1. George Carlin's 7 dirty words that were banned from broadcast television in the United States. 2. On December 30, 2013, Alok Nath started trending on Twitter due to a joke made by comedian Kapil Sharma about him marrying all of Nath's daughters. 3. The laugh track, an audio recording of audience laughter, was invented by sound engineer Charles Douglass to simulate or augment laughter in television and radio shows.

1. M’est La Vie!
Prelims- Answers

2. 1
• Connect- Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker,
motherfucker and tits.

3. 1
• George Carlin’s 7 dirty words

4. 2

5. 2
• Jon Stewart

6. 3
• On December 30, 2013, X started trending on
Twitter. The trend seems to have started with
the following tweet- “ Our nation only learnt
about heart attacks because of x.” Social
media analysts have attributed X’s popularity
to an act done by comedian Kapil Sharma at
an award show in which he plays an IITan who
marries all of X’s daughters, helping him
achieve “Maha- Kanyadaan”. X?

7. 3
• Alok Nath

9. • Books published posthumously

10. 5
• Sound engineer Charles Douglass is credited
for inventing X. X enabled the editing
technique “sweetening” which is used to
simulate or augment audience reaction to a
TV/Radio show. X?

11. • Laugh Track

13. • Picasso

14. 7
Who is this Bob Dylan song about?

15. • Rupin Carter

16. 8
• “Ek Ruka Hua Faisla” is a 1986 Hindi movie
directed by Basu Chatterjee. It is a story about
12 jurors deliberating on the fate of a
teenager accused of killing his father. The
movie is a remake of which famous Hollywood
film?

17. • 12 Angry Men

18. 9
• The All India Human Rights and Social Justice
Front filed a PIL in the supreme court against
the makers of X. The supreme court however
refused to entertain the petition advising the
litigants, "If you don't like then don't watch
the film but don't bring religious facets in it“.
X?

19. 9
• PK

20. 10

21. 10
• KRK

22. 11

23. 11
• Dr Jerkyll and Mr Hyde

24. 12

25. 12
• The Catcher in The Rye

26. 13

27. 13
• Origin of Species

28. 14

29. 14
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

30. 15

31. 15
• The Hobbit

32. 16*
• The following is an excerpt from the book “The
accidental prime minister” written by Sanjaya
Baru, Manmohan Singh’s media advisor. “The
hypocrisy of the Left was exposed by the
somersault X had to perform on the editorial
pages of Y. After proclaiming the 123 Agreement
'sound and honourable', he followed up with an
editorial a few days later, toeing Karat's line and
advising the government to put the deal on hold.”
Id X and Y.

33. 16
• N Ram, The Hindu

34. 17*
• April 10 1970
• Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow
and A and B and C and D are alive and well and
full of hope.
• The world is still spinning and so are we and so
are you.
• When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to
worry. Not before.
• Identify A, B, C and D or what is this press release
about

35. 17
• Ringo and John, George and Paul
• Press release about the Beatles breaking up

36. 18*
• During World War II, live music of a liberal
nature was strictly forbidden. The Parisians
thus opened illicit cellars where people could
drink freely and listen to recorded music. One
such club called itself “La ______________”,
coined from the French words for “record”
and “library”, to indicate that recorded, not
live, music was played. What word was thus
born?

37. 18
• Discotheque

38. 19*
• A short exclamatory word, often used to show
disapproval or contempt, or to scare
someone, is also the name of a character in a
1960 novel which deals with issues of racism.
Identify the character and the book.

39. 19
• Boo
• Arthur “Boo” Radley
• To Kill a Mockingbird

40. 20*
• In every Swedish election a small yet
significant number of people vote for Kalle
Anka as a protest against the available
choices. Kalle Anka is a popular television icon
in Scandinivia and the world. Which ther
name do we know him by?

41. 20
• Donald duck

42. 21
• Though Shakespeare is credited with the
invention of this word, linguists claim that the
origin of this word can be traced to a ara tribe
that used to carry out murders in return for
hashish. What's the word?

43. 21
• Assassin

44. 22
• In Asterix in Belgium, 2 characters made a
special appearance to say "Julius Caesar has
arrived in Belgium" and "Culius Jaesar has
arrived in Gelbium". Id.

45. 22
• Thomson and Thompson

46. 23
• The title of this show comes from the
‘American southwest slang phrase “_________
“ which means “to challenge conventions, to
defy authority and to skirt the edges of the
law.” Which show are we talking about.

47. 23
• Breaking Bad

48. 24
• Excerpt of an obituary that X wrote for Y in 1983-
“success and cosmopolitan living did not spoil the
earthiness of the robust Jat. He continued to down his
Scotch with a ferocity that made his hosts nervous. He
continued to tell stories that revealed his deep
obsession with the anal. He had a theory that all anger
was a result of an upset stomach and instructed his son
to ask his mother if her stomach walls troubling her
whenever she scolded him. In his more smug moments
he attributed his own iconoclastic calm to the severe
constipation from which he had suffered since
childhood.” Id X and Y.

49. 24
• X- Dhiren Bhagat
• Y- Khushwant Singh

50. 25
• The following is a painting by MF Hussain in
X’s honour. X?

51. 25
• Safdar Hashmi