The document provides details of an upcoming quiz event hosted by SJC Quizzers & KQA on December 30th 2017. It lists the participating institutions and quizmasters. The rules for Section I allow players to stake points on individual questions. Sample questions are provided about topics like US politics, Indian current affairs, mythology and more. Section II also provides sample general knowledge questions.
A Quiz Club IIT Patna Quiz conducted by Rishabh and Khushi on 3rd November 2021. There was a dose of everything, be it India, History, Music or anything else! The quiz had P&B rounds, Written rounds, Long Connect and finally ended with a Special round.
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A Quiz Club IIT Patna Quiz conducted by Danish and Kirtan on 21st January 2022. The quiz had a general theme and was smoothly held by the new quizmasters who had put up well-researched questions from various domains.
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A Quiz Club IIT Patna Quiz conducted by Danish and Kirtan on 21st January 2022. The quiz had a general theme and was smoothly held by the new quizmasters who had put up well-researched questions from various domains.
MELAS quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 9th April 2022, as a part of a trilogy of quizzes for the college fest Spring Spree 2022. The set has both the Prelims and Finals which include various questions on topics related to Music, Entertainment, Literature, Art and Sports.
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Aishani and Zubair for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
Sports Quiz (Elims+Finals) set as a part of their internal quizzing track
Winners: Sandeep Mathias and Soham Dibyachintan
Runners Up: Nadeem Ansari, Adway Gupta and Rishwin Jackson
3rd Place: Tejas Srinivasan and Rishi V
India Quiz - IIM Ahmedabad Chaos 2020 - by Quiz CeteraQuiz Cetera
The Annual Republic Day India Quiz held at IIM Ahmedabad Chaos 2020 - presented by Quiz Cetera. Questions on a range of topics including Indian history, arts, politics, technology, travel and living, language and literature, cinema, arts, sports and business - practically everything Indian.
India Quiz-26th January 2024, Quiz Club NITWQuiz Club NITW
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This is the finals of the Annual Fresher's Quiz conducted by the Quizzing Section of Calcutta National Medical College, under the aegis of BROCA, for the incoming batch of freshers for the year 2023.
In-house sci-tech filler quiz for HighQ 2023 set by Bisma Khan, Sehajpreet Kaur, Prachi Goyal, Subham Priya, and Mallika Ghosh. HighQ Day-1 (16.02.2023).
Trials by Trivia, an intra-college quiz event was held on 13th-14th March 2021. One of the quizzes - 3M Quiz (Movies, Mythology, and Memes) was hosted on 14th March 2021 by Dhushyanth, Aditya, and Keshav. The quiz has 10 questions from each topic which makes this quiz interesting as well as enjoyable.
MELAS quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 9th April 2022, as a part of a trilogy of quizzes for the college fest Spring Spree 2022. The set has both the Prelims and Finals which include various questions on topics related to Music, Entertainment, Literature, Art and Sports.
This India Quiz was held on 11th March,2022 and hosted by Aishani and Zubair for Chakravyuh, 2022, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
Sports Quiz (Elims+Finals) set as a part of their internal quizzing track
Winners: Sandeep Mathias and Soham Dibyachintan
Runners Up: Nadeem Ansari, Adway Gupta and Rishwin Jackson
3rd Place: Tejas Srinivasan and Rishi V
India Quiz - IIM Ahmedabad Chaos 2020 - by Quiz CeteraQuiz Cetera
The Annual Republic Day India Quiz held at IIM Ahmedabad Chaos 2020 - presented by Quiz Cetera. Questions on a range of topics including Indian history, arts, politics, technology, travel and living, language and literature, cinema, arts, sports and business - practically everything Indian.
India Quiz-26th January 2024, Quiz Club NITWQuiz Club NITW
The India Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 26th of January to mark the occasion of our 75th Republic Day. There is no shortage of intriguing facts, stories and happenings when it comes to India and this quiz puts you through the same with a wide variety of questions. The above set consists of both Prelims as well as the Finals.
This is the finals of the Annual Fresher's Quiz conducted by the Quizzing Section of Calcutta National Medical College, under the aegis of BROCA, for the incoming batch of freshers for the year 2023.
