The document discusses the Sorting Hat finals round for a trivia competition. It provides details about 6 questions in the first round, including questions about famous Indian figures like Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya and dishes like chop suey. It then describes the format for two subsequent rounds, including question topics, points awarded, and order of questions.

1. The Sorting Hat:
FINALS

2. ROUND 1
 6 Questions
 +20/-10 on Pounce
 +10 Direct, +5 Passed Questions

3. 1.#YehDinHumaraHain
The video has a very famous tourist location in
Karnataka as its backdrop, which was constructed in
1932 mainly as a beautification project for the X Dam.
The X Dam was the brain-child of Y, a pioneer in his
field in our country, who faced numerous hurdles in
the construction of this structure but left no stone
unturned to start it’s construction. Besides this dam,
his ideas were also implemented in the Khadakvasla
reservoir and the Tigra Dam. He was knighted as a
Knight Commander of the British Indian empire by
King George V and was also awarded the Bharat
Ratna in 1955.
Id Y.

5. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya

6. 2.#Videshi_Ashwathama
The piece is named The
Thieving Magpie and is a
composition by Gioachino
Rossini.
It was used, very
appropriately, in a scene in
a TV Series a few years back.
Which Scene?

9. 3.#bada_naam_karega
MotherDairylaunchedacampaignofsomepostersofthe
followingtypeonaparticulardayasamarkofrespecttothe
groupofpeopletheyrepresent.Onwhichday?

11. Father’s Day

12. 4.#HeadBang_to_this_Music
Story goes that some drunk miners came into a restaurant, one late night in 1860 in San
Francisco, terribly hungry. The cook came up with something impromptu, by throwing some
leftovers in the pot and creating something tasty. When the miners asked him what the dish
was called, he replied _______ ___, referring to the fact that he had cut the pieces of meat and
veggies. Apparent origin of which dish, which locals vow to have never eaten in their
homeland but very popular in the rest of the world?

14. Chop Suey

15. 5.#All_fall_down
Paederus, small beetles of the rove beetle family are a mostly harmless genus,
except that they secrete pederin that causes severe skin irritation on contact.
An article in the Lancet has suggested that, ideal breeding conditions for
these beetle may have resulted due to a chain of events beginning with the
blooming of the toxic red phytoplankton resulting in the death of various
aquatic lifeforms, which in turn led to the beetles flourishing.
This might possibly provide a rational explanation for what?

17. First 3 Biblical plagues

18. 6.#DREAM_COME_TRUE
 X, in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Minos, King of Crete, son of
Zeus and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios.
 X is mostly associated with mazes because of her involvement in the myths
of the Minotaur.
 The director Y, known for his impeccable direction, used the name X for
the character in his movie Z who is very good with mazes and puzzles.

20.  X= Ariadne
 Y= Christopher
Nolan
 Z= Inception

21. Round 2: Clockwise
 6 Questions
 +20/-10 Pounce
 +10 Direct, +5 Passed Questions

22. 1.#Amen
Somalia's al-Shabaab group has banned
popular Indian snacks samosas after ruling
the popular snacks are too 'offensive‘ for
Muslim people.
What was the reason for this ban?

24.  Islamist militants have taken offence at the three-sided samosa's supposed
resemblance to symbol of the Christian Holy Trinity.

25. 2.#Who’s_your_daddy
 The film X, when premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the audience
“erupted in laughter” when the film reported that following the events in
the film, Cardinal Francis Bernard Law was reassigned to a senior position
of honor in Rome.

27.  X=Spotlight

28. 3.#Sidhiyan_Swarg_Tak
 Taken from German typographer Rudolf Koch’s Book of Signs, a single
circle intersecting three vesica pisces (a triquetra). It is intended to
symbolise a person who possesses both confidence and competence.
 Taken from the same book, three interlocking (Borromean) rings, it
represents the triad of mother, father and child, but, inverted, it also
happens to be the logo for Ballantine beer.
 A feather within a circle, based on the sign of the supposed Mu civilisation.
 Where have you seen the symbol associated?

