The Batfans Qweez! So’ham | Yashaswi

The Batfans Qweez!
So’ham | Yashaswi

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Summary
• IR: 18+18 questions
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IR1
• 18 questions
• Clockwise

1

X is an ‘actress’ who has appeared in a number of Hindi music videos
and a Bollywood film. She first captured media and public attention
through her controversial appearance in a thong in the video for a
‘remix’ song after which she became known as the "thong girl". The
video allegedly started a trend of low-waist jeans in the country.
X recently came into the news for participating in TV dance reality
show.
Incidentally, X graduated with a degree in IT from Y, in 2005.
X and Y.

X- Shefali Zariwala
Y- Sardar Patel College of Engineering

2

Scientists at the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research
Foundation in Chicago found that when people engage in a
certain activity- X, chemicals known as Catecholamines are
released, causing symptoms like flushing of the skin, itching or
sweating and tissue inside the nose to swell.
They used special imaging cameras that show blood flow in the
body to show that intentional X causes an increase in blood
pressure.
X.

4

Most Minesweeper games were getting over too
early initially. What change did Microsoft make
to this ever popular Windows game and thus
saved users much frustration and
disappointment?

The first click is never a mine.

5

OkCupid’s OkTrends, a dating research blog, pulled data from their
millions of users to get answers to some fascinating questions about
dating, relationships and how to prevent ourselves online.

Contrary to what most people assumed, X is most popular kind of
female photo type based on new contacts per month. In other words,
even though social networks are littered with these images and folks
seem to be more vocal about their silliness than their sexiness, the
data doesn’t lie.
Women with a X photo are nearly 60% more likely to get contacted
than women with photos of themselves in bed.
X.

6

The common name of this plant means a lion’s
tooth in French. It belongs to the Asteraceae
family.
Its flower head is composed of hundreds of
smaller florets and seed heads.
How has it become famous in the world of
technology?

8
The public history of X dates back to 2004. X is a free,
advertising-supported service. Over its history, the X interface
has become integrated with various other products and services
from the company that made X.
The X domain name was acquired by its company from
Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip Garfield, where it
had been used as a free service for its employees.
X

9

This is a Google Doodle published on July 13, 2011 honouring Sir George
Gilbert Scott. It relates very closely to the building on the right. The
construction for the building on the right was started in 1857 and is one
of the three oldest of such types in India. Put funda.

University of Mumbai’s clock
tower(Rajabai Clock Tower) was
designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

10
X originally started as a form of blog and is an Indian news satire website. The
website also publishes occasional serious articles related to television
journalism in India.
X is founded by Rahul Roushan, a Delhi based management consultant, known
by the pseudonym Pagal Patrakar, X is one of the few websites or blogs in India
using the tools of sarcasm and humour to publish news satire, as is widely done
in the western countries.
Two of the news reports by X, "Unable to attract even a single girl, frustrated
man sues Axe" and "Men talking loud on mobile during movies have smaller
penises", were mistaken as being genuine and factual news reports.
Subsequently, the Axe story was republished by many other websites and blogs
in countries other than India, mistaking it to be a true story, latest being by The
Times of India making it an urban legend.
X

11

Sir X is a widely acclaimed author. His second novel won much
praise and a booker prize. His fourth novel was was the centre of
a major controversy, provoking a lot of protests, which forced
him to go underground.
His latest book Y is based on the names of his two favourite
authors, a pseudoname that X adopted while he was
underground.
X and Y.

X- Salman Rushdie
Y- Joseph Anton

12
The word X comes from an Arabic word which literally
means consumers of a drug, Hashish.
The origins of X traces back to the first crusades in a
town called Maysaf, when their cult was established by
the first grandmaster Hassan-i-Sabbah, to fight off
Christian Invaders from their holy land.
X.

Assassins derived from Hassassin.