In-house sci-tech filler quiz for HighQ 2023 set by Bisma Khan, Sehajpreet Kaur, Prachi Goyal, Subham Priya, and Mallika Ghosh. HighQ Day-1 (16.02.2023).
Trials by Trivia, an intra-college quiz event was held on 13th-14th March 2021. One of the quizzes - 3M Quiz (Movies, Mythology, and Memes) was hosted on 14th March 2021 by Dhushyanth, Aditya, and Keshav. The quiz has 10 questions from each topic which makes this quiz interesting as well as enjoyable.
The Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz on all things Asian. A written quiz for two-member teams held in Bangalore, Chennai, Kerala, Goa, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune,New Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati and Ahmedabad.
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Magister is the flagship quiz organised by the SJC Quizzers. It is an annual solo championship and the 2019 edition was held in close to 20 cities across India.
Results can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYgCszJ0oTdW36eHdxL_GZsSKzcnzI_Y/view
Why Magister?
Once upon a time, every open quiz would have a sizable college contingent in attendance and the Open circuits of India’s quizzing cities throve on the energy and dash of college quizzing. In many cities, though not all, this is a thing of the past. Which is not good news for open quizzing, or, indeed, for quizzing.
The simple idea behind Magister is to bring together the two rapidly diverging streams of quizzing–College and Open. The setters are college and open quizzers. The quiz has college and open tracks for competition. The questions themselves are an attempt to start up something of a conversation between open and collegiate quizzing.
But what the Deccan is a Magister?
Magister comes from the Latin for mastery. That said, we must clarify that the title does not render quizzing as simple, masculine achievement.
The term magis is used in Jesuit education to indicate the spirit of doing more, or giving more of oneself. For us, this name draws some attention to the happily out-of-syllabus character of quizzing. And indeed to the primary joy of quizzing, which is that of refusing to be a passive recipient of information and choosing instead to celebrate an active curiosity in the world.
The persons who win this title in the college and open tracks will embody this idea better than our words can..
This set was conducted by Zubair Alam for the orientation session of the new inductees from the second round of auditions for the year 2020-21. The set was aimed to familiarise the inductees to the pounce and bounce scoring system and working out questions with team members.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both School and College students in the circuit.
Magister is the flagship quiz organised by the SJC Quizzers. It is an annual solo championship and the 2019 edition was held in close to 20 cities across India.
Results can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jYgCszJ0oTdW36eHdxL_GZsSKzcnzI_Y/view
Why Magister?
Once upon a time, every open quiz would have a sizable college contingent in attendance and the Open circuits of India’s quizzing cities throve on the energy and dash of college quizzing. In many cities, though not all, this is a thing of the past. Which is not good news for open quizzing, or, indeed, for quizzing.
The simple idea behind Magister is to bring together the two rapidly diverging streams of quizzing–College and Open. The setters are college and open quizzers. The quiz has college and open tracks for competition. The questions themselves are an attempt to start up something of a conversation between open and collegiate quizzing.
But what the Deccan is a Magister?
Magister comes from the Latin for mastery. That said, we must clarify that the title does not render quizzing as simple, masculine achievement.
The term magis is used in Jesuit education to indicate the spirit of doing more, or giving more of oneself. For us, this name draws some attention to the happily out-of-syllabus character of quizzing. And indeed to the primary joy of quizzing, which is that of refusing to be a passive recipient of information and choosing instead to celebrate an active curiosity in the world.
The persons who win this title in the college and open tracks will embody this idea better than our words can..
Lonewolf quiz for solo contestants held on May 7, 2017 at KQA. Researched by Alagarsamy and Venky. Highest score was 60 out of a maximum possible 80 points .
Magister is a solo quizzing championship set by SJC Quizzers, a team of quizzers and quizzing alumni from St. Joseph’s College, for college and open quizzers across the country.
Standalone MELA (Movies, Music, Myth, Ent, Language and Lit, and Art and Arch) quiz at Gargi College DU, on 9th October, 2017.
Slightly tough quiz, with one question repeated (of sorts). Leave a feed back on the addresses provided.
