SUNDAY QUIZAT AFMC

RULES Elimination Round has 15 questions. No directs, only pounces. No limit on

number of pounces in the round. Scoring pattern is +10/-5. Top 6 teams go through to main rounds. Points of Elimination Round do not get carried. Round 1 has 15 questions. 3 pounces per team allowed. +10/-5 on

pounces. +10 on direct and +5 on pass. No negatives on direct/pass. Round 2 has 10 questions. Same rules as Round 1 apply. These are followed

by a long FITB question with 10 blanks. Answers to be written. +5 for each blank. No negatives. +25 to any team who gets all 10 correct.

Both main rounds will follow infinite bounce system. Ties for Elimination Round and final standings to be resolved by separate

Tie Breaker questions.

ELIMINATION ROUND

In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel Lyle Williams’ lashes and brows, Tom watched in fascination as Mabel performed what she called "a secret of the harem." She mixed petroleum jelly with coal dust and ash from a burnt cork, and applied it to her lashes and brows. Mabel's simple beauty trick ignited Tom Lyle's imagination and the young entrepreneur started what would eventually become a billion-dollar business. Tom Lyle named his company X in her honour. Id X

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Maybelline

It seemed like a global confluence of espionage networks. The CIA field agents were in position, MI6 sleuths surrounded the hotel and in their midst were operatives of Mossad, RAW and IB, all disguised as chauffeurs, page boys, waiters and door attendants. The ISI was also conducting surveillance of the proceedings. What occasion?

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Marriage ceremony of Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter Mahrukh Ibrahim withJaved Miandad’s son Junaid Miandad

This family was supposedly based on the Borgia family of renaissance Italy. It also seems to draw heavy inspiration from Genovese and Bonnano families. It rose to prominence following the founding of the Genco Pura olive oil company and the olive oil war of 1930s.Id the family.

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The Corleone family

A _______ song is one that is said to be appealing and enticing, yet often misleading and dangerous. It gets its name from a creature of Greek and Roman mythology famously mentioned in the adventures of Jason and Odysseus. Fill in the blank.

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Siren

What is wrong with this picture? 5

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The American flag wasn’t like that at that point in time.

These were the union and confederate flags at the time

X is a condiment which takes its origin from 17th century China. In Mandarin, the name refers to the brine of a pickled fish. The next century saw a change in its composition, mainly in the UK, as mushrooms began appearing in the preparations as the main ingredient. Today, however, X bears little connection with its fishy origin, and is most widely known and used as a Y-based variety. Identify X and Y.

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X- KetchupY- Tomato

7The original X character envisioned by Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster was a bad bald guy set on ruling the world in 1933. “A character by the name of Bill Dunn is waiting in a soup kitchen line, when professor Ernest Smiley offers him food and new clothes in exchange for his participation in an experiment. The professor proceeds to give him a potion that makes him telepathic; then he becomes X, and tries to take over the world. However, in the process, he kills professor Smalley, only to discover later that his powers are temporary unless he has more of potion to drink, which he can’t figure out how to recreate. Ultimately, the former X finds himself without his powers and back in the soup kitchen line.” Id X.

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Superman

Formerly called ‘Barry Dogs’ after the most well-known individual of their breed, X’s get their current name from an 11th century monk, or more specifically, a traveller's hospice named after him. Many dogs of this breed are affected by serious bone diseases. Donald Duck had a non-anthropomorphic pet of the same breed X named Bolivar. X’s are generally depicted in pictures with barrels of brandy. Identify X

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St. Bernard / Alpine Mastiff

Before the invention of guttering, roofs were made with wide Xs (overhangs), so that rain water would fall away from the house, to stop the walls and foundations from being damaged. The large overhang gave good cover for those who wished to lurk in shadows and listen to others’ conversations. Since the area under the Xs was considered part of the householder’s property you could be fined under Anglo-Saxon law for being under the X with the intention of spying. Id X and the word that arose from it.

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X- EavesEavesdropping

The owners wanted the name of the company to be natural sounding. One of the executives plucked off one of the buttons on the initial prototype and said they looked like seeds which prompted the present name. Which company?

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Blackberry

The bike has 20" front and rear tires and is powered by a high-performance, water-cooled, 786cc V-4 single-cylinder engine - geared toward the lower end for faster acceleration with no exhaust pipes. The exhaust is routed through the hollow steel / aluminium / magnesium tubing used for the frame of the bike. The two foot pegs are set 3½ feet apart.Which bike?