13

McKayla Rose Maroney is an American artistic gymnast. She was a member
of the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012
Summer Olympics. She was also the 2012 Olympic vault silver medalist. At
the 2011 World Championships, she won gold medals in the team and vault
competitions. Maroney is best known for her "not impressed" face (as in the
picture) at the 2012 Olympics, which became an Internet meme. Who is she
posing with?

14

Through his paternal grandmother, Enid Agnes Maud
Levita, X is a lineal descendant of King William IV by his mistress
Dorothea Jordan.
This illegitimate line consists of five generations of women making X
a 5th cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
X became the first serving Premier of his country to pay a visit to the
Jallianwala Bagh memorial. He is ranked as the world's 10th most
powerful person by the Forbes magazine.

15

X doesn't like the movie that is being made about Y, called Z. "It
is a lie upon lie," he told Oxford university students by videolink
from the Ecuadorian embassy.
X, who will be portrayed in the film by Benedict Cumberbatch,
accused the movie's maker, Dreamworks, of "fanning the flames"
of war against Iran.

In a publicity picture, Cumberbatch was shown in character,
sporting long blonde hair.
X is defying an extradition warrant to Sweden, where he faces
allegations of sex crimes.

X- Julius Assange
Y- Wikileaks
Z- The Fifth Estate

16

X designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes automobiles and
motorcycles.
X oversees worldwide operations from its headquarters in
Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. X-branded vehicles are produced in
seven production facilities worldwide.
The company name is based on the surname of the founder, August
Horch. "Horch", meaning "listen", becomes “X" when translated into
Latin.
X has updated its slogan to "Truth in Engineering".

17

This film was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original
Score and Best Art Direction, which it lost to Up and Avatar,
respectively.
The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and is an action mystery film
based on a book character of the same name.
The lead character Y says - that when you read the description of the
guy — quirky and kind of nuts — it could be a description of me".

X- Sherlock Holmes
Y- Robert Downey Jr.

18

This handsome man out of nowhere suddenly entered Bollywood's
film industry and became a Hero.
He won the Best Villain award in 2001 and it was his first ever award
since his career started in 1991.
His Personal quote:
“Look at what destiny had in store for me. I married my idol's
daughter! I still can't believe it. Who wasn't a fan of Aradhana, Amar
Prem, Kati Patang, Prem Kahani, Aap Ki Kasam, in 1970’s and 80’s.”

X commonly known as Y, is an American multinational imaging and photographic
equipment, materials and services company headquartered in Rochester, New
York, It was founded by George Eastman in 1889.
Y is best known for photographic film products. During most of the 20th century
Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976 had a 90%
market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The company's
ubiquity was such that its tagline "Y moment" entered the common lexicon to
describe a personal event that demanded to be recorded for posterity.
Y began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of the decline in sales
of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography,
despite having invented the first digital camera.
X and Y.

X- Eastman Kodak Company
Y- Kodak

X-Y-Z is an American media company, involved primarily in the
production and distribution of films and television programs.
Once the largest and most glamorous of film studios, X was
founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus
Loew gained control of X Pictures, Y Pictures Corporation and
Louis B. Z Pictures. Its headquarters is in Beverly Hills, California.
The studio's official motto, "Ars Gratia Artis", is a Latin phrase
meaning "Art for art's sake".
X-Y-Z.

X is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary
membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of
philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a
sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill,
north of Athens, Greece.

X.

X was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia,
which was that time part of Austria-Hungary. He is
credited with saving over 1,200 Jews during the
Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and
ammunitions factories, which were located in what is
now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.
He is the subject of the 1982 novel X's Ark, and the
1993 film based on it, Y.
X and Y.

X- Oskar Schindler
Y- Schindler’s List

IR2
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19

X is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Although X originally wanted to be a historian, X finally became a
writer.
X targeted social media websites for promoting his debut novel,
and made a trailer film with a background score reportedly
by Taufiq Qureshi and uploaded it on YouTube.

