INTER-DEPARTMENTAL QUIZ Quizmaster:- Ranu Vikram
Jul 14, 2015
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