Carl Eric Wickman founded the Greyhound bus service in 1914 by transporting iron ore miners between Hibbing and Alice, Minnesota. By the end of World War 1, he owned 18 buses. The name "Greyhound" was coined when an associate saw the reflection of one of Wickman's 1920s era buses in a store window, which reminded him of a greyhound dog. Greyhound became a staple of American thrillers and chase novels as a national bus service brand.

1. Jayant Verma

2.  24 Questions
 +15/-10 on pounce.
 +10 on bounce.
 Infinite bounce. Order reversed at 13th question.
 No Googling.
 Surnames should do, unless stated otherwise.
 If you have any doubts about pounce and bounce, just ask, don’t
ruin the quiz. -_-
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4.  Carl Eric Wickman was born in Sweden in 1887. In 1905 he
moved to the United States, where he first worked as a miner, and
then, in 1914, as a car salesman for Huppmobile.
 He couldn’t sell the car, and began a bus service, by transporting
iron ore miners. By the end of WW1, he owned 18 buses.
 The name of this service was coined when an associate of
Wickman. saw the reflection of the 1920s era bus in a store
window, which reminded him of a _________ dog.
 ID this bus service, a staple of American thrillers and chase
novels.
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7.  Qutang ranges from Baidicheng (Fengjie) to Daxi, Wu from
Wushan to Guandukou (Badong) and Xiling from Zigui to Nanjin
Pass (Yichang)
 How are these three known to us?
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9.  The Three Gorges
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10.  X was a devotee of Krishna and had a seven-storied temple of
Krishna constructed in Vrindavan.
 His devotion is reflected in what he said when the Mughal army
was hesitating to cross the Indus River at Y,
 Sabe bhumi Gopal ki, ya men Atak kahan
Ja ke man men Atak hai, so hi Atak raha
 ID X, and Y, a small, but historically significant town, due to the
many battles fought there.
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12.  X - Man Singh I
 Y - Attock
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13.  It is debated whether the fourth ____ is caused genetically or
environmentally. The relative rarity (1 in 10,000) suggests a
possible recessive gene.
 Alternatively, it could be caused by somatic mutation or a
developmental error of environmental causes.
 Each of the four ____ represent something, the first is for faith,
the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for
____.
 What is being talked about here?
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15.  Four-leaf clover
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16.  Thirteen Martyrs of Arad were the thirteen rebel generals who were
executed by the Austrian Empire on 6 October 1849 in the city of Arad,
for their role in revolution of 1848-49.
 Legend has it that when the generals were being executed, the
Austrians were drinking beer and arrogantly clinking their beer mugs
together in celebration.
 Thus, the people of X vowed never to clink glasses while drinking beer
for 150 years thereafter. Theoretically discontinued on October 6, 1999,
in practice, this tradition still continues today.
 What country, where the clinking of beer mugs or bottles is considered
to be bad manners to this date.
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18.  Hungary
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19.  X has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 38 times since
making its debut in 1973, and has won it three times.
 They are able to enter the contest as the X Broadcasting Authority
is a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union.
 However, X did not participate in 1980, as the date conflicted with
their memorial day, ___ Hazikaron.
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22.  X was named so by the Mariposa Battalion in 1851. The name was
taken to be a loose Spanish translation of the local Native
American name for the cliff, variously transcribed as "To-to-kon
oo-lah" or "To-tock-ah-noo-lah". It is unclear if the Native
American name referred to a specific tribal chief or simply meant
"the chief" or “____ chief".
 In the past, it was considered impossible to climb, but was first
ascended in 1958 and is now the standard for big-wall climbing.
 What is X, something you all must have heard of?
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24.  El Capitan
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25.  X is a star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus, and is one of the
brightest stars in the night time sky.
 The name is Arabic ( ‫الدبران‬ / al-dabarān) and means “The
Follower", presumably because it rises near and soon after the
Pleiades.
 The nakshatra associated with this star, is Y.
 X and Y.
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27.  X – Aldebaran
 Y – Rohini
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28.  The Razakars were a million strong private militia organized by
Qasim Razvi to support the rule of the Nizam and resist the
integration of their state into India. They also attempted to make
the Nizam accede to Pakistan.
 They were responsible for killing, rape, and brutal murder of
many people in the Telangana and Marathwada region. However,
they were routed by the Indian Army during Operation Polo and
their leader took asylum in Pakistan, following a decade in Indian
prisons.
 Question is, what political party were the Razakars affiliated to?
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30.  All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
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31.  Aracataca is a municipality located in Colombia's Caribbean
Region. The town stands beside the river of the same name, the
Aracataca river.
 The town is known for being the inspiration behind Macondo, a
fictional town; which its creator described as “Macondo is not so
much a place as a state of mind, which allows you to see what you
want, and how you want to see it.”
 Who is the creator of Macondo?
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33.  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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34.  Vernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los
Angeles. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States
Census, the smallest of any incorporated city in the state.
 The city is primarily composed of industrial areas and touts itself
as "Exclusively Industrial,” with meatpacking plants and
warehouses being common.
 In the past decade, the city has faced disincorporation legislation
as well as corruption charges against it government officials.
 What did this very small, irrelevant town inspire?
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36.  The town of Vinci, in which True Detective’s season 2 is based.
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37.  The place in image, is a school courtyard in Madanapalle, Andhra
Pradesh.
