IMQC 1st Anniversary Quiz

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 This word is used as part of a phrase in a commonly
used term in Poker.

 It is a forced bet in which each player places an equal
amount of money or chips into the pot before the
deal begins.

 In games where the acting dealer changes each turn,
it is not uncommon for the players to agree that the
dealer provides it for each player.

 Ante as in ‘up
the ante’

1. What is this? (10)
Leader: Slap the hands against the thighs!
Puff out the chest.
Bend the knees!
Let the hip follow!
Stamp the feet as hard as you can!
Leader: 'I die, I die’
Remaining: 'I live, 'I live’
Leader: 'I die, I die’
Remaining: 'I live, 'I live’
All: This is the hairy man
...Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, Up the ladder
Up to the top
The sun shines!
Rise!

6. Identify this iconic building in
downtown New York.
+5

 A ________ is a type of challenge-response test used
in computing . The process usually involves a server asking a
user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to
generate and grade. Thus, it is sometimes described as a reverse
Turing test, because it is administered by a machine and
targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that
is typically administered by a human and targeted to a
machine.
 The term _________ was coined in 2000 by Luis von
Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford .
 Carnegie Mellon University attempted to trademark the term,
but the trademark application was abandoned on 21 April 2008.

How it began :
 1857: The Philological Society of London calls for a new _______

 More work than they thought 1884: Five years into a proposed ten-year project, the editors reach ant

 One step at a time 1884-1928: The _______ is published in fascicles

 Keeping it current 1933-1986: Supplements to the _________

 Making it modern 1980s: The Supplements are integrated with the __________ to produce its Second
Edition

 Into the electronic age 1992: The first CD-ROM version of the _________ is published

 The future has begun The present: The __________ is now being fully revised, with new material
published in parts online

 Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

 _________ is a French winery and co-owner of the luxury
goods company Moët-Hennessy • Louis Vuitton.
 ________is one of the world's largest champagne producers and
a prominent champagne house. The company holds a Royal
Warrant to supply champagne to Elizabeth II.
 __________ was established in 1743 by Claude Moët, and today
owns more than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of vineyards, and
annually produces approximately 26,000,000 bottles of
champagne.
 Referenced in the Queen song "Killer Queen“.

 _________________burning bright
 In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
 ........................
 When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
 ___________burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

 The Tyger, William Blake

 The street got this name mainly because here a 'sabha' or
meeting would take place in front of a noble's house and he
would try settling the disputes before it would reach the emperor.
A second reason is probably that a gathering used to get
organized when a respected dancer performed and showed the
finer nuances of her skill. The whole ambience of the street
however got changed after the 1857 war when British destroyed
many huge mansions of the nobles. Built of Lakhori bricks, a small
canon is placed over the gateways of both the buildings. The
buildings have semi-octagonal projections on both sides with two
small rooms on either side. The rooms have semi-circular arches
to enter and it is difficult to visualize its former shape. The main
features of the buildings are its niches and arches at the roof-level
on the semi-octagonal projections, though difficult to make out.
 Want a clue ?

 Computerr, Masterr, Cuterr and Shooterr were
created by Dhananjaya. Anupam Sinha (and
occasionally Dilip Choubey) used to draw and
write, which was oversized once, but has shrunk
now to normal size.
 Clue ?

 Fighter Toads; inspired from TMNT

 This mark is a mandatory marking on certain
products, which is required if they are placed on
the market in the European Economic Area
(EEA). By affixing this marking, the
manufacturer, or its representative, or the
importer assures that the item meets all the
essential requirements of all applicable EU
directives.
 What mark?

 "Conformité Européenne"
 "European Conformity"

 Boble (bubble) in Norway
 Fusca in Brazil
 Coccinelle in France
 Maggiolino in Italy
 Sedán or Vocho in Mexico
 Kever in the Netherlands
 kotseng (hunchback)/pagong (turtle) in the Philippines
 Garbus (Hunchback) in Poland
 Brouk in Czech Republic
 Carocha in Portugal.
 What in USA?

 VW Beetle in India
 BUG in USA

 It is a measurement of income inequality across a geographic area and is
derived from the Lorenz curve.

 Mathematically for Lorenz curve is L(x) = max(x –L(x)).

 This means that the index is derived by finding the largest vertical line, which
can be drawn between a Lorenz curve for perfectly even distribution (e.g. of
incomes) and the measured Lorenz curve.

 Theoretically the height of the rectangle surrounding the Lorenz curve is the
greatest possible maximum.

 Therefore dividing the found line by the height of the rectangle yields a metric
between 0% and 100%.What is this called?

 In his words, "I just had to take the hypertext idea
and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and —
ta-da! —the ______ _______ ____ " .
 Who about what?

 •Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, World
Wide Web
 He implemented the first successful
communication between a Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
Internet.

 Conventional electro-magnetic energy meters
did not record consumption if the load was very
small. The indicator tended not to move at night
when there was no other electrical load and
hence the name came to life.
 What INDIAN THING are we talking about ?

 Panasonic introduced the Lumix DMC-FX77 in 2011.
It’s a fairly standard point-and-shoot. It has 12.1
megapixels, ISO up to 1600 and optical zoom.
However, on its release, it received widespread
attention (especially in Japan). The interest has been
attributed to teenage narcissism and critics have
said that it is a fairly standard camera that will only
ever appeal to the younger generation. Why did it
become popular among youngsters?

 No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a
piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be
washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy
friend's or of thine own were: any man's death
diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,
and
therefore never send to know ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

 Among other things, X is the name of a famous
American book. X was also the first technicolour film
that Ingrid Bergman starred in.
 Id X.

 For whom the bell tolls

 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose
work by the English writer John Donne

 "I was waiting for my team mates to embrace
me, and no one came...I told them, ‘Come hug
me, or the referee isn’t going to allow it.’"
 Whose words about what?

