Abhi is back [autosaved]

In the 1340s, four new colleges – Gonville
Hall, Trinity Hall, Corpus Christi and Clare –
were set up to train clergymen.
Why were they established?

Black Death had killed third of the
English clergy..

The Royal Society gives out the annual Copley
Medal for ‘outstanding achievements in research in
any branch of science’..
In 1776, X won the award for his paper which
recounted how he preserved the health of his
‘employees].Inspite of short supplie and perhaps
unknown diseases.The Society thought the
communication was of much importance to the
public.
Who is X?

James Cook
For maintaining the health of HMS
Ressonance`s crew.

It`s a custom to greet visitors with
banners/flags in this country.Taking
advantage, McCann came out with this
advert at the capital airport.
The ad take advantage of a coincidence, as
spotted and pointed out by some.
Which company?
Which country?

An eggcorn occurs when you substitutes a given
word/phrase and changing the meaning, but alluding to
the original meaning. However, the pronunciation often
remains the same .
Examples:
acorn – eggcorn
expatriate – expatrio
alzheimer`s disease - old timer`s disease
baited breath – bated breath
The most common example in entomology has to do0
with the creature`s posture and predatory habits.
What?

Identify this person who is posing
for a ‘selfie’ with some teens.

 “The future of confectionery has arrived.
Every corner, every edge, every finger, of
every bar has been carefully considered
and crafted to create this beautifully
immersive and multi-sensory experience.”
Which ‘product’ is being described here?

This is an ad that was strongly
objected to by the public in US
because it reminded people of
something. What?

 X was first held in 1960.
 Since then it has undergone major changes, the
most recent being in 2013.
 In 1997 , it suffered a minor setback.
 Political parties in various states have raised
objections to X based on language issues.
 While it was initially an only-Indian affair, it had
its first overseas version in 2008.
 Most of us sitting here have been a part of X, at
some point in our lifetime(or will be).
 Identify X .

Where would one find all
these?
 Guy Dangerous: Just your average explorer. Guy
Dangerous was born in April 25, 1985.
 Scarlett Fox: The cunning escape artist. Scarlett Fox
was born in December 19, 1986.
 Barry Bones: A city cop with an attitude. Barry Bones
was born in September 29, 1984.
 Karma Lee: "The fastest legs in the Far East"
 Montana Smith: "The second greatest explorer ever"
 Francisco Montoya:" The conquistador"
 Zack Wonder: Football star
 Usain Bolt: World's fastest man . He is an athlete.
 Santa Claus: Exclusive character for limited time.

Identify X , a term for the crowd
of stars that makes a distinctive
bright streak across the night
sky. .. There are many myths and legends about the origin
of the X.
 One legend explains how the X was create
by Heracles when he was a baby. His father, Zeus,
was fond of his son, who was born of the mortal
woman Alcmene. He decided to let the infant
Heracles suckle on his divine wife Hera's milk when
she was asleep, an act which would endow the baby
with godlike qualities.
 When Hera woke up and realized that she
was breastfeeding an unknown infant, she pushed
him away and the spurting milk became the X.

 Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers
whose families opposed their marriage would
jump off a cliff to prove their love. But
women, when their turn came after seeing
their men jump off, would get cold feet and
return home, and marry someone else.
 Which famous phrase came into existence
due to this ?
 Hint: It is used nowadays to accord respect .

. In Chattisgarh, Chaprah is regular chutney which is
prepared by the locals.
What’s this special chutney made of ?
Most of you would never ever try this chutney after
knowing the answer :D

 There is one slide to follow . The slide
contains the lyrics of a hit song,
expressed in Archaic English.
Simply identify the song OR the artist.

The answer is of course Baby
(Justin Bieber )

Identify this legendary cricketer
X
 X was exchanged to a fisherwoman’s child when
newly born ; it was his uncle Y who immediately
noticed the mistake (actually he didn’t see a little
hole on the top of my left ear lobe that he had a day
ago) and brought him back.
 Had it not been for the sharp eye of the legendary
cricketer’s uncle, we might not have ever seen the
master in action.
 X would later say "My habbit of FISHING outside the
off-stump comes from there" .

