The General Quiz (Finals) - NSIT Quiz Fest 2014

Indira Gandhi donates last bit of her jewellery to the National Defence Fund during the China war.

 On 4 June 1942 , Adolf Hitler decided to visit
___________, ostensibly to congratulate X on his 75th
birthday. But X did not want to meet him in his
headquarters, as it would have seemed like an official
state visit.The meeting took place near Imatra, in south-
eastern _______, and was arranged in secrecy.
 During the visit, an engineer of the A _________
broadcasting company succeeded in recording the first
eleven minutes of Hitler's and X's private conversation.
This had to be done secretly, as Hitler never allowed
others to record him off-guard.
 Id X.

 This is SohaibAthat,
whose twitter user
name is
@ReallyVirtual.What
is his claim to fame?

 X is the Japanese name for
the Hindu goddess Saraswati.
 She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra and
often depicted holding a biwa, a traditional
Japanese lute, in contrast to Saraswati who
holds a veena.
 X is the goddess of everything that flows: water,
words, speech, eloquence, music and by
extension, knowledge.
 Like Saraswati, her asanam is also a lotus.
 X, please.

 Dubbed the “British schindler” byThe UK press,X was a British
humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish
children from German-occupiedCzechoslovakia on the eve of
the SecondWorldWar, in an operation later known as the
Czech Kindertransport.X found homes for the children and
arranged for their safe passage to Britain.
 X's work is the subject of three films by Slovak filmmaker
Matej Mináč: the drama All My LovedOnes (1999), in which X
was played by RupertGraves, the documentary The Power of
Good:X (2002), which won an EmmyAward and the
documentary drama Nicky's Family

 X’s passion for baseball is often seen as just an eccentricity.
 In reality, it was much more than that.
 Back in the 1940s,X was a pitcher for the university's baseball
team, and he threw such a great curveball that Major League
Baseball teams began sending scouts to check him out.The
Pittsburgh Pirates even sent a few of their players to test out the
young pitcher, which resulted in X striking out future Hall of Famer
Hank Greenberg.
 X claimed that in 1949, the then NewYorkGiants offered him a
contract that included a $5,000 signing bonus to come play
baseball in the United States. Eventually he turned down the
contract, which took the Giants completely by surprise:
Apparently, he was the first person “from there” to say no to
them.

 This couple(X&Y) has written a paper
together with the title:
“An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing
in the United States”
By: X,Y and Michael L. Katz
 TIME magazine described them as a “power-
couple of a public servant and an academic”.
 One-half of the couple has been in the news
for a while now.

 JanetYellen and George Akerlof (Fed Chief
and 2001 Nobel PrizeWinning Economist
with Joseph Stiglitz- Market for Lemons)

From 9 June to 9 July 2006,
 Signal Iduna Park became ________________,
Dortmund.
 AllianzArena became _______________, Munich.
 VeltinsArena became _______________,
Gelsenkirchen.
 AOLArena became _______________, Hamburg.
 CommerzbankArena became _______________,
Frankfurt.
 RheinEnergieStadion became ______________,
Cologne.
 AWD-Arena became _____________, Hannover.
Why? Blanks are all the same.

 During FIFA World Cup 2006, many stadiums
in Germany were known by different names,
as FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadia unless
the stadium sponsors were also official FIFA
sponsors.

 “There you are, a global mover and shaker, sitting comfortably in a
warm meeting room in the SwissAlps.You’ve just had a heavy
lunch with ample wine, you’re jet-lagged, and you were up late
last night at a well-lubricated after-after party.You begin to lose
the thread of the presentation, although “corporate social
responsibility” seems to keep popping up.Your head droops
forward.Your eyes close briefly, then again.”
 This is the X. Photographic evidence of it is rare or non-existent:
The organizers of the _________________ forbid news
photographers from taking embarrassing photos of attendees at
what is, at least in some sense, a private event. But , it happens.
People snooze in the audience. People doze on the dais. People
have been known to catch a few awkward winks on a bench in the
CongressCentre.

