31 questions of a crackable nature

2. Q.1
 This landmark building located in Buenos Aries is about 100 metres tall.
There are 22 floors, divided into three section. The basement and ground
floor constitute one section, floors 1-14 constitute the second one and
floors 15-22 constitute the third. When completed in 1923 it was the tallest
building, not only in the city, but also in the whole of South America.
Today it houses mainly lawyer offices, a Spanish-language school, and a
store that sells Tango clothing.
 What are the three sections representative of?

3. This is the Palicio Barolo inspired by
Dante’s Divine Comedy
The sections are thus Hell, Purgatory
and Paradise

4. Q.2
 In their paintings of Adam and Eve, medieval artists faced much ire from
the Roman Catholic Church for a particular aspect that they included. The
reason for that might have been that it went against the Church’s idea of
how humans were created.
 What was this aspect that threatened the Church’s idea of creationism?
 How did the painters go about trying to circumvent it?

5. Belly Buttons as that implied the
presence of an Umbilical Cord
It was covered up using hair or foliage

6. Q.3 Connect
 New York Subway till the 1930’s
 Japan (more or less till the 1990’s)
 Beijing Subway
 Shanghai Metro
 Chongqing Metro
 Madrid Metro
 Deutsche Bahn AG

7. Rail lines that use Passenger Pushers

8. Q.4
 Christmas celebrated twice a year? As much as that sounds like every kid’s
dream, there are none in X. However X is one of the few places that exist
to celebrate Christmas twice. It does it for the same reason as a bunch of
other Eastern European countries but unlike those, it lacks proximity from
Russia from where the dual Christmas might have originated. X is rather
small compared to the other countries with the size of about a football
field.
 What is the reason for these dual Christmas celebrations and what is X?

9. Due to both the Julian and Gregorian
calendar being followed
ISS for the second part due to the
presence of the Cosmonuats

10. Q.5 Why is the man in the middle, a sports
commentator featured in this quiz today?

11. Corner Taken Quickly Origi :’)

12. Q.6 Where else might you have seen this race play out
whose course is shown below?

13. Winklevoss Twins Henley Regatta
Royal boat race in The Social Network

14. Q.7
 Inspiration for song names might come from the weirdest of places. In this
case, it came from a chicken and egg dish, named in a rather dark and
twisted way at a restaurant where this artist was having lunch. Having
recently experienced the death of the family dog, this artist had death on
the brain and connected the reference in the dish’s name to his wife dying.
 Give me the name of the song/dish.

15. Mother and Child Reunion by Paul
Simon

16. Q.8
 In a commercial for an America footwear and sportswear company, X
features alongside Kyrie Irving and Denis Rodman. During this ad: ‘I’m
sorry, _______,’ X says. ‘It’s your ___. ‘I kept that in formaldehyde.’
 What was X shown to be returning here?

17. Evander Holyfield’s Ear being returned
by Mike Tyson

18. Q.9
 On first hearing, these sound very impressive. However a study in 2017, by
a popular educational Youtuber showed that that they are not effective in
doing what they were designed to and rather have the opposite effect in
some cases. Speaking about it, an expert said that therapy is very beneficial
all the way around and if these were used in conjunction with therapy, they
would be great. But on their own, they were a mere stopgap.
 As with a lot of weird inventions, this one originated in Japan too and has
now spread to major parts of America.
 What am I talking about here?

19. Rage/Anger rooms

20. Q.10 Images from the patent of what?

22. It’s a patent for coconut/palm tree
climbing machine, originated from
South India

23. Q.11
 The decision to do this was first taken in 2013 after X’s arrival to the team.
X talked about seeing these before when he was with another team and a
member of his staff said that he would never have ______ _________ up there
as it was disrespectful. And so X decided, he wouldn’t too. The decision
caused it’s fair share of controversy with many thinking it was disrespectful
of X and his current team to try and do something like this.
 X is also the brainchild behind a 2018 marketing campaign for the team to
increase their brand presence and following in their home city. The tagline
for it stems from something he said in one of his post game interviews.
 What decision of X was controversial?
 What marketing campaign am I talking about?

24. Covering up Lakers Championship
Banners (X is Doc Rivers)
LA. Our. Way

25. Q.12
 The initial lease agreement for this was signed with the intention for
America to “protect” (typical of them) the independence of Y and of the
people themselves. The initial payment was of 2000 dollars in gold coins.
The lease amount kept changing but only one check has been claimed
since something major happened in the country in the mid 20th century.
Even though, it was leased with the intention of helping out the country,
America over the past few decades have been using the land for vastly
different reasons.
 Lease agreement for what?
 Also, what event since which only payment check has been cashed?

