PlayStation 5The significance of the fig is that it represents new beginnings and growth, symbolizing the launch of a new generation of gaming

Prelims
• 21 questions, 25 mins
• Cutoff - 7.5

After the incident, the organizers were unable to explain
why a certain Shiv Kumar Thind had been allowed into
the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club with a
megaphone, or why he wasn’t prevented from using it to
loudly berate a particular person.
One specific insult was repeatedly used, to the crowd’s
great delight.
After a few minutes, the object of his dislike had had
enough, and decided to act.
Slightly unusual question, but what was the insult, which
has since acquired cult status? 

“Aloo”
Inzy famously charged into the stands with a bat.

• The moon’s orbit intersects the Earth’s orbit at two points: ascending
node and descending node, depending on the trajectory of the Moon.
• An eclipse occurs when the Earth, Sun and Moon lie in the same plane,
bringing the ascending and descending nodes on the Earth-Sun line.
• What explanation does Indian astrology offer instead?

During the recent visit of Barack Obama, Narendra Modi famously wore a
bandhgala with his own name printed on it.
Who was the first state leader to do this, later overthrown in a 2011 coup?

• The website was co-founded in 2008 by the University of Hong
Kong student Chris Chan. It started as a "side project" at a time
when Facebook wasn't available in Hong Kong. In a 2012
interview, Chan declined to explain where the name, X, is
derived from.
• While his team worked on two other side projects, StartupQuote
and Songboard, X grew steadily and expanded its user base to
70 million global unique visitors per month. The company has
since released iOS and Android apps.
• Identify X.

Patterned after the fictional Shangri-La and the real
location in PoK (the ninth-highest mountain in the
world), X is a hidden city nestled high up in the
mountains of Tibet. It is said to be a place of healing
and enlightenment watched over by the goddess-like
figure Rama Kushna and her monks. As in Shangri-La,
time moves differently in X; one can leave the city to
find that less time has passed in the outside world.
Id X.

These gallantry medals were awarded for service to a certain military force that was
not fully legitimate.
Although they fought against a recognized army from the same country, they are
regarded with great admiration in that land.

X is an event in which a specific individual, a guest of honor,
is subjected to good-natured jokes at their expense intended
to amuse the event's wider audience. This type of event was
created as a mock counter to a toast. Such events are
intended to honor a specific individual in a unique way. In
addition to jokes and insults, such events may also involve
genuine praise and tributes. What is X?

If he wishes to retreat, he has a choice of a
place at Mashobra near Simla that was taken
from the Raja of Koti, or one at Bolarum that
was taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad.
But if he wasn't, where would you usually find
him?

Rashtrapati Bhawan
• Presidential retreats

Where are you likely to find these
‘professionals’ together?
• Gambler and other "lowlifes", also messengers
• City guard or policeman
• Innkeeper
• Merchant/Moneychanger
• Doctor
• Weaver/Clerk
• Blacksmith
• Worker/Farmer

Occupations of the pawns in chess

The voice of Andrew Anthony.
His claim to fame?
(audio redacted)

Knot theory is a branch of topology dealing with
the study of mathematical knots. As the simplest
knot, the trefoil is fundamental to the study of
mathematical knot theory, which has diverse
applications in topology, geometry, physics,
chemistry and magic. Interestingly it also explains
the reason behind an everyday nuisance.
Which nuisance we are talking about?

In 1987, John Knoll wrote an image viewer called
Display. His brother, Thomas Knoll was quite
impressed with it, and the two brothers
collaborated to spruce it up into a full-fledged
image editor called ImagePro. This name did not
last long, and with a changed name, the brothers
gave a demo in Silicon Valley, and thus began this
product's journey. Identify the product.

• This beer was named for a town in Austria and the
German word for ‘pale’ (two words). The latter
word is a common term for light beers in Bavaria
and Austria.
• When the EU refused to grant them a permit on
account of the name, the owners used these facts to
successfully argue that it had a perfectly clean back-
story. The loophole doesn’t fool anyone, though: the
name is obviously intended to be catchy in English-
speaking markets. It has since sold quite well across
the world.
• Name the beer (both parts).

In his autobiography, Open, Andre Agassi
describes one of his opponents thus:
‘He’s a flying jumping bean, a bundle of hyperkinetic
energy, with the tour’s quickest hands. Still, he’s never
learnt to hit a tennis ball. He hits off-speed, hacks,
chips, lobs .. Then, behind all his junk, he flies to the net
and covers so well that it all seems to work. After an
hour you feel as if he hasn’t hit one ball cleanly – and
yet he’s beating you soundly.’
Which player?

At the time of his death,
The New York Times
called Leonard Skinner
[in pic] "arguably the
most influential high
school gym teacher in
American popular
culture."
Why?

The iconic ad featuring the Complan girl and Complan boy.
Name these child actors, who went on to act together in
several films.

• Robert Taylor was a salesman at Johnson & Johnson
before striking out on his own.
• In the early 1980s, he invented a product that could be
dispensed by gently pressing a miniature pump fitted to a
bottle.
• Aware that bigger companies could copy his idea and put
him out of business, he thought up a strategy to outsmart
them. He spent $12 million and pre-ordered 100 million
pumps from the few manufacturers who made the
device, effectively locking up the manufacturing capacity.
• Name the product.

During the Pandavas’ walk to heaven, all except
Yudishthir collapsed and died. Each fell because
they were guilty of a specific sin:
• Bhim - gluttony
• Draupadi loved Arjun more than the others
• Sahadev - narcissism
• Arjun - pride
Why did Nakul fall?

Thirst for knowledge. His desire to learn more
and more, especially about astronomy, rattled
the gods.

The “X" in the series was contributed by the consultant , a Stanford professor on
Information Theory. It's a legitimate formula that could operate as a benchmark.
In the real world, this is comparable to the ‘practical compressor test’ by Wim
Heirman.
total time = compression time + n * (compressed file size / network speed +
decompression time)

“The Weissman Score” from the HBO
flick Silicon Valley

Very popular in the US, and apparently
works quite well too. What is it?

Long before Milkha Singh signed away the rights to his
biopic for Re 1, author Stephen King (of The Shining
and Shawshank Redemption fame) pioneered the
concept of low-cost movie rights. He would pick young
directors who impressed him, and grant them
permission to bring his novels to life on a non-
commercial basis.
King has never revealed how many of his works have
been brought to screen this way, but one estimate
suggests 15-20.
What is the term interchangeably used for these
directors and movies?

In 2014, four people were conferred the Bharat
Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour. The list –
Sachin Tendulkar, _______, AB Vajpayee, MM
Malviya
Which luminary in the field of science completes this
list?

This author’s second (and forthcoming) publication was
written before her first.
When she submitted the draft, the editor was so moved
by the narrator’s flashbacks that he persuaded the
author to write a fresh novel, set entirely in the
narrator’s childhood.
The ‘first’ book was published in 1960, and despite
persistent public appeals, the author refused to publish
again. Recently the ‘second’ was discovered, and will
finally be released this year. It is titled Go Set A
Watchman. Give me the author’s name OR her first title.

Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird

A description of which figure, who
recently got a makeover?
• "He can be a lover boy in Paris, a sumo
wrestler in Tokyo, a pavement artist, a Red
Indian, a monk... he can effortlessly flirt with
the beauties of the world. And most
importantly, he can get away with it all. Simply
because he is the _______!"

• The Maharaja of Patiala, a colourful gentleman by
all accounts, was banished by Lord Kitchener from
Shimla for allegedly molesting an English girl.
[Legend has it that the girl was Kitchener's own
daughter].
• Enraged, the Maharaja vowed never to set foot in
Shimla again, and build himself his own summer
capital.
What consequence did this have for the world of
sports, and which Guinness record came to be
created in the process?

Chail
Highest cricket ground in the world

As Supreme Allied Commander of the South-East
Asia Theatre, X accepted the surrender of Japan
during the Second World War. This technically
ended the War.
To commemorate his own role in Japan’s surrender,
X, in a different capacity, later chose the same date
for yet another momentous event.
For which EVENT did he choose the date?

