2. 1.Aaand here we go!
What connects the following things ?
1. Blue-black infinity with its one arm terminating with pi and a black
dot.
2. Evolution of blue i's from small to big by spiralling with a blue dot.
3. Emanation of petals of a red flower from a book and a black dot.
4. Emanation of petals of a grey flower from a book and a black dot
with a vertical blue and grey helix.
5. The high-five of two humanoids in front of the planetary model of
atom with a blue dot.
6. A radiating diya with a blue dot.
3.
4. 2. Proxy Maa
Ixion was a king who was invited by Zeus to dine with the gods at Olympus.
He fell in love with Zeus' wife Hera and began to desire her. Zeus soon
became aware of his feelings and decided to test him by placing a cloud
figure of Hera next to Ixion when he was asleep. Ixion woke up overjoyed to
find "Hera" beside him and proceeded to make love to her. Ixion was
severely punished by Zeus for this act. The cloud image of Hera gave birth
to a deformed child, named C, who could not find any peace among the
humans. C made his home on the mountain of Pelion where he roamed, lived
and mated with the Magnesian mares.
What are the children of C known as?
Fun fact: Another account of this myth says that there was no C in the
story and that the children of C are actually the children of Ixion and the
cloud image of Hera.
6. 3. Call of Beauty
Dating back to 5th century BC, the book X has been highly
influential in East Asia for centuries and has been applied in
various fields like business, sports and legal tactics.
The Generals of Vietnam followed X during the Vietnam War.
After the victory of the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War, this
book drew attention in the United States. Now X is one of the
books in the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program.
Identify X.
8. 4. *sigh* It’s not real :(
“A True History” or “A True Story” is a parody of travel tales
written in the second century by Greek speaking Assyrian author
Lucian of Samosata. The plot involves Lucian and a company of
heroes sailing to explore lands beyond the ocean. During the
journey, they are lifted up by a whirlwind and end up on the moon.
They are caught in a large battle between the King of the Sun
and the King of the Moon over colonisation of the Morning Star.
They come across strange alien species inhabiting the geography
of the stars, planets and other celestial bodies.
What is this story popularly considered to be?
10. 5. Long and Aromatic
The following is the believed (not yet proven) journey of a certain
object throughout history:
Alauddin Khilji and the Delhi Sultanate ----> Babur and the
Mughal Dynasty till Muhammad Shah ----> Nader Shah ---->
Ahmad Shah Durrani and his descendants till Shah Shujah
Durrani ----> Maharaja Ranjit Singh ----> X.
Identify the object.
12. 6. Be like un
• X is one of the most important works in Old English and may be its
oldest surviving long poem. Though the identity of the author is still
anonymous, the hero (whom the text is named after) is known to be
Scandinavian.
• It features as many as 3182 alliterative lines and has been translated
widely - once even by J R R Tolkien, the translation published in
2014.
• ID X.
14. 7. Chemical Warfare
The Innu are the Aboriginal inhabitants of an area in Canada.
One of the spirits they worship is Matshishkapeu, the Innu ____
Man, who converses with the Innu with great frequency. On one
hand, he is a humorous being who provides a source of comedy to
the Innu, on the other hand, he is one of the most powerful spirits
in the Innu pantheon. A sudden ____ interrupting the tranquility
of camp life calls for immediate translation and the responsibility
for translating this signal falls on certain elders with the ability to
understand his signals. In addition to this, Matshishkapeu is
considered to always be with you, no matter where you travel.
FITB.
16. 8. Of Ships and Flying
Skulls
Shown below and in the next slide are two pictures that
describe the standards or specifications to be followed to
manufacture a certain object.
What is this object?
19. 9. That N word
The first biblical mention of X is in the Table of Nations. He is
described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-
grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty
hunter before the Lord".
The word X therefore, is used to denote a hunter or warrior. In
American English, however, the word X has acquired a derogatory
meaning of "idiot".
One popular explanation for this shift in definition is that of Bugs
Bunny calling Elmer Fudd a "poor little X".
What is X?