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Bat Pod

X said in an interview, ‘Some years later, when I get old, I’ll be sitting in my armchair, reading Harry Potter. My family would ask me “After all these years?” I would reply, “Always”.’ Id X

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Alan Rickman(portrayed Severus Snape)

When Google launched its IPO, the filing was done to raise $2,718,281,828.Neither $2.5 billion nor $3 billion, but the particular figure mentioned. As is always the case with Google, they had an unconventional reason tinged with some humour for this. What was the reason?

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It is the value of e

e= 2.718281828

14X is a garment, derived from the old French word for ‘body’. It may be used by both men and women.Symptoms of prolonged usage of X included a slight but persistent cough, as well as heavy breathing.Xs have, at various points of time, been known as/equated with “a pair of bodies”, “stays”, “jumps” and “waspies”. They largely fell out of fashion in the 1920s in Europe and North America. Id.

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Corsets

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ROUND 1

“A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some ________ but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it _________ ______. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalogue, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge.” Which multinational store is the character talking about? Name the movie and the character.

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Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in The Social Network

During the making of X in 1993, producer Randy Breen had an idea to use an actual motorcycle. He borrowed one from Ducati and the team went to San Francisco and the Santa Cruz mountains, and they shot extensively on site. They rode through the steep curves of the rolling mountains to more accurately model the breakneck feel of riding dangerously. On the final day of production during a stunt, Breen was driving away from 2 police cars on an open highway when he had an accident at a crowded intersection. Now the bike could not be returned and featured prominently in marketing with the sign “crashed during filming”. Unlike popular thinking, X was developed by Papyrus design group and not Y, which was only involved in publishing ID. Give X and Y

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X-RoadrashY- Electronic Arts

Explain the orange line.3

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LOC (Line of control) as seen from space; India has installed floodlights to stop invaders from Pakistan sneaking in, which appears like an orange river from space.

4In 2007, when X announced plans to purchase the man-made island called Sealand, Michael Bates, Prince and heir to Sealand, said in a press conference that he has no intention of selling his micronation to any cause that violates international treaties.The group X, which has had repeated run-ins with the law, had set up a campaign to raise money to buy the self-declared sovereign nation. Id X.

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Regarded as the most heavily guarded animal refuge in the world, this 1000 sq. km. region is home to 70 mammal species, 3000 plant species and over 300 bird species. The wildlife diversity of the area is due to it’s geographic diversity, covering everything from mountains to wetlands to forests, and even a bit of coastal area. Rare species like the Siberian tiger, the Amur leopard, the red-crowned crane and the white-naped crane have all been sighted here. The only threat to the survival of this area, amazingly, is peace.

Which involuntary park, also one of the best-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world, are we talking about?

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Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea

Connect

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7In 1974 it was observed that his condition was rapidly deteriorating and it was decided to send him to Paris for further examination. Like any other tourist, he needed the proper travelling papers. He was issued a passport on which his occupation was listed as “King __________”. Arriving at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, he was received with full military honours, on a red carpet, like any other visiting head of state.One of the reports described it thus: “On an autumn day in 1976, a French Air Force plane touched down at Le Bourget airport just outside Paris. The plane was carrying one of the world’s great statesman, a famous war leader in need of urgent medical treatment.” Who are we talking about?

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On 9th January 2007, X dialled a Starbucks in San Francisco. " Good Morning! " answered the polite voice of employee Ying Hang. " How may I help you?" " Yes, I'd like to order 4000 lattes, please" X said, grinning. " No, just kidding. Wrong number. Goodbye! " What is the significance of this conversation and who is X?

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X- Steve Jobs

It was the first call ever made from an iPhone

X is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, which was made into a movie of the same name. The novel was a sequel to another book, Manhunter which was also made into a motion picture. Jonathan Demme won the best director award at the Oscars, for the movie X. The character of Y, a forensic psychiatrist was played by Z who won the Best Actor Oscar for the shortest screen time in history of just 20 minutes. The character has been subsequently seen in multiple movies and TV series, the most recent one portrayed by Mads Mikkelsen. Give X, Y and Z.

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X- The Silence of the LambsY- Dr Hannibal LecterZ- Anthony Hopkins

Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanatkumara went to Vaikuntha, the abode of Lord Vishnu, to visit him. X and Y, the gatekeepers of Vaikuntha, interrupted them and prevented their passage, on the grounds that they appeared to be merely children. In retaliation, the four men (who were, in fact, Kumaras, the manasputras or mind children of Brahma), cursed X and Y to be separated from Vishnu three times in three different births which they would take upon the earth. Thus we have the famous villain pairs:

Hiranyakashyan and Hiranyakashyipu

Ravana and Kumbhakarana

A and B

All of them are incarnations of X and Y, and were vanquished by some form of Vishnu on earth, so that they could return to his abode once more. Identify.

