Q.U.I.Z. Finals (Kairos-2014, NLU, Delhi)

Q.U.I.Z.(Finals)
Gursheel Singh

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Infinite Bounce

In the movie Rasputin and the Princess (image next slide) it
was insinuated that the character Princess Natasha was
raped by Rasputin. The real life Princess Irina who was
supposedly the inspiration behind the character sued MGM.
After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the
princess had been defamed.
Princess Irina and her husband were reportedly awarded
$127,373 in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934
and $1 million in an out-of-court settlement with MGM.
As a preventive measure against further lawsuits, the film
was taken out of distribution for decades.
Movies were never the same again. Why?

Which painting, one of the best recognized works of
Japanese art is the inspiration behind the logo?

A Mr. Harvey first spotted this face on a postcard pinned to
the office bulletin board of a friend who was an editor. "It
was a face that didn't have a care in the world, except
mischief," recalled Mr. Harvey. The face would become an
essential feature of something that Mr. Harvey started.
Initially it was named ‘Mel Haney' but soon it would acquire
its more famous name that continues till date. Id.

The author of this seminal book had difficulty picking a
title. among those she considered was 'man against
nature'.however her agent disliked it and suggested she
take the heading of one of the chapters as the title of the
book.the book was at the fifth position in the modern
library's 100 best non fiction books list. id

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Hydrox was a landmark product by a small company
named Sunshine. It had terrific sales for the first few
years till a much larger company created a rip-off.
Using their vastly superior, already established
distribution channels and massive advertising budgets
they created a huge market for their product. As a
result the rip-off product became so popular that
people started calling Hydrox its imitation. The
company manufacturing Hydrox eventually shut down.
The rip-off product is now one the most famous of its
kind and a cultural icon. Identify.

During the 1850s a certain Gustave Dore came up with a suggestion
for Hachette, the leading French publisher. He wanted to the
Hachette to republish Dante's Inferno with some additions by him.
Because of the additions the book would cost a 100 Francs.
Hachette turned him down, saying no one would pay that much.
Doré said he would pay for the entire edition. Hachette was listed as
the publisher but was actually just the printer. But again Hachette
cautioned Doré to only have a hundred copies bound, so as not to
waste all that money on binding. The book came out in 1861.
A couple weeks later, Doré received a famous telegram from Louis
Hachette. "Success! Come quickly! I am an ass!“ Far from selling
100 copies, there have now been over 200 editions of that book.
What did Gustave add to the book?

What was Freud describing when in 1925 he wrote
“where such men love they have no desire, and where
they desire they cannot love,” specifically, he noticed the
difficulty some men had in having sexual relations with
their wives because they differentiated women because
of this. Those men were aroused by prostitutes and
mistresses but not their wives because, paradoxically,
they respected the latter too much to be sexually
attracted to them.

The founding members of the Parents Music Resource
Center(PMRC), founded in 1985 included Tipper Gore, wife of Al
Gore; Susan Baker, wife of the Treasury Secretary; Pam Howar,
wife of a Washington realtor; and Sally Nevius, wife of a former
Washington City Council Chairman. They were known as the
"Washington wives" – a reference to their husbands‘
connections with government in the Washington, D.C. area.
According to many, Tipper's involvement in the committee
was a misguided attempt to get attention for her husband's
presidential aspirations.
What is PMRC's most important contribution to the world,
which is also referred to as the ‘Tipper Sticker’?

The PMRC was founded stated goal of increasing parental
control over the access of children to music deemed to
be violent, have drug use or be sexual via labeling
albums with Parental Advisory stickers.

Harnik Food Industries was founded by a certain Mr. N. L.
Hingorani over four decades ago. Their range of products
includes instant food mixes and desserts and a wide
range of confectionery products.
Their product X is one of its kind in India and remains by
far the company's most famous one. Id the product,
which had a rather sincere following among Indian kids.

Koni's real name is Connie Paulgrave. She was born to
Henrietta Bush and Alkor Ross Bradford in Russia. There
are rumours, although they are unconfirmed, that Koni
was named after Condoleeza Rice. She's very close to
Vladimir Putin and answering a question at a press
conference, Putin stated : "In tough situations I try to
consult with Koni, who gives me good advice."
What is so special about Koni?

