X - Stairway to Heaven Y - Layla and Majnun Z - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page The classic rock song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin was primarily inspired by the Persian story of "Layla and Majnun" and further inspired by guitarist Jimmy Page's then unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, who was married to George Harrison at the time. Page later married Boyd in 1979 after her divorce from Harrison.

1. GENERAL QUIZ
Deepak Pant
13th Feb 2016

2. 1.
Description of X:
• Near the center is Latin ⟨W⟩. Above that is Japanese ⟨ウィ⟩ wi;
below it are Cyrillic ⟨И⟩ i, Hebrew ⟨‫⟩ו‬ w, and (barely visible at the
bottom) Tamil ⟨வி⟩ vi.
• To the left of the ⟨W⟩ is Greek ⟨Ω⟩ ō, and below that are Chinese ⟨
維⟩ wéi,[4] Kannada ⟨ವಿ⟩ vi, and (barely visible at the bottom)
Tibetan ⟨ཝི⟩ wi.
• At left, from the top down, are Armenian ⟨Վ⟩ v, Cambodian ⟨វិ⟩ vĕ
(lying on its side), Bengali ⟨উ⟩ u, Devanagari वि vi, and Georgian ⟨ვ⟩
v.
• The right-most column is Ethiopic ⟨ው⟩ wə, Arabic ⟨‫⟩و‬ w, Korean ⟨위⟩
wi, and Thai ⟨วิ⟩ wi.
• The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of
the project.

5. 2. Whose filmography?

7. David Bowie

8. 3.
• Vodafone India won the 2009 PETA Glitterbox
award. What was the reason behind it?

10. • For replacing the pug with the zoozoo.

11. 4.
• Given on the left is the picture of John Lennon
and Yoko Ono which appeared on the cover of
Rolling stone magazine. 5 hours after this
photo was taken John was shot and killed in
front of his New York apartment. The
picture(taken in 1993) on the right is tribute to
the original featuring photographer and visual
artist Sam Taylor Johnson reprising the role of
Yoko Ono.

12. • What did Sam Taylor Johnson went on to do in
2009 which further associates her with John
Lennon?

14. Her directorial debut was Nowhere
Boy

15. 5.
• X is a place somewhere in Europe, most famous
for its casino(having the same name as X). It has
been mentioned several times in pop culture. The
architecture of glamorous Belle Epoque building
of the casino was used by Y to describe a casino
in Royale-Les-Eaux, a fictional resort featuring in a
1953 novel. It was featured in Cars 2 and
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and was a
filming location for Ocean’s Twelve.
• However in our country X is famous for being
the name of a clothing brand. Give X.

17. X-Monte Carlo
Y-Ian Fleming

18. 6.
• Vicinius de Moraes was a Brazilian poet, lyricist,
essayist and playwright who wrote the lyrics for
many now-classic Brazilian songs and became a
seminal figure in modern Brazilian music.
• His play Orfeus da Conceicaos, a reworking of the
story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in the carnival
of Rio was adapted into the film Black Orpheus,
which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film in 1959.
• How is he significant in 2016?

20. Vicinius is the official mascot of Rio
Olympics 2016

21. 7.
• Nîmes is a city in southern France. Often
referred to as the French Rome, the city is
most famous for a fabric X which can also be
reffered to as Serges de Nîmes in French.
Although X gained popularity in all over the
world because of an American tailor Jacob
Davis, its etymological origin can be traced to
this city.Give X.

23. Denim

24. 8. What kind of job?
• Even though they are rarely called on to carry
out their duties, ______ are paid a monthly
stipend by local state governments of about
3,000 rupees.
• Job is reserved only for men of over five foot
four inches tall.
• The retirement age is 58 but often extended
officially as it is very hard to find a ______.
• Not for the faint hearted!

26. The Job of an Executioner/Hangman

27. 9. A picture of Orlando Bloom while
his visit to India. Whose face(a rather
odd companion to hang out with) has
been blanked out?

30. 10.
• There are 11 such places all over the world. Out of 11,
four have not been revealed yet and the other 4 latest
entrants to this list are:
• Mahoutokoro, in Japan located on the topmost point of
a volcanic island.
• Uagadou, in Africa at an unspecified location called
“Mountains of the Moon”.
• Castelobruxo, located in the Brazilian rainforest.
• Ilvermorny, located somewhere along the east coast of
North America.
• Remaining three of the 11 were quite famous earlier
also. Give their names.

32. Hogwarts, Durmstrang and
Beauxbatons

33. 11.
• The idea of X is believed to have been originated in a
story by Robert E. Howard(creator of Conan the
Barbarian) called The Shadow Kingdom published in
1929.
• If a certain David Icke and 4% of the voters in the US
are to be believed, blood drinking and shape shifting X
from the Alpha Draconian star system are hiding in
underground bases on Earth and are the force behind a
worldwide conspiracy against humans. According to
this wacky conspiracy theory, most of the world leaders
including George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II are X.

35. Reptilians

36. 12.Give the reason.
• The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis
nigriceps) is a large bird found in India and
the adjoining regions of Pakistan. It has a
horizontal body and long bare legs, giving
it an ostrich like appearance, this bird is
among the heaviest of the flying birds.
Once common on the dry plains of the
Indian subcontinent, as few as 250
individuals were estimated in 2011 to
survive and the species is critically
endangered.
• When the "national bird" of India was
under consideration, the great Indian
bustard was a proposed candidate
(strongly supported by ornithologist Salim
Ali), but dropped in favour of the Indian
peafowl for a slightly weird reason.

