4. Nod in your general direction
• Thejaswi Udupa of KQA, Merin of RVQC
5. CLOCKWISE - infinite pounce
• +10 for correct answer ( on Direct and Pass). No Negatives.
• Infinite Bounce – If you answer a question, the next direct
goes to the team sitting next to you. If no one answers, the
next question goes to the next team.
• 18 questions.
• Pounce – Gives you a chance to score off an *easy*
question, even if it is not your direct.
• Register your pounce during the pounce interval before the
question is made open to all. You get +15/-10.
• Show the answer in writing. Wrong/No answer gives you
negatives.
• Infinite Pounces allowed per team.
6. 1.
• Bureaucracy is a PITA. In God we trust.
• This is an image of Tilhan/Talhan Gurudwara. A
very unique offering is being made.
• As the story goes, one woman tried this. Her
prayers were answered. Mass hysteria ensured
that now everyone does the same. Yay
• What specific request is the devotee asking for?
9. 1.
• Essentially this ‘toyplane’ offering, simplifies
and easily grants your VISA application.
10. 2.
• In September 2009,two Bangladeshi newspapers,
The Daily Manab Zamin and the New Nation, published
stories that Neil Armstrong had held a news conference
claiming the moon landing was an elaborate hoax.
• On February 3, 2012, Congressman John Fleming (R-
Louisiana) posted a link to an article on his Facebook
page about an $8 billion "Abortionplex”
• An article on Harry Potter inciting children to
practice witchcraft was the subject of a widely
forwarded email.
• Some of the many instances of what EPICFAIL mistake?
12. 2.
• People believing ‘Onion News’ articles to be
real.
• “Poll: 1 In 5 Americans Believe Obama Is A
Cactus”
13. 3.
• X (born 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden), is a
Finnish former racing driver and winner of the
1982 Formula One World Championship. He is
the father of a current F1 GP driver.
• This level in Angry Birds is a tribute to him.
• Who he?
17. 4.
• Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, again
stands atop the Fashion Buzzword List of 2012,
this time as ‘the Duchess Effect’, according to the
annual analysis by the Global Language Monitor
(GLM).
• Following ‘The Duchess effect’ were ‘peplums’,
‘braid bars’, ’pyjamas’, and “______’s
____”. Rounding out the Top Ten were ‘paisley,’
Gatsby’, ‘pale colors,’ ‘tangerines,’ and ‘novelty
denim’.
• The 5th item ensured two of the 10 spots were in
the Middleton family. Fill in the blanks
20. 5.
• 52 not out!
• All sports love a statistic but none more than the summer game.
Numbers and averages are as important to cricket as bat and ball.
• For many years, there was a figure that taunted Australian
cricketers – Doug Walters’s 44.
• In 1973, the pair were looking forward to getting home, and while
the flight wasn’t particularly comfortable – players travelled
economy in those days – at least the ____ was free.
• Walters remembers Marsh turning to him and asking a
question, which escalated into a full blown competition.
• The record was finally beaten, (and quite conclusively at that)by a
gifted player – and it currently stands at 52.
• Who is this legend? What is the record?
22. 5.
• Number of Beer cans had on a flight to Sydney
• David Boon
23. 6.
• “ Last week Control Data ( CDC ) announced the 6600 system. I understand
that in the laboratory developing the system there are only 34 people
including the janitor. Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are programmers.
Contrasting this modest effort with our vast development activities, I fail
to understand why we have lost our industry leadership position by letting
someone else offer the world's most powerful computer.”
-X., IBM CEO, August 28, 1963
• “It seems Mr. X has answered his own question.”
-Y.
• Y went on to make a company with his own name, and built massively
awesome supercomputers.
• X is the inspiration behind the name given to a popculture icon in a TV
show.
• X, Y ?
26. 6.
• X – Thomas Watson Jr. ( who gives his name to
Watson of Jeopardy )
• Y – Seymour Cray
27. 7.
• This webcomic used a popular joke attributed
to Yakov Smirnoff, and what is now an Internet
meme, in its punchline. The original source
was a winning comment on reddit.
• Quite unfortunately, there was an actual blast
in Moscow airport later that day, and they
issued a condolence message.
• What is the meme?
31. 8.
• The International Society of X organization was founded in
1982 in Washington, D.C. to serve as a scholarly center for
documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified
animals; that is, animal species or forms which have been
reported in some manner but which have not been
scientifically proven to exist.
• The study of such animals is known as X, and X was also the
title of its journal.
