The Tides of Time Quiz - Prelims - Waves, 2016

The Tides of Time Quiz – Waves, 2016

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LUCKY KAUL AND ROSHAN DATTATRI

The Deal20 Questions.

Star marked questions – 1,3,7,11,13,19.

Or else sudden death.

Top 8 teams qualify to the final.

Correctors – Please give marks only if the underlined part of the answer (or its sensible variant(s) ) is present in the answer sheet.

Waves – The Tides of Time Quiz Lucky Kaul and Roshan Dattatri November 5, 2016

Top score – 14/20 Cutoff – 10.5/20

Answers


1This is the Tentacruel episode from Pokemon , which was first broadcasted on 1/10/1998 in the US. However, when it was aired yet again a few years later, Kids WB! did not allow the broadcast of this film and went on to ban it. This ban was lifted when two years later when Cartoon Network aired Pokemon Indigo League again.

Why was this film banned?

(Video will be played)


They did not want to show buildings being destroyed after those destroyed in 9/11.


2●Sammohito

●Peditto

●Mrityu Dansham

●Nirastra Bhava

●Sharpatham

●Prakashit Bhava

●Pitrdev Sanrakshanam

What are these (or) how do we know them better?


Harry Potter Spells in Hindi.● Imperio

●Crucio

●Avada Kedavra

●Expelliarmus

●Stupefy

●Lumos

●Expecto Patronum


3I got out my mum's front door key and scraped that up the bass strings of an old Sunday school piano that had been taken apart.” explained Brian Hodgson.

What iconic sound is he credited with creating by speeding up, slowing down and adding feedback to get an echo-like effect to these recordings?


Sound of the TARDIS.


4. Identify (or) What makes this special?


DeLorean DMC 12 or DeLorean or Back to the future car.


5*The song X was to be performed by Y on the Ed Sullivan Show on September 17, 1967. For this episode, Sullivan’s son-in-law Bob Precht asked for the line “girl, we couldn’t get much higher” to be changed as he did not want any drug abuse on the show.

Y agreed, and changed the line to “girl, we couldn’t get much better”. However, during the live performance, the lead single of Y , Z sang the original line anyway. This resulted in Sullivan not shaking his hand and informing the members of Y never to do The Sullivan Show again. Z’s only reply to that was , “We just did Sullivan”.

Identify X, Y and Z. (Half points for any two correct)


X – Light My FireY – The DoorsZ – Jim Morrison


6. Fill in the blanked out part.


Calvinball


7*Talks Vishal Malhotra from Delhi about an experience of a shoot, to which all of us have been an audience a few months back, and where all Malhotra was asked to do was portray different aged men through different moustaches –

I was shooting in Punjab when Suresh Triveni called me and said they are doing a third film and that I had to fly back that night itself. Well, what had to be done was done. And things have been on a roll since.

Suresh asked me whether I follow cricket, which I did. This helped me connect so that I could get the reaction for each age right. Body language, however, was the biggest focus for all of us, since the film had just a single dialogue ‘________', which had to be delivered in a matured yet dejected way.

What experience of his is Malhotra describing?


The Mauka Mauka ads.


8During the Chennai floods of late 2015, Mr Saravanan, owner of Ganesh Textiles, Karaikudistarted manufacturing clothes as relief to be distributed to those affected by the floods.

However, he was promptly arrested. Why?


Put Jayalalithaa’s sticker on underwear.


9After a certain environmental organisation sued X alleging a violation of a 1994 agreement that X would cease using their written acronym and minimize its spoken use on its broadcasts, X launched a marketing campaign called 'Get The F Out” and changed their name, acronym and website URL.

What was the original acronym and what was it changed to?


WWF – changed to WWE.


10Interactive learning with the aid of a computer was the hype of recent years. But as users quickly discovered: learning on a computer monitor is almost as tedious as learning from a book.

Media scientist Dr. Martina Lucht from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology found the solution to this problem on the street, so to speak: “I found my inspiration one day when I saw a _______ drawn on the sidewalk,” she recalls. “It suddenly occurred to me that learning has to be combined with movement to make it fun. – and thus the name of the learning aid being __________.

Consisting of a sensor mat divided into nine fields like the keys of a mobile phone in order to teach children math and English, without any negative feedback for incorrect answers, what did she name the learning aid as?

Hint – In the olden days , Roman soldiers used ______ as an aid to test their strength and agility.


Hopscotch


11*In August 2013, probably a guy enthusiastic over this, just happened to achieve the ultimate end of something which irritated a lot of us in our childhood. The ending visual appeared like what you see on your right – with the caption

“And now we'll show you a cartoon. Connection to server ... No connection. Thanks. Everybody's free to go.”

What did this guy end or find the end to?


The Snake Game by Nokia.


12Gunter Schabowski was an official from ________ who had this simple task of delivering a press conference in the late 80s, just like any other day.

