Introductory Quiz for Freshers held on August 9, 2015 at LT 1.1a of IIT (BHU) Varanasi, conducted by the IIT BHU Quiz Club.

1. FINALS
INTRODUCTORY QUIZ
For Freshers
9th August 2015
LT 1.1a

2. MISSIONSTATEMENT
• You will be briefed about the mission objective
before the start of every mission
• And by now you know the rules ;-)

3. MISSION1

4. BRIEFING
• Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the
theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted
partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team.
Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the
mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he
reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency
suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission.
Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid
of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who
set him up and to clear his name.
• +15/-10 on Pounce
• +10/0 on Bounce
• Clockwise

5. AND SO ITALL BEGAN……
• The basic narrative of this book expresses the central theme:
God creates the world (along with creating the first man and
woman) and appoints man as his regent, but man proves
disobedient and God destroys his world through the Flood. The new
post-Flood world is equally corrupt, but God does not destroy it,
instead calling one man, Abraham, to be the seed of its salvation. At
God's command Abraham descends from his home into the land
of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as
does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob. Jacob's name is changed
to Israel, and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of
Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households,
and God promises them a future of greatness. It ends with Israel in
Egypt, ready for the coming of Moses and the Exodus. The narrative
is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively
narrowing in scope from all mankind (the covenant with Noah) to a
special relationship with one people alone (Abraham and his
descendants through Isaac and Jacob).

8. Cooking the grenade..
• James Briscione, a culinary expert, says among the
recipes they've developed with X is Vietnamese apple
kebab. He says X surprised them with an unusual
flavour combination for the dish.
• "Chicken, pork, mushrooms, strawberries and apples
all share this one flavour compound," Briscione says.
The chemical compound "gamma-Dodecalactone [is]
shared by all five ingredients and it makes them a
really fascinating match," he says.
• Briscione says the dish is a hit.This is an excerpt of Bon
Apetite a restaurant in a certain Tech company. Who is
the chef at Bon Apetite?

10. IBM WATSON

11. TOYINGAROUND..
• In 1943, Navy engineer Richard James was trying
to figure out how to use springs to keep the
sensitive instruments aboard ships from rocking
themselves to death, when he knocked one of his
prototypes over. Instead of crashing to the floor,
it gracefully sprang downward, and then righted
itself. So pointless — so nimble — so ________.
The spring became a goofy toy of many
childhoods—that is before every kid inevitably
gets theirs all twisted up and ruins it. 300 million
sold worldwide!

13. SLINKY

14. QUITE A LADY!!
• She is the wife of Ashok Patel.
• UK-based businessman Puneetk Agarwal has
tried to bring back the character ___ ___ in
the form of an animated movie titled ___ ___
Movie which released for online viewing on
4th May 2013.
• The filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma is reported
to be making a cinema movie bringing ___
___'s character to celluloid.

16. CENSORED!

17. A SLANG,YOU SAY?
• A ___ is a supernatural being in Norse mythology
and Scandinavian folklore.
• In Internet slang, a ___ is a person who sows
discord on the Internet by starting arguments or
upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,
extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online
community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog),
either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of
provoking readers into an emotional response or
of otherwise disrupting normal on- topic
discussion.

19. YOU JUST GOTTROLLED!!

20. WHY SO SERIOUS…SINGSOMETHING!

22. JINGLE ALL THE WAY

24. BRIEFING
• IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy
the supply of a genetically created disease called 'Chimera'. His mission is
made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after
samples of the disease. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to
find and destroy 'Chimera' before the terrorists get their hands on it, but
he must also find 'Bellerophon' so as to save his love interest who has
already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death.
• 5 Minimalist Posters
• Written round
• +10 for each correct answer
• +10 if you get all the 5 right

25. Let’s teach the cubs howits done!!!

26. Let’s start with something AWESOME!!

27. THAT’S HEROIC!

28. WHO’S THAT? !?

29. NATURE’S CALL…..

30. JUST ONE?

31. EXCHANGEYOUR MISSIONREPORTS

32. GOT AGALAXYTO WATCHOVER..

33. WHY DID KATTAPAKILL BAHU??

34. BELIEVE ME..THERENO ONE UNDER YOUR
BED

35. AWWWW….THATHURTS..

36. GUILTY/ NOT GUILTY….THAT’SDHRISHYAM..

38. MISSIONSTATEMENT
• Super-spy Ethan Hunt has retired from active
duty to train new IMF agents. But he is called
back into action to confront the toughest villain
he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international
weapons and information provider with no
remorse and no conscience.
• +15/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on pounce
• Anti-Clockwise

39. Bookish…
• Leonardo Pisa published a book Liber Abaci (Book of
calculation) in 1202. Part of the book was dedicated to
Understanding Indian numerals, but part of it was a
textbook of word problems and solutions.
• One of the problems, rephrased a bit, was “How many
pairs of rabbits can be produced in a year from a single
pair if each pair produces a new pair every month,
each new pair reproduces starting at the age of one
month, and rabbits never die”. What did this question
give rise to?

