Rand(0,M) Quiz Finals
Rand(0,M) Quiz FinalsXIMB| October 5th
Welcome to the Finals
FormatRound 1 : SHARE Sheets (8 Questions)Round 2 : MICRO Robin
(12 Questions)Round 3: Reel PRIME (Cinema, 6 Questions) Round 4:
Reverse RENTALS (12 Questions)Round 5: AUTO Peak Rounds (2X points,
6 Questions)
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SHARE Sheets
1.The image to the right is the 2016 Libertarian Party Logo for
president of the United States. A Cyber/Tech entreprenuer first
announced his presidential run as a member of the "Cyber Party" on
September 8, 2015 and on December 24, 2015, he announced he would
instead run for president as a member of the Libertarian Party. In
an interview with Hit & Run Blog, this candidate said that
running for president is "not something I really want to do, I
think I see it as an obligation" to do what I can to straighten out
"a country in crisis. Who?
Answer
John McAfee
2.A 911-acre Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in
the United States is the worlds only one of a kind park. The park
features a 37.5-acre plowed field and it is completely accessible
to the public. The International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) lists the site as a Class III Natural Monument or Feature in
its registry. A particular product has been continuously been
discovered in the field since 1906 and each year till date we note
new discoveries. What?
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Answer
Crater of Diamonds Park. Free Public Access
3.Media plaudits tell that the film is important because it
tries to celebrate the long struggle against unjust system of
forced patriarchy. A PIL was filed in the Gujarat High Court
seeking a ban on this movie claiming that it had projected the
Rabari/Maldhari (traditional cattle-breeders) community in "bad
light". Taking a strong objection to the portrayal of the
community, especially the women, Marasubhai Rabari, a chief,
claimed that the film could create a "wrong impression" among the
masses about the Maldhari community as it contained "semi-nude"
scenes. Which movie released initially in 12th Sep 2015, at the
Toronto Film Festival is this?
Answer
Parched
4.Volume One, Number One ofX, printed in New Haven, Connecticut,
with a cover price of 50 cents, was a very low key affair. Its
chestnut brown paper cover lacked the distinctive yellow border
(that wouldn't appear until 1910), and not a single photograph was
included within its 98 pages (that wouldn't happen until 1905).
Considered the father of American geography, William Morris Davis
introduced an influential theory on the cycle of erosion ("young"
and "old" landscapes), which he lays out in thorough detail in Xs
first feature. Solve
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Answer
National Geographic
5.The pic has the following Air Force members in 1957, standing
65 miles NW to Las VegasCol. Sidney BruceLt. Col. Frank P. BallMaj.
Norman "Bodie" BodingerMaj. John HughesDon LutrelGeorge Yoshitake
(the cameraman, not seen)What are they doing?
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Answer
Safety of Nuclear Blasts; US Propaganda
6.In 2014, nearly 46 years after the death of this political
stalwart, his family members want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
order a thorough probe into his mysterious death at Mughalsarai
railway station in UP. In 2013, Arvind Menon, a senior BJP leader
from Madhya Pradesh alleged Congress' hand behind the assassination
and claimed that rising popularity of this stalwart had sent
jitters to the then Congress leaders. Which Political leader, 100th
Birth Centenary celebrated this year in 2016 and led to many
prefixes of the Modi Govt. in yojanas ?
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Answer
Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
7.This trophy stands 18-and-a-half inches high and has a
diameter of 7-and-a-half inches. Strangely enough, no one quite
seems to know what the carving of a pineapple is doing atop this
magnificent cup. One theory says it has to do with the tradition of
navy captains putting a pineapple atop their gateposts on returning
home from sea. Which one?
Answer
Wimbledon
8.The toy has been described as originating in China, as being
found in King Tut's tomb, though unmentioned in its inventory, and
as one of the few toys allowed on Sunday by Puritans in colonial
America. Many slight variants have been patented in the United
States, one from the 1940s having in one block an indentation to
hold a penny, which then appeared to dis- and re- appear. The
etymology (the common one) comes from the biblical passage steps to
heaven, mentioned in Genesis 28:12. Name the Toy which incidentally
shares the name with the Tim Robbins thriller in 1990?
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Answer
Jacobs Ladder
MICRO Robin
1.After some investigations it was found that a human error did
actually lead to 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide being mistakenly
dumped on these sites on Aug. 5, the New York Times reports.
