1. Quizmaster: Saurabh Kumar Verma
(a.k.a. God for the next 2 hours)

2. • 1 – WRITE PEOPLE
• 2 – LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
• 3 – HISTORY AND POLITICS
• 4 – ENTERTAINMENT
• 5 - INDIA AND WORLD
• 6 – SPORTS
• 7 – SCIENCE
• 8 – SHORT VISUAL CONNECT
• 9 – LONG VISUAL CONNECT
ROUNDS

3. • YEAR-PLACE(CITY/COUNTRY WILL DO)
• +5 FOR EACH CORRECT
• 2 MINUTES TIME
Write places where olympics were held
from 1980-2016

4. • 1980 – MOSCOW(RUSSIA)
• 1984-LOS ANGELES(USA)
• 1988-SEOUL(SOUTH KOREA)
• 1992-BARCELONA(SPAIN)
• 1996-ATLANTA(USA)
• 2000-SYDNEY(AUSTRALIA)
• 2004-ATHENS(GREECE)
• 2008-BEIJING(CHINA)
• 2012-LONDON (ENGLAND)
• 2016-RIO DE JANERIO (BRAZIL)

5. • List THE Indian submissions for
the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film FROM
• 2001-PRESENT
+5 FOR EACH CORRECT
(NOT TO BOTHER ABOUT YEAR)
2 MINUTES TIME

6. • LAGAAN
• DEVDAS
• THE BREADTH (MARATHI)
• RIDDLE
• RANG DE BASANTI
• EKLAVYA
• TAARE ZAMEEN PAR
• HARISHCHANDRA‟S FACTORY (MARATHI)
• PEEPLI LIVE
• ABU SON OF ADAM (MALAYALAM)
• BARFI

7. • DIRECT QUESTION +10
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

8. 1. Identify the map shown.

9. Malgudi

10. 2.
The book is divided in 5 parts
• Mitra-bheda
• Mitra-labha or Mitra-samprapti
• Kakolukiyam
• Labdhapranasam
• Apariksitakarakam
Name of the book?

11. Panchtantra

12. Question 3
In 2006, X was named the
richest fictional character by
Forbes Magazine. But later X
was dropped from the list
because of angry letters from
children claiming X was real.
Identify X.

13. Answer

14. Q 4
Which Bengali fictional
character lives at
23 Rajani Sen Road,
Ballygunge, Kolkata,
West Bengal, India ?

15. Answer
Feluda

16. Question 5
Knowledge of Literature – nil.
Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.
Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.
Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.
Knowledge of Botany – Variable.
Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited.
Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.
Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but
unsystematic.
Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense
Plays the violin well.
Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and
swordsman.
Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

17. Answer
Sherlock Holmes

18. 6.) There is a well-known story about the
origin of this word, which says that in
1791 a Dublin theater owner named
James Daly made a bet that he could
introduce a word into the language within
twenty-four hours. He then went out and
hired a group of street urchins to write
this word, which was a nonsense word, on
walls around the city of Dublin. Within a
day, the word was common currency and
had acquired a meaning (since no one
knew what it meant, everyone thought it
was some sort of test) and Daly had some
extra cash in his pocket. Which word?

19. QUIZ

20. Question 7
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
is the fear of ?

21. Answer

22. 8
• Dasher
• Dancer
• Prancer
• Vixen
• Comet
• Cupid
• Donder
• Blizten
• Rudolph
An Exhaustive List of what?

23. Reindeers of Santa

24. • DIRECT QUESTION +10
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HISTORY AND POLITICS

25. Question 1
Private Henry Tandey, a British
soldier reportedly encountered a
wounded German soldier and
declined to shoot him, sparing
the life of 29-year-old Lance
Corporal X during World War 1.
Identify X

26. Answer

27. 2. Gauhar Ara Begum was
born on 17 June, 1631 and
died in 1706, at a
reasonably old age of 75.
We may not find her death
interesting, but why would
her birth be significant?

28. Her mother Mumtaz Mahal died in
childbirth while delivering here.
Her father Shah Jahan built the Taj
Mahal in Mumtaz’s memory.
Answer

29. 3
What happened for the first time in
independent India in the little region of
Chini in Himachal Pradesh on 25
October 1951?
It happened this early as a precaution
against possible snow later in the winter.

