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1. Prelims

2. ELIMINATIONS
• 25 Questions
• No negatives
• Q21-Q25 star ”*” marked questions for
deciding tie-breakers
• Pretty workable.

3. LET THE GAMES BEGIN

4. Q1)
• Mohammad Rafi had famously said that
though the world listens to his songs, he only
listens to X’s songs.

5. Q2)
Connect?

6. Q3)
• Which band tweeted this :

7. Q4)
• X isn’t a standard phrase but in the song it is
used to express fun, the kind where you dance
like anything, and without thinking of anything
else, uninterrupted and unstoppable. The
phrase can be considered equivalent to
Dhinchak, Dhan te Nan, etc which don’t have
any meaning in particular but are used
commanly..

8. Q5)
• Birth Name: Vito Andolini
• Spouse: Carmela
• Children: Sonny, Fredo, Michael, Connie, Tom
Hagen (adopted), Johnny Fontane (godson)
• Competitors: The Tattaglias
• Area of operation: Manhattan (New York)Death:
Heart attack while playing with his grandson
Anthony in his garden
• How do we better know him?

9. Q6)
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles
Yesterday – The Beatles
Cry Me a River – Julie London
And I Love Her – The Beatles
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Imagine – John Lennon
Summertime – Abbie Mitchell
Blackbird – The Beatles (yep, again!)
Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
The Look of Love – Dusty Springfield

10. Q7)

11. Q8)
• Nick Name: Golden boy of indipop
• Debuted on stage at the age of three by singing the popular
song 'Kya Hua Tera Vaada‘
• After the death of Michael Jackson, who influenced him
considerably, he released a song as a tribute to Jackson in
collaboration with his fans on Facebook. The song made it
to an 18-song global compilation of tribute songs, The Beat
of Our Hearts
• He has also voiced certain roles in Hindi for foreign films
like Aladdin in “Disney’s Aladin”, Rio. He has been assigned
to lead his voice in the Hindi dubbed version of a Japanese
anime movie “The Mystical Laws”.
• Identify this immensely talented guy

12. Q9)
For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the
digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triumphant
glow of the post-Cold War.
People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher
stakes than The Day After. They played a version of it in the
depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise would shake loose
some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're
playing it again today, but the scenario has changed - now
they're preparing for information war.
The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room.
The teams are presented with a series of hypothetical
incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24 hours.
Georgia's telecom system has gone down. The signals on
Amtrak's New York to Washington line have failed, precipitating
a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX has collapsed. A
bomb has exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”
These are the opening paragraphs of the article „A farewell to
arms‟ published in May 1997. Which movie was inspired from
this article?

13. Q10)
X’s was named Hema by her parents, Dinanath and
Shevanti.
X lent her voice for the first time for a Marathi
movie 'Kiti Hasaal' in 1942, but the song was not
released. It was her song 'Nathli chaitrachi navlai' in
the Marathi film 'Pahili Mangalagaur' (1942) that
was the first, to see the light of day. She even acted
in 10 films, including 'Pahili Mangalagaur', 'Badi
Maa' (1945), 'Jeevan Yatra' (1946), 'Mandir'
(1948), along with cameos in 'Chhatrapati Shivaji'
and 'Pukar' (2000).Identify X

14. Q11)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Ghatam : Carnatic Music
Madga : Rajasthani Music
Gharha : Punjabi Folk
Ghara : Gujarati Folk
Botija : Carribean (Type : Aerophone)
Udu : African (Type : Aerophone and Idiophone)
What’s common about these folk instruments?

15. Q12.
• In this infamous trilogy of a sci-fi series, the role
was originally going to be filled by a standin, until casting director Robin Gurland came
across X, who bore a striking resemblance to
Y.X played the role of Y‟s body double and
decoy. X‟s role was kept quiet by the movie‟s
marketing department in order to heighten the
surprise of there being a decoy when the film
was released. The costumes were specifically
designed to hide any height and shape
differences between X and Y.

