IBQC OPEN QUIZ 2017

FINALSQuizmaster

Sreepadmanabh M

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

The 5 circles of Hell

Round 1 : Pounce n Bounce – Clockwise

Round 2 : The Gambler

Round 3 : Pounce n Bounce - Anticlockwise

Round 4 : Chakravyuh

Round 5 : Long Visual Connect

Round 1 Regular Pounce n Bounce

Direct question : + 10 / 0

Pounce : + 20 / - 10

This is the only round you’ll be able to play without being messed up by the scoring .

So chill and scoop up some points . You’ll really need them in the next round .

1.Nothing really matters , to me …..

X is a region of the Czech Republic . The people , usually gypsies from X were also called as X-ians .

The term however , soon came to mean someone who lived without assured resources , without worry of tomorrow , careless etc.

Soon , poets , artists and musicians were described by this term very frequently in the 19th century Parisian society .

Currently , this term carries a connotation of enlightenment , but is also used to signify someone who is careless about health , hygiene , does not adhere to conventional societal rules , marital fidelity etc.

Identify the word .

Bohemian / Bohemia

2. Double Switch

The erstwhile name of this capital translates to estuary. Its name was changed to its current name, which translates to 'Eastern Capital'. This is in reference to the previous Capital which was situated in the western part of the country, and which meant 'Capital'. Name both the current and the previous capital cities, whose names are anagrams of each other.

Viva face when you’ve no clue what Hall effect is

Kyoto

Tokyo

3. Trifling mistakes , Disastrous fall-outs

PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the second-largest professional services firm in the world, and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.

Vault Accounting 50 has ranked PwC as the most prestigious accounting firm in the world for seven consecutive years, as well as the top firm to work for in North America for three consecutive years.

"They recently were in a controversy". What event did this controversy happen at?

The Best picture fiasco this year

4. Strange eurekas

Vijendra Shekhawat went to a shrine atop a hill in Jaipur. While he was walking at the foot of the hill , he realized that most of the pilgrims preferred riding on the backs of elephants .

He observed a couple of elephants and got the idea for a particular innovative product .

What did he come up with / What brand originated thus ?

When they

serve dum

aloo in

mess

Haathi-Chaap

Paper made from elephant dung

5. The Beautiful Game

This version of a popular sport started in Uruguay in 1930. In Brazil, this version developed on the streets of São Paulo, and, eventually, a rule book was published.

The sport began to spread across South America, and its popularity ensured that a governing body was formed under the name of FIFUSA in 1971, along with the World Championships.

The first World Championships were held in Río de Janeiro, with hosts Brazil crowned champions ahead of Paraguay. Which version ?

Futsal

6. See Something ?

The Telluride Foundation, based out of Colarado is a multi-venture organization which has come under the controvesy radar in the recent past, due to what reason?

Seeing bae date a junior

The GamblerNo standard rules of scoring apply .

You bid for points .

Correct answer : you get back as many points as you bid

Wrong answer : You lose ALL the points you bid

Right to answer goes to highest bidder

You cannot bid more than your current total .

Teams with no points/negative score can bid max 20 points.

1. A unique record

To date , Simon Bolivar remains the only person to have his name featured as a part of the official names of two countries in the world.

One of them is Bolivia (quite obvious) . The other not-so-obvious one is Venezuela .

Tell me how is this possible ? How does Bolivar’s name feature here ?

CLUE : Read the question VERY carefully and then think

When the IISc guy rejected your

internship application but

your room-mate got it

The Bolivarian republic of Venezuela

2. The Gold Rush , ver 2.0

This natural resource X has recently come to assume vital importance , primarily due to its wide-spread and indispensable application in a specific type of technological equipment that has seen exponential growth over the last few years.

The amount used per item is miniscule , but extremely essential . Global demand for X has therefore scaled up incredibly.

Argentina , Bolivia and Chile together hold about a staggering 70% of the world’s total quantity of X . The region is called as the X triangle and is under heavy international speculation and extensive mining efforts are being carried out there.

X is also called sometimes as white gold . Identify X .

There goes my physics

mid-sem

Lithium for batteries

3. Subtle criticisms

X is an organization which has made quite a few parodies of popular games like Super Mario Bros, Cooking Mama, Pokémon and Super Meat Boy.

One of the group's first notable satirical games, called Super Chick Sisters, parodying Super Mario Bros, was released on December 2007 where the villain was Colonel Sanders.

