This document contains clues and questions related to a quiz. Some of the clues include: 1) A traditional folk dance performed by veiled women in India upon entering their marital home. 2) A Weird Al Yankovic parody song about the plot of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace from Obi-Wan Kenobi's perspective. 3) Two satellites nicknamed "Tom and Jerry" that were launched in 2002 to monitor changes in Earth's water masses and gravitational field.

1. QM – Nandadyuti Acharya

2. Rules:-
All Rules are meant to be broken

3. 1)It’s a traditional folk dance which is chiefly performed by veiled women
who wear flowing dresses ‘Ghaghara’. According to the traditional rituals,
newly married bride is expected to do this dance on being welcomed to her
new marital home. It was ranked 4th in the list of Top 10 local dances around
the world in 2013.
Name this dance

5. 2) “The Saga Begins” is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. The song is
parody of “American Pie” by Don McLean. The lyrics of the song
summarizes the plot of a certain movie. Though he was not allowed to
read the script due to immense secrecy, Weird Al wrote the song
based on the information collected from internet spoilers. He later
went to a very costly pre-screening of the movie, but he had done
such an accurate job with the story line that he didn’t have to do any
major changes to the songs.
Which is the movie??

6. Star Wars:Episode I - The Phantom Menace
The song is the storyline told from the point of view of Obi-Wan Kenobi

7. Identify the inspiration behind the logo though he himself had a quite short
career span
3)

8. Debasish Mohanty

9. 4) As part of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment
(GRACE), two satellites GRACE-1 & GRACE-2 were launched in
March 2002 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. They are meant
to investigate the Earth’s shifting water masses and map their
effects on the planet’s gravitational field. The satellites are
separated by approximately 200 km along their orbit track so
they look as they are chasing each other. What are they
appropriately nicknamed as?

10. Tom And Jerry

11. 5) The term was first coined by Alfred A Tomatis, an
otolaryngologist who used X’s music as the listening stimulus in his
work to attempting to cure variety of disorders. The approach has
been popularized by American author & music researcher Don
Campbell according to whom, listening to X’s music may induce
short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of
mental tasks known as spatial-temporal reasoning or as popularized
states that “listening to X, makes you smarter.
Identify X.

12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart Effect

13. The Google Doodle was unveiled today on the birth anniversary of first
practicing lady doctor of India. Though Anandi Gopal Joshi was the first Indian
woman to qualify as a doctor, she never practised medicine. Identify Her
6)

14. Dr Rukhmabai Raut

15. 7)The nominees of certain award is listed below with the bold one
representing the winner. Others are not well known including the winner
except the last nominee whose name has been blanked out. Who is this
famous nominee and what is the award??
John Wheeler – General Hospital
Gavin Graham – The Young and The Restless
Duncan Harrington – Passions
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16. Joey Tribianni from Days of Our Lives
Soapie(The third most prestigious soap award) for the Favourite
Male Returning Character

17. What’s the connecting link between these two football players?
8)

18. Named after Indian Personality.. A Gandhi to be more precise
Mahatma Gandhi Heberpio Mattos Pires
Rajiv van la parra

19. 9)Connect

20. Breaking the Fourth Wall

21. This known as Dead End, also known as X, which has only one inlet/outlet.
The term X is also used in military practice for a situation where the army are
surrounded by all sides except at the back. Interestingly X has an medical
connection. What is X?
10)

22. Cul-de-Sac

23. 11) This is a stanza from the poem written by eminent odia poet Sachi
Routray . Who is being referred in this poem?

25. 12)
In the 3rd T20 between India & New Zealand, due to heavy rain the match was
shorten to eight overs per side. India won the match winning the series and also
India’s maiden win over NZ in T20 International. But something important was
missed out during the match. What was missed during the match??

26. National Anthem was not played before the start of the match

27. 13) A X is someone with an introverted personality type who will attend
parties and social gatherings, but will usually distance himself from the
crowd and actively avoid being in the limelight .
The word X derives from an eponymous plant’s unusual growth pattern;
against a wall as a stake or in cracks and gaps in stone walls.
A X might literally stand against a wall and simply observe others at a
social gathering, rather than mingle.
Identify the word which came into spotlight during 1999 and then in
2012
Hint on next page if you need.

28. Most beautiful hint in
the history of quizzes

29. When Hermione, Flash and Percy Jackson was in the movie adapted from another
literary piece

30. 14) He was a Bengali musician best known for fusing western and eastern
musical styles. He is the nephew of Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar. His
debut album in 1970 and it’s featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before
You Die . His song ‘Raghupati’ was used on the Grand Theft Auto : Liberty City
Stories soundtrack. His music was also used on the television show Byomkesh
Bakshi, broadcast on Doordarshan.
Identify the musician

31. Anand Shankar

32. 15) Recently Italian Professor Sergio Canavero claimed that a team
guided by him had successfully carried out a highly controversial and
impossible feat. Though later Profession Ren Xiaoping who was on the
team claimed that he and the team had completed some part of it,
but not the full feat and what they did was just pre-design.
What was the claim??

