I do not have enough context to determine who is suing whom or why in this case. The prompt did not provide enough details about the legal dispute mentioned between the Indian health ministry and John Terry.

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2. In 2008, UK coins underwent an extensive redesign,
which changed the reverse designs, and some other
details, of all coins except £2. The major design feature
was the introduction of a reverse design shared across
six coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p), that can be pieced
together to form an image of the _____ . This was the
first time a coin design had been featured across
multiple coins in this way. Completing the set, the new
£1 reverse features the ________ in its entirety. The
effigy of the Queen though continues to appear on the
obverse of all the coins.
1

3. Answer
The royal sheild

4. _____ Xinyu, born Saturday, 17 January 1970,is a Chinese historian and
military officer. He graduated from the History Department of Renmin
University of China in 1992. He works as a researcher at the People's
Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences, where he completed
his doctorate. In September 2011 he took up a teaching position
at Guangzhou University. What is special about his family background which
also has a link to India?
2

5. Answer
Mao Xinyu, grandson of Mao Zedong the
founder of Maoism

6. Scientists at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research
Foundation in Chicago found that when you lie, chemicals known
as catecholamines are released, causing tissue inside the nose to
swell. They used special imaging cameras that show blood flow in
the body to show that intentional lying causes an increase in
blood pressure. This technology indicates that the human nose
actually expands with blood during lying, and is known as the
‘______Effect’.
This effect was popularized when Bill Clinton testified about the
Monica Lewinsky issue , touched his nose every four minutes
when lying, but rarely touched his nose when telling the truth.
Name the effect.
CLUE- remember that the effect involves nose
3

7. Answer
Pinocchio effect

8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-
disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco,
USA. An event hosted by the tech giant once or twice
every year made this place more famous. What
company?
4

9. Answer
Apple’s favorite venue for product release

10. The ship shown below is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-
screen up to support all of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities
— Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey. Shortly after an
infamous “incident” , the ship’s name was changed to USS New York as
it would provide the much needed morale booster for the citizens of
USA.
What is the interesting thing about this ship that connects to the
“incident” other than the name?
5

11. Answer
Made from the metal extracted from WTC
wreckage

12. Types of what?
• Flat
• Low
• Chunky
• Kitten
• Stiletto
• Platform
• Cone
• Spool
• Wedge
6

13. Answer
Heels

14. A silicon disc like this was left on the surface of
the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts. What did it
contain?
7

15. Answer
Goodwill messages from leaders of 73 countries
around the world.

16. ID X and Y
“X-Y” is a common joke in Russian political discourse,
referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders'
succession defined as a change of a X leader with a Y one
and vice versa. This consistent pattern can be traced back
until as early as 1825, when Nicholas I succeeded his late
brother Alexander as the Russian Emperor. Nicholas I's
son Alexander II formed the first “X–Y" pair of the
sequence with his father.
The current “X-Y" pair of Russian rulers are Vladimir
Putin and the Dmitry Medvedev . Putin was the
president from 2000 until 2008, Medvedev held the post
until 2012, and Putin became president again in 2012.
8

17. Answer
Bald-Hairy

18. ID X
According to NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, X had been
stowed on board every mission since early in
the Gemini days. NASA engineers and astronauts have used X
in the course of their work, including in some emergency
situations. One such usage occurred in 1970, when the
square carbon dioxide filters from Apollo 13's command
module failed and had to be modified to fit into round
receptacles in the lunar module, which was being used as a
lifeboat after an explosion en route to the moon. A
workaround used X and other items on board Apollo 13, with
the ground crew relaying instructions to the flight crew. The
lunar module's CO2 scrubbers started working again, saving
the lives of the three astronauts on board.
9

19. Answer

20. ID the Band
10

21. Answer
The Band of Titanic

22. How did this news article make news?
11

23. Answer
An Orthodox Jewish newspaper digitally deleted an
image of US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, from a
photograph of Barack Obama and his staff monitoring
the raid by navy Seals that killed Osama bin Laden as
they wont publish photographs of women.

24. The Mars Climate Orbiter was a 338 kilogram (750 lb.) robotic space
probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian
climate, atmosphere, surface changes and to act as the
communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program, for Mars
Polar Lander.
However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft
was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion and the
spacecraft encountered Mars at an improperly low altitude, causing it
to incorrectly enter the upper atmosphere and disintegrate. The
reason behind the failure was so silly that NASA was too ashamed to
reveal it to the public. What was the ‘silly’ reason?
12

25. Answer
The ground crew calculated the measurements
in English system where as the onboard
computers calculated in Metric system.