• The official emblem of the society was the Y, which was
chosen because, although it was well known to the
inhabitants of its region, it was unknown to the European
scientific community until the English explorer Harry
Johnston sent to London an ‘Y’ skin which received
international attention in 1901.
• Y johnstoni is the species name.
35. 9.
• It is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the
aftermath of the wreck of a French naval frigate, which ran aground
off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816.
• At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft;
all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who
survived endured starvation, dehydration, cannibalism and
madness.
• The event became an international scandal, in part because its
cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French
captain perceived to be acting under the authority of the recently
restored French monarchy.
• Which Painting?
• Artist?
39. 10.
• “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of
firing it.”
X, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem v tridsati tomakh, Pis´ma, letter to
Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1
November 1889;
• ‘This idea had already been expressed by X in the summer of 1889 at
Yalta, in conversation with I. Ya. Gurlyand: “If in the first act you have
hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.
Otherwise don’t put it there.” From Gurlyand’s “Reminiscences of X”, in
Teatr i iskusstvo 1904
• ’ Another version is quoted in S. Shchukin, Memoirs (1911): ‘If you say in
the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or
third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it
shouldn’t be hanging there.’
• Essentially similar statements describing which oft-frowned upon Literary
device.
43. 11.
• Y is name of a cowardly braggart (supposed by some to
represent a Spanish don) in traditional Italian comedy.
Generally gets beaten up for his boasting and
cowardice
• The word origins are similar to "skirmish,"
from schermire "to fence," from a Germanic source.
• One popular place where you’d have heard this is the
“Bohemian Rhapsody” song by Queen.
• Y?
46. 11.
• Scaramouche.
I see a little
silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the
_______
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning
me
47. 12.
• The vast X Plain is the world’s largest limestone karst landscape covering an area of
270,000 square km, extending 2,000 km between Norseman and Ceduna. Two
thirds of the X is within Western Australia and one third is in South Australia.
• The spectacular Bunda Cliffs and the Great Australian Bight border the area to the
south and the northern border is the Great Victoria Desert.
• The name X derives from “no trees”, but the plain is covered with bluebush and
saltbush plants, hardy shrubs that are drought-resistant and salt-tolerant. The
outer edges of the X house open woodlands of Myall acacias.
• Edward John Eyre described the Plain as "a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of
Nature, the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams”.
• 'Crossing the X', for many Australians, is a quintessential experience of the
'Australian Outback'.
• Clue : A university town in midwest USA has a similar name meaning “ tree city” .
Botany knowledge might help
• X
51. 13.
• The 2004 ‘X’ Award™ was presented to Roger Federer
at the Tennis Masters Cup. Federer is the first recipient
of the inaugural award, presented to the men's pro
player who hands out more “______" (Y), than any
other player. "I think I need some cream cheese with
that" Federer said on inspecting the commemorative
plaque.
• To qualify for the X Award™, a player must either be
ranked in the Top 8 of ATP singles players or participate
in the year-end Tennis Masters Cup. The winner is the
pro who captures the most Ys between January 1 and
the start of the Masters. In the event of a tie, the
number of "fries/breadsticks” will determine the
winner.
54. 13.
• Golden Bagel Award
• Most number of sets won 6-0
• Bonus useless trivia : The hand gesture that
everyone is doing in that image is called a
Vicht Salut™ . Trademark of Lleyton Hewitt
55. 14.
• Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, set up
Motor Racing Developments Ltd. (MRD) in 1960,
deliberately avoiding the use of either man’s name.
But The cars were subsequently known as Brabhams
after the duo decided to rename the company.
• Jack Brabham's 1966 drivers' championship remains
the only such achievement using a car bearing the
driver's own name.
• Now why did the renaming happen?
• Clue available on request
57. 14.
• The "MRD" was renames after motoring
journalist Jabby Crombac pointed out that
"the way a Frenchman pronounces those
initials—written phonetically, 'em air day'—
sounded perilously like the French word...
merde.“ – meaning shit
58. 15.
Which Journal are we talking about ?
• When Thomas Wakley founded X in 1823, he announced “ X can be
an arched window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical
instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to use it in both senses”.
• First edition of X appeared on Oct 5, 1823 when Louis Pasteur was
only 1 year old !
Some of the important milestones of X have been :
•1867 Lister's antiseptic principle.
•1918 Rivers' insights into shell shock therapy that led to a better
understanding of what is now known as Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder.
•2003 Identification of coronavirus as a possible cause of SARS.
61. 16.
• Identify the book series
• X is a series of twelve novels by Scottish author
Alexander McCall Smith. The episodic novels are as
much about the adventures and foibles of different
characters as they are about solving mysteries. The
lead character is Mma Precious Ramotswe, the first
female private investigator in Botswana.
