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• 26 questions. No negatives. 8 TEAMS SELECTED FOR FINALS
• Spelling isn‟t an issue. As long as the answer sounds close enough
to the actual answer, we‟ll accept it. This is a test of knowledge,
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• And most importantly, Quizmaster is God.
• STARMARK QUESTION DECIDE IN TIE
5. This is a good example of Victorian
architecture, designed by F W Stevens,
which also has certain characteristics of
Islamic & Hindu style.
This is rated as the most heavily used
structure among all UNESCO world
Heritage Sites.
NAME IT
*3.
6. • SACHIN WAS AWARDED HIS FIRST
MAN OF THE MATCH FOR HIS
GOOD KNOCK IN TEST
CRICKET.HOWEVER THE PERSON
WHO AWARDED HIM MAN OF
MATCH LANDED HIMSELF IN JAIL
THE NEXT MORNING?? GIVE THE
FUNDA
4.
7. *5. Complete the list:
MS Subbulakshmi
C Subramaniam
JP Narayan
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Amartya Sen
______________________
Lata Mangeshkar
Bismillah Khan
Bhimsen Joshi
8. 6. Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led
a violent uprising in 1967, trying to
develop an opposition opposition to the
CPI(M) leadership. The insurrection
started on May 25, 1967 in X village
when a farmer was attacked over a land
dispute. Extremists in the guise of local
farmers retaliated by attacking the local
landlords and escalated the violence.
What was this the beginning of?
9. * Huey Pierce Long, Jr., nicknamed The
Kingfish, was the 40th Governor of Louisiana.
* George Dewey, an Admiral of the US Navy, is
best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila
Bay during the Spanish-American War.
* Louis Schmitt was an animator at the Disney
Studio.
* How would you connect these three gentlemen?
10. • „Bossa Nova‟ is a unique style of Brazilian Music
• „Carnavalesca‟ means related to the Carnival
• „Brazuca‟ denotes National Pride
Brazuca defeats the other two in a
poll, by FIFA and Adidas to name
Which thing?
8.
11. • 9. Arthur Sasse wanted to get X smiling on
his birthday. X was tired, and so, in order
to get rid of the photographer, X did
something which Sasse took a picture of.
On June 19, 2009, the photograph was
auctioned at a record $74,324, the most
for any picture of X. Id X and say what he
did.
13. 11. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were
PayPal employees. In the early months of 2005, Hurley
and Chen had attended a dinner party at Chen's
apartment which Karim denied that it had
occurred. Hurley and Chen experienced difficulty
sharing videos that had been shot at the party with
Karim.
A very unique idea was born out of this which is now the
popular most among people.
Idea of Which portal?
17. • Mark William Callaway played the characters of “The
Master of Pain”, “Texas Red”, “The Punisher”,
“Punisher Dice Morgan” and “Mean Mark Callous”
before becoming the Character we best know him
as.
• This character comes onscreen in two gimmicks: a
badass biker and an undead occult-type figure.
• In both forms, the character is so known that his
name is synonymous with the whole profession.
15.
Better known as?
20. Les internationaux de France de X, an
annual event is named for X, a pioneer
aviator who completed the first solo
flight across the Mediterranean Sea),
engineer (inventor of the first forward-
firing aircraft machine gun), and World
War I hero (the first pilot to shoot down
five enemy aircraft, and to be called an
"ace" for doing so), who was killed in
aerial combat in 1918.
18.
X-asperating indeed.
21. 19.
• In engineering, fiction, or thought experiments, X is any
extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material
needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. For
example, a pulley made of X might be massless and
frictionless. However, if used in a nuclear rocket, X would
be light, strong at high temperatures, and resistant to
radiation damage. The concept of X is often applied
flippantly or humorously.
• X can also refer to any rare but desirable material used to
motivate a conflict over its possession, making it a
MacGuffin. Like the gold in westerns such as The Treasure
of the Sierra Madre, the material may also have technical
uses, but only the value is crucial to the plot. Examples are
dilithium in Star Trek' and X in Y, a mineral valued at "20
million a kilo".GIVE X..
23. 21.
According to Hindu mythology, this
village was gifted by the Pandavas and
Kauravas to Dronacharya as
gurudakshina, and is therefore named
after this incident. Which idyllic
village?
26. • 24
• X started his professional career as a sports
journalist for the Sportsworld magazine. In
2004, he joined the Trinamool Congress,
where he is currently the vice-president. In
2009 he was made the head of the Passenger
Services Committee of the Indian Railways. In
2012 Presidential Election, he became the first
person from his community to cast vote in th
presidential election. X?
28. 26.
There is a school for „Gifted Youngsters‟ at
1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a
city in Westchester County, New York
although every human can see it as the
Westchester chapter of Jehovah‟s
Witnesses. What are the students who study
here, collectively known as?
34. This is a good example of Victorian architecture, designed by F W
Stevens, which also has certain characteristics of Islamic & Hindu
style.
This is rated as the most heavily used structure among all UNESCO
world Heritage Sites.