38. The officials thought that it could
have been misspelt as ‘bastard’.

39. 13.
• Employed by Britain’s Special Operations Executive (during
the 2nd World War), Krystyna Skarbek was the most
celebrated woman agent and was known as Winston
Churchill’s favourite spy. She was a Polish agent and
became legendary for her exploits in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Once while being interrogated by the Germans she bit her
tongue enabling her to cough out blood and convince them
to believe she had tuberculosis.
• Though she was awarded an OBE, Skarbek died in poverty
stabbed by a man she rejected. It is believed that during
the war she met the author of X and he then based a
character in X upon her, the character’s name being
somewhat similar to her codename at that time.

41. Vesper Lynd – The first Bond Girl
Her codename being Vesperalde

42. 14.
• The myth of Remus and Romulus is believed to have lead to
foundation of a particular city. They were purported to be twins of
Rhea Silvia and Mars, the God of War. In the manner of many
mythological heroes they were abandoned at birth because of a
prophecy that they would overthrow their great uncle Amulius,
who had earlier overthrown Silvia’s father Numitor(who ruled Alba
Longa). They were abandoned to die in the Tiber river and were
saved by a series of miraculous events.
• The river carried them to safety. A she-wolf found them and
suckled them until they were taken by a shepherd and his wife.
When they grew up they killed Amulius and restored Numitor to his
throne. Rather than waiting to inherit Alba Longa they chose to
found a new city. Disagreement upon the location of the city caused
Romulus to commit fratricide and kill Remus.
• What significance does the myth of Remus and Romulus hold in the
world of sports?

44. AS Roma

45. 15.
• “X-ing fives,” as it’s called, is not a new campaign
but in fact a fine Canadian tradition that involves
etching the beloved X's profile over Canada’s
seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the
five-dollar banknote. This campaign had a surge
in popularity upon the death of X in Feb, 2015.
Although this tradition might not continue for
long as the Bank of Canada has redesigned
banknotes the new ones being made of a plastic
polymer on which it is harder to draw with a pen.
X?

47. X- Spock

48. 16.
• The name X comes from the herb fennel in
Ancient Greek so X literally means "a place full of
fennels". It is believed that the town was
originally named so because of an abundance of
fennel plants in the area.
• X is also the name of a sporting event that comes
from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier
who was sent from X to Athens to announce that
the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of X.

50. Marathon

51. 17.
• Atlanta rapper B.o.B has been in news for
propagating this myth on Twitter, attracting the
sound objections of X. While refuting B.o.B’s
dubious scientific claims, he took jibes at the
rapper saying, “Being 5 centuries regressed in
your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like
your music.”
• Earlier in January he released the song Flatline
which further expounds his beliefs and urges
listeners to research noted Holocaust denier
David Irving. Flatline also finds him worrying
about a “cult called science”. The track ends with
an extended clip of X discussing oblate spheroids.

53. Earth is Flat
X- Neil de Grasse Tyson

54. 18.
• Only two such funny instances have happened in
cricket:
1. During Tsunami welfare match between ICC
World XI and Asia XI, Shane Warne at the end of
49.5 overs of the first innings ran to the pavilion
presuming the overs quota was completed.
2. Also happened during the first T20 international
between Aus and NZ when McGrath bowled the
last ball of the innings to Kyle Mills as an
underarm delivery.
What happened next?

56. Billy Bowden showed a Yellow/Red
Card

57. 19.
• In the given photo a bloodied
blade of grass and some soil is
shown. A part of a bigger
collection of articles, these
were sold for 10,000 pounds
at an auction in 2012. Why
are they important? Collected
by PP Nambiar these were
called the most sacred of all
relics by him. He placed them
in a container where they
have remained ever since and
now it is a much prized item
of curiosity wonder and even
worship.

59. Sample of soil and grass from the spot
where Mahatma Gandhi died

60. 20. X, Y and Z?
• The song X(by Z), which is often referred to as one of the
greatest rock songs ever made was primarily inspired by
the classical poet of Persian literature, Nizami Ganjavi's The
Story of X and Y. The book moved Z profoundly, as it was
the tale of a young man who fell hopelessly in love with a
beautiful, unavailable woman and who went crazy because
he could not marry her.
• The song was further inspired by Z's then unrequited
love for Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and fellow
musician George Harrison of The Beatles. Boyd divorced
Harrison in 1977 and married Z in 1979 during a concert
stop in Tucson, Arizona. Harrison was not bitter about the
divorce and attended Z's wedding party with Ringo
Starr and Paul McCartney.

62. X&Y- Layla and Majnu
Z- Eric Clapton

63. Written Round
• Screenshots of Google Easter eggs and other
features.
• +5 for each correct answer.
• Additional +5 if all answers are correct

64. 1) What’s the keyword?
Mahendra Mohan Das

65. 2) Once again, the keyword please.
Mahendra Mohan Das

66. 3) What result does the calculator
show?
Mahendra Mohan Das

67. 4) Which famous English phrase?
Mahendra Mohan Das
• The first Google search result of a famous
English phrase. What phrase?

68. 5) What is the caution?
Mahendra Mohan Das

69. Exchange Sheets!

70. 1) What’s the keyword?
Mahendra Mohan Das

71. Answer
Mahendra Mohan Das

72. 2) Once again, the keyword please.
Mahendra Mohan Das

73. Answer
Mahendra Mohan Das

74. 3) What result does the calculator
show?
Mahendra Mohan Das

75. Answer
Mahendra Mohan Das

76. 4) Which famous English phrase?
Mahendra Mohan Das
• The first Google search result of a famous
English phrase. What phrase?

77. Answer
Mahendra Mohan Das

78. 5) What is the caution?
Mahendra Mohan Das

79. Answer
Mahendra Mohan Das