26. Guantanamo Bay
Cuban Revolution

27. Q.13
 This event was organized on July 26, 2012 as a mark of protests. The
Opening ceremony featured performances around many famines from
times of pre Independence, mass hangings after the 1857 Battle of
Independence and The Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
 What event was this and what were they protesting against? Pic on next
slide.

29. Bhopal Olympics
Protesting against Dow being the
sponsor of London 2012

30. Q.14
 Calculations on a BBC blog showed that the total distance covered would
have been around 30 KM based on a bunch of assumptions. . Another
problem was the speed of the moving object, as it is shown to be doing
things on the same stretch which just cannot happen one after the other.
Obviously, events happening simultaneously had to be taken into
consideration and the total time of travel was estimated to be around 9
minutes. However the longest existing possibility is around 5.5 km in
length.
 What am I talking about here?

31. The runway scene from Fast and
Furious 6

32. Q.15
 Accompanied here is a picture of the main city square of a Greek city.
Where else might have you seen a picture of this square being used for
another purpose? (Very crackable from the picture)

33. Absolut Ads

34. Q.16
 Of all the weird parody candidates that pop up every time an election roles
up somewhere, this one probably stands out. X has had appearances as
one in two Presidential campaigns in the USA and one in Poland. These
campaigns are generally a shot at voters who want to vote for the “lesser
evil” among candidates. Another political party based around X claims that
it wants to change politics for the evil parodying the Brexit party’s
“Changing Politics for Good” campaign.
 ID X

35. Cthulhu from Lovecraft’s novels

36. Q.17
 Dadaria is one of various types of folk-songs or field-songs of the state of
Chhattisgarh in India. These songs were very popular and part of folklore
before the 1970s and were sung by village men or women while harvesting
in paddy fields or during leisure. In the late 1980s, the singing of these
songs by any man before a woman or women in private were considered
to be socially unacceptable due to intimate language of these songs which
had developed mostly as 'question and response' between a male-female
duet.
 Where notably might have you seen a Dadaria being played? Quite ironic,
might I add since it was shown in a place no where close to Chattisgarh.

37. Genda Phool from Dilli 6

38. Q.18
 In 2003, an employee of this organization thought that it would be best to
invest in _________ after the events of 2002. Over the next 17 years, this
organization invested about 31.7 Million dollars into this. It’s one of the
few organizations in it’s field that invests into such an entity. This move of
theirs has obviously paid off in 2020.
 What am I talking about here?

39. Wimbledon Pandemic Insurance
bailout

40. Q.19
 X was one of the only two people present in this picture and also the
youngest in it. A Director in the National Security Council, she was certainly
smaller in stature as compared to the others present in it, it was perhaps
surprising to see her end up in such an important picture. Speaking about
it, a news site reported that the luck of the camera's gaze means that
history will be able to place her at a decisive moment in war on terrorism,
but not her colleagues.
 Which photo am I talking about here?
 Who was the other woman in the picture?

41. Situation Room during Osama’s
operation
Hillary Clinton

42. Q.20
 X’s have a historical significance for Y’s dating back to early parts of the
20th century. In fact, X’s historical significance for Mexico goes all the way
back to the Aztecs. The whole point of X’s are to give the Y a new identity.
In fact in some cases Y’s have been buried with their X’s. However it is a
misconception that every Y uses a X. More recently, the X’s have become
iconic symbols of Mexican culture. Contemporary artists like Francisco
Delgado and Xavier Garza incorporate X’s in their paintings.
 Id X and Y

43. Masks and Luchadores

44. Q.21
 This organizations has three functioning units outside India. They’re
located in Iran, Russia and Nepal. It’s not clear as to why only these three
locations were chosen. As theoretically, the reason behind opening these
international units could have followed to open up units in pretty much all
other countries.
 Another unit existed in Bhutan till about 1989. But after the completion of
a project, it was discontinued and transferred to the Bhutanese
government.
 What organization?
 What project which led to the shutdown of the Bhutan unit?

45. KV’s
Chhukha Hydel Power Project

46. Q.22
 In 2015, one of the masterminds behind this racket was arrested by the city
police. Members charged around 3-10 Lakhs for a single employment of
their services. Fictional names with slight variants of the same ones were
used and documents had to be forged carefully to avoid detection.
 A demand for a market like this was driven by the introduction of the X Act
in the late 2000’s. You can also consider this a topical question in a way.
 What services was the racket providing?

