1. SPQC
Quiz Masters :
Nishit Kagalwala
Shubham Godshalwar

3. Differential Round
1. +10 if all teams answer
2. +15 if 3 teams answer
3. +20 if 2 teams answer
4. +30 if 1 team answers

4. This is a business card.
Identify the CEO and the firm.

5. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
Inc.

6. What am I talking about?
Red is a chaser, alternately called Macky, Shadow or Blinky.
Pink is an ambusher, also known as Micky,Speedy or Pinky.
Cyan is fickle, nicknamed Mucky, Bashful or Inky.
Orange is stupid, a trait noticable by his slow movement,
and is affectionately referred to as Mocky, Pokey or Clyde.
They aren't really very helpful when you meet them, nor
are they useful in any way, except four times for about 10
seconds.
Collectively they are also called "ghosts","goblins or
"octopi".
Who/what are they?

8. What does the I’m feeling lucky button
do ?

9. Google's homepage includes a button labeled
"I'm Feeling Lucky". When a user types in a
search and clicks on the button the user will be
taken directly to the first search result,
bypassing the search engine results page. The
idea is that if a user is "feeling lucky", the search
engine will return the perfect match the first
time without having to page through the search
results. However, with the introduction
of Google Instant, it is not possible to use the
button properly unless the Google Instant
function is switched off

10. X is a 2005 comedy sitcom .The show has
70 episodes. The show received a positive
response from the critics and public alike
and enjoyed one of the best TRPs for a
comedy show. In the final episode, the
principal characters are seen stating that
there would be another season of the
series. However, in 2012, the director Y
denied that the series would return.
Identify X and Y

11. X = Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai
Y = Deven Bhojani

12. According to a legend there were 18
forts on either side i.e, north and
south of river Shivnath in the area of
Southern Kaushal(Kosal). What was
the implication of this?

13. This is how Chhattisgarh gets its name.

14. Which practice, from the world of
games, gained prominence during the
French revolution as a symbol of lower
classes rising in power above the
royalty?

15. In early games the kings were always
the highest card in their suit. During
the 18th century, games began being
played "ace high"

16. 38 – 27 – 36
These are the figures of which
incredible mom?

17. Bharat Mata.
This was the Indian medal tally at the
CWG 2010... 38 Gold, 27 Silver, 36
Bronze.

18. X was co-founded by two
former Facebook employees ,Initials A.D.
and C.C.
Official iPhone app was released on
September 29, 2011 and an official
Android app on September 5, 2012. The
company was founded in June 2009, and
the website was made available to the
public on June 21, 2010.
ID ‘X’ and bonus for A.D and C.C

19. Quora
A.D. = Adam D'Angelo
C.C. = Charlie Cheever

20. Straight Questions
+20 / No negatives

21. Herzogenaurach is a town in Germany.
During the 50's, it was called "the
town of bent necks". The town is
home to 2 rival household brands X
and Y, whose histories are intertwined.
Naturally, this brand rivalry split the
city in terms of loyalties.
Name X, Y and put funda behind the
name.

22. Adidas - Adolf Dassler
Puma(RuDa) - Rudolf Dassler
The initial name of PUMA was RuDa

23. X Y was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips ,
a Motorola employee initially (and briefly) as
manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It has a long
history in the electronics industry as an integrated
circuit maker and a storage products company. It
rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker, with
start-up capital provided by several individual investors
and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company. Initially
the name of the the company was General Y.
ID X & Y?
HINT: The company is popularly known by the initials
i.e. the first letter of X and Y

24. X = Western
Y = Digital
The Company therefore Western
Digital

25. The start of the show ‘X’ begins with
the participant showing his or her car
off. After this segment, the host shows
up at the participant's house makes
wisecracks about the particular things
that are wrong. The contract for the
first four seasons was with ‘Y’ and for
the last two seasons with ‘Z’.
ID ‘X’ , ‘Y’ , ‘Z’ ?

26. X=Pimp My Ride
Y=West Coast Customs(WCC)
Z= Galpin Auto Sports (GAS)

27. X is the name of a video, uploaded in
April 2011, which became an Internet
Meme. The video merged a Japanese
pop song with an animated cartoon
flying through spacet. The video
ranked at number 5 on the list of most
viewed YouTube videos in 2011.
ID X ?