Most questions are original, any repeats are coincidental,
This presentation is of the Quizzomaniacs 2.0 conducted by the Jigyasa Quiz Club in Open Category. For more such quizzes follow our blog : http://jigyasaquizclub.blogspot.com .
Our YouTube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyUzURdbwriE2Lgq_9V6VA/videos
Regards
Prateek ( Jigyasa Quiz Club)
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Quintessence is the Quiz Society of Zakir Husain Delhi college, University of Delhi.
The inaugural Arun Veembur Memorial Quiz, set by Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar, Navin Rajaram and Arul Mani, was conducted in 14 venues in India and in Malaysia and Dubai.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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2. In partnership with
Carpe Diem, IIM Calcutta,
SEQC, Goa
BCQC Pune
BQC Mumbai
Grey Cells, Kerala,
AQA,
K-Circle, Hyderabad
IIM Shillong, AEC-Guwahati, IIT-Kanpur, IISER_Mohali, VIT-
Vellore, MSU-Baroda,
Pinstorm, Mumbai,
KIIT, Bhubaneshwar
EFLU Hyderabad and many more
3. The Setters
Prof. Rajeev Gowda
Prithwiraj Mukherjee
Nagaratna ‘Partikal’ Patil
Abhijith Raghu
Rijul Ballal
Chirag Chittar
Arul Mani
4. Section I
RULES
20 questions x 1 point
You can stake 1 point on a question if sure of the answer
You can stake on a maximum of 10 questions
No negative
Max score: 30
5. Whose sudden elevation caused this
protest in Washington DC?
Qn. 1 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
8. Plaintiffs “Emma” and “Isabella” are
suing actress Sofia Vergara in a “right-
to-live” lawsuit in a Louisiana court,
egged on by her former fiancé, Nick
Loeb
Who are Emma and Isabella?
Qn. 2 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
9. ANSWER
Embryos
ANSWER 2 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
Jointly fertilized through IVF during happier times. The
lawsuit contends that by not being born, they have
been deprived of an inheritance from a trust that has
been created for them.The lawsuit could be a
landmark case in pro-life Louisiana where an vitro
fertilised egg is legally recognised as "juridical
person" until it is implanted in the womb.
10. Qn. 3 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
“I have more Sikhs in my cabinet than
Modi does.”
Who?
18. Qn. 7 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
Below are pictures of one of London’s largest carnivals, held since the 1960s, every
August in this locality in the city, and organized by the local West Indian community.
This locality shares its name with a hit 1999 film and was a low income district till the
1980s.Today it is gentrified and affluent, and the carnival may be the last remnant of
its past, when poor West Indian immigrants lived there. Identify
19.
20. ANSWER 7 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
Notting Hill
25. Qn. 10 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
Ashgabat, off an oasis near the Kara
Kum desert, is the capital of a Central
Asian republic. Many businessmen
thought that the letters assigned to
this republic for Internet use would
make a great domain name.
Capital of which country?
27. In1851, a weaver named John Haller set
out to Mangalore. After 19 months, he
already had 20 looms where 27 workers
were employed. Haller experimented with
the sap of a bark of a semecarpus tree and
invented a colour. He gave it a name
borrowed from the Persian for dust.
What name did he thus coin?
Qn. 11
617a
SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
29. This word might remind you of a
Peruvian band, an Ethiopian language
or of the idea of sexual energy in
Freud’s work.
What 6-letter word?
Qn. 12 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
31. This long running Japanese manga
and anime series was inspired by the
Chinese novel Journey to theWest that
features a monkey king. It also has
elements from the Eight Dog
Chronicles. Nearly all characters have
names that are puns on food items.
Name the series.
Qn. 13 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
33. Ancient Indians called themYavana.
This word was applied to a group of
people who lived on the western
coast of modern day Turkey. A revolt
here would begin the famous wars
with Persia.
The nameYavana was derived from
which community?
Qn. 14 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
35. When asked about a claim made in a research
paper published by The Indian Council of
Historical Research, Historian and Jawaharlal
Nehru University professor Supriya Verma said,
“Till date, no archaeologist has ever interpreted
the ‘_________ ____’ as a goddess, let alone
Parvati.”
