Prelims of the quiz I hosted at DTU. Hope you enjoy this. :)

1. Prelims

2. Instructions
There would be 25 questions in this round.
Star marked questions would be used as tie - breaker
Each answer is for one point. In case there are two
answers to the question then the question is for two points
and so on.
Top 5 teams would qualify for the next round. There would
be a wild card entry from the teams coming 6 - 10 for the
next round.
Quizmaster is God.

3. 1
100% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T
100% 2,4,5-T (60% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T, and 40% iso-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T)
50% 2,4,5-T (30% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T, and 20% iso-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T) and 50% n-butyl
ester of 2,4-D
(Phytar 560G): 65.6% organic Arsenicical (cacodylic acid (Ansar 138) and its sodium salt
sodium cacodylate)
(Tordon 101): 21.2% (acid weight basis) triisopropanolamine salts of 2,4-D and 5.7% picloram
50% n-butyl ester 2,4-D and 50% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T.
50% n-butyl ester 2,4-D and 50% isooctyl ester 2,4,5-T used after 1968.
66.6% n-butyl 2,4-D and 33.3% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T.
What are they all of these collectively known as?

4. 1
Agent Green: 100% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T, used prior to 1963
Agent Pink: 100% 2,4,5-T (60% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T, and 40% iso-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T) used prior to 1964
Agent Purple: 50% 2,4,5-T (30% n-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T, and 20% iso-butyl ester of 2,4,5-T) and 50% n-butyl
ester of 2,4-D used 1961–65.
Agent Blue (Phytar 560G): 65.6% organic Arsenicical (cacodylic acid (Ansar 138) and its sodium salt sodium
cacodylate) used from 1962–71 in powder and water solution.
Agent White (Tordon 101): 21.2% (acid weight basis) triisopropanolamine salts of 2,4-D and 5.7% picloram
used 1966–71.
Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange, (HO): 50% n-butyl ester 2,4-D and 50% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T used 1965–
70
Agent Orange II:50% n-butyl ester 2,4-D and 50% isooctyl ester 2,4,5-T used after 1968.
Agent Orange III: 66.6% n-butyl 2,4-D and 33.3% n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T.
Rainbow Herbicides

5. 2
According to a study in Ramcharitamanas, X was
continuously growing in size due to a boon by
Narada. To temper the vanity of X , sage Agastya
travelled with his family to the south of India. X
bowed in reverence for the great sage upon which
Agastya half heartedly asked if X could stay like
that till he came from the trip to the south.X agreed
and stayed that way till now because we all know
that sage Agastya never returned from the south.

6. 2
Vindhyas

7. 3
Flipkart
Ola
InMobi
Quickr
MuSigma
Snapdeal
Zomato
PayTM
What connects these companies?
Exhaustive

8. 3
Only Indian Unicorn Startups

9. 4

10. 4
Last day of telegram

11. 5
Until the mid 1800s, prisons, at least in England,
were places of punishment only, with no concept of
rehabilitation for the prisoners. One of the forms of
punishment was to crank a handle attached to a
large wooden box. The cranking did nothing, other
than turn a counter. The prisoner had to do 10,000
turns in 8 hours, equivalent to one every 3 seconds
or so. As an extra punishment a warder could
tighten the crank to make turning more difficult.
This led to the rise in popularity of a term for the jail
wardens. What?

12. 5
Screw

13. 6

14. 6
Who owns this production and to whom does the
logo pay homage to?

15. 6
Bryan Singer
Homage to Steven Spielberg (Jaws)

16. 7
This fan fiction is infamous for its awful grammar and spelling, nonsensical
plot, and complete change of most characters into props in a Goth teenage
girl’s fantasy. The author of X turns ______ into an angsty vampire, ______
into a sensitive man, ______ into Peeping Toms, and ______ into an
inarticulate, curse-happy hothead. There is almost nothing from the original
book. The main character is “Ebony Dark’ness Raven Way,” The fan fiction
also features many nods to “Hot Topic goth” music, including bands like
Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance, and Slipknot.
Some elements of X defy description, such as the love scenes between
Ebony and ______: “He put his thingie in my you-know-what, and we did it
for the first time.” There are also frequent misspellings of “Ebony” as
“Enoby.”Soon after its publication in 2006, X gained a massive fan following
because it embodied every terrible cliche about fan fiction. Among other
things, the book has inspired dramatic readings, a web series, and a wiki.
Ten years later, X is still well-known as the best worst fan fiction ever.

17. 7
X - My Immortal. Fan fiction on Harry Potter.

18. 8
X (1 September 1933 – 30 December 1975) was a poet of modern Hindi literature. He is known as first
Hindi Ghazal writer of India. In India, he is generally recognised as one of the foremost Hindustani poets
of the 20th century.
The poem "Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी) was sung often by Arvind Kejriwal during
the Anti Corruption Movement (2011–2012) in India. These lines of X from his Ghazal 'Saye Me Dhoop'
are often used in many programmes, and the Hindi film "Y" मेरे सीने में नह ीं तो तेरे सीने मे सह , हो कह ीं भी
आग, लेककन आग जलनी चाहहए.
Y also features two songs by X (as lyricist): Jab Tak Hai Dum Sung By: Sukhwinder Singh and More
Haaji Piya.The fim Z is based on a poem by X —-
“Aaj bhi jiska khoon na khola
Khoon nahi woh paani hai
Jo desh ke kaam na aaye
Woh bekaar jawaani hai”
Identify X, Y, Z.

19. 8
X - Dushyant Kumar
Y - Halla Bol
Z - Rang de Basanti

20. 9
Historically, the omission of "not" was considered quite a common
mistake. Until 2004, for example, the style guide of the Associated
Press advised using "innocent" instead of "not guilty" to
describe acquittals, so as to prevent this X is the most prominent
example of the same.
X was published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the
royal printers in London, which was meant to be a reprint. The name
is derived from a mistake made by the compositors. The majority of
the X's copies were immediately cancelled and burned, and the
number of extant copies remaining today, which are considered
highly valuable by collectors, is thought to be relatively low.
Give me X.

21. 9
Wicked Bible

22. 10
John X (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian
grazier, entrepreneur and explorer. He is best known for his
role in the founding of the settlement on the Yarra River
which became the city of Melbourne, eventual capital of the
new Colony of Victoria, and one of Australia's largest and
most important cities.
When he found the current site of central Melbourne, he
noted in his diary of 8 June 1835, "This will be the place for
a village." and declared the land “Y".
Tell me Y.

23. 10
Batmania

24. 11
This weekend, EA issued a statement on Origin, the
company's online PC game store that anyone in India,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh who has pre-ordered the game
will have their money refunded. The official statement is as
follows:
"In order to avoid a breach of local content laws, EA has
withdrawn Dragon Age: Inquisition from sale in India and
the game is no longer available for pre-order. Customers
who pre-ordered the game will be contacted directly and
will be fully refunded.”
Why?

25. 11
The distributor for the game, Milestone Interactive
said that this refers to the game's homosexual sex
scenes. Rather than face the wrath of some of
India's more prudish segments of society, EA have
pre-emptively decided to make the game
unavailable in India.

26. 12
X is a fictional levitating board used for personal
transportation, popularised by Y film franchise. X
are generally depicted as resembling
a skateboard without wheels. During the 1990s
there were rumours, fuelled by director Z, that X
were in fact real, but not marketed because they
were deemed too dangerous by parents' groups.
These rumours have been conclusively
debunked. Give me Y & Z.

27. 12
Y - Back to the Future
Z - Robert Zemskis

28. 13Brand Ringing Bells
Manufacturer Ringing Bells Private Limited
Compatible networks 2.5G, 3G, HSUPA
Availability by country India
Type Smartphone
Form factor Slate
Dimensions 960x540 pixels
Weight 130 g
Operating system Android 5.1 Lollipop
CPU 1.3 GHz Quad-Core Processor
Memory 1 GB RAM
Storage 8 GB
Removable storage Up to 32 GB MicroSD
Battery 1450 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Data inputs Touchscreen, Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor
Display 102 mm (4.0 in) qHD IPS Display
Rear camera 3.2 megapixel
Front camera 0.3 megapixel
Connectivity Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, DLNA, UMA
Specs of?

29. 13
Freedom 251

30. 14
X
Y
Charles "Pete" Conrad
Alan L. Bean
Alan Shepard
Edgar D. Mitchell
David Randolph Scott
James B. Irwin
John WattsYoung
Charles M. Duke Jr.
Harrison “Jack” Schmidt
Eugene A. Cernan
Connect(Exhaustive)

31. 14
Only people to walk on the moon.

32. 15
According to some sources, one day Sita left Luv in
the custody of Sage Valmiki and went into the
forest to collect firewood. But when the sage left for
his daily prayers, Luv wandered into the forest and
followed his mother. Upon returning, Sage Valmiki ,
on not finding the child , became tensed. He
searched for Luv everywhere but was unable to
find him. What did the sage do next ?

33. 15
He created Kush.