Give me X and Y which are
more or less homonyms .
 X is a Palestinian Sunni Islamic organization, with an
associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades, in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere
in the Middle East including Qatar. Since 2007, it has
governed the Gaza Strip, after it won a majority of
seats in the Palestinian Parliament . X is designated
as a terrorist organization by Israel (It is very much in
news lately)
 Y is a Levantine food dip or spread made from
cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, olive
oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic. Today, it is popular
throughout the Middle East (including Turkey), North
Africa(including Morocco), and in Middle Eastern
cuisine around the globe

 Western and Eastern end of Great Wall
of China

 Mulk Raj Anand’s novel, Untouchable,
published in 1935 is the story of a single
day in the life of Bakha who accidentally
bumps into a member of a higher caste.
 During the course of the day, Bakha talk to
a Christian missionary, listens to a speech
about untouchability by Mahatma Gandhi
and a subsequent conversation by two
educated Indians, but by the end of the
book Anand suggests that it is technology
that may be his saviour.
 What technology is he talking about?

 Bakha was a toilet cleaner. The
technology is ‘flush toilets’

 In 1974 it was observed that his condition was
rapidly deteriorating and it was decided to send him
to Paris for further examination. Like any other
tourist, he needed the proper travelling papers. He
was issued an Egyptian passport on which his
occupation was listed as” King (********).” Arriving at
Le Bourget Airport near Paris, he was received with
full military honours, on a red carpet, like any other
visiting head of state.
 One of the reports descibed it thus: “ON AN autumn
day in 1976, a French Air Force plane touched down
at Le Bourget airport just outside Paris. The plane
was carrying one of the world's great statesmen, a
famous war leader in need of urgent medical
treatment. “

 Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, 86 year old at
that time, did something rare on 28th
February 2013, which was last done by
Angelo Correr in 1415, about 600 years
ago, to end the famous Western
Schism.
 What?

 Anya Major (born 1966, in the United
Kingdom) is an English athlete and actress
who appeared as "Nikita" in the 1985 video
to Elton John's song of the same name.
 It was, however, her discuss throwing
experience that she used somewhere else
made her famous just after half-time of
Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.
 What happened?

 These creatures can withstand temperatures from
just above absolute zero to well above the boiling
point of water, pressures about six times stronger
than pressures found in the deepest ocean trenches,
ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher
than the lethal dose for a person, and the vacuum of
outer space. They can go without food or water for
more than 10 years, drying out to the point where
they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage,
and reproduce; and is often called the toughest
animal on the planet.
 Name the creature.
 (picture on the next slide)

 Other than close human relatives such
as chimps and gorillas, X’s also have
fingerprints. Though on the evolutionary
tree, primates and modern X`s
ancestors branched apart 70 million
years ago, the fingerprints of X and a
human being are eerily similar.
 Identify X.

 The first amongst this kind of systems
was installed by Siemens in Germany,
for Adolf Hitler to observe the V2 rocket
launch. Robert Goddard, the head of the
project, had invited Hitler to the grounds,
but he wanted to have a closer look at
the rocket being launched. An engineer,
Walter Bruch, suggested the use of this
system to transmit the signal to Berlin,
which was also being used to map the
trajectory of the rocket. Which
technology?

 While examinations are going on in
India, copying and cheating is often
discouraged. But one technology
company put out an advertisement for
which it got an international award. It
advertised “We encourage copying”.
Which company?

Which popular entertainer took his
stage-name after this type of dog as
“They're basically everything that I
am”?

 As per reports in 2005, worldwide sales
of wooden pencils, which were
thought to be outdated, suddenly
increased upto 700%, especially in
railway stations and airports.
 What new-age fad was said to be
responsible for this?

These three book covers are
actually designed upon which
famous piece of art?

