Finals@ Quiz at Pragati 2014

1. QM is Rajanikanth…..Mind It!!!!!!
2. No animals were hurt during the making of
the Quiz (except for a Panda may be)…..

 WhyYou Make No Sense-TheWritten Round
 Bouncing Questions Pouncing Quizzers I
 List Banao
 Bouncing Questions Pouncing Quizzers II

 There are five clues.
 Each of them talks about a flaw in each video
game.
 Id each game.
 Bonus +5 for getting a full house.

Can break bricks with his head………
dies when touches a turtle

1. Has an arsenal of nine different
weapons………
uses a crowbar to save the earth

2. Survives a drop from outer
space……….
Dies when falls 10 feet

3. Genetically improved to be a perfect
assassin with inhuman training since
birth……………..
Can’t jump.

4. Gets shot in the head………….
take some painkillers and keep going

5. Punches an empty police car in the
middle of nowhere………….
The police knows immediately

 20 Question on Infinite Bounce and Limited
Pounce.
 Infinite Bounce- +10/0
 Limited Pounce- +15/-10
 8 Pounces

 X is historically a holiday
declared in honour of
______ rights. Although X
started inThe United
States, its observance in
the US is notably absent.
In America the first
Monday in September
celebrated as “______
Day".
 The picture along side is a
Stamp to commemorate
X.
 What is X?

 X- May Day
 The blank is Labor

The X theory existed from the 1950s to the 1980s. It was
promoted at times by the United States government to
explain the spread of communism. US speculated that if
one state in a region came under the influence
of communism then the surrounding countries will see the
fall of the existing government one by one and rise of
communism.The US feared if the communist succeeded in
taking over the whole of Indochina then local groups would
then have the encouragement, material support and
momentum to take over Burma,Thailand, Malaya and
Indonesia one by one in a linear sequence.
ID X?

He sat in on countless legendary recordings
He was Sinatra's right-hand man
Played with some of the biggest names in rock 'n roll
He was there at CBGB's in '78
The Sunset Strip at '81
And been on tour since '66
And he's still going strong today.......
His name is __________ ___________
FITB /“Who” is “He”?

Which word/expression was the word of the
year 2001 according to the American Dialect
Society?

 The description of the
book reads as…..
 Instead of fairy
godmothers, there’s
Siri. And rather than big
bad wolves, there are
creepy dudes on
OkCupid.
FITB

Easy stuffs………….Connect(Be Specific)
1. Ram ____ _____
2. People’s Mandate ____ _____
3. Golden Jubilee ____ _____
4. India Shining ____ _____
5. India’s Safety _____ _____
6. People’s awareness/opinion ____ _____

 David J. Bradley was one of the
12 engineers who worked on
the original X PC, developing
the computer's ROM BIOS
code. He holds seven U.S.
Patents. In 1984 he helped
manage development of the
Personal System 2 Model 30. In
1993 he was manager of
architecture in the PC group.
But he is more famous for
creating a very popular thing.
What was the company X? And
what is he famous for creating?

 X- IBM
 He is famous for creating the crtl+alt+del
command

Newlands was the first person to devise a
periodic table of elements arranged in order of
their relative atomic weights. he published in
1865 his 'Law of X', which stated that "any given
element will exhibit analogous behaviour to the
eighth element following it in the table.“
Newlands arranged all of the known elements
into seven groups, which he likened to the X of
music

 X is a carbonated, sweetened beverage, originally made
using the _____ of the sassafras plant as the primary
flavour. X, popularized in North America, comes in two
forms: alcoholic and soft drink.
 In 1876, pharmacist Charles Hires first introduced a
commercial version at the Philadelphia Centennial
Exhibition. Hires was a teetotaller who wanted to call the
beverage “____ tea". However, his desire to market the
product to Pennsylvania coal miners caused him to call his
product X instead.By 1893, X was sold as a bottled soft
drink to the public. Especially during Prohibition, non-
alcoholic versions proved to be commercially successful.
 Id this well-known American drink.

X was the fifth choice for the role.The relatively unknown
actor was not even on the director's radar who wanted to
cast Raaj Kumar. Raaj Kumar declined because he disliked
the smell of the dirctor's preferred brand of hair oil.
Dharmendra was then offered the role but had no dates to
give. Dev Anand was approached but dropped because he
wanted sing his own songs. Rajesh Khanna was asked but
didn't want to play against his romantic hero type.The
director was in despair when Pran, suggested he check out
the actor X.
ID X and the Movie???

 X is a fictional city in the
Ambrose Bierce short
story "An Inhabitant of X"
(1891). In Bierce's story,
the ancient and mysterious
city is barely described,
and is viewed only in
hindsight (after its
destruction) by a character
who once lived there.
 The city was later used
more extensively in Robert
W. Chambers' book of
horror short stories
published in 1895 entitled
The King inYellow.
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In X.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost X.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim X.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost X.
—"Cassilda's Song" in The King inYellow Act 1, Scene 2
6.
Id X and tell me what Pop-Culture
reference does this have?

 X- Carcosa.
 Carcosa is reference fromTrue Detective.

