Quizzitch Cup 2020 Qureka Preims

The General Quiz of Quizzitch Cup 2020

1. Qureka Prelims The General Quiz

2. Rules 20 Questions, 1 mark each. Half marks will be allotted on Quizmaster’s decision Write at least one name and phone number on the sheet. Star marked questions 5,10,15 and 20 will be used as tie-breakers.

3. 1. Starting off with a sitter! ID X,Y and what event this speech had been prepared for (Be specific!) Thirty years after the event , an undelivered speech prepared for President Richard Nixon came to light. Discovered in the archives of the Nixon Administration by the historian James Mann  in 1999 , the speech was composed by Nixon’s then speechwriter, William Safire, to be used if a certain mission failed . Excerpts- “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the _______ to explore in peace will stay on the ________ to rest in peace. These brave men, X and Y , know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding”.

4. 1. Starting off with a sitter! ID X,Y and what event this speech had been prepared for (Be specific!) Thirty years after the event , an undelivered speech prepared for President Richard Nixon came to light. Discovered in the archives of the Nixon Administration by the historian James Mann  in 1999 , the speech was composed by Nixon’s then speechwriter, William Safire, to be used if a certain mission failed . Excerpts- “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the _______ to explore in peace will stay on the ________ to rest in peace. These brave men, X and Y , know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding”.

5. Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin if they couldn’t come back to Apollo 11 from the surface of the moon

6. 2. FITB

7. 3. ID the company X and the game Y The program won the Guinness World Record for the longest-running video-game series in 2012, three decades after its debut Now, to the surprise of its most ardent fanatics who thought X had abandoned the market, the company is planning to update its Y application for the first time since 2006 As X was unveiling the 2020 version of Y , Laminar founder Austin Meyer was in Orlando, Florida, at an airline industry conference . Rather than making its announcement there, X chose gaming industry show E3 in Los Angeles as its venue prompting experts to say that this was “Ferrari launching its new model through Uber”

8. 4. ID the album cover by one of the most famous British bands in history The Wikipedia entry for the album has this comment on the main sleeve image:- "The album's cover image was inspired by the idea that people tend to  conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two  businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire " Getting  burned " was also a common phrase in the music industry, used often by  artists denied royalty payments. Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell  and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a  business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The  photograph was taken at the Warner Bros studios in Los Angeles 

9. Wish you were here, Pink Floyd

10. 5****. ID this international activist X  is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014, she was kidnapped from her hometown  Kocho  and held by the Islamic State for three months. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict". She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Last week, she came back into the news when she met Donald Trump at the Oval Office and Trump asked her “ They gave you the Nobel Prize for what?” attracting the ire of netizens all over the globe

11. Nadia Murad

12. 6. ID this technology X X  is a technique for human image synthesis based on artificial intelligence. It is used to combine and superimpose existing images and videos onto source images or videos using a machine learning technique known as generative adversarial network. The phrase “ X " was coined in 2017 Because of these capabilities, X has been used to create fake celebrity pornographic videos or revenge porn X has been used to misrepresent well-known politicians on video portals or chatrooms. Recently, it came back into the news when a X image of Jim Carrey as Jack Nicholson in The Shining became popular and the Internet lost its mind

13. Deepfake

14. 7. ID this lady Born in Kapurthala, Punjab to a non-political family in 1938, X did her schooling from Convent of Jesus and Mary School in Delhi and completed her MA in history from Delhi University's Miranda House college.  Her entry into politics was accidental. Her father-in-law was a Cabinet minister in Indira Gandhi’s government . Indira Gandhi noticed her work and nominated her as a delegate of the United Nations Commission on the issue of status of women. She started her political career from Uttar Pradesh as a Member of Parliament from Kannauj constituency in 1984. In 1984, she became a minister in Rajiv Gandhi's government She also served as a Union Minister during 1986-1989. She first served as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and later as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office She was appointed as the Governor of Kerala in March 2014 , but resigned after few months. 

15. RIP

16. 8. Origin of which phrase? Steve Carell gets most of the credit for the phrase X after popularizing it on  The Office , but the true origins of the phrase go back much further than Michael Scott The joke is a twist of a much older British phrase that tracks back more than a century to some point in the Edwardian period (1901-1910). There, the line was " as the actress says to the bishop ," in reference to actresses — whose company could be purchased after performances — confessing their sins to clergymen. That phrase has been used with some frequency in film and literature, including in a test reel for Alfred Hitchcock's  Blackmail, where it was turned into " as the girl said to the soldier ." That version is  considered to be the first recording  of a “ X " joke.

17. That’s what she said

18. 9. ID X How I Won the War  is a 1967 British black comedy film directed and produced by Richard Lester, based on a novel of the same name by Patrick Ryan. The film stars Michael Crawford as bungling British Army Officer Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody and  X (in his only non-musical role , as Musketeer Gripweed ) During filming, he started wearing round "granny-like" glasses , which he continued to sport nearly constantly for the remainder of his life, becoming one of his most distinctive trademarks.