 Past winners of the ________ include Larry Page and Sergey Brin
for the development of Google,Tim Berners-Lee for theWorld
WideWeb,Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic
communications, and Martin Hellman andWhitfield Diffie for the
Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
 The most recent winner of the _______ is X, the pioneer of a
breakthrough wireless technology known MIMO(Multiple Input,
Multiple Output) that dramatically increases performance of
wireless systems.
 X is also known for the development of military sonars (APSOH
family). X served as the founding director for three major labs in
India - CAIR (Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ),CDAC
(Center for Development of AdvancedComputing) andCRL
(Central Research Labs of Bharat Electronics).

 X- Arogyaswami Paulraj (Or simply Paul)
 Blank- the Marconi Prize, an annual award
recognizing advancements in
communications awarded by the Marconi
Foundation.

 X is an Italian former football referee, widely considered to be the
best referee of his generation, named FIFA's "Best referee of the
Year" six consecutive times.
 He refereed the 1999 UEFAChampions League Final between
Bayern Munich and Manchester United; he cited this as his most
memorable game because of the cheers at the end, which he
described as 'lions' roar'. In 2002, X reached the pinnacle of his
career when he was chosen for theWorldCup final between Brazil
andGermany.
 Around 1990, X contracted a severe form of alopecia, resulting in
the permanent loss of all his facial hair, giving him his distinctive
bald appearance and earning the nickname Kojak.

 X has written and illustrated about twenty books, mostly for
children. His art has also been featured on the covers of an edition
of C. S. Lewis' series TheChronicles of Narnia published by
HarperCollins in 1994.
 His books often depict fantastic, uncontrolled events and utilize
sometimes brutal irony.X breaks out of the comfortable world of
children literature to explore the darker side of human nature.
 Other literary themes include dreams, the environment, and items
with lives of their own.
 X’s drawings are particularly notable for their use of perspective. In
many cases the illustrations are drawn from a child's eye height.
This viewpoint likely appeals to children because it conveys the
world as they see it. It may also appeal to adults because they may
(unconsciously) perceive the world as they did when they were
children.

 ChrisVanAllsburg, author of children’s books
like Jumanji, Zathura and Polar Express,.

 The XY is said to be a species of the general
'politicalY.‘ A XY occurs when a politicalY
reveals some truth that a politician did not
intend to admit.The term comes from journalist
Michael X, who said, "AY is when a politician
tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't
supposed to say."
 Propensity to concentrate on so-called ‘Y‘s in
campaigns has been criticized as a journalistic
device that can lead to distraction from real
issues.

 X is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation
or description. The source of the name is based on magicians' illusions,
where magicians make objects appear or disappear by tricking the
audience using various methods. The expression may have a connotation
of virtuosity or cleverness in carrying out such a deception.
 In the field of computer programming, it is used to describe a program or
functionality that does not yet exist, but appears as though it does.This
is often done to demonstrate what a resulting project will function/look
like after the code is complete — at a trade show, for example.
 This is also the name of many songs, one of which was aptly used to start
off the second season of an immensely popular show,Y.
 ID X andY.

 X – Smoke and Mirrors
 Y – Suits

 In July 2013,X vanished on Google maps due to a
technical glitch.When contacted, a Google
spokeswoman apologised for the error and assured
islanders that their engineers were working on the
issue.
 The missing island even prompted Scotland Secretary
for Education Mike Russell to voice his opinion on the
issue, brandingGoogle’s response “disappointing.”
 X, in the Inner Hebrides, measures 31 miles long and
with its highest point at 785 metres.
 However, X is remembered for something else
entirely.What?

 Randolph Blake won the Ig Nobel Prize for his
research on why this sound is so unpleasant.
To quote him, "It turns out the sound waves
associated with primate warning cries,
particularly chimpanzee warning cries, are
remarkably similar in appearance to the
aversive, middle frequency sound waves
produced by X”

 What is happening in the picture?

