3. 46 questions The entire quiz shall function on the “bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce-bounce……………………………………………” format Since the QM stinks at math, all scores will be multiples of 5 or 10 Since the QM suffers from “Answer-Jaldi-De” syndrome, time limit for every question will ideally be 20 secs.
4. 1 The phrase “_____ ___" meant only one thing: a metaphor for the lost postwar dream, a requiem for the teenage world of innocence, abundance, and supposed unity that accompanied the rock and roll movement of the Fifties. Which is exactly what was intended when the epic 1972 hit was written that bears its name. On one level, it's just a eulogy for three rock stars who happened to crash in a plane back in 1959 (Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper), but it's much more than that: The composer actually spends most of the song's 8:38 length talking about what happened in the decade following the crash; the loss of national identity, the triumph of rock excess and hubris, the gradual unraveling of beliefs. It's a eulogy, but not just for those three men.
8. 3. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it. Never look at the wives of friends. Never be seen with cops. Don't go to pubs and clubs. Always being available for ______ is a duty - even if your wife's about to give birth. Appointments must absolutely be respected. Wives must be treated with respect. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families. People who can't be part of ______: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.
12. 5 A. Player selects piece and places it in the deepest jungle. B. Player rolls dice and moves piece ahead that many spaces. C. The first player to reach X and call out its name wins. D. Once a game of X has been started, it will not be over until a player has reached The Golden City.
13. A5 A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles get another turn. The first player to reach the end wins. Jumanji.
14. 6 He claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass, with three wives for company. In his youth, he studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu and became proficient in alchemy and magic. Later he took up a military profession, combating the Turks across the Danube. He exudes a veneer of aristocratic charm which masks his unfathomable evil.. Who am I talking about?
16. 7 In island countries it is an all purpose boat built by using very few tools. It is used in fishing , inter-island transport, movement of cargo, diving boats, live-aboard cruise vessels, passenger ferry boats and deep-sea fishing craft complete with outriggers and fighting chairs. In India, the "name" is a phenomenon. What is the boat called?
18. 8 For centuries, Burkittsville has been home to the enduring legend of the_____ _____. Whenever terrible things happen in the community there is a tendency to blame the ____ _____. At the first annual Wheat Harvest Picnic in 1825, ten-year-old Eileen Treacle was seen being pulled into Tappy East Creek by a ghostly white hand reaching out of the water. Her body was never found, and afterwards the creek became contaminated with oily bundles of sticks for thirteen days. In 1886, young Robin Weaver alledgedly followed a woman who's feet didn't touch the ground into a house in the woods. A search party was dispatched, but while Robin later returned, the search party didn't. A second search party found the group disemboweled at Coffin Rock. When they returned to the site with help, the bodies had vanished without a trace.
20. 9 The word was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read, "It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called TheThree Princes of _____: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand____? One of the most remarkable instances of this was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.“
22. 10 Dr. Harry Coover said 'If somebody had a chest wound or open wound that was bleeding, the biggest problem they had was stopping the bleeding so they could get the patient back to the hospital. And the consequence was—many of them bled to death. So the medics used the spray, stopped the bleeding, and were able to get the wounded back to the base hospital. And many, many lives were saved.' It was used in the Vietnam War. What was he talking about?
24. 11 In 1999, AT&T wanted to increase its public awareness. So, their advertising consultants came up with an idea to place their product into a TV programme. What idea and which programme?
26. 12 In a landmark agreement between US trade Representative Susan Schwab and Minister of Commerce KamalNath on April 12 th ,2007,what was allowed access to the Indian Market in exchange for the export of Indian Mangoes to the USA?
28. 13 Which Hans christina Anderson tale begins with thus “there once was a woman who wanted so very much to have a tiny child,but she did not know where to find one”
32. 15 The name Olympic Goal is used to describe a particular type of goal in football. The name is derived from a goal by the Argentine player CesáreoOnzari against the then Olympic champions Uruguay at Buenos Aires on October 2, 1924. The legality of this type of goal has been questioned. The most famous instance of this was Celtic's 1950's midfielder Charlie Tully whose goal was disallowed by the referee. However he scored again almost immediately and this time the goal was allowed. How is the goal scored?
34. 16 This term was originally used to refer to galvanized iron in US army inventories and supply records during the First World War. The phrase ‘____ can’ was used to refer to German artillery shells. It was later assumed that it stood for “Government Issue”. The term was later extended to all military equipment and finally to the soldiers themselves. Sometimes its origin has been suggested from “General Infantry” which is incorrect.
35. A16 G.I. used as an equivalent of an American Soldier.
37. A17 All these guys got SachinTendulkar out as their first test victims.Jacob Oram(NZ), Monty Panesar(Eng), Hansie Cronje(SA),Cameron White(Aus), Mark Elham(Eng),Neil Johnson,(Zim),RuwanKalpage(SL)
42. 20 At Cambridge University, a coffee dispenser used to be kept in a corridor just beside the Trojan Room and people from all over the building used to come and consume coffee at that point. The Trojan room housed the notorious Computer Science Hackers who used to guzzle coffee like there's no tomorrow and so most of the time the other people had to return back disappointed from the dispensing machine after having walked an exhausting floor or two. To put the other guys out of their discomfort, what innovation/first did the Trojan Room inmates come up with in 1991, thereby giving rise to a widespread internet phenomenon today??
48. 23 Statistically, X is the world's most popular transportation company. It is estimated that the equivalent of the world's population travel in X every three days. According to United Technologies, X carry the equivalent of the world's population every nine days.What are we talking about?
55. She is rumored to have been born on February 14, 1968. However, Eric Lindstrom stated in a BBC interview that she is "6 months younger than James Bond", she "transcends time [and] space", and "has her own world".
56. X's classic costume consists of a blue/green sleeveless shirt, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, long white socks, fingerless gloves, a small backpack, and a utility belt with two holsters.Who is X?
67. A30. The Twilight SeriesEach book in the series was inspired specifically by a literary classic: Twilight by Jane Austen's (pic1) Pride and Prejudice; New Moon by Shakespeare's (pic3) Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse by Emily Brontë's (pic2) Wuthering Heights; and Breaking Dawn's theme by two further plays of Shakespeare's, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Yes,there is more to that series than that pale Vampire :P
70. 32 The album artwork process was led by Chris Bilheimer and is based on a work from artist Sixten, who confirmed that the couple on the cover were "just friends of a friend at a party in Eskilstuna, Sweden" and explained that a mutual friend snapped a picture of the pair kissing. He added, "I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to spread the love." Which album am I talking about?
72. 33 Vikram – Salman Khan R. Madhavan – R. Madhavan Joseph Vijay – Salman Khan KamalHasan – Anil Kapoor KamalHasan – Govinda Rajnikanth – Jeetendra Kamalhasan – amitabhbachchan Rajkumar – Anil Kapoor Surya - ___________ PS list not exhaustive..and not in order either. Try connecting the names individually.
73. A33 List of Tamil movies remade into Hindi Vikram – Salman Khan (TereNaam) R. Madhavan – R. Madhavan (RehnaHaiTereDil Mein) Joseph Vijay – Salman Khan (Wanted) KamalHasan – Anil Kapoor (Virasat) KamalHasan – Govinda (Biwi No.1) Rajnikanth – Jeetendra (khudgarz) Kamalhasan – amitabhbachchan (AkhreeRaasta) Rajkumar – Anil Kapoor (Beta) Surya – Aamir Khan (Ghajini)
74. 34 X was born in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania on December 13. When in fourth grade,X won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem titled "Monster In My Closet". Forbes ranked X as 2009's 69th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $18 million. In January 2010 Nielsen SoundScan lists X as the top-selling digital artist in music history with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date. X is also ranked in the Top 10 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music. ID X.
80. 36 In Spain, the church used to commission architects to make statues. The statues often carried mistakes by artists in the form of cracks, dents etc... the artists used to cover these mistakes up by using wax, or _____ as the Spaniards used to call it... now here comes the catch. the statues which were blemish less was not treated with wax. What was the name given to this class of statues? The name went on to English with similar implications.
82. 37 The Assize of Bread and Ale was a 13th-century statute instituted during the reign of Henry III that set standards of quality, measurement, and pricing for bakers and brewers. It was the first law in British history to regulate the production and sale of food. Those who were found to have shortchanged customers were liable to severe punishment like losing a hand to an axe. What practice began as a guard against this punishment?
83. A37 Baker's dozen. The practice of baking 13 items for an intended dozen was to prevent "short measure", on the basis that one of the 13 could be lost, eaten, burnt, or ruined in some way, leaving the baker with the original dozen.
84. 38 The term found art or _______ describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Marcel Duchamp coined the term _______ in 1915 to describe his found art. In 1936 André Breton, defined _______ as "manufactured objects raised to the dignity of works of art through the choice of the artist.“ Which term now used in the garment industry?
86. 39 This is the only Shakespearean play to bear a subtitle. The full title is _______, or What You Will. It is a reference to the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany (January 6), formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking. Servants often dressed up as their masters, men as women and so forth. This is the cultural origin of the twin-based comedy of cross-dressing and mistaken identity.
90. 41 Oxford dictionary meaning : Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derogatory): implying that another person has said or done something foolish. X utters it when he injures himself, realizes that he has done something stupid, or when something bad has happened or is about to happen to him. During the voice recording session for a Tracey Ullman Show short, X was required to utter what was written in the script as an "annoyed grunt.” X and the word..
92. 42. _______ is a colloquial term for a planet that falls within a star's habitable zone, often specifically used for planets close to the size of Earth. They are of key interest to researchers looking either for existing (and possibly intelligent) life or for future homes for the human race, one that is neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out life. The name arises from the fact that they’re not extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is "just right".
94. 43 The ______ family were prominent members of Quakers. As nonconformists they were not permitted to enter Universities, hence they concentrated on Business and Social reforms. In 1831 a small factory, an old malt house in Crooked Lane, Birmingham, was rented by John ______ and he started manufacturing Cocoa as an alternative to Alcohol, as he thought that it was one of the causes of poverty and misery among the working classes
98. 45 Farokh Bulsara, son of Bomi and JerBulsara,Parsis from the Gujarat region of the then province of Bombay Presidency in British India, was born in Zanzibar on 5 September 1946. However he became more famous by a nickname he got at school. Infact there is now a rose named after the nickname who??
101. 46 I have many stories written about me. There are many versions of the same story, but all of them tell about how I trapped the devil though no one knows the real version. My name comes from the terms “IgnisFatuus”(The phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs) and “Will of the wisp”. Who am I?
