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2. ROUND 1
Clock-Wise Pounce/Bounce
• Direct +20/0
• Pounce +20/-10
• Bounce +10/0
• If there are multiple parts in a question, pounce only if you can give
all the parts.

3. Q.1
• During an ongoing joint operation with Soviets, X who was a
squadron leader of the Indian Air Force, was asked a question by
the then prime minister Indira Gandhi during a live conference
about India.
• X replied to this question with a phrase, which is well known by
each India.
• ID X, and the phrase.

5. Rakesh Sharma
• When asked how India Looks from space, he replied “Sare Jahan se
achha”

6. Q.2
• All fish of this species are born with both male and female parts. In a
colony that is centered around one sea anemone, the largest fish is the
female and the second largest will be the male while all the others will
be both. If the female were to die then the male will turn into a female
and one of the smaller ones will become male. With this unique ability
to change their sexes the colony ensures the safety of the community.
• Which fish is this whose actual life story might have changed the way a
very popular children's movie had shown?

8. Clownfish

9. Q.3
• On January 16, 1979, a landmark nature series titled Life on Earth was
first shown on BBC. In it, a presenter travels the globe in order to trace
the story of the evolution of life on the planet. In his 80 years in front
of the camera he is the only person to win BAFTA awards for work in
Black & White, Colour, HD and 3D.
• Who is this iconic figure in nature conservation who has multiple
species named after him?

11. David Attenborough

12. Q.4
• A common myth is that it was named after a room at CERN, where the
original web servers were located. However, Tom S. tells us: "Having
visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room X is not on the fourth
floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the
first digit usually refers to the building number, and the second two to
the office number. But, strangely, there is no room... don't ask me why.
Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room X in CERN - it simply
doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where
the web began". In fact, there is a display about this, including a model
of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room X" thing is just a myth.
• What apparent origin theory is being debunked here?

15. Q5.
Pictured here is a precursor to modern movie cameras. It was held like a
normal rifle, and the cameraman pulled the trigger to film the subject.
What phrase/term is this the origin of?

17. Shooting

18. Q.6
• The wombat is a small marsupial found in Australia, which has an
unusual way to mark their territory. When they leave to forage for food
they leave distinctively shaped poop outside to let other wombats
know about their burrow. Since most of the area is hilly, the distinctive
shape, which looks very unnatural, ensures that it does not roll off.
• In what peculiar shape do wombats poop?

20. Cube

21. Q.7
• During the mid-1940s, Kodak received a lot of complaints about black
spot formation of films which made them useless.
• They investigated the matter, and the cause of their problems were
tests conducted by an agency that released a new kind of pollutant in
the environment. Kodak tried contacting the agency, but never got a
response, so they threatened them with a lawsuit.
• The agency then quickly revealed all necessary information to Kodak,
to keep things quite, so that the company could take proper steps to
safeguard their products.
• The general public had no idea about these tests till 1945.
• What was the agency doing that was ruining Kodak’s films?

23. Nuclear Tests

24. Q.8
• The founders were working on a consulting project for the CIA. The
code name for the project was X (the CIA saw this as the system to give
answers to all questions or some such).
• The project was designed to use the newly written SQL database
language from IBM. The project was eventually terminated but they
decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept
the name X and created the RDBMS engine. Later they changed the
name of the company, Relational Technology Inc., to the name of the
product.
• Tell me X.

26. Oracle

27. ROUND 2
Written Round
• 5 QUESTIONS
• +20/0
• No negative marking
• Partial marking at the discretion of quizmaster
• Send all answers as one single message at the end of round

28. Q.9
• This service was created by Eric Yuan, a teenager who hated the 10-
hour train journeys to his university on Monday mornings. He wanted
to create a platform where he could visit his girlfriend minus the travel.
His daydreaming then led to what is now a billion-dollar app that every
other student, teacher and amateur quizzer uses almost on a daily
basis.
• What app is this?

30. Q.10
• While Stranger Things may dive into the world of aliens, super powers
and the Upside Down, it's still a series grounded in reality. In fact, many
fans and critics have praised the Netflix original for its depiction of life
in the 1980s.
• One of the things the show hasn’t been praised for is the periodic table
visible in it’s episodes.
• What's wrong with this periodic table?