 Diego Maradona; Hand of God

 The first issue of this was published in September 20,
1878. It was started by six young men, two school
teachers and four law students on a borrowed
capital of one rupee and four annas. It was published
every Wednesday evening with eight pages , each a
quarter of today's page size and sold for four annas
.The first editorial of this newspaper declared that
“the press does not only give expression to public
opinion but also modifies and moulds it". Identify the
company which runs this newspaper.

 KASTURI And Sons
 The Hindu

 X is a product created in 1928 by County Chemicals
at the Chemico Works in Bradford Street,
Birmingham, England. X is an emulsion of water and
mineral oil stabilized with beeswax. Other
ingredients are fragrance, calcium hydroxide, BHT,
dimethyl oxazolidine, magnesium sulfate, and
stearic acid. It is sold in a tube in the US, and tube
and pot in Europe and Canada. The formulations are
slightly different. It is marketed in the US by Combe
Incorporated and in Europe, by the Sara Lee
Corporation

 X is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England,
best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and
chocolate . 120 acres of land was bought by George Cadbury on
which a model village was built. Designed by resident architect
William Alexander Harvey the houses were traditional in design
but with large gardens and modern interiors. These were for the
employees who worked in the Cadbury factory located there. As
Cadbury was a Quaker no public houses were ever built in X. The
district surrounding the factory has been 'dry' for one hundred
years or more with no alcohol being sold in pubs, bars or shops
with residents constantly fighting to maintain this.
 Name the town.

 The story of Narakasura has a feminist angle to it
in South India where it is believed that the
demon met his death by an avatar of his mother
Bhudevi, when his father Krishna momentarily
closed his eyes in exhaustion.
 Give me the avatar.

 This surname usually refers to members of the
Kshatriya caste from the hills of Nepal. They are
the largest caste group in Nepal, comprising
about 15.5% of the total population. It is a
colloquial derivative of the word kshatriya.

 Before he was born, his parents had three sons
and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their
infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted male
children, he was brought up as a girl for the first
few years of his life, including being made to
wear a nose-ring, because of which he came to
be called by a certain nickname. This nickname
stuck and he is still famous by this name.
 Who ?

 It is one of the Mahavakyas in Vedanta. It
originally occurs in the Chandogya Upanishad in
the dialogue between Uddalaka and his son
Śvetaketu. It can be translated as : Thou art that .
 It also influenced the philosopher Arthur
Schopenhauer and is mentioned throughout his
book, The World as Will and Representation.

 An army of 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520
horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of
which are still buried in the pits, was discovered
by farmers in 1974. The purpose of this army was
to guard an emperor in his afterlife.
 Which army?

Give two words’ phrase for:
 Indian Cobra, Russell‘s Viper, Krait and Saw
Scaled Viper
 Deloitte Touche (M.E), Ernst & Young, PwC,
KPMG
 Alberta cattlemen Patrick Burns, George Lane, A.
E. Cross and Archie McLean who together
founded the Calgary Stampede.

If these are the chapters,
 On the Arrangements of a House, and Household
Furniture
 Of Different Kinds of Gain

 How to Begin and How to End the Congress

 On Pressing or Marking with the Nails

What is the name of the book ?

 A section of the Southern Transept of
Westminster Abbey.
 The first one was Geoffrey Chaucer and the latest
is Ted Hughes.
 Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Charles
Dickens, Alfred Tennyson are among the many
eminent people who are related to this place.
 What is the name of the place and how are all of
the above related to it?

 In horse racing, if a rider was a considerable
distance ahead of his rivals, he would drop the
reins and cruise to victory without any more
effort. This led to a term being coined for an
easy, convincing victory.

 _____ ____ was once an obscure brand which by raising its
prices, not only increased sales but also taught marketers that
people associate price with quality. For example, in the 1950s,
Coca Cola was twice as expensive as Pepsi. Yet, Pepsi sales
increased after they raised the price of the soda. In 2010,
consumers pay more for brand-name bottled water, believing it
is of better quality even though water is colorless, tasteless and
odourless. The _____ ______ Effect usually refers to the cost of
tuition at private colleges and universities. Many parents
assume that a higher-priced education is a better education.
 The theory of it was, basically, we will raise the tuition as much
as the market will bear, said William Massy, a former Stanford
University finance officer.

 X worked as a vet in Belfast. X’s son had learned
to ride the bicycle but used to get headaches due
to riding on rough roads. So X took a
domestic/gardening appliance and used it in such
a way that it became the first ever __________.
This expanded exponentially and X’s surname is
still the name of a big company selling what he
invented.

 John Dunlop
 pneumatic tire

 He studied medicine and worked at the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at
the University of Kiel, where he published papers
on cancer metastasis and the physiology of egg
implantation. He also developed the first
intrauterine device in 1929.
 Give me the other region he is famous for.

 Ernst Gräfenberg
 The G in the G Spot

 He is a great King of the nagas and is known in
Chinese and Japanese mythology as being one of
the "eight Great Naga Kings". During
Samudramanthan, he was used as the churning
rope to extract the ambrosia of immortality from
the ocean of milk.
 Who ?

 Publish celebrity names but reject friends' names.
Names of bands and schools should be published
only if they are popular. Publish racial and sexual
slurs but reject racist and sexist entries. Entries can
document discrimination and slurs but not endorse
it. Publish opinions. Opinions are useful to readers
unfamiliar with a topic and should not be rejected
because of disagreement or offense, or inaccuracy.
Publish place names, nicknames and area codes of
geographic entities.

 The alkaloid theobromine is sometimes used as a
drug to treat high blood pressure. Its effects are
similar to caffeine but on a smaller scale.
However it can be poisonous to dogs because
they metabolize this compound very slowly.
 What commonly enjoyed food contains
theobromine and thus should not be given to
dogs?