30. The first votes cast in India’s first
general elections.
Answer

31. 4
If you took this test, apart from
academic subjects, you may have had to
demonstrate the ability
to jump a 5-barred gate on horseback
with arms folded and stirrups crossed.
Romesh Chandra Dutt, Behari Lal
Gupta, Surendranath Banerjee &
S.B.Thakur were the next to achieve it in
1869.
Who was the first (in 1868) ?

32. The first Indian Civil Services
entrant, Satyendranath Bose
Answer

33. 5. connect

34. • GMC Balyogi
• Madhavrao Scindia
• OP Jindal
• Andhra Pradesh cm Y S Rajasekhara
Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee
Khandu
• All politicians who died in a plane crash

35. * In 1941, Subhash Chandra Bose set up the
Free India Centre in Germany. Following
its formation, the FIC adopted four key
resolutions:
1. Jai Hind would be the official salutation;
2. Jana Gana Mana would be national anthem;
3. Hindustani would be the national language.
* What was the fourth?

36. Subhash Bose will be called Netaji

37. www.marchahead.co.i
7.
X, a young graduate from IIT Kharagpur, was
studying for his doctorate at the Columbia
University, New York, when he chanced to
attend a Dhrupad concert by Ustad Nasir
Aminuddin Dagar and Ustad Zia Fariddudin
Dagar at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New
York. On his return to India in 1976, he started
teaching and doing research work at IIT Delhi,
where he got together with students and
started this non-profit organisation, Y. Identify
X & Y?

38. www.marchahead.co.i
X-Dr.Kiran Seth
Y-SPIC MACAY(Society for the Promotion of
Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst
Youth)

39. • . X was born in 1950 in Sargodha to a conservative
Pakistani Punjabi family. His family lost 36 of its
members when migrating from Shimla to Lahore
during the Partition of India. General Mohammad
Zia-ul-Haq appointed him to the Council on
Islamic Ideology, and he later served as an Islamic
Studies teacher at the University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore. One of his famous quotes
is "There cannot be any peace while India remains
intact. Cut them, cut them so much that they
kneel before you and ask for mercy."
8.

40. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of
the Laskhar-e-Taiba.

41. • DIRECT QUESTION +10
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ENTERTAINMENT

42. 1.
• Time Warner gets paid a fee every time a
certain item gets sold. They must have a made
plenty in 2011 due the item‟s popularity in a
major events which took place in the year. The
item was first created in a comic-book series in
the „80s (also a 2006 movie)
• Identify the series and the item.

43. Guy Fawkes Mask, from V for Vendetta

44. 2.
• PETA India crowned two winners
for the title of „hottest
vegetarian‟. The female winner
was Mallika Sherawat. Which
recent sensation was voted the
male winner?

45. 19
•Dhanush

46. 3.
• Neha Kapur, Miss India 2006.
• Her husband is a London-born actor.
• Name him/the character he is best
known for.

47. 25
• Kunal Nayyar who plays
Raj Koothrappali on
„The Big Bang Theory‟

48. 4. Connect these lovely ladies.

49. Nirma Washing Powder

50. 5.
• On June 3rd2009, she was „killed‟ and this led to
protests and pleas to bring her back
• Dear X supporters. It is with a heavy heart that I
have to announce that I will be shutting down the
Save X campaign and everything associated with
it," PuneetAgarwal, who earlier went by the
pseudonym 'Deshmukh', said in a statement
released on the Save X site.
• Hint ( Wouldn‟t have put it in the quiz if there
girls in the group too) . 

51. • Savita bhabhi

52. 6
• Vaibhav Bedi,26,sought 26,000 euros
from Hindustan Unilever Limited in
November 2009,citing “Depression
and psychological damage” caused
due to one of their products. What
was this product and how did it lead
to the person‟s “Depression and
psychological damage” ?

53. A6
• AXE
• According to him THE AXE EFFECT was a
false. No girl was attracted to him for all
the seven years of AXE-use leading him to
“Depression and psychological
damage”!!!:D

54. 7
X is possibly the only film on which both Morgan
Freeman and Amitabh Bachchan have worked. X
received an academy award in 2005. It took one
year for the two isolated cinematographers
Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison to shoot the
film, which was shot around the French scientific
base of Dumont d'Urville in Adélie Land. In spite
of being an exceptional film, X has attracted
some controversy amongst social/ political
commentators on monogamy and between
atheists and proponents of Intelligent design.
Identify X.

