The Final Round for the quiz by Nihar and Viraj. An Internal Quizzing session of the Official Quizzing club of LDCE.

1. MinD PalacE General Quiz
Finals!
VIRAJ MAVANI
NIHAR SHAH

2. Lets Roll!
Clockwise Round
+10 on Bounce
+15/-10 on Pounce

3. 1. Go regional!

5. Unofficial
Antarctica Flags
by different
countries

6. 2. Version 2.1
 The visual appearance X was Based on the G.I. Joe action
figures. For X’s “bad” look, its hair was spiked and brown
colored lenses were used for it’s eyes. Whereas for its
“good” look green colored lenses were used. The wig
used for X’s “bad look had a silver streak in the middle ,
made out of Yak hair, while its jacket was designed by
Vogt. Suits made of copper were used for X’s costumes.

8. Chitti!(ROBOT)
Enthiran

9. 3. <…
 In 2010 NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas using
images obtained by Cassini. The warmest regions which are
along one edge of Mimas, Create a shape similar to a
videogame character. Which character?

11. Pac-Man

12. 4. Pigeons are powerfull!

14. During WWII, a
project was started by
the Americans in
which pigeons were
used to guide missiles.

15. 5. Food, food, food!
 The restaurants “Palm Court”, “Café Parisien” and
“Verandah” were created and intended to be used as
grand eateries in the early part of the 20th Century,
but they all provided service for only a few days.
 Why?

17. They were on
the Titanic!

18. 6. A killer song!
"Gloomy Sunday", also known as the "Hungarian X", is a song
composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and
published in 1933.
The original lyrics were titled Vége a világnak (The world is ending)
and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about
people's sins. Poet László Jávor wrote his own lyrics to the song, titled
Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday). The latter lyrics ended up becoming
more popular while the former were essentially forgotten. The song
was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935.

20. X – Suicide Song!

21. 7. Think Water, Think Tragedy!
 The Congo River or The Zaire is the second largest
river in the world, after Amazon, in terms of
discharge. Something unique about it made a
clamorous outbreak across the world few years ago.
 What is it?

23. Ebola!

24. 8. Aliases
 Jughashvili was a very effective organizer of men as
well as a capable intellectual. Among other activities,
he wrote and distributed propaganda, organized
strikes, and raised funds through bank robberies,
kidnappings, extortion, and assassinations. Jughashvili
was arrested and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but
often escaped. His skill, charm, and street-smarts won
him the respect of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov=Y(Alias), and
he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Bolsheviks.

25. Continued…
 Jughashvili married his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze,
in 1906, who bore him a son. She died the following
year of typhus. In 1911, he met his future second
wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, during one of his many
exiles in Siberia.
 Sometime between 1910 and 1912, he began using
the alias “X" in his writings.
 ID X.

27. X – Joseph Stalin
Y – Vladimir Lenin

28. Why the name?!
6 Questions.
+5 for each correct answer.
+10 for all correct.

29. 1.
 Atticus tells Jem and Scout that it is wrong to do
X(an act); Miss Maudie explains later that this is
because they are something which do nothing but
give pleasure to people. The _______’s death is thus
symbolic of any loss of innocence.

30. 2.
 Back when radio was invented, people noticed that it could go through a
vacuum, through space. In those days it was thought that a wave
couldn't go through a vacuum--like a sound wave for instance, it has to
have some medium to go through. So scientists developed the idea of
'ether', a sort of gelatin-like substance that exists throughout the
universe, the medium that radio waves travel through (also light waves,
xray, etc.). It was named after another very ancient concept that space
was filled with very light, rarified elements called ether (or aether). That's
where we get the word 'ethereal’.
 What got its name from this belief?

31. 3.
 It gets its name because it literally means River of
January.

32. 4.
 X was the month, when the father would give his
son-in-law all the mead he wanted.
 Mead is an alcoholic drink made of something which
can lead to X

33. 5.
 A ______ is a group of people coming together and
reaching a consensus. It also rhymes with ‘Flora’
which is about being healthy and alive.

34. 6.
 It means “Goat’s town” in Anglo-Saxon. It also
is the name of an actual town in England, a
sleepy village in Nottinghamshire.

