Qriocity Beta 2K13- Finals

Sponsored By
http://studios.underblu.com/
https://www.facebook.com/under
blustudios

Infi Pounce-1
+10 on bounce
+10/-10 on pounce
Clockwise

• The 'X' contains all the basic shapes necessary to
write down any letter in Tamil. Namely, straight
lines and curves. Additionally people also add a
dot in the bottom.
• This helped people identify good palm leaves to
write on. The ones on which they couldn't draw
the 'X' comfortably were discarded. This habit
persisted and is still followed as a tradition albeit
without any particular use.

FITB
• In olden times, wooden vessels carried raw coffee from India to
Europe, during the _____taking almost 6 months to sail around the Cape
of Good Hope, the beans, exposed to constant humid
conditions, underwent characteristic changes. They changed in
size, texture, looks and in cup - experienced a never before feel. A
mellowness so unique, softness personified, smoothness to the core that
became an instant hit with the Europeans paving way to the birth of a new
coffee. when the motor boat was introduced, the travel time was reduced
and the coffee beans no longer had the unique taste it earlier used to
have. To meet the demands for the “unique coffee” , An alternative
process was implemented to replicate these conditions. This ritual is called
_______ing , and the coffee is called as ______ed coffee. What ritual?

Answer
• Monsooned coffee and monsooning
-Laying dry coffee beans in the wet floors of
warehouses.

• Varadarajan was born in Vellore, Madras Presidency in 1926.
He moved to Bombay in the early 1960s. Working as a porter
at VT Station, he began his crime life by distributing illicit
liquor, he ventured into stealing dock cargo. He later
diversified into contract killings, narcotics trade and land
encroachment. Through the 70s, Varadarajan controlled the
criminal operations in east and north central Mumbai.
• Starting in early 1980s, focused efforts by Bombay police led
by then DCP Y C Pawar destroyed Varadarajan's mafia
organisation, forcing him to flee to Chennai. The legendary
Indian film director has said that he took inspirations for his
film 'X' from Varadarajan mudaliyar. ID the film X

ID X and Y
• X is the name of a supposed sunken landmass referred
to in the ancient Tamil and Sanskrit Matsya Purana. It is
said to have been located in the Indian Ocean, south of
present-day Kanyakumari district at the southern tip of
India.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tamil
nationalists came to identify X with Y, a "lost continent"
posited in the 19th century to account for
discontinuities in biogeography. In these accounts, X
became the "cradle of civilization", the origin of human
languages in general and the Tamil language in
particular. These ideas gained notability in Tamil
academic literature over the first decades of the 20th
century,

Answer
• X=Kumari Kandam
• Y=lemuria

FITB
• Lightstruck, or “_______” , beer has been exposed to
ultraviolet and visible light. The light causes riboflavin
to react with and break down isohumulones, a
molecule that contributes to the bitterness of the beer
and is derived from the hops. The resulting
molecule, 3-methylbut-2-ene-1-thiol, is very similar
chemically and in odour to the musk-borne mercaptins
that are a ____'s natural defenses.
• In some cases, such as Miller High Life, a hop extract
that does not have isohumulones is used to bitter the
beer so it cannot be "lightstruck". A dark brown glass
bottle gives some protection to the beer, but green and
clear glass bottles offer virtually no protection at all.

ID X and Y
 A group of women known as the "original 9" had
been fighting for equal pay in their feild in the
1900s. However in a world dominated by
men, they didnt seem to get their way. When one
woman X ( not part of the Original 9) challenged
the system and her male counterpart Y, what
followed was the '____________'
massacre, probably the biggest setback in their
movement. followin which Y famously remarked
"“a women’s place is in the kitchen and the
bedroom- and not necessarily in that order.”

