2. Special Powers
1. Felix Felicis
2. Portkey
3. Pensieve
4. The Imperio Curse
3. 4 Teams
Round 1 -5 ( 10 questions each )
Each team has to tell what number of questions it will answer .
a-2
b-3
c-2
d-2 (Cannot say 3)
Each right answer is +20 ; -0.
The sum cannot be exactly the number of Questions, because someone has to loose.
Now if a team answers exactly that many number of questions that they said
A for ex does that
then 2x5 = 10 points added to them
if less answered then -5
If more answered like 4 by b team then its like +1x5
6. Removed “surveillance by secret
agents”
• The complaint by various users was that the
implied humour was “insulting’” and it trivialized
real issues such as NSA’s offensive hacks.
• The newer version reads as:
– “Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around
in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search
history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs.
Any files you download or bookmarks you create will
be kept. Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior
of other people, servers, software, or people standing
behind you.”
7. 2.
• In the card game Texas Hold ‘em Poker, the
combination of an Ace and a King is named
after a sportsperson because it “looks great
but never wins”.
• Who?
10. 3.
• X was born on May 22, 1987. Father Srdjan and mother Dijana
owned the company Family Sports, which had three restaurants
and a tennis academy. X's father, uncle and aunt were all
professional skiers, and his father also excelled at soccer
• In the summer of 1993, at 6 years old, X was spotted by Yugoslavian
tennis legend Jelena Gencic at his parents' sports complex empty
indoor swimming pool. Growing up in war-torn Belgrade, the seven-time
Grand Slam champion sometimes practiced in the swimming
pool.
• During this time, the war in former Yugoslavia and the bombing of
Belgrade meant that, for almost three months, X and his family
would spend a few hours in the middle of each night in the pool. X
has said that the hardships of war drove him to pursue tennis with
even greater determination.
13. 4.
• X (County Clerk Office) Texas ISS
• X (ISS) is utilized for its purpose County
Clerk Office in 1 day.
• The County Clerk Office is the only place on
earth capable of sending X.
• X is usually sent once in 4 years.
14.
15. • In order that the astronauts can vote in the
presidential elections, the ballot sheet is sent
to the International Space Station!
16. 5.
• X is a restaurant company. The company operates 175
full service dining restaurants: of which 13 are under
the Grand Lux Cafe marque and 1 under the Rock Sugar
Pan Asian Kitchen marque. It also operates two bakery
production facilities - one in Calabasas, California and
the other in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. David
Overton, the company's founder, established the future
chain's pattern of offering an eclectic menu and
signature product. According to him, it "does not have
any sort of arrangements with the TV show is and
really pleased to be featured in such a funny and wildly
popular TV show." Identify X.
22. 7.
• Paris Hilton
• Alison Brie
• Joy Corrigan
• Hope Solo
• Kim Kardashian
• Vanessa Hudgens
• Aly Michalka & AJ Michalka
• Emily Ratajkowski
• Kate Bosworth
• Jennifer Lawrence
• Ariana Grande
• Avril Lavigne
• Aubrey Plaza
• Bar Rafaeli
• Becca Tobin
• Brie Larson
• Hillary Duff
• Jannette McCurdy
28. 9.
• Cetology is a branch of marine mammal science that
studies the approx eighty species of whales, dolphins,
and porpoise in the sceintific order Cetacea.
• A Literary Classic explores this field through the
narrator of the book who provides a zoological
classification of whales.
• Although a qork of fiction, author included sequences
of chapters concerned largely with a pseudo- objective
discussion of the properties of whales.
• Which literary classic ?
36. 11.
• X is derived from the Turkish word cevirme
meaning ‘turning’.
• It’s main ingredients are lamb, chicken, turkey,
beef, veal or mixed meats.
• X is usually eaten with tabbouleh, fattoush,
taboon bread, tomato, and cucumber.
