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Galaxy'15 Gen quiz
1. A-S-D-F Quiz
or The “Bet-you-have-never-seen-a-quiz-made-
in-Beamer-before” Quiz
Ankan Bansal Vijin Venu
February 7, 2015
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2. Hmm..
Infinite Bounce/Pounce
Bounce +10
Pounce +10/-10
4 categories
Have to select a category on your direct
Everything else as usual
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5. A1
Facts about what?
Lake area: 375,000 square feet, equivalent to three city blocks or
eight football fields. The water could fill 2,000 swimming pools and
would take more than a year to fill with a garden hose.
Length of lake: 1,100 feet.
Shooters: 1,214 devices that can shoot higher than a 24-story
building.
Maximum water in air at any time: More than 17,000 gallons.
30 different songs on rotation.
Celebrated in countless films, television shows, photographs and
articles.
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9. A2
The earliest surviving record of observation dates from 364
BC, based on comments by Chinese astronomer Gan De in a star
catalogue. By 28 BC, Chinese astronomers were regularly recording them
in official imperial records.
The first clear mention of it in Western literature, around 300 BC, was by
the ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotle
and successor to the latter. A more recent observation was made on 17
March 807 AD by the Benedictine monk Adelmus however, he incorrectly
concluded he was observing a transit of Mercury. Many later observations
were also misinterpreted as planetary transits, until Galileo gave the
correct explanation in 1612.
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13. A3
It was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege,
Mexican troops under President General Antonio L´opez de Santa Anna
launched an assault on the Mission near San Antonio de B´exar
(modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian
defenders. Santa Anna’s cruelty during the battle inspired many
Texians-both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States-to join
the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the
Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the
revolution.
It has been immortalised by numerous works-books, songs, TV,
movies-since 1843. However, most people are only familiar with the myths
spread by many of the movie and television adaptations.
Image on next slide
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18. A4
She was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator,
archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly
influential to British imperial policy-making due to her skill and contacts.
Along with T. E. Lawrence, she helped establish the Hashemite dynasties
in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.
She played a major role in establishing and helping administer the modern
state of Iraq, using her unique perspective from her travels and relations
with tribal leaders throughout the Middle East. During her lifetime she
was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given an immense
amount of power for a woman at the time. She has been described as
“one of the few representatives of His Majesty’s Government remembered
by the Arabs with anything resembling affection”. Who?
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22. A5
This work of art has been a subject of controversy for a long time, due to
critics arguing about the creators apparent ignorance of scientific principles
and physical phenomena. But a study in 2000 showed that what creator
has shown is indeed possible and does not violate scientific principles.
What they did is shown in the picture (Next slide). Which work?
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27. A6
X is an anime adaptation of a visual novel game of the same name by 5pb.
and Nitroplus. It follows a self-proclaimed mad scientist named Rintaro
Okabe who, along with his friends, manage to invent a microwave that can
send text messages into the past, allowing him to travel between alternate
worlds. X makes heavy use of the legend of Y.
Y is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a
poster claiming to be a time traveler from 2036. In these posts, Y made
numerous predictions about events in the near future, a number of them
vague and some quite specific, starting with events in 2004. He described a
drastically changed future in which the United States had broken into five
smaller regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated
by a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been destroyed.
X,Y-?
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31. A7
He was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz
concentration camp during World War II. He was notorious for the
selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing
unscientific and often deadly human experiments on prisoners. He was
particularly interested in identical twins, people with heterochromia iridum
(eyes of two different colours), dwarfs, and people with physical
abnormalities.
According to the Auschwitz Museum, he had 1500 sets of twins in
Auschwitz. There were only 200 estimated individual survivors. One of the
few survivors of these experiments, Eva Kor, wrote this on Quora: “Dying
in his lab was very easy. I am one of the few I have heard about to be in
the ‘barrack of the living dead’ and get out of there alive”.
Who?
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35. A8
X is a sculpture by Anna Chrom´y carved from a single block of white
marble excavated from the Michelangelo Quarry in Carrara, Italy. X is the
culmination of numerous depictions of a faceless figure hooded and
shrouded in cloth. It first appeared in Chrom´y’s painting ’To Be Or Not
To Be’, in 1980, which in turn had been inspired by the play ’Everyman’
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Don Giovanni by Mozart. In previous
iterations, X has been given other names. In Salzburg, it is Piet`a, in
Prague outside the opera house where Mozart first performed Don
Giovanni, it is ’commendatore’. As a result of her work on X, Chromy was
the first woman to be awarded the Premio Michelangelo, the annual award
for sculpture, in 2008. (Image on next slide)
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40. S1
Dadaria is one of various types of folk-songs or field-songs of Chhattisgarh.
