The Triple Frontier region of South America.

1. Nishant Prateek

2. What does the word
―Serendepity‖ mean?

3.  Serendipity means a "happy accident"
or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the
accident of finding something good or
useful while not specifically searching
for it. The word has been voted one of
the ten English words hardest to
translate in June 2004 by a British
translation company. However, due to its
sociological use, the word has been
exported into many other languages.

4. What do the red stars represent?
Hint will be given if asked for!
Skopje
Macedonia

5. Lahore
Shantiniketan Almora
Khanewal
Calcutta
Skopje
Macedonia
Chidambaram
Thiruchirapalli Mumbai

6. Birth Places of Nobel Laureates from India/Indian origin/Indian born…..
British-Raj Citizens
Ronald Ross – Almora, Uttarakhand
Rudyard Kipling – Mumbai, Maharashtra
Rabindranath Tagore – Calcutta, WB
Sir CV Raman – Tiruchirapalli, TN
American Citizens of Indian Origin
Hargobind Khorana – Khanewal, Pakistan
S Chandrasekhar – Lahore, Pakistan
Venki Ramakrishnan – Chidambaram, TN
Indian Citizens of foreign origin
Mother Teresa – Skopje, Macedonia
People of Indian Descent
VS Naipaul- Port of Spain, Trinidad
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Amartya Sen – Shantiniketan, WB

7. Who is this man, and why
did he make this chart?

8. Alfred Mosher Butts, the inventor of the board game Scrabble, sitting on a pile of
Scrabble tiles. He decided upon the letter distribution by studying the letter
frequencies on the first page of the New York Times and made a chart of it. The
frequencies of alphabets in Scrabble have remained unchanged since its
invention by Butts during the Great Depression.

9. The following are different kinds of what?
New York
Chicago
New Haven
Hawaiian
Californian
Greek
Sicilian
St.Louis
Mexican
Detroit

10. Pizza

11. __________ ___________ was started by Michael Hart in 1971 with the
digitization of the United States Declaration of Independence. Hart, a
student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V
Mainframe Computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Through
friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited
amount of computer time; its value at that time has since been variously
estimated at $100,000 or $100,000,000. Hart has said he wanted to "give
back" this gift by doing something that could be considered to be of great
value.
What did Hart start?

12. Hart is the founder of Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library. Project
Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the Univ of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
The Project was named after Johannes Gutenberg, who was the inventor
of the mechanical printing press and movable type printing press.

13. Who said the following? And what was the person talking about?
Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000.
By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter
of 20,000 can be approached.

14. Chaturadhikam śatamaśṭaguṇam dvāśaśṭistathā sahasrāṇām
Ayutadvayaviśkambhasyāsanno vrîttapariṇahaḥ.
Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000.
By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter
of 20,000 can be approached.
Aryabhata, approximating the value of π (3.1416)

15. These pictures show the remains of a famous building
connected to
Indian history. Identify this building that marked its
centenary in 2010.

16. Tolstoy Farm.
Tolstoy Farm was a community started by Gandhi in Transvaal, South
Africa, in 1910. It became the headquarters of the campaign of satyagraha
which he lead at that time. The farm, 22 miles from Johannesburg, had
been bought by Herman Kallenbach, one of Gandhi's supporters and
placed at the disposal of the Satyagrahis for as long as the campaign lasted.
It already had 1,000 fruit bearing trees on the 1,100 acres of land. There
were 2 wells and a spring, but only a couple of small buildings. The name,
Tolstoy Farm, was suggested by Kallenbach.

17. What is this person doing here and why?

18. Trying to kiss the Blarney Stone.
The Blarney Stone is a block of bluestone built into the battlements of
Blarney
Castle, Blarney, about 5 miles (8 km) from Cork, Ireland.
According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of
gab (great
eloquence or skill at flattery)
To touch the stone with one's lips, the participant must ascend to the
castle's peak,
then lean over backwards on the parapet's edge, with the help of an
assistant. This
ritual has been performed by "millions of people", including "world
statesmen,
literary giants and legends of the silver screen"
In 2009, Tripadvisor.com ranked the Blarney Stone as the most
unhygienic tourist
attraction in the world.

19. Which famous fictional character was
inspired by this gentleman?

20. Sherlock Holmes, inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell.
Conan Doyle, during his Medical Studies served as Dr. Bell's ward-assistant,
giving him an opportunity to view Dr. Bell's remarkable ability to quickly
deduce a great deal about a patient.
Dr. Bell observed the way a person moved. The walk of a sailor varied vastly from that of
a solider. If he identified a person as a sailor he would look for any tattoos that might
assist him in knowing where their travels had taken them.
He trained himself to listen for small differences in his patient's accents to help him
identify where they were from. Bell studied the hands of his patients because calluses
or other marks could help him determine their occupation.

21. Ramanuj Saran Singh Deo (1917-1965 ), Maharajah of Surguja
(An erstwhile Princely state located in Chattisgarh) bears the
dark honour of holding the record for shooting the most tigers —
a total of 1,360.
But what more notorious distinction did he attain in the year
1947?

22. He shot the last known three Asiatic cheetahs in India

23. In which novel do you find the following
satire (on both places and events)
Karnistan (Pakistan)
Great Mango march (Great Salt march)
Hastinapur massacre (Jallianwallah
Bagh)
Snoop-ing, the capital of Chakra
(Beijing,
the capital of PRC)
Also identify the author.

24. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi
Tharoor, a satire on Mahabharata

25. This lead character in
Hogan's Alley, drawn by
Richard Outcault was
probably used unfairly to
name the newspaper
circulation war between
Joseph Pulitzer and William
Randolph Hearst.
What was the term coined
from this comic strip
character and how is that
term used today?

26. Yellow kid Journalism
The term was shortened to 'Yellow
Journalism‗
It is a type of journalism that
presents little or no legitimate well-
researched news and instead
uses eye-catching
headlines to sell more
newspapers

27. Identify the monument

28. Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow.
Made of Titanium. Erected in 1980

29. In a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February
1967, participants could easily answer questions
pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to
reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was
Rama's mother?"
Shocked at the level of ignorance, XYZ started a
series which he called ........................
Identify XYZ and what did he start.

30. Anant Pai started Amar Chitra Katha

31. Algorithm to derive a phone-number
from the 2003 book X:
Step 1: Create a new SMS.
Step 2: Change the mode to number
mode.
Step 3: Enter the word that the
organization is responsible for.
Step 4: End.
The number so got is the phone-
number of the organization.
Id X.

33. Identify the comic.
What is it trying to spoof?

35. A famous illustrator,
among other things,
he has illustrated the
books as well as the
covers of a famous
series.
Id him and the series.

36. Christopher Paolini, also the writer of the
Inheritance Cycle

37. The last survivor who returned home to tell
the tale.
Id the story.

38. Pied Piper of Hamelin

39. Famous first lines:
Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you --
Telephone
What hath God wrought -- ?
10-22-38 Astoria [20 pts] -- ?
Hint: 60th Anniversary for the last.

40. Samuel Morse's Telegraph and Chester Carlson's Photocopy
(aka Xerox) machine.

41. The proposal to establish this college was conceived
during a breakfast meeting on 4 August 1894, between
Sidney Webbs, Graham Wallas (both members of Fabian
society), and Bernard Shaw. The proposal was accepted
by the trustees of the Fabian society in February 1895 and
the college held its first classes in October of that year, in
rooms at 9 John Street, Adelphi, in the city of Westminster.
•Identify the college.

43. Founded in 1924 by Parampalli Yajnanarayana Maiya
and his brothers, this place claims to have invented the
Rava Idli during WWII when rice was in short supply and
they used Sooji (rava) instead. Also famous for its
packed instant cooked food business which started due
to the Food Control Act in the 70s Emergency, when the
food prices mandated by the act made it un-profitable for
the place to continue working. The instant food business
now, though has been sold off to a Norwegian industrial
conglomerate Orkla in 2007.
Identify the place.

44. Mavalli Tiffin Room

45. Connect

46. Appu
1982 Asian Games
Bholu
Indian Railways’ 150th anniversary, 2002
Stumpy
2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

47. • When Guru Ram Rai came to this region along
with his followers, he established a camp
(“dera”) here. It was around this time this
place started to develop. Which place are we
talking about?

48. Dehradun

49. Fill in the blanks a and b
A …(a).. …, in the original sense of the term,
describes an automobile that has not been
modified from its original factory configuration.
Later the term …(a).. … came to mean any
production-based automobile used in racing.
This term is used to differentiate such an
…(a)..… from a race car, a special, custom-
built car designed only for racing purposes.
On Dec14, 1947, William Francis Sr., a
mechanic in Daytona Florida decided to cash in
on the popularity of …(a).. … racing and started
the …(b)… the biggest sanctioning body of
…(a).. … in the U.S.

50. a- Stock Car
b- NASCAR

52. Lawyers representing Ajmal Kasab for his defence.
Anjali Waghmare – Till 15th Apr 2009- Removed
because she represented a witness in the Cama
Hospital firing case.
S G Abbas Kazmi – Till 30th Dec 2009 – Removed
due to misconduct and lying in court.
K P Pawar – Lawyer till High court verdict for death
sentence came.
Amin Solkar and Farhana Shah – Representing
Kasab for his mercy appeal.

53. Life magazine estimated in 1936 that 10 million Americans, or approximately 6% of
the population had at least one. A Harris Poll, done in 2003, nearly triples those
numbers and estimates that 16% of Americans now have one or more .
An article ranked __________ as the sixth fastest growing retail venture of the
1990s, right behind Internet, paging services, bagels, computer and cellular phone
service. On the average, an establishment is being added in the country every day.
Virtually every language is searched for . Japanese and Chinese characters/symbols
are among the most frequently searched. Backs rank the highest in searches
(lower, upper and all over) Unmentionables also rank high.
__________ in the Western world today has its origins in Polynesia (a large
grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific
Ocean).

54. Tattoos

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Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Who is the Man of a Thousand Voices?

56. MEL BLANC
Mel Blanc voiced Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Sylvester the
Cat, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn,Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Barney
Rubble, Mr. Spacely, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Heathcliff, and
hundreds of others.

57. • The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of
Worcester, Massachusetts (now known as Hanover
Insurance) purchased Guarantee Mutual Company
of Ohio. The merger resulted in low employee
morale. In an attempt to solve this, Harvey Ball was
employed in 1963 as a freelance artist to create
something to boost the employee morale. In less
than ten minutes the design was complete. What
did he design?

59. Who is she?
• She is 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a 36 -18 -33
figure. In 1963 book entitled How to Lose
Weight she had given the advice: "Don't
eat." which created an uproar among
physicians and dieticians. At around
50kg, she was 16kg underweight for a 5
feet 9 inches tall woman.

60. • A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5
feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been
estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and
33 inches (hips). In 1963 the outfit "Barbie Baby-Sits" came
with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised:
"Don't eat." The same book was included in another
ensemble called "Slumber Party" in 1965 along with a pink
bathroom scale reading 110 lbs, which would be around
35 lbs. underweight for a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall. In 1997
Barbie's body mould was redesigned and given a wider
waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll
better suited to contemporary fashion designs

61. Identify the Place?

62. • The area of South America known as the The Triple
Frontier . The tri-border region is along the
junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where
the Iguazú and the Paraná rivers converge