Saturnalia ‘09 – Razzmatazz

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law recently participated in Razzmatazz, the Audio Visual Quiz of Saturnalia 2009, Thapar University’s fest. The three man team consisted of myself (Sourabh), Nitin Sharma and Sattwik Shekhar. The questions were really interesting and there was never a dull moment; this could also be attributed to the rather upbeat Quiz Masters. The prelims consisted of 27 intersting questions and we got most of the answers right and made it to the finals. Three other teams also made the cut. One from Thapar itself, another from IIT Roorkee and another team whose details I can’t exactly recollect.

Some questions were rather tough, some required ‘out of the box’ thinking and common sense and some others were just plain easy. The questions were well balanced and the quiz was fun. The team from Thapar University won the quiz and wowed the audience with their amazing skills. Nitin started his wise-cracking to lighten up the atmosphere with a rather visible effect. Luck didn’t quite favour us and we ended up fourth and Thapar University took the gold. It was a very interesting experience and we hope that we will be able to conduct something similar soon.

Daily Question #4

The word _____ is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains _______reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they _____ wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”

Daily Question #3

The motto Ordem e Progresso (“Order and Progress”) in the ___A___ is inspired by Auguste Comte’s motto of positivism: L’amour pour principe et l’ordre pour base; le progrès pour but (“Love as a principle and order as the basis; Progress as the goal”). It was inserted because several of the people involved in the military coup d’état that deposed the monarchy and proclaimed ___B___ a republic were followers of the ideas of Comte.

Fill in A and B.

Daily Question #2

 Common approach stores only a “hashed” form of the ______. When a user types in a ______on such a system, the ______  handling software runs through a cryptographic  hash algorithm, and if the hash value generated from the user’s entry matches the hash stored in the _________ database, the user is permitted access. The hash value is created by applying a hash function (for maximum resistance to attack this should be a cryptographic hash function) to a string consisting of the submitted _______  and, usually, another value known as a salt. The salt prevents attackers from easily building a list of hash values for common passwords. MD5 and SHA1 are frequently used cryptographic hash functions.

What am I talking about? All the underlines are the same… !

Daily Question #1

3 Doors Down

“Duck and Run”

311

“Down”

AC/DC

“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”
“Hells Bells”
“Highway to Hell”
“Safe in New York City”
“Shoot to Thrill”
“Shot Down in Flames”
“T.N.T.”

The Ad Libs

“The Boy from New York City”

Afro Celt Sound System

“When You’re Falling”

Alice in Chains

“Down in a Hole”
“Rooster”
“Sea of Sorrow”
“Them Bones”

Alien Ant Farm

“Smooth Criminal”

Animals

“We Gotta Get Out of This Place”

Louis Armstrong

“What a Wonderful World”

These are a list of songs along with its artists.
Connect (Not an Exclusive List)
Clue: Ground Zero

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