Qfi quiz by Nikhil Ravikumar on august 26, 2012

Rules
The dungeon masters’ word is law.

AUDIENCE !
There are special
questions for you
throughout the quiz, so
make sure you don't leave
the auditorium.

Rounds
• Arcade
• Skyrim
• Counter Strike
• Cave Story
• Mystery Dungeon
• Diablo
• Half Life

That's right, all the rounds are named after
video games, but take heed, this is a
GENERAL quiz, despite the rounds having a
video game theme.

Infinite Bounce : How it works
• Question One goes to Team One.
• If n is the number of the team which answered
correctly, Question Two goes to Team (n+1), and so
on.
• Pounce : Pounce is a system in which any team may
'buzz', i.e. raise their hand, to answer a question in
writing as soon as it is posed, allowing all teams that
know the answer to a question to score. However,
teams which pounce take the risk of negative scoring.

Arcade
• Round One.
• Audience, pay attention to the slides in
between the questions.
• Clockwise infinite pounce.
• +20/-10 on pounce, +20 for a correct
answer.

Question 1
• The idea for this game came to John Romero, the
developer of famous games such as Quake and Doom
under the influence of Super Mario. There are
definitely similarities that are easily noticeable, such
as the secret levels, the level design, the monsters,
and the jumping. The mission is to guide the
eponymous player character through ten levels,
collecting trophies in the hideout of his enemy, Clyde,
upon which the player receives the message "GO THRU
THE DOOR."
• Name the game.

Question 2
What name is given to these?

Answer
Red Screen of Death, named rather
unimaginatively after the Blue Screen of
Death.

Question 3
• Name the 'gentleman' in blue.

Question 4
• Giant chemistry question.
• Phenylketonuria is an autosomal recessive metabolic
genetic disorder characterised by a mutation in the gene for
the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, rendering it
nonfunctional. This enzyme is necessary to metabolize the
amino acid phenylalanine to the amino acid tyrosine.
• Phenylalanine, along with a certain acid, makes up the
world's most widely used artificial sweetener, which is 100
times as sweet as cane sugar. What this means is that
people who suffer from Phenylketonuria cannot enjoy a
large variety of products that we take for granted, like
sugar free bubble gum.
• Name the sweetener.

Question 5
“ Remember, remember, the _____ __
________, the gunpowder, treason and plot.
I know of no reason the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot."
These lines are often sung to mark the
celebration of Guy Fawkes Night in England.
Simply fill in the blanks with the date on
which it falls.

Question 6
Simple. Identify this creature. No, it's not a
unicorn.

Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde all chase Pac-
Man in different ways. Only one of them
keeps on Pac-Man's tail as far as possible,
the others using more tricky routes to catch
him. If you were watching the quiz, you
should know who it is.

Skyrim
• Round Two.
• Unravel the Elder Scrolls !
• Connect round.
• First to answer gets +30, second to answer
+25 and so on, constant negative of -5.

Question 1
Connect the Lion King , the protagonists of
the Hunger Games, two people who knew
Caesar well, and the Battle of Agincourt.

Question 2
The above are the most famous works of the
most famous Italian artists in history.
What connects the four of them other than
art?

CURTIS : All ready. And therefore, I pray
thee,news.
GRUMIO : First, know my horse is tired, my
master and mistress fallen out.
CURTIS : How?
GRUMIO : Out of their saddles and into the
dirt, ___ _______ _____ _ ____.
CURTIS : Let's ha' 't, good Grumio.
GRUMIO : Lend thine ear.
CURTIS : Here.
GRUMIO : There. (And 'good' Grumio punches
him in the ear)

Question 3
The four slides above are the names of short
story collections by The Right Honourable
The Lord _______ ______ of Weston-super-
Mare.
Fill in the blanks with the author's name.

Answer
A Quiver Full of Arrows
Cat O' Nine Tails
Twelve Red Herrings
And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Short story collections by Jeffrey Archer.

Question 4
What’s the colourful connection between
these four actors?

Answer
They’ve all played the role of Inspector
Jacques Clouseau.

Mario Savio, 'Bodies Upon the Gears'
Speech

Guitar Hero : Warriors of Rock

Robert J. Oppenheimer, on his hand
in the creation of the Atomic Bomb.