41. It’s Serie(ou)s
• His other name was Fibonacci .
• Gave rise to Fibonacci series .

42. Wherein the sevenworlds….
• This an all-female parody pop group, self-
labelled "the one and only High Energy Rock
Band"
• Id the place where this music video was
shot.Or give me the name of group
• Video o the next slide

43. Wherein the sevenworlds….

45. It’s nerdy…
• At CERN
• Les Horribles Cernettes
• a melancholy song about the lonely nights endured by
the girlfriend of a high energy physicist
I gave you a golden ring to show you my love
You went to stick it in a printed circuit
To fix a voltage leak in your collector
You plug my feelings into your detector
You never spend your nights with me
You don't go out with other girls either
You only love your collider
Your collider

46. That’s a thoughtful gift!!
• X is supposed to be one of the greatest scientist on the 20th
century. This danish scientist was loved by all his
countrymen. When he won the nobel prize in 1922,
the Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located
next to the brewery. And the best perk of the house? It had
a direct pipeline to the brewery so that X had free beer on
tap whenever he wanted.
• Some theories suggest that X kept his mind supple and
flexible, ready to accept new ideas when his peers like
Einstein couldn’t because being drunk improved his
creativity. It prevented his mind from being able to focus,
so it more readily drifted from one connection to another,
which can yield creative solutions to problems.
• Who is this lucky (!!!) scientist?

48. Aint so Boring..
• Neils Bohr

49. That’s quitea long list….
• X established many institutes which are of international repute. Most
notable among them are the Nehru Foundation for
Development in Ahmadabad,He helped establish the Physical Research
Laboratory (PRL). X set up Ahmedabad Textiles Industrial Research
Association (ATIRA), which helped the booming textiles business in
Ahmedabad. He also set up the Center for Environmental Planning and
Technology (CEPT). Not stopping with all these, he went ahead and set up
the Blind Men Association(BMA). Along with his wife Mrinalini, he
founded the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts. Other well-known
institutions established by X include the Faster Breeder Test Reactor
(FBTR) in Kalpakkam, Variable Energy Cyclotron Project in Calcutta,
Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) in Hyderabad and Uranium
Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) in Jaduguda, Jharkhand.
• X yaaru?

51. AN ICON _/_

52. IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA…..PASS!
• This mountain pass lies in the Aravalli
Mountain Range of Rajasthan.
• The soil in the entire area of the pass has a
distinctive yellow colour due to the presence
of large amounts of iron compounds.
• What is the name of this pass, which became
very famous in Indian history in the year 1576
AD?

54. YELLOWYELOW, DIRTYFELLOW!

55. LASTBULLET
• In the US Army, the primary operational element of a
Special Forces Company is a Special Forces Operational
Element Alpha (SFOD-A). Each comprises 12 Special
Forces soldiers : 2 officers and 10 sergeants - all Special
Forces qualified, cross-trained in different skills and
multi-lingual. They can infiltrate their area of
operations by land, air or sea. They can operate for an
indefinite period of time in a hostile area with little or
no support, truly forming a self-sustaining
"detachment".
• By what name do we better know them?

57. ATLAST….WEMEET…

59. BRIEFING
• In the fourth installment of the Mission
Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and a new team
race against time to track down Hendricks, a
dangerous terrorist who has gained access to
Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a
strike on the United States.
• +10/-10 for each question
• All the questions connect to a single theme
• Points for the connect are mentioned on the slide

60. +60/0
• X was a Bengali polymath who reshaped who introduced Contextual
Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most famous as the
author of ____, literally ”song offerings” and its "profoundly sensitive,
fresh and beautiful verse", his poetry was viewed as spiritual and
mercurial. A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots
in Jessore, he started writing as an eight-year-old. At age sixteen, he
released his first substantial poems under the
pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary
authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short
stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist,
universalist internationalist, and strident nationalist he denounced
the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent
of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised
paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two
thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he
founded, Visva-Bharati University.

62. Rabindra Nath Tagore

63. +50/-10
• His own interpretation of the Seven Deadly Sins were: Wealth
without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Science without
Humanity, Knowledge without Character, Politics without Principle,
Commerce without Morality, and Worship without Sacrifice.
• He was a football aficionado and he founded two football clubs, in
Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa, both known by name
of The Passive Resisters, while he was working there as a lawyer in
the rough time period of two decades between 1893-1915.
• Pictured on 2 US postage stamps (4¢, 8¢) in the Champions of
Liberty series, issued 26 December 1961.
• Had 4 sons, in 1888, 1892, 1897, 1900, out of which his eldest son
converted to Islam later in life.