• Dressings include: tahini (or tahina), amba sauce
(pickled mango with chili), hummus, or flavored
with vinegar and spices such as cardamom,
cinnamon, and nutmeg.
40. 12.
• The sport of X was one of the sports held during the
original Olympics.
• When the modern Olympics started, X happened 5 times
between 1900 and 1920 before being put to rest by the IOC
because their were too many sports and too many
participants competing.
• Surprisingly the winners during those editions of the games
were teams comprising of police forces, eg, Liverpool police
and Metropolitan Police of Great Britain.
• In the Oxford dictionary X meant: the decisive contest; the
real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy
43. 13.
• Commonly remembered as XY, where X refers to a learned
man and Y was a pen name(meaning free) he chose, XY was
awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992 posthumously.
• There is also a theory which suggests that earlier when he
was offered Bharat Ratna he promptly declined it saying
that it should not be given to those who have been on the
selection committee.
• He has also been referred as Mir-i-Karawan and has been
called as "a person of the calibre of Plato, Aristotle and
Pythagorus".
• Litsoc recently conducted a debate on the day !!
• ID him and significance in this quiz?
46. 14.
• The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of
the University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing ofJan
Opletal and worker Václav Sedláček as well as against the German
occupation of Czechoslovakia and the execution of nine student leaders,
over 1,200 students sent to concentration camps (mainly Sachsenhausen
concentration camp) and the closure of all Czech universities and colleges.
By this time Czechoslovakia no longer existed, as it was divided by the Nazi
Germany into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak
Republic with puppet Catholic-fascist government.
• During late 1939 the Nazi authorities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia suppressed a demonstration in Prague held by students of the
Medical Faculty of Charles University. The demonstration was held on the
28th of October to commemorate the anniversary of the independence of
the Czechoslovak Republic (1918).
• Significance in todays quiz ?
49. 15.
• The Academie Zubrowska offers an in-depth course started in
• 2013 to enable the enthusiast to seek information about the
• political and cultural world of Zubrowska. It features a case study
• which analyses the trends in tourism, includes a chapter on the
• war, and a component offered by the Lutz School: Beaux Arts,
• Literature and Culinary Evolution. About itself the latter says, “The
• Lutz School included the most influential writers and thinkers on
• the continent, with a particular predilection for the artist with a
• gambler’s spirit, whether his currency was oil, ink or baked good”.
• It thanks the patronage of the Zubrowkian 100 during the twenty
• war-less years.
• Why am I talking about this?
52. 16.
• This was composed by Ilayaraja in 1983 for
Mani Ratnam’s directorial debut Pallavi
Anupallavi which also featured Anil Kapoor in
first leading role
• Heard it where recently ?
Add audio
55. 17.
• X is used for calculating the relative skill levels of players in
competitor-versus-competitor games.
• The difference in the ratings between two players serves as
a predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with
equal ratings who play against each other multiple times
are expected to score an equal number of wins. A player
whose rating is 100 points greater than their opponent's is
expected to win 64% of the time; if the difference is 200
points, then the expected win proportion for the stronger
player is 76%.
• Named afterd it’s creater Arpad X, id X and where is it used
majorly.
58. 18.
• Malana is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
• Malana has a history and it goes back to Jamlu rishi (sage) who inhabited
this place and made rules and regulations.
• It is one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well organized
parliamentary system.
• People in Malana consider all non-Malani to be inferior and consequently
untouchable. Visitors to Malana town must pay particular attention to
stick to the prescribed paths and not to touch any of the walls, houses or
people there. If this does occur, visitors are expected to pay a forfeit sum,
that will cover the sacrificial slaughter of a lamb in order purify the object
that has been made impure.
• This is due to the supposed superiority of the people of Malana is because
according to legends they are either the descendants of Aryans or even
more legendary they are X?
• What is X?
• Hint: think foreign invasions
63. • Lonar Lake, created by a meteor impact.
