This document provides the details of a mind games quiz hosted by Alekhya Chakrabarty on August 11th. It outlines the format which includes a written round with 7 questions worth 5 points each, and a clockwise round with 25 questions worth 10 points each. It also provides the rules and scoring mechanisms for the different rounds. Sample questions are included to illustrate the types of trivia questions that will be asked.

1. Mind-Games Quiz
11th August
Quiz Master- Alekhya Chakrabarty

2. Disclaimer
• Fun quiz, no high fundas.
• There are no Repeat questions..lol
• QM’s real time decision to be taken as final

5. Written Round
• 7 questions
• Each question carries 5 points
• Additional 5 points to a team if it is the only
team that gets an answer
• No negatives
• 10 extra points for getting all correct

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13. PLEASE EXCHANGE

14. Clockwise Round
• 25 questions
• Each question carries 10 points
• Infinite bounce
• Infinite pounce
• Pounce scoring: 15/-15

15. 1
• ______ ______was born in Chiswick, London. His mother,
Tina Angela Lal, died in London, in 2005, aged 75. She
was half-Indian, born to a Punjabi father, Sardari Lal. As
a middle-distance runner, ______ ______ won
four Olympic medals, set eight outdoor and three indoor
world records in middle-distance track events – including
setting three world records in the space of 41 days.
• Following his retirement from athletics, he was
a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from
1992–97, and became a Life Peer in 2000. In 2012 he was
of one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of
the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall
Of Fame.

17. Sebastian Coe-Chairman LOCOG

18. 2
The ‘_______
Infinity
Pleasure Pod’
is a branded
experience
which does
what to you
once you get
inside it?

20. Magnum Infinity Pleasure Pod
• Designed to help bring attention to Magnum
Infinity ice cream bars, When you step inside
the pod you are treated to free Magnum
Infinity ice cream while your physical
responses are monitored and then visualized
all around you.
• Was displayed in Westfield Stratford City for
about 2 days in August 2012.

21. 3
• Put funda. In the original trailer of ‘Psycho’,
what is unique about the next scene about to
come on screen.

23. Vera Miles-in place of Janet Leigh
• The trailer was made after completion of the film,
and since Janet Leigh was no longer available for
filming, Hitchcock had Vera Miles don a blonde
wig and scream loudly as he pulled the shower
curtain back in the bathroom sequence of the
preview. Since the title, "Psycho," instantly covers
most of the screen, the switch went unnoticed by
audiences for years. However a freeze-frame
analysis clearly reveals that it is Vera Miles and
not Janet Leigh in the shower during the trailer.

24. 4
• The actor X played the title role in
this 1994 film A.
• In 2011,she played a transsexual in
B-a film directed by David Atkins.
Her role is inspired by the trials of
Manvendra Singh Gohil, the first
person of royal lineage in India to
reveal his homosexuality.

26. Seema Biswas
A- Bandit Queen, B-Queens-Destiny of
dance

27. 5
• _______ Company (A) launched its 125cc
Motorcycle named ‘Flame’ in the Market during
August 2007. It used “CCVTi” Technology.
• _____ (B)claimed the usage of the technology by
(A) is an infringement of the Patent, which had
already been awarded to it in the year 2002
• Matter went Sub Judice
• Id A, B. The technology in consideration for extra
points.

29. Bajaj, TVS
DTSI

30. 6
• This food item amongst other things is called
Pulasa or Polasa in Telugu.
• In Orissa a popular saying goes: ‘Machha
khaaiba _____,chakiri kariba _____ ’ means
eating this item and getting a job in a certain
department are of equal status.
• Id the item and the job.

32. INR 1000/kg 
• "Machha khaaiba Ilishii,chakiri kariba polisi"

33. 7
• Connect- Current Affairs+Calcutta

35. 1983 Lekh Tandon movie ‘Agar Tum na
Hote’
• Rajesh Khanna played the role of MD of
Emami.
• Emami’s products were placed all through the
movie..e.g…..

36. 8
• In 1981, the touring Englishmen visited
Thiruvananthapuram to play a friendly one-
day match against the state team-‘MCC vs.
Kerala Chief Minister’s XI’ so was it called.
• Kerala captain Jayaram clouted Ian Botham,
for boundaries at will.
• The farcical match ended in pandemonium as
the beefy Botham, fielding in the deep…

38. • …as Botham, fielding in the deep, lit a
cigarette and casually tossed the butt. The
dry grass caught fire on that summer day!!
Fire force had to be summoned- absolute
chaos resulted and the match of course had to
be called off.

39. 9
• This viral from ‘Smartwater’- a mineral water
from the stable of Coke featuring J Anniston
was named as what?

41. Jennifer Anniston Sex Tape

42. 10
• The name was coined by Joost Swarte in 1977.
• It uses clear strong lines of uniform importance.
Artists working in it do not use hatching, while
contrast is downplayed as well. Cast shadows are
often illuminated while a uniformity of line is
used throughout, paying equal attention to every
element depicted. Additionally, the style often
features strong colours and a combination of
cartoonish characters against a realistic
background. All these elements together can
result in giving strips drawn this way a flat aspect.

