General Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NIT Warangal as a part of Q Factor: Online Edition on 22nd July, 2020.

2. Research team
• Pratyush
• Venkatesh
• Deepak
• Maithili
• Shreya
• Shubham
• Adarsh
• Rohan

4. Rules
• To pounce, write your answer on the team text channel, and tag
the moderator before pounce time is closed.
• Pounce scoring:
+10 for full correct answer -5 for incorrect/incomplete answer
• To bounce, when it is your team’s chance to answer, any one
member can unmute themselves on the Quiz voice channel and
answer.
• Bounce scoring:
+10 for complete correct answer No negatives for incorrect answer
• Part points where applicable

5. Test Question
• It all started when the spelling of this entity was pronounced in
two different way based on the dialects spoken in its country of
origin.
• Along the southern coast it was called as X, whereas in the
central part of the country it was called Y.
• Thus, countries where this entity was traded by Sea, (like
England or Sri Lanka) it is called as some variant of X.
• Whereas countries where the entity was traded by land, (like
India and Northern Africa) it is called by some variant of Y.
• ID X and Y, sometimes erroneously used one after the other.

6. ANSWER
The word for Tea around the world
X- Tea
Y- Chai

7. Q1 : Now weight a minute...
• The gyrfalcon is a bird of prey, the largest of the falcon species.
• Since it is one of the major birds available in the US, this was the
first choice for a certain event. Moreover symbolically, it is also
mascot of United States Air Force Academy.
• What contribution does this bird have in science, as proven by
the Apollo 15 mission?

9. ANSWER
The bird contributed it’s feather for the famous hammer and
feather drop experiment which claimed to prove Galileo’s theory of
gravitation.

10. Q2 : What law?
This law in Quitman, Georgia mandates the control of poultry by its
owners and is in accordance with the general danger that is
associated with letting farm animals run about, as it can be a major
hazard to both the poultry's life and to whatever may impact it.
The specificity of this law however rings true to a time eternal gag
and was probably put in by the lawmakers as it would make a
funny read.

11. ANSWER
In Quitman, Georgia it is illegal for owners to let their
chicken cross the road.

12. Q3 : Explain this peculiar nomenclature
accepted by the Soviet Union
The area of Mare Muscovience/Moscovience on moon (where Sushant
Singh Rajput had bought land) is named after Moscow. This area was
discovered in 1959 by Luna 3 (of Soviet Union) and subsequently
named so. However the name couldn't be accepted internationally
because it was in violation of certain nomenclature rules. Later Soviet
Union accepted the condition of IAU (intl astronomical union) and
thus the place could retain this name.
For instance, Sea of Tranquility (Apollo 11 landing site) is a perfectly
acceptable name.

14. ANSWER
Lunar seas (mares) are mostly named after ‘states of mind’.
Hence Soviet Union had to accept that ‘Moscow’ is a ‘state of
mind’.

15. Q4 : ID X, Y, and Z
Sandias, considered to be the last painting of a famous artist X, was
completed regardless of X’s deteriorating health just 8 days before X’s
death. X inscribed Y, a phrase on the bottom of the painting as a
tribute to her painful yet beautiful life.
When on a tour to Mexico city, Z visited the la casa de azul where the
painting is currently located and got cues for the title from the phrase Y
for one of their most famous entry in pop culture.

16. ANSWER
X- Frida Kahlo
Y- Viva la Vida
Z- Coldplay (Chris Martín)

17. Q5 : What was so unique about this
eruption?
The eruption of a certain volcano in Alaska was quite unique. No one
expected it to erupt since the volcano had been lying dormant for
about 400 years. However in April of 1974 residents of Sitka (Alaska)
were terrified when they saw a menacing plume of black smoke rising
from the crater. Numerous calls were made to the local authorities.
The Coast guard arranged for immediate aerial surveillance revealing
more smoke as surveillance helicopter got closer to the volcano.
Immediately the information was relayed back to the town with
everyone shocked to find this event to be of such great magnitude.

18. ANSWER
It was a staged explosion as an April fools day prank. No
actual explosion took place.

19. Q6 : What is this condition popularly called?
• Tendons are those that attach body muscles to bones. Bicep
tendons attach bicep’s muscles to elbow and shoulder. A larger
bump along the front of upper arm occur when the muscle belly
retracts.
• This leads to problems like cramp like pain in arm and loss of elbow
strength.
• This condition is known as Biceps tendon tear.

