The General Quiz (Finals) - NSIT QUIZ FEST 2016

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The General Quiz
Finals

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Rules
• 4 rounds.
• 2 dry – infinite bounce.
• 1 written differential.
• 1 Special round.

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ROOKHA-SOOKHA 1

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Rules
• Dry round 1
• Flat scoring - +10/-10

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Q1.
• Also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, X wrote under the pen
name John Sedges.
• Dev Anand was approached by American director Tad Danielewski and X to
be cast in an American film based on a novel by an Indian author.
• Someone suggested RK Narayan’s the Guide . He called up X who invited
him to the United States to discuss the project and procured the rights to the
book.
• This movie was made in two versions - an English version in collaboration
with X and directed by Ted Danielewski to introduce Dev Anand to western
audiences and of course the Hindi version directed by Dev Anand's younger
brother Vijay Anand. The idea was to film the scenes common to both
versions simultaneously.
• X tutored Waheeda Rehman on her diction for the English part.
• ID X, please.

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A1.
• Pearl S. Buck (Nobel Laureate - Literature,
1938)

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Q2.
• Who?

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A2.
• Arundhati Roy in the film Massey Sahib
(1987)

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Q3.
• These "national" names of X were generally reflective of contemporary
political spite between nations and frequently served as a sort of
propaganda.
• X had been called the "French disease" in Italy, Poland and Germany, and
the "Italian disease" in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the "Spanish
disease", the Russians called it the "Polish disease", and the Turks called it
the "Christian disease”.
• The Dutch, for example, had a colonial rivalry with the Spanish, so referring
to Syphilis as the 'Spanish' disease reinforced a politically useful perception
that the Spanish were immoral or unworthy. The inherent xenophobia of the
terms also stemmed from the disease's particular epidemiology.
• During the 16th century, it was called "great pox" in order to distinguish it
from smallpox. In its early stages, the great pox produced a rash similar to
smallpox. However, the name is misleading, as smallpox was a far more
deadly disease. Additionally, the ulcers suffered by British soldiers in
Portugal were termed "The Black Lion”.
• Simply ID X, please.

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A3.
• Syphilis

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Q4.
• The word X has a long and interesting history.
• It entered English from French, who inherited it
from Latin, who borrowed it from the Greeks, who
had initially loaned it from the Iranians. The Iranian
word meant "walled enclosure".
• By the 6th/5th century BCE, the Old Iranian word
had been adopted as Assyrian word for "domain".
It subsequently came to indicate walled estates,
especially the carefully tended royal parks and
menageries. The term eventually appeared in
Greek as "park for animals”.
• ID X, please.

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A4.
• Paradise

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Q5.
These images were released by outraged vegetarians in response to
which ad campaign?

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A5.
• Gourmet Burger Kitchen

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Q6.
• X contains a mixture of butane, isobutane and
propane gas; a foaming agent; water; and other
chemicals. When it leaves the can, the gas
depressurizes and expands, creating small, water-
covered droplets. The butane mixture later
evaporates, leaving only water and surfactant residue
behind.
• Argentinian journalist and entrepreneur Pablo Silva
developed a commercial version of X called "9:15
Fairplay," a reference to the metric equivalent of what
X is used to enforce.
• Id X, which caught the world’s attention when used in
a particular sport in 2014.

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A6.
• Vanishing Spray, used to demarcate the
line that the wall of defenders cannot cross

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SPECIAL ROUND

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Rules
• This round has questions based on
languages.
• Infinite bounce - +10/-10

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Q1.
• X is a language of the West Semitic language of the
Afroasiatic language family.
• It had ceased to be an everyday spoken language
somewhere between 200 and 400 CE. It survived into
the medieval period as a liturgical language – but
without anyone who could speak in it.
• Then, in the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken
and literary language, had become, as of 1998, the
language of 5 million people worldwide.
• It is the only “dead” language (debatable) ever to have
been resurrected.
• Simple ID X, please.

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A1.
• Hebrew

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Q2.
• The language X was initially spelled with a
different character, a fact that changed after the
Islamic conquest of speakers of this language.
After the conquest, the name of the language was
changed by one character – owing to the inability
of the conquerors to pronounce it.
• Interestingly, the original name for the language
(Y) lives on in another form – closely related to the
great past, yet far away.
• ID X and Y, please.

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A2.
• X – Farsi
• Y – Parsi

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Q3.
• X (literally "from the King's mouth") is a Perso-Arabic
alphabet used by Muslims in Punjab to write the
Punjabi language. It is generally written in Nastaliq
hand. Perso-Arabic is one of two scripts used for
Punjabi.
• The X alphabet was first used by the Sufi poets of the
Punjab; it became the conventional writing style for the
Muslim populace of the Pakistani province of Punjab
following the independence of Pakistan in 1947, while
the largely Hindu and Sikh modern-day state of
Punjab, India adopted the Gurmukhi script to record
the Punjabi language.
• ID X, please.

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A3.
• Shahmukhi

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DIFFERENTIAL

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Rules
• 5 Questions.
• 2n+5 (n – number of teams that didn’t get
the answer).
• Simply identify the person singing.

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EXCHANGE SHEETS

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A1.
• Kate Winslet – What if

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A2.
• Sridevi

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A3.
• Keira Knightley

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A4.
• Matt Damon

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A5.
• Benedict Cumberbatch

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ROOKHA-SOOKHA 2

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Q1.
• "Monster" is a song by American hip hop recording artist
Kanye West, released as the third single from his fifth studio
album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The track
features rappers Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, and singer
Justin Vernon of indie folk group Bon Iver. All five credited
performers have writing credits on the posse cut, with the
production handled by West and Mike Dean.
• Lyrically the song expresses often disturbing, horror film
influenced concepts, with some comparing the track's eerie
aesthetic to the Michael Jackson song "Thriller”.
• However, the interesting bit is that the song became part of
the Top 40 of the iTunes top songs chart in mid-January.
• Simply tell me what caused this.

