QUIZ D’ Extreme

Finals

Rules

• Pounce: +10/-10 unless otherwise mentioned in the question.

• All 36 questions on pounce.• The quizmaster is the only gawd in this room.

A philosophical analysis of a DCE student(IEEE guys not included)

• 1st year: You are a stoic. You absorb all that’s around.

• 2nd year: You become a surrealist. You start questioning the existence of things and people around you.

• 3rd year: You become a nihilist. Reject all protocols, make your own way.

• 4th year: From what I gather, you return home and become a Vedic Sanyasi.

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Q1.

• John Willard X (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the X Corporation (which became X International in 1993). The X company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. ID X.

Answer

J.W. Marriott

Q2.

“No talking to cashier/No smoking/ No fighting/ No credit/ No outside food/ No sitting long/ No talking loud/ No spitting/ No bargaining/ No water to outsiders/ No change/ No telephone/ No match sticks/ No discussing gambling/ No newspaper/ No combing/ No beef/ No leg on chair/ No hard liquor allowed/ No address enquiry/ — By order.”

Where did Nissim Ezekiel write this poem?

Answer

Irani Cafe

Q3. What is this?

Answer

John Lennon Memorial

Q4.

• Indian-origin X, an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus, caught media attention in India when he was named as the new head of Google's Android division, making him one of the most powerful executives at the Internet giant, last year. X is currently the senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google. X was one of the frontrunners for the top job at Microsoft until Satya Nadella piped him a week back. ID X.

Answer

Sundar Pichai

Q5.

• X is a historic locality and a Gujjar village of Basista / Bosatta Gotra (clan), migrated from Khanpur village situated in South Delhi in 16th - 17th Century . In the past, it was known as Moocho waali Sarai (Inn of Moustaches) because every male had a long moustache, which was a symbol of manliness those days. The land area of X stretched from Purana Qila (Old Fort) in the north-west to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the west, Mayur Vihar in the east and Taimoor Nagar in the south. The village is surrounded by monuments such as Purana Qila, Humayun's Tomb, Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khana's Tomb, Baara Pullah and others. ID X.

Answer

Sarai Kale Khan

Q6.• One of the kings of the Delhi sultanate during X’s lifetime was Qutb-ud-

din Mubarak Shah, the last ruler of the Khilji dynasty. Legend has it that disrespect of X caused the king's death. Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah used to assemble all the leading figures and famous personalities of Delhi in his court every weekend. Once a courtier complained to him that X never came to the court. The King declared, "Order him in my name to come to my weekend gathering, else he will be hanged." When X's disciple, Y, related this to his master, he ignored the message, and did not even answer. As the weekend approached, his disciples became concerned for his life. On the day before the weekend, X went to the grave of his mother and came back looking unperturbed, telling his disciples to go home and sleep as usual. The next morning, everyone was very tense and worried, but X remained unperturbed. Shortly, news came that there had been a rebellion in the palace, and the king had been brutally killed. ID X and Y.

Answer

• X-Hazrat Nizzamuddin Auliya• Y-Amir Khusaro

Q7. Connect.

Answer

Dogs of War

Q 8.• X Y was an American author, screenwriter and playwright, many

of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of X’s novels, stories and plays.

• Z was both mesmerising and utterly convincing as X Y in the movie Y as he researched the classic true crime book In Cold Blood. It was a transformative role – capturing the voice, physicality and wit – that won him the best actor Oscar over another exceptional performance – Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Give me Y and Z.

Answer

Y-CapoteZ-Phillip Hoffman Seymour

Q9.

• After scoring Tottenham’s opening goal in a 3-0 win at home to Bolton earlier this season, Gareth Bale took off his left boot and held it up displaying it to everyone. Why did he do this? OR What was special about these boots?

Answer

RIP Gary Speed

Q 10.

X, the confectioners, was one of the first shops in CP, it also owned the largest restaurant in New Delhi. Originally established in 1926 as Spencers in Kashmere Gate, X was owned by a Swiss couple, introducing Delhi to pastries and homemade Swiss chocolates, though in its early years it too was patronised mostly by British officers, Indian royalty and some foreign-returned businessmen, for Delhi was still a city of classical tastes of the walled city. ID X.

Answer

Wenger’s

Q 11.

• X meaning, fishing out, rescuing is a practice amongst ladder competitions (those with a series of rounds of competition) that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. X is a commonly used terminology in many Olympic sports. ID X.

Answer

Repechage

Q 12.Name the painter.

Answer

Adolf Hitler

Q13. Whose voice?

Answer

W.B. Yeats

Q14.• Jean Renoir had come to Calcutta to scout locations for The River. Y

walked into the hotel where Renoir was staying and sought a meeting. Soon Y was accompanying Renoir in his trips in search of locations to outskirts of Calcutta during the weekends.

Seeing his enthusiasm and knowledge about cinema, Renoir asked him if he was thinking of becoming a filmmaker. To his own surprise, Y said yes and gave Renoir a brief outline of Z, which he had recently illustrated.

