Finals of the Thomasonian'13 quiz

1. The Thomasonian
Finals

2. • Infi pounce
• +10 for correct answer
• +10/-10 for pounce

3. • This scene with Clark Gable from the movie It
happened one night is said to have inspired
the creators of X who is always shown with a
Y. Many critics believe that this was the main
reason for the propagation of the myth that
_______ love Ys, which is definitely not the
case.

4. • X-Bugs bunny
• Y-Carrots
• The myth being that rabbits love carrots

5. • X Index measures the performance of a global universe of
investable equities that have been screened for Y compliance
consistent with Dow Jones Indexes’ methodology. The first
level of X screening removes companies involved in such
products alcohol, pork-related products,
conventional financial services (e.g. banks and insurance
companies), entertainment (e.g. hotels, casinos,gambling etc.)
, tobacco, and weapons and defense. A second level of X
screening based on financial ratios, is intended to remove
companies based on debt and interest income levels in their
balance sheets. Gimme X,Y or funda.

6. • The Dow Jones Islamic Index. This is governed
by Shariah

7. • This is a distributed key-value data store that
JayKreps, an engineer at LinkedIn, invented.Of
the choice of name, he writes:“I thought, that
sounds like a distributed system. I don’tknow
whether it is nerdier to be reading ___ __ or
to bewondering what kind of consistency
protocol ____ uses when keeping all his pieces
up-to-date, but regardless, the name stuck.”
What is this project called?

8. • Project Voldemort

9. • The Battle of Haldighati (or rather The First
Battle of Haldighati) was fought on June 21,
1576 between the armies of Maharana Pratap
and Akbar. What is known as the Second
Battle of Haldighati?

10.  The Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) filed a suit against the US
patent on Haldi. This was made into a long
drawn controversy which was called the
second battle of haldighat

11. • Dans le Noir is a french chain of restaurants
that has expanded into various parts of the
world, including recently in New York. The
chain owes its rising popularity to its
innovative style of dining. Give funda.

12. • They serve dinner in complete darkness and
the waiters who serve you are blind.

13. • Maulvi Ziauddin, a Pashtun insurance agent
• Ichiro Okuda
• Matsuda
• Orlando Mazzotta, an Italian nobleman
Connect these four names to modern indian
history.

14. • These were the pseudonyms under which
Subhash Chandra Bose travelled.

15. • Usually, in the Kansai region, eel are split open
down the back, whereas in Kanto they are
split open down the stomach, but in Tokyo,
traditionally a martial city, unwanted
associations with X caused chefs to shy away
from the stomach-splitting method, with the
result that eel are split open down the back
here, too, in the middle of Kanto. Give me the
funda behind X?

16. • Seppuku, Hara-kiri. Japanese soldiers
committed suicide by disembowellment.

17. • Short Connect
• +5/0 for each individual slide
• +10/0 for overall connect
• 3 slides
• Exhaustive, not in order
• Contributed by schlumboy Viggy

18. • The series takes its roots from a senior thesis project creator
Van Partible did for Loyola Marymount University, about an
Elvis Presley impersonator. He then made a short called Mess
O' Blues (1993) and his professor showed it to a friend
working at ________________________, a famous
production house for shorts like his. Partible changed his
character from Mess O' Blues around so that "he would be
more of this '50s iconic James Dean-looking character that
talked like Elvis". Partible picked voice actor Jeff Bennett to
play the lead solely based on his young, hyped Elvis
impression

19. • This show, apart from the main story line, also had two recurring
segments.
a) The title was an obvious parody of the movie 'Dial M for Murder' and
features a superpowered chimp who fights evil with his lovely partner
Agent Honeydew, the Commander General, and a team of assembled
superheros.
b) This segment had three characters. The first was inspired from both
Superman and Captain America, the second from Thor and Eddie Van
Halen and the third is inspired from The Incredible Hulk. They are all
room-mates living in an apartment complex called "Muscular Arms". Most
of the adventures of the trio deal less with their lives as superheroes and
more with their inability to get along as roommates; it is presented as a
sitcom, including a laugh track.

