The first episode of season 8.5(?) titled "One Two ka Four" was conducted on 3rd June 2023. The Quiz Masters were Akhand, Ammar, Yash, and Yuvi

1. one two ka
four
Quizmasters: ASJ, UV, AMA, YK
3rd June 2023
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Chaukidaar: Avnish Aryan

2. ROUND 1
Pounce and Bounce
+15/-10
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1) There are 20 questions in the quiz.
2) All questions carry 1 point each. In case a question has multiple parts, the
point division will be mentioned.
3) You have to write answers on the sheet provided to you.(i hope you got your
own pen)
4) You can participate as teams of 2 / solo.
5) Do not speak the answers during the quiz.
6) Spellings don’t matter until Anirudh becomes Anuradha.
7) Bold text serves as hint.
8) Write something funny, don't leave any question blank.
9) Creative team name can earn you brownie points.
Happy Quizzing!
RULES

5. This german cartoon, published in the Der
Spiegel magazine, shows an overcrowded train
with people sitting on top holding the tricolour
and a Chinese bullet train on a parallel track
which is falling behind.
This cartoon has angered several Indians, who
allege that the depiction is downright racist.
Identify What is this cartoon referencing at.
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6. <Safety Slide>
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7. A01
India Exceeding
Population of China
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There are two such towers in Hyderabad, these are
called “Towers of Silence”. These were used by a
certain community for X by Vultures, but as it has
been more than 20 years since a vulture swooped
down here as they are on the verge of extinction.
The community has moved onto an alternative for
X by using Y which is quite evident in the
picture.
Describe X and Technique Y.
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9. <Safety Slide>
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10. A02
X- Cremation/ Sky Burial
Y- Solar Concentrators
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11. X is a poison that has been featured in multiple episodes of Breaking Bad. Even though
it isn’t the fast method, Walt prefers it because no trace of its use is left on a victim. It
has been used in multiple assassination events, successful and unsuccessful.
X is derived from beans of Y plant.
Y also inspires the name of one of the biggest automotive and lubricant manufacturing
company Z.
Identify Y and Z
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12. <Safety Slide>
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13. A3
Y - Castor Bean
Z- Castrol Limited
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14. While X journeys through a dark and difficult path of death, he pauses to assess his
existence and comes to the realization that there is nothing worthwhile left.
Due to his prolonged involvement in destructive and reckless behavior for so long, his
mother holds the belief that his mental state has crumbled and is now completely gone.
X has dedicated the majority of his existence to residing within the realm of gangs and
mafias utopia.
What famous pop reference are we talking about.
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15. <Safety Slide>
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16. A04
Gangsta’s Paradise
-Coolio
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17. S08_E01: *NAME OF THE QUIZ*
A flag is one of the most important things for any nation in the world, every nation tries to make it
unique so that it displays the values the nation was build upon.
Though being a very subtle component these three countries did something to their flags which is
exclusive to these 3 flags. While it’s quite easy to do it now it wasn’t when these countries were getting
their independence.
Images on the next slides(only part of flag where the distinctive component is present)
What component are we talking about?(0.75)
Why was it so rare?(0.25)
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20. <Safety Slide>
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21. The term "X moment" is used metaphorically to
describe a transformative event or breakthrough
in the Indian business landscape, where a
relatively small or local company achieves
remarkable success by whitewashing its
competition, challenges established players, or
introduces disruptive Cost Cuts.
X is a very popular company, jingle of whose
became a earworm for millions.
Identify X.
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22. <Safety Slide>
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23. A06
X- Nirma Moment
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24. In any modern day sport, huddle formation is a popular practice during any phase of the
match.
This is to strategically synchronize and coordinate players' efforts despite their distinct
individual roles and responsibilities and also to instil a sense of hope and foster a
collective sense of optimism.
This practice was originally started by Paul Hubbard of the Gallaudet football team. He
asked his teammates to form a tight circle for effective communication due to a specific
reason, which later came to be known as the football huddle.
What was so special about this team?
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25. <Safety Slide>
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26. A07
Deaf people
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27. This variety of mango from South India gets
its name from the look it wears! Small and
green in colour, it’s got a pointed end that
resembles the X. What sets this mango
apart from the others is that it is acceptable
to eat the skin of this variety.
Identify X.
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28. <Safety Slide>
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29. A08
X- Totapuri Mango
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30. These are the lyrics of a song written for a
certain important event in 1883. It was
printed in a monthly magazine “Melbourn
Punch”, it has the same rhyming scheme as
that of a british poem “What’s at the
Window”.
A part of these lyrics are still a very
important part of the event talked about.
What Event?
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31. <Safety Slide>
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32. A09
The First Ashes
(These lyrics are on the
urn)
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33. Q10 S8.5_E01: one two ka four
State the controversy that connects the following.

