UTPT 2020 Major Quiz prelims

Rules
Rules
• 25 Questions
• 26 points
• Star Questions marked,
to be used for ties
• QM = God
• Google = DQed

Q1
Almost 40% of Americans refused to buy the product and another 15 were
in a dilemma whether the product was connected to a concurrent even.
Shares in Constellation brands which makes the product, fell over 5%.
The company received backlash for a post it made on Twitter promising that
new flavours were "coming ashore soon", with critics claiming it was in poor
taste and "bad timing".
The company has indicated they have no plans to postpone the ads though,
seeking to build recognition, as it will have high demand in summer.
ID X and Y

ANSWER
Corona Beer
Corona Virus

Q2
During World War II, Project X was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop
a X-controlled guided bomb. The intent was to train Xs to act as "pilots" for the device,
using their cognitive abilities to recognize the target. The guidance system consisted of
three lenses mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which projected an image of the target
on a screen mounted in a small compartment inside the nose cone. This screen was
mounted on pivots, and fitted with sensors that measured any angular movement. The Xs
would follow the image, pecking at it, which would move the screen on its pivots.
The sensors would detect the movement and send signals to the control surfaces, which
would steer the bomb in the direction the screen had moved. As the bomb swung back
towards the target, the Xs would again follow the image, bringing the screen back to the
centered position again. In that way, the Xs would correct any deviations in the course
and keep the bomb on its glide path.
ID the project

Q3
The colours red and white are mentioned many times in old texts on
alchemy. One interpretation is that they, like base metal and gold, represent
two different sides of human nature, which must be reconciled. This was the
inspiration for the Christian names of two characters in the Harry Potter
series. These two characters both represent two sides of the ideal father
figure.
Name the two characters.

ANSWER
Rubeus (Red) Hagrid
Albus(White) Dumbledore

Q4
Silbo Gomero is a unique form of communication through X used for thousands of years
in La Gomera. It reproduces Castilian Spanish–the language of its inhabitants–in a
series of different X, and has been passed down for centuries from fathers to sons as
simply another tool for working in the countryside. The inhabitants use it to
communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the
island. It enables messages to be exchanged over a distance of up to 5 kilometres.
Today, and since the government made it a school subject in 1999, it is the only X
language in the world. It is calculated that around 22,000 people can speak it correctly.
This is why when you're walking in the mountains of La Gomera, listen closely–you may
still be able to hear two people communicating using X.
What is X?

Q5*
A historic manuscript was housed in a(n) _______ Museum nearly 130 years
after it was first created. Pages from the manuscript had never been put on
public display before. Usmanov, the President of the International Fencing
Federation bought the manuscript at an auction for $8,806,500. This was the
highest amount ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.
This manuscript was written on the back of blank registration forms for the 1889
International Congress on Physical Education, which X co-organised. Written
over 14 pages, the manuscript contains X's speech in which he outlined his plan
to bring back the ________ in the modern world.
The displaying of this manuscript itself was a historic moment, as it was returning
to its ______ home, where it belongs.
Which manuscript?

ANSWER
Olympic Museum
X - Pierre de coubertin

Q6
_________ is mostly used as a derogatory slang for people easily offended,
particularly since the 2010s. The origins of the term is somewhat unclear.
Chuck Palahnuik, author of Fight Club is credited with coining the usage of
the term, and it is used in the movie as well.
However, the term dates back to the 1860s in Missouri, with a slightly
different meaning. It was used to refer to a person who was opposed to the
abolition of slavery.
Given the racial demographics of the slavery and the clues, what is the term?

Q7
The Faustian tale of the troubled man making a pact with the devil is a recurring motif in
Christian mythology. It often seeped into music – two centuries ago, people believed the
Italian violinist Paganini's powers were satanic. But none of these myths have proved
quite as enduring as that of X.
Legend has it that X took his guitar to the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in
Clarksdale, Mississippi where the devil returned his instrument in exchange for his soul.
He returned with a formidable technique and a mastery of the blues.
It was hauntingly apposite for X, who died in 1938, aged only 27, after a troubled life and
an itinerant career. His only recordings, made a year before his death, still have a
spooky quality even 80 years on.
ID X(the blues man)

Q8
Dr. Jonathan Day a medical expert at the University of Florida, explained a
certain victim preference. Some reasons for that preference in victims are
that some people produce more of certain chemicals in their skin like lactic
acid, their metabolic rate, or the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) your body
releases as it burns energy which explains why pregnant women and
overweight or obese people are more frequently targeted.
What is being spoken about over here?

