1. QUIZ MEET

2. Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Society of
Chemistry,2002
• Professor Henri B Kagan HonFRSC
• Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop HonFRSC FRSE
FRS
• Professor Sir John Edward Sulston HonFRSC FRS
• Professor Kurt Wuthrich HonFRSC HonFRSE
ForMemRS
• Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail HonFRSC
ForMemRS
• X
• Who is X?

3. Answer
• Sherlock Holmes

4. • Bartholomew
• James
• Andrew
• Y
• Peter
• John
• X
• Thomas
• James the Greater
• Philip
• Matthew
• Jude
• Simon

5. Answer
• X-Jesus
• Y-Judas Iscariot
• Funda –Order of seating from left to right in
‘The Last Supper’

6. Knowing that moviemakers and novelists have a
penchant for naming their works from phrases in
poems, identify the poet of the given stanza and
the name of the critically acclaimed 2004 movie
which is blanked out in the stanza. The Wikipedia
page of the movie also adds that the title is taken
from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by X, the story of a
tragic love affair, where forgetfulness became the
heroine's only comfort.
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
______ _______ __ ___ ________ _____!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;”

7. Answer
• X - Alexander Pope,
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

8. “Biophysicist and Security Operations Center expert
Dr. Henry 'Hank’ Pym decided to become a
superhero after discovering a chemical substance
that would allow the user to alter his size. Armed
with a helmet that could control ants, Pym would
shrink down to the size of an insect to become the
mystery-solving Ant-Man. He soon shared his
discovery with his girlfriend, Janet Van Dyne, who
became his crime-fighting partner as the Wasp. The
duo would become founding members of
_________________, fighting recurring enemies
such as the mad scientist Egghead, the mutant
Whirlwind, and Pym's own robotic creation Ultron.”
Identify the group.

9. Answer
• The Avengers

10. While attending the Universal and Colonial
Exposition in Lyon in 1894, Edouard and André Y
noticed a stack of _______ that suggested to
Edouard the figure of a man without arms. Four
years later, André met French cartoonist Marius
Rossillon, popularly known as O'Galop, who showed
him a rejected image he had created for a Munich
brewery—a large, regal figure holding a huge glass
of beer and quoting the phrase "Nunc est X”
meaning “Now is the time to drink” from Horace’s
Odes. André immediately suggested replacing the
man with a figure made from _______. In
Spanish, Y has acquired the meaning of folds of
fatty skin around the waist. Identify X and Y.

11. Answer
• X-Bibendum
• Y-Michelin

12. It is a common mistake to interpret X to be a
blue sapphire. Evidence shows it was a ruby.
There has also been speculation that the
Kohinoor diamond is indeed X as there has been
nothing said about it since Krishna’s time. It was
gifted by the Sun God to Satrajit, brother of
Satyabhama. Krishna and Y had a fight for 28
days over this and Y gradually grew tired. As he
was the strongest living entity at that time, he
wondered who could be weakening him. It was
then that Y realized that he had been sparring
with none other than Sri Krishna himself.
Identify X and Y.

13. Answer
• X-Syamantaka Jewel
• Y-Jambavan

14. • -> Jimmy Snuka
• -> Jake "the Snake" Roberts
• -> Giant Gonzales
• -> King Kong Bundy
• -> Diesel
• -> Psycho Sid
• -> Kane
• -> Big Boss Man
• -> Triple H
• -> Ric Flair
• -> Big Show and A-Train
• -> Kane
• -> Randy Orton
• -> Mark Henry
• -> Batista
• -> Edge
• -> Shawn Michaels
• -> Shawn Michaels
• -> Triple H
• -> Triple H
• -> CM Punk
All these men are grudgingly a part of the most monumental feat of sports entertainment, which is?

15. Answer
• The Undertaker's Wrestlemania undefeated
streak

16. X is a genus of flowering plants. It contains roughly
20 species of small understory trees native to the
tropical forests of Central and South America. X
cacao, the most well known species of the genus, is
used for making chocolate. X, the genus name, is
from the Greek and translates to “food of the gods,”
a designation that chocolate-lovers would agree is
befitting. Although Linnaeus was reputedly fond of
chocolate, he would have been familiar with early
Spanish writings describing the Mayan and Aztec
beliefs that cacao was a gift from the gods. X is also
a popular dessert shop in Mumbai.

17. Answer
Theobroma

18. X was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the
division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime
Minister of India. After the resignation of Krishna Menon
as Defense Minister in 1962 in the wake of India-China
Border Conflict, X was given that portfolio by Prime
minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He handled the delicate post-
war situation firmly and took several decisions to
empower the armed forces and negotiated with China to
end the hostilities. When X was appointed Federal
Defence minister following the China war in 1962, a
popular saying arose in Maharashtra meaning, Sahyadri
came rushing on the call by the Himalaya. His name was
controversially used by the Congress in an important
work of infrastructure which was conceived by the BJP
and Shiv Sena. Identify X.