31. Q.10

33. Q.11
• A herpetologist discovered a frog by accident in 2008 in Indonesia
which has the ability to enlarge and inflate its nose when the male frog
is calling out. This led to it being called by a particular name that
references a character from a popular fairytale who had similar issues
but under different circumstances. In 2019, it was finally given the
same name as its species name as well.
• What is its name?

35. Q.12
• As a Part of their GRACE-FO Mission, NASA launched A pair of
Satellites officially Named as GRACE 1 and GRACE 2.
• The Purpose of the Mission was to Study the Earth's Shifting Water
masses and their Effects on gravity, with the help of these two
Satellites Chasing each Other in the space around the Earth.
• What are these Satellites aptly Nicknamed?

37. Q.13
• The unique characteristic of these animals is, thanks to the presence of
low-molecular weight thiol compounds and few acetate thioesters,
they can be detected by a human nose at miniscule concentrations of
10 parts per billion.
• Which animal that has a characteristic colour pattern as well, due to
this marvelous nature, has been vilified in many cartoons and movies?

38. ROUND 2
Written Round Answers coming up
• DM the answers

39. Q.9
• This service was created by Eric Yuan, a teenager who hated the 10-
hour train journeys to his university on Monday mornings. He wanted
to create a platform where he could visit his girlfriend minus the travel.
His daydreaming then led to what is now a billion-dollar app that every
other student, teacher and amateur quizzer uses almost on a daily
basis.
• What app is this?

40. Zoom

41. Q.10
• While Stranger Things may dive into the world of aliens, super powers
and the Upside Down, it's still a series grounded in reality. In fact, many
fans and critics have praised the Netflix original for its depiction of life
in the 1980s.
• One of the things the show hasn’t been praised for is the periodic table
visible in it’s episodes.
• What's wrong with this periodic table ?

42. Q.10

43. 9 of the elements on the periodic table didn’t
exist in the 80s

44. Q.11
• A herpetologist discovered a frog by accident in 2008 in Indonesia
which has the ability to enlarge and inflate its nose when the male frog
is calling out. This led to it being called by a particular name that
references a character from a popular fairytale who had similar issues
but under different circumstances. In 2019, it was finally given the
same name as its species name as well.
• What is its name?

45. Pinnochio

46. Q.12
• As a Part of their GRACE-FO Mission, NASA launched A pair of
Satellites officially Named as GRACE 1 and GRACE 2.
• The Purpose of the Mission was to Study the Earth's Shifting Water
masses and their Effects on gravity, with the help of these two
Satellites Chasing each Other in the space around the Earth.
• What are these Satellites aptly Nicknamed?

47. Tom and Jerry Satellites

48. Q.13
• The unique characteristic of these animals is, thanks to the presence of
low-molecular weight thiol compounds and few acetate thioesters,
they can be detected by a human nose at miniscule concentrations of
10 parts per billion.
• Which animal that has a characteristic colour pattern as well, due to
this marvelous nature, has been vilified in many cartoons and movies?

49. Skunk

50. ROUND 3
Anti Clock-Wise Pounce/Bounce
• Direct +20/0
• Pounce +20/-10
• Bounce +10/0
• If there are multiple parts in a question, pounce only if you can give
all the parts.

51. Q14.
• "Peabody's Improbable History", was a recurring segment from the
1960s cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. In this segment,
Mr. Peabody and Sherman travelled back in time using a time machine
called X.
• Something on the internet which is meant to archive and prevent loss
knowledge due to deletion or regular updating of sites, borrows it’s
name from this time machine.
• Name this machine

53. Wayback Machine

54. Q15.
• ____ __ ___ ____ ___ is a hacker collective founded in 1984, which is
credited for the creation of X. X was created on old bulletin boards
where having "elite" status on a BBS allowed a user access to file
folders, games, and special chat rooms. It has since become a very
integral part of modern internet terminology.
• It's speculated that X was developed to defeat text filters created for
message boards that discouraged the discussion of forbidden topics,
like cracking and hacking.
• Give X

56. 1337 5P3AK
• Leetspeak

57. Q.16
In their bid to teach us the Greek alphabet, WHO decided to use
the letters to name Covid Variants.
While the first 12 letters were used for this without an issue, letter
no. 13 and 14 were deliberately skipped and the the 15th letter,
Omicron was assigned to the latest variant.
According to some WHO sources, letter 13 'Nu' was skipped to
avoid confusion with 'New', while 14 was skipped due to political
reasons.
Why was 14 skipped?

