First Quiz session (2017)

My first ever Quiz
IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:
1. There are 38 questions followed by
a grand connect question.
2. The answers to questions 21-25
are connected. Of course you have
to specify the connection.
3. Pounce rules: +10/-10
4. Happy quizzing!

Question #1:
Charles Coventry (2010) and Saeed Anwar (1997) came close to
achieving this feat.
Chris Gayle, Virender Sehwag and Martin Guptill have achieved
this feat in recent years.
Who was the first cricketer to achieve the feat I am talking about?

ANSWER #1:
• Belinda Clark was the
first cricketer to score a
double hundred in ODI
cricket. She achieved
this feat in a match
against Denmark in the
ICC Women’s World Cup
in Mumbai.

QUESTION #2:
Put funda.
(what are they called and why?)

ANSWER #2:
They are called the PayPal Mafia, a term used
to indicate a group of former PayPal employees
and founders who have since founded and
developed additional technology companies
such as Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir
Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and
Yammer.

QUESTION #3:
For generations, service members have tucked away precious photographs
through tours around the globe. Pictures end up tucked under helmets, stuffed in
pockets – there’s always a method for taking along a memory from home, especially
when it’s of a girl.
If the service member doesn’t actually have a girl, well, there are always pin-ups,
models, and other available images. During World War II, a favored method of not
only taking pictures along but having them at the ready was to fasten them beneath
clear plastic grips on their 1911s.
What am I talking about?

QUESTION #4:
In the eerie clip directed by Chris Hopewell and inspired by the British children’s TV
series the Trumptonshire Trilogy, a man is given a tour of a picture-perfect town in
which the residents do unspeakably creepy and violent things to each other.
The video culminates in the man nearly being burned to death inside a massive
wooden effigy. (movie reference here)
In a recent interview with Billboard, the animator behind the video, Virpi Kettu,
discussed the motives behind “X”. Interestingly, she believes the video was intended
to be happier than the song. “They wanted the video to contrast with what they’re
playing and to wake people up a bit,” Kettu explained.
Kettu also said that the band wanted the video to raise awareness about Europe’s
refugee crisis and the “blaming of different people… the blaming of Muslims and the
negativity” currently engulfing European politics. She brought up the cryptic postcard
that some Y fans recently received in the mail, which read, “We know where you
live.” Aside from being downright terrifying, she opined that the band was trying to
recreate the climate of fear that politicians have encouraged in response to Muslim
immigrants.
Name X (+3) and Y (+3).
Also, give the name of the British cult classic movie the video pays homage to. (+4)

ANSWER #4:
X: Burn the Witch
Y: Radiohead
Z: The Wicker Man (1973)

QUESTION #5:
“The Y Who Fell To Earth" is the twelfth episode of season 26 of
The Simpsons. X guest stars himself in this episode.
When inventor X lands in Springfield, he and Homer become fast
friends and revolutionize the town's nuclear power plant. But when
X goes overboard and Mr. Burns wants him removed, Homer must
figure out a way to break up with him.
Identify X. (Y is the surname of X)

QUESTION #6:
X is a religion, philosophy or lifestyle and its primary
objective is to promote a modern form of Chinese Taoism,
outlined in Tao Te Ching by Laozi (6th century BC), blended
with concepts from the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus
(341–270 BC)
X has sometimes been regarded as a mock religion due to its
use of comedic film references and occasional criticism of
religion in its traditional sense. However, its founder and
many adherents take the underlying philosophy seriously.
March 6 is the annual sacred high holy day of X.
X advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the
flow", "being cool headed", and "taking it easy" in the face of
life's difficulties, believing that this is the only way to live in
harmony with our inner nature and the challenges of
interacting with other people.

A picture of the X logo. What is X?

ANSWER #6:
X: Dudeism, inspired by the “The Dude” , the
protagonist of the Coen Brothers’ 1998 movie
The Big Lebowski.
You can actually be ordained as a Dudeist
minister online for free!

Q7: Who is Margot Robbie parodying here?

ANSWER #7:
That was Margot Robbie
parodying Patrick Bateman
(played by Christian Bale)
from American Psycho.

QUESTION #8:
On being asked about a certain practice, lawyer
Santosh Paul, who began his practice in
Bombay High Court before shifting to Delhi High
Court, said, “That’s all Bollywood. I haven’t seen
this happening in my lifetime.”
What was he talking about?