19. Answer
• Yeshwantrao Chavan

20. Duke Nukem has Super Radiation. Looten
Plunder has Deforestation. Sly Sludge has a
Smog. Verminous Skumm has Toxics. Dr. Blight
has Hate. These duplicates were created by Dr.
Blight after he stole the original Xs. What?

21. Answer
• Planeteers’ Rings (Captain Planet)

22. 1972
January-Marilyn Cole
February-P.J.Lansing
March-Ellen Michaels
April-Vicki Peters
May-Deanna Bakers
June-Debbie Davis
July-Carol O’Neal
August-Linda Summers
September-Susan Miller
October-Sharon Johansen
November- X
December-Mercy Rooney
Who is X? How is she immortalized?

23. Answer
• Lena Soderberg
• Standard Test Image

24. There is a history about an Indian temple in Kashi
Vishwanath which contains a large room with three
time-worn posts in it surrounded by ___________.
Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an
ancient prophecy, have been acting in accordance
with the immutable rules of the _______ since that
time. It is predicted from this that the universe will
last 585 billion years. There are many variations on
this legend. For instance, in some tellings, the
temple is a monastery and the priests are monks.
The temple or monastery may be said to be in
different parts of the world — including X, and may
be associated with any religion. It was first
introduced to the West by Édouard Lucas in 1883.
What is being talked about?

25. Answer
• Tower of Hanoi

26. • "In 1926 the brothers Bob, BIll and Barnamaby
Ollerton formed the Y X Company. Their first
model Y One was produced in large quantities
and was an instant hit. In 1967, the Z Racing X
Company overtook the Y X Company. The Z X's
combined reliability and easy handling, and
became a favourite for teams across Europe.”
This is the history of X's in a certain movie
universe. Identify X, Y and Z

27. Answer
• Y - Cleansweep, X - Broom, Z- Nimbus

28. After winning the game, X caused more
controversy when he was told that Y had lost
three teeth, and replied: "If that's all that's
wrong with him, I'll pay him the crowns.”
X said the reason he did not go over to check on
Y's condition was because a number of _______
players were standing around Y and making
threatening gestures in his direction.
Identify X and Y.

29. Answer
• X-Harald Schumacher
• Y-Patrick Battiston

30. Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the Shoe
Bomber, is an Englishman who attempted to
detonate explosives packed into the shoes he was
wearing, while on American Airlines Flight 63 from
Paris to Miami. According to his father, Reid became
depressed and blamed racism for some of his
problems. His father advised him to convert to
Islam, telling him that Muslims were more
egalitarian and they got better food in prison. An
attempt was made by the South Asia bureau of Wall
Street Journal to retrace the steps of "shoe
bomber" Richard Reid trying to set up a meeting
with Sheik Gilani, a spiritual leader. What resulted?

31. Answer
• Execution of Daniel Pearl

32. • There is perhaps no other single sporting event
in the world more valuable to the winners than
X. The winners end up approximately
£120,000,000 better off than the losers, mainly
due to the increased commercial television
revenue. To slightly alleviate this loss, by
convention, the two finalists agree that the loser
take all the gate revenue from the game.

33. Answer
• The Championship play-offs

34. An Okinawan Japanese immigrant to the United
States, _________ learned karate originally from
his father, who had been a fisherman.
_________ initially had a job working for the
father of his best friend, Sato, who was also
taught karate by __________'s father. When
________ fell in love with a young woman
named Yukie, who was arranged to marry
Sato, Sato felt dishonoured by this, and
challenged _________ to a fight to the death. To
avoid the fight, _________ left Okinawa and
immigrated to the United States.

35. Answer
• Mr. Miyagi, (Karate Kid)

36. In Jewish folklore, an X is an animated
anthropomorphic being, created entirely from
inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an
amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and
medieval writing. The most famous X narrative
involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-
century rabbi of Prague. There are many tales
differing on how the X was brought to life and
afterwards controlled. X is also found in the
“Pokedex” at number 76. Fans of Tolkien’s trilogy
claim that Y (A character in his trilogy) is actually an
allusion to X from Jewish folklore.
Identify ‘X’.

37. • X - Golem, Y - Gollum

38. An old woman on pilgrimage recognized that X
would not walk past a certain image of
Jesus, refused to drink water from a holy spring and
smelled bad, hellishly bad. A Carmelite nun from
the district of Allgau in southern Bavaria told Mr.
and Mrs. Michel that X had been buried in undue
hurry in a cheap coffin. Almost two years after the
burial, on 25 February 1978, her remains were
replaced in a new oak coffin lined with tin. The
official reports (to date undisputed by any
authorities) state that the body bore the signs of
consistent deterioration. Ernst Alt and Arnold Renz
were disallowed from entering the mortuary. What
was inspired from X?

