1) Sir CV Raman was confident of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics after his famous discovery of Raman effect but was initially disappointed. He later won the Nobel Prize in Physics. 2) The 6th Rajputana Rifles is the oldest rifle regiment of the Indian Army, formed by amalgamating six existing regiments of the British Indian Army in 1921. 3) September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India every year in memory of M. Visvesvaraya, a notable Indian engineer and Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

1. Shobhit Shubhankar
Rohan Kulkarni
Mahendra Mohan Das

2. +10/-5

3. 1) This flag is not official in any legal sense since there is
no government or other authority in existence capable of
adopting such a flag. It is designed to portray the "future
history" of X. The red bar, which lies closest to the mast,
symbolizes X as it is today. The green and blue symbolize
stages in the future of X which is dependent on
humanity’s will and ability. Give me X.

4. A: Mars

5. 2) In 1975, he was performing in Chicago and
Muhammad Ali happened to be staying in the same
hotel as him. Being a fan, he wanted to meet with Ali
who took the time to visit him in his room. Who?

7. A: Mohammad Rafi

8. 3) This organisation was created in
1971, in the aftermath of
the Nigerian Civil War, by a small
group of French doctors and
journalists who believed that all
people have the right to medical
care regardless of race, religion,
creed or political affiliation, and
that the needs of these people
outweigh respect for national
borders. It received the
1999 Nobel Peace Prize in
recognition of its members'
continued efforts to provide
medical care in acute crises. Name
the organisation.

9. A: Doctors Without Borders

10. 4) Whose residence is this a layout of?

12. A: Sherlock Holmes

13. 5) What was inspired by these skirts?

14. A: The Coca Cola Bottle

15. 6) It is an iconic photo taken by Alberto Korda on March 5,
1960 at a memorial service for victims of an explosion. Korda
has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was
drawn to X's facial expression, which showed "absolute
implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda
would say that the photo showed X's firm and stoic character.
It has been called a symbol of the 20th century and the
world's most famous photo. It has been reproduced more
than any other image in photography. Jonathan Green,
director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, has
said that ”It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a
hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears
whenever there's a conflict. There isn’t anything else in
history that serves in this way". What am I talking about?

16. A: Che Guevara’s Guerrillero Heroico photo

17. 7) Who has authored the following books?
Break with a Banshee
Gadding with Ghouls
Marauding with Monsters
Voyages with Vampires
Year with the Yeti
Wandering with Werewolves
Travels with Trolls
Holidays with Hags
Who Am I?
The Travel Trilogy
_________'s Guide to Household Pests

18. A: Gilderoy Lockhart

19. 8) What is this formula used for?
Weighted Rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m))
× C where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
 v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
 m = minimum votes required to be listed in the ______
(currently 25000)
 C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently
7.0)

20. A: The IMDB Top 250 List

21. +10/-5

22. 1) What was acquired by Facebook from The American
Farm Bureau Federation in November 2010 for $8.5
million?

23. A: The domain Fb.com.

24. 2) The spectrophotometric value of all the colours described
by the ISI was measured and determined in conformity with
the colours of the sealed sample held at Kanpur, by the
Technical Development Establishment Laboratory (Stores) in
Kanpur by using the illuminant - ' C ' as specified by the
International Commission on Illumination 1931.
Last step in the manufacture of what?

25. A: The Indian National Flag. The official sample of the
flag is kept in Kanpur.

26. 3) Gumnami Baba lived at Ram Bhavan in Faizabad,
Uttar Pradesh, around 1985. He was popularly perceived
to be an alias for someone else, who was assumed dead.
The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry was
formed to look into the matter, and it held that the Baba
was not the person people perceived him to be, for want
of clinching evidence. However, it did not completely
deny it either, saying there was a similarity in the
handwriting. Who was Gumnami Baba believed to be?

27. A: Subhash Chandra Bose

28. 4) The discovery of _____ dates from the 1890s when a
German named Hans Henning offered it as a medicine. Its
other properties were discovered later on. In the United
Kingdom it was manufactured at the Research Department at
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where new projects were
identified as 'Research Department No.' followed by their
identification number. For some reason, this project was not
given a number or kept 'unknown' either with the intention
of adding the number later, or for reasons of secrecy. What
are we talking about?

29. A: RDX

30. 5) Palle Huld was a Danish film actor and writer. He
appeared in 40 films between 1933 and 2000. He was
born in Hellerup in Denmark. It is believed that his
journey around the world at the age of 15 in 1928
reportedly inspired the creation of an enduring
character. Who?

32. A: Tintin

33. 6) This video was uploaded on YouTube at 8:27 P.M. on
Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov
Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. The man in the video is
named Jawed Karim. What’s so special about this video?

34. A: The first video uploaded on YouTube.

35. 7) The ________ sequence first appears in the West in
the book Liber Abaci (1202) by Leonardo of Pisa, also
known as ________. He considers the growth of an
idealized rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born
pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field;
rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that
at the end of its second month a female can produce
another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating
pair always produces one new pair (one male, one
female) every month from the second month on. The
puzzle that is posed was: how many pairs will there be in
one year? The sequence is formed by the rabbit
population at the end of each month. Which sequence?

