2. Basics
• Three parts & scoring varies
• Infinite bounce
• Whenever not specified: you cannot choose
level n on a direct if you haven’t answered
level n-1 in that part
• Everything connects: be alert and note down
what goes where
• Hope you have fun
3. Part I
• LVC: 10 images and 5 slides
• Scoring:
– First slide: +10 -5
– Second slide: +8 -4
– Third slide: +6 -3
– Fourth slide: +4 -2
– Fifth slide: +2 -0
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10. Part II
• 5 x 5 grid: 5 themes with 5 levels each
• Themes:
– Work-outs
– Trivia
– Pic connects
– Algebra
– Jeopardy!
• Scoring for levels: +2, +2, +3, +3, +4
13. WO1
There are nine villages in ____:
Dargah Hussain Shahwali
_____
Hyder Shah Kote
Ibrahim Bagh Lines
Kakatiya Nagar
Lunger House
Nanakramguda
Sakkubai Nagar
Toli Chowki
"Hast thou from the caves of _____, a gem / pure as the ice-drop that froze
on the mountain?“ – John Keats
CLUE GRID
15. WO2
The verb "to ______"
originated in the 1770s
among soldiers in British
India where a hunter
skilled enough to kill the
elusive _____ was
dubbed a “______”
GRID
16. WO3
Monsieur Hulot is a character created and played by French comic Jacques
Tati for a series of films in the 1950s and '60s, namely Les Vacances de
Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1959), Play Time (1967) and Trafic (1971).
The character of Hulot (although played by another actor) also appears briefly
in François Truffaut's Bed & Board (1970).
He is recognized by his overcoat, pipe and hat, and his distinctive lurching
walk. His escapades usually involved clashes with technology and the
problems of living in an increasingly impersonal and gadgetized world.
The name of "Monsieur Hulot" is believed to echo "Charlot," the French name
for Charlie Chaplin’s character The Tramp. However, "Hulot is more distracted
than the Tramp, he cannot disentangle himself from situations as effortlessly,
and he is not as central a character, he is not ‘the reason for the film.’”
What did M. Hulot inspire?
GRID
17. WO4
“catchy chorus is the most arresting hook since PSY's
Gangnam Style”
"a cutesy indie-pop hit in the style of Feist”
"instant earworm material“
"darkly cute - and irksomely catchy"
X was performed by Emily Lubit with Ollie McGill providing
backing vocals. It was released on iTunes and attributed to
the artist "Tangerine Kitty"
GRID
18. WO5
• X is a fictional company of the WALL•E universe. WALL•E himself is
a X product. In preparation for marketing the movie, Disney
purchased a domain called X.com in order to create a viral website
for promotional purposes.
• Andrew Stanton, in a commentary on the WALL•E DVD, stated his
inspirations for X were large corporations and how some people let
consumerism govern how they run their lives. He stated that the
people at Pixar had always pictured WALL•E as "a trash compactor
when the idea for the movie was first discussed. He reversed-
engineered the idea on why WALL•E was cleaning up the planet
and why the Earth was covered in trash and the idea of what if a
company was the government. And according to the commentary,
one of the artists, Teddy Newton, came up with the term "X
Corporation". Stanton was intrigued by the term and he was able to
truncate it to an acronym which "tripped off the tongue real easily".
• X is a pun on the idiom Y, which has it's roots in in sailing.
GRID
24. T1
Kom and Irom have become the most visible faces of the
women’s movement in Manipur today, embodying all that the
society struggles for. In fact, the petite Manipuri women have
been organising themselves for decades as watchdogs of society
plagued with insurgency, poverty, unemployment, border
issues, army high handedness and State apathy. Every locality
has a council of women who are part of a state wide group,
GRID
which was founded by Th Ramani in 1971. Which group?
26. T3
Authorities in which nation in association with
Mentos launched the National Night campaign
on August 9, 2012?