 In Danish this means ‘Krating Daeng’ . Which
syrup is been referred to which was initially used
as a medicine?

 This word, now used mainly in an informal
context to mean intense criticism, is an
abbreviation from the German
‘Flugabwehrkanone’ meaning (anti-)aircraft
defence cannon, possibly as a metaphor derived
from intense bursts of fire from the same.
 Identify .

 ______ ______ is a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1972,
as his response to the rise of a local political party, Shiv Sena, in Maharashtra.
 The play is a political satire, written as historical drama. Based on the life
of Nana Phadnavis (1741–1800), one of the prominent minister in the court of
the Peswa of Pune. Its theme is how men in power give rise to ideologies to
serve their purposes, and later destroy them when they become useless.
 It was first performed on 16 December 1972, by the Progressive Drama
Association in Pune. Jabbar Patel's production of the play in 1973 is considered
a classic in Modern Indian Theatre. The play is notable for the use of the
"Tamasha" form in Marathi folk theatre. Singing and dancing are used here to
good effect. "Abhangas" (devotional songs) are mixed with "Lavnis" (love
songs).
 The play was adapted into a film, _______ ______(1976), which was the
debut film of actor Om Puri. Film's screenplay was written by Vijay Tendulkar,
himself.

 In 1960 Nissan introduced their new 4x4 called the P60 i.e.
Patrol 60. The vehicle was available in two wheelbases and
three body types. The P60 was inducted by the Indian Armed
forces in 1963-64, along with the Nissan Carrier, D4W73 1 Ton.
Both vehicles were fitted with the same engine.
 These vehicles were built by the Vehicle Factory Jabalpur (VFJ)
under an exclusive license from Nissan for the Indian Army.
Hence the P60 came to be known as _________. In 1999 the
production of the ________ stopped. The Army auctioned and
scrapped many of them and they were replaced by 4x4's
manufactured by Mahindra vehicles.

 JONGA
 Jabalpur Ordnance aNd Guncarriage Assembly

 X’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. X’s
parents are George and Margaret Roberts from
the town of Willows, Wisconsin .X has over forty
pets and owns a driver’s as well as a pilot’s
license has faced complaints of anorexia and
Saudi Arabia has accused X of “not complying
with the standards of Islam“ .X celebrated her
fiftieth anniversary on March 9 ,2009.
 How do we know X better (if at all we know)?

 The X temple complex in South India was designed
by the architect Sama Varma. It sits on the banks of
a river that was channeled to make a moat around
the complex's outer walls, the walls being built like a
fortress .The tower is two hundred feet high and
rests on a single granite stone weighing 81 tonnes.
The tower is designed in such a way that it never
casts a shadow at noon. Identify the temple and the
king who built it.

 Brihadishwarar and Rajaraja Chola

 Matthew 7:6 - Do not give what is holy to dogs
and do not throw your pearls before swine. They
will trample them under your feet and turn and
tear you to pieces.

 Robert Recorde was a physician. He entered the University of
Oxford in about 1525, and was elected a fellow of All Souls
College in 1531. Having adopted medicine as a profession, he
went to the University of Cambridge to take the degree of M.D.
in 1545.
 Thus it was obvious that this guy would have great future in
medical world and that he did have, after all he did go to
London, and acted as physician to King Edward VI and to Queen
Mary.
 But the single greatest thing that Robert Recorde left behind
was indeed great and definitely not very much linked to the field
of medicine .Rather he changed mathematical notation forever.
He invented something which he called ”Gemowe lines” .

 The race for it begins in school.
And it never ends.
It's the highest grade you will ever get.
Its the highest card you will ever play.
It’s the finest list you will be on.
It says you are the best, you are in elite company
and there is no one ahead of you.’

 Historically, this term XY once referred to jailers, as the holders
of a prison’s keys, as in Charles Dickens’ 1840 novel Barnaby
Rudge.
 In real estate, this term is defined as delivering a location that is
ready for occupation. The X-Y process includes all of the steps
involved to open a location including the site selection,
negotiations, space planning, construction coordination and
complete installation.
 The term XY is also often used in the technology industry, most
commonly to describe pre-built computer “packages” in which
everything needed to perform a certain type of task is put
together by the supplier and sold as a bundle.

 Cardinal
 Eastern bluebird
 Canary
 Yellow billed loon
 Bald eagle
 Chicken
 Toucan
 Red-tailed hawk

 A ________ carriage (also called a cab, black cab
or London taxi) is a carriage or automobile for
hire. It applied literally to horse-drawn carriages,
later modernised as hansom cabs.

 A doubly landlocked country of astonishing facts, it
has the highest GDP per person in the world
according to the CIA, witnessed its last murder about
10 years ago, has an area of 160 sq. km and the
largest producer of false teeth! It is considered to be
a tax-haven with income tax rates as low as 1.2%!
 Only 209 people in this country are unemployed and
has 100% literacy.
 Name the country.

 In the 1800s, an officer in the British Indian Army
dreamt up this combination to disguise the bitter
taste of X. A carbonated drink with malaria-fighting
quinine extract, had in turn been devised as a more
palatable alternative to the extremely bitter quinine-
essential in Indian conditions. British troops weren’t
exactly fans of this medicine, but liked the
sweetened version with some sugar and served with
lime. Winston Churchill would acknowledge its role
in saving "more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than
all the doctors in the Empire.”ID the drink.

 14. "X Y" is slang for a used paper match split to hold a marijuana joint
that has been smoked too short to hold without burning the hands - an
improvised roach clip. An urban legend claims this was the origin of the
band's name, but band member Jorma Kaukonenwas quoted as
saying:

 'I had this friend in Berkeley who came up with funny names for
people. "His name for me was Blind Thomas X Y (for blues pioneer
Blind Lemon X). When the guys were looking for band names and
nobody could come up with something, I remember saying, 'You want
a silly band name? I got a silly band name for you!'

