T@6 Weekly Quiz - Aug 01, 2012
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- 1. Presented by : Sumanth Patlolla 01-August-2012 Mixed
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- 2. Welcome to T@6 If youre here for the first time, we meet
every Wednesday at 5.30 for trivia quizzing. For regular updates,
send a mail to HydQuizForum@infosys.com As a general rule, allow QM
to finish the question before answering. Raise your hands if you
want to answer.
- 3. Tick Tock Translates to whirlwind in French Attempts to
improve accuracy by negating the effect of gravity Was first
produced by its inventor for Napoleon
- 4. Tourbillon can be found today in some expensive, luxury
watches Invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the founder of Breguet
company - wh is now the luxury watch division of the Swiss Swatch
group
- 5. ? Connect (Hint : Literature) 1. 2. 3.
- 6. Hint? ___ District of England 1 & 2 were the pioneers of
Romanticism
- 7. Lake Poets 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. William Wordsworth
3. Robert Southey They followed no single "school" of thought or
literary practice know during that period (i.e. at the turn of the
nineteenth century)
- 8. Name Em ____ Islands are legally recognized as a nationality
of Spain. Geographically it is a part of the African Continent.
Contrary to its name, the islands have nothing to do with the __
They form the outermost region of the European Union.
- 9. Clue ?
- 10. The Canary Islands - derived from Latin Insula Canaria,
meaning "Island of the Dogs"
- 11. LaunchPad?? ________ is a typeface designed by Vincent
Connare for the Microsoft Corporation in 1996. It is named after
the _______, a medieval siege machine. The name was inspired by a
puzzle question that Connar heard at Microsoft headquarters: "Can
you make a _______ that could launch a person from main campus to
the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically, is it
possible and how?" Connare "thought that would be a great name for
a font that launches words across the Internet"
- 12. Trebuchet MS named after trebuchet, a siege engine that was
employed in the Middle Ages
- 13. Id the distribution
- 14. The percentage of species in several groups which are
listed as critica endangered, endangered, or vulnerable on the IUCN
(International Un for Conservation of Nature) Red List.
- 15. What is the Black Line? Built in Australia during the 1880s
and finished in 1885, to keep _____ out o the relatively fertile
south-east part of the continent and protect the sheep flocks of
southern Queensland. It is one of the longest structures in the
world and stretches 5,614 km (appr
- 16. The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence
- 17. Dreamweaver!! A mythical character in Northern European
folklore who brings good dreams b sprinkling magical ___onto the
eyes of children while they sleep at night. Hans Christian
Andersen's 1841 folk tale Ole Lukje was the first-known insta where
this character appears. It has been referenced by musicians/bands
like Roy Orbison, Metallica, Metho etc,. Identify the
character!!
- 18. The Sandman "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison "Enter Sandman" by
Metallica, "Mr. Sandman" from Tical by Method Man
- 19. That bad? It was one of the only two films ever to perform
the "Razzie grand slam" (the other being Jack and Jill) Achieved
this feat by winning in the Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst A
Worst Actress, Worst Writing and Worst Screenplay categories. There
was significant media attention and popular interest prior to its
relea primarily because the film's lead stars, were romantically
involved at the tim Which movie?
- 20. Directed by Martin Brest (remember Scent of a Woman?)
- 21. Comical coincidence X is a daily syndicated newspaper comic
strip that debuted on March 12, 1951 in 16 newspapers.
Coincidentally, another cartoon strip Y, with the same title was
published in the British comic The Beano in 1951. The comic went on
sale several days in advance of the cover date (actually being
published up to ten days previously), and therefore predates the
debut of X. The UK character is quite different in appearance and
is characterized by his red-and-black striped jersey, his dog, and
his gang of friends. Like the American character, the UK one
remains popular to this day
- 22. X Dennis the Menace Y Dennis and Gnasher
- 23. Highly Risky Connect EURO 12
- 24. Panenka penalty named after Antonn Panenka, who had scored
th winning penalty in the shootout with a softly chipped ball up
the middl as the goalie dived away, and won the 1976 European
Championship for Czechoslovakia in the final against West Germany.
The Panenka penalty has been successfully duplicated by both Andre
Pirlo and Sergio Ramos at the recently concluded UEFA Euro
2012.
- 25. Parameter Passing!! Europeans call him by name, but
Americans call him by value This w introduction given to him at
IFIP Congress (1965). Chief designer of various programming
languages like Euler, Algol W, Pa Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, etc,.
Wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which is h
as one of the most influential computer science books of the time.
Id.
- 26. Clue? He popularized the adage now known by his name :
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster"
- 27. Niklaus Wirth, the Swiss computer scientist best known for
designing several programming languages, including Pascal.
Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse
Ve while the Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's
Worth.'
- 28. Klepto Klaus Story please
- 29. Czech President Vaclav Klaus admiring a ceremonial pen
during a sta to Chile, and then attempting to slip it into his
pocket. The alleged theft, caught on television cameras, was widely
reported around the world and has been dubbed an "international
event causing a "diplomatic stir". In order to lower the profile of
the incident, government of Chile said the pen was meant to be a
present anyway.
- 30. Big Brother The ___ __ _____ is an independent non-profit
organization created t promote democracy and change in the
international community. Composed of 89 former Presidents and Prime
Ministers from 58 countries, it is the worlds largest forum of
former Heads of State and Government. It works together with
governments, inter-governmental organizations civil society,
scholars and representatives from the business world, to encourage
dialogue in order to foster social and political change. Some of
the current members include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Mikhail
Gorbachev, IK Gujral, Aung San Suu Kyi, etc,. Identify the
forum.
- 31. Club de Madrid Currently Wim Kok, the former Prime Minister
of The Netherlands (19942002), is the organization's President, and
it also has two Vice Presidents: Jennifer Shipley (New Zealand) and
Csar Gaviria (Colomb
- 32. Ford Icon X, is a cultural icon whose enduring fame and
popularity rests on hi performances in only three films that he has
acted in. Xs premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary
status. X was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award
nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had
two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film
Institute ranked X as the 18th best male m star on their AFI's 100
Years...100 Stars list Id X
- 33. James Dean, famous for his roles in East of Eden and Rebel
Without a Cau The Curse Of James Deans Little Bastard - Porsche 550
Spyder has become infamous as the car that killed him.
- 34. Who? Which batsman has career aggregate runs in Test
Cricket same as his birth (DD-M-YY)? Clue : He is the most capped
cricketer of all time in Test matches, for his country.
- 35. Alec Stewart - the most capped English cricketer of all
time in Test matches and 2nd most capped in One Day Internationals,
having played in 133 Tests and 170 ODIs. His career aggregate runs
in Test Cricket 8463 is the same as hi birth date - 8 April 1963
i.e. 08-4-63 in DD-M-YY format.
- 36. That dreaded goal... Strike 1: May 1, 2011: X scores. May
2, 2011: Bin Laden is shot dead Strike 2: Oct. 2, 2011: X scores.
Oct. 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies from Can Strike 3: Oct. 19, 2011: X
scores. Oct. 20, 2011: Gaddaffi dies from inflic injures Strike 4:
Feb. 11, 2012: X scores again, same day: Whitney Houston di The
last four times X has scored in the past year, the above mentioned
famous people have died. Clue : X is currently part of the GB
Olympic team Id X!!