31. 4.#Cointoss
 Poem is “Sailing to Byzantium” by Yeats. FITB with the name of a movie.
That is _ _________ ___ ___ ___. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations – at their songs,
The samon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh or fowl, commend all summer long
whatever is begotten, born, dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

33.  No Country for Old Men

34. 5.#Inn_aankhon_ki_masti_ke
Options to join the military for disabled people were (still are) very limited. However,
on one occasion they were hired by the US Army rather willingly - during the Vietnam
War (1955-1975).
During the war, the US Army hired a certain group of people having a certain
disability, only because they’d be helpful for a very specific reason.
What was the reason and which group of people?

36. COLOUR BLIND PEOPLE
The camouflage stood out for the colour blind
people and they could easily spot snipers.

37. 6.#Luis_Fonsi_Stefflon_Don
 X is the daughter of the Titan, Y. As punishment for her support of her
father in the First war between Olympians and Titans, she was banished
to Ogygia, a remote island where different heroes whom she could not
help but fall in love with would end up, examples
being Odysseus and Perseus. However, none of those heroes whom she
falls in love are able to stay with her.
 Give X and Y.

39.  X: Calypso
 Y: Atlas

40. Round 3: Anti-Clockwise
 6 Questions
 +20/-10 Pounce
 +10 Direct, +5 Passed Questions

41. 1.#Man’s_bff
 The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad
Blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by
the Axis powers and lasted for a mammoth 872 days.
 The siege caused severe of shortage of food and other
resources in the city of Leningrad. So dire was the situation
that residents had started resorting to cannibalism and local
units had to be formed to keep a check on cannibalism.
 These residents included staff at the Leningrad Physiological
Institute, who killed and consumed some animals to prolong
their own lives until the siege was lifted.
 What was the claim to fame of these animals who some people
in the Orient might consider “mouth watering “ delicacies in
their own right?
The name of this 1970s
progressive rock band is a
giveaway

43. ANSWER:
Pavlov’s Dog

44. 2.#avoid_being_booked_and_losing_face
 The booster seat with a 4” thick cushion shown in the image (next slide) was used recently by
someone who is 5’7.”
 Studies show that sitting tall gives you a personal boost and earns you the respect of others –
taller people make more money, are rated higher in work performance, and are viewed as
more effective leaders.
 Timothy Judge, Ph.D., a University of Florida management professor who studies height
advantages said in a statement in 2003. “Although that was thousands of years ago,
evolutionary psychologists would argue that some of those old patterns still operate in our
perceptions today.”
 Studies demonstrate that when a person sits with their back straight and their chest out, they
report feeling more confident. Slouching, meanwhile, tends to make people doubt themselves.
 Where was this chair used?

47. Zuckerberg testimony

48. 3.#Straight_from_the_heart
 In his paper, published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry(2004), N.N. Wig
writes of a story he often narrates to those patients who have lost
confidence in themselves to meet life's challenges. He reminds them that
the power to change their life rests within them and that like the hero they
have only temporarily lost knowledge of this powers.
 He subsequently suggested naming this complex of amnesia of innate
power after this epic’s half-simian hero.
 What then would this complex be called?

50. Hanuman complex

51. 4.#Nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
 One explanation for the adverse reaction to X is that the sound produced by X
is similar to the warning call of a primate, back in prehistoric times. However, a
study using monkeys found that they react similarly to both high-pitched
sounds similar X, and to amplitude-matched white noise.
 A 2011 study by musicologists Michael Oehler and Christoph Reuter led its
authors to hypothesize that the unpleasantness of the sound is caused by
acoustic resonance due to the shape of the human ear canal which amplifies
certain frequencies.
 A study published in the journal Perception and Psychophysics in 1986
investigating the sounds produced by X won a 2006 Ig Nobel Prize, awarded
by the Society for Improbable Research.
 ID X

53. ANSWER
Sound of fingernails/chalk scraping a chalkboard

54. 1.X is a famous Hollywood TV series, directed by One of the
Nolan brothers, whose tagline is taken from one of the most
famous plays of Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet. The director of
the series defines the show as "the next chapter of the human
story, in which we stop being protagonists.” A organization
inside the show named Y, is in real life, the name of an island
near the center of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most
important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in
Greece, where it was said that – “No man shall die in Y”.
Bonus points for the tagline.
5.#Paschim_Disa

