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Prehilanth Quiz Series - 1

Quizmaster : DVS Aditya

The person shown in the picture is a civil engineer. Identify this pioneer in the field of Computer Science.

Development of the X platform began on 1 October 2007. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett after it had been made available for a few months prior as a beta release.

The site provides social networking-like functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using wiki software called Gollum) and a social network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository and what branch is newest.

X was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon).

 As a young man X emigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic.

In the Arab world, X is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.

X's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. Having been translated into more than forty languages

The supermarket is what Erving Goffman might call a total institution. Its occupants (food from around the world) are kept compliant by an unprovable belief system. If they are good and obey the gods, they will one day be chosen and taken to the “Great Beyond” (outside the gleaming automated doors in a cart).

But they will only get picked if they remain pure of spirit; the “unfresh” get tossed into a dusty bin by a sadist tormentor (actually just a teen bored with his job.) This fear prevents sausages and buns from getting intimate, despite their urges to conjoin.

What is this paragraph referring to ?

The picture on the left is that of Rini Simon Khanna and the guy on the right is Shammi Narang. Both of them used to be news anchors for Doordarshan .

Even though you may not have seen them before on TV, millions of people hear their voices daily.

Where ?

Australia : More than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared themselves members of X in the 2001 census. The Australian Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release in response to media interest on the subject. The ABS announced that any answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of making misleading or false statements on the census.

Canada : In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their religion as X. This fact was referenced by the prime minister's office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form voluntary.

England & Wales : In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as X on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.

Id X

Identify the company and also give the funda. A point for each of them.

X is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. The game was released worldwide in August 2016.

X’s gameplay is built on four pillars — exploration, survival, combat and trading. Players are free to perform within the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open universe, which includes over 18 quintillion (1.8×1019) planets,[a] many with their own sets of flora and fauna.

Nearly all elements of the game are procedurally generated, including star systems, planets and their ecosystems, flora, fauna and their behavioural patterns, artificial structures, and alien factions and their spacecraft. The game's engine employs several deterministic algorithms such as parameterised mathematical equations that can mimic a wide range of geometry and structure found in nature.

Art elements created by human artists are used and altered as well within these generation systems. The game's audio, including ambient sounds and its underlying soundtrack, also use procedural generation methods from base samples created by Paul Weir and the musical group 65daysofstatic.

FITB

This is because most of them (the people who control these) are right handed, because of which they control the head with their favourite hand.

This is the answer to what question ?

X is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world. It rebroadcast same-day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p.m. (ET/PT) until the network's closure in 2013. Since August 24, 2015, Pop currently airs same-day episodes of the soap as part of their primetime lineup. The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was a story editor for X and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by William J. Bell. In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC.

Due to the series' success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21, 1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series' Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on February 3, 2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on X this year, appearing on the show more or less since her first appearance in 1973. Susan Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on X in all five decades it has been on air.

We know it mainly because it has been heavily referenced and mildly satirized in another very popular TV Show. Identify X.

X , also known as AGRINL (AGRINL) and EGF-like, fibronectin type-III and laminin G-like domain-containing protein (EGFLAM), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene.

X is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in Japan by Shigeru Sato. It is described to nimble and have shocking electric effects.

What is the protein named after ?

This is an ad campaign by which company ?

Which were the first couple to be shown in bed together on primetime TV when the show aired on ABC between 1960 and 1966?

This was a time when it was still taboo, hence these guys were the only ones who could have pulled it off without pissing off the general population.

Diameter – 85 millimeters Weight – 500 grams Composition – 6 grams of gold with 99.99%

purity and the rest is 92.5% pure sterling silver

Cost - $564

The idea for X’s old fashioned food was inspired by Dave Thomas’s trips to “Kewpee” Restaurants in his home of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child “Melinda Lou Thomas”. Photographs of her were displayed at the original X restaurant until it closed.

X’s superiority is stressed through their slogan “Quality is our recipe”.

Notable menu items include the “Frosty” synonymous to the “Soft Serve” of McDonald’s.

Identify X.

Connect

Vaadhoo is one of the totally inhabited islands of Raa Atoll. Maldives. Total population of the inhabited island was more than 500 in 2007.

The beach in Vaadhoo is often called the “Sea of Stars”.

What is the speciality of this island ?

This was the form in which this item was packed in medieval times. It was also used as a form of currency. What is it shown in the picture ? Hint:- Think of iconic revolutions in world history.