65. Ans.

66. Whose life
is this book
based on?
+40/-20

69. +30/-30
• This famous personality inspired Jamsetji Tata to
set up a research and educational institution
when they travelled together from Yokohama to
Chicago on his visit to the West in 1893.
Impressed by his views on science and leadership
abilities, Tata established IISc in Bangalore and
requested this personality to head the institution.
But he declined it citing a conflict with his
“spiritual interests”.
• Identify this famous personality.

71. Swami Vivekananda

72. +20/-40
• He was a notable
Indian engineer,
scholar, statesman and
the Diwan of Mysore
during 1912 to 1918.
• Every year, September
15 is celebrated as
Engineer's Day in India
in his memory.
• Identify him. (Just the
surname will do.)

74. Ans. M Visvesvaraya
• The ENGINEER!!!

75. +10/-50
• After his most famous discovery, he was confident of
winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, but was
disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Richardson
that year and to de Broglie the next year. He was so
confident of winning the prize the next year that he
booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to
be announced in November, and would scan each day's
newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it
away if it did not carry the news. He did eventually win
that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Which famous scientist?

77. CV Raman

78. +5/-60
• The X Rifles is the most senior rifle regiment of
the Indian Army. It was originally raised in 1921
as part of the British Indian Army, when six
previously existing regiments were amalgamated
to form six battalions of the 6th X Rifles. The
name X Rifles is derived from the Hindi word X
which was the old name of Rajasthan. It is based
on the Sanskrit word ___ meaning son of a king.
• What is X?

79. Rajputana Rifles

81. Hostels of IIT BHU

83. BRIEFING
• OOPS…for the sake of those who havn’t
watched it yet…GOD is merciful. NO SPOILERS

• Pick your Mission
• Differential scoring
• +(6-n)*5/-(n)*5
• +10/0 on pounce (feel free to pull the trigger)

84. YOUR MISSIONS
• Etymology
• Sci-Tech
• Music
• Business
• Sports
• Fantasy
NEXT

86. ETYMOLOGY
• When Mary I of Scotland fell ill while on a trip to
France in the mid-1500s, she was served a sweet jelly-
like concoction made from stewed fruit. At the same
time, she overheard the French maids and nurses who
were caring for her muttering that “ma’am is unwell”
(of course in French), and in her confusion she
muddled the two things up—and X as we know it today
gained its name. Though this is the most common
etymology of the word , it’s completely untrue.
• It is actually derived from the Latin words for
“honey+apple” denoting fruit “of an apple tree grafted
onto quince” which in 17th century was extended to
citrus fruits as well.

88. SO YUMMY
• Marmalade (madame est malade)
Home

90. FANTASY
• The X is a cube-shaped containment vessel for an Infinity
Stone possessing unlimited energy. It contained one of six
singularities that predated the universe. Once the universe
came into existence, it changed form. It was used by
various ancient civilizations before coming
into Asgardians hands who brought it to Earth. After
the Battle of New York, it was returned to Asgard. The X
represents space.
• In geometry, the X is the four-dimensional analog of
the cube; the X is to the cube as the cube is to the square.
Just as the surface of the cube consists of 6 square faces,
the hypersurface of the X consists of 8 cubical cells.The X is
used widely in fictions such as the movie interstellar for
space travel.

92. UNLEASH THEPOWER
• The tesserect.
• Home

94. SCI-TECH
• The company was started as Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation.
• The company's first products were battery-eliminators,
devices that enabled battery-powered radios to
operate on household electricity. Due to advances in
radio technology, battery-eliminators soon became
obsolete. Paul Galvin learned that some radio
technicians were installing sets in cars.
• This business too off and hence Galvin renamed his
company to suit his business with cars.
• Now this company is known by this name though not
for car radios

96. MOTOR-OLA
HOME

98. BUSINESS
• X started a company , which produced tractors from
surplus military hardware.
• As a car lover and wealthy entrepreneur, X owned a
number of sports cars, with the Ferrari 250 GT being
one of them. At a certain point, X became frustrated
with problems he had with the clutch in his Ferrari. He
then went to visit Enzo Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari answered
X’s complaints with “the problem is not with the car
but with driver!” and went on to advise him to look
after his tractors instead. For a mechanical genius and
Italian, this kind of answer was not only insulting but
an open challenge.
• So he started the company X!!

100. THAT’S DOPE..
HOME

102. SPORTS
• Using tiny plastic balls and a slingshot, the French research
team from the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau near Paris
varied the velocity and spin of balls travelling through
water to trace different trajectories.
• While their research quickly confirmed the long known
Magnus effect, which gives a spinning ball a curved
trajectory, their research revealed fresh insight for spinning
balls that are shot over a distance equivalent to this
incident
• The friction exerted on a ball by its surrounding
atmosphere slows it down enough for the spin to take on a
greater role in directing the ball's trajectory, thereby
allowing the last moment change in direction, and termed
it the Snail shell trajectory.

104. What a Kick!

106. MUSIC

108. MALGUDIDAYS