22. 10. The Wetter the Better
X was a British author, satirist and humorist revered in pop culture.
T Day is celebrated annually on 25th May in honour of X by his fans.
The first commemoration of T day was held in 2001 two weeks after X's
death. The day's events usually involve radio shows by BBC - which X
was closely associated with. The hallmark of T Day involves fans carrying
around a T wherever they go - something X's first book fervently advises
to do.
ID T.
24. 11. Runner Up
The story of Belarsen(Barbarika) is rarely mentioned in Indian mythology.
Belarsen was the son of Ghatotkacha and the grandson of Bhima. He was an
exceptionally skilful tactician who always relied on his archery skills. It is often said
that he could aim at a target that he had not seen yet and still hit it! So it was
believed that his side would always win.
Had Belarsen joined the Kurukshetra War and fought on the Kaurava side, the
Pandavas would have lost. So Belarsen, obeying his mother, kept a promise to her.
If he honestly followed the promise, he would oscillate between the sides during the
course of the war and would eventually be the only man left standing.
Fearing the consequences of Belarsen's promise, Krishna (in disguise) asked
Belarsen to sacrifice his head in order to sanctify the battlefield and upon finding
out Krishna’s real identity, Belarsen duly complied.
What exactly was the promise that Belarsen gave to his mother?
26. 12. Do What The Penguins
Do
Lord Pethick-Lawrence was a British politician who served as
the Secretary of State for India and Burma from 1945 to
1947, with a seat in the cabinet, and was involved in the
negotiations that led to India's independence in 1947.
On 18th April 1946, he met Mahatma Gandhi at the Viceroy
House (now called Rashtrapathi Bhavan).
Although this meeting may not be common knowledge, it gave us
something we can happily re"collect".
Put funda.
29. 1. SSSTAAAG
Among the dearth of recurring characters featured in
"The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is Nigel
Planter, who is a young whiny ______. He is
overconfident and holds a deluded self-image, often
taking credit for things he did not do. Nevertheless,
Planter possesses the ability to talk to snacks (or at
least he claims to).
What we've failed to mention till now is the fact that
Nigel Planter is a spoof of?
33. 3. SWORDSTYLE SWORDSMEN
The fictional character X was created by pulp writer Johnston McCulley in the year
1919. X made his debut appearance in McCulley’s story “The Curse of Capistrano”.
X has been a popular movie and TV character and has been played by actors like Guy
Williams, Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.
According to Bob Kane, the character of Batman was inspired by Sherlock Holmes, X
and a Leonardo da Vinci sketch of a bat-winged flying machine.
Identify X.
37. 5. DEAL WITH IT
In 1969 Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist published a
groundbreaking book ‘On Death and Dying’, based on her studies in University
of Chicago Medical School.
It discusses, amongst other things, a theory made famous in popular media.
The theory describes a pattern Ross attributed to people who face imminent
death. Today it is also applied to survivors of a loved one’s death.
However its validity is not consistently supported by majority of subsequent
research.
What is the theory/pattern?
38.
39. 6. THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK
• X is an online service released in May 2009 that answers factual queries directly by computing the
answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web
pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would. Apart from what it is popularly used
for, X can also be used to:
* Find Scrabble scores for specific words.
* Create anagrams.
* Apply image filters to anything using only text.
* Convert numbers to ancient pictograms.
* Get the lottery odds in your area.
* Create your own CAPTCHAs.
* Generate Sounds and Tones.
* Number crunch your Facebook account.
ID X.
41. 7. WHO’S UNDER THAT?
X is a fictional character from the Hannah-Barbara universe. He has
both human and animal characteristics and speaks with a speech
impediment. His name and catchphrase was inspired by a nonsensical
vocal line in Frank Sinatra's hit single Strangers In The Night. His
personality was inspired by characters played by Bob Hope, famous
for his role in horror comedies - the same genre where X features.
ID X.
43. 8. SUCH A RIP OFF
The word blanked out in the following picture is a registered
trademark which has its origins from the French for “hooked
velvet”.