56.  X – Westworld
 Y- Delos
 Bonus – “These violent delights have violent ends”

57. This piece of music has appeared in numerous TV shows and movies, It was
originally written for the 1996 movie Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo Di
Caprio. The instrumental version of this song was used in the movie Unfaithful
with Diane Lane and Richard Gere. In 2014, this was featured in the season
finale of the CBS TV series Person of Interest. A piano instrumental of this song
was featured in the Westwood season 1 finale. It was very well suited as the
lyrics of the song referencing waking from your sleep, escaping. all hell
breaking loose and hoping that your rules and wisdom choke you. All major
factors concerning "the Hosts" predicament. It was also recently featured in
Charlie Brooker’s, Black Mirror S03E03 – Shut up and Dance. Identify the name
of the song and the world famous band.
6.#Tubelight_(Salman Khan)

59.  Song – Exit Music
 Band - Radiohead

60. Round 4: 13 Suroor
 13 Questions
 +20/-10 on Pounce
 +10 Direct and +5 Passed Questions

61. The series started as a small, home-made video by Stephen
Merchant when he was trying to get a job at the BBC. He came
up with the idea for making a documentary style format as it
would be easier for him to film. He and his colleague X (A very
famous British comedian) came up Y (2001) idea and used a local
University to film it. Upon seeing the short video the BBC
requested that they make a series out of it. It was the first British
sitcom in over 25 years to be nominated for a Golden Globe, and
the first ever to win one, it also holds the record for highest non-
feature DVD sales in the UK. They're are at least 6 versions or
spin-offs of the show. The longest running is the US one. It’s
characters from the US version are very often used in various
memes across the internet. It is star studded with famous actors
like Mindy Kaling and ED Helms. Give X and Y, bonus points for
identifying the actor featured in memes.
1.#40_saal_ka_budhau

63.  X – Ricky Gervais
 Y- The Office
 The actor may be Steve Carell or John Krasinski, MEMES-

64. 2.#tu-tu-may-may
 On June 20, the European Parliament will set in motion a process that could force
online platforms like Facebook, Reddit and even 4chan to censor their users'
content before it ever gets online. Although it's primarily intended to prevent the
online streaming of pirated music and video, the scope of Article 13 covers all and
any copyrightable material, including images, audio, video, compiled software, code
and the written word. But this thing risked the circulation of a certain thing in EU.
People around the region is hugely protesting it saying "you can take our internet
and our rights, but you can never take our X.” An an open letter to the president of
the European Parliament, tech experts and prominent figures -- including World
Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales -- said
Article 13 presented an "imminent threat" to the future of the internet. Different
protests also launched to oppose this.
(picture next slide)
What is X?

67. Banning of memes

68. 3.#tukde-tukde
 As the Indian Supreme Court recently called for a ban on triple talaq
divorces among Muslims, terming the practice as unconstitutional, social
activists close to the ground in Maharashtra state that measures also need
to be taken to curb the practice of ‘kathimod talaq’ , which is rampant
across various pockets of the state. Several unsuspecting women have
been divorced this way, suddenly abandoned to fend alone for their
children.Kathimod divorces are mundane in rural Maharashtra, especially in
cases where men marry outside their clans. Their families get furious, and
without the wife’s knowledge, they get a second wife for the man,
divorcing the first one through kathimod. A common practice, it has
remained away from media glare simply because no one, not even the
victims, has the nerve to raise their voice against it.
 What’s special about this talaq?

70.  They announce divorce by breaking a twig into two parts

71. 4.#papa_ki_pari
 This popular book is also one of the most banned books. However in
China, the book is banned because they believe that featuring “talking
animals” can lead to dangerous consequences. Some believes that the
magic used in the book refers to satanic cults. Some advocates the idea
that the book promotes psychedelic drug culture due to its “trippy”
imagery and symbols. The moral lesson of the book is to take risks and
explore, which some parents do not think children should learn.
 Guess the book

74. 5.#mera_desh_gareeb
 A new phenomenon called ‘X dysmorphia’ has popped up,
where patients are seeking out surgery to help them appear
like the versions of themselves as provided by features of X.
Patients want to look like the “modified” versions of
themselves- demanding fuller lips, bigger eyes and thinner
noses. Majority of the patients fall below the age of 30.
What is X?