59. XI

60. Q.17
• Blue - mainly used for general purpose, they are great all-rounders, and
an average user can’t go wrong with Blue.
• Green - basically same as Blue, but it lacks a bit of performance.
However, it is the most eco-friendly one and it’s quite cheap.
• Blacks - for pure performance and also one of the most expensive.
• Red - optimized for NAS systems
• Purple - for surveillance. Advised for 24/7 operation.
• Gold - probably the most premium of all. Made for a multitude of
Datacenter-specific applications.
Color scheme of what?

62. WD hard disk colors

63. Q.18
• The Sprengel pump is a vacuum pump that uses drops of mercury
falling through a small-bore capillary tube to trap air from the system
to be evacuated. It was invented by Hanover-born chemist Hermann
Sprengel in 1865. The pump created the highest vacuum achievable at
that time.
• Without this lesser known component, one of the greatest inventions
to revolutionize our everyday lives would not have been possible.
• What is the invention?

65. Light Bulb

66. Q.19
• In the late 90s, A famous American sportsman who was at the prime
of his career and fame was at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles
when he overheard 2 people talking about a new technology related to
the internet and he struck a conversation with them.
• Turns out they were employees of a startup.
• He was impressed by the product they were building.
• He ended up getting pre-IPO shares in the startup and it remains one
of his best investment decisions.
• Who and which company ?

68. Shaquille O’Neal
Google

69. Q.20
• The name was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter. After
seeing the prototype, he thought of a phrase from the movie 2001: A
Space Odyssey. It referred to the fictional spacecraft used for extra-
vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiter
spacecraft Discovery One carries three of these small, one-man
maintenance vehicles.
• What popular product name is this?

71. iPod

72. Q.21
• The __ _____ is a pattern of symbols incorporated
into a number of secure documents such as
banknotes and ownership title certificates designs.
It is added to help imaging software detect the
presence of such a document in a digital image.
Such software can then block the user from
reproducing banknotes to prevent counterfeiting
using color photocopiers.
• The pattern has never been mentioned officially; A
researcher Marcus Kuhn named it such as it looked
like a certain celestial phenomena. Although this
system is known by few other names like Omron
Rings in RBI notes, the name given by Kuhn still
stands most popular.
• FITB.

74. EURION Constellation

75. ROUND 4
Visual Connect
• Pounce Only +20/-10

76. Q.22; Connect

78. Flipkart Mafia

79. Q.23; Connect

81. Accidental Discoveries

82. Q.24; Name the Occasion

84. Solvay Conference

85. Q25. Put funda

87. Tim Berners Lee’s computer at CERN

88. Tie #1
• This animal's eyes are about the size of billiard balls which give them
excellent vision that is required to keep an eye out for predators in the
vast plains they inhabit. Unfortunately, these eyes take up so much
space in the head that the brain size is compromised and it is actually
smaller than the eyeballs.
• Which animal is this that is known for having 'big' records in other
departments but unfortunately not in brain size?

90. Ostrich

91. Tie #2
• NASA astronaut Piers Sellers carried
a piece of wood into space for The
Royal Society in 2012 via shuttle
Atlantis to the International Space
Station. Then this wood was
experimented in zero gravity
conditions in space, to celebrate
350th anniversary of Royal Society.
• Why was it carried into space?

93. The wood was from Newton’s Apple tree

94. Tie #3
• It is a simple device conceived as an
experiment to demonstrate the
rotation of the Earth. While it had
long been known that the Earth
rotated, the introduction of it in 1851
was the first simple proof of the
rotation in an easy-to-see
experiment. Today, these are popular
displays in science museums and
universities.
• What is this device?

96. Foucalt’s Pendulumn