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1. QM: Joseph Fernandez
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QUIZZERS

2. RULES
● There are 14 question. Each carry 10 mark.
● There are 8 questions.
● Answers to questions will be considered for tie breaking.
● For 2 part questions 5 mark will be awarded for each correct
answer.
● No negatives.
● QM is your God.

3. APPO THODANGALLE?

4. Music critic Bruce Eder described the band as "one of the
most popular and influential rock groups in the world”.
The band received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy
Award on February 9, 2008, but there was no reunion of
former members. In December 2020, it was announced the
third album of the band, Stage Fright.
Name the band.
1

6. 2
X B Y is a book by an Indian author. It was supposed to be
the first of a two-part series but was released later. Y A X is
the other one, released earlier but originally planned to be
the second part of the series. X is a famous Indian
personality.
Id X B Y and Y A X.
Note: A and B are Antonyms.

7. 3
__________ COMPOSED HERE
On this site stood the Simpson Tavern, where in 1850
james Pierpont (1822-1893) wrote the song __________ in
the presence of Mrs. Otis waterman, who later verified
that the song was written here, Pierpont had the song
copyrighted in 1857 while living in Georgia. __________
tells of the sleigh races held on Salem street in the early
1800s.
What is blanked out?

9. It is a BBC television dramatisation of a famous personality
where Benedict Cumberbatch is portraying the person.
Id the famous personality.
4

11. 5
According to a story, X was a large cannon, which was
strategically placed on the wall . A shot from a parlimentary
cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath X which
caused the cannon to tumble to the ground. The Royalists or
Cavaliers attempted to raise X on to another part of the wall, but
because the cannon was so heavy that they couldn’t place it
back.
Id X.

13. 6
X gained world wide attention only after it was stolen from
its location. It was already 350 years old during this time
and had occupied its place in palaces of the Kings and
Nobel men. X is one of the most controversial works ever
created in the history of art. After it was stolen several
people gathered to see the place where X was placed
rather than to see X itself.
X was also recently in news owing to a protest relating to
global warming and pollution. Id X.

14. Today’s #GoogleDoodle honours X, a female lead in
malayalam cinema, on her 120th birth anniversary. X broke
barriers with her role in the film Y at a time when women
were discouraged from performing arts.
Id X and Y.
7

16. This is a picture of steam locomotive no. 5972 Olton Hall
which is a 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive. Built in April 1937 at
Swindon railway works for the Great Western Railway, it
last shed allocation was to Cardiff East Dock, after which it
was withdrawn in December 1963, and sold as scrap.
More than three decades later, the locomotive was put to
use for something else.
What use?
8

18. 9
The word X might be used to highlight the main word.
Example words like Very, Damn.
On the other hand, word X used to describe something that
is covered in or stained with plasma(to be very precise).
Y means pleasing for the mind or feelings: agreeable,
gratifying.
We Know X Y. Id X Y.

19. Recently US Central Intelligence Agency released around
4.7 lakh files obtained in the 2011 raid of Bin Laden’s
compound in Pakistan. Among them a hard drive
contained few mind-blowing files among others.
The files were kept secret and it contained X and Y. You
will be amazed when you know what was inside the drive.
X- Contains the love that was never shown.
Y- Contains an item which is an important valentine’s item.
10

20. 11
X (1937–1982) was an Indian politician, film producer, and
publisher from Kerala. He was State President of the youth
wing of the Praja Socialist Party, and was elected member
of Mukkam Panchayat in 1979. X published Sports Herald, a
Malayalam sports magazine. His debut production was a
Malayalam film Nizhale Nee Sakshi in 1977, which also
debuted Seema as a lead actress, and portrayed the Rajan
case, but the film was never released. X later produced the
films Abhinayam (1981) starring Jayan, and India Nee
Sundari.
He was awarded the national civilian gallantry honour
Jeevan Raksha Padak, Class I posthumously by the
President of India in 1983, for saving lives in a ferry boat
accident in a River in Kozhikode in 1982, in which he
drowned himself. Id X.

21. 12
“It had all begun this way: in 1956 my sister got a teaching
assignment in the village of X. This was part of a State
scheme to send barefoot graduates to man single-teacher
schools in backward villages. Since it was hard for a girl to
be on her own in a remote village, my parents had rented a
little farmhouse and moved in with my sister. Meanwhile i
had been sacked from the college where i taught. Jobless
and at a loose end, I too joined them in X to drown my
sorrows…..Destiny had been readying me for______”.
What is he speaking about? Id X too.

22. 13
Salman Rushdie published a book titled 2 years, 8 months,
28 Fellangis in September 2015. About this book he said,
“I just rather loved it. You’ve got two, eight, twenty eight -
you’ve got another symmetrical number describing that
very famous symmetrical number”.
Which is the famous title he is referring to?

23. X is a Kerala Cadre IPS officer who is primarily
responsible for the Surgical Strikes of 2016, which provide
the plot for the movie ‘Uri the Surgical Strike’. However a
similar incident happened in the same year increased the
widespread popularity and acceptance of the film which is
still mourned by the country. Operation Y was initiated and
conducted as a retaliation measure and generated world
wide attention for its mode of operation and peculiar name.
The character portraying X in the movie is given in the
slide. Id X and Y.
14

25. EXCHANGE YOUR PAPERS!

26. SAFETY SLIDE!

27. Music critic Bruce Eder described the band as "one of the
most popular and influential rock groups in the world”.
The band received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy
Award on February 9, 2008, but there was no reunion of
former members. In December 2020, it was announced the
third album of the band, Stage Fright.
Name the band.
1

29. THE BAND

30. 2
X B Y is a book by an Indian author. It was supposed to be
the first of a two-part series but was released later. Y A X is
the other one, released earlier but originally planned to be
the second part of the series. X is a famous Indian
personality.
Id X B Y and Y A X.
Note: A and B are Antonyms.