 X: A PersonalVoyage is a thirteen-part
television series written by Y, Ann
Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Y as
presenter. It covers a wide range of
scientific subjects, including the origin of
life and a perspective of our place in the
universe.
 The series was first broadcast by the
Public Broadcasting Service in 1980, and
was the most widely watched series in
the history of American public television.
As of 2009, it was still the most widely
watched PBS series in the world. A book
was also published to accompany the
series.
 The NewYorkTimes described it as "a
watershed moment for science-themed
television programming".
 X: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014
American science documentary
television series.The show is a follow-up
to the 1980 television series X: A
Personal Voyage.
 The show is presented by astrophysicist
Z, who was inspired by Y as a young
college student. Among the executive
producers are Seth MacFarlane, and Ann
Druyan, Y’s widow and a co-creator of
the original series.
 As a science communicator, Z regularly
appears on television, radio, and various
other media outlets. He’s an internet
sensation and has also appeared inTBBT.
He is also known for a major change in
how we now see the solar system.
Id X,Y and Z.

 X- COSMOS
 Y- Carl Segan
 Z- Neil deGrasseTyson

The phrase which comes directly from needing
to literally know the complex network
of pulleys and ropes that controlled a ship’s
sails. Being able to tie the proper knot and pull
the correct rope to open or close a sail
was important know-how for any sailor.
The phrase today means “becoming familiar
with something which needs to be done”.
The phrase please???

This is the very first model of a famous automobile giant.
The model is P1 and was found in a shed in Austria.The
founder of the company said to have made this model in
1898.
Id the company.

The word X comes from the Sanskrit word for womb
and so implies gestation or pregnancy - life.
The rings of dancers in X revolve in cycles, as time
in Hinduism is cyclical. As the cycle of time revolves,
from birth, to life, to death and again to rebirth, the
only thing that is constant is the Goddess, that one
unmoving symbol in the midst of all of this unending
and infinite movement.The dance symbolizes that
God, represented in feminine form in this case.
ID X???

 The X are a genus, Oxyuranus, of
large, fast-moving and highly
venomous Australasian snakes of the
elapid family.The Xs are considered
some of the most deadly known
snakes.
 The name, X, was coined by
anthropologist DonaldThomson after
the word used by theWik-Mungkan
Aboriginal people of central Cape
York Peninsula,Queensland,
Australia.
 Another source says the name comes
from X which in Cantonese Chinese
literally means 'top class',or 'big
shot’ as it is the deadliest snake on
the planet.
What is the name of this snake?

 Computer Programming Language

This is an exert from HT Brunch written by Rajiv
Makhni.
“A new phrase has been born: ‘X’!The act of being
‘X’ will be felt heavily by a company that rejects a
person and then goes to pay a king’s ransom to the
same rejectee.”
What is X or who is being talked about?

 X - “Actoned”
 Brian Acton co-founder ofWhatsApp.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the
largest art museums in the United States. It has
collections of more than 227,000 objects that include
"world-class holdings of European and American
paintings, prints, drawings, and decorative arts".
Other than that it is also famous for something other
than the art objects, which is outside the building,
due to a role it played to a project in 1976.Since then
it has been synonymous with the 1976 project and its
sequels. (AerialView on the next slide if all teams
agree)
Why is the Museum famous?

 The following list has 13 entries exhaustive
list
 +3 for every correct entry
 Total +40 for full house(13*3=39 + 1 bonus)

AllThe UEFA Champions League Runners
Up(since its inception in 1992-93).

1. AC Milan
2. Barcelona
3. Ajax Amsterdam
4. Juventus
5. Bayern Munich
6. Valencia
7. Bayer Levekuerson
8. AS Monaco
9. Arsenal
10. Liverpool
11. Chelsea
12. Manchester United
13. Borussia Dortmund

 20 Questions on Infinite Bounce and Limited
Pounce
 Infinite Bounce- +10/0
 Limited Pounce- +15/-10
 8 Pounces

Connect them to the year
2014.

All of them have sang songs that are being used by
various parties in the 2104 Lok Shabha elections.
 Billy Joel’s “we didn’t start the fire” is borrowed by
Samajwadi Party.
 Sukhvinder Singh has sung of BJP.
 Shaan for Congress.
 Kailash Kher for AAP.

Given is a video of the entrance of CM Punk.
Now he shouts out a catchphrase which is the
catchphrase of a famous comic book/cartoon
character.
The character and the catchphrase…

 Thing
 It’s Clobberin’Time

Connect these to an
infamous character.
(two more makes this
list exhaustive)

Hannibal.
The list is the names of episodes of season 1.
 Apéritif
 Amuse-Bouche
 Potage
 Œuf
 Coquilles
 Entrée
 Sorbet
 Fromage
 Trou Normand
 Buffet Froid
 Rôti
 Relevés
 Savoureux

The word X is usually translated by
Aboriginal Australians today as
"devil" or "evil spirit“. is a large
mythical creature from Aboriginal
mythology, said to lurk in swamps,
billabongs, creeks, riverbeds,
and waterholes. However, the X
appears to have formed part of
traditional Aboriginal beliefs and
stories throughout Australia,
although its name varied according
to tribal nomenclature.
We however also know X as a 3 toed
hominid with its habitat in Africa.
ID X?
X in an illustration in 1890

 Id the two songs from the minimalist posters.