 In the summer of 2000, the RSS journal
Panchjanya complained that all the leading
male actors in Bollywood were Muslim and
saw it as a conspiracy that involved mafia
dons such as Dawood Ibrahim.
To thwart the conspiracy, Panchjanya called
upon its readers to promote which actor as
the Hindu challenge to the monopoly of the
Khans?

 It is a tactical innovation which can help batsmen
score boundaries even off yorkers, and thus it is
particularly useful in the death overs of limited
overs games, when bowlers look to bowl full
length balls. Explaining this is probably much
more difficult than playing it - it is in essence a
wristy whip shot, but uses a lot more bottom hand
and has more pronounced bat swing after the shot
is played. The quick rotation of the blade in the
follow through of the shot also explains it’s
name.
What?

 George Orwell describing an idyllic
Sunday afternoon. “The wife is already
asleep in the armchair and the children
have been sent out for a nice long walk.
You put your feet up on the sofa, settle
your spectacles on your nose and open
the X. ”
However if Orwell were alive today he
wouldn’t get his idyllic Sunday
afternoon.
What is this now infamous newspaper?

 Klout, tipped as the next big thing in the rapidly
evolving world of social media, is being described by
its creators as "the standard for online and internet
influence".
 Using a complicated series of algorithms, the
system adds up a person's tweets, likes, pings,
LinkedIn connections, Google mentions, status
updates and other social media musings. The ripple
effect of that online contribution is used to measure
how much influence a person has online and, by
inference, whether they are worth listening to. X
(unfortunately) tops the list with a score of 100,
ahead of Barack Obama with 88, and the Dalai Lama
at 90. X?

Edwin________ is a supporting character in the Marvel
Comics titles, The Avengers, Iron Man, and Spider-Man.
He served in the British royal air force during World War
II and was its champion boxer. He moved to the United
States where he became manservant to the Starks.
He was considered as the Marvel equivalent of Alfred
from Batman. After the death of Howard and Maria
Stark he served the Avengers and was a father figure for
many of the young Avengers. He is the only one to have
stayed with the Avengers for their entire existence. Tony
Stark also named one of his inventions after him.
Fill in the blank.

The famous youth of Abydos, who, from love of
Hero, the priestess of Aphrodite, in Sestus, swam
every night across the Hellespont, being guided
by the light of the lighthouse of Sestus.
Once during a very stormy night the light was
extinguished, and he perished in the waves. On
the next morning his corpse was washed on the
coast of Sestus, and Hero, on seeing it, threw
herself into the sea.
Who was this famous youth from Greek
mythology, who would be better known to us
Indians for a completely different reason ?

 The story of this machine first began in the 1920s, when the German
military began to communicate in unintelligible coded messages.
The machine enabled its operator to type a message, then
‘scramble’ it using a letter substitution system, generated by
variable rotors and an electric circuit. To decode the message, the
recipient needed to know the exact settings of the wheels. German
code experts added new plugs, circuits and features to the machine
during the pre-war years, but its basic principle remained the same.
 The first people who came close to cracking the German code were
the Polish, who shared their information with the British, who in turn
established the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley
Park in Buckinghamshire. Mathematicians and intelligence experts,
with the help of primitive early computers, began the complex and
urgent task of cracking the eponymous code.
 Name the machine.

 This confectionary is usually made
with condensed milk and sugar. Other
varieties include that of besan, cashew
and pista. It’s name is derived from the
Persian word for ice or snow.
 It came into news for a completely
different reason in 2012.
 What am I talking about?

Easy one. The map shows all the rivers flowing
through Democratic Republic of Congo. Name the one
blanked out which is in the news for all the wrong
reasons

Ebola, virus gets its name from
the name of the river

 The always proper Jackie Kennedy, is said to
have really disliked X, and she made this quite
public. When X was in Washington in 1961,
she was invited to the White House for a state
dinner. Referring to a decision by JFK to
separate the men from the women during
dinner, Jackie said of X: "Well, of course, she
hated that. She liked to be in with the men.
And she is a real prune -- bitter, kind of pushy,
horrible woman. You know, I just don't like her
a bit. It always looks like she's been sucking a
lemon.”

 “As Victor Hugo once said: ‘No power on
earth can stop an idea whose time has
come.’ I suggest...that the emergence of
India as a major economic power in the
world happens to be one such idea. Let the
whole world hear it loud and clear. India is
now wide awake."
 Whose words, trying to persuade a fairly
reluctant bunch of people? A rare assertive
and verbose moment for the person.

This special Oscar, consisting of one big statuette
along with seven small ones, was given to Walt
Disney for best animation film in 1938. What did
each of the seven statuettes represent?

The movie he won this special award for was – Snow White
and the seven dwarfs. Hence each small statuette
represented a dwarf.

Put The Fundaaaaa!!!!!
 27 November 2015…..On this day an unusual
happening is going to take place that has never
happened in 138 long years of history of cricket. Well
, the newer formats are already prior to it..
 But , in the history of cricket , 27 November is being
described as the “saddest day in cricket”. It is so ,
because on this day an unusual happening took
place that shocked the world. Also , it was the first
and only case of it in the “Gentlemen`s Game” of
cricket..Although many happenings took place , but
it is only of its kind..
 Give me the “Unusual Happening” in both the cases..

 First day-night test match between
Australia And New Zealand on the
Adelaide Oval..
 Phillip Hughes`s demise..

 A certain Indian caste gives its name to a kind of tree
as the members of this caste would carry out their
business under the shades of this tree
 The caste also lends its name to an everyday item of
clothing.
 Members of the caste are known for their strict
abstinence from eating meat. This is the reason why
on British navy vessels, from the 16th century to the
19th, when sailors were made to do without meat
one day every week (the measure was intended to
conserve provisions while at sea), such days were
known by a name taken from the name of the caste.
 What caste?

 Baniya caste from which we get banyan
tree, banyan vest. The meatless days on
British navy vessels were known as
banyan days

 According to data collected by The Ocean
Conservancy, this is the most common type
of litter on earth. Collectively, they weigh in
the millions of pounds. Trillions of these are
disposed of yearly, many directly tossed
into the environment.
 Contrary to popular belief, they are not
biodegradable. They are made out of
cellulose acetate, a plastic that takes
several years to degrade. What item is this,
which pollutes the environment when
consumed as well as discarded?

 The phenomenon was discovered by the
French mathematician Fourier, much before it
became common knowledge. He calculated
that an object the size of the Earth, and at its
distance from the Sun, should be considerably
colder than the planet actually was if warmed
by only the incoming solar radiation.
 The name we know it by today was coined by
the scientist in the picture in one of his essays
when talking about the effects of excessive
use of fuel. What phenomenon are we talking
about? Also name the scientist.

 Greenhouse Effect, (Alexander) Graham
Bell

 A 1978 publication by the company that
invented this material explained that the name
was originally intended to be "No-Run" ("run"
meaning "unravel“ or “tear”). But it was
modified to avoid making such an unjustified
claim, since the product was not really run-
proof. Thus the vowels were swapped to
produce "nuron". A final change was
incorporated to make it sound less like a nerve
tonic.
 What material whose folk etymology involving
two cities we're more familiar with?

 Nylon
 Name does not come from New York –
London.

 After partition of India in 1947, Western Punjab,
India's wheat bowl, had gone to Pakistan. A spell of
successive bad monsoons later, there was a severe
food crisis in 1955, reminiscent of the great Bengal
famine.
 This is when India signed a deal with the US to
import their foodgrains. Unbeknownst to India
however , something else is believed to have
entered her shores in large quantities along with
wheat as an adulterant. Today this has spread all
over the country and is a nuisance to crops, cattle
and humans alike, apart from polluting the soil. What
are we talking about that has, over the years,
acquired a nickname after the ruling party in India
when the deal was signed?

 Parthenium, known as Congress hullu in
Kannada
 Parthenium was present in India even
earlier, but its abundance is attributed to
the imported wheat

 The material’s original utility or advantage was its
ability to withstand high temperature.
 During WW1, the British military was trying to find a
better metal for guns. The problem was that barrels
of guns were distorted by the friction and heat of
bullets over repeated firing. Harry Brearley, a
metallurgist at a Sheffield firm, was asked to find
harder alloys.
 In his quest to find the suitable alloy, he discovered
this material by accident. He soon realized that it had
better use elsewhere, not in the field of ammunitions.
He sold it under the name "Rusnorstain" for many
years. What name do we know it by today?

 In the late 1970s, Dragutin Surbek of
Yugoslavia forgot to bring his standard glue
to a tournament. He hustled to a nearby
bicycle shop and purchased an adhesive
that was used for plugging holes in tires.
Surbek used the glue to prepare his
equipment and once play began, he
noticed he could generate greater speed
and spin. The glue gave the rubber on his
playing equipment a trampoline like effect.
Thus the era of speed-glue came about.
What sport?

 When René Descartes was solving an
ancient Greek problem of Pappus of
Alexandria (c. 300 AD), concerning the
locus of a point that moves in such a way
that it always makes fixed angles with a
number of given lines, his approach to the
problem involved drawing two lines of
varied lengths, and then to prove that the
path of the point satisfies an equation.
 The question now is, what did he name the
two lines in his solution?

 x and y
 This is the first recorded instance of
algebra being used in the field of
Geometry.
 In fact, he is said to have invented the
convention of representing unknowns in
equations by x, y, and z, and knowns
by a, b, and c
 The xy-Cartesian coordinates system that
came much later was hence named after
him.

 Humans have over centuries encroached
into and inhabited every terrain, every
landscape. Riverbanks, mountains, desert,
forests, plains etc. But for the past 10,000
or so years, we have not been able to
inhabit tropical rainforests to the same
extent. What according to scientists is the
chief reason for this failure, something that
is the only redeeming quality of the said
reason which otherwise is responsible for
nearly half of all human deaths in the
history of mankind?

 _______ was pioneer brand in the Indian market
and was the first player to provide solution to get
rid of mosquitoes. ________ repellent
dominated around 67% of market till 1994 and
was a generic name in the product category. But
this pioneer brand could not stand against MNC
players. Company failed to upgrade its product in
accordance the market need and total market
share came down to 12% in 2000. Though the
company tried to make a comeback in 2002 with
its Lazor brand of repellants, it wasn't successful
and today the company has all but vanished from
the market.

 He attained the rank of lieutenant in
the Italian Army and of commander in
the Italian Navy. During WW1 he was
placed in charge of the Italian
military's radio service. Who?
 By mid 1920s he had become a very
influential and powerful man in his
country. Who then was the best man
at his wedding in 1927?

 Gugielmo Marconi
 Benito Mussolini

Some say that this was created to help kids
remember the Mediterranean countries; others
say it was to help them remember some of
the participants of WW1. However, whilst being
rather a nice play on words, both seem to be of
dubious credibility as functional mnemonics.
Today only the first two lines remain as a
mnemonic to help locate a European country vis-
à-vis an autonomous island belonging to it.
What am I talking about?

Long legged Italy, Kicked poor Sicily.
The entire rhyme for those interested
Long legged Italy, Kicked poor Sicily.
Right in the middle of the Mediterranean
Sea.
Austria was Hungary, Took a bit of Turkey,
Dipped it in Greece, Fried it in Japan, and
ate it off of China

 In spite of being one of the biggest influences on Chemistry and
on whose work all modern chemistry is based, he didn't receive a
Nobel Prize for his efforts. In 1906, the Nobel committee did
select him to win the honour, but the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences stepped in and overturned this decision.
 The intervention was spearheaded by Swedish chemist Svante
Arrhenius, who’d won the chemistry prize in 1903 for his theory of
electrolytic dissociation. The man in question had been an
outspoken critic of Arrhenius’s theory. Arrhenius saw this as a
perfect opportunity to extract vengeance.
 Name this scientist who predicted the existence a lot of elements
even before they were discovered

 Mendeleev of the periodic table fame

 The founders of Intel, Gordon Moore
and Robert Noyce, initially wanted to
name their company after their
respective last names. This was in line
with the trend in those days. (HP was
named in a similar fashion)
 Why did they then drop this idea and go
with a different name?

