General Quiz conducted by Viraj and Nihar. Internal Quizzing Session.

1. MinD PalacE General Quiz
Prelims!
VIRAJ MAVANI
NIHAR SHAH

2. Instructions
 Try to answer all questions.
 Feel free to guess. We will like to know your vivid imagination.
 Obey the QM. He may give you extra points for good behavior.
 Do not cyber snoop questions.
 The team beside you is smart but not smarter than you.
 If you are a pretty girl and ready to give your cell number, sit
back and relax, you have already won it! :P
 Do solemnly swear that you are up to no good.

3. Teaser Question
 When he was SUPPOSEDLY dead, the newspaper
obituary read, “The Merchant of Death is Dead!”
 Who is he?

4. 1.
 X technique, is a mnemonic device adopted in ancient
Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the
anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero’s De
Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria).
 Also known as Method of Loci
 Id X.

5. 2.
 On February 11, 2011, at a press event in London ,
CEO of X and CEO of Y announced a partnership
between their companies in which Z would become the
primary operating-system for Y replacing older. The
event focused largely on setting up "a new global mobile
ecosystem", suggesting competition with other with the
words "It is now a three horse race“
 ID X,Y,Z

6. 3.
 D : Audi R8
 C : Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive
 B : BMW M6
 A : Pegani Zonda R
 S : Lykan Hyper Sport

7. 4.
 Connect:
 Minion
 Golemite
 Lava Pup
 Skeleton

8. 5. *
 “Seeing the X animation for the first time, I felt I was
looking at a Paul Rand logo. The alternating primary
colors, the name turning into a __ and the playful
pulsating dots, each by themselves recalled his
Modern play principal. I don't know how long it will
be until the animation gets tiresome, but it is a
pleasure to watch it going through its cycle now." —
Steve Heller, art director and journalist.

9. 6.
 X initially developed under the codename
Project Spartan, is a web browser.
 Unlike other browsers, X is exclusive to
Windows __ and cannot be used on other
Windows versions.

10. 7.
 Where you can find this everyday…
 The starting point of all achievement is desire.. -
Napoleon Hill
 Fact: Humans would lose about 50% of their hand
strength without the pinky finger .
 Fact: Human body has enough iron in it to make a
metal nail 3 inches long

11. 8.
 Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched XY on
January 15, 2001. Sanger coined its
name, a portmanteau of X and Y. Initially only in
English, XY quickly became multilingual as it
developed similar versions in other languages, which
differ in content and in editing practices
 ID XY..

12. 9.
 Photographer Arthur Sasse tried to make X smile for
a photograph on this 72nd birthday. Tired of smiling
for pictures, he stuck out his tongue. This has
become one of the most iconic pictures of X ever.

13. 10. *
 These games follow X's adventures in the fictional Mushroom
Kingdom, usually with X as the player character. He is usually
joined by his brother, and occasionally by other members of
the X cast. The games have simple plots, typically with X
rescuing a particular character from the primary antagonist,
Y. The first title in the series, established gameplay concepts
and elements prevalent in nearly every X game since. These
include a multitude of power-ups and items that give X
special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-
changing into giant and miniature sizes.

14. 11.
 These kind of pictures are viral on internet by a
single account on twitter
 Nowadays it’s not only on twitter it’s on other social
networking sites too…
 Pic on next slide
 Id Account

16. 12.
 The X is an Indian quiz contest that began on April
12, 1972. it is one of India's most famous quiz
contests. Originally held live in cities across the
country, it later became a radio show and then, in
June 1992, a television show on Zee TV. Later, the
show was shifted to another television channel, Sony
Entertainment Television.

17. 13.
 A year after the battle with the Red Falcon Organization,
Bill and Lance are sent on another mission. This time, the
alien forces have taken over an allied military base,
possessing most of its troops. Bill and Lance must not
only fight against their former comrade-in-arms, but also
a new mutated form of the same alien creatures they
fought during their previous mission.
 What I am talking about?

18. 14.
 X , saved innumerable lives in the Mumbai serial blasts in
1993, when he sniffed out the scooter bomb. By the time
of his death he had detected more that 3,329 kgs of
explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and
6406 rounds of live ammunition. He developed bone
cancer and passed away in 2000. He was buried with full
state honours.
 Pic on next slide.

20. 15. *
 In the late 1940s, priests of the Roman Catholic Church
performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy,
documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or
"Robbie Mannheim". The boy, born circa 1935, was the
alleged victim of demonic possession, and the events
were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond Bishop.
 How do we better know him?

21. 16.

22. 17.

23. 18.
 X was so precise in his predictions during the Y that
he received death threats from many people of
German origin.
 ID X& Y.

24. 19.
 In the mid-1970s, Ernő X worked at the Department of
Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and
Crafts in Budapest . Although it is widely reported that
the X was built as a teaching tool to help his students
understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving
the structural problem of moving the parts
independently without the entire mechanism falling
apart.
 Id X

25. 20. *
 X started off by One Library Per Village (OLPV), an
NGO based in Kerala working towards promoting
Digital Literacy in villages.

26. Hand over sheets!

27. Answers!

28. 1.
 X technique, is a mnemonic device adopted in ancient
Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the
anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero’s De
Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria).
 Also known as Method of Loci
 Id X.

30. 1.
Mind Palace

31. 2.
 On February 11, 2011, at a press event in London ,
CEO of X and CEO of Y announced a partnership
between their companies in which Z would become the
primary operating-system for Y replacing older. The
event focused largely on setting up "a new global mobile
ecosystem", suggesting competition with other with the
words "It is now a three horse race“
 ID X,Y,Z

33. 2.
X: Microsoft
Y: Nokia
Z: Windows Phone

34. 3.
 D : Audi R8
 C : Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive
 B : BMW M6
 A : Pegani Zonda R
 S : Lykan Hyper Sport

36. 3.
Asphalt 8 Airborne

37. 4.
 Connect:
 Minion
 Golemite
 Lava Pup
 Skeleton

39. 4.
Clash of Clans

40. 5. *
 “Seeing the X animation for the first time, I felt I was
looking at a Paul Rand logo. The alternating primary
colors, the name turning into a __ and the playful
pulsating dots, each by themselves recalled his
Modern play principal. I don't know how long it will
be until the animation gets tiresome, but it is a
pleasure to watch it going through its cycle now." —
Steve Heller, art director and journalist.

42. 5.
New Google Logo

43. 6.
 X initially developed under the codename
Project Spartan, is a web browser.
 Unlike other browsers, X is exclusive to
Windows __ and cannot be used on other
Windows versions.

45. 6.
Microsoft Edge

46. 7.
 Where you can find this everyday…
 The starting point of all achievement is desire.. -
Napoleon Hill
 Fact: Humans would lose about 50% of their hand
strength without the pinky finger .
 Fact: Human body has enough iron in it to make a
metal nail 3 inches long

48. 7.
Hike Daily

49. 8.
 Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched XY on
January 15, 2001. Sanger coined its
name, a portmanteau of X and Y. Initially only in
English, XY quickly became multilingual as it
developed similar versions in other languages, which
differ in content and in editing practices
 ID XY..

51. 8.
WikiPedia

52. 9.
 Photographer Arthur Sasse tried to make X smile for
a photograph on this 72nd birthday. Tired of smiling
for pictures, he stuck out his tongue. This has
become one of the most iconic pictures of X ever.

54. 9.
Albert Einstein

55. 10. *
 These games follow X's adventures in the fictional Mushroom
Kingdom, usually with X as the player character. He is usually
joined by his brother, and occasionally by other members of
the X cast. The games have simple plots, typically with X
rescuing a particular character from the primary antagonist,
Y. The first title in the series, established gameplay concepts
and elements prevalent in nearly every X game since. These
include a multitude of power-ups and items that give X
special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-
changing into giant and miniature sizes.

57. 10. *
Super Mario

58. 11.
 These kind of pictures are viral on internet by a
single account on twitter
 Nowadays it’s not only on twitter it’s on other social
networking sites too…
 Pic on next slide
 Id Account

61. 11.
FilmyGyan

62. 12.
 The X is an Indian quiz contest that began on April
12, 1972. it is one of India's most famous quiz
contests. Originally held live in cities across the
country, it later became a radio show and then, in
June 1992, a television show on Zee TV. Later, the
show was shifted to another television channel, Sony
Entertainment Television.

64. 12.
Bournvita Quizzing Championship

65. 13.
 A year after the battle with the Red Falcon Organization,
Bill and Lance are sent on another mission. This time, the
alien forces have taken over an allied military base,
possessing most of its troops. Bill and Lance must not
only fight against their former comrade-in-arms, but also
a new mutated form of the same alien creatures they
fought during their previous mission.
 What I am talking about?

67. 13.
Contra

68. 14.
 X , saved innumerable lives in the Mumbai serial blasts in
1993, when he sniffed out the scooter bomb. By the time
of his death he had detected more that 3,329 kgs of
explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and
6406 rounds of live ammunition. He developed bone
cancer and passed away in 2000. He was buried with full
state honours.
 Pic on next slide.

71. 14.
Zanzeer, The Labrador

72. 15. *
 In the late 1940s, priests of the Roman Catholic Church
performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy,
documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or
"Robbie Mannheim". The boy, born circa 1935, was the
alleged victim of demonic possession, and the events
were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond Bishop.
 How do we better know him?

74. 15. *
Regan from The Exorcist
Censor board didn’t
allow a picture because
it thinks that the picture
would freak people out!

75. 16.

77. 16.
221 B, Baker Street

78. 17.

80. 17.
Mark Zuckerberg

81. 18.
 X was so precise in his predictions during the Y that
he received death threats from many people of
German origin.
 ID X & Y.

83. 18.
X – Paul The Octopus
Y – FIFA 2010

84. 19.
 In the mid-1970s, Ernő X worked at the Department of
Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and
Crafts in Budapest . Although it is widely reported that
the X was built as a teaching tool to help his students
understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving
the structural problem of moving the parts
independently without the entire mechanism falling
apart.
 Id X

86. 19.
Rubik’s Cube

87. 20. *
 X started off by One Library Per Village (OLPV), an
NGO based in Kerala working towards promoting
Digital Literacy in villages.

89. 20. *
Book Bucket Challenge!