This holiday season, the hardest fought intraschool battle among the brightest minds in the quizzing club, Infinity.

1. MERRY QUIZTMAS!
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2. • The quiz will be played on a 7 by 4 grid.
• Teams will choose the question category
and value.
• Direct and pass with pounce.
• Don’t disturb a sleep deprived quizmaster.
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FRESH
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THE WALL
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AS EASY
AS 123
SONE KI
CHIDIYA
TWO
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BREAD &
BUTTER
APP ALL
KNIGHT!

4. X is a generic trademark owned by Sealed Air
Corporation. In 1957 two inventors named
Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were
attempting to create a 3D plastic wallpaper.
Although the idea was a failure, they found
that what they did make could be used as
packing material. X?
FRESH AIR 20

5. Bubble Wrap
BACK

6. Earlier this year, AirAsia launched a special X
themed aircraft painted with ________’s image
featuring a special menu. It flew from cities
like Bengaluru, New Delhi, Goa and Pune to
Chennai on July 15 to enable the passengers
to watch X before the rest of the world. What
was the reason behind this hysterical
promotion?
FRESH AIR 40

7. Kabali
BACK

8. X, also known as the Chinese top, is a toy rotor
that flies up when its shaft is spun. It originated
in 400 BCE in China, consisting of feathers at
the end of a stick. It was the object of early
experiments by George Cayley, the inventor of
modern aeronautics and is considered to be the
first tangible helicopter. Where have we all seen
this Chinese toy?
GERMANYFRESH AIR 60

9. Bamboo-copter
BACK

10. FRESH AIR 80
Ajay Singh is co-founder and owner of Indian
airline SpiceJet. He transferred the ownership
of the company to Sun Group's chairman
Kalanithi Maran in 2010 but re-acquired it in
2015. In the meantime, he was the brain
behind a popular 5 word phrase that
resonated among the public in 2014. What
am I talking about?

11. Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar
BACK

12. BHAIWALL STREET 20
At the beginning of this year, few images
went viral because of the plaintive, yet sullen
Devanagari words resembling the graffiti
produced by thousands of jilted lover across
bathroom walls and bus seats. The meme re-
rose to public attention again lately with
Facebook events and pages being created in
response to the clarion call. What?

13. Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai
BACK

14. BHAIWALL STREET 40
This journey is undertaken by millions of
people, vehicles, animals and objects every
year. It starts from a low-rise residential area
and ends at the first of its kind walkway in the
United States, having opened in 1870. A
plaque commemorating Charles Darrow can
be found near the second location.

16. Monopoly
BACK

17. BHAIWALL STREET 60
This is the currency of which state?

18. ISIS
BACK

19. X is a North American brand distributed by
ConAgra Foods. X is manufactured by Golden
Valley M_______ Foods from Edina, Minnesota.
It was the successor to a refrigerator variety
with a similar name that was introduced by
GVMF in 1981 and the first mass-marketed
variety of its type. X?
123 20

20. Act II Popcorn
BACK

21. 123 40

23. 2048 combos
BACK

24. KATE123 60
Surprisingly, X doesn’t have a local name due
to its remoteness. It is not visible from
Askole, the last village to the south and is
only glimpsed from the end of the Baltoro.
The name is derived from the notation used
by the Great Trigonometric Survey of British
India when Thomas Montgomerie made the
first survey of the Karakoram. X?

25. K2
BACK

26. 123 80
The Kaali Peeli Taxi took on Ola and Uber
earlier this year by launching an app for
booking cabs at government regulated rates.
The app that allowed the traditional cabs to
become high-tech was discontinued in
October 2016 due to low financial support.
What was the app called?

27. 9211
BACK

28. KATEINDIA 20
The Indian government was left red faced
after a glaring mistake was spotted in a
poster for the ‘Incredible India’ campaign
featuring a stock image of the Annapurna
mountains. What was the error?

30. The image was shot in Nepal.
BACK

31. KATEINDIA 40
Twelve people attending an international
film festival in the Trivandrum were arrested
last Monday and charged with “failure to
obey an order issued by a public servant,
thereby causing obstruction or annoyance to
others”. In Chennai, eight people were
assaulted by the police for the same reason.
What?

32. Supreme Court’s ruling to play the national
anthem before every film.
BACK

33. KATEINDIA 60
Sanjiv Mehta is an India-born British
businessman. In mid-2000s, Mehta bought
majority stake in several comapanies with
name similar to X, like the X Tea Bars and X
Tea Rooms Limited. In 2010, he re-launched
the business operating in the luxury retail
space as a purported revival of the historic X
that was dissolved in 1874. X?

