Mostly based on recent/current news of 2014.

2. Rules
 Clock wise Round – 15 questions
 Anti-Clockwise Rounds - 15 questions
 2 Written Rounds – 15 Questions
 All questions are open on pounce except written rounds.
 Quiz Master decision is final.

3. 8-BIT-INSPIRED FAMOUS PAINTINGS
Written Round
Points - Art (5) + Artist (5)
All correct - Bonus 10

4. ANSWERS
Exchange Sheets.
Points - Art (5) + Artist (5)
All correct - Bonus 10

5. 1

6. 1. American Gothic - Grant Wood

7. 2

8. 2. Nighthawks - Edward Hopper

9. 3

10. 3. Chop Suey - Edward Hopper

11. 4

12. 4. The Kiss - Gustav Klimt

13. 5

14. 5. The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí

15. CLOCKWISE
15 questions. Open on Pounce.

16. 1. Disney’s Aladdin tribute to whom ?
 Recently Disney added this tribute at the end of the movie ‘Aladdin’.

17. Robin William’s who voiced Genie

18. 2. Identify the 2 Views
1.
2.

19. 1. Worm's Eye View
2. Bird’s Eye View

20. 3. Ad for which Product ?
 A glorious eruption of vibrantly-colored flower petals – 8 million of them – has
flooded through a small village in Costa Rica.
 The surreal and beautiful sight is part of Sony’s advertisement campaign for their
new X.
 Perhaps the most surprising thing about this advertisement stunt is that these
billowing waves of petals are real. It took the creative team behind the endeavor and
the inhabitants of the village more than two weeks to collect the 8 million flower
petals used, which ended up weighing about 3.5 tons.
 Identify the product X.
 Bonus (+5) : If you give the significance of 8 million petals used.

23. 4K Ultra HDTV
 8 million flower petals represents the number of pixels on the 4K TV’s screen.

24. 4. Why it created controversy ?
 The following is a
recent initiative done by
a shopping mall called
World Metropolis centre
in Dalian, north-east
China.
 They are painted pink
and around 30 cm
wider than normal
spaces.

25. "Respectfully reserved for women"
 30cm extra space
suggests that women
are bad drivers which
created controversy.

26. 5. FITB
 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is a French-founded (now international and federal)
humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing
endemic diseases.
 Founded in 1971, this organization is known in most of the world by its French name
or simply as MSF, but in Canada and the United States the name ______ ______
_______ is commonly used.
 A number of other non-governmental organizations (NGO) have adopted the _____
______ tag, inspired by their name.

27. Many other organizations adapted ‘without borders’ from this.

28. 6. Michigan inmates are going get black-and-white striped uniforms.
Why ?
 A Michigan sheriff gave his inmates a wardrobe change to keep them from looking
“cool.”
 “For me, it was an easy decision,” he told Reuters.
 “It was a cost savings and it breaks away from that cultural coolness. It’s not cool to
be an inmate of the Saginaw County Jail.”

29.  A local Michigan sheriff is afraid that Orange Is The
New Black, the hit Netflix series about female
prisoners, has made orange jumpsuits a popular
fashion statement. So now inmates at Saginaw County
Jail have to wear black-and-white striped jumpsuits
instead of orange ones.
 “Some people think it’s cool to look like an inmate of
the Saginaw County Jail with wearing all orange
jumpsuits out at the mall or in public,” Saginaw County
Sheriff William Federspiel told The Saginaw
News and MLive.com. “We do have our inmates out
sometimes doing work in the public, and I don’t want
anyone to confuse them or have them walk away. ”

30. 7. Why the demand increased suddenly ?
 A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single
staff or pole used to help support cameras,
video cameras, binoculars, rifles or other
precision instruments in the field.
 Recently there was a huge demand for the
handheld monopod.
 People also started referencing the same as
‘X Stick’.

31. Selfie Stick

32. 8. Disadvantages of ?
 Greenland takes as much space on the map as Africa, when in reality Africa's area is
14 times greater and Greenland's is comparable to Algeria's alone.
 Greenland as larger than Australia; in actuality, Australia is more than three and a
half times larger than Greenland.
 Alaska takes as much area on the map as Brazil, when Brazil's area is nearly five
times that of Alaska.
 Finland appears with a greater north-south extent than India, although India's is
greater.
 Antarctica appears as the biggest continent, being infinitely large, although it is
actually the fifth in terms of area.