 What was first performed here, on 28 February 1919, something
which has been accused of pandering to an erstwhile monarch,
but as letters by the author to the said monarch have shown, it
really is a prayer to God.
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40.  Jana Gana Mana
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41.  New Meadowlands, called MetLife stadium, is the home of New
York Giants and New York Jets (NFL), was made a very generous
offer in 2010, by X, for the naming rights, when founder Noel
Biderman sent a letter to the CEO at New Meadowlands making
an offer of $25M for 5 years
 Additionally, when Phoenix, AZ was in a cash crunch in 2010, X
offered them $10 million if they renamed Sky Harbour
International Airport the X International Airport over a five-year
period.
 Both the offers were declined, due to X’s image.
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44.  Tombaugh Regio is a large, light-colored region about 1,590 km
(990 mi) across on 134340 _____, the two lobes are geologically
distinct, and the western lobe, Sputnik Planum, is smoother than
the eastern, and they are of slightly different colours.
 Recent photos have revealed mountains made of water ice in the
feature, and no craters, suggesting that the Tombaugh Regio is
less than 100 million years old.
 What really is the Tombaugh Regio
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46.  Pluto’s heart.
 Named for Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto.
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47.  X is a court game, invented in Northern Italy during the 16th
century. It is a modification of the ancient game of pallone col
bracciale.
 Five players form a side, each carrying in one hand an implement
called a ________, resembling a __________ (whence the
name), which is a round frame of wood over which a cover of
horsehide is tightly stretched.
 Give me the game, or the reason for which it gained notoriety in
1994.
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49.  Blank – Tambourine.
 Tamburello.
 The corner on which Ayrton Senna crashed is also called
Tamburello.
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50.  Where would you see these?
 Lexington, about North America, takes its name from the town in
Massachusetts where the first battle of the American war of
independence took place.
 Banyan, on Asian politics, is named after the banyan tree under
which Gujarati merchants would conduct business.
 Buttonwood, on financial markets is named after the tree on Wall
Street under which the agreement establishing the New York Stock
Exchange was signed.
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52.  Columns in The Economist
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53.  It was written in the form of a villanelle, and is the most famous
work of the poet. Though first published in the journal Botteghe
Oscure in 1951, it was actually written in 1947 when he was in
Florence with his family.
 It has been suggested that it was written for poet’s dying father,
although he did not die until just before Christmas 1952.
 What is being talked about?
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55.  Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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56.  X is a city in southern Los Angeles County, CA, US. It is one of the
oldest cities in the county and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city
to incorporate.
 Although X was formerly thought of as a primarily black
community, this has greatly changed over the years and now
Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the city.
 What city is being talked about, something in the news recently,
and forever, too, for the wrong reasons.
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59.  She was a Phoenician woman of high lineage. The etymology of
her Greek name (εὐρυ- "wide" or "broad" and ὤψ "eye(s)" or
"face") suggests that she as a goddess represented the cow (with a
wide face) Hathor, at least on some symbolic level.
 Metaphorically, at a later date her name could be construed as the
intelligent or open-minded, analogous to glaukopis (γλαυκῶπις)
attributed to Athena.
 Who is this cow, who later found (or was abducted), by an
appropriate mate, and lends her name to something we hear every
other day?
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61.  Europa
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62.  The Ford Falcon (XB) was a full-size car that was produced by
Ford Australia from 1973 to 1976. It was the second iteration of
the third generation of this Australian-made model and also
included the Ford Fairmont (XB)—the luxury-oriented version of
the Falcon.
 Look closely at the image in the following slide, and tell where has
it been used famously? (The most recent iteration, is a bare-bone
version of the original)
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65.  The original Mad Max V8 Interceptor (Pursuit Special)
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66.  Bare Bones Interceptor (Fury Road, 2015)
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67.  The National Playing Fields Association (NPFA), founded in 1925,
is a British charity which aims to protect and promote open
spaces in British cities and towns.
 Among the many people who donate to NPFA, is X, who gives
them the proceeds from the books written by him.
 X’s works, all trivia books - include, Not Many People Know
That!, And Not Many People Know This Either!, X's Moving
Picture Show and Not A Lot of People Know This is 1988.
 ID X, who you know in a totally different context.
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70.  ID the logo, whose name you’ll associate with a 1927 event, and
subsequently, the more famous photograph.
 The image of this man should help.
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72.  Solvay
 The image is of Ernest Solvay, who devised the Solvay process, to
mass produce sodium carbonate.
 The 1927 event/photograph is the 5th Solvay Confrence.
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73.  Nürburgring is a 150,000-capacity motorsports complex, with
a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old
"North loop" track which was built in the 1920s.
 The north loop, or Nordschleife is 20.8 km long and has more
than 300 metres of elevation change from its lowest to highest
points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track "The Green Hell".
 What event in 1976, contributed to the replacement of
Nordschleife with the newer Grand Prix Course?
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75.  Niki Lauda’s crash.
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76.  X was established by Ian Hibbs and Julian Dunkerton
in Cheltenham in 1985, at which time it was trading as "Cult
Clothing“. It expanded during the 1990s and opened its first store
under the X name in London in 2004.
 The company's products include frequently meaningless excerpts
of Japanese text, inspired by the common Japanese practice of
placing decorative English text on items.
 ID X, whose products you have seen people use.
 The next slide has an example of the Japanese practice.
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