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1. KAUN BANEGA
CHUTIYA QUIZ

3. ➤ +10/-10 ON POUNCE(CIVILISED)
➤ +10 ON BOUNCE
➤ POORLY FRAMED QS. SO BEAR WITH ME
➤ QM IS YOUR SUGAR DADDY.
➤ BOLD TEXTS ARE HINTS.

4. TALIYON KE SAATH SHURU KIYA JAAYE

5. 1
➤ In the Web Series ‘Life Sahi Hai’ Jasjeet while hosting an
afternoon drinking session sings
‘Phone ko kar diya off maine, bandi ko bola fuck off maine
Absolut nahi mili to pee li _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ maine’.
The blank is a pun on a counterpart of ABSOLUT.
For the pun, think of a girl who goes off to Switzerland to
‘live her life’ as quoted by her father.

7. ➤ SIMRANOFF(PUN ON SMIRNOFF VODKA)

8. 2
➤ In the erstwhile Soviet Union, many sporting teams were
affiliated to the Central Army, as a result of which they used a
certain prefix to their name.Even today, the prefix is seen in
many sporting organisations of these countries.

10. ➤ CSKA

11. 3
➤ ‘My addresses will never be as eloquent as Y. I will do
my very best to equal his brevity and plain speaking. I
am a/an X not a/an Y.’

13. ➤ I AM A FORD, NOT A LINCOLN

14. 4
➤ Derived from the Spanish for “watchman,” and even deeper
from a Latin word first used to indicate “keeping awake on the
eve of a religious festival " (for devotional watching or
observance) First used in 1824 in a Missouri context, where
__________ committees kept informal rough order on the
frontier or in other places where official authority was
imperfect.

16. ➤ VIGILANTE

17. 5

19. ➤ The first slide represents the acceptable dress code and the
last slide represents the dress code, what is not acceptable.
Issued by which organisation, as the dress code for specific
days, at which location?
➤ This organisation has recently made rule changes to a certain
entity it governs much to the dislike of former TTE at
Kharagpur Junction(2001-2003).

21. ➤ Issued by the Marylebone Cricket Club as the dress code on
Match Days at the Lord’sMember’s pavilion and enclosure.

22. 6
➤ It began its association with sports in 1927, through advertising on
the southern wall of minor league baseball's Nicollet Park in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.Michael Jordan holds the record for most
depictions a total of 18 times, followed by Tiger Woods at 14
times. The first athlete was Lou Gehrig, the first woman athlete
Babe Zaharias and the first African American, Jesse Owens.
➤ The tagline of this brand was made famous by a one time F1
world championship winner(1976) who put this tagline on his
jacket but in a different context.
➤ Well known to us thanks to a 2013 movie depicting his intense
rivalry with X.
➤ Give the Tagline.

25. 7
➤ X is a form of advocacy often in support of a corporate
agenda, designed to disguise the actual work of an entity,
through misinformation and other means.The term is same as
that of a synthetic surface designed to look like the natural
one.
➤ Y was the first film to use the internet for such a thing. Its
makers spread rumours that the material they shot was
authentic and that the three protagonists really disappeared in
Burkittsville, Maryland.

27. ➤ Astroturfing
➤ Blair Witch Project

28. 8
➤ Shown on the next slide is the famous ‘Bridge of Sighs’ in
Venice.A name give by the famous English poet Lord Byron
➤ The bridge offers a great view and couples in gondolas often
kiss under this bridge as it was believed that their love would
protect each other of the ‘evil’ forces thanks to the
surroundings of the bridge.

31. ➤ It was the bridge to the prisons of Venice.
➤ The name is because the prisoner will poetically look at the
beautiful city for the very last time and sigh as he enters the
prison.

32. 9
➤ The Marchenstrasse is a 600km route from Hanau to Bremen
in Germany that is a major tourist attraction.
➤ The route is for tourists who want to be a part of a storytelling
journey.
➤ Some of the cafes along the route serve ‘Snow Apples’ and
‘Twin Gingerbreads’ to tourists to go with the theme.
➤ What does it celebrate / what is the route commonly known
as?