ANSWER #8:
The practice of having witnesses taking oath by
the Gita, or any sacred text before giving
evidence.

QUESTION #9:
One strange example of X relates to a children's movie called
Shazaam, supposedly made in the early 1990s and starring the stand-
up comedian Sinbad as an incompetent genie. In fact, no such movie
was ever made (or at least there is no verifiable evidence that it was),
but many people claim to have vivid memories of watching it
repeatedly during the 90s, especially Reddit users on the X subreddit.
Some of these accounts may be explainable as a confused memory of
Kazaam, a 1996 movie with a similar premise, starring basketball
player Shaquille O'Neal as a genie. Meanwhile, some Shazaam
believers favour a X explanation with alternate timelines in parallel
universes, or even a simulated reality hypothesis in which the world we
experience is a complex simulation created by an advanced
civilization.
What is the phenomenon X and why is it called so?

ANSWER #9:
X: The Mandela effect.
It was named after Nelson Mandela, whom
some people erroneously believed to have died
in prison in the 1980s.

QUESTION #10:
In the next slide, two names are blacked out.
Identify them. How do we know them now in the
field of technology?

ANSWER #10:
1st name: Adam D’ Angelo (CEO and founder of
Quora)
2nd name: Mark Zuckerberg(CEO and founder
of Facebook)

QUESTION #11:
On December 8, 1995, X, the editor-in-chief of French Elle magazine, suffered a
stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his
surroundings, but physically paralyzed with what is known as locked-in syndrome,
with the only exception of some movement in his head and eyes. His right eye had
to be sewn up due to an irrigation problem.
His memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was written by X blinking his left
eyelid, which took ten months (four hours a day). Using partner assisted scanning,
a transcriber repeatedly recited a French language frequency-ordered alphabet (E,
S, A, R, I, N, T, U, L, etc.), until X blinked to choose the next letter.
The French edition of the book was published on March 7, 1997. It received
excellent reviews, sold the first 25,000 copies on the day of publication, reaching
150,000 in a week. It went on to become a number one bestseller across Europe.
Its total sales are now in the millions.
In 2007, painter-director Julian Schnabel released a film version of The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly. It starred actor Mathieu Amalric as X. Critically acclaimed, the
film received many awards and nominations including the Best Director Prize at
Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
& Best Director, as well as 4 Academy Award nominations.
Identify X.

ANSWER #11:
X: Jean Dominique
Bauby.
This is Jean Bauby
“dictating” his
memoir to Claudia
Mendibil.

QUESTION #12:
Sharbat Gula's parents were killed during the Soviet Union's
bombing of Afghanistan when she was around six years old. Along
with her grandmother, brother, and three sisters, she walked
across the mountains to Pakistan and ended up in the Nasir Bagh
refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984.
She married Rahmat Gul between the age of 13 and 16, and
returned to her village in Afghanistan in the mid 1990s. She is now
a widow. Gula has three daughters. A fourth daughter died in
infancy. She expressed hopes that her children will be able to get
an education.
Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released an instrumental
song "The Eyes of Sharbat Gula" in their 2015 album Endless
Forms Most Beautiful.
What is Sharbat Gula’s first claim to fame?

ANSWER #12:
Sharbat Gula, also
known as Sharbat Bibi is
the girl in the iconic 1985
National Geographic
cover.

QUESTION #13:
The first X ever was actually invented by lazy students
at Cambridge University who didn’t want to waste a trip
to the nearby coffee pot if it was going to be empty
when they got there.
This coffee machine that was the inspiration for the
world’s first X was located in a corridor just outside The
Trojan Room in the old computer lab at Cambridge
University.
In 1991, too many trips to an empty coffee pot led Dr.
Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky to invent
the world’s first X to help late night studiers and
programmers keep an eye on coffee levels.
What is X?

ANSWER #13:
X: Webcam.
Ironically, the
“webcam” actually
predates the “web”
by a couple of years,
but as soon as the
World Wide Web
went up, the service
was connected to
the internet.

QUESTION #14:
Iceland has just 320,000 residents, compared with more than 300
million people in the U.S.—as well as the lack of immigration and the
peculiar way that surnames are constructed in the country.
Your surname is not passed down through the generations as it is
in most Western cultures. Instead, your surname is your mother or
father’s first name, with the word “son” or “dottir” suffixed.
“Bump in the app before you bump in ___,” is the totally awesome
tag line for the new product, an application Íslendingabók
(translated as The Book of Icelanders). created by a group of
Software Engineering students at the University of Iceland named
Sad Engineer Studios.
What does this application do?