33. World’s first human head transplant

34. 16) Connect

35. Phoebe Buffay starred in the parody pornographic movies of these original movies

36. 17) I’m Not There is a 2007 biographical movie directed by Todd
Haynes. It comprises an ensemble cast starring Christian Bale,
Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Marcus Carl
Franklin and Ben Whishaw. The six actors actually depicted
different facets of a famous personality’s public personas. But
the only time that person’s name is mentioned in the movie
apart from song credits is his one of his appearances.
Which personality?

37. Bob Dylan

38. 18) Zbtb7 is a gene that may act as a master switch for caner. The leader
of the research team which discovered this, Pier Paolo Pandolfi from
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) in New York City said
the gene is unique in that it needed for other oncogenes to cause cancer.
The original name for this gene was POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic
factor or X. But it was lateral changed as a certain company threatened
the centre with a legal action as it didn’t want the bad press inherent
with its trademark sharing a name with a cancer-causing gene.
What is X and which company?

39. POKEMON … The Pokemon Company

40. 19)
Recorded by Kesarbai Kerkar,according to ethnomusicologist Robert E.
Brown, it’s finest recorded example of Indian classical music. What is
the unique feat achieved by this song?

41. Only Indian Song on the NASA Voyager Golden Record

42. 20) Luigi Aloisio Galvani was Italian physicist , biologist. He is
recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. His name
survives as a verb in everyday language i.e galvanized and also in
specialized terms like Galvanic Cell, Galvanometer etc. His report
of investigation of regarding animal electricity was basis for a
well known literary work. Which Literary work?

43. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

44. Better Shelter Organization is meant to improve the lives of
people displaced by armed conflicts & natural disasters. They
provide a 17.5sq.m light weight modular emergency shelter. This
meets the basic needs of human activities. The shelter can be
easily dismantled, moved & reassembled to different places
according to use. Which company along with UNHRC is behind
this initiative?
21)

45. IKEA

46. This waterbody is considered sacred by Tibetans, Buddhist, Hindus and Jains also.
The Buddhists associate the lake with legendary lake Anavatapta where Maya is
believed to have conceived Buddha. In Jainism, the lake is associated with the
first Tirthankara, Rishabha. In Hinduism it’s the personification of purity. It gets its
name from the legend wherein it was first created in the mind of Lord Brahma.
Name the Lake.
22)

47. Lake Manasarovar

48. 23) The Royal Society of Chemistry had issued a news release on
October 14, 2002 to announce a fellowship.
However , this was interesting, as the first person on whom this
award being bestowed was a famous literary character.
According to RSC he was “the first ---------- to exploit chemical
science as a means of detection”.
Who was this character and why he honored specifically in the
year 2002?

49. Sherlock Holmes
The Centenary Anniversary of Publication of “The Hound of
Baskervilles”

50. 24) The term X literally means “millet”. It is said by the CEO that
it’s linked to a Buddhist concept that ‘a single grain of rice of a
Buddhist is as great as a mountain”, suggesting that X wants to
work from the little things, instead of starting by striving for
perfection. What is X?

52. 25)
Connect

53. Actors who played Harry Potter as child.
Saunders Triplets in Sorcerer’s Stone
Toby Papworth in Deathly Hallows

54. 26) The semi biographical book of this personality is “Surely, You are
Joking Mr ---------?”. The title was taken from the response when a
woman asked him if he would like lemon or cream in his tea and he
absent mindedly said both. He was diagnosed with liposarcoma and
his last words before dying was “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring”
Who is the personality?

55. Richard Feynman

56. 27) In 2005, Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel selected a list of all time top ten
background scores for TIME Magazine.
The adventure of Robin Hood
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
On the Waterfront
The man with Golden Arm
South Park
Citizen Kane
Laura
X
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at RKO
Jules et Jim
Identify X, an Indian movie to be featured in the list.

57. Roja, Debut composition of A R Rahman

58. What’s the Funda behind this unique post box number?
28)

59. Average of Don Bradman

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#353535, #373737, #393939, #3a3a3a, #3c3c3c, #3f3f3f, #404040, #424242, #444444,
#454545, #474747, #484848, #4a4a4a, #4b4b4b, #4d4d4d, #4e4e4e, #4e5054,#505050,
#515151, #535353, #565656, #575757, #585858, #595959, #5b5b5b, #5c5c5c, #5e5e5e,
#616161, #626262, #646464, #656565, #676767, #6a6a6a, #6b6b6b, #6c6c6c, #6d6d6d,
#6f6f6f, #727272, #737373, #757575, #767676
29) Put Funda

61. 50 Shades of Grey

62. 30) This natural phenomenon triggers the release of endorphins, the
body’s natural feel-good chemicals which reduces stress, relaxes tense
muscles and increases immunity.
It also activates the release of the neurotransmitter serotonin in brain
which drives away depression. These facts are combined as a very
popular age old saying.
Identify the saying