28. Nyan Cat

29. How do we better know this person?
Extra points for guessing the name

30. Carlos Ramirez (Creator of troll face)

31. Connect
(Apart from them
Following Islam)

32. Cricketers who do not sport liquor
brands on their jerseys
Hashim Amla
Parvez Rasool
Fawad Ahmed

33. Name the company?

34. Google ..Derived its name from
Googol which is 10 raised to 100.

35. X is a stylised depiction of the person Y after whom X
is named , the best-known member of
the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up
the House of Lords in London in 1605. The use of X on
an effigy has long roots as part of Y night
celebrations. Designed by illustrator David Lloyd ,
After appearing in Internet forums, the mask became
a well-known symbol for the
online hackivist group Anonymous, the Occupy
movement, and other anti-government and anti-
establishment protests around the world. X was a a
major element of a 2006 Hollywood hit
Identify X,Y and the movie

36. X = Guy Fawkes mask
Y = Guy Fawkes
The movie = V for Vendetta

37. X is the act of inserting oneself into the field of
view of , often in order to play a practical
joke on the subjects. X has received significant
coverage since 2009.X has been known to get
global exposure, mainly due to the bandwidth
and ease of dissemination afforded by the
Internet, and the abundance
of smartphone cameras and other hand-held
devices. A number of websites include sections
on them, or are entirely devoted to X
ID X?

38. Photo Bombing

39. Identify the list and the blank
1) Love
2) _________
3) Me
4) Cute
5) Follow
6) Like
7) Girl

40. Top 7 hashtags on instagram (as per
10th Oct , 2013)
blank = instaGood

41. Recently in May,2013 a meme became
viral. The meme relates this scenario
to an incident that happened about 5
years ago where one of the person
involved was heavily punished while in
May,2013 the other person involved
was punished
Identify the incident i.e. the meme??
Hint: Think Cricket

42. The Only Police Officer Who Punished
The Criminal Before The Crime

43. What is the historic significance of this
letter ?

44. It led to the introduction of toilets on
trains.There were no toilets inall classes
of Indian railways by 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 50miles per hour. This letter
is on display at the Railway Museum in New
Delhi.

45. This is the only movie on IMDb.com
wherein the rating goes upto 11.
Which movie and why is it so (Put
Funda)?

46. This is Spinal Tap.
A nod to the fact that the band's amps
go up to11.

47. Earlier in the Indianapolis 500 car race, it
was a custom that all drivers should have a
mechanic along with them in the car
during the race for various reasons. In the
1911 Indianapolis race, Ray Harroun, a
racer, could not find a mechanic to ride
with him. So he did something which
changed the world of automotives forever.
What did he do?

48. He tied a mirror to the car and thus
the rear view mirror came into
existence.
The mechanics, apart from attending
to any problem in the car, used to alert
the drivers about the other
approaching cars.

49. Who is the first person ever to have
scored a double century in a cricket
ODI?

50. Belinda Jane Clark
229* v/s Denmark Women
16/12/1997

51. What did Outlook magazine
humorously describe as "the biggest
sex change operation in independent
India" in 1995/96?

52. The renaming of Victoria Terminus
to Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus in
Mumbai

53. Identify the connect in the list
81 - 2000
83 - 2002
55 - 2004
86 - 2005
61 - 2006
86 - 2008
66 - 2010
90 - 2012

54. Christian Bale’s Weight in different movies

55. Id the Beer .The lady
on the top plays a
major marketing role
in its sale

56. Skinny Blonde
.The Blonde
strips her clothes
off as the beer
levels drop and
the bottle warms
up .. I have given
half marks for
Blonde Beer..

57. What does this world map represent??

58. The countries in red have right hand
traffic and the countries in blue have
left hand traffic

59. A copying error in a popular indoor
game several centuries ago has since
been a topic of debate surrounding
the appearance of one of the most
renowned European kings of all time.
Where can we see this error today?

60. King of Hearts does not have a moustache (I'll
kill anyone who suggests mustache). The King of
Hearts is supposed to be Charlmagne (Charles
the Magnificient). Due to a copying error several
centuries ago, he was shown moustacheless in
the cards, a feature that has carried forward to
this day. So long have people associated the lack
of a moustache with Charlmagne that he's
widely considered to have not had a
moustache, although there's plenty of
evidence.