 After forming a cricket club in October and
subsequently a national cricket team, X challengedY,
with whom they have had rather frosty relations
since 1534, to a cricket match.
 The X side will be coached by Brother K.M. Joseph,
an Indian who trained a number of future test players
while they were at schools run by his Order.
 They will wear the official colours of their country -
yellow and white.
 The idea for a X cricket club was the brainchild of
John McCarthy, Australia's ambassador to X.
 While a date is yet to be decided, the match will take
place in London at Lord's, the home of cricket.

 X is called FiveTreasures of Snow after its five high peaks, was first
climbed on 25 May 1955 by Joe Brown and George Band.They stopped
short of the summit as per the promise given to the Maharaja of ____ that
the top of the mountain would remain inviolate. Every climber or climbing
group that has reached the summit has followed this tradition.
 The area around X is said to be home to the “X Demon", a type of yeti or
rakshasa.A geological expedition in 1925 spotted a bipedal creature which
they asked the locals about, who referred to it as the “X Demon”.
 For generations, there have been legends recounted by the inhabitants of
the areas surrounding Mount X that there is a valley of immortality hidden
on its slopes.These stories are well known to both the original inhabitants
of the area and those of theTibetan Buddhist cultural tradition.
 InTibetan, this valley is known as Beyul Demoshong. In 1962 aTibetan
Lama by the name ofTulshuk Lingpa led over 300 followers into the high
snow slopes of X to ‘open the way’ to Beyul Demoshong.

 A X or nevus flammeus is almost always a birthmark. It is
caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary malformation in
the skin).Studies have recorded an incidence of 3-5 cases
per 1000 newborn babies.
 The prominent crimson X birthmark onY’s forehead was
the source of much attention from critics and cartoonists.
Though some suggested that he might have the mark
surgically removed,Y opted not to, as once he was publicly
known to have the mark, he believed it would be
perceived as his being more concerned with his
appearance than other more important issues. In officially
printed photographic portraits (such portraits were
printed for mass distribution in 1980s) the mark was
photographically removed.

 Excerpt from a news article “X contacted her
publishers and asked for 12 copies of her new novel to
go to various people.These people were either
royalty, members of her family and friends. But just
one copy went to a friend and that was AnneSharp,
who was the governess at the school of X’s niece
Fanny Knight. It is not known what happened to the
11 other books and this is the only one of the 12 to
come on the market beforeX wasn’t a celebrity or
personality so there was little need for her to sign
copies of her work.”
 In 2012,X’s novelY was expected to sell for a
whopping 200,000 pounds at an auction in London.X
andY?

 Indira Gandhi donates last bit of her
jewellery to the National Defence Fund
during the China war.

 X-Vatican City,Y-The Church of England

 X was an SS-borne, state-supported, registered association in Nazi
Germany with the intention of raising the birth rate of "Aryan" children
from extramarital relations of "racially pure and healthy" parents on the
basis of Nazi racial hygiene and health ideology. X aimed to do this by
encouraging anonymous births and mediating adoption to likewise "racially
pure and healthy" parents, particularly families of SS-members.
 Initially set up in Germany in 1935, the Nazis started to kidnap children
from foreign countries including Russia, Ukraine, Czech, Romania, Estonia,
Latvia, but mainly fromYugoslavia and Poland for the X program in 1939.
 They started to do this because "It is our duty to take [the children] with us
to remove them from their environment... either we win over any good
blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people or we
destroy this blood" as stated by Himmler

 The Apkallu or Abgal are similar to X, a group from Hindu
mythology in many ways. In their mythology, they are demigods
who are said to have been created by the god Enki to establish
culture and give civilization to mankind.They served as priests of
Enki and as advisors to the earliest "kings" or rulers of Sumer
before the great flood.They are credited with giving mankind the
Me (moral code), the crafts, and the arts.
 They were seen as fish-like men who emerged from the sweet
waterAbzu.They are commonly represented as having the lower
torso of a fish or dressed as a fish.
This is again a striking similarity with X, who were rescued by
Matsya at the time of the great deluge.
 X and the associated mythology for Apkallu or Abgal(Both are
slightly different, but related)