These songs were very popular and were sung by village men or women
while harvesting in paddy fields or during leisure.
A popular version of a famous Dadaria folk song was incorporated into a
popular Hindi song. The narrative of the song depict a tyrannical mother
in law, a tittering sister-in-law and a pacifying brother-in-law, and how,
despite all the goods and the bads, the newly wed girl loves her husband’s
home, which she compares to a flower. Which song?
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44. S2
Programmer Bram Cohen, a former University at Buffalo graduate student
in Computer Science, designed X in April 2001 and released the first
available version on 2 July 2001, and the final version in 2008. The
protocol X is used to distribute large amounts of data over the Internet. As
of February 2013, X was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth.
Y has been in active development since its first release in 2005. Although
originally developed by Ludvig Strigeus, since December 7, 2006, the code
is owned and maintained by X, Inc. Its name refers to the program’s small
memory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computer
resources while offering functionality comparable to larger programs. All
versions of Y have been written in C++.
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48. S3
Although E. L. Thorndike developed early X, Frederick J. Kelly was the
first to use such items as part of a large scale assessment. While Director
of the Training School at Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia State
University) in 1915, he developed and administered the Kansas Silent
Reading Test. Soon after, Kelly became the third Dean of the College of
Education at the University of Kansas. The first large scale assessment
using only Xs was the Army Alpha, used to assess the intelligence and
more specifically the aptitudes of World War I military recruits.
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52. S4
Beginning of what?
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
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54. Answer
O Fortuna
It is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century,
part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It is a complaint
about fate and Fortuna, the personification of luck in Roman mythology.
In 1935-36, “O Fortuna” was set to music by German composer Carl Orff
as a part of “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi”, the opening and closing
movement of his cantata Carmina Burana.
This has become immensely popular. It can be heard in numerous movies
and television commercials and has become a staple in popular culture,
setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations. “O Fortuna”
topped a list of the most-played classical music of the past 75 years in the
United Kingdom.
Questions
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56. S5
128036 is a Main belt asteroid discovered in 2003 at the
Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca, Spain and named after one of the
most famous residents of the Island of Mallorca. FITB.
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60. S6
In Bangkok, murals at Wat Phra Kaeo, which was built in 1785, depict the
Hindu god Hanuman playing this game in a ring with a troop of monkeys.
Other historical accounts mention the game earlier during the reign of
King Naresuan (1590-1605) of Ayutthaya. The game remained in its circle
form for hundreds of years, and the modern version began taking shape in
Thailand sometime during the early 1740s.
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64. S7
The eponymous test, proposed by a famous film critic at the 2011 TED
conference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerized
voice master the inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking
human, gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke
with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. The test is similar to the
Turing test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to gauge a
computer’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour by generating
performance indistinguishable from a human being. Name the test/critic.
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68. S8
X is a British television anthology series created by Charlie Brooker that
features speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes that
examine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated
consequences of new technologies. Each episode has a different cast, a
different setting and a different reality.
Charlie Brooker explained the series’ title to The Guardian, noting: “If
technology is a drug - and it does feel like a drug - then what, precisely,
are the side-effects? This area - between delight and discomfort - is where
X, my new drama series, is set. The ’X’ of the title is the one you’ll find
on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny
screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.”
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72. D1
In 2014 a competition was held through the MyGov Platform for
suggesting the name, logo and tagline for a government scheme. Priya
Sharma won the competition for designing the logo. The logo, in the
country’s tri-colours, depicts six people holding hands around the Rupee
symbol. Which government scheme?
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76. D2
X is a dystopian novel by P. D. James that was published in 1992. Set in
England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility. James
describes a United Kingdom that is steadily depopulating and focuses on a
small group of resisters who do not share the disillusionment of the masses.
It received very positive reviews from critics. The academic Alan Jacobs
said, “Of all James’ novels, X is probably the most pointed in its social
criticism, certainly the deepest in its theological reflection.”
A film adaptation, directed by Alfonso Cuar´on and starring Julianne Moore
and Clive Owen, was released in 2006.
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80. D3
In June 2014 the UK government unveiled a hand-crafted bronze
commemorative plaque in memory of six Indian Soldiers: Risaldar Badlu
Singh, Sepoy Chatta Singh, Naik Darwan Singh Negi, Rifleman Gabar
Singh Negi, Lance-Daffadar Gobind Singh and Lance-Naik Lala. As part of
the UKs First World War Centenary programme, the Indian plaque forms a
set of 11 commissioned in honour of a total of 175 overseas war heroes
who fought for the British during the Great War. What distinction did
these soldiers achieve?
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82. Answer
They were awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during the
First World War. Victoria Cross is Britains highest award for gallantry in
the battlefield.