Why were the following two changes made in Kubrick's
masterpiece Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop
worrying and love the bomb
Major Kong's comment about the survival kit was originally
"A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all
that stuff". "Dallas" was overdubbed with "Vegas". Kong still
mouths the word "Dallas".
Additionally, the climactic pie-fight scene was cancelled
which included General Turgidson exclaiming, "Gentlemen!
Our gallant young president has been struck down!" after
Muffley takes a pie in the face.

Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas
When in November 1963, the film was just
weeks from its scheduled premiere. The release
was delayed until late January 1964 as it was
felt that the public was in no mood for such a
film any sooner, and one line ("a fella could have
a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that
stuff") was dubbed to become "in Vegas".
While the pie fight was filmed but cut, this line,
no matter how coincidental, would have hit too
close to home to be used.

A was a fan of B's work. However there was one thing
about one of B's characters that A didn't like. He wrote a
letter voicing his opinion. Greatly impressed by A's
expertise, B created a new character named after A. Id

A

B

A-Geoffrey Boothroyd B-Ian
Fleming
Boothroyd was a Glasgow based firearms expert and
was unhappy with Bond carrying a .25 Beretta pistol
stating in his letter to Fleming that
“‘I don’t think Bond was going to last very long if he
used a 25 Beretta pistol...”
Greatly impressed by Boothroyd's knowledge Fleming
created the character Major Boothroyd, who first
appeared in the sixth novel Dr. No as Bond’s service
armorer. This character became “Q” in the Bond
films,who was played by Ben Wishaw in Skyfall
(2012).

Choose your pick.
Weird Stuff 1
Weird Stuff 2
Indian Doctors 1
Indian Doctors 2
Paul McCartney's Quotes-1

Weird Stuff-1
Mike, the chicken was to suffer the same fate as most of
his brothers. However starting from September 10, 1945
he became a world famous celebrity and remained so
since his death 18 months later. In fact on May 16-17,
2014 the 16th Annual Festival celebrating his life will be
held in Colarado. Various events at the festival include a
5k run, bike poker ride, disc golf tournament, wing and
peep eating contests etc.
As was expected Mike earned his owner almost $4500
back in 1946($48,000 in 2010 dollars).
What happened on September 10, 1945 to Mike?

Weird Stuff 2
An ordinary rural fence in New Zealand is now a rather
controversial tourist attraction thanks to something that
started at some point between Christmas and New Year in
1999.
People started to attach X to the fence. Initially they were just
four in number but as the news spread, more of X began to
appear. Each time the local authorities cleared the fence of
Xs, the news spread, leading to more additions subsequently.
Sometime in April, 2006 locals tried to create a world record
of the longest X chain. Though the world record was never
created, almost $10,000 were raised in charity.
What am I talking about?

Indian Doctors-1
Dr Y. M. Bhende was born on 27 September 1911. He
graduated from Grant Medical College, Bombay (now
Mumbai) in 1935 and did his MD in General Medicine in
1940. Subsequently, he completed his MD in Pathology from
Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital in 1945. He
joined Seth G.S. Medical College as Assistant Professor in the
Department of Pathology in 1945 and went to England in
1947 on a Nuffield Research Fellowship.In 1952, Dr Bhende
along with his co-authors published a paper in The Lancet
proposing something that hogged the limelight in a 2012
Bollywood movie. Though many must have thought it
fictional, it does exist. What?

Bombay Blood Group/Kahaani

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Indian Doctors-2
Methaqualone was first synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra
Kishore Kacker and Syed Hussain Zaheer, for use as an
antimalarial drug. It however became highly successful as a
sedative in the US in 1972 when it was sold under the brand
name X. Though regarded by its manufacturers as an excellent
sleeping pill, the brand got into a lot of trouble because of its
illegal use as a recreational drug. The company chairman even
remarked, "X accounted for less than 2% of our sales but created
98% of our headaches". Id.

