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AQC 6
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Date: 28th September 2014

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Rules
• Written Round - 20 questions.
• Answers to be written in BLOCK CAPITAL letters.
• Please Do Not Copy.
• *ed Questions resolve ties. Failing which – Sudden Death.
• Cybernetic Investigation is NOT Allowed.
• Quizmaster's Decision is Final. Sadly.

• Celebrating the 20th
Anniversary of X, this
café is actually designed
after how the Y café was
depicted in X.
• Identify Y.
01

Central Perk from F.R.I.E.N.D.S

• X was designed by ELS Architecture
and Urban Design of Berkeley,
California on a commission by
the Anschutz Entertainment
Group(AEG) in 2002.
• It opened on October 18, 2007 with
six concerts featuring The
Eagles and The Dixie Chicks.
• Named after a Scandinavian Company,
what is this place which hosts the
Primetime Emmy Awards known as?
03

• What phenomenon,
in Indian religious
and traditional
practices, lasts
exactly for 48
minutes?
04

• After which
Indian
Monument are
these Durga
Pooja pandals
modelled?
05

L I J S
O Z T
07
Connect these to the world of Gaming.

• An alternate name of what recent Politico-Cultural
phenomena's name stems from the love story of a boy
from the House of Montague and a girl from the House
of Capulet.
• The name is so given as the premise of the phenomenon
resembles the story.
• What is this Politico-Cultural phenomenon which is
making rounds of the Social Media?
08

• ‘X’ began as a regional folk style called “Son Jaliscience”
in the center west of Mexico originally played only with
string instruments and musicians dressed in the white
pants and shirts of peasant farmers.
• It’s name is said to have derived from the French
word mariage ('marriage'), dating from the French
Intervention in Mexico in the 1860s, related to the music’s
appearance at weddings.
• What is X?
09

• Which World Heritage
Site gets it’s name
from this Shiva temple
located within its
territory?
10

• X came into existence when The Duke of Wellington instructed his
shoemaker, Hoby of St. James's Street, London, to modify the 18th-century
Hessian boot.
• They were at first made of soft calfskin leather. However in 1852 Hiram
Hutchinson met Charles Goodyear and bought the patent for
the vulcanization process for natural rubber to manufacture footwear and
moved to France to establish À l'Aigle("to the Eagle") in 1853
• In a country where 95% of the population were working on fields
with wooden clogsas they had been for generations, the introduction of the
wholly waterproof, Wellington-type rubber boot became an instant success:
farmers would be able to come back home with clean, dry feet.
• What is X?
11

• In Greek mythology, X was nymph
who cast a spell on Zeus which caused
him to fall in love with her. In
consequence of this, Hera
metamorphosed her into the Eurasian
Wryneck bird, which has occasionally
been used for magic and divination an
is remarkable for its ability to twist its
head almost 180 degrees while hissing
like a snake.
• What superstition gets its name from
the popular name of this bird?
12

• X is an irrefutable takeover offer made to a target company by
an acquiring company.
• Typically, the acquisition price's premium is extremely generous
compared to the prevailing market price. Therefore, if the
target company's management declines the offer, shareholders
may initiate lawsuits or other forms of revolt against the target
company for not performing their fiduciary duty of looking out
for the best interests of the shareholders.
• What is this kind of an offer popularly known as?
13

• What form of public journal/newspaper gets it’s
name from a Venetian Coin, as in 16th Century France
these newspapers cost One Coin of the Venetian
Currency?
14

• Connect
the 2
images.
15

• Connect the
2 images to a
record setting
Food item.
16

• Created by Rafalanse in 2012, X is the clear rip-off of
the original technological phenomenon.
• X is a third party product which is slightly different
from the original product in terms of themes, file
sizes and colour of the logo.
• What is X?
17

18
Audio Question
• ‘Jo Kahun, So Karun’ is the theme song for an Indian TV
show, which was shot in Gujarat & Rajasthan.
• It was released after the show ended and the song’s title is such
because of a fact that the show had a segment where the
contestants were supposed to do what they say.
• Which Show?

• Todd's syndrome, named after Dr. John Todd, is a
disorienting neurological condition that
affects human perception. Sufferers experience dysmetropsia or
size distortion of other sensory modalities. A temporary
condition, it is often associated with migraines, brain tumors,
and the use of psychoactive drugs.
• It is named X after a fictional character who undergoes similar
symptoms after eating a hallucinogens.
• What is the Todd’s Syndrome popularly known as?
19

• The format was originally invented in Selsey, a small seaside town in the south of
England under the name "Birdman Rally" in 1971 & the first competition was held in
1991 in Vienna, Austria.
• In this competition, the participants have to build home-made, size- and weight-limited,
human-powered contraptions which are usually launched off a pier about 30
feet high into the sea (or suitably sized reservoir of water).
• The record for the longest ‘distance covered’ is 258 feet was set on September 21,
2013, at Long Beach, California by the team "The Chicken Whisperers.”
• What Sporting Event is this?
20

Rules
• There are No Rules. I RULE.
• 06 Rounds.
• Format of each round will be explained before the round itself.
• Googling & Out of turn answers are NOT ALLOWED.
• Audience – Keep Calm. We have questions for you 

Rules
• Written Round.
• 5 Slides – Connecting to a Specific Theme.
• Points for Theme Identification are mentioned on each
slide.
• No Negatives.