16. Q13)
• Connect

17. Q14)
This movie is based on a book, which was the
third in a series of four crime fiction novels by
James Ellroy : The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big
Nowhere (1988), __ ____________ (1990) and
White Jazz (1992).
Inspite of being nominated for 9 Oscars, it won just
2 because of “Titanic”. The best supporting actress
award, which this movie won at the Oscars, was
shared by both these movies at the “Screen Actors
Guild Awards”! It was also ranked the best film of
1997 by TIME Magazine!
Hint:The initial screenplay drafts for the movie
“Street Kings” were also written by James Ellroy in
the late 1990s

18. Q15)
• Episode 1 – Tung Tung - Punjab (Qila Raipur Rural olympics)
Episode 2 – Ram Ram - Benaras
Episode 3 – Yere Yere - Yellapura (North Kanara, Karnataka)
Episode 4 – Susegaado - Goa
Episode 5 – Phinger Song - Kanpur
Episode 6 – Review of All Episodes
Episode 7 – Majuli(Assam)
Episode 8 – Scrap Rap - Dharavi (A Slum in Mumbai)
Episode 9 – Ghumma - Mumbai
Episode 10 – Babu - Kolkata
Episode 11 – Ju Ju Leh – Leh
• Which music based mini-series?

19. Q16)
• Kelvin Martin was an American criminal who is
primarily known as the supposed inspiration
for the name of a famous artist. He was
possibly known as ___ due to his reputation of
being prepared to rob anyone, regardless of
how much money they were carrying at the
time. The nickname may also be an allusion to
his physically tiny stature - he weighed only
120 pounds (54 kg) and his height was 5'2"
(157 cm).

20. Q17)
• Which mockumentary comedy’s disclaimer
goes like this?

21. Q18)
Connect

22. Q19)
• Identify the gentlemen to the left of Dilip
Kumar. There have been at least two movies
loosely based on his life.

23. Q20)
Connect

24. Q21)
History of creation of a famous group in pop-culture
“Biophysicist and Security Operations Center expert Dr.
Henry 'Hank' Pym decided to become a superhero after
discovering a chemical substance that would allow the
user to alter his size. Armed with a helmet that could
control ants, Pym would shrink down to the size of an
insect to become the mystery-solving Ant-Man. He soon
shared his discovery with his girlfriend, Janet Van
Dyne, who became his crime-fighting partner as the
Wasp. The duo would become founding members of
_________________, fighting recurring enemies such as
the mad scientist Egghead, the mutant Whirlwind,and
Pym's own robotic creation Ultron.”
Identify the group.

25. Q22)
• ID the actor..

26. *Q23)Connect
"Cardio"
"Double tap"
"Beware of bathrooms"
"Wear seatbelts"
"Cast iron skillet"
"Travel light"
"Get a kickass partner"
"Bounty paper towels"
"Bowling Ball"
"Don't be a hero."

27. *Q24)
• This instrument is a pipe organ consisting of 3 rows of
keys. The wood of the organ curls in various directions
creating an intriguing appearance. It plays as a normal
organ would, but the pipes have grown fantastically
into different underwater shapes, with steam coming
out of them. The organ itself has shell and sea life
textures. Above the keys there was a carving of a
woman, overlooking what seems to be a ship sailing off
into the distance, with various angels surrounding it…
• Which instrument are we talking about?

28. *Q. 25)
• ID the original song..
•
I see extended 1-D objects with no mass
What's their use? What's their use? Can they give us quark plasma?
What to minimize?
What functional describes this
String?
Nambu-Goto! (Nambu-Goto)
Nambu-Goto! (Nambu-Goto)
How to quantize I don't know
Polyakov!
I'm just a worldsheet, please minimize me
He's just a worldsheet from a string theory
Reperametrized by a Weyl symmetry!
.
.
.
(rock out!)
Now we need ten dimensions and I'll tell you why
(anomaly cancellation!)
So to get down to 4D we compactify!
Oh, Kahler!
(Kahler manifold)
Manifolds must be Kahler!
(Complex Reimannian symplectic form)
If we wanna preserve
Any of our super-symmetry

29. ANSWERS

30. Q1)
• Mohmammad Rafi had famously said that
though the world listens to his songs, he only
listens to X’s songs.

31. • Manna Dey

32. Q2)
Connect?

33. Sunny Leone

34. Q3)
• Which band tweeted this :

36. Q4)
• X isn’t a standard phrase but in the song it is
used to express fun, the kind where you dance
like anything, and without thinking of anything
else, uninterrupted and unstoppable. The
phrase can be considered equivalent to
Dhinchak, Dhan te Nan, etc which don’t have
any meaning in particular but are used
commonly..

37. • Dhating Nach

38. Q5)
• Birth Name: Vito Andolini
• Spouse: Carmela
• Children: Sonny, Fredo, Michael, Connie, Tom
Hagen (adopted), Johnny Fontane (godson)
• Competitors: The Tattaglias
• Area of operation: Manhattan (New York)Death:
Heart attack while playing with his grandson
Anthony in his garden
• How do we better know him?

