Sticky's quiz :P

1. CQC Informal 02.08.2009 Host Aditya

2. The Floccinaucinihilipilification Quiz

4. “ The building we're standing on won't be here in ten minutes. You take a 98 percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin . I know this because X knows this.” X? What am I talking about? Q.1

5. X- Tyler Durden

6. The album artwork process was led by Chris Bilheimer and is based on a work from artist Sixten, who confirmed that the couple on the cover were "just friends of a friend at a party in Eskilstuna, Sweden" and explained that a mutual friend snapped a picture of the pair kissing. He added, "I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to spread the love." Which album am I talking about? Q.2

8. Put Funda (Video) Q.3

9. ‘ Scrubs’ Opening Theme The X-Ray of the lungs that is shown is laterally inverted, i.e., the left lung and right lung are interchanged.

10. Q.4 Connect

11. Lewis Hamilton

12. X is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. X was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, X was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. X is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion. What is X? Q.5

13. Sepukku

14. Q.6

15. Randall Munroe

16. X is A 's favorite bedtime story and is read to him by his dad. Once, it was revealed that the author of the book is called Mabel Syrup. His dad often tires of telling the story - the content of which is left to the audience's imagination - and so he makes up newer, scarier stories to tell A , such as the story of the disembodied hand. One time, it is mentioned that "The literary world is abuzz about Mabel Syrup's sequel to X ". The sequel is suitably entitled ‘ Y ’. Q.7

17. A- Calvin X - Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie Y - Commander Coriander Salamander and ‘er Singlehander Bellylander

18. A(n) X is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole, “a property called self-similarity”. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin word meaning "broken“. Q.8

19. Fractal

20. Q.9 Connect the four pictures and tell me what is the next addition to this list.

23. Peter O’ Toole

24. X : "I think, if anything, I feel like I have gotten a gift by being in the States rather than growing up in Russia.... It just make me appreciate my life that much more." Q.11

25. Sergey Brin

26. Q.12 What have I blanked out in this picture of the Brawn GP race car taken at the Spanish Grand Prix ’09?

29. Keira Knightley

31. Shruti Haasan

32. Two suspects are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and, having separated both prisoners, visit each of them to offer the same deal. If one testifies (defects from the other) for the prosecution against the other and the other remains silent (cooperates with the other), the betrayer goes free and the silent accomplice receives the full 10-year sentence. If both remain silent, both prisoners are sentenced to only six months in jail for a minor charge. If each betrays the other, each receives a five-year sentence. Each prisoner must choose to betray the other or to remain silent. Each one is assured that the other would not know about the betrayal before the end of the investigation. What is this? Q.15

33. Prisoner’s Dilemma – Nash Equilibrium – Game Theory Prisoner B Stays Silent Prisoner B Betrays Prisoner A Stays Silent Each serves 6 months Prisoner A: 10 years Prisoner B: goes free Prisoner A Betrays Prisoner A: goes free Prisoner B: 10 years Each serves 5 years

35. The Autobots

36. Name: Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr. Date of Birth: July 1, 1889 Place of Birth: Princeton, New Jersey Family: Henry Jones, Sr (father, deceased) and Anna Jones (mother, deceased) Spouse: Marion Ravenwood Children: One son – Henry Jones III Nationality: Scottish American Nicknames: Junior, X Q.17

38. X is most famous for having created a TV show in which all members of the protagonist’s family are named after members of his family, with the one exception being the protagonist himself, who he named Y . The TV show features specials every once in a while with real-life characters being drafted in to episodes. Q.18

39. X - Matt Groening, Y- Bart Simpson

40. Q.19

42. The X is an apparent deflection of moving objects from a straight path when they are viewed from a rotating frame of reference. In layman's terms, it means that long range fire (artillery shells and sniper rounds) will not appear to fly in a straight line from the shooter to the target because of the rotation of the Earth on its axis. Rather, the round or shell will appear to curve. In actuality, the shot is flying in a straight line but the turn of the Earth moves the target so it will look as if the round or shell is curving. Artillery gunners and snipers are well-trained to compensate for this effect by actually not aiming directly at their target, but off to the side so that by the time the bullet makes it to the target distance, it has "curved" to hit the target. It is also seen in the way water drains down a flushed toilet or bathtub. Call of Duty 4 anyone? Q.20

43. The Coriolis Effect

44. Two story lines converge: One follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers called the “ X ” whose mission is to take down as many Nazis as they can get. They ambush and kill Nazi paroles, desecrating their corpses whilst leaving one alive to tell the others. The other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her family at the hands of the sinister SS colonel known as 'The Jew Hunter’. X? What am I talking about? Q.21

47. Rorschach

48. Whose Statue? Where? Q.23

49. Statue erected in memory of Freddie Mercury a.k.a Farroukh Bulsara at Montreaux, Switzerland

51. Lance Armstrong

52. Monica Coghlan (seen in picture) was a British prostitute most famous for having been involved in a controversy surrounding X who allegedly paid her £2,000, a sum of money which is now called “a/an X ” in English slang. Who is X? Q.25