NAME IT
*3.
36. • SACHIN WAS AWARDED HIS FIRST
MAN OF THE MATCH FOR HIS
GOOD KNOCK IN TEST
CRICKET.HOWEVER THE PERSON
WHO AWARDED HIM MAN OF
MATCH LANDED HIMSELF IN JAIL
THE NEXT MORNING?? GIVE THE
FUNDA
4.
37. • HE GAVE SACHIN A BOTTLE OF
CHAMPAGNE WHICH WAS
ILLEGAL AS PER THE LAW TO
OFFER PEOPLE BELOW 18
YEARS OF AGE.
38. *5. Complete the list:
MS Subbulakshmi
C Subramaniam
JP Narayan
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Amartya Sen
______________________
Lata Mangeshkar
Bismillah Khan
Bhimsen Joshi
39. This is a list of people who were given the
Bharat Ratna since 1998. Gopinath Bordoloi was
given the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1999.
He was a freedom fighter and was the first chief
minister of the state of Assam.
40. 6. Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led
a violent uprising in 1967, trying to
develop an opposition opposition to the
CPI(M) leadership. The insurrection
started on May 25, 1967 in X village
when a farmer was attacked over a land
dispute. Extremists in the guise of local
farmers retaliated by attacking the local
landlords and escalated the violence.
What was this the beginning of?
42. * Huey Pierce Long, Jr., nicknamed The
Kingfish, was the 40th Governor of Louisiana.
* George Dewey, an Admiral of the US Navy, is
best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila
Bay during the Spanish-American War.
* Louis Schmitt was an animator at the Disney
Studio.
* How would you connect these three gentlemen?
43. Huey, Dewey & Louie - the three
nephews of Donald Duck were
named after them.
44. • „Bossa Nova‟ is a unique style of Brazilian Music
• „Carnavalesca‟ means related to the Carnival
• „Brazuca‟ denotes National Pride
Brazuca defeats the other two in a
poll, by FIFA and Adidas to name
Which thing?
8.
46. • 9. Arthur Sasse wanted to get X smiling on
his birthday. X was tired, and so, in order
to get rid of the photographer, X did
something which Sasse took a picture of.
On June 19, 2009, the photograph was
auctioned at a record $74,324, the most
for any picture of X. Id X and say what he
did.
49. Yao Ming, a professional basketball
player OF CHINA
50. 11. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were
PayPal employees. In the early months of 2005, Hurley
and Chen had attended a dinner party at Chen's
apartment which Karim denied that it had
occurred. Hurley and Chen experienced difficulty
sharing videos that had been shot at the party with
Karim.
A very unique idea was born out of this which is now the
popular most among people.
Idea of Which portal?
58. Toru reportedly created pacman (puck
man) by getting inspiration from a
pizza missing a slice
59. • Mark William Callaway played the characters of “The
Master of Pain”, “Texas Red”, “The Punisher”,
“Punisher Dice Morgan” and “Mean Mark Callous”
before becoming the Character we best know him
as.
• This character comes onscreen in two gimmicks: a
badass biker and an undead occult-type figure.
• In both forms, the character is so known that his
name is synonymous with the whole profession.
15.
Better known as?
65. Les internationaux de France de X, an
annual event is named for X, a pioneer
aviator who completed the first solo
flight across the Mediterranean Sea),
engineer (inventor of the first forward-
firing aircraft machine gun), and World
War I hero (the first pilot to shoot down
five enemy aircraft, and to be called an
"ace" for doing so), who was killed in
aerial combat in 1918.
18.
X-asperating indeed.
67. 19.
• In engineering, fiction, or thought experiments, X is any
extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material
needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. For
example, a pulley made of X might be massless and
frictionless. However, if used in a nuclear rocket, X would
be light, strong at high temperatures, and resistant to
radiation damage. The concept of X is often applied
flippantly or humorously.
• X can also refer to any rare but desirable material used to
motivate a conflict over its possession, making it a
MacGuffin. Like the gold in westerns such as The Treasure
of the Sierra Madre, the material may also have technical
uses, but only the value is crucial to the plot. Examples are
dilithium in Star Trek' and X in Y, a mineral valued at "20
million a kilo".
71. 21.
According to Hindu mythology, this
village was gifted by the Pandavas and
Kauravas to Dronacharya as
gurudakshina, and is therefore named
after this incident. Which idyllic
village?
77. • 24
• X started his professional career as a sports
journalist for the Sportsworld magazine. In
2004, he joined the Trinamool Congress,
where he is currently the vice-president. In
2009 he was made the head of the Passenger
Services Committee of the Indian Railways. In
2012 Presidential Election, he became the first
person from his community to cast vote in th
presidential election. X?
80. • next Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
Raghuram Govinda Rajan
81. 26.
There is a school for „Gifted Youngsters‟ at
1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, a
city in Westchester County, New York
although every human can see it as the
Westchester chapter of Jehovah‟s
Witnesses. What are the students who study
here, collectively known as?
