Kutub Quizzers Meet-Roshan Shankar-August 7th 2011

Kutub QuizMeet
Roshan Shankar
August 7th 2011

Tuesday 16 August 2011

The One with The
Paper and Pens

• 30 questions.
• Like a Prelims
• No elimination


The Answers

• Exchange your sheets please.


1

• The 3 lead actors from this 2009 ﬁlm ga
gave all the income they received for this
movie to X's daughter Matilda so that her
economic future would be secure.
• Which ﬁlm? X?


1
• Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law


2

• Steve Buscemi
• Buddy Holly


4

• Paul Rand


5
• 66 is the product. What is it?

•


6
• In May 2009, Apple’s logo was represented
by some like this.Why? Who were the
“ghosts”?


7

• Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born April 4, 1957) nicknamed "El
Chapo"for his 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) stature in an organization named after the
Mexican Paciﬁc coast state of Sinaloa where it was initially formed. He
became Mexico's top ranked in something in 2003 after dethroning Osiel
Cárdenas. In November 2010, Joaquín Guzmán was regarded as the 60th of
68 most powerful people in the world by Forbes Magazine.He was also
listed by Forbes as the world's 937th richest man.

• Much like Osiel, he became the top of a list after May 2nd,2011 which has
kept him in the news.Why?


7

• May 2nd 2011, Osama Bin Laden died and
he became the most wanted man in the
world by Interpol and FBI.


8

• Born Taran Dhillon in Meerut, where her mother ran a small beauty parlour in the house. When she was young, her father was
burnt alive during 1984 riots and the beauty parlour of her mother was burnt few days after her father's death. Her paternal
grandparents asked her mother to leave their house and wanted to keep only Taran and her brother with them. Subsequently she,
her brother and her mother moved to Ludhiana to her maternal grandparents house, where they stayed for the next couple of
years.

In 1991 her mother remarried an NRI and her family moved to Birmingham,England , where her mother started working and studying to
eventually open a beauty salon, meanwhile she did her schooling.

Who is this most talented person? :-)


8

• Hard Kaur


9
• An artist’s recreation of the creation of? Which 2011 Hindi ﬁlm pays homage to this painting by being the only thing of importance
while clearing one’s house?

•


9

• Shaitan
• Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh


10

• What was announced ofﬁcially on a blog
post titled "Unchartered Territory" on June
14th 2011 and caused huge footfall for
something that supports Cricket
Karanataka,KKR,RCB and DC?


10

• Metallica in India


12-Fill in all the names
here!
• No Amy Winehouse/Kurt Cobain :-)

•


13
• The famous usage of this song could be an
“entrance music” on Youtube. That video
however is heavily referenced in the exit of
a recent Hindi ﬁlm.
• Song and ﬁlm please.
• The song played was Forever by Chris
Brown


13-JK Wedding
Entrance


13
• The ﬁnal scene with people dancing down
the aisle is copied here.


14
• X was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of James Cook,
he took part in the French and Indian War and the unsuccessful
French attempt to defend Canada from Britain. He later gained fame
for his expeditions to settle the Falkland Islands and his voyages into
the Paciﬁc Ocean.

• X's name is given to the largest eastern island of Papua New Guinea;
and to the strait which divides it from the island ofChoiseul. It is also
applied to the strait between Mallicollo and Espiritu Santo islands of
the New Hebrides group. In the Falklands, Port Louis commemorate
him.

• Who is X?


14

• Bouganvillea


15-The alternate speech if
Apollo-11 failed


15 contd.

• On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon,
speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo
to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to
be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon, never to
return, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast. Luckily for all those involved, the memo was
never needed.

•


16

• Wilt Chamberlain
• Arnold Schwarznegger
• Andre the Giant


17
• The US Marine Corps Professional Reading List makes the novel recommended reading at several lower ranks, and again at
Officer Candidate/Midshipman. The book was placed on the reading list by Captain John Schmitt, author of FMFM-1 (Fleet
Marine Fighting Manual, on maneuver doctrine) for "provid[ing] useful allegories to explain why militaries do what they do in a
particularly effective shorthand way."

• In introducing the novel for use in leadership training, Marine Corps University's Lejeune program opines that it offers "lessons in
training methodology, leadership, and ethics as well [....]

• X has been a stalwart item on the Marine Corps Reading List since its inception."

• The original X provides a small snapshot of Yʼs experiences in Battle School and Command School; the full-length novel
encompasses more of Y 's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits
of his older siblings back on Earth.

• In his 1991 introduction to the novel, the author discussed the influence of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series on the novelette and
novel. Historian Bruce Catton's work on the American Civil War also influenced the author.

• Novel and Author Please.


18

• A French dish of chicken braised with garlic, tomatoes, olives, white
wine or brandy, and garnished with crayﬁsh and sometimes fried
eggs, Y was born on the battleﬁeld.

• On June 14, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austro-
Hungarian army at the village of X, in northern Italy. After a ferocious
battle in which 5,800 French and 9,400 Austrians were killed, the
victorious French were ravenous. Y was made from whatever
ingredients they were able to take from the village.