GRID
27. T4
Mr Jones of Manor Farm is a fictional character
in George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal
Farm. Who is he an allegory for?
GRID
28. T5
There is no NBA team based in San Diego, but
the city has been associated with two NBA
teams in the 60s and 70s. One of were the
Clippers, which was the other?
GRID
29. AL1
X and Y were the first two people in the world to
do something. The character Z is named after Y.
A is the creator of Z. A’s first job was with B.
Today, A’s company and B are rivals.
A’s second job was with C’s company, which was
recently acquired by B for $4.05b.
X died in Ohio, on August 25 2012, at the age of
82
GRID
30. AL2
X and Y are famously reclusive authors and
it was rumored for a long time that X is a
pseudonym for Y. X has famously
appeared on the Simpsons show a few
times.
The protagonist (A) of Y’s most famous
novel (B) previously appeared in a story
called I’m Crazy, which is closely related
to the first chapter of B.
It is said that Y saw himself for some time as
“Z's successor.” Z is a member of the Lost
Generation and his most famous novel
(C) has been the basis for numerous
films. GRID
31. AL3
A & B, C & D are two married couples.
The interests of A and C include playing pool,
_____, poker, tinkering around in A's garage
and playing golf. C is a talented pianist and
drummer.
As young adults, B and D were employed as
cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. There,
they first met, and fell in love, with their
future husbands, A and C.
CLUE GRID
32. AL4
A and B were involved in a major rivalry,
which led to both their deaths.
According to an interview with MTV, C was so
moved by A's life and work that he wrote
a letter to A's mother asking her to
consider letting him produce a
posthumous album ‘Loyal to the Game’
B was spotted by D, who signed him up to his
record label immediately. D is the
producer of MTV’s Making the Band and
Forbes estimated him to be the richest
man in hip-hop in 2012.
C released his debut solo album Infinite in
1996.
X is an annual three-day music and arts
festival, founded by Paul Tollett. What is
special about this picture of A at X?
GRID
33. AL5
• According to common legend, A was created
in the shape of a stirrup to commemorate the
victory of X's King Jan III Sobieski over the
Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Y in 1683
• Y is famous as a hub of European culture – A
Y ball is an all-night cultural attraction. Major
Y balls generally begin at 9 pm and last until 5
am, although many guests carry on the
celebrations into the next day.
• B (plural), especially the large soft ones, are
similar to A (plural), the main exceptions
being the shape and the alkaline water bath
that makes the surface dark and glossy.
• C is Indian and looks somewhat like B. The
earliest written references to C are found in a
13th-century cookbook by Muhammad bin
Hasan al-Baghdadi. In Iran, where it is known
as Zulbia, it was traditionally given to the
poor during Ramadan GRID
44. X’s show A is a parody of personality-driven political
opinion shows. In the past, X has worked with Y
(on B, which Y hosts) and briefly as a freelance
writer for Z.
Both A and B air on C. B is currently the longest
running program on C, and has won 18 Primetime
Emmy Awards.
Z debuted in 1975, has won 36 Primetime Emmy
Awards and the first episode was hosted by this
guy.
E3 GRID
45. E4
This narrative device is used as an innocent observer to make
incisive, often humorous, sometimes sad but always touching
observations. History suggests it came into being in 1906 and
was actually a song of protest against the British imperial rule. It
was derived from the English word X and was created by folk
singers Manda and Bishna when the flaming torch toured all
over the British empire in celebration of the Victoria Regina's
rule.
GRID
47. T1
GRID
Architect Charles Ribart proposed a three-level, elephant-shaped building
that would be entered via a spiral staircase. What for?
48. T2
A new UK-based travel company, called "Wish,"
is offering this deal:
For a base price of £4999, travellers can pay for
“the most _____ _____ currently employed in
British aviation”
Funda?
CLUE
GRID
49. In 2005, a particular institution in country X had been
assigned the responsibility for issuing passports for Y, with the
aim of reducing an illegal trade. Y have been integral to the
life of people in X.