21. ANSWER
Popeye biceps

22. Q7 : ID the sport and give funda
There is a wide held belief that this sport is inherently advantageous
to certain type of players. The playing surface used in this sport is
often coated with oil to protect the surface from wear and tear. Over
time, the surface develops distinctive oil patterns which have
profound effects on traction and trajectory. Oil patterns often break
down over time due to extended use, obliging players to adapt to it,
failing to do which can lead to defeat. This is where certain players
have an inherent advantage as they don't have to deal with oil
breakdown as much as other players.

23. ANSWER
Bowling. Left handed bowlers have an advantage because there is
lesser oil breakdown on their side of the lane as there are fewer
players.

24. Q8 : What is being talked about?/
What is X?
According to research, there are four types of Xs: the Hemingway,
whose personality doesn’t change, the Mary Poppins, who gets
sweeter and happier, the Nutty Professor, who becomes more social,
and the Mr. Hyde, who becomes more hostile and less responsible.

25. ANSWER
X- Drunk Personalities
These are the different ways most people behave while drunk.

26. Q9 : Give me X, Y and what "inversion”
A possible reason for this inversion has to do with the boom of the X
trade in the 18th century between Europe and Africa. Also Y, usually
imported from India or Sri Lanka got rarer and more expensive.
So it made more financial sense to flip X and Y to save money.
This gave the further advantage of the ____ sticking out black
against the rest and made the overall object brighter.

27. ANSWER
X- Ivory Y- Ebony
Inversion - Color combination of Pianos.
From white over black to black over white

28. Q10 : ID the creature
• The iconic tale X chronologically starts with God Shiva telling
Goddess Parvati some riddles inside a cave. A man outside however,
taken by curiosity, was listening. Later, he went out & spread these
stories. However, since these were meant to be private between the
God and the Goddess, Shiva converted the person into a kind of
undying creature as punishment. The guy then asked for
forgiveness, so Shiva told him that he can be freed if he can tell the
answers of all the riddles. The rest of the story deals with how he
ends up finding the solutions to these riddles. Id the creature the
man was converted into.

29. ANSWER
Betal or Vetala
He finds the answers of all those riddles from King Vikram which
forms the main plot of Vikram and Vetal story

31. Rules
• There will be 5 questions, of the written type.
• After each question is displayed, type out your answer
on your respective team text channels, tagging your
team’s moderator.
• Scoring :
+10/-0

32. Q1 : What item?
In the 1960s companies began selling steel plates coated with green
porcelain-based enamel instead of the traditional X. The new material
was light and less fragile, so they were cheaper to ship and more likely
to survive the journey. The new product was easier to use. Plus, the
enamel left less of a glare and the color was nicer to look at for long.
However despite the color change, the original name has stuck.

33. Q2 : FITB and ID X.
X was barred from a third consecutive term by the Constitution. First
Deputy Prime Minister Y was elected his successor. In a power-
switching operation in 2008, only a day after handing the presidency
to Y, X was appointed Prime Minister, maintaining his political
dominance.
In 2012, Y announced that he would recommend the party nominate
X as its presidential candidate and he himself would be ready to
perform other practical work in the government.
This switch of positions was termed by many in the media as
"Rokirovka", the term for "________" in that country’s language.
(Part points for each)

34. Q3 : X?
• Mater Matuta was a Latin goddess, whom the Romans eventually
made equivalent to the dawn goddess, Aurora.
• The word X originated from her name. X can be described as a
musical/ dramatic performance or a social or public event. However
it is different from similar regular events in one aspect. From the
1930’s through the 1960’s, X attracted women and children owing to
societal norms, and was known to happen at a distinct time in the
day: a norm which continues to this day. X today is preferred by all
people to save some money, owing to the lesser crowd it gathers.

35. Q4 : X, Y?
• X Tyler (née Sawyer) has been immortalized in history in a well known
manner, although there have been many disputes as to the origins of
this immortalization, with some crediting Sarah Josepha Hale and the
others, a John Roulstone.
• In the late 1860s, X, a 11-year old Bostonian was trying to raise
money to save an old church in Boston and took a pair of ____
stockings that had been made from the famous Y, unravelled the
____ and sold small pieces of it attached to commemorative cards at
10 cents at a time.