34. <Safety Slide>
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35. Unique Bats that went
on to be declared illegal
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36. Recently, a sex doll firm in Australia was sold out of a
‘particularly lifelike’ model doll for a bizarre non-sexual
reason.
Adam Lea, a retailer said, “This has never happened in the
company’s 30-year history.” This sudden jump was
preceded by the company releasing the new photograph for
Donna, the doll.
The sales was influenced to misuse a law in Australia.
Identify the reason for such sales.
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37. <Safety Slide>
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38. A11
In Australia, some lanes on highways
can only be used by vehicles carrying
more than one person
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39. The highlighted region on the map is an ancient
indian kingdom X which was an vedic Indo-Aryan
Tribal union in northern Iron age India.
It is named after a king who was an ancestor to
both kauravas and pandavas.
This region has always had a very large
significance in hindu religion.
The modern name can be translated to “The
Region of X”
Identify X.
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40. <Safety Slide>
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41. A12
X- Kuru Kingdom
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42. BookMyChotu was an Indian startup that started in
2015, which allowed people to rent helpers for
their day to day work at a set rate.
Though the startup was short lived but it was at its
peak in 2016 due to a peculiar problem in that
year that required people to do a boring and
time taking task - which then was the only
solution to this problem.
What problem are we talking about?
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43. <Safety Slide>
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44. A13
To stand in the queues for
exchanging their 500-1000
notes during demonetization.
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45. Englishmen L Waterman and John W. Mollett both claim to have invented the game of Reversi in
1883, each denouncing the other as a fraud.
The New York Times describes Reversi as "something like Go Bang, [...] played with 64 pieces."
The modern version of the game though is recognized as X. X was patented in Japan in 1971 by
Goro Hasegawa. There is a confusion if it is an improvement on Reversi or it was invented
regardless of Reversi.
Hasegawa named it as a reference to the Shakespearean play X, the Moor of Venice, referring to
the conflict between the Moor X and Iago, and more controversially, to the unfolding drama
between X, who is black, and Desdemona, who is white.
ID X.
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46. <Safety Slide>
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47. Othello
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48. The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum grows as a single cell that is big enough to
be seen with the naked eye. When it encounters numerous food sources separated in space,
the slime mold cell surrounds the food and creates tunnels to distribute the nutrients. In the
experiment, researchers led by Toshiyuki Nakagaki, of Hokkaido University in Sapporo,
Japan, placed oat flakes (a slime mold delicacy) in a specific pattern in order to obtain an
efficient way of X.
ID X.
(video follows)
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50. <Safety Slide>
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51. A15
X-Tokyo Subway System
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52. While X has been part of Indian Traditions for a very long time in many different
forms, but apparently the most popular form today is not native to India and hence in
recent times it’s been called Y.
The most popular version of the story told is that the method of preparing X reached
China almost millennia after India. However, the Chinese Emperor did not approve of
the colour and as a result, Chinese people found a way to make it white. This refined
X found its way back to India later and since it came from China this time, we started
calling it Y.
Identify X and it’s current popular name Y.
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53. <Safety Slide>
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54. A16
X- Sugar
Y- Cheeni (Chinese)
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55. Samir Mondal (born 13 March 1952) is an Indian watercolour painter. His main
contribution to Indian art of modern times is a continual revival of watercolour painting.
Another notable work includes a painting,Y, for a 2007 project, X. Y became a very
famous painting and had a similar style as many other paintings of Mondal. ID X,Y.
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56. <Safety Slide>
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A17

57. A18
X-Taare Zameen Par
Y-Ishaan painting
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58. kiLiki is a language created in 2013 for an important project X. Started as a fictional
language, now kiLiki has evolved into a language with script grammar and more than 3000
words for your everyday communication.
kiLiki alliterates with the negative character Y, associated with it. The website of kiLiki has
the following logo.
ID X,Y.
(a video follows)
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60. <Safety Slide>
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61. A19
X-Baahubali-The Beginning
Y-Kalakeya
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62. X are a variety of ceremonial dances in Māori culture. X are often performed by a group, with vigorous
movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.They are performed to
welcome distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements, occasions, or funerals.
New Zealand sports teams' practice of performing a X to challenge opponents before international matches
has made the dance form more widely known around the world. This tradition began with the 1888–89
New Zealand Native football team tour and has been carried on by the New Zealand rugby union team
(known as the All Blacks) since 1905.
X was also performed by the character Maui in the Disney movie “Moana”, in his fight scene with Te
aka. (video follows)
X was performed by Dwayne Johnson and “his team” in his opening scene of movie Y.
ID X,Y and describe the scene in Y. (5+2+3)
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64. A20
X-Haka
Y-The Fate of the Furious
(8th part)
Hobb’s daughter’s soccer
match
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65. X(patent in the figure) has made lives a bit easier by
replacing the traditional Y at certain places. It provides
more security, independence and energy efficiency than
Y.
An urban legend believes that the invention of X was
because the inventor, Theophilus Van Kannel was a
misogynist and hated other acts of chivalry.
This story might not be completely true.
Identify X.
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66. <Safety Slide>
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67. A21
Revolving Doors
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68. <Safety Slide>
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69. If They Let Us, Part I, Rihanna’s album cover for album anti, shows the singer as a
young child with a crown over her eyes, engulfed in a veil of red paint. The cover image
from artist Joy Nachum largely focuses on the concepts of inner and outer vision and
surprising the audience.
i) Identify the specialty about this album cover.
Also a later series of paintings under the name of “Fire” with charcoal frame was
released by the artist. This series included Rihanna’s album cover, If They Let Us, Part I.
ii) Why was this idea unique?
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70. Q22 S8.5_E01: one two ka four
If They Let Us, Part I
Anti
Fire part III, Fire

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i) Braille Script in the background features a poem by Chloë
Mitchell
ii) Blind people while reading the script creates new artistic
patterns.

