inter-departmental prelims

INTER-DEPARTMENTAL

QUIZ

Quizmaster:- Ranu Vikram

1.

Id X and Y.

X : "I had ridden in taxicab number 1729 and the number

seems to me rather a dull one; I hope it is not an

unfavorable omen."

Y : "No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest

number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two

different ways"

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

X- G.H. HardyY- Srinivas Ramanujam

2.

Put funda.

616

1610

92131

199999

2149

93060

Numbers used for different universes in Marvel Multiverse

616- Marvel Mainstream Universe

1610- Marvel Ultimate Universe

92131- Marvel X-Men Animated Series

199999- Marvel Cinematic Universe

2149- Marvel Zombie Universe

93060- Malibu Comics

3. Connect

All female reboot of “Ghostbusters”

4.

Vandelay Industries is(was?) a rubber products based company. X

applied for the job of latex salesman at this firm. X was evidently denied

the job, prompting him to get unemployment benefits for his survival.

One of the other famous employee to work at Vandelay was Kel

Varnsen.

•Who was X?

X- George Costanza

5. Connect

National Anthem by Lana Del Rey

6.

Ahlquist, who gave the idea to Shukoff as an improvised show, which

was titled "Check OneTwo"; as the two worked on improvisation skits,

along with Zach Sherwin, who has appeared on the series. They were

met with lots of difficulty at first and decided that it would fare much

better as a YouTube series than an improv show.

•Image on next slide.

•What did they created?

Epic Rap Battles of History

7.•Jeffrey Skoll was the first employee and president of ebay, after his

stint at ebay he turned into a philanthropist and a producer. He is

currently pushing the envelopes of commercial cinema by producing

politically aware films, such as Syriana, Good Night Good Luck, Waiting

for “Superman”, Inconvenient Truth.

•In his philanthrophical endeavours, he is the main sponsor of X. X

involved something, which was to promote non-violence, self-reliance,

economic development, and empowerment in the region(Palestine).

•What is that something?

Dubbed Gandhi into Arabic

8.

•R-Square is a basic box military formation, renamed for the

effectiveness Indian General Raj Singh had as he employed it against

the X. Infantrymen form four lines (or if they have a barrier, they may set

up against it, to secure one side, and strengthen the additional assault

lines) around their supply cache. Other variations have several ranks to

their lines, so that a kneeling line and a standing line can alternate

volleys of fire. Furthermore, the medical supplies, water, rations, and

other valuables should also be kept in the center.

•Give me X.

X- Zombies

9. FITB

Bakuten Shūto Beiburēdo is a Japanese manga series written and

illustrated by Takao Aoki to promote sales of spinning tops called

______________. Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from

January 2000 to December 2003, the individual chapters were collected

and published in 14 tankōbon by Shogakukan. The series focuses on a

group of kids who form teams with which they battle one another using

______________.

Beyblade

10.

•Brad Rutter: He is the biggest all-time money winner on the TV show

Jeopardy!, and the biggest all-time money winner on a game show.

•Ken Jennings: He holds the record for the longest winning streak on

Jeopardy!

•Both of these quizzing legends were defeated by X during the show

broadcasted on Feb. 14 and 15, 2011. Even though both of them were

defeated, this defeat doesn't features into their records as the match

was deemed as “exhibition”.

•Id X

X- IBM Watson

11.

•There are several images, which celebrities or famous people, share of

themselves providing evidence that they are redditors. Even though

some of them might me an “Anon” on 4chan, nobody ever came

forward claiming it.

•There is a popular theory that X is active on /b, despite it contrasts X's

persona. This is the reason, why dissing X on 4chan can make all

anons come at you with all their fury and in some cases led to

deletion/banning of threads/users by moot himself.

•Id X.

•Image on next slide.

X- Taylor Swift

12. Whose quotes?

Different incarnations of Dr. Who

13.

A X suit (hazardous materials suit) is a piece of personal

protective equipment that consists of an impermeable whole-

body garment worn as protection against hazardous

materials.