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A1.
• Adele rapping Monster in James Corden’s
Carpool Karaoke video

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Q2.
• The X affair is a political and intelligence scandal in the early 1960s that helped
topple the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan,
• British Secretary of State for War John X, then a rising 46-year-old Conservative
Party politician, was introduced to 19-year-old London dancer Christine Keeler by
Stephen Ward, an osteopath with contacts in both the aristocracy and the
underworld. Also present at this gathering was a Russian military attaché, Eugene
Ivanov, who was Keeler’s lover. Through Ward’s influence X began an affair with
Keeler, and rumours of their involvement soon began to spread.
• In March 1963 X lied about the affair to Parliament, stating that there was “no
impropriety whatsoever” in his relationship with Keeler. Evidence to the contrary
quickly became too great to hide, however, and, 10 weeks later X resigned.
• Despite charges of attempted espionage, neither the FBI nor British intelligence
was able to confirm or deny that Ivanov had attempted to entrap X or to use Keeler
as an access agent.
• Prime Minister Macmillan continued in office until October, but the scandal was
pivotal in his eventual downfall, and within a year the opposition Labour Party
defeated the Conservatives in a national election.

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A2.
• The Profumo Affair

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Q3.
In addition to the most famous and important one, there
are several other types of ____s:
• Green _____: Worn by the person with the highest
number of sprint points
• Polka dot ______: Worn by the best climber, aka, “The
King of the Mountains
• White _____: This is like the most famous ____, only
that it is worn by the equivalent who is under 25
• Rainbow ______: Can be worn by the current
champion when competing
• A red ______ and a combination ______ used to exist
in the past, but are currently not awarded.

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A3.
• Jerseys in the Tour de France. The most
famous one is the Yellow Jersey, worn by
the overall time leader

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Q4.
• X’s life was once saved by Y, whose brother would later the
assassinate X's father. The incident took place on a train
platform in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exact date of the
incident is uncertain, but it is believed to have taken place in
late 1863 or early 1864.
• Months later, while serving as an officer on the staff of
General Ulysses S. Grant, X recalled the incident to his fellow
officer, Colonel Adam Badeau, who happened to be a friend of
Y. Badeau sent a letter to him, complimenting the actor for his
heroism. Before receiving the letter, Y had been unaware that
the man whose life he had saved on the train platform had
been an important man’s son. The incident was said to have
been of some comfort to Y following his brother’s new career
choice.
• ID X’s father, please.

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A4.
• X’s father – Abraham Lincoln

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Q5.
• In December 1974, the film rights for X were bought with Alejandro Jodorowsky set to
direct. In 1975, Jodorowsky planned to film the story as a ten-hour feature, working
with Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger. The soundtrack was to be
provided by Pink Floyd.
• Jodorowsky set up a pre-production unit in Paris consisting of Chris Foss, a British
artist who designed covers for science fiction periodicals, Jean Giraud (Moebius), a
French illustrator and H. R. Giger. Moebius began designing creatures and
characters for the film, while Foss was brought in to design the film's space ships and
hardware. Dan O'Bannon was to head the special effects department.
• Dalí was cast as the Emperor. Dalí later demanded to be paid $100,000 per hour;
Jodorowsky agreed, but tailored Dalí's part to be filmed in one hour, drafting plans for
other scenes of the emperor to use a mechanical mannequin as substitute for Dalí.
Just as the storyboards, designs, and script were finished, the financial backing dried
up. Frank Herbert traveled to Europe in 1976 to find that $2 million of the $9.5 million
budget had already been spent in pre-production, and that Jodorowsky's script would
result in a 14-hour movie ("It was the size of a phone book", Herbert later recalled).
Jodorowsky said in 1985 that he found the X story mythical and had intended to
recreate it rather than adapt the novel. O'Bannon entered a psychiatric hospital after
the production failed, and worked on thirteen scripts - the last of which became Alien.
• ID X, please.

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A5.
• Dune

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Q6.
• X is a British English slang term for Britain or often
specifically England. Though it was used throughout
the 1800s in India to mean an English, British or
European visitor, it was first used during the Boer War
in the specific meaning of homeland for the English or
Brits, and it was not until World War I that the word
spread widely.
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word
derives from a regional variant of the Urdu word
"vilayati", meaning "foreign", "British", "English" or
"European.”
• ID X.

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A6.
• Blighty

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Q7.
• Why were these bridges criticized?

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A7.
• The pedestrian bridges were constructed
around the new housing development in
Rotterdam’s Spijkenisse suburb. Each of
the 7 bridges was modeled as exactly as
possible after the bridges on the Euro
banknotes.

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Q8.
• The statuette's current form, a man in a boat, was carved by
the sculptor Alexander Smirnov. It represents a figure known
as "The Fascinated Wanderer", which refers to a short story
written in 1873 by 19th-century Russian author Nikolai
Leskov. In this story, the title character, Ivan Flyagin, is a
horse trainer and a brute of a man. From his birth his mother
has promised that Ivan's life would be devoted to the church.
Ivan spends many years avoiding this fate, but eventually
gives in and becomes a monk, not for spiritual reasons, but
due to a poverty of opportunity.
• The X statuette originally took the form of "The Lady of the
Umbrella", a figure based on a statue in Parc de la
Ciutadella in Barcelona, Spain.
• Id the award .

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A8.
• Chess Oscar

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