ID the word.
46. 9. WHAT ARE YOU?
X is a 2015 Web series which only has 5 episodes till date. When its trailer was first
aired, it was speculated that X has been inspired by the American TV Show “Silicon
Valley”.
But people understood that was not the case when X was aired. One of its actors
revealed that X, if at all inspired by another TV show, had been inspired by the HBO
drama “Entourage”.
IMDb Rating of X: 9.3
What is X?
48. 10. AS BRIGHT AS THE RISING SUN
A study by scientists Javier Morales, Luis Apátiga and Victor Castaño from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico discovered that X has a ratio of
hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon which lies within the diamond growth region.
During the research, the scientists attempted to create diamonds from
_____ diluted in water and this formed high-quality diamond films.
Interestingly, X has similar proportions of 60% water and 40% ____, which
gives +ve results. Their hypothesis was confirmed when they obtained spherical-
shaped diamonds of nanometric size from cheap X.
ID X.
50. 11. SHE’S GOT A POINT
Although X was created in 2012 and
popularized later, Jennifer Aniston was called
the OG of X because of a certain thing that
kept on happening throughout F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
What is X?
52. 12. IS HE WALKING FORWARD OR
MOVING BACK?
• A Facebook page D was created on 22 May, 2016. The name of the page implied a
particular purpose but the purpose had become moot since 25 June 2009. Hence
it is clear to assume that D was created as a joke. Since the page has started,
one post is posted everyday on that page. The post comes at 6:30 P.M. IST
tentatively and reads the same message everyday.
• What is the apparent purpose of the page?
55. 1. See the past
Shown next slide is an object designed by John
Spilsbury, an English cartographer in 1760. It is
believed to be the first of its kind . What is it?
58. CD 2. Swarg
The Hindenburg disaster took place on May 6, 1937, as a German
passenger airship caught fire mid-air and crashed in New Jersey.
New Yardbirds was a group of artists who took some inspiration from
this accident for a new name (due to copyright issues with the former
one).
Keith Moon and John Entwhistle (of The Who) had also been invited to
be part of the group. They rejected, suggesting that the endeavour
would "go down like a lead balloon”.
Nonetheless the group did succeed- featuring the first incident heavily
in their debut media.
What is the group known as now?
60. 3. Bite Me!
• The Mwanza Flat-headed Agama (Agama mwanzae) is a lizard
found in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya. The lizard has an
uncanny resemblance to a popular character, as a result of
which it has become a fashionable pet.
• The head, neck and shoulders of the lizard is either a bright red
or violet, while the rest of their bodies are a dark blue
colour. Almost fittingly, this delightful colour combination is
specific only to the male population of the species.
• Visualise the lizard and name the character.
62. 4. Two Dumb Hoodlums
• 14 July 2017 was a landmark day for France as it celebrated its 217th
Bastille Day. During the same week, Donald Trump and Emmanuel
Macron met for the first time since the commencement of their
respective presidencies.
• However the Bastille Day celebrations made headlines for a bizarre
reason - the army marching band did something never done before.
Their 'act' led to much amusement for the dignitaries and the global
press.
• What did the band do?
64. 5. Baby Got Back
• In the next slide is a photograph from 1956 Chicago. The women
were the winners of a unique beauty pageant that had been held
to gain good PR for a certain medical practice quite common
today . Winners were awarded titles like Miss Beautiful
_______, Miss Correct ______. It was discontinued in 1969
when the purpose was achieved.
• What was the pageant promoting?
67. 6. Waaann
X was one of the longest running manga by volume count in history.
It didn't skip a single copy of serialization and once parodied
hunterxhunter for taking many hiatuses. After the manga ended,
every weekly jump (the magazine in which X was published) manga
like Naruto, One piece, My hero academia etc. paid tribute to it by
making the main character have a cameo appearance in their
manga.
ID X.
70. 7. Son Setting Far
Away
• S was an Indian music composer who is popular for the
blending of Eastern and Western music traditions in his songs.