47. Fake Admissions under the EWS
section as a result of the RTE Act
Topical as this was the plot for Hindi
Medium, an Irrfan Khan movie

48. Q.23 Fill in the appropriate names for these
Chicago prospects based on the caption and post
Independence America

49. Burr – Hamilton Duel

50. Q.24 What nickname was given to this 2010 World
Cup Football Team after a fictional character due to
similarity in their attire?

51. The Charlie Brown Kit

52. Q.25
 There have been a total of 64 episodes of this series. A survey in the major
cities indicated that 66.7% people have watched one or the other episode
at some point. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on an average have the
lowest viewers for it’s episodes. A ten second ad slot for this costs about
200 times more than the normal rates. The series even had a very special
guest, in it’s 4th episode itself. To further expand the reach, the series is
now available in regional languages also.
 Which series am I talking about?

53. Mann Ki Baat

54. Q.26
 It’s weird to think such a small prop would cause so much trouble in a big
budget production movie. This prop was obviously hugely important,
because it formed a major part of the protagonist’s personality. However
the issue arose, when a fire wiped out numerous original copies and since
this wasn’t in production any more, the makers were left scratching their
head. On Ebay, the cheapest you could get one for was about 8,000
Dollars. So what did the prop team do? They built six of these from scratch.
 What prop from which movie am I talking about here?

55. Starlord’s Walkman from GotG

56. Q.27
 CIA back during the Cold War Days was one crazy organization. While a
whole quiz could be made on their absurdities, this one might just take the
cake. The US needed a place which they could secretly used as a military
base to fire missiles at USSR in case a nuclear war broke out. What better
place then than ________________ (not a single word). It’s proximity to both
USA and USSR and the fact that it would effectively remain hidden
according to their plan made many think it was a genius move.
 They even made a decoy base here which they justified as a way to show
to affordability of military outposts in conditions like these.
 Where were they going to make this secret military complex? (Need a
specific answer, just a place name won’t do)
 Why did the plan have to be scrapped?

57. Project Iceworm – Under the
Greenland Ice Sheet
Obviously they didn’t consider that ice
drifts

58. Q.28
 The previous chart had 64 entries in a 8*8 matrix and it has now been
almost completely exhausted. A new chart was thus prepared with 169
entries with the addition of 5 new columns and rows. The 5 new rows
indicated that each entity which made up the columns could now have 5
more entries with 5 new entities from the column being given the rights to
add in entries. The first chart was devised in 2004 and the new one is most
likely to come in effect from sometime during the later half of 2020.
 What is this chart about?

59. North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclone
Names

60. Q.29
 We’ve all heard of crazy super fans who idolize artists to a creepy and scary level. This
guy would probably take the cake. A huge fan of the artist X, he did it all from
scrimmaging through X’s gargbage in his old apartment to obsessively stalking him. He
even wrote a X to English dictionary much later. One particular belief of his was what
was said to be driving him and convinced him that his actions were okay.
 What artist and what belief?
 Later he went on to form a protest body for the world of rock and roll with the aim of
"liberating" artists from bourgeois tendencies and ensuring that rock musicians
continued to engage with and represent the counterculture.
 Their first protest was against Y, who he described as a "just a businessman" and "a
good example of the capitalist, non-involved egotistical rock star“.
 Id Y

61. Believed that Dylan’s songs were about
him (This is A.J.Weberman)
McCartney

62. Q.30
 The world’s seen more eccentric individuals in this field than X. His
belongings would fit in a suitcase, he lived the life of a nomad donated all
his earnings from prizes and awards to people in need and would show at
the doorsteps of colleagues, collaborate on a few papers for a few days
and move on. Armed with copious amounts of stimulants including
Amphetamines, he devoted his life to working in his field.
 In recent year, while you might have heard this phrase applied for
engineers, a slightly modified form of this phrase was initially used for X.
What phrase?
 As a tribute to him, X number was created. Winners of the highest award in
X’s field have a median X number of 3. What does X number represent
then?

63. A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems
Erdos Number represents the collaborative distance" between
mathematician Paul Erdos and another person, as measured by
authorship of mathematical papers

64. Q.31 Connect and give the individual connects

65.  This was the Purulia Arms Drop Case where in guns were dropped from an
aircraft in Purulia, West Bengal.
 Top left is Annanda Marga, a cult for whom the arms were meant for most
likely
 Top right is CPI(M), it;'s rumoured that the whole thing was a plot to
overthrow the communist government
 Bottom left is a Mig 21 which was used to intercept the plane in question
 Bottom right is Anurag Basu who directed Jagga Jasoos on thi topic