The document summarizes the rules for a trivia competition played over 15 rounds. Teams can choose to privately answer a question after the first hint to gain 20 points or lose 10 points if incorrect. After the second hint, the current team must publicly answer or the question passes to the next team. Each question is followed by 2 hints and an answer. The questions cover topics like mountains, companies, historical figures, and more.

2. Round 1 Rules
• 2 Hints for each question.
• Any team can pounce after Hint 1, do not publically
reveal the answer. Simply raise your hand and note
it down on a piece of paper. 20 points for correct
answer, - 10 for incorrect.
• No pounce after hint 2.
• The Team, whose turn it actually is, can publically
answer without negative marking after Hint 2.
• Question will pass to next team if previous team is
unable to answer.

3. Question 1
Hint 1: Measured by topographic prominence, X
is the third most prominent peak after Mount
Everest and Aconcagua.

4. Hint 2: Located in the U.S.A., Its name was
recently changed to X which is the Koyukon
Athabaskan word similar to ‘high’ or ‘tall’.

6. Answer 1
Mt. Denali
Previously known as Mt. Mckinley, the tallest mountain in
North America.

7. Question 2
Hint 1: X denotes a start-up
company whose valuation has
exceeded (the somewhat arbitrary)
$1b dollars.
Hint 2: X is also the National Animal
of Scotland.

9. Answer 2
Unicorn

10. Question 3
Name the organisation.
Hint 1: The Governor of this
organisation is Haruhiko Kuroda.
Hint 2: Prior to the Meiji Restoration,
this country’s feudal fiefs all issued
their own money, hansatsu, in an
array of incompatible denominations.
The organisation was created to
solve this problem.

12. Answer 3

13. Question 4
Name X.
Hint 1: The X effect will give the
impression that the sun is rising
earlier than it actually should.
Depending on the meteorological
situation, the effect will present the
sun as a line or a square, made up of
flattened hourglass shapes.

14. Hint 2: The effect and this island
share the name, which is also a
Russian Nuclear test site.

16. Answer 4
Novoya Zemlya Effect

17. Question 5
Hint 1: It is the only island on Earth
shared by three sovereign nations.
Hint 2: It is the largest Island in Asia.

19. Answer 5
Borneo

20. Question 6
Connect to a Company.
Hint 1: One of three original
founders of this company emigrated
to Pakistan after the Partition of
India, which also resulted in a change
of name for the company.
Hint 2: Aerostaff Australia, Gippsland
Aeronautics, Ssangyong

22. Answer 6
Mahindra & Mahindra
Originally founded as Mahindra and
Mohammad by K.C. Mahindra, J.C.
Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed.
The three companies mentioned are
owned by Mahindra.

23. Question 7
Hint 1: X is the name of these ratings, similar to
‘Mirchies’ awarded by Radio Mirchi for
Bollywood films, and are awarded by the
Washington Post in a column called “Fact
checker” which also checks statements made by
the two sides in the US Presidential Elections.
Since both sides fib on a regular basis, the
ratings are based on how ‘economical with the
truth’ the statements made are.

24. Hint 2: X is a marionette (a wooden puppet
that is maneuvered with wires) and not a
puppet (controlled by hand that occupies
the interior of it) made by Mr. Geppetto.
In the story written by Carlo Collodi
however, he if often called, improperly,
puppet, hence the misunderstanding.

26. Answer 7
Pinocchio

27. Question 8
What are we talking about?
Hint 1: A Polish chemist, Kazimerz
Funk, is considered to be the first
person to formulate the concept.
Hint 2: Funk named them Vital
Amines but the name was later
modified due to some errors made
by Funk.

29. Answer 8
Vitamins

30. Question 9
What are we talking about?
Hint 1: A new fad that has gone viral
among US women is going under the
knife to change the shape & size of
their feet so that they look better in
shoes or fit into smaller sizes. Dr. Ali
Sadrieh, the podiatrist who
popularized this procedure named it
________ surgery

31. Hint 2: X, a European folktale, is also
called ‘The Little Glass Slipper’ in
English.

33. Question 10
Name the city.
Hint 1: Its old name is Yerba Buena. It
was renamed X when John. D. Sloat
claimed a then Mexican region in the
Mexican American War.
Hint 2: This city contains a famous
bridge found on the logo of a
company headed by John Chambers.

35. Answer 10
San Francisco

36. Question 11
What are we talking about?
Hint 1: The term is thought to originate
with carpenters who used the width of
their X instead of rulers for measuring,
imposing its use as an inaccurate but
reliable standard of measurement.
Hint 2: The Term is Rule of X

38. Answer 11

39. Question 12
What are we talking about?
Hint 1: A Gambler, a city guard, an
innkeeper, a merchant, a doctor, a
weaver, a blacksmith and a farmer
standing in order.
Hint 2: Years active: 6th Century India
to Present Day. Includes Rooks and
bishops.

41. Answer 12
Chess

42. Question 13
What are we talking about?
Hint 1: X It carried out a few
assassinations of British officials,
most notable of Lt. Col. William
Curzon-Wyllie. The Secret society
was also involved in the famous
Nasik Conspiracy case of 1909.

43. Hint 2: Founded by Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar and his brother Ganesh
Damodar Savarkar in 1903. It was
initially founded at Nasik as Mitra
Mela and grew to include hundreds
of nationalists and political activists.

45. Answer 13
Abhinav Bharat Society

46. Question 14
Who are we talking about?
Hint 1: “The guy who digitised wall
street”. Identify this Indian origin
personality.
Hint 2: The founder of TIBCO, also
the First Indian origin person to own
an NBA team.

48. Answer 14
Vivek Ranadive

49. Question 15
Name X(left) and Y(right), No part points.
Hint 1: World War II saw the painters of these two paintings rise to
international fame.

51. Hint 2: Famous quotes
X – “The victor will never be asked if he told the
truth.”
Y – “I may be drunk miss, but in the morning I’ll be
sober and you’ll still be ugly.”

52. Answer 15
X – Adolf Hitler
Y- Winston Churchill

53. Scores please. *looks at SMG*