Of all the composers S was inspired by, Mozart was his
favourite- S has even joked that he was Mozart reborn. The
influence is most evident in his song from a 1961 Bollywood
movie. This particular composition has been heavily inferred
from Symphony No. 40.
• Which golden classic are we talking about? / ID S
71. Song : Itna Na Mujhse Tu Pyaar Badhaa
S is Salil Chowdhary
72. 8. That’s right!
• The maneki-neko is a popular Japanese figurine of a cat
beckoning with an upright paw. Often believed to bring good
luck to the owner, it is usually displayed at the entrance of
shops, restaurants and other businesses.
• It is commonly believed the higher the raised paw, the greater
the luck. Sometimes, the maneki-neko may even hold a gold coin.
• Which well-known character in a video game series (as well
as in the anime and manga series) is modelled on the maneki-
neko?
75. 9. Vegan Zombie Murderer
A knocker-up, sometimes known as a knocker-upper, was a
profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted
well into the Industrial Revolution (when alarm clocks were
neither cheap nor reliable) and to as late as the beginning of the
1950's. A knocker-up's job was to rouse people so they could get to
work on time.
The knocker-up used a baton (blow-pipe) or a short, heavy stick to
knock on clients' doors and ___________ ( for those who lived on
higher floors) until they were sure that the client had been
awoken.
What is the other way in which they used to wake up their client's?
(Or just FITB.)
77. 10. My Father Jor-El
• In 1978, after long negotiations amongst DC Comics, Warner
Bros and filmmakers, Superman: The Movie was
released. Initially, sci-fi writer Alfred Bester was hired to
write the screenplay but was replaced by someone "more
famous" as demanded by the presenters.
• The replacement already had his fair share of fame with
Oscar-winning screenplays of his own novels. He, however, did
not win any awards for Superman's screenplay independently.
• Who was the replacement?
81. 12. Poetic
• The German city X held great significance during Nazi
Germany due to its centralized location. The Nazis held
the X rallies which became a huge political propaganda
after the rise of Hitler. Hitler convened his Reichstag at
X to pass the law which revoked German citizenship from
all Jews and non-Aryans. In the second world war, X
was one of the most important sites for military
production.
• What was the event that happened in X right after the
second world war?
84. 1. Coz caffeine can’t
help
• X is a practice which is not socially accepted in many places.
However, in Japan, it holds a special status. Any individual can do it
in restaurants, stores, trains, any public place - as long as they do not
take up much space.
• The acceptance is because it is considered a sign of hard work and
extreme dedication to one's job.
• What is X?
86. 2. RACISM level 100
• The New Zealand Rugby Unon team is called A, owing to the colour of the
jersey that they wear.
•
The New Zealand basketball team, apparently as a joke, added a letter to
A in the front and named themselves B, which well suits their
appearance. The name B stuck and the team is still called B.
•
ID both A and B.
88. 3. Testicle with
teeth
• X is a deep-fried burrito that is popular in Tex-Mex, South-western U.S.
cuisine. The dish is typically prepared by filling a flour tortilla with a
wide range of ingredients.
•
X happens to be the favourite word of a character who was introduced in
1991 and was portrayed in 2016. He doesn't care much for the food
itself.
• ID X.
90. 4. Behind every
man’s success
• The Museum of _______, located in Helsingborg, Sweden, was recently opened
to the public on 7th June this year. The museum's curios highlight
different kinds of ______, to provide visitors a learning experience about the
important role of ______s for innovation and to encourage organizations to
become better at learning from their mistakes. The museum is the brainchild of
psychologist and innovation researcher Samuel West.
•
Some examples of the items on display: Apple Newton, Bic for Her, Google
Glass, N-Gage, lobotomy instruments, Harley-Davidson cologne, Kodak DC-
40, Sony Betamax, Lego Fiber Optics, and Paolo Macchiarini's infamous plastic
trachea.
•
FITB.
92. 5. inheritance
• Genoa is a port city in northwest Italy, Nîmes is a city in southern
France and Dongri is a dockside village near Mumbai.
