NOTA Sports Quiz

Aditya Patil
Ayush Yembarwar
1.
The official description of the logo goes as thus:

“Xs, the universal symbol of innovation are joined by trophies representing our
achievements, and Y to lead the way”

What logo?
Also, gimme X, Y.
2.
In 1760, John Spilsbury came out with eight variants of X; World, Europe, Asia,
Africa, America, England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Spilsbury called them
“dissections”, we know them better using a misnomer. Spilsbury used “frets” to
make X, and not “X” itself, and hence the misnomer.

Xs soared in popularity during the Great Depression, as they provided a cheap,

long-lasting, recyclable form of entertainment. It was around this time that Xs
evolved to become more complex and more appealing to adults.
3.
S03e04 of The Powerpuff Girls is titled “Meet the X-Y”. The title is wordplay on
something that the author claims to be a a huge follower of. The plot involves Mojojo
form a team of four members (sort of a supergroup) to take over the city and destroy
the Powerpuff Girls. However, everything goes downhill after a fifth member is
introduced to the group. The rest of the group members aren’t too fond that the
opinions of this fifth, new member are taken seriously and hence they fail at their
task.

In a particular sequence in the same episode, a police officer addresses a press

conference, and the citizens. What is the police officer appropriately called?

X-Y?
What is this an episode a tribute to?
4.
The Tzotzil are a community indigenous to the Chiapas district of Mexico. Today,
they are mainly catholic but continue many pre-Christian rituals. One of these beliefs
is that burping releases evil spirits trapped inside the body.

In 1962, the locals stumbled upon something that would aid this spirit removal,
which eventually led to the community being split into two.

What caused the split?

5.
Born in Karkala, Karnataka to Venkataraya and Susheela, he lost his parents at the
age of two.

He started his career as a junior executive in the ToI books division.

The idea behind his pioneering endeavour devoted to Indian culture came from a quiz
contest aired on Doordarshan in 1967, where participants could easily guess
questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to answer questions on
Indian texts and scriptures.

ID.
6
Keep Talking, from Pink Floyd’s Division Bell begins with lines spoken by X.
They go as thus:

“For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals

Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination

We learned to talk”

The final Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, features a song called “Talking X”.

Gimme X.
7.
This phrase is a rhetorical device known as a tricolon. The most common form of
tricolon in English is an ascending tricolon, and as such the names are always said in
order of ascending syllable length. Other examples of this gradation include "tall,
dark and handsome", "hook, line and sinker"; and so on.

However, some notable instances of its use include the three Galapagos Island
tortoises brought back to England aboard HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin in 1835,
as documented in his book, The Voyage of the Beagle. They were named___,
____and _____. It was later discovered that “_____” was a female and she was
renamed, and lived in captivity in Australia until her death in 2006, aged 175 years.
8
Rosalie Duthe was a celebrated French courtesan. A companion of French kings and
European nobility, often requested subject for portraits. She had the habit of pausing
for extended periods of time before speaking. This, in fact, inspired a one-act satire
about her called “Les Curiosités de la Foire” (Paris 1775) that “kept Paris laughing
for weeks.” As a result, she is often called the first ever ____ ______.

Fill in the blanks (Picture on next slide).

9
___ ________ __ ___ ______ ____ is an American documentary film about the topic
of exotic pets kept in homes in the United States and about the controversy
surrounding this topic. In some U.S. states there are currently no laws that prohibit
keeping exotic animals as pets, and this documentary presents incidents in which
their owners and people around them are put in serious danger and hurt by these
animals.

Fill in the blanks with the title of the film, which is a slight twist to a commonly used
phrase.
10.
First, assume that 1/10 of the 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters of X is something other than
empty space and 6/10 of the total volume is pressurized space.

• That will require 1.71 quadrillion cubic meters of steel, about 134 quadrillion tonnes. That's
$12.95 quintillion in current 2008 prices, and that's without counting strange alloys and
elements.

• Shipping that to space will cost $95 million per tonne: So add $12.79 septillion in transport.

• Now you need to add air, which will require 8.23 quintillion cubic meters of Nitrogen, and
1.65 quintillion cubic meters of oxygen, for a total delivery cost of $2.81 septillions and
$212.46 quintillion. The total: $15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226.94.
X?
11.
The backbone of the opening ceremony at any Games is the parade of nations, the
seemingly endless processional of every delegation into the stadium before the torch
is lit.

Following are the orders in which the respective teams marched into the parade of
nations.

Give funda
12.
X is a charity sub group featuring British and Irish musicians and recording artists.
Founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine
efforts in Ethiopia by releasing a song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” for the
Christmas market that year.

Now, X is also a product invented in 1920 by Thomas Anderson. Y currently has a

sale of over 100 billion Xs worldwide.

Anderson, and his employers continue to defend the X trademark from being
genericized.
13.
The US Customs imposed a 12 percent import duty on on “dolls” (human
representations), but only a 6.8 percent duty on “toys”. Figures of angles and
demons did not qualify as “dolls” under this.

This led to a 1995 lawsuit in which a company successfully argued that the two
legged action figures being imported could not be taxed as dolls.

