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inQUIZition 2012 | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Kolkata

August 2, 2012
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X has been regarded as an organized religion by its

founders and proponents while a majority debunks and

mocks it. Most of the principles and ideas of which X talks

about come from the philosophy of the famous scholar

shown on left .

X became increasingly known after a 1998 Hollywood

release.

What is X ?

Question 1 *


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Answer

Dudeism

The school of thought became increasingly popular after the film The Big Lebowski which had

the character The Dude


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Question 2

The lady in the image on the left was first

noticed when she appeared in one of the

Playboy magazine issues in the early

seventies. This particular image is of the

occasion some thirty years later when shewas invited and honored by an American

association as they believed that she has

played (and is still playing) an indispensible

role in a field which is completely

unrelated

Name the lady / How is she popularly

known as ?


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Answer

Lena Soderberg / Lenna

As per an IEEE newsletter,

AlexanderSawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an

assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California

Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI

lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's

conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating backto television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure

good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody

happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the

drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-

digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett

Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch

and the engineers wanted a 512512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.

This scan, nonetheless, became one of the most used images in

computer history, so much that the mysterious Lenna came to be

dubbed the "First Lady of the Internet" . The image is visible in

the question image


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Question 3

Connect these people

(non-exhaustive list) to aunique venture associated

with discovering natural

resources.


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Answer

Planetary Resources

K Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and James Cameroon and some of the

people who have come together to form a venture that aims to find natural resources in outer

space.



Question 4

In software and business parlance, what is the term used to describe the state of a small,

independent company after a bigger, well known company in the business launches a

product which offers the same features as offered by the product of the smaller company

launched earlier hence rendering the smaller company out of competition.

The term derives its name from a cult figure in English literature and was also the name

of a feature offered by an iconic company X, the launch of which actually coined this

term. The company X was in new again for doing something similar to the existing small

time players.

Name the term.



Answer

Sherlocked

The term was coined in the early 2000s, after Apple (X) updated the Sherlock search tool on its

desktop operating system (OS) to do what had just months before been offered by an external

application called Watson, created by Karelia Software to complement the Apple tool's earlier

version.

At its recent Worldwide Developers' Conference Apple (X) said it would provide new data for

the Maps app, which had hitherto relied on Google's cartography. It would also add turn-by-

turn satellite navigation (satnav), upsetting Garmin, Navigon and other makers of kit and

software for drivers.



Question 5 *

Which popular entity/urban legend is this xkcd comic talking about ?



Answer

FedEx / The FedEx Logo

The urban legend being the hidden arrow placed in the FedEx logo



Question 6

Identify the person blanked out. This meeting of the above shown two individuals

was much talked about recently.
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Answer

Sheldon Cooper

Stephen Hawking recently made a guest appearance in Season 5 Episode 21 of The Big Bang

Theory


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Question 7

Identify the logo.


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Answer

Rio+20 / United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development


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Question 8

In a unique customer service initiative, this Indian company along with an advertising

agency designed and offered the above as a part of their menu with a distinct

packaging. Which company ?


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Answer

Indigo Airlines


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Question 9

Who was once referred to as the beloved husband of Ms T Ruth & the father of L.I

Bertie in a popular article by an Indian daily ?


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Answer

Democracy

On 26 June 1975, a the day after emergency was imposed, the Bombay edition of The Times of India in

its obituary column carried an entry that read "D.E.M O'Cracy beloved husband of T.Ruth, father of

L.I.Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 26 June


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Question 10 *

?Which Indian lady currently making waves completes this (as of now) exhaustive list ?


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Answer

Sneha Khanwalkar

Sneha of Oye Lucky,Lucky Oye, Gangs of Wasseypur and Sound Trippin fame is the fourth ever female

music director in the male-dominated industry after Jaddan Bai (mother of Nargis Dutt), Saraswati

Devi and Usha Khanna.


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Question 11

The building, recently opened to public houses articles, memoirs et al of the chief

protagonist of the book and has been designed by the author in parallel to writing the

book. With nearly 15 years of effort, the book catalogues the exhibitions and articles

(image shows one of the showcases with such beautiful objects) of the building while

arguing that large national museums must give way to museums housing stories of

individual lives that are richer, humane and joyful.

Identify the author or the work.


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Answer

Orhan Pamuk / The Museum of Innocence

The book is The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. The eponymous museum is located at

Istanbul, Turkey.


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Question 12

Maidan kay aas paas,

Ek kolahal hota hai,

Hum _______ kay prasanshak hain,

Aap chahe jahan se bhi aayein hon,

Uttar se ya Dakshin se,

Ab hum sab sehmat hain, hum sab sehmat hain,

Yeh ek jhanda humare bhaichaare ko pakka karta hai,Hawa mein __________,

Ek bahadur chillata hai,

Humara ek naam jo sab jaante hain,

__________________

Where will you find this Hindi poetry written ?

(the same has been written in the english script next to the image)


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Answer

The FC Barcelona Museum

The poetry is the FC Barcelona anthem in Hindi, which is placed at the museum along with

its translation in several other languages


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Question 13

The person shown on the left is regarded as the

only exception in a funny and rather interesting

story which has been going on in his country since along time.

What interesting story / fact ?


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Answer

The Bald-Hairy Sequence

Shown in image is Georgy Malenkov. A Russian joke is that there is, apparently, a strict rule applying to

Russia's political life for the latest two centuries. A bald (or obviously balding) state leader is supposed

to be succeeded by a non-bald ("hairy") one, and vice versa. Whilst this pattern is most likely acoincidence, it has been holding true since 1825 (with the exception of Georgy Malenkov 1953-1955),

starting from Nicholas I


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Question 14

This sportsman has been in the limelight of late for something rather interesting.

Name him.


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Answer

Hines Ward

In one of the most memorable scenes for the recently released trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, NFL

player Hines Ward can be seen running for a touchdown as the football field collapses behind him.


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Question 15 *

How has this Indian made his presence feltat the London Olympics 2012 ?


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Answer

ArcelorMittal Orbit

Shown in image is Anish Kapoor, the famous sculptor who designed the structure for London 2012


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Question 16

This novel shares an interesting connect with

Bollywood, so much so that this connection lead to

this novel and the author gaining a rising followingduring that particular time, given the charisma of

the person(s) involved.

What ? Think Recent !!


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Answer

Mere Sapno ki Raani / Rajesh Khanna & Sharmila Tagore

It is the book Sharmila Tagore is seen reading in the popular song from the filmAaradhna


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Question 17

Shown in the images above is an iconic rock group (only the frontman is visible)

during one ofits live performances of a song X. The song X is based and borrows

its name from a certain historical group X who were invited on stage during the

performance of the song as evident in the image.

Name the song X.


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Answer

Mothers of the Disappeared by U2

The Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mother of the Disappeared) group joined U2 on stage during a

performance in Santiago, Chile on the PopMart Tour in 1998.


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Question 18

Which phenomenon does this

graphic represent ?


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Answer

Ozone Depletion/The Ozone Hole


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Question 19

Connect


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Answer

The E-Toilets

They were developed and used by army in Siachen. Now launched by the Rural Ministry in Odisha

villages


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Question 20*

Shown above is an in-exhaustive list of artworks which have a unique credit to their

name. What ?


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Answer

Art/Painting Competitions at Olympic Games

Shown were the some of the only gold medal winners in the Best Painting category at

Olympics. The art competitions were discontinued after 1950s


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