20. • . Character sketches:
X is a globally-celebrated, heroic, kindhearted anthropomorphic weasel
who serves as the titular character of the program. He is noted and
admired for his endless, humongous assortment of unselfish, amazing,
brilliant talents or achievements, and is honored and respected deeply for
his extensive skill, knowledge, or experience in virtually every field
imaginable
• Y is X's rival; a dimwitted, ugly, and ridiculed Y characterized by his intense
stupidity and hunger for attention, and he therefore despises X because of
his notoriety and talents. X's main goal throughout the series is to acquire
fame and surpass his enemy somehow, though his utter lack of talent or
skill presents numerous disadvantages in his chances of achieving this
entirely unattainable goal.

21. • 1.Johnny Bravo
• 2. Dexter’s lab
• 3.I am weasel
• Connect – these are all shows for which seth
mcfarlane is the animator and writer.

22. Movie Taglines
• Guess the movies from their taglines
• +5 for each correct
• Bonus +5 for all correct

23. • The true story of a real fake.

24. • Life is like a box of chocolates...you never
know what you’re gonna get.

25. • 007 is his IQ

26. • On every street in every city in this country,
there's a nobody who dreams of being a
somebody."

27. • Your mind is the scene of the crime.

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29.  Catch me if you can
 Forrest gump
 Johnny English
 Taxi driver
 Inception

31. • +10/0 for I, II questions. You can choose to
raise the stakes by doubling the points before
looking at the question
• Once you choose to double points, you get
+20/-10
• II questions are harder than I
• 6 fields. 12 questions in all

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Music
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Movies
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ports
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Etymology
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Misc
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Business
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Sports
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II
Misc
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Movies
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II
Etymology
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Music

34. Infinite Pounce II
Same rules as before
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35. Cenosillicaphobia is something some of us over
here may have.
What is it?
Clue: Think DPs.
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36. Fear of an empty glass
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37. Businessman X is unlikely to figure anywhere
among the country’s 1,000 most eligible
bachelors. The 28-year-old is short, fair, rather
stocky and only moderately well-to-do. An
unremarkable young man, until he begins to
speak—extremely charming, soft-spoken and
poised, without the slightest hint of
pretension. Mr. Nice Guy in person. So
begins a 1997 Outlook article about a (then)
brass trader from Moradabad.
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38. Robert Vadra
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39. 55-year-old X was on probation for a 2008
conviction of cooking and distributing meth
when he was arrested for similar charges in
Bibb County, Ala in early 2012. The Sheriff's
Office then put X on the county's most-
wanted list after the 55-year-old blew off a
court date and violated his probation in July.
This news became viral for some reason.
What?
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41. His name is Walter White
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42. Natkhat – the dog
Santa Singh and Banta Singh – the twins
Professor Surajmukhi – the eccentric professor
Malika – the absent-minded whimsical singer
These are the supporting characters in the hindi
version of a famous comic. Name the original.
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43. Tintin
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44. Chang and Eng Bunker, more famous as the
Bunker brothers were born on May 11, 1811
in Thailand. They were purportedly
‘discovered’ by one british merchant Robert
Hunter who took them on a world tour. Later,
they ended their contract with him and joined
a circus. Their legacy continues to this date in
some form. What?
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45. The first Siamese twins. The name siamese
twins comes from Siam(Thailand) where they
were born.
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46. There is this weird-ass cult in the interiors of
South America (Brazil mostly) that forbids its
followers from using this technology claiming
that it uses a symbol that is a direct reference
to the devil. The founder claims “Its symbol is
a trident, which is used to torture souls in hell.
Any user of this vile technology is a
worshipper of Satan”. What technology?
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47. USB
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48. _____ ____ is a type of furnace used in
glassblowing to reheat a piece in between
steps of working with it. The tip of the
blowpipe is preheated and dipped into the
furnace as shown in the photo. However, we
know _____ ____ for completely different and
sleazy reason.
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50. Glory Hole
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51. X was used initially as an cough medicine and an analgesic.
During the wars, it was used as a substitute for Y and to cure Y
addiction. Y was supposed to have caused what is now known
as ‘soldier’s disease’. In London in 1916, Harrods were selling
a kit described as "A Welcome Present for Friends at the
Front" containing X, Y and other necessary paraphernalia. Of
course, all of this was before people realized its harmful
effects. Now it’s a schedule IV drug and its production is
strictly regulated in every country of the world. X gets its
name from the fact that people who used it seemed to feel
brave and superhuman. Give me X and Y.
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52. X- Heroin
Y- Morphine
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53. These indentations are actually muscle
deformities resulting from variations in the
structure the zygomaticus major muscle,
usually due to the presence of a double or
bifid zygomaticus major. There is evidence of
it being genetically inherited and has been
classified as a simple dominant trait. What
are we talking about
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54. Dimples
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56. Twitter feed of FoxNews in early 2011. Whose
assassination is being talked about?
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57. Barack Obama
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58. Adolf Hitler (1939)
Benito Mussolini (1935)
Stalin (1945,1948)
These are some of the unexpected people on a
particular list. Other famous people on this list
include Leo Tolstoy, Winston Churchill, Tsar
Nicholas II, Franklin D Roosevelt. Non-
exhaustive and not in order.
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59. Nobel Peace Prize nominations. None of them
won it though.
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60. Mega Connect
• 6 slides
• +5 for each correct
• +30/-20 for connect within first two slides
• +20/-10 for connect within the second set
• +10/0 for connect in the third set
• Sets of two slides
• You can go for the connect again on the next set if you get it
wrong