18

• Chicken Marengo


19
• The original in Swahilii is called Kisiwa Cha Mvita (or Mvita
for short) which means "Island of War", due to the many
changes in its ownership.

• The famous Moroccan scholar and traveller Ibn Battuta did
visit X in 1331 on his travels on the eastern coast of Africa
and made some mention of the city, although he only stayed
one night. He noted that the people of X were Shãﬁ'i
Muslims, "a religious people, trustworthy and righteous. Their
mosques are made of wood, expertly built."


19

• Mombasa
• The Inception soundtrack is also called
Mombasa.
• The scenes in Mombasa were shot in
Tangiers


20
• Khadi Duck is a rare type of weaving method, and
there are fewer than twenty weavers in India
professing this skill. The guidelines also state that
there should be exactly 150 threads per square
centimetre, four threads per stitch, and one square
foot should weigh exactly 205 grams (7.2 oz)

• Where is it most famously used?
•


20

• It is the piece of fabric used to fasten the Indian
National Flag to the post and the rope


21-The Partner dance
learning with Salman


21a-Half Ticket(Cheel
cheel chillake)


21b-Raja Babu


22

• Largest (to scale)
solar system on
Earth.In Sweden


23

• What related trend, started in the early 1990s, when textile companies
began to apply ﬁnishing agents to fabrics?

These particular chemical agents act as catalysts that cross-link
polymer chains in the cotton weaving, giving the material some
elasticity and resilience.


23

• Wrinkle Free


24
• When you get a call from a man you believe to be Liberian football great George Weah, and that man claims his talented cousin
is available on a free transfer, you tend to listen. Which is what Southampton manager Graeme Souness (pictured, with head in
hands) did when a university student prankster insisted that hapless non-league 'striker' Ali Dia was a chip off the old block, a
possible superstar in the mould of the former World Player of the Year.

Nowadays he would be asked to submit DVD evidence, attend a trial at the very least, but this was 1996 and Saints were in the middle of
an injury crisis. After only one training session and a cancelled reserve match Dia - who was not even Liberian but French-Senegalese -
was called to the bench for a Premier League game against Leeds United.

When Matt Le Tissier picked up an injury after half an hour, Dia was brought on and his headless-chicken performance quickly showed
that someone had been pulling Souey's leg.

Taken off after three quarters of an hour, Dia turned up for some physio the next morning, left, and never came back. It turned out he was
not a Senegal international, had never played for Paris Saint-Germain and that Weah didn't have a clue who he was. A short spell back in
non-league followed before he did the decent thing and went back to university.

•


24

• Ali Dia
• George Weah
• Graeme Souness


25

• Schnitzel or Wiener Schnitzel


26
• In Shashi Tharoor’s Great Indian Novel, the
Pandavas have the following equivalents
• Bhim-The Indian Army
• Arjun- The Indian news media
• Nakul,Sehdev-Civil Service,Foreign Service
• What the equivalents for Yudhishtir and
Draupadi?


26

• Yudhishtir is the honest but ineffective
Morarji Desai
• Draupadi rather obviously is Democracy


27-Most successful
IMO participant


28

• Ed Wood meeting Orson Welles
• Touch of Evil Charlton Heston
• Ed Wood by Tim Burton


29
• Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience.

Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace.
Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet.
Hamlet, the flatterer of Andersen Insulting A/S.

Act I: Hamlet's insults and flattery.
Scene I: The insulting of Romeo.
[Enter Hamlet and Romeo]
Hamlet:
You lying stupid fatherless big smelly half-witted coward! You are as
stupid as the difference between a handsome rich brave hero and thyself!
Speak your mind!
You are as brave as the sum of your fat little stuffed misused dusty
old rotten codpiece and a beautiful fair warm peaceful sunny summer's
day. You are as healthy as the difference between the sum of the
sweetest reddest rose and my father and yourself! Speak your mind!
You are as cowardly as the sum of yourself and the difference
between a big mighty proud kingdom and a horse. Speak your mind.
Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: The praising of Juliet.
[Enter Juliet]
Hamlet:
Thou art as sweet as the sum of the sum of Romeo and his horse and his
black cat! Speak thy mind!
[Exit Juliet]


29-b
• Act II: Behind Hamlet's back.

Scene I: Romeo and Juliet's conversation.
[Enter Romeo and Juliet]
Romeo:
Speak your mind. You are as worried as the sum of yourself and the
difference between my small smooth hamster and my nose. Speak your
mind!
Juliet:
Speak YOUR mind! You are as bad as Hamlet! You are as small as the
difference between the square of the difference between my little pony
and your big hairy hound and the cube of your sorry little
codpiece. Speak your mind!
[Exit Romeo]
Scene II: Juliet and Ophelia's conversation.
[Enter Ophelia]
Juliet:
Thou art as good as the quotient between Romeo and the sum of a small
furry animal and a leech. Speak your mind!
Ophelia:
Thou art as disgusting as the quotient between Romeo and twice the
difference between a mistletoe and an oozing infected blister! Speak
your mind!
[Exeunt]


29

• Shakespeare Programming Language
• Hello World


30

1930’s-1940’s: X Introduced to the General Public

Hanes and the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. began offering X to the public in the early 1930’s. In 1933 Champion Products sold their
first printed X to a sports shop in Ann Arbor, MI with a University of Michigan logo on it. But in 1934 Clark Gable’s role in “It
Happened One Night” threatened to cripple the X industry

1950’s: Selling the American Public on T-Shirts

It would take actor Y’s 1951 appearance in the film “Z”, to reverse the damage that had been done years before. From this time
forward the X became accepted by US civilian men.