 X – Saptarishi
 Mythlogy – Akkadian or Sumerian (Both are
acceptable answers)

 The _______ genocide or _______ Holocaust, also known as the X,
was the attempt made by Nazi Germany and its allies to
exterminate the ______ people of Europe duringWorldWar II.
Under Hitler's rule, both _____ and Jews were defined as "enemies
of the race-based state" by the Nuremberg laws; the two groups
were targeted by similar policies and persecution, culminating in
the near annihilation of both populations within Nazi-occupied
countries. Estimates of the death toll of ________ inWorldWar II
range from 220,000 to 1,500,000.WestGermany formally
recognised the genocide of the ______ in 1982.
 Linguistically, the term X is composed of the verb root ______- and
the abstract-forming nominal ending -imos. For the verb itself, the
most commonly given meaning is "to open/stretch wide" or "to rip
open", whereas the meaning "to open up the mouth, devour"
occurs in fewer varieties.

 During the era that we talk about, the cinema industry was
still considered a low profession – and not necessarily just
for women. X who’d delivered his first big hit with Rattan
had just become Hindi film’s blue-eyed boy.
 But his parents – who were very keen to get their son
married – figured that there was no chance of getting a
good match if they let on that he was in the cinema
industry.When they eventually found a good bride and
fixed up the wedding, they informed X: “We’ve told the
girl’s parents that you’re a tailor. If they knew you worked
in the pictures, they’d never allow the marriage.” So X got
married, posing as a tailor – and, ironically enough, found
that the wedding band along with the baaraat was playing
hit songs from the movie- Rattan!

 __________ is anAmerican and English expression used to
describe a person who gives a gift (literal or figurative) and later
wants it back, or something equivalent in return.

The phrase originated when Europeans first encountered Native
Americans in the 15th century. Europeans thought they were
receiving gifts from NativeAmericans, while the NativeAmericans
believed they were engaged in bartering (as they practised
reversible bartering); this resulted in the NativeAmericans finding
European behaviour ungenerous and insulting.

The phrase was first noted in 1765 byThomas Hutchinson, which
suggested a simple exchange of gifts. In 1860, however, it was
found that the phrase was being used by children in NewYork to
mean "one who gives a present and then takes it back."


 There are many references to X in the sacred writings
of the Baha’i’ faith, where she enjoys an exalted status
as a heroine of faith and the "archetypal woman of all
cycles".Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the
religion, said that she was "the channel of
confirmation" who "re-established the faith of the
apostles" and was "a light of nearness in his kingdom”.
Abdu'l-Bahá considered her to be the supreme
example of how women are completely equal with
men in the sight of God and can at times even exceed
men in holiness and greatness.Which saint, whose
feast day is celebrated on the 22nd of July?

 St. Mary Magdalene. Mary of Magdala

 March 2013,The Guardian
 "According to the publishers, the new novel would "be faithful to
the history and personality of X's characters but by shining a
different light on them will also show how robust, durable and
lovable these creations are".The adventures – and attempts to
avoid the perils of matrimony - have enchanted readers ever since
X first introduced them in a short story in 1915.They went on to
star in many more novels and stories, culminating in 1974, written
shortly before his death, when the author was well into his
nineties.
 Y, a lifelong fan of X, reading his first _____ story when he was 12
and recently rereading much of the author's work while travelling
in India, was the "perfect person" to continue the adventures , said
the publisher."
 Y wrote the sequel to X's work and it was published in 2014.
 IDY and the title of the book he wrote.

 Y: Sebastian Faulks
 Book: Jeeves and the wedding bells

 Xs were the temple dancers or devadasis of the JagannathTemple
at Puri and the dance takes its name after them.According to
legend, Lord Jagannath enjoys the X dance recital before retiring
to bed at night and the dancers performed the dance for his
satisfaction.The maharis were given grants of land for their
sustenance and they in turn behaved as the deity's spouse, singing
and dancing the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva to please him.The term
X stands for “mohalla ki nari” meaning a lady of the world and
since the X devadasis are married to Jagannath, he represents to
them the world.
 Following the abolition of the devadasi system, the dance has
been discontinued at the JagannathTemple but is now performed
on stage at many venues.The X dance spurred the development of
both Odissi and the Gotipua dance forms of Odisha.