Fill the blanks. Length indicative.
Qn. 15 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
39. X is a dance move in which the
dancer simultaneously drops the
head while raising an arm and the
elbow in a gesture that has been
noted to resemble sneezing.
What is the move X called?
Qn. 17 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
43. 6th June 2016, saw the rise in number of
applicants for Indian citizenship by about 40,000.
This was the highest ever number of applicants
for Indian citizenship on a single day since 1948.
All these applicants came from 2 states. Similarly,
the same day saw about a hundred new pin
codes being assigned to places in these states.
What was the reason?
Qn. 19 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
45. The second day of Deepawali is
celebrated as Kukur Tihar in Nepal.
What animal is often garlanded and
honoured on this day?
Qn. 20 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
47. Section II
RULES
25 questions x 1 point
These **ed questions will be counted to resolve ties
No negatives
Max score: 25
48. Something that Herbert Morrison said on the radio in May 1937 is
the basis for this meme’s long-winded joke featuring an aging
Hollywood actor and a sea creature. Either give us what Morrison
said with context, or give us the joke.
Qn. 21 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
49. ANSWER
Oh, the Humanity, from the
Hindenburg crash OR
ANSWER 21 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
50. Which Indian writer composed this
epitaph for himself:
“In it, he said, lies one who spared neither man
nor god.
Waste not your time on him, for he was a sod.
Writing nasty things he regarded as great fun.
Thank the Lord, he is dead, this son of a gun.”
Qn. 22 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
52. The term was coined by Ludwig
August von Rochau, a German writer
and politician in the 19th century, and
refers to politics or diplomacy based
primarily on practical considerations,
rather than ideological notions.
What 11-letter word that is still in
use?
Qn. 23 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
54. The Greater Ox-cart has connections
to Tendai, Nichiren and Zen.
By what 8-letter name do we refer to it
in English ?
Qn. 24 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
56. In 1772, the Edinburgh Advertiser included this line:
"Yesterday being the settling day for India stock, the
bulls had a balance to pay to the bears to the amount
of 23 per cent. Only one _____ _____waddled out of
the alley, and that for no greater a sum than 20,000.“
The term thus meant a n investor who couldn’t pay
their debts. Only in the 20th century did it take on a
sense of what a newspaper called “that dreaded
second-term problem”. What expression are we
looking for?
Qn. 25 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
60. This program began in 1560 and
ended in 1814. It was the extension of
a similar such program conducted in
Western Europe. Offenses included
practicing astrology, polygamy and
selling arms to Muslims.
What was this program?
Qn. 27 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
62. The father was an admiral in the
British navy and played his cards
right to find a political future post the
Restoration of Charles II.The son had
different leanings and ended up
having a state named after him in the
United States. Both had the same
name. Name either.
Qn. 28 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
64. To make Kiswah you need 670
kilograms of pure silk.You also need
120 kgs of gold and about 50 kgs
silver for the design.
What is it used for?
Qn. 29 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
66. Qn. 30 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
The men seen here were part of group that has become a derogatory word in the
English language.This group has also figured in movies made by Ismail Merchant and
George Lucas.
What is the collective name for these people?
68. This fruit’s name is of Dravidian
origin. Fans of The Godfather films
may remember that this fruit is
present before every death in the
films.
What fruit?
Qn. 31
617a
SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
70. Unguja is the main island in an
archipelago that takes its name from
the Persian word for black coast.The
island is often referred to by the
name of the archipelago.The famous
musician associated with these parts
was born in the Stone Town area of
the main city on this island. Name the
archipelago.
Qn. 32 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
72. This pathologist while studying a certain
organ discovered that there were several
clusters of cells separated from the
surrounding tissue by a thin fibrous
connective tissue. He used a metaphor
borrowed from geography to describe this
situation.
What in the human body takes its name
thus?
Qn. 33 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
74. The Kon dynasty began to build it, and
later dynasties added to their work.
This location, called the "Troy of the
East" by the British, stretches across three
hillocks: Krishnagiri to the north, Rajagiri
to the west and Chandrayandurg to the
southeast.
