Quiz Session Held as a part of the Monthly V Quiz Informal Meeting

2.  Gautam
 Arvind
 Yadu
 Akash
 Govidettan

3.  Welcome to theTechWeed India SpEnt Lit Quiz
 4 rounds
 32 Questions
 2 Pounce and Bounce Rounds
 2Written Rounds

4.  Pounce +10/-5
 Bounce +10/0

5.  In the 1940 American Businessmen Martin Bromley and Irving
Bromberg founded a Co Called Standard Games, they
provided coin operated amusement machines for fairs and
circuses
 With the onset ofWW2 their target audience changed to
military personnel leading to them changing their name to
Service Games
 This Co was a worldwide phenomenon during the 80s and
though popular for being Japanese has infact its roots n
America, ID

8.  What is special about this excerpt of Abraham Lincoln’s
speech from the NYTimes

12.  In the Phillp standard Morse Code shorthand symbols where
used for frequently used phrases like thank you etc
 What does the symbol 88 signify and is its significance in the
field of comm and tech
 -- . . --

15.  The term X has its origins in the escapades of a group of friends
from San Rafael high school,N California, 1971. that autumn, they
came into possession of a hand drawn map locating marijuana
crop at Point Reyes, San Franscisco.They met After School and
drove off on their treasure hunt.They never did end up finding the
plot, but members say
 We were smoking a lot of weed at the time. Half was the fun was
looking for it
 After 2 decades, Steve Bloom an editor at High times, saw X
explained on the band’s Flyer(Grateful Dead Rock Band). Staff on
the magazine, long leading the Publication Of Marijuana, started
using the term leading its entry into the drug parlance, X?

18.  ___ ____ are self contained computers featuring their own
30MHz CPU, 64 KB of Ram and some storage space
 That’s an equal amount of memory and more processing
power that a Apple 2e (1983), Mactintosh predecessor
 These devices are designed to run applets based in a stripped
down form of JAVA.They are also used in credit cards but are
well known to us for their intended use in a different
application
 What?

21.  Independent pro-wrestler and trained actor , Deven Macnair
began her career in Los Angeles as a stunt double. Being one of
the few female stunt coordinators in the film industry , she soon
got jobs choreographing scenes of a specific nature.
 In a recent interview with LA weekly , Macnair talks about the
difficulty she experiences in coping with the emotional difficulties
brought about by her job. She says that her rising amount of work
is rather worrying from an ethical viewpoint.
 Her works includeThe Handmaid’s tale ,Westworld,The
Revenant, Nocturnal Animals ,The Birth of a nation and 13
Reasons Why.
 What is her speciality?

23.  Directing scenes depicting rape in movies and series.

27.  Prabhal Mohandas was born and brought up in Palakkad, Kerala
with a rich family history in agriculture. He, however, went on to
pursue higher education and did his engineering as well as an
MBA.
 He spent a good decade with the likes of HSBC and Reliance and
then got the urge to come back to his roots to start an enterprise
around agriculture.
 Belonging to the technology age, Prabhal realized the power of
the mobile and web, and with the limited funds, he had come with
a mobile app.
 Identify the app and the product he sells through it?

30.  People are drawn to it by its unique design .The form of this is
unconventional & Bears the institution’s trademark
 It is well proportioned and As it goes on higher the volume
terminates at the top.
 There is a circular service core in the centre, which consists of 2
concentric circles.The inner smaller circular core is a narrow
vertical shaft open on the top, with openings at different levels.
This shaft provides ventilation to the central areas and works on
the principle of Stack effect, a very simple but effective solution .
Around this circular core are the service areas, what?

33.  Thiruppaan Alvar is one of the twelve azhwar saints of
South India, who are known for their affiliation
toVaishnava tradition of Hinduism.The verses of azhwars are
compiled as Nalayira Divya Prabandham and the 108 temples
revered are classified as Divya desam.Thirupaanazhwar is
considered the eleventh in the line of the twelve azhwars.
 The lyrics which was written by him on the next slide came
into news 2013, why?

34.  I have seen the One whose color is like dark rainclouds
He is the one with the mouth that swallowed the butter of
cowherds,
He is the Lord of the devas, He is Lord Ranganatha,
He is my nectar, my life!
My eyes have seen my Lord and will not see anything else!