 X is a 2002 film directed by David DeCoteau, Starring
Jeff Branson, Louise Lasser andWilliam Gregory Lee.
 Plot Summary: On the advice of a bartender familiar
with the _________ crowd, Jeff applies to the ________
Brothers brokerage firm for his dream job as a stock
broker. He is forced to abandon his love and values for
cunning and instinct. After a change of heart, he finds
that leaving the brotherhood is harder than joining.
 The name X is very similar to a 2014 release.
 What is X all about?

 X, whose last cinema outing was 2008'sWoodstockVilla, admits
he didn't set out trying to tellY's story.The idea initially was to
make a story on the larger canvas of terrorism, withY as a passing
reference.After a brief meeting withY in 2008, the director had an
impression of him "as a guy who was in a hurry". Mehta claimsY
even discouraged him from making a film on "hopeless guys" — a
term he reportedly used for those entangled in the web of
terrorism. But the shocking death ofY, inside his office in ____,
made him change his mind.
 However, as X avers, "Y was not an easy guy to make a film on, and
this was not an easy film to shoot". It took two years of research
and a dozen drafts before X was confident to roll.The director says
he tried to keep the focus onY's "personal story" and, despiteY's
death, believes his film is "a journey of hope". ID X andY.

 X: Hansal Mehta
 Y: Shahid Azmi

 Pope Innocent I (401-417) & Pope Anastasius I
(399-401)
 Pope Silverius (536-537) & Pope Hormisdas
(514-523)
 Pope Sergius III (904-911) & John XI (931-935)

 The only father-son pairs to become Popes

“Ever since X revealed on her 20th anniversary program Monday that
I was the person who first suggested she go into syndication, I have
been flooded with requests for interviews.
Yes, it is true, I persuadedX to become the most successful and
famous woman in the world. I was also the person who suggested
that Jerry Springer not go into syndication, for which I have received
too little credit.
All of these years I have maintained a discreet silence about my role
as X's adviser, but now that she has spilled the beans, the time is right
to tell the whole story.”
Excerpt from whose blog?

 X – Oprah Winfrey
 Roger Ebert

The X, which spanned a large area of North Africa, from the Red Sea in the
east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west.The dynasty ruled across the
Mediterranean coast of Africa and ultimately made Egypt its centre. At its
height, X included in addition to Egypt varying areas of the Maghreb, Sudan,
Sicily, the Levant, and Hijaz.
The X were descended fromY, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad,
according to X claims.
In 909, X established theTunisian city of Mahdia as their capital. In 948 they
shifted their capital to Al-Mansuriya. In 969 they conquered Egypt and built
the city of Cairo, which became the capital of the X, and Egypt became the
political, cultural, and religious centre of the state.
In 909 X established theTunisian city of Mahdia as their capital. In 948 they
shifted their capital to Al-Mansuriya. In 969 they conquered Egypt and built
the city of Cairo, which became the capital of the caliphate, and Egypt
became the political, cultural, and religious centre of the state.
X?
<Image on next slide>.

 X was initially started after it was concluded thatY is not ever going to
support Nokia N9 (I was one of the people who signed a petition to bring
support to it). As a result, a community application emerged under the
name “Z", allowing N9 and N950 users to utilize basic features ofY
service. Because Z was open source, it quickly developed by the
awesome community work to become the world's first full fledged
unofficialY client, connecting more than 200,000 N9 users to the service.
 Z was awarded Hack of the Month at Berlin Hack andTell June 2012, and
was one of the winners in Qt Project's app contest in LinuxTag 2012.
 Z for BB10 became an interest whenY initially stated they have no plans
to support the platform. So it was decided to port Z to BB10, though not
under the name Z, but X. Main reason for this change was because of the
existence of another chat application which already holds the name Z .
The reason is that the name “X" serves more the new aim of the project.

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