3. There‟re totally 11 ways a batsman can be
dismissed in Cricket. Caught, Bowled, Run out,
Hit wicket, Stumped and LBW are the six most
common ones. Name the other five.
2 points for each.
4. 1. Obstructing the field
2. Handling the ball
3. Retired
4. Hit the ball twice
5. Timed out
5. Zeroth pointh oneth round
4 questions
20 points at stake this time
Shown will be re-enactments of famous “photographs” on The Simpsons.
Simply name them. 5 points for each
15. Zeroth pointh twoth round
Still written
3 Questions/Clues – One single answer.
Get in on first clue: 30 points; Second – 20; Third – 10
No points for the individual answers
16. Clue #1 – 30 points
In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The
Front Row , X narrates an incident in a party
Where “One of them was drunk and said ‘Sir, Ye
ABC kya hai?, Isme na A hai, na B hai.. sirf C
hai..”
A,B,C will should give you the connect.
17. Clue #2 – 20 points
He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavananda‟s
1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita. From 1941 through
1960, he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and
the West, published by The Vedanta Society.
One of the reasons stated for why the relationship
between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that
the Swami disapproved of X‟s continued defence of Y.
The connect lies in Y
18. Clue #3 – 10 points
In February 2004, Astronomers in the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a
planet about 50 light years away and 4,000 km
across about entirely made of diamond. What
name has was given to it?
20. Lysergic Diethylamdie
#1 – Love, Sex aur Dhoka.
Sir, Love, Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ?– Isme na Love hai,
na Sex hai, sirf Dhoka hai
#2 - Aldous Huxley, LSD.
#3 – Lucy – Lucy in the sky with diamonds
22. Round 1 – Better Book Titles
Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitles.com
The cover remains the same, only the title is altered
Try to guess the real name of the book.
5 points for direct answers
Infinite Pounce. Differential scoring (+5; +4 ; +3 ;+2)
Here‟s an example:
23.
24. Answer - Dracula
Sometimes, the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed
too obvious. Otherwise, this is pretty much it. You need to guess the
original title.
First five questions go clockwise, the next five anti-clockwise.
Ready?
57. #1
In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory,
Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his
new invention, the Wonkavision, a teleporter. Any real
thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up „in‟ a TV
screen on the other end of the room.
To demonstrate, Wonka first uses one of his own
chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels
an Oompaloompa is watching.
What does the chocolate end up as or what is the
oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears?
Hint:
59. It takes place of the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
60. #2
Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, in their book „Freedom at
Midnight‟ talk about this one secret “guarded so cautiously that
even the British CID were unaware of its existence”.
“It was a grey piece of film, at whose heart were two dark circles
no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls. Each was ringed by an
irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the
moon. Above them, a galaxy of little white spots stretched up
the film’s grey surface towards the top.”
They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could
have changed the course of Asian History.
This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about
whether this actually was the case. But in the spirit of curiosity,
what was supposed to be on that film?
62. The film was supposedly an X-ray, the black
circles were pulmonary cavities, indicating
tuberculosis. They belonged to Mohammed Ali
Jinnah.
According to Lapierre and Collins, Jinnah‟s
illness was a closely guarded secret and if the
congress knew, all they‟d have to do to avoid
partition was wait for him to die.
63. #3
Shown here is the „unofficial‟ flag of something.
The colours are supposed to represent the “Future
history” of the organization/territory (or any such
thing which can have a flag).
Identify the flag. Why is it „unofficial‟?
(Image on the next slide)
67. #4
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture drama/comedy
directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted by Terry Johnson from
his play of the same name. The film is set in 1954, with most
of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City.
The action revolves around the interplay of four characters
who represent iconic figures of the era, Joseph McCarthy,
Joe DiMaggio and X and Y, called The Senator, The
Ballplayer, and The Actress and The Professor, respectively.
Id X and Y.
73. #6
Somewhere in late 2005, X, along with his friends
Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an
XSS based worm as a prank. The worm would spread
through FB profiles virally, through friends viewing each
others‟ profiles . Each infected profile would start
looking like a Myspace profile & automatically send a
friend request to X‟s own profile, enabling him to keep
track of the no. of infected profiles.
However, the reason we know his today is because of
a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him.
Who?
78. Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
Advocated by Bobby Fischer.
It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess; however, the
starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized. The
random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the
memorization of opening lines impracticable, compelling players to rely on
their talent and creativity.
79. #8
Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and
Fantasy. Shown is the cover of one of her
anthologies Red as Blood or X. The title story
happens to be a retelling of Snow White. Some
other stories include The Golden Rope
(Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes
(Cinderella). All these stories have been rewritten
to show things from a feminist perspective. By
what other title (X) is this book known?