It then released a sequel where McDonalds and Ronald McDonald was the villain.

They have come under various intellectual property thefts from even Nintendo for their version of Pokémon named Pokémon: Black and Blue.

Identify this world famous organization.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

4. Serendipity

In the 1920s, Kutol Products, a company specializing in soaps and cleaning products, came up with a pliable, putty - like substance used for cleaning soot from dirty wallpaper.

Post World War II, there was a reduction in internal soot, as well as a change towards washable vinyl - based wallpaper, consequently reducing the demand for the product.

However, someone at the company discovered that it was being used by school children for another purpose, and this led to the rise of a very commonly seen product. What?

5. The way the wind blows

This was banned in the 1930s for safety reasons , but reintroduced after World War II due to a lack of people.

The ban was reinforced in 1974, and has stuck since then.

The governing body in the US explains it this way :

“you’re driving merrily down the road when all of a sudden, coming straight at you, is a crazed Englishman driving on the left side of the road. The panic you’d feel in that situation is just what________ “

What was banned ?

Ban on left handed polo playing

6. Not quite what you expected

The recently opened Holocaust memorial in Berlin was criticized by many including the celebrated Gunter Grass .

One of the minor criticisms was also over the company which supplied the anti – graffiti paint .

Why were they targeted ?

They supplied the chemicals used in the gas chambers

Round 3 – Music , Movies , Madness

Anticlockwise Pounce n Bounce

Same scoring rules as in Round 1

1. Identify all 3

A long time back , X and the lead singer Y of a famous band Z decided to collaborate . However , the idea never came to fruition , as after just a few sessions they decided to split up.

The actual reasons for the split , revealed much later are quite astounding. X apparently came for the recording with his pet llama Louie, without which he refused to sing. Y found this highly annoying.

X too , was uncomfortable with the large amounts of cocaine consumed by Y , which became another point of friction between them.

The few songs they did record were released much after the death of both X and Y , in 2013.

Recently , at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony , a gigantic hologram of Y in his trademark yellow military jacket was shown , followed by a performance featuring the living members of Z , with vocals by Jessie J .

X – Michael Jackson Y – Freddie Mercury

2. The whims of fame

This is the story of the most sought after photograph in the US National Archives.

On the night of 21 Dec , 1970 , X who was at the height of his fame at that time , suddenly decided that he wanted a badge from the Narcotics dept. which he believed would allow him to enter any country at free will carrying whatever drugs he wished.

In this regard , he wrote to the US President Y , who personally granted his request.

The photo of the two of them is the photo we are talking about.

Recently , X & Y was the title of a film released , featuring Michel Shannon as X and Kevin Spacey as Y.

Identify both .

Elvis Presley meets Nixon

3. Vintage Classics

Identify both the movies and the director.(Both are directed by the same ) using the posters on the next slide

First one reads “ I knew it was you _____ . You broke my heart . “

Second one reads “ It’s judgement that defeats us “

4. Hats of , my boy ! X is a currently active cinema professional. His work has received high critical

acclaim and he is often regarded as one of the best of our generation.

X set a remarkable record at the Oscars last year , as he went on to win his third straight Oscar in a row. ( 2014, 2015 ,2016 ) all in the same category.

In 2015 , he had worked with Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron who himself became the first Mexican director to win an Academy Award for Gravity .

In 2015 and 2016 , he worked with the great Gonzalo Innaritu , who himself won two back to back Oscars for Best Director for his films Birdman ( 2015 ) and The Revenant ( 2016 )

X won his award for all three of these films .

Give me the category X won his award in . Bonus points if you get the name right as well.

Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Cinematography

5. No little matter

President Obama described X as his favorite character from the critically acclaimed TV series Y , which incidentally is also his favorite TV show .

X is distinguished especially for his strict moral code , his refusal to use profanity and his reluctance to use wanton violence which sets him apart from the usual stereotype of gangsters . He is also depicted as having a privately tender nature and is a homosexual in the series.

He has gone to become the most enduring character from the show and for his portrayal of X, Michael K. Williams was named by USA Today as one of ten reasons they still love television.

Following slide shows some of his most memorable quotes .

Identify him and the series .

Omar Little from The Wire

6. Good idea . Terrible execution

The Vanishing Act is an upcoming thriller film to be directed by Kamasutra 3D director Rupesh Paul, as inspired by events surrounding ___________ .