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X & Y- Jaya & VijayaA & B- Dantavakra & Shishupala

X is the incantation of a spell in Harry Potter, used only once upon one of the three main characters of the series. The word in Latin means ‘stick’ or ‘rod’.

X is also the name of a genus of flowering plants, the stem of which is used for a medical purpose consistent with the function of the magical spell. Identify:

1) X2) The effect of the spell

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X- Ferula

It has the effect of forming a splint, as a treatment for broken bones.

Belgian Grand Prix 2014, 2nd lap :X on the radio, " He hit me. Y has hit me." disbelief shading into resignation. Post race, X said, "He told me he did it on purpose, to prove a point." It was the breaking point, in a strained relationship throughout the year, reminiscent of Senna and Prost. Back in 2000, Parma, Italy: X and Y teammates at the Team MBM Formula A go carting championship, were the best of friends, racing at everything from unicycling to pizza. They dreamt of a life together in Formula 1, fighting for the title as teammates. Little did they know, their dreams would be realised, just at the cost of their friendship. Id X and Y.

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X- Lewis HamiltonY- Nico Rosberg

In 1883, Julius Michael Johannes X in Switzerland produced appliances for roasting and grinding vegetables, to make flour from peas, beans, lentils, etc. enabling women to make a quick nourishing soup.His objective was to provide nutritious and flavourful meals for working class women who lacked the time and money to prepare proper home cooked meals. So under the product name X, he introduced instant vegetable powders, soups and even beef cubes. In India in a merger with Nestle, X is widely famous for an altogether different product targeted at young age groups. It has a 70% odd stake in its category and is hugely famous pan India. Id X.

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Cerelac

What are the locations shown in the map and how are they connected?

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Acropolis of Athens Athens, Greece 447 BC

Alhambra Granada, Spain 1333Angkor Wat Angkor, Cambodia 1113Eiffel Tower Paris, France 1887Hagia Sophia İstanbul, Turkey 360Kiyomizu-dera Kyoto, Japan 1633

Moai Easter Island, Chile 1250

Neuschwanstein Füssen, Germany 1869Red Square Moscow, Russia 1561Statue of Liberty

New York, United States 1886

Stonehenge Amesbury, United Kingdom 2400 BC

Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia 1959

Timbuktu Timbuktu, Mali 1327

Candidates who reached the final shortlistFor the New 7 Wonders but did not make itto the Top 7

Two members of a rock band had a food fight, which involved throwing a particular food item at each other. This food fight became famous after one of the members filed a lawsuit with the band in 1993, in which his attorney referred to it as “___ _________ ________”.This later became the name of the 1993 album by the band, as an inside joke. Name the album and the band.

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Guns n’ Roses

The Spaghetti Incident?

ROUND 2

In the 1994 FIFA World Cup, in a Group B match between Russia and Cameroon, Russia routed Cameroon 6-1. Two records were created in that match which are yet unbroken. X of Cameroon became the oldest player to play and score in a World Cup match, while Y of Russia became the only player to have scored 5 goals in a World Cup match. Name X and Y.

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X- Roger MillaY- Oleg Salenko

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Names of the four bridges spanning the Hooghly river,connecting Kolkata to the opposite bank (Howrah).

A(n) X is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an un-glaciated river valley. It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. Typically, Xs have a dendritic, treelike outline although they can be straight and without significant branches. Bodies of water like the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro and the Lim Bay, Croatia have been suggested to be Y, but are in fact drowned river canyons and hence are X, sometimes also referred to as “False Y”. Give X and Y.

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X- RiaY- Fjord

It was a meeting between two of the most brilliant commanders in British military history. Back then one of them had not yet fought his most famous battle, while the other had not yet ascended to the famous title he would eventually be bestowed with. Id.

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Lord Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)

Lord Horatio Nelson

X is a German-Austrian actor. He has won two Oscars, two BAFTAs and two Golden Globe awards each, in the Best Supporting Actor category for his two most famous performances. Both these movies were directed by Quentin Tarantino. He will appear as Franz Oberhauser, in Spectre, the 24th James Bond movie. Who is X and what were the two multi-award winning performances?

