2. Pointers
20 Questions
5*,10*,15* and 20* are for tie-breakers
6 Teams to Finals
Cell Phones- You all know the Drill
Would do a reverse recap at the end
6. 0.
Since 1925, a certain Mahajan & Sons Private
Limited located at Meerut within NCR Delhi is
engaged in Manufacturing and Export, has its own
Infrastructure for Production with well-organized
Distribution Network. It is the First Cricket House in
India in Sports awarded as ISO 9001:2000 Certified
Company issued by JAZ-ANZ, NEW ZEALAND for
complying with the International Quality Standards
and performing the Quality Management System.
Which Firm?
9. 1.
Originally held in a lecture hall at MIT, but as of now these
awards are held in Sanders Theater at Harvard University.
Throwing paper planes onto the stage and Miss Sweetie Poo
jokes , a little girl who repeatedly cries out, "Please stop: I'm
bored", in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long are
regular traditions. The awards, now in its 26th year, delivered a
$10 Trn Zimbabwean bill to winners as gesture to their
contribution to society. Which Awards/Ceremony?
The Logo is a satire of Rodin’s The Thinker and called The
Stinker (Image Follows)
12. 2.
The International Astronomical Union confirmed that asteroid
17473, a 3.5km-wide ball of black rubble on the other side of Mars
has been named ____________ and was announced by the
Guitarist, Brian May, coinciding with the music star’s 70th birthday
in Sept 5th, 2016. Chris Lintott, professor of astrophysics at Oxford
and presenter of The Sky at Night said: “I think it’s wonderful to
name an asteroid after___________. He joins a list including all
the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Bowie among others. It’s on a slightly
eccentric orbit about the sun, just as the man himself was.” Fill in
the Blanks
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16. 3.
The 20 Rs Note in
Pakistan was
introduced in the year
2005 and as the norms
are M.A Jinnah is the
central figure as is
Gandhi in India. What
constitutes the back of
this note?
19. 4.
Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty used this syndrome first in her
1995 book “Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes”
to describe mythological figures who succeed in bridging
the animal and human worlds to become one with nature,
a human animal, only to become trapped between the two
worlds, not completely animal yet not entirely human. It is
also a rarely used descriptive term for so-called feral
children although is not a recognized psychological or
physiological malady. The term originates from the a
character from a book in 1894. What?
22. 5.
Called the Teen Murti (literally "three statues") Memorial by
British sculptor, Leonard Jennings, which stands on the road
junction in front of its extensive grounds. The memorial
comprises life-size statues of three soldiers, and was built in
1922 in the memory of the Indian soldiers from three Indian
princely states, namely; Jodhpur State, Hyderabad State and
Mysore State. Housing the hunting lodge of Tuglaqs and the
Nehru Planetarium, what did it serve as the 1st in India from
1947 to 1964? (The current equivalent is now in Lok Kalyan
Marg)
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26. 6.
Which biblical parable is being
described in the 1667 painting
of Dutch Legend, Rembrandt?
We see a son(kneeling),
father(holding), mother and
brothers constituting the
painting
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30. 7.
More than 90 years after it was founded in 1925, this
institution is finally lengthening something. On 11
October, which is also the the institution’s Foundation
Day, it will be bidding farewell to one of its identities
and doing an image make over. Almost 7 lakh new
pairs have been ordered in the first phase and it is
reported to cost Rs 250 per pair per member. Which
Institution? What makeover?
33. 8.
For a half century, the sturdy, Belgian-bred birds of the this
state’s police service have braved hawks, wind and rain to carry
messages during floods, famine and other disasters. 21 of the
homing pigeons were once praised by India's first prime
minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The department's 680 carrier
pigeons were seen as costly anachronisms in an age of VHF
radios and e-mail and slowly in the early 2000’s the postal
pigeon department, India’s last was defucnt and obsolete.
Which State/City of India?
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37. 9.
As per Amitav Ghose’s River of Smoke, Many Indian
words, in various dialects were Loan words and
derivations from Portuguese (Ex: Faltu from the word
Falto). Which Hindi (even some other state
languages) word came from Old Portuguese ygreja
meaning congregation or even a cathedral?
40. 10.
When sailors wanted to know how fast they were going, they
would throw over the stern a lump of wood tied to a bit of string
with regularly spaced knots in it. By counting the number of
knots that went out in a fixed time, they would know their speed
- in knots, of course. With time these pieces of wood were used
was recording arrivals and departures. People at, say, a secure
establishment had to sign in when they arrived and sign out
when they departed. Which phrase/word now ubiquitous in
Internet/Work parlance?
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44. 11.
Ronald Edward Galella (1931) is
an American photographer,
known as the “The Godfather of
the U.S. paparazzi culture" by
Time magazine and Vanity Fair.
After an altercation with an actor
who he followed in 1973, he
started wearing a football helmet
as he was knocked out of 5
teeth during the incident. Which
Actor?
47. 12.
_________was a rogue bull elephant responsible for
at least 27 deaths and destruction of property in the
jungled Sonitpur district of the Indian state of Assam.
After a two-year rampage from 2004 to 2006, an
elephant was eventually shot; but some were
doubtful that the right animal was killed thus saying it
is still at large. Who was this rogue elephant named
after?
50. 13.
Hydrox derived its name from the
atoms comprising water. In 1908,
the creators of this cookie were
looking for a name that would
convey "purity and goodness”. It
debuted in 1908, was originally
manufactured by Sunshine (later
Sunshine Biscuits) and was sold
for over ninety years. This was the
actual inspiration/rip-off of a
Nabisco/Cadbury product. What?
53. 14.
Arnold (Arnoul) of Soissons or Arnold or Arnulf of Oudenburgca
(1040–1087) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Arnold
was an abbot in Oudenburg, Belgium. Rather than stand by
while the local Christians drank water, he had them consume a
particular potion and because of this, many people in his church
survived the plague as the water was boiled in the process and
thus, unknown to all, freed of pathogens. There are many
depictions of St. Arnold with a mashing rake in his hand, to
identify him. Put Funda on the potion or what he is otherwise
known as?
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60. 16.
It was in 2007, people in rural Antioquia, 200 miles north-
west of Bogota, began phoning the Ministry of
Environment to report sightings of a peculiar
animal(Hippopotamus). The local environmental authority,
which bears responsibility for them, estimates between 50
and 60, with most living in the lake at the park. Which
Columbian brought just 3 of the Hippos (Which have bred
to many mutiples) as a part of his personal zoo and in a
way introduced Hippos to the country in 1991-93?
63. 17.
What’s common to the following?
A Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian and South African ice
cream brand owned by Unilever
A stadium spectator choreography also known as
audience wave
A Polish form of the female name Alexandra
A spelling variation of Aulakh, a clan or gotra of Jats in
India
66. 18.
This actor holds the record for 'Most Public Appearances
Made By A Film Star In 12 Hours’ beating Hollywood actor
Will Smith who had made three public appearances in 2
hours during the promotions of his film I, Robot in 2004.
He did various promotional activities in 7 cities including
Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Delhi, Gurgaon,
Chandigarh and Mumbai on February 22, 2009, within a
period of 12 hours. Not to mention, he travelled 1,800 km
mostly by private jet and car to make it possible. For an
extra point name the movie?
69. 19.
The unique multi-hued bark is the
most distinctive feature of the tree.
Patches of outer bark are shed
annually at different times, showing
a bright green inner bark. This then
darkens and matures to give blue,
purple, orange and then maroon
tones. The previous season’s bark
peels off in strips to reveal a
brightly colored new bark below.
Used mostly for making white
paper in Philippines, what is it
commonly called as?
