Intra-collegiate Brain Teaser-filled event.

1. The G+ Riddle-liculous Challenge
• Kindly provide your answers in the Google Form attached along
with this pdf
• Please enter your Team Name as well as the names of all team
members at the beginning of the Form
• This puzzle/quiz set has 20 questions
• The points/value assigned to each questions is given alongside
that question. Easier questions have less weightage than tough
ones. Duh!
• There are clues in every question. Mind them!
• Top 8 teams will qualify for the Finals to be conducted live via
Google Hangout on Midnight, Wednesday (October 24 –
Dussehra Eve)
• Do not forget to download the image ‘Home Sweet Home 2’
attached along with this email. That question is worth 4 points!

2. P1) Would you rather call for help
perhaps?
1.5 Points

3. P2) What happened here?!
1.5 Points

4. P3) The Clock Pointers will show you the way
Must you go Analog today?
2.5 Points

5. P4) Home Sweet Home II
Follow these steps to reach your goal:
1. Download the image ‘Home Sweet Home 2’
2. Before you simply open the image, remember: A
Picture is worth a Thousand Words
3. Plumb the depths of the symbols & gibberish to
obtain the Word you seek
4 Points

6. P5) Using the person
on the right as your
clue decipher the
message that the
symbols below stand
for. Clippy’s home will
help you out
7 32.5 Points
0

7. P6) What English phrase does the Rebus below depict?
1.5 Points

8. P7) What English phrase does the Rebus below depict?
tHE sAnD
1.5 Points

9. P8) Words about someone very special. Use
their birthdate to ascertain their deathdate.
Let The Internet's friendly reminder that life
is slipping away help you on your way. Do
remember, we only need four digits
“Goodbye England's rose
May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed yourself
Where lives were torn apart
2.5 Points
Goodbye England's rose
From the country lost
Without your soul who missed the wings
of your compassion
More than you will ever know”

10. Ad for?
0.5 Point

11. Location : Verona, Italy.
Who allegedly lived
here?
1 Point

12. This poster has been inspired from
which Hollywood comedy flick
released in the earlier part of the
last decade.
1 Point

13. This bird could be found on the emblem of the club and
also on the roof of one of the most important buildings of
the city. The club and the city share the same name.
Identify the club/city.
1 Point

14. Where in Kolkata would you find her, The Angel
of Victory?
1 Point

15. Which fictional character’s family
crest?
1 Point

16. This log states the observation of the Relay Mark III. This study was done by Grace
Hooper, Faculty of the Harvard University. It describes ‘something’ messing up the
performance of the Mark III. Which technical term was first found in this paper and
later entered common use to describe a generic version of any problem?
1 Point

17. Identify the cult figure who was honored with this
Google Doodle.
1 Point

18. Halloween costumes inspired by whose recent remarks?
1.5 Points

19. Id the Logo
1 Point

20. What is being advertised?
0.5 Point

21. Flag of?
1 Point

22. End of Quiz

23. Answers

24. P1) ‘hunt’
Use the T9 Dictionary in any old non-touch mobile
phone to get the Answer!

25. P2) ‘sticky keys’
Press Shift 5 times in any Windows system and you
will get a message asking you whether you want to
enable ‘Sticky Keys’

26. P3) ‘evil’
Use the times mentioned in the right most column of
the airport ticker and set them on any analog watch or
wall clock. They will spell out the word ‘evil’.

27. P4) ‘UDAIPUR’
Ok this is intensive!
• Download the image ‘Home Sweet Home 2’ and
open it with Notepad (or MS Word)
“Picture…Thousand Words”
• Scroll right to the bottom of the screen and voila!
UDAIPUR

28. P5) ‘730’
Marlon Samuels’ shirt number in the IPL is 730.
Also, the number written in the Wingdings script given
in the question. Clippy’s home is of course, MS Word.

29. P6) ‘Back to Square One’
Straight Forward enough…

30. P7) ‘Head in the Sand’
Will Accept ‘Head Sticking out of Sand’

31. P8) ‘2040’
Another intensive one:
The person referred to is the Late Princess Diana
Her birth date is July 1, 1960
Put this in Deathclock.com (That was the hint!)
You get her year of death as 2040

32. Rest of the Questions:
9. Maggi
10. Juliet
11. Anger Management
12. Liverpool
13. Victoria Memorial
14. James Bond (The insignia says, “The World is Not Enough”)
15. Bug/Debug/Bug in the System (Any other variant)
16. Nikola Tesla
17. Mitt Romney (With reference to his “Binders full of women” gaffe during the
Presidential Debates)
18. YouWeCan (Yuvraj’s Cancer Foundation)
19. Facebook (The campaign being run on their homepage currently)
20. East Germany/German Democratic Republic/GDR/DDR