AGNITUZ QUIZ FINALS

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Finals of the General quiz conducted by me in COE Thalassery.

Transcript of AGNITUZ QUIZ FINALS

Thanks to

• Major Chandrakant Nair For all the help

ROUND 1

MIXED BAG

Rules

• 10 questions• Bounce and Pounce format• +10 & -10 on pounce

1) Statistical study of What?

Sachin’s Autograph .

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• The original logo was designed by Arnold Skolnick for the music and art fair poster which was set to last for 3 days. Arnold's son Peter Skolnick remembers watching his father cut out the words & bird from paper.

• And Skolnick says that the dove was actually designed to resemble a catbird (and it was originally perched on a flute). While many of his design solutions have become famous; this 1969 work is believed to be his magnum opus.

• About which famous logo am I talking about?

Woodstock 1969

3) Theories supporting what?• The character played by Edward Norton is never given a

name, therefore his name could be X. At the end of the film, it is revealed that Tyler Durden is not his own man, but rather part of Norton’s character’s split personality. This twist reveals similarities to the comic strip. X’s stuffed tiger, Y, is completely different from X, with his own unique personality, but is entirely created by X’s imagination.

• The fight club created in the film is a grown up version of X and Y’s club G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS), as both are exclusive male-oriented clubs.

FIGHT CLUB IS A SEQUEL TO THE CALVIN AND HOBBES COMIC STRIP

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• The Indian X industry was suffered by an unusual crises in early 1890's, market cost went down than production cost. Many of the X farmers shutdown their farm operations as a result of heavy loss. A group of farmers motivated by Dr. B.V. Rao, Ch. Jagapati Rao, etc traveled across the country, organizing over 300 meetings with groups, individuals, and traders. Under Their objective what was founded India on May 1982 as a trust under the Indian Societies Registration Act.

5) ID X?• X is an American clarinetist and music composer. He was

named as suggested by spiritual guru Mata Amritanandamayi whom his family follows. He was an invited speaker at TEDx Gateway conference in Mumbai and TEDxCEG in Chennai.

• On June 9, 2013, X uploaded a new video in YouTube where he explained about his project to make a new album and video series for which he needs contributions from his audience. A link was provided to his Kickstarter page from the video, where people could donate to the project. The target was to pledge $20,000 before August 1, 2013.But due to his huge popularity, his project reached the target in just 6 days

Shankar Tucker

• ShrutiBox

6) Chronological list of what?

Snoop Dog name changing

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• Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American activist, sex educator, and nurse. She popularized the term X, opened the first X clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. she was a frequent target of criticism by opponents of X and has also been criticized for supporting eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the American reproductive rights movement.

Birth control

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• A Japanese dog breed named Shiba Inu, also an internet meme which became popular in 2013. Gimme its business connection?

Dogecoin

9) Who is the subject of this T shirt Design?

Kimi Räikkönen during the Abu Dhabi grand prix

10) Put funda.

• Frank Gehry and the story of Walt Disney Concert hall featuring in Simpsons. Its design was believed to inspired from a piece of crumpled paper.

AQ)

• What has been named after this person in Thalasseri?

Logans road

ROUND 2

WRITE BROS

1) Who as who?

2) Again Who as who?

3) Lego taking what?

4) Id the chap?

5) Which company in India is founded and named after him?

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• Facial composite of which famous person? Created by German Federal criminal police office.

• (not notorious)

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• Renovation plot of what?

8) Minimalist poster of which movie?

9) Amul taking what?

10) Whose passport?

Answers

1) Who as who?

• Lou Gehrig as Tarzan

2) Again Who as who?

Picasso as Popeye

3) Lego taking what?

LHC

4) Id the chap?

Charles Manson

5) Which company in India is founded and named after him?

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• Facial composite of which famous person? Created by German Federal criminal police office.

• (not notorious)

Mozart

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• Renovation plot of what?

Arkham asylum

8) Minimalist poster of which movie?

Lootera

9) Amul taking what?

10) Whose passport?

sunny leone

ROUND 3: MIXED BAG

Anti Clockwise

1) About which photo am I talking about?

• Photographer Scout Tufankjian’s words“Onstage in front of all those people. I decided to focus on them rather than taking a wider shot, because I think I’m not alone in finding their relationship to be totally aspirational. The obvious love and respect that they have for each other, and that the relationship is clearly one of equals, despite the fact that he’s the president, is remarkable. So I wanted to focus on them as a couple rather than on them and the crowd, or them and their position.