ANSWER #14:
The app, also referred to as “incest prevention” app
sometimes, allows users to bump their phones together
and instantly find out whether or not they are related.

QUESTION #15:
Circuit diagram for what?

ANSWER #15:
Cricket bails LED
flashers.

QUESTION #16:
_____ __ is a black comedy that turns into a
tragedy that emerged from the Second World
War.
Interestingly, a specific situation was named
after the book.
To accomplish task A, one needs object B.
However the only reason one needs to
complete task A is to obtain object B.
This is an example of a _____ __ situation.
Fill in the Blanks.

QUESTION #17:
Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II is a 2003 Indian movie starring Arshad
Warsi. Shashanka Ghosh, the creative driver behind the launch of
MTV and Channel V in India, marks his debut as a director with this
film. Running in many parallel threads, it is in equal parts a comedy,
satire, crime, and a Hindi masala film. The film is most famous for
its songs "Allah ke Bande" performed by Kailash Kher and "Sajna
Aa Bhi Jaa" performed by Shibani Kashyap.
The movie was named in a very specific way, similar to the way
Oracle was launched in 1979, to attract attention when it first set
out in the marketing world.
Which strange marketing technique did these two ventures (the
movie and Oracle) apply?

ANSWER #17:
Waisa Bhi Hota Hai
(Part II) does not
have a Part I, similar
to Oracle which was
released as “version
2” in 1979.

QUESTION #18:
• X was studying astrophysics for a PhD degree at
Imperial College London when he co-authored two
scientific research papers in 1972 and 1973.
• In October 2007, more than 30 years after he started
his research, he completed a PhD thesis in
astrophysics.
• When he appeared on the TV show The Sky at Night,
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said to him, “I don't
know a scientist who looks as much like Isaac Newton
as you do”
• Most of us know X from a different field than science.
• ID X

ANSWER #18:
X: Brian May, lead
guitarist of Queen.

QUESTION #19:
The first use of the phrase has been traced back to a 1915 novel,
‘Psmith, Journalist’ written by P.G. Wodehouse. The phrase was
used in the work as follows:
“I fancy,” said Psmith, “that this is one of those moments when it is
necessary for me to unlimber my X system. As thus. If the rent
collector had been there, it is certain, I think, that Comrade
Spaghetti, or whatever you said his name was, wouldn’t have been.
That is to say, if the rent collector had called and found no money
waiting for him, surely Comrade Spaghetti would have been out in
the cold night instead of under his own roof-tree. Do you follow me,
Comrade Maloney?”
“That’s right,” said Billy Windsor. “Of course.”
“_________, __ ____ _______, __________,” murmured Psmith.
Although associated with X, this phrase was never actually said by
him/her. What is the phrase and who is X?

ANSWER #19:
X: Sherlock Holmes
Phrase: Elementary, my dear Watson,
elementary.

QUESTION #20:
X, a phrase, was sent by Mitsuo Fuchida, the leader of the first
wave of Japanese fighters, to his superiors on the aircraft carrier
Akagi. The word Y (虎) means "tiger" in Japanese, but in this case
is an abbreviated radio codeword, derived from tosugeki raigeki (突
撃雷撃), literally meaning "lightning attack," indicating to his
superiors that the objective of complete surprise had been
achieved.
X, also the name of a film which depicts a major event in history.
What is the phrase X and which event does the movie depict?

ANSWER #20:
X: Tora! Tora! Tora!
Major event: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
on 7th December, 1941.

REMINDER:
• The following questions Q-21 to Q-25 are
connected.
• Each correct answer fetches +5 points. No
negative marking.
• Specify the connection at the end for +10
points.

QUESTION #21:
X went to town
A-riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it macaroni
[Chorus]
X keep it up,
X dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding,
And there we saw the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
Identify X from a very famous British-American song which also happens to be the
state anthem of Connecticut.

QUESTION #22:
Connect the following celebrities:
1. Katie Hopkins (2005), UK TV presenter.
2. Santi Cazorla (2013), football player.
3. Chris Hemsworth (2012), actor.
4. Jonty Rhodes (2015), cricket player.

