QC meet questionsby

Gokul S Nair

All typos and puns in the quiz are intentional.

1. No points for X on the bounce..

An X is a mass found trapped in the Gastrointestinal system . In medeival times X s were beleived to be an antidote to any poison. As a prince once famously said,“Just chuck a X down their throats..” .

To treat gastric phytoXs in humans, Y has often been proposed as a treatment. Y was initially invented in 1886 as a substitute to morphine. Y will dissolve completley dissolve a X in about half the cases.

If you cannot find Y, Z will do instead , but be careful that it doesn’t cause dyspepsia.

X = Bezoar

Y = Coca Cola

Z = Pepsi

2.Difficile lectu is a canon composed as a practical joke by X.

The song goes “Difficile lectu mihi mars et jonicu difficile”

The intent being that when the singer , Johaan Nepomuk Peyerl would sing the song, due to his Bavarian accent, “Lectu mihi mars” would resemble the Bavarian “leck du mi im Arsch”, which basically translates to “Lick my Ass”.

And to add salt to the wound, X had the song :”O du eselhafter Peirel” (O you asinine Peyerl) scheduled immediatley afterwards.

Who was this epic rapper who could give Skrillex a run for his money ?

Ans : MozartMozart and Skrillex face off

in “Epic Rap Battles of History”

3. Connect the two lists.. there is a one to one correspondence

Plato Leonardo Da Vinci

Aristotle Giuliano da Sangallo

Heraclitus Michelangelo

Euclid or Archimedes Bramante

Apelles Raphael

Hint to be given if needed

Ans : Raphael’s “The School of Athens”

4. ID this infamous card

Ans : Miss Universe 2015

5. X : the game was a board game released in 1989 . In X : the Game players compete in two parts. In the first part, players circle the board, feeding money into the eight available properties, then bidding on those properties (not being able to see how much the property is worth) and collecting X cards. When all the properties are gone, the negotiation phase begins. Players use their X cards to buy and sell properties, some cards award huge payoffs for specific sets. After each player has passed their turn, the property values are revealed, and the player with the most money wins (usually in the $400-$600M range).

X’s tagline goes : “It’s not whether you win or lose , but whether you win”

The game was a huuge flop.

Ans :

6. What was the purpose of these contraptions in the 1890s ?

To let babies who were inside apartments get “fresh” air.

7. Not MA1010“If you make a machine that can swap minds of two people, but cannot swap them back for the same two people ,and if the minds of N people have been swapped amongst each other , it is possible to return all people to their original minds using just two extra people who had not been part of this process before”

This is the first mathematical theorem that was invented for the purpose of a TV Show. Which TV Show ?

Ans : Futurama

8.In the U.S. , liquor must be made from “natural” sources such as grains , grapes or fruit. That makes alcohol made from petroleum illegal.

There is literally only one way to differentiate between the two and that led a famous physicist to quip : “Alcohol is illegal in the U.S. unless it is __________” .

This is something not many Americans would be comfortable with.

FITB. How do you differentiate between the two types of alcohol ?

Ans : Radioactive, Radiocarbon dating

9. A song by Don Mclean . F.I.T.B in both this slide and the next.

He describes the song as “Basically in ________ ___ things are heading in the wrong direction. Life is becoming less idyllic. i don’t know if you consider that right or wrong, but it is a morality song in a sense.”

A paradoy of this song won an award from the National Museum of Mathematics on 14th March 2015.

The name of the song is also the same as that of a very famous film series.

A long long time ago

I can still remember how that music used to make me smile

And I knew that if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance ,and maybe they’d be happy for a while

But February made me shiver

With every paper I’d deliver

Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step

I can’t remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride

But something touched me deep inside

___ ___ ___ _____ ____

Ans : American Pie ; The Day the Music DiedThe song is a tribute to Buddy Holly.

The name of the song is American Pie.

The math parody being American Pi.

10. Dutch sailors brought X and other alien species to the island of Mauritius . X plundered the dods’ nests and ate their eggs. This, along with other factors, led the dodo to go, well, the way of the dodo.

A popular fan theory goes that this is the reason the birds hate the X so much in Y.

This could also be supported by the fact that Dodos were flightless birds .

X - Pigs ; Y- Angry Birds

11. Dam Dam DamThe Mohnee and Edersee dams were a source of hydroelectric power for the Germans and thus very well guarded during World War II. They were thus protected against attack by anti-aircraft guns and safety nets in the river for submarines.

The British however knew everyday Physics better than Germany. They created specially designed drum shaped bombs which would spin backwards at 200 rpm before dropping.

What common act which all children love doing did the British deploy to ensure these bombs hit their targets ?

Ans : Skipping stone bombs

12. An opening question for the closeTill the 1988 Seoul olympics, doves of peace would be released at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

This tradition has, however, been stopped.

What happened at the 1988 Olympics to cause this ?

Ans : The doves went and rested on the olympic torch. Thus , when the flames were lit, the Olympic stadium became , temporarily, the world’s largest barbecue party.