1. Quark National Quiz - 2013
Regional Round
Bangalore
19th January, 2013
FINALS

2. General Rules:
1. Switch off your phones
2. Try and keep scores, just in case
3. Points are round-specific
4. 4 rounds in all
5. Quiz master’s decision is almost always final

3. ¼ Infinite Pounce
+10 on a direct, no negatives
Infinite bounce, the team after the team that
answers correctly gets the next question
In case no one answers, we start with the same
team instead
If you are very confident of the answer, you can
pounce (written) and +15 and -10 on that

4. Q.1
X is a Nobel Peace Prize winning organization
derived from a word which means "rural" or
"village" . The origin of X can be traced back to 1976
when a certain Professor (a Fulbright
scholar at Vanderbilt University and Professor
at University of Chittagong) launched a research
project; Apart from a more famous award, the
organization has won a World Habitat Award in
1998. In 2011 however, the founder was sacked
from the organization. Identify X.

6. Grameen Bank, Md. Yunus

7. Q2
Mike ________ is an American attorney and author. In
1990, he created an adage (eponymous) which had
something to say about the internet age.
In his words – “ "Although deliberately framed as if it
were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has
always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks
who glibly compared someone else to X or Y to think a
bit harder about the Holocaust”
What’s the oft-quoted law? (FITB)
Explanation/(X and Y) – part points (-ve on pounce)

9. Gordon’s law
As the internet conversation progresses, the
probability of it having a reference to Nazis or
Hitler becomes 1

10. Q3
He was born in 1546 whose first name was Tyge Ottesen; A
Danish nobleman, he was known for his accurate astronomical
and planetary observations. He lost a part of his nose to a cousin
and had a tame elk as his pet.
He suddenly contracted a bladder ailment after attending a
banquet in Prague and died eleven days later. According to
Kepler's account, he had refused to leave the banquet to relieve
himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.
Theories of him being murdered by Kepler have also floated, and
recent investigations have found mercury traces in his mustache.
He held that the Earth was just too sluggish and heavy to be
continuously in motion, and believed in the geo-heliocentric
model. Who?

12. Tycho Brahe

13. Q4
• It has an area of 260 sq. km. with a
population of ~1400 persons and is
commonly referred to as “The
rock”
• Queen Elizabeth II is the Head of
State.
• What unique distinction did it
achieve in 2003 with the aim of
achieving a certain distinction.
However Iceland, Norway and
Sweden currently lead the charts
with 97.8%, 97.2% and 92.9%
respectively.
What?

15. Nuie – island in the pacific.
1st country to offer free Wifi and aim to become
the country with 100% net penetration. (ans-
WiFi nation)

16. X is a credit-card-sized single-board Q5
computer developed in the UK by the X
Foundation with the intention of stimulating the
teaching of basic computer science in schools. Their
fanzine is named after the bird (pictured). Identify X

18. Raspberry Pi
(MagPi)

19. Q6
Give Funda

21. Bet between Tony Fernandes (AirAsia) and
Branson(Virgin) that the whomsoever’s F1 team
ranks lower than the other had to be an air
steward for a day

22. Q 7 (anticlock)
• The manufacturing company X says that Y’s primary properties
are its strength (allowing thinness), high scratch resistance (for
protective coating), and hardness — and that the material can
be recycled. During its manufacture, Y is toughened by ion
exchange. The larger ions are pressed together causing
potassium ions to diffuse far into the surface, thereby creating a
'surface' layer of high compressive stress, a layer more resistant
to damage from everyday use.
• X manufactures Y in Harrodsburg, Kentucky
(USA), Shizuoka (Japan) and in Taiwan. Identify Y (X for
applause)
• Sister products of Y have been called Willow and Lotus, named
after its usage

24. Gorilla Glass, Corning
(used in 20% of all mobile phones)

25. Q 8 Connect (Non-Exhaustive)

27. A: Bain Capital

28. Q9
Don X is an American artist raised in Southern
California. He is best known for his tattoo work and his
eponymous apparel and accessories brand X.

30. A: Ed Hardy

31. Q 10
• He is an Indian businessman, the chief executive
officer (CEO) of Future Group, and Managing
Director of Pantaloon Retail. He managed to raise
$170 million by taking venture capital arm Future
Ventures public in March 2011. He is also the co-
author of the book "It happened in India” co-
authored with Dipayan Baishya. The book has
sold some 100,000 copies, more than any other
business book published in India so far. Who am I
talking about?

33. A: Kishore Biyani

34. Q 11 Print Ad for?

36. A: Sony Playstation

37. Q 12 A British-American Computer Programmer and
founder of an American software company. Apparently
in the news for the wrong reasons. Identify.

