It's a jungle out there..

Connect.

Non-exhaustive.

First Blood

Hey guys.The first comp event of the year is up! Details:

Name: First Blood:
Venue: SAC COMMITTEE ROOM
Time: 7:00 pm
date: 18th august
There will be 3 wild cards(For starters - means one hostel team can qualify for the finals through the prelims)
Two members.For more information,contact me:

Piyush
C-40
9810730914

Quizmasters:Prateek Singh and Lochab.

Holiday Homework?

Hey all.I hope you all are having a nice time.
I was just skimming through last year's Mastermind Non comp..and there were some questions I didnt know the answer to.So I thought its a nice oppurtunity to publish a long overdue post.

1)The film 'west side story; tell the story of west side of what?

2)Heres a funny one,if your guesses matches the work of most Indian archaelogists,then you might just get points for answering where the earliest earthquake in the Indian subcontinent took place?
a.Mohenjodaro b.Lothal c. Dholavira d. Kalibangan
(Directly quoted from the quiz)

3)In the early 18th century in Meena Bazaar, Lahore a dwarf was assigned the responsibility of opening all the shops in the market. What practice originates from this convention?

4) What takes its name from a ridge (meaning 'the ridge of white waters' in Afrikaans) upon which Johannesburg is built- also the source of 40% of gold ever mined?

5)Which was the first Hindi serial to be made in South India?


6)It is a common misconception in America that when X ran for Vice-President,he got only 110 votes.However,he actually got 110 delegates(who were about 360 in number at that time),which is quiet good considering that he had been an unknown Illinois Senator before the elections.X went on to become President in the next elections.

7)X and his father were helpless when the powerful clan Y asked his sister's hand in marriage for their eldest son. They couldn't refuse.X vowed vengeance on the clan.On his father's death,he fashioned his "weapon" out of his father's thighs.He then used this "weapon",which supposedly would do as he bid, to fashion the destruction of Y.Give X and his "weapon".

8)Which famous building was built during WWII to save structural steel?

9)Connect :

a) The _____________ is an international award for study at the University of Oxford and was the first large scale programme of International scholarships.Winners may study any full time post-grad courses offered by the University-whether a taught master's programme,research degree or a second undergrad degree(Senior status)

b) Debeers


P.S: Please mention whether you're taking a guess or whether you're pretty sure of the answer.

Genesis 1

Prelims 1) In the medieval , a bell was ringed at a fixed time in the evening as an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. This gave rise to the word “X”, which comes from the French for “cover fire”. X has most recently been used in times of turbulence.

Prelims 2)
The origin of the name X is uncertain. According to Paul Ford's Companion to X, there is no indication that Y was alluding to the ancient Italian Umbrian city Nequinium, which the conquering Romans renamed X in 299 BC after the river Nar. However, since Y studied classics at Oxford, it is possible that he came across at least some of the seven or so references to X in Latin literature.[ There is also the possibility (but no solid evidence) that Y, who studied medieval and Renaissance literature, was aware of a reference to Lucia von X ("Lucy of X") in a 1501 German text, Wunderliche Geschichten von geistlichen Weybbildern ("Wondrous stories of monastic women") by Ercole d'Este.

(Rachit,bhatta,nitish,bannerjee,apoorv,abhinav,shankhayan forbidden to answer)

Francis Ford Cuppola

Part of what has facilitated _____________'s spread are the reactions it causes. Hundreds of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video to their friends and taping their reactions. Even Joe Rogan, host of Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog. A reaction video starring Kermit the Frog proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg. In January 2008, Slate magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions. The video is mentioned during a cutaway of the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction.

Uploading Questions

Maybe you could upload all the questions ( atleast the prelims) onto the blog.... something i was too lazy to do....
or atleast your own questions???

Genesis

Hey all
GENESIS is going to be held tomorrow (Wednesday,15th April) at 8 pm in the SAC COMMITTEE ROOM. Its a NON-COMP with 3 member teams. EVERYONE PLEASE PARTICIPATE.PUHLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ.......
:)
Your new QC Rep

Workshop

Passing the Baton ( a Quizzing Workshop) is going to bet held in the SAC Committee room on Monday at 6 PM. Everyone from JWALA actively involved in quizzing is requested to attend.

Dry Ones

1) As easy as it gets.Just give the country "X",whose History is being talked about.

The modern X was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors and took the name Muskar. Y conquered the country in 1195 until _____ drove them away in 1275. ______became King in 1360. When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, ______ struck him to the ground with his _______. The King then decreed that the ruler of X must have hold on the ______, otherwise he would lose his authority. This custom had a power of law as late as 1939.
In 1939 X was nearly invaded by its neighbor Y, as part of a plot to oust King Muskar XII. (The situation was very similar to that of Anschluss in Austria in 1938 though the conclusion was not the same).