Connect Elements
• Dagger
• Barbed Wire
• Pack Of Cards

Connect Elements
• Mother Mary with Baby Jesus
• Chains & Locks
• 1488

Connect Elements
• Wood Pecker
• Crown with 5 points
• Three Dots

Connect Elements
• HourGlass
• Clock with No Hands
• Five Dots

Connect Elements
• CobWeb
• Swastika/Nazi Symbol
• Teardrop

Rules
• Song Minimalist Posters.
• Written Round.
• 5 questions – Open to All.
• +03 for every Correct Answer.
• Bonus +05, if all Correct.
• No Negatives.

Answers
• Light My Fire – The Doors
• Eight Days a Week – The Beatles
• Where is my Mind – Pixies
• House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
• U can’t touch this – MC Hammer

Rules
• 10 Questions – CW.
• -10 On Pounce.

• “One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was
thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said,
"Do you know about X?" And she said yes. I said, "What do you
know about X?", and she replied with the name of the story. And
I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went onto the street and
found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know X?" People
from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China
… they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business person, and
he helped the village. So … easy to spell, and globally known. X
opens the gates for small- to medium-sized companies.”
• What is X?
01

• Written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-
Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830
novel Paul Clifford, X is an often-mocked and
parodied which is described as “the literary
posterchild for bad story starters”, by Writer's Digest.
• Snoopy always begins his novels with this
phrase because Charles Schulz thought “it was a
cliché, and had been one for a very long time.”
• The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction
Contest sponsored by at San Jose State University,
recognizes the worst examples of “X” writing. It
challenges entrants to compose “the opening
sentence to the worst of all possible novels.”
• What phrase is this?
02

It was a dark & stormy night…

• This is the ‘El
Castell’ Hotel in
Spain.
• It’s structure is
inspired from a
German-writing
author’s last work.
• Which Author and
what Book?

• X was a Portuguese explorer who
organised the Spanish expedition to
the East Indies that resulted in the
first circumnavigation of the Earth.
• X's expedition of 1519–1522 became the
first expedition to sail from the Atlantic
Ocean into the Pacific Ocean and the first
to cross the Pacific.
• This is the monument of X in Punta
Arenas in Chile. The statue looks towards
something which is named after him.
• What?
04

05
Connect the images to an Internet
Phenomenon.

• X was created by a Cincinnati fast-food franchise owner named
Lou Groen, in 1962 because his Catholic customers engaged in
the practice of not eating meat on Fridays.
• Groen made a deal with the Owner that they would sell two
non-meat sandwiches on a Friday, the owner's own Hula Burger
(grilled pineapple with cheese on a cold bun) and the X, and
whichever sold the most would be added to the permanent
menu. X "won hands down" and was added to menus
throughout 1963 until reaching nationwide status in 1965.
• What very famous food item are we talking about here?
06

• In earlier times, “Samudrolanghana” or
“Sagarollanghana”, i.e. crossing the sea were considered
an offence and taboo and the people who crossed the
seas were considered outcasts and stripped off of their
Varna status.
• Hence, the residents of this place were always under the
threat of being outcaste when they returned to their
homes.
• What place gets it’s name from this taboo?
07

• XY is a natural phenomenon caused by the collision
of solar wind and magnetospheric charged particles with
the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere).
• It gets it’s name from the Roman goddess of dawn, and
the Greek name for the north wind.
• The following conversation occurred between two
operators of the American Telegraph Line
between Boston and Portland, Maine, on the night of
2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Traveler:
08

• Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source]
entirely for fifteen minutes."
• Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected.“
• Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the X current. How do you receive
my writing?“
• Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually.“
• Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as
the X seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at
times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this
trouble.“
• Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?“
• Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."
08

• "He never married" was a phrase commonly used
by obituary writers in the United Kingdom.
• As recently as 2007, The Daily Telegraph concluded its
obituary of Count Gottfried von Bismarck with the
phrase.
• Why?
09

• Around 19th Century, conductors had to move outside of the trains
cars from one step outside of the compartment to the next.
• Although trains moved much slower than today, there were numerous
accidents. So the operators decided to check the tickets on the
platform - before everybody would get on the train.
• People who wanted to pass these checkpoints were asked to do
something prior to coming to the platform.
• What were they required to do and what practice originated thus?
10

Rules
• 10 Questions - ACW.
• -10 On Pounce.