Solve for the variables X,Y,Z


30
• T-shirts
• Marlon Brando
• A Streetcar named Desire


The One that goes
Clockwise
• +10 on the direct and pass.
• Goes back to the same team(The answer
to the oft-asked question)
• Not exhaustive(No LVCs :-))
•


1
• ++++++++++[>+++++++>+++++++++
+>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>
++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.++
+.------.--------.>+.>.


Piet Mondrian

• Piet
• Brainfuck
• Hello World


2

• “I have trained in the way of strategy since my youth, and at the age of
thirteen I fought a duel for the ﬁrst time. My opponent was called Arima
Kihei, a sword adept of the Shinto ryū, and I defeated him. At the age of
sixteen I defeated a powerful adept by the name of Akiyama, who came from
Tajima Province. At the age of twenty-one I went up to Kyōtō and fought
duels with several adepts of the sword from famous schools, but I never lost.

• —X,Y

• X and Y please


2

• Miyamoto Musashi
• The Book of Five Rings


3

• The ﬁrst X- Y were created in 1623 by A, an alchemist who was looking for
a way to turn base metal into gold; he created an alloy combining tin,
copper, and silver into a sheet of metal that could make_____ without
shattering.

• A was given the name because it means Y maker/seller and began an
industry in 1623, the details of whose main product remained secret for
generations. It became family tradition that only the company's heirs would
know the manufacturing process.

• Who and what? No part points please.


4

• Jónína Leósdóttir is an X novelist, playwright and former
journalist. She is the author of a dozen plays, six novels, two
biographies and a collection of articles she originally wrote
for a women's magazine. She has one son from her ﬁrst
marriage. She has a BA in English and Literature from
University of X.

• She is however famous for playing her part in what piece of
trivia?


4

• She is married to the Icelandic Prime
Minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who is the
ﬁrst openly gay head of government in
modern history.

•


5

• The X Act , also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, (Pub.L. 106-102,
113 Stat. 1338, enacted November 12, 1999) is an act of the 106th United States Congress
(1999–2001).

• It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton and it repealed part of the Y act of 1935
opening up[clariﬁcation needed] the market among banking companies, securities companies
and insurance companies.

• The Y act prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment
bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company.

• It is also known informally as the Z Saviour act because it basically legalized the merger ofA
(the bank holding company) with the B(an insurance company) in 1998 to form Z.


5

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

• Citigroup Saviour Act->CitiCorp+Travelers

• Glass Stegall Act of 1935


7

• A X-Y is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell's explosion that was later filled with red resin. Mortar rounds landing on
concrete create a unique fragmentation pattern that looks almost floral in arrangement.

• Because X was a site of intense urban warfare and suffered thousands of shell explosions during the Z , the marked concrete
patterns are a unique feature to the city.

• The ____________ deployed troops and artillery in the surrounding hills, and on May 2, 1992 began imposing a blockade on all
traffic in and out the city, starting what was to be known as the siege of X.

• The _________ constantly bombarded the civilian population in the city in an effort to prevent the home army from deploying. It
has been estimated that on an average day more than 300 shell rounds were fired into the city


7-Sarajevo Rose

• X=Sarajevo
• Bosnian War


8

• Over the weekend, British papers discovered that X replaced as many as 500 retail store copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD with a
retouched and remixed version.

• Now, it has been revealed that Y -- the producer behind Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, and the famous Grey Album -- is behind the
remix portion of the disc.

• Along with completely reworked liner notes that included topless photos of Paris slathered with slogans like "Every CD you buy
puts me even further out of your league," the CD featured remixes of Hilton songs by someone credited as "DM," letters that
stand for Danger Mouse. The song titles were also changed to names like "Why Am I Famous," "What Have I Done," and "What
Am I For."

• According to an email from his management company obtained by SPIN.com, Y met X in London while shopping for disguises.
The two had one singular statement about the project: "It's hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try."

• Who are X and Y?


8

• X==Banksy
• Y==Danger Mouse


9
• X had other skills and interests too, including a rare skill in building machines. He used his skill to
build a machine for bowling cricket balls which was so good that when the Australian Cricket team
visited Cambridge in 1909, X 's machine clean bowled one of its top stars four times.

• His son gives this description:- Of spare build, he was throughout his life a ﬁne walker and mountain
climber, a keen botanist, and an excellent talker and linguist.

• X 's interest turned towards history and he signalled this change in direction by donating his large
collection of books on logic to the Cambridge University Library in 1888. His greatest contributions
were in another subject where he was bestowed a scholarship and was 6th in the University.

