Buzzer quiz finals

LitSoc Buzzer Quiz Finals Siddharth and Rushabh

CREDITS • FIRST TO OMKAR ‘OMIETHEHOMIE’ KAMALPUR- HONORARY GANESHA OF INDIAN QUIZZING • NEXT TO ASHOK MENON (FOR QUESTIONS FROM DOWN SOUTH) • IRCTC SNACKATERIA (FOR SUPPLYING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF COKE)

Round 1 • • • •

Dry round on the buzzer 12 questions First team to buzz answers for +10/-10 If no team buzzes, or the answer is incorrect, the question goes on bounce for +10/0

1 • Originally titled “The Fireman” , both the author and the editors felt the title was a bit lackluster.

• So they called the local fire station and asked what temperature book paper burnt at, and used that for the title.

• Name the book and author.

• Farenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury

2 • Id the person. • "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.

Signatures of all things I am here to read."

• James Joyce

3 • Only one person has his/her star on the Hollywood walk of fame on the wall, and not on the floor. Who, and why?

• Muhammad Ali • He requested that it be put on the wall so that people wouldn’t walk on the name of the prophet.

4 • When the original Mortal Kombat was released, many people felt the game was far too violent, especially the Fatalities. • This lead to the creation of something. What?

• The ESRB rating for games.

5 • In the world of football, which two teams play in the Intercontinental Derby?

• Fenerbahçe SK and Galatasaray SK • Each team is from a different continent, but both are from Turkey

6 • This Freedom Tower is being constructed where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in NYC once stood.

• The height of this building has been specially chosen to reflect something significant in US history.

• What is the height, or the significance?

• The tower is 1776 feet tall. • 1776 was the year the USA became independent.

7 • This is a tadpole. That is a tadpole’s intestine.

What was this an inspiration for?

• Poliwag, Poliwhirl and Poliwrath

8 • A chimera with the head of a buffalo, eyebrows of a gorilla, body of a bear, jaws and mane of a lion, tusks of a boar, and legs and tail of a wolf. • Who/What am I talking about?

• According to the American Library Association, which book series has been banned the most in the 21st century, with critics questioning its anti-family sentiments and heavy focus on occult and violence?

9 • Harry Potter

10 • The phrase has its origins in baseball where a ticket was given to a spectator at an outdoor event providing for a refund of his or her entrance money or admission at a later date, should the event be interrupted By the early 1900s the term was transferred to tickets for other kinds of entertainment, and later to a coupon entitling a customer to buy, at a later date and at the same price, a sale item temporarily out of stock. Its present meaning is a (sometimes vague) promise to accept a social offer at an unnamed later date.

• Rain Check

11 • Connect • The Italy-West Germany semi-final in the 1970 FIFA World Cup • World Chess Championship 1972 • Either of the USSR vs the Rest of the World chess team matches, held in 1970 and 1984 • The defeat of War Admiral by Seabiscuit on November 1, 1938 • The 1926 Exhibition 72 hole match between Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones.

• Termed Match of the Century

12 • Id the cocktail.

• White Russian

Round 2 • Another set of Dry questions on the buzzer

13 • Connect

• Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, and Viggo Mortensen all have the Elvish number 9 tattooed on their shoulders to symbolize being members of The Fellowship of the Ring.

14 • This practice is a variation on the Freedom of the City tradition, and has a similar symbolic meaning; evoking medieval walled cities, the gates of which would be guarded during the day and locked at night, the _____ symbolises the freedom of the recipient to enter and leave the city at will, as a trusted friend of city residents. • What practice?

• Giving someone ‘The Key to the City’

15 • The French revolution brought about a change in the rules of most card games. • What was the change?

• The Ace was made the highest card, over the king, signifying the victory of the common man over the monarchy.

16 • In the English version they are references to X and Y, but in the japanese version, their names are Sawamular and Ebiwalar.

• These are refernces to to Tadashi Samawura, a kickboxer, and Hiroyuki Ebihara, a Japanese world champion boxer.

• What are the entities I’m talking about?

• Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan

17 • The name of this japanese tv show literally means Turbulence. It features this guy X as a count who defends his Y. • The show was called X’s Y in other parts of the world. X and Y please.

• Takeshi’s Castle

18 • Benoit B Madelbrot is considered to be the father of fractal theory. • What does the B in his name stand for?

• Benoit B Madelbrot

19 • The late Spanish broadcaster Andrés Montes is generally credited with coining and popularizing the phrase X during his television commentary on LaSexta for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, although the term was already in colloquial use in Spanish football and may originate with Javier Clemente. In his live commentary of the Spain versus Tunisia match, Montes used the phrase to describe Spain's precise, elegant passing style: "Estamos tocando X X." The phrase's origin may be onomatopoeic (alluding to the quick, short distance passing of the ball between players) or derived from a juggling toy named X in Spanish.

• X?

• Tiki - Taka

20 Fill in the blanks and ID the list.

1.

2. Somnath in Gujarat 3. Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andra Pradesh 4.Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh 5.Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh 6.Kedarnath in Himalayas 7.Bhimashankar in Maharastra 8.Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh 9.Triambakeshwar in Maharastra 10.Vaidyanath, Deogarh in Deoghar Jharkhand, 11.Nageswar at Dwarka in Gujarat, 12. Grishneshwar at Aurangabad in Maharastra

Rameshwaram

• 21 • The X began life as a university project at the École Centrale in Paris. Students at this university developed the software so as to be able to stream video over the school's local area network. During the time that they were working on X, École Centrale students began "liberating" Y from the streets of Paris and collecting them in the school's computer lab. When X's developers finished the software, they chose a Y for its icon due to the symbol's resonance for École Centrale students.

• ID X.

22 Parodies of whom?

Angela Merkel

• 23 • “Tibetan Buddhists call it Kangri Rinpoche; 'Precious Snow Mountain'. Bon texts have many names: Water's Flower, Mountain of Sea Water, Nine Stacked Swastika Mountain. For Jains it is where their first leader was enlightened; for Buddhists, the navel of the universe; and for adherents of Bon, the abode of the sky goddess Sipaimen."

• Another local name for the mountain is Tisé meaning "water peak" or "river peak", connoting the mountain's status as the source of the mythical Lion, Horse, Peacock and Elephant Rivers.

• It is considered a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.

Mt Kailash

24

Complete the quote, and identify the person in this Radioshack pocket computer ad.

• Science fiction; Isaac Asimov