LES QUIZERABLES - FINALS

ROUND 1

INFINITE POUNCE ( +15,-10)

1. Some popular culture reference of ‘X’ are the following :

- In Tunisia, political censorship led to ‘X’ becoming so ubiquitous that Tunisian bloggers invented a character called Ammar they held responsible for its deployment.

- In the movie Four Rooms there is a segment that takes place in room ‘X’, a room where people accidentally go to looking for a party, but finding something else instead.

-XKCD, in reference to this phenomenon, skipped Comic ‘X’ so that going to it manually via the URL gives a ‘X’.

2. ID

The Vatican cricket team ( Pope’s team)

3. ‘X’ is a form of advance-fee fraud similar to the ’Spanish Prisoner’ con scheme. Businessmen were contacted by an individual allegedly trying to smuggle someone connected to a wealthy family out of a prison in Spain. In exchange for assistance, the scammer promised to share money with the victim in exchange for a small amount of money to bribe prison guards. Another variant of the scam, dating back to circa 1830, appears very similar to what is passed via email today: "‘Sir, you will doubtlessly be astonished to be receiving a letter from a person unknown to you, who is about to ask a favour from you ...‘’ and goes on to talk of a casket containing 16,000 francs in gold and the diamonds of a late marchioness.

4.

5. Alexandre Griletta created this game after getting enraged by the closing of two furnaces of a well known steel company at its plant in the French town of Florange. The ultimate aim for players, who take on the role of factory workers, is to defeat the owner, who appears in the game as a robot.Who is the owner of that company?

6. This is not an official flag in any sense. The colour red denotes is present state, the green and blue represent its future state and its dependence on humanity. What flag is this?

MARS

7. Who uttered these famous words?

“In an ever changing world, it is a single point of consistency. If my life were expressed as a function on a four dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, THAT spot, at the moment I first sat on it, would be (0,0,0,0). ’’

It is round and usually has its name embossed upon its top surface, the edges of which are also embossed with an intricate design. It is made with wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil and is typically vanilla flavoured. It was created by the London bakery Peek Freans in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh.

This became the symbol of civil war in Spain later.

8. What are we talking about?

POUNCE ( +15, -10)

ROUND 2

9.FITB• The origins of the word ____, lie in these types

of rain water gutters. • This is because, in the olden days, crooks used

to stand on these drains, without being spotted by the people of the house, and gain valuable information about the household.

Eavesdrop

• The gutters were called eaves trough or eaves gutter and a person standing there could easily listen to what was being spoken inside the house.

• These people were hence called eavesdroppers and the verb eavesdrop is derived from them.

10. FITB No weapons are allowed inside the bank except

____1___ by ___2___.

KIRPANS AND SIKHS

11.• Urban dictionary defines this word as “African

Americans who betray their roots usually for dating Caucasian girls, dressing too white, talking too white.”

• What is the good word, which is often used as a derogatory term by blacks to insult their fellow blacks, as they are white on the inside?

OREO

12.1) Mahalia Jackson, “How I Got Over” and “I’ve Been ‘Buked and I’ve

Been Scorned” 2) Marian Anderson’s “He’s got the world in his hands”3) Joan Baez’s “Oh Freedom” and “We Shall Overcome”4) Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, “When the Ship Comes

In” (along with Baez) and “Only A Pawn In Their Game”5) Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer.” 6) Odetta’s “I’m On My Way”

The following songs can be grouped together as one single live album. Despite having such famous artists and tracks, these songs were overshadowed as it was a part of another historic event. Which one?

MARTIN LUTHER KING- ‘I HAVE A DREAM’ SPEECH

13.• James Berardinelli gave the film three out of four stars,

writing:

“ It transports us to a world that is like yet unlike our own, and, in its mysterious familiarity, is eerie, intense, and compelling. Reality is a fragile commodity, but, because the script is well-written and the central character is strongly developed, it's not hard to suspend disbelief.”

• He actually said that the film deserved a ‘fractional’ more, but his rating scale didn’t support it. Which movie are we talking about?

Pi

Deserves 3.14, but since my rating doesn’t support it, I’ll round it off to 3.

14. VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuXU989B2p8

GOOGLE – PLEDGE TO VOTE

SHYAM SARAN NEGI – FIRST VOTER OF INDEPENDENT INDIA. HE IS 97 YEARS OLD.

15.Featured in BBC’s 9 New Buildings To Look Out For in 2014 is this upcoming skyscraper slated for completion this year in London. What moniker has this earned by virtue of its structure?

