There are a total of 31 questions. In case of tie, star mark questions will be used and if tie still persists, “sudden death” will be used.

All odd numbered questions except Q.No 1 is star marked.

Don’t google. Googling can give u information but no knowledge.

Every question has ample hints so read the question carefully and take a calculated guess.

Quiz Master is the gawd so u better know it. Eight best teams qualify(6 teams+ an all girl’s team

+ all first year team)

Which recent 2014 movie’s name casting

was done in the reverse order in keeping

with the theme of the movie,ie persons

appearing last came first in the list.

Theory of everything!!

The Persians always dropped the ‘S’ or

replaced it with ‘H’. The Greeks tended to

drop even the ‘H’. What consequence did

this have for Geography or perhaps for

History?

Sindhu/Hindu/Indus and thus India

The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants, common in Black communities of the United States, where participants insult each other until one gives up. It is customary for the Dozens to be played in front of an audience of bystanders, who encourage the participants to reply with more egregious insults to heighten the tension and consequently, to be more interesting to watch. Among African-Americans it is also known as "capping", "clowning", "ranking", "ragging", "sounding", "joning", "woofing", "wolfing", "sigging", or "signifying",while the provocations themselves are known as "snaps".

Comments in the game focus on the opposite player's intelligence, appearance, competency, social status, financial situation, and disparaging remarks about the other player's family members—mothers in particular ("yo′ mama...")—are common. So what did it inspire in recent times that was trending in all social media few months back?

A three-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh has

set a new record in archery and entered India

Book of Records. X from Vijayawada has

become the youngest archer to enter India

Book of Records by scoring 388 points from

two distances, seven and five meters. X is the

sister of late Indian archery coach Cherukuri

Lenin.

Who is this phenomenal archery prodigy?

Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd is an Indian company based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh which holds the master franchise for X in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and also for Dunkin' Donuts in India.It is a part of the Jubilant Bhartia Group.

The first X in India opened in New Delhi in 1996 and operates 749 stores in 152 Indian cities as of May 2014.

Some poular advertising of X are shown in the next slide.

X Y (born 16 August 1989, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He plays in the Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings.

His personal explanation of his unusual name. "My grandfather was a scientist. He wrote a letter to Z and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm X”. Yis my father's name.

Paati hint on the next slide.

Ramanujam's first biographers describe him as rigorously orthodox. Ramanujam credited his acumen to his family goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work,and claimed to dream of blood drops that symbolised her male consort, X, after which he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes. He often said, "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God”.

X is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu who is also the supreme god Krishna. Rig Veda describes him as “like some wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming”. He is known primarily as the 'Great Protector' who specifically defends and protects his devotees in times of need.

X pls….

The film was originally going to be shot in Toronto but due to the SARS scare at the time, the director moved it to another location . However some parts of a famous song in the movie are shot in Toronto.

This is supposedly a remake of the movie Anand with X and Y reprising the roles of Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bacchanrespectively.

Movie pls!!

The French chemist Jean Baptiste Perrin

proposed this name in X’s honour in 1909.

American chemistry textbooks picked it up

in the 1930’s. X never attempted to

measure it. The numerical value was first

estimated by the Austrian physicst Johann

Josef Loschmidt in 1865 using Kinetic

theory of Gases. What?

A New York ad agency tried marketing

laundry detergent to Arab consumers

through the use of sequential pictures

showing laundry being cleaned. However,

the advertisers didn’t realize something

and their ad actually depicted the

detergent soiling the clothing after

washing.

What was the glitch??

The advertisers didn't realize Arabic was

read from right to left !!

Zubeen Garg is the Music director

He founded the Quiz club at St. Stephens

New Delhi in the early 1970s. He stood for

union elections under the slogan “______

zeetega zaroor” and went on to officiate as

the President of the College Union.

Who??

Shashi Tharoor

X-Y babies are human offspring, created through a specialized form of in vitro fertilization involving cytoplasmic transfer in which the future baby's mitochondrial DNA comes from a third party. The procedure is intended to prevent mitochondrial diseases including diabetes mellitus and deafness and some heart and liver conditions. It is the subject of considerable controversy in the field of bioethics. The procedure is not currently approved for general use in any country aside from the United Kingdom, which legalised it in February 2015.

What very appropriate yet “anti-sanskari” name is given to it?

The Khitai tribe from Mongolia captured

Northern China in the 10th century A.D.

and later moved in various directions. This

resulted in a name for the region, which

apart from its use in the Russian now

survives only in the Business world.

What?

There are many interpretations of this song: Some think this song is about someone who percieves the

world in a logical rather than an emotional way, as a X does to his work, and tries to apply this logic to the relationship he is in but soon realises that logic cannot be applied to everything and that he is feeling emotional instead and ignores the logic. Obviously he wants to try again now as he realises his mistake.

Some believe that this song meant how love is so powerful, but you dont know it until the one that you truly love is actually gone.

Some other sources states that "The X is Dan.", with Dan referring to Dan Keeling, the A&R man who signed the band to Parlophone.

A red Indian chef had three squaws in three tepees. When he came home from hunting he never knew which squaw was in which tepee because it was so dark. One day he killed a hippopotamus, a bear and a buffalo. He put one hide from each animal into each tepee, so that when he came home late he could feel inside the tepee and would know which squaw was which.

