2. RULES
• 18 questions in total
• Only pounce
• +20/-10
• QM makes the final decision.
3. 1. The ____________ is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in
particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage
elsewhere. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends
to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and
help support their spiritual journey. In 2008, the tradition was inscribed in
the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
by UNESCO.
_____________ celebrations in Mexico developed from ancient traditions
among its pre-Columbian cultures. Rituals celebrating the deaths
of ancestors had been observed by these civilizations perhaps for as long as
2,500–3,000 years. The festival that developed into the ___________ fell in
the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, about the beginning of August, and
was celebrated for an entire month.
FITB. All blanks are same.
6. 2. Samuel M. Genensky (26 July 1927 in New Bedford,
Massachusetts – 26 June 2009 in Santa Monica, California) was
an American computer scientist, best known as an inventor for
devices to assist sight-impaired persons. He was also well known
for his advocacy on behalf of the blind. Genensky was proud of an
achievement which he claims helps vision-impaired daily while
negotiating public areas. One of his most famous contribution is
encouraging supervisors of California Public Buildings to use
Triangular shaped markings for a certain use which was then
popularised all over the world.
What contribution are we talking about?
9. 3. X, officially the Free and Sovereign State of X is one of the 32 Federal
Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city
is Villahermosa. The origin of the name Tabasco is not definitively known,
with a number of theories debated among linguists. The name appears in
the chronicles of Bernal Díaz del Castillo during the conquest era, who says
it comes from the name of a river in the area. One possible etymology is
that it comes from a Mayan phrase meaning "our lord of the eight tigers".
Although the name comes from the Mexican state of X, it is a U.S. FMCG
product produced by McIlhenny Company. According to company legend, X
sauce was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, a Maryland-born
former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840.
Id X.
12. 4. X (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and
university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing. His
novel Y (1996) was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-
language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
The 2015 film The End of the Tour is based on conversations David Lipsky had
with Wallace, transcribed in Although of Course You End Up Becoming
Yourself (2010). Jason Segel played X, and Jesse Eisenberg Lipsky. The film
won an Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Sarasota Film
Festival, and Segel was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best
Male Lead.
Id X and Y.
15. 5. X, FRS, FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an
English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's
first vaccine. The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae
vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by X to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796
in the long title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he
described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
Y (born Z on October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic
gold medal-winning decathlete.
After intense training, Y won the 1976 Olympics decathlon event at the Montreal Olympic
Games, gaining fame as "an all-American hero". Y set a third successive world record while
winning the Olympics. The winner of the Olympic decathlon is traditionally given the
unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete". With that stature, Y subsequently established a
career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business and as a Playgirl cover model.
X and Y are related.
Id X, Y and Z.
18. 6. X (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the oldest daughter born to the couple
Joseph and Rose, and was a sister of _____________ and Senators _______ and
_________.
X experienced mental disabilities, and displayed less academic and sporting potential than
her siblings; she was slower than all of her siblings when it came to achieving many tasks.
However, her disabilities were carefully concealed from the public by her prominent family.
In her early young adult years, she also had behavioral problems. Her father arranged one
of the first prefrontal lobotomies for her at the age of 23, but it failed and left her
permanently incapacitated. X spent the rest of her life in an institution in Jefferson,
Wisconsin, with limited contact with her family or the outside world. Her condition may
have inspired her sister, Eunice, to initiate the Special Olympics in 1962.
Id X.
24. 8. Although it is a thing of past, many
Germans are still considered to be
suffering from “Mauer im Kopf”.
What does ‘Mauer im Kopf’ means
and to what structure of historical
importance does it refers to?
27. 9. ________also known as the ________ Holocaust was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of
1.5 million ______ mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire.The starting date is conventionally held to be 24
April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now
Istanbul) to the region of Ankara 235 to 270 ________ intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of
whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented
in two phases—the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of
army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm
on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived
of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. Other ethnic groups were similarly
targeted for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered
by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Most ________ diaspora communities around the
world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
Some of the celebrities with origin to this country include Cher, Andre Agassi and the Kardashians.
FITB. All blanks are identical.
30. 10. With annual sales of 2 billion USD, X is the top selling
candy bar in the world.
Though X literally means ‘scornful laughs’, if we were to
believe its owner company, Y, X was named after Y’s
family favourite horse.
Id X and Y.
33. 11. In 1970, Raj Kapoor released his ‘Mera Naam Joker’. He took loans in order to produce
this film and devoted all his wealth but the film flopped on the Box Office and was on the
verge of Bankruptcy. Later, as a last battle, he produced another film X in 1973 which broke
many records and was a nationwide hit, mostly due to its content. This was a time when
movies were not generally telecasted on television but on one Sunday before the 1977
elections, X was telecasted all over the nation. (Sanjay Gandhi, of course!)
This was an attempt to divert the public from turning up on Ramlila Maidan for a historical
public meeting of opposition parties against Indira Gandhi. Babu Jagjivan Ram was the man
behind this event who had recently resigned from congress and gave a boost to the
Opposition Parties Union. The meeting is remembered for the iconic speech of Y, which gave
a boost to his popularity across the nation.
However, despite the attempts of the government and heavy rains, a large number of people
collected in the ground and newpapers next day read, “______ beats ________”.
Give X, Y and FITB
34.
35. X – Bobby
Y – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Babu beats Bobby
36. 12. The person standing
in the left is Colonel
Sanders of KFC. To his
right stand X, founder
of Y franchise which he
named after his
daughter Melinda.
Individual photo of X
follows.
Id X and Y.
40. 13. X was a city, both factual and legendary,
located in northwest Anatolia in what is now
Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and
beside Mount Ida. It is best known for being
the focus of the war described in the Greek
Epic Cycle and especially in Illiad, on of the
two epic poems attributed to Y.
Identify X and Y.
43. 14. An example of the fatal effects of procrastination, the defeat of the
Mughals by the Persians in this battle X, fought just 110 kms from Delhi
resulted in a plunder of the city of Delhi by the victorious Persians who under
the command of their leader Nadir Shah killed 30000 civilians.
The Persians took the Peacock throne, the kohi-noor and darya-ye noor
diamond s. The plunder seized from India was so rich that Nadir Shah stopped
taxation in Iran for a period of three years following his return. The Mughal
ruler, Muhammad Shah kept delaying the Mughal response to Y’s approach
towards Delhi and acted only when he was 110 kms away.
This delay in action is often cited as the main reason for Mughal defeat. When
asked to act, Muhammad Shah repeated the phrase Y.
Id X and Y.
46. 16. The world’s first known republic
was Arwad (Syria). The World’s
Second Republic was in Ancient
India and had Vaishali as its capital.
Identify.