“Perhaps the rumor started because I haven't
been much in the press lately. I have done
enough press for a lifetime, and I don't have
anything to say these days. I am happy to be
with my family and I will work when I work. I
was switched on for ten years and I never
switched off. Now I am switching off whenever
I can. I would rather be a little less famous
these days”
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What rumor is being referred to here?

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The rumor that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was
secretly replaced by a look-alike.
In September 1969, American college students published
articles claiming that clues to McCartney's death could be
found among the lyrics and artwork of the Beatles' recordings.
Clue-hunting proved infectious and within a few weeks had
become an international phenomenon

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"You know what doesn't feel very good, is
going on tour and paying to sing all my songs.
Every time I sing Hey Jude, I've got to pay
someone."
What was he talking about? Id the 'someone'

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The fact that Michael Jackson owned rights to almost 200
of The Beatles’ songs.

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In 1985 Jackson, then flush with Thriller cash, beat out Sir Paul
(and Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow) in a bid to snatch up the
rights to 200 of the Fab Four's iconic hits.

Horace Fletcher(image nxt slide) believed that his method,
'fletcherizing' as it was popularly known, would increase the
amount of strength a person could have while actually
decreasing the amount of food consumed. He promoted his
theories for decades on lecture circuits, and became a
millionaire. Upton Sinclair, Henry James and John D. Rockefeller
were among those who gave his ideas a try. Henry James and
Mark Twain were visitors to his palazzo in Venice.
At the age of 58 he took part in a series of vigorous tests and
endurance versus Yale University athletes The tests claim that
Fletcher outperformed these Yale athletes in all events and that
they were very impressed with his athletic ability at his old age.
What is 'fletcherizing'?

Masticating or chewing your
food 32 times before
swallowing.
He believed, "Nature will castigate those who
don't masticate."

Every year Cuba receives a cheque of $4,085 made out
to the “Treasurer General of the Republic", a position that
ceased to exist after Cuba's 1959 revolution. Cuba has
only once cashed a check in almost half a century and
then only by mistake. In a television interview years ago,
Fidel Castro showed the checks stuffed into a desk
drawer in his office.
Who sends these cheques and why?

United States/Guantanamo
Bay
The United States, as a rent for the controversial
Guantanamo naval base which houses the Guantanamo
Bay detention camp. The U.S. government maintains
that cashing that check constituted an official
validation of the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903 that
stipulates that Cuba lease to the United States specific
lands in Cuba, most notably the land that surrounds
Guantánamo Bay, for the purpose of coaling and naval
stations, for as long as necessary.

Inspired by the works of M C Fischer, a Dutch graphic
artist, the logo of this rather controversial brand shows a
man morphing into a bird. according to the parent
company of this brand , it allows you to experience your
life in totality and in harmony with nature and hence the
logo.
Id.

What have I blanked out? What is the significance of the
'tragedy'?

Jury Trials were abolished in India.

The man in the image shown was a Swedish backstroke
and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1936
Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he was a member of the Swedish relay team
which finished eight in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay
competition. In the 100 metre backstroke event he was
eliminated in the semi-finals. He won the 400 m and
1500 m freestyle events at 1938 European Swimming
Championships.
Id

The American free skiing jackets for the Sochi Olympics
are made by North Star. On the insides of these jackets
there is a yellow star cut out from a very special fabric.
What is the specialty of the fabric in question?

The fabric is made from the
gear that has been used on
Mount Everest

The .mkv extension is used for video files that adhere to the
Matroska Multimedia Container file format. It is a container format
that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio or subtitle tracks in
one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing
common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is
similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced
Systems Format (ASF), but is entirely open in specification, with
implementations consisting mostly ofopen source software.
The name Matroska is derived from Matryoshka which refers to
something in Russian that is famous the world over. The name was
chosen mainly because the format was a container format and as
Wikipedia puts it “to appeal to "open" source computer programmers,
who need concepts like container and nesting.”
What does Matryoshka refer to?

