AGNITUZ QUIZ FINALS

Thanks to
• Major Chandrakant Nair
For all the help

Rules
• 10 questions
• Bounce and Pounce format
• +10 & -10 on pounce

2
• The original logo was designed by Arnold Skolnick
for the music and art fair poster which was set to
last for 3 days. Arnold's son Peter Skolnick
remembers watching his father cut out the words
& bird from paper.
• And Skolnick says that the dove was actually
designed to resemble a catbird (and it was
originally perched on a flute). While many of his
design solutions have become famous; this 1969
work is believed to be his magnum opus.
• About which famous logo am I talking about?

3) Theories supporting what?
• The character played by Edward Norton is never given
a name, therefore his name could be X. At the end of
the film, it is revealed that Tyler Durden is not his own
man, but rather part of Norton’s character’s split
personality. This twist reveals similarities to the comic
strip. X’s stuffed tiger, Y, is completely different from X,
with his own unique personality, but is entirely created
by X’s imagination.
• The fight club created in the film is a grown up version
of X and Y’s club G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS), as
both are exclusive male-oriented clubs.

FIGHT CLUB IS A SEQUEL TO THE
CALVIN AND HOBBES COMIC STRIP

4
• The Indian X industry was suffered by an unusual
crises in early 1890's, market cost went down
than production cost. Many of the X farmers
shutdown their farm operations as a result of
heavy loss. A group of farmers motivated by Dr.
B.V. Rao, Ch. Jagapati Rao, etc traveled across the
country, organizing over 300 meetings with
groups, individuals, and traders. Under Their
objective what was founded India on May 1982
as a trust under the Indian Societies Registration
Act.

5) ID X?
• X is an American clarinetist and music composer. He
was named as suggested by spiritual guru Mata
Amritanandamayi whom his family follows. He was an
invited speaker at TEDx Gateway conference in
Mumbai and TEDxCEG in Chennai.
• On June 9, 2013, X uploaded a new video in YouTube
where he explained about his project to make a new
album and video series for which he needs
contributions from his audience. A link was provided to
his Kickstarter page from the video, where people
could donate to the project. The target was to pledge
$20,000 before August 1, 2013.But due to his huge
popularity, his project reached the target in just 6 days

6) Chronological list of what?

7
• Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 –
September 6, 1966) was an American activist, sex
educator, and nurse. She popularized the term X,
opened the first X clinic in the United States, and
established organizations that evolved into the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America. she
was a frequent target of criticism by opponents
of X and has also been criticized for supporting
eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the
American reproductive rights movement.

8
• A Japanese dog breed named Shiba Inu, also
an internet meme which became popular in
2013. Gimme its business connection?

9) Who is the subject of this T shirt
Design?

Kimi Räikkönen during the Abu Dhabi
grand prix

• Frank Gehry and the story of Walt Disney
Concert hall featuring in Simpsons. Its design
was believed to inspired from a piece of
crumpled paper.

AQ)
• What has been
named after
this person in
Thalasseri?

5) Which company in India is founded
and named after him?

6
• Facial composite of
which famous person?
Created by German
Federal criminal police
office.
• (not notorious)

7
• Renovation plot of
what?

8) Minimalist poster of which movie?

ROUND 3: MIXED BAG
Anti Clockwise

1) About which photo am I talking
about?
• Photographer Scout Tufankjian’s words
“Onstage in front of all those people. I decided to
focus on them rather than taking a wider shot,
because I think I’m not alone in finding their
relationship to be totally aspirational. The obvious
love and respect that they have for each other, and
that the relationship is clearly one of equals,
despite the fact that he’s the president, is
remarkable. So I wanted to focus on them as a
couple rather than on them and the crowd, or them
and their position.

• This picture become the most liked photo on
Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history

2) Which nickname?
• Many think, the nickname Y comes from a line
in a song by The Who in " Won't get Fooled
Again“
• " Meet the new Y, same as the old Y".
• But as per the real story; the nickname is
originated when young X, playing club gigs
with a band in the 1960s, took on the task of
collecting the band's nightly pay and
distributing it amongst his band mates.