55. Answer
• March of the Penguins

56. 8. an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter.
He is best known for writing and
directing Rang De Basanti(2006), for
which he won Best Director awards at the
2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film
Awards and received a BAFTA
Award nomination forBest Foreign
Language Film.He is an almuni of SRCC
College. He represented India as a
swimmer in the 1982 Asian Games held
at NewDelhi .

57. Rakyesh omprakash mehra,
director of bhaag milka bhaag

58. • DIRECT QUESTION +10
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INDIA AND WORLD

59. Question 1
Founder of ?

60. Answer

63. Q2
• X was firstly started in 1666 in Germany. In
India, X was formed in 1948 . A committee
headed by Pandit H.N
Kunzru recommended it‟s establishment
at a national level . . Following the
1962 Sino-Indian War, to meet the
requirement of the Nation , it was made
compulsory in 1963. In 1968, it was again
made voluntary.

64. A2
• NCC(National Cadet Corps)

65. 3
• Rathi vinay jha,an I.A.S officer of 1967 batch
began her career serving at various positions
in the government of tamil nadu .In 1987, .
she undertook her first assignment with the
Union government with the ministry of
agriculture followed by ministry of commerce
. she played a key role in setting up an
institute which was First of its kind in India.
she also became the first lady director
general of a council related to the
institute .Identify the institute.

66. National institute of fashion technology

67. 4. Identify X and Give Funda
•Bartholomew
•James
•Andrew
•Y
•Peter
•John
•X
•Thomas
•James the Greater
•Philip
•Matthew
•Jude
•Simon

68. X:Jesus Y: Judas, Order of sitting in „The
Last Supper‟

69. Who are the sisters of
The Bretton Woods ?
5.

70. IMF
&
The World Bank
ANSWER

71. * Which country’s flag contains flags of
six other countries?
6.

72. Norway

73. * Residents of this region normally drive
on the left side of the road. However, in
1982, for 2 months, they drove on the right
side.
* Why? (Bigger
vis –next slide)

75. FALKLAND ISLAND WAR
BETWEEN
ENGLAND AND ARGENTINA

76. 8.
Whose
gravestone ?

77. Answer

78. SPORTS
• DIRECT QUESTION +10
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15 SECONDS
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79. • This is a photo of basketball
legend Jerry West.
Why is this particular photo
significant?
1.

80. • The NBA logo

81. 2.

82. Buddh International Circuit

83. 3. Identify this rising Indian sports star

84. Deepika Pallikal, Squash

85. 4. PERFECT HATTRICK IS VERY RARE IN
CASE OF WORLD FOOTBALL ? What is it?

86. Perfect Hattrick -- scoring goals using both
the feet and head.

87. X, a former West Indian cricketer made his debut against
India and played county cricket for Somerset and
Glamorgan. He has been voted as one of the cricketers of
the 20th Century by Wisden.
Y is a famous Indian television and film actress who has
acted in movies like Utsav and Khalnayak and television
serials Bharat Ek Khoj and Jassi Jaisi koi Nahin.
X had a brief relationship with Y with whom he has a
daughter.
Identify X and Y.
5

88. Viv Richards / Neena Gupta

89. • Y is the unemployed son of a farmer. Y is a darling of the TV
cameras. X's office told the BBC that they had no comment to make
on his "charity" work to sponsor Y.
• "I cycle to most cities to watch the event. I stay with friends or with
the local painter." , Y says. Y says he even managed to get visas
which enabled him to cycle across the border to Pakistan and
Bangladesh. “
• In the Pakistani visa form, there were three options - by air, train and
by bus. I was planning to cycle, so I wrote bicycle on the form
separately. I got the visa," he says. On reaching the border he was
stopped by Indian guards. "But after hours of questioning, I was
allowed to proceed by bike."
• In Pakistan, he stayed with Z, his Pakistani Counterpart.
• X, Y and Z. [ for Z, real name or nickname will do ]
6.

90. • X- Sachin Tendulkar
• Y – Sudhir Kumar Gautham Z – Abdul Jalil (Chacha Cricket)

91. 7) Where in the world will you see the
following verse?
“ When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return,
return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the
urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn.”

