The Finals of the General Quiz conducted on 29th March, 2016 by Quizzing, IIT Roorkee

1. THE BLACK SWAN
QUIZ
ROUNAK BANIK

2. FINALS

3. RULES
■ All the finalist teams will start with half of what they scored in the prelims.
■ The finals consist of 4 rounds.
■ Round 1 and 2 are written, consisting of 5 questions each. 10 points for every correct
answer. No negatives.An extra 10 points if any team gets all the answers correct in a
particular round.
■ Round 3 consists of 15 questions in the Infinite Pounce/Bounce format. +15/-10 on
pounce. +10/0 on direct.
■ Round 4 is a long connect. No points on individual slides.

5. ROUND 1
ETYMOLOGY

6. 1.V is “a military officer who demands strict obedience to
regulations; by extension, anyone who demands absolute
adherence to forms and rules.” Coined from the name of Col.
JeanV, a French drillmaster during the reign of Louis XIV (1643-
1715).

7. 2. One definition ofW is “a man gallantly attentive to women.”
From Giacomo Jacopo Girolamo W de Seignalt (1725-98), an
Italian adventurer who wrote a memoir in which he bragged
about his “conquests.”

8. 3. X can be defined as “fanatical patriotism or an intense belief in
the superiority of one’s own group, or kind.” From Nicholas X, a
soldier in Napoleon’s Army who was a by-word for stubborn
loyalty to Napoleon’s Empire long after Napoleon’s defeat

9. 4.Y comes from WilliamY, the author of “Y’s Law.”The “law”
was an agreement with theVirginia General Assembly in 1782
that allowedY to capture and punish criminals in Pittsylvania
County without trial.The county lacked official courts.

10. 5. Z means "unusually large". In the 1880s Z was an English slang
word for “clumsy, unwieldy fellow.”The famous elephant named
Z lived in the London Zoo for 17 years and was a great favorite
with the English public. U.S. showman P.T. Barnum bought Z for
$10,000 in 1882.Thanks to circus advertising, the name Z
became a synonym for “huge.”

11. EXCHANGE SHEETS

12. ANSWERS
ROUND 1- ETYMOLOGY

13. ■ Martinet
■ Casanova
■ Chauvin/Chauvinism
■ Lynch
■ Jumbo

14. ROUND 2
MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS

15. 1.

16. 2.

17. 3.

18. 4.

19. 5.

20. EXCHANGE SHEETS

21. ANSWERS

22. ■ AceVentura Pet Detective
■ Fellowship of the Ring
■ Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
■ Dil Se
■ Taxi Driver

23. ROUND 3
INFINITE POUNCEAND BOUNCE

24. 1.Who and in what context?
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the
social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been
in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to
intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical
difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two
races living together on terms of social and political equality."

26. Abraham Lincoln
■ The Lincoln-Douglas Debates on Slavery

27. 2. ID X.
X was named so because theY's librarian and eventual executive director, Margaret
Herrick, on seeing X immediately remarked, "That looks like my uncle X."TheY's staff
eventually took to referring it to as the X.

29. Oscar

30. 3. Connect
■ Pauline Swain
■ JuliaAshbury
■ Jackie St. Clair
■ Mandy
■ Jo Caine
■ Kimberly Cowell

32. Pink Floyd's Back Catalogue Poster

33. 4. ID X
There are many paintings that depict X.
The most famous, however, was painted by Jacques Louis David, a leading French painter
and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security.
In David's version of X,Y holds a letter in his left hand which when translated from French
states:
Given that I am unhappy, I have a right to your help.

35. The Death of Marat

36. 5. ID the author.
A.You will make sure:
1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
B.You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social
reasons. Specifically,You will forego:
1. my sitting at home with you;
2. my going out or travelling with you.
C.You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;
3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.
D.You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.