Can be connected to a famous TV show.

Give me X.

14. FITB

•X is a multi-millionare(?), who attributes his wealth to __________. He

was jailed for his shady business ties with Saddam Hussein. He often

says that, “there is always money in __________”.

•___________ is so important for his family, that his grandson began

running __________. When ________ caught fire, it was revealed that,

X stashed all(?) his illegal money in _________, which gave literal

meaning to his famous phrase.

•All the blanks are same.

Banana Stand

15. Minimal Poster

C.I.D.

16.

X is the fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of fungi such as the puffball or

stinkhorn. The X is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area

within the sporocarp. The continuous maturity of the sporogenous cells leave

the spores behind as a powdery mass that can be easily blown away. The X

may be sticky or it may be enclosed in a case.

Id X or why it features in an Entertainment quiz.

X- GlebaEmma's first word was Gleba

17.

X is the nickname given to a group of young actors who frequently

appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s.

First mentioned in a 1985 New York magazine article.

John Hughes' movies made them household names in the 80s.

X- Brat Pack

18.

It is a fan-fiction theory which argues that Jon Snow, a character in

George RR Martin's fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice, is not son of

Ned Stark, but is actually the son of Ned's sister Lyanna Stark and

Rhaegar Targaryen.

What is this popular fan theory known as?

R+L = J

19. tl;dr

•Captain Marvel is a Fawcett Comics superhero, later DC bought Fawcett and

relaunched the title as SHAZAM, later the series went into a hiatus. This,

prompted Marvel Comics to rename their superhero Mar-Vell as Captain

Marvel to get hold of the trademark. Now, after a lot of reboots and retcons,

Marvel changed the hero, who is donning Captain Marvel persona to Ms.

Marvel instead Mar-Vell.

•This freed the trademark Ms. Marvel for grab, if Marvel didn't launch a new

Ms. Marvel character in a specified time period. Marvel relaunched a new Ms.

Marvel comic book ongoing with a new character, which is also one of the

most selling Marvel comic book and also, earned Marvel some diversity

points.

•Why this new Ms. Marvel earned Marvel diversity points?

Moniker of Ms. Marvel was taken by Kamla Khan, who is a Pakistani teenage girl

20.

X is a bitchy speech critic who panned Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

He also reviews oscar nominated movies in his pastime(?). Some of his

famous reviews are:

Her: Guess who was bored by this movie – him! Even the main

character spent the whole movie texting.

Gravity: If I wanted to watch a depressed middle-aged woman float

around for 90 minutes, I'd go to the YMCA pool.

Annie Hall: I'd rather let Woody Allen watch my kids than watch this

movie again.

Id X or where you can watch/read his reviews(be specific).

X- Jebediah AtkinsonWeekend Update

21.

•What is Erdos number's counterpart in music industry?

•Hint: Rock band with penchant for occult themes.

Black Sabbath Number

22.

•In its current form X argument began with the publication of a paper by

Nick Bostrom in 2003.

•Though X argument/hypothesis is one of the most recurring themes in

science fiction, it became popular after serving as central themes in The

Matrix Trilogy.

•What is being talked about?

Omphalos Hypothesis or Simulation Argument

23.

•On June 25, 2009 several websites suffered from outages or server

crash/failures.

• TMZ and Los Angeles Times suffered outages. Google thought itself

to be a victim of DDoS attack. Both Twitter and Wikipedia reportedly

crashed at 3:15 p.m.

•AOL called it a “seminal moment in Internet history”.

•What caused these websites to slow-down or crash?

Death of Michael Jackson

24.

X is the guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets. It prohibits

Starfleet personnel from interfering with the internal development of

alien civilizations.

Id X.

Prime Directive

25. FITB

For some time, Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the

term he intended to coin, until he found this:

___________________________________

Sure he has not got much of a bark

And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

--James

Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Three quarks for muster mark