The ____ ____ ____, Mumbai, India, is a registered non-profit public charitable trust. It was established in February 1991. It promotes Islamic Da’wah - the proper presentation, understanding and appreciation of Islam, as well as removing misconceptions about Islam - amongst less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.

FITB

X attacks its opponents by thrusting up into the air.

Y attacks its opponents by swiping down. These actions are metaphorically related

to the movement of Z. What are X,Y and Z ?

X was an English actor and musician and stood at 3 ft 8 in tall, was born and educated in Birmingham, Kent.

He was invited by a lady to join a troupe of dwarves. This was his first taste of show business.

He joined a circus for a brief period of time. He later learnt ice skating and appeared on many ice shows.

He was then recruited for his most iconic role. Name X and the role he played.

FITB

Connect this to a very famous film. Bonus points for identifying what he is writing.

The word was originally two Latin terms, "locum" meaning in place of, and "teneris" meaning holding, together the phrase applied to anyone "holding in place of" someone else. Over time the word ‘locum’ developed into what it is today. It is possible that when the English heard the French pronounce the compound word X, they perceived a slurring between the first and second syllables. Today, most English speaking nations except the United States pronounce X the way the English do.

Answers

The person shown in the picture is a civil engineer. Identify this pioneer in the field of Computer Science.

He built the world’s first programmable electromechanical computer.

I repeated the question as a tribute to the person and so that people won’t forget this guy again.

Konrad Zuse

Development of the X platform began on 1 October 2007. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett after it had been made available for a few months prior as a beta release.

The site provides social networking-like functions such as feeds, followers, wikis (using wiki software called Gollum) and a social network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository and what branch is newest.

GitHub

X was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon).

 As a young man X emigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic.

In the Arab world, X is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.

X's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of twenty-six poetic essays. Its popularity grew markedly during the 1960s with the American counterculture and then with the flowering of the New Age movements. It has remained popular with these and with the wider population to this day. Since it was first published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print. Having been translated into more than forty languages

Kahlil Gibran

The supermarket is what Erving Goffman might call a total institution. Its occupants (food from around the world) are kept compliant by an unprovable belief system. If they are good and obey the gods, they will one day be chosen and taken to the “Great Beyond” (outside the gleaming automated doors in a cart).

But they will only get picked if they remain pure of spirit; the “unfresh” get tossed into a dusty bin by a sadist tormentor (actually just a teen bored with his job.) This fear prevents sausages and buns from getting intimate, despite their urges to conjoin.

What is this paragraph referring to ?

Sausage Party

The picture on the left is that of Rini Simon Khanna and the guy on the right is Shammi Narang. Both of them used to be news anchors for Doordarshan .

Even though you may not have seen them before on TV, millions of people hear their voices daily.

Where ?

All Hindi and English in-train and in-station voice messages and announcements of the Delhi Metro, Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon, Mumbai Metro, Bangalore Metro, Jaipur Metro and the upcoming Hyderabad Metro Rail are also recorded in Narang's and Khanna’s voices respectively, thus ensuring yet again that their voice is heard by millions on a daily basis .

Metro

Australia : More than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared themselves members of X in the 2001 census. The Australian Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release in response to media interest on the subject. The ABS announced that any answers that were Jedi-related in the religion question were to be classified as "not defined" and stressed the social impact of making misleading or false statements on the census.

Canada : In the 2001 census, 21,000 Canadians put down their religion as X. This fact was referenced by the prime minister's office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form voluntary.

England & Wales : In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as X on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country.

Id X

Jedi

Identify the company and also give the funda. A point for each of them.

Non Alcoholic Budweiser

X is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. The game was released worldwide in August 2016.

X’s gameplay is built on four pillars — exploration, survival, combat and trading. Players are free to perform within the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open universe, which includes over 18 quintillion (1.8×1019) planets,[a] many with their own sets of flora and fauna.

Nearly all elements of the game are procedurally generated, including star systems, planets and their ecosystems, flora, fauna and their behavioural patterns, artificial structures, and alien factions and their spacecraft. The game's engine employs several deterministic algorithms such as parameterised mathematical equations that can mimic a wide range of geometry and structure found in nature.

Art elements created by human artists are used and altered as well within these generation systems. The game's audio, including ambient sounds and its underlying soundtrack, also use procedural generation methods from base samples created by Paul Weir and the musical group 65daysofstatic.

No Man’s Sky

FITB

Malia Obama

This is because most of them (the people who control these) are right handed, because of which they control the head with their favourite hand.

This is the answer to what question ?