• Lonar Lake saline soda lake located in Buldana
district, Maharashtra, India. It has a radius of 2
Kms and a depth of 100m.
64. 20.
• Mohammadpur Umri is a small village close to
the Indian Air Force base of Bamrauli, near
Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh State, India
• The village has a large number of X and therefore
sometimes labeled as the X capital of the world.
Out of a total population of 600, there are almost
33 occurrences of X here. The village boasts a
monozygotic (MZ) rate that is 300 times the
national average and maybe one of the highest in
the world.
71. Hint
• A famous yesteryear star reciting a close
friend and co-star’s favorite poem at the event
of her death. The poem is by an Indian poet.
Name me all 3.
74. 23.
• In October last year, Bhanwad in Jamnagar,
Gujarat to a very strange and rare weather
phenomenon. Local reports say that similar
incidents happened in Bantiya village in Junagadh
district.
• However, this phenomenon has been happening
in Honduras yearly for the past century and is
known there by the name Lluvia de Peces.
• What are we talking of ?
77. 24.
• Shiitake mushrooms ( yeah, the ones that
made life hell at Megawhats), apart from
tasting well when taken from oak trees, have
been used to model one of the most
memorable villains In gaming history. Who ?
80. 25.
The website X is a user-edited
database of some 4,500 films classified
by whether or not they pass the X test,
with the added requirement that the
women must be-named characters. As
of November 2013, it listed 56% of
these films as passing all three of the
test's requirements, 11% as failing one
(the women's conversations are about
men), 23% as failing two (the women
do not talk to each other), and 10% as
failing all three (there are not two
named female characters).[21]
According to Mark
Harris of Entertainment Weekly, if
passing the test were mandatory, it
would have jeopardized half of the
2009 Academy Award for Best
Picture nominees.
87. • It is a type of prison building designed by
English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy
Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is
to allow an observer to observe all prisoners
without the incarcerated being able to tell
whether they are being watched, thereby
conveying what one architect has called the
"sentiment of an invisible omniscience.
92. • The famed ‘Oompa-loompas’ created by Roald
Dahl, were a pygmy race rescued from Africa.
This naturally created a race controversy, and
were changed to rosy-pink hippies in the next
version”
95. • Rufus the Hawk is a Harris Hawk used by
the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet
Club to keep pigeons away from their venue.
Described as an "important member of the
Wimbledon family",[1] Rufus has been scaring
away the birds for five years,[2] taking over
from the previous hawk, Hamish.[3]
102. 32.
• They first appeared in USA in 1919, made with
muslin. The idea was introduced by Joseph
Kreiger in San Francisco. They were initially
intended for caterers, but later most were being
brought for the home. They were introduced in
Britain in 1952 & soon became an integral part of
the British daily life. They have also been used as
a variation of the moistening effect of placing
cucumber slices over the eyes in attempts to
stave off the inevitable effects of ageing. What?
105. 33.Inklings
• The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with
the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s
and late 1949. The Inklings’s were literary enthusiasts who praised the value
of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• C. S. Lewis
• Owen Barfield
• Charles Williams
• Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien
• Lewis's elder brother, Warren Lewis
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• Adam Fox
• Hugo Dyson
• Robert Havard
114. 36.
• Originally one of the White Towns of
Andalusia, using 4000 litres of paint, the entire
town of Juzcar was painted by Sony in a
promotional stunt in 2011.Although, the
company offered to repaint the town, citizens
decided to let it be after it saw a tourist surge
from 300 per year to 80,000 in six months
• What was the promotion by Sony ?
117. 37.
• I is a 2002 film directed by David DeCoteau, starring
Jeff Branson, Louis Lasser and William Gregory Lee
• Plot Summary: On the advice of a bartender familiar
with _______crowd, Jeff applies to the
________Brothers brokerage firm for his dream job as
a stock broker. He is forced to abandon his love and
values for cunning and instinct.After a change of heart,
he finds that leaving the brotherhood is harder than
joining.