Questions
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84. D4
He was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and
choreographer.Best known today for his performances in films such as An
American in Paris (1951) and Singin’ in the Rain (1952), he was a
dominant force in musical films until they fell out of fashion in the late
1950s. He is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form
commercially acceptable to film audiences. Who?
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88. D5
Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century that
appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at
decipherment have been made, none successfully.
As European-introduced diseases and raids by Peruvian slavers, including a
final devastating raid in 1862 and a subsequent smallpox epidemic, had
reduced the language speaking population to under two hundred by the
1870s, it is possible that literacy had been wiped out by the time tablets
were discovered in 1866.
If Rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent
invention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in
human history. Which language/What place?
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92. D6
The title of this upcoming novel comes from Isaiah 21:6: “For thus hath
the Lord said unto me, , let him declare what he seeth.”
This is Harper Lee’s second novel and was written before her only
published novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is set twenty years after the
events of To Kill a Mockingbird. The title alludes to Scout’s view of her
father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass of Maycomb.
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96. D7
“X, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is a play by Y. First performed
on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcical
comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape
burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of
late Victorian London, the play’s major themes are the triviality with which
it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of
Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play’s humour,
though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while
others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Y’s
artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make X
Y’s most enduringly popular play. It has been adapted several times for
television, radio and film.
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100. D8
Kesarbai Kerkar (1892-1977) was an Indian classical vocalist of the
Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. A protege of Ustad Alladiya Khan, the founder of
the gharana, from age sixteen, she went on to become one of most noted
khayal singer of second half of 20th-century.
Kerkar has the further distinction of having one of her recordings, “Jaat
Kahan Ho” included on which is the only Indian language
entry in it. FITB.
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104. F1
Lob is a hybrid between X and Y. It became extremely famous a few years
ago and was sported by everyone from Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria to
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Anne Hathaway. X,Y?
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108. F2
This 2014 Hollywood movie joins films like “Noth by Northwest” in
getting its title from a line in Shakespeare’s works. The book it is based
on was named after the following dialogue spoken by Cassius in “Julius
Caesar”: “ , dear Brutus, is not , / But in ourselves, that
we are underlings.”
FITB/Name the movie.
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112. F3
The origin of this dish is unknown and controversial. A common theory is
that the dish originated in Egypt, possibly eaten by Copts as a
replacement for meat. The dish later migrated northwards to the Levant,
where chickpeas replaced the fava beans.
The current widely used Arabic name of this dish is the plural of Arabic
word for pepper. This word itself originates from the Sanskrit word pippali,
meaning ‘long pepper, spread and being used by other languages such as
Persian (pilpil).
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116. F4
“Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather
the hero’s heart.
Maybe this is true in any battle; it is surely true of a war that is waged
with bleach and a prayer.” TIME’s managing editor wrote, explaining the
choice of TIME’s Person of the Year 2014.
Who?
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120. F5
is the dried latex exuded from the rhizome or tap root of
several species of the perennial herb named Ferula.
Its English name is derived from a Latinized Farsi word, aza, meaning
resin, and a Latin word meaning “smelling, fetid”, which refers to its
strong sulfurous odour. Its pungent odour has resulted in it being known
by many unpleasant names. In French it is known as merde du diable,
meaning “Devil’s faeces”.
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124. F6
This is a 2007 science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by
Richard Schenkman. It gained recognition in part for being widely
distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks; its producer publicly
thanked users of these networks for this.
The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing university professor, who
claims to be a Cro-Magnon that has somehow survived for more than
14,000 years. The entire film is set in and around Oldman’s house and is
composed almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through
intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.
Minimal poster on next slide.
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129. F7
The current President of Uruguay Jos´e Mujica is famous for some of the
revolutionary decisions made so far. During his term in December 2013
after a 16-13 vote in the Senate, Uruguay became the world’s first nation
to pass this law in order to fight crimes and health issues associated with
it. The government stated that they will ask global leaders to do the
same. Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa praised the decision as
“courageous”. ‘The Economist’ named Uruguay “country of the year” in
2013 acknowledging the innovative policy leading Uruguay to be regarded
as one of the most liberal nations in the world, and one of the most
socially developed, outstanding regionally and performing well globally on
personal rights, tolerance and inclusion issues. What law?
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133. F8
During her visit to China seeking investment for the recession-hit economy,
the Argentine president Cristina Kirchner posted a message on Twitter
sparking a racial controversy over the alleged mockery of the Chinese in
the Tweet. The tweet can be translated as “More than 1,000 attendees ...
All of ‘La Campora’ and came only for rice and petroleum?”
What controversy?
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135. Answer
She intentionally replaced “r” with “l” in the words arroz and
petroleo.
Questions
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