ANSWER
Why mosquitoes bite some people over others.

Q9
My _____ friend has got the sled,
And I have packed a snack.
We're all set for the trip ahead.
We're never coming back!
We're abandoning this life we've led!
So long, Mom and Pop!
We're sick of doing what you've said,
And now it's going to stop!
We're going where it snows all year,
Where life can have real meaning.
A place where we won't have to hear,
"Your room could stand some cleaning."
The X is the place for us!
That's where we want to live.
Up there we'll get to yell and cuss,
And act real primitive.
We'll never have to go to school,
Forced into submission,
By monstrous crabby teachers who'll
Make us learn addition.
We'll never have to clean a plate
Of veggie glops and goos.
Messily we'll masticate
Using any fork we choose!
The timber wolves will be our friends.
We'll stay up late and howl,
At the moon, till nighttime ends,
Before going on the prowl.
Oh, what a life! We cannot wait,
To be in that arctic land,
Where we'll be masters of our fate,
And lead a life that's grand!
No more of parental rules!
We're heading for some snow!
Good riddance to those grown-up ghouls!
We're leaving! X Ho!
Who are the authors of
the poem?

Q10
Ryegrass (lolium) was used for this purpose for a long time in history, until
Marvin C. Stone realised it’s shortcomings and created a modern equivalent
after the taste the of rye was affecting a mint julep he was having; the taste
of the rye was mixing with the drink and giving it a grassy taste, which he
found unsatisfactory. He wound paper around a pencil to make a thin tube,
slid out the pencil from one end, and applied glue between the strips. He
later refined it by building a machine that would coat the outside of the
paper with wax to hold it together, so the glue wouldn't dissolve in bourbon.

Q11*
Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who
applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating
an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the
first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals
could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually
supplanted by fingerprinting.
Anthropometry led to the
invention of what?

Q12
Reporting on a particular event, Peter Roebuck in the Melbourne Age on
27/12/95 in an article titled `No subtlety in MCG`s Day of Shame` said, `cricket
has permitted the public humiliation of a player ... it is not a performance I`d
care to witness again ... People lost interest in the cricket. This was a day of
empty triumph and personal sorrow. It comes as small satisfaction to see an
umpire make a nonsense of his job in the heat of the moment`.
Greg Baum on the Melbourne Age 8/1/96 wrote `Umpire Emerson did himself
and X an injustice by calling him four more times after he switched to leg spin.
How Emerson distinguished the four problem balls from the rest of the two
overs is anyone`s guess `.
What incident are they talking about?

ANSWER
Muralitharan called for chucking

Q13
X ejected one member for sending his Christmas cards out on time. X holds
its Christmas party in June and celebrates the Fourth of July in January.
“Membership in the club now stands at 4,900, with another half-million or so
who haven't gotten around to joining yet,”said Waas, the club's "acting"
president since he founded it in 1956.
"I appointed a nomination committee in 1957 to select candidates for
president, but they haven't come up with a slate yet," said the 57-year-old
ad executive.
ID X.

ANSWER
X - The Procrastinator’s club

Q14* Check it, since fifteen hundred and sixteen, ______ attacked and overseen
Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream
With their borders and boots, on top of us
Pullin' knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
But how you gonna get what you need to get?
The gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet
The fifth sun sets get back reclaim
The spirit of X, alive and untamed
Now face the funk now blastin' out your speaker
On the one, ____ Mexica
That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you got a gun
Yeah, this is for the people of the sun
This is the lyrics of the song People of the Sun by Rage Against the Machine which talks
about the conquest on two races, the blank and the titular people of the sun. ID the two
races and X who was the last known ruler of the People of the Sun.

ANSWER
Mayans, Aztec
X- cuauhtemoc

Q15*
If you have an accident or serious injury while drunk you are more likely to
recover than if you are sober. In fact, if you fall while drunk or do not brace
during a crash, you are more likely to survive, with the exception of burns.
Death rates from all traumatic injury fell as blood alcohol levels rose.
Amongst the extremely drunk mortality rates fell by nearly 50%. Gunshot
and stab victims had the greatest benefit. Amongst drivers however, you
are between two-to-four times more likely to die in a car crash.
What effect/ phenomenon is being described here? One might come across
the phenomenon is recent computer graphics and animation games.

Q16
X is an Iranian chess prodigy. He won the Iranian Chess Championship at age
12, and earned the grandmaster title at the age of 14. He is the second-
youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700 (after Wei Yi), accomplishing this
aged 16 years and 1 month.
Amidst the geo-political escalations, and with the Iranian Chess Federation
barring its players to travel for tournaments to other countries, X now plays
under the FIDE flag.
In the recent World Blitz Championships, X came close to defeating World No. 1
Magnus Carlsen but lost on time.
ID the young prodigy.