What are we talking about?
Qn. 34 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
76. This is an English word usually meant to describe a
person who is silly, foolish, stupid, and/or useless.
The actual origins of the term are unknown, but some
people speculate that it was coined by British playwright
William Wycherley in 1676.
Samule Johnson believed the word stems from the Latin
phrase 'non compos mentis', i.e. 'not of sound mind.
In 2007, a survey among 2000 Britons revealed that it was
the nation's favourite word out of 16,500 entries in the
Cambridge Dictionary. What word?
Qn. 35 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
78. A poem by Dilip Chitre plays a small part in a major
Indian film from the 1980s that defined an actor’s career.
It begins
Before I entered this maze,
Who was I?
I will not remember.
And ends with the line
the needle of this perfect balance points us
to a half-truth
Which film?
Qn. 36 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
80. If you wanted to code the individual elements in
this pursuit by approximating each to the nearest
possible letter, you would be left with I’s, O’s,T’s,
J’s, L’s, S’s and Z’s.
If you think about it, the answer will descend
into place slowly.
What pursuit are we talking about?
Qn. 37 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
82. X Seraphinianus, riginally published in 1981, is an illustrated
encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist,
Luigi Serafini.
The book is an encyclopedia in manuscript with copious hand-
drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical flora,
fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods.
What term X, meaning ancient manuscript, did Serafini attach before
his name in the title?
Qn. 38 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
84. Qn. 39 SJC Quizzers & KQA
The 2017 Edition
Identify this ancient martial art. It is characterized by “pum-balgi,” or “stepping on
triangles” – a combination of dance-like steps and deadly kicks. MMA fighter and the
History Channel’s Human Weapon host Jason Chambers described it as “…like
learning an Irish jig with kickboxing.”
86. 1n 1997, Logitech's co-founder and vice chairman, Pierluigi Zappacosta summoned
executives to a meeting with management consultant Ray Mebert, to draft a new
mission statement for Logitech's New Ventures Group. His memo touted Mebert as an
expert who could help the group "crisply define" its goals.
Ray Mebert told the group that his credentials included work on Procter & Gamble
Co.'s "Taste Bright Project," a supposedly secret effort to boost sales by improving the
taste of soap. "There actually are some people who admitted in focus groups that they
would sometimes taste soap," Mebert said. Executives nodded agreement.
Mebert sneered at New Ventures' statement--"to provide Logitech with profitable
growth and related new business areas"--and led an exercise in which managers
suggested words and ideas that might become part of a new one.
The new statement read: "The New Ventures Mission is to scout profitable growth
opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission
inclusive markets, and explore new paradigms and then filter and communicate and
evangelize the findings.“
All of this was an elaborate prank orchestrated by Zappacosta. Who played Ray
Mebert?
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88. Transnistria is a rebel government in mainland Europe, but no major government or
UN recognizes the legitimacy of this nation. It used to be part of the USSR, but the
country that the UN recognizes this region to be a part of now, has virtually no control
over it, after violent clashes broke out in 1992.
Transnistria is located between the Dniester river in the west and Ukraine in the east.
The rebel government is based in Tiraspol, and even issues its own currency, the
Transnistrian ruble. One of the claims of the Transnistrian movement is that the rights
of the local Russian speakers are being compromised by the imposition of the alien
Romanian language after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Which country is Transnistria officially part of?
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Transnistria flag Official country flag
90. Definitions of some dictionary words are below.What
peculiarity do they share?
Not an exhaustive list
A. A style of South African music with rural Zulu roots
that continues to influence musicians worldwide
today.The style originated in the early 1960s.
