The G(aming), M(inimalist)and G(eneral) Quiz

(from Hasta La Vista – theFarewellPubQuiz)

- Aveek Kumar Baruah

Chapter 1: Video-Games

NOLAN BUSHNELL AND TED DABNEY FOUNDED THE GROUNDBREAKING GAMING X CO. IN 1972, WHICH WAS A

PIONEER IN ARCADE GAMES, HOME VIDEO GAME CONSOLES, AND HOME COMPUTERS. IN 1977, NOTICING HOW MUCH

MONEY VIDEO ARCADES WERE MAKING FROM THE GAMES THEIR COMPANY SOLD, NOLAN BUSHNELL DECIDED TO START

A FAMILY RESTAURANT CHAIN ‘CHUCK E. CHEESE’S’ THAT WOULD ALSO FEATURE VIDEO GAMES.

X IS ALSO A TERM USED IN THE JAPANESE GAME "GO", AND IT IS EQUIVALENT TO THE TERM "CHECK" IN CHESS.

In 1984, this former NFL coach and TV analyst XY had to be coaxed by EA Sports execs into lending his name to the game. He's glad

he did. In 2013, the 25th edition of the Y NFL franchise (XY Football before 1993) was released. To date, it has sold 85 million

copies and brought in more than $3 billion in revenue. XY’s licensing deal has helped push his net worth north of $100 million. The franchise is updated each year and is the best-selling sports

video game of all time in the US.

Identify the person XY or the game franchise!

John Madden/ Madden NFL

One-hit wonder duo, Buckner & Garcia, hit the Billboard Top 10 in March 1982 with the song “X Fever," inspired by the hugely popular arcade

game. The duo released a concept album of the same title, made up entirely of songs about video

games, using sound effects from those games. None of the other tunes — including "Frogger's Lament" and "Do the Donkey Kong" — found

similar chart success.

What is the name of the album/song??

Pac-Man Fever

Although Pong was the first video game to attain popular appeal, but this was the first commercially marketed video game was, which was released in 1971, a year before Pong. Though it wasn't a success initially, its

distinctive, colorful, shiny fiberglass structure has made it a collector's item for gaming enthusiasts now. Identify

the game.

Computer Space

This Steven Spielberg movie X, which was a huge hit in movie theaters, spawned a widely derided video game blamed for hastening Atari's decline as the dominant gaming console. It is one of the most infamous failures in the industry's history. Rushed to market to capitalize on the film's popularity during the holiday season of 1982, its game play confused players and its sluggish sales contributed to Atari's fall from its perch atop the video game universe. The website Gamesradar.com recently named X the worst video game of all time.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

The Seattle Mariners are an American Major League Baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. A video-game company, based in nearby Redmond, Washington, purchased the Seattle Mariners in 1992, at the urging of local politicians who wanted the new owners to keep the team in the city. The Mariners are one of the only three Major League Baseball teams under corporate ownership.

The name of the company can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven."

Nintendo of America

In the classic video game Donkey Kong, the hero was originally named Jumpman. The eponymous Donkey Kong character is the game's de facto villain and is the pet of a carpenter named Jumpman. Jumpman was later named X by members of the Nintendo of America's staff because of his resemblance to their landlord, X Segali.

We now know Jumpman very famously as X.

 

Mario

In 1999, resulting from the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, and worrying about bad press, the video-game console Sega Dreamcast was released in the U.S., with a modification to the set used in Europe and Asia. This cause was further facilitated by games like The House of the Dead 2 and Confidential Mission, which blocked out using an official accessory imported from other countries. In the wake of this, third parties began manufacturing this accessory, most prolific of which was by ‘Mad Catz’, which became the de-facto for use in the United States.

Official Sega Dreamcast Light Gun

“____ _ __ ____" is a warning that an explosive detonation in a confined space is imminent. It originated with miners, who needed to warn their fellows that a charge had been set. It was both a command to the torch man, and a warning to all around. This phrase is used extensively on film and TV sets by the special effects department whenever setting off effects charges of any nature (from weapons that fire blanks to a blood squib to huge fireballs). It serves as a warning to the crew that a loud sound is imminent and as a final warning to stop the shot if there are any problems in any department.

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) uses it to warn her son John before the T-800 blows through a security door of the Cyberdyne Lab in the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Fire in the Hole!

In 1998, Springfield kids were stoked about a yard work simulator. Widely considered a pre-monition to this modern simulation game in urban

legend circles. This game was available as an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad for a time.

FarmVille

Chapter 2: MINIMALIST

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RAGINI MMS 2

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Trivia: The phrase “Woh sattar (70) minute” is no longer valid now because duration of Hockey matches have been reduced to 60 minutes!

THE REAL QUIZ BEGINS…

Chapter 3: General Quiz

• X is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act.  To become a member of a state-level association, one needs to be introduced by another member and also pay an annual fee.

