Quanta - The official Quiz club of NIT Goa presents August Monthly Quiz hv 1 QM - Vedang Acharya

1. Quanta hv
August 2016
ByVedang Acharya

2. Rules
• Consists of 4 rounds
• No shouting answers

3. Round 1
• Infinite Bounce +10/0
• Pounce till death +10/-10

4. 1.
Identify

5. Answer – Seddique Mateen father of Orlando Club shooter Omar Mateen.

6. 2.

7. • This photo was taken in 1963 in Louisville,Kentucky. What is so special about
this ?

8. Answer - the small girl in the picture isYolandaWilliams whom Ali
married in 1986, 23 years after the photo was taken.

9. 3.
Naam Foundation (नाम फाउंडेशन) is a non-governmental
organization started by X andY.The foundation works for betterment of
farmers in the drought-prone areas of Marathwada andVidarbha in the state
of Maharashtra,India.
The foundation helps the farmers in drought-stricken areas of Maharashtra.
The help is monetary and in-kind. In addition to the monetary help, the
foundation is working on planting 1 crore trees, training and guidance to the
farmers, farming centres, employment centres etc.The foundation has
adopted Dhondalgaon (tal.Vaijapur, dist.Aurangabad)

10. • Give X.
• 5 bonus points forY.

11. • Answers- Nana Patekar and Makarand Anaspure

12. 4.
• Up until the 1950s, X was not used as a designation for Swedish distilled
beverages, which were instead called brännvin ("burn-wine"), the word
having the same etymology as the Dutch Brandewijn, which is the base for
the word Y. X andY otherwise are totally different forms ofAlcoholic drinks.
• Give X andY.

13. Answers-
X-Vodka
Y- Brandy

14. 5.
X is video directed byVania Heymann and Gal Muggia was released on May 16,
2016. It has been described as a "poignant, surrealist montage which alludes to
contemporary issues."The video itself consists of over-layered visuals in
various landscapes and locations. One of the locations used in it is Croatian
mountain range called Biokovo;Y appears seated on it.
The video makes extensive use of impossible imagery, including a scene
where dolphins swim in a sea situated underneath an inverted landmass
A writer of the website MTV UK stated the video is "weird and wonderful in
every respect", and "magical yet poignant"Billboard magazine, called it an
"appropriately epic music video" with "a heady, shoot-for-the-stars type of
statement".Idolator writer CarlWilliott felt that its video "elevates it thanks to
some artfully trippy visuals".Y calls it the best video ever. Give X andY.

15. Answers
X – Up and Up
Y- Chris Martin

16. Round 2
• Pounce till Death

17. 1.(+20/+5 per letter)
• Ex-Googler EvanWilliams had a start-up called Odeo. It was going to be a
podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz
Stone, to join him. When A launched B podcasting, and made Odeo's
podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee
named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called C instead. Odeo's
investors didn't like the new plan, and Evan did them a huge favor by buying
back all their stock and making them whole.
• Williams was more involved with Odeo than most investors are with
startups in their portfolios, and eventually, Odeo moved from Noah's
apartment toWilliams'. Williams, who had recently sold a company
called D to Google, had just bought a nice house and wanted to put his old
apartment to good use.

18. Answers-
A- Apple
B- iTunes
C-Twitter
D- Blogger

19. 2.(+20)
• Connect

20. • Answer – Gujarat
• WimbledonTowels- Manufactured byWelspun inVapi, Gujarat.
• Ferrari - Red paint manufactured by Heubach in Ankleshwar,Gujarat.
• Dollar Bills - Pigment of the green colour used in making US dollar bills is
supplied by Meghmani Organics based in Ahmedabad,Gujarat.

22. 3.(+30/+5 per part)
• A is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose
elements are supplemented by computer-generated sensory input such as
sound, video, graphics or GPS data.
• B is an American software development company based in San Francisco,
California, is best known for developing and publishing the A mobile games.
The company was formed in 2010 by John Hanke as B Labs, an internal
start-up within Google, before it was spun out of Google as an independent
entity in October 2015.
• The company spun out of Google in October 2015,soon after Google's
announcement of its restructuring as Alphabet Inc .During the spinout, B
announced that Google , C , andThe D Company would invest up to $30
million in the company.

23. The picture above depicts C’s business in the initial stages of the Company. In
the late 1980s, C revived the video game industry in the United States after a
crash wrecked E's prospects and other companies were turning away from
console games.

