Mixed bag Quiz

1. MIXED BAG
Aman Sinha
3rd Year CSE

2. Rules
• Infinite Bounce.
• +10 for each correct answer.
• +15/-10 on Pounce
• Fuck Pounce and bounce. Session aao
bounce pounce khelna hai to !!!!!

3. 1. Identify X
X said: "Porn? No, it's not porn. It's a piece of art. It's
just a piece of art. But you can see it like this. It's
beautiful. You should see it. Unfortunately, porn is not
so aesthetic and so beautiful. But love is sex also, you
know?
"This kind of story for the ones who have seen it - I'm
sure nobody has seen it - it's too beautiful.
"This kind of story, when you choose to do it, you have
to know the director. If it's somebody special, if it's a
real artist, you can do it. You can give, and be
confident enough."

4. Answer
• Eric Cantona

5. 2. What Term?
• X refers to a word's appearance in a body
of text, not to either its origin or its
prevalence in speech.X in ancient texts
are usually difficult to decipher, since it is
easier to infer meaning from multiple
contexts than from just one.The avant-
garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton made a
series of seven films from 1971 to 1972
titled X I: Nostalgia to X VII: Special
Effects

6. Answer
• Hapax Legomena

7. 3. Identify
Identify the painting and the
painter.
Why was the painter in news
recently?

8. Answer
• Painting : Yellow Nude
Painter: Sonia Delaunay
• To acknowledge female painters, at Tate
Modern, the two main exhibition spaces
will , for the first time, host solo shows by
women simultaneously: the contemporary
painter Marlene Dumas and abstract
pioneer Sonia Delaunay from 15 April to 9
August 2015.

9. 4. Identify the lady and her claim to
fame

10. Answer
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
• She was the first Indian woman to hold a
cabinet post. In 1937 she was elected to
the provincial legislature of the United
Provinces and was designated minister of
local self-government and public health.
• She was also the first woman President of
UNGA.

11. 5. Give me X
• X is an initiative by the Reliance Industries in the field of
biotechnological advancement. It is established as a part
of the subsidiary of Reliance Industries, Reliance Life
Sciences. X is the first to have a registered cord blood
bank and repository in India as well as the entire region
of South East Asia.X runs three programs for the
collection of cord blood: X S, X A and X M. X S and X A
offer stem cell enriched cord blood repository services as
well as stem cell enriched cord blood for transplantation
to address haematological disorders. X S is a program
for sibling donors. This program is for a mother or a
family that wants to process and bank the umbilical cord
blood stem cells from the present pregnancy.

12. Answer
• ReliCord

13. 6. What is common between them?
• Francisco Clavet did it in 1990 in Hilversum, Christian
Miniussi in 1991 in São Paulo, Sergiy Stakhovsky in
2008 in Zagreb and Rajeev Ram in 2009 in Newport. In
total, seven men have done it from 1978 through 2010.
Andreas Haider-Maurer, who reached the final in 2010
Vienna before losing to top-seeded Jürgen Melzer, and
Marcel Granollers who lost against David Ferrer in 2010
Valencia. On the women's side Melinda Czink reached
the final of the 2005 Canberra International, but lost to
Ana Ivanovic.

14. Answer.
• All were "Lucky Losers."
• A lucky loser is a sports player who loses a
match in the qualifying round of a knockout
tournament, but who then enters the main draw
when another player withdraws after the
tournament has started because of illness, injury
or other reason. The lucky loser then enters the
main draw, normally in place of the withdrawn
player. This can only happen before all players
in the main draw have started their first match in
the tournament.

15. 7. Significance of this match.

16. Answer.
• Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel
Garner, Colin Croft, Malcolm Marshall —
took field together only once, on
November 24, 1981

17. 8. Give Funda
Terry Pratchett, the
famed British author, died
in Mar 2015. After his
death, his official Twitter
account put out the
following tweets (read
from bottom to top)
Why is tha first tweet after
his death, written in Upper
Case.

18. Answer.
• In the Discworld novels of Pratchett, Death
is a recurring character - whenever he
talks, his words are written in capital
letters.

19. 9. Identify the Monument

20. Answer
• The Tower of Hanoi.

21. 10. What is so special?
This is the signature of a cat
named F.D.C. Willard.
What is so special about this
cat?

22. Answer
• F.D.C. Willard was the pen name of a
Siamese cat named Chester, who
internationally published two papers under
this name on low temperature physics in
scientific journals, one as co-author and
the other time as the sole author.

23. 11. What is X
• X is an acronym for a design principle noted by the U.S.
Navy in 1960. The X principle states that most systems
work best if they are kept simple rather than made
complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in
design and unnecessary complexity should be
avoided.The acronym was reportedly coined by Kelly
Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk
Works.The principle is best exemplified by the story of
Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful
of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were
designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in
the field under combat conditions with only these tools.

24. Answer
• K.I.S.S
Keep it simple,stupid.

25. 12. Which Nation?
This is the flag of a nation whose
leader is Tony Nader and the
currency is Raam.
Which nation am I talking about.

26. Answer
• Global Country of World Peace- It is a
micronation.
• A micronation, sometimes referred to as a
model country or new country project, is
an entity that claims to be an independent
nation or state but is not officially
recognized by world governments or major
international organizations.

27. 13. Etymolgy
• X comes from the Greek τραγ δίαῳ
meaning the song of the male goat. The
ancient Greeks thought goats were crazy
sad, apparently. Also, they used to have
performances where a chorus would
dance around a goat and then ritually
sacrifice him. Which is pretty damn sad, if
you think about it.

28. Answer
• Tragedy.

29. 14. What am I talking about?
• X is generally considered to be an undesirable
or dreaded situation.The concept has been
criticized as being unfair and misogynistic. Ali
Binazir described X in his website that it's a
"territory only to be rivaled in inhospitability by
the Western Sahara, the Atacama, and Dante's
Ninth Circle of Hell." X is also the name of a
reality series aired on MTV, US.X is also an
American instrumental hip hop duo based in
East Bay, California whose productions include
"Chuch" and "Perfect Skies", featured on the
2011 mixtape 808s & Dark Grapes II.

30. Answer
• FriendZone