The IIT-M Open Quiz Blog

Hello everyone,

The IIT Madras Quiz Club is proud to announce the revival of the IIT-M Open Quiz after a 2 year hiatus. We plan to make this one of the biggest and best open quizzes in the country. For more details please visit http://openquiz.iitm.ac.in/.

Along with the Open Quiz, we are starting a quiz blog which will be seperate from the IIT-M Quiz Blog. From now on expect a barrage of mind twisting questions with at least one question a day being the norm.

Starting today, you can be a part of the IIT-M OQ by participating at iitmoq11.blogspot.com, till the 16th of January when you can come to the Student Activities Centre in IIT-M for the actual quiz. There are loads of prizes and goodies to be won for the blog leaders.

The first question will be up at midnight.

Happy quizzing folks and besto,

The Open Quiz Committee

#226: What's the issue?

Connect

#225: Frankly speaking

ID.

Cracked by all, partly due to a particularly loathsome reverse imaging search engine. Rest assured, greater efforts to circumvent this bugbear will hence be taken. Highlight for the answer ---- Frank Serpico, the legendary whistle-blower who inspired the eponymous Al Pacino starrer

#224 - Red Chillies Entertainment

Why would i put these two together?

#223 - This Big Mouth works with Blind Patients.....

The gentleman in this picture resigned from his post in 1899.
Though, we may have not seen him, we would have heard the reason he supposedly gave for his resignation, which was dependent on his job before resigning. Who is he? What was his job? And what was the reason he gave, (which is now quoted widely)?

#222: How did it happen?

ID the three people and connect

Cracked by Amith, Anirudh and Arun. Highlight for answer - Mohd Al Fayed, Dodi Fayed and Diana and the site of the car crash ( Pont de l'Alma tunnel, Paris)

#221 : Shoot my preferences time !

Parody of ?



Cracked by by Dinesh, Vinay, NKOB, Anirudh and Chandrashekar. Highlight for the answer : 'The Persistence Of Memory' by Salvadore Dali

#220:

Put Fundaes.


Cracked by nearly everyone. Highlight for the answer ----- Parker ad for the perfect martini


See comments for details

#219: Confusion and Chaos

Identify.

Cracked by Milind and Darshan. refer milind's comment for fundaes. It's the oldest mental institution in the world.

And I tried my best to make the image non-tineyeable in the time i had to post the question, not good enough :P

#218: Brother and Sister

Connect. Parts of the first pic have been blanked out
Cracked by no one. Highlight for answer - Phi Mu and Alpha Delta Pi, together called the 'Macon Magnolias', the oldest fraternities/sororities in the US. Both were founded in Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia.

#217 : Fresh Crop

What's the connect?



Cracked by Amith. Highlight for the answer - Dashiell Hammet(pic 4) authored Red Harvest, which inspired Yojimbo( among other films such as 'A Fistful Of Dollars' and 'Last Man Standing'). Star Wars episode VI was codenamed 'Blue Harvest' as a parody. The Simpson's movie parodied the above codename, it's working title was 'Yellow Harvest'.

Not the Commonwealth one

Hello all,

The IITM Quiz Blog's baton is now passed on to not 1, not 2, but 7 moderators, so be sure that it is pretty regular for periods of time not seen since Srivats's stint as the moderator. And we will try to maintain a proper leaderboard too, starting with the question before this one. As for us, we had fun handling the blog (and for a good time, not handling it too) and hope the incoming batch enjoy the process too.

Cheers,
Tempo and Advaith

#216 - Freak Zone

Identify

Went uncracked

Answer (highlight to read) : Iranistan, home of P.T. Barnum

It Returns (again)

We apologize for the long inactivity but good times be here again. The blog will be restarting tomorrow and will be much more kickbutt than before.. So happy quizzing folks.

#215 - Can't sit

Connect

Answer (highlight to read) : The 1988 film Stand and Deliver based on the life of Jaime Escalante which was parodied in a South Park episode

#214 - life, sex and death

Pretty simple one. All these are part of a list (non-exhaustive, finite). What?





hint: pictures might be generic

Cracked by vish alone. Highlight for answer -
These are the various imageries used in Lucy in the Sky with the Diamonds - tangerine trees, kaleidoscope eyes, plasticine flowers, marshmallow pies, newspaper taxis.

#213 - Fish

Connect.







Cracked by everyone. Highlight for answer.
Movies with the maximum usage of the word fuck - Casino, Summer of Sam, Nil by Mouth

#212 Conundrum

A tight LitSoc (read inter-hostel literary trophy) schedule, kept both moderators busy. And now, exams going on, so we are still busy. Sorry for the long delay. Connect.






Cracked by everyone. Highlight for answer -
Tower of Hanoi. It was invented by French mathematician Edouard Lucas.

#211 What did you say?

X is the origin of a very popular term A. That term can be generically applied to the origin of D by B + C. E is a hint to D. Identify X,A,D.

X

B

C

E

Everyone got a part of the answer, only Varun and AyuJain cracked it fully. Highlight for answer-
In-a-gadda-da-vida (D) by Iron (B) Butterfly (C). A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In The Garden Of Eden" (E) but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Inge became intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen (A) that stuck as the title. X is Bonnie Earl O' Murray, which is the origin of the term mondegreen.

#210 - Quite Strange

Connect

Nice crack by Nakul

Answer (highlight to read) : The Uncanny Valley proposed by Masahiro Mori.

#209 What's a company?

Connect (be very specific).







Cracked by 11 of you. See Comments for answer

#208 - A Domestic Affair

What event?

Cracked by Srivats, Varun. Milind, jojo,

Answer (highlight to read) : The Kitchen Debate between Nikita Krushchev and Richard Nixon

#207 - The Bold and the Beautiful

X is a very versatile and multitalented guy. He holds dozens of patents, is the author of even more publications in fields ranging from hippie culture to neuroscience. In November 2006, he started Y which caters to rejections from a very popular Z. Identify X,Y,Z.

X

Hint

Much apologies for the delay. Exam week finally over. Cracked by 7 of you

See comments for answer.

#206 Hopefully...........

Connect. Pic 1 is once removed from the connect.







Hint: A moon of pic 1 is what you should be looking at.

Went uncracked. Highlight for answer -
Proteus is a moon of Neptune (pic1) named after the Greek God Proteus after whom, the flower Proteus is named. The South African cricket team is called the Proteas, after this flower. The South African rugby team is called Springboks (pic2). So the connect is South Africa's national sports teams.

#205 not quite Nelly Furtado

Identify.

Cracked by nearly everyone. Highlight for answer -
Reign of Supe

rman, the first short story which featured a character called Superman, but as a supervillain.

#204 - Sleaze?

What iconic term was inspired by the place in the picture?

Answer (higlight to read) : Grindhouse

#203 - Symbolic

Z whose most famous creation is P also created Y which inspired something related with X. Identify all variables involved.

XY
Z

Cracked by Biju and world of internet.

See comments for answer