3
• As quoted in wiki, She is a British blogger,
social media specialist, science communicator,
and webmaster. She is the founder and
maintainer of a certain popular something; an
endeavor that has had her called "the Neil
deGrasse Tyson of Facebook" Who is this
beauty with brains? Or tell me her venture.

4
• Anystides Red Velvet mites or Rain Bug are
arachnids found in soil known for their bright red
colors but are often mistaken for spiders. They
are active predators as grown adults, it is also
called Beer Bahuti in Indian Subcontinent.
• The oil from the red velvet mite Trombidium
grandissimum called "Teej" in Hindi is used in
traditional Indian medicine to treat paralysis.
Also, due to their alleged ability to increase ____,
Trombidium mites are known as what?
• (image follows)

5
• Richard Chai began his fashion career in the design
studio at French powerhouse brand Lanvin.
From there he joined Donna Karan as a designer for the
DKNY and D collections. From 1998 to 2001, he was the
Design Director for the Marc Jacobs’ men’s and
women’s collections and helped develop the launch of
the Marc by Marc Jacobs men’s line.
After this series of career-building positions, Chai
branched out to develop his own Richard Chai
collection. What is his most famous and latest design?
• (image follows)

Beatles’ last live performance on top
of the Apple Building

7
• X held an important office in Germany during the reign of the
Third Reich. She fled the capital during the war and returned in
1942. However, she soon fell into the hands of the Soviet army
and for two weeks, they raped her repeatedly, inflicting such
injuries that she was never able to bear children. For decades
after the war, she chose not to talk about her role in Germany
and the horrors suffered as a result. But, in Dec 2012, on her
95th birthday, she revealed everything to a journalist from a
German newspaper.

• What specific protective role (that has been around since the
days of the Roman empire) did she perform in the Third Reich?
• (image follows)

The Praegustator, she was Hitler's food tester

8
• X's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that X may have been
inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's ‘Sinister Night Cafe’, which was
showing at a gallery in New York in January 1942. The
similarity in lighting and themes makes this possible and it is
very unlikely that X would have failed to see the exhibition.
Levin also notes that the painting had twice been exhibited in
the company of X's own works. Although there is no concrete
evidence, Levin also suggests that X may also have been
inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story, The Killers.

• Who is X? What did these 2 works supposedly inspire?
• (image follows)

9
• Currently there are a few studies suggesting that __________
exists among different species of animals such as Adelie
Penguins, chimpanzees, and crab-eating macaque.
• Adelie Penguins use stones for building their nests. Based on a
1998 study, media reports stated that a shortage of stones led
female Adelie Penguins to engage in ___________ for stones.
This was seen to hold true even for penguins with an
established flock. The phenomenon is also observed among
chimpanzees who use it to obtain food.
• Fill in the blanks.

10
• After Sachin’s retirement Cricket Australia’s website issued a
picture, where they were comparing Sachin's final test score
of 74 with X's final test score of 203* against Bangladesh.
• Who is this player.
(But they forgot that Don Bradman scored a duck in his
final test innings....)

• The name of A, leading character in the movie
B, which is directed by C is inspired from a
French swimming pool named D.

• The name of A, leading character in the movie
B, which is directed by C is inspired from a
French swimming pool named D.
• D was inaugurated by E who portrayed F in
the big screen. E was closely related with D till
his death.

• The name of A, leading character in the movie B,
which is directed by C is inspired from a French
swimming pool named D.
• D was inaugurated by E who portrayed F in the
big screen. E was closely related with D till his
death.
• First modern G was first unveiled at D by a French
engineer named H. Which was instant hit.
• Solve A to H…

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A – Piscine Molitor Patel ( Pi Patel)
B – Life of Pi
C – Ang Lee
D – Piscine Molitor
E – Johnny Weissmuller
F – Tarzan
G – Bikini
H – Louis Réard

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Amar
Richter
Elephant
Vienna
Bird
Catalan
Rice
Budapest
Hedgehog
Alekhine
Ruy Lopez
Scicilian

• Wot are these?

1
• Three dates pertaining to FC Barcelona:
- 1958 Oct 26: Barca beat Real Madrid 4-0
- 1978 Oct 14: Barca beat Las Palmas 4-0
- 2013 Mar 12 Barca beat Milan 4-0

• This has led to the myth that Barcelona will win their matches
by a huge margin if they coincide with another event (as was
seen in the case of these 3 matches).
• What event?