India’s Independence
• Lord Mounbatten

Ad for which product ?
• An eruption of vibrantly-colored flower petals – 8 million of them – has
flooded through a small village in Costa Rica. (Pictures coming up.)
This is part of Sony’s advertisement campaign for their new product, X.
• The surprising thing about this stunt is that these billowing waves of
petals are real. It took the creative team behind the endeavour and the
inhabitants of the village over 2 weeks to collect the 8 million flower
petals used, weighing about 3.5 tons.
• Identify the product X.
• A bonus half-point if you can state the significance of the figure 8 million

Infinite Bounce
On general demand (with one obvious exception )
pouncing was allowed in the last round of 6, and it set
up an electric finish – the top 3 made 105, 100 and
95.

This brand launched in India around 2 decades ago. To make the launch
a success, they paid Rs 15L for a product placement in an upcoming film:
the lead actor mentions the brand name while downing a can.

• X wasn’t happy with the album cover art, which
depicts him and his colleagues as various forms of
Vishnu. He felt the cover should have instead
highlighted his American Indian heritage.
• When the teasers were released, he commented:
"The three of us have nothing to do with what's
on the cover.“
• Identify X (Picture on next slide).

I Am Rich
• The app is in essence nothing, just a wallpaper,
that signifies you can afford it.
• Quite a few people bought it.
And were happy with it. A
strange world indeed!

Morarji Desai was perhaps the most successful Indian
statesman when it came to achieving peace with Pakistan.
He shared an excellent relationship with President Zia ul-
Haq who described the two as “brothers who act
together.”
To maintain good relations, Desai even revealed classified
details of Indian intelligence operations to Zia. As a tribute
to his efforts, the Pakistani government did something in
the 1990s, which in turn gives Desai a unique distinction.
What did Pakistan do?

Nishan-e-Pakistan
…which makes him the only person to be
conferred both the Bharat Ratna and Nishan-e-
Pakistan.

• In the early ‘70s, George Lucas noticed that the sci-fi stories he
grew up watching – serials or soap operas in an F/SF setting –
were no longer being made. He applied to relaunch one
particular superhero franchise, X, but was put off by the
copyright restrictions.
• So he borrowed some ideas from X and, in the words of
colleague Francis Ford Coppola, “sort of combined it with a
Stanley Kubrick '2001' world and created his own ______”,
which we today know as Star Wars.
• Lucas has since confirmed that the principal characters in Star
Wars are ‘not original, but a tribute to __X__’.
• Just name X.

• Alternate names for X include glutton, carcajou, skunk bear,
and quickhatch. It is the largest land-dwelling member of the
weasel family: a stocky and muscular carnivore that
resembles a small bear. A solitary animal, X has a reputation
for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the
documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself.
• X is native to the subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern
Hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in northern Canada,
Alaska, the Scandinavian countries, and throughout western
Russia and Siberia. The name is more famous in a different
context.

This symbol was designed to resemble a certain
Roman god’s trident.
The three tips of the trident were modified to end
in a circle, a triangle and a square, in order to
represent versatility and compatibility in usage.
What symbol?

• Thomas Alva Edison’s first patent was for an
invention that never saw the light of day.
• The people required to approve its usage were
unimpressed. They felt it would reduce the time
taken for that activity, in turn reducing the time
they had to convince people.
• An updated version is used in several countries.
India was the first country to adopt it on a large
scale.

Role reversal?
Fill in the blank.

Snapshots of Google’s Project Loon, which has already set
several balloon records. The idea is to cover the entire planet.
What’s the purpose?

Internet WiFi balloons. The idea is to guarantee
high-speed coverage at every point on the globe.

#420
Ulhasnagar - a military camp before
Independence - was transformed into a major
commercial center of Maharashtra by Sindhis
who migrated there during Partition.
With their flair for business, they took advantage
of the growing demand for imported electronic
goods by using a particular label on their
products. What did the label read?