61. Overall length:- 4 5/16 in/10.95cm
Length of barrel:- 2 1/8 in/5.40cm
Longer spigot:- 1 3/8 in/3.49cm
Shorter spigot:- 13/16 in/2.06cm
What are we talking about??
Hint : think sports

62. The bails used in cricket.

63. Connect:

64. Biased coin

65. Seen in the visual is St Brides Church,
located on Fleet Street in London. Legend
has it that a certain baker drew inspiration
from the design of the church and created
something which became a tradition across
the world. What did he create?
Visual on the next slide

67. Multi-tiered wedding cakes

68. This movie’s website didn’t give any
details on the story line of the film.
The site refreshes itself every fifteen
minutes & irrespective of whichever
section of the website you are on, it
comes back to the homepage after
fifteen minutes.
Which movie’s website?

69. GHAJINI

70. Hal,Red,Chuck,Bomb,Matilda,Terrence,Bub
bles and Stella are a part of my family. My
brothers and and me were born as triplets.
We are so immensely popular that Salman
Rushdie and David Cameron are amongst
our biggest fans. Identify me and my
brothers. BTW We recently held a rebellion
against the EMPIRE! Congratulate us!

71. Jay Jake and Jim! The Blue Birds in
Angry Birds

72. Which head of an
airline served in full
cabin crew uniform as
a flight attendent on a
competitor airline’s
flight after losing a bet
on F1?

73. Richard Branson

74. REVERSE

75. What? Why? By who?

76. Hitler in Disguise
U.S intelligence officers feared the Nazi leader would be able to flee from
Germany by assuming a disguise and - to prepare for this eventuality -
ordered his portrait to be cloned.
The following pictures, released by the U.S. National Archives in
Washington, show head shots of 'Der Fuehrer' in numerous guises.

77. In an interview, acclaimed director X commented on the many rip-offs
of his film Y. "I think it was fabulous. Of the many rip-offs (of Y) I loved
this one, Z. The best part is, you have Indian guys coming to the US and
looting a US bank. How cool is that! I was truly honoured. And these
guys are played by the legends of Bollywood."
In fact, X actually felt that Z had more flexibility in its narration, than Y.
He says, "Here I am, watching a film that I've directed and then it goes
into each character's background. And I'm like, 'Whoa'. For, I always
write backgrounds and stuff and it always gets chopped off during the
edit. And so I was amazed on seeing this. I felt, this isn't Y. But then it
goes into the warehouse scene and I am like, 'Wow it's back to Y'. Isn't
it amazing!" X had some special words of praise for "the big beard
guy… the famous guy in Bollywood“ , who starred in Z.
Identify X, Y and Z

78. X-Quentin Tarantino
Y-Reservoir Dogs
Z-Kaante

79. What significance does this logic gate
diagram have in the field of English
literature?

80. This is indeed a geeky way of saying
“To be or not to be…”

81. Simply identify the gentleman who is being
talked about here. Hint: Among his other
‘achievements’ is the fact that he has had a
Pokemon named after him.

82. Jackie Chan

83. Which gentleman is being mourned here by an official
release from Warner Brothers?
Suffice to say that he was one of the most important
people behind the scenes.

84. Mel Blanc, who voiced most, if not all,
of the famous Looney Tunes/Merry
Melodies characters. In fact, there are
anecdotes of Blanc slipping into a
coma, and only responding when he
was referred to as one of the
characters he voiced! And even the
response would be in character!

85. Claim to recent (global) fame
Identify the location

86. Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur. Few scenes
of The Dark Knight Rises were filmed
here.

87. How do we better know Tony
Sampson, Samuel Vincent, and Matt
Hill?
Think Cartoons

88. Ed, Edd , nd Eddy

89. X was an early 20th century form of small,
neighborhood movie theaters. X's in competitive
markets had a piano or organ, playing whatever
music the pianist or organist thought was
appropriate to a scene (e.g. classic ragtime for a
chase sequence, or what was called at the time
"Eliza-crossing-the-ice" music during the scary
moments). The name X itself was first used in
1888 by Austin's X, a dime museum located in
Boston, Massachusetts. Now, we know X for
something different. Give me X.

