Dr. Aakash Roy conducted a research study involving 48 questions in various formats for participants: 6 written questions, 18 clockwise questions, 6 theme questions, and 18 anti-clockwise questions. The study also included 6 visual questions worth 5 points each, with the ability to gain or lose additional points by staking answers. The clockwise round involved infinite bounce and pounce with associated point gains or losses. Unanswered questions in this round did not return to the same team.

1. Researched and Conducted by
Dr. Aakash Roy

2.  48 Questions
 Written (6)
 Clockwise (18)
 Theme (6)
 Anti-Clockwise (18)

3.  6Visuals.
 5 Points each.
 +10/-5 if you are Staking your answer.

23.  18 Questions clockwise.
 Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce.
 +10/-10 on Pounce.
 +10 on Bounce.
 Question does not come back to a team if it
goes unanswered.

24.  In 1997, this band decided to tour the war torn
Bosnia & Herzegovinia, and true to
expectations performed a 1995 hit single along
with Luciano Pavarotti singing the interlude
Opera portions of the song.
 A documentary was made in 1999 to showcase
this iconic concert which is an wordplay on the
name of the original song.
 What are the song and the documentary ?

27.  Swedish high jumper Emma GreenTregaro, who won
a bronze medal at the 2005 worlds, and sprinter Mao
Hjelmer took a stand against homophobia during
their events at Luzhniki Stadium at the 2014 Sochi
Winter Olympics.
 Someone in news now, criticised this by saying “If we
allow to promote and do all this stuff on the street, we
are very afraid about our nation because we consider
ourselves like normal, standard people…”
 Who is the speaker and What unique way to protest
was chosen by the Swedes ?

30.  The lady about to
embrace her Best
man is a certain
Jennifer Lowe, a
dairymaid from
United Kingdom who
was a bookie’s
favourite to win.
 Which dark horse
caused an upset ?

33.  “If you see the replays of all the leg before
decisions that I gave, you will see that I have not
committed any mistake.The only mistake that I
made in this match, was when I did not give
Jason Gillespie out on the morning of the second
day of theTest….”
 This was someone’s defence when enquired
about his hand in creating a certain “first” in that
test match.
 Which bespectacled gentleman and Which
“first” is being referenced ?

36.  The Fall is a 2016 docu -drama
featuring these two ladies.
One of them was involved in a
doping scandal, while another
has a cult following in her
home country, although she
chooses to live in South
Carolina, USA.
 Who are they or What was
their contribution to one of
20th centuries top 100 sporting
moments ?

39.  _______ _______ is a song written and composed by two
legends of two neighbouring countries respectively.
 X, a cancer survivor made waves, when she appeared in a
1996 music video featuring this song and hence till last
year could rest her claim to being the “_______ girl”.
 However, since last year,Y is being proclaimed as the
“_______ girl” after she too performed the song along
with the nephew of the original composer in aTV show.
 FITB and Identify both X andY.

42.  “On a June day in 1969 a very large man stood
outside Northampton general hospital to pose for
photographers. He was wearing jacket and tie,
dark glasses and an eyepatch, and a broad grin.
He also had a nurse on each arm; they too were
laughing delightedly.”
 This is an excerpt from “The Guardian” previewing
a play “When the eye has gone” which held its
first show at the Northamptonshire County
ground, earlier in November, this year.
 Who is the subject of the play ?

45.  The play is a farce based on the real-life events
surrounding Italian railwayman and anarchist Giuseppe
Pinelli, who fell – or was thrown – to his death from the
fourth floor window of a Milan police station in 1969.
Pinelli was accused of bombing a bank (the Piazza
Fontana bombing) but was cleared of the charge.(Poster
next slide)
 The playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1997 and has been known for his anti-fascist stands.
 What is the name of the play ?

49.  A nomadic artist, a lifelong solitary of homosexual
inclinations, the one-time art master to Queen
Victoria, he burst on to the literary scene in 1846
with A Book of Nonsense, a collection of some 115
limericks.
 A philanthropist, scholar and playwright his most
famous work was a Bengali translation of
Mahabharata.
 How can a certain creature connect the two
eccentric minds of the 19th Century ?

52.  Shikari was a 1963 B-grade Bollywood film
starring Ajit, K.N. Singh and Madan Puri,
directed by Mohammed Husain.
 Singh was the mad scientist Cyclops, who
created X , Puri was the nasty businessman who
wanted to commercially exploit X, Ajit played
the dashing hunter who helped the team
capture X while falling in love with Ragini, a
circus owner’s daughter.
 Identify X and his more popular American
cousin.

56.  Isaak Brodsky paints a
shock-worker, as these
super-strong labourers
were known, half-naked
and raised up on
scaffolding against the
night sky similar to the
antics of another individual
400 years ago and hence
has been attributed as A
Muscovite ________.
 FITB to give me the name
of the painting.

