The document discusses various trivia and facts from multiple domains including history, pop culture, and science, interspersed with questions and answers. Topics include the origins of battle cries during WWII, the layout of Chandigarh, the invention of the computer mouse, the culinary history of rava idli, and various notable individuals and events. Additionally, it references significant cultural artifacts like the Pied Piper legend and the creation of the Park Avenue Treaty.

1. During WWII, American parachutists, while
jumping out of planes, would yell out the name
of an Apache war chief. Originally intended to
steady the nerves, the word soon became a
regular battle cry. What?

2. Answer : Geronimo
(Think Scooby Doo)

3. What is
unusual about
the city’s
layout,
specifically the
numbering
of the sectors?
Give the funda.

4. • Answer : Map of Chandigarh. When the city
was designed, Le Corbusier (the chief
architect) was asked to leave out Section 13 to
respect local superstitions. Grudgingly, he did
so, but numbered the sectors so that opposite
sectors’ numbers add up to 13. For example,
Sector 5 is opposite Sector 8, Sector 6 is
opposite Sector 7 and so on.

5. • X's father wanted a son but got her instead. Her
father refused to accept this and brought her up as
a boy instead. He finally caught her kissing a boy
when she was 14 and realised that he had a girl
and there was nothing he could about it.
• She started out her journey towards celebritydom
as a singer, and appeared and sang in music videos
which were successes in her country but achieved
little fame outside. She finally settled in on her
current profession after she moved to New York
City.
• X is constantly dissatisfied by the work she is doing
and often comes across as commitment phobic.
She has achieved mild success in her profession
and has won a LAMA award for her efforts. Who?

6. Answer -

7. Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother

8. The design shown below is believed to have served as the
inspiration for the Infinite Staircase in Inception.
It was initially created in the year 1959 by a father-son duo of
mathematicians.
In his artwork Ascending and Descending, MC Escher realised the
same design the following year in a different form. Give the name
by which this design is generally known today.

9. • A : Penrose Stairs

10. Douglas Engelbart, a researcher at Stanford,
was trying to design a tool that would save
retyping large volumes of data on a computer
in case of a mistake at one point. He
ultimately succeeded in creating a device he
named the XY index. How do we know it
today?

11. A : Computer Mouse

12. A Cricinfo columnist referred to the fourth
match of the India-Australia Test series, played
in Nagpur, as the” Abbey Road Test”, referring
to a Beatles album. What was the reason for
the analogy?

13. • A : The Nagpur Test was the last time that
India’s own Fab Four - Tendulkar, Dravid,
Ganguly and Laxman - played in a Test match
together.

14. • X is a popular food item in Southern India. It
was first made during World War II when, due
to a severe shortage of rice, a restaurant in
Bangalore tried cooking a breakfast item Y
using semolina rather than rice, usually the
main ingredient. This led to the creation of X,
which is now a well-known dish in its own
right. What is X?

15. A : Rava Idli. The restaurant is of course MTR.

16. What is the name given to the crew of technicians
who accompany music bands on tours, and handle
every part of the concert productions except actually
performing the music with the musicians. This catch-
all term covers tour managers, production managers,
stage managers, front-of-house and monitor
engineers, guitar techs, keyboard techs, lighting
techs, pyrotechnic techs, security/bodyguards, truck
drivers, merchandise crew and caterers, among
several others. The term is famous in India in a
different context.

17. A : Roadies

18. What is the significance of this pic?
Hint : Irony!

19. A : Kamini Kaushal receiving the Filmfare Award.
The Filmfare statuette, the Black Lady, is
believed to be modelled on her.

20. • This magazine was founded in Cincinnati by William
Donaldson and James Hennegan in 1894, making it
one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. Its
name comes from its original function of carrying
trade advertisements for small businesses. The
magazine later diversified into the entertainment
industry. It is now eponymous with music ratings, and
maintains several internationally recognised album
and song charts. The publication is known for ranking
the top songs regardless of genre and solely based on
sales and airplay. Name the magazine.

21. A : Billboard

22. The only complete, handwritten copy of the recipe is
kept in a computerised vault in corporate
headquarters. The recipe, which includes exact
amounts of each component, is written in pencil on a
single sheet of notebook paper. Only two unnamed
executives have access to the recipe at any one time,
and they are never allowed to fly together.
William Poundstone examined the patent application
for the recipe in 1983, and declared that he had
cracked the secret formula. Although never
confirmed by the company, it is believed that
Poundstone’s formula is the closest anyone has come
to discovering the recipe. What?