• The BBC and HBO filmed a series based on the books. It
stars Jill Scott as Mma. Some of the titles of the book
series are Morality For Beautiful Girls ,The Kalahari
Typing School For Men, The Full Cupboard of Life, In
the Company of Cheerful Ladies.
64. 17
Pictured above is a small nocturnal fox found in
the north of the Sahara desert. It is also the
national animal of Algeria and serves as the
nickname of the Algerian national football
team. Identify the animal.
66. Fennec fox – also the name of Mozilla’s
mobile browser
67. 18. Identify X and Y in this chess match
• White: X
Black: Y
• 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2
• The opening is the Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack.5... b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. c3 0-0 8.
0-0 d5
• This move is a pawn sacrifice (ECO code C86). If White accepts it, Black's
pieces can occupy active positions.9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nf4 11. Qe4
Nxe5 12. Qxa8?
• 12... Qd3! 13. Bd1 Bh3! 14. Qxa6? 14... Bxg2 15. Re1 Qf3
• Here Y, using the descriptive chess notation, says: "I'm sorry Frank, I think
you missed it. Queen to bishop three, bishop takes queen, knight takes
bishop, mate.“
• 0–1. X resigns without questioning Y’s analysis
71. Salman Rushdie Round
• Well, it's almost like Write Brothers / Writer's Block.
6 questions
Tough, Sitter, Tough, Sitter, Tough, Sitter
( Or so we hope)
• Tough Conventional : 0 , 10
[ if u get it wrong, if u don't answer, if u get it right, respectively ]
yes there are negatives
• Sitter Conventional : -10,10 [ not correct, correct]
• Salman Rushdie Bonus : Opt for it before the question is shown:
Take 0,20 for Tough
If wrong, Banned from attempting the sitter.
83. 3.
• Douglas Englebart, inventor of the Mouse.
• On December 9, 1968, he did a demonstration of
experimental computer technologies that are
now commonplace.
• This event is now known as “The Mother of All
demos”
• The live demonstration featured the introduction
of the computer mouse, video
conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word
processing, hypermedia, object addressing and
dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a
collaborative real-time editor.
94. ANTICLOCKWISE - infinite
pounce
• +10 for correct answer ( on Direct and Pass). No Negatives.
• Infinite Bounce – If you answer a question, the next direct
goes to the team sitting next to you. If no one answers, the
next question goes to the next team.
• 16 questions.
• Pounce – Gives you a chance to score off an *easy*
question, even if it is not your direct.
• Register your pounce during the pounce interval before the
question is made open to all. You get +15/-10.
• Show the answer in writing. Wrong/No answer gives you
negatives.
• Infinite Pounces allowed per team.
95. Mr. X , Mr. Y
X was elected the President of Vienna’s oldest investment
bank and was also the finance minister of his country
after the Great War. He set himself three goals in life:
To be the greatest _______ in the world, to be the best
horseman in all of Austria and the greatest lover in all
of Vienna. Despite his social prominence the Viennese
press noted that : “His lifestyle was as extravagant as a
lord's . . . . He was as careless of his reputation as he
was of his money. In response to a business associate's
warning about appearing in public with prostitutes, he
rode up and down . . . a main boulevard in the inner
city . . . with an attractive blonde prostitute on one
knee and a brunette on the other."
96. • Y was a homosexual and had a string of scandalous lovers
during his heyday although he married a Russian ballerina
for social purposes. Y's Civil Service career began in
October 1906, as a clerk in the India Office. In 1909 Y
published his first professional economics article in
the Economics Journal, about the effect of a recent global
economic downturn on India. In 1911 Y was made editor of
the Economic Journal. By 1913 he had published his first
book, Indian Currency and Finance.
• Both X and Y had great mutual respect for each other and
when Y’s masterpiece came out in 1936, X by then the
senior member of Harvard economics faculty, told his
students to read the book and told them also that Y's work
had totally superseded his own earlier writings on money.
98. 1.
• Y – John Maynard
• X- Joseph Schumpeter
Keynes
99. Mr.X, Mr.Y
• The first non-English and non-white chairman of the
ICC, X was among counted among the finest batsman
of his day. In 2006, when Y was picked for the football
world cup, one thing never in doubt about was his
sporting pedigree, for the Champions League website
described Y was the "grandson" of the legendary X.
Others, however, described him as X’s grand nephew.
• When asked about X’s proximity to him, Y replied, “
He's definitely not a relative. In fact, I don't even know
who he is. As far as I know, he has no family connection
to me whatsoever. If I was his great-uncle then his
grandfather would have to be my brother. I have a
brother, Keith, but he doesn't have any kids”
107. 2.
