2. 42 questions
Plenty of visuals
Keep it simple
Qns -1-10 are tie breakers
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3. 1
Recently on the occasion of
International Women‘s Day, this author
was requested to wear white to show his
support for the same. He replied saying
― I don‘t wear white. I will wear a lighter
shade of black instead‖ in keeping with
the attire he is usually seen in.
He has also written what you see on the
left among other things.
Who?
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5. 2
The ruler of an Indian Princely
state was given an epithet by his
Mughal allies indicating that he was
‗worth more than one man‘.
The epithet is reflected even today
in a practice to indicate that the
ruler is in residence at the palace
What epithet??
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7. 3
George Orwell is widely believed to be the first to use this term in an
essay titled "You and the Atom Bomb", published in Tribune, 19
October 1945 although the term came into common usage only a few
years later.
He wrote:
―We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as
horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory
has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its
ideological implications;— this is, the kind of world-view, the kind of
beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a State
which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of ‗_____
___' with its neighbours.‖
Fill in the blanks
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9. 4
______ is described by people as far back as Galen and Hippocrates.
They thought this occurs as a result of disturbances resulting in
movements of the womb. According to their theory, the uterus
wasn‘t static but could migrate from one part of the body to the other
resulting in abnormal behaviour.
What one word fills the blank
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11. 5
When he appeared on the ‗Da Ali G Show‘ he was made to sing
this rhyme
"My name is X,
X X-Y,
put down your guns and
listen to Bob Marley―
Who is X?
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17. 8
Francis Lee, the then chairman, spotting an old woman struggling to
cross Claremont Road with two heavy bags of shopping. Lee stopped
his car and wound down the window. "Can you manage, love?" he
asked.
"Bloody hell, don't tell me you're fed up with Alan Ball already," the
old lady shouted back. "I'll come if you're desperate but I insist on a
three-year contract.―
What club??
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19. 9
which city has the following landmarks:
• Archie Goodwin International Airport
• Robinson Park
• Robert Kane Memorial Bridge
• Miller Harbour
• The West-Ward Bridge
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21. 10
The technical name for this musical instrument is X-
forte, meaning soft-loud in Italian. Most commonly though it is
referred to only as X.
What musical instrument???
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25. 12
The word is derived from the combination of the Old Norse word
for ―colour‖ and the name of a lichen growing in northern Europe.
This lichen was used to dye wool and other textiles. This later found
use in another specific application. Identify.
Hint: the question is intended to be something of an acid test
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29. 14
• Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made
aware of its situation.
• Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation
conforming to its perimeter.
• Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
• A body will contort and stay contorted to any hole that is smaller
than it.
The 4 Laws of ______ _______
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31. 15
'The Sound Sweep' is a story by J G Ballard set in a futuristic world
where waste noise is 'collected' and disposed by the use of a 'sonovac'.
Mangon, who is the title character, finds former opera singer Madame
Giaconda hiding in an abandoned radio station. She wishes to sing
again, but there are no takers for her music.
All music is being composed & stored in ultrasonic media and there's
no demand for audible music.
This story inspired musician Trevor Horn to create what?
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37. 18
Greta Oto is a species of
butterfly, known in Spanish
as ‗espejitos‘ meaning Little
Mirrors.
It is commonly known as the
________ Butterfly.
Fill in the blanks
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43. 21
The name literally means one who is ready to sacrifice his life for the cause.
They were a group operating variously on the Afghanistan silk road and then in
Iran and Syria from the 8th to the 13th centuries.
The exact foundation date of the sect is usually taken to be 1090 when Hasan-i
Sabbah captured a mountain stronghold at Alamut, about one hundred miles
from present-day Tehran. They would kidnap caravan guards and drug
them, then take them back to Alamut, which was famed for its lovely gardens.
Plied with hashish, which is forbidden in Islam, the young men would be placed
in the lovely gardens with plenty of food and compliant virgins. The young men
were subsequently convinced they were in Paradise and told they could return
there if they did the bidding of Sabbah.
Visual from a similarly named group from Dune on the next slide
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46. 22
This gentleman was stopped by the immigration authorities while
moving to the States. He was asked what his profession was, to
which he replied, 'I am a producer.‘ Then he was asked what he
produced, to which his reply was ‗gooseflesh‘.
He is also known to have said about television- "Television has
brought back murder into the home - where it belongs." Who?
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48. 23
The Swahili for there are no worries is Hakuna Matata
What song by a legendary group takes its name from a saying of
the Yoruba tribe that means Life goes on.
It has also been incorporated ( lets make that mutilated beyond
belief) in a Subhash Ghai movie from the 1990s.