QUESTION #23:
Some prowl sea-beds, some hurtle to a star
and, mother, some obsessed turn over every stone
or open graves to let that starlight in.
There are men who would open anything.
Harvey, the circulation of the blood,
and Freud, the circulation of our dreams,
pried honorably and honored are
like all explorers. Men who’d open men.
And those others, mother, with diseases
like great streets named after them: Addison,
Parkinson, Hodgkin—physicians who’d arrive
fast and first on any sour death-bed scene.
I am their slowcoach colleague, half afraid
curious. As a boy it was so: you know how
my small hand never teased to pieces
an alarm clock or flensed a perished mouse.
And this larger hand’s the same. It stretches now
out from a white sleeve to hold up, mother
your _ __to the glowing screen. My eyes look
but don’t want to; I still don’t want to know.
Fill in the blanks, which is also the name of the poem by Dannie Abse.

QUESTION #24:
• The song has become a classic love song with a wide range of
artists covering the track. Indigo Girls covered the track in a solo
rendition by Amy Ray on the duo's album Rites of Passage.
• Matt Nathanson covered the song on his Live at the Point album
• McCain covered the track on The Austin Sessions.
• Michael Stanley covered on the song on his 2012 album The
Hang.
• The song was also covered by the British singer-songwriter
Passenger in 2014 for the Sounds of the 80's covers album
released in conjunction with the BBC Radio 2 programme of the
same name.
• American singer Ben Bedford often sings an acoustic version of
the song in his performances
The original was by Dire Straits, what is the name of the song I am
talking about?

QUESTION #25:
X is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Bill
Amend. As of December 2006, X was carried by more than
1,200 newspapers worldwide. The strip launched on April 10,
1988.
In 2006, Amend announced that he would cease drawing X
seven days a week and the final daily strip ran on December
30 of that year. Beginning the next day, and every week
since then, X has strictly appeared on Sundays.
The strip revolves around the daily lives of the Fox family,
composed of parents Andrea (Andy, 42) and Roger (45), and
their children, Peter (16), Paige (14), and Jason (10). It
covers a wide range of subject matter, including spoofs of
pop culture fads, nerd culture, and popular consumer
products.
X also happens to be a dance form. What is X?

The answers to the previous
questions are connected.
Identify the connection.
Swap your sheets.
Answers in the next slide.

ANSWERS:
21 – X: Yankee Doodle
22 – They have named their children India
23 – X- Ray
24 – Romeo and Juliet
25 – Foxtrot
Connection: They are NATO codes for Y, I, X, R, J, F
respectively.

QUESTION #26:
These are the winners of a certain award (2004-2013). The player
with the most X in one year wins the award. What exactly is X?
Year Player Year End
Ranking
X
2004 Roger Federer 1 12
2005 Rafael Nadal 2 11
2006 Roger Federer 1 8
2007 David Ferrer 5 7
2010 Robin Soderling 5 7
2011 Novak Djokovic 1 13

ANSWER #26:
X: Bagels.
Bagel is a term denoting a situation when the
set ends in a score of 6-0.
In case of ties for the most number of bagels,
the player with the most “breadsticks” (6-1
scores) wins the award.

QUESTION #27:
X: 50,072,587,425
Y: 11,113,372,791.5
Z: 3,012,399,040.5
Chip Esten: 2,004,047,000
Greg Proops: 1,001,122,117
Brad Sherwood: 1,071,980.5
Denny Segal: 1,059,560
Karen Maruyama: 1,004,450
Kathy Greenwood: 59,810
Stephen Colbert: 12,000
Kathy Griffin: 5,000
Ian Gomez: 4,000
Jeff Davis: 3,300
Josie Lawrence: 3000
Whoopi Goldberg: 2,500
Patrick Bristow: 1,000
Robin Williams: 1,000
Kathy Kinney: 50
Put funda.
Points for X, Y and Z don’t matter.

ANSWER #27:
Points accumulated on “Whose Line Is It
Anyway?”
X: Wayne Brady
Y: Ryan Stiles
Z: Colin Mochrie

QUESTION #29:
• X studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh
Medical School. During that time, he studied practical
botany at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.
• X played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth
Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the
pseudonym A. C. Smith.
•X also played 10 first class cricket matches for the
Marylebone Cricket Club.
Identify X.