• Only Recipients of Bharat Ratna Posthumously
• Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
• Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan
• Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali
108. 3.
• Identify the place X
• Founded in 1981, the name X (meaning "10
villages") , was derived from the ten villages
that were relocated at the time of the
formation of the Park. In addition to the
beautiful natural setting, X is home to the last
remaining wild population of “Hangul” an
endangered species of the stag.
113. 4.
• David Fincher
• Directed Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ video
• Signature of serial killer Zodiac on whom he
made a movie
• Latest movie “Girl with the Dragon tattoo based
on novel by Stieg Larsson
• Also directed “Social Network” based on
Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg
117. 6.
• What is the word whose origins we are talking about?
• Baron Münchhausen served in the Russian cavalry during various
Russo-Turkish wars in the 18th century. During his retirement he
gained a reputation for witty and greatly exaggerated tales of his
wartime exploits. One adventure was being trapped in quicksand –
he escaped (he claimed) by grabbing his own hair and pulling up –
which is actually impossible. The stories were published
anonymously in 1781 and over the next hundred years or so, stories
were added, changed and translated back and forth between
various European languages. By the time they reached America, the
quicksand story had changed to him pulling himself up by his _____
(which is also impossible, and probably harder than using the hair).
• However, the phrase “pulling up from the _____” survived and
when ______ were being developed, the description seemed apt.
In the early days of small _____, the process of starting one up was
fairly labor intensive
125. 8.
• Identify the dish X
• X is a type of layered pastry with a — most often sweet
— filling inside, often served with cream. It became
well known and gained popularity in the 18th century
through the Habsburg Empire. Pertaining to anecdotes,
purists say, it should be so thin that a newspaper can
be read through it. A legend has it that the Austrian
Emperor's perfectionist cook decreed that it should be
possible to read a love letter through it.
• Much has been made about a famous scene in a recent
movie involving the above mentioned dish where the
main antagonist attacks the dish with great flourish and
violence.
128. 9.
• This scene occurs at the end of the movie Casablanca.
• The scene: Major Strasser, tipped off by Renault, drives up
alone. Rick shoots Strasser when he tries to intervene.
When his men arrive, Renault pauses, then tells them to
“___ __ ___ _____ _____." (Earlier when Renault tries to
arrest Laszlo as arranged, Rick forces him at gunpoint to
assist in the escape of Ilsa and Laszlo)
• A very famous movie’s name has been borrowed from the
blanked out cynical refrain of Captain Renault. Which
movie?
130. 9.
• The Usual Suspects. The phrase was “Round
up the usual suspects”
131. 10.
• Which term?
• According to the book Dictionary of Word and Phrase
Origins (1988), author William Morris writes that
Stanley Woodward actually took the term from
fellow New York Tribune sportswriter Caswell Adams.
Morris writes that during the 1930s, the Fordham
University football team was running roughshod over
all its opponents. One day in the sports room at the
Tribune, the merits of Fordham's football team were
being compared to those of Princeton and Columbia.
Adams remarked disparagingly of the latter two, saying
they were "only ___ ____" Woodward, the sports
editor of the Tribune, picked up the term and printed
the next day.
136. 11.
• Spofforth to Arthur Shrewsberry. Highest
wicket ticker bowling to the highest run getter.
Has only happened thrice in test cricket.
137. 12.
• Of whom(X) and what are we talking about?
• The ____ killed the ____ ____; I killed the ____ with
my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful
weapon in the world. People believe them, but
photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They
are only half-truths ... What the photograph didn't say
was, 'What would you do if you were the ____ at that
time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-
called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three
_____ ____?
• When X died of cancer in his new home of Virginia, Y
praised him: "The guy was a hero. America should be
crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without
people knowing anything about him
139. 12.
• General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet
Cong Prisoner in Saigon by Eddie Adams
140. 13.
• Fill in with the phrase blanked out from the following transcript
• In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: __ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ....
Operator: Captain !!
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.
143. 14.
• Who speaking about what after its premiere?
• They missed the point. There’s no such thing
as silence. What they thought was
silence, because they didn’t know how to
listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could
hear the wind stirring outside during the first
movement.
• During the second, raindrops began pattering
the roof, and during the third the people
themselves made all kinds of interesting
sounds as they talked or walked out.
146. 15.
• Which American state(X) and what is the term?