• The logo of X is derived from the emblem of the Order of the Star of India, India's highest order of chivalry during the British Raj and also its Coat of Arms.

• On the 27th of November 1927, a group of 45 people representing associations located in different parts of India got together at the Roshnara Club in Delhi to take some concrete initiatives towards the formation of such an organisation. It was decided that the headquarters of the organisation will remain at Delhi itself. W.J. Cullen and J.E. McDonell temporarily held the positions of Honorary Joint Secretaries of the provincial board. In the year 1928, the previously formed provincial board was dissolved and X as we presently know it was formed. R.E. Grant Govan was named the first President of the board, while Anthony S. DeMello was announced its first Secretary.

Board of Cricket Control in IndiaBCCI

Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, and two band members. The song is an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. Don Henley called it “our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles” and later reiterated: “It's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about.” In the 1980s some Christian evangelists alleged that the title of the song referred to a San Francisco building that was purchased by Anton LaVey and converted into a Church of Satan. Other rumors suggested that the reference was to the Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

Which iconic song?

Hotel California

X is the name of a set of mythical islands whose story dates back

to an 8th-century Iberian legend. When the Muslims conquered

Hispania, six Christian Visigothic bishops and their parishioners boarded ships and fled. After days, or maybe weeks at sea, they arrived at the isles of X where they decided to settle and raise a new civilization. They burnt their boats to permanently sever their links to their barbarian-dominated homeland.  Author, activist and trained architect Arundhati Roy wondered if by

calling their tower X, the “Y hope to sever their links to the poverty and squalor of their homeland and raise a new civilization?"

X = AntillaY = Ambanis’

Identify the man standing with Alice Cooper

Col. Harland David Sanders

Of what Indian national significance is the circled area, situated in Farkhor, Tajikistan??

Farkhor Air Base – India’s one and only military base outside its territory

Back in 2011, militant Islamist group al-Shabaab in Somalia banned the Samosa, ruling the popular snacks ‘offensive’ on religious grounds. The ban on samosas was the latest in a string of bizarre rulings from the organisation, which has been likened to the Afghan Taliban. For instance, earlier that year the group introduced a blanket ban on the playing or watching of football in the country.

What was the exact reason for the ban on Samosa?

The samosa’s supposed resemblance to the Christian Holy

Trinity!

Mathur/Mattur, a village near Mangalore, Karnataka holds a rare distinction in India. An old Bajaj Discover advertisement had featured this village, highlighting this fact.

Some other places sharing this same feat are -

Mohad, District: Narasinhpur, Madhya Pradesh

Jhiri, District: Rajgadh, Madhya Pradesh

Kaperan, District: Bundi, Rajasthan

Khada, District: Banswada, Rajasthan

Ganoda, District: Banswada,Rajasthan

Bawali, District: Bagapat, Uttar Pradesh

Shyamsundarpur, District: Kendujhar, Odisha

These are villages in India where Sanskrit is used in everyday communication. In Mattur, over 95% of inhabitants, permeating all castes speak Sanskrit natively since childhood.

This item of clothing was popularized, when an extremely famous Indian posed for Vogue in 1964 wearing his trademark garment, making it an instant hit. A year later the fashion skyrocketed when it was sported by the Beatles when they performed in New York and later by talk show host Johnny Carson, footballer Joe Namath, The Monkees and singer Sammy Davis Jr. (who was reported to own two hundred of them).

After the fad ended within a few years, it became a symbol of dated clothing. In the Austin Powers movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s, about a spy who is frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the 1990s, Austin Powers wears this garment, used to express his geeky hipness and awkwardness.

Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nehru Jacket

X was born a Chitpavan Brahmin at a nativity mission center Pune District into a Marathi family. His father, was a post office employee. At birth, he was named Ramachandra. Young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring (nath in Marathi) for fear of a curse that had killed his 3 elder brothers in their infancy.  It was then that he earned the nickname, by which he is known widely today. After his younger brother was born, they switched to treating him as a boy.

He met his end on November 15th, 1949.

Nathuram Vinayakrao Godse

On 25 August 1991, a young boy XY in Helsinki began a project, announing this system in a Usenet newsgroup: 

“Hello everybody out there using minix -I'm doing a (free) _____ (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my _____ resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)X (Y@kruuna.helsinki.fi)PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-( “

Id XY. What did his project ultimately result into?

XY = Linus Torvalds

Formation of the Linux kernel

It is a common Assamese surname. Originally the title was conferred for most of class of officers in the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam and literally means a "Leader of 3000 men“. Those bearing this surname and its derivatives are traditionally Hindus by faith and have been a key contributors to the growth of Assamese community.

One eminent personality bearing this surname:

(more clues in next slide)

Barua/Baruah/Barooah

Littérateur Lakshimnath Bezbaruah

A poem quoted at the beginning of which famous graphic novel?

For want of a ___

the shoe was lost,

For want of a shoe

the horse was lost,

For want of a horse

the knight was lost,

For want of a night

the battle was lost,

So it was a kingdom

was lost –

All for the want of a ___.

 

JLA: The Nail

For want of a nailThe shoe was lost…

After being denied Cray supercomputers as a result of a technology embargo, India started a program to develop an indigenous supercomputer in collaboration with Russia. For the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in the field, X was established as a research and development organization under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology in 1988 and Vijay Bhatkar was hired as the Director. After a run of 3 years and an initial funding of Rs. 30,00,00,000, in 1990, X produced a prototype and was benchmarked at the 1990 Zurich Supercomputering Show.

Some of its other famous developments are –

1. Namescape, the search engine for the Aadhar unique-ID project

2. BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) a Linux-based general purpose operating system

3. Anvaya, a workflow environment for automated genome analysis

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(CDAC)

From the French X, meaning forty. Adding the suffix –aine to

French numbers gives a degree of roughness to the figure (like –ish in English), so the modified word Y means about forty. Originally when a ship arriving in port was suspected of being infected with a malignant, contagious disease, its cargo and crew were obliged to forego all contact with the shore for a period of around forty days. This term came to be known as period of Y.

Give Y

Quarantine

X (the bird) is named after X (the country) despite there being no such birds in the namesake country.

The bird was first introduced to Europe via trade routes from the country X(who in turn got them from the Americas). People started referring to them as "those X birds," since as far as they knew, that's where they came from. The name stuck.

More interesting is that X’s are often named for where people thought they came from. For instance, the french word is "dinde" from "d'inde" or "from India". In Portuguese, they're called Peru.

Identify X

Turkey

The mosque Imambara, Hooghly, West Bengal was built in the

year 1861, on the land given by Mir Keramat Ali, who installed a huge clock there, having two dials. It has been functioning without fail since it was bought in 1852 from abroad for Rs. 11721 from the same manufacturers of the much more famous X. Hence it is also called the X of Murshidabad.

Id X.

Big Ben

Founded in 1727, it is the first of the planned cities in

India. Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the brilliant architect created the plans in proportion to olden Hindu discourse on architecture known as ‘Shilpa Shastra’, the art of Indian building. It is surrounded on 3 sides by hills and a city wall with 7 large gates, which were closed by the sentry in the evening, only to be opened again in the morning.

In 1878, the markets and houses facing main road were painted uniformly, to honour arrival of Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). Even now, in the old section of the city, this practice is still followed.

Jaipur – The Pink City

Identify this magazine founded DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace in 1922. Until 2009 it was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States.

(shown alongside is the first issue)

Reader’s Digest

Shares his birthday with the Father of the Nation

He graduated with a first-class degree in Philosophy from the Kashi Vidyapeeth in 1926. He was given a title which meant ”Scholar”. Although the title was a bachelor's degree awarded by the Vidya Peeth, it stuck as part of his name.

Translated Marie Curie’s biography when he was in prison during Independence movement

Vijayghat Samadhi

On October 19, 1965, gave the seminal ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kishan’ slogan at Urwa in Allahabad that became a national slogan.

Died in Tashkent, the day after signing the Tashkent Declaration (in former USSR) with Pakistan’s Ayub Khan

2nd Prime Minister of Independent IndiaLal Bahadur Shastri

In computer engineering, it is the length of one cycle of the computer’s system clock.

In chemistry and physics, it is the amount of time it takes light to travel a distance of one centimeter — about 33.3564 picoseconds

Jiffy

Organisational structure of? (hint:  formed in September 1968)

Research and Analytics Wing (RAW)

The X family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. Farmer suggested in two "biographies" of fictional characters, that the real meteorite which fell near X in Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good or evil deeds. The progeny of these travellers were purported to have been the real-life originals of fictionalised characters, both heroic and villainous, over the last few hundred years, such as Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty, Phileas Fogg, the Time Traveller, Tarzan,  and Doc Savage.

The X Universe is a term coined by Win Scott Eckert to denote an expansion to the original X family, by documenting crossovers between fictional characters from various media and genres. Eckert and other writers have further brought into the X Universe characters who have appeared in literary fiction – including penny-dreadfuls, pulp comics, Victorian, Romanticism and Renaissance literature, steampunk, Gothic novels, fairy tales, mythology and folklore – as well as in film, television programs, comic book series and graphic novels, radio shows, and even video games.

Wold Newton Family/Universe

(named after the Wold Newton meteorite crash in 1795)

X was born in Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Soviet Russia. In 1931 his family moved to Moscow. He served in the Soviet Army during the World War II. In 1946 he was admitted to Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. X received his Kandidat of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1954. Subsequently he was hired by the department of physics at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, as an assistant. Since 1977 he was a Professor of the "General Physics" chair. He remained a faculty member of the institute until his death.

Identify X.

Igor E. Irodov