38. Albert Einstein to his first wife, Mileva.

39. 6. ID X
DuPont scientist, Dr. Roy Plunkett, accidentally created the recipe for X in 1938, while
attempting to produce a better coolant gas than the one currently on the market. In doing
so, he tried with different combinations of gases and left one batch of gases in a container
overnight.The following morning, he found that the gases in the container had
“vaporized,” and in their stead, found a slippery, waxy solid, which remained intact when
exposed to corrosive chemicals which normally eat through things with which they come
into contact.

41. Teflon

42. 7.What is he famous for?
This isAjay Bhatt, an Indian-American computer architect
who is often credited as a co-inventor of the path breaking
X. Although relatively unknown, his contribution to the
world of computers came into the limelight when he
appeared in an Intel ad with the tagline: "Your rock stars
aren't like our rock stars."

44. The USB Flash Drive

45. 8.Whose emails and what is he famous
for?

48. Evan Spiegel and Snapchat.

49. 9. ID X
■ X was a Danish astronomer and nobleman who lived from 1546-1601.
■ His model of the solar system is widely considered as the most accurate before the
invention of the telescope.Although his model was geocentric, his calculations and
observations eventually helped Copernicus in designing his heliocentric model of the
solar system.
■ X was known to have a very short temper. He got into a duel with a fellow
mathematician over who was the greatest mathematician of all time. X got his nose
chopped off and was forced to wear a silver nose for the rest of his life.
■ The most bizarre fact/myth about X was the way he died. Although widely refuted by
historians, legend has it that X died after his bladder burst due to some mysterious
disease that didn't allow him to urinate properly for 11 days.

51. Tycho Brahe

52. 10.What is the disgusting myth?
YekaterinaAlexeyevna or Catherine II, often referred to as Catherine the Great was the
longest ruling female leader in Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796.
Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and
becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe.
Despite such a glorious reign, the world knows her better for her nymphomaniac
tendencies. Catherine was known to have an extraordinary sexual appetite and history
tells us that she had at least 22 male lovers in her life.
Her sex drive gave rise to a very famous myth regarding her death.

54. Died while trying to have sex with a
horse.

55. 11. ID X andY.
While filming the historically significantX,Y faced a very peculiar problem.Y was forced to
shoot X with an all-male cast as apparently there were no woman available for playing the
female leads!
As the concept of filming was unheard of then,Y struggled to convince women to join the
cast. He even failed to get nautch girls to act in his films.
Eventually,Y was forced to look for delicate-looking men to play the female parts. In his
search,Y eventually discovered Anna Salunkhe who went on to play the lead character's
wife in X.

57. X- Raja Harishchandra
Y- Dadasaheb Phalke

58. 12. ID X,Y, Z,W.
X was the last installment penned byY in the Z series. However, fans of the series were
disappointed by X.Y himself admitted that:
People have said, quite rightly, that X is a very bleak book. I would love to finish Z on a
slightly more upbeat note, so five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of
number.
X however passed away before he could write another book.
X's widow, Jane Belson, however extended her support and gave full permission toW to
write a sixth book in the series.The book, titledV was released in 2009, 17 years after X's
release.

60. ■ X- Mostly Harmless
■ Y- DouglasAdams
■ Z- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
■ W- Eoin Colfer
■ V- And AnotherThing

61. 13.What?
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63. Animal Farm
The pig Napoleon (right) is based on the Russian dictator Josef Stalin (left).

64. 14.Who on what?
X told hostConanO'Brien:
"Of course, all of those clips were set up by people who had read the books 13 years ago and
knew what was coming. I saw one of them saying in comment, 'Now you know why your
nerdy friends were really depressed 13 years ago!'"

66. George RR Martin
■ The RedWedding orThe Rains of Castemere Episode in Game ofThrones.

67. 15.Who?
During one of the depositions in The Social Network, it is mentioned that the invention of
Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg "the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen
Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star."
One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie star?" and the response is, "Does it
matter?"
The movie star was actually X who was enrolled in Harvard from 1999-2003. Before
entering Harvard, X wrote a paper in High School titled "A Simple Method to
Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar" which was
entered into the Intel Science Talent Search. X graduated with a degree in psychology
and wrote a paper on 'Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence'.

