A generally general Quiz, with bits of Entertainment, Etymology, and other general stuff.

1. PRELIMS

2. How?
25 Questions,
Stars are always helpful.
if they can not help, then you might die suddenly.
the best 8 scores qualify.
May your ancestors be with you.
Quizmasters’ Chachas’ are vidhayaks. They are more powerful than
even Saitama.

3. ID THE MOVIE.
1.

4. 1.

5. Pulp Fiction

6. ID THE PAINTER.
2.
Two Stills from the Simpsons on the next three slides. All show
references to actual paintings painted by one single painter whose iconic
style can easily be deciphered from the stills. Which painter?

7. 2.

8. 2.

9. MC Escher

10. WHAT WAS HIS CONTRIBUTION?
3.
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November 1814, in Dinant, in what is now
Belgium. His childhood was pretty eventful.
When he was barely old enough to stand, he fell from a height of three floors,
hit his head on a stone and could barely stand afterwards. At the age of three,
he drank a bowl full of vitriolized water.
Over the next few years, he swallowed a pin, burnt himself seriously in a
gunpowder explosion, fell onto a hot cast iron frying pan, survived poisoning
and suffocation in his own bedroom where varnished items were kept during
the night, was hit on the head by a cobblestone, and fell into a river and barely
survived.
His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live."
But, he did and made an invaluable contribution to the world.

11. Saxophone

12. WHAT CONSTANT?
4.
But it's a very difficult constant to measure,” Pratt said. He would know: He and his colleagues
at X have spent much of the past few years trying to come up with a number accurate and
precise enough to please the finicky physics community.
They're using a tool called a Kibble ___. Instead of ___ with weights, Pratt and his colleagues
use electromagnetism. An electrical current is sent through a coiled wire, generating a
magnetic field that creates the upward force needed to ____. Scientists can figure out the
strength of that field by pulling on the coil. If you know the voltage, the current and the velocity
at which the coil was pulled, you can calculate the Planck constant with extreme precision.
On June 30, the day before the deadline to submit a value to the weights and measures
committee, the team at X was finally ready to release its result. Based on 16 months' worth of
measurements, it calculated Planck's constant to be 6.626069934 x 10−34 kg∙m2/s.
Don't be alarmed by this small, strange number. The most important thing about the NIST
measurement isn't so much the number (though that's also a big deal) as the uncertainty: just 13
parts per billion. This means that the NIST scientists think their measurement of Planck's
constant is within 0.0000013 percent of the correct number.

13. One Kilogram

14. SPORT?
5.
The literal break-up of the word means “coins” “package” which refers to
the participants’ aim to be the first to retrieve the package of coins.
As such, this sport also has parallels to a sport famous in Spain as
Tauromaschia (name might help if you think about the etymology).
Which sport is this, which came into the public conscience in 2017?

15. Jallikattu

16. 6.
National Front is an extremely far right party in the UK which saw its heyday in
the 70s and 80s. Their logo is a red and blue flame and they release a
newspaper called The Flame.
The ideologies of this party might have inspired someone in the 1980s to
name a certain fictional entity after NF.
What could the NF be a possible inspiration for?

17. V for Vendetta, Norsfyre

18. WHICH WRESTLER
DELIVERED ON HIS
PROMISE OF
GIVING A WWE
BELT TO MUMBAI
INDIANS ON THEIR
THIRD IPL VICTORY
THIS YEAR?
7.

19. Triple H

20. NAME THE SEQUEL
8.
Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves;
And ye mome raths outgrabe.
Lines as read by a very famous Fictional Character in a not so famous
sequel.

21. Through the looking Glass
Sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

22. WHO IS THIS NOTED AMERICAN?
9.
N once wrote an essay to the Royal Society of Brussels, named “Fart
proudly” also called “A Letter to a Royal Academy”.The essay was never
submitted, but was sent as a letter to Richard Price, a renowned Welsh
philosopher at that time.
The essay argues the need to launch independent studies about farts. It calls
for a detailed research about effect of various food items on this and reminds
the need of a new drug to improve it.
N also sent a copy of the essay to Joseph Priestly who was then researching
on gases.

23. Benjamin Franklin

24. FITB
11.
The plan is to convince small business restaurants, cafés and food trucks to
stop accepting cash, forcing customers to pay with credit cards or digital
payments.
"____ will be awarding up to $500,000 to 50 eligible US-based small
business food service owners who commit to joining the 100% cashless
quest," company wrote in a press release.
If a restaurant ops in, it'll get a $10,000 gift from ____to help pay for
technology upgrades, the company said. Those tech upgrades could mean
installing platforms that that accept payments from phones, smart watches
or other devices.

25. Visa

26. AH! THE IRONY! BUT WHERE IS
THIS BOARD?
12.
Under the explicit warning, the red-and-white native language sign goes on to say that
"violators are subject to a syndrome of always feeling like a victim and the consequent
reduction of your sense of humor and capacity to solve problems".
The sign is adorned with the international symbol for 'no' - a backslash in a circle.
It adds: "The penalty is doubled if the violation take place in the presence of children.
To get the best out of yourself, concentrate on your potential and not on your
limitations."
Then the closing zinger: "Stop complaining and take steps to improve your life“.

27. Pope’s Office

28. This substance. What?
13.
While in Utgard-Loki's keep, Loki has an eating competition with a man
named Logi, who was actually this substance in disguise.
Logi defeats Loki by quite a margin.
Even this substance is known to devour lots of forests, homes and fossil fuels
contributing to huge amounts of global warming.
One can say that global warming might never have happened if not for this
substance.

29. Fire

30. 14.
The ____________ Limit is now
accepted to be approximately 1.4
times the mass of the sun; any white
dwarf with less than this mass will
stay a white dwarf forever, while a
star that exceeds this mass is
destined to end its life in that most
violent of explosions: a supernova.

31. Chandrashekhar

32. Original Name, what?
15.
Groppecountelane, Gropecontelane and Gropekuntelane were all
variations of a particular street name in 13th century England.
Changes in attitude resulted in its replacement by more innocuous
versions such as Grape Lane or Grove Street which are quite common
now. A variation of these names was last recorded in 1561.
The question is, what was the original street name and why was it
called so?

33. Gropecunt Lane; a popular red
light area

34. 16.
This type of action occurred after the end of the siege of Santiago de
Querato despite the personal wishes of Benito Juarez, and included
the generals Miramom and Mejia.
This action was carried out against the leader of the pro-Nazi party in
Norway during World War II, Vidkung Quisling, and Ronnie Lee
Gardner was the last person to have experienced this action in the
United States.
Marshal Ney was allowed to count off during one instance of this
action, another of which occurred in Cerro des las Campanas.
A wax or blank cartridge is often used to diffuse responsibility among
members performing this type of action.
Name this type of action used to end the rule of Maximilian I of Mexico,
usually involving a group of soldiers.

35. Death by firing squad

36. What?
17.

37. He could cross the ball

38. 18.
The ending of this film gives significance to one character wearing a rubber
glove in an earlier scene. Its script called for one character to proclaim a
desire for an (*) abortion, which was replaced with a reference to "grade
school." The Pierson Towers motto "a place to be somebody" and the signs
for Paper Street both point to Wilmington, Delaware as its setting, as do the
credit card buildings blowing up at the end.

39. Fight Club

40. 19.
One species in this class known as tropicalis is increasingly used as a model
organism because it is diploid unlike a more commonly used tetraploid
species in the same genus.
Organisms in this class are dying off from the disease chytridiomycosis (KYE-
tridd-ee-oh-my-KO-sis). Order Gymnophonia in this class contains caecilians
(say-SILL-yinns), while (*) Anura contains the organism in which the gray
crescent was discovered.
Organisms in this class undergo a metamorphosis that often includes the
development of kidneys and lungs.

41. Amphibians

42. 20.
M is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and any combination of different
kinds of soil (loam, silt, and clay). It usually forms after rainfall or near water
sources. Ancient M deposits harden over geological time to form
sedimentary rock such as shale or lutites.
This word describes volcanoes that spew natural gas as well as namesake
mixtures of water and soil or clay. Followed by "slide", this word refers to a
type of fast-moving landslide typically caused by heavy rain.

43. Mud

44. 21.
On 29 January 2014, Ashutosh Maharaj suffered a heart attack and was
declared clinically dead by a team of doctors.
His followers however firmly believe him to be alive and in a state of deep
meditation called samadhi.
Why is he in the news?

45. He has been kept in a
commercial freezer
And not cremated

46. 23.
This most populous city on Zealand is home to the Tivoli Gardens amusement
park and the Edvard Eriksen statue The Little Mermaid. Which?

47. Copenhagen

48. Name of company?
24.
The company was launched in 1966 by Pierre Bellon (Chairman) in Marseille,
France, initially serving company restaurants, schools and hospitals under
the name Société d'Exploitation Hotelière (English: Hotel Services
Corporation).
Today it is on the Fortune Global 500 list and the second largest employer
among all French multi-national corporations.
Between 1995 and 2001, the company forged alliances with Gardner
Merchant, Partena, Sogeres, Wood Dining Services and Universal Ogden
Services and was first given the name it is known by today.
In 2011, it entered an eight-year contract with the American government, by
which the company committed itself to provide food services to 51 United
States Marine Corps mess halls.

49. Sodexo

50. What?
25.

51. Ent as in Entertainment. :P