34. East India Company
BACK

35. TWO FACE 20

36. Hannah Montana
BACK

37. TWO FACE 40
Earlier this year, X launched SRT, a sports
management company. Former Tata Group
senior executive Mrinmoy Mukherjee is the
CEO of the company. X will now engage in
multiple initiatives such as brand building
and commercial engagements, supported by
a dedicated team at SRT. Who is behind this
venture?

38. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
BACK

39. TWO FACE 60
Rated only 3 out of 5 stars on TripAdvisor,
Jaddu’s Food Field is a restaurant in Gujarat.
Recently it came into news when the RMC
pulled down an illegally constructed store
room and kitchen of the restaurant. Who
owns this restaurant?

40. Ravindra Jadeja
BACK

41. FOOD 20
Chester Cheetah is a fictional character and the
official mascot for X. According to an episode
of Unwrapped, the mascot was created by
Hawley Pratt, the same man behind the Pink
Panther. X was invented by Charles Elmer
Doolin and is today distributed by a subsidiary
of PepsiCo. X?

42. Cheetos
BACK

43. FOOD 40
The Salt Lake Stadium with a capacity of
68,000 was the second largest football
stadium in the world before its renovation in
2011. It was established in 1984 because the
club grounds in the Maidan area were too
small for the huge crowd that occupied the
grounds and the ‘gardens’ were too big.
Where would you find this stadium?

44. Kolkata
BACK

45. FOOD 60
Coca Cola’s X campaign was one of the best-
performing marketing campaigns in its
history. Coca Cola traded out its iconic logo
for 250 of the country's most popular ______.
Additionally, consumers could share their
stories on Twitter with the hashtag #X and
their photos featured on the company's
website. Name the campaign.

46. BACK

47. APP 20
Connect:
My, TV, Cinema, Chat Messenger, Music, Join,
Mags, XpressNews, Security, Drive, Switch,
Money Wallet

48. Jio
BACK

49. APP 40
While the government and organizations
were announcing huge cash prizes, on 23
August 2016, Uber India issued an update to
app changing how the cars looked on the
map. What was the change?

50. Replaces cars with shuttlecocks
BACK

51. APP 60
GottaGo is an application by StartupGarage
Ventures operational in Mumbai, Pune and
Delhi. It provides a list of extensively
mapped restaurants, malls, railway stations,
museums and hotels ranked by users and an
expert team. When would you use this app?

52. Locate Toilets
BACK

53. APP 80
A blog post titled ‘How to Eliminate the
Green _____ in your Life’ provides a unique
outlook towards yoga. It claims yellow
sharpens intelligence, red teaches to use your
tongue wisely, blue develops knowledge of
your three bodies, black blows away
destructive thought and white seeks wisdom.
Put fundae.

54. Angry Birds
BACK

55. JACK IN THE BOX
It's a Saturnalia miracle!

56. THE GAME CHANGER
• 6 questions open to all teams on stage.
• Teams will choose to play the question for
50, 100 or 200 points after seeing the clue
but before seeing the question.
• ± points on correct / incorrect answer.

58. Theophilus Van Kannel was granted a patent
for a which is described it as having "three
radiating and equidistant wings” The design
possesses numerous advantages such as it is
noiseless and prevents the entrance of wind
and dust. Van Kannel was reportedly
motivated by his phobia of chivalry and
therefore designed this. What?
Q1

59. Revolving Doors

61. X were the runners up for TIME Person of the
Year 2016. TIME claimed that hardly a week
passed without news of some kind of breach
by X. They affected government agencies like
the NSA and IRS, companies like Yahoo! and
LinkedIn and personalities like Serena and
Venus Williams and Mark Zuckerberg. Who?
Q2

62. Hackers

64. The ideology behind X is that humanity is a
beautiful X. Loneliness, love, and children are
key elements in a man’s life. These three
aspects have the same meaning that humans
should spread love and loneliness is a lesson
in itself. Y claims that for God, man is an X in
himself and claims that he is an X too. We
heard this important message earlier this
year. X?
Q3

67. Q4
The first documented use of X was as the
name of a creature in in Dr. Seuss's book If I
Ran the Zoo in 1950. By the early 1960s, the
term had spread throughout the US and at
took on meaning of bookishness and social
ineptitude. Oral tradition holds that an
alternate spelling was derived by altering the
word drunk to describe people who didn’t
party. What?

68. Nerd / Knurd

70. Q6
A myth about the word X says that in 1791
James Daly, a Dublin theater owner, bet that
he could introduce a word into the language
within 24 hours. He hired a group of urchins
to write a nonsense word on walls around
Dublin. Within a day, the word was common
currency and had acquired a meaning (since
no one knew what it meant, everyone
thought it was some test). What?

71. Quiz

72. fin

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