34. The Mercator Map Projection – Disadvantages
Many major online street mapping services (Bing Maps, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps,
MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, and others) use a variant of the Mercator projection for their
map imagescalled Web Mercator or Google Web Mercator.

36. 9. Funda
 A decision by the Sydney Morning Herald to
use X on its front page has made it the
focus of much attention, and ridicule, on
social media.
 The same issue happened during the
announcement of Higgs Boson discovery.
 There are many online hate campaigns
related to this.

38. Using ‘Comic Sans’ font

39. 10. Identify Y and tell why was this in news during 2014 ?
 The Okavango River is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa. It
begins in Angola, where it is known as the Cubango River. Further south it
forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia, and then flows into
Botswana.
 The Okavango does not have an outlet to the sea, instead it forms Y. Which
is considered as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.
 Y is home to the largest remaining elephant population on Earth—every
winter more than 80,000 of them arrive here to meet the oncoming floods,
leaving with the first signs of rain in the northeast. This vast unfenced
landscape allows them to live and migrate as they have for thousands of
years. It is also home to the keystone populations of lion, leopard, hyena,
wild dog, cheetah, hippo, and much else.

41. Okavango delta Declared 1000th heritage site

42. 11.
 Royal Caribbean International’s ‘Quantum of the Seas’ is billed as ‘the world’s
most futuristic and advanced ship’ which will officially sets sail in November,
2014.
 It has something first of their kind at sea and anywhere in the world. (shown in
next slide)

44. Bionic Bar
Robotic bartenders will mix and deliver cocktails

45. 12. First ?
 Designed by
Italian
engineers

46. Espresso Machine for Space
 Designed by Italian aerospace engineers, It's an
espresso machine.
 Known as the ISSpresso, is due to be delivered to
the International Space Station in 2015.
 Caffeine shots will help astronauts "feel closer to
home", according to the manufacturers.
 ISS – International Space Station

47. 13. What are we talking about ?
 Nicaragua's iconic volcano,
Momotombo, is featured in
this stamp released in 1900.
 In 1902, this stamp was sent
to every U.S. senator and
congressman which
influenced the historical
decision.
 As a result, Nicaragua lost
something.

48. Nicaragua lost the canal to Panama
 Initially the US was in favor of Nicaragua Canal.
 This stamp was sent by Panamanian lobbyist as ‘An official witness to volcanic activity in
Nicaragua.’
 Recently, Nicaragua's National
Assembly overwhelmingly
approved a plan to grant a
Chinese company, the Hong
Kong–based HKND Group,
exclusive rights to build a canal
spanning the country.

49. 14. Identify X and Y
X Y
Both diseases were in news during 2014.
Fatality Rate of 90%
Shares 12 symptoms out of 17
Airborne Body Fluids
Manmade Natural
Fictional Real

50. Fictional Real

51. Simian Flu (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Ebola Virus

52. 15. Why Greenpeace came up with this ad ?

53. Shells Artic Drilling
 Lego’s partnership with Shell dates back
to the 1960s, and ran into the 1990s with
Shell-branded Lego sets, before the
toymaker switched to a fictional oil
company called Octan, which went on to
feature as the corporation headed by the
villain President Business in The Lego
Movie.
 Lego has distributed more than 16m
Shell-branded toys via petrol stations in
26 countries.

54. 24 HOURS IN CITY SERIES
10 Points for each question

55. ANSWERS

56. 1 2

57. 1 2

58. 3 4

59. 3 4

60. 5 6

61. 5 6

62. 7 8

63. 7 8

64. 9 10

65. 9 10

66. ANTI - CLOCKWISE
15 Questions

67. 16. French biopic about ?

68. Aung San Suu Kyi

69. 17. Funda
A) B)

70. A – Removing Scotland's Flag From Union Jack
B – Including Wales Flag
+ + =
England Scotland Northern Ireland Great Britain
Wales
Wales is not currently represented in the union jack because it was part
of the English kingdom when the flag was designed.

71. 18. Identify X
 Taiwanese airline, EVA Air, is launching a X themed aircraft in collaboration with
Japanese company Sanrio. This is done to celebrate X’s 40th birthday.
 International cult icon X was created in 1974 by Japanese company Sanrio. Her
instantly recognisable face has appeared on a massive array of merchandise from
stationary, furniture and toys to sewing machines, toilet paper and even teeth grills.
 She recently caused controversy when Sanrio announced that rather than being a
___, she is actually a 'cheerful and happy little girl ... who lives in London with her
mama (Mary White), papa (George White), and her twin sister Mimmy.'
 As fans will already know, her birthday is November 1 and her favorite saying is 'You
can never have too many friends.'

73. Hello Kitty

74. 19. Indian version of ?

75. Game of Thrones
 Audio

76. 20. The 2015 Ikea catalogue ad parodying what and whom ?

77. Apple, Jonathan Ive (Senior Vice President of Design)

78. 21. Identify
 Identify this creature which resembles 18th century war ship of particular country
with full sail.
 Its not a single organism, instead its colony of individuals called zooids with specific
function. It can deliver a painful string which can be deadly sometimes.

79. Picture

80. Portuguese Man o' War

81. 22. Identify the Movie and the Country ?

82.  Fictional kingdom 'Arendelle' in the film Frozen is based on
Arendal, Norway.
 The look and feel of Arendelle, however, is based on the city
of Bergen in Norway’s western fjordlands

83. 23. Identify X and Y ?
 A term X was coined by Alexandra Dao while commenting on a video created by
internet entrepreneur Amit Gupta. The clip, which went viral, showed Gupta and
companions on top of Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco before a camera pulled
back for a breath-taking zoom-out.
 Although it was shared as “Bernal Hill Y” in Vimeo it gave rise the term X which
went viral. X is taken from a W.
 And some say X will be next big thing after Y.
 Recently New Zealand Tourism started using W to promote tourism.

84.  X – Dronies
 Y – Selfies
 W – Drones

85. 24. Funda
 TorontoStar, a Canadian
newspaper recently tweeted this.
 Which was ridiculed in social
media. Why ?

86. Attenborough confusion

87. 25. Funda

88. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in Mar, 2014.
Canadian Version – Crimea
is shown as part of Ukrain
Russian Version – Crimea included in Russia

89. 26. Funda

91. 27. Identify the book.
 50th Anniversary edition of which children book uses this cropped version of a photo
used in a ‘2008 Numero magazine’ feature completely unrelated to author and the
book in question.
 When Penguin posted the artwork for their new edition of this book on Facebook,
users guessed it was a new cover for Lolita or The Valley of the Dolls.
 It also ranked top in ‘The five worst book covers ever’ list by The Guardian.
 According to a page on the Penguin blog, the Modern Classics cover "looks at the
children at the centre of the story, and highlights the way author's writing manages
to embrace both the light and the dark aspects of life."

92.  c

93. Clue
 Lost fifth chapter from the book is called ‘Fudge Mountain’ and has two new
characters, Timmy Troutbeck and Wilbur Price.

95. 28. Which Airlines?

97. 29. Origin of which word ?
 Lumiere brothers are credited to be first filmmakers in history.
 Lumiere brothers projected films at 18 fps, slow enough to result in the appearance
of ___________.
 Hence the early nickname for the movies, "the ________" or "the _______." That figure
eventually increased to 24 fps, and has remained there, for the most part, ever
since.
 Note: All the dashes are not same.

98. Flickering – Flickers / Flicks

99. 30. Identify the narrator and the famous lines.

100. David Attenborough
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

101. VISUAL CONNECT
 Non – Exhaustive, 6 Slides
 No Negatives
 One Guess Per Slide

102. 1 +60

103. 2 +50

104. 3 +40

105. 4 +30

106. 5 +20

107. 6 +10

108. Connect

109. Gherkin Shard Razor Cheesegrater
Scalpel
Tower Walkie-Talkie

110. Nicknames of Skyscraper's in London
 30 St Mary Axe -> Gherkin
 London Bridge Tower -> The Shard
 Strata SE1 -> Razor
 Leadenhall Building -> The Cheesegrater
 52-54 Lime Street - > Scalpel Tower
 20 Fenchurch Street -> Walkie-Talkie

111. THANK YOU