This institution is the world's foremost Y welfare institution,
and the first of its kind. It opened on 3 October 1999, as an
affiliate of the nation's environment agency, since when it has
been directed by German surgeon Dr Margit Gabriele Müller.
T3 CLUE
GRID
51. T4
It is illegal to do this if you have the plague
You can do this with a hat, an umbrella or a
hand
Before the Act of 1831 was repealed in 1976, if
you wanted to stay within the law when doing
this in London, you should have checked that
____ had a bale of hay and a sack of oats
GRID
53. HM1
X about Y: “If shariyat would allow me, I would
want Y and I to be buried in the same grave.”
Y’s followers believe that X also said “Those who
visit my grave should first pay respect at Y’s”
Y died 6 months after X.
GRID
54. HM2 saboteurs during World War II.
X was a series of actions undertaken by Norwegian
Raids were aimed at the 60-MW Vemork power station at the Rjukan waterfall in
Telemark, Norway. Between 1940 and 1944, a sequence of sabotage actions, by
the Norwegian resistance movement—as well as Allied bombing—ensured the
destruction of the plant.
• In Operation Grouse, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE)
successfully placed four Norwegian nationals in the region of the Hardanger
Plateau above the plant. Later in 1942 they were to rendezvous with the
Norwegians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork. This attempt failed.
• In 1943, a team of SOE-trained Norwegian commandos succeeded in
destroying the production facility with a second attempt, Operation
Gunnerside. Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most
successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.
• These actions were followed by Allied bombing raids. The Germans elected to
cease operation and remove the remaining ____ to Germany. Norwegian
resistance forces sank the ferry, on Lake Tinnsjø, preventing ____ from being
removed.
Why were these sabotage missions carried out? GRID
55. HM3
“If every one of them were written down,
...even the whole world would not have room
for the books that would be written”
GRID
56. HM4
Place of Organisation Chairman
First Thenmadurai Agastya
Earlier- Agastya
Second Kapatapuram
Later- Tolkappiyar
Third Madurai Nakkirar
CLUE
GRID
57. HM5
X was one of the four brothers who conspired with
Y in the castration of their father Z. When Sky
descended to lie with Earth, X, Krios, Koios and
Iapetos--posted at the four corners of the world--
seized hold of their father and held him fast while
Y castrated him with a sickle. In this myth these
four personify the great pillars which appear in
Near-Eastern cosmogonies holding heaven and
earth apart, or else the entire cosmos aloft.
As the father of the sun and dawn, X was no doubt
regarded as the pillar of the east.
GRID
58. B1
• Siemens & ThyssenKrupp collaborate to form the X system. Based
on a patent from 1934, planning of X started in 1969. The test
facility for the system in Emsland, Germany was completed in 1987.
In 1991, the technical readiness for application was approved by the
Deutsche Bundesbahn in cooperation with renowned universities.
In 2004, the first commercial implementation in Shanghai was
completed.
• In Japan, the RTRI was established in its current form in 1986 just
before public parent company JR was privatised and split. Research
topics include earthquake detection and alarm systems, systems for
detecting obstacles on level crossings, reducing energy usage, noise
barriers and preventing vibrations, among other topics.
Currently RTRI beats X at the record. What do these two organisations
do?
GRID
59. B2
• As of the start of 2009 X has the maximum number of companies
listed on the NASDAQ: 63. The economy of X has been studied in
depth by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, who have written a book Y,
calling X a _____ (same as Y.) The Economist notes that X now has
more high-tech ventures and a larger venture capital industry per
capita than any other country in the world.
• According to the authors, factors are mandatory military service
and immigration.
• Using stories and anecdotes, the book provides examples of X's
technological and medical achievements, among them "the
innovations that made possible Google Suggest, the list of
suggestions that appear instantly in menu form as you type a
search request, the Capsule endoscopy, a miniature camera
embedded in a pill so that 18 photos per second can be wirelessly
and painlessly transmitted from gastrointestinal tracts."
