Movie Math!

Well, some of them are too geeky, yet many are great fun!

Software (File Formats Mostly)

1. _______ is the word used to describe the famous Russian dolls, or the "nested" dolls within dolls within dolls, to a certain number of iterations. It is also the name of a popular multimedia container file format that can hold several different files in one file. What?

2. The presentation software in Apple's iWork suite saves files with the extension '.key'. What is the full name of the file format/software (they're the same) and why are they called so?

3. Chicken is a free compiler for the Scheme programming language. It uses C as an intermediate language (that is, it first compiles Scheme code to standard C and then lets a C compiler compile it further). What are Chicken extensions commonly known as?

4. An EXE is a Windows executable file. What is an XEX?

More Randomosity

1. During the French Revolution, she toured the country collecting the heads of guillotined aristocrats and making plaster casts known as "death masks" out of them. Today, she is internationally renowned for this art. Who?

2. Since this device was often used by dissidents and revolutionaries, intelligence agencies such as the KGB regulated them strictly. Files were maintained on every single make and model, and their owners, in order to facilitate forensic examination. Manufacturers of this device included Olivetti, Smith Corona and Underwood. In April 2011, the last production plant in the world for this, located in Mumbai and owned by Godrej and Boyce, closed down. What?

3. The first of its kind was a picture of the Burning Man, the logo of an annual week-long event celebrating expression held in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. It was intended to inform people that the employees were away attending this festival and that normal services would soon be resumed. What did this grow into?

4. Which band, originally known as Sweet Children, gets its present name from a slang term for "a day spent smoking marijuana"?

5. Many American universities have a practice involving the publication of a printed or online directory of the names, photographs and certain bio-data of students, faculty and staff at the beginning of every academic year, in order to help them get to know each other. What is this directory known as?

Rendezvous'10

Rendezvous IIT Delhi's annual cultural fest is back and is being held
frm 21st -24th October. Celebrating our Golden Jubilee, Quizzing is
going to get bigger than ever before with the following quizzes being
held during Rendezvous 2010
.
1. Jeopardy

One of the standard fixtures of Rendezvous over the years, Jeopardy
has developed into one of the most popular events on the roster.

· Teams of 3 members(max), College I-Cards are must.

· Quizmaster : Kedar Shastry from 3xus

· Date & Time : 22nd October, 9 AM

· Venue: 6LT2

2. Mastermind

For the first time in Rendezvous, we have Mastermind with a format
based on the popular TV quiz show by the same name.

· Individual Quiz(ONLY COLLEGE STUDENTS)

· Quizmasters : Kutub Quizzers

· Prelims : 22nd October, 2 PM, 4LT3

· Finals : 24th October, 5 PM, Seminar Hall

3)Kombat

Kombat does not comprise of the list of events that contribute to the
inter- college points tally.

· Teams of atmost 3 members.

· Quizmaster: Kutub Quizzers

· Date & Time : 22nd October, 5 PM

· Venue: 4LT3

4. Sports Quiz

The quiz for the sport enthusiasts Sports Quiz is the only genre
specific quiz in Rendezvous.

· Teams of atmost 3 members, College I-Cards are must.

· Quizmaster : Piyush Ahuja

· Date & Time : 23rd October, 2 PM

· Venue: 6LT1 ( Prelims)

Senate Room (Finals)

5. Sphinx

Sphinx is the flagship intercollegiate Quizzing Club event of Rendezvous.

· Teams of atmost 3 members. College I-Cards are must.

· Quizmasters : Aritra Gupta and Shayak Sen

· Date & Time : 24th October, 9 AM

· Venue: Senate Room

6. Zoom In

Zoom In is the Audio- Visual quiz on the roster.

· Teams of atmost 3 members, College I-Cards are must.

· Quizmasters: Kunal Malhotra from Kutub Quizzers

· Date & Time : 24th October, 1 PM

· Venue: 5LT1



In addition, there a couple of quizzes conducted by IMS as well as a
movie quiz.Total Cash Prizes will be upto a lakh.
The venues are given in the attached poster .

Trivia (Couldn't Think Of A Word To Describe The Category)

1. X is a term used to refer to a mishearing of a phrase or song lyrics that results in an entirely different interpretation. It was coined by American author Sylvia Wright in 1954 in an essay entitled ‘The Death of Lady X’, based upon the following lines her mother used to read to her as a child:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They have slain the Earl of Murray,
And laid him on the green.

What is X?

2. When the 1934 edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary was being compiled, its chemistry editor sent in a request asking for the letter D to be listed as an abbreviation for ‘density’. However, the typist misunderstood and ended up adding to the dictionary a word that didn’t even exist. This ‘ghost word’ remained an undetected entry for five years between ‘Dorcopsis’ and ‘doré’ . What was the word?

3. In graphic design, this pseudo-Latin phrase acts as a label for a rather famous pangrammatic piece of text (that is, containing all the letters of the alphabet, like the well-known “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”). It is used solely for the purpose of showcasing font and typesetting, and does not really have a meaning, although a close English translation is said to be ‘pain itself’. Everyone who’s ever used a computer has seen it hundreds of times and possibly wondered what it means. What is the phrase?

4. This word originally meant ‘suitcase’, but was later used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to mean a word made by blending two other words together (for eg. staycation, brunch, smog). It comes from the French words for ‘to carry’ and ‘coat’, which means it is itself an example of what it describes. What word?

5. Yeah, so, there’s like this whole language that Wikipedia totally describes as, like, this “American sociolect, originally of Southern California, in particular Valley girls”. And it was like, popularized by this 1982 song by Frank Zappa called ‘Valley Girl’. Whatever, anyway, now everybody uses it, not just high school bimbos. So it’s got, like, a name or something, y’know?

6. Maltron, InScript, Colemak, PLUM, HCESAR, FITALY and Svorak are types of what?

:)

Eyes: Black
Hair: Brown fur
Occupation: Rescue Rangers
Known relatives: Grandpa, Zip and Zap (nephews)
Country of origin: USA
Who/ What am i talking about?

Some for the New Year

1) X looks like a young teen because of a growth hormone deficiency and the effects of too many blows to the head.

X had 26 concussions resulting from a blow with a blunt object.
X lost conciousness eight times after being hit with a club, four times after explosions, three times after being shot, three times after being poisoned with chloroform, three times after car accidents, twice by falling and once due to mild dehydration, according to the researchers.

X never shaves, never grows taller and does not "exhibit signs of pubertal development".

"He has the physique of a child, but his conduct suggests that of an adult. Throughout his adventures, he has no girlfriend or marriage plans to curtail his activities."

X ??




2) Some candidates were "coddies", "chengguan", "fundoo", "slumdog", "sexting", "noob", "bangsters".What was eventually chosen and what am i talking about?



3) The X is the name given to the anomalies that occur when ____ ID hit the integer walls. The first X occurred back in June when the 32-bit signed integer number was hit. This second one is occurring because 32-bit unsigned integer wall is about to be hit.

Y is artificially pushing the ____ IDs up to this number, to control when they hit it. That’s why the September 11 date is so far off from X.com’s countdown.
A large-scale crisis was largely averted the first time around, but a number of popular _____ were broken for weeks, as they waited for updates to be pushed through the ____ approval process.

Consider yourself warned.

Give X and Y.



4) X is a sci-fi movie that released in aug 2009. The movie already has climbed into the top100 list in IMDB. Shot in a semi-documentary style this movie has earned great reviews from the critics and earned $37M in the opening weekend.The movie was marketed with the viral marketing technique.Starting in late 2008 there were bus stops and other public places with the sign "for humans only " and then there were taxis all over the country with the same sign.During the comi-con in 2008 even the toliets were marked as for humans only. Which movie?



5) The real reason for this steriotype comes from Nadir Shah's invasion of India. His troops passed through Punjab after plundering Delhi and killing thousands of Hindus and Muslims , and taking hundreds of Hindu women as captive. The Sikhs decided to attack Nadir Shah's camp and free the captive women. Being outnumbered by Nadir Shah's huge army, they could not afford to make a frontal attack. Instead, they used to make guerrilla raids on Nadir Shah's camp during midnights, free as many captive women as possible, and return them to their homes in order to "restore the diginity of the Hindu community". What?



6) Identify the person next to Gandhiji.



7) This picture recently appeared in many newspapers across the world. Why?





8) Who are the following two characters based on?





9) This place was influenced by a painting. Identify the painting and the artist.





10) Ad for what?





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