What company, and what were these action figures?

14.
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by the Doors, and was released in 1970.

The album was divided into two separately sides, ________ and Morrison Hotel,
names after Jim Morrison’s favourite bars, located on opposite sides of LA.
The rear cover features a photograph of the _________ on 300 East 5th Street, Los
Angeles. The founders of the later (and otherwise unrelated) ________ chain used
the name, having seen it on the Doors’ album.

FITB.
15.
Below is an excerpt from GRRM’s 2005 novel, A Feast for Crows. The text
describes a fight between the Brienne of Tarth and two knights.

“In the mêlée at Bitterbridge she had sought out her suitors and battered them one
by one, Farrow and Ambrose and Bushy, Mark Mullendore and Raymond Nayland
and Will the Stork. She had ridden over _____ Sawyer and broken Robin ______’s
helm, giving him a nasty scar. And when the last of them had fallen, the Mother had
delivered Connington to her.”

Fill in the blanks.

16.
The following is an excerpt from an autobiography:
18.
A group of researchers argue that grade inflation began picking in the 1960s and
1970s probably because professors were reluctant to give students D’s and F’s
because they were scared of what that would result in.

In an effort to absolve themselves of any blame, professors started boosted student

grades. This started a trend and many believe this to be the cause of grade inflation
in modern colleges.

What exactly were the evaluators scared of?

19.
In an alternate universe X is M.O.D.A.A.K., which stands for Mental Organism
Designed As ______’s ____, a new villain who has been introduced to the Marvel
universe by comic book artist Jason Latour in the recently released 2016 Spider
Gwen Annual.

M.O.D.A.A.K. in accordance with Marvel’s naming conventions, M.O.D.O.C.

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing) and M.O.D.O.K. (Mental
Organism Designed Only for Killing).

ID X and the blanks.

20.

Following the release of some movie in the UK, Murphy’s, an alcohol company hired
the same team of animators and creators to make this advert.

Identify the movie.

21.
Facing thievery, public locations such as the New York Subway have resorted to
an unusual change to the manufacturing process of the light bulbs, resulting in
light bulbs with a subtle difference, enough to discourage theft.

It’s usually second-time criminals that end up realizing their mistake and decide to
not repeat it.

What is this change?

22.
Writer Joey Green wrote a series of articles, appearing in the August, September
and October 1982 issues of the National Lampoon magazine. Aptly titled
“Cliff-Hanger Justice”, it covered a product liability lawsuit by ____ _ ______
against ____ Corp.
23.
Thiotimoline is a chemical compound conceived by American biochemist and
_________, X. X feared that the experience of being in his other profession might
have impaired his ability to write the turgid prose typical of academic discourse, and
decided to practice by writing about Thiotimoline, first described in a seminal paper
titled “The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline” in 1948. Famous
for its peculiar property, dissolution before making contact with water.

X later wrote another paper on Thiotimoline, it had only one real citation - the paper
above.

Writing a third article on the subject, X presented it in his address to 12th annual
meeting of the American Chronochemical Society.
24.
Walla is called rhubarb in the UK where actors mutter "rhubarb, rhubarb", rhabarber in Germany, rabarber in the Netherlands and
Flanders (Belgium) as well as Denmark, Sweden & Estonia, and gaya (がや) in Japan, perhaps in part reflecting the varying textures of
_____ _____ in the different countries.

The British comedian Eric Sykes (a collaborator and friend of the Goons) wrote, directed and starred in the 1969 film Rhubarb, in which
all of the actors' dialogue consists of the word "rhubarb" repeated over and over. This gives the finished movie the general feeling of a
silent film.

Popularly, the story behind the naming of an ambient Aphex Twin song titled “Rhubarb” is also attributed to the same reason.

Funda?
25.
This popular figure’s grandmother once told him an altogether interesting piece of
advice, something that he agreed to pay heed to.

She told him to look around and not step out if “it didn’t look good”. Fortunately he
didn’t have to make any changes to the original plan.
https://www.jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2016-09-16/story/fact-check-it-illegal-japanese-residents-be-overweight
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/08/28/bob-dylan-turns-the-beatles-on-to-cannabis/
Oculist
https://www.pianotv.net/2018/06/john-taylor-the-scoundrel-who-blinded-bach-an
d-handel/

https://www.med.wisc.edu/news-and-events/2009/december/handel-bach-blinded-
18th-century-quackery/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/417322 has pics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_(oculist)
Qatar = shit
https://en.onefootball.com/australian-football-fan-erects-gravestone-for-world-cup-
bid/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour - Cool stuff here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour

Thomas Cook ka Origins

One Pune or Marathi Questionx
‘Cartoon’
The concept originated in the Middle Ages, and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco,
tapestry, or stained glass window. Cartoons by painters, such as the Raphael Cartoons in London, and examples by Leonardo da
Vinci, are highly prized in their own right.
The programming language PERL, has a library of ____ modules. It’s full of
humorous, useless modules. It was named "in homage to that greatest of all absurd
system creators: ____ _ ______."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI