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QUESTION 1
The 3 gentlemen shown in the image once
went to watch a 1940s British horror
movie. This movie had a circular plot, with
a recurrent nightmare portion, that gave
the movie a never-ending feel. the movie
could be imagined to have no beginning
or end because of its circular plot.
After the movie ended, these 3 men
entered into a discussion about the movie
and its nature. This discussion (and
further contemplation) led to the them
proposing something. What?

QUESTION 2
• The film "The Fifth Estate" will release towards the end of 2013, and will
feature Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. It was once rumoured to have
the title "The Man Who Sold the World", but that's just an empty leak.
• Cumberbatch is playing the role of the gentleman who has described the
movie as A "serious propaganda attack on _________ and the integrity of its
staff, as a 'lie built upon a lie'"
• So who is Cumberbatch playing?

QUESTION 3
In 2012, to his surprise, this English footballer, known for his controversial ways,
found his likeness on the backs of cigarette packs in India, as part of a new set of
mandatory warnings against smoking (it showed a man with blackened lungs).
After his lawyers threatened to sue, the Indian health ministry withdrew the
image, though they insisted "the picture could be of any man". Who?

APRIL FOOLS DAY PRANKS BY BMW
Each year WCRS (BMW's advertising agency) produces a tactical April Fool's day
advert which appears in the broadsheet press on April 1st only. The April Fool's
day concepts are designed to teeter on the verge of credibility, therefore taking
in scores of slightly less vigilant readers. The concepts tend to focus on a new
and revolutionary piece of technology from BMW, yet push the idea just beyond
the plausible.

QUESTION 5. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS LETTER?

LED TO THE INTRODUCTION OF TOILETS ON TRAINS
There were no toilets in lower classes of Indian railways before 1909. Babu
Okhil Chandra Sen shot this complaint letter to the Transport Superintendent at
Sahibaganj, following which railways were compelled to introduce toilets in all
lower class coaches in trains running at a speed of more than 50 miles per hour.
This letter is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi.

AUDIENCE QUESTION 1
What function d(n) is plotted on the
graphs alongside?
ANSWER
Number of characters in the Roman numeral representation of numbers

QUESTION 6
• XKCD Tribute to which award-winning Children’s
TV Series which follows the daydreams of a
“little dog with big imagination” where the
protagonist acts out a famous story from
literature or folklore
• Some famous works that have been portrayed
by this series include Oliver Twist, Don Quixote,
A Tale of Two Cities and Robin Hood amongst
others.

QUESTION 7
• A cold blooded killer, “Bruce” (named after his father’s lawyer) also called “the great white turd” by his
close friends and family members, was responsible for recreating the spine-chilling death sequence of a
similar incident that took place in Jersey in 1916. His victims were a swimmer in the surf; a dog; a boy;
and the leg of a man in a tidal slough.
• Bruce had a troubled story to him and was seldom fit enough to be on the run. However, his illness
turned out to be a boon for his family members who were forced to use a mechanical device as his
replacement thereby adding to the “chilling/haunting” reputation that Bruce enjoyed.
• Many attempts on his life were made by expert criminal hunters, but Bruce was able to evade them for
a very long time; sometimes performing ‘impossible’ feats like destroying a cage specially built for him
and managing to swim under the sea even with multiple barrels attached to him. Eventually, he was
killed in an explosion instantiated by the presence of mind of the city’s water-fearing police chief.
• Where would one have found Bruce on the 4th of July, 1975?

QUESTION 8
Which famous company’s logo is being
parodied in this meme?

QUESTION 9. WHAT IS COMMON AND SPECIFIC TO
THESE 26 COUNTRIES?

THE WORLD’S REMAINING MONARCHIES

TERI BEHEN DI! QUESTION 1
CONNECT THE CONNECTS

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON ADOLF HITLER
• Helmut Hirsch (20.12.1936)
• Claus von Stauffenburg (20.07.1944)
• Beppo Roemer (1934, 1941-43)
• Philipp von Boeselager (March 1943)

TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR
• Adolf Hitler (1938)
• Pope John Paul II (1994)
• John F Kennedy (1961)
• Computer (1982)
• Ben Bernanke (2009)
• Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)

AUDIENCE QUESTION 2
• The X, named after its creator, also
known as the Earmouse was a laboratory
mouse that had what looked like a
human ear grown on its back. The "ear"
was actually an ear-shaped cartilage
structure grown by seeding cow cartilage
cells into a biodegradable ear-shaped
mold and then implanted under the skin
of the mouse.
• This wondrous creation of science served
as an inspiration for the writer/director
Vincenzo Natali who came up with the
story for Y – a sci-fi horror film which
showed what can go wrong when
scientists mess with DNA to create Dren,
a hybrid of many species.
ANSWER
X – Vacanti Mouse
Y – Splice