Transformers : Dark of the Moon

Question 6
Name the 2010 album which features
speeches by Mario Savio, J.Robert
Oppenheimer, and Martin Luther King Jr.
2 titles from the album were featured in
Guitar Hero : Warriors of Rock and a third
was the theme song for Michael Bay's
Transformers 3 : Dark of the Moon.

I used to be a quizzer like you, until
I took an arrow in the knee.
• Based on the previous question, this one's
for the audience.
• Name the singer.

Counter Strike
• Round Three.
• "The bomb has been planted."
• Counterclockwise infinite pounce.
• +20/-10 on the pounce.
• +20 for a correct answer.

Question 1
• All animals are equal, but ____ ___ ____
_____ ____ ______.
• Fill in the blanks using which George Orwell
demonstrates how simply political dogma
can be turned into malleable propaganda in
his 1945 novel 'Animal Farm'.

Question 2
• A virtual ______ ___ is an intentional
hidden message,in joke or feature in a work
such as a computer program,web
page,video game,movie,or a crossword.
• The term draws a parallel between the
custom of the ______ ___ hunt observed in
many Western nations.

Question 3
"I like the ______ best," said Alice, "because
you see he was a little sorry for the poor
oysters."
"He ate more than the _________, though,"
said Tweedledee. "You see he held his
handkerchief in front, so that
the__________ couldn't count how many he
took: contrariwise."

"That was mean!" Alice said indignantly. "Then
I like the _________ best—if he didn't eat so
many as the ______."
"But he ate as many as he could get," said
Tweedledum.
This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began,
"Well! They were both very unpleasant
characters—"
Name the two 'unpleasant characters'.

Answer
The Walrus and the Carpenter.
This is the name of a poem which Tweedledum
and Tweedledee recite to Alice, after which
they have a long conversation about it.
There is not always intended symbolism in the
Alice books, which were made for the
imagination of children and not the analysis
of "mad people".

Question 4
The Lambda logo (λ) is a symbol found
frequently in the Half-Life universe.
It represents the Greek letter "l" (lowercase
"L"). Why was this logo chosen for the game?

Answer
t1/2=ln(2)/λ
is the famous half life equation where λ is the
constant of radioactive decay.

Question 5
The ___________ ____ (orkos) is one of the
most widely known of Greek medical texts.
It requires a new physician to swear upon a
number of healing gods that she/he will
uphold a number of professional ethical
standards.
Every doctor in the world must take this
oath, named after the father of western
medicine.

Question 6
A table of specifications is given below.
What are we comparing?
CPU 200 MHz 800 MHz
RAM 256 MB 512 MB
SSD 2 GB 64 GB
COST ~$25 Bn $850

Answer
The Curiosity Mars Rover and the iPhone 4S.

Go ! Go ! Go !
The United States Naval Special Warfare
Development Group took down Osama bin
Laden. How do we know them better ( think
Counter Terrorists ) ?

Doukutsu Monogatari
• Round Four.
• Use the Blade, and may the Force be with
you.
• First to answer gets +30, second to answer
+25 and so on, constant negative of -5.

Question 1
Where have we heard this before?

Question 2
Which place comes next ?

Question 3
The element with the atomic number 71 is
named after Paris, France. What is it called?

Question 4
He was an avid chess player, winning Western
Australia's junior chess championship at the age of 10.
As an adult, he often played with other chess
enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.
Allan Scott's film adaptation of the chess-related 1983
novel The Queen's Gambit, by Walter Tevis, which at
the time of his death he was planning to both perform
in and direct, would have been his first feature film as
a director.
Who?

Question 5
"I've always maintained you cannot tell
anyone what _________tastes like because
it's so different. It's not an apple, it's not an
orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root
beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different
kind of drink with a unique taste all its
own.“
What is being talked about?

Mimigas. Mimigas everywhere.
• This is one of the antagonists of Cave Story.
• He is named after a fictional demonic being
which appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-
earth legendarium.

• In this famous macro, Gandalf is addressing
the creature in question (which looks sort
of like Diablo ! )
• Name the creature which gives its name to
our little toaster.

Mystery Dungeon
• Round Five.
• "You're a Pokémon!"
• Each team nominates the wackiest member
of their team members to represent them.
• Don't worry, the nomination is just for fun,
this is still a team quiz.

• The audience decides which of the six most
resemble six Pokémon types : Fire, Water,
Grass, Dragon, Fighting, and Normal.
• Based on the type, a question is asked to
that team, in this order. Clearly, this round
has six questions. This is round six after all.
• +30 on a direct, +15 on a pass, clockwise.

FIRE
Who is this, or
why is he
important?

Answer
Sir Steve Redgrade lit the Olympic Flame
at the London Games in 2012.

WATER
What is this effect called?

GRASS
• The Roman goddess of agriculture gives her name
to the collective term for a group of grasses
cultivated for the edible components of their
grain.
• Name the goddess, whose Greek counterpart is
known as Demeter.
• The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt between
Mars and Jupiter bears her name.

Answer
Ceres, hence, 'cereals'.

DRAGON
A ______ is a legendary winged creature
with a dragon's head, reptilian body, two
legs (sometimes none), and a barbed tail.
Essentially, a dragon with four limbs instead
of six.

Answer
Wyvern
"The first cannon blasts
your flesh. The second
cannon blasts your soul."

FIGHTING
The ______ __ ___ ______ was a historic
boxing event that took place on October 30,
1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa,
Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the
Congo). It pitted then world Heavyweight
champion George Foreman against former
world champion and challenger Muhammad
Ali. Ali won by knocking out Foreman in the
eighth round.

Answer
The Rumble In The Jungle

NORMAL
___________ is the abstract study of
subjects encompassing quantity , structure
, space, change, and more ; it has no
generally accepted definition.
The word comes from the ancient Greek
language, meaning 'what one learns', what
one gets to know, hence also study and
science, and in modern Greek just lesson.

Electric, Bug, Rock, Ground, Steel, Dark,
Psychic, Ghost, Poison, Ice, and Flying. So i
herd u liek audience questions.
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that
combines elements of dance and music.
In the manga series Death Note, L uses
Capoeira as his fighting style.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, some
of the Durmstrang students did Capoeira
skills.

In World of Warcraft the troll playable race
can dance Capoeira.
In the 2011 movie Rio, common marmosets
(Callithrix jacchus) are experts in Capoeira.
And now for the actual question.
There is a Pokémon based on Capoeira.
Its other two variants are named after Jackie
Chan and Bruce Lee. Which Pokémon ?

Diablo
• Round Six.
• Glory and approbation to Diablo, Lord of
Terror and Leader of the Three.
• Long Visual Connect.
• Points on each slide.

+5
For he is an honourable man...

There is no cow level.
Diablo III will probably be named Game of the
Year in 2012.
Which game won in 2011?

Half Life
• Round Seven.
• Counterclockwise infinite bounce.
• +25 for a correct answer.

Question 1
Something that is ___ __ ___ ____ is a
common, everyday, ordinary item that does
not stand out from all the rest. In other
words, something or someone that is "___ __
___ ____" is probably not notable.
The term originates from the fact that
factory made products are ordinary and
exactly the same, since they are mass
produced and have no unique features.

Question 2
Watch the following video and name the
music, in this version performed by Trent
Reznor and Atticus Ross for David Fincher's
"The Social Network".

Answer
In the Hall of the Mountain King
(Norwegian: I Dovregubbens hall) composed
by Edvard Grieg for the sixth scene of Act II
in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, which
premiered in Christiania on February 24,
1876.

Question 3
• The _______ worm was first detected on
ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, in
the early 1970s.
• _______ was an experimental self-
replicating program written by Bob Thomas
at BBN Technologies in 1971.
• _______ used the ARPANET to infect DEC
PDP-10 computers running the TENEX
operating system.

• The _______ worm gained access via the
ARPANET and copied itself to the remote
system where the message, "I'm the
_______, catch me if you can!" was
displayed.
• The Reaper program was a computer worm,
like _______, but its purpose was to delete
the latter.
• It is generally accepted to be the world's
first computer worm.

Answer
Creeper was deleted by Reaper.

Question 4
Speaking directly to or otherwise
acknowledging the audience through the
camera in a film or television program, is
referred to as "________ ___ ______ ____"
and is considered a technique of
metafiction, as it deconstructs the
boundaries normally set up by works of
fiction.
Fill in the blanks.

Question 5
What do these two have in common?

Question 6
Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That’s the way the money goes,
___________________
Fill in the blanks.

Where's my crowbar?
Identify this wonderful and cuddly plush toy.

Congratulations to our winners !

Credits
Dungeon Masters : Pradyumn Pagadala
Aanand Mohapatra
Nikhil Ravikumar
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