19. John Lennon

20. 10*****) The ___ (3) ___(3) Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. It "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible " by comparing the prices of ___(3) ____(3)s in different countries. The index, created in 1986, takes its name from the ___(3) ____(3), sold by one of the most recognized American corporations in the world. The corporation established by the two brothers Richard and Maurice in the year 1940 now has stores in over a 100 countries across 37,855 outlets. However, their iconic Golden Arches logo was introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. Although, the original mascot of the franchise was referred to as "Speedee", in 1962, the double Golden Arches replaced Speedee as the universal symbol. Another associated mascot which continues to be associated with the corporation was introduced in 1965 and appeared in advertising to target their audience of children. FITB

21. Big Mac (The Big Mac Index)

22. 11. ID the lady and the brand Gabrielle Bonheur X Y  was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the  Y  brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette " and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She sang in a cabaret frequented by cavalry officers. X made her stage debut singing at a  cafe-concert in a Moulins pavilion,  La Rotonde . It was at this time that Gabrielle acquired the name “X" when she spent her nights singing in the cabaret "Who Has Seen X ?" Others believe “ X " came from  Qui qu'a vu X , or it was an allusion to the French word for kept woman,  cocotte . 

23. 12. What commonly used B-School term? There is a legend in the mathematics community that centres around Henri Poincaré , the famous mathematician, meting out sweet, sweet justice to a dishonest baker  He suspected that a dishonest baker was cheating him on the weight but he couldn't just pick up a loaf of bread and present it as evidence as some error was expected to be present while making a loaf of bread. Thus, he bought and weighed his bread for a year, and charted the weight and finally used this concept to prove that the bakers were cheating their customers. The name is derived from the shape of the chart that Poincare drew

24. Bell curve

25. 13. Which song? X is a 1970 song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It is built upon a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology, with singer Robert Plant's howling vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla. The song was included on their third studio album,  Led Zeppelin III  and released as a single The song was a part of the soundtrack of Thor:Ragnarok , Jack Black’s School of Rock and Shrek the Third The lyrics also did much to inspire the classic heavy metal myth, of Viking- esque figures on an adventure, themes which have been adopted in the look and music of bands such as Iron Maiden

26. Led Zep’s Immigrant Song

27. 14. ID the character X and the popular meme Y The precise origin of the X character is unclear, but a popular legend is that the name was derived from Samuel Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy, New York who supplied rations for American soldiers during the War of 1812. There was a requirement at the time for contractors to stamp their name and where the rations came from onto the food they were sending. Wilson's packages were labeled "E.A – US." When someone asked what that stood for, a co-worker jokingly said, "Elbert Anderson [the contractor] and X " referring to Wilson, though the "US" actually stood for United States. X didn’t get a standard appearance until the well-known “recruitment” image of X was created by James Montgomery Flagg . It was this image more than any other that set the appearance of X as the elderly man with white hair and a goatee wearing a white top hat with white stars on a blue band, a blue tail coat and red and white striped trousers . The image was originally used to recruit people for the army during WW II but has now found its place in pop culture as the Y meme which borrows heavily from the original recruitment image

28. 15****. What is the common phrase? The notorious bank robber John Dillinger was the first person to be given the title of ‘ X ’ by the FBI, gangster Al Capone being the second To avoid getting caught, he would rob banks in different states.  This meant that pre-FBI America had jurisdictional fights over him and ergo, couldn’t get to him. Dillinger’s legacy will always be remembered for two reasons: to catch him, America gave birth to the FBI and he was the reason they put the F in FBI. Hollywood made a movie about him, called X , in 2009 where Johnny Depp played Dillinger. An Eminem song and a 2011 Megadeth single share the same name

29. Public Enemy #1

30. 16 ) PUT FUNDA

31. 17. What is being talked about? In a TED talk by Harvard professor, Rohit Deshpande titled “The Ordinary Heroes of the ___” he talks about leadership driven from the bottom of the hierarchy. He says while recruiting these heroes, they are brought from small towns in India and colleges on the basis of personality traits such as benevolence, etc rather than grades which explains the heroic behaviour of the employees on that fateful night . The employers have won an International Hermes Award for this innovation in HRM for developing this program. What/Who?

32. Taj On 26 th November, 2008 none of the employees escaped without trying rescue the guests, despite having many opportunities to do so. This has gone on to be a subject of several case studies

33. 18. Which behemoth? When the Future Group recently cut X ’s shelf space by nearly a third in the washing powder segment to make space for their own line of detergent liquid and powder products, X decided to launch their own washing powder after three decades. The move is reminiscent of the introduction of Wheel detergent in 1988 to take on Nirma , which had dislodged Surf as washing powder of choice in middleclass and lower-middleclass Indian homes The new liquid detergent product from the parent’s portfolio, Love Home and Planet, will be their fifth fabric wash brand The company accounts for a third of India’s Rs 24,000 crore laundry market. 

34. HUL

35. 19 . Q&A section of which product on Amazon?

36. 20****** ) X was chosen as the TIME Person of the Year 2006, for generating content for multiple websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace , Facebook, etc. (the list goes on). A 2014 New York Daily News article named the 2006 award as one of the ten most controversial "Person of the Year" moments in the history of Time. Many felt that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad better deserved the award, as was shown in a poll by TIME Magazine. The choice was criticized for being very idealistic and short-sighted, which ignored the existence of many prominent individuals that had shaped the events of the past year . Identify X.

37. You!