This document contains a series of questions and answers about people, places, events, and other topics related to India. Some key details include: - Questions about an underground urban farm in London that grows produce in former bomb shelters, Greek mythology characters depicted during COVID lockdown, and the Falklands War and the "Hand of God" goal. - Other questions and answers cover topics like the origin of words like "scumbag" and "Ponzi scheme", the story behind the book "Guess How Much I Love You", and the IgNobel Prize awarded for research about establishing legal rights for the falsely declared dead. - Figures mentioned include Lal Bihari, who founded an organization

1. -by AK69

2. Dedicated To..

3. ROUND 1:
• One Direct Q. for each team starting from
Team 1
• Other teams can Pounce
• +20/-10 on Direct
• +10/-10 on Pounce

4. 1.
• An urban farm, Zero Carbon Food, founded by Steven
Dring and Richard Ballard, which despite being
underground (and thus cut off from sunlight) is
churning out high-quality microgreens and lettuce for
the London market.
• Shown in the next slide is one their facilities which was
created mid 20th century for an entirely different
purpose and after that had been sitting unused, dark
and damp, empty or holding rows and rows of legal
and financial documents.
• What is this or why was this place built in the first
place?

7. Underground Bomb Shelter

8. 2.
• An illustrator named Jonathan has recreated the
characters of Greek mythology, showing how
they would have lived amid the COVID-19
lockdown.
• In Pic 1, Jonathan illustrates Medusa, one of the
three monstrous Gorgons, who had snakes on the
head instead of hair. The pic exemplifies the long
hair problem many faced amid COVID lockdown.
• Which Greek God is being depicted in pic 2/Give
Funda?

11. The wine god Dionysus

12. 3.
• The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared
war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over
two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland
Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands. The result of the war was a British victory.
• Few Years Later, something controversial in an entirely different
clash happened that many refer to as a symbolic revenge by the
former.
• The event also popularized a 3 word phrase, extremely famous and
have been used many times since the event.
• In late Nov 2020, the phrase served as the headlines of newspapers
across the world due to something very unfortunate.
• Give me the phrase.

14. Hand Of God

15. 4.
• Earlier (by 1817) X was used in sugar refining
as the name of a frame covered in coarse
cloth used in straining.
• X, a term of vulgar abuse is dysphemism for a
base, despicable person, sometimes used as
slang for condom.
• Also a Green Day Song, performed by them for
American Pie 2 soundtrack.
• What is X?

17. Scumbag

18. 5.
• In 1971 an unidentified man (known as X in popular
lore) who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United
States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the
afternoon of Thanksgiving. He extorted $200,000 in
ransom (equivalent to $1,260,000 in 2019) and
parachuted to an uncertain fate.
• In Dec 2020, in the trailer of an highly anticipated
superhero/supervillain series, X’s stint is shown being
by an iconic comic character Y.
• Give me X and Y.
• (pic follows)

21. X: D.B. Cooper
Y: Loki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn33WXgE
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22. 6.
• Guess How Much I Love You is a British children's book written by Sam
McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram, published in 1994, in the United
Kingdom by Walker Books and in 1995, in the United States by its
subsidiary Candlewick Press.
• Little Nutbrown Hare asks Big Nutbrown Hare the title question, "Guess
how much I love you?", and the book continues as the two use larger and
larger measures to quantify how much they love each other in answer to
the question.
• One of the answers serves as the origin to a extremely popular way of
expressing the love to the beloved ones.
• Give me the expression/phrase?

25. Love you to the moon and back

26. 7.
• The first recorded incidents to meet the modern
definition of ____ ____ were carried out from
1869 to 1872 by a German actress, folk singer,
and con artist by name of A. Spitzeder.
• The basic premise of a ____ ____ is "to rob Peter
to pay Paul“.
• While this type of fraudulent investment plan was
not originally invented by Charles, a con artist of
1920s, it became so identified with him that it
now is referred to as by its current name.
• FITB.

28. Ponzi Scheme

29. ROUND 2:
• All Qs on Pounce

30. 1.
• In 2019, ogilvy India released an TVC for one of the indian
iconic brands.
• The Ad beautifully captured their 60 years of presence.
Some details that the ad could showcase were: Transition
from BnW to Colors, Increase in Family Income, Transition
of Women from homemakers to Independent earning
professionals.
• The Ad very smartly showed how much Indians are
attached to their material possessions and if cared, they
last generations.
• The Ad showed the story of something which has a
presence of almost all middle class households. What am I
talking about?

32. Fevicol: The Sofa Ad

33. 2.
• X don’t have eyes and they can only sense
light which tells them they are over the
ground or under ground.
• One of the explanations behind a certain
activity done in the posters of a highly
acclaimed movie by the same name X
released in 2019 is owed to the above trait.
• Which movie am I talking about/Give Funda?

35. Striking of eyes in Parasite Poster

36. 3.
• In a very recent social
media campaign,
amazon prime video
removed ME from its
name. This created a lot
of buzz among the
netizens.
• Why did they remove
ME?

38. • ME here stands for Mobile Edition
• Prime Video rolled out this marketing
campaign to announce their Mobile verison.