GRID
62. Jim Henson was most famous for his work as a puppeteer for
Sesame Street. Throughout the years of Sesame Street’s
production, Jim occasionally allowed his Muppets to make
appearances in commercials where he felt the situation and
product was particularly appropriate. One such product was
_______, which was distributed internationally by X and, at
the time, not available in the United States. Jim agreed to
produce commercials for _____ because the commercial
viewing market was outside of the US. He felt that his young
American viewers would not be confused in thinking that a
furry monster-like Muppet was trying to sell them Y.
The commercials featured a large green creature with a bright
orange nose known as the “____ Craver,” who would do
almost anything to have ____.
GRID
63. BU5
All Xs are leased in two-year cycles (in the late
90's and early 2000s, three year contracts
were an option), with leases based on how
many displays are connected to each X.
It is available for a monthly fee of $1,500 a user
($1,800 a month for the small number of firms
that use only one terminal). As of May 2010,
there were 310,000 X subscribers worldwide.
Most Xs have between two and six displays.
GRID
64. L1
Whose bibliography?
– Shadows on the wall, J. Day Co., 1948.
– The Story of Gandhiji, Kutub Pub., 1949.
– We Nehrus, by ____ with Alden Hatch. Holt,
Rinehart and Winston; 1967.
– Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira
Gandhi, Published by Macmillan, 1969.
– With No Regrets - An Autobiography, by ____
CLUE
GRID
66. L2
______ is supposedly a ‘corrupted’ form of the word recruit
The earliest example from the OED is from Rudyard Kipling's
Barrack-Room Ballads (published 1892) referring to ______
in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army:
So 'ark an' 'eed, you _____, which is always grumblin' sore,
There's worser things than marchin' from Umballa to
Cawnpore;
An' if your 'eels are blistered an' they feels to 'urt like 'ell,
You drop some tallow in your socks an' that will make 'em
well.
GRID
68. L4
Hitoshi Igarashi
• Born 1947
• Completed his doctoral programme in Islamic art at the University of Tokyo in 1976
• Assistant professor of comparative culture
• Stabbed several times on July 11, 1991 and left in the hallway outside his office at
Tsukuba University
William Nygaard
• Born 1943
• Degree in Economics
• Chief publisher (CEO) of Aschehoug, Norway's second largest publishing house
• Shot three times outside his home in Dagaliveien in Oslo in 1993
Ettore Capriolo
• Playright, professor and professor of history
• Stabbed and wounded in Milan by a hit squad on 3 July 1991
GRID
69. L5
X’s two best-selling books are Y and Z.
He is known for his historical fiction
and the deep research that went
into his novels.. He derived his
surname from Yerushalmi, meaning
"man of Jerusalem"
Y was a worldwide best-seller,
translated into a dozen languages,
and was made into a feature film in
1960, starring Paul Newman. Y was
the biggest bestseller in the United
States since Gone with the Wind.
GRID
70. PL1
In the late 1820s, Edward Dyer moved from
England to set up the first _____ in India.
Today, this is still in existence and is doing very
well. Till the 1980s, its ‘product’ X dominated
its market, while today, Y is one of the world
leaders in its market.
X and Y?
GRID
71. PL2
The origin of this dish is traced to textile mill
workers in Mumbai in the 1850s. The mill
workers used to have lunch breaks too short
for a full meal, and a light lunch was preferred
to a heavy one, as the employees had to
return to strenuous physical labor after lunch.
A vendor created this dish using items or parts
of other dishes available on the menu.
GRID
72. PL3
“Bade bade sheheron mein chhoti chhoti
cheezein hoti rehti hain”
A famous statement by X. When?
X: state :: Z: nation
Z?
GRID
73. PL4
The self-advertised mission of X is
‘protection of Rashtra-Dharma
and Sanskriti through… a
renaissance in the Hindu society
with Service, Security and
Sanskars as its motto.’
