6. Name: Susan Astronomonov
* Has a noticeably strange laugh which
always appears to follow the same pattern
of 3 to 5.
* Claims to be the “Monarch of Darkness”.
* Has an intelligence approximately equal
to that of a nemesis.
9. Part I - Union and its Territory
Part II - Citizenship.
Part III – Fundamental Rights
Part IV - Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties.
Part V - The Union.
Part VI - The States.
Part VII - States in the B part of the First schedule.
Part VIII - The Union Territories
Part IX - Panchayat system and Municipalities.
Part X - The scheduled and Tribal Areas
Part XI - Relations between the Union and the States.
Part XII - Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits
Part XIII - Trade and Commerce within the territory of India
Part XIV - Services Under the Union, the States and Tribunals
Part XV - Elections
Part XVI - Special Provisions Relating to certain Classes.
Part XVII - Languages
Part XVIII - Emergency Provisions
Part XIX - Miscellaneous
Part XX - Amendment of the ____
Part XXI - Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions
Part XXII - Short title, date of commencement, Authoritative text in Hindi and Repeals.
12. In 1963, an unemployed 27 year old man was
arrested for stealing $8 from a bank
employee in Phoenix, Arizona. While in
custody, he was picked up from a line up by a
woman who said he had kidnapped and raped
her. After 2 hours of interrogation the police
gained a confession but the US Supreme
Court threw out the confession.
Who was this man? (A surname will do.)
13.
14. MIRANDA
THE MIRANDA RIGHTS WERE NAMED
AFTER HIM
15. X are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an
employee from leaving the company. These can include employee
stock options that will not vest for several years but are more
often contractual obligations to give back lucrative bonuses or
other compensation if the employee leaves for another company.
X are a response by the companies in industries where it is
common for highly paid employees to frequently move from one
firm to another, often before the company feels that it has earned
a return on the investment in the employee.
More broadly, the term can also refer to any kind of situation in
which a generous salary is used to keep an important employee
from looking for a more desirable but less certain position.
X?
20. Patent Lawsuits filed by different companies
21. According to legend, during the Samudra
manthan, the asura X drank some of the divine
nectar. But before the nectar could pass his
throat, Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu) cut
off his head. The head, however, remained
immortal. Hanuman, in his childhood, famously
flew towards the sun, as it appeared to be a big
fruit. X arrived and saw Hanuman trying to
swallow the sun; little Hanuman, seeing X, was
attracted to the curiosity of the disembodied
head, and caught him. X?
39. 1. In the 1968 Summer Olympics held in
Mexico City, medal winners John Carlos and
Tommie Smith did the X during the American
national anthem. For this, they were barred
from further Olympic activities??
42. English footballer Jack Reynolds
Ajax and Netherlands player and coach Rinus
Michels
István Kovács, Romanian footballer and
coach
Johan Cruyff
43. Total Football
The tactic in which any outfield player can
assume the role of any other player in the
team, pioneered by Ajax from 1969 to 1973,
and further used by the Netherlands team in
the 1974 World Cup.
44. Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and
illustrator of children's books. One of his most
famous works is 'The Polar Express', which
was adapted into an Oscar nominated
animated film in 2004.
Apart from this, two other works of his, with
almost identical plots, have been made into
films in 1995 and 2005 respectively. What are
their names?
49. Indian Express ran a blank editorial in protest
of Indira Gandhi’s Press Censorship during
emergency. The newspaper decided it would
rather not have an editorial column than be a
propaganda tool.
50. This word derives from the practice where
Roman politicians would wear white clothes
(not unlike Indian politicians today).
Which word is this?
51. Candidate
It is derived from “clad in white”
52. X was born in Bavaria, Germany . At the age of
18, he sailed for the United States to join his
brothers Jonas, Daniel, and Louis, who had
begun a dry goods business in New York City He
moved to San Francisco and opened his dry
goods wholesale business. On May 20,1873 X
and Davis, a local tailor received United States
patent for using “copper” rivets to strengthen
the pockets of denim pants and began the first
to introduce a very famous line of apparel.
Identify X.