Why are most muppets left handed ?

X is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world. It rebroadcast same-day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p.m. (ET/PT) until the network's closure in 2013. Since August 24, 2015, Pop currently airs same-day episodes of the soap as part of their primetime lineup. The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was a story editor for X and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by William J. Bell. In February 2016, the soap received a one-year renewal through 2017, with the option of an additional year by NBC.

Due to the series' success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21, 1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys. Several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series' Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on February 3, 2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on X this year, appearing on the show more or less since her first appearance in 1973. Susan Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on X in all five decades it has been on air.

We know X mainly because it has been heavily referenced and mildly satirized in another very popular TV Show. Identify X.

Days of Our Lives

X , also known as AGRINL (AGRINL) and EGF-like, fibronectin type-III and laminin G-like domain-containing protein (EGFLAM), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene.

X is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first described in 2008 in Japan by Shigeru Sato. It is described to nimble and have shocking electric effects.

What is the protein named after ?

Pikachu (Pikachurin)

It’s rumoured that Mew and Ditto are nearly one and the same, but that Ditto is a failed attempt at cloning Mew. They both weigh 8.8 lbs, know Transform naturally, are pink but blue when shiny, and can learn every move – if only temporarily for Ditto.

Random Pokemon Fact

This is an ad campaign by which company ?

Jeep

Which were the first couple to be shown in bed together on primetime TV when the show aired on ABC between 1960 and 1966?

This was a time when it was still taboo, hence these guys were the only ones who could have pulled it off without pissing off the general population.

The Flintstones

Diameter – 85 millimeters Weight – 500 grams Composition – 6 grams of gold with 99.99%

purity and the rest is 92.5% pure sterling silver

Cost - $564

Fun question : What is engraved on the back of the olympic medals ?

Rio 2016 Gold Medal

The idea for X’s old fashioned food was inspired by Dave Thomas’s trips to “Kewpee” Restaurants in his home of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Thomas named the restaurant after his fourth child “Melinda Lou Thomas”. Photographs of her were displayed at the original X restaurant until it closed.

X’s superiority is stressed through their slogan “Quality is our recipe”.

Notable menu items include the “Frosty” synonymous to the “Soft Serve” of McDonald’s.

Identify X.

Wendy’s

Connect

Paavo Nurmi Cathy Freeman Michel Platini Muhammad Ali Wayne Gretzky Vanderlai de Lima(this year)

People who lit the Olympic torch

Vaadhoo is one of the totally inhabited islands of Raa Atoll. Maldives. Total population of the inhabited island was more than 500 in 2007.

The beach in Vaadhoo is often called the “Sea of Stars”.

What is the speciality of this island ?

Bioluminescent Phytoplankton causes the beach to glow at night

This was the form in which this item was packed in medieval times. It was also used as a form of currency. What is it shown in the picture ? Hint:- Think of iconic revolutions in world history.

The iconic event I was referring to was “Boston Tea Party”. All portrayals of the event show Tea being dumped in this form

These are Tea Bricks

The ____ ____ ____, Mumbai, India, is a registered non-profit public charitable trust. It was established in February 1991. It promotes Islamic Da’wah - the proper presentation, understanding and appreciation of Islam, as well as removing misconceptions about Islam - amongst less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.

FITB

PeaceTV by “Dr.” Zakir Naik

X attacks its opponents by thrusting up into the air.

Y attacks its opponents by swiping down. These actions are metaphorically related

to the movement of Z. What are X,Y and Z ?

X- BullY- BearZ- Stock Market

X was an English actor and musician and stood at 3 ft 8 in tall, was born and educated in Birmingham, Kent.

He was invited by a lady to join a troupe of dwarves. This was his first taste of show business.

He joined a circus for a brief period of time. He later learnt ice skating and appeared on many ice shows.

He was then recruited for his most iconic role. Name X and the role he played.

May he rest in peace

X- Kenny Baker played the role of R2D2

FITB

Harambe

Connect this to a very famous film. Bonus points for identifying what he is writing.

300 – Spartan military , this is Othryades the sole survivor of the campaign under Militiades against the Argives. The inscription was “ I Won “

300

The word was originally two Latin terms, "locum" meaning in place of, and "teneris" meaning holding, together the phrase applied to anyone "holding in place of" someone else. Over time the word ‘locum’ developed into what it is today. It is possible that when the English heard the French pronounce the compound word X, they perceived a slurring between the first and second syllables. Today, most English speaking nations except the United States pronounce X the way the English do.

Lieutenant