• Built in 1883, X whose name literally means, ‘kind
river’, is a city located in the northwestern South
Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.
• The city was home to just 4,700 people
when Jemulpo port was built in 1883. Today 2.9
million people live in the city, making it Korea’s third
most populous city after Seoul and Busan.
01

• The city was the site of the Battle of Chemulpo Bay.
• X also hosted a series of major international events. The Global Fair &
Festival 2009 X, Korea.
• The city hosted a meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers in February 2010.
• X was the site of the third Global Model United Nations Conference, held
from 10th to the 14th of August 2011.
• It first hosted the X Women Artists' Biennale in 2004 which expanded into
welcoming international artists in its subsequent 2007, 2009 and 2011.
• What city is this which is in the news these days?
01

• Connect these saints to something in Vexillology.
02

• Demetri Martin is an American
Comedian best known for his
work as a stand-up comedian
on The Daily Show and for
his Comedy Central Show
Important Things with Demetri
Martin.
• While Performing, he always plays
a musical instrument or has live
music going on in the
background.
• Why?
03

So that Comedy Central Can’t Edit His Show

• It was believed that Y was married to a goat before being
married to her Husband. Later on, when Y’s husband
found out about this, he imprisoned all members of Y’s
family.
• Since all of them were sparsely fed (with one grain of rice
each per day) in the prison, the family decided that at least
one of them could survive and gave all the rice to X so
that he could live on to take revenge.
• Who is X?
04

• “Have there been disasters? I think that's a very relative
term with hair. Let's say there have been moments I'd
rather not relive, like that whole X thing. I love Chris
[McMillan, her hairstylist], and he's the bane of my
existence at the same time because he started that damn
X, which was not my best look. How do I say this? I think
it was the ugliest haircut I've ever seen. What I really want
to know is, how did that thing have legs? Let's just say I'm
not a fan of short, layered cuts on me personally, so I
don't love revisiting that particular era.”
• Jennifer Aniston about what?
05

• This is a photo of a European
“region”, which depicts urban
life of that region in the
evening.
• Even though there isn't a vast
distance between these two
regions, why is one brighter
than the other? And what
region is this?
06

East & West Germany using Different
Lightbulbs

• A common belief is that the name was chosen by the Duke of
Wellington after having been inspired by the bravery of a soldier at
the Battle of Boxtel in 1794 during the Flanders Campaign. After a
fierce engagement, the Duke, in command of the 33rd Regiment of
Foot, spotted the best man-at-arms in the regiment, Private X,
terribly wounded. The private said "It's all right, sir. It's all in a day's
work" and died shortly after.
• Hence, X became a slang for a British Army Soldier.
• X is also a type of Mango.
• What is X?
08

• It was started as a tea stall outside a cemetry by a guy called K.H.
Mohammed alongwith his partner Krishna Kutti Nair. However, the
Business boomed and the place started expanding until its walls
started encircling some of the graves.
• Krishan Kutti Nair, the owner of the creepy restaurant thinks the
location is good for business, ”The graveyard is good luck. Our
business is better because of it”
• The graves within the premises of the restaurant are of the relatives
of a 16th Century Sufi saint.
• What place is being described here?
09

• While studying at Columbia University, X met Paul Robeson,
the lead singer of Show Boat and he heard their song, ‘Ol’ Man
River’, which is about contrasts the struggles and hardships
of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of
the Mississippi River; it is sung from the point of view of a
black stevedore on a showboat.
• Back in his country, he created his own versions of the song in
3 languages, featuring 2 rivers.
• Who? And Which Song?
10

Bhupen Hazarika – Ganga Behti Ho Kyu

Rules
• Cocktail Minimalist Posters.
• Written Round.
• 5 questions – Open to All.
• Bonus +05, if all Correct.
• No Negatives.

• Rum, cream of coconut,
and pineapple juice,
usually served either
blended or shaken with
ice.
01

02
• Vodka, tomato juice, and
usually other spices or
flavorings such
as Worcestershire
sauce, Tabasco sauce, piri
pirisauce, beef consommé or
bouillon, horseradish, celery,
olives, salt, black pepper,
cayenne pepper, lemon juice,
and celery salt.

03
• Vodka, coffee
liqueur (e.g.,
Kahlúa or Tia Maria),
and cream served with
ice in an Old Fashioned
glass.

• Tequila, triple sec(such
as Cointreau)
and lime or lemon juice,
often served with salt on
the rim of the glass.
04

• The original
(tequila, crème de cassis,
lime juice and soda
water).
• The more popular
concoction
(tequila, orange juice,
and grenadine syrup).
05

Answers
• Pina Colada
• Bloody Mary
• White Russian
• Margarita
• Tequila Sunrise

Visual Connect
ROUND VI
Tags: India||Music

Rules
• Written Round.
• 7 Slides – Connecting to a Specific Theme.
• Points for Theme Identification are mentioned on
each slide.

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