76. Snapchat, users wanted themselves to look
like their filtered photos

77. 6.#most_purest
A Stockholm-based brewery is launching a beer made
from something special.
The beer has been jointly developed by Carlsberg Sweden,
research institute IVL and the Nya Carnegie brewery. It's
already been called ‘crap beer’ in Sweden. This special
brand of beer named PU:REST has been made in
collaboration with Swedish Environmental Research
Institute. The initiative seems to fit well into Carlsberg’s
new environmental program, ‘Together Towards Zero’.
Part of the initiative is to cut the company’s water use.

79.  Made from “sewage water”

80. 7.#captain_paaji
 X was a superstar among every Indian during the ’80s.
To raise awarness against drugs and to publish their
product, Action Shoes created a comic strip ,Where X
was the leading hero, who saves Action Planet from
drugs addiction.
 (Picture in the next slide)

83. Kapil Dev

84. 8. #7_khoon_maaf
They are some of the evidence of the campaign named Missingtype. About what
the campaign is about ?

86. Scarcity of bloods in blood bank

87. 9. #rangeela_reyyy
 On Manhattan’s Gay Street, a quiet residential street in Greenwich Village, Micah
Latter, a resident of the street, said that on April 14 (Good Friday, in Christianity),
someone chained a giant wooden cross to the iron gates in front of people’s
homes. The cross was interpreted by residents as a symbol of homophobia because
of its placement on Gay Street . But, due to the appeal of Latter,the neighborhood
was immediately on board with a plan: 50 people came out, including residents and
passers-by, to transform the cross into a sign of the street’s values. During the
process, everyone showed their supports, even straight people passing by the
street sat down, shared their stories.
 What they did with the cross?

89. They painted it with Rainbow colours

90. 10. #raat_ke_12_baje
 Which song?
 Warner Music’s publishing wing Warner/Chappell has settled a lawsuit
challenging its hold on this song for $14 million, paving the way for the song
to finally enter the public domain. The settlement comes after United States
District Judge George H. King ruled in September that Warner/Chappell’s
copyright on the song was invalid. The rights to the song had previously
changed hands frequently before Warner/Chappell scooped it up in 1988 and
began aggressively charging royalties for its use in TV shows and movies. King,
however, decided that their copyright was not valid because the original 1935
copyright of version applied only to a specific piano arrangement. However,
Warner/Chappell had expected to hold on to the rights to the song until 2030,
during which time it was estimated the song would bring in between $14
million and $16.5 million. By settling, the publishing giant was also able to
avoid a trial to determine whether it should be punished for collecting fees on
the song for over 25 years. It’s estimated Warner/Chappell has collected more
than $50 million in licensing fees.

93. 11.#hum_paanch
 This was a style adopted by the cartoonist while doing animations.
Characters like Spongebob Squarepants, Looney Tunes, Mickey Mouse,
Flintstones had been some of the succesful application of this styles. It was
devised as a method of saving money, in the era of animation, having one
less digit in every cell can potentially reduce time as well as tons of money.
It has other reasons as well, such that to make it more intriguing and
goodlooking. As Walt Disney said, if Mickey hadn’t gone through that
style, he might have looked like “ bunch of bananas”. However, Japanese
animation industry, chose not to follow this rule, sticking to some
superstition of the Yakuza tradition.

95. Three fingers and a thumb

96. 12. #I_am_Batman
 As shown in the image, the knees of the species
resides in the upward portion of its body. But
due to its body appearance it is considered
short-legged in nature. The postion of knees
enables it to walk as if “ moving in a squirting
position. This skeletal structure is to make it more
aerodynamic and flexible to waddle , Their
legs are designed so that they can swim faster.
That’s why, they spend 75% of their time in water.
Which species??

98. Penguin

99. 13. #Haka_ka_jawab
 X is a song which was among the other songs to be selected for the Y’s
national anthem. Among the other songs, was the present national anthem
of Z. Prior to 1974, it was the national anthem of Y also.
 ‘X’ was used at the 1974 World Cup and at the Montreal Olympic Games in
1976 and, as a response to the New Zealand All Blacks haka, it has gained
popularity as a sporting anthem for the ‘Y’ national rugby union team.