60.  Niranjan Pattnaik ,Odisha Pradesh Congress
Committee president said Samabalpuri music
has its unique flavour and charm, which should
not be distorted for commercial reasons.
 “I am not against artistic freedom and quite see
the need to strike a chord with the new
generation so that they begin to appreciate
Odisha’s folk culture and popular music.”
 Which cocktail served by the two artists on the
following slide earned the ire of Mr. Pattnaik?

64.  The Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific
Institutions and Historic Monuments is an inter-
American treaty.The most important idea is the legal
recognition that the defence of cultural objects is more
important than the use or destruction of that culture for
military purposes.
 To identify the objects that are in need of protection – the
Banner of Peace was designed and this remains the first
international treaty signed inside the Oval office.
 Who, with a significant Indian marital connection is it
named after ?

68.  The nickname of Columbian National women
Football team is Las Chicas Superpoderosas.
 The English translation of this name should
bring back fond memories of every 90s kid
regarding something which was based out of
the US city ofTownsville.
 Why ?

71.  “Koodal” is aTamil word which means a meeting
point, the union, an assembly of images says the
typewritten screen card from the directorial debut
of an iconic figure.
 Its title appears, first inTamil script then in English
letters, spelled out in tall, stylized white blocks
jammed close and crowded. Looming just behind is
the deep black eye of a bull, its pupil reflecting a
hot bulb on the wet stones of a charnel-house
floor.
 Who is the director of this 1970 documentary ?

74.  The memorial on the next slide is located at
Phulia of Nadia district ofWest Bengal to
celebrate a famous son of this place.
 How can you connect this memorial with a
July 1953 venture by X, Ananda Bagchi and
Dipak Majumdar ?
 Identify X .

78.  ThisVirgin Comics
adaptation was a brainchild
of Shekhar Kapoor and
Deepak Chopra, and is based
at a fictional place in 3392 AD
post the 3rd nuclear war.
 The city council sends the
four sons of the ruler to
various outposts of the
kingdom to provide
assistance.
 What is the blanked out word
in the poster ?

81.  The 160-yard track was considered the fastest in
the USA, as X would himself later concur.The air
was thick with cigar smoke but X only found that
invigorating.
 The promoters had devised a re-run of X’s famous
exploit from the previous Olympics where he won
the 1500m and 5000m within the space of two
hours. Here X would run two races, one mile and
5000m, inside an hour, ending up winning both,
setting world records.
 Who is X and What was the venue for the “X” Mile
as it came to be known in later years ?

84.  6 Questions.
 5 points each.
 10 bonus on a full house.
 Points for cracking the theme are mentioned
on the respective slides.

85.  Tov Kronsteen, is a villain
from the Bond franchise,
who makes his
appearance in “From
Russia with Love”. Apart
from being the chief
strategist of SPECTRE he
holds an unique
distinction amongst all
Bond villains.
 What ?

86.  In this book, Alice follows a
certain trail as she meets the
various characters.
Ultimately, at the end of the
Eighth chapter she becomes
a Queen.
 What was unique about
Alice’s journey in this book ?

89.  _____ _______ is a computer that was
created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-
intelligent species of beings (whose three-
dimensional protrusions into our universe are
ordinary white mice) to come up with
the Answer toThe UltimateQuestion of Life,
the Universe, and Everything.
 What did it inspire in the 1980s ?

92.  Tov Kronsteen, is a villain
from the Bond franchise,
who makes his
appearance in “From
Russia with Love”. Apart
from being the chief
strategist of SPECTRE he
holds an unique
distinction amongst all
Bond villains.
 What ?

94.  In this book, Alice follows a
certain trail as she meets the
various characters.
Ultimately, at the end of the
Eighth chapter she becomes
a Queen.
 What was unique about
Alice’s journey in this book ?

100.  _____ _______ is a computer that was
created by the pan-dimensional, hyper-
intelligent species of beings (whose three-
dimensional protrusions into our universe are
ordinary white mice) to come up with
the Answer toThe UltimateQuestion of Life,
the Universe, and Everything.
 What did it inspire in the 1980s ?

104.  18 Questions Anti-clockwise.
 Infinite Bounce with Infinite Pounce.
 +10/-10 on Pounce.
 +10 on Bounce.
 Question does not come back to a team if it
goes unanswered.

105.  Swingers and swappers,
strippers and streetwalkers,
sadists, masochists, and
sexual mavericks of every
persuasion; all are
documented in this
legendary exposé of the
diseased underbelly of '60s
American society.
 How did this book cement its
place in popular culture ?

108.  A 13th century Peruvian mummy was brought to Belgium
as a part of a collection of artefacts by Baron Jean
Baptiste deTerloo during a journey to Lima in 1840. It is
now being preserved in the Museum of AncientArt in
Brussels.
 In December 1999, a study regarding the medical
imaging of this mummy was published inThe Lancet.
The researchers said that the difficulty in imaging
procedures was due to the foetal position of the
mummy.
 By What name was this mummy popularised and How?