73. X is a 1964 children's novel by British author <redacted>. The story features the
adventures of a young kid inside the __________ of the protagonist Y. In a 2006 list for
the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named X among her top ten books
that every child should read.
X was recreated as a film twice, once in 1971 and then in 2005.
The Family Guy made a parody on X in season 2, episode 6. (video follows)
ID X,Y.
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75. <Safety Slide>
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76. A23
X- Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Y-Willy Wonka
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77. Explain this meme in which a “Bird”
(perception matters) is covering the
number plate of an overspeeding car
from a camera(the upper part is pov of a
camera).
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78. <Safety Slide>
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80. After Beethoven’s loss of hearing, in order to continue composing and playing music,
Beethoven stumbled across a physical phenomenon, X which he used for his benefit
according to his need.
X has been in use since 15th century. It is once again gaining popularity in a way
Beethoven used it.
Identify the physical phenomenon.
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81. <Safety Slide>
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82. A25
Bone Conduction
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83. Occasionally, maligned as an anti-Christian symbol (an upside-down broken “Nero-
cross”), a satanic character, or even a Nazi emblem, the symbol has a clear history, and
its origin is not so controversial.The <redacted> sign was designed by Gerald Holtom
for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958.
It is said that Holtom originally considered using a Christian cross but disliked its
association with the Crusades and ultimately chose something he considered to be more
universal.
Identify the symbol being talked about here.
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84. <Safety Slide>
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85. The Peace Symbol
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86. The X express, also called as Train 18, is an electric multiple unit train operated by the
Indian Railways.
Similar to the Shatabdi Express, these are day train services that connect major cities.
These tend to take less than a day's time to travel. It was recently in news for the
declaration of all of its routes.
Its first model was made in just 18 hours(less than one-day).
ID X.
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87. <Safety Slide>
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88. Vande Bharat Express
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89. In 1995, William Utermohlen, a UK artist, received a diagnosis of Y. Despite such
circumstances, he started to channel his condition into his artworks of self portraits
between 1995 to 2000. He passed away in 2007.
These paintings(image follows) now serve as poignant representations of cognitive
decline associated with X and is used as educational material for students and med-
professionals.
Y is a specific disease associated with X and is the most common cause of X.
Identify X and Y
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91. <Safety Slide>
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92. X - Dementia
Y - Alzheimer's Disease
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93. It all started when Ogilvy & Mather India was asked by X to create a total of 30
advertisements that could be telecasted during a prominent event in 2012. The brief that
was given to the agency was to make real people look as <redacted> as possible.
It became an instant hit wowing audiences by their amusing looks and the short stories.
It later went on to become the official mascot for the brand.
This initiative helped the brand save a lot of money and also recall its brand value.
Identify the brand and the name of the mascot.
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94. <Safety Slide>
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95. A29
Vodafone
Zoozoo
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96. With millions of dollars spent per episode, it's not a surprise that everything about Game
of Thrones is expensive. Even the <redacted> that appear briefly in season 1 are a
complete work of art, worthy enough to serve as a wedding gift to the book author
George R. R. Martin as one of the three was gifted to him to celebrate his marriage to
longtime partner Parris McBride.
Identify the item that was given to him as a wedding present.
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97. <Safety Slide>
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98. A30
Dragons eggs
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99. After NSS(National Service Scheme) was setup by the
government in 1969, a logo was hence designed for
which.
The symbol for the NSS has been based on the world-
famous X.
The wheel portrays the cycle of creation, preservation
and release. It signifies the movement in life across
time and space, the symbol thus stands for continuity as
well as change and implies the continuous striving of
NSS for social change. The eight bars in the wheel
represents 24 hours of a day.
Identify the site X.
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100. <Safety Slide>
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101. A31
X- Konark Sun Temple
Chariot Wheel
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102. S08_E01: *NAME OF THE QUIZ*
NASA’s instagram posts usually have an average of 2000-3000 comments on average,
but this post of Jupiter had a boom of 40,000 comments when fans of a singer X, saw X
in the image and proclaimed that X was such a big entity that he has become a planet
instead of becoming a star. (IMAGE FOLLOWS)
On 17 June, Canadian rapper Drake played two of X's singles from one of the X’s
album on his debut radio show called Table for One on Sound42. Drake later launched a
t-shirt collection to honour X, wearing one himself at a concert in Canada on 28 July.
ID X.
QX

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QX

104. S08_E01: *NAME OF THE QUIZ*
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