53. Jeffrey Archer

55. The Mendoza Line

56. The film begins with a guy chasing what you assume is a bug or perhaps a mouse in his apartment. However, when he catches it and you see what it is, it's an exact duplicate of him--only in miniature. When he smashes this creature, a chain of events follow and the movie ends. His next movie is due to release in 2010. What was the name of this short film and who was it’s director? (Picture of him as a kid) Q.27

57. Christopher Nolan’s Doodlebug

59. Lara Croft – Tomb Raider

60. Milton Sirotta proposed the term X to be "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired". A more formal definition needed to be adopted "because different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have a boxing champion be a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance and could write for longer." The more formal definition would be “one, followed by a Y of zeros or ten to the power Y or ten to the power ten to the power 100”. X & Y? Q.29

61. X – Googolplex Y – Googol

63. X – Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Y – Zaphod Beeblebrox

64. Q.31 Identify the famous painting and the artist and tell me what this has served as an inspiration for.

65. Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

66. Q.32 Quoted below are four lines from the poem ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ By Alexander Pope: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ________________________________ Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Identify the missing line

69. The “Spirit of Ecstasy” – The emblem seen on the Rolls Royce cars.

71. Alphonso Gabriel ‘Al’ Capone a.k.a ‘ Scarface’

72. Q.35

73. The 8 Ivy League Colleges – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Pennsylvania, HARVARD and YALE

74. Q.36 Identify the two gentlemen whose pictures are shown. What is their connection/ claim to fame?

75. Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson They were Abraham Lincoln’s Vice-Presidents. Johnson was made President when Lincoln was assassinated

76. Q.37 This is the Coat of Arms of a country. It is also the least densely populated country in the world. Identify the country, whose name in it’s official language translates to “Land of the People”. Also give me the name in it’s official language.

77. Greenland a.k.a. Kalaallit Nunaat (in Kalaallisut)

79. Krakhozia (a fictional country), the home country of Viktor Navorski (the character played by Tom Hanks in ‘The Terminal’).

82. Q.40 This style of delivery was invented by Australian Jack Iverson from Victoria, who used it throughout his Test career in the period after the Second World War, but by the 1970s the method was almost forgotten; however, it has since re-entered cricketing consciousness because of its use by Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka during 2007/2008. The ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger and, instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out and flicked by the fingers. What is this type of delivery called?

83. The “Carrom Ball” (The spinner holds the ball and releases it much like a carrom player flicks a striker, hence the name) The ball can spin to the off, to the leg or go on straight depending on the centre finger grip.

84. Q.41 Connect

87. Lee Jun Fan a.k.a. Bruce Lee

89. Adamantium

90. Q.44 Connect

92. Q.45 Connect

94. Q.46 The word X may be derived from the Filipino kuto , literally head lice. The earliest known recorded uses date back to memoirs from the First World War. Albert N. Depew's World War I memoir, Gunner Depew (1918), includes: "Of course you know what the word “ X " means....When you get near the trenches you get a course in the natural history of bugs, lice, rats and every kind of pest that had ever been invented." Similarly, Lieut. Pat O'Brien's 1918 memoir "Outwitting the Hun -- My Escape from a German Prison Camp" refers to “ X ," meaning body lice, which in his case had been caught in the prison camp in Courtrai. Lice were of course rife in the trenches on both sides of the conflict, and highly contagious. What is X?

95. Cooties 

96. Q.47 It was back before the Great War that Robert Bamford and Lionel Y joined forces to sell Singer cars, and to prepare them for hill climbing and racing. Successfully too: it was Y ’s performances with these cars at the hillclimb course in X Clinton, Buckinghamshire that was to provide the inspiration for a name when the pair started making their own car. From 1994 until 2007 X Y was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000. On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £479 million (US$848 million) by a joint venture company, co-owned by Investment Dar and Adeem Investment of Kuwait and English businessman John Sinders.

97. Aston Martin

99. The movie is Wall Street. The protagonist of the movie Gordon Gekko quotes lines from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”

100. Q.49 What happened during the shooting and completion of this movie for the first time?

101. Brandon Lee (Bruce Lee’s son), during the shooting of the movie was shot by a real bullet when he was supposed to have been fired at using blanks and he later succumbed to injuries and died, after which the producers decided to continue the movie and release it, using CGI to render Brandon Lee’s part for 8 minutes, a first.

102. Q.50 A(n) X is the form in the rough form of a human foot, used in shoemaking to provide the fit and style of a shoe. It is used by cordwainers (custom shoe makers) or shoemakers in the manufacture or repair of shoes. They come in pairs and the materials used to make them are either European bass hard wood or hard rock maple such as grows in colder weather, or special plastic.

103. A ‘Last’

104. Thank You! 