92. The Ashes Urn

93. 8. What does this graph depict?
(Hint: Look closely)

94. Career AVERAGE
Graph of Don Bradman

95. • SCIENCE
• DIRECT QUESTION +10
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ROUND 8

96. • 1. The X Prizes are awarded annually by the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) for notable and outstanding research,
applied or fundamental, in Biological,
Chemical, Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and
Planetary, Engineering, Mathematical, Medical
and Physical Sciences. The purpose of the prize
is to recognize outstanding work in science and
technology. The award is named after the
founder Director of the Council of Scientific &
Industrial Research. X?

97. Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

98. • 2. The word in Homeric Greek means "pure,
fresh air" or "clear sky", imagined in Greek
mythology to be the pure essence where the
gods lived and which they breathed, analogous
to the air breathed by mortals. It corresponds
to the concept of Akasha in Hindu philosophy
and is linked to Brihaspati (or the planet
Jupiter) and the center direction of the
compass. This word and the concept it stood for
was very influential in the Greek (and hence
the whole) scientific world. What word?

99. ether

100. 3. Funda.

102. 4. Gaspar Schott sketch of Otto von Guericke‟s
experiment. Id experiment.

103. Magdeburg Hemispheres Experiment

104. 5. After whom is the phenomenon
named? / Id the phenomenon.

105. Zeeman Effect, after Pieter Zeeman

106. 6. Id person and phenomenon.

107. Heike Kammerlingh Onnes
• The graph describes the phenomenon of superconductivity.

108. 7.FILL THE BLANKED WORD

109. CARNOT

110. Decades before India embarked
on its quest for superpower
status, the tiny princely state of
Travancore had aimed it high in
1937 when it made a bid to
enlist whom as vice-chancellor
of its fledgling university for a
monthly pay of Rs 6,000?
8.

112. Short Visual Connect -
+25 / -15

113. Short Visual Connect -
+20 / -10

114. Short Visual Connect -
+10 / 0

115. Short Visual Connect
• Pepsi's Change the Game ad, feature these as examples.
• Billy Bowden - Tedi Ungli - Ghee
• Harbhajan Singh - Metal Horn m/ . Doosra
• Kevin Pieterson – Watermelon. Palti Hit.
• Shakib Al Hasan - Hopscotch. This ad was only aired in
Bangaldesh.
• 2nd image – Pallu shot, Dilshan
• 3rd image – Dhoni ad with the wheel/helicopter

116. . Round 9: LVC
• 11 questions, all connected by a common theme
• Teams can go for the connect at any stage
• Points are awarded as mentioned on each slide.

117. +40,-30
This man was a tribal leader and a folk hero, was
behind the Millenarian movement that rose in the
tribal belt of modern day Bihar and Jharkhand
during the British Raj, in the late 19th century
making him an important figure in the history of the
Indian independence movement.

118. +35,-20
After India's Independence, this man worked
closely with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to
secure the sovereignty of Assam against
China on the one hand and East Pakistan on
the other. He also helped to organize the
rehabilitation of millions of Hindu refugees
who had fled East Pakistan due to
widespread violence and intimidation in the
aftermath of Partition. Received Bharat
Ratna in 1999.

119. +30,-20
Indira GandhiMorarji Desai________Indira
Gandhi

120. +25,-15

121. +20,-15
A legal luminary, he has also authored the book-
“Problem of the Rupee” while studying at LSE.

122. +20,-10
Sarvodaya movement

123. +15,-10
The man responsible for integration of
princely states to India. Popularly
known as Iron Man Of India.

124. +10,-10

125. +10,-5

126. +10,0
Sriperumbudur is an industrial town in
Kanchipuram district in the Indian
state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in
proximity to Chennai. It is famous for
being the birth place of Sri Ramanuja,
one of the most prominent Hindu
Vaishnava saints and also as the death
place of a renowned Indian.

127. +5,0
Shakti Sthal

128. Answer
Indian Airports
Birsa Munda Ranchi
Gopinath Bordoloi Guwahati
Chaudhary Charan Singh Lucknow
Veer Savarkar Port Blair
BR Ambedkar Nagpur
Jaiprakash Narayan Patna
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ahmedabad
Shivaji Mumbai
SC Bose Kolkata
Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad
Indira Gandhi New Delhi