• He was elected a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College shortly after graduating, and two years later
was ordained a priest. In fact the year after his graduation, in 1858, he had been ordained a deacon at
Ely, then after his ordination as a priest he had served as a curate ﬁrst at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and
then for a year as a curate at Mortlake, Surrey.

• Who is this man of many intersecting interests?


9-John Venn


10
• The phrase X has entered common use as a reference
to an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or
seems to.

• In the military, referring to unpleasant, unchanging,
repetitive situations as “X ”. A magazine article about
the aircraft carrier USS America mentions its use by
sailors in September 1993.X was a favorite one among
the Rangers deployed for Operation Gothic Serpent in
Somalia in 1993, because they saw X as a metaphor of
their own situation, waiting long periods between raids
and monotonous long days


10

• Groundhog Day


12

• Paanch
• Vishal Bhardwaj
• Parasites
• Abbas Tyrewala


13

• Kenneth Clark’s Civilization


14
• X is an Iraqi dish that is de-facto considered as the national dish of Modern Iraq. It
is more than anything, an integral part of modern Iraqi culture and social life as
eating X is a social event per se.

• The X arguably being the most famous dish of Iraq, it is also the one that is always
the foremost served to foreign delegations visiting the country by the Iraqi
statesmen.

• Two notable admirers of this dish are said to be the former President of France,
Jacques Chirac and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the former chairman of the Duma. Chirac
apparently fell for the X during a visit to Iraq in a formal dinner given to his honor
by Saddam Hussein.

• It is also said, although very difﬁcult to prove, that Saddam Hussein's last wish
before being executed was to eat X

• What is X?


14-Masguf


The One with Lesser
Writing

• 10 questions
• 5 for each and Bonus +10 for getting all.


1-Missing?


4
• The scientist please?


5
• This is a parody of X’s style in the making
of Y.
• X and Y please.


6

• The current name came about almost by chance, according to a
tale recounted in Windsor Revisited, written by HRH The Duke of
Windsor. About 1830, a London merchant received a letter from a
Hawick ﬁrm about some __X____. The London merchant
misinterpreted the handwriting, understanding it to be a trade-name
taken from the name of the river which ﬂows through the Scottish
Borders textile areas. Subsequently the goods were advertised as
__Y___, and the name has remained so ever since.

X & Y pls


8
• X is a traditional tea(Camellia sinensis) produced through a unique
process including withering under the strong sun and oxidation before
curling and twisting. Most X teas, especially those of ﬁne quality,
involve unique tea plant cultivars that are exclusively used for
particular varieties.The degree of fermentation can range from 8% to
85%, depending on the variety and production style. This tea category
is especially popular with tea connoisseurs of south China and
Chinese expatriates in Southeast Asia, as is the tea preparation
process that originated from this area: gongfu tea-making, or the
gongfu tea infusion approach.

• The name X came into the English language from the Chinese name ,
meaning "black dragon tea".

• Simple enough. First name that comes to the mind. What is X?


9
• His name is a homage/parody to a famous
character in science ﬁction history and to a
popular food chain. Both please.


Answers

• Please exchange your sheets.


3

• Love Sex aur Dhokha


4

• Grace Hopper


6
• X – Tweels
Y- Tweeds from River Tweed


8

• X is a traditional tea(Camellia sinensis) produced through a unique process including withering under the strong sun and
oxidation before curling and twisting. Most X teas, especially those of ﬁne quality, involve unique tea plant cultivars that are
exclusively used for particular varieties.The degree of fermentation can range from 8% to 85%, depending on the variety and
production style. This tea category is especially popular with tea connoisseurs of south China and Chinese expatriates in
Southeast Asia, as is the tea preparation process that originated from this area: gongfu tea-making, or the gongfu tea infusion
approach.

• The name X came into the English language from the Chinese name , meaning "black dragon tea".

• Simple enough. First name that comes to the mind. What is X?


8

• Oolong


9

• Jabba the Hutt
• Pizza the Hutt in Spaceballs
•


10-Amdahl’s Law and
Gustafson’s Law


10

• Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument,[1] is named after computer architectGene Amdahl, and is used to find the
maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved. It is often used in parallel
computing to predict the theoretical maximum speedup using multiple processors.

John L. Gustafson pointed out in 1988 what is now known as Gustafson's Law: people typically are not interested in solving a fixed problem in
the shortest possible period of time, as Amdahl's Law describes, but rather in solving the largest possible problem (e.g. the most accurate
possible approximation) in a fixed "reasonable" amount of time. If the non-parallelizable portion of the problem is fixed, or grows very slowly
with problem size (e.g.O(log n)), then additional processors can increase the possible problem size without limit.


The One that goes
Anti-Clockwise

• Same Rules
• +10.


0
• YOU may talk o' gin an' beer

When you're quartered safe out 'ere,

An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;

But if it comes to slaughter

You will do your work on water,
         5
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

Now in Injia's sunny clime,

Where I used to spend my time

A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,

Of all them black-faced crew
  10
The finest man I knew

Was our regimental bhisti, X
  80
    You Lazarushian-leather X!

    Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you,

    By the livin' Gawd that made you,

    You're a better man than I am, X


1
• KEYNES
so what would you do to help those unemployed?
this is the question you seem to avoid
when we’re in a mess, would you just have us wait?
Doing nothing until markets equilibrate?

HAYEK
I don’t want to do nothing, there’s plenty to do
The question I ponder is who plans for whom?
Do I plan for myself or leave it to you?
I want plans by the many, not by the few.

Let’s not repeat what created our troubles
I want real growth not a series of bubbles
Stop bailing out loser, let prices work
If we don’t try to steer them they won’t go berserk

There’s a boxing ring immediately after this.

Who is on the corner of JM Keynes? And which two famous economists help Hayek out?


1

• Say,Mises-Hayek
• Malthus-Keynes


2
• Isaac Asimov described Sagan as one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own. The other, he
claimed, was X

Probably no one would ever know this; it did not matter. In the 1980s,X and Good had shown how neural networks could be generated
automatically—self replicated—in accordance with any arbitrary learning program. Artiﬁcial brains could be grown by a process strikingly
analogous to the development of a human brain. In any given case, the precise details would never be known, and even if they were, they
would be millions of times too complex for human understanding.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

X is an actor in a Koan (attributed to his student, Danny Hillis) from the Jargon ﬁle:
In the days when Sussman was a novice, X once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?" asked X .
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe," Sussman replied.
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked X
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play," Sussman said.
X then shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.


2
• Marvin Minsky-The AI guy


3
• If India ever finds its way back to the freedom and democracy that were proud hallmarks of its first eighteen years as an
independent nation, someone will surely erect a monument to X.------- NY Times.

• Tthis issue was at the heart of the case of the Additional District Magistrate of Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla, popularly known as
the Y case, which came up for hearing in front of the Supreme Court in December 1975.

• Given the important nature of the case, a bench comprising the five seniormost judges was convened to hear the case. The
others being future Chief Justices of India----JusticesA. N. Ray, P. N. Bhagwati, Y. V. Chandrachud, and M.H.Beg, stated in the
majority decision

During the arguments, X at one point asked the Attorney General Niren De: "Life is also mentioned in Article 21 and would Government
argument extend to it also?". De answered, "Even if life was taken away illegally, courts are helpless".
Justice Beg even went on to observe: "We understand that the care and concern bestowed by the state authorities upon the welfare of
detenues who are well housed, well fed and well treated, is almost maternal."
However, X resisted the pressure to concur with this majority view. He wrote in his dissenting opinion:
The Constitution and the laws of India do not permit life and liberty to be at the mercy of the absolute power of the Executive . . . . What is at
stake is the rule of law. The question is whether the law speaking through the authority of the court shall be absolutely silenced and rendered
mute... detention without trial is an anathema to all those who love personal liberty.

Who is X and What is Y?


3

• HR Khanna
• The Habeus Corpus case


4-Game/Show/Narrator
OR
Painting/Painter/Inaccuracy


4-AD/Clue/Ron
Howard=Narrator
• American Gothic-Grant Wood-AG has a
father daughter-this has a husband-wife :-)


5
• How was this game brought back in a form
with the help of hemagluttanin and
neuraminidase?


6
• To quote X (Adventures in Radioisotope Research, Vol. 1, p. 27, Pergamon, New York, 1962), who talks about Y ("I suggested that we
should bury them, but Z did not like this idea as it might be unearthed. I decided to dissolve it. While the invading forces marched in the
streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving A 's and also B's _________.


6
• Aqua Regia-Chemical
• George de Hevesy-X
• Max Von Laue-A
• James Franck-B
• Niels Bohr-Z
• The dissolved medals stored at Z institute.

The One that Goes
Differential
• 10 questions
• 20 if one team gets it
• 18 for 2
• 15 for 3
• 12 for 4-5
• 10 for 6 teams

1
• It also helped X become the ﬁrst multinational to set up a software design centre in India and pioneer
the country’s IT revolution 3 decades ago.

• X’s communication director, K S Narahari, who stumbled upon this photograph recently, is not sure
what prompted X to use a handcrafted bullock cart to carry a state-of-the-art satellite dish to its
ofﬁce at Sona Towers on Miller’s road.


2
• Which ﬁlm? This is a dedication to ?

•

4

• X s a town and a nagar panchayat in Lucknow district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

• It is the mango belt of North India and is internationally acclaimed for its mangoes.

• Among different varieties of mangoes grown here, Y is the most popular variety.

In 1939, the last Wimbledon before the World War, Z did country proud by becoming first ever Indian to figure in a singles quarter final. He
was beaten by eventual champion Bobby Riggs of USA in straight sets 2-6, 2-6, 2-6. Riggs won all the three titles that year. Khan reigned as
India's top player from 1936 to 1940, but his career was cut short by the rigours of war.

For the Hindi film buffs, It is mentioned as the hometown of Hrithik Roshanʼs friend in the army in Lakshya.