 Which band?

 16.Georgism, named after Henry George (1839-1897) is an economic ideology that
holds that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most
importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. Georgism has also been synonymous
with a single tax on land.
 To quote George :
 "We must make land common property."
 Although this could be done by nationalising land and then leasing it out, George
preferred taxing unimproved land value.With the revenue from this "single tax", the
state could avoid having to levy any other type of tax.

 In 1904, a Quaker woman named Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips invented X through which
she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory.
 After being rehashed several times over the next decades, Charles Darrow came up with
the definitive version of X, called Y, by which we all know it today.
 Y please?

 17. XY scion of Y Enterprises, a multi-billion dollar group, the industrial conglomerate
founded in 1933, which has interests in agro-chemicals, tobacco, tea and
beverages, education, entertainment etc. He also sits on the board of Godfrey Philips, a
tobacco companies. Despite his current fame, XY has a very dubious past.

 In 1985 he was charged and pleaded guilty to possession of 400 grams of
cocaine, assault and kidnapping while studying Duke University, USA. He pleaded guilty
on all charges and was sentenced to two years in prison. However, he did not serve any
prison time and came back to India in 1986 after being released on probation.

 In 2007 a PIL was filed in Mumbai High court challenging his position in Z on pretext of
his criminal history. Though the court refused to unseat him, it asked the Z “ to
implement stringent regulatory measures so that those involved in criminal cases, not
just illegal drugs but other serious charges have no place in administration".

 The term X has become idiomatic as something that is a critical key to a
process of decryption or translation of a difficult problem:
 The X of immunology and "Arabidopsis, the X of flowering time
(fossils).An algorithm for predicting protein structure from sequence is
named X@home. In molecular biology, a series of X bacterial cell lines
have been developed that contain a number of tRNA genes that are
rare in E. coli but common in other organisms, enabling the efficient
translation of DNA from those organisms in E. coli.
 X is the name of a "lightweight dynamic translator" distributed for Mac
OSX by Apple. It enables applications compiled for a RISC processor to
run on Apple systems using a CISC (x86) processor.
 X is the brand of a language learning software limited corporation
headquartered in Arlington, VA, USA.
 X?

 X originally read XLAND, and its purpose was to advertise a new
housing development in the hills above the X district .
 H.J. Whitley had already used a sign to advertise his development
Whitley Heights, which was located between Highland Avenue and
Vine Avenue. He suggested to his friend Harry Chandler, the owner of
the Los Angeles Times, that the land syndicate in which he was involved
make a similar sign to advertise their land. Real estate developers
Woodruff and Shoults called their development Xland and advertised it
as a "superb environment without excessive cost on the X side of the
hills.”
 Hugh Hefner paid 1/9th of the total cost.
 The Crescent Sign Company was hired to do the project.

 X?

 Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok is a graphic artist. Born in
Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five
years old. His hometown was Gwacheon where he had a very
normal childhood. He went through public schools, spending six
years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon
Middle School, before returning to Knoxville and graduating from
Bearden High School. Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts
Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe.
Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds
of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the
globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist.“

 Claim to fame?

 11. The Palais Garnier is a famous building in Paris, designed by Charles
Garnier. The building was formally inaugurated on January 15, 1875 with a
lavish gala performance. The ball consisted of the third act of Fromental
Halévy's 1835 opera La Juive, along with excerpts from Giacomo Meyerbeer's
1836 opera Les Huguenots. The ballet company performed a Grand
Divertissement staged by the Paris Opéra's Maître de Ballet en Chef Louis
Méranté, which consisted of the celebrated scene Le Jardin Animé from Joseph
Mazilier's 1867 revival of his ballet Le Corsaire, set to the music of Léo Delibes.

 In 1896, an accident took place at the building, killing one. This incident, as
well as the discovery of an underground lake inspired a 1910 novel.

 What was the accident that took place AND what novel did it help inspire?

The accident was a
chandelier falling and
killing someone.

The novel that it
inspired was Gaston
Leroux’ The Phantom
of the Opera

 Ogier the Dane – Jack of Spades
 La Hire – Jack of Hearts
 Hector – Jack of Diamonds
 Sir Lancelot – Jack of Clubs

 Largest castle in
Bavaria.
 Id.
 What did it inspire
?

 Y is a live-action movie, based on the TV show X Y.
Due to title conflicts with an earlier James Cameron
movie, X the title was renamed as Y. The film, due
for release next year, is directed by Manoj Night
Shyamalan. It is also Dev Patel’s second film, after his
debut in Slumdog Millionaire.
 Id X. / Y.

X became famous in 2000, but he had to suffer a lot due to
fame. He was invited to preside over a lot of functions
outside of college, and so, he developed a shortage in
attendance in his last semester, and was detained. Due to
this, he could not write the IAS exams (due to being
overage). Despite getting a job in Mumbai, the same
problems he faced in college arose to haunt him. Luckily, he
secured admission in Edinburgh University in 2003, where he
completed his MBA, specializing in marketing and public
relations.

Although most of us may not know or remember X
today, we remember the reason he became famous.

Id X.

 Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, died January 8, 1941
 Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, March 1942, Chief Scout of the British
Empire
 Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, April, 1945, Chief Scout of the British
Commonwealth and Empire
 Sir Charles Maclean, later Lord Maclean, September 1959, Chief Scout of the
Commonwealth. He resigned as Chief Scout of the UK in September 1971, but
continued as Chief Scout of the Commonwealth until August, 1975
 Sir William Gladstone, July 1972, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas
Territories
 Major-General Michael J. H. Walsh, February 1982. Chief Scout of the United Kingdom
and Overseas Territories
 Sir Garth Morrison, May 1988, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas
Territories
 George Purdy, March 1996, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas
Territories
 Peter Duncan, July 2004, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories
 ________, 11 July 2009, Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories.

