1. The document discusses various topics including rules, Bhagavad Gita verses, stilettos, The Shining hotel inspiration, Camp David, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, red carpet terms, the Tea Party movement, Ramayana stories in different countries, the origin of the word 'decimation', how to draw the Nepal flag, the origin of 'Azkaban', a possible Disney/Fox merger image, the origin of the word 'Mafia', Animal Farm, Schindler's List and the girl in red, Vodafone's Zoozoos advertisements, Jackie Chan's film credits, Severus Snape translations, Icelandic geothermally baked bread, the

2. Rules
 QM is God

3. 1. FITB
 The below shloka is from Chapter 2, verse 50 of the Bhagvad Gita. Simply, FITB
 Buddhiyukto jahatiha ubhe sukritadushkrite l
Tasmadyogaya yujyaswa _____ _______ _________ ll

4. Yogah Karmasu Kaushalam

5. 2. FITB
 These objects first appeared on Paris
runways in 1952 at a Christian Dior fashion
show and have been ruining women’s heels
ever since.
 Its name comes from its resemblance to a
stabbing weapon (pictured here) called a
“_______ dagger” that was first used during
the Renaissance.

6. Stilettos

7. 3. What was the inspired creation?
 Given in the image is the Stanley Hotel of
Colorado which is considered to be one of
the most haunted places in America.
 Sometime in 1970s, a certain someone
stayed in Room 217 of this hotel and was
inspired to create something based on the
stories of haunting he heard.
 The hotel takes its role in this creation quite
seriously and even plays the adaptation of
the creation in the hotel’s TV continously.

8. Inspiration for the Overlook hotel in The
Shining

9. 4.
 Officially called Naval Support Facility Thurmont, because technically it’s a military installation and
the staffing is majorly provided by the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
 Its got its current name from the nephew of Eisenhower while Roosevelt used to call it “Shangri-
La”
 ID this place which shot into major world news in September of 1978 for a Nobel Prize winning
effort made here.

10. Camp David

11. 5. ID what this event is popularly called
 This event that occurred in the second week of February,1929 resulted from the struggle between
the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by __ ______ to take control
of organized crime in the city and consolidate his power.
 The event or version of it have been portrayed in Scarface, The Untouchables and the Making of
the Mob.

12. Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre

13. 6.
 The phrase owes its origins comes from the practice of the 20th Century Limited train, that ran
from New York to Chicago, rolling out this to welcome boarding passengers.
 What popular 2 word term that captures the public imagination every year during the award
season.

14. Red Carpet

15. 7. ID this ‘historical’ political movement
 This American political movement, with darling children like Sarah Palin, Mike Pence and Ted
Cruz, is loosely allied with the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Members of the
movement have called for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit by lowering
government taxes.
 The movement began following Barrack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 when his administration
announced plans to bail out Wall Street after its collapse in 2008. It was first called for by CNB
reporter Rick Santelli in a rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he called
for a rehash of the events of December 6, 1773. This event is what gives the movement its current
name.

16. Tea Party Movement

17. 8.
 China – Langka Sip Hor
 Cambodia – Reamker
 Laos - Phra Lak Phra Lam
 Myanmar - Yama Zatdaw
 Hindi - ?

18. Ramyana

19. 9. Origin story of which word?
 The word owes its origins to a form of military discipline used by senior commanders in
the Roman Army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences, such
as mutiny or desertion.
 The word is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth". Today, it means to kill or destroy in
line with its original meaning

20. Decimation

21. 10. If you follow these steps of drawing, what
would you get?
(1) On the lower portion of a crimson cloth draw a line AB of the required length from left to right.
(2) From A draw a line AC perpendicular to AB making AC equal to AB plus one third AB. From AC
mark off D making the line AD equal to line AB. Join BD.
(3) From BD mark off E making BE equal to AB.
(4) Touching E draw a line FG, starting from the point F on line AC, parallel to AB to the right hand-
side. Mark off FG equal to AB.
(5) Join CG.

22. Nepal Flag

23. 11. ID X
 X comes from the Hebrew word ‘Abaddon’ meaning ‘place of destruction’. It also draws
inspiration from a similar institution located in San Francisco, though this institution is no longer
used for its intended purpose.
 This San Francisco institute has inspired an entire genre of movies which are called ‘getting off the
rock’ which include “The Rock”, “Birdman of _______”

24. Azkaban

25. 12.
 This image had been doing the
rounds last year as something
that could possibly happen as a
consequence of what?

26. Fox and Disney Deal will make this possible

27. 13.
 In 19th Century Europe, cheese was a hot commodity that was transported all over Europe from
Switzerland.
 However, after World War I, countries could no longer afford to buy their expensive cheese and
so the market almost went crashing. To counteract this, the Switzerland government formed a
secret Cheese Union which would control all the cheese manufacturers in the country and direct
all the activities and dealing of the Cheese Manufacturers and the pricing for the different
varieties of cheese.
 However, over time, their attempts at generating more money and controlling stakes in items
beyond just cheese earned them a two-word nickname, Cheese _____.
 FITB

28. Mafia

29. 14.
 China, very recently has been undergoing another phase of censorship and has banned a novel
very recently because in the eyes of the Chinese government, it promotes dissent against the
established order.
 In the book, the animals, who hate the farmers are led by pigs into rebellion but eventually, after
winning the conflict, the entire situation turns very similar to the original, this time with the pigs at
the helm, which is very similar to the situation in China.
 Which book

30. Animal Farm

31. 15.
 In the Trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most hated and feared Nazi Leaders, this story is one of
the moments that Assistant Prosecutor and later Supreme Court Judge, Gavriel Bach describes as
one of the moments that affected him a lot more than others.
 Bach was questioning Dr. Martin Földi, a survivor of Auschwitz, about the selection process at the
train station in the shadows of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz. Földi described
how he and a son went to the right while a daughter and his wife went to the left. His little
daughter wore the ___ ____. When an SS officer sent the son to join the mother and daughter,
Földi describes his panic. How would the boy, only twelve, find them among the thousands of
people there? But then he realized the ___ ____ would be like a beacon for the boy to join his
mother and sister.
 He then ends his testimony with the chilling phrase, "I never saw them again“
 How has this been immortalized in entertainment?

32. Schindler’s List, The Girl in Red

33. 16.
 Rajiv Rao, the national creative director of Ogilvy and Mathers India, this company came to them
with a project to create close to 30 advertisements in which they wanted people to look as
animated as possible.
 The effect was achieved by a variety of methods including choosing the right material for the
body suits to ensure that there were no wrinkles when the characters moved, shooting the
footage at lower framerates and keeping backgrounds simple in terms of details and the use of a
neutral tone of grey. The sets were made larger than life to make the characters look small as the
producers could not take children as the schedule of shooting was odd.
 The characters themselves were played by small-bodied thin women covered with layers of fabric
and the expressions were made from rubber and pasted onto the actors
 What am I talking about?

34. Vodafone’s Zoozoos

35. 17.
 This person holds the Guinness World Record for most number of credits in a film including actor,
cinematography, stuntman, stunt coordinator, art direction, theme tune vocalist, gaffer and
catering co-ordinator.
 We also know him apart from his movies, for which he has received an honorary Oscar for a
cartoon TV series that he produced and acted in which aired on Cartoon Network which was a
part of our childhood.

36. Jackie Chan

37. 18.
 In the Harry Potter franchise, there are few characters that invoke severity better than X, which is
evident from the name itself. When the Harry Potter books were being translated to other
languages, the regional translators wanted to maintain this in the translations for the readers’
understanding.
 As a result, the official translation of the name for X in Italian was _______ Piton where Piton
means snake because the character’s last name sounded like snake.
 In French, the translated name became _______ Rogue to try to preserve the character sketch of
the character in the translation.
 Which character?

38. Severus Snape

39. 19.
 Siggi Rafn Hilmarsson is an Icelandic baker with an interesting technique. He is an example of the
traditional baker for ‘hverbraud’ or ______bread where the dough is left to bake for close to 12
hours in a way that is very different from the norm.
 The resulting bread, which has been very slowly baked over the duration is dark in colour and
has a a a sweet and molassy taste, unique because of the baking process, which can only be
recreated in Iceland.
 How does he bake the bread?

40. Geothermal Heating

41. 20.
 This Sanskrit word is familiar to Indians for at least five different reasons.
 It means region, but has been used in several other Asian countries where it means ‘nation’
 The Lao word ‘pathet’, and the Thai word ‘prathet’ are all derived from this Sanskrit word.
 What is this word?

42. Pradesh

43.  If only half the normal amount of water is used, the beverage is known as a ristretto. If double the
amount of water is used, it is known as a lungo.
 What is the beverage called when the standard amount of water (25-30 milliletres, according to
the National ________ Institute of Italy) is used?
21.

44. Espresso

45. 22.
 This ubiquitous food item was first designed and experimented for by a Japanese guy named
Momofuku Ando, who after World War Two was trying to solve the hunger crisis in Japan and
USA gave flour to the Japanese to try to get them to start baking bread.
 Ando didn’t see why they should shift to bread when they had a perfectly awesome alternative
which was already part of the culture of his country. So, he started to search for a methodology
to mass produce and package this but kept failing because he couldn’t keep the texture and
flavour intact.
 This was only until he saw his wife cooking one day and put ______ in a bowl of very hot tempura
oil thus flash-frying them.

46. Instant Ramen/ Instant Noodles

47. 23.
 China was in the middle of a construction boom of nuclear plants when the 2011 Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear disaster happened. The reactor meltdown forced China to put on hold the
construction of around 25 plants, and hteir fate remained unclear at that point in time.
 This entire crisis was beautifully summed up in a headline the punned on the name of an action
TV series which later inspired the film series because of which we know the original term, with a
title sequence, that almost invariably always had a fuse burning across the screen.
 Which headline?

48. Fission Impossible