A quiz on numbers held at Calicut on 18/12/16

2.  All the answers are somehow related with
numbers.
 30 questions
 10 points each
 Infinite Bounce/Pounce. (+10/-5)
 Clockwise :- 15 questions
 Anti-Clockwise :- 15 questions

3.  An extract from Celluloid sultans of Kerala by
Sreedhar Pillai.
 The highly cinema-conscious Malayalee film-goer
who has till now not been swayed by the charm
and power of film actors have now started forming
film clubs - there are over 100 Mammootty and
Mohan Lal film clubs in the state - and queuing up
for any movie which has the magical names. Last
month inTrichur on the opening day of X had at
least 15 fans were injured in a stampede. In
Perinthalmanna about 70 kilometres from Calicut,
Nafeesat Beevi, 48, sawY a dozen times just to
hear his soul-stirring dialogues.

6.  The origins of the term began with theTrinity test
in Jornada del Muerto desert near Socorro, New
Mexico, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in Japan.The Strategic Bombing
Survey of the atomic attacks, released in June
1946, used the term liberally, defining it as: "For
convenience, the term will be used to designate
the point which is directly beneath the point of
detonation.”

9.  Krishna Bharat is an Indian research scientist
formerly at Google Inc, where he led a team
developingGoogle's news product. He is the
creator of Google News, a service that
automatically indexes over 25,000 news
websites in more than 25 languages to provide a
summary of the News resources.
 What event motivated him to came up with the
idea of Google News?

12.  In 2008, a study carried out by the
telecommunications arm of the Royal Mail found
that it became a slang synonym for "clueless" in
the United Kingdom.
 Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green said that it
was used as a slang term had been driven by the
"influence of technology" and young people, but at
the time, such usage was relatively confined to
London and other urban areas.

15.  In the opening chapter of Salman Rushdie's 1988
novelThe SatanicVerses, Gibreel sings the first
lines of the song while falling to the ground, but in
English rather than Hindi.
 The first lines from the song are heard early in the
1991 film Mississippi Masala, at a significantly
tense moment during the expulsion of Indians in
Uganda in 1972.
 This song gained international fame, particularly in
the Soviet Union.

18.  The is a paradoxical situation from which an
individual cannot escape because of
contradictory rules. often result from rules,
regulations, or procedures that an individual is
subject to but has no control over because to
fight the rule is to accept it. Another example is a
situation in which someone is in need of
something that can only be had by not being in
need of it. (A bank will never issue someone a
loan if they need the money.)

22.  Founded in 1946 and originally known as the
Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest
franchises in the NBA, and one of only eight (out
of 23) to survive the league's first decade.
 The team have had a rich history, with many of
the greatest players in NBA history having
played for the organization, includingWilt
Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Moses Malone,
Charles Barkley, Allen Iverson, and Billy
Cunningham.

25.  Nine Hours to Rama is 1963 CinemaScope DeLuxe Color
British film, directed by Mark Robson, and based on a 1962
book of the same name by Stanley Wolpert.The film was
written by Nelson Gidding and was filmed in England and
parts of India. It stars Horst Buchholz, Diane Baker, Jose
Ferrer, and Robert Morley.

28.  Chris Columbus is anAmerican filmmaker
known for directing movies such as Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone , Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets , Mrs. Doubtfire , Home
Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in NewYork.
 His production company’s name is a play on
Columbus' more famous namesake, Christopher
Columbus.

31.  It is a political slogan widely used and coined by
the Occupy movement. It was the name of a
Tumblr blog page launched in lateAugust 2011
and is a variation on the phrase X from an August
2011 flyer for the NYC GeneralAssembly. A
related statistic, the 1%, refers to the top 1%
wealthiest people in society that have a
disproportionate share of capital, political
influence, and the means of production.

34.  The source that popularized this entity was a 17th-
century carving over a door of the famousTōshō-
gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan.The carvings atToshogu
Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and
believed to have incorporated Confucius’s Code of
Conduct, using the ________ as a way to depict
man’s life cycle.There are a total of eight panels,
and the iconic entity comes from panel 2.The
philosophy, however, probably originally came to
Japan with aTendai-Buddhist legend, from China
in the 8th century (Nara Period).

37.  At the 16th-century palace at Fatehpur Sikri in
northern India:
 The game was played by Akbar in a truly regal manner.
The Court itself, divided into red and white squares,
being the board, and an enormous stone raised on
four feet, representing the central point. It was here
that Akbar and his courtiers played this game; sixteen
young slaves from the harem wearing the players'
colours, represented the pieces, and moved to the
squares according to the throw of the dice. It is said
that the Emperor took such a fancy to playing the
game on this grand scale that he had a court for the
game constructed in all his palaces.