So X,Y and Z please.


5
• In an act of civil disobedience, after Hermann Göring prompted him to decline the prize, X issued a
note from the hospital saying that he disagreed with the authorities who had stated that by accepting
the prize he would cast himself outside the deutsche Volksgemeinschaft (community of German
people):

• After much consideration, I have made the decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize which has fallen
to me. I cannot share the view put forward to me by the representatives of the Secret State Police
that in doing so I exclude myself from German society. The Nobel Peace Prize is not a sign of an
internal political struggle, but of understanding between peoples. As a recipient of the prize, I will do
my best to encourage this understanding and as a German I will always bear in mind Germany's
justiﬁable interests in Europe.

• The award divided public opinion, and was generally condemned by conservative forces. The leading
conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten argued in an editorial that X was a criminal who had
attacked his country "with the use of methods that violated the law long before Hitler came into
power" and that "lasting peace between peoples and nations can only be achieved by respecting the
existing laws".X's Nobel Prize was not allowed to be mentioned in the German press, and a
government decree forbade German citizens from accepting future Nobel Prize


6
• John Emil List (September 17, 1925 - March 21, 2008) was an American
murderer. On November 9, 1971, he murdered his wife, mother, and three
children in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned
everything so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone
noticed that anything was amiss. A fugitive from justice for nearly 18 years,
he was finally apprehended on June 1, 1989 after the story of his murders
was broadcast on America's Most Wanted. List was found guilty and
sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment, dying in prison
custody in 2008 at age 82.

• What famous fictional fictional character did he inspire?

•


7

• It was acquired by University College London in 1850 from TS Smith. It is normally kept on
public display at the end of the South Cloisters in the main building of the college, but for the
100th and 150th anniversaries of the college, it was brought to the meeting of the College
Council, where it was listed as "present but not voting".

•


8
• After nearly thirty years away from Hollywood,X contributed to a film and the results were amazing. Y , a
friend of X, approached him about the work and mentioned that he did not like the look of computer
generated by CGI.

• X asked Y , "Why not do it the old way? The way we did it in Z

Working with visual effects supervisor Dan Glass, X used a variety of materials for the creation of the universe
sequence. “We worked with chemicals, paint, fluorescent dyes, smoke, liquids, CO2, flares, spin dishes, fluid
dynamics, lighting and high speed photography to see how effective they might be,” said X. “It was a free-wheeling
opportunity to explore, something that I have found extraordinarily hard to get in the movie business.
Y didnʼt have any preconceived ideas of what something should look like. We did things like pour milk through a
funnel into a narrow trough and shoot it with a high-speed camera and folded lens, lighting it carefully and using a
frame rate that would give the right kind of flow characteristics to look cosmic, galactic, huge and epic

X,Y and Z.


9
• X himself first came to prominence as a prodigy. When at age 11 he became the youngest student to attend Bard College at
Simon's Rock inGreat Barrington, Massachusetts. Although Simon's Rock specializes in teaching "younger scholars," most of its
incoming first-year students are age 16. After receiving his A.A. degree, X transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York, where he moderated in the biology department and ultimately completed his senior thesis project in political science
and philosophy. He went on to become the college's youngest ever graduate at age 15.

• At age 16, X was accepted into law school at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He deferred his admission until the fall
of 2006 to work as an advisor to Richard Holbrooke, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and for additional
work with the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF).

• Holbrooke would later incorporate X as a key member of his team upon his return to government as Special Representative for
Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009. X was among the close staffers reported to be present the night of Holbrooke's death in
December 2010.

• During his time at Yale Law School, X was a summer associate at New York-based law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. In 2008, he
headed a study for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, focused on post-
traumatic stress disorder stemming from Kenya's election violence.

• Still, and rather unfortunately I must add, he is known to the larger pop-culture obsessed crowd because of his estrangement with
his famous father. The reason is rather icky with his mother and sister being a rather big part of the problem.

• Who is he? Who is his more famous father?


The Differential!

• 10 questions
• Differential Scoring


1

• Texas Instruments
• First Satellite Dish in India


3-Inside Job


4

• X s a town and a nagar panchayat in Lucknow district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

• It is the mango belt of North India and is internationally acclaimed for its mangoes.

• Among different varieties of mangoes grown here, Y is the most popular variety. Y is also a village I think.

In 1939, the last Wimbledon before the World War, Z did country proud by becoming first ever Indian to figure in a singles quarter final. He
was beaten by eventual champion Bobby Riggs of USA in straight sets 2-6, 2-6, 2-6. Riggs won all the three titles that year. Z reigned as
India's top player from 1936 to 1940, but his career was cut short by the rigours of war.

For the Hindi film buffs, It is mentioned as the hometown of Hrithik Roshanʼs friend in the army in Lakshya.

So X,Y and Z please.


4

• Malihabad
• Dusehri
• Ghaus Mohammad Khan


5

• Carl Von Ossietzky 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
winner


6
• Who is Keyzer Soze?


