic parody of which cult-

classic black-comedy feature?

<Video on next slide>

38. (continued)

• <Video Removed>

• Watch ~between 12:00-14:00 in Simpsons S07E09


38.The war-room scene is a direct parody

of the film

“Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learnt to

Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”

39. In a report dated 27th Oct. 2009, Forbes published a list as follows,

saying – “The money might be drying up in Hollywood, but there’s

still plenty of cash to be made in the _____.”

What was this list all about?

1. Yves St. Laurent ($ 350M)

2. Rodgers&Hammerstein ($ 235M)

3. Michael Jackson ($90M)

4. Elvis Presley ($70M)

5. JRR Tolkien ($60M)

6. Charles Schulz ($35M)

7. John Lennon ($15 M)

8. Theodor Giesel ($10M)

9. Albert Einstein ($8M)

10. Michael Crichton ($7.5M)


39.

List of people who earned the highest annual

income, posthumously.

40. Often called the “Stalingrad of the East”, for it was the definite turning

point in the Japanese U-Go Offensive plans to occupy East India.

<continued on next slide>

40. (continued)

The epitaph, composed by John Edmonds, is said to be inspired by

the elegy written by Simonides for the Spartan soldiers at the Battle

of Thermopylae, mostly because the numbers involved were quite

similar.

What event in history are we talking about?


40. (continued)

Battle/Siege of Kohima

41. Robert Stroud is considered by some as the most widely read

ornithologist of all time. During his days at Leavenworth Prison, he

reared and sold exotic and common birds, while simultaneously

compiling the oft-referred Bible of ornitho-medicine “Stroud's Digest

on the Diseases of Birds”.

In spite of his formidable reputation as the “X of Leavenworth”, when

he was later transported to “Y Federal Penitentiary”, as per the strict

rules at this maximum-security prison he was not allowed to continue

his studies/business.

However, as historical misnomers go, his reputation today exists as the

“X of Y”. So much so, that he inspired an eponymous film starring

Burt Lancaster, Henry Fonda et al. (1962).

X of Y?


41.

Birdmanof

Alcatraz

42. LIST IT!

There have been a total of 8 male cricketers with the

surname “PATEL” world-wide, who have played

International Test Match Cricket. List maadi.

- India (4)

- England (2)

- New Zealand (2)

- Points (1-4, +0.5), (5-6, +1), (7-8, +2)


42.

ENGLAND

Min

Samit

INDIA

Jasubhai/Jasu

Brijesh

Parthiv

Munaf

NEW ZEALAND

Deepak

Jeetan

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