• Derived from the names of these 3 places are the names of 3 objects,
since these objects were first made in their respective places.
• Also, the 3 objects are closely related to each other.
• Name the 3 "objects".
95. 6. A-a-r-j-a-y-d-e-e
• Speaking on the IPL 2012 scandal, Y quipped "My son Tejashwi is part of the
Delhi team. But all he has done is to carry water to the field. They don't give
him a chance to play.“
• Tejashwi had started playing at the national level at the age of 19, but with
little distinction. In fact, many eyebrows were raised when he was contracted
to play for Delhi Daredevils in the IPL in 2009. That Y held an important
position in the Cabinet at the time only fueled the speculation.
•
The franchise reportedly paid him a hefty sum of Rs 30-40 lakh between 2009
and 2012, though he never made it to the playing XI.
•
Tejashwi also became the deputy CM of his home state in 2015 for a period of
20 months.
•
ID Y.
98. 7. IT WANTS YOU TO…
• In 1992 when a cargo ship from Hong Kong was hit by a storm,
containers with 28800 of the 'objects' were washed overboard into
the Pacific. They came in four variants - B, F, T, and D.
•
Since then these accidental drifters have helped oceanographers
across the globe study ocean currents and pollution by tracking
where the ‘objects’ ended up.
• What are these objects?
99. • Rubber Bath Toys
• The variants are beaver, frog, turtle, and duck
100. 8. You can create
your own happiness
• Donald Lau is the current CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of the New York based
company: Wonton Food Inc., which bills itself as the largest manufacturer of
_______, noodles and other Chinese staples in the US. He has held this role
since the '80s, although being the CFO hadn’t been the end of his duties. Lau
also served as the CFW (an unofficial position) of the company for the past 30
years.
• In fact, Lau has even claimed that he could very well be America's most-read
author as a result of being the CFW of his company. He recently stepped down
from the role of CFW in February 2017, presumably due to writer's block.
• What is CFW? (Put funda.)
102. 9. Say cheese!
• February 1971 marks the first time that golf was played in a place we shall
denote by M.
• A.S. struck two golf balls with a six-iron by using just one hand, since his attire
did not allow him to use both his hands. The second ball, as S jokingly put it,
"went miles and miles and miles".
•
Interestingly, the golf balls that S hit can still be found in this ground, even
though 46 years have passed. Apart from golf, the only other sport played in
this ground was the Javelin throw.
• ID A.S. and the ground.
104. 10. You look fly
• This fashion brand is synonymous with a product X which was developed in 1936.
Today it is the only brand which markets the original design of X. After the 1970s,
the sales of X began to dip drastically so the manufacturers sought an interesting
advertisement mode :
• Earlier, Cruise's Risky Business had promoted the sales of another product by the same
brand. Post Top Gun's release, X's sales also went up by 40%.
• What is X and what is the brand?
106. 11. Your Pull-out
Game is Weak
• The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase ‘X’ originally
meant "the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe
contest for supremacy". It featured in the summer Olympics from
1900 to 1920 with Great Britain winning the event twice. At the
1908 Games in London, the London City Police took gold, with the
Liverpool Police nabbing second and the K Division Metropolitan
Police taking third place.
• What is X?
108. 12. What a comeback!
• 1. Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Hencovic) was the founder of a cult
in California. The cult became famous in the press in the 1940s and 1950s
for uniformly dressing in robes, going barefoot, and requiring its male
members to grow beards and wear their hair long.
• 2. On 21st May 1972, a 33 year old geologist named Laszlo Toth attacked
Michaelangelo's Pieta statue in St. Peter's Basilica with a geologist's hammer,
while shouting " I am __________“.
• 3. Jones Very, who used to work at the Harvard Divinity School as a tutor of
Greek, asserted something that got him dismissed from Harvard and
eventually got him institutionalized in a mental asylum.
109. 12. What a comeback!
• 4. Arnold Potter was an American priest who "underwent a change" on a visit
to Australia. When he returned, he started calling himself Potter _____ and
had his forehead branded with ink.
• What is common among all these people?