Assigned with the job of relaxing the rules for the new “travel code”, Schabowski felt that the document would be like any other routine document – so routine-like he felt it to be that he forgot to read through it before approaching the podium.

It subsequently emerged that the new “travel code” to have been phased in the following day, but the timetable was set out on the reverse side of the document from which Schabowski was reading. The speech went on to become a boring one, so boring that a few journalists ended up thinking as if the whole “travel code” will be taken away, making them simply ask when the new measures would be taken – to which Schabowski replied – “Sofort” (Immediately, like right now).

What happened as a result of this laziness (or) What followed this reply of Gunter?


The Fall of the Berlin Wall!Thanks to Gunter’s laziness and not reading the speech thoroughly (on Nov 9, 1989), after his Sofort reply thousands from both sides started jumping over the wall. By Nov 14, 1989, the wall was broken and out forever.


13* The most simple common variety of a X Y is a small and rectangular prism or block, only about 1 × 5/8 × 7/16 inch (2.5 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm) in size. The block-shaped Y consists of a combined point-shaping cone that is aligned to the cylindrical X alignment guide hole, into which the X is inserted. A sharp blade is mounted so that the sharp edge of the X just enters the shaping cone. The body of the Y is often contoured, ridged or grooved to make the small block easier to firmly grip.

The construction of what item of regular use is being described in this question?


Pencil Sharpeners


14A few obvious elements have been blanked out.

What is this picture an outline/sketch of?



The game tasks in Takeshi’s Castle.


15Known as a skin moisturizer and a popular product for removing dead cells from the surface of the skin, this product manufactured in India majorly by the DIL Group comprises of 2.8 g Zinc Oxide, 1.9g Zinc Carbonate, 5.0g Hamamelis water and 0.3g Phenol. We know the name of this product because of the presence of Zinc Carbonate in it, and also because most of us would have used it to soothe the irritation caused by a communicable medical condition which has affected most of us till date.

What product and what condition?


Lacto-Calamine (or simply Calamine)Chicken Pox


16To what two or three-word term heard all of by us , having its origins probably in the 18th

century in Venice, is a Cecil Beaton making reference to in this 1937 article in British Vogue, called “Suggestions For ______ ______”?

Nowadays an effective grandeur can only be legitimately achieved with everyday utensils, and materials being used for purposes for which they were not meant. Steel wool pot-cleaners, egg-beaters, egg-separators, dish-cloths, tin moulds and patent hangers all make excellent costume trimming.

What about taking all your coloured handkerchiefs and bandaging your entire body?

What about pinning roses from your great aunt’s hat all over your cherry-coloured velvet evening jacket?



Fancy Dress Competitions!


17*Following are photographs taken and designed by a Thomas Subtil, who imagines he ways that some of Africa's most iconic wildlife spend their time when no-one's looking.

Subtil remarks that these images revolve around a two word African phrase given the kind of perseverance, struggle and sportiveness shown by the animals even though they’re under such situations – hence using this phrase.

Have a look at these images, and tell me the phrase around which Subtil imagines these images to revolve.





Hakuna Matata! (No worries)


18Seventy kilometers south of Akola in Rajasthan is Chaudhawadi, where Titan Process House has received white cloth from weaving units in the textile town of Bhilwara with orders to dye it into a _______. Its general manager VK Sharma says the unit will provide seven lakh metres of the processed material for the finished product.

With 10,000 units of this product set into circulation last month , and with plans to be priced at Rs.300 per unit, 40 workers in this factory have been working hard to make sure that the orders are fulfilled on time, since for the owner this order “is not a matter of business, but that of ideology”.

Which product is this, which is going to abolish a 90 year old practice in India?


Launching of RSS Trousers.


19*Starbucks Secret Menu is a website that claims to be “for fans, by fans” – by patrons of Starbucks for patrons of Starbucks (:P) where in they try to conceptualise new novel drinks which Starbucks can actually have a shot making at.

The recipe for a certain drink, that most of us would have first heard of a few years back, was proposed as follows by a fan who wanted Starbucks to make it –

-> Whole milk steamer

-> Add Caramel syrup (2 for tall, 3 for grande, 4 for venti)

-> Add Toffee nut syrup (2 for tall, 3 for grande, 4 for venti)

-> Add Cinnamon Dolce syrup (2 for tall, 3 for grande, 4 for venti)

-> Whipped cream and salted caramel bits on top (or creme brulee topping if you prefer)

-> Optional if you prefer to add a coffee taste: Add a shot of espresso (2 for a grande or venti)

What sweet drink, that is definitely not alcoholic , did the fan want Starbucks to create in reality?


Butterbeers!


20What phrase that is buzzing over the past few hours, would connect a 2013 movie where an old immigrant man sets off on a journey to reconnect with his estranged son, and a 2015 board game where players build civilizations through making gigantic monuments, impenetrable fortifications and amass vast knowledge over long durations, only to see all this collapse eventually?



Finals in a while!


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