2)A X is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched.While X are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.
eg:

• "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (dear old queen, referring to Queen Victoria)
• "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (customary to kiss)
• "The Lord is a shoving leopard." (a loving shepherd)
• "A blushing crow." (crushing blow)
• "A well-boiled icicle" (well-oiled bicycle)
• "You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." (lighting a fire)
• "Is the bean dizzy?" (dean busy)
• "Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to another sheet." (occupying my pew...show me to another seat)
• "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain." (missed...history, wasted...term, down train)

In reality, the song X is written by Gopal Singh Nepali for the movie Narsi Bhagat (1957). This song is also credited as traditional and originally written by 15th century poet Narsinh Mehta, whose life that film is based on. (Many, including the film Y , mistakenly attribute it to the 16th-century poet Z due to the fact that Z was blind and the song is a prayer asking God to "appear" before him, for his "eyes thirst for Your sight".)

easy one

Where will you find this:
On the reverse is the inscription (in Latin):

"

CONGREGATI EX TOTO ORBE _______________ OB SCRIPTA INSIGNIA TRIBUERE

"

Translation: "The _______________ having congregated from the whole world awarded because of outstanding writings."

In the background, there is the representation of Archimedes' tomb, with the carving of his theorem on the Sphere and the Cylinder (a sphere and a circumscribed cylinder of the same height and diameter, the result of which he was most proud) behind a branch.

pappi!!!!

X wrote some original music that was used in Y's film A and was reported to only have been paid one mu for doing so.
Y directed a scene in X's film B (also reported to be paid one mu in return) and loaned him some swords from A to use for a character.

(1mu= 1 monetary unit of that country)

I need X,Y,A and B....The pic is a hint.....

P.S.: let the fachhas have a go first!!!!

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change in schedule

Mastermind Prelims : 4th Feb
Lone wolf : 6th Feb

7 categories in mastermind:lit&art;hist&myth,sports,india,business,movies&entertainment,scitech
Reps make the questions. you choose 4 categories out of the 7. it is a written quiz. You get an hour to answer all 4 question papers. Should be around 15 questions in each category. The winner of each category gets to go on to the finals.

I bow to thee...

1. A is a American southern rock band. It was pretty famous and visible worldwide before several members of the band were killed in a plane crash in 1977. The band's name is a mocking tribute to the gym teacher of the vocalist's school who enforced a rule in school against boy's long hairs. Id A.....
2. Most of the music of song 'B' was written by X while the lyrics came from Y's experience when he was injected tranquilizers for hepatitis by a doctor before a band show. X and Y disagreed about how to record the song, finally deciding after much fighting on Y's opening and X's ending on solos to give a memorable track. Giveaway (literally).. B, X, Y.
   

You like dawgs???

Connect A and B

A (see pic) is a Grammy nominated British vocalist and artist of Tamilian descent.


B's debut music score for movie C was listed in the "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time" in the TIME magazine. Earlier, B was a part of a rock band 'Roots' as a keyboard player along with his friends JoJo, John Anthony and drummer D. He also founded a band named 'Nemesis Avenue'. D went on be a renowned and creative percussionist.

Id C and D as a bonus...

Exhaustive List:

4, 10, 7, 23, 23, 32

Pretty simple really. But to get the ball rolling, so to say.

aise hi

The question is this:

Go to Piyush's Blogger user profile and read the warning given in ABOUT ME.
Whose actual words are those???

of ho's and bubble gum

"I feel so free now, you know? ‘Cause when people see this
video, they’re going to stop thinking of me as some blonde-haired, bubble-gum,
music-industry ho. And start thinking of me as an actual ho."

These are the words of Sarah Michelle Gellar while performing as someone in a spoof of MTV’s Making the Video. Who is this someone and which music video is being talked about?

Schedule

hi,
here's the tentative schedule for the sem:

1. Quizzalthon - 16th Jan
2. Lone Wolf - 4th Feb
3. Jeopardy - 20th Feb

Non Comps

1. 22nd jan
2. 9th Feb
3. 19th Feb

Mastermind Prelims: 5th Feb

@facchas
Mastermind is a Non-comp. The prelims are open to all. No teams. There will be seperate categories like science and tech, sports, hist and myth, pop cult, etc; and you have to select 3 or 4 that you are most comfortable with.The winners from each categpry get to go on to the finals where its a different story and you can ask me in person about it. Nice event.

The first non comp. Well the date is for today. But i dont see any posters. Ill call you guys up personally otherwise.

Lone wolf is probably the most exciting of the events. i dont remember it all, but theres a funda that the guy to whom a question is posed doesnt have to answer it, but can passit to anyone he wants to, and if that guy doesnt know the answer, he gets points docked off him. I may be entirely wrong, but i definitely remember that ppl kept getting eliminated based on points and alot of "bigwigs" get eliminated while a few "unknowns" advance forward.

the final non comp will have 1-3rd of the qs by me so you are all personally invited. INfinite bounds this time. no experimentation with the format.