2. Rules:
1.This round contains 16 Questions. First 8 goes
CLOCKWISE then the rest 8 ANTI-CLOCKWISE.
2.Points +10 on direct to the team.
3. Anyone can POUNCE. For this you earn +10/-5.
4. Quizmasters are the gods. Please don’t mess
with them.
3.
4. #Q1. X is a place which gets its name from the well known
mythological story of India. The youngest child of Rishi Vishrava
and his second wife, Kaikesi ie. Surpanakha, was given the name
of Minaksi at birth. According to Valmiki, when Rama was in exile
then Surparnakha dwelled in the forests as she parted her terms
with Ravana due to a feud and so approached Rama to be her
husband, but Rama being married to Sita denied. So she
approached Lakshmana as she could not gain the faith of Rama,
but eventually he rejects too. Seeing being getting humiliated by
the brothers she decided to attack Sita and rest of the history is
well known to us. Just give me X.
7. #Q2. The plot says, SHIVA offered X a great power to turn the
anything whatever he touches by his hands into ashes.
Suddenly X decides to try to apply his power on SHIVA. Looking
SHIVA terrified VISHNU intervened and took the form of Y. Y
intelligently beguile X in the dexterous way and in no way X
could win over SHIVA. Thus this changed the entire course of
the Indian cinema. And Indian cinema took the new dimension.
This was the first film to cast an actress and Kamala who was a
stage actress performed the first dance number in the role of a
heroine in Indian cinema. Give me X and Y this gives me the
film.
10. #Q.3 In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have
sexual encounters or reside in X’s country; but once a year, in order
to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a
neighbouring tribe. The male children who were the result of these
visits were either killed, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the
wilderness to fend for themselves; the girls were kept and brought
up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting,
and the art of war. X’s CEO was in a great dilemma of giving it a
name and so came up with X which is actually named after this
history. X which has surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer
in the United States by market capitalization in 2015 .
Search out the company, this is X.
11.
12. Answer: Amazon got its name from
the river Amazon which gets its name
from the Greek mythological women
warrior the AMAZONS.
13. #Q.4 X is one of the great Greek hero, the son of the King Telamon
and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. To distinguish him
form the son of Oileus he calls himself “Telamonian X”. Grandson
of Zeus is notable for his abundant strength and courage.X is
historically one of the most successful clubs in the world and the
seventh-most successful European club of the 20th century. ID X
HINT: The number 14 Jersey in Football.
16. #Q.5 This place is very famous in India as it holds the prestige to
feature the India’s first Braille press. This place is said to have got its
name from the son of Rishi Bharadwaja. It is believed X was not born
from the womb rather in a vessel made of leaf which is said as
‘Droon’. The later part of X’s name is a title gifted from Parashurama.
From this brief history, and relics, temples and culture of this place
is said to be named after X. ID the place and give me X.
17.
18. Answer: X is Drona
Place: Dehradun.
It is in the folklore that Drona when went to
parashurama, Parashurama had nothing
except of his wepons which he gifted to
Drona and from this he was given the title
‘acharaya’.
19. #Q.6 From Hanuman Chalisa we get:
”जुग सहस्त्र योजन पर भानु,”
What actually is this line depicting?
Hint: Think Science!!
20.
21. Answer: it says the distance of earth and sun.
जुग सहस्त्र योजन- Distance Unit in Hindi
According to conversion practices that are in use as per
Hindu Vedic Literature - 1Juug= 12000; Sahastra= 1000;
1Yojan=8 Miles. Thus 12000 X 1000 X 8 = 96,000,000
miles. 1 miles= 1.6 kms. This means 153,600,000 Km. In
the 17th century two scientists Giovanni and Richer have
calculated the distance of sun from earth accurately and
real close (at 140 million kilometers) to now officially
declared figures.
22. #Q.7 Some popular novels written by Neil Gaiman’s are Coraline,
American Gods,The Graveyard Book and X. X is a very different type
of novel being consciously written in the tradition of pre-
Tolkien English fantasy. The plot goes in this way: On the outskirts
of Wall, the Faerie Market is held every nine years on the other side
of the wall dividing Faerie - a mystical realm of magic - from our
world and for which the town of Wall is named. Tristran’s fiancé
sees a shooting star land in Faerie, and he vows to bring it to her in
exchange for a kiss, and perhaps her hand in marriage. Thus the
plot sees a surreal exposure of the magic realism like the ‘candle-
stub’ which allows fast travel. This was actually to be named ‘WALL’
but Gaiman in a celebratory party saw a shooting star and so went
to name it as X. Initially it was released in 1997 in a prestige
format four-issue mini-series. ID X.
23.
24. Prestige Format:- This
means it came out once
a month in a square-
bound high-gloss
booklet, with high
grade paper, high
quality color and no
advertisements.
25. #Q.8 X is a fictional character, with a high fantasy sword and
sorcery heroine. Most artists depict X wearing a very brief bikini-like
costume of scale armor, usually with boots and gauntlets. As
originally drawn by Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and
"The Song of X" in Conan the Barbarian issues 23 and 24 (1973), she
did not have as full a figure and dressed a little more conservatively,
in a long-sleeved mail shirt and short pants of red silk, a style that
did not last long. The film made on X stared Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Brigitte Nielsen. For this movie She also won the ‘Golden
Raspberry Award’. Id X.
28. #Q.9 J K ROWLING SAYS “I GOT THE SURNAME X
FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVED DOWN THE ROAD
FROM ME IN WINTERBOURNE. I LIKED THE
SURNAME, SO I TOOK IT.”
GIVE ME X
31. The Crownlands Waters
The North X
The Iron Islands Pyke
The Riverlands Rivers
The Vale Stone
The Westerlands Hill
The Reach Flowers
The Stormlands Storm
Dorne Sand
#Q.10 GIVE ME X.
37. #Q.12 X is an international criminal mastermind
whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect balance.
He believes that the best way to achieve this
balance is to eliminate most of humanity. His
name in Arabic translates to ‘The Demon’s head’. X
usually tries to assault the world's human
populace with a biological weapon, such as
a genetically-engineered virus. He was born in a
desert somewhere in Arabia, near a city whose
inhabitants’ ancestors have journeyed to the
Arabina peninsula from china. Give me X
40. #Q.13 J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted "Now,
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.“
after witnessing first nuclear explosion, later
he said he took the inspiration for the above
statement from X.
X inspired Indian Freedom Movement in a
large extent.
What is X?
43. #Q.14 Name the yogic power used by
Sanjaya to narrate the the happenings
in Kurukshetra to Dhritarashtra
Valmiki was blessed with the same
power
Hint: It is a common word in Indian
Entertainment
46. #Q.15 He is admired most by all of the
Greeks except Athens. His intellect is not
strong though his feelings are. By the
time he was eighteen, he was able to kill
a full grown Thespian lion all by himself.
Who is he?
49. “Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching ponder this;
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect's black,
Too late, it's gone, it won't come back”
#Q.16
Where did you hear it?