69. Natalie Portman

70. 16. Fill in the blanks.
■ The story goes, once there arose a feud between Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma
over who is more important. To settle this, they approached the third God of the
Holy Trinity, Lord Shiva to adjudicate. Lord Shiva accepted and set them a
challenge. Whoever manages to view the top of Lord Shiva's head first would be
declared the winner. Saying so he assumes a huge form (a viswaroopa) that
stretches across the various lokas (universes).
■ As both Vishnu and Brahma set about their task, they quickly realized it was a
hopeless affair. Lord Shiva's stature was just too big. Then Brahma notices a
ketaki flower floating by, who when questioned answers that she fell from Lord
Shiva's head many thousand years ago. Lord Brahma convinces the flower to lie
on his behalf, that he had seen the top Shiva's head.
■ When Lord Brahma calls upon Shiva to claim victory, Shiva in his anger at
hearing an outright lie from Brahma curses him
________________________________.

72. Brahma would never be worshipped on
Earth.

73. 17. Le lo points sabhi.
According toY, while he was writing the lyrics of a song, he was searching for a particular
word to round up the lines; something significant, something that would bring some
charm to the music itself.
It is said that while pondering and looking around the studio, his eyes fell on a Z and
named the song X after it.
Give me X,Y and Z.

75. ■ X-Yellow
■ Y- Chris Martin
■ Z-Yellow Pages

76. 18.Who is she?What is her claim to
fame?

78. Tay
Microsoft'sAI Bot whoseTwitter Account turned racist and anti-Semitic few hours after its
launch.

79. 19.What?
a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good,
green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so,
thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you

81. Entire word lexicon for Green Eggs and
Ham by Dr. Seuss.

82. 20. Give me X,Y and funda.
TheTriumph of X
-Y
Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited
If you consider my merits are small
Etiolated, alembicated,
Orotund, tasteless, fantastical,
Monotonous, crotchety, constipated,
Impotent galamatias
Affected, possibly imitated,
For Christ's sake stick it up your ass.
And when thyself with silver foot shall
pass
Among the theories scattered on the
grass
Take up my good intentions with the
rest
And then for Christ's sake stick them
up your ass.

84. TheTriumph of Bullshit byT.S.Eliot
Regarded as the first usage of the word 'bullshit'.

85. ROUND 4
LONG CONNECT

86. +50/-25
V was a Sac and Fox Athlete of Native American
and European ancestry. Considered one of the
most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won
Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and
decathlon, played American football (collegiate and
professional), and also played professional
baseball and basketball.

87. +40/-20
W (22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a
Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion
of the world. W was the fifth heavyweight
champion born outside the United States. In 1959
he defeated Floyd Patterson by TKO in the third
round, after flooring Patterson seven times in that
round, to win the World Heavyweight
Championship. W also won a silver medal in the
1952 Olympics.

88. +30/-15
X (born 24 March 1943) is a German former
pair skater. With Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, she
is a two-time Olympic silver medalist, a two-
time World champion, and a six-time
European champion. Earlier in her career,
she competed with Franz Ningel.

89. +20/-10
Y(born October 3, 1968) is a Colombian
professional racing cyclist. She was born in
Medellín.
In the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a
bronze medal in the cycling women's points
race, the first Colombian to win a medal in
cycling.

90. +10/-5
Z is a Belarusian hammer thrower. He finished
fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005
he won the World Championships silver medal. In
July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which
currently is his personal best. He also won a silver
medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

91. +5/0
A is a Belarusian hammer thrower. He is a
two-time world champion and an Olympic
medalist.

93. All these athletes had their Olympic
medals stripped and later reinstated.

94. THE END