Vespertilio - Non-Comp

The Vespertilio Non Competitive event was held on the 11th October 2012 within the hallowed portals of our beloved SAC-CR. The most amazing thing about the event was that nobody had any idea why the event was named as BAT. Anyways, the event got underway at time (QC continues to stick to its timely starts this year). The rep team which had been working very hard for the past couple of days for Rendezvous and Krypton finally found itself in familiar territories where it had to solve questions rather than make new ones. The event was well attended by the Freshers of all hostels. The veteran third year junta being represented by only one team. At the end of the prelims, Jyotesh was seen running around the Room searching for people who could solve more than one of his questions. Eventually, 11 teams ended up meeting the cutoff score of 7 points as many as four of them comprising entirely of Freshers. Among the qualifiers, there was a team of four while another was a team of two. Just before the finals started, Akhil was going around the room looking for a potential third person that could join his team but was heavily disappointed. Jyotesh was the first Quizmaster in the Finals and rushed through his round in a jiffy. He had a train to catch so that he may go to Antaragni and win the FLAME Quiz (Congrats for that!!!). His round was extremely low-scoring however contained some very good questions and a tribute to the IIT Delhi Quizzing Great – Contri. Next came Hrishikesh with his questions providing much avenue for scoring well to all teams. By the end of his round, the Third year team of Gowtham, Nishant, Milan and Arpit had built up a huge lead on the others. Some fresher teams got so frustrated that they decided to leave the Quiz midway. Next up was Ashutosh. His entertainment based questions had Shiva jumping for joy at every question. With just four teams left by the end of his round, it was thought best to abandon Anshuman’s round and give him a chance to present his questions in the next Non-Competitive event. In the end, a highly flustered rep team was seen disappearing in the VIP room trying to get Krypton – the Treasure Hunt of Rendezvous 2012 up and running by the end of the day.

Kutub Quiz by Aryapriya Ganguly

Aryapriya Ganguly will be conducting the next session of Kutub Quizzers at IIT Delhi SAC-CR on Sunday, 14 October 2012, from 2:00 PM onwards. The quiz will be a rerun of his FLAME Quiz at IIT Kanpur as part of their Antaragni festival, which was well received by our contingent at IITK - Nishant, Tannishka, Yati and Jyotesh.

See you there then.

Also Congrats to Nishant, Tannishka and Yati for finishing third in General Quiz and third in Sports Quiz at Antaragni.

Quizonomics 2012 Prelims

Economics Club IITD, in association with Ecovision, SSCBS presents Quizonomics - An Economics based Quiz.

Prelims to Quizonomics would be held on 16th of October at 3LT2, IITD. Top 2 team at IITD prelims would get direct entry to the finals at SSCBS campus on 23rd.

Cash prizes worth Rs. 10000 and goodies like Fastrack sunglasses and watches to be won!

Rendezvous 2012 presents an exciting challenge for enthusiastic quizzers. We have come up with a new format, where we will give you 2 distinct elements in different genres/areas and you have to connect them using  atleast 2 links. You will be awarded points for the number of links you use(more the merrier) and their prominence.  A points tally will be generated for all individuals based on the above mentioned criteria and the winners will get exciting prizes. The event closes on 19^th October.

Send us all entries by mail at quizzingclubiitd@gmail.com with the subject as the two objects.

Here is an example for you:

You have to connect Amjad Khan(from Sholay) with Lee Van Cleef(the bad in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), through their co workers. These co-workers should have played with them in very popular movies.

Answer: Amjad Khan acted in Sholay withAmitabha Bachchan who is co-starring in The Great Gatsby withLeonardo Di Caprio acted in J Edgar which was directed byClint Eastwood who co-starred in The good the bad and the ugly with Lee Van Cleef.

 There may be different routes between the two actors.

And now, to kick start the process, here are your two objects for the day. 

A- Babe Ruth

B-Twitter 

Connect A to B via atleast 2 links!
All the best!!!

114.

X is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in Number Theory. X discovered ______ when he found a book about it at 10 years of age. He was puzzled by the fact that the statement was so simple that he, a ten-year old could understand it. He started working on the statement since 1986, in relative secrecy, and came out with a final solution in 1993. It turned out, however, that this solution had a fundamental gap, to circumvent which took X another year. He announced the final solution in 1995, and the solution has withstood the scrutiny of mathematicians for over 17 years now. Simon Singh wrote a book, titled _____, which chronicled attempts to find solutions to _____ since the time it was first stated. Give X and the blank.

113. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good

X is an American business magnate and head of the high-yield bond department of Drexel Burnham Lambert, till his indictment in 1989 on 98 counts of racketeering and securities fraud, and was convicted on 6 counts of securities violations. At Drexel, his compensation exceeded $ 1 billion over a four year period, and as of 2010 he had a net worth of $ 2 billion, making him the 488th richest man in the world. Drexel went bankrupt in 1990.

Critics cite X as the epitome of wall street greed in the 1980s, and nicknamed him Junk Bond King. The character of Gordon Gekko is acknowledged to be partly inspired by X.

112. Tales of the Macabre

This is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham X with a home-movie camera, capturing one of the most famous events of the 20th century.

X film frame number 313 is probably the most famous, and the most studied frame in the film. This frame, and the frames before and after this, were studied by scientists, including Richard Feynman, who concluded that Y's head moved forward at first. After frame 314, it is clear that Y falls back, resulting in much speculation, including that the X Film is a hoax.

The X film was purchased by the government in 1999 for $ 16 million.
Give X and the event that the film captured.

111. Draper goes to Zion

Finally minors over, and Rendezvous approaching! To kickstart the blog post-minors, here is a question for today:

Wolf Ollins is a brand consultancy based in London, New York City and Dubai. Since the 1990s the company has focused more on corporate branding, and their work includes Tata Group, GE and Unilever.

Their work has occasionally been controversial, which includes the _________, which they designed. The design was met with negative reception, with 80% of the votes in a BBC poll in 2007 giving it the lowest rating. There have also been criticisms of perceived hidden messages in the design.


 What did Wolf Ollins design, and explain the title.



Question “inspired from” Rendezvous 2011 Zoom-In, by Munir Contractor and Shriram Appan.