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.

110.

The _______ Massacre happened at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when the cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000 - 80,000 people demanding reform of parliamentary representation. The meeting happened during a time when the economy was poor following the Napoleonic wars. Also limited suffrage in Northern England and the harsh corn laws encouraged political radicalism. At a demonstration by the Manchester Patriotic Union, local magistrates charged military authorities to arrest the leaders and disperse the crowd, causing the cavalry to charge into the crowd and killing 15-20 people and injuring 400+ people in the ensuing confusion.

The massacre was given the name ______ in ironic comparison to a glorious event in British military history which happened only 4 years earlier.

Both Blanks are same. Very workoutable.



Ans(Highlight): Peterloo Massacre

109.

This is a 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a post-apolyptic Earth, suffering from radiation fallout from World War Terminus. The main plot features a bounty hunter with the task of tracking down renegade Xs who have assumed human identity. As the radiation poisoning has wiped out the majority of animals, owning an animal is now considered a status symbol, and people, including the protagonist, unable to afford real animals keep up pretenses by owning electric animals. The novel explores what it is to be a human, as the bounty hunter protagonist explores the existence of defining qualities that separate humans from Xs.

The word X, part of the title of the novel, translates into Greek as "having the likeness of a man", and was shortened and used extensively by George Lucas in Star Wars.

The novel was adapted to the 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Scott Young.





Ans: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep