Third AJM Open House Quiz organized by the Karnataka Quiz Association. QMs: Kaustuba, Thejaswi Udupa, Abhishek Upadhya and Varun Shenoy

1. The Panganama edition

2.  We start with many teams
 We end with three
 We will eat and drink* and make merry
*Straang filter coffee maatra

3.  8 things to identify
 5 points per correct answer

6. Pineal
Pituitary
Thyroid
Thymus
Adrenal
Pancreas
Ovaries
Testes

7.  There are 9 countries in Africa whose names start with
the same letter.
 So, pick the right letter and list them!
 +5 for every correct answer

9.  Sao Tome & Principe
 Senegal
 Seychelles
 Sierra Leone
 Somalia
 South Africa
 South Sudan
 Sudan
 Swaziland
 Cameroon
 Cape Verde
 CAR
 Chad
 Comoros
 (DR) Congo / Congo-Kinshasa
 Congo / Congo-Brazzaville
 OR
 Mali
 Mauritania
 Malawi
 Mauritius
 Madagascar
 Morocco
 Mozambique

11. ______, Inc. is a for-profit corporation headquartered in New York
City that provides higher education programs, professional
training courses, test preparation materials and other services in
the field of education. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Washington Post Company with a revenue of over $2 billion.
Their model of business, however, has been severely criticized by
the U.S. Department of Education due to high student loan default
rates, with the Secretary of Education commenting that "too many
for-profit schools are saddling students with debt they cannot
afford in exchange for degrees and certificates they cannot use."
Name this organization which is known in India mainly for
providing test prep material for U.S Medical College Admission
Test.

13.  Kaplan

14.  12 questions, 1 for each team
 First 6 clockwise, Next 6 anticlockwise
 +10 on direct/pass
 +10/-10 on pounce

15. Horse-drawn carts were a common form of
transport for centuries on Romanian roads.
A law passed nearly 7 years ago, but
enforced only recently, banned carts drawn
by horses and donkeys.
According to a French Politician Jose
Bove, what did this lead to?

17.  Why horsemeat in disguise turned up on supermarket
shelves in UK, France, Sweden, etc.
 “Mmm, Donkey Biryani, mmm.” - Logik

18. Whose passport?

20.  Rene Magritte

21. In Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63, Jake
Epping (or George Amberson as he calls
himself) is in charge of producing a play
for his students. He chooses to produce
one based on ‘12 Angry Men’, but renames
it ‘The Jury’. Why?

23.  Because he wanted to cast girls also

24.  #BombayStylz
 The year is 1972. They see The Taj’s members-only Disco
“Blow up”, and decide it isn’t to their taste. The next choice
“Slip Disc” at Colaba, looked promising except that the
guard at the door wouldn’t let them in. The disco had a “no
entry for hippies” policy and the three, with their long hair,
definitely looked like hippies.
 Soon enough there was a buzz as the owner of the disco
Ramzan Patel was seen talking to them. Word spread fast
and many rushed to the payphone to tell their friends to
come to Slip Disc as soon as they could.
 What event is this describing?

26.  LedZep’s (3rd ) Bombay Visit

27. Whose statue in
the background?
One extra coffee to
anyone who can
explain what Logik
is attempting.

29.  Otto von Bismarck

30. Something
that also faintly
featured in the
London Olympics
Opening
ceremony.
What is being
talked about?

32.  Materialisation/Dematerialisation of the TARDIS

33.  #PuneStylz
 X on two separate occasions has insisted that the Y’s initial price was
just a coincidence, and that they did not even know the number had
religious implications. Unfortunately for X he cannot keep his story
straight.
 “I simply like triple digit numbers with all the things I’m involved with,
the cost of making it was around $540 or there a bouts and we agreed
on the best markup, retail price above the cost of building it, which
worked out to a number. Z then tacked on the cents to make it an eye-
catcher price for the ads with the sale and promotion publications of it
to the public.”
 “I was into repeating digits, and then we came up - Z worked a deal to
sell his computers wholesale price to the store for $500 bucks. what
should the retail be? Add a third on. that puts it at about this number,
because its all one digit, to me that's just an easier way to type.”
 X, Y, Z.
 Or X, Z (people) and funda