• Inventive. Innovative. Artistic. Imaginative.
Thought provoking. Futuristic. Inspired. All words
used to describe Homaro Cantu’s moto, an
internationally recognized leader in the world of
_____________. Chef and inventor, Cantu
challenges culinary convention and diners,
stretching the boundaries of the former and
taking the latter on a post-modern, interactive
and fantastical gastronomical ride.
• What is the ingredient they use in almost 95% of
their dishes ?

 __________ is a Speyside single malt Scotch
whisky distillery owned by William Grant & Sons
in Dufftown, Scotland. _______ means ‘Valley of
the deer’ in Gaelic, hence the presence of a deer
symbol on ________ bottles. What?

 The name of each band member was originally
created by combining the first name of an iconic
female sex symbol and the last name of an iconic
serial killer
 Olivia Newton Bundy, Madonna Wayne Gacy, Zsa
Zsa Speck etc.. are and were in this band.

 Who is the one known to us all from this band.

 Once the thinking man's favorite haunt in Delhi, this
place is a more-than-five-decade-old meeting joint
for people like former prime minister I. K. Gujral,
chief ministers Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and Sheila
Dikshit, artist M F Hussain, writers Khushwant Singh
and Mohan Rakesh and actors like Om Shivpuri.
 In spite of such patronage, it has not been able to
make profits, the rents have remained unpaid for
years.
 Which place? Specific.

 Indian Coffee House, Connaught Place

 It started in Vadodara 20 years ago. 10 years later, it spread to Indore. The
hotel chain uses Audi Q7s for their pickups and drops.

 Their operations in Pune claims to be - The ONLY hotel in the world that can
honestly claim to be YOURS TRULY.

 They plan to hive of their beacon property into another company - According
to Prosenjit Roy Choudhury, CEO of the beacon property says that funds for
opening 27 outlets have been tied up with State Bank of India.

 The idea is to set up around 20 pilot restaurants in major Indian cities-tier I
and II- and go in for franchisee model after that. Clearwater Capital Partners
(Cyprus) Limited acquired around 8 per cent stake in them already.

 Which group and which property?

 In March 2006, he was rated the 11th richest man in the world.
Everyone above him on the list was at least ten years older. He
started his career by opening five companies from 1992-95. But
most of his wealth came from buying companies cheap when
Russia was privatizing its state run firms. He bought himself a
majority stake in Sibneft, an oil company, and later merged
smaller companies to form Rusal, the world’s second largest
aluminium producer. In 1999, he was elected to his country’s
parliament. He also bought the UK’s second most expensive car
registration number – “VIP1” for a whopping £285,000.
 But to us, he’s known for something else altogether.

 Who’s he?

Domestic cricket series named after these gentlemen.

The Akatsuka Award for most humorous
 The Dengeki Grand Prix for best one-shot
 The Kodansha Award (multiple genre awards)
 The Seiun Award for best science fiction of the
year
 The Shogakukan Award (multiple genres)
 The Tezuka Award for best new serial
 The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (multiple
genres)
Awards presented for what?

 What is the most common mode of dismissal in
cricket as it appears on the scorecard ?

 High mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle is
commonly known as ?

Christened ‘Eldrick’, his ethnicity is said to be
cablinasian i.e., caucasian, black, indian and asian
as he was 1/8 Native American, 1/8 African
American, ¼ Chinese, ¼ White, ¼ Thai. Name this
famous personality.

One day Sean
Connery told his wife
that he was done with
the role of Bond.

His wife’s reply later
became the title of
which Bond movie (a
remake of the one in
the poster)

 Their father Laszlo, a psychologist, married their
mother Klara, a Ukrainian foreign language teacher
after convincing her of an experiment – “he believed
geniuses are made, not born” and he could turn his
kids into prodigies if trained in specialist subject . He
home schooled his kids and taught them
German, English, math and even Esperanto.

 He also tutored them in something else that made
this family produce three of the most successful
champions ever. Who are we talking about?

 The Cabinet Minister for Water Resources in India
vacated the post 3 days after being sworn into office
and went on to create a record of sorts.

 Who is this, and for what reason?

 Cheese was not added until 1889, when the Royal
Palace commissioned the Neapolitan Raffaele
Esposito to create one in her honor. She strongly
preferred one in the colors of the Italian flag: red
(tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella).

 What are we talking about?

 This animal has the largest brain among all animals.
It gets its name from a milky-white waxy substance
found in its head, which is used in cosmetics,
leatherworking, and lubricants.

 In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a
portent of doom. This legend has influenced various
works, including supposedly Coleridge's The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner and the opera X by Richard
Wagner. X is also a nickname given to various
sportspersons from a particular country.

 This indigenous tribe is found mostly in Maharashtra
and Gujarat. Their name is derived from a word
meaning "piece of land" or "field". Their mural
paintings are famous and similar to those done
between 500 and 10,000 BCE in the Rock Shelters
of Bhimbetka, in Madhya Pradesh.

 Nawab Asaf-ud-Daulah of Awadh served Dum Pukht
to the workers to build the Bara Imambara during
the famine of 1784

 Dum Pukht or slow oven has become one of
the most refined forms of cooking in India
and Pakistan.

 Slow oven means cooking on very low flame, mostly
in sealed containers, allowing the meats to cook, as
much as possible, in their own juices and bone-
marrow. The cuisine of Awadhis the original cuisine
which introduced Dum Pukht to the world. Now it is
also commonly used in other cuisines like Mughlai,
Punjabi and Hyderabadi

The Hollywood Wax Museum moved
which sportsman after a notorious
incident in 1997 downstairs to the
Chamber of Horrors?

Mike Tyson, after
he bit Evander
Holyfield’s ear.