36. Q5 : What is being described here?
Rules-
• No import statements allowed (all code is home grown).
• Booleans: true->fact false->lie
• Variable names are all English, and either short or popular words only.
• No floating point numbers, _________ doesn’t do thing halfways.
• $4B always converted to $10B.
• “Yell” or “Exclaim” are the prints to standard output.
• Strings that are yelled (or all strings) can only be uppercase.
• All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is
inconsequential.

38. Q1 : What item?
In the 1960s companies began selling steel plates coated with green
porcelain-based enamel instead of the traditional X. The new material
was light and less fragile, so they were cheaper to ship and more likely
to survive the journey. The new product was easier to use. Plus, the
enamel left less of a glare and the color was nicer to look at for long.
However despite the color change, the original name has stuck.

39. ANSWER
Blackboard

40. Q2 : FITB and ID X.
X was barred from a third consecutive term by the Constitution. First
Deputy Prime Minister Y was elected his successor. In a power-
switching operation in 2008, only a day after handing the presidency
to Y, X was appointed Prime Minister, maintaining his political
dominance.
In 2012, Y announced that he would recommend the party nominate
X as its presidential candidate and he himself would be ready to
perform other practical work in the government.
This switch of positions was termed by many in the media as
"Rokirovka", the term for "________" in that country’s language.
(Part points for each)

41. ANSWER
Castling in chess
X - Vladimir Putin

42. Q3 : X?
• Mater Matuta was a Latin goddess, whom the Romans eventually
made equivalent to the dawn goddess, Aurora.
• The word X originated from her name. X can be described as a
musical/ dramatic performance or a social or public event. However
it is different from similar regular events in one aspect. From the
1930’s through the 1960’s, X attracted women and children owing to
societal norms, and was known to happen at a distinct time in the
day: a norm which continues to this day. X today is preferred by all
people to save some money, owing to the lesser crowd it gathers.

43. ANSWER

44. Q4 : X, Y?
• X Tyler (née Sawyer) has been immortalized in history in a well known
manner, although there have been many disputes as to the origins of
this immortalization, with some crediting Sarah Josepha Hale and the
others, a John Roulstone.
• In the late 1860s, X, an 11-year old Bostonian was trying to raise
money to save an old church in Boston and took a pair of ____
stockings that had been made from the famous Y, unravelled the
____ and sold small pieces of it attached to commemorative cards at
10 cents at a time.

45. ANSWER
X – Mary
Y - Lamb

46. Q5 : What is being described here?
Rules-
• No import statements allowed (all code is home grown).
• Booleans: true->fact false->lie
• Variable names are all English, and either short or popular words only.
• No floating point numbers, _________ doesn’t do thing halfways.
• $4B always converted to $10B.
• “Yell” or “Exclaim” are the prints to standard output.
• Strings that are yelled (or all strings) can only be uppercase.
• All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is
inconsequential.

47. ANSWER
Trump language/ Trump tweets is acceptable.

49. Q20 : What facility?
• The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on the Alcatraz Island
offshore from San Francisco, California was a maximum security
prison. It provided a special facility to all its inmates and was the only
federal prison to ever do so. The prison staff reasoned that if the
prisoners were acclimated to this facility, they would never be able to
withstand an escape attempt in the San Francisco bay.

50. ANSWER
They provided hot showers/baths to the inmates so that
they would not be able to withstand the freezing cold
waters of San Francisco Bay

51. Q19 : What is the “entity”? What prediction?
Towards mid-December 2012, an internet hoax was started by a YouTube
video referencing a supposed prediction of Nostradamus, written in 1503:
"From the calm morning,
the end will come
when of the dancing horse
the number of circles will be nine."
The video theorized that the prediction is about the massive success of a
particular entity, further explaining the obvious hints like "calm morning",
"dancing horse", and "nine circles" meaning nine zeroes.
Contd..

52. Contd ...
And as an amazing coincidence, this prediction came true on 21st
December, 2012, thus making sense of "the end will come"
Some people justified it by saying that the success of something this
stupid has to mean that the world, as we know it has ended.

53. ANSWER
PSY’s Gangnam style
It hit 1 billion views on YouTube

54. Q18 : What is X and Y?
• In the mid-70's, Bob Bernstein, an advertising executive working at X,
came up with the idea of Y, as the owners of X were concerned that it
was losing its connection with a certain section of its customers.
• He says: “I came up with the Y, in 1975, as I watched my son at the
breakfast table reading his cereal box. He did it every morning."
• So he began trademarking cups, plates, lids as “_____ Cups”,
“_____ Plates”, etc. He made a deal with Keebler for cookies, and the
final step was Y itself. Y has proven to be a very profitable move for X,
generating millions in revenue each year.

55. ANSWER
Happy meals by McDonald’s
X - McDonald’s
Y - Happy meals

56. Q17 : How fair thee, healer?
• It is a common misconception that X is the main source of food for Y.
Y generally don't eat X, as X's are high in sugar and can only be fed in
small quantities, as occasional treats. In fact, X is almost exclusively
avoided by the Y that live in the wild, owing to the fact that they carry
very less nutritional value. Some people trace the origin of this myth
to a timeless production from the 1930s, which may have led people
to believe in this fallacy.
• Give me X, Y and the 1930s production.

57. ANSWER
X - Carrots
Y - Rabbits/Bunnies
Production - Bugs Bunny

58. Q16 : What is this the origin of?
• In the year 1686, King Louis XIV suffered from abscissa between the
colon and rectum region of his body. The doctors after trying
everything from red hot iron to enemas and mineral water had to
resort to a makeshift surgery by a barber.
• In an era without sterilization and anaesthesia, the king had to be
extremely brave. To support her husband, Madame de Maintenon
asked Lully to compose a hymn which was sang during the operation.

59. ANSWER

60. Q15 : Which trend does this explain?
• In certain communities, especially black American, one of the oldest
traditions, is of names or nicknames that are descriptors, which were
important in larger Black communities. These traditions in the Black
community culture at large came over into X (industry), which can be
traced back to its African roots.
• _______ ended up using this simple nickname often which had
been shortened to Y because that's how it sounds phonetically in
many accents/dialects. Over time, unfortunately, it became easy for
_______ to simply stick Y on their name. As more and more
_______ did it, it became overdone to the point of ridicule.

61. ANSWER
Rappers using ‘Lil’ in their names

62. Q14 : ID X
• Before World War II, coal was commonly used to heat homes, which
left soot stains on walls. Noah and Joseph McVicker of Kutol
Products, a Cincinnati-based soap manufacturer, created this material
to rub the soot off wallpaper. However, after the war, natural gas
became a more common heat source. As coal was phased out, few
people needed Kutol’s cleaning product. The company faced
bankruptcy. In the early 1950s, Joseph McVicker learned that his
sister, a schoolteacher, used the material in her classroom as ___
___. The McVickers decided to market their nontoxic creation and
after successful testing in 1955, X was born.

63. ANSWER

64. Q13 : Identify the practice.
The Irish had a story of “Stingy ____.”
____ was a man who tricked the Devil multiple times, and when he
died, God did not want such a questionable character in heaven. Being
tricked so many times by ____, the Devil did not want him in Hell. Poor
____ was forced to roam the countryside. The Irish then started this
practice (with turnips) to scare away “Stingy ____” or other evil spirits.
However, when the Irish started immigrating to the United States in the
19th century, they discovered Xs were quite abundant and began
replacing turnips with them.

65. ANSWER
The tradition of carving pumpkins to make jack-o-lanterns.

66. Q12 : What solution was suggested?
During the Yom Kippur War of the 1973, the Egyptians had crossed the Suez
Canal and mounted an offensive against the Israelis.
However, they came across a seemingly impenetrable line of defense known
as the Bar Lev Line, towering sand dunes that could withstand even dynamite
explosions. The Egyptians desperately tried to scale the dunes in vain. Then,
Baki Zaki Youssef, an army engineer had a brainwave. It was his years of
experience working on the construction of the Aswan Dam, where this method
was regularly used to clear heavy sand and boulders, that gave him the idea.
His solution was brilliant, as it was simple, cost effective and one of the key
resources needed to implement the plan was abundantly available in close
proximity.
What solution did Youssef suggest?

67. ANSWER
To fire water cannons at the sand dunes, making the sand collapse

68. Q11 : ID the term used for and put funda:
what led him to do so.
Boot hill was the name used for the cemeteries of gunfighters of
Western America during the 19th century. They are called so as
“gunfighters” usually referred to the people “who died with their
boots on” meaning dying while fighting, in the middle of action. It
generally involves a lot of risk and can only be done by the
bravest and sharpest of the lot. The term was first used and made
popular in the cricketing context by the Former English coach
Richard Halsall to refer to something which has the same
characteristics as the gunfighter’s job.

69. ANSWER
Short Leg
Fielders were not ready to field at short leg, which made him glorify
this position saying only the sharpest and most agile of the lot can
field here.

70. Not the least….
Something iconic is generally attributed to R though it was Q who
started this. What are we talking about?
Q R

72. TIE-BREAKERS

73. Q2 : Oh deer
David H. Berry Jr. was a deer hunter from Missouri, who was
arrested for one of the largest cases of deer poaching in the state,
having killed hundreds of deer. As a result, a circuit court judge
sentenced him to 1 year jail-time, along with an additional activity
that he was required to do. What peculiar sentence was this?

74. ANSWER
He was made to watch the movie Bambi.

75. Q2 : ID A and B
A and B are two worldwide smash hits from two of the most popular bands of
all time. Interestingly, A and B have quite a lot in common though they sound
musically distinct.
Both are considered long songs with A being 7 minutes 11 seconds long and B
being 5 minutes 55 seconds . Both have characteristic elements in their
songs. A has an iconic outro lasting 4 minutes while B has a unique mid
section.
The authors of their respective songs have acknowledged that their songs are
about relationships. While A has a definitive background behind its creation,
B’s creator has been cryptic about the song’s meaning.
The most surprising part is that they have been recorded using the same
Piano:
A Bechstein Art Nouveau grand piano.

76. ANSWER
A- Hey Jude
B- Bohemian Rhapsody

77. Q3 : What was the idea that the CEO had?
Within the first two years of its founding, FedEx was losing money,
mainly due to rising fuel prices and the cost of maintaining their fleet
of cargo planes.
The situation got so dire that the company was down to its last 5,000
dollars. Sensing no other alternative, the company's founder had a
crazy idea.
When one of his VPs found out what he had done, he was shocked at
his callousness and irresponsibility . But the VP needn't have worried
as the CEO Smith had come back with 27,000 dollars, which was just
enough to save the company for the time being.

78. ANSWER
He went to a casino and gambled his company's money to win

79. Q4 : What is this law governing?
• A strange Japanese law mandates their citizens in the age group 40-74
years (though the issue is not restricted to that age group) to go through
an annual examination where in they have to meet the specified
government standards. Failing which their employers may face fines and
the concerned person steered to attend 're-education' courses.
• The standard for males is 33.5 inches or less and that for females is
35.4 inches or less.

80. ANSWER
This is the regulation of waistline which is an indicator of
obesity. If they cross certain range, the diabetes control
group takes them to get educated about the disease.

81. Q5 : What was this specific purpose? How was
it immortalized?
• An armillary sphere is a device invented around 225 BCE, which consists
of spherical frameworks of rings centered on the sun and earth,
representing the longitude, latitude and other astronomical features.
Combined with the knowledge of astrology it was used for a very specific
purpose.
• Although with the influx of modern technology this device is barely used
nowadays, it was immortalized in world history by a country due to the
impact it had.

82. ANSWER
1. It was used for navigation during medieval times
2. The Portuguese flag

83. Q6 : ID X, Y
• Ralph de Souza while talking about a 2001 project X said that promotion
of Y along with X, has helped the industry reap in profits. He added that
they invested 3 crores in X to release it on popular television channel.
• X was a great success and brought them profits of nearly 30 crore. He
also added X brought an ever growing rise to this industry of Y, at a time
where such industries were facing a lull due to a global event. It has
made Y a trend which has sustained till date.

84. ANSWER
X- Dil Chahta Hai
Y- Goa tourism

85. Q7
• The Confederate army was a military land force for the Confederate
states against the United States during the American civil war, The
Confederate states were still mostly agrarian and depended a whole lot
on their slaves for their production and wanted to protect their rights to
them.
• The uniform donned by the Confederate army is shown on the next slide.
• Where have we seen it recently in the world of pop cultural as a satirical
commentary about the prevailing situations, even several years after the
war?

87. ANSWER

88. fin