For promotion of his second book, X created video trailers and
screened them at multiplexes. They were released with the
Shahrukh Khan starrer Ra.One

20

X is a series of fantasy adventure films directed by Gore
Verbinski and Rob Marshall, written by Ted Elliott and Terry
Rossio.
Ron Gilbert, the creator of the Monkey Island video game series,
has jokingly expressed a bitterness towards the X franchise for its
similarities to Monkey Island. Gilbert has also stated that 4th
movie of the franchise, a novel by Tim Powers was the principal
source of inspiration for his video games.

21

X is an American TV show created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox
Broadcasting Company. The series centers on a dysfunctional family and
their anthropomorphic pet dog.
The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits
much of its humor in the form of cutaway gags that often
lampoon American culture.
X has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie
Awards, and has won three of each.

22

The medical term for its Cutis anserina, and it occurs due to the
pilomtor reflex which is essentially a disturbance of the arrectores
pilorum muscles.
The common term for this condition has also served as the title for
a 62-book horror series, written by an American author from 1992
to 1997
What term?

23

These are different logos of X.

Chetan Bhagat novels that are movies.
Kai Po Che
Two States(Coming Soon)
3 Idiots
Hello

27
Identify the author of this book released in 2012. She is on the
cover.

28

In Latin, the word means a female animal used for breeding. It
was first used in the English language in the 16th century to refer
to a uterus or a womb.
In biology, it is the intercellular substance of a tissue, and in
geology it is a natural material surrounding a material or gem or
fossil embedded in Earth.
It’s commonest use is in the field of mathematics.
What’s the good word?

29

X is a form of folk theatre, said to have originated in
Maharashtra in the 18th century. The plays originated as
entertainment for encamped armies. The word literally
means drama in several Indian languages. Which word?

30

X a simple Indian boy from a remote village, moves to Mumbai with his Aunt
Maya and Uncle Bhim to study after getting half a scholarship. His parents
died some years ago.

Other students at his new school tease him and beat him for his studious
nature and simple background. He knows his Uncle Bhim is struggling to
support him and his aunt Maya, and pay his school fees. Only Meera Jain, a
popular girl from his school, befriends him.
Meanwhile, Nalin Oberoi, a local crime lord, uses an amulet to perform an
ancient ritual in which he is possessed by a demon committed to opening a
gate for other demons to invade Earth. While being chased by bullies, X
encounters an ancient yogi who grants him the powers of _______, in order
to fight the evil that threatens the world.
Story Of? And the blank?

31

X is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, X also
sings in other Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali,
Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
and Nepali.
X’s Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she
received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer along
with Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare RD Burman
Award for New Music Talent.
X was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio, wherein governor Ted
Strickland declared June 26 as "X Day".

32

X is an Indian Khel Ratna Y player who attained a career best ranking
of #2 in December 2010 by Y World Federation.
X is the first Indian to win a medal in Y at the Olympics. X achieved
this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics
2012. X is the first Indian to win the World Junior Y Championships.

X is India’s highest-paid non-cricketing sportsperson as on
September 2012.

33

This famous personality was given a hero’s welcome by the
residents of Manchester in 1962 after the achievement that
made him famous the world over.
Coming at a year when his nation was feared and hated in the
west, his small stature, amiable personality and humble
nature made him a favorite of audiences the world over.
Who was this man/ what was his out of the world
achievement?

34

As a fallout of India’s nuclear tests, the Islamic Bomb was a hot
subject at the 2nd Islamic Summit Conference of the OIC held in
Lahore in 1974.
Abu Minyar(may his soul rest in peace) gave arousing speech in
favour of Pakistan's right to pursue nuclear weapons.
What did the grateful hosts do as a token of appreciation?

Named the Lahore Stadium “Gaddafi Stadium” in his
honour.

35

This maverick businessman is known for a lot of failed ventures. One
among them is the Thril Cola, a super flop.
Identify the businessman

36

Sholay’s gabbar singh endorsed a product. This was very unique
as a villain was appointed for the first time to promote a product.
Name the company/brand. Or the Funda?

Britannia
Funda- To improve sales over Parle

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