B. The direction of Mecca
C. The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
D. The basic unit of money in Israel
E. An ancient Chinese health care system that
integrates physical postures, breathing techniques
and focused intention
F. Slang term for a drug used to calm animals
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91. ANSWER
All can be spelled with a Q and no U after that.There are about 30 such
words + plurals, and Scrabble players try to memorize them
A. A style of South African music with rural Zulu roots that continues to
influence musicians worldwide today.The style originated in the early
1960s - MBAQANGA
B. The direction of Mecca - QIBLA
C. The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet - QOPH
D. The basic unit of money in Israel - SHEQEL
E. An ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical
postures, breathing techniques and focused intention - QIGONG
F. Slang term for a drug used to calm animals - TRANQ
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92. The Polar Fox JAMES MPX808571F Men’s Lace Up Cap
Toe Military Combat Work Desert Ankle Boot was pulled
from the market by its manufacturers after an image of it
went viral on Reddit earlier this month.The same viral
image prompted the Daily Stormer to call the boots a
“must have” item.
Why did the manufacturer pull the item? (Stock images
of the boot on the next slide)
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94. ANSWER
They recalled the boot after a
customer discovered the sole left tiny
swastika prints/marks behind
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95. The original source refers to the events of
578 BC, while the title refers to the Tigris and the
Euphrates, and the lyrics also make references
to Menen Asfaw's husband under the name King
Alpha.The idea of captivity that runs through the
lines might make sense when you remember
that the original version was done by The
Melodians from Kingston.The disco generation
then turned it into an earworm.
What are we talking about?
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97. This statue honours a Coastguardsman
named John Daniels who was not an
expert cameraman but got asked to record
something important at this location. What
job was he given?
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98.
99. ANSWER
He took the photograph of the Wright Brothers’ first flight
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101. A
“Cheering news from India. My press clipping agency has sent me a
letter from the correspondence column of an Indian paper about a
cow that came into the bungalow of a Mr. X, who lives at Patengarth,
Mandla District, and ate his copy of Carry On, Jeeves,‘selecting it
from a shelf which contained, among other works, books by
Shakespeare,Thomas Hardy and Henry Fielding.’ A pretty striking
tribute I look on that as.” Name X.
— P.G.Wodehouse to William Townend, Sept. 3, 1929
B
Which Bengaluru-based author wrote the biography of this
anthropologist:“Savaging the Civilised: X, His Tribals and
India?”
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103. Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, (1783-1859), 1st
Baronet, was an extraordinarily successful
Parsi businessman and philanthropist.The
JJ School of Art and the JJ Hospital are
some of his philanthropic contributions.
He made his wealth by shipping what to
which country? Name substance and
country
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105. Axiom Research Labs in Jakkur, Bengaluru, is about to
embark on an audacious adventure, the first in the Indian
private sector. In the process, it is competing for a prize
announced in 2007 by a company currently headed by a
guy who initially used to call waiters “Abbe Saaley” at IIT
Kharagpur.
A
What is Axiom better known as?
B
What prize is it in the race for?
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This is a sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin. It is
titled X discussing Y. One word for X; and a
phrase forY.
109. Critics alleged that this artiste’s songs were all hits because he used
beautiful women in his videos.To counter this claim, he released a
song in 1998, whose video featured four copies of himself, and
nobody else.
The video featured advanced CGI for its time, superimposing the
singer over animated backdrops like deserts, mountains and St.
Basil’s Cathedral.
The song is probably his most popular till date (and probably the
biggest hit in its genre as well), and is frequently played at
nightclubs even to today. It has been a viral internet meme as well,
with thousands of parody dance videos been released on youtube.
Identify the artiste and song (1 pt. each)
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111. This town in West Bengal has been in the news since November 2016,
because workers of a production unit present here, in true Bengali style,
refused to work overtime, despite such efforts being urgently needed.
Its name literally translates to “forest of Shorea robusta” in Bengali – pictures
of the Shorea tree are below.
Identify the town.What is produced here? (1 pt each)
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112. ANSWER
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Salboni – Sal tree
Indian currency notes are printed
here
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The French stew on the left (beef and vegetables)
inspired the soup on the right, both in content and
etymology. Identify both (1 pt. each)
114. ANSWER
Pot-au-feu (pot on fire) and Pho.
Pho and feu are pronounced similarly
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Sign language for which two personalities? 1 pt. each
116. ANSWER
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a. Donald Trump
b. Bernie Sanders
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Identify both words blanked out. 1 pt. each
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Connect – exhaustive list (1 pt.) . Also Identify the city marked here (1 pt.)
