Inglorious Quizzerds

INGLORIOUS QUIZZERDS

Siddharth Mishra

Round 1 6 questions in this round. Direct - +20 Pounce gives +40/-20 All questions in this round are easy

Q. As a boy, he was moved by other children who had to work, and whose parents were too poor to send them to school. He started a football club with the membership fees paying the school fees of needy children. He and a friend collected donations of 2,000 schoolbooks in a single day, a project book bank in his town.

The childhood exploits of which personality, in the news for all the right reasons.

Kailash SatyarthiCo-winner of the Noble Peace Prize

Q. ‘One of the things I’m really excited about is that the PM has this whole Digital India initiative. We can’t just create connectivity around the world just by ourselves, we are trying to work with operators, governments. I am mostly interested in hearing and learning about how we can help. I believe that there are certain things that _______ can uniquely bring.’

Who?

Mark Zuckerberg

Q. What new social networking service, which promises to be ad free and also to never share its user data with advertisers or third parties, is being described popularly as the anti-Facebook?

Ello

Q. In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver was trying to develop a strong, quick drying adhesive for 3M. But he screwed the pooch so badly he ended up developing the exact opposite – a weak adhesive that never seemed to dry.

Dr. Art Fry, his colleague, who was frustrated by his bookmarks falling out decided to take his adhesive and apply it to a piece of paper.

This gave rise to what globally used everyday item?

Post-It Notes!

Q. This game is German in origin, becoming popular in France during the early 19th century, reaching England and America in the second half. The primary purpose of this game is to manipulate a layout of cards with a goal of sorting them somehow.

In Germany, there exists a tradition to use this game as a guide to the future – a person’s luck should not be tempted when the cards are unfavourable.

The arrangement of Mendeleev’s early periodic table is attributed to his love for this game.

Solitaire

Q. Tesla has launched its new car _______, which promises to go from 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds – insanely fast for an electric car.

Other than impressive power output, this car also comes with revolutionary auto-pilot measures, including autonomous highway driving. The cars will even park and unpark themselves to meet you in the morning!

Tesla DTo quote Elon Musk, ‘This car is nuts!’

Round 2 There are no directs in this round – only

pounces. Each team decides how many points it

gets for a right answer – by betting the points obtained in the previous round.

Teams on zero points can bet a maximum of 20 points.

Q. The X Festival has been celebrated since ancient times on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar calendar. Those of Chinese and Vietnamese origin descend on temples, with thousands of Xs embellished with complex but beautiful designs. At the end of the night, the Xs fly away in a magnificent sight which symbolizes letting go of your past self.

The Lantern Festival

Q. In Greek mythology, the term X is used to denote two sacred kings of Crete; first of whom assumed the shape of the Cretan bull, and the second was the Minotaur.

X has been in news for the past week, in relation to The Paris Motor Show.

Asterion Lamborghini unveiled their first gasoline-

electric hybrid, Asterion LPI 910-4 , a day before the motor show.

Q. This term was originally used to denote a flask enclosed in a straw basket, usually containing Chianti. One of the theories for its present day usage is that when Italian glassmakers found a bottle that wasn’t upto specifications, they immediately smashed it.

Pic on next slide.

Fiasco!

Q. During the First World War, the British military was trying to find a better metal for guns. The problem was that barrels of guns were distorted over repeated firing by the friction and heat of bullets. Harry Brearley, a metallurgist at a Sheffield firm experimented with different alloys. Some of the results of his experiments were unsatisfactory and he threw away the samples onto a scrap heap – only to notice after a while that the materials were not affected in any way.

This led to industrial production of what material?

Stainless Steel

Q. According to tradition, the Iroquois leaders Deganawidah and Hiawatha convinced the Five Nations to stop fighting among themselves and form a confederacy, which was later to be known as the Six Nations. To celebrate the new peace, the Iroquois leaders buried their weapons under the roots of a white pine. An underground river then washed away the weapons, so that the tribes could never use their weapons against each other again.

This is one of the accepted stories behind the origin of what phrase?

Bury the hatchet

Q. India imports X from Japan and Australia, incurring annual expenses of about 4000 crores. However, a recent move by the government aims to start production of X in Mysore from December. The proposed facility for its production will be an equal JV between Security Printing and Mining Corporation of India Limited and Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mundran Pvt Ltd.

Paper for Currency Notes

Q. X was the designation adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications. X eventually became the standard designation among the western Allies for all such intelligence.

The name arose because the intelligence thus obtained was considered more important than that designated by the highest British security classification then used (Most Secret) and so was regarded as being X secret.

Winston Churchill told the King George VI after World War II: "It was thanks to X that we won the war."

Ultra

Q. Chef Jose Andres, talking about what?

‘This has been a really fun challenge. His character is very precise, calculated and methodical so you see this reflected in how he prepares his food. He believes in sophisticated and thoughtful presentation. I love that. Every time I get a script, I read the whole thing and it comes alive. It's changing and complex just like his character. My goal is to think of something that captures his essence and becomes a metaphor for the greater story.’

Food served on the TV series ‘Hannibal’

Q.’ The red people from Manhattan Island crossed to the mainland, where a treaty was made with the Dutch, and the place was therefore called the Pipe of Peace, in their language, Hoboken. But soon after that, the Dutch governor, Kieft, sent his men out there one night and massacred the entire population. Few of them escaped, but they spread the story of what had been done, and this did much to antagonize all the remaining tribes against all the white settlers. Shortly after, Nieuw Amsterdam erected a double palisade for defense against its now enraged red neighbors, and this remained for some time the northern limit of the Dutch city. The space between the former walls is now called _______, and its spirit is still that of a bulwark against the people’

Wall Street

Q. A X is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Xs are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense.

For example, in Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze, the line ‘scuse me while I kiss the sky’ is often misunderstood to be ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy’.

Mondegreen

Q. Who describing what?

‘The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem – solve it.“’

‘The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring,

universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives.’

‘I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.’

‘In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.’

Brian EnoWindows Startup Tune

Q. Connect :

Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire

Two storey penthouse

Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire

Places shown as Bruce Wayne’s residence in the Dark Knight trilogy

Q. Connect. Hint - think theft.

All three of them were victims of grave robberies.

Q. Ad for what?

Anti-smoking campaign.Tagline – Smoking makes you a slave.

Thank You!