Answer
 X: Margeret Court
 Y: Bobby Riggs

What are these?• In Upper Limb
• Axillary _____: located inferiorly of the lateral wall of the axilla
• Brachial _______: located on the inside of the upper arm near the elbow.
• Radial _______: located on the lateral of the X
• Ulnar______ : located on the medial of the X
• in Lower limb
• Femoral ____: located in the inner thigh.
• Popliteal _____: Above the knee in the popliteal fossa.
• Dorsalis pedis _____: located on top of the foot.
• Tibialis posterior _____: located on the medial side of the ankle
• in Head and neck
• Carotid ___: located in the neck
• Facial _____: located on the mandible
• Temporal _____: located on the temple
• Apical ______: located in the 4.5th or 5th left intercostal space,

Answer
• Common palpable sites for checking pulse
blanks-pulse

FITB
• ____, is a German consumer products company based in
Kronberg. From 1984 until 2005, ____ was a wholly owned
subsidiary of The Gillette Company, which had purchased a
controlling interest in the company in 1967. ____is now a
wholly owned subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, which acquired
Gillette in 2005. ____ is said to have heavily inspired apple's
design for many years. most of the apple products have stark
resemblance to ___ products which released years ago
apple's.

Who about what?
• "I get brought in right at the last moment, where if
they've worked out that they have a clarity issue or
whatever, they can always add it to my dialogue. I feel
like a pirate. This is robbery. I walk in, I say some lines
on a piece of paper for two hours, and then they give
me a bag of money and I leave and I go about my day. I
sort of feel guilty, because at least acting can be
exhausting, with long hours...but I do nothing! And I've
never seen one of them. It's not because of any
snobbishness, it's just not my thing. I'm plagued by
fanboys who love X.... They come up and I've got no
idea what they're talking about. I've got no idea about
X- I don't get sent the whole script."

Answer
• Paul bettany who voices J.A.R.V.I.S in Iron Man

FITB
 __________ has the world record for an opening partnership with
Pankaj Roy of 413 runs. He is however best known for a
controversial wicket he took, on a tour of Australia in 1947-48. This
came to be known as __________ after him. Don Bradman
regarding this famously said "For the life of me, I can't understand
why [the press] questioned his sportsmanship. The laws of cricket
make it quite clear that the non striker must keep within his ground
until the ball has been delivered. If not, why is the provision there
which enables the bowler to run him out? By backing up too far or
too early, the nonstriker is very obviously gaining an unfair
advantage."

Answer:
 Vinoo Mankad and Mankading

ID X
Xs modern design was initially created by
William A. Turnier. In a modification to the
design in 1924, the center of X was filled with
a ring of laurels, two turtledoves and a
thicker, more mechanical X font. Of that
design, architecture critic Paul Goldberger
wrote in the Times on the X's 75th
anniversary, "It stands as the archetype of its
kind, a reminder that ______ are designed as
consciously as buildings, and sometimes
better."

Answer
Design on Oreo Cookie .

ID X
• “Sobering Thought” a 1 per cent dark stout
was created specifically for the X trilogy, as a
beer was needed that looked authentic, while
having a low alcohol volume. This way no
actor's performance was impaired. It was also
the official brew enjoyed by the actors of X
trilogy. It consists of a blend of Harrington's
Premium Stout.

• X once tore a groin muscle so bad that he had
to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that
locked his body in a rigid upright position. It
was far more constraining than his usual back
brace, which he continued to wear. The two
braces made it impossible for X to bend in
reflex when he was first struck, X was a sitting
duck for the final shot by his assassin as it was
not possible for him to duck and take cover. ID
X

• In 1983, X picked up his business degree from Ball State
University and went back to Jeffersonville, Indiana.
There, at the age of 22, he knocked down the broom
closet of his father's tavern (Mick's Lounge), purchased
$1600 worth of used restaurant equipment, and began
delivering pizzas out of the back of the bar.
• From day one, X knew he could make a better pizza by
using fresh dough and superior-quality ingredients, and
he refused to sway from that commitment to quality. It
worked, and people loved his pizza.
• How do we know his pizza chain today?

The church of X ism argues that X is actually a
god. They claim that all the qualities of a god are
met by X, namely omnipresence
, omniscient, immortality, proof of
existence, answering prayers, being
infinite, Omnibenevolent(commit no evil), an
entity that people turn to in times of need.
ID the religion X and the deity

• Ask anyone in the wedding industry about Marc
Friedland and you’ll be met with the phrases
“godfather of invitation” and “stationer to the stars”.
This Los-Angeles based designer moves in the highest
of wedding circles and is known worldwide for his
original, innovative and downright exquisite works of
art. His book “Invitations” was released in 1998 and
since then, has created several lines of signature
stationery for brands such as Swarovski, The Wynn
Hotel, Neiman MNarcus, Bergdorf Goodman and
Pottery Barn. In 2011, he was selected to create the
first ever custom-designed envelopes for a very
famous yearly event. what event?

Rules
• Each answer fetches 10 points
• Points for cracking the overall theme is given
in each slide.
• 1 try per slide for the theme.

ID the term
• In diplomacy, this latin origin term literally
means "an unwelcome person", It refers to a
foreign person whose entering or remaining in
a particular country is prohibited by that
country's government. It is the most serious
form of censure which one country can apply
to foreign diplomats, who are otherwise
protected by diplomatic immunity from arrest
and other normal kinds of prosecution.
+40/-20

FITB
• _______ policy is a military strategy which
involves destroying anything that might be useful
to the enemy while advancing through or
withdrawing from an area. It is a military strategy
where all of the assets that are used or can be
used by the enemy are targeted, such as food
sources, transportation, communications, industri
al resources, and even the people in the area. The
practice can be carried out by an army in enemy
territory, or in its own home territory.
+35/-17

FITB
• _______ is a warning to train passengers to
take caution while crossing the gap between
the train door and the station platform. It was
introduced in 1969 on the London
Underground. The phrase is also associated
with t-shirts that Transport for London sells
featuring the phrase printed over a London
Transport symbol.
+30/-15

FITB
• ___________ is a 2011 British biographical film based on
the life of Margaret Thatcher , the longest-serving Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ( of the 20th century. The
film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Thatcher is portrayed
primarily by Meryl Streep, and, in her formative and early
political years, by Alexandra Roach. While the film was met
with mixed reviews, Streep's performance was widely
acclaimed, and considered to be one of the finest of her
career. She received her 17th Best Actress Oscar
nomination and ultimately won the award, across 3
decades. She also earned her third Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (eighth overall), and
her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
+25/-12

FITB
• The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as
_________ and the Stock Market Crash of
1929, began in late October 1929 and was the
most devastating stock market crash in the
history of the United States, when taking into
consideration the full extent and duration of its
fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the
10-year Great Depression that affected all
Western industrialized countries. The American
mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941
moved approximately ten million people out of
the civilian labor force and into the war.
+20/-10

ID X-Y
• A X-Y team is one that separates the tasks of finding
targets and attacking them, for handling by separate
components of the team.
Examples include:
• Two-person sniper teams, one using specialized optical
hardware and the other a rifle
• Pairs of F-4G "Wild Weasels" and F-16Cs, where the F-
4G "hunter" can detect, identify, and locate an enemy's
radar and then direct the F-16C's weapons to the site
• *M2 Bradley Infantry / Cavalry Fighting Vehicles often
"hand off" fire missions to M1 Abrams main battle
tanks in their X-Y team
+15/-7

FITB
• The ______________ is a region of mostly
calm weather at the center of strong tropical
cyclones. The ______________ is a roughly
circular area, typically 30–65 km (20–40 miles)
in diameter. It is surrounded a ring of
towering thunderstorms where the most
severe weather occurs. The cyclone's lowest
barometric pressure occurs in
___________, and can be as much as 15
percent lower than the pressure outside the
storm.
+10/-5

FITB
• __________ is a flow regime characterized by
chaotic and suspected stochastic property
changes. This includes low momentum
diffusion, high momentum convection, and
rapid variation of pressure and velocity in
space and time. Nobel Laureate Richard
Feynman described ______________ as "the
most important unsolved problem of classical
physics.”
+5/0