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49. O BLA DI O BLA DA BY THE BEATLES
THE SUBASH GHAI MOVIE IS PARDES
50. 24 What is being depicted in this map??
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51. SOURCING OF COMPONENTS FOR BUILDING THE
AIRBUS A380
All roads lead to Toulouse in this case
52. 25
What was described as follows - "It's like putting out a
cigarette with both feet, and wiping your bottom with a
towel, to the beat of the music."
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56. 27
The beer earned the nickname X at
the time when Cote d‘Ivoire
qualified for the 2006 World Cup.
In the proceeding celebrations, X
was seen turning down champagne
and other similar style of drinks in
favour of a 1 Litre Bock. This
public endorsement of the beer was
recognised by the local population
and the beer earned it‘s namesake.
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58. 28 X by Mark Knopfler
She's going shopping shopping for shoes
She wants them in magenta and caribbean blue
Platinum and buttercup lilac and black
They fill a bucket up and laugh behind her back
X baby X baby what to do
All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you
In New York and Paris on the Champs Elysée
They see her coming from a long long way
They clap their hands together when they get her in the store
She's gonna wanna get more more more and more and more
X baby X baby what to do
All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you
Who is X???
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60. 29
Chancellor of the King of
Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the
King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of
the Great Palace, Hereditary
nobleman, High Priest of
Heliopolis, Builder, Chief
Carpenter, Chief Sculptor, and Maker
of Vases in Chief- _______.
Most of us would have heard his name
in the context of a series of movies.
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62. 30
In 1960, an experimental Rolex Deep
sea special was used.
In 2012, another Rolex model was
attached to a robotic manipulator arm.
Where was this being done??
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64. 31 But were it to my fancy given
To rate her charms, I'd call them heaven;
For though a mortal made of clay,
Angels must love ___ _______
She hath a way so to control,
To rapture the imprisoned soul,
And sweetest heaven on earth display,
That to be heaven ___ ______
She _______
_____ ________–
To be heaven's self ____ ________.
A poem allegedly by Shakespeare about his wife, but attributed to
Charles Dibdin, composed for the Stratford upon Avon Shakespeare
festival of 1769. Fill in the blanks
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66. 32
One of the world's oldest corporations, and it has been owned by
the same family for some five hundred years.
The X company was established in 1526, when gunsmith Maestro
Bartolomeo X of Gardone Val Trompia (Brescia, Lombardy,
Italy) was paid 296 ducats in payment for 185 arquebus barrels by
the Arsenal of Venice.
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68. 33
The picture shows a comic
book that was released in the
aftermath of the release of a
certain movie sequel.
This sequel was rather
appropriately slated to be
released on the 1st of
November.
What movie??
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70. 34
Pictures from a holiday that
Joe and Alice Scandura took
earlier this year.
Amongst the many things they
did on this holiday, was getting
the picture taken.
The officially sanctioned
version of this holiday involves
the MS Balmoral.
What was this holiday all
about??
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72. 35
What connects the following?
The greeks name for the sun god
New one
From a Greek word meaning lazy
Kal-el‘s home Planet
From the greek for foreign or strange
The heaviest known of its kind previously called emanation
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74. 36
This first premiered at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow on the 5th of
March 1877 as part of a benefit for Pelageya Karapakova, a
premier ballerina. What???
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76. 37
Thomas Wakley founded something in 1823
that is today one of the pioneers and the oldest
in its field.
Contrary to public perception, he named what
he founded X not because of the medical
instrument but because of a style of
architectural windows commonly found at his
Alma Mater (as shown in the pic). Incidentally
there are some significant similarities in the
shape of the window and the instrument.
What is X
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78. 38
Manufactured by Bombay Chemicals Pvt Ltd based in Thane.
The active ingredient is Allethrin, a pyrethroid derivative from
the Chrysanthemum family.
Brand launched in 1970‘s fought off competitors such as
Attach, Guard and Rooster to emerge as the market leader. Still
around today though it has rapidly been overtaken by other newer
products on the market mainly from MNC‘s .
ID this iconic Indian brand
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82. 40
What historic event, that was subsequently immortalised in a famous
literary work, took place in the valley between the Fedyukhin Heights
and the Causeway Heights?
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86. 42
In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a group of
Salaxalans attempt to populate the Earth. However due to the
laziness of their engineer, they all get killed and accidentally
create life on earth.
The ghost of the engineer then possesses the body of the poet
X and influences him to add a stanza to the poem _________
to describe how to correct the problem that destroyed the
landing craft.
However, Dirk Gently saves the world by distracting X long
enough to break his concentration and prevent the expansion
of the poem.
Which poem and who is X?
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