(Image in next slide)
83. #9
While talking about how cultures subconsciously borrow from each other,
Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin
gives the example of the Spanish word
Ojala, which is used to mean hopefully or I
hope that. From which rather unlikely
source does the word borrow its origin?
86. #10
He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a
blogger created 'Spot the Pretentious _______Reference', a game
to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times. Indeed, if
you search him on the NYT website, you'll find 1,688 references
since 1981, almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past
6 years.
Frank: Do you know who ___________is?
Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job.
Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost
no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since
Shakespeare.
FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from.
92. #12
Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in
which Stephen Hawking claimed that he “had
experimental evidence that Time Travel was not
possible”.
This experiment also features in the series „Into
the Universe with Stephen Hawking‟.
What did he do?
101. #15
The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book
Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse, an
English naturalist. The idea is sometimes mockingly referred
to as “Last Thursdayism”. And here‟s your only clue:
Omphalos is Greek for Navel.
What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize? Chimp
away.
103. The argument that God created the world
recently (in the last ten thousand years, in keeping
with Flood geology), but complete with signs of
great age, like with mountains and canyons, trees
with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair,
fingernails, and navels (in response to the
argument of “If God created Adam and Eve out
of nothing, how/why do they have navels?”)
104. #16
An accomplished singer and dancer, he won the tony award for Best Leading
Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989. Clip 1 is him singing on
David Letterman. Clip 2 is an ad, his first commercial success. Identify this
person.
107. #17
Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May, 2008.
They named it so because according to them, everything
which existed before X was simply pre-X.
It was recognized as one of „2010 Hottest Silicon valley
Companies‟ by Leadhill and nominated for a webby
award in 2011.
Twitter acquired it on March 12, 2012. It was shut down on
30 April 2013.
Id X.
113. #19
The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the
family Agamidae, mostly found in the semi-deserts of
Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya.
The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish
from female agamas of other species. The male stands out
more with it‟s bright red/violet head, neck and shoulders
and a dark blue body. This particular appearance has led
to it becoming a fashionable pet of late.
How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it
better known?
119. Set of two questions for each team
One Direct; One Challenge
Bet a certain number of points( Max : half your current total)
For first: get it correct you gain those many points. Get it wrong, you lose
half as many.
For second, bet again. If the team you challenge answers correctly, they
gain those points. If they don‟t, you do.
120. Round 3 – Last Round
“Art”
Troll Bollywood
Songs
IT
Troll Bollywood
Song-Lyrics
Sci-Fi
Last slide
121. (i) Identify the movie
Audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-4qcU86P0w
124. (ii) Identify the song
“Initially we wanted to buy the rights of the song, but since the process is too
complex, we decided to make our own version of it, which is grammatically
different from the original one. We wanted to create our own melody with the
same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel. It is also aimed at children.
But the notation, scanning, chromatic scale is completely different,"
"It may be sounding similar, but in musical grammar, it is not a copy. Music just
has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday. So there is bound to be
similarities. Songs, lyrics, compositions might have copyright, but rhythm has no
copyright. Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai. So is every song a
copy?“
Video of the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmV5uHWNag
133. (i)
Tumko jo dekha maine
Toh maine ye jaan liya hai
Pardesi babu ne
Iss desi dil ko maan liya hai
Lyrics from a popular song. Who is the Pardesi
Babu being alluded to here?
136. (ii)
I don't want to use lampblack
I don't want to show my beauty
If the eyes are alcoholic
What's the need of kohl
___________, boy, don’t pluck bud
Your mother has said me very hot words
The bollymeanings translation of which recent song?
139. (i) Non-exhaustive list of what?
Art
Used clothing
Alcohol
Nazi Paraphernalia
Catalytic converters and test pipes
Tobacco
Plants and seeds. And pesticides.
Real estate
Lottery tickets
Gift cards
142. (ii)
These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a
higher priority than a public line. They often have the following
features:
Get answered outside of working hours
Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through
cumbersome voice menus.
Line rings straight through to high-level management or
technicians without having to be transferred from front lines.
Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls.
The number is only given to selected people
What?
145. (i)
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter‟s The Long Earth is
about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are
similar to Earth, which can be reached by using an
inexpensive device called a "Stepper”. The circuit for the
stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person
and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids
everywhere start assembling it. The ones who get it right –
disappear into an alternate universe)
What is the Stepper‟s source of power supply, which the
kids are so familiar with, which is at the heart of the circuit?
147. A Potato
Haven‟t we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in
school?
148. (ii)
There have only been 3 science fiction novels
so far which have won the Hugo, Nebula and
John W. Campbell Memorial Awards,
considered by some to be the “triple crown” of
science fiction. Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two.
Which is the third?