90. Nickelodeon

91. Scheduled to release on Eid this year, 'Main
Hoon ______ ________' is one of the first sport-
based films from this film industry.
The titular personality was first approached to
act in the movie, but refused, saying that it was
against his family traditions. However, he readily
consented to allow the use of his name for the
film.
Apart from the usual story of an underdog who
becomes successful (similar to ______
_______), the film also supposedly touches on
the scandals that have affected sportspersons
from the region.

92. Main Hoon Shahid Afridi

93. The Cuckoo's Calling is an absolutely unremarkable murder
mystery set in London. It stars a one-legged private
detective called Cormoran Strike, who is hired to investigate
the death of a supermodel called Lula Landry.
It is said to be written by Robert Galbraith, an ex Royal
Military Policeman and Special Branch agent. It was
published under the imprint of Sphere Books in April 2013.
However after a certain explosive reveal on 14 July 2013,
the book surged from 4,709th to the No. 1 best-selling
novel on Amazon, with sales going up 150,000%.
Why?

94. This is JK Rowling pretending to be
someone else to write new book.
Because getting recognition under one
name is too mainstream.

95. Two questions on this one
1) This tree has become a sort of place of pilgrimage for
the fans of a popular work of fiction. Just tell me why
has it become intimately related to that work of
fiction?
2) Why is the name of the place where this tree stands
ironic?

96. 1) The scene where Malfoy is
transformed into a ferret in Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire was shot
under this tree.
2) This tree is in New College, Oxford.
New College is one of the oldest
colleges of Oxford University, though
its name is 'new'.

97. X is an Italian name that was not especially common in the middle ages,
whose meaning had long since been forgotten by the late 1400s. In fact,
the most famous person to ever be named X got it for no more profound
reason than that it was his grandfather's name.
This person was invariably known, during his lifetime and beyond by his
first name, in stark contrast to other public figures of his generation.
There are a few theories regarding the origin of X.
The most commonly cited one is that it is a variant of Enrico, the Italian
form of Henry, and derives from the Old German Haimirich (in later
German Emmerich), from 'haimi', meaning home, and 'ric', meaning
power, or ruler.
Another suggestion is that it may come from the old German Amalricus,
from 'amal', meaning work in Hebrew, plus 'ric'.
X shows up in Italian writing from around the 12th century and may have
been introduced by the Ostrogoths six centuries earlier after they
established a kingdom in Rome under the rule of King Theoderic the
Great.
What is X?
Who/What is X?

98. America/Amerigo Vespucci

99. Identify

100. Ko Tapu a.k.a James Bond
island and Lichtenstein Castle

101. "A combination of grassy notes with a
tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over
an underlying mustiness." - This is how
an international team of chemists
describes the smell of
_______________.

102. Old books

103. A famous landmark in California which was earlier
named X - has been vandalised a multiple times and
hence undergone restoration a lot of times as well. In
1970s it was said to have reached its worst condition
only to be restored completely in 1978.
However it recently came into the news because a
movie Y that's set in 1979/80 depicted this landmark in
its dilapidated state which is historically inaccurate.
This landmark is fashionably known as X.
Put X,Y

104. X = HOLLYWOODLAND
Y = ARGO

105. What game are we talking about?
Many incidents of juvenile crime surrounded the release of
X. A girl was caught stealing $5000 from her parents and
gangs of youths were reported to have robbed grocery
stores just so they would have money to play X. This
became so popular, that 100,000 machines were produced
by Y for the Japanese market for the next few years. 60,000
machines were sold in the US as well. It became so popular
that Japan needed to quadruple its 100 yen production just
to keep up with demand. By 2007, it had generated almost
US$500 million in revenue.
X is the game
Identify X & Y

106. X = Space Invaders
Y = Taito

107. X and Y are two racing drivers related to each
other but actually registered under different
nationalities with the FIA. X's first win in formula
1 was at the last ever A Grand Prix. Incidentally,
this Grand Prix was not actually held in the
country A. Y's first win was also his constructor's
first win after their return to formula 1. Both X
and Y won the B Grand Prix once each exactly
thirty years apart becoming the first related pair
of drivers to do so.
Name A, B, X and Y.