• The name X is very similar to a 2014 release
• X all about ?
120. 38.
• X was initially started after It was concluded that Y is not ever going to
support Nokia N9.As a result, a community application emerged under the
name “Z”, allowing N9 and N950 users to utilize basic features of Y
service.Because Z was open source, it quickly develped by the awesome
communicty work to become the world’s first full fledged unofficial Y
client, connecting more than 200,000 N9 users to the service.
• Z was awarded Hack of the Month at Berlin Hack and Tell June 2012 and
was one of the wiiners in the Qt Projects app contest in Linux Tag 2012
• Z for BB10 became and interest when Y initially stated they have no plans
to support the platform.So it was decided to port Z to BB10, though not
under the name Z, but X.Main reason for this change was because of the
existence of another chat application which already holds the name Z.
• The reson is that name X serves more the new aim of the project.
125. Dumbeldore and Grindelvald
• The short film showcase the freindship
between the harry potter series –
Dumberldore and Grindelwald when ariana is
aciidentally killed not actually shown in HP7
126. 40.
• In greek mythology Cassandra was one of the princess
of Troy, daughter of Priam and Hecuba.According to
the myth, Cassandra was astonishingly beautiful and
blessed with the gift of foreseeing the future.Her curse
was that no one believed her, a fact that weighed
heavily on the destruction of Troy during the Trojan
War.
• Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy.She warned
the Trojans about the Geeks hiding inside the Trojan
Horse, Agamemnon’s death and her own demise.
• Why would id tell you this ?
127.
128.
129. • Cassandra Trelawney was a famous celebrated
witch and Seer
• She was the great great grandmother to
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy
Divination Professor Sybill Trelawnet (whose
precitions no one beieves)
130. 41.
• Kip Stephern Thorne is an American
theoritical physicist, known for his
contributions in gravitational physics
and astrophysics. A long time friend and
colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl
Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of
Theoritical Physics at the Caltech until
2009.
• He is one of the worlds leading experts
on relativity and continues to do
scientific research and in news for a
new ‘project’ done recently.
• What ?
146. 46.
• All of the reasons that _________has outlined in public are true. I know it sounds
somewhat unbelievable because it's so weird, but if it was made up, I think any PR
person would have come up with a better made-up story.
If there is a deeper reason, it is this:
The job as CEO of X is incredibly stressful and draining. After two and a half years,
I'm basically completely worn out, and it was having significantly detrimental
effects on my personal life. If anything, I probably pushed myself way too far - as a
first-time CEO, all I knew was that such jobs are supposed to be stressful, so I never
really had a good baseline, i.e. how stressful is too stressful, until multiple outside
people and coaches I was working with remarked to me that I looked incredibly
worn down for months on end and it wasn't supposed to be this hard.On the office
location issue: it's probably something we could have worked out.
Finally, I look forward to being able to go back to using X again as a regular user.
149. 47.
• X is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Galicia, and
founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is
the flagship chain store of the Inditex group, the world's largest apparel
retailer.
• It is claimed that X needs just two weeks to develop a new product and
get it to stores, compared to the six-month industry average, and launches
around 10,000 new designs each year.
• Amancio Ortega opened the first X store in 1975 in a central street in
downtown La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Ortega named his store Zorba after
watching the classic filmZorba the Greek, but apparently there was a bar
that was called the same, Zorba, two blocks away, and the owner of the
bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Zorbas."
They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just
rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found X, which
leaves fans wondering where the additional ___ came from, but there is
speculation that they had more than one set of letters.
• X is a company which has stores in India with Tata’s Trent ?
154. Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to
Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on October 12, 1810. The
citizens of ________ were invited to attend the festivities held on
the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal
event. The fields were named Theresienwiese ("Theresa's meadow")
in honor of the Crown Princess, and have kept that name ever since,
although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the
"Wiesn".
What is “Wiesn” more commonly known as?