QUESTION 11
• In the summer of 1998, based on
classified data about the state of the
U.S. economy and society supplied to
him by fellow analysts at FAPSI, X, a
Russian Professor and political
scientist forecast the probable
disintegration of the USA into six parts
in 2010, following a civil war triggered
by mass immigration, economic
decline, and moral degradation. He
forecast financial and demographic
changes provoking a political crisis in
which wealthier states will withhold
funds from the federal government,
effectively seceding from the Union,
leading to social unrest, civil war,
national division, and intervention of
foreign powers.
• Whose hypothesis which gained world
attention a decade after its initial
announcement due to the 2008
financial crisis am I talking about?

QUESTION 12. SIMPLY ID THE BAND

BAND: SUPERHEAVY
SINGLE: MIRACLE WORKER
It is a super group consisting of Mick
Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, A. R.
Rahman, and Damian Marley formed with
the sole objective to showcase different
musical styles, with music ranging from
reggae to ballads to Indian music

MOVIES THAT WON THE BEST FOREIGN FILM AWARD AT THE
OSCARS WHEN INDIAN FILMS WERE NOMINATED
• Nights of Cabiria (1957) won against Mother India
• Pelle the Conquerer (1988) won against Salaam Bombay!
• No Man’s Land (2001) won against Lagaan

QUESTION 14
• According to the firm’s website, its founder was born
in September 1846, although seemingly no one knows
the exact date because the birth records were
destroyed in a courthouse fire. If the 1846 date is
correct, he might have become a licensed _____ at the
age of 20, as the firm claims a founding date of 1866.
• He died in 1911 from blood poisoning which started
from an infection. The infection allegedly began in one
of his toes, which he injured one early morning at
work by kicking his safe in anger when he could not
get it open (he was said to always have had trouble
remembering the combination).
• He never married and did not have any children.
However, he took his favorite nephew, Lem Motlow,
under his wing.
• Tennessee passed a state-wide prohibition law in
1910, preventing the the firm from legally carrying out
its production in the state, and as a result Lem Motlow
began distilling operations in St Louis, Missouri and
Birmingham, Alabama, though none of the production
from these locations was ever sold due to quality
problems. Motlow, as a Tennessee state senator,
helped repeal these laws, allowing production to
restart in 1938
• The U.S. government banned the manufacture of the
product during World War II and a little beyond, from
1942 to 1946. Motlow resumed production only in
1947 after good quality corn was again available.
• When the company was later incorporated, it was
incorporated as “________ Distillery, Lem Motlow,
Prop., Inc."

• The irony of the entire thing is that the main
centre for production of the product is located
in Moore County where while it is legal to _____
the product within the county, it is illegal to
purchase it there.
• Name the company whose founder gives it his
name and is shown in the photograph alongside.

QUESTION 15
This painting gives rise to a popular
English phrase. Give me the artist
and the painting/phrase.

ANSWER
• Painting – The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
• Painter – Caravaggio
• Phrase – Doubting Thomas
• Apostle Thomas refused to believe that the
resurrected Jesus had appeared to the eleven
other apostles, until he could see and feel the
wounds received by Jesus on the cross.

AUDIENCE QUESTION 3
Alongside is an excerpt from a cartoon
strip parodying the bearded guy in the left
panel. Who has been blanked out in the
right panel?
ANSWER
Wall – E who was voted the most popular
metal hero in 2008, beating Iron-Man.

QUESTION 16
• I got off the plane around midnight and no one spoke as I crossed the dark runway to the terminal. The air was
thick and hot, like wandering into a steam bath. Inside, people hugged each other and shook hands... big grins
and a whoop here and there: "By God! You old bastard! Good to see you, boy! Damn good... and I mean it!“
• In the air-conditioned lounge I met a man from Houston who said his name was something or other--"but just
call me Jimbo"--and he was here to get it on. "I'm ready for anything, by God! Anything at all. Yeah, what are
you drinkin?" I ordered a Margarita with ice, but he wouldn't hear of it: "Naw, naw... what the hell kind of
drink is that for ________________ time? What's wrong with you, boy?" He grinned and winked at the
bartender. "Goddam, we gotta educate this boy. Get him some good whiskey...“
• I shrugged. "Okay, a double Old Fitz on ice." Jimbo nodded his approval.
• This is an extract from an article that was written for the June 1970 edition of the Scanlan’s Monthly. Which
famous style of writing, sometimes claimed to be a corruption of a French Canadian word meaning ‘shining
path’ finds its origins in this article? Also, name the author who often annoyed his editors because he faxed
articles late--" “too late to be edited, yet still in time for the printer“, in true ______ style.