24. • E programmers David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, and Bob Whitehead
met with CEO Ray Kassar in May 1979 to demand that the company treat
developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their
names on game boxes. Kaplan, who called the others "the best designers for
the console in the world", recalled that Kassar called the four men "towel
designers" and that "anyone can do a cartridge." Crane, Miller, and
Whitehead left E and founded F in October 1979 becoming the world’s first
Independent game publishers.
• F is now one of the largest third party video game publishers in the world
and was also the top publisher for 2007 in the United States. Recently F
became a subject of ridicule after releasing a video onYoutube.
• Give A,B,C,D,E and F

25. Answers
A- Augmented Reality
B- Niantic, Inc.
C- Nintendo
D- Pokémon
E- Atari
F- Activision

26. 4.
X is the only cricketer to have played in both Cricket and FootballWorld Cup.
He represented his country in the Qualifiers. He is regarded as one of the
greatest batsmen of all time. X was voted one of the five Cricketers of the
Century by a 100-member panel of experts in 2000, along with Sir Donald
Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and ShaneWarne.
Y is a former international cricket umpire representing the same region as X.
He was widely known for his long deliberations before making decisions, for
which he earned the nickname "Slow Death“. X was a FIFA referee in a
CONCACAF andWorld Cup qualifier between El Salvador and the Netherlands
Antilles in 1988. He had to retire as a football referee when FIFA reduced the
maximum age for referees to 45.
Give X andY.

27. Answers -
X – Sir Vivian Richards
Y – Steve Bucknor

28. Round 3
• +20/-20
• Infinite Bounce

29. 1.
When X was delivering a lecture in London 1896,Y was in attendance. After the
lectureY came up to X and said that he would resolve one of the basic
problems in philosophy and science in next seven days. However the problem
took a few years to solve and was partially and brilliantly solved by Z. Give X,Y
and Z and the fundamental problem.

30. Answers
X- SwamiVivekanand
Y- NicolaTesla
Z- Albert Einstein
The problem was to resolve the duality between matter and spirit(Energy)

31. 2.
• X, who met the 30-year-oldY for the first time here, remembered him as a
symbol of 'virile patriotism'.
• Her description is arguably the best there is: 'Tall and stately, but thin to the
point of emancipation, languid and luxurious of habit, Y's attenuated form is
a deceptive sheath of a spirit of exceptional vitality and endurance.
Somewhat formal and fastidious, and a little aloof and imperious of manner,
the calm hauteur of his accustomed reserve but masks, for those who know
him, a naïve and eager humanity, an intuition quick and tender as a
woman's, a humour gay and winning as child's... a shy and splendid idealism
which is of the very essence of the man.'

32. Answers –
X – Sarojini Naidu
Y- MohammadAli Jinnah

33. 3.
The X is thought to have been developed by improving upon the Y (a
woodwind folk instrument used primarily for snake charming). X is usually
played at traditional North Indian weddings and is associated with the bride
leaving her parental house for her husband's house.Sometimes, two Xs can be
tied together, making it a double shawm similar to the ancient Greek aulos.
X players were/are an integral part of Goan/Konkani temples along the
western coast and the players are called as Vajantri and they were allotted
lands for services rendered for the temples. Give X andY.

34. Answers
X - Shehnai
Y - Pungi

35. 4.
X tweeted the following on 9 March 2014
Your days of playing it safe are nearly over.Tomorrow you will know how to X
like X #DareToX.
Hi @Twitter. For tomorrow X needs more than 140 characters. Please change
rules for X #DareToX
A twitter Q and A followed

37. • Give X.

38. • Answer – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

39. Round 4
• Buzzer Round
• +20/-20

40. 1.
X became the first person to score in 3 consecutive European Championships
when he scored in Euro 2016. Identify X.

41. Answer

42. 2.

43. X came out with a print ad, backed up by a video, for which it erected a huge
roadside sign giving directions to a Y 258km away, next to a sign reading ‘X
Drive 5km’.
In a quick rejoinder, Y created a new ending for the X’s video, which shows a
French couple driving from the sign to the nearby X Drive.
They order coffee to sustain themselves on their 258km journey to the Y,
where as they tuck into theirWhoppers the man says to the woman: "It wasn’t
that far at all."
The tagline on the ad reads: "Thank you X for being everywhere".
Give X and Y.

44. Answers-
McDonald’s and Burger King

45. 3.
• X has a history in aviation and its logo stays true to its roots.The blue and
white represent a propeller in motion with the sky peeking through. X had a
role inWorldWar II as a creator of aircraft engines.

46. Answer - BMW

47. 4.

48. Answer- Harry Potter

49. • What has been blanked out ?

50. 5.
What has been blanked out ?

51. Answer - Brexit

52. ThankYou.