Olympics officials said that the hydrogen peroxide "neutralized"
the chlorine and made way for the growth of "organic compounds"
that possibly included algae. What blunder, a reason for much shame
in Rio Olympics 2016 ?
Answer
Olympic Pools turned Green
2.The word X was originally used to describe the wooden board
carriage makers attached to the front of carriages to prevent mud
and rocks from being splashed onto drivers and their passengers by
the horses that pulled them about. In essence, X served as mud
flaps for horses hooves. Now ubiquitous in all automobiles and used
widely in corporate parlance, What is X?
Image
Answer
Dashboard
3.The insects are various families of bees (Lasioglossum gotham)
native to Thailand. The photographs were taken by a group of
entomologists who used their own eyes as bait while studying the a
particular sustenance of these bees from both animals and humans.
The researchers also used meat, Ovaltine(biscuits), cheese, and
other foods to attract the bees to no avail.These bees seem to be
clung on something and are doing what?
Answer
Drinking Sweat/TearsAs a form of rich protein
4.Having only 40 employees, but making nearly $400 million each
year this co. generates the max ROI per employee in the coporata
parlance. That's $10 million per employee. Name the co., a
precursor to the JustDials and OLXs
Image (Current Office)
Answer
Craigslist
5.X cuisine is a practice engaged in by a small subculture in
the United States, southern Canada, the United Kingdom and other
Western countries as well as in other parts of the world like
Australia. It is also a subject of humor and urban legend owing to
cafes promoting lines as From Your Grill to Ours. These cuisine
constitute large animals including deer, kangaroo, Elk and moose,
bear and as well as smaller animals such as armadillos, raccoons,
skunks and birds. What is X? (Or Put Funda)
Answer
Road-Kill Cuisine
6.Diairesis (Ancient Greek: diaresis, "division") is a form of
classification used in ancient (especially Platonic) logic that
serves to systematize concepts and come to definitions. When
defining a concept using diairesis, one starts with a broad
concept, then divides this into (at least) two more specific
sub-concepts, and this procedure is repeated until a definition of
the desired concept is reached. The founder of Diairesis was Plato.
Where, while writing or reading, have you encountered the
Diairesis/Diaeresis?
Answer
Two Dots over a Letter nave
7.De La Rue is a banknote manufacturer, security printing, and
papermaking company with headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire,
England. They created a board game called STUMPZ in the 1930s and
used playing cards as a component of the set. They celebrated and
cherished an English cricket act of 1956 in Manchester by giving a
cricketer 190 Sterling Pounds (10 for each feat). What did they
do?
Answer
Jim Laker
8. Video Ad for?
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Answer
MP Tourism
9.A Wooden Ships remains (claimed) were found at a very
improbable site in July 2010 and historians, after research, owed
it to the River Hudsons raw course and scenic changes in 1800s and
confirmed that the findings were actually of a ship. Which
Site?(Image of 1800s New York)
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Answer
Ground Zero (WTC)
10.Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a progressive
genetic disorder that turns soft tissues into bone over time.
Mutations of ACVR1, this gene can allow ossification to go
unchecked throughout a sufferer's life, even turning skeletal
muscle into bone and causing joints to fuse together. This disorder
occurs in about 1 in 2 million people, and there are currently no
treatments or cures. Trauma exacerbates the condition, so attempts
to remove bone surgically just results in the body producing even
more bone in the area. Also the popular name of a notorious Serial
Killer of Kolkata/Mumbai in 1980s, Commonly known as?
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Answer
Stone Man Syndrome
11.Hundreds of poor children in the Indian state of Bihar make a
living by selling these things to Buddhist pilgrims from the
Mahabodhi tree - under which Gautam Buddha is said to have attained
enlightenment. These cost Indian pilgrims only 10 rupees but to
foreign pilgrims, they are sold from anywhere between $1 and $10.
Every year as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visit the Mahabodhi
temple in Bodh Gaya town its a good business for the locals. What
do they sell?
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Answer
Leaves of the Bodhi Tree
12.13 music industry giants want X to pay up to $75 Trillion in
damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. When the
companies won a ruling against X in May 2013, they requested
damages that could now end up totaling the aforementioned
ridiculous amount, which is five times our national debt of US! The
GDP of the entire world is between 59 and 62 Trillion. What is X, a
precursor to the Peer-to-Peer file sharing websites, in the
2000s?