39. Don Vito Corleone

40. Q6)
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles
Yesterday – The Beatles
Cry Me a River – Julie London
And I Love Her – The Beatles
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Imagine – John Lennon
Summertime – Abbie Mitchell
Blackbird – The Beatles (yep, again!)
Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
The Look of Love – Dusty Springfield

41. • The 10 most covered songs ever in popular
music

42. Q7)

44. Q8)
• Nick Name: Golden boy of indipop
• Debuted on stage at the age of three by singing the popular
song 'Kya Hua Tera Vaada‘
• After the death of Michael Jackson, who influenced him
considerably, he released a song as a tribute to Jackson in
collaboration with his fans on Facebook. The song made it
to an 18-song global compilation of tribute songs, The Beat
of Our Hearts
• He has also voiced certain roles in Hindi for foreign films
like Aladdin in “Disney’s Aladin”, Rio. He has been assigned
to lead his voice in the Hindi dubbed version of a Japanese
anime movie “The Mystical Laws”.
• Identify this immensely talented guy

46. Q9)
For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the
digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triumphant
glow of the post-Cold War.
People in Washington play lots of games, but none for higher
stakes than The Day After. They played a version of it in the
depths of the Cold War, hoping the exercise would shake loose
some bright ideas for a US response to nuclear attack. They're
playing it again today, but the scenario has changed - now
they're preparing for information war.
The Day After starts in a Defense Department briefing room.
The teams are presented with a series of hypothetical
incidents, said to have occurred during the preceding 24 hours.
Georgia's telecom system has gone down. The signals on
Amtrak's New York to Washington line have failed, precipitating
a head-on collision. Air traffic control at LAX has collapsed. A
bomb has exploded at an army base in Texas. And so forth.”
These are the opening paragraphs of the article „A farewell to
arms‟ published in May 1997. Which movie was inspired from
this article?

48. Q10)
X’s was named Hema by her parents, Dinanath and
Shevanti.
X lent her voice for the first time for a Marathi
movie 'Kiti Hasaal' in 1942, but the song was not
released. It was her song 'Nathli chaitrachi navlai' in
the Marathi film 'Pahili Mangalagaur' (1942) that
was the first, to see the light of day. She even acted
in 10 films, including 'Pahili Mangalagaur', 'Badi
Maa' (1945), 'Jeevan Yatra' (1946), 'Mandir'
(1948), along with cameos in 'Chhatrapati Shivaji'
and 'Pukar' (2000).Identify X

49. • X-LATA MANGESHKAR

50. Q11)
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Ghatam : Carnatic Music
Madga : Rajasthani Music
Gharha : Punjabi Folk
Ghara : Gujarati Folk
Botija : Carribean (Type : Aerophone)
Udu : African (Type : Aerophone and Idiophone)
What’s common about these folk instruments?

51. • Vessels (Pots/Jugs) used for storage as well as
making music…

52. Q12.
• The role was originally going to be filled by a
stand-in, until casting director Robin Gurland
came across X, who bore a striking resemblance
to Y. X played the role of Y‟s body double and
decoy. X‟s role was kept quiet by the movie‟s
marketing department in order to heighten the
surprise of there being a decoy when the film
was released. The costumes were specifically
designed to hide any height and shape
differences between X and Y.

53. • X-Keira Knightley (Sabe)
Y-Natalie Portman ( Queen Padmé
Amidala)

54. Q13)
• Connect

55. Hrishikesh Mukherjee Classics

56. Q14)
This movie is based on a book, which was the
third in a series of four crime fiction novels by
James Ellroy : The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big
Nowhere (1988), __ ____________ (1990) and
White Jazz (1992).
Inspite of being nominated for 9 Oscars, it won just
2 because of “Titanic”. The best supporting actress
award, which this movie won at the Oscars, was
shared by both these movies at the “Screen Actors
Guild Awards”! It was also ranked the best film of
1997 by TIME Magazine!
Hint:The initial screenplay drafts for the movie
“Street Kings” were also written by James Ellroy in
the late 1990s

58. Q15)
• Episode 1 – Tung Tung - Punjab (Qila Raipur Rural olympics)
Episode 2 – Ram Ram - Benaras
Episode 3 – Yere Yere - Yellapura (North Kanara, Karnataka)
Episode 4 – Susegaado - Goa
Episode 5 – Phinger Song - Kanpur
Episode 6 – Review of All Episodes
Episode 7 – Majuli(Assam)
Episode 8 – Scrap Rap - Dharavi (A Slum in Mumbai)
Episode 9 – Ghumma - Mumbai
Episode 10 – Babu - Kolkata
Episode 11 – Ju Ju Leh – Leh
• Which music based mini-series?