36. A: The Fibonacci Numbers

37. 8) X is a masked anarchist who seeks to systematically
kill the leaders of Norsefire, a fascist dictatorship ruling
a dystopian United Kingdom. He is well-versed in the
arts of explosives, subterfuge, and computer hacking,
and has a vast literary, cultural and philosophical
intellect.
He is the only survivor of an experiment in which four
dozen prisoners were given injections of a compound
called Batch 5. The compound caused vast cellular
anomalies that eventually killed all of the subjects except
him, who developed advanced strength, reflexes,
endurance and pain tolerance.
Give me X.

39. +10/-5*x

40. History
Science &
Technology
Geography Literature Art & Culture
Business Sports Mythology

41. Q) He is infamously known as the Emperor who "fiddled
while Rome burned”. The name of an optical disc authoring
program for Microsoft Windows is a play on words
concerning the legend that The Great Fire of Rome was
started by him. Who?

42. A: Nero

43. Q) The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in
X's architecture, a sign for him of "peace and
reconciliation. It is open to give and open to receive." It
represents the give and take of ideas. A certain city in
India hosts the largest number of such sculptures. Identify
X.

44. A: Le Corbusier

45. Q) The Elephant House is a coffee shop in downtown
Edinburgh with a nice view of the Edinburgh Castle out
the back window. But what has made it a sort of
pilgrimage place is that a certain insanely popular author
started writing the ________ novels here. FITB.

47. Q) It was first documented around the 11th or 12th
century AD, its creation being attributed to an extended
period of warfare that took place between the Chera and
the Chola dynasties in the 11th century.
The art was disseminated through schools known as
kalari, which served as centres of learning before the
modern educational system was introduced. Still in
existence, they served as meeting places for the
acquisition of knowledge on various subjects. It was
banned during the British colonial rule but has found
increasing popularity recently. What?

48. A: Kalaripayattu

49. Q) Dan Morrill, while posting the designs on a social
platform, wrote: “See, we were prepping for an internal
developer launch (meaning, we were going to ask _______ to
start fooling with the APIs and give us early feedback), and I
had no eye candy for the slides we were putting together.
Hence these guys… They had a brief flurry of minor
popularity amongst the team… But then +Irina Blok (as I
recall) presented her work: the bugdroid we all know and
love. Funny how the professional work is of vastly higher
quality than the amateur, isn't it? ;) Even so, these guys have
the distinction of being the first proposed mascots for X (that
I'm aware of, at least.)” Give me X.

52. Q) Mitch Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental
Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi, and named his company, best known for its
spreadsheet application, after a yogic position. It was
eventually acquired by IBM. Which company?

53. A: Lotus

54. Q) When the Mumbai School Sports Association
recently destroyed the original score sheet of a certain
Harris Shield match on February 24, 1988 between
Shardashram Vidya Mandir and St. Xavier's, many were
left aghast, believing it should have been preserved as a
piece of history. Why was the score sheet considered so
historic?

55. A: Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli shared a world
record 664-run partnership in that match.

56. Q) She was the first human woman created by the
deities on the instructions of Zeus. Zeus ordered her to
be moulded out of earth and all the deities joined in her
creation, offering her "seductive gifts.” Out of curiosity
she opened a jar releasing all the evils of humanity,
leaving only Hope inside. Who?

57. A: Pandora

58. +10

59. Q) After his most famous discovery, he was confident of
winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, but was
disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Richardson
that year and to de Broglie the next year. He was so
confident of winning the prize the next year that he
booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to
be announced in November, and would scan each day's
newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it
away if it did not carry the news. He did eventually win
that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Who?
+40/-20

60. Q) The X Rifles is the senior most rifle regiment of the
Indian Army. It was originally raised in 1921 as part of the
British Indian Army, when six previously existing regiments
were amalgamated to form six battalions of the 6th X Rifles.
X was the older name for Rajasthan, and essentially means
“the land of the Rajputs.” Give me X.
+40/-20

61. Q) He was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman
and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. Every year,
September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his
memory.
+30/-15

62. Q) Who?
+20/-10

63. Q) A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range
of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics,
chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature
and music. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated to him his only
book on science, Visva–Parichay. He was honoured with the
Padma Vibhushan in 1954. He is seen here with Paul Dirac,
who named a class of particles after him. Who?
+10/-5

65. Q) Which movie?
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Produced by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth
Music: Ravi Shankar, George Fenton
Release date: 30 November 1982
Running time: 187 minutes
+5

67. Q) After his most famous discovery, he was confident of
winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, but was
disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Richardson
that year and to de Broglie the next year. He was so
confident of winning the prize the next year that he
booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to
be announced in November, and would scan each day's
newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it
away if it did not carry the news. He did eventually win
that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Who?

68. A: Sir CV Raman

69. Q) The X Rifles is the senior most rifle regiment of the
Indian Army. It was originally raised in 1921 as part of the
British Indian Army, when six previously existing regiments
were amalgamated to form six battalions of the 6th X Rifles.
X was the older name for Rajasthan, and essentially means
“the land of the Rajputs.” Give me X.

70. A: Rajputana

71. Q) He was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman
and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. Every year,
September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in
his memory.

72. A: M Visvesvaraya

73. Q) Who?

75. Q) A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range
of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics,
chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature
and music. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated to him his only
book on science, Visva–Parichay. He was honoured with the
Padma Vibhushan in 1954. He is seen here with Paul Dirac,
who named a class of particles after him. Who?

76. A: SN Bose

77. Q) Which movie?
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Produced by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth
Music: Ravi Shankar, George Fenton
Release date: 30 November 1982
Running time: 187 minutes

79. And the connect is obviously the names of hostels in IIT
BHU. 

80. Thank You!