Theme
• Mission Titles of MW3

Infi Pounce-2
+10 on bounce
+10/-10 on pounce
Anti Clockwise

Reasons for what?
• The _____ not overlapping, so they're fully and clearly
visible and their styling can be admired.
• The arrangement of the ____ is symmetrical, which people
generally find more pleasant than asymmetry, making the
product more appealing to customers.
• The manufacturer's logo is not only visible, but nicely
framed by the hands.
• Additional elements on the face won't be obscured.
the standard setting used to be something that made the face
look like it was frowning. To make the products look
"happier," the setting was flipped into a smile
(occasionally, you'll still see the old setting where the
manufacturer's logo is at bottom of the face).

Answer
• The time 10:10 being shown in Watch ads

• The Background in the interior scenes of the
film oblivion were actually pre recorded real
footage , projected on a screen outside the
set. why was the traditional chroma key
(blue/green screen replacement) method
avoided?

Answer
• The interior sets were majority of white and
glass, a large blue/green screen outside the
set would lead to diffusion of the color all
over the set, Becoming a nightmare for the
post production artists.

ID X
US Patent 5,519,963 was awarded to Taiwanese inventor Tsao-i Shih in 1996
for a device X. The handle contains batteries and a charging mechanism
that generates high voltage. The circuit is composed of an electronic
oscillator, a step-up transformer and a voltage multiplier.
When the gap between electrodes is bridged, a spark jumps through . A
capacitor attached to the electrodes discharges during the spark.They
usually contain three grids and the outermost grids or rods are at the
same electrical potential.

Answer
 Electric Fly swatter

• this 24 crore 'item' that played an important role
during the 2010 commonwealth games, was first
offered to DRDO after the end of the games, the DRDO
rejected the gift stating that it had no use of it. At
last, it was bought by the Goa government for the
Lusofonia Games in November that saw participation
of 12 Portuguese-speaking countries. It was sold at a
token amount of rs.1 as the Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Sports cannot charge anything from a government
agency.
• What 'Item'?

Answer
• The aerostat used in Opening and closing
ceremony

• Assassin's Creed: ____ is a series of three short
films based on the Assassin's Creed II video game.
The films are made by Ubisoft and the first
episode was released on 26 October 2009 on
YouTube. The films have a promotional goal for
the game as well as an attempt for Ubisoft to
make its first step in the film industry. Both film
makers and game makers worked very closely to
link the two titles. Live actors were filmed on
green screen which was then replaced by the
game's environment extracted from the game
engine.

ID X
In the 17th century women who were generally barred from
education, gathered in salons in Paris and discussed social
issues, particularly woman empowerment, financial and physical
independence, marriage and so on. This evolved into a controversial parlor
game where folktales were told cleverly blending in religious and political
subtexts and commenting on aristocratic life, later evolving into X.

• X is a fictional artificially intelligent (AI) character in the
Halo video game series. Voiced by Jen Taylor. During
gameplay, X provides backstory and tactical information to
the player, who assumes the role of Master Chief Petty
Officer John-117. In the story, she is instrumental in
preventing the activation of the Halo installations, which
would have destroyed all sentient life in the galaxy.
• lately Microsoft is working on its own version of Siri called
X. The software is based on the knowledge database that
powers Bing, called Satori. ZDNet reports that, unlike Siri, X
will become more central to the Windows operating system
experience. It will roll out not just on Windows Phone, but
across major Microsoft platforms, such as desktop
Windows and the Xbox One. id X

Put Funda
• Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan
furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs:
Swedish placenames (for example: Klippan)
• Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian place names
• Dining tables and chairs: Finnish place names
• Bookcase ranges: Occupations
• Bathroom articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays
• Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names
• Chairs, desks: men's names
• Fabrics, curtains: women's names
• Garden furniture: Swedish islands
• Carpets: Danish place names

Answer
• Naming of items in IKEA

• Since 2001, the Library of Congress has
treated at least 250,000 books every year with
magnesium oxide. why?

Answer
• To de-acidify paper and slow decay.

• Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman is an
American chemist, a former United States Air
Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut.
She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle
missions, and departed the International
Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew
member of Expedition 27 after logging 159
days in space. why is she in the news recently?

Answer
• She gave scientific advice to Sandra bullock
from space station, for Bullock’s upcoming film
Gravity

What am I talking about?
• Red Xs were eliminated in 1976 because of
health concerns over the dye amaranth
, which was a suspected carcinogen, and were
replaced with orange-colored Xs. This was
done despite the fact that X's did not contain
the dye; the action was purely to satisfy
worried consumers. Red Xs were reintroduced
ten years later, but they also kept the orange
colored Xs. They currently contain Allura Red
AC

• The American cheeseburger is a law in US sought to protect
producers and retailers of foods—such as McDonald's
Corporation—from an increasing number of suits and class
action suits by a certain group of people. The Act was passed by the
U.S. House of Representatives in March 2004, but did not receive a
Senate vote.
• The bill was reintroduced in 2005 by Florida Republican
Congressman Ric Keller. Keller had taken the maximum level of PAC
donations up to $300,000 for his personal campaign funding from
restaurants including McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King. On
October 19, 2005, it once again passed the House with a 306-120
vote Once again, it failed to achieve a Senate vote.Many state
legislatures have considered their own versions of the bill. what is
this bill about?

Answer
• It prevents obese people from suing fast food
companies for causing them obesity.

• X (shown in Video) is a collective word for
indigenous martial arts originally developed in
what are now Indonesia, peninsular
Malaysia, south Thailand, and Singapore, it is
also traditionally practiced in Brunei, Vietnam
and the southern Philippines. There are
hundreds of different styles but they tend to
focus either on strikes, joint
manipulation, throws, bladed weaponry, or
some combination thereof. ID the martial art X

• It was developed during the 1870's in Rangoon, Burma, by herbalist Aw
Chu Kin, who on his deathbed, asked his sons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon
Par to perfect the product.
• Named after Aw Boon Haw whose name means "Gentle X", XY is a herbal
formulation for external pain relief. XY is available in several varieties, the
"cold" XY White (recommended for use with headaches) and the "hot" XY
Red. Another version is called XY Ultra.
• From the package notes that accompany XY
"XY is made from a secret herbal formulation that dates back to the times
of the Chinese emperors. The Aw brothers, Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon
Par, inherited the formulation from their herbalist father who left China.
They call it XY, after Boon Haw, (whose name in Chinese meant "X") who
was instrumental in devising the remarkable selling strategies that made
XY a household name in many East and South Eastern Asian countries
today."

• In India, the construction of the extraordinarily beautiful
skyscraper, scheduled for completion in 2014 year. Tower
“X ", which will combine the business center, a hotel and a
shopping and entertainment complex, graced the fifth
largest metropolis of the world - the city of
Mumbai According to the architects who worked on the
design of the building, the majestic skyscraper symbolizes
the traditional Indian culture. A flowery patterns that adorn
the exterior of a building, borrowed from the tradition of
mehndi, which is very common in India, the Arab world and
North Africa. As expected, the Royal and Presidential suites
will be among some of the most luxurious of all of the
world. When developing unusual relief of the future
skyscraper experts relied on the prospects of the flow of
the windGo preparatory work before construction of the
foundation of the future skyscraper “X", Mumbai, India.
(pic on next slide)

Rules
• Foreign film posters will be shown.
• ID the Indian film whose poster was “inspired” from
each of them
• Differential scoring
• 8 gets it: 0 points
• 5gets it: 6 points

A Quiz by
S.Thirukumaran
Varna Suresh

Qriocity Beta 2K13- Finals

Recommandé

Recommandé

Contenu connexe

Tendances

Tendances (20)

Similaire à Qriocity Beta 2K13- Finals

Similaire à Qriocity Beta 2K13- Finals (20)

Plus de Thirukumaran Saravanan

Plus de Thirukumaran Saravanan (7)

Dernier

Dernier (20)

Qriocity Beta 2K13- Finals