23. A : KFC Chicken recipe.

24. According to a tale from the Bhagavatha Purana, the
two gatekeepers of Vaikuntha (Lord Vishnu’s abode)
committed a minor offence, and were cursed by the
angry Kumaras to be reborn on Earth and live as
mere mortals. Vishnu was able to reduce the curse to
the extent that they would be reborn on Earth in
three avatars as his enemies. As a result, they were
reborn as :
Hiranyakashyap and Hiranyaksha
Ravana and Kumbhakarana
Dantavakra and Shishupala
Name the gatekeepers.

25. A : Jaya and Vijaya

26. In 1968, X founded X Ltd., a coat shop in the
York Hotel in New York City, with $10,000. In
1969, X, who was later described as "the
supreme master of minimalism," appeared on
the cover of Vogue magazine. What/Who are
we talking about?

27. A : Calvin Klein

28. Ad for which brand of confectionery? Also give the funda.

29. A : KitKat 

30. What does the Park Avenue Treaty, which
came to be formulated during a shared cab
ride in New York City, obligate its “signatories”
to do?

31. A : Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. The treaty stated that
Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was the
best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best
for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac
Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving
second best for himself).
Thus the dedication in Clarke's book Report on Planet Three
reads "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov
treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to
the second-best science-fiction writer".

32. Oxford Dictionary adopted it in 2001 without
the apostrophe. The inspiration was what was
used by Jimmy Finlayson in 33 Laurel and
Hardy films. The VoIP software Skype has even
made a smiley as a tribute to this word. The
first occurrence of the word as we know it
today was on the Tracey Ullman in 1989. What
word?

33. Answer -

35. In the year of 1284, on the day of Saints John and Paul
on 26 June.
130 children born in X were seduced
By a Y, dressed in all kinds of colours,
and lost at the place of execution near the koppen.
This is the earliest account of a tragic event in the city of X. Rats
were later added to the account as it passed on through
generations. People believe today the phrase, "pay the ___" arose
from this event. To "pay the ___" now means to face the
inevitable consequences of one's actions. The phrase is also
attributed to meaning to recompense a minstrel or similar
musician in the medieval period for services rendered. Minstrels
were a significant status symbol, hence refusing payment would
be great mark on the nobleman's reputation and a noticeable loss
in his social standing.

36. A : The Pied Piper of Hamelin
For more :
http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.co
m/2010/06/catastrophe-emigration-
psychopathic.html

37. Robert Capa, a photographer for Magnum
Photos, coined the term and later used it as
the title of an essay about young men and
women growing up immediately after WWII.
Several years later, Douglas Coupland
popularised the term in his 1991 book
_________ : Tales Of An Accelerated Culture.
The unusual term is generally used to signify a
group of young people, seemingly without
identity, who face an uncertain and (maybe)
hostile future.

38. A : Generation X

39. The company (X) was founded around the 17th
century by members of the ______family. X now
manufactures stuff for defence, petrochemicals, food
and various other sectors. It employs close to 170,000
people in more than 150 countries. It also has
charitable foundations named after the parents of the
current CEO and chairman. The current CEO is under
an FBI investigation after some secret prototypes for
the use of the army were misplaced by the company.
Forbes estimates X to be one of the largest of its kind
with sales in 2007 being estimated at around $ 31.3
billion.

40. A : Wayne Enterprises, from the Batman comics.

41. This cricketer was considered perhaps the greatest all
rounder of his time.
In all, he took 1,109 first-class wickets with a bowling
average of 10.32. He was also a fine batsman (4,140
first-class runs with a batting average of 14.12).
He retired from cricket as a result of rheumatism. He
was posthumously selected as Wisden Cricketer of the
Year in 1913, 50 years after his retirement from first-
class cricket. Identify.

42. A : John Wisden

43. Superhuman strength, durability, speed and agility,
invulnerability to any kind of assault. Reality
manipulation. Increased intelligence at the loss of
sanity, inhibitions and self-control.
Symptoms of?
[Hint : Think Comics!]

44. A : Wearing ‘The Mask’!

45. Complete this nursery rhyme :
Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn,
Wire, briar, limber lock
Three geese in a flock
One flew East
One flew West
And ______________________

46. A : One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

47. Identify the band.

48. A : The Band 

49. • Video Question
• Identify the film for which the track in this ad
was first composed :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6-
lEKgW9Y

50. A : Bombay