7
• Jeremy Bentham’s body

•

8
• Douglas Huntley Trumbull (born April 8, 1942, Los Angeles) is an American ﬁlm director, special effectssupervisor, and inventor.
He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and
Brainstorm.[


10

• Global Drum Project
• Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead


Return of the Anti
Clockwise

• Same Rules.


7
• In 1902, agents of X bribed a theater owner in London for a copy of Y
by Z. X then made hundreds of copies and showed them in New York
City. Z received no compensation. He was counting on taking the film
to the US and recapture its huge cost by showing it throughout the
country when he realized it had already been shown there by X. This
effectively bankrupted X.

• Other exhibitors similarly routinely copied and exhibited each others
films.

• To better protect the copyrights on his films, X deposited prints of
them on long strips ofphotographic paper with the U.S. copyright
office. Many of these paper prints survived longer and in better
condition than the actual films of that era.


7

• George Melies
• La Voyage dans le lune
• Trip to the Moon
• Edison


9
• There are 2 main theories as to the origin
of a certain practice. The nature of the
dying process of Y and the post-war
poverty of the country is one reason.The
other reason that has its origin more in
myth than reality.is the notion because the
original X founders never washed Y. The
proponents of this theory assert that Y
gets gradually dirtier and dirtier.
• What are we talking about here?

9
• The colour of belts in Karate
• In the old days the white belt was simply dyed to a new color. This repeated dying process dictates the type of belt
color and the order of the colors!. The standard belt color system is white, yellow, green, brown, and black. In some
Karate school and styles, the color order is white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, black.

•


10-a


10-b


11
• White Light is a book by Rudy Recker where the concept of infinity is explored through many scientists and concepts. Much like Flatland
which explores the idea of multiple dimensions.

• In this new world, Felix encounters famous scientists and mathematicians such Albert Einstein and Y , who all reside in a hotel that is based
on X. Felix stays there after Kathy leaves him; the hotel is full, but Felix has the desk clerk move everybody one room up, leaving an empty
room for him.

• The paradox is not a paradox so to speak more of a method of counter-intuitive thinking a hypothetical hotel with countably infinite many
rooms, all of which are occupied – that is to say every room contains a guest. One might be tempted to think that the hotel would not be able
to accommodate any newly arriving guests, as would be the case with a finite number of rooms.

• Y especially has a lot to do with the funda behind X since he came up with the concepts of countably infinite sets and one of Yʼs theorems
states that the power set of a countably infinite set is uncountably infinite.

Suppose that the Grand Hotel does not allow smoking, and no cigars may be taken into the Hotel. Despite this, the guest in room 1 goes to the guest in
room 2 to get a cigar. The guest in room 2 goes to room 3 to get two cigars - one for himself and one for the guest in room 1. In general, the guest in room
N goes to room (N+1) to get N cigars. They each return, smoke one cigar and give the rest to the guest from room (N-1). Thus despite the fact no cigars
have been brought into the hotel, each guest can smoke a cigar inside the property.

The fallacy of this story derives from the fact that there is no inductive point (base-case) from which the induction can derive. Although it is shown that if
the guest from room N has (N+1) cigars then both he and all guests in lower-numbered rooms can smoke, it is never proved that any of the guests
actually have cigars. The fact that the story mentions that cigars are not allowed into the hotel is designed to highlight the fallacy. However, unless it is
shown that in the limit there is a guest with infinitely many cigars, the proof is flawed regardless of whether or not cigars are allowed in the hotel.

X and Y please.


11

• David Hilbert of the Hilbert Transform and
Einstein math battle fame
• Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel
• Georg Cantor being the other scientist


12
• Paul Bunyan

• The axe murder incident (Korean: ,
) was the killing of two United States Army ofﬁcers by North Korean soldiers on
August 18, 1976, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) located in the Korean Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ) which forms the de facto border between Northand South Korea. The
killings, credited to Kim Jong-il's power consolidation,[1] and the response three days
later (Operation Paul Bunyan) heightened tensions between North and South Korea as
well as their respective allies, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the
United States.

• Korean DMZ

• TIL Operation Paul Bunyan involved the US military sending 800 troops, 7 Cobra attack helicopters,
B-52 bombers, and F-4 ﬁghters and mobilizing 12,000 additional troops in order to cut down one
single tree.


13
• X is a next-generation wearables research platform developed by researchers at the Y. The goal of the
X project is the development and prototyping of new techniques of human-computer interaction for
body-worn applications. Through the application of human factors, machine learning, hardware
engineering, and software engineering, the X team is constructing a new kind of computing
environment and developing prototype applications for health, communications, and just-in-time
information delivery.

• TheX hardware platform combines body-worn computation, sensing, and networking in a clothing-
integrated design. The X software platform is a combination of user interface elements and machine
learning tools built on the Linux operating system.


14-a


14b


14

• Rohail Hyatt
• Vital Signs-> Band
• Khuda Ke Liye->Music director
•


15
• This is an exhibit in the Cantor Arts Center in
Stanford University. What is itʼs claim to fame? Also
which 2-word phrase commonly used in railway
parlance does it give rise to?