39. John McAfee, eponymous anti-virus founder
Some tiff with a fellow American in Belize

41. Round II – The science cauldron
All questions pertain to a certain
law/theorem/principle, etc.
8 questions
Written round
+ 10 on identifying the person,
+ 15 if you get the law/theorem
(as well)

42. Q1
• He converted from Judaism to the Lutheran faith in
1914 - the major reasons being his wife and
assimilation into German society
• At the University of Berlin, he formed a lifelong
friendship with Albert Einstein, who in a letter to
the person concerned remarked, "The Old One
does not play dice.“
• The now-standard interpretation for ψ*ψ in the
Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics was
published by him and it is this for which he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
Identify.

43. Q2

44. Q3
• He was born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1824
• In 1845, while still a student, he formulated the
law he‘s most famous for, used extensively in
electrical engineering.
• Together with Bunsen, he discovered Rubidium
and Caesium in 1861
• He has also formulated eponymous laws in
thermochemistry and spectroscopy

45. Q4
• He was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austrian
Empire in 1844.
• In his famous equation, the W is
the Wahrscheinlichkeit, the frequency of
occurrence of a macrostate.
• He was a tremendous admirer of Darwin and he
wished to extend Darwinism from biological to
cultural evolution, one of the first to visualize so.
• In 1906, while on a summer vacation near Trieste,
he hanged himself during an attack of depression.

46. Q5
• A SriLankabhimanya recipient, he was more
famous in the literary community than the
Scientific ones.
• In a 1991 essay entitled "Credo", he described
himself as a logical positivist from the age of ten.
• He left the theatre in tears at the intermission
after having watched an eleven-minute scene of
his first film venture, thoroughly disappointed.
• His famous third law states, “Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic”

47. Q6
• He was born in Turin, Italy in 1776 to a noble
family.
• He developed his theory after Joseph Gay-
Lussac had published his work in 1808. The
greatest problem he had to resolve was the
confusion between atoms and molecules.
• It was rejected in his time due certain exceptions;
it gained acceptance only 4 years after his death.
• In 1911, a meeting in Turin commemorated the
hundredth anniversary of the publication of his
classic paper which King Victor Emmanuel
III attended.

48. Q7
He was a French mathematician & physicist known for
his work on X and their applications to problems of heat
transfer and vibrations.
He is also generally credited with the discovery of
the greenhouse effect. He went with Napoleon on his
Egyptian expedition in 1798, and was made governor
of Lower Egypt.
Although not exactly correct, his observation that some
discontinuous functions are the sum of infinite series
was a breakthrough.

49. Q8
• A physicist, X is most famous for his contributions
to quantum electrodynamics and quantum
mechanics.
• His colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a
unit of a X, which was one word per hour.
• A story told of X is that when he first met the
young Richard Feynman at a conference, he said
after a long silence "I have an equation. Do you
have one too?“
• He has an equation, a function, an integral, a
notation and type of statistics named after him.

50. Answers

52. Max Born, Born’s approximation, born’s rule/law, born-
haber’s cylce (no identity sadly)
Carl Fredrich Gauss, Gauss’ law
Kirchoff, Kirchoff’s (circuital) law
Ludwig Boltzmann, Stephan-Boltzmann’s law, Boltzmann’s
equation,
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke’s 3 laws
Amedeo Avogadro, Avogardo’s law (of equal proportions)
Josef Fourier, Fourier’s heat equation,
P.A.M. Dirac, everything mentioned in Q

53. Call Tech
• 6 questions
• 3 clues/question and every 20 seconds
(flexible) one clue revealed
• Written (raise hand to answer)
• On the 1st clue, 20 points; on the 2nd clue, 10
points; on the 3rd clue +5.
• Constant negative of -10
• All answers are names of companies

54. Q1
C1 Just 13 years old, this Southern giant is already the 5th biggest
player in its sector and is currently headed by CEO Sandip Das
C2 Its brand ambassadors include Mary Kom, Sameera Reddy, and
is a sponsor for Shillong FC. It is/was being investigated by CBI on
irregularities in its take over by Malaysian company, in that
Dayanidhi Maran forced the deal in 2005 in exchange for
monetary benefits.
C3 Other brand ambassadors include Mahendra Singh Dhoni and
Actor Surya. They’re famous for their involvement in the Save the
Tiger Initiative.
C4 (so everyone gets something) They sponsored/sponsor CSK and IPL

56. Aircel

57. Q2
• He was born in Guntur, 1940 where his father
grew turmeric. He did his B.Sc. and began
working at IDPL, a PSU
• He started X with an initial capital of 25 lakhs in
1984 and currently is an advisor on the Naandi
Foundation, focusing on rural health. The
following is their logo –
• X is listed on the NYSE as RDY and has
partnerships with Glaxo-Smith Kline
and other major pharmaceuticals

59. Dr. Reddy Laboratories

60. Q3
• This company was started in Bangalore, 1916
by Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of Mysore.
• This product (with a GI tag) has Sharabha as its logo
(pictured)
• The company was started to
utilize the excess Sandalwood
in the region as the First
World War prevented the
export of the aromatic wood to
Europe

62. KSDL – Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited
Mysore Sandal Soap (alit.)

63. Q4
• A BITS-Pilani alumnus with a B.E. Mechanical
Engineering, he started Mirc Electronics in the 1980s
• Its familiar tagline “Neighbour’s envy, owner’s pride”
was revamped in 2009 as a part of its total makeover of
its corporate identity
• It has manufacturing facilities at Wada (MH) and
Roorkee (UK) with a capacity of 3.4 Million Televisions
and 2.4 lakhs Washing Machines respectively. Its
mascot was very significant in Indian advertising, with
the creation of the X Devil.