120. ANSWER
A: D- Day beaches in Normandy;
B: Omaha
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121. On the show Scream Queens, Chanel #3
(played by Billie Lourd) wears earmuffs
because one guy she dated got so
obsessed with her ears that he threatened
to cut them off.This has also been
interpreted as a tribute to actress X and
arguably her most famous role.
Identify X and the role.
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Identify the actor in the still, as well as the
movie from which it is taken.
124. ANSWER
Mark Gatiss, with Benedict Cumberbatch.
(Game the question next time, those who wrote only
Cumberbatch)
Starter for 10
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125. In 1896, X wrote a letter to the chemical engineer Ragnar
Sohlman:
‘ My heart trouble will keep me here in Paris for another
few days at least, until my doctors are in complete
agreement about my immediate treatment. Isn't it the
irony of fate that I have been prescribed N/G 1, to be
taken internally! They call it Trinitrin, so as not to scare
the chemist and the public.’
Identify X and explain his apprehension,
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126. ANSWER
X-Alfred Nobel
Y: talking about the prescription of Nitric oxide to cure
his heart disease.
Alfred Nobel refused to take his medication since Nitric
oxide is an important ingredient in TNT/dynamite.This is
rumoured to have been the cause of Alfred Nobel’s death
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127. X is a graphic novel byY published in September 2011.The book is
set in a fictional Islamic fairy tale landscape, and depicts the
relationship between Dodola and Zam, two escaped child slaves,
who are torn apart and undergo many transformations as they grow
into new names and new bodies, which prove to be obstacles to
their love when they later reunite.
The book's website describes its concept thus as a love story and a
parable about humanity's relationship to the natural world that
explores such themes as the cultural divide between the first and
third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam.
Identify X andY.
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129. This is an exhaustive list of British territories overseas.
Name the missing territories.?
Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Anguilla, Bermuda,British Virgin
Islands,Saint Helena,Turks and Caicos, South Sandwich
Islands, ___X______, _______Y___________, Cayman
Islands,The Indian Ocean Territory,The British Antarctic
Territory, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands.
X: One word.
Y:Two words
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131. It has its origins in a Test match played between the West
Indies and England at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the
year 1933.
Walter Robbins was stumped off a surprise delivery that
spun into the right-hander from outside the off stump. As
he walked back to the pavilion, Robbins made a racist
remark to his teammates that went "Fancy being done
by a bloody_______!“.
This term then entered the sport.
What term?Who was Robbins referring to?
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133. The idea of X came to Y when performing a
standup act in Canada, where he went while he
was a student at Oxford University. X is famous
for his quirky and ‘innovative’ ways of dealing
with complexities and was possibly inspired by
Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot.Y’s silent humour
has since brought laughs to many around the
world.
X and Y?
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135. Swami Shambhavananda was a monk of the Ramakrishna
Mission. A man of modest formal education but self-
taught was famous for a unique malaria awareness
program that he started in Coorg. He would go around
Coorg, singing the song ‘Teachings of a Mosquito’ in the
native Kodava language.
However, he is more notable for reviving a dying
practice of the region and established a cooperative that
was later handed over to the government.
What is the practice? What household name owes its
existence to the cooperative?
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137. “Shut up in a lovely mansion, with
police night and day
Patrolling the garden to keep the
assassins away,
He got down to work, to decide the
fate
Of millions……......”
Name the poet?Who/What is he
talking about?
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138. ANSWER
A:WH Auden
B: Cyril Radcliffe/Drawing the
Radcliffe Line between India and
Pakistan
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139. This word comes from Arabic where it is
used in connection with holy sites to
signify how entry to a sacred place is
forbidden. In English the word has taken
on different connotations. It usually
conjures up images of decadent sultans
and despots popular in oriental works.
Name the root word and the English
derivative.
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141. Colloquially referred to as Y Ddraig Goch
meaning The Red X, it is sometimes
claimed to be the oldest national flag still
in use. The nation, as such, is more a
sporting entity than a formal one.
Name the country and the missing
element in The Red X.
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143. Evidence offered by this fossil creature seems to support
the arbocursorial theory. Name creature.What
speculation does the arbocursorial theory offer?