15

• Americaʼs ﬁrst transcontinental railway

• ‘Golden Spike’


The One with the
Variables

• Written Round
• +5 for each variable
• +10 for getting all correct.


Part-1
• These two fake/humourous units(A and D) of measurement are related in
more ways than one.

• The A is a measurement of Twitter followers relative to celebrity A1. The
measurement was standardized when A1 achieved half a million Twitter
followers, with the effect that A1 now has 3.4 As himself. As few Twitter
users have millions of followers, the milliB (500 followers) is more
commonly used.

• He is the arch nemesis of B.

• B attempts to collaborate with C who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in
2006 for his work as cited “the black body form and anisotropy of the
cosmic microwave background radiation.” He fails miserably.

• C is a ﬁrst cousin of D.


Part-I(contd.)
• The D is a unit of length, deﬁned as the height of D1 — who, ﬁttingly, was
later the president of the E.

• The unit is used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. The bridge
was measured to be 364.4 Bs, plus or minus one ear, using Mr. D himself as a
ruler. At the time, B was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall.

• Google Earth and Google Calculator includes the D as a unit of
measurement.

• The 182.2-D mark is accompanied by the words "Halfway to Hell" and an
arrow pointing towards F.


Answers

• A-Wheaton after Will Wheaton(A1)
• B-Sheldon Cooper
• C-George Smoot
• D-Oliver Smoot(Smoot)
• E-ISO
• F-MIT

Part-II

• X is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts another for a
list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, usually with funny results.
The game is especially popular with American children and is frequently
played as a party game or as a pastime.

• X was invented in 1953 by Leonard Stern and Roger Price, who published
the ﬁrst X book themselves in 1958. It resembles the earlier games of
Consequences and Exquisite Corpse. X books are still published by Price
Stern Sloan, an imprint of Penguin Group, cofounded by Price and Stern.

• The origins of X are as follows :


• The idea for X came from Y’s work in a
certain area with “Colourless green ideas
sleep furiously” being one of the main
examples
• A criticism of the above was given by Z.


• Z (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American
philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. From 1930 until
his death 70 years later,Z was continuously affiliated with
Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then
as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and
finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several
books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of
Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. He won the first
Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 1993, for "his
systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of
language and communication are based on socially available
evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on
knowledge and linguistic meaning."


• The name "Z1" was coined by A , in his popular science book B, in the honor
of philosopher Z (1908–2000), who made an extensive study of indirect self-
reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression,
known as

• "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when
preceded by its quotation.


Structure of Z program
•
in C
public class Z1

{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
char q = 34; // Quotation mark character
String[] l = { // Array of source code
"public class Quine",
"{",
" public static void main( String[] args )",
" {",
" char q = 34; // Quotation mark character",
" String[] l = { // Array of source code",
" ",
" };",
" for( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ ) // Print opening code",
" System.out.println( l[i] );",
" for( int i = 0; i < l.length; i++ ) // Print string array",
" System.out.println( l[6] + q + l[i] + q + ',' );",
" for( int i = 7; i < l.length; i++ ) // Print this code",
" System.out.println( l[i] );",
" }",
"}",
};
for( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ ) // Print opening code
System.out.println( l[i] );
for( int i = 0; i < l.length; i++ ) // Print string array
System.out.println( l[6] + q + l[i] + q + ',' );
for( int i = 7; i < l.length; i++ ) // Print this code


• All these theories and programs and philosophy ﬁnd their root/origin/
reason in the following :

• The D effect is named after the image on the tins and boxes of D
cocoa powder, one of the main Dutch brands, which displayed a nurse
carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box with the
same image.This image, introduced in 1904 and maintained for
decades with slight variations, became a household notion.
Reportedly, poet and columnist Nico Scheepmaker introduced wider
usage of the term in the late 1970s.

• Another famous use of this is E deﬁned by E1 that, when graphed in
two dimensions, can visually reproduce the formula itself(seen
above). It is used in various maths and computer science courses as
an exercise in graphing formulae.


F is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics. The first F conference
was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer
professionals. Past F conferences have been held in Los Angeles, Dallas, New Orleans,
Boston and elsewhere across the United States.

G is organized into over 170 local chapters and 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs), through
which it conducts most of its activities. Additionally, there are over 500 college and university
chapters. The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette.
Many of the SIGs like F, sponsor regular conferences which have become famous as the
dominant venue for presenting new innovations in certain fields. The groups also publish a
large number of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters.
G also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide and has
even sponsored the Kasparov-Deep Blue Chess Matches.

And finally, another book by A is the subject of a rather famous trivia in the business world.
What is it? Lets call this H.


Answers
• X-Mad Libs,Y-Noam Chomsky

• Z-WVO Quine

• A-Douglas Hofstadter

• B-Godel Escher Bach-An Eternal Golden Braid

• C-Java

• D-Droste Effect

• E-Tupper’s Self Referential Formula, E1-Jeff Tupper

• F-SIGGRAPH

• G-ACM

• H- First book sold on Amazon-Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies by DHofstadter


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