35. ➤ Fairy Tale Route(Grimm Brothers’)

36. 10
➤ Show here is the ‘Carquinez Bridge’ in San Francisco.It is one
of the oldest Cantilever Bridge in the whole of United States.
➤ Opened in 1879.Suicides were very common on this
bridge.But a few people jumping off survived the fall.
➤ Since 1937, the suicide rates have dropped drastically on this
bridge.Why?

39. ➤ Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge.

40. 11
➤ Quoting The New York Times: “Zookeepers around the world,
facing limited capacity and pressure to maintain diverse and
vibrant collections of endangered species, are often choosing
between two controversial methods: birth control and
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.”
➤ The other method is essentially to kill the animals, who are
unhealthy/suffering. What is this other method informally called
– a pun.

42. ➤ Zoothanasia

43. 12
➤ All of India’s supply comes from a single factory in Sasni,
UttarPradesh—Khandelwal Glass Works Ltd—who have been
making the since 1981.
➤ The supply goes mainly to Delhi, Punjab and UP, and the
southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
➤ Patented by an Englishman in 1872, and considered an
improvement over the bowling pin-shaped “Hamiltons,” which
tended to slip easily and roll off surfaces, these became
standard across the British empire.
➤ Prized as collector items, they are now be found only in two
places—in India, and in Japan, for a curiously similar
purpose.What object?

45. ➤ Codd Bottles or Banta Bottles

46. 12
➤ 23 More than 150 years ago, a young man discovered a new
process for manufacturing sodium carbonate (soda ash) using
sea salt, ammonia and carbonic acid.
➤ In 1863, he filed his first patent and, with his brother Alfred,
built the first plant. By 1900 the company had a 95% market
share.
➤ Which diverse company that today makes everything from fuel
cell stacks, chemicals and organic electronics?

49. 13
➤ Genentech Inc. is the world’s first biotechnology company,
founded in 1976 by a venture capitalist Robert Swanson and a
biochemist Herbert Boyer. What was its ticker symbol on the
NYSE?
➤ Note: It was acquired by Roche Ltd. in 2009. So, it now trades
under the Roche’s ticker ROC.

51. ➤ DNA

52. 14
➤ In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial force that acts on
objects that are in motion relative to a rotating reference frame. In
a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left
of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise rotation, the
force acts to the right.
➤ A Common observable phenomenon due to this is the spinning of
water in commodes and bowls when disturbed.
➤ However this phenomenon is not observed in 3 places in India
because of a certain geographical trait they share.
➤ The one is the north is well known to us.However there are two in
the western part of India also(in the same state).
➤ They all have a common name by which they are called.What?

54. ➤ Magnetic Hill

55. 15
➤ In the Newton, where Newton gives his best to ensure that free
and fair voting takes place in the Naxal hit area of
‘Dandkaranya’.However, the challenges before him are many.
➤ The armed forces dispatched for the safety of election process
go to the nearby tribal villages.Ransack the houses of tribals
and ask them to cook a hearty meal for them.
➤ After the local tribal women cooks her ‘desi murgi’, she offers
the soldiers a juicy salad of beetroot and carrots.
➤ To which a soldier remarks ‘ ____________ ‘ , a pun on a
salutation very common to this area.(just change one letter)
➤ The salutation is also a less-known 2002 Bollywood movie.

57. ➤ LAL SALAD,Pun on LAL SALAM

58. 16
➤ Identify this comic book character which appears in the comic
book Ghost Rider.

61. ➤ Jesus Christ

62. 18
➤ The heart of an accused X Auguste Delagrange. He was said
to have killed at least 40 people in the early 1900s.

64. ➤ Vampire

65. 19
➤ Shown on the next slide is a rare pic of Holgenbash
family.Nothing special about them really, but this pic shot into
prominence in early 1963.
➤ The had spent most of their lives in the small town of
Dresden.Due to the changing political landscape they decided
to migrate but the elder grandparents of the family refused to
leave their ancestral home.
➤ As per the National Geographic Magazine it was a family ritual
to take the babies to X every year to show them their
_____________.
➤ Funda?

68. ➤ Berlin Wall

69. 20
➤ Shown on next slide are a bunch of LAPD officers in
1960.Why are they dressed like this?

72. ➤ Purse Snatching