38.  Hot flames release electromagnetic radiation (known as black
body radiation emission) in the visible part of the electromagnetic
spectrum, and as temperatures increase, the colors they emit shift
from red to orange, yellow, and, lastly, white-blue.
 blue flames belie complete combustion, which can only occur
when there’s plenty of oxygen available to allow a flame to get
super hot, and the fuel being burned doesn’t release too many
additional chemicals during pyrolysis that might lead to a
different colored flame
 These were a case of study owing to a particular event in 2017,
what?

61.  Anticlockwise

62.  This is the Cover for Andy Broome’s book about Jackie
Mitchell, whose claim to fame was that she struck out Both
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth
 What word has been blanked out?

66.  Identify this two time Olympic gold medallist whose middle
name might remind you of a famous woman from history who
was portrayed by Amy Adams on screen and was the first
woman to a certain first
 Her surname might remind you of a galaxy far away and a
character that has been synonymous with it
 Who? Image Follows

73.  Tatiana Navka, the wife ofVladimir Putin's spokesperson
Dmitry Peskov, sparked controversy after delivering a
_________-themed figure skating performance with Andrey
Burkovskiy.
 Sporting striped uniforms with gold Stars of David to portray
it, the two skated on Saturday night to the Israeli song
"BeautifulThatWay" that was used in the movie about the
_________,in the film ____ ___ _________.They skated for a
Russian realityTV show, what is the subject ? And Film

78.  Liverpool fan Callum Campbell, 16, who was the person to
blame for this incident had this to say.
 “It was me,” he said last night. “I’m the one who did it. I’m the
one caught on camera. I’m so, so sorry.This is my worst, worst
nightmare.
 “When I got home I went into the garden and threw up. I was
physically sick – and that’s before the death threats started
appearing on the internet the next day.”
 What did he do? Img Follows

82.  Nike continues their commitment to inclusivity following their
"Equality" initiative with a new ad spot that's gone viral on the
Internet.
 In a powerful new commercial made for Nike Middle East, the
brand prominently featuresArab and Muslim women athletes
exercising and competing.The clip opens with a women running
as pedestrians stare at her.The rest of the footage shows women
in the suburbs of Dubai running, skateboarding, fencing, boxing,
and ice skating bolstered a narrator who says, "what will they say
about you? Maybe they'll say you exceeded all expectations.
 What are they promoting in the ad?

85.  2011 Super bowl Halftime show was performed by the Black
Eyed Peas's Fergie singing the part of ___ ____ and
accompanied by famed guitarist Slash, left most viewers
scratching their heads at the vocalist's over-acted, over-
stylized delivery and suggestive dancing.
 Who were they trying to impersonate ?

89.  The odds for this to happen were at 5000-1, even Kim
Kardashian’s Odds for winning the Presidential Elections were
better than this.
 Thus doing so becoming the 6 on the list to achieve it
 It was in the 24th edition that this happened, after 1 year the
person who sowed the seeds for was shell-shocked to see his
own departure, even though he did better than his
predecessor and thus the power of the King faded away
 What happened?

92.  Sparking an uproor HalloweenCostumes.com removed the
costume on Sunday in response to criticism. As of
Monday(16th October 2017) night, the costume appeared to
have been removed fromWalmart's website as well, but was
still being sold on Amazon.
 Why did they remove it?
 Img Follows

96.  Northern Michigan University is offering a Unique four-year
bachelor of science program.
 Technically, the program is called "Medicinal Plant
Chemistry," and it combines chemistry, biology, botany,
horticulture, marketing and finance classes into one course
study.There's even specialized entrepreneurial and bio-
analytical tracks for students who want to focus on the
business or scientific aspects of the degree.
 This is a Degree On?

99.  There are two letters in the film which failed to reach the
destinations. One was fromThe Protagonist's Love Interest saying
that she chose someone else over him-The letter was in the end
burned to keep him safe from the pain
 The second letter from the Protagonist’s friend, who with help
from him build a perfect system based on a lie, wanted apologise
and confess about his lie to the general public - the letter got in
the hands ofVillain and Chaos sets afoot
 The film ends with the lines from Charles Dickens Novel aTale
fromTwo Cities- Film ?

102.  Puns