44. Ligne Claire

45. 11
• 7824 7431 7884
• Put funda

47. 1st Aadhar number
• Ranjana Sonawane(aged 31)
• Maharashtra

48. 12
• In 2010-’11, For ‘Axe Dry’, The TV spots
featured guys who broke into a sweat and the
tell-tale "O" face when facing a beautiful
woman.
• The campaign was called _______ _________.

51. 13

54. 14
• Andy Sparks was born Aug 14 1974. In 1997,
he went into a relationship and got married
soon enough. Spent his honeymoon in Niagara
Falls-became a dad in 2008 subsequently.
• Where have we seen him?

57. 15
• One word
• A small truck that rolls along tracks and carries
the camera filming a scene. It may also carry a
part of the camera crew. The truck grip moves
this equipment
• It is also a cricketing term for something that
is easily obtainable

59. Dolly

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Tim Koogle,Terry Semel,Jerry Yang,Carol bartz,tim morse,Scott Thompson,Ross
Levinsohn,Marissa Mayer

63. 17
• “I can have her,” says X, with a direct Lancashire
response to athletics royalty. “I’ve seen Y do that,
looks like a tramp on a street corner. I do think it’s
disrespectful to us.
• “Y comes into a competition really late, tries to
psyche everyone out. It’s her plan. She wants us
to say, ‘Oh, look, she’s not bothered’, but it
doesn’t work with me.
• “If you want to lie there and have a towel on your
head, it’s all right. It is a bit weird.

65. X- Holly Bleasdale, Y- Isinbayeva

67. 18
• Out of the 7,000 used across the world
currently, it is estimated that roughly 50%
won’t survive the turn of the century. So says
the opening thought of this project.
• The ‘loss of this’ is often equated with
oppression and injustice.
• Examples of some threatened ‘species’
include: Koro, Navajo, Southwestern Ojibwa.

69. Endangered Languages project
Google

70. 19
• The lady and the context.

73. 20
• Put funda

75. www.barackobama.com/taxcalculator

76. 21

78. • Alyque Padamsee

79. 22
• X is an American ophthalmologist,
author and former
professional tennis player. In
1975, she underwent sex
reassignment surgery. She was
denied entry into the 1976 US
Open by the USTA, citing an
unprecedented women-born-
women policy. She disputed the
ban, and the NY Supreme
Court ruled in her favor in 1977.
• The Only Thing she couldn’t
change was her desire to
Compete

82. 23

83. 24
1998 Oscar nominated movie.
Director Tony Kaye wanted his credit to read
"Humpty Dumpty“
Edward Norton, who had gained 30 pounds for the
movie, was said to have re-edited the film to
lengthen his screen time.
Seth Ryan ( Ethan Suplee) wears a shirt during the
basketball game featuring the number 88. This is
a Nazi skinhead code for HH, or "Heil Hitler," H
being the 8th letter of the alphabet.

86. 25

88. Independent Olympic Athletes
• Liemarvin Bonevacia
• Reginald de Windt in men’s judo,
• Philipine van Aanholt in women’s sailing
• Guor Marial, who is from the world’s youngest
country of South Sudan.
• Ibrahim Alhasan
• Abdullah Al Thuwani

89. LVC
• 10 slides
• 1 attempt per team per set
• Scoring:
• 1-2 : 30/-15
• 3-5: 20/-10
• 6-8 : 15/-7.5
• 9-10 : 10/-5

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92. 3

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94. 5

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99. 10

100. London 2012 Opening Ceremony
• Garry Connery- the stuntman who did ‘the Queen’
• Hoagy Carmicheal-JB funda( +Ian Fleming)
• Limehouse Cut
• Tempest-Isles of Wonder
• Underworld Group
• Erric Liddel-Chariots of Fire..Mr.Bean Sequence
• Watt’s engine-Industrial Revolution
• Village Cricket
• Hey Jude..Beatles..Paul
• D Boyle- Trainspotting

101. Anti- Clockwise Round
• 25 questions
• Each question carries 10 points
• Infinite bounce
• Infinite pounce
• Pounce scoring: 15/-15

102. 26

105. 27
• A top performer in the Premier division of his nation’s
league in the 2004-05 and 05-’06 seasons.
• Till 2012 for Melbourne Victory alongside Harry Kewell
• Has also been capped for the senior national team on
30 occasions, playing for the team during the 2006 WC
qualifiers and scoring some important goals. He scored
a cracker in his last international vs. France, drilling a 25
m rocket into the left hand side of the net.
• Will be wearing jersey no. 16 in his newest club in 2012-
’13.
• Who and which club?

108. 28
• Recently completed 18 years with his current
organization, whom he affectionately refers to
as his ‘in laws house’
• “Notobar Notout” marked his film debut in
2010
• Assembly of God Church School
• Umesh Chandra College

111. 29

113. Frank William Abagnale

114. 30
• The film's music is by a group named five little
Indians.
• It was premiered in Yale University before making
its international premiere in October 2010 at the
South Asian International Film festival in NY.
• It was an official selection at the 2011 Berlin Intl
Film Festival and was also screened at the
Slamdance Film Festival.
• Produced by Overdose Art Pvt.Ltd.

117. 31

120. 32
• Why is this baby in the news?

122. Pranab babu’s new car
White Ambassador gives way to..
Mercedes Benz Black Pullman Limo

123. 33
• The name _______ is a happy accident. It was
coined after the production of abatch of over-
dyed shirts, early in the life of the brand.
• The ______ logo is actually a stylised rendition
of the Greek letter Phi. It was designed on a
cocktail napkin by Rajan Mudaliar, one of the
founders of the
company, during a flight across the Pacific.

126. 34
• Uniqueness of this app.

128. Text like the Queen
• Some speech patterns that Swiftkey’s Queen
setting will auto-suggest are “continue to”
when you write the word “will”, while “My”
will lead SwiftKey to suggest the following
“Government will”.

129. 35
• Britney Spears's Baby One More Time
• AC/DC's Hells Bells
• Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
• These songs were used for a certain purpose.
• Why weren’t these artists flattered?

131. Grill Inmates
• One interrogator at Guantanamo bragged that
he needed only four days to "break" someone
by alternating 16 hours of loud music with just
four hours of silence.
….the aim was "to create fear, disorient . . .
and prolong capture shock".

132. 36
• X is the historical footwear of many Native
American tribes and was also worn by
hunters, traders and settlers.
• It’s made of deerskin or other soft leather. Its
sole and sides are made of one piece, stitched
together on top, sometimes with an additional
panel or vamp. The sole is soft and flexible
and the upper part is often adorned with
embroidery, beading or other ornament.

134. Mocassins

135. 37
• In silent films of the early 1900s, in some end-
of-episode situations, the protagonist was
literally left in a precarious position.
• A situation which features a unsteady or
difficult dilemma, or a confrontation with a
shocking revelation.
• To ensure the audience will return to see what
happens next

137. Cliffhanger

138. 38
Japanese American
Character Nickname Character Nickname
Oikake Akabei
(追いかけ) (赤ベイ) Shadow
Machibuse Pinky Speedy
(待ち伏せ) (ピンキー)
Kimagure Aosuke Bashful
(気まぐれ) (青助)
Otoboke Guzuta Pokey
(お惚け) (愚図た)

140. Ghosts in Pac-Man.

141. 39
• As a soldier under Napoleon, _________ was
wounded 17 times.
• He was retired on a pension of $40 a year.
• Instead of being bitter, he was loyal to
Napoleon and praised him incessantly.
• A word derived from name has come to mean
“blind attachment to a group”.
• Identify the person or the word.

143. • Nicolas Chauvin/Chauvinism

144. 40
• When Philip II of Macedon laid siege to
Sparta, he sent them a message
– “If I bring my army into your land, I will destroy
your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.“
• What famous laconic answer did he get?

146. • If

147. 41
• The social network started by Ayab Abdullah
of Uzbekistan which looks a lot like Facebook.

149. youface

150. 42

153. 43
• In the context of Market Research, what are
CAPI and PAPI?

155. • Computer-assisted personal interviewing
• Pen And Paper Interviewing

156. 44
• For about a year until 1909, the Singer
Building in New York held the record for the
world’s tallest building.
• Until 2001, it held another rather dubious
record. Which one?

158. • Tallest building demolished

159. 45
• 1st name would do 

161. 46
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

162. 47
• This eco strategy game was invented in 1950 by
four people, Mel Hausner, Marin Shubik, Lloyd S
Shapely were 3 of the four. The nature of the
game means that people make deals with each
other, which are practically unenforceable.
• We will discuss the rules later, but tell me what
was the name of the game, and whats ir also
nown as?
• And while you are at it, whats the other name?

164. • So long suckers

165. 48
• X gave his bat to Y in 1989 asking him to make
similar model bats from Y’s country.
• Y in turn gave it to Z in Nairobi in 1996 with
the wish "it could prove lucky as it belonged
to a great player“
• As luck would have it Z went on to score a
world record innings that still stands,with the
same bat.
• Identify each of X,Y,Z.

167. 49
• It has won Cosmopolitan Magazine's Fun Fearless
Female award for literature and the India Today
Woman award for Woman as Storyteller.
• The author created the iconic punchline ‘Yeh Dil
Maange More’ for Pepsi.
• The film rights of the book had been bought by
Red Chillies but subsequently changed hands
after 3 years when the former couldn’t start work
on it being busy with other projects.
• Which book?

169. 50
What happened for the
first time during the
edition of the ATP Tour’s
2007 Madrid Masters event
?

171. Models (sponsored by Hugo Boss)
replaced the use of ballboys/ballgirls

172. That’s all folks!
Thank you 