The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor named Richard Daly made a bet that he could make a nonsense word known throughout the city within 48 hours. He had his staff write the word on walls around the city. The next day, the strange word was the talk of the town and soon became part of the language. This emerged in the mid-19th century and gave rise to the most common use of the term today.

1. InQuizitive
SUNDARAM

2. Rules
•Infinite pounce and then bounce
•The Quizmaster’s decision is final
•Double your points on a ‘raven’ question (Double of only the positive scores
and no double on the negatives)
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3. 1. For starters…
The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made
a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make a nonsense word known
throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it. After a
performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word ‘____' written on
them, and told them to write the word on walls around the city. The next day the
strange word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part
of the language.
This emerged in the mid-19th century and gave rise to the most common use of
the term today
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4. QUIZ!
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5. 2. The history of?
This company was originally started in 1892 with an initial investment of $265 in central
Kolkata
It was later acquired by the Gupta bros. and later an Englishman by the name CH Holmes
became a partner of the firm (1918)
The Mumbai factory was set up in 1924
Rajan Pillai secured control of the group in the late 1980s, becoming known in India as the
'Biscuit King’
It then later metamorphosed into a form which is a partnership between _____ and Danone

6. Brittania Industries ltd.

7. 3. Google doodle commemorating who
and occasion?

8. Celebrating 160th
Birthday of Sigmund
Freud

9. 4. ______ _________ is credited for the
following
creating a demand for higher bandwidth
for commercializing the Internet in 1990
for developing technologies to stream video online in 1994
for creating the webcam in 1996
for creating subtitles
closed captioning for the hearing impaired

10. Internet Pornography

11. 5. Quote unquote
I didn't say anything.
Now, why didn't I
think of that?
Shut up
You were thinking. It's
annoying
Cause you're an idiot.
No no no, don't be like that,
practically everyone is
1.
2.

13. 6. Chinese whisper modification
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The ______ ______is the effect of the subjectivity of
perception on recollection, by which observers of an
event are able to produce substantially different but
equally plausible accounts of it.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film _______, in which a
crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four
mutually contradictory ways

14. Rashomon effect
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15. Cookie
Tina
Gina
Veronica
Mary Theresa
Mary Angela
Dina
7. CONNECT…

16. 7 sisters of Joey
Tribbiani

17. 8. Connect
•In modern times, the term ____ __ _____is
best known as the date on which Julius Caesar
was kiled in 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed (23
times) to death in the Roman Senate by a
group of conspirators led by Marcus Junius
Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. The group
included 60 other co-conspirators according to
Plutarch.
•Another point which arises is Shakespeare's
use of the ____ __ _____ and (the lack of
doubt in) Marcus Brutus' decision to
assassinate Caesar to portray an atmosphere
of madness, pleasure, and pandemonium

18. Ides of March
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19. 9. Connect
19
Ysiel Windsinger wants you to use
the Stormcrow Amulet to explore
the major lakes in Zangarmarsh
(World of Warcraft)
The shortest distance between two
points (on a map, disregarding the
vagaries of intervening terrain);
the geodesic distance
1.
3.
2.

20. As the crow flies
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21. 10. What are we talking about?
Trademark registered 1924 by Johnson & Johnson
The British equivalent was Elastoplast
Figurative sense of "temporary or makeshift solution to a problem“
It is a stick-on gauze pad or strip
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22. Band-aid
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23. 11. What are we talking about?
It seems to have been adapted from the phrase 'to play for love (of
the game)' (i.e. to play for nothing).
Another theory that is often heard is that it represents the French
word l'oeuf, meaning 'an egg' (from the resemblance between an
egg and a naught) although this seems unlikely.
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24. The use of love in
place of nil in tennis
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25. 12. Connect…
oThis is associated with a band of warm ocean
water that develops in the central and east-
central equatorial Pacific
oThis refers to the cycle of warm and cold
temperatures, as measured by sea surface
temperature, SST, of the tropical central and
eastern Pacific Ocean
oThe whole ENSO cycle has 2 parts which
causes global changes of both temperatures
and rainfall
oDeveloping countries dependent upon
agriculture and fishing, particularly those
bordering the Pacific Ocean, are the most
affected

26. EL nino

27. 13. What?
Created by French designer Ted Lapidus
Its popularity took off in the 1970s after Reliance Industries set up synthetic
fiber plants in India and significantly reduced the price of the fiber
The Indian middle class jumped at the opportunity to be well dressed in a fabric
which though unsuited to India's climate was fairly cheap, easy to maintain and
long-lasting
Usually seen in connection with erstwhile Police/Crime branch

28. Safari suits

29. 14. Identify

30. Al Qaeda’s English
magazine
AL-QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA (AQAP) RELEASED THE 14TH ISSUE
OF ITS ENGLISH MAGAZINE, “INSPIRE,” WITH A THEMATIC FOCUS ON
“ASSASSINATION OPERATIONS.” THE ISSUE WAS RELEASED IN BOTH
ENGLISH AND ARABIC

31. 15. What’s the good word?.. ‘hic’
__________ is a word which is reserved in usage in accordance to Comité
Interprofessionnel du vin de _________ régulations
In the European Union and many other countries the
name ___________ is legally protected by the Madrid system under an 1891
treaty
This was reaffirmed in the Treaty of Versailles after World War I
The United States bans the use from all new U.S.-produced wines. Only those
that had approval to use the term on labels before 2006 may continue to use it
and only when it is accompanied by the wine's actual origin (e.g., "California")

32. Champagne

33. Anti-clockwise

34. 16. Solve…
World’s most expensive spice – Saffron
World’s second most expensive spice - ???