2
• X craft is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious,
divinatory or medicinal purposes. The salient features of Xs are:






Origin: Early human cultures
Grouping: Homo Sapiens
Sub grouping: Supernatural human
Food source: Strange Brew, candy
How to avoid: Don't eat red apples from strangers; hide if you see a
flock of flying monkeys
 How to defeat: Throw a pail of water.
• Identify X, in news every October.

Halloween Witch
• Halloween is celebrated every year on
October 31 in a number of countries around
the world. Google celebrated the event with
an animated doodle

3
• The February 1, 2004 Super Bowl was notable for the Janet
Jackson (daughter of Michael Jackson) wardrobe malfunction
that was seen by viewers all around the globe.
• What did the American Television networks do, to avoid
similar incidents in the future?

Delaying all the live events by 5 seconds

4
• Dagen H (H day), also known as "Hogertrafikomlaggningen"
refers to the day of 3 Sep 1967, which witnessed a historic
change in Sweden. Similar changes have happened in many
countries around the world and have resulted in almost
identical outcomes.
• What change are we talking about?
• (picture follows)

Right-hand
• Traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side
of the road to the right

5
• In a 1990 competition organized to find a simple description
for a concept X, so that it could be understood by laymen, the
entry that came first was this:
“When a VIP/celebrity comes to a party room all the
people gathered there will surround him”
• What concept was the subject of this competition?

Godparticle
• When a substance enters the Higgs boson
field the god particle will surround it and
hence the substance gets its mass)

6
• Napoleon Sarony (1821 –1896) was an American lithographer
and photographer. He was very popular and is most known for
his portraits of the stars of late-19th-century American theater.
His son, Otto Sarony, was also an accomplished photographer.
• His most famous works are 2 portraits, one featuring an author
and the other a scientist.
• Name both.

7
• 2003: Raikkonen would have beaten Schumacher
• 2008: Felipe Massa would have beaten Hamilton
• 2012: Alonso would have beaten Vettel
• What new F1 regulation, had it been in existence from 2003
onwards, would have made these results possible?

f1 double points rule
• It will come to exist next season onwards

8
• “It’s what I learned when I was 16 and arrived in Atletico’s
dressing room, nobody wanted to talk to me as they were
threatened. They called me ‘X’ because nobody knew my name. I
didn’t like it and it shouldn’t be like that, but dressing rooms are
very complicated with players coming from different parts of the
world and with different roles. I was captain at 19, playing in the
same team as Demetrio Albertini who had won 3 Champions
Leagues and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won
everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I
wasn’t the real captain, just a kid learning. I wore the armband
but they were the leaders and I learned a lot from them.”
• Who is speaking? What is X?

9
• ‘What the Water Gave Me’ is a song by Florence and the
Machine (of 2013 Ashes promo fame) and the first one from
their second studio album, Ceremonials (2011). It was written
by Florence Welch with Francis White and produced by Paul
Epworth. The song was digitally released in UK on 23 Aug
2011, and internationally the following day. Welch decided to
name the song ‘What the Water Gave Me’ after X’s painting of
the same name. During an interview, she also mentioned that
the song was inspired by Y, a famous female English writer.

• Identify X and Y. (2 image follows)

X’s painting “What the Water Gave
Me”

10
• The Chelsea-Liverpool match on 21 April 2013 created a lot of
controversy because of Luis Suarez choosing to bite Branislav
Ivanovic instead of playing football.
• This led to a famous person following Suarez on Twitter and
he had this to say: "He (Suarez) bit someone, it happens. I am
sure he will make amends with this guy. I made amends with
_____ and we got on with our lives."
• Who was this?

1
• After X's death in 1967 congregants at the Yardbird Temple,
San Francisco, began worshipping X as God incarnate. The
Temple was named for Charlie Parker, whom they equated to
John the Baptist. The St. X African Orthodox Church, again
based in San Francisco, is the only African Orthodox church
which incorporates X's music and his lyrics as prayers in its
liturgy. In order to become affiliated with the AOC, X was
‘demoted’ from being God to a saint.
• Who is X?

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