39. Answer
• Exorcism of Emily Rose

40. • X was a motivational poster produced by
the British government in 1939 during the
beginning of the Second World War, intended
to raise the morale of the British public in the
aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks
on major cities. It‟s use during that time was
limited and was little known. However it was
rediscovered in 2000 and was reissued to
various private companies. Since then it has
been used as a decorative theme for a range of
products. X?

41. Answer

42. Connect the two related lists and fill in
the blanks
List X
• 1)USA -7
• 2)_________-6
• 3)Puerto Rico-5
• 4)Sweden-3

43. List Y
• 1)__________-6
• 2)India,United Kingdom-5
• 3)USA,Iceland,Jamaica,Sweden-3

44. Answer
• Venezuela
• List X-Best at Miss Universe
• List Y-Best at Miss World

45. • X was a baseball player whose playing career
spanned from 1923-1939. He set many major league
records which has since been surpassed. His career
came to an end when he was diagnosed with a disease
Y. Y is famous in North America as X‟s disease. X
and Y?

46. Answer
• X-Lou Gehrig
• Y-Motor Neuron Disease

47. 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.

48. Answer
• March of the Penguins

49. • The following transcript of an excerpt from the interrogation of screenwriter John Howard
• Lawson by HUAC chairman J. Parnell Thomas
• Thomas: Are you a member of the Communist Party or have you ever been a member of
• the Communist Party?
• Lawson: It's unfortunate and tragic that I have to teach this committee the basic
• principles of Americanism.
• Thomas: That's not the question. That's not the question. The question is—have you
• ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• Lawson: I am framing my answer in the only way in which any American citizen can frame his
answer to...
• Thomas: Then you deny it?
• Lawson: ...a question that invades his...absolutely invades his privacy.
• Thomas: Then you deny... You refuse to answer that question, is that correct?
• Lawson: I have told you that I will offer my beliefs, my affiliations and everything else
• to the American public and they will know where I stand as they do from what I have written.
• Thomas: Stand away from the stand...
• Lawson: I have written for Americanism for many years...
• Thomas: Stand away from the stand...
• Lawson: And I shall continue to fight for the Bill of Rights, which you are trying to destroy.
• Thomas: Officer, take this man away from the stand
• --- What followed this investigation of Lawson and 9 other hollywood screenwriters/directors
• which had deep impact on the industry which can still be seen in the present when Dalton
Trumbo
• was finally give due credit in 2011 for screenwriting 'Roman Holiday" in 1953.

50. Answer
• Hollywood Blacklist

51. • On 12 October 1969, a caller to Detroit radio
station WKNR-FM told disc jockey Russ Gibb about
an urban legend and its clues. That can be considered
the real start of the rumour‟s spread. The „evidences‟
included album arts, cryptic messages which can be
heard on songs playing backwards. The subject of
this, X poked fun at this by naming one of his live
album Y, parodying the urban legend.

52. Answer
• X-Paul McCartney
• „Paul is Dead‟
• Y-Paul is Live

53. • After the World Cup final of 1938, which Italy won
4-2 by defeating Hungary, the Hungarian goalkeeper
said, “I may have let four in, but at least I
______________”. What did he say and why?

54. Answer
• I may have let four goals in, but at least I saved their
life.
• Before the game, each of the Italian players received
a telegram from Benito Mussolini saying "Vincere o
morire!” meaning “Win or Die”.

55. • X started his professional career as a sports journalist
for the Sportsworld magazine. In 2004, he joined the
Trinamool Congress, where he is currently the vice-
president. In 2009 he was made the head of the
Passenger Services Committee of the Indian
Railways. In 2012 Presidential Election, he became
the first person from his community to cast vote in th
presidential election. X?

56. Answer
• Derek O‟Brien.

57. • Philip Jackson was born in Scotland during
the Second World War and now works at the Edward
Lawrence Studio in Midhurst, West Sussex and lives
nearby. He went to the Farnham School of Art. After
leaving school, he was a press photographer for a
year and then joined a design company as a sculptor.
Half of his time is spent on commissions and the
other half on his gallery sculpture. What is his claim
to fame?

58. Sculptures at Old Trafford

59. Identify X
• X was born as ________ in Gujranwala (now in Pakistan), to a Hindu father
and Sikh mother.
• He was later brought up by eminent educationist __________, the founder
of many public schools including the Delhi Public School and the Summer
Fields School. It is said that upon his influence he converted to Christianity
and changed his surname. However, his entry to the Puri's Jagannath Temple
(which is reserved only for Hindus)and subsequent statements of his
colleagues in the Congress Party clarifies that he is very much a Hindu. He
has adopted the surname of his guardian who raised and educated him as a
token of gratitude.
• Active in the Congress' youth organisation and a disciple of Sanjay Gandhi, he
was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980. He served as a Union Minister first
in the Civil Aviation department and then in the Labor department. The
official report of the Nanavati Commission of the Government of India on the
__________ found 'credible evidence' against X, saying he 'very probably'
had a hand in organising _________. The Indian
government, however, decided not to prosecute X due to lack of concrete
evidence.

60. Answer
• Jagdish Tytler