André X started in the
motor trade industry
by building gear
wheels, and the twin
chevrons in his
company’s logo are
meant to represent
gear teeth. Which
company did he start?

T was born Maqsood Mehmood Ali on Sep
19, 1958, second of eight children. Father was a
Muslim, mother Madhuri was a Bengali. He got into the
drug habit pretty young, causing a lot of tension
between him and Dad. He used to breed race
horses, run a carpet cleaning business, and work in an oil
rig before ending up doing what made him famous. Has
two wives, both of whom converted to Islam after
marriage.
His first movie role was in ‘Yehi Hai Zindagi’
(1977), alongwith Sanjeev Kumar and Utpal Dutt.
ID Mr. T.

Some Basic Rules of Nomenclature -
a)Names can only be taken from a pre-approved list.
b)Names alternate between male and female.
c)Names are taken alphabetically from the list in chronological order. Thus the
first one has a name that starts with A, next B and so on, using alphabets from A
to W, excluding Q and U.
d)There are six lists that rotate.
e)Only when the shit gets serious, that a name is retired, and another takes its
place.
f) Very famous in US and Japan.

What the flying f*** are we going on about?

Which famous man of Icelandic origin synonymous
with quizzing wrote this seminal book?

Magnús Magnússon, the famous presenter of
BBC Mastermind Quiz.

 Translated into English as the "place of [the]
skull“, the site where crucification of Jesus Christ
took place.
 Name the site (or mountain).

Identify the person
(Hint:
Not that obvious !)

Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame.

It is believed that Charlie Chaplin
got inspired by this image of Laurel.

102. Identify this famous heritage structure in
downtown Bombay.

104. IMQC loves Absolut, don’t we ? :P

 The de-facto flag of which organization?

 Dayanand Shetty was born on 11 December
1969, in a Tulu speaking Bunt family in Katapadi
village of Udupi district of Karnataka in India.
 He began as a sportsman, but turned to acting
after a leg injury. He was a shotput and discus
thrower, which won him many prizes in these
sports. He was the champion of discus throw
from State Maharastra in 1994.
 How do we know him better ?

 _________is an Italian frozen dessert similar to ice
cream. _________ is made with some of the same
ingredients as most other frozen dairy desserts. Milk,
cream, various sugars, flavoring including fruit and nut
purees are the main ingredients.______ is different from
some ice cream because it has a lower butterfat content.
 The history of ________ dates back to frozen desserts
served in ancient Rome and Egypt made from ice and
snow brought down from mountaintops and preserved
below ground.
 It also has a water based form, in stead of the usual
form. Give me both.

 The old law, 'Mel's Law' required that money changes
hands in order for the person distributing the photo to
be in violation of the law, furthermore the old law had no
provisions for the prosecution of those who publish such
photos or videos.
 As it stands, anyone can leak private victim photos and
get away with it, as long as no one can prove they
received money, which usually is unprovable because
tabloids pay cash to third parties.
 However, a march 2009 event lead to modification in the
law.. Give me the event and name of new law.

 Born to a Indore based marathi family in 1970, his first
stint as director was for a play on Bhagat Singh. From
there, he got a break as script writer for swaraj, a TV
serial, again portraying Bhagat Singh.
 His direction on silver screen started with Calcutta Mail,
which he directed with Sudhir Mishra. His filmography
now involves a broad span : as actor, music director,
playback singer, lyricist, dialogue writer and as an
associate director.
 Can't expect a quiz without Rajni Sir :: He also wrote the
dialogues in Hindi for Enthiran.

 The origin of this phrase can be traced back to WWII
where the trucks were run on kerosene engines.
Kerosene, being highly unstable in nature, would
cause the trucks to explode at the slightest accident.
Also, it was a very essential commodity at the time
of war, and trucks needed to be kept clear of any
kind of traffic. Hence, the phrase came in existence.
 However, some other theory of origin traces it to a
major corporate in India. What ?
 Also a film starring Nana Patekar.

 ___________(born March 10, 1940) is an
American martial artist and actor. After serving in
the United States Air Force, he began his rise to
fame as a martial artist and has since founded his
own school, Chun Kuk Do. As a result of his
"tough guy" image, an Internet phenomenon
began in 2005 known as
_________facts, ascribing various implausible or
even impossible feats to _____.

 _________ is a nationwide movement that aims to bridge the
educational gap in India by placing outstanding college
graduates and young professionals in low-income schools to
teach full-time for 2 years. It was established in 2007, when a
group of leaders working to reform education in India came
together to seek an innovative solution to ending educational
inequity in the country.
 Founder : Shaheen Mistri
 Location : Mumbai
 Area served : Mumbai, Pune
 Focus : Eliminate Educational Inequity
 Motto : One day, all children in this nation will have the
opportunity to attain an excellent education

 Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born April 4, 1957) was
nicknamed "El Chapo"for his 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) stature in an
organization named after the Mexican Pacific coast state of
Sinaloa where it was initially formed.
 He became Mexico's top ranked in something in 2003 after
dethroning Osiel Cárdenas.
 In November 2010, Joaquín Guzmán was regarded as the 60th of
68 most powerful people in the world by Forbes Magazine.He
was also listed by Forbes as the world's 937th richest man.
 Much like Osiel, he became the top of a list after May 2nd,2011
which has kept him in the news. Why?

 May 2nd 2011, Osama Bin Laden died and he
became the most wanted man in the world by
Interpol and FBI.