In computer science, the X problem is an anti-
pattern that occurs when a programmer has to read
and understand a program whose inheritance graph is
so long and complicated that the programmer has to
keep flipping between many different class definitions
in order to follow the control flow of the program. It
often happens in object-oriented programming.The
term X comes from comparing the up and down
bouncing attention of the programmer.
ID X…..

 Id all the famous musicians.

 Y W
X Z

 Elvis Presley
 Jimi Hendrix
 Kiss
 Michael Jackson

According to Hindu mythology, Apasmāra was a dwarf who
represented ignorance and epilepsy. In order to preserve
knowledge in the world, Apasmāra could not be killed; to
do so would throw out the balance of knowledge and
ignorance, as to kill Apasmāra would mean attaining
knowledge without effort, dedication and hard work.
Consequently this would lead to the devaluing of
knowledge in all forms. So Lord Shiva subdued Apasmāra.
Where do we seeApasmara today/How did Lord Shiva
subdue Apasmara??
Pic on the next slide…….

 Id the person speaking
and tell me on what
event/incident?

 Orsen Welles apologies for the his live broadcast of
the H.G.Wells classic novel “War of the Worlds”.

Jan Rose Kasmir (born in
1950)was a former massage
therapist and is currently
working on her autobiography.
She is famous to have appeared
in a photograph which has been
described by the Smithsonian
Magazine as "a gauzy
juxtaposition of armed force and
flower child innocence".
Which photograph?
Photograph next slide if all
teams agree

 The X, as well as its equivalent, the tarboosh, is a felt
hat of two types: either in the shape of a truncated
cone made of red felt, or a short cylinder made of kilim
fabric, both usually with a tassel attached to the top.
The tarboosh is of ancient Greek origin and the
modern X, which is similar, owes much of its
development and popularity to the Ottoman era.
 The X was developed to fashionable heights by
Andalusian Moors in the city of X in Morocco, by the
17th century.Thereby giving it its name.
 Id X.

TheTV show X, adapted from the BBC show
hosted by Anne Robinson, was introduced by the
channel in 2002 to keep up theTRP ratings of the
show that X had replaced. In spite of the initial
high, the show failed. Many say that it was the
rude behavior of the Host and the abuses that the
host hurled at the contestants were not accepted
by the audience and hence the premature demise
of the show without telecasting 13 episodes of the
show X which had already been shot.
ID X?

 Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino
composed an hour-long operatic
drama called Perseo e X in 2000 which
tells the story of X.
 In Greek mythology, X is the daughter
of Cepheus, anAethiopian king, and
Cassiopeia.When Cassiopeia's hubris
leads her to boast that X is more
beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon,
influenced by Hades sends a sea
monster, Cetus, to ravageAethiopia as
divine punishment. X is stripped and
chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice
to sate the monster, but is saved from
death by Perseus.
 X is represented in the northern sky
by the constellation X, which contains
the galaxy X.
 ID X?

X is a counterculture era soul song written by Norman
Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1969 as a protest of a
certain US action.The re-recorded/ most famous version of
X by Edwin Starr rose to No.1 in Billboard Hot 100 Charts in
1970. X is one of the most popular protest songs ever.
X is also featured in the movies like Rush Hour and Agent
Cody Banks 2. In the Seinfeld episodeThe Marine
Biologist, Jerry convinces Elaine that a novel by Leo
Tolstoy was originally called _______________, the first
line of the song X.
ID X?

X Party, is held at the Playboy Mansion on the
first Saturday in August every year.The Party
invitesAthletes, A List-Celebs, RockStars. A
private theme party takes place in the mansion
all night long.
The party shares its name with an English play>
X??

The pics in the next slide shows the grips of a
changeup that closely resembles a forkball and
split-finger fastball.
Ian Kennedy, RandyTomlin and Joe Nelson, Éric
Gagné, Roy Oswalt have been known to have
thrown the changeup pitch.
ID the changeup?

 The Mars Symbol () is a depiction of a circle with an
arrow emerging from it, pointing at an angle to the
upper right. In old manuscripts, it is usually interpreted
as the shield and spear from the war God Mars/ Ares.
The symbol has Unicode entry U+2642.
 One of its use is as an ancient chemistry sign for iron.
This iron sign is used to symbolize the strength of iron
used in this automobile company, as Sweden for its
quality iron.
What is the Automobile company whose logo has been
described above?

 Who is covering the John Lennon song. “Stand By
Me” and on what event?

 ShaneWatson at the opening ceremony of
the IPL 2014

Donga(1985) Saamri (1985) and Kasam Paida KarneWale
Ki(1984) all have a certain sequence which is
inspired/ripped from something iconic in the west.Which
iconic thing am I talking about?

 Michael Jackson’sThriller MusicVideo

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