34. 16
Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s Vertigo (original French
title D'entre les morts) the source material for the famous movie
X.
The novel was published in an English translation in 1956 under
the title The Living and the Dead and the film followed a couple of
years later.
They also wrote the book on which Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques
was based.
The movie followed the storyline laid out in the novel surprisingly
closely. The changes are fairly minor in themselves, but
significant especially with regards to the motivations of the
characters. Identify the movie (Image follows)

35. 16

36. 16
Vertigo

37. 17
This discrepancy arises from the fact that in
Medieval England, most of the peasants were
English speaking and commonly used words of
Germanic origin. However, most of the aristocracy,
either spoke French or expressed strong admiration
for French culture. While the peasants performed
most of the labour, they were hardly rich enough to
afford nutritious meals and persisted largely on a
diet of bread and vegetables. The aristocracy could
afford to spend on better meals and had a much
more varied diet. What discrepancy did this lead to?

38. 17
In the field an animal had an English name but once it got to the
kitchen the French name was used.
beef – Old French: boef (ox)
pork – Old French: porc, from latin: porcus (pig)
venison – Old French: venaison (meat of large game, boar or
deer, in French it means "to hunt")
mutton – Old French: mouton (sheep)
veal - French: veau (calf)

39. 18
X is believed to have been devised by Ashok
Vaidya who sold street food from a stall beside
Dadar rail station in Mumbai in 1971, Now a Thela
(A makeshift stall) next to Platform No.1 of Dadar
Station, is operated by his son Narendra Vaidya
and his partner Abhijeet Samel. Despite the
ethnocentrism in Maharashtra in particular, X is
claimed to be a part of the culture of Marathis
despite it being western in style. It is now offered at
street stalls, cafes and restaurants throughout
India. Give me X.

40. 18
Vada pau

41. 19

42. 19
US Presidents to win Grammy Award for
audiobooks

43. 20
X was a third party software included in all
Windows versions from 95 through to XP.
However, porting of the software from 32-bit to 64-
bit resulted in a serious bug in the application –
colliding object just passed through like a ghost. As
debugging the app didn’t seem an option worth
spending a lot of resources on, Microsoft dropped it
from further versions of Windows. ID X.

44. 20
Pinball

45. 21
Known scientifically as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, Dr Jorge
Serrador from Harvard Medical School claims the pain is brought on
by a rapid increase in blood flow through the anterior cerebral artery
into the brain. The rush of cold blood causes blood vessels to dilate
and produces an intense pain as these vessels first open and then
close. Meanwhile, Dr Dwayne Godwin from the Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Centre, said the pain is sensed by neurons on the outer
membrane of the brain called the meninges.
He suggested blood passing through the internal carotoid artery in the
throat is cooled and then meets with the anterior cerebral artery at a
junction where it triggers the nerves.
Which medical condition?

46. 21
Brain Freeze

47. 22
Samir Mondal is an Indian watercolour painter. His
most amazing contribution to Indian art of modern
times is a continual revival of watercolour and one
of the country's most talented and successful
watercolour artists. Over the past four decades he
has exhibited in India and abroad. Besides this he
has also participated in noted group exhibitions like
National Art exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi (Delhi),
‘Freedom of Expression’ and ‘Tribute to Mother
Teresa’ by RPG Enterprises, 100 Years of Indian
Cinema, People for Animals,etc. Where have
Indians more famously seen his paintings?

48. 22

49. 23
Owing to Y, X has become one of the most famous women of the
ancient world, and an icon of feminine beauty.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery uses the Y of X as
its official emblem.
Hitler described Y as "a unique masterpiece, an ornament, a true
treasure", and pledged to build a museum to house it. By the 1970s, Y
had become an issue of national identity to both German states—East
Germany and West Germany—created after World War II. In 1999, X
appeared on an election poster for the green political party Bündnis
90/Die Grünen as a promise for cosmopolitan and multi-cultural
environment with the slogan "Strong Women for Berlin!”. According to
Claudia Breger, another reason that Y became associated with a
German national identity was its place as a rival to Z found by the
British.

50. 23
X - Nefertiti
Y - Bust of Nefertiti
Z - Tutankhamen

51. 24

52. Snapdeal acquires Freecharge

53. 25
Kenya v Ireland at Mombasa, 2011/12
Hong Kong v Oman at Abu Dhabi, 2015/16
England v Pakistan at Cardiff, 2010
South Africa v Zimbabwe at Hambantota, 2012/13
New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Providence, 2010
??
What connects all these matches?

54. 25
Only T20s without a six being hit