9th Annual NSIT Quiz Fest

The NSIT Quiz Fest is back!
The NSIT Quiz Club presents the ninth edition of its annual quizzing festival from 15th-18th March.

The Rules are as follows:

Teams of 2 for all quizzes during the fest.
Cross-college teams are allowed for all the quizzes. Lone wolves are welcome too.
The two quizzes on 18th are open, i.e. anyone can participate.


The schedule of the fest is as follows:

Day 1 - 15th March
Pop Culture Quiz
Love, Sutta aur Daaru Quiz (Filler)

Day 2 - 16th March
BizTech Quiz
Bollywood Quiz (Filler)

Day 3 - 17th March
General Quiz
Sports Quiz

Day 4 - 18th March
Open General Quiz - Hosted by Major Chandrakant Nair
Open MELA Quiz - Hosted by Abhishek Kapoor


The cash prizes are as follows:

College quizzes: 5k, 3k, 2k
Filler quizzes: 2.5k, 1k
Open quizzes: 6k, 4k, 2.5k


We assure you that this is going to be an excellent quizzing weekend. Hope to see you at the quiz fest!

For more information: The NSIT Quiz Fest Facebook Event

Lando and Vader Sleep Tonight?

X is a production with music by Elton John and musical score by Hans Zimmer. It features actors in animal costumes as well as giant hollow puppets. X surpassed production Y in September 2014 to achieve the feat of top-earning title in box-office history for both stage productions and films.. Y is often associated with a plain Venetian mask.

(Hint for X: Title)

One from Abhimanyu '16

Connect the following paintings

• J. Howard Miller's We Can Do It!
• Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Francis Picabia's Udnie
• Wassily Kandinsky's Transverse Line
• Roy Lichtenstein's Go for Baroque.
• Murad Osman’s Follow Me To series.
• Hokusai's One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

Pun-tastic!

X is a family-based British sitcom produced by the BBC, now in its fifth series. It is set in Sparkhill, East Birmingham.

The protagonist had already featured in the BBC Two comedy series Bellamy's People, on BBC Radio 4's Down the Line as well as in BBC Comedy Website.

The title of the show is a play on the title of a classic American movie Y directed by Z. Y topped the AFI's list of 100 Greatest American Films of all time.

Id X, Y, Z

Why So Controversial?

The Women's 400m event at the 2016 Rio Olympics produced one of the most exciting races of the season.

Shaunae Miller of Bahamas who was the world leading runner for 2016 & Allyson Felix, the 2015 World Champion were the favourites for the race. It was a neck to neck competition with Miller leading Felix by 2 metres off the final turn. At that point, Felix accelerated and Miller seemed to have run out of gas. Felix was looking good for the Gold Medal, which would have been her 7th of all time.
However, what controversial moment happened towards the end that resulted in Miller being the Olympic Champion?

E!

'We are X, and in this family being a loyal person and a good friend is more important than being famous. Fame is fleeting, it's hollow. It means nothing at all without a virtuous heart'


The above lines are from the television series American Crime Story  The People v. O. J. Simpson. The lines are by O.J. Simpson’s friend and defense attorney. Who is he and to whom is he giving this advice?

The Academy Awards

The director of the movie had referred to the project as X during the early years of production.
In 2013 he settled on the title Y, but was forced to rename it to X again by the release of another movie which had the same title Y.

ID the movies X (released in 2014) and Y (released in 2013).

"We know 'em, right Plank?"

'X' dropped out of a Visual Arts College to take a job as an animator at Hanna Barbera. This Canadian writer, director, producer and animator is well known for creating the Cartoon Network comedy series 'Y'. With Hanna-Barbera, 'X' worked on a number of series, including The Flintstones, Scooby Doo and scrappy doo, The smurfs, and Richie Rich.
'Y'  remains one of Cartoon Network's most successful series to date. It revolves around three preteen boys: Y, collectively known as ___, who live in a suburban cul-de-sac in the fictional town of Peach Creek.

Id X and Y.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

According to the New Testament of the Bible, X were beings summoned as omen of the Last Judgement. Historians, however, have connected X to the fall of the Roman Empire, which had taken place at the same time as the New Testament.
X have been featured heavily in the popular culture such as the name of the team of magicians in a 2013 movie with a sequel planned for this year. Thrash metal bands Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer are often called by a variation of X, while Metallica and The Clash have songs with the name X.
Id X.

When solution becomes a trend...

This drink is believed to get its name because it was made for the workers in a steel works in Glasgow. These workers were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works and this was introduced as an alternative by A.G. Barr.
Identify the drink.

Some mytho here!

The Mahabharata mentions that only four people listened to the Bhagvat Gita directly from Krishna. Arjuna was the one it was adressed to, Sanjaya listened to it because of his divine vision, and Ved Vyasa, who was experiencing the past, present and the future at the same time. Dhritarashtra heard it indirectly from Sanjaya.

Who was the fourth?

(Hint: Today's day)

Food of the future!

X is a 1973 American sci-fi film directed by Richard Fleischer. It is set in a dystopian future. Much of the population survives on processed rations including X, which, advertised as being produced from "high-energy plankton" turns out to be processed human meat. Identify X.

Trendy Topic

Nice Kicks is a sneaker specific blog, now owned by Complex Magazine. The blog currently has 82k subsribers but 2.1M instagram followers. 

According to the owner,Matt Haffill, the blog was made specifically for shoe lovers like himself and provides updates on the latest sneakers being launched by top brands. The blog also tracks the sneakers being worn by celebrities and NBA players.

According to Sports Illustrated, the trend X can be traced back to this blog. In 2006, this blog began a practice of posting photos of old basketball footwear, titling the series X. 

In 2011, the trend picked up and is now common on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

What is the trend?

Shadys: Quiz edition - The REtopia Quiz

A brilliant quiz, coupled with an amazing experience inspired us to revive the Shadys, a beloved (?) tradition.

Since this was this season's first everyone-can-participate quiz, it will receive all our adulation and love.

To start off, when a Quiz Master says - 'I'm a professional Quiz Master.', do not believe him. Rather, prepare yourself for a *meh* experience. With absurd school-like rules (No pounce!) and the painful, forced shrouds of mystery after answering a question, the quiz took the participant back in time, reminiscing about school quizzes.

The quiz, like all quizzes started a solid hour after its advertised time of commencement. Not that we're complaining. We were quite thankful for the buffer.

During the finals, in an almost Pornob-esque question twist, the QM asked 'What is Donald Trump's middle name?' after showing a video of Jimmy Fallon imitating Trump. Oh, the spontaneity!

A major noteworthy event was triggered by a video question showing an Epic Rap Battle between Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock (video here). A team buzzed while the video was playing and said 'This is the Epic Rap Battle between Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock'. The QM said that he was going to ask 'Which British director was deemed to fat to join the army?'. Obviously, the team who buzzed were given a negative (Totally justified.).
Now, when the team was asking for the points they deserved, a random person in the audience very succinctly pointed out 'You cannot quote the Mahabharata if the answer is Yudhishtir'. To this, one of the team members responded - 'You can answer and argue when you qualify for a quiz.' *Drops mic*
Randomness ensued.

Anyway,
Being the first quiz of the semester, this was a good opening (considering we came in second and got some money, and the Epic Rap Battle IRL). However, we do hope that the questions are better next year (There was a question where they showed us an image of Larry Page and Sergey Brin and asked what they have done. I'm not kidding).

To more shadys!

You're not one of us

X was a farm boy turned astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930, although it's presence had been detected in 1919. Detected as a result of anomalies in the behavior of Neptune and Uranus, X decided to name the planet as Pluto after an eleven-year-old girl suggested the name of the Roman god of Underworld. Recently, X traveled farther than any human has traveled – at least parts of him when NASA's New Horizons space probe carrying his ashes did a flyby of Pluto. Id X.