35.  X – Steve Jobs
 Y – Apple 1
 Z – Steve Wozniak
 Funda – Price of Apple 1 was $666.66

36.  Press Reviews for what?
 Chicago Tribune : "The dedicatory remarks by the President will live
among the annals of man."
 Chicago Times : “The cheeks of every American must tingle with
shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dishwatery utterances.”
 Harrisburg Patriot and Union : “We pass over the silly remarks of the
President; for the credit of the Nation we are willing that the veil of
oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall no more be
repeated or thought of.”

38.  Lincoln’s Gettysburg address

39. Who, talking about what?

41.  JJ Thomson
 Electrons

42.  A documentary about X was made in 1996, and the filmmaker Jigar Talati
revisited him in 2006. This is what X had to say about a question.
 Filmmaker: “How do you feel about it? Can you talk about it a bit?”
 X: “I’m hoping it’s the last time I’m going to do it. It is an encore piece, so it’s
not like it’s a part of my act right now. I’d love to retire it, but it’s up to the fans.”
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 Paraphrasing X’s reply in an interview with Prannoy Roy about the same
question.
 Prannoy Roy: “But, did he really say that, to you?”
 X: “No, but I’ll tell you where it really came from. In Canada, I used to DJ. They
used to have these daytime dances in the early 90s because Indian Parents used
to be strict about sending kids out during the nighttime, and there were always
fights at these dances. It was never really fights, but these “Indian fights”. I
used to box, so whenever there was a fight I would watch. Some village kids
from the “Pind” would intervene and say “Hey, nobody fight today ok, or _____
______ ___ _____ _____ ____ ””
 Who talking about what?

45. Describe their claim to fame in four words.

47.  “Charlie Bit My Finger!”

52. _. _____ Group, founded in New Delhi, is one of the oldest Indian
textbook (read: guide) publishers and the largest in terms of the
number of books sold. They mainly cater to the needs of CBSE and
ISCE students providing them with books that ‘offers knowledge
beyond regular classroom teaching.’ In 2012 the organization was
criticised for publishing a health textbook aimed at 11 and 12 year
olds, entitled "New Healthway", which said that people who eat
meat "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes". It
also described Eskimos as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived" because
of their diet being based on meat. The Indian government,
however, has declined to act because it regards selection of
textbooks as the schools' own choice.
Name the publisher who in the 1980s, also published comic books
like Chitra Bharti Kathamala for kids.

54.  S. Chand

55.  Logik says this round is called “Hey soul siesta, take a
naap!”, everybody please laugh
 Written round, 6 questions on strange/quirky
measurements/calculations
 +15 if 1-3 teams get it
 +10 if 4-6 teams get it
 +5 if 7-9 teams get it

56.  Of the 47 out of 74 species, only two are named after
the continent : Hirundo domicella and Hirundo
spilodera. We’ll choose Hirundo spilodera for this
study.
 Kinematic data for Hirundo spilodera was difficult to
find, but the other contender from a different
continent: Hirundo rustica has been studied
intensively, and kinematic data for that species was
readily available.
 After doing some complicated mathematics we arrive
at a number of 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an
hour.

57.  An arxiv paper discussing something.
 The velocity is chiefly dependent on the shape (circular,
square), and the initial spin provided.
 The number can be calculated thusly. What?

58.  X is named after Equus caballus
 Y = (X/3) is named after Equus asinus
 Give two terms X and Y.

59.  Humor identification is a hard natural language understanding
problem. We identify a subproblem — the “X” problem — with two
distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms
for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic
domain. We address this problem in a classification approach that
includes features that model those two characteristics. Experiments on
web data demonstrate that our approach improves precision by 12%
over baseline techniques that use only word-based features.
 A “X” joke is a type of double entendre.
 We define three functions to measure how closely related a noun, an
adjective, and a verb phrase are to the erotica domain.
 Noun sexiness function NS(n), Adjective sexiness function AS(a),
Verb sexiness function VS(v)
 What does this paper claim a Machine Learning approach for?
 <detailed summary on the next slide>

60.  Why was this otherwise-banal Phillips curve doing the
rounds on the Internet?

61.  Nicholas Taylor, IT specialist of the Web Archiving Team has this
to say about a clichéd unit of measurement.
 “If science reporters, IT industry pundits and digital storage and
network infrastructure purveyors are to be believed, devices are
being lab-tested even now that can store all of the data in the X
or transmit it over a network in mere moments.
 To this list of improbable claims, I’d like to add another: by the
most conservative estimates, I transfer more than a X’ worth of
data to the X every month.”
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 One insider had this to say:
 “While it is certainly flattering that the X is used as a typical
benchmark against which others measure their content or data
capacity, we would do well to take these claims with at least a
shaker of salt. We are far “bigger” than many of them might
think.”

63.  Of the 47 out of 74 species, only two are named after
the continent : Hirundo domicella and Hirundo
spilodera. We’ll choose Hirundo spilodera for this
study.
 Kinematic data for Hirundo spilodera was difficult to
find, but the other contender from a different
continent: Hirundo rustica has been studied
intensively, and kinematic data for that species was
readily available.
 After doing some complicated mathematics we arrive
at a number of 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an
hour.

64.  Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen
Swallow
 What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?

65.  An arxiv paper discussing something.
 The velocity is chiefly dependent on the shape (circular,
square), and the initial spin provided.
 The number can be calculated thusly. What?

66.  “The physics of Stone Skipping”
 To calculate the number of bounces.

67.  X is named after Equus caballus
 Y = (X/3) is named after Equus asinus
 Give two terms X and Y.

68.  Horsepower (750 watts)
 Donkeypower (250 watts)

69.  Humor identification is a hard natural language understanding
problem. We identify a subproblem — the “X” problem — with two
distinguishing characteristics: (1) use of nouns that are euphemisms
for sexually explicit nouns and (2) structure common in the erotic
domain. We address this problem in a classification approach that
includes features that model those two characteristics. Experiments on
web data demonstrate that our approach improves precision by 12%
over baseline techniques that use only word-based features.
 A “X” joke is a type of double entendre.
 We define three functions to measure how closely related a noun, an
adjective, and a verb phrase are to the erotica domain.
 Noun sexiness function NS(n), Adjective sexiness function AS(a),
Verb sexiness function VS(v)
 What does this paper claim a Machine Learning approach for?
 <detailed summary on the next slide>

70.  Using machine learning to figure out if it's
appropriate to introduce “That's what she said!”
after a given sentence.

71.  Why was this otherwise-banal Phillips curve doing the
rounds on the Internet?

72.  The curve looks like the map of Japan

73.  Nicholas Taylor, IT specialist of the Web Archiving Team has this
to say about a clichéd unit of measurement.
 “If science reporters, IT industry pundits and digital storage and
network infrastructure purveyors are to be believed, devices are
being lab-tested even now that can store all of the data in the X
or transmit it over a network in mere moments.
 To this list of improbable claims, I’d like to add another: by the
most conservative estimates, I transfer more than a X’ worth of
data to the X every month.”
--------------------------
 One insider had this to say:
 “While it is certainly flattering that the X is used as a typical
benchmark against which others measure their content or data
capacity, we would do well to take these claims with at least a
shaker of salt. We are far “bigger” than many of them might
think.”

74.  The Library of Congress
 Examples
 “Every Six Hours, the NSA Gathers as Much Data as Is
Stored in the Entire Library of Congress.”
 “Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 140
billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the
Library of Congress.”
 “The [Honeywell India Technology] centre stores some
32 terabytes (32,768 GB) of data. That’s five times more
than the world’s largest library – the US Library of
Congress.”

75.  Consider this round as push-ups for tomorrow’s
Karnataka quiz.
 In 1947, what is modern day Karnataka was spread over
3 provinces and 14 princely states!
 3 points for each province, 6 points for each princely
state identified correctly

77.  Bombay Presidency – Province
 Madras Presidency – Province
 Coorg – Province (under a Chief Commissioner)
 Mysore
 Hyderabad
 Kolhapur
 Sangli
 Miraj (Senior and Junior)
 Kurandawad (Senior and Junior)
 Jamakhandi
 Mudhol
 Ramadurg
 Jath
 Akkalkot
 Aundh
 Savanur
 Sandur

79.  12 questions, 2 per team
 First 6 clockwise, next 6 anticlockwise
 +10 on direct/pass
 +10/-10 on pounce

80. The Unreal Times recently had an article about a
programming language called ‘C-Shastri’ invented by
one Balaji Rangachari, a 3rd year student at IIT-Madras.
The language uses popular cricket commentator Ravi
Shastri’s cliches as syntax for complex programming
constructs. Given below are a set of C-Shastri keywords
for traditional programming commands. Some of them
have the corresponding shastri cliche blanked out. Fill
them up

81. Program Element C-Shastri Syntax
Main () News-from-the-center()
Print () Flash-and-flash-hard()
If-Then-Elseif-Else ?
Do { } while Do { } Just-what-the-doctor-ordered
Infinite loop Give-it-the-kitchen-sink
Break (or any exit loop) statement Take-the-aerial-route
Assigning value of X to Y X gave Y the-full-monty
Defining a variable (eg: integer x) AAAND….x is TAKEN!
X++
X is doing-it-in-singles
X = X + 2
X is running-hard-for-the-2nd
X = X + 4
X is dealing-in-boundaries-here
End Statement ?

83.  All four results are possible at this stage
 In the end, cricket is the winner

84. In his book "Entry from backside only: Hazaar
fundas of Indian English" journalist Binu K John
talks about a bridge in Mylapore area in Chennai
whose original name was Hamilton Bridge.
Today it is known as Barber bridge. As per the
book, how did this metamorphosis happen?

86.  Hamilton when transliterated to Tamil became
Ammultan, then got corrupted to Ambattan which is
Tamil for barber. Then finally got translated back to
English, becoming Barber Bridge

87. #Typical SaiGanesh Question
In the film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara what is
the name of the Japanese company for whom
Hrithik Roshan is trying to clinch an important
deal? (He mentions this while having an
argument with his ex wife in the movie)

89.  Nakatomi. Yes, the one from Die Hard.

90. In the mid 1970s certain scientists employed by the US
Department of Energy claimed they were looking for
either 'bare bottoms' or 'naked beauties' to help them
with their research on finding some new flavours. The
search was serious and they finally found one in 1978.
Today there is an entire factory called the beauty factory
that produces a large number of these bottoms for
research purposes. In lazy quiz master parlance, put
funda

92.  bottom and beauty were the two names in contention
for one of the third generation quark flavours i.e. the
one codenamed ‘b’. And because this quark was
difficult to be produced in its undisguised form (they
always came as a quark-antiquark pair) they claimed
they were looking for either ‘bare bottoms’ or ‘naked
beauties’. Scientists at Fermilab, by the way

93. A former head constable with the T.N state police, his
fortunes changed in the 1980s when he was appointed head
of state-run utility Metrowater by erstwhile chief minister M
G Ramachandran .Today the trust he heads is by far the
biggest land owner in the state. According to an article in the
TOI the trust holds land worth close to Rs 10,000 crore, an
amount large enough to bridge Tamil Nadu's fiscal deficit.
Who is he? How has he paid homage to his political roots in
his new line of business?
Clue: Since it is a trust that runs the business, it is seemingly
non-profit in nature, and also one that requires large tracts of
land