31. X - Gandhi
Y - India

32. 3
__________ COMPOSED HERE
On this site stood the Simpson Tavern, where in 1850
james Pierpont (1822-1893) wrote the song __________ in
the presence of Mrs. Otis waterman, who later verified
that the song was written here, Pierpont had the song
copyrighted in 1857 while living in Georgia. __________
tells of the sleigh races held on Salem street in the early
1800s.
What is blanked out?

34. Jingle Bells

35. It is a BBC television dramatisation of a famous personality
where Benedict Cumberbatch is portraying the person.
Id the famous personality.
4

37. Stephen Hawking

38. 5
According to a story, X was a large cannon, which was
strategically placed on the wall . A shot from a parlimentary
cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath X which
caused the cannon to tumble to the ground. The Royalists
or Cavaliers attempted to raise X on to another part of the
wall, but because the cannon was so heavy that they
couldn’t place it back.
Id X.

39. Humpty Dumpty

40. 6
X gained world wide attention only after it was stolen from
its location. It was already 350 years old during this time
and had occupied its place in palaces of the Kings and
Nobel men. X is one of the most controversial works ever
created in the history of art. After it was stolen several
people gathered to see the place where X was placed
rather than to see X itself.
X was also recently in news owing to a protest relating to
global warming and pollution. Id X.

41. Mona Lisa

42. Today’s #GoogleDoodle honours X, a female lead in
malayalam cinema, on her 120th birth anniversary. X broke
barriers with her role in the film Y at a time when women
were discouraged from performing arts.
Id X and Y.
7

44. X - P.K. Rosy
Y - Vigathakumaran

45. This is a picture of steam locomotive no. 5972 Olton Hall
which is a 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive. Built in April 1937 at
Swindon railway works for the Great Western Railway, it
last shed allocation was to Cardiff East Dock, after which it
was withdrawn in December 1963, and sold as scrap.
More than three decades later, the locomotive was put to
use for something else.
What use?
8

47. Hogwarts Express

48. 9
The word X might be used to highlight the main word.
Example words like Very, Damn.
On the other hand, word X used to describe something that
is covered in or stained with plasma(to be very precise).
Y means pleasing for the mind or feelings: agreeable,
gratifying.
We Know X Y. Id X Y.

49. Bloody Sweet

50. Recently US Central Intelligence Agency released around
4.7 lakh files obtained in the 2011 raid of Bin Laden’s
compound in Pakistan. Among them a hard drive
contained few mind-blowing files among others.
The files were kept secret and it contained X and Y. You
will be amazed when you know what was inside the drive.
X- Contains the love that was never shown.
Y- Contains an item which is an important valentine’s item.
10

51. X - Tom & Jerry
Y - Mr. Bean

52. 11
X (1937–1982) was an Indian politician, film producer, and
publisher from Kerala. He was State President of the youth
wing of the Praja Socialist Party, and was elected member
of Mukkam Panchayat in 1979. X published Sports Herald, a
Malayalam sports magazine. His debut production was a
Malayalam film Nizhale Nee Sakshi in 1977, which also
debuted Seema as a lead actress, and portrayed the Rajan
case, but the film was never released. X later produced the
films Abhinayam (1981) starring Jayan, and India Nee
Sundari.
He was awarded the national civilian gallantry honour
Jeevan Raksha Padak, Class I posthumously by the
President of India in 1983, for saving lives in a ferry boat
accident in a River in Kozhikode in 1982, in which he
drowned himself. Id X.

53. B. P.
Moideen

54. 12
“It had all begun this way: in 1956 my sister got a teaching
assignment in the village of X. This was part of a State
scheme to send barefoot graduates to man single-teacher
schools in backward villages. Since it was hard for a girl to
be on her own in a remote village, my parents had rented a
little farmhouse and moved in with my sister. Meanwhile i
had been sacked from the college where i taught. Jobless
and at a loose end, I too joined them in X to drown my
sorrows…..Destiny had been readying me for______”.
What is he speaking about? Id X too.

55. Khasakkinte Itihasam
X - Thasrak

56. 13
Salman Rushdie published a book titled 2 years, 8 months,
28 Fellangis in September 2015. About this book he said,
“I just rather loved it. You’ve got two, eight, twenty eight -
you’ve got another symmetrical number describing that
very famous symmetrical number”.
Which is the famous title he is referring to?

57. 1001 Nights

58. X is a Kerala Cadre IPS officer who is primarily
responsible for the Surgical Strikes of 2016, which provide
the plot for the movie ‘Uri the Surgical Strike’. However a
similar incident happened in the same year increased the
widespread popularity and acceptance of the film which is
still mourned by the country. Operation Y was initiated and
conducted as a retaliation measure and generated world
wide attention for its mode of operation and peculiar name.
The character portraying X in the movie is given in the
slide. Id X and Y.
14

60. X - Ajit Doval
Y - Op. Bandar

61. THANK YOU!