This document provides clues and answers to trivia questions. It includes questions about landmarks like the Hampi monument, phrases like "The Eagle Has Landed", authors like Amitava Ghosh and books like The Glass Palace. It also discusses topics like Kautilya's Mandala theory of international relations, Salvador Dali's collaboration with Luis Bunuel on the film An Andalusian Dog, Oscar award winners, paintings like The Scream, concepts in Hindu mythology like the Kalpa and Manvantara, and more. The document tests knowledge across history, arts, literature and pop culture.

1. Set by
KARAN RATHI

2. Q1.
Where would you
find this
monument?

3. Hampi

4. Q2.
 Originally used in late 60’s to describe a landmark
event in history this phrase is now used to indicate the
completion of a mission or an objective.
 This shares the title of a famous book which went on
to sell over 50 million copies worldwide as of now.
 This also shares the title of a John Sturges film which
upon release was quite successful and gained a cult
following.
What’s the phrase?

5. “The Eagle Has Landed”

6. Q3. What has been removed here?

7. Roger Ebert

8. Q4.
 X famously withdrew his novel Y from consideration for
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, where it had been awarded
the Best Novel in Eurasian section, citing his objections to
the term "Commonwealth" and the unfairness of the
English-language requirement specified in the rules.
Subsequently, he landed in controversy over his acceptance
of the Israeli literary award, the $1 million dollar Dan David
Prize.
 Burmese Press Scrutiny Board asked for many cuts in the
Burmese translation of Y as the last part of novel is an
extended elegy to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Id X and Y.

9. Amitava Ghosh
The Glass Palace

10. *Q5.
 X is a freshwater lake lying on the Highland Boundary
Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands
of Central Scotland and the Highlands. It is 39 kilometres
(24 mi) long and between 1.21 kilometres (0.75 mi) and 8
kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. It has an average depth of about
37 metres (121 ft), and a maximum depth of about 190
metres (620 ft). Its surface area is 71 km2 (27 sq mi), and it
has a volume of 2.6 km3 (0.62 cu mi). Of all lakes in Great
Britain, it is the largest by surface area, and the second
largest by water volume.
 A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers voted X as the 6th
greatest natural wonder in Britain.
Id X.

12. Q6.
The 12 kings are-
 central king or vijigishu
 the enemy in front or ari
 the friend or mitra
 the enemy’s friend in front or arimitra
 the friend's friend or mitramitra
 the enemies friend's friend or arimitra mitra
 the enemy in rear or parshanigraha
 the friend in the rear or akranda
 the enemy’s friend in rear or parshanigrahasara
 the friend's friend in rear or akrandasara
 intermediary or madhyama
 neutral or udasina
These constitute what?

13. Kautilya’s international system of
Mandala Theory

14. Q7.
 An Andalusian Dog is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by
the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and X. It uses dream logic
in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-
popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of
tenuously related scenes.
 The idea for the film began when Buñuel told X at a
restaurant one day about a dream in which a cloud sliced
the moon in half "like a razor blade slicing through an eye".
X responded that he'd dreamed about a hand crawling with
ants. Excitedly, Buñuel declared: "There's the film, let's go
and make it.” They were fascinated by what the psyche
could create, and decided to write a script based on the
concept of suppressed human emotions.
Id X

15. Salvador Dali

16. Q8.
…..The Silence of the Lambs(1991), The Remains of the
Day(1993), The English Patient(1996), American
Beauty(1999), X, Silver Linings Playbook(2012).
In terms of oscars, identify X.

17. Million Dollar Baby(2004)

18. Q9.
“I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun
was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I
paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence –
there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black
fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood
there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite
______ passing through nature.”
This memory was rendered by the artist as a poem,
which he hand-painted onto the frame of the 1895 pastel
version of the work.
Which artwork?

19. The Scream

20. *Q10.
 According to Hindu mythology, the cosmos passes through
cycles within cycles for all eternity. The basic cycle is the X,
a “day of Brahma”, or 4,320 million earthly years. His night
is of equal length. 360 such days and nights constitute a
“year of Brahma” and his life is 100 such years long. After
the largest cycle the whole universe returns to the ineffable
world-spirit, until another creator god is evolved.
 In each cosmic day the god creates the universe and again
absorbs it. During the cosmic night he sleeps, and the
whole universe is gathered up into his body, where it
remains as a potentiality. Within each X are fourteen Y, or
secondary cycles, each lasting 306,720,000 years, with long
intervals between them.
Id X and Y.

21. X : Kalpa
Y : Manvantara

22. Q.11 This dessert x meaning king's ring in Spanish is
usually eaten on January 6th during celebration of
Y(meaning king's day) to commemorate the arrival of
the three magi. identify X and Y.

23. Roscan de Reyes

24. Q.12 "His Highness is a remorseless tyrant,
guilty of the most horrible cruelties, very
brave, so good a general that they call him the
__________ ________”
Lord Byron commenting on Ali Pasha. What
has been blanked out?

25. Mahometan Buonaparte

26. Q.13 He was highest ranking scientist in Brown and
Williamson(one of the largest tobacco company in
U.S.).He was removed from his post once he
discovered the unethical practices of the company and
decided to go to media and
got involved as an expert witness in tobacco trials. He
is considered as the pioneer because of whom
nowadays cigarette packets comes with a warning.
Who am I talking about?
Ans: Jefferey Wigand

27. Q.14 After the defeat of the Nazis during World War II, there
was a scramble by all the major powers (U.S., U.K. and
Russia) to capture the leading Nazi scientists and
intelligence agents. The US operation was named
X. Many Nazi scientists were captured as a result – the most
famous of whom were Wenher Von Braun and Arthur
Rudolph, who helped the U.S. develop rockets for space
exploration and, ultimately, the moon landing.
The most famous of the intelligence agents recruited was
Reinhard Gehlen, who was used to set up a spy ring against
the Soviet Union (known as the Gehlen Organization). He
also helped train the Israeli Special Forces Mossad.
ID X

28. Operation Paperclip

29. *Q.15 Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald
Duart Maclean, Kim Philby and their fifth
associate is still unknown.
What’s their claim to fame?
Ans: The Cambridge Five

30. Q. 16 Identify this haircut which Matt Damon is
sporting.

31. Ivy League

32. Q.17 Ad by which company?

34. Q.18
This bird endemic
to the Carribean
islands of Cuba
derives its name
from its unique call.
It can also send out
short, distressed call
which makes its
location difficult to
trace.

35. The Cuban Trogon or Tocoroco

36. Q.19 Name the movie in which this song was
used.

38. Q.20* German stamp commemorating
which famous chemist?

40. Q.21 This renowned poet’s middle name
was Lee. The epitaph engraved on his
stone reads “I Had a Lover’s Quarrel With
The World.” Who?

42. Q.22 “X is built on the idea that Y can be more
intuitive, efficient and useful. And maybe even
fun”
Introduction of which widely used product?

44. Q.23 After the successful diving expedition to
locate the wreck of Titanic which country
issued 5000 of these oval shaped silver proof of
$10 coins depicting the doomed ship with a
small piece of coal incorporated at the coal
bunker section of the ship?

45. Liberia

46. Q.24 Hans Luther, Benjamin Harrison and
Mir Qasim. What fact connects them?

47. Preceded and Succeeded by
same person

48. Q.25* According to theoretical physics X is
defined as one dimensional filament of energy
usually microscopic. Sometimes considered
smaller than even Planck’s length (although
sometime this is in doubt). This is the
fundamental object in a celebrated theory. Id X.

49. String

50. Q.26 Vincent van Gogh being portrayed
by whom?

51. Kirk Douglas

52. Q.27 This Germanic neo-Pagan pendant and
the coat of arms of Torsas municipality, Sweden
both depict which mythical object?

53. mjollnir

55. Guqin

56. Q.29 The Government of India awarded this
guy its highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in
1958 , the year he turned 100 years old. In
honour of him Queen’s road in Mumbai was
renamed after him. Who was he?

57. Dhonda Keshav Karve

58. Q.30* This cocktail is made of equal parts
vodka, triple sec and lime juice. The name
literally means ‘God wind’ or ‘divine wind’. Id

59. Kamikaze