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-> 26 questions, Infinite bounce.
-> Most questions have 10 points.
-> Part marking may be applicable.
-> QM decisions binding.

Pradosh C. Mitter first came into public notice in 1965.
He is a man of around 27 years with a tall (6'2"),
athletic figure. Despite prowess in martial arts, he
prefers to use his 'Magajastra' (brain-weapon) in his line
of work. How do we better know him as?
[Often accompanied by his cousin Tapesh Ranjan Mitra and his writer friend Lalmohon Ganguli]
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• Better known as Feluda
• His usual companions are Topshe and Jatayu

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Who? What? Where? Why?

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The BSD daemon is named after a
software daemon, a computer
program found on Unix-like
operating systems, which through a
play on words takes the cartoon
shape of a mythical demon. The
BSD daemon's nickname Beastie is
a slurred phonetic pronunciation of
BSD. Beastie customarily carries a
trident to symbolize a software
daemon's forking of processes.
BSD Daemon / Beastie

What is the Rule 34 on the Internet?
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"If It Exists, There Is Porn of It. No Exceptions."
“If it exists, there is porn of it.”
See also Rule 35: “If no such porn exists, it will
be made.”
Generally held to refer to fictional characters
and cartoons, although some formulations
insist there are "no exceptions" even for
abstract ideas like non-Euclidean geometry, or
puzzlement.
For obvious reasons it is not appropriate for
lengthy discussion

One for faith
Two for hope
Three for love
And the fourth is for?
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Good Luck!
Alternatively,
in Irish legend, St. Patrick used
the Shamrock's three leaves to
teach the locals about
Christianity. It symbolized the
Holy Trinity with each leaf
representing the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. When it's found
with the additonal fourth leaf, it
represents God's Grace.

The hippocampus is the part of the brain which
is responsible for consolidation of information
from short-term memory to long-term memory
and spatial navigation.
It was named for its resemblance with X which is
in the genus hippocampus. Give me X
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Sea Horse
• Hippocampus = Hippo + kampos
• Literally,
Horse + Sea Monster

Bad beer rots our young guts but
vodka goes well – get some now!
What am I referring to?
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A mnemonic to remember the
electronic color code
• B.B. ROY of Great Britain has Very Good Wife.
• It is used to indicate the values or ratings of
electronic components, very commonly for
resistors, but also for capacitors, inductors,
and others.

Id X.
The three official languages of X are English, French,
and Russian. The organization's logos in two of its
official languages, English and French, include the
word X, and it is usually referred to by this name.
The organization says that X is not an acronym or
initialism for the organization's full name in either
official language; rather, recognizing that its initials
would be different in different languages, it adopted X,
based on the Greek word X' ( meaning equal), as the
universal short form of its name.
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ISO

Connect
• Cassandra
• HipHop
• Thrift
• Phabricator
• Primer
• XHP
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Facebook open source projects
• Phabricator : A suite of web apps for code review
• Cassandra : an open source distributed DBMS
• HipHop : Transforms PHP source code to C++
• Primer : Javascript optimization.
• XHP : PHP extension which augments the syntax of
the language such that XML document fragments
become valid PHP expressions.
• Thrift : Software framework for scalable cross-
language services development.

Identify both logos in correct order.
C1 C2
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• C1 = Comedy Central channel
• C2 = Copy Left symbol It is a licensing method for making a
program (or other work) free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of
the program to be free as well.

What is the occasion?
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Stories of India, “a hoarding at a time”.
• It’s a coffee table
book launched this
month on
completion of 50
years for Amul.
• Published by Harper
Collins, the book
traces the country’s
social, political and
cultural evolution
through the eyes of
the Amul girl.

• Identify this english phrase which has its
origin in the practice of having a squad of
military drummers play during court martial
proceedings in Britain.
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Face the Music!
• To indicate someone facing the consequences
of their actions/inactions.

ID
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Neighbour
• That is the new PM of Pakistan,
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

ID the painter and the painting
• __ Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y ___
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• Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de
la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
• His name was given to honor various saints and
relatives.
• Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was
created in response to the bombing of Guernica,
Basque Country, by German and Italian
warplanes at the behest of the Spanish
Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the
Spanish Civil War.
• Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the
suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly
innocent civilians.

Identify the phrase
• The phrase is
sometimes used to
describe confrontations
where adversaries are
incorrectly perceived, or
to courses of action that
are based on
misinterpreted or
misapplied heroic,
romantic, or idealistic
justifications.
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Tilting at windmills
• The phrase derives from an episode in the
novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,
wherein Quixote fights windmills that he
imagines to be giants.

Actress/dancer/director, name X or her work Y.
• For a director who made eight
films, only two of which
received significant coverage
outside of her country, X had
unusually high recognition for
the remainder of her life, most
of it stemming from Y.
• Y, her most (in)famous work is
perhaps the reason why X had
so few films.
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• Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film
made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles
the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in
Nuremberg, which was attended by more
than 700,000 Nazi supporters.
• The film contains excerpts from speeches
given by various Nazi leaders at the
Congress, including portions of speeches
by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage
of massed party members. Hitler
commissioned the film and served as an
unofficial executive producer; his name
appears in the opening titles.
• The overriding theme of the film is the
return of Germany as a great power, with
Hitler as the True German Leader who
will bring glory to the nation.

Identify the game
Its publication is widely regarded as
the beginning of modern role-playing
games and the role-playing game
industry.
The only items required to play the
game are the rulebooks, a character
sheet for each player and a number of
polyhedral dice.
The game participants can be
categorized as DM, PC and NPC.
Players can choose their abilities and
their species, occupation, alignment,
skills, powers etc.
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Dungeons & Dragons
• D&D assigns each player a specific character to play. These
characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a
fantasy setting.
• A Dungeon Master serves as the game's referee and
storyteller, while also maintaining the setting in which the
adventures occur and playing the role of the inhabitants.
• The characters form a party that interacts with the
setting's inhabitants (and each other). Together they solve
dilemmas, engage in battles and gather treasure and
knowledge. In the process the characters earn experience
points to become increasingly powerful over a series of
sessions.
• DnD v5 is available since May 12, for testing.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Surveillance: French (sur, "from above", and
veiller, "to watch“)
• What is an emerging opposite to this?
• Give me a term or explain.
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Sousveillance ( soo-VAY-ləns) [To watch from
below]
Surveillance denotes the eye-in-the-sky
watching from above, whereas sousveillance
denotes bringing the camera or other means
of observation down to human level, either
physically (mounting cameras on people rather
than on buildings), or hierarchically (ordinary
people doing the watching, rather than higher
authorities or architectures doing the
watching).
• Mobile phones were used in Sierra Leone and Ghana in 2007 for checking
electoral malpractices and intimidation.
• Sharing of first hand accounts and videos, both live and pre-recorded, of state
reactions to protests in Tunisia and Egypt in January 2011 raised visibility of the
actions of the states, and may have accelerated the protests.

Goya’s Painting
• It takes it reference in
a Spanish Rhyme:
Duérmete niño, duérmete ya...
Que viene el Coco y te comerá
How do we in India
know this as?
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The Coco a mythical ghost-monster;
equivalent to the boogeyman
• Sleep child, sleep now... Or else the Coco will
come and eat you.
• Gabbar’s Dialogue
• Gogo’s dialogue 

It is elementary!
• 1928, Paul Dirac publishes a paper proposing that electrons can have both a
positive charge and negative energy.
• 1929, Dmitri Skobeltsyn detected particles that acted like electrons but
curved in the opposite direction in an applied magnetic field.
• 1929 Chung-Yao Chao, a graduate student at Caltech, noticed some
anomalous results that indicated particles behaving like electrons, but with a
positive charge.
• 1932, Carl Anderson discovers this elementary antiparticle X
• 1940s, a writer Z writes stories utilizing XY which was
named after X to add a contemporary gloss of popular
science to the concept.
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β+, e+
X Positron
XY Positronic brain
Z Isaac Asimov
A positronic brain was a fictional technological
device introduced by Asimov as the
processing unit for robots.

• X, or There and Back Again
• In a hole in the ground, there lived X.
• Later this year, X will have _ ____ ___ .
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ID X and FITB

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The Hobbit
Releasing on Dec 14, 2012 is the first of
two parts of The Hobbit: An Unexpected
Journey

ID
• Prakrit is a group of languages which replaced Sanskrit.
X was the most popular Prakrit dialect. It was spoken
from Malwa and Rajputana (north) to the Krishna and
Tungabhadra River region (south) [500 BC to 500 AD]
• Its literary use was made famous by the Sanskrit
playwright Kālidāsa.
• X, diverged from proper Sanskrit grammar mainly to fit
the language to the meter of different styles of poetry.
The new grammar stuck which leads to the unique
flexibility of vowels lengths, amongst other anomalies, in
Y, which is the still in use descendant of X.
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Where are you?
• X (literally Language of the Empire)
Maharastri Prakrit is a language of ancient and
medieval India which is the ancestor of Marathi,
Konkani, Sinhala and the Maldivian language as well.
Maharashtri was the official language of the
Satavahana Empire in the early centuries of the
Common Era. Under the patronage of the Satavahana
Empire, Maharashtri became the most widespread
Prakrit of its time, and also dominated the literary
culture amongst the three "Dramatic" Prakrits of the
time, Maharashtri, Sauraseni and Magadhi.

What is it?
Petrichor ( /ˈpɛtrɨkər/)
• The word is constructed from Greek, petra, meaning stone +
ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek
mythology.
• The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers,
Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature. In the
article, the authors describe how it derives from an oil
exuded by certain plants during certain periods, whereupon
it is absorbed by clay-based soils and rocks.
• In a follow-up paper, Bear and Thomas (1965) showed that
the oil retards seed germination and early plant growth.
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The Scent of rain
• Released in the soil in dry periods
• During rain, the oil is released into the air
along with another compound, geosmin,
producing the distinctive scent.

Decipher
• Rashid is a port city on the Mediterranean
coast of Egypt. It is known in the west by the
name X, given by the French during
Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign…
• Its claim to fame lies in an object found there
in 1799.
• The term XY is now used in other contexts as
the name for the essential clue to a new field
of knowledge.
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Rosetta Stone
• The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite
inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BCE
on behalf of King Ptolemy V.
• The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion
Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.
Because it presents essentially the same text in all
three scripts (with some minor differences between
them), it provided the key to the modern
understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

It is …
• It is a technique utilized by certain
professionals in certain scenarios resulting in
extremely reliable answers…
• It is also an important building material for
certain structures.
• It is also the name of an Indian newspaper.
• What?
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DNA
• DNA Profiling
• DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
• Daily News and Analysis

ID the term
• It was a Roman weight unit, based on which a
modern currency is defined…
• Changing one letter in the term gives another
term, much used in the FOSS movement.
• It is also a Zodiac sign.
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Libra
• British Pound : £ (derives from the Roman
unit libra (Latin for "scales / balance")
• Zodiac sign Libra (symbol = scales)
• libre "having freedom" or "liberty". Free as in
free speech, not as in free beer.

Short Connect
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