58. The X image was first proposed in October 2003 by Eric S.
Raymond, claiming a need for a uniting and recognizable symbol
for his perception of their culture. This refers to the culture around
BSD, MIT, GNU, Linux, Perl, etc.; that is, the community around
free software and open source.
Raymond has said that one does not claim to be a X by displaying
this , but suggests that "by using this ,you express sympathy with
X's goals, X's values, and the X way of living".
The image itself is a representation of a glider formation in
Conway's Game of Life.
X????
64. 127 games played, 497 plate appearances, 46
runs scored out of 88 hits batting .202 with
3 home runs, 51 runs batted in, 30 stolen
bases, and 11 errors.
Whose stats?
70. During a world changing moment X recalled
from the Bhagawad Gita :"If the radiance of
a thousand suns were to burst at once into
the sky, that would be like the splendor of
the mighty one.” and "Now I am become
Death, the destroyer of worlds."
What event am I talking about? Bonus points
for Identifying X.
71.
72. Trinity explosion. The first ever atomic test.
The person is J.Robert Oppenheimer
73. In the Super Six match between Australia
and India during the 1999 World Cup, Robin
Singh was out as mentioned in the
scorecard:
RR Singh c Reiffel b Moody 75 (94)
but commentators felt it was a
controversial dismissal. Actually how was
he out?
74.
75. ROBIN SINGH TRIED TO HIT THE BALL OVER
THE BOUNDARY……BUT THE BALL HIT A
PIEGEON AND THE CATCH WAS TAKEN
76. X is an African Philosophy focusing on people's
allegiances and relations with each other.
Nelson Mandela explains X as follows :
“A traveller through a country would stop at a village
and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once
he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That
is one aspect of X, but it will have various aspects. X
does not mean that people should not enrich
themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going
to do so in order to enable the community around you
to be able to improve?”
77.
78.
79. The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, was written by Ludwig
van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the
most popular and best-known compositions in all of
classical music, and one of the most often played
symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening
sonata, an andante, and a fast scherzo which leads attacca
to the finale. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der
Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation
soon afterwards. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the
symphony as "one of the most important works of the
time".
It begins by stating a distinctive four-note "short-short-
short-long" motif twice.
Y always begins any dialogue with these 4 notes.
80.
81.
82. • X is a 1997 Iranian film written and directed by Majid
Majidi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film in 1998.
• It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures
over a lost pair of shoes.
• X premiered in February 1997 at the Teheran Fajr Film
Festival and was awarded several national film awards. It
opened in the US on 22 January 1999, with a total US box
office total of $930,000.
• Critical response to the film was very positive. Some critics
compared it to Vittorio de Sica's 1948 Bicycle Thieves.
• Bumm Bumm Bole, a 2010 Hindi film by Priyadarshan, and
starring Darsheel Safary, is entirely based on X.
83.
84.
85. Originating in 2000, this sport usually consists of four
categories:
1. Original: an over-the-shoulder throw with the
farthest distance winning
2. Freestyle: contestants get points for aesthetics and
creative choreography
3. Team original: up to three competitors have one
throw each with their scores added together
4. Junior: for children aged 12 or younger.
The current world records are:
Men - 95.83 meters (Chris Hughff - 2007)
Women - 53.52 meters (Jan Singleton - Aug 2006)
86.
87.
88. How do we better know Maching Bird
Egg Beater, Wood Breaker,
Glass Jaw, Parabeak, and Kamikaze Bird?
89.
90.
91.
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93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
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101.
102.
103.
104. GOOGLE’S 13TH ANNIVERSARY
DISCOVERY OF X-RAYS BY ROENTGEN
AKIRO KUROSAWA
2500 YEARS SINCE THE FIRST MARATHON
PI DAY
ANANT PAI
BRUCE LEE
AGATHA CHRISTIE
GREGOR MENDEL
ALAM ARA
105. 8 SLIDES
POINTS: 5*(TEAMS NOT ANSWERING)
2 GUESSES PER TEAM
NO NEGATIVES
THEME TO BE WRITTEN DOWN AND
SHOWED TO QM.
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114.
115. Authors who have written only one novel.
A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy
Toole
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
Dr Zhivago- Boris Pasternak
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
Black Beauty-Anna Sewell
Catcher In the Rye-J D Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