‘Made in USA’
Ulhasnagar Sindhi Association

Kaiten, Fukuryu and Shinryu were the names of
different attack units in a certain division of the
Japanese Navy. The name of their Air Force
counterparts means ‘divine wind’ in Japanese,
and has since become a part of the English
language. What’s the good word?

• In Season 1, she had a low pitched voice which
gradually became shriller.
• She regularly visits the gym, and eats Oreos
while in the bath.
• She is extremely good at figuring out answers
on the game show Wheel of Fortune with only
sparse clues.
• She was voiced by the lady on the next slide,
who passed away in November.
• Identify X.

• New England Brewing Company of Connecticut had been
marketing its India pale ale under the name ‘X-bot’ with a
label and cartoon image depicting X as a robot.
• The company apologized and decided to rebrand the product.
Give X.

• This late ‘90s album was an Akhtar family
enterprise – Javed wrote the lyrics, and the
music video was directed by Farhan and Zoya.
• Of the 6 tracks, the title song was the shortest.
It topped charts across India for ten weeks
running, and catapulted the singer to
immediate and lasting fame.
• Recently, he came together with Javed Akhtar
to launch a Reprise version that picks up
where the original story left off.

This selfie at the recent Miss Universe pageant sparked a
controversy. Why?

Miss Israel and Miss Lebanon were
clicked together

If research into Strong AI produced sufficiently intelligent
software, it might be able to reprogram and improve itself. The
improved software would be even better at improving itself,
leading to recursive self-improvement. The new intelligence
could thus increase exponentially and dramatically surpass
humans. Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge named this
scenario “X“
Ray Kurzweil has used Moore's law to calculate that desktop
computers will have the same processing power as human
brains by the year 2029, and predicts that the X will occur in
2045
What is X?

X is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior
equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. The
conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer
keyboard and screen so that the result is not dependent on the
machine's ability to render words into audio. All participants are
separated from one another.
If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the
machine is said to have passed the test. it checks how closely each
answer resembles the answer a human would give.
The test was introduced by Y in his 1950 paper "Computing
Machinery and Intelligence,“
Id X and Y

X -The Turing Test
Y- Alan Turing

An 1806 invention by Ralph Wedgewood lead to it being
used in many professional transactions till the last few
decades of the 20th century. Its manufacture was formerly
the largest consumer of montan wax or lignite wax. Its
usage has almost come to an end these days, but the name
of the associated practice has survived and is an integral
part of a form of modern-day communications.
(a)Identify the invention.
(b) How does it survive now?

(a) Carbon paper.
(b) Cc or Bcc in e-mails.

• In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole in the
movie interstellar, Thorne collaborated with visual effects supervisor
Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists . Thorne would
provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists,
who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations
to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing
caused by these phenomena.
• The resulting visual effect provided Thorne with new insight into the
effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black
holes, and lead to the creation of two scientific papers, one for the
astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community.
The paper for Astrophysics is filed by Kip Thorne himself , while for
Computer graphics it is filed by a company on behalf of Paul Franklin
and other 30 artist
• Which company ?

• If the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine isn't already in pure powder form, then it
must be separated from the tablets of cold medicine that contain it. To do this,
the cold medicine tablets are mixed with a solvent and the solution is then
filtered and exposed to low temperatures to separate and remove the inert
material of the tablet.
• The pure pseudoephedrine is then mixed with red phosphorus and hydriodic
acid.
• The red phosphorus is then filtered out (and later reused), and the remaining
acid is neutralized by adding a lye solution.
• A substance is added that will bind to the X, and the liquid X is then drained
out.
• Hydrogen chloride gas is bubbled through the liquid X, making it a crystalline
hydrochloride salt.
• This is poured through a filter cloth, and the X that is left on the filter is then
dried.
• Once dry, the X is "stepped on" (mixed down with inert filler in order to
maximize profits), weighed and packaged for shipment or sale.
Production Cycle of which product

To pay tribute to this Cambridge-educated
genius, the writers of The Simpsons’ sister show
Futurama have slipped in a few Easter eggs –
• Bender, the robot, has the unit number 1729
• The starship Nimbus has the hull registration
number BP-1729
• In one of the episodes, a parallel universe is
referenced by the same number.
• Who?

Write-em-Downs
3 rounds, 6 questions each
1. Figure It Out
2. Urban Dictionary Round
3. Space

Figure It Out
Amul and RK Laxman cartoons

Shoaib Akhtar
Controversially Yours:“Sachin was scared of me”

Jayaprakash Narayan (JP)
• Founder of the Janata Party
• He suggested military rule to ‘restore’
democracy

Whose recent visit is being commented on here?

France and Portugal
The decolonization of Goa and Pondicherry

Urban Dictionary WED
Props are due to Megha Mehta for setting this
round

The reason for everything. When someone doesn't
show up for work, or school, it is because of _____.
You can catch _____ from everything, including
emails, gossip, old breast milk, etc. Don't look in
your closet either, there is the _____ -gey Man
hiding, waiting to spread the virus and turn you into
a zombie.
Where's Anthony?
He must have _____ .

(a)
To bend over.
Dude1: I just ______'ed that chick.
Dude2: Must be nice.
(b)
a waste of money
"hey the ______ is out! whats new about it"
"pretty much nothing"

iPhone 6
• iPhone will also do

"carpe diem" for stupid people
dude 1: "i'm gonna go smoke poison ivy and see
if my lungs get a rash. ____!
dude 2: "why doesn't he just say carpe diem? it
sounds way better.
dude 3: "stupid people don't speak latin. thats
why they say ____"

1. A place where unemployed 40 somethings go because their kids told
them about social media and their neighbor (Never even visited ______
twice) recommended they check it out during small-talk. Then the
unemployed 40 year old spends one afternoon making 500 connections
and harassing people who haven't been back to ______ in a year; with
their resume.
2. A profile graveyard for entry level corporate kids who do not want to
share their Facebook profile with their superiors.
3. A place where salesmen and MLM marketers pump their wares until
they realize no-one ever returns or uses _________.
Bob: "Hi Jane how are you doing?"
Jane: "I'm ok, still looking for a job."
Bob: "You should go on _________, it's like a Facebook for professionals."
Jane: "Thanks, I'll check it out. My kids keep talking about social media."

Silenced by a lady, especially by the self assumed
more powerful woman.
My wife and I had an argument; she yelled and I
_________-ed!

_________ is a common syndrome among teens. ______syndrome causes
teens to act foolish in public to receive attention. People who have
______syndrome usually show or do weird things online to receive
attention. People with ______syndrome are usually found online, mostly on
social networking sites as Facebook, Twitter and Mostly Vines.
______syndrome also includes people who show off their body in public for
attention. These people are usually females, they show them selves on
social networking site mostly.
A simple cure is to go to Youtube.com and watch the music video xxxxx - By
______ to traumatize yourself or others to make them quickly realize what
they are doing. This is a serious syndrome and can lead to permanent
disorder.
It can lead to ______ Disorder which damages your brain to make you think
that everyone agrees on the weird things you do.
*There is currently no cure to the disorder, so you should cure the
syndrome before it gets too serious.*

Space WED
(Very gratifying to see all teams getting at least 2
correct)

Which was the first space shuttle in NASA’s
fleet?

• X was successfully deployed from the Mars Express on 19 December
2003 and was scheduled to land on the surface of Mars on 25
December 2003.
• However, no contact was received at the expected time of landing on
Mars, with the ESA declaring the mission lost in February 2004, after
numerous attempts to contact the spacecraft were made.
• Its fate remained a mystery, until it was announced in Jan 2015 that
X had been located intact on the surface of Mars in a series of
images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE instrument.
The images suggest that two of the spacecraft's four solar panels
failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna.
• X is the first British and first European probe to achieve a soft landing
on Mars.
• Identify X.

Under development at KU Leuven University in
Belgium, X will be launched in 2016. Several
companies, including Microsoft, have expressed
a willingness to be involved in the project.
The launch breaks a long-standing consensus
against the commercialization of outer space.

Apart from the US flag, which other flag was carried
by John Glenn on the first US orbital space flight in
1962, and taken to the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts
in 1969?

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