112.  The gentleman on the left is a
farmer in his native village of
Khanal Khurd in Sangrur. He
gave up a promising career
due to lack of state backing
and like many Indian dreams,
his too was nipped in the bud.
 However he can stake his
claim as the only Indian to
have done something.
 What ?

115.  A football tournament, started in 2005 in Khaniyara,
about 7 km from Dharamsala town in Himachal Pradesh
was named after this King GeorgeVI Medal awardee of
1937.
 However, the local Gorkha community rue that political
leaders and government officials come to the village to
inaugurate the event, but have never done anything
noteworthy in recognition of this individual.
 Who is he and What was his seditious contribution to the
nation ?

118.  The sculpture titled
“Esmeralda and her
Goat, Djali” depicts a
character from a 19th
century literary
classic.
 Which book and
How can she be
linked to a notorious
event in Kolkata a few
days ago?

125.  Recently, social groups like Swachh Pune-
Swachh Bharat and Let’s Rise participated in
an initiative carrying buckets of colour and
brushes and could be seen painting the walls
of the RTO building and within few hours, the
paan -stained walls of the building could be
seen carrying beautiful _______paintings.
 FITB

129.  The French press faced a problem when the then President of
a particular nation visited France in 2000.
 Catherine Clement, a personal friend of the individual said in
his defence, that the French people only understand two
words, pariah and __________.Pariah is far worse and has
practically disappeared from ordinary usage. _________is the
only word the French public understands today. Nobody
knows the word X. In fact, X in a French paper would be
confused with an alcohol.
 The title of the main article "An ________at Elysee" shocked
many.
 FITB with the name of a 1935 book and Identify the
President.

132.  This song, developed for a minstrel show to project
black people in poor light as a source of humour,
was composed in the beats of Polka, the Czech
dance form that made its way into Americas in the
19th century.
 However the opening verse itself mentions a
stringed musical instrument (picture next slide)
carried by the singer , and hence has been
traditionally performed with that class of
instruments.
 Which song ?

136.  Jessie Knight stood no taller than 1.2m.(4 feet). She
shot her abusive husband but he did not die,
because Jessie a former circus sharp shooter ,hadn’t
aimed for murder but revenge, for kicking her
beloved dog down the stairs.
 An exhibition last week in the National Maritime
Museum Cornwall put up a few artworks of this
feisty woman on display.
 What first as a woman was attributed to her by
The Guardian in an article titled ‘Life at the Sharp
end’ ?

140.  Which two powerhouse actresses played
the roles of Manu and Abha, (picture next
slide) Gandhi’s nieces who were on either
side of him during his assassination, in
Attenborough’s “Gandhi” ?

144.  The story begins in an obscure Augustinian
abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk
stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It
intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution,
and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics
in the 1940s.
 What is the apt title of this thought provoking
novel by an author, whose debut novel won the
Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction category ?

147.  This structure was modelled
on the gateways of Istanbul
or Constantinople.
 That way, it has derived its
current name and has no
relation with the best
selling poet in the US
according to a BBC survey
in 2014.
 What is the name of this
structure ?

150.  In an early 90s movie, a billionaire is shown putting a
bet that his lady luck would surely enjoy their first
sex on a ship called “Gryphon” owned by him. He
insists that he cannot lose the bet. Subsequently, he
does something which has huge resemblance to a
key plot point of a 1975 Bolly movie.
 The lead pair of a 1997 Bollywood movie was shown
watching this 90s movie onTV in a hotel room.
 Which movie and What did the billionaire do ?

153.  Doug Adler, a formerAussieTennis player was suspended
by US broadcaster ESPN due to a remark he made during
VenusWilliams’ third round encounter with Stephanie
Vogel.
 Adler, however, was quick to defend himself by
suggesting that he had used the word _________ (a nine
lettered word) instead of the alleged ________ (a seven
lettered word) because ofVenus’s approach of quickly
sneaking up to the net, during the match.
 What are the two words that raised a storm in the teacup
in Melbourne this year ?

156.  This is the original poster
of a 1993 Walt Disney
production that was
loosely based out of a
true story of the
preceding decade.
 What anomalous event
was the subject of this
movie ?

159.  The image shows buildings of a
specific place West 28th Street
between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in
Manhattan, where many erstwhile
music companies had their offices
and the large number of cheap
upright pianos would play all day
long playing different tunes creating
a noisy acoustic experience.
 Which derogatory nomenclature
had such an origin ?

162.  Victoria and Albert Museum,
London in July 2016 organised
a show named “__________ re
imagined”.
 The show opens with the
famous clip of Ursula Andress
stepping from the waves in Dr
No and picking a large shell
from the beach, an allusion to
X not often acknowledged.
 FITB and what did this clip
refer to in the first place ?