• This picture become the most liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history

2) Which nickname?

• Many think, the nickname Y comes from a line in a song by The Who in " Won't get Fooled Again“

• " Meet the new Y, same as the old Y".• But as per the real story; the nickname is

originated when young X, playing club gigs with a band in the 1960s, took on the task of collecting the band's nightly pay and distributing it amongst his band mates.

The Boss

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• As quoted in wiki, She is a British blogger, social media specialist, science communicator, and webmaster. She is the founder and maintainer of a certain popular something; an endeavor that has had her called "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Facebook" Who is this beauty with brains? Or tell me her venture.

Elise Andrew

4• Anystides Red Velvet mites or Rain Bug are arachnids

found in soil known for their bright red colors but are often mistaken for spiders. They are active predators as grown adults, it is also called Beer Bahuti in Indian Subcontinent.

• The oil from the red velvet mite Trombidium grandissimum called "Teej" in Hindi is used in traditional Indian medicine to treat paralysis. Also, due to their alleged ability to increase ____, Trombidium mites are known as what?

• (image follows)

Indian Viagra

5• Richard Chai began his fashion career in the design studio

at French powerhouse brand Lanvin. From there he joined Donna Karan as a designer for the DKNY and D collections. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Design Director for the Marc Jacobs’ men’s and women’s collections and helped develop the launch of the Marc by Marc Jacobs men’s line. After this series of career-building positions, Chai branched out to develop his own Richard Chai collection. What is his most famous and latest design?

• (image follows)

CR7

6What's happening here?

Beatles’ last live performance on top of the Apple Building

7• X held an important office in Germany during the reign of the

Third Reich. She fled the capital during the war and returned in 1942. However, she soon fell into the hands of the Soviet army and for two weeks, they raped her repeatedly, inflicting such injuries that she was never able to bear children. For decades after the war, she chose not to talk about her role in Germany and the horrors suffered as a result. But, in Dec 2012, on her 95th birthday, she revealed everything to a journalist from a German newspaper.

• What specific protective role (that has been around since the days of the Roman empire) did she perform in the Third Reich?

• (image follows)

X with Hitler

The Praegustator, she was Hitler's food tester

8• X's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that X may have been

inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's ‘Sinister Night Cafe’, which was showing at a gallery in New York in January 1942. The similarity in lighting and themes makes this possible and it is very unlikely that X would have failed to see the exhibition. Levin also notes that the painting had twice been exhibited in the company of X's own works. Although there is no concrete evidence, Levin also suggests that X may also have been inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story, The Killers.

• Who is X? What did these 2 works supposedly inspire?• (image follows)

Night café by Van gogh

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

9• Currently there are a few studies suggesting that __________

exists among different species of animals such as Adelie Penguins, chimpanzees, and crab-eating macaque.

• Adelie Penguins use stones for building their nests. Based on a 1998 study, media reports stated that a shortage of stones led female Adelie Penguins to engage in ___________ for stones. This was seen to hold true even for penguins with an established flock. The phenomenon is also observed among chimpanzees who use it to obtain food.

• Fill in the blanks.

Prostitution among animals

10• After Sachin’s retirement Cricket Australia’s website issued a

picture, where they were comparing Sachin's final test score of 74 with X's final test score of 203* against Bangladesh.

• Who is this player.

(But they forgot that Don Bradman scored a duck in his final test innings....)

jason gillespie

ROUN4 : WRITE BROS

ABCD

• The name of A, leading character in the movie B, which is directed by C is inspired from a French swimming pool named D.

• The name of A, leading character in the movie B, which is directed by C is inspired from a French swimming pool named D.

• D was inaugurated by E who portrayed F in the big screen. E was closely related with D till his death.

• The name of A, leading character in the movie B, which is directed by C is inspired from a French swimming pool named D.

• D was inaugurated by E who portrayed F in the big screen. E was closely related with D till his death.

• First modern G was first unveiled at D by a French engineer named H. Which was instant hit.

• Solve A to H…

• A – Piscine Molitor Patel ( Pi Patel)• B – Life of Pi• C – Ang Lee• D – Piscine Molitor• E – Johnny Weissmuller• F – Tarzan• G – Bikini • H – Louis Réard

LVC

ROUND 5

+60 & -10

+55 & -10

+50 & -10

+45&-10

+40&-10

+35&-10

+30&-10

+25&-10

+20&-5

+15&-5

+10&-5

+5, no negatives

• Amar • Richter• Elephant• Vienna• Bird• Catalan• Rice• Budapest• Hedgehog• Alekhine• Ruy Lopez• Scicilian

•Wot are these?

List of chess openings

ROUND 6: DRY 3

Clockwise

1• Three dates pertaining to FC Barcelona:

- 1958 Oct 26: Barca beat Real Madrid 4-0- 1978 Oct 14: Barca beat Las Palmas 4-0- 2013 Mar 12 Barca beat Milan 4-0

• This has led to the myth that Barcelona will win their matches by a huge margin if they coincide with another event (as was seen in the case of these 3 matches).

• What event?

Papal Conclave

2• X craft is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious,

divinatory or medicinal purposes. The salient features of Xs are:

Origin: Early human cultures Grouping: Homo Sapiens Sub grouping: Supernatural human Food source: Strange Brew, candy How to avoid: Don't eat red apples from strangers; hide if you see

a flock of flying monkeys How to defeat: Throw a pail of water.

• Identify X, in news every October.

Halloween Witch

• Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31 in a number of countries around the world. Google celebrated the event with an animated doodle

3• The February 1, 2004 Super Bowl was notable for the Janet

Jackson (daughter of Michael Jackson) wardrobe malfunction that was seen by viewers all around the globe.

• What did the American Television networks do, to avoid similar incidents in the future?

Delaying all the live events by 5 seconds

4• Dagen H (H day), also known as "Hogertrafikomlaggningen"

refers to the day of 3 Sep 1967, which witnessed a historic change in Sweden. Similar changes have happened in many countries around the world and have resulted in almost identical outcomes.

• What change are we talking about?

• (picture follows)

Right-hand

• Traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right

5• In a 1990 competition organized to find a simple description

for a concept X, so that it could be understood by laymen, the entry that came first was this:

“When a VIP/celebrity comes to a party room all the people gathered there will surround him”

• What concept was the subject of this competition?

Godparticle

• When a substance enters the Higgs boson field the god particle will surround it and hence the substance gets its mass)

6• Napoleon Sarony (1821 –1896) was an American lithographer

and photographer. He was very popular and is most known for his portraits of the stars of late-19th-century American theater. His son, Otto Sarony, was also an accomplished photographer.

• His most famous works are 2 portraits, one featuring an author and the other a scientist.

• Name both.

7• 2003: Raikkonen would have beaten Schumacher• 2008: Felipe Massa would have beaten Hamilton• 2012: Alonso would have beaten Vettel

• What new F1 regulation, had it been in existence from 2003 onwards, would have made these results possible?

f1 double points rule

• It will come to exist next season onwards

8• “It’s what I learned when I was 16 and arrived in Atletico’s

dressing room, nobody wanted to talk to me as they were threatened. They called me ‘X’ because nobody knew my name. I didn’t like it and it shouldn’t be like that, but dressing rooms are very complicated with players coming from different parts of the world and with different roles. I was captain at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini who had won 3 Champions Leagues and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn’t the real captain, just a kid learning. I wore the armband but they were the leaders and I learned a lot from them.”

• Who is speaking? What is X?

El Nino

9• ‘What the Water Gave Me’ is a song by Florence and the

Machine (of 2013 Ashes promo fame) and the first one from their second studio album, Ceremonials (2011). It was written by Florence Welch with Francis White and produced by Paul Epworth. The song was digitally released in UK on 23 Aug 2011, and internationally the following day. Welch decided to name the song ‘What the Water Gave Me’ after X’s painting of the same name. During an interview, she also mentioned that the song was inspired by Y, a famous female English writer.

• Identify X and Y. (2 image follows)

X’s painting “What the Water Gave Me”

Frida KahloVirginia Woolf

10• The Chelsea-Liverpool match on 21 April 2013 created a lot of

controversy because of Luis Suarez choosing to bite Branislav Ivanovic instead of playing football.

• This led to a famous person following Suarez on Twitter and he had this to say: "He (Suarez) bit someone, it happens. I am sure he will make amends with this guy. I made amends with _____ and we got on with our lives."

• Who was this?

Mike Tyson

TB

1• After X's death in 1967 congregants at the Yardbird Temple,

San Francisco, began worshipping X as God incarnate. The Temple was named for Charlie Parker, whom they equated to John the Baptist. The St. X African Orthodox Church, again based in San Francisco, is the only African Orthodox church which incorporates X's music and his lyrics as prayers in its liturgy. In order to become affiliated with the AOC, X was ‘demoted’ from being God to a saint.

• Who is X?

John Coltrane

THAT’S ALL FOLKS