65. Onida

66. Q5
• This Chennai-based company remained privately
owned until 2006, when it was listed in the NSE and
BSE. It currently has 32 ‘subsidiaries’
• Educated in Don Bosco, Loyola College, Chennai and
the University of Scranton (MBA), he bought another
company Y (with the tagline “flying for everyone”),
with Y headquartered at Hyderabad Airport.
• He was voted the “Television king of Southern India”
by Forbes the 17th richest Indian, and his companies
include X, X DTH, Y, Dinakaran and most recently, the
Hyderabad IPL team

68. Sun Network

69. Q6
• It was founded in 1942 by a group of determined
yet barely skilled young men in a garage on Foras
Road, Mumbai. They called it “The X and Oil
Company”, a name they picked out of a
telephone directory.
• The mascot for this Mumbai-based company was
designed by R.K. Laxman in 1954 and is described
as “a man with a shock of black hair eternally
dangling over his right eye“
• Its major brands include - Apcolite, Apex, Colour
Next, Royale, Touchwood, Utsav, among others

71. Asian Paints

72. Penultimate round
• Choose a particular Quark (point wise,
backward)
• +10
• -5
• +5 on a clockwise pass

75. The various varieties of X include Rossler, Lorenz and
Henon.
It was discovered by Floris Taken and David Ruelle
while studying fluid flow
It is also a popular song - >
What?

77. Strange Attractor

78. • It started as a computer division of X, X being named
after a famous Hollywood personality.
• The company as it is today is based in Emeryville,
California. It uses a custom-made software called Y for
a huge chunk of its activities
• While waiting for the results of Z’s law on something
very general about chronological progress of
semiconductors/microelectronics, it saw a lull in its
profits. In fact it’s major investor was considering
selling it until the company made quantum leaps to be
bought in 2006 for a whopping $7.1 Billion.
• ID X, Y, Z ( 5 points each, -5 if you get 1 right and -10 if
you get none right)

80. • Pixar
• Marionette
• Moore’s law

81. The ‘protagonist’ of X was born in Doncaster, Northern
England in 1960. He was dismissed from school for
‘drinking, smoking and general nuisance’ and has made
exactly 10 appearances on the quiz show, QI.
His habit for wearing jeans has been criticized, so much
so that Levis has blamed him for their declining sales in
the 90’s branding it the so called “X effect”
He’s an avid birdwatcher and a member of the RSPB. He’s
a Chelsea FC and Doncaster FC supported.
All these facts are mere ancillary data.
Identify X and what is he most famous for?

83. • Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear

84. • A company called GrinOn created this
invention in 2010 to dispense as many as 50
units per minute. Their website currently says,
“Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re
renovating this website X”
• It shares it name with this ->

86. • Bottoms Up

87. • This company was founded way back in 1882
by 3 reporters – Charles, Edward and
Bergstresser
• One of them helped create Z, a newspaper that
has won the Pulitzer prize 33 times for
excellent reporting
• X also created Y which had 12 companies (8
rail, 4 industrial), of which only GE currently
remains.
Identify X/Y

89. DOW JONES
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL INDEX

90. • It was first described by Gay Lussac in 1802 but he
owed credit to X. However, Dalton derived the same
independently (albeit less thoroughly) a year earlier.
• It’s first usage was by William Thomson do describe a
fundamental property of the Universe in the 1850’s. He
said “… And therefore this temperature of the air-
thermometer is a point which cannot be reached at
any finite temperature, however low”
• His other contributions to science include the
hydrogen-based hot-air balloon (he flew the world’s
first)
• An interesting fact, he married a Creole woman 37
years younger than him, and managed to outlive her
when he died in Paris, 1823.
• Who/What?

92. • Jacques Charles
• Charles’ law

93. Long Visual Connect

98. Guesses?
+30, -20

102. Guesses?
+20, -10

106. Answers?
+10, -0

108. Answer
Large Hadron Collider

109. ALICE

110. Cooper Pair

111. LHC creating a black hole, leading to the apocalypse

112. Antimatter made in LHC

113. God

114. ATLAS

115. Alipnecat LHC rap

116. Higg’s Equation

117. S N Bose

118. And the final scores…

119. TEAM 1 TEAM 2 TEAM 3 TEAM 4 TEAM 5 TEAM 6
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