A teaser of the movie was released at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and received an adverse reaction from social and mainstream media.

The story revolves around five young people and the decisions they make in life, as inspired by events surrounding _________and a theory by an unnamed journalist of what may have happened in reality. FITB

MH - 370

CHAKRAVYUH

• 6 sets of 2 questions each . Teams get assigned in descending order of points .

• First question - +20 / - 10 . Its mandatory • You get three choices for the second one : • 1. Double edged sword : Scoring is + 40 / - 40 . If you

answer incorrectly , pounce is open for +20 / - 10• 2. The Shield : Scoring is + 20 / - 20 . Same rules as

above for pounce if you answer incorrectly . • 3. Screw my enemy : You play for + 20 / - 10 . No

pounce . YOU get to decide which team will answer if you cannot . They play for + 20 / - 20

1. A. Nostalgia

Due to a disastrous 96% drop in sales over the past 10 years , this particular company decided to shut down production of a particular item.

However , many Hollywood legends were upset over this , including Martin Scorcese , J.J.Abrahams etc.

They therefore entered into a deal with the company that would sustain production of the particular item .

Identify the company and its iconic product.

Kodak Film roll

1. B. Connect

Che Guevara

2. A. Precision’s the word

X was a French mathematician and inventor.

To a quadrant with a primary scale in half degrees he proposed to attach a movable sector, thirty-one half degrees in length but divided into thirty equal parts. In measuring an angle, minutes could be easily reckoned by noticing which division line of the sector coincided with a division line of the quadrant.

Who / What did he invent ?

Vernier Callipers

2. B. Connect

1 98

2 201*

3 125

4 ~250

5 200 *

6 250 (4)

7 200 (3)

IISERS and their campus sizes

3. A. Cold water on grand plans

The occasion was a big demo at the Royal Academy of Sciences. X was stationed on a cliff in Poldhu, Cornwall and ready to transmit a message over 300 miles to Fleming's receiver in London. But just as the demonstration was about to begin, the receiving apparatus began to tap out a message in Morse code.

Someone... was beaming powerful wireless pulses into the theatre and they were strong enough to interfere with the projector's electric arc discharge lamp. Mentally decoding the missive, [Fleming's assistant Arthur] Blok realised it was spelling one facetious word, over and over: "Rats". A glance at the output of the nearby Morse printer confirmed this. The incoming Morse then got more personal, mocking X: "There was a young fellow of _____, who diddled the public quite prettily," it trilled.

Who’s X and why was this done ?

To refute Marconi’s claim about the privacy and security offered by his radio

3. B. Connect

All are current British colonies :

Cayman IslandsBritish Virgin IslandsFalkland IslandsSt. HelenaBermuda

4. A. With or without them

The Bogside massacre took place on Sunday , 30 Jan 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry , North Ireland . British soldiers shot dead 26 unarmed civilans during a protest march in support of the Irish Republican Army which was waging a campaign to unite Ireland against the British state.

This inspired X to write the song titled Y along with his second wife , a Japanese songwriter and peace activist.

Even Black Sabbath wrote a song about this incident which is called Sabbath Bloody Sabbath . U2 also wrote a song titled Y commemorating the incident .

Identify X and Y .

John Lennon

4. B. Whose artwork ?

Hitler’s Paintings

5. A. 6-6-6 ; the number of the beast …….

On Halloween , Oct 30 1938 , the BBC went more than a few steps further to pull of a remarkably successful prank .

They roped in legendary director Orson Welles (of Citizen Kane fame) and had him narrate a novel which they broadcast.

It reportedly caused mass hysteria and panic among the listeners as they believed it to be an actual broadcast that was being reported live .

Which classic work of fiction did Welles narrate ?

5. B. Connect

6. A. Some like it hot

Former Premier of the Soviet Union , Nikita Khrushchev exaggeratedly remarked “We’re making them like sausages”

This particular statement alarmed America which immediately jacked up its own production of the same item .

Currently , India has about 110 – 120 of these , China owns about 260 , Russia has 7000 , while the US has 6,800 .

What are we talking about ?

6. B. Connect

Charlie Chaplin

LVC

+ 40 / - 30

+ 30 / - 20

+20 / - 10

+ 10 / - 5

+ 5 / 0

North Korea

+40 / -30

+30 / -20

+ 20 / - 10

+ 10 / -5

+ 5 / 0

Yash Chopra