35. Vanilla

36. 17. Who is the law named after?
This law on Social Networks states that the amount of stuff that people share roughly doubles
every year.
Y = C *2^X — Where X is time, Y is what you will be sharing and C is a constant.

37. Mark Zuckerberg
LAW OF INFORMATION SHARING

38. 18. What are we talking about here?
These are words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped
This often happens accidentally in slips of the tongue (or tips of the slung) as these are often
affectionately called
Some examples are
◦ Tease my ears (Ease my tears)
◦ A lack of pies (A pack of lies)

39. Spoonerism
William Archibald Spooner has become famous for his (real or alleged) play of words in which
corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched
Spooner is supposed to have committed other absent-minded gaffes. He was said to have
invited a don to tea, "to welcome Stanley Casson, our new archaeology Fellow". "But, sir," the
man replied, "I am Stanley Casson". "Never mind," Spooner said, "Come all the same

40. 19. What?
In 16th Century, Simon Stevin of Belgium drew up first version of it
It was called ‘Fair Statement’
It is the only statement which applies to a single point in time of a business' calendar year

41. Balance sheet

42. 20. Putting the handkerchief…
What is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent
to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else
The _____________ then offers to sell the domain to the person or company
who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price

43. Cybersquatting or
Domainsquatting

44. 21. Ad for? (put funda)

45. Cocaine

46. 22. Origin of ?
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, then India's Prime Minister persuaded Mr. Raghunandan Saran, an
industrialist, to enter automotive manufacture.
In 1948, a company was set up in what was then Madras, for the assembly of Austin Cars.
This company went on to become?

47. Ashok Leyland
ASHOK MOTORS  ASHOK LEYLAND

48. 23. Connect
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49. Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and
Macbeth
4 PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE WHERE GHOSTS APPEAR
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50. 24. What word?
•Borrowed from French
•used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or
•the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point
•Commonly used
• to admit that an opponent in an argument has made a good point
• when someone has said a good comeback line
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51. Touché
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52. 25. Make sense out of this and FITB
Editor Julie Schwartz declared that ___________ __________ was on February 29th in a number
of letter pages during the Silver Age and that was the reason why he stayed so young looking.
In 1985's _________ Annual #11 his _________ is officially mentioned as being February 29 in
the 1988 issue of TIME Magazine
Oddly enough, his alter ego celebrates his _________ on a completely different day. This was
established in “Action Comics #241″ in 1958, and was specified in “Action Comics #263” in 1973
as being celebrated on June 18th.”
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Give me both the blanks on pounce

53. Superman’s Birthday
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54. 26. Who and what did they do?
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55. Jan Koum and Brian Acton co-created
Whatsapp
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56. 27. Get What You Pay
There is a commonly accepted perception that you get what you pay for. In the 1950s, Coca Cola
was twice as expensive as Pepsi. Yet, Pepsi sales increased after they raised the price of the
soda. In 2012, consumers pay more for brand-name bottled water, believing it is of better quality
even though water is colourless, tasteless and odourless.
There is a term that describes this phenomenon. What is it called and why?

57. Chivas Regal Effect
Chivas Regal was once an obscure
brand of Scotch whiskey. By raising its
prices, it not only increased sales but
also taught marketers that people
associate price with quality.
The Chivas Regal Effect usually refers
to the cost of tuition at private
colleges and universities. Many
parents assume that a higher-priced
education is a better education.

58. 28. M.B.O.
This company has used a stark black and white logo for advertising as its key strategy to
create a brand differentiator.
The previous logo of this company was in the shape of a ring which was designed by the
agency ‘Contract India’. The reason why the company decided to go for the black and
white colour combination was that the agency had sent a coloured logo but since the
company had a black and white fax machine hence they received it in black and white and
thought it to be selected by the agency The design and colours both were liked and
approved and hence they had a black and white Logo.
Which company is this??

59. Answer

60. 29. Oopsy Daisy…
The domain grauniad.co.uk is registered to this British
entity and redirects to their website.
What is it and what is its significance?

61. The Guardian
Grauniad is a nickname of the UK paper guardian.
This comes from the Guardian’s reputation for frequent typographical errors, such as misspelling its
own name as ‘The Gaurdian’

62. 30. Connect
Captain Napalm
Safari Al
Stupendous Man
Tracer Bullet
T-Rex
Godzilla

63. Calvin’s Alter Egos/ Aliases

64. 31. In the end…………Translate
Xiexie

65. Thank You!