95.  Jeppiaar (of the hilarious youtube video fame)
 Sathyabhama University is named after MGR's mother.

96. Connect.
http://www.y
outube.com/
watch?v=knP
nX5G3PAU
http://www.yo
utube.com/wat
ch?v=XmF-
eYzka9w

98.  Bollywood songs that were flicked from Rajan-
Nagendra originals

99. When an 18-year-old boy by name ___X___ ___Y___
recited a Kannada poem written by him before an august
gathering at the 36th All-India Kannada Sahitya
Sammelan held at Kumta in 1954, Dr. Da.Ra.Bendre is
said to have remarked: "He is not X (meaning lacking in
essence or life) but he made his ego and contempt X as
he is full of !X (roughly meaning full of life and energy)."
XY?

101.  Nissar Ahmed (saara, nissara)

102. The newly elected MLA from Bidar South is
also the owner of Karnataka Bulldozers
celebrity league cricket team, and a producer of
Hindi and Kannada films under the banner
AKK Entertainment. Who is this multifaceted
entrepreneur who also claims to be the
inspiration behind Rajnikanth starrer Shivaji?

104.  Ashok Kheny

105. ______ (known officially as ______ by Sara Blakely) is a
billion dollar enterprise whose products specialize in
"body shaping“ i.e. intended to give the consumer a
shapely appearance by temporarily altering the body
shape. The company received a huge marketing boost
after being endorsed by Oprah Winfrey on her show and
is now a generic name for body shapers. What company
whose name makes it seem like the owner is a
professional dominatrix?

107.  SPANX

108. Which country’s flag
changed from the
image on top to the
one below, and why?

110.  Macedonia
 Greece protested to the use of the Vergina Sun
(associated with Philip and Alexander) claiming that it
is exclusively Greek

111. Identify the Bong.

113.  Radhabinod Pal (at the Tokyo Trials)

114. Complete the punchline.

118.  Written round in honour of a fine KQA/AJM pastime
 Teams can write up to 3 guesses for every question
 If first guess is right +15
 If second guess is right +10
 If third guess is right +5

119. The Beatles song

120. The gizmo

121. The kitchen utensil

122. Answers follow…

123. Helter Skelter

124. Walkie Talkie

125. Cheese Grater

126. Eg. This one’s called
‘Floozie in the Jacuzzi’

127. James Joyce

128. Molly Malone

130. Answers follow…

131. The Prick with a Stick

132. The Tart with a Cart

133. The Hags with Bags

134. Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer
and biologist Phil Torres spotted
this creature on one of their recent
photography tours in the Amazon.
It was later found to be a flannel
moth caterpillar that is mainly
found in Mexico, Southern US and
Central America and not known to
exist in the Amazon. What was
also a first is the blonde colour of
the caterpillar. Although its
scientific name is Megalopyge
opercularis what is it known as
colloquially owing to it's
resemblance to a big-wig?

135. What nickname does Oakland
Raiders running back Darren
McFadden have due to his
amazing runs with the ball?

136. This US biologist/entomologist was
affectionately called Prok by his students, a
nickname that was later picked up by his
friends and family as well. He went on to
achieve fame (infamy during his time) for
his pioneering work in a different area.
Who?

137. Answers follow

138. Wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer
and bilogost Phil Torres spotted
this creature on one of their recent
photography tours in the Amazon.
It was later found to be a flannel
moth caterpillar that is mainly
found in Mexico, Southern US and
Central America and not known to
exist in the Amazon. What was
also a first is the blonde colour of
the caterpillar. Although its
scientific name is Megalopyge
opercularis what is it known as
colloquially owing to it's
resemblance to a big-wig?

140. What nickname does Oakland
Raiders running back Darren
McFadden have due to his
amazing runs with the ball?

141.  Run DMC

142. This US biologist/entomologist was
affectionately called Prok by his students, a
nickname that was later picked up by his
friends and family as well. He went on to
achieve fame (infamy during his time) for
his pioneering work in a different area.
Who?

143.  Alfred Kinsey, one of the earliest sexologists
 Prok was short for Professor Kinsey