26. The _____ Sporting Goods Company a sports
equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, After the
success of the film X , ____ Sporting Goods actually
created and marketed volleyballs with _____'s "face"
printed on it. Though no longer available as regular
store merchandise, the balls have remained listed on
the _____ Sporting Goods website. Id X or FITB
13

27. Answer
Wilson the volley ball from cast away.

28. ID the instrument in the video which was
originally the product of Russian government-
sponsored research into proximity sensors.
14

29. Answer
Theramin

30. Pepper's ghost is an illusionary technique used in theatre and in
some magic tricks. Using a plate glass and special lighting
techniques, it can make objects seem to appear or disappear, to
become transparent, or to make one object morph into another.
It is named after John Henry Pepper, who attempted to
popularize the effect. Why is it in the news recently
15

31. Answer
It is the technique used to create the hologram
of the deceased artist Tupac Shakur in snoop
dog’s concert

32. Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and
the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the
chain. It is also known as Pineapple Island because of
its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. Why is
it in the news now?
16

33. Answer
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bought the island

34. ID the puzzle
There is a legend about an Indian temple which contains a large
room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden
disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient
prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the
rules of the puzzle, since that time. The puzzle is therefore also
known as the Tower of Brahma puzzle. According to the legend,
when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will
end.
17

35. Answer
Tower of Hanoi or Lucas Tower

36. Elphel is an open hardware and open source camera designed by
Elphel Inc. primarily for scientific applications. Due to its both
open hardware and open source camera software, it can easily
be customized for many different applications. This is the
primary reason for the tech giant to use Elphel cameras for their
adventurous and ambitious project. Id the project and the tech
giant.
18

37. Answer
Google street view

38. What is happening in the picture and
why is it special?
19

39. Answer
Specex’s Dragon capsule docked with ISS on
May 25th. First time a privately built space
vehicle being docked with ISS.

40. The chart shown in the pic serves the same
purpose as Snellen chart, but then why the
difference?
20

41. Answer
Eye test chart for illiterates. Telling which side
the limbs of the ’E’ are facing will earn you
points in the eye test

42. The Indian health ministry was recently sued by
the legal team of the England football captain
John Terry. Why?
21

43. Answer

44. Put funda
22

45. Answer
The “who is suing who” map in the world of
Tech

46. A famous feature of _____ falls is a naturally formed
pool known as the X , near the edge of the falls,
accessed via Livingstone Island in Zambia. When the
river flow is at a certain level, usually during the
months of September to December, a rock barrier
forms a pool with little current and some people swim
in the pool. Occasional deaths have been reported
when people slip over the edge of the rock barrier.
ID the falls and the pool.
23

47. Answer
Victoria falls
X-Devil’s pool

48. Scaffoldings like this were erected around the Taj Mahal
for four times in the history. Why?
24

49. Answer
To mislead the bomber pilots in anticipation of
an air attack by German Luftwaffe and later
by Japanese Air Force during the WW2 and
during India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971.

50. Kenneth “Bill” Karren of Lochsa Engineering in Las
Vegas – the engineers who designed the _____ , found
it interesting that the makers of the St. Gobain
glass used in the _____ kept talking about how strong
the glass was and that it could stop a bullet. He
wondered if this was actually true and had them send
him a sample of the glass. He took that piece of glass
into the desert outside Las Vegas and shot a bullet right
at it with his Weatherby .257 magnum rifle from 100
yards. Reassuringly, it not only caught the bullet but
held together.
What was this glass used for?
25

51. Answer
Grand canyon skywalk

52. ID the person in the pic whose full time job is
“search and rescue helicopter pilot”.
26

53. Answer
Prince william

54. The video shows the demonstration of spatial
operating system by John underkoffler and his
team. We all have seen his work in the movie X
in which he worked as the chief technological
advisor. ID the movie X
27

55. Answer
Minority report

56. • Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat in his presidential
campaign this year is attributed to the decline
of profits of the public owned multinational
industrial conglomerate Areva . Which itself
happened due to an incident in the other side
of the world.
what incident?
28

57. Answer
Fukushima disaster

58. The Svalbard Global ____ Vault is a secure ____
bank located on a Norwegian island. The vault is an
attempt to provide insurance against the loss of ___ in
gene banks, as well as a refuge for ____ in the case of
large-scale regional or global crises. What does the
vault store?
29

59. Answer
Seeds

60. What major change was done to the logo of Nestle from
1966 and onwards? And why was it done?
30

61. Answer
The number of young birds were reduced to two
from three to reflect the modern family

62. The person on the bottom right is the one inside
the coffin (you know why). What is so special
about this incident in reference with another
incident that took place decades ago.
31

63. Answer

64. HMS ____ was a mid-19th century ship of the British Royal Navy,
specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. ____ became trapped in
the ice and was abandoned. Recovered by a whaler, she was
returned to Queen Victoria in 1856. Timbers from the ship were
later used to construct two pieces of furniture, one of which was
presented to the President of the United States. What is the
name of furniture and why was it presented to USA?
32

65. Answer
The resolute desk
It was presented to USA as the whaler who
recovered the ship was an American.

66. connect
33

67. Answer
2012 Chile mine disaster

68. The video being shown is a clip from a popular
holly wood movie X . The clip is famous for using
the background music of an Indian movie Y. Id
both X and Y
34

69. Answer
• X-Lord of war
• Y- Bombay

70. When asked about his work he said “I think every cameraman
would agree that this career takes you to some amazing places,
but it's not just the travel that's special — it's the people you end
up working with and meeting. I'm incredibly proud of the team
we've developed over the two seasons of X . Y has become a
close friend, which is the only way a show like this can work in
these locations.” Who is he?
35

71. Answer
Simon Raey , the cameraman of Man vs Wild

72. Lego parody of what?
36

73. Answer
Iwo jima flag raising

74. That’s all folks!!!
A quiz by S.Thirukumaran

75. Sincere Thanks to
• G.Vishal
• C.Anirudh
• S.Vishwanaath