GONZO JOURNALISM
• This is an extract from the article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” written by Hunter S.
Thompson.
• Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the
reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.

QUESTION 17
• On December 12, 1799, X spent several hours inspecting his plantation on horseback, in snow, hail, and freezing rain—later
that evening eating his supper without changing from his wet clothes. The next day, he awoke with a severe sore throat and
became increasingly hoarse as the day progressed, yet still rode out in the heavy snow, marking trees on the estate that he
wanted cut. Sometime around 3 a.m. that night, he suddenly awoke with severe difficulty breathing and almost completely
unable to speak or swallow. A firm believer in bloodletting, a standard medical practice of that era which he had used to
treat various ailments of enslaved Africans on his plantation, he ordered estate overseer Rawlins to remove half a pint of his
blood. A total of three physicians were sent for. Craik and Brown thought that he had what they diagnosed as "quinsey" or
"quincy", while Dick, the younger man, thought the condition was more serious or a "violent inflammation of the throat". By
the time the three physicians had finished their treatments and bloodletting, there had been a massive volume of
bloodloss—half or more of his total blood content being removed over the course of just a few hours. Recognizing that the
bloodletting and other treatments were failing, Dr. Dick proposed performing an emergency tracheotomy, a procedure that
few physicians were familiar with at the time, as a last-ditch effort to save his life; but the other two doctors rejected this
proposal.
• He died at home around 10 p.m. that night, aged 67. In a journal his last words were recorded as being "'Tis well.“
• Whose death which was followed by Napoleon ordering 10 days of mourning in France and thousands of Americans wearing
mourning clothes for months are we talking about?

GEORGE WASHINGTON – THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF USA

QUESTION 18. CONNECT (SPECIFIC)

ACTORS THAT PLAYED THE ROLE OF RAMA IN
POPULAR MEDIA ADAPTATIONS OF RAMAYANA
• Arun Govil in the TV series directed by Ramanand Sagar aired on Doordarshan from 1987-88.
• NT Rama Rao in Sampoorna Ramayanam – a 1958 Tamil-Telugu bilingual movie and Lava Kusha – a 1963
Uttara Kandam based Telugu movie.
• Manoj Bajpai in Ramayana: The Epic released by Warner Bros. in 2010

QUESTION 19. HONG KONG SPECIAL! FITB
• Literally meaning touch the heart, _______ was not a main meal, only a snack though now it has
become a staple of Cantonese dining culture, especially in Hong Kong. The practice of eating _____ at a
restaurant is usually known in Cantonese as yum cha – going to drink tea.
• _____ has its roots in travellers on the ancient Silk Road needing a place to rest. Thus teahouses were
established along the roadside. Rural farmers, exhausted after working hard in the fields, would go to
teahouses for a relaxing afternoon of tea. At first, it was considered inappropriate to combine tea with
food, because people believed it would lead to excessive weight gain. People later discovered that tea
can aid in digestion, so teahouse owners began adding various snacks.
• The unique culinary art of ________ originated with the Cantonese in southern China, who over the
centuries transformed yum cha from a relaxing respite to a loud and happy dining experience.

X?
• Bahadur was the reformed son of a dacoit. This dichotomy
was actually based on a real life experience of the creator
Abid Surti, who lived in Dongri. It was an area which was
inhabited by smugglers and small-time crooks. Many
people used to visit Surti’s uncle, a well-known personality
who was known for his social service toward the
downtrodden. One of them was a honest and honorable
constable who had a son - ___X____.
• Even now Surti has not come to terms with the fact that
someone as honest as that constable ended up having a
son like ____X____. It is this dichotomy of two
personalities from the same background, who end up
doing opposite things, which has been traced in Surti’s
work. Thus, Bahadur, the son of a well-known dacoit
Bhairav Singh, ended up becoming a vigilante who fights
against evil. Who is X , whose life story inspired the
creation of Bahadur ?

AMADEUS’ LAST NAME?
Amadeus ______ was a psychiatrist, whose mother Elizabeth having suffered
from mental illness most of her life, was killed by him. He then decided, to
remodel his family home in order to properly treat the mentally ill, so others
might not suffer as his mother had. However, shortly afterwards a criminal by
the name of Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Hawkins escapes from prison, enters Amadeus’
home and rapes and kills his wife and daughter. He treats "Mad Dog" Hawkins
for months until finally electrocuting him in a shock therapy session. Although
this incident is treated as an accident by the authorities, Amadeus freefalls into
madness.

ARKHAM OF THE ARKHAM ASYLUM FAME

AUDIENCE QUESTION 4
ID and claim to fame
ANSWER
Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. They are the co founders of Quora

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