• The term “__ ___ ___ X" came from the several nations
that had ruled over the territory. Spain was the first
European country to claim the area of X. France held
a short-lived colony in X. Mexico controlled the
territory until 1836 when X won its
independence, becoming an independent Republic. In
1845 it joined the United States as the 28th state. The
state's annexation set off a chain of events that caused
the Mexican–American War in 1846. A slave state, X
declared its secession from the United States in early
1861, joining the Confederate States of America during
the American Civil War
• The world’s largest amusement park corporation in
terms of properties borrowed its name from this term
148. 15.
• X – Texas; the term is “Six Flags over Texas”
149. 16.
• Identify the song/dish
• X is a song by the British band Fat Les which
became the unofficial anthem of the England
football team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup . Much
of the song consists of the phrase "nah nah nah"
and the word “X" repeated over and over by a
mixed group, occasionally interspersed with lines
such as "And we all like X" and "We're England;
we're gonna score one more than you".
• The song's name comes from X, a famous Indian
dish(with some colonial origins). It is often eaten
by football supporters in the United Kingdom(and
other nations) accompanied by large quantities
of lager, after matches or as part of a "lads' night
out".
152. 17. Identify the city
• Despite being located on the northern tip of Lake
Maggiore in Switzerland, this city’s official language is
Italian. An important film festival takes place every year
in August in the Piazza Grande.
• It is also famous for seven agreements which were
negotiated here in 1925 in which the First World
War Western European Allied powers and the new
states of central and Eastern Europe sought to secure
the post-war territorial settlement, and return
normalizing relations with defeated Germany (which
was, by this time, the Weimar Republic)
155. 18. Id X and Y(full points only)
• The dolly zoom is an unsettling in-camera effect that appears to
undermine normal visual perception and is now part of
many cinematic techniques used in filmmaking and television
production.
• The effect is achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust
the angle of view (often referred to as field of view FOV) while the
camera dollies (or moves) towards or away from the subject in such
a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout.
In its classic form, the camera is pulled away from a subject while
the lens zooms in, or vice-versa. Thus, during the zoom, there is a
continuous perspective distortion, the most directly noticeable
feature being that the background appears to change size relative
to the subject.
• This has a highly unsettling effect on the viewer and the emotional
shock is even greater. This effect is also popularly known as the X
effect due to its famous use in the movie X by the director Y.
159. Salman Rushdie Round
• Well, it's almost like Write Brothers / Writer's Block.
6 questions
Tough, Sitter, Tough, Sitter, Tough, Sitter
( Or so we hope)
• Tough Conventional : 0 , 10
[ if u get it wrong, if u don't answer, if u get it right, respectively ]
yes there are negatives
• Sitter Conventional : -10,10 [ not correct, correct]
• Salman Rushdie Bonus : Opt for it before the question is shown:
Take 0,20 for Tough
If wrong, Banned from attempting the sitter.
160.
161. Ab Tak Che-pun / Pun be Sivam
• 6 puns.
• Question given on each slide
• Round title is a humble nod to a familiar
Indori Hangout – Chappan Dukan
• And to one of the greatest movies ever made
Anbe Sivam
162. 1.
• Never the ones to miss a groanworthy
pun, the tabloids made fun,
of this idiotic incident – in more ways than
one…
168. 2.
• Robert J. Oppenheimer, head of the
Manhattan Project that made the atom bomb
• The pun refers to the famous line from Star
Wars : “ Luke, I am your father”
169. 3.
• February 2000- Semi-professional team
Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat pillars of
Scottish football Celtic 3-1 in a major upset
which leads to John Barnes leaving as
manager.
• The Sun made this cheeky headline.
• Reference to what?
173. 4.
• A popular cricket blog has this to say about its
name.
• 1976. England vs West Indies at The Oval.
England are 81 for 7.
• And Test Match Special commentary resumes
after a break.
• The redoubtable Brian Johnston has this to
relate – “The bowler’s X, the batsman’s Y.”
• X, Y?
176. 4.
X – Michael Holding
Y – Peter Willey
In 1979, Peter Willey
caught Dennis Lillee off the
bowling of Graham Dilley,
resulting in a scorecard
entry of:
"Lillee c Willey b Dilley"
177. 5.
• What is the literary reference that is blanked
out?
• Who be the author?
180. 5.
In the past 2 months,
QMs everywhere have
been posting questions
on Dr.Seuss.
We believe it is an
epidemic, and decided to
honour the tradition
181. 6.
• The QM is very pleased that the round is
called Ab tak Che-Pun.
• This means one Guevara related joke can also
be squeezed in.
• In fencing, this term is an acknowledgement
of a hit
• In normal English, it is an acknowledgement of
a good point made at one’s expense