61. • The answer from each slide goes into the
connect.
• The answer may need to be suitably modified
or even part of the answer may go into the
connect
• For example, if the answer to any of the slides
is coca-cola, coke may go into the connect.

62. +30/-20
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63. • He started his career with the Irrigation Branch of the Punjab Public Works
Department. During this period, he spent 18 months on deputation
to Mesopotamia as a commissioned officer with the Indian Expeditionary
Force. While serving there (1918–1920) he developed the X Disc for
precision leveling across rivers and wide valleys. From 1921 to 1926 he
was involved in the construction of the Suleimanke Barrage.[1] He applied
his methods to the design of the Trimmu Barrage and constructed it within
two years (1937–1939), against the normal period of 4–5 years.
• He was appointed the Governor of Orissa in 1962, the first professional
engineer to be given such a responsibility . Who?.Same as X.

64. • “Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the
greatest crime of our time. But the Jews
should have offered themselves to the
butcher’s knife. They should have thrown
themselves into the sea from cliffs.” Who said
these words?

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66. • This genre of indian music is derived almost
exclusively from a collection called Gitabitan
(garden of songs) which consists of four major
parts Puja(worship), Prem(love),
Prakriti(Nature) and Bichitra(Diverse) and
Swadesh (patriotism).• Name this genre of
Indian Music

67. • Pyaara Dushman Tika Singh1980
• Kaamchor Sonu (Rakesh Roshan's nephew)
• Betaab Sunny (Young Sunny Deol)1983
• Hum Se Hai Zamana Shiva(Young Mithun
Chakraborty)

68. • Taqdeer Shiva (Young Shatrughan Sinha)
• Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani Vivek
Saxena
• Kash Aap Hamare Hote Jai Kumar2003
• Love in Nepal Abby
• Whose filmography is this?
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71. This is an abstruse goose comic parodying the
quest for something. Give funda.
The middle blank goes into the connect.
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73. Identify.
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75. 1. Dr. A.N. Khosla - Khosla
2. Mahatma Gandhi – Mahatma Gandhi central
library
3. Rabindra sangeet or tagore sangeet-
Ravindra
4. Sonu Nigam – Nigam
5. Large Hadron Collider- LHC
6. Jawaharlal Nehru - Jawahar
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76. Buildings in IITR
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