Kafi Gen Quiz

Kaﬁ Gen Quiz
By Shuvendu, Sarthak & KAM

General Instructions
● Designate one person from a team to pounce
● Bold words in the questions are distinct clues. Try to decipher the clues judiciously
● QM decisions are ﬁnal
● Keep your videos on throughout the quiz.
● Please do not google and ruin this for everyone

Format
● 20 questions in total
● Inﬁnite bounce(+10) and Inﬁnite pounce(+10/-10) throughout the quiz
● 1st 10 questions will go clockwise and the next 10 anti-clockwise(applicable only if
there are 10 teams)
● Especially if you are pouncing, give full, precise answers.

1.
The following are related to what act?
1. Doing this in a closed and conﬁned space gives the people indulging in the act
both a sense of relaxation and heightened spirits.
2. The place where this act is performed is suitable to produce reverberation and
echoes, due to lack of soft furnishings.

Maintaining social distancing between the question
and answer slides

2.
X, an Hungarian newspaper editor who was frustrated with the amount of time he
wasted cleaning up smudged pages. As a solution to this he created something which
was based on viscosity, capillary action and ball-socket mechanism.
Who is X and what is his creation?

3.
Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession. Part of his command was
that anyone ______ be blessed immediately, since _____ was often the ﬁrst sign that someone
was falling ill with the plague. By AD 750, it became customary to say “_______ ______ ___” as
a response to one ______.
In Persian culture, ______ sometimes is called “sabr” meaning “to wait or be patient.” And
when trying to do something or go somewhere and suddenly ______ ne should stop or sit for a
few minutes and then restart. By this act the “bad thing” passes and one will be saved.
Put Funda

4.
The most widely accepted explanation of the origin of symbol ‘X’ goes back to the
Spanish peso, which was accepted as the basic unit of value in colonial America during
the late 17th century.
Handwritten manuscripts dating to that time show that peso in America- was
abbreviated PS. It’s believed that as time went the S was on top of the P, producing an
approximation of the X symbol.
Id X.

5.
These two electrical engineers from Stanford University started their business together
working in a rented garage on Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California under the
mentorship they had with past professor Frederick Terman at Stanford during the
Great Depression.
To formalize their partnership, they tossed a coin to decide whether the company they
founded would be called XY or YX. One of the company's earliest customers was Bud
Hawkins, chief sound engineer for Walt Disney Studios, who bought eight audio
oscillators (at $71.50 each) for use in the animated ﬁlm Fantasia.
Give me X and Y.

6.
In 1850s, Howe received a patent for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure”. He did
not try seriously to market it, missing recognition he might otherwise have received.
Forty-two years later, in 1891, an American machine salesman and mechanical engineer,
marketed "X" a primitive form of “Y”. The device served as a (more complicated)
hook-and-eye shoe fastener. With the support of businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, he
launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The X had its
public debut at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and met with little commercial success. In the
1930s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring Ys. The campaign
praised Ys for promoting self-reliance in young children .
What device Y are we talking about?

Y is ZIPPER. IT'S THE MODIFIED VERSION OF A CLASP
LOCKER(X).

7.
In 2016, the children across the world and their parents were in utter shock as the
Egyptian Ambassador claimed that X was the root cause of all the violence that
happens in the Arab World.
Soon after the speech was delivered, the Youm7, an Egyptian newspaper published an
article titled ‘Five accusations X faces in Egypt’ and explained about how it is helping
children to come up with sinister plans and encourages the use of weapons like guns,
chainsaws etc.

8.
It is believed that the concept X came up during WW2 when America promoted itself
by selling consumer goods like Coca-Cola and Levi jeans. Now, Germans recognised
Coke to be a "Jewish-American" drink. In response, the Nazis only allowed Coke in the
country if the bottles had a swastika symbol. In the Soviet Union, Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin viewed it as a symbol of American imperialism and forbade its consumption. So,
the bottles were disguised as vodka bottles, with white cap having a red star, to avoid
suspicion of Soviet oﬃcials. The term X was ﬁrst documented when the French
Communist Party strongly opposed the further expansion of Coca-Cola.
Give me the term X which is a portmanteau of 2 words, one is related to the company
and the other means establishing control over an area.

Maintaining social distancing between the question and
answer slides

9.
In 1982, when X was a professor of invertebrate pathology at UC Berkeley, X and his
electron-microscopist wife published a study describing their discovery that amber
could preserve intracellular structures, such as nuclei and mitochondria, in an
organism trapped inside. That work led to a lifelong obsession with amber, in which X
would find, among other specimens, the oldest known bee, the first known bat fly
fossil, and the most complete flower from the Cretaceous Period.
What sci-fi act was inspired from this discovery?

10.
The picture shown has been immortalized as the X Seat because he being the son of a
South African plastic surgeon did something remarkable in 2015. The initiative was
triggered last year by the Eden Park management and The New Zealand Herald. And
as CEO Nick Sautner reveals the seat was identiﬁed after an "extensive review of host
broadcaster footage and eyewitness accounts" with "as much certainty as possible in the
circumstances".
ID X and What was remarkable thing?

X IS GRANT ELLIOT.
HE HIT A MIGHTY SIX THAT PROPELLED THE BLACK CAPS ON MARCH 24, 2015
INTO THEIR MAIDEN CRICKET WORLD CUP FINAL.