101. 
 X:Waltzing Matilda
 Y: Australia
 Z: United Kingdom

102. ROUND 5:

103. 1.#Main_event
 X first ventured into martial arts, studying judo and achieving the rank of
green belt. X moved to Malibu,California and was introduced to Tang Soo
Do, in which X holds a second degree black belt. X began kickboxing in
twenties but was forced to give the sport up at 32 after suffering
concussions.
 X has a special move called the X 180, which is reserved for the title fights.
 X is also a world-rated poker player on the professional circuit.
 Notable appearance in Season 3 Episode 24 of Friends. Id X.

105.  Answer: Bruce Buffer, official announcer of UFC.

106. 2.
During the Prohibition Era in the States, the sale of alcohol
was prohibited. As people couldn’t resist their thirst for
alcohol, it was smuggled in many ways. One of the more
common ways was to fill them in flasks and hide them in hip
pockets of their coats or back pockets of their pants.
These people, who were breaking the rules, were referred to
by a particular term.
Id the term which has a 21st century connection.

108. Hipsters

109. 3.Where have you seen them
together?
1. Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor
2. King David of Israel
3. Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor
4. Alexander the Great

112. 4.
In 1965 Paul C. Fisher and his company, the Fisher Pen Company patented a pen that
could write upside-down, in frigid or roasting conditions (down to minus 50 degrees
Fahrenheit or up to 400 degrees F), and even underwater or in other liquids. If too hot,
though, the ink turned green instead of its normal blue.
Unlike most ballpoint pens, Fisher's pen does not rely on gravity to get the ink flowing. The
cartridge is instead pressurized with nitrogen at 35 pounds per square inch. This pressure
pushes the ink toward the tungsten carbide ball at the pen's tip.
The ink, too, differs from that of other pens. Fisher used ink that stays a gel like solid until
the movement of the ballpoint turns it into a fluid. The pressurized nitrogen also prevents
air from mixing with the ink so it cannot evaporate or oxidize.
These pens are available on the market for ~50$.
What is so special about these pens?

115. 5. WHY?
 The Statue of Liberty is an American cultural icon and monument.
However, close inspection of the Lady’s features reveals non-Caucasian
facial features. This is because Frederic Bartholdi, the sculptor, based the
statue on an Egyptian woman living in Paris at the time.
 Despite France and America being predominantly white countries,
Bartholdi made his sculpture have particular racial features for a specific
reason. Why?

118. The Statue of Liberty was meant for
Egypt
 Originally it was meant to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal.
However, as Egypt couldn’t pay for the statue due to lack of funds, the
decision was made to gift the statue to the USA instead.

119. 6. Which Practice?
 In Hinduism, Alakshmi (Devanāgari: अलक्ष्मी; from the roots अ (a): "not"
and लक्ष्मी (Lakshmi): "goddess of fortune") means "not Lakshmi". She is
described as being “cow-repelling, antelope-footed,and bull-
toothed."[2] Or she “has dry shriveled up body, sunken cheeks, thick lips,
and beady eyes and that she rides a donkey.“
 Alakshmi is the sister of Goddess Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of fortune
and prosperity. But Alakshmi brings poverty and misery. The Gods send
Alakshmi to go dwell amongst pernicious persons, to give them poverty
and grief. She as the asuri of inauspiciousness and grief is the opposite of
Lakshmi the goddess of auspiciousness and joy. Alakshmi is also known as
Kalahapriya and Daridara, and the elder sisterly opposite of Lakshmi.
 Alakshmi likes sour, pungent and hot things and thus a common practice
is prevalent in our country. What common practice?

122. 7. Where can you see the mitre?
 The mitre is a tall folding cap, consisting of two similar parts (the front and
back) rising to a peak and sewn together at the sides. Two
short lappets always hang down from the back.
 Three types of mitres are worn for different occasions:
 The simplex ('simple', referring to the materials used) is made of
undecorated white linen or silk and its white lappets traditionally end in
red fringes.
 The auriphrygiata is of plain gold cloth or white silk with gold, silver or
coloured embroidered bands
 The pretiosa ('precious') is decorated with precious stones and gold.
 The mitre is worn by people belonging to a certain proffesion. But you can
also see the mitre in a more common place.