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144.
145. ANSWER
A: Archaeopteryx
B: Literally climber-runner, arbo-cursorial
theories speculate that flight originated when
dinosaurs began to throw themselves off trees.
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146. The X days were begun during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I as an economy measure, and
had more to do with something seen as peculiar
to a community in India rather than anything
connected to swinging from a tree or wearing a
vest.
What was the economy measure?What was
the name with an India connection?
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147. ANSWER
A: Meatless Days
B: Banyan Days, derived from Banias.
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148. Alan Light’s book is about a phenomenon, and the role that two
people played in making this phenomenon. What is the book
about? Name the man on the right.
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149.
150. ANSWER
A: Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah/Hallelujah
also will do
B: Jeff Buckley
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151. The words used have the same origin and more or less
the same meaning, but are now spelt differently to
indicate context of use.The 6-letter word is always used
only for the picture on the left while the 5-letter word is
used only for the picture on the right. Give both words in
order.
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153. Section IV
RULES
2 sets of 5 questions
Each question carries 1 point
The answer expands by a letter with each question
Bonus for getting each complete set: +1
No negatives
Max score: 6+6=12
154. When John Cleese took over from
Desmond Llewelyn in the Bond films,
what did that make him? (1)
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155. German prefix meaning original or
primitive. (2)
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156. A short form of the Iberian name
Rodrigo, found in chess opening.(3)
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157. Abode of this kind (4)
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158. A short form for Gertrude (5 letters)
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166. Section V
RULES
5 sets of clues with two answers
Each answer carries 1 point
The two answers are anagrams of each other
No negatives
Max score: 10
167. East European nation can make a mad
dog out of you. (6,6)
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178. A certain writer plundered all these
sources for book titles: Ten Little
Indians, This Little Piggy, There Was a
Crooked Man, Sing a Song of Sixpence,
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Three Blind
Mice, Hickory Dickory Dock and How Does
Your Garden Grow?
Name the writer.
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180. The poster of which 2016 film that was based on
a nonfiction book of the same name by Margot
Lee Shetterly?
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183. One explanation for the name _____ ______ is
when American prep school students in the
1950s, wishing to make a fashion statement, took
to inserting a penny into the diamond-shaped
slit on their Weejuns. Another theory is that two
pennies could be slipped into the slit, enough
money to make an emergency phone call in the
1930s. Either way, the name _____ ______ came to
be applied to this style of slip-on and has since
stuck. FITB.
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On the left is a chocolate line from the Shetland Isles and on the right is
a line of jewellery from the same location. Both companies call
themselves Mirrie Dancers after the local name for what phenomenon?
189. Which character does this garment pay tribute to?
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190. ANSWER
The Cheshire Cat from Alice in
Wonderland
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191. X was a term for people who attacked everybody.Y was
a term for people who attacked everybody except those
originating from their country with a license from the
government. And Z stood for people without a license
who operated by the same logic as Y.
Z took their name from a kind of grill for cooking meat
and called themselves Brethren of the Coast when that
name became unpopular.
What are X,Y and Z?
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193. The term A was a humorous appellation
for a Dutchman, and meant a man with
short stumpy figure. It could have meant
‘little tree’ or‘little barrel’. B is a perfect
rhyme for A and comes from the Greek
word for melon, while also bearing some
sense of being cooked in the sun.Two 7-
letter words for a point each.
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195. Despite the ridicule and the harsh treatment given out to
her , and her followeers, their struggle from 1914 finally
bore fruit in the UK in 1918.Who? What was the 1918
decision?
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197. Kevin Richberg summed up up this epidemic of tourist
envy beginning in the 1920s in a headline for HuffPo that
read My _____ ______ is bigger than yours.The best
known is located within the Tijuca Forest.
Popular titles for these public efforts range from
Redentor and Otero, to Rey (King).The Polish Krol (33)
has a number that is hard to beat.
What generic effort are we talking about?Why is the
Polish Krol hard to beat?
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198. ANSWER
(Tallest) Jesus Christ statues
The Krol is 33 metres tall because
Christ was crucified at age 33.
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