35. Lets Roll 2!
Anti-clockwise
+10 on Bounce
+15/-10 on Pounce

36. 1. Steve Jobs can sue you!
 In 1983 the subscribers of PC world received a
floppy with a magazine. This was probably the first
time in history that a magazine featured a Floppy
bind in. Now days this practice is pretty common
with magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies.
What product was introduced to the subscribers via
that floppy?

38. Word for
MS-DOS

39. 2. Time to celebrate!
 20 countries celebrate a common X on October 5:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Germany,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Maldives, Mauritius, Republic of
Moldova, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Kuwait,
Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia and United Kingdom.
 11 countries celebrate a common X on February 28:
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, UAE and Oman.

41. Teachers’ Day

42. 3. Put Funda!

44. Narendra Modi’s Visits!

45. 4. Connect
 1991 China
 1995 Sweden
 1999 US
 2003 US
 2007 China
 2011 Germany
 2015 Canada

47. Host
Countries Of
FIFA
Women's
World Cup

48. 5. Someone
 The young X began writing and selling monster
stories for pennies to other neighborhood children,
dramatic readings included. He also wrote stories
about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet
turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle,
so he finally decided they were killing each other off
in "sinister plots".

50. George R R Martin

51. 6. No Tagline!
Connect
 Korea
 Bahrain
 Liechtenstein
 Republic of the Congo
 India

53. 15th August as
Independence
Day

54. 7.

56. These are the
photos of the
670 U.S
Soldiers who
died in Iraq
war.

57. 8.
 From 1900 to 1950, “Paper Bag parties” were very
common in many major American cities.
 What are “Paper Bag parties”?

59. If you are lighter
in ethnicity or the
same as the
brown paper bag,
you are admitted.

60. Written Round 2!
+5 for each correct slide

61. 1

62. 2.

63. 3.

64. 4.

65. 5.

66. 6.

67. 7.

69. 1. Looney Tunes Show !!

70. 2. Lion King…

71. 3.Road Runner

72. 4. Tellytubbies.

73. 5. Bob the builder

74. 6.Dragon Tails

75. 7. Pokemon

76. Connect!
+5 for each correct slide.

77. 1. +70/-35
 X Y (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a
German maker of optical instruments best known for the
company he founded, X Y Jena (now: X Y AG). He made
contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the
modern production of lenses. Raised in Weimar, Germany,
he opened a lens-making workshop in the 1840s in the city
of Jena. At first his lenses were only used in the production
of microscopes, but when cameras were invented, his
company began manufacturing high-quality lenses for
cameras.

78. 2. +60/-30
 X Y is often bullied by his older siblings Buzz, Megan,
Jeff, and Linnie, and even his Uncle Frank. He is very
strong when it comes to fighting burglars by setting
booby traps. He is very intelligent and can be a
mature kid.

79. 3. +50/-25
 X Y WAS an Australian Test and One Day
International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic
cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He
was a left-handed opening batsman who played for
two seasons with New South Wales before making
his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20.

80. 4. +40/-20
 X and Y is an American animated series of short films
created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph
Barbera. It centers on a rivalry between its two title
characters, X and Y, and many recurring characters,
based around slapstick comedy.

81. 5. +30/-15
 When the Y’s go to an orphanage to adopt a new
family member, a charming young ____ named X is
chosen. While George is initially unwelcoming to his
new brother, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic
about having a _____ as his "master" and plots to get
rid of him.

82. 6. ID the character wearing shades! +20/-10

83. 7. +15/-5
 X Y also serves on the board of directors of
Nike, Inc. and the National Football
Foundation. In 2014, Y became the first CEO
of a Fortune 500 company to publicly identify
as gay.

84. 8. +10/0
 X Y, was a Jamaican reggae singer, song writer,
musician, and guitarist who achieved international
fame and acclaim. Starting out in 1963 with the
group The Wailers, he forged a distinctive
songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate
with audiences worldwide.

86. Answers
 Carl Zeiss
 Kevin McCallister
 Phil Hughes
 Tom and Jerry
 Stuart Little
 Dave
 Tim Cook
 Bob Marley
And the connect is…

87. Minions!

88. Mischief Managed!