 Born Taran Dhillon in Meerut, where her mother ran a small
beauty parlour in the house. When she was young, her father
was burnt alive during 1984 riots and the beauty parlour of her
mother was burnt few days after her father's death.
 Her paternal grandparents asked her mother to leave their
house and wanted to keep only Taran and her brother with
them. Subsequently she, her brother and her mother moved to
Ludhiana to her maternal grandparents house, where they
stayed for the next couple of years.
 In 1991 her mother remarried an NRI and her family moved to
Birmingham,England , where her mother started working and
studying to eventually open a beauty salon, meanwhile she did
her schooling.
 Who is this most talented person? :-)

 Wilt Chamberlain
 Arnold Schwarznegger
 Andre the Giant

 In Shashi Tharoor’s Great Indian Novel, the
Pandavas have the following equivalents
 Bhim-The Indian Army
 Arjun- The Indian news media
 Nakul,Sehdev-Civil Service,Foreign Service
 What the equivalents for Yudhishtir and
Draupadi?

 Yudhishtir is the honest but ineffective Morarji
Desai
 Draupadi rather obviously is Democracy

 His name is a homage/parody to a famous
character in science fiction history and to a
popular food chain. Both please.

 Jabba the Hutt
 Pizza the Hutt in Spaceballs

 John Emil List (September 17, 1925 - March 21, 2008) was an
American murderer. On November 9, 1971, he murdered his
wife, mother, and three children in Westfield, New Jersey, and
then disappeared. He had planned everything so meticulously
that nearly a month passed before anyone noticed that
anything was amiss.
 A fugitive from justice for nearly 18 years, he was finally
apprehended on June 1, 1989 after the story of his murders was
broadcast on America's Most Wanted. List was found guilty and
sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment, dying
in prison custody in 2008 at age 82.

 What famous fictional character did he inspire?

 There are 2 main theories as to the origin of a certain
practice. The nature of the dying process of Y and
the post-war poverty of the country is one reason.
The other reason that has its origin more in myth
than reality. It is the notion because the original X
founders never washed Y. The proponents of this
theory assert that Y gets gradually dirtier and dirtier.

 What are we talking about here?

 • In the old days the white belt was simply dyed to a new color. This repeated dying process dictates the
type of belt color and the order of the colors!.
 The standard belt color system is white, yellow, green, brown, and black.
 In some Karate school and styles, the color order is white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, black.

 X is a next-generation wearables research platform developed by researchers at the Y. The
goal of the X project is the development and prototyping of new techniques of human-
computer interaction for body-worn applications. Through the application of human factors,
machine learning, hardware engineering, and software engineering, the X team is
constructing a new kind of computing environment and developing prototype applications
for health, communications, and just-in-time information delivery.
 TheX hardware platform combines body-worn computation, sensing, and networking in a
clothing integrated design. The X software platform is a combination of user interface
elements and machine learning tools built on the Linux operating system.

 Amitabh Bachhan shot X and Y simultaneously ,X
during day, and Y during night. It was because Y
needed him to appear mostly in shadows.
 Both X and Y later became milestone in his
career. Y won many filmfare award while X could
manage to win only one.
 Give both X and Y.

 X – Sholay
 Y -- Deewar

 In 2005, a former skating champion Sanjeev
Bhatnagar filed a PIL in SC asking for deletion of
a particular word from something of national
importance.
 The Hon’ble SC labelled it Publicity Interest
Litigation, and fined him Rs. 10,000 and
dismissed the case.
 Hint on next slide.

 It was noted that the word represents culture,
and not province.

 Word Sindh from National Anthem

 Most of the tea brands available in market have
CTC tea as one of their most-selling products.
 What is CTC in terms of Tea ?

 According to Indian Vedic literature, who was the
first person to die ?

 1999 : French Open, US Open
 2000 : Wimbeldon
 2001 : Australian Open

 According to Archaeological Survey of India, the
most visited monument is TajMahal.
 Which monument comes next in terms of footfall
?

 Amba Vilas Palace/ Mysore Palace

 If the name of my concept restaurant is Track and
records, who am I ?
 My favourites are Beatles and Sachin Tendulkar.

 Why do they feature in Quiz today ?

 There was a cool day.
 There was a brown crow.

 The place is one of a kind situated at Mahavir Enclave, Palam Dabri
Road in New Delhi, India and has consultative status with Economic
and Social Council of the U.N. The idea for starting it lingered in the
owner’s mind for long, eventually leading him to make hectic
worldwide search for minutest details of the evolution of X.
 The place has been established with the following objectives :-
 To educate students about the historical trends in the development of
X;
 To provide information to researchers about the design, materials,
and technologies adopted in the past and those in use in the
contemporary world;
 To help policy makers to understand the efforts made by predecessors
in this field throughout the world;
 To help the manufacturers of X equipment and accessories in
improving their products by functioning as a technology storehouse
 Identify the place started by one of the visionaries of Modern India in
this area and is probably one of its kind.

 An assistant professor at the University of
Buffalo thought he had ruined his project.
Instead of picking a 10,000-ohm resistor out of a
box to use on a ---------- prototype, Wilson
Greatbatch took the 1-megaohm variety. The
resulting circuit produced a signal that sounded
for 1.8 milliseconds, and then paused for a
resulted in X?
 What was invented by this mistake?

 In 1879, Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg, at work in a
laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, paused to eat. Fahlberg
had neglected to wash his hands before the meal—which
usually leads to a quick death for most chemists, but led to him
noticing an oddly sweet flavor during his meal.
 The duo published their findings together, but it was only
Fahlberg's name that made it onto the (incredibly lucrative)
patent, now found in small packets at tables everywhere.
 That is to say, Remsen got screwed—he later remarked,
"Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name
mentioned in the same breath with him.“
 What?

 Saccharin aka Zero Calorie Sweetener

 What and by whom ?
 Be specific.

 #Bharat Mata
 First visual rep of Bharat Mata by Abanindranath
tagore(elder brother of R. Tagore during the
independence movement )
 second - controversial painting of Bharat Mata by
MF Hussain

 Anti-abortion-Save the girl child campaign

 Jabberwocky
 Vorpal sword

 Like a virgin • Confessions on a
 True Blue dance floor
 Like a player • Hard Candy
 Erotica • Who’s that girl
 Bedtime stories • I’m breathless
 Ray of light • Evita
 Music
 American life

 Madonna Discography
 Studio albums + Soundtrack albums

 On 17th August 2011, a FA cup match was played
between non-league teams Ascot United and
Wembley FC.
 What was so special about it, apart from being
the opening match.