X aggressively recruits young
women from low-income earning
and lower caste families.
Members learn karate and lathi,
and receive ideological education
X is said to be the female face of Y.
GRID
74. PL5
X ran for President in ‘96, ’00
(candidate of Y party), ‘04 and ’08
(independent).
He came to prominence in 1965 with
the publication of his book Unsafe at
Any Speed, a critique of the safety
record of American automobile
manufacturers in general.
In 2000, X is accused of taking away
some of Al Gore’s votes and thus being
responsible for George Bush’s victory.
X and Y? GRID
77. SP3
X and Y were fierce rivals for close to 13 years,
although they have cultivated a close friendship
since.
X won the Z in 1980 and ‘82, while Y won it in ’81
They faced each other in ‘84, ‘85 and ‘87 as well.
“Y represented ____, a blue-collar city. X's GQ persona
was the right fit in ____. It didn't hurt that Y was
white, playing in ____, a city with a history of racial
intolerance. It certainly helped that X was in _____,
one of the most diverse cities in the nation.”
GRID
81. The word "obelus" comes from ὀβελός, the Greek word for a ST2
sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar. This is the same root as that of
the word "obelisk". Originally this sign (or a plain line) was used in
ancient manuscripts to mark passages that were suspected of being
corrupted or spurious. It represented an iron roasting spit, a dart, or
the sharp end of a javelin, symbolizing the skewering or cutting out of
dubious matter.
The obelus, invented by Aristarchus to mark suspected passages in
Homer, is frequent in manuscripts of the Gospel to mark just those
sections, like the Pericope in John, which modern editors reject.
Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636 AD) described the use of the symbol as
follows: "The obelus is appended to words or phrases uselessly
repeated, or else where the passage involves a false reading, so that,
like the arrow, it lays low the superfluous and makes the errors
disappear... The obelus accompanied by points is used when we do not
know whether a passage should be suppressed or not." GRID
82. X wrote, "Y thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and
matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go and see him next
week…in that case the Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest
of foundations. I clearly see their perfect union with modern science,
and the elucidation of the one will be followed by that of the other."
Here X uses the terms force and matter for the Sanskrit terms Prana
and Akasha. After the meeting, Y, who was alien to Sanskrit, began
using the Sanskrit terms and understood them as energy and mass.
Y apparently failed in his effort to show the identity of mass and
ST3
energy, and the solution did not come till ten years later, in a paper by
Einstein. Apparently he understood that when speed increases, mass
must decrease. He seems to have thought that mass might be
"converted" to energy and vice versa, rather than that they were
identical in some way, as is pointed out in Einstein's equations. At any
rate, X seems to have sensed where the difficulty lay in joining the
maps of European science and Advaita Vedanta and set Y to solve the
problem. GRID
83. ST4
Project _____ is a list of scientists with the
given name ____ or a variation thereof
who "support evolution“
It was originally created by the National
Center for Science Education as a "tongue-
in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to
collect a list of scientists who "doubt
evolution”
The list pokes fun at such endeavors to make
it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead
the public into thinking that scientific
issues are decided by who has the longer
list of scientists!” It also honors this guy
Despite the list's restriction to only scientists
with names like "_____", which in the
United States limits the list to roughly 1
percent of the total population, Project
_____ is longer and contains many more GRID
eminent scientists than any creationist list.
84. ST5
______ _______is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular
nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all
matter on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario that has been
called ecophagy ("eating the environment"). The term was first used by molecular
nanotechnology pioneer X in his book Engines of Creation (1986).
He illustrates both exponential growth and inherent limits (not ___ ____) by
describing nanomachines that can function only if given special raw materials:
‘Imagine such a replicator floating in a bottle of chemicals, making copies of
itself…the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two
replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build
another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are
not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would
weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four
hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined — if
the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before’ GRID
