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 Teams can pounce for +10/-10.
 Infinite Bounce.
 Each question carries 10 marks.

1)
 I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not
even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland
dormitory ________ is open on my desktop and some of
these people have pretty horrendous ________ pics. I
almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of
some other people and have people vote on which is more
attractive. —9:49 pm
 Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are
going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be
sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of comparing
two people together. —11:10 pm
 Let the hacking begin. —12:57 am
 This was written on 28 Oct 2003. Whose blog is this?

2)
 Divya Narendra – “ (Zuckerberg) was the biggest thing
in a campus that included 19 Nobel Laureates, 15
Pulitzer prize winners, 2 future Olympians and one
movie star.”
 The screen writer of The Social Network Aron Sorkin
wrote that the movie star reference was to a famous
personality who helped with inside stories of the
Harvard campus.
 Who?

3)
 This photo was taken from a cafeteria in 1961. Where?

4)X is an ad-supported peer to peer program developed by
Bram Cohen and X, Inc. X was the first client written
for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by
developers denoting its official origins.
Y is a freeware, ad-supported, proprietary product
owned and developed by X, Inc. With over 100 million
users it is the most widely used X client outside China;
globally only behind Xunlei.Its name comes from the
SI prefix "micro-", referring to the program's small
memory footprint: the program was designed to use
minimal computer resources while offering
functionality comparable to larger programs.

 X = Bittorrent
 Y = µTorrent

5)
 128036 or __________ ____________ is a main belt
asteroid discovered in 2003at the Astro nomical
Observatory of Mallorca, Spain and named after its
most famous resident.
 FITB.

6)
 In June 2012, the Uruguayan government, under President
Mujica, announced plans to legalise state-controlled sales
of X in order to fight drug-related crimes and health issues.
The government stated that they would ask global leaders
to do the same. Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa
praised the decision as "courageous".
 The law intends to reduce the profit of organized crime, as
well as reducing the violence related with it and the social
problems associated with it.
 In doing so, Uruguay became the first country to do
legalise it.
 ID X.

7)
 Similar games include
bossaball, jianzi and sipa.
 The Wat Phro Kao temple
in Bangkok has a painting
of Hanuman playing it, on
its walls.
 Thailand has won 22 gold
medals out of 33 at the
Asian Games since the
sports’ inception in
Beijing, 1990.

8)
 He was born to S.Nair and Savithri Devi on 6th
February 1983.
 He has one elder brother and a sister. His brother Dipu
Santhan owns a music company in Kochi and his sister
Nivedita is a television actress in Kerala.
 His brother in law,Madhu Balakrishnan is a famous
South Indian playback singer. Even he is quite
famous(or rather,infamous!),but in another unrelated
field altogether.
 Identify.

9)
 X is a 2011 Indian film in X language
Directed by Suveeran. It is the first
feature film to be made in this
language. The film was screened at
various film festivals where it won
rave reviews. It released in theatres
in Dakshin Kannada region on 9
June 2011.

 X won the National Film Award for
Best Feature Film while Malayalam
actress Mallika got a special mention
from the National Film Award jury
for her performance in the film.

10)
 This is the first ever google doodle.
 What was it celebrating?

Cover Your Ears!
 The round consists of covers of famous theme music.
Id “what is it a theme of?”

And the Answer is ………….

ANTICLOCKWISE

1)
 The authors preferred title for this book was "Four-
and-a-Half Years Of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity
And Cowardice" but the publisher thought otherwise.
 In its first year in 1925, this book sold only 9000 copies.
However in another 8 years time, the book sold an
estimated 1.5 million copies.
 Name the book and its author.

2) X entered the Guinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton,
at 23, to summit Mount Everest. He entered television work with
an appearance in an advertisement for Sure deodorant.
 He was also used by the UK Ministry of Defence to head the
Army’s anti-drugs TV campaign. A best-selling author, his first
book , titled ‘Facing Up’, went into the UK top 10 best-seller list.
 His television show went on to become the number one cable
show in all of America and now reaches a global audience of over
1.2 billion viewers.
 In March 2012, the channel terminated its productions with X
due to contract disputes.
 Id X.

3) The word X means dear, loving and gracious in Slavic;
in Ancient Roman, eager and laborious; and in
Sanskrit, unification.
 The word Y, a derivative of the word X, refers to a type
of biscuit. A Y consists of a thin layer of rich chocolate
sandwiched between two biscuit cookies.
 ID X AND Y

4) This particular breed of dog was bred among the emperors of the
Chinese Han dynasty as a lap dog. Particularly auspicious dogs
were those who had markings on their forehead resembling the
Chinese characters for “King” or “Prince”.
 One of these dogs was famous for saving the life of Dutch ruler
William of Orange, and yet another, ironically named Fortune,
belonged to Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
These dogs were highly desirable pets in British high society
during the Victoria era and Edward VIII, who famously
abdicated the British throne in 1936 to marry Wallace Spencer,
owned several.
 In present-day India, they are rarely known by name but are
referred to by the name of a company that featured the breed
very prominently in its advertisements.
 Which breed?

5)  Originally designed by N.G. Pans are under the
supervision of __________s art director Walter
Langhammer, it is generally made of bronze, its height
is 46.5 cm and it weighs around five kgs.
 Described as "For sheer grace, beauty and artistic
merit, it bears comparison with the best of its kind in
the world for it is as classic as our most ancient
bronzes and as modern as the newest Florentine
expressions.
 What is being talked about ?

The Black Lady of Filmfare Awards

6)
 This gap in the Western ghats is the lowest pass
through the mountain range and is said to have been
caused due to rivers flowing in the opposite direction.
 The gap allows moisture laden Southwest monsoon
winds into the Coimbatore region, thus moderates
temperatures and generates greater rainfall relative to
the rest of lowland TN.
 Name this gap and in terms of cultural influence what
demographic shift was it responsible for? Image in
the Next Slide

Palakkad Gap
 Palakkad Gap Enabled the migration into Palakkad of
Tamil Brahmins, such as ancestors of the QM himself


7)  It gets its name from a French word meaning "to toss
food". It originated in the area around present day
Nice.
 It was originally a poor farmers dish, prepared in the
summer with fresh summer vegetables. The original
used only courgettes, tomatoes, bell peppers, onion,
and garlic. Nowadays aubergine is added. Name the
dish.
 Hint: in some other context : ‘He is dying to become a
chef’

8) The time was 1883, the year an Indonesian volcano
named Krakatoa exploded. Scientists likened the blast
to a 100-megaton nuclear bomb.
 Fully 600 km away, people heard the noise as loud as a
cannon shot. Plumes of ash rose to the very top of
Earths atmosphere.
 Something else happened-which arguably gave rise to
an idiom in the English language.
 What idiom?

9) X — which involves tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and
stunting — has been named the most dangerous of all sports.
Even though through the years safety efforts have led to fewer
mishaps, a new report suggests that the sport still continues to
cause more serious and deadly injuries than other sports.
 The researchers behind this study have found from records
between 1982 and 2007, that there were 103 fatal, disabling or
serious injuries recorded among female athletes, with the vast
majority (67) occurring in X. The next most dangerous sports:
gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven).
 The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released its 26th
annual report on the topic.
 Id X.

10)
 Otto Schott was a German chemist, and was a good
friend of Dr Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss.
 In 1884, Otto founded Schott & Associates. It was
here, during the period 1887 through to 1893, that
Schott developed borosilicate glass.
 The product was named after Jena, their city of origin.
It was later renamed, and then renamed again(by the
Americans), into its current name.
 What was the product they invented?

CONNECT
 Each correct answer will fetch you +10
 Written Round
 The final theme will give you +15. You can go for the
theme anytime between the five questions as many
times as you would prefer.

1) X was a network of German Nazi concentration camps
and extermination camps built and operated by the
Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
during World War II.
 The X museum is defending its decision to install
overhead sprinklers outside the former Second World
War concentration camp after tourists said the mist
machines reminded them of Nazi gas chambers.
 ID X

2) X in Hebrew is Ḥawwāh, meaning "living one" or
"source of life", and is related to ḥāyâ, "to live". The
name derives from the Semitic root ḥyw.
 To X God prophetically said, “I will make your pains in
childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will
give birth to children. Your desire will be for your
husband, and he will rule over you”
 ID X

3) ID The Movie from it’s Minimalist Poster

4)  “The reason there is no X for Mathematics is that his
wife (sometimes mistress or fiancée) had an affair with
a famed mathematics professor (actual name of
professor varies based on who’s telling the story, but
most popular go with famed Swedish mathematician
Gosta Mittag-Leffler). So he stipulated in his will that
there should not be X for mathematics for fear that
said famed mathematics professor would win it.
 Put Funda and ID X

5)  X died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906.
Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the
Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy
horse-drawn cart. He died instantly when one of the
wheels ran over his head, fracturing his skull.
 In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics “in
recognition of the extraordinary services they have
rendered by their joint researches on the radiation
phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”.
 Who is he?

Answers
 Auschwitz
 Eve
 Nobel Prize
 Pierre Curie

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