Q17
Started by the Farmers Guild in California, the X-Y-Z (3 words) Challenge is
a test designed to show the power and importance of healthy soil.
The Challenge is easy: Simply bury a pair of 100 percent cotton Z –
generally white – in your farm, garden, or pasture. Two months later, dig
them up, inspect and document the changes.
Healthy soil contains all sorts of bacteria, earthworms, fungi, and other little
organisms that like to eat organic matter, like, just for example, cotton Z. In
two months, Z buried in healthy X will be completely eaten through, leaving
little but an elastic waistband.
Give me the name of the campaign (XYZ), a nice innuendo/ pun if you will.
Picture on next slide.

Q18
This evolutionary change occurred for improving a certain ability in humans
which was not necessarily required for their regular functioning. Initially
assumed to be the swelling of the body parts due to the medium, it was later
revealed to be the involuntary reaction of the autonomous nervous system
to the change in surroundings of these body parts, providing a drainage
network sort of pattern to these body parts, making them perform a tire
tread-like function.
What change?

ANSWER
Wrinkling of fingers and toes

Q19
___ ______ ___ ____ is the eighth track on the English progressive rock
band Pink Floyd's 1973 album called Dark Side of the Moon.
Henry Ford’s salesmen always used to end a sale with the saying ___
______ ___ ____.This was a reference to Henry Ford's apocryphal
description of the Model T, "You can have it ___ ______ ___ ____ , as long
as it's black."
FITB.

Q20
The origin of this phrase is from Stagecoach street racing, where the drivers
would drive competitively and erratically. Sometimes, this would cause the
stagecoaches to clip each others’ wheels on the road, which could cause
serious damage. This is an anxious moment, however, if the coaches did not
stop because of the contact, they would just carry on.
What phrase has originated from this, used widely in sports and common
language?

Q21
A death mask was made out a woman who drowned in the River Seine in the
1880s. As was customary in those days, her corpse was put on display in the
Paris mortuary, in the hope that someone might recognize her and claim her
body. The pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic
half-smile, and so he commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. This mask
was replicated many times over.
In 1955, a toymaker named Asmund Laerdal created what we now know as the
____ doll. Asmund wanted his mannequin to have a natural appearance.
Remembering a mask on the wall of his grandparents' house many years
earlier, he decided that the L'Inconnue de la Seine would become the face of
Resusci Anne - the ____ doll. So you see, this anonymous woman who
drowned in the 19th century is responsible for saving many, many lives the
world over. It is said that she has the most kissed face of all time.

Q22
The ________ _________ tree, native to the Socotra archipelago in Yemen, has
a unique and strange appearance. It has a fat and scaly trunk, leggy succulent
branches, stiff blue-green leaves shaped like swords and greenish-white
flowers that are later replaced with dripping strands of red and black berries.
They are drought tolerant and can grow in both in intense sunlight and partial
shade in addition to possessing the ability to withstand extremes of
temperatures.
Known for producing a thick, red sap, this tree got its name from one of Hercules’
legendary adventures. According to the tale, when Hercules was tasked with
bringing three apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, guarded by the
monster Ladon, he killed the creature spilling its blood all over the land. This
tree was said to have sprouted everywhere the creature’s blood touched the
soil.
What is this tree commonly known as?

Q23*
According to Athonite tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary was traveling for
Joppa to Cyprus, where her ship was blown off course and she was forced
to land on the then-pagan island of Athos. Overwhelmed by the natural
beauty of the surroundings, she asked her Son for it to be her garden.
From that moment on, Mount Athos was consecrated as the garden of the
Mother of God, and a certain restriction was placed, similar to a different
recent religious issue in India. What restriction?

Q24
____.npm is a node.js package created by Daniel Repp. This is a classifier
which uses Machine Learning to make a decision as to whether a given
sentence warrants a particular response. The response is a commonly
used one among teenagers and young adults alike, dating back to the
Edwardian times of early 1900s and whose original form was "said the
actress to the bishop". FITB.

ANSWER
Twss
(That’s what she said)

Q25
Artist Phil Hansen’s claim to internet fame comes from his unconventional choice
of medium for his work. His work for the advert of Arby’s is perhaps his most
famous piece, using fast food to draw on an 11 foot canvas, made of butcher
paper.
From the video, what famous work of art did he recreate and what is its punny
title?

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