39. 4.
• T.J. Clark (a British art Historian and writer) says
that the barmaid is "intended to represent one of
the prostitutes for which the place was well-
known", who is represented "as both a
salesperson and a commodity—something to be
purchased along with a drink.“
• Which classic painting is being talked about?
• What is its significance in the world of Branding?

41. A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
by Edouard Manet.

42. Bass Brewery’s logo: First image to be
registered as a trademark in the UK

43. 5.
• The Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People (Uttar
Pradesh Mritak Sangh) is an Indian pressure group based
in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh that seeks to reclaim the legal
rights of those falsely listed by the Uttar Pradesh State
government as being dead.
• It was founded by Lal Bihari, on whose life the recent movie
Kaagaz is based on.
• He tried to bring people who are dead on paper to this
association.
• Due to this effort, he was conferred with an award in 2003
which "honor achievements that first make people laugh,
and then make them think.“
• Which Award?

45. IgNobel Prize

46. 6.
• This unique feat happened for the first time on 21
February 1998 when Governor of Uttar
Pradesh Romesh Bhandari dismissed Kalyan
Singh government which was later restored after
courts order.
• The plot of a 2001 Bollywood film heavily
revolves around this unusual activity.
• What is this unusual activity is again in news
today (24JAN2021) and give me the name of
person involved?

48. One Day CM and Shristi Goswami

49. 7.
• Also known as tea mushroom, tea fungus,
or Manchurian mushroom, X is a fermented,
lightly effervescent, sweetened black or green
tea drink commonly consumed for its supposed
health benefits.
• It is produced by fermenting sugared tea using
a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY)
commonly called a "mother" or "mushroom“.
• The word X is a portmanteau of 2 japanese words
which translates to Kelp and Tea.
• Give me X.

51. Kombucha

52. 8.
• Tarun Tejpal (born 15 March 1963) is an Indian
journalist, publisher, novelist and former editor-
in-chief of Tehelka magazine. In November 2013,
he stepped down as editor for six months after a
female colleague accused him of sexual assault.
He was arrested on 30 November 2013 and is
currently on bail since 1 July 2014.
• One of his novels was adapted into webseries
that released in 2020 on Amazon Prime.
• Give me the name of novel and the webseries.

55. ROUND 3:
• 10 seconds for sending the answers
• Only Pounce
• Marks : +20/-10

56. 1.

58. David Bowie
• Pontius Pilate, Andy Warhol, Nikolai Tesla –
Bowie’s played all of them on the big screen

59. 2.

61. All these body parts are named after
Gods
• Apollo’s Belt
• Dimples of Venus
• Adam’s Apple
• Achilles Tendons

63. 3.

64. Corona

65. 4.

67. Food items named after
places/toponyms
• Bombay Duck
• Worcestershire sauce
• Champagne
• Monte Carlo Biscuits

68. ROUND 4:
• Long Connect
• +10/0 for Individual Q.
• Points for Long is indicated after every
individual answer.

69. 1.
• In 1902, the help of geologist Charles Page Perin
was sought to identify a site rich in resources
such as coal and iron with view to establishing
something for the 1st time in India. The search
starts in what is now Madhya Pradesh and 5 years
later, team settled on the current location and
laid the foundation of something that became
extremely iconic and important even to this day.
• What is being talked about?

71. Tata Steel, Jamshedpur
+140/-120

72. 2.
• Established in 989 CE, by Maharaja Markata
Keshari,the name of this city derived
from Sanskrit meaning capital, fort and military
establishment or a cantonment. The city was
known as Bidanasi ____(meaning Bidanasi
Military Base) during the days when Barabati
Fort was in existence.
• This city is also the centre of an Indian Film
Industry.
• Give the city and the name of the film industry.

74. Cuttack and Odia Film Industry
(Ollywood)
+120/-100

75. 3.
• Establishedin 1876,the
motto of this civic
infrastructure and
administration body is
Puraśrī Bibardhana
which means
Progress of the city.
• What govt. body is
being talked about?

77. Kolkata Municipal Corporation
+100/-80

78. 4.
• On 17 December 2013, MLA of Assam, Phani Bhushan
Choudhury cited article of The Times of India published
in early1950, stating that originally the word 'Kamarup'
was included in the song, but was later changed to
____and claimed that Kamarup should be re-included.
• Originally written as poem, the ‘song’ has many lovers
and critics.
• The song has been into many controversies, one of
which is due to inclusion of only British ruled provinces
and not the princely ruled ones.
• What am I talking about.

80. Jana Gana Mana
+80/-60

81. 5.

83. Films of Raj Kumar Rao
+60/-30

84. 6.
• X was a British member of
the Imperial Civil Service , a
political
reformer, ornithologist and bot
anist who worked in British
India.He is called "the Father
of Indian Ornithology“.
• What did he along with few
more people found in the mid
1880s?

86. Indian National Congress
+40/-20

87. 7.
• Amitabh Bachchan on being asked why is he
called X ,in a recent interview told that, He never
liked being referred to as X.
• He stated that the reason is once a very
prominent radio company did a survey to find
who is the most popular artist is and should be
called X and to his surprise,he got most of the
votes and since then, the title has been
associated with him.
• What is X?

89. Mahanayak
+20/-10

92. Netaji Subash Chandra Bose