11.
In January 1996, this photographer was on his way from his home in the Napa Valley, to visit
his girlfriend, Daphne Irwin. He was particularly alert for a photo opportunity that day, since
a storm had just passed over and sky was clear with a few clouds. Driving along the Highway
he saw an area, free of the vineyards that normally covered the area, cleared due to phylloxera
infestation. He stopped somewhere near the Napa–Sonoma county line and pulled oﬀ the
road to set his Mamiya RZ67 medium-format camera, and took 4 shots and got back into his
truck.
It was widely believed later that the image was digitally manipulated or even created with
software such as Adobe Photoshop. He sold it to West light for use as a stock photo titled Y.
Later this image was renamed as X and was used for something that is too historic.
Give me the name X and epic thing about it.

X IS BLISS
IT IS THE DEFAULT WALLPAPER OF WINDOWS-XP.

12.
The term _____ ______ is used to refer to corruption in Turkey. It is a slang used to
refer to someone indulging in corruption, misusing public money and stealing. It
originally originates from an expression “indirmek” which means lowering or reducing,
and the usage of this term surged after it was used in Turkish songs and movies.
What term, which might oﬀend a lot of Indians but a lot less Sikh community is this?

13.
Theory says “X” are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection similar to
biological evolution. They do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and
inheritance, each of which influences a X's reproductive success. “X” spread through the
behaviour that they generate in their hosts. However, those which propagate less prolifically may
become extinct. A field of study called Y arose in the 1990s to study transmission of X in terms
of an evolutionary model.
Aaron Lynch described seven general patterns of X transmission, or "thought contagion” -
Quantity of parenthood, Efficiency of parenthood, Proselytic, Preservational, Adversative,
Cognitive and Motivational.
The term X which itself a neologism was coined by British biologist.
Give the term X and Y.

14.
Countless major critics have declared “X”, the greatest episode in the history of
television.
X is also the name of a poem published in 1818. This poem reminds powerful people of
the fact that their power is only temporary, and that everything succumbs to time in
the end. The message of this poem is analogous to the plot of the TV episode of the
same name.
Identify X as well as the name of the TV series.

15.
A study was conducted at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi by
a group of scientists in 2015. The ______ were collected from grocery stores, medical
stores and street vendors, and similar observations regarding the germ-carrying
properties of ______ were reported.
Considerable amounts of various bacteria and germs were also found on them.
According to S Ramachandran, the lead scientist of the study, it carried various
eukaryotic species, such as fungi, bacteria populations and viruses. 78 pathogens were
found, including Staphylococcus aureus, and Enterococcus faecalis. The pathogens on
the ______ can lead to several skin diseases, fungal and gastrointestinal infections,
respiratory disorders and even tuberculosis, the paper said.
What is the study about?

Study about currency notes carrying germs

16.
C.P. Joshi, former union minister, was the then CM candidate during the 2008
Rajasthan Assembly polls. But he lost the election to BJP’s Kalyan Singh Chouhan and
earned a dubious distinction in the election history only to be the second after A.R.
Krishnamoorthy.
What rare distinction is owned by C.P. Joshi and A.R. Krishnamoorthy in the electoral
history of India?

Lost by a single vote
(So close yet so far)

17.
Only 20 bowlers have the distinction of achieving this feat in the Test format of
Cricket.
The ﬁrst to achieve this particular feat was an australian bowler dismissing an English
bowler in 1883.
What fairly recent achievement, which happened after over 100 years, has brought this
question to this quiz? Identify the bowler and the achievement.

Ravichandran Ashwin, spinner taking wicket on the ﬁrst ball of a test match.

18.
“4ÆM,” reinterprets a 2015 track into a futuristic jam beﬁtting a dystopian game.
“so, this one is like my ethereal chav jam that’s like … a cyberpunk interpretation of the
movie X (plz watch this incredible ﬁlm if u haven’t) from Y’s perspective, dunno if it
makes sense without the low end. these r just demos bein recorded thru my phone
so…”— <@Singer> June 5, 2018.
Following this Z made a tweet of a GIF with 2 yellow hearts from X due to which
netizens went berserk over internet.
Give me X, Y and Z.

ANSWER
X - BAJIRAO MASTANI
Y - MASTANI BAI
Z - ELON MUSK

19
Vedic mythology refers to this place as an ancient settlement conquered by King
Bharata in the epic Ramayana. Bharata was also called Pushkal and so the name of the
settlement became Pushkalavati. However, research has proven this claim as debatable
and hence suggests an alternative of this town, ‘Purushapura’, or the ‘City of Men’. The
city’s name may also be derived from the Sanskrit name for "City of Flowers," Poshapura,
a name found in an ancient Kharosthi inscription.
Which modern day city is this?

20
At the Bell laboratories, New Jersey, the horn antenna sensed a strange yet annoying
“noise” that came from all parts of the sky at all times. The “Error Signal” puzzled Arno
and Robert, who did their best to eliminate all possible sources of interference, even
removing some pigeons that were nesting in the antenna and cleaning out the
accumulated droppings.
“When we ﬁrst heard that inexplicable 'hum,' we didn’t understand its signiﬁcance, and
we never dreamed it would be connected to the X," Arno said in a statement. "It wasn’t
until we exhausted every possible explanation for the sound's origin that we realized we
had stumbled upon something big.".
This noise was an afterglow of X. Give me X.

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