Organised by The Brains Trust, Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla

2. ELIMINATION ROUND

4. ‘I’ have every right to
command you..turn off your
Cell phones!!!

6. ‘കപ്പിത്താന്‍ കുശിനിയിലെ ചിമ്മിനിയില്‍
പറങ്കി വാറ്റി വീഞ്ഞുണ്ടാക്കി-വീഞ്ഞ്
കകാപ്പയിൊക്കി കേശപ്പുറത്ത് വച്ച
കപ്പിത്താന്‍ ലെേികത്തരിയില്‍ കപായ
പാതിരിലയ വിരുന്നിനു വിളിച്ചു
കകെരയിെിരുത്തി’..........
ഈ വരികള് നിങ്ങകളാട് എന്ത് പറയുന്നു ?

7. ‘കപ്പിത്താന്‍ കുശിനിയിലെ ചിമ്മിനിയില്‍
പറങ്കി വാറ്റി വീഞ്ഞുണ്ടാക്കി-വീഞ്ഞ്
കകാപ്പയിൊക്കി കേശപ്പുറത്ത് വച്ച
കപ്പിത്താന്‍ ലെേികത്തരിയില്‍ കപായ
പാതിരിലയ വിരുന്നിനു വിളിച്ചു
കകെരയിെിരുത്തി’..........
All terms derived from Portuguese
Influence

9. The Portia tree was dense with foliage…If you
looked closely, you could see the yellow
trumpet…like flowers with their flared mouth
and the dropping fading red one with their
inviting smiles… Portia flowers always grow
more beautiful as they fade….Kali leaped up
and plucked one….
Spot this work and its author.

10. Perumal Murukan
One Part Women

13. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

15. The word ‘X’ is derived from a Farsi word X-1, means
Pre designed-’X’ got its first textual reference
in Ancient Iranian text Avestha… The South Indian
Sangham text ‘Puramnanooru’ associates ‘X’ with
Perumchottu Uthiyan Cheralathan, a legendary
Chera King….The 16th century Mughal biographical
text Ain-i-Akbari also refers ‘X’… Sivaganga district of
southern Tamil Nadu, Talakkathecheri of Malabar
and Baghnagar of Telungana are he hotspots of ‘X’…
Identify ‘x’!!!!!

16. BIRIYANI

18. Name this
Programme launched
on October 11th 2014

21. Identify the map and its significance!!!

22. TASRAK

24. The person ‘x’ was travelling to England in 1912
with his son ‘Y’ to meet William Rosenstein (an
amazing painter of 20th century)–During his travel
‘X’ was keeping a manuscript called ‘Z’ in an attache
case-On their arrival at London ‘X’ forgets his
attaché case at the railway station-The very next
year the person ‘X’ got his rare fortune to deliver a
Banquet Speech at Grand hotel Stockholm-
Now It’s your turn - What is the official connection
between ‘Y’ and Jawaharlal Nehru!!!!!

25. ‘X’-Rabindranath Tagore
‘Y’-Rathindranath Tagore(His son)
‘Z’-Geethanjali(Manuscript)
ANSWER
Rathindranath Tagore was the former Vice
chancellor of Visva-Bharati University-and the
Indian Prime minister and Jawaharlal Nehru
holds the post of its chancellor!!!

27. Where in this universe you can find
the following epigraphs together-
 Victoria written in Devanagiri script
 A text of bible verse in Hebrew suggesting ‘In
the face of adversity’
 A black and white image of the Christ
inspired from Mathew Brooke's painting the
man of sorrows’

28. David Beckham’s body!!!

30. This route map will tell
you what?
Your clue-
Raghavan
Krishnan Nair
Thevarthundiyil Titus

31. Gandhiji’s Dandi march-Sabarmathi to
Dandi

33. The Red Sari is an unauthorized
dramatized version of Sonia Gandhi’s
biography- which already initiated some
controversies in and around Indian Politics-
Identify its author?

34. Javier Moro

36. What is common to these pictures ?

39. Identify the person behind this voice-He was a
former History professor of Kashmir
University and later joined as the news
reader of Akashavani

40. Audio clip -1
GOPAN( AIR)

42. When ‘A’ and ‘B’ met together, they started
complementing each other…
‘A’ to ‘B’…What I admire most about your art is
its universality. You do not say a word and yet
the world understands you…
Now ‘B’ to ‘A’…Its true, but your fame is even
greater…The world admires you…when
nobody understand you!!!!
Now its your Turn-Who is ‘A’ and Who is ‘B’

45. This was coined for the first time by James
Kieran, a New York Times journalist….In US
this means an advisory council for the
President….But in UK, this was started as a
TV show by BBC….But among us this is
known in a very different way….What is it ?

48. ‘X’ was the best known animal to serve as a
Y’s trademark…He was company’s longest
lived trademark, having appeared since
1957…He was captured in the Namibian
jungles and brought to the United States in
1921..The first animal of its kind to have been
transported by air…Identify ‘X’ and ‘Y’

49. X-Leo the Lion
Y-Metro Goldwyn Mayer

51. C
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54. 12
Sir Arthur Rowland was an unpopular and
highly corrupt British civil servant who
served as the Revenue Member of the
Executive Council of the Governor of Madras
State Presidency from 1923 to 1926..His
unpopular persona contributed a negative
term to Malayalam vocabulary derived from
his name-What is it?

55. 12
ക്ണാപ്പ്!!!

57. 1. 24th February 2010
2. 8th September 2011
3. 22th November 2013
4. 13th November 2014
5. ………………………………?
Fill the fifth date!!!!!

58. 1. 24th February 2010
2. 8th September 2011
3. 22th November 2013
4. 13th November 2014
5. ………………………………?

60. Name the CEO of National Institution
for Transforming India Aayog?

61. Sindhusree Khullar

63. Our national Anthem was first
appeared in a journal, ‘Tatvabodhini
Patrika’… First sung in 1911 Dec 27,
in an annual session of Indian
National Congress.Tagore wrote
down its English translation in 1915-
He was assisted by a famous Irish
lady-She married to James Cousins,
an English poet and a literary critic-
Identify her name?

64. Margaret Elizabeth Cousins