59. • MTV Sound Trippin’ hosted by Sneha
Khanwalkar

60. Q16)
• Kelvin Martin was an American criminal who is
primarily known as the supposed inspiration
for the name of a famous artist. He was
possibly known as ___ due to his reputation of
being prepared to rob anyone, regardless of
how much money they were carrying at the
time. The nickname may also be an allusion to
his physically tiny stature - he weighed only
120 pounds (54 kg) and his height was 5'2"
(157 cm).

61. • 50 Cent.

62. Q17)
• Which mockumentary comedy’s disclaimer
goes like this?

63. • Borat :Cultural Learnings of America for Make
Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

64. Q18)
Connect

65. Rajesh Khanna
•
•
•
•
Pics of Kaka,
Rinke Khanna’s husband,
and his first movie and
Twinkle khanna’s husband

66. Q19)
• Identify the gentlemen to the left of Dilip
Kumar. There have been at least two movies
loosely based on his life.

67. Haji Mastaan

68. *Q20)
Connect

69. •
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Dark Side of The Moon : Pink Floyd
-Breathe/Speak To Me
-On the Run
-Time
-The Great Gig in the Sky
-Money
-Us and Them
-Any Color You Like
-Brain Damage
-Eclipse

70. Q21)
History of creation of a famous group in pop-culture
“Biophysicist and Security Operations Center expert Dr.
Henry 'Hank' Pym decided to become a superhero after
discovering a chemical substance that would allow the
user to alter his size. Armed with a helmet that could
control ants, Pym would shrink down to the size of an
insect to become the mystery-solving Ant-Man. He soon
shared his discovery with his girlfriend, Janet Van
Dyne, who became his crime-fighting partner as the
Wasp. The duo would become founding members of
_________________, fighting recurring enemies such as
the mad scientist Egghead, the mutant Whirlwind,and
Pym's own robotic creation Ultron.”
Identify the group.

71. Avengers

72. *Q22)
• ID the actor..

73. • Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow in Wiz, a
poor adaptation of Wizard of Oz.

74. Q23)
"Cardio"
"Double tap"
"Beware of bathrooms"
"Wear seatbelts"
"Cast iron skillet"
"Travel light"
"Get a kickass partner"
"Bounty paper towels"
"Bowling Ball"
"Don't be a hero."

75. Zombieland Rules

76. Q24)
• This instrument is a pipe organ consisting of 3 rows of
keys. The wood of the organ curls in various directions
creating an intriguing appearance. It plays as a normal
organ would, but the pipes have grown fantastically
into different underwater shapes, with steam coming
out of them. The organ itself has shell and sea life
textures. Above the keys there was a carving of a
woman, overlooking what seems to be a ship sailing off
into the distance, with various angels surrounding it…
• Which instrument are we talking about?

77. Davy Jone’s Pipe Organ

78. *Q25)
• ID the original song..
•
I see extended 1-D objects with no mass
What's their use? What's their use? Can they give us quark plasma?
What to minimize?
What functional describes this
String?
Nambu-Goto! (Nambu-Goto)
Nambu-Goto! (Nambu-Goto)
How to quantize I don't know
Polyakov!
I'm just a worldsheet, please minimize me
He's just a worldsheet from a string theory
Reperametrized by a Weyl symmetry!
.
.
.
(rock out!)
Now we need ten dimensions and I'll tell you why
(anomaly cancellation!)
So to get down to 4D we compactify!
Oh, Kahler!
(Kahler manifold)
Manifolds must be Kahler!
(Complex Reimannian symplectic form)
If we wanna preserve
Any of our super-symmetry

79. •
Bohemian Rhapsody
A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity!

80. Fun Questions

81. • On June 3rd,2009, she was ‘killed’ and this led
to protests and pleas to bring her back
• Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy heart that
I have to announce that I will be shutting
down the Save X campaign and everything
associated with it," Puneet Agarwal, who
earlier went by the pseudonym
'Deshmukh', said in a statement released on
the Save X site.

82. • Savita bhabhi

83. •
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This is a 2005 book of fiction. The book has 13 chapters.
Each chapters name is prefixed with a number, which are:
1000
2000
5000
10000
50000
100000
200000
500000
1000000
10000000
100000000
1000000000 Which book?

84. • “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup.the book was also rereleased under that name in the wake of the
Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire