1. Quizmaster: Pratyush Sinha
A quiz about nothing (in particular)

2. the small salad round

3. Not that there is anything wrong with
it..
• Google declined to make any comments on their
recent action, saying they wanted the illustration
to speak for itself.
• Atypically, Google did this late afternoon instead
of the usual midnight Eastern US time so as to
time it with another event taking place in another
part of the world.
• The effort has been lauded by a lot of human
rights organisations.
• What ?

4. Which proper noun could this word be
?
• A survey carried out by UK divorce
website www.divorce-online.co.uk in
December 2009 found that 20% of divorce
petitions contained the word “X”. A follow up
survey in December 2011 has found that
number has alarmingly increased during 2011
to 33% of all behaviour allegations in
petitions.

5. Name the movie
• XY, a 1970’s movie is considered one of the
best comedies of all time.
• X is the real surname of the leading actress
while Y is her real life nickname. Together XY
constitute the name of the character of the
female protagonist.

6. So what is so
wonderful, amazing, astonishing, spect
acular about this maiden ?
• Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager
from Jersey City, New Jersey who idolises the
US Air Force officer Carol Danvers.
• She is perhaps the first person of her
background to take on this moniker. The
Guardian even compared her to Malala
Yousafzai.

7. What is this gentleman after ?
• We have heard of bounty hunters and Nazi hunters but Texas based
lawyer Joseph Gutheinz Jr has a very peculiar hobby which has
given him the moniker ‘___ ___ hunter’.
• There are only 3 sources of this object of fascination of his in the
world (at least for the time being).
• Out of 370 confirmed individual allotments, 184 are reportedly
missing and these can fetch a very high price in the black market. By
an account verified by Mr. Gutheinz himself, a sample that went
missing from Honduras could be bought for $5 million. Others that
are missing include two that were lost after Gadaffi’s death, one
that is lying under a pile of rubbish and one that was sold after the
death of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

8. What happened ?
• By 2004, Andrew Flintoff had begun to
perform consistently.
• As Andrew Flintoff scurried to his highest Test
score - 167 against West Indies at
Edgbaston in 2004 - he smashed a ball into the
crowd of over 20,000 who had turned up to
watch the match. Astonishingly, what followed
has been described by Wisden as ’the only
false move by a Flintoff in the entire Test’.

9. Which genre ?
• Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto better
known as Helô Pinheiro is a
Brazilian model and businesswoman who lives
in Rio De Janeiro. Her stroll through a
fashionable Rio district inspired perhaps the
most famous song of a particular genre. The
name of the genre was one of the names
considered for the official WC 2014 ball.

10. Claim to Fame ?
• James Joseph Dresnok had a tough life growing up. He
then served the US Army for 2 years in Western
Germany in the early 60’s. On returning, he found that
his wife had abandonded him. Frustrated, he reenlisted in the Army and was sent on duty again,
somewhere else. There he was apprehended for
forging a signature to get permission to leave base.
Unwilling to face court martial and fed up with his old
life, he ran across a minefield in broad daylight while
his fellow soldiers had lunch. He has not been back to
his country since.
• Later on he married a Romanian abductee and after
her death the daughter of a Togolese diplomat.

12. ???
•
•
•
•
•
•
Brazil – Fulan de Tal
France – Jean Dupont
India - ???
Iran – Folani
Poland – Jan Kowalski
US – John Q Public

13. Dec 1969. Map showing what ?

14. Give the blank
• ______ is a word of Arabic origin but is used in
places as far off as Bengal and Poland.
• The word is intimately associated with many a
protests in recent times. In addition, at least in
India, the word may also remind you of war or
sports.

15. Give X
• The X principle is a theory that states
that companies tend to systematically
promote their least-competent employees
to management(generally middle
management), in order to limit the amount of
damage they are capable of doing.
• According to one of the former CEO’s of X’s
company: "leadership is nature's way of
removing morons from the productive flow"

16. Festivus for the rest of us!
What is being celebrated ?
• Despite stringent opposition from right-wing student
groups, some students of Jawaharlal Nehru University
belonging to All-India Backward Students' Forum (AIBSF)
observed the ‘________ Day' on campus, in order to
break what they term the "Brahminical cultural
hegemony“.
• The event was celebrated on the 17th of October last year
just 5 days after Vijaydashami.

17. Who?
• She is the daughter of a renowned Buddhist
scholar. Her name comes from the Hindu
goddess Parvati’s and also means light in
Sanskrit. As a child, she spent some time in
Almora in Uttarakhand.
• She is a dangerous vixen, especially with a
knife.

18. Who/Which product ?
• The superstar created a flutter recently, when
at a talk at IIM-A, he told that he stopped
endorsing a certain product after 8 years of
association because a little girl in Jaipur came
up to him and compared it to poison.

19. Which work ?
• Bankipore is a neighbourhood and residential
area in Patna on the banks of the river Ganges. A
hundred years ago, it may have been a distant
suburb or a small town on its own
• In 1913, an Englishman visited Patna and
surrounding areas including
Bankipore, Rajgir, Gaya and the many historical
areas in between. He later went onto adapt these
places in an epic literary work.

20. What ?
• Shujoy Ghosh is a Bollywood film director and
writer. He has worked on films like Jhankaar
Beats and Kahaani. However, his most popular
contribution to Indian popular culture would
have a certain chivalrous cricketing connect.

21. Give the blank
• The verb "to ____" originated in the 1770s
among soldiers in British India where a hunter
skilled enough to kill the elusive ___ was
dubbed a “____r". The term ___r later
became more common in its present
figurative sense.

22. X or Y
• The X day is observed on the 28th of June. The
origins of the movement can be credited to
Bob Palais of the University of Utah who
wrote an article on it 2001.
• The proponents of X day are vigorously
opposed to Y, which too has its own day
earlier in the year. Although, Y has been more
popular for a long time (few thousand
years), the X fans too have some fair points.

23. Hawking
Connect
Dirac
Babbage
Stokes

24. Who’s tweeting ?

32. Not that there is anything wrong with
it..
• Google declined to make any comments on their
recent action, saying they wanted the illustration
to speak for itself.
• Atypically, Google did this late afternoon instead
of the usual midnight Eastern US time so as to
time it with another event taking place in another
part of the world.
• The effort has been lauded by a lot of human
rights organisations.
• What ?

34. Which proper noun could this word be
?
• A survey carried out by UK divorce
website www.divorce-online.co.uk in
December 2009 found that 20% of divorce
petitions contained the word “X”. A follow up
survey in December 2011 has found that
number has alarmingly increased during 2011
to 33% of all behaviour allegations in
petitions.

35. • Facebook

36. Name the movie
• XY, a 1970’s movie is considered one of the
best comedies of all time.
• X is the real surname of the leading actress
while Y is her real life nickname. Together XY
constitute the name of the character of the
female protagonist.

37. • Annie Hall

38. So what is so
wonderful, amazing, astonishing, spect
acular about this maiden ?
• Kamala Khan is a Pakistani-American teenager
from Jersey City, New Jersey who idolises the
US Air Force officer Carol Danvers.
• She is perhaps the first person of her
background to take on this moniker. The
Guardian even compared her to Malala
Yousafzai.

40. What is this gentleman after ?
• We have heard of bounty hunters and Nazi hunters but Texas based
lawyer Joseph Gutheinz Jr has a very peculiar hobby which has
given him the moniker ‘___ ___ hunter’.
• There are only 3 sources of this object of fascination of his in the
world (at least for the time being).
• Out of 370 confirmed individual allotments, 184 are reportedly
missing and these can fetch a very high price in the black market. By
an account verified by Mr. Gutheinz himself, a sample that went
missing from Honduras could be bought for $5 million. Others that
are missing include two that were lost after Gadaffi’s death, one
that is lying under a pile of rubbish and one that was sold after the
death of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

42. What happened ?
• By 2004, Andrew Flintoff had begun to
perform consistently.
• As Andrew Flintoff scurried to his highest Test
score - 167 against West Indies at
Edgbaston in 2004 - he smashed a ball into the
crowd of over 20,000 who had turned up to
watch the match. Astonishingly, what followed
has been described by Wisden as ’the only
false move by a Flintoff in the entire Test’.

43. • His father dropped the ball

44. Which genre ?
• Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto better
known as Helô Pinheiro is a
Brazilian model and businesswoman who lives
in Rio De Janeiro. Her stroll through a
fashionable Rio district inspired perhaps the
most famous song of a particular genre. The
name of the genre was one of the names
considered for the official WC 2014 ball.

45. • Bossa Nova

46. Claim to Fame ?
• James Joseph Dresnok had a tough life growing up. He
then served the US Army for 2 years in Western
Germany in the early 60’s. On returning, he found that
his wife had abandonded him. Frustrated, he reenlisted in the Army and was sent on duty
again, somewhere else. There he was apprehended for
forging a signature to get permission to leave base.
Unwilling to face court martial and fed up with his old
life, he ran across a minefield in broad daylight while
his fellow soldiers had lunch. He has not been back to
his country since.
• Later on he married a Romanian abductee and after
her death the daughter of a Togolese diplomat.

47. • Only surviving American in North Korea

49. • Internet Hindus

50. ???
•
•
•
•
•
•
Brazil – Fulan de Tal
France – Jean Dupont
India - ???
Iran – Folani
Poland – Jan Kowalski
US – John Q Public

51. • Aam Aadmi
• Falana

52. Dec 1969. Map showing what ?

53. • Map of all the internet connections in the
world

54. Give the blank
• ______ is a word of Arabic origin but is used in
places as far off as Bengal and Poland.
• The word is intimately associated with many a
protests in recent times. In addition, at least in
India, the word may also remind you of war or
sports.

55. • Maidan

56. Give X
• The X principle is a theory that states
that companies tend to systematically
promote their least-competent employees
to management(generally middle
management), in order to limit the amount of
damage they are capable of doing.
• According to one of the former CEO’s of X’s
company: "leadership is nature's way of
removing morons from the productive flow"

57. • The Dilbert Princible

58. Festivus for the rest of us!
What is being celebrated ?
• Despite stringent opposition from right-wing student
groups, some students of Jawaharlal Nehru University
belonging to All-India Backward Students' Forum (AIBSF)
observed the ‘________ Day' on campus, in order to
break what they term the "Brahminical cultural
hegemony“.
• The event was celebrated on the 17th of October last year
just 5 days after Vijaydashami.

59. • Mahishasur Day

60. Who?
• She is the daughter of a renowned Buddhist
scholar. Her name comes from the Hindu
goddess Parvati’s and also means light in
Sanskrit. As a child, she spent some time in
Almora in Uttarakhand.
• She is a dangerous vixen, especially with a
knife.

61. • Uma Thurman

62. Who/Which product ?
• The superstar created a flutter recently, when
at a talk at IIM-A, he told that he stopped
endorsing a certain product after 8 years of
association because a little girl in Jaipur came
up to him and compared it to poison.

63. • Amitabh Bachchan/ Pepsi

64. Which work ?
• Bankipore is a neighbourhood and residential
area in Patna on the banks of the river Ganges. A
hundred years ago, it may have been a distant
suburb or a small town on its own
• In 1913, an Englishman visited Patna and
surrounding areas including
Bankipore, Rajgir, Gaya and the many historical
areas in between. He later went onto adapt these
places in an epic literary work.

65. • A Passage to India by EM Forester
• Bankipore ~ Chandarpore
• Barabar caves ~ Marabar caves

66. What ?
• Shujoy Ghosh is a Bollywood film director and
writer. He has worked on films like Jhankaar
Beats and Kahaani. However, his most popular
contribution to Indian popular culture would
have certain chivalrous cricketing connect.

67. • Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo Re

68. Give the blank
• The verb "to ____" originated in the 1770s
among soldiers in British India where a hunter
skilled enough to kill the elusive ___ was
dubbed a “____r". The term ___r later
became more common in its present
figurative sense.

69. • Sniper

70. X or Y
• The X day is observed on the 28th of June. The
origins of the movement can be credited to
Bob Palais of the University of Utah who
wrote an article on it 2001.
• The proponents of X day are vigorously
opposed to Y, which too has its own day
earlier in the year. Although, Y has been more
popular for a long time (few thousand
years), the X fans too have some fair points.

71. • Tau day

72. Hawking
Connect
Dirac
Babbage
Stokes

73. • Lucasian Professor of Mathematics

74. Who’s tweeting ?

75. • Ronan Farrow – son of Mia Farrow and Woody
Allen (supposedly)

76. Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver

77. Goldfinger
Ghost Busters

78. Mr. Bean
Back to the Future

79. Psycho
The Big Lebowski

80. Gattaca
Death Proof

81. Bonnie & Clyde
The Shining