Answer
LimeWire
Scores
Reel PRIME
1.Bourton-on-the-water is a small village in Gloucestershire,
England. It has a population of 3,296, lies within the Cotswolds
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has 117 buildings with Grade
II or higher listed status. It is so beautiful that in 1937, local
craftsmen decided to build a 1:9 scale replica of the village. This
practice by craftsmen repeated and the Britons and Tourists know
this village by another name, a very filmy connection. What?
Images (1/3)
Images (2/3)
Images (3/3)
Answer
Village within a Village Within a Village...
2.X is an opera in two acts by the French composer Albert
Roussel. The libretto, by Louis Laloy, is based on Thodore-Marie
Pavie's La lgende de X, reine de Tchitor, which retells the legend
recounted in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's poem X (1540). It was first
performed at the Paris Opra on June 1, 1923. Roussel styled the
work an opra-ballet and there are many dance numbers and
opportunities for spectacle. The composer was inspired by his visit
to the ruined city of Y. Solve X and Y
Answer
Padmavati/Padmini of Chittor
3.By linguistic coincidence, the name __________ may also be
seen as a hybrid word of the Japanese words meaning the number
nine, and a brick. Nine is the number of tools (a toy industry term
for parts of a figure) used in a standard _______figure: head,
torso, hips, two arms, two hands, and two legs; the English word
brick is collectors jargon for LEGO elements, and refers to the
similarity of ________ to LEGO Minifigures. Manufactured by
Japanese toy company MediCom Toy Inc, Fill in the Blanks
Answer
Kubrick/ Kyu + Brick
4.Prakash Jhas movie 'Aarakshan' revolves around the subject of
education and had sought a particular math teachers help in
imparting teaching skills to Big B and Saif. The math teacher shot
a video at Jha's office in Mumbai and conducted as many as three to
four simulated classes at Jha's office over a period of two days in
December in 2011. Which Teacher, almost having a smiliar storyline
in the education sphere?
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Answer
Anand Kumar, Super 30s
5.X solution, also known as X etch, is a mixture of sulfuric
acid (H2SO4) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), used to clean organic
residues off substrates. Because the mixture is a strong oxidizing
agent, it will remove most organic matter, and it will also
hydroxylate most surfaces (add OH groups), making them highly
hydrophilic (water-compatible). It is extensively used in the micro
electronics and the glassware industries. Due to its ability to
almost eat out every residue almost instantly, what is this an ode
to a 1978 movie name?
Answer
Piranha
6.It has been claimed that when this movie was in
post-production in early 1968, NASA secretly approached the film
team to direct the first three Moon landings. As this movie was
released before the first Apollo landing (1969) and the films
depiction of the Moon's surface is much different from its
appearance in Apollo video, film, and photography this led to a
leading cause of the moon landing conspiracy. Which Iconic
Movie?
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Answer
2001: A Space Odyssey
Reverse RENTALS
1.
One of the earliest forms of the invention, as in 1885 is to the
right and is attributed to one E.J Claghorn. In 1959, this was
improved to a 3 point system called as the click-clack front and
back by an engineer Nils Bohlin and was granted free to use for all
to save millions of lives. What?
Answer
Seat Belts/Volvo Engineer
2.The images are of Airbnbs Halloween Campaign in Oct 2015 and
was indeed all about spending lives with about 6 million dead
bodies. Its there in 191 countries as of now, which City/Town?
Image (1/2)
Image (2/2)
Answer
Paris Catacombs
3.This is Piper, a 7-year-old border collie and K-9 wildlife
manager at Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan. Piper
came on as wildlife manager in January 2015, and works a full-time
shift from 4 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. What is his primary work, often a
reason for many airplane crashes and turbulence
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Answer
Chasing Birds
4.This Wrestlemania-1 match was a tag team contest between Hulk
Hogan and Mr. T against Rowdy Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff. The
special referee simply observed for most of the match and kept
himself out of trouble until chaos ensued. Everyone ended up in the
ring whaling away on each other and this special referee managed to
restore order and even cracked Piper with a signature move. Who, in
March 1985, was this referee?
Answer
Muhammad Ali
5.HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as Steam Frigate Birkenhead,
was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy.
Immortalized by the Birkenhead Drill of a Rudyard Kiplings poem,
the image is by Charles Dixon and is called the Wreck of the
Birkenhead(1901). What, in old naval parlance, is a Birkenhead
drill ?
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Answer
Women and Children First protocol
6.Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World Records says
the Banzai _________Category is the most dangerous to attempt. They
still accept entries because contesters only risk their life, not
the life of others. The word Banzai comes from a Japanese desperate
military strategy and also from a famous mass suicide sliff, thus
indicating bravery and foolishness. Which Sport? Fill in the
Blanks
Answer
Skydiving (Parachute First!)
7.In the field of aviation for many routes connecting US to
Europe/East, the Santas Shortcut is usually the shortest but one of
the riskiest routes owing to the crossing of the 78th parallel.
Prevailing winds and low visibility are often the official reasons
given for not taking this route, although we have had example of
Etihad flights covering them from the Abu Dhabi-LA route. What
fulfills a Santas Shortcut?
Answer
Flying over the North Pole
8.It has a unique alphabet consisting of 33 letters said to
mimic the shapes of vine tendrils as viticulture is of great
importance to its people. In fact it has one of the oldest history
of viticulture in the world. Evidence of wine-making has been found
dating back 8000 years ago. Other than wine the national drink is
Chacha, which also uses the grape plant. It's made from the left
overs from the wine making process. Which country, deriving its
name from a certain Saint?
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Answer
Georgia/St. George
9.Chris Skaife is the _______master at the Tower of London. His
job is to care for the towers creatures, which he has been doing
for the past 11 years. Legend has it that there must always be six
of the creatures at the Tower of London. If they leave, the kingdom
and the tower will fall. There are currently six main creatures at
the tower, and one reserve. It is also said that these creatures at
the Tower of London are listed as soldiers or guards. What
creatures? What is Chris Skaife currently?
Answer
Raven Master and Ravens
10.What color led from the North Germanic and Austria Army
Regiments of the 16- late 19th century?
Answer
Prussian Blue
11.This Scot businessman boasted that his secret for success was
selling the best goods at the cheapest prices,harnessing the power
of advertising, and always being optimistic. He was also the most
persistent challenger in the history of the America's Cup. He
visited Sri Lanka in 1890 and made business deals with James
Taylor, who introduced tea to Sri Lanka. Who?
140
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Answer
Thomas Lipton
12.
X was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Y, who
presided over boundaries. His statue was merely a stone or post
stuck in the ground to distinguish between properties and at which
every year sacrifices were to be offered at the festival of the X.
Solve Both
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Answer
Answer
Scores
AUTO peak rounds
1.Among several alternative theories, however, is the belief
that this symbol evolved from the Eye of Horus, an ancient Egyptian
symbol associated with healing powers. The practice of pharmacy,
the preparation and dispensation of drugs, has been around for
thousands of years and the worlds first recorded prescriptions were
etched on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia around 2100 B.C. What symbol
am I talking about?
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Answer
Rx
2.In 2005, MIT students recreated the mirror defense and managed
to set a wooden ship ablaze. On the roof of a Cambridge parking
garage, they scorched the ship, but their test required ideal
weather conditions and a stationary target. Who invented such a
contraption, and the subject of the MIT tests involving mirrors,
intially to sink Roman Ships?
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Answer
Archimedes
3.A X in mid-18th-century England was a fashionable fellow who
dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected and emasculate
manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who "exceeded the
ordinary bounds of fashion. The X were precursor to the dandies,
who came as a more masculine reaction to the excesses of the X, far
from their present connotation of effeminacy.
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Answer
Macaroni
4.Moritz Frey's account provides the first substantial challenge
to historians' perceived wisdom on the subject, which has generally
been that this soldier was simply following the fashion of the
period. This soldier was only obeying orders when he shaped
something into its tightly-clipped style. He was instructed to do
so in order that it would fit under the respirator masks,
introduced in response to WW 1 mustard gas attacks. Which
soldier?
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Answer
Adolf Hitler
5.What caused these tattoo-like marking or scars known as
Lichtenberg figures. The patterns created are known to be examples
of fractals and are heavily complex geometrical patterns. What
causes them?
Answer
Lightning
6.
Answer
Its Over Now!
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