Renoir returned to Calcutta later to shoot the film. Renoir hired Y's friend Bansi Chandra Gupta as an art director and Harisadhan Das Gupta as an assistant. Subrata Mitra, who would later become Y’s cinematographer, took stills.

• Give me Y,Z.

Answer

• Y-Satyajit Ray• Z-Pather Panchali

Q 15. Mythology.

Answer

• Remus• Romulus(Rome)

Q 16. ID the author.

Answer

Kapil Sibal

Q 17.

In 1945 X had to explain one of Hollywood’s unwritten rules to Y: No, you can’t pour live ants all over Ingrid Bergman! X had approached Y for help with a dream sequence in his upcoming thriller, Spellbound, starring Bergman and Gregory Peck. He was unhappy with the fuzziness of Hollywood dream sequences. “I wanted to convey the dream with great visual sharpness and clarity–sharper than film itself,” X recalled in his 1962 interview with François Truffaut. “I wanted Y because of the architectural sharpness of his work. Chirico has the same quality, you know, the long shadows, the infinity of distance and the converging lines of perspective. But Y had some strange ideas. He wanted a statue to crack like a shell falling apart, with ants crawling all over it. And underneath, there would be Ingrid Bergman, covered by ants! It just wasn’t possible.” ID both.

Answer

• X-Alfred Hitchcock• Y-Salvador Dali

Q18.

Answer

The day the music died

Q 19. Original name given due to significant historical event in 1804.

Answer

Bonaparte

Q 20. ID the singer.

Answer

Mahendra Kapoor

Q 21. Name of movie.

Answer

Q22. CONNECT

Answer

J.P. MORGAN

“X scheme” is a fraudulent investment operation that is named after an Italian born con artist “Charles X” . However “Charles X” didn’t invent this scheme and it is mentioned in Charles dickens’ 1844 novel “Y”(first mention of such a scheme).

Give me X & Y

Answer

PONZI SCHEMEMARTIN CHUZZLEWIT(NOVEL)

Q 24. IDENTIFY

Answer

John Bardeen

Q 25. CONNECT

Answer

Created The Pirate Bay

• Peter Sunde• Fredrik Neij• Gottfrid Svartholm

Q 26.

• “X” was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist . ”X” under the pseudonym "Mr. X", contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered. The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of X’s works and enhance sensual and intellectual experience. IDENTIFY X

Answer

Carl Sagan

Q 27.

• “X” is a Pondicherry born film-director who was supposed to direct “Life of pi” before saying no.

• He did so because the story’s twist ending would lead to skewed expectations because of his association.

IDENTIFY X

Answer

M. Night Shyamalan

Q 28. Identify the man fighting Bruce Lee

Answer

Jackie Chan

Q 29.

• Givanildo Vieira de Souza, commonly known as “X” is a professional footballer who started his professional career with Vitória and played three years in Japan, he went on to play several seasons in Portugal with Porto.

• Currently “X” plays in Russian premier league• IDENTIFY “X”?

Answer

Hulk

Q 30.

• In Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “Rendezvous with X”, “Y” is the name of the unmanned space probe launched from Phobos(one of the satellites of mars) to study the alien star ship.

• X & Y?

Answer

Rama & Sita

Q 31.

• X was struck by the inconsistencies of English spelling and the obstacles it presented to learners (young and old alike) and resented that American classrooms were filled only with British textbooks. X changed the –ce in words like defence, offence, and pretence to –se; abandoned the second, silent "l" in verbs such as travel and cancel when forming the past tense; dropped the "u" from words such as humour and colour; and dropped the "k" from words such as publick and musick. O The "publick" readily accepted many of these changes and just as readily rejected some of the others.

Answer

Noah Webster

Q 32.

• This phenomenon is used to describe the failure of a sitcom by an actor following massive success on an ensemble show. Shows specifically cited regarding this are Watching Ellie, Bob Patterson and Listen Up!

Answer

Seinfield Curse

Q 33. Id the character Daniel Radcliffe is playing.

Answer

Allen Ginsberg

Q 34.

• X was born in 1952 in Samana, India, near Patiala Punjab, to a Namdhari Sikh family and is the youngest of two brothers and three sisters. He grew up in Palamau, Jharkhand after his parents shifted there in the fifties. He is married to Sushma Narula and has a daughter and a son.

• X began his brick kiln business in 1981. However, he suffered losses and following this, he started a cloth shop but again failed in his venture.He was then involved in mining of Kyanite from Jyoti Hill, Jharkhand in 1998–1999. However, X is known for something completely different today. ID X.

Answer

Nirmal Baba

Q 35.

• The word X derives from the name of a French finance minister who, in 1759, was forced by France's credit crisis during the Seven Years War to impose severe economic demands upon the French people, particularly the wealthy. Because of his austere economies, his name became synonymous with anything done or made cheaply and so with these outline portraits. ID X.

Answer

Silhouette

Q 36. Conect(inexhaustive)

• Los Ramblers• Lonnie Donegan• Roberto do Nascimento• Maryla Rodowicz• Buenos Aires Municipal Symphony• Plácido Domingo• Stephanie Lawrence

Answer

Sang FIFA World Cup song

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