 First match to be webcasted live on
facebook.com

 A player born in Surinam was given special
permission by FIFA to use goggles during football
matches because of a medical condition called
glaucoma.
 This made him one of the most recognisable
football players of his generation.
 Who ?

 May Day stadium
 ______________
 Michigan Stadium
 Beaver Stadium
 Estadio Azteca
 Neyland Stadium
 Ohio Stadium
 Bryant-Denny Stadium
 _______________
 Bukit Jalil National Stadium

 Stadiums with Highest Seating Capacity
 Salt Lake Stadium : 120,000
 Melbourne Cricket Ground : 100,943

 Geo Merlin
 Aerow
 Aerow II
 Omni
 Ascente
 Strike
 Tracer
 Seitiro

 _________ is a Turkmenistan village of about 350
inhabitants, located in the middle of
the Karakum desert.
 The area is rich in natural gas. While drilling in 1971,
geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural
gas. The ground beneath the drilling rig collapsed,
leaving a large hole with a diameter of about 70 metres.
 To avoid poisonous gas discharge, it was decided to burn
it off. Geologists had hoped the fire would use all the fuel
in a matter of days, but the gas still burns 40 years later.
Locals have dubbed the cavern "The Door to Hell".

 Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service
in January 2002 so that he would be able to link directly
to newsgroup postings that frequently had long and
cumbersome addresses.
 The popularity of ________ influenced the creation of at
least 100 similar websites.
 The _______ method of allocating shorter web
addresses has inspired an action known as _______-
whacking. Random letters and numbers can be placed
after the first forward slash in an attempt to hit
interesting sites without knowing what they will be.

 The Rorschach test or the ink blot test is
a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions
of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed
using psychologicali nterpretation,
complex algorithms, or both.
 Some psychologists use this test to examine a
person's personality characteristics and emotional
functioning. It has been employed to detect
underlying thought disorder, especially in cases
where patients are reluctant to describe their
thinking processes openly

 In baseball, a _______ is a substitute batter.
Batters can be substituted at any time while
the ball is dead (not in active play);
the manager may use any player that has not yet
entered the game as a substitute.
 _______ are often used to replace a starting
player when the ________ is thought to have a
better chance of reaching base or helping other
runners to score.

 Types of what :
 Whiteface
 Auguste
 Tramp/Hobo
 Character

 "A dry martini," [Bond] said.
 "One. In a deep champagne goblet.“
 "Oui, monsieur.“
 "Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a
measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a
large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?“
 "Certainly, monsieur." The barman seemed pleased with the idea.
 "Gosh, that's certainly a drink," said Leiter.
 Bond laughed. "When I'm...er...concentrating," he explained, "I never
have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be
large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small
portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. This drink's my
own invention. I'm going to patent it when I can think of a good
name."

 Insignia
 Soyuz
 Rakesh Sharma

 Evangelical Christians in Brazil have
apparently banned the use of _______
connections after claiming the technology is the
mark of Satan-worshippers .
 Apparently the revelation came after the
evangelists noticed that the _____symbol
resembles a trident.

 This company was started by two men with a
deep interest in music and the arts — the
company helped create the high-fidelity
audio industry.
 _________partnered with Apple to design and
manufacture the iSub 2000 Subwoofer and
SoundSticks.
 _________ is a supplier of audio equipment to a
variety of vehicle manufacturers including
Lexus, BMW, Land Rover, Mercedes-
Benz, MINI, Saab, Harley-Davidson and Subaru.

 X is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster
and chess prodigy who is currently
the number-one ranked player in the
world. His peak rating is 2826, the
second highest peak rating in history
after Garry Kasparov.
 He attained the title of grandmaster
at the age of 13yrs making him the 3rd
youngest grandmaster ever .

 In 1956, ten-year-old Richard Stokes was taken to the Old
Trafford cricket ground to watch an Ashes match. Richard's
memories of that match are vague as he only remembers that
there were an awful lot of spectators for a cold, wet day. He also
remembers that the crowd was very excited because a right-
arm off-spinner was running through the Aussies.
 Forty-three years later, Mr. Stokes was in Delhi on work and he
heard about India playing Pakistan at Feroz Shah Kotla. Since he
was now based out of Germany, he did not want to miss out on
watching some live cricket and managed to get a ticket. Mr.
Stokes reached the ground after lunch (on the last day of the
match) and saw yet another bowler running through the
opposition.
 Thus he unknowingly became a part of an extraordinary history.
He became the only man on the planet to do what???

 Jim Laker 10-53
 Anil Kumble 10-74
 Only player to witness the only two 10 wicket
hauls in an innings.

 Construction businessman Jayesh Desai from
Surat was in news recently for buying a particular
item.
 What?

 X holds the world record for the highest-ever score
by a player on his first-class debut. He also holds the
record for the most runs scored in the Ranji Trophy.
 He is considered to be on of the unluckiest cricketers
in India as he never got an opportunity to represent
the country.
 A school friend of Sachin, he was also coached by
Ramakant Achrekar. Incidentally he was due to bat
next when Tendulkar-Kambli created then-record
664 run partnership.

 In baseball, what is a Grand Slam??

 A grand slam occurs when the bases are "loaded"
(that is, there are base runners standing at first,
second, and third base) and the batter hits a
home run.

 What is a grand chelem ?
 Italian for grand slam

 Being number 1 from start to finish of the F1
race, as well as clocking the best timing for a lap.

 Identify the voice artist
 video
 audio

 Will.i.am
 Black Eyed Peas

 Name please.
 piano

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