- 37. Aaron Ramsey ( Wales & Arsenal)
- 38. What? Supposedly, the largest brick building in Europe
Currently decommissioned, but over the past 50 years it has become
one of the best known landmarks in London It was the subject for
the cover image of one of Pink Floyds famous albums More recently,
it was used as a filming location for The Dark Knight - with its st
empty interior used as a setting for a burnt out warehouse Chelsea
FC were also reported to be considered moving to a new purpose buil
stadium at this location. Identify
- 39. The cover image of Animals, shows a pig floating between
two chimneys on Battersea Power Station Battersea Power
Station
- 40. Logo of? Finnish video game developer and entertainment
company, best known for its video game franchise Angry Birds
- 41. Rovio Entertainment It has recently announced Amazing Alex,
a physics-based puzzle game af sensational Angry Birds
- 42. Patriotic If they answer not to thy call walk alone. If
they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall, O thou unlucky
one, open thy mind and speak out alone. If they turn away, and
desert you when crossing the wilderness, O thou unlucky one,
trample the thorns under thy tread, and along the blood-lined track
travel alone. If they do not hold up the light when the night is
troubled with storm, O thou unlucky one, with the thunder flame of
pain ignite thy own heart and let it burn alone. The song exhorts
the listener to continue his or her journey, despite abandonment or
lack of support from others. The song is often quoted in the
context of political or social change movements. Mahatma Gandhi,
who was deeply influenced by this song, cited it as on his favorite
songs The song was included in the movie Kahaani and is sung by
Amitabh Ba
- 43. Jodi Tor Dak Shune Keu Na Ase Tobe Ekla Cholo Re - written
by Rabindranath Tagore in 1905 Jodi tor daak shune keu naa ashe
tobe ekla cholo re Tobe ekla cholo, ekla cholo, ekla cholo, ekla
cholo re Jodi keu kothaa naa koye, ore ore o abhaagaa, keu kothaa
na koye Jodi shobai thaake mukh phiraaye shobai kore bhoye Tobe
poraan khule o tui mukh phute tor moner kothaa, eklaa bolo re Jodi
shobai phire jaaye, ore ore o abhaagaa, shobai phire jaaye Jodi
gohana pothe jaabaara kaale keu phire naa chaaye Tobe pothera
kaantaa o tui rokto maakhaa choronatole eklaa dolo re Jodi aalo naa
dhore, ore ore o abhaagaa, aalo na dhore Jodi jhora-baadole
aadhaara raate duyaara deye ghore Tobe bajraanole aapon bukera
paajora jaaliye niye ekalaa jolo re
- 44. A Tribute Clue :
- 45. Google Doodle honoring Amelia Earhart on her 115th birthday
anniversary. Amelia was the first aviator to fly solo across the
Atlantic Ocean, and mysteriously disappeared over the central
Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight
of the globe in 1937.
- 46. Selling Smoke A term in the computer industry that
describes a product, typically computer hardware or software, that
is announced to the general public but is never actually released
nor officially cancelled. Examples : Chinese Democracy, an
extremely delayed album by hard rock group Guns N Roses, which was
finally released in 2008 Starcraft: Ghost announced in 2002 but
stands cancelled Windows Vista was once considered to fall in this
category, but eventually surfaced after a prolonged time.
- 47. Vaporware
- 48. Mirror, mirror Carved out of a single block of wood, this
famous double statue in Salar Jung Museum shows two life-size
figures. Two diametrically opposite characters from the famous
German drama Faust by Goethe
- 49. The twin statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta at the
Salarjung Museum
- 50. Safety First The _____ _____ award is a special honor
awarded to NASA employees and contractors for outstanding
achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. The
award depicts a character from a comic strip created by Charles M.
Schulz The award is given personally by NASA astronauts as it
represents the astronauts' own recognition of excellence.
- 51. The Silver Snoopy award
- 52. Doff The __ hat is largely believed to be of Greek origin
and later spread to the Ottoman Empire where it was popularized.
The name originated from the city of __ in Morocco, where the style
first emerged. Among the Muslim aristocracy of South Asia, it is
known as the Rumi Topi Identify this felt hat
- 53. The fez or tarboosh
- 54. Identify X, in this excerpt from a 2008 interview, which
gains relevance given recent events. Q: At the end of the day youre
still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a _____________
into _____________. X : We havent __________, true, but weve made
considerable progress. If its an all-or-nothing proposition then
weve failed. But its not all or nothing. We must __________
eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more
tries, but we will. We will make it work. Q : How do you maintain
your optimism? X: Do I sound optimistic? Q: Yeah, you always do. X:
Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; were going to make it happen. As
God is my bloody witness, Im hell-bent on making it work. Up in the
clouds
- 55. Elon Musk, a South Africa-born American entrepreneur and
inventor best known for creating SpaceX, co-founding Tesla Motors
and Paypal He created the first viable electric car of the modern
era, On May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon vehicle docked with the
ISS, making history as the first commercial company to launch and
dock a vehicle to the International Space Station.
- 56. X is a village famed for its wise men, who supposedly
staged acts of foolishness sometime around the 12th century to
affect some royal plans. Later, an early 19th century author gave Y
the nickname X due to the alleged stupidity prevalent. Finally, Z,
which has been described as Y after dark, was named after X. Z was
supposedly built with the purpose of housing the insane, and it was
acknowledged that it may thus have been named. after X due to the
belief that it is populated by those bereft of their wits.
Douchebaggery
- 57. X - Gotham, Nottinghamshire; Y - New York City; Z - Gotham
City The village is most famed for the stories of the Wise Men of
Gotham. These depict the people of the village as being stupid.
However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the
villagers wished to feign madness in order to avoid a Royal Highway
being built through the village, as they would then be expected to
build and maintain this route. Reminded of the foolish ingenuity of
Gothams residents, Washington Irving gave the name Gotham to New
York City in his Salmagundi Papers (1807). In turn, Bob Kane named
the pastiche New York home of Batman -Gotham City
- 58. Quote Em "Here's Johnny!" "Greed, for lack of a better
word, is good." "Houston, we have a problem." "A census taker once
tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice
Chianti." "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
- 59. "Here's Johnny! - Jack Torrance in The Shining "Greed, for
lack of a better word, is good." Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
"Houston, we have a problem. Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 "A census
taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans
and a nice Chianti. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
"Say 'hello' to my little friend! Tony Montana in Scarface
- 60. Absolute or Relative?
- 61. Elo rating system - a method for calculating the relative
skill levels of Players in two-player games such as Chess. It is
named after its creator Arpad Elo The Elo rating system was
featured prominently in The Social Network during the algorithm
scene where Mark Zuckerberg released Facemash. In the scene Eduardo
Saverin writes the mathematical formula for the Elo rating system
on Zuckerberg's dorm room window.
- 62. 1. Michael Jackson 2. Shakespeare 3. Elvis Presley 4. Jim
Morrison 5. Marilyn Monroe 6. Princess Diana 7. Frank Sinatra 8.
Mark Twain 9. Bruce Lee 10. Oscar Wilde Connect (ranked in that
order)
- 63. Top 10 Most Visited Famous Grave Sites (Source :
www.toptenz.net)
- 64. Failed Escape Identify the guy in the centre A similar
incident involving the same guy would later prove to be rather more
fatal.
- 65. Heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey mock punching Harry Houdini
(held back by lightweight boxer Benny Leonard). Houdinis death is
speculated to have been caused by a similar punch by a McGill
University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, who delivered multiple
blows to Houdinis abdomen while he was in Montreal, in order to
test Houdinis claim that he was able to take a blow to the body
above the waist without injury.
- 66. Nationalist
- 67. The Walk of Ideas was a set of six sculptures in central
Berlin designed by Scholz & Friends for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
football event in Germany. The sculptures were part of a campaign
called Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas Modern Book Printing
Milestones of Medicine Masterpieces of Music The Automobile The
Modern Football Boot Theory of Relativity
- 68. The name of this town literally translates to Cow's Ear. It
is believed that Lord Shiva emerged from the ear of a cow (Prithvi,
the Mother Earth) here. It is also located at the ear-shaped
confluence of two rivers Gangavali and Aghanashini. Legends
indicate that the State of Kerala was reclaimed from the sea by the
Warrior-Sage Parashurama who came from the North (of the Vindhya
ranges) after his wanderings, in which he killed the Kshatriyas 21
times and threw his axe, the weapon by which he annihilated the
Kshatriyas, into the sea, to prevent the erosion of the land
stretching from _____ to the Southernmost tip of India. Id the
place. Idyllic
- 69. Gokarna - a temple town in the Uttara Kannada district of
Karnataka state famous for its beautiful beaches and
landscapes
- 70. Illusion 3-D version
- 71. The Penrose triangle, an impossible object that was devised
and popularized by the mathematician Roger Penrose The NatWest logo
was partly inspired from this structure
- 72. A hand game played by two people. The game is also known as
roshambo, or by other orderings of the three items Lucky by chance
This game is often used as a choosing method in a way similar to
coin fl drawing straws, or throwing dice. The objective is to
select a gesture which defeats that of the opponent. The common
side-blotched lizard exhibits the pattern of this game in its
mating strategies. Clue : A variant of this game was also mentioned
in three episodes of The Big Bang Theory
- 73. Rock-paper-scissors