108. X is KeKe Rosberg (sweedish born
Finnish driver) Y is his son Nico
Rosberg (German born driver) A was
the Swiss GP which was actually held
in dijon France due to the Swiss ban on
motor racing in 1955. Nico's first win
was Chinese GP (In a Mercedes). B is
the Monaco GP

109. April 1, 1972: The Veterinary Record, the weekly journal of the British
veterinary profession, contained an article about the diseases of Brunus
edwardii, which was described as a species "commonly kept in homes in the
United Kingdom and other countries in Europe and North America." The
article warned:
Pet ownership surveys have shown that 63.8 percent of households are
inhabited by one or more of these animals, and there is a statistically
significant relationship between their population and the number of children
in a household. The public health implications of this fact are obvious, and it
is imperative that more be known about their diseases, particularly zoonoses
or other conditions which might be associated with their close contact with
man.
For months afterwards the correspondence section of the Veterinary Record
was dominated by letters about Brunus edwardii, most of which offered new
observations about the species. The article proved so popular that it was
eventually published in a special edition by Whittington Press, although it was
reported that the British Library later had difficulty deciding how to classify it,
as fact or fiction. Brunus edwardii is more commonly known as _________?

110. Teddy bears !

111. Shown here are several
trophies awarded to
various pilots belonging
to the US Air Force during
the 1920s and 1930s,
who plied their trade in
the McCook Airfield and
Wilbur Wright airfield in
the state of Ohio. What
are the names of these
trophies, and why were
they awarded?

112. Blunder Trophies. They
were awarded to bumbling
pilots for actions like flying
off without enough fuel for
the mission or bungling
easy landings.

113. Put Funda

114. FaceBook network across the globe
This was the cover pic of Mark
Zuckerberg’s wall

115. England football team management sued Indian
government due to some ads by them with this
company.
What were the reasons?

116. The blurry photograph was used without the England captain’s
permission and officials admitted they have no clue how he ended up
on the Gold Flake packets.
In the picture, the Chelsea defender’s image has a set of blackened
lungs superimposed on it with the warning ‘Smoking Kills’.

117. The previous record for the
largest poster belonged to
Michael Jackson's This Is It.
However, the record was
broken this month by a
(58.87m)x(54.94m) poster at
Little Gransden Airfield in UK.
This was a poster of.......?

118. The poster, which is 193 feet and 1 inch wide and 180 feet and 2
inches tall, has entered the Guinness World Records for the
largest poster in the world. It has broken the earlier record held by
the poster of Michael Jackson's "This Is It", a documentary-
concert film.

119. X is a world famous landmark which served as a
giant billboard from 1925 to 1934 for a
European automobile company Y? the Y car
company ‘rented‘ the X and had it’s brand name
emblazoned on it with 125,000 glowing lights?
The sign was erected in 1925 and remained
there until Y went bankrupt for the first time in
1934. The ironic thing is, their bankruptcy was
partly due to incredibly high electricity bills.

121. 1 ) Lily Collins
2 ) Avril Lavigne
3 ) Sandra Bullock
4) Kathy Griffin
5 ) Zoe Saldana
6 ) Katy
7 ) Britney Spears
8 ) John Hamm
9 ) Adriana Lima
10 ) Emma Roberts
list of what?

122. McAfee: the most dangerous cyber celebrities

123. Id this Movie?

126. Names of famous dogs in cartoons
1. Snowy
2. Rocket
3. Dollar
4. Pluto

127. In a cards pack, all the 4 Kings
proposed to the Queens of their
respective suits. All Queens agreed
except the Queen of Diamonds. Why?

128. Because the King of Diamonds never
shows his full face.

129. This an Indian company but what is its
connection with our theme?

130. They produce the RK
brand of hockey sticks
which uses condoms at
the end of sticks to
make them smoother n
stronger

131. Connect

132. The Beatles

133. The image above is that of a letter sent by Arnold
Schwarzenegger to the California State Assembly
sometime in March 2010, in opposition to a certain
Assembly Bill. However, this letter ended up kicking up
a controversy due to some apparently difficult-to-spot
reasons.

135. Mega Connect

145. SCOOBY DOO
1. Daphne Blake
2. Fred Jones
3. Super natural creatures in each episode
4. (Scrap)py Doo
5. The Mystery Machine
6. Shaggy Rogers
7. Scooby (Do)o
8. Hanna Barbera
9. Velma Dinkey

146. That’s all folks!!!