40.  X is a term forWestern society and culture in the
1920s. It was a period of sustained economic
prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the
United States, Canada and Western Europe,
particularly in major cities such as NewYork City,
Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Berlin, London and
Los Angeles.
 Y is a term that refers to the decade of the 1920s in
Europe, during which most of the continent
experienced an economic and cultural boom.The era
began with the end ofWorldWar I and ended with
theWall Street Crash of 1929.

43.  Italian fashion labels Prada,Versace andArmani
have agreed to ban them from their catwalks.As
of 2007, the British Fashion Council promoted the
creation of a task force to establish guidelines for
the fashion industry.They also urged fashion
designers to use healthy models. An Italian
inquiry reported in September 2007 that up to 40
percent of models could have an eating disorder
and made a number of suggestions to promote
health,yet ruled out a ban on them.

46.  Meetings or joint undertakings with
extraterrestrials.
 The development of exotic energy weapons for
the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or other
weapons programs.
 The development of means of weather control.
 The development of time travel
and teleportation technology.
 These are some of the activities supposed to take
place in this location.

49.  There was much debate over the apportioning of
blame.To reach his pit-stop, Mike Hawthorn had to
cut in front of Lance Macklin, causing Macklin to
swerve into the path of Levegh in his much faster
Mercedes.The collision propelled Levegh’s car
upwards and into a concrete stairwell, where he
was killed, and the wreck exploded in flames.The
inquiry held none of the drivers responsible, and
blamed the layout of the 30-year old track, which
had not been designed for cars of this speed.

55.  We met next day as he had arranged, and
inspected the rooms at X, of which he had
spoken at our meeting.They consisted of a couple
of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy
sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and
illuminated by two broad windows.
 An extract fromY’s work from 1887.

61.  It is an English sport believed to derive from the
same origins as many racquet sports. In this sport,
a ball is propelled against the walls of a special
court using a gloved or bare hand as though it were
a racquet, similarly to hand-pelota.

64.  This seems to have started around 1730 when it
became a recognized concept to the British
government officials. Specifically, the British Navy
allowed its ships and captains the option to
perform it as a way to honor members of the
British Royal Family during select anniversaries.
About eighty years later, in 1808, it officially
became a standard of its kind to honor British
Royalty.
 What?

67.  The concept was pioneered byWillard Libby and
colleagues to date archaeological, geological
and hydrogeological samples. It was discovered
on 27 February 1940, by Martin Kamen and Sam
Ruben at the University of California Radiation
Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

73.  His lifelong passion for books began at an early age. As
a frequent visitor to his local libraries in the 1920s and
1930s, he recalls being disappointed because they did
not stock popular science fiction novels, like those of
H. G.Wells', because, at the time, they were not
deemed literary enough. Between this and learning
about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
Later, as a teenager, he was horrified by the Nazi book
burnings and later Joseph Stalin's campaign of
political repression, the "Great Purge", in which writers
and poets, among many others, were arrested and
often executed.

76.  According to biographerCharles R. Cross, the
growing importance of the media—Internet,
television and magazines—and the response to
an interview of X's mother were jointly
responsible for such theories.An excerpt from a
statement that X's mother,Wendy Fradenburg
O'Connor, made in the Aberdeen,Washington
newspaperThe DailyWorld—"Now he's gone
and joined that stupid club. I told him not to join
that stupid club."

79.  The soundtrack for the 1962 James Bond film
Dr. No features "Kingston Calypso", a calypso
version of the song with new lyrics, in
reference to three villainous characters in the
film.
 The song is also used as a derogatory phrase
for poor referees. Bands also play the song to
mock referees in similar cases.

86.  During the Batman Sunday comic strips that ran
from 1943–1946, his origin story is somewhat
altered. He is introduced as an actor named
HarveyApollo, who is testifying at the trial of
criminal Lucky Sheldon, and he is killed at the end
of the story arc. His origin is again altered in the
Batman daily strips published from 1989 to 1991.
In this version, he is scarred by a vial of acid
thrown by an unnamed bystander, which was
intended for the Joker.

89.  The motif appears to have its ultimate origin in
the Ancient Near East and it re-appears in the
High MiddleAges, from the 10th or 11th century,
and was notably used in the Byzantine Empire,
but 11th or 12th century representations are also
known from Islamic Spain, France and Bulgaria,
and from the 13th century onward it becomes
more widespread, and is used in the Seljuk
Sultanate of Rum, Mamluk Egypt in the Islamic
sphere, and in the Holy Roman Empire, Serbia and
Russia in the Christian sphere.

92.  Akeldama is an area in Jerusalem that is
composed of rich clay and was formerly used by
potters. For this reason the field was known as
the Potter's Field.The clay had a strong red
colour, which may be the origin of the modern
name meaning "field of blood" in Aramaic.
According to Christian tradition, what was used
to buy this area?