After a year all the three squaws had children. The squaw on the bear hide had a baby boy, that on the buffalo hide had a baby girl and the squaw on the hippopotamus had a girl and a boy.

Either tell us the moral of the story or why it was used for.

The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal

to the sum of thesquaws on the other two

hides.

One more way of remembering

Pythagoras theorem!!

X is a live video streaming app available on iOS developed by team headed by Ben Rubin. It quickly found popularity on micro-blogging site Twitter after its debut on the website Product Hunt in March 2015 and the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

The X or suricate (Suricata suricatta) is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus Suricata. X live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.

In the 2012 movie Life of Pi, the floating island is inhabited by tens of thousands of X, in an environment and grouping unlike real X(pic next slide)

X wrote one of the finest novels ever to feature chess – “The Defence”.

The plot concerns the title character, Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin. As a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and an object of ridicule by his classmates. One day, when a guest comes to his father's party, he is asked whether he knows how to play chess. This encounter serves as his motivation to pick up chess. He skips school and visits his aunt's house to learn the basics. He quickly becomes a great player, enrolling in local competitions and rising in rank as a chess player. His talent is prodigious and he attains the level of a Grandmaster in less than ten years. For many years, he remains one of the top chess players in the world, but fails to become a world champion.

However X is best known for his best-seller Y. In his spare time he composed many fine chess problems. Give me X and Y.

(Hints: Y sounds very Bong, no offence!!)

X: Vladimir Nobakov

Y: Lolita

Better known as The million Y Temple, the construction is an unconventional contemporary Buddhist temple in the Khun Han district of the Sisaket province. It is constructed by using a million X’s of something. The project began back in 1984 in an effort to promote recycling and clean up the landscape. The residential Buddhist monks simply encouraged everyone in the area to bring them X’s to create a temple complex.

However since the completion of the temple more and more buildings have been added. ”The more X’s we get, the more buildings we make,” says Abbot San Kataboonyo.(pic next slide)

1. Very recently, NOIR 43, a line of fashion apparel, was launched by 2 celebrities at the Amazon India Fashion Week.

The menswear line is inspired by military uniforms and the imagery of Kolkata in the 1940s, while the women wear line reflects the glamour of that era and has a chic and sophisticated take on midi-length skirts, palazzos and Peter Pan-collared blouses.

What, however, was the main inspiration behind the dresses?

The photo on the next slide is of the

Palace Bristol Hotel, located at Karlovy

Vary in the Czech Republic.

What is its main claim to fame?

Images of the hotel were used in The

Grand Budapest Hotel movie posters

3. FITB-In Norse mythology, _____ is a series of future

events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor and Loki, among others), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.

Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

(Hint: The answer, already known to comic book fans, again became famous in October last year)

Ragnarok

Few people know that it was Maniram Dewan who first informed the British about the Assam tea grown by the Singpho tribe.

In the mid-1840s, after resigning as the Dewan of the Assam Tea Company due to differences of opinion with the company officers, he established his own tea garden at Chenimorain Jorhat, thus becoming the first Indian to grow tea commercially in Assam.

Today that tea garden is known for what other reason?

The Tocklai Experimental Station/Tea

research Institute is situated here.

In 2008, Carlos Ramirez, an Oakland based artist, was attempting to draw a comic character known as the “Rape Rodent” (picture on next slide).

However, he ended up drawing something else, similar to its image, which has now become a symbol of a popular 21st century phenomenon.

What?

The Troll-face meme

9. In 1504, Christopher Columbus was in

present day Jamaica. He and his crew had

eaten a great deal of the inhabitants' food,

and soon enough, the inhabitants refused to

feed them anymore.

As a result, to convince the inhabitants of his

power, so that they resumed giving food to

them, Columbus used an unique strategy.

The strategy used something which occurs

naturally, and which was also in the news

very recently.

What strategy?

He told the locals that he would make the

moon disappear and then bring it back.

This is the founder talking about how he named his creation. Name what he created-

“One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking _____ is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about _____?" And she said yes...

…And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know _____?" People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew about _____. _____ is a kind, smart business person, and he helped the village. So easy to spell, and globally known…”

Connect this non exhaustive list and FITB-4001 Ptolemaeus (1949)4003 Schumann (1964)4110 Keats (1977)4009 Drobyshevskij (1977)4017 Disneya (1980)4028 Pancratz (1981)4124 Herriot (1986)4538 _____ (1988)4264 Karljosephine (1989)4508 Takatsuki (1990)

Vishyanand

All of them are official names of minor

planets.

11. Give funda for this tribute to LOTR made

by Google in Google Maps (image in next

slide)

The funda has a special significance on this

date.

It was one of the many Easter eggs

provided on Google Maps

12. In 2006, artist-writer Jason Wee presented Self-Portrait (No More Tears Mr. Lee), a portrait of X made from 8,000 plastic shampoo bottle caps placed on an angled pedestal (image on next slide). The title references Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo and the iconic 1965 moment when X cried on TV while announcing _____ 's separation from Malaysia.Id X, and why he was in the news recently.

Lee Yuan Kew

He died on 23rd March this year.

Ad for what??