CHEESEGRATER

16.• Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini was a man of many virtues.

He was a writer, an early humanist, and even served under the reign of seven popes at the Vatican.

Besides being a well-read scholar, one special attribute this man had was his handwriting. People considered it elegant, pleasing, and easy to read. People loved his handwriting, and this made him want to improve it while working in Florence as a manuscript copyist.

In what manner has his unique handwriting endured till today?

ROMAN LETTER FONTS

ROUND 3

THEME ROUND

NAME THE MOVIES

• Movie posters of Hollywood movies dubbed into other languages

• Id the movies• +5 for each• +10 for getting all correct• 10 movies in total; 60 points up for grabs

1

2

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

9

• 10

• Answers

1

1

• An American Werewolf in London

2

2

• The Omen

• 3

3

• Raiders of the Lost Ark ( Or Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark)

• (“Indiana Jones” alone won’t do)

• 4

4

• Star Wars

• 5

5

• The Muppets Movie

• 6

• Rambo

• 7

7

• Chinatown

• 8

8

• King Kong

9

• Lord of the Rings

• 10

10

• Ice Age

17.

The Greenlandic Federation of tae kwon do, badminton, handball, volleyball, biathlon, and table tennis have gained full membership into the International Federation.

However, the same can't be said for soccer. Why is Greenland not allowed to be a part of

FIFA?

The grass IS greener on the other side

NOT ENOUGH NATURAL GRASS TO PLAY AND PRACTISE ON .

18. ID the tweet.

NINA DAVULURI

19. ID X and Y. Explain.

• 1. Justin Bieber – Baby• 2. X• 3. Miley Cyrus – We can’t stop• 4. Y• 5. Rick Perry – Strong • 6. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball• 7. Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe• 8. Rebecca Black – My Moment

The most disliked videos on YoutubeX- Friday, Rebecca BlackY=PSY Gangnam Style

20. Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irxMzcusrkc

CAXIROLA

OFFICIAL INSTRUMENT OF THE WORLD CUP

21. ID

As a little girl she stopped believing in Santa Claus when she was six - when asked why she said “Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.”

This multifaceted personality was among other things the US ambassador to Ghana and more importantly Czechoslovakia in 1989, during the fall of Russia and the Iron Curtain.

She sat on the boards of corporations and organisations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation.

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

22. British banks are banning ‘X’ because they

may offend some Muslims. Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move

to scrap this time-honoured symbol of money from being given to children, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports.

What are we talking about?

PIGGY BANKS

23.

WHAT IS THIS POETRY CALLED?

GOOGLE POETICS

24. What does this logo represent?

CISCO SYSTEMS

• It represents the two towers of the Golden gate bridge.

• The name "Cisco" was derived from the city name, San Francisco, which is why the company's engineers insisted on using the lower case "cisco" in its early years

25.

This brand name has Dutch roots. The product was imported by a dutch company, Dada and Co. In the early 1930s, when this international company wanted to start manufacturing this product in India, Dada & Co. insisted that the branded product should reflect their name. The international company, in a bid to establish the ownership of the brand managed to prevail and introduced a letter into the name. Today owned by Bunge limited, name the iconic brand/product.

DALDA ( L for HLL)

26. Gibberish?

This language X was created by the linguist David J. Peterson. As of September, 2011, this language contained 3,163 words.

David Peterson has said that ‘You know, most people probably don’t know what Arabic actually sounds like, so to an untrained ear, it might sound like Arabic. To someone who knows Arabic, it doesn’t. I tend to think of the sound as a mix between Arabic and Spanish, due to the dental consonants.

ID X.

27. Minimalist representation of?

38.

AMERICAN GOTHIC

29. Facebook says that, “Stickers are illustrations or animations

of characters that you can send to friends. They’re a great way to share how you’re feeling and add personality to your chats” .

Despicable Me’s minions, Chumbak’s expressions, Wide Eyes are some of the stickers that one can use.

In January 2014, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment along with another company ‘timely’ launched another set of stickers on facebook for a social media promotion. (Some of which are shown in the next slide)

What are these stickers called?

SHOLAY STICKERS

30. Alls well that ends well? X was asked many times why he chose the number Y. Many

theories were proposed, including that Y is 101010 in binary code, that light refracts off water by Y degrees to create a rainbow, that light requires 10−y seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.

X rejected them all. The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a

number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘Y will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

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