ANSWER #29:
X: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

QUESTION #30:
On April 13, 1996, the band X was the musical guest, and was
scheduled to perform two songs. The show was hosted that night
by ex-Republican presidential candidate and billionaire Y.
According to X guitarist Tom Morello, “X wanted to stand in sharp
juxtaposition to a billionaire telling jokes and promoting his flat tax
by making our own statement.” To this end, the band hung two
upside-down American flags from their amplifiers. Seconds before
they took the stage to perform "Bulls on Parade", SNL and NBC
sent stagehands in to pull the flags down.
Following the removal of the flags during the first performance, the
band was approached by SNL and NBC officials and ordered to
immediately leave the building.
Name of the band X (+5) and Y (+5)

ANSWER #30:
X: Rage against the Machine
Y: Steve Forbes

QUESTION #31:
Cast and crew of which TV Show recreating what?

ANSWER #31:
That was the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica
recreating The Last Supper.

QUESTION #32:
Y began the service X in 1995 as an email distribution list to
friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It
became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other
classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in
2000, and now covers 70 countries.
X has had an impact on pop culture, inspiring a song and a
documentary.
An unidentified serial killer, who killed about 10-17 people
associated with prostitution over a period of 20 years was called the
X ripper as he met them through X.
What is X?

QUESTION #33:
The statistical representation of Six Sigma describes quantitatively how a process is
performing. To achieve Six Sigma, a process must not produce more than 3.4
defects per million opportunities.
Companies like Amazon and FedEx strive to achieve that kind of accuracy through
advanced technology. Not so in the case of the X.
To satisfy their customers, they use a complex system of collection teams, sorting
points and delivery zones, and a completely manual system for routing the right item
to the right destination. This labeling system must rely purely on numbers and
colors, painted on the ___ – because most of the Xs are illiterate and cannot read.
Despite challenges like this, the organization has been recognized and celebrated
for their amazing order accuracy…estimated at roughly 1 error in every 16 million
transactions. They have been granted ISO9000 status and they have been
recognized by Forbes as being a Six Sigma organization.
And there are clearly lessons here that can be applied in any organization.
Which is why Harvard Business School made the X the subject of a case study in
2010, why business leaders from around the world have visited them, and why their
leader was invited to address a TEDx conference in 2011.
Identify X

Answer #33:
X: Dabbawalla organization in Bombay.

QUESTION #34:
Perhaps the most comical contributing factor to Leifer’s historic
snap was he was only in position to take it because a senior
photographer had shunted him to that area. Mondy revealed Sports
Illustrated’s Herb Scharfman pulled rank on Leifer — who at the time
was just 22 — to claim a spot by the judges’ table that he felt gave
him more room to manoeuvre during the match.
But when the “moment” took place, senior photographer Herb
Scharfman was left staring at X’s back while Neil Leifer took one of
the most iconic photograph in sports history.
Which photograph am I talking about?

ANSWER #34:
Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston fight.
You can see Herb Scharfman between Ali’s legs.

QUESTION #35:
As the story goes, X was walking along the road with two friends,
the sun was setting and suddenly the sky turned blood red. X
paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence and there was
blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city, his
friends walked on, and he stood there trembling with anxiety
sensing an infinite Y passing through nature.
This inspired X to create something which we know as Y.
Who is X and what is Y?

ANSWER #35:
X: Edward Munch
Y: The Scream

QUESTION #36:
Who is being blanked out?
Hint is in the picture, look closely.

QUESTION #37:
“So here’s to my sweet Satan,
The one who’s little path would make me sad.
Whose power is Satan.
He will give you 666.
There was a little toolshed,
where he made us suffer sad Satan.”
This is the message you can hear when a certain part of a iconic
70s rock song is played backwards. You have to hear really closely.
Which song?

ANSWER #37:
Stairway to Heaven.
Robert Plant said that this was just a
coincidence, though.

QUESTION #38:
Les Horribles X-ettes ("The Horrible X Girls") was an all-female
parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy
Rock Band", founded by employees of X which performed at X and
other HEP-related events. Their musical style is often described as
doo-wop.
Their humorous songs are freely available on their website.
The band is also known for a photograph of themselves which
became a first of sorts.
What is the “first of sorts” and what is X?

ANSWER #38:
X: CERN
The photograph of themselves was the first
photo on the World Wide Web.

CONNECT THE PEOPLE:
The following people share something very obviously common but I
don’t want that as an answer. Something interesting in a different
field altogether connects them.
1. +90/-90
2. +80/-80
3. +70/-70
4. +60/-60
5. +50/-50
6. +40/-40
7. +30/-30
8. +20/-20
9. +10/-10

ANSWER #38:
All of the celebrities died of the “Ramsey curse.”

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