Matroyshka Dolls/Russian Dolls

The product though made by different manufacturers across
the world is reassuringly uniform in size so much so that
some have suggested that its dimensions should be made a
standard unit. It is rectangular in shape roughly 3.1cm by
6.1cm and 5mm in depth. There are ten holes on the
product.
First introduced in 1910 in the United Kingdom, these were
introduced in India in 1955. Though many believe that the
name is taken from a French -Italian Dynasty, it is in fact a
combination of names of two cities. One, where it was
invented and the other where the inventor was born.
It was the first of its kind product on the moon.

The 2003 IgNobel Peace Prize winner was a certain Lal
Bihari(Image next slide) from India. His (mis)adventure
started in 1975 when he applied for a bank loan. It took
him two decades to set things straight and in the
process, Mr. Bihari, a poorly educated merchant, found
his mission in life: championing the cause of those
suffering a similar fate. The organisation he formed for
the same purpose now has around 20k members.
His plight was depicted in a 2011 Bollywood movie.
Funda please.

He was officially dead between 1975 and 1994. His
uncle had bribed a government official to register him as
dead, so that he would get the ownership of Bihari's
ancestral land at Khalilabad, which measured less than
an acre.

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You'll find this character X in the web application Y Y
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was launched in 2005. Although it was only in 2007
when the 'new' version of Y was launched that X
became visible. X's name comes from the fact that
he's shaped like a clothes peg. He's personified in
several of Y's demo videos and has also appeared at
official events of Y
.
Though traditionally yellow, he dresses up for special
occasions and events, like donning a Santa Claus hat
for Christmas. Id

The story about X's existence in Y's life is largely apocryphal.
Some say that Y never had anyone like X in his life while
some say that X was a rather important part in Y's life.
According to one anecdote X helped Y solve two theorems in
a single morning. In a more famous anecdote X is seen as
being responsible for destroying, some of Y's works however,
those who believe that X never existed say that it was simply a
gust of wind that caused the accident. What am I talking
about?

Last year Gareth Bale wanted to patent his famous "heart
celebration"(image next slide). He filed a trademark
application with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which
would’ve allowed him to use his logo on goods made from
precious metals and leather as well as on clothing, footwear
and headgear.Sadly for him, the gesture may already have
been patented by a tech company for one of its products. The
tech company patented the gesture in 2011, though it is
unlikely that the patent will actually be implemented. Which
tech company and which product?

Google Glass
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The Independent are reporting that Google protected the
finger gesture back in 2011 as they intend it to function as
their equivalent to Facebook’s like feature – which will see
users wearing the Google Glass augmented reality headset to
perform the gesture, thus forming a heart around a real-life
object they wish to “I Like”

The under construction website of this cafe(X) in Pakistan
has this as the first line.
"They said "bring a gora franchisee and scene on hai".
This is an obvious reference to chains like Starbucks. The
logo of the cafe(image next slide) is deceptively similar
to the Starbucks logo and so is the name. They even
claim that Starbucks wouldn't stand a chance if it were to
open a cafe in Pakistan. Id

Whose bust was Nitish Kumar bowing to in the
picture?
The bust is located in a village named Motihari in
Bihar.

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Mr. Tushar read an article in the Times of India in
1995 that something (X) which rightfully belongs to
his family was stored in a bank vault in the Bank of
Orissa and had been there for 49 years then.
The bank managers and government contested for
months that it was a hoax, blocking his access to the
vault. After months of court hearings and a hunger
strike the Supreme Court finally ruled that X was
authentic, and authorized their release to the Mr.
Tushar’s family.
What am I referring to ?

X-Gandhiji’s Ashes.

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X-Gandhiji’s Ashes.
Mr. Tushar is Tushar Gandhi, the leader’s
great-grandson.
When Gandhiji died, his ashes were kept
in urns and sent all over India to be
immersed. One urn however was kept in
the Bank of Orissa branch and was
forgotten.

The lady and the gentleman (images next slide)were seated
next to each other on a flight from Paris to London in 1981.
The lady had just placed her straw bag in the overhead
compartment of her seat, but the contents fell to the floor,
leaving her to scramble to replace the contents. The lady
then complained about something and sat down.
This incident inspired the man to create something and
three years later he came up with the product which was
named after the lady. What am I talking about?

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