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Christoph Waltz

As SS Hans Landa in Inglourious BasterdsAs Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained

The open star cluster X is known as Pleiades in Western astronomy. It forms the logo of Y, the automobile manufacturing division of a famous Japanese transportation company. In Hindu astrology, X is the third of the 27 Nakshatras (lunar houses) well known in connection to the Hindu deity Z. Identify X, Y, Z.

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X- KrittikaY- SubaruZ- Kartikeya

The municipal works and constructions all around present-day Rome are engraved with the letters SPQR. It stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, or the Senate and the People of Rome, a reference to the ancient Roman Republic. A famous comic book series set largely in a region that now forms part of France popularised another expansion of the same acronym in Italian. Write down:

a) The name of the comic book seriesb) The Italian expansion c) The meaning of this expansion

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a)Asterix

b)Sono Pazzi Questi Romani

c)These Romans are crazy!

This map shows the borders of Austria with it’s neighbouring countries, notably, the Salzburg border with Germany.Lack of knowledge about this fact led to one of the biggest mistakes in the history of cinema.Which movie and what was the mistake?

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The Sound of Music

To flee from the Nazis, the von Trapp family were shown to cross the Salzburg border to Switzerland, which in actual life would have taken them to Germany!

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Rudyard Kipling

New York Times journalist William Safire described X as "New York below 14th Street, from Soho to Greenwich Village, the Bowery, Little Italy, Chinatown, and the sinister areas around the base of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.“ Washington Irving, in his book Salmagundi had first attached this nickname X to New York City. However, we know it for a completely different reason. Give X.

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Gotham

Give A-JA was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.During the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, he and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine both disappeared on the North-East ridge during their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain. His ultimate fate was unknown for 75 years, until his body was discovered on 1 May 1999 by an expedition that had set out to search for the climbers' remains. Whether they reached the summit of Everest before they died remains a subject of speculation and continuing research.While at Cambridge A became friends with the members of the future B group, which included James Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Rupert Brook, John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant. The B was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, whose other famous members were Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. This loose collective of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied together near B, London, hence the name. B shares its name with a famous present day publishing house.

Give A-J

E. M. Forster’s most famous work was C, which is a 1924 novel, set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement. The novel borrows the title from Walt Whitman’s famous poem Leaves of Grass.This book was later adapted into a 1984 drama film, written and directed by D. The movie received 11 Academy Award nominations and won 2 of them. It was the final movie of D’s career. Two of D’s most famous movies, E and F, both featured G, in the titular role in E but in a supporting role in F. G died of a heart attack on 10th July, 2015 in Cairo, Egypt. In F, the titular role featured H, who holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations without a win. In 1962, H was nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role for the aforementioned movie. He lost out to Gregory Peck, who won the award for his performance in the movie I. I was based on a Pulitzer Prize winning book, written by J, whose next book, titled Go Set a Watchman was published in 2015, 55 years after her first one.

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AnswersA. George MalloryB. BloomsburyC. A Passage to

IndiaD. David LeanE. Dr ZhivagoF. Lawrence of

ArabiaG. Omar SharifH. Peter O’TooleI. To Kill a

MockingbirdJ. Harper Lee

TIE BREAKERS

T1

Greek Odysseus __________ __________ __________

Latin __________ Faunus Discordia Forum

Fill in the blanks with the equivalent Greek/Latin forms.

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Greek Odysseus Pan Eris Agora

Latin Ulysses Faunus Discordia Forum

Domino’s is the only one amongst the big four pizza chains to serve X. Papa John’s , Little Caesars, Pizza Hut all serve Y. Only Domino’s in Mexico and Pakistan serve Y. Id X and Y.

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X- Coca-ColaY- Pepsi

Connect

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X was started in 1938 as a grocery store and dealt mainly with noodles. Later it diversified into textiles, insurance, securities etc. It is also the world,s second largest shipping corporation as of 2010 revenue. We know X to be famous for something different, which is its largest source of income. It started it’s most profitable venture with microwave servicing and spare parts. Id X

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Samsung

Prana Studios is a Goregaon, Mumbai based subsidiary of an animation company based in Los Angeles. They were hired by the producers of X to develop Y, with a high level of sophistication and realism unseen in the history of television. According to them the producers wanted "characters, not creatures". Identify X and Y.

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X- Game of ThronesY- Dragons

Like many of his countrymen he aspired to be a fast bowler. But in his own words " I was not fast enough...some of my friends used to make fun of me saying that my run up to the crease was faster than my deliveries ." He took their advice and took to something else. Who?

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Usain Bolt

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