 Moore-Noyce would sound like More
Noise, an undesirable feature for any
electronic good

 What change was brought about to the
game of Tennis in the late 70s by one
Jimmy Van Alen to make the game more
TV/audience friendly?

 Who is welcoming whom during the
latter’s visit to Yuri Gagarin centre in
Russia ?

This is how Samosapedia
defines X . What is X here ?
 In essence, X is a tribute to native genius, and lateral thinking. It means "can do." It
means where there's a will, there's a way.
 X is also a locally-made motor vehicle used in small villages as a means of low cost
transportation in rural India. X literally means an improvised arrangement or work-
around, which has to be used because of lack of resources.
 X can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used for solutions that bend
rules, or a resource that can be used as such or a person who can solve a vexatious
issue. It is used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers.
 In essence, X is a tribute to native genius, and lateral thinking. It means "can do." It
means where there's a will, there's a way.
 X is also a locally-made motor vehicle used in small villages as a means of low cost
transportation in rural India. X literally means an improvised arrangement or work-
around, which has to be used because of lack of resources.
 X can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used for solutions that bend
rules, or a resource that can be used as such or a person who can solve a vexatious
issue. It is used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers.

 We all know the tragic story of RMS Titanic
including the love story of Rose and Jack
(which didn’t happen in actual by the way)
 Titanic in all essence was a ocean liner (a ship
designed to transport people from one seaport
to another) but very few know that the letters
‘RMS’ denoted another function that it was
supposed to carry out .
 What was that function ?

Royal Mail Ship
 The R.M.S. Titanic was a Royal Mail Ship, a designation
which meant the Titanic was officially responsible for
delivering mail for the British postal service.
 On board the Titanic was a Sea Post Office with five mail
clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks
were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven
million individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic.
 Interestingly, although no mail has yet been recovered
from the wreck of the Titanic, if it were, the U.S. Postal
Service would still try to deliver it (the USPS because
most of the mail was being sent to the U.S.).

12.An ad by Snickers alluding
to what?
(Clue – Think Football)

Suarez biting Giorgio
Chiellini

 These type of vehicles get their popular English
name from the literal translation of the Japanese
"dangan ressha", indicative of its shape in the
original design and its much talked-about speed.
In Japan, the name for the network of lines
these vehicles run on literally means "new trunk
line".
 Much discussed in India by the new government
this year , what kind of vehicles are these and
what is the Japanese name of the network?

“Bullet Trains” and
“Shinkansen”

. Above is the tweet by the developer of a single -player puzzle
game created in March 2014 .
The game created quite a hysteria and later had plenty of
derived versions.
Which famous puzzle game is this ? (which I am pretty sure you
all must have tried at one point of time on your smart phone :P)

Following are the few among
the many images that went viral
after a certain event in world of
Sports.
 The event was the most discussed
sports game ever on Twitter with over
35.6 million tweets
 Just give me the name of the event.

 This father-daughter duo have two
touristy locations in Bangalore named
after them. Lying on opposite sides of
the same road, one is a planetarium and
the other is a Musical Fountain. Name
both people.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira
Gandhi

 At the centre of what tourist attraction,
first opened in 1992 as the European
branch of a much larger American
attraction, would you find a structure
called ‘Le Château de la Belle au Bois
Dormant’?

Disneyland , Paris
The name translates to “The
Castle of the Sleeping Beauty”

 What is being described? Also, name the author. There are
celebrities – and then there are celebrities. We’ve seen many a
famous face from the wizarding world grace the stands here in
the Patagonian Desert – Ministers and Presidents,
CelestinaWarbeck, controversial American wizarding band The
Bent-Winged Snitches – all have caused flurries of excitement,
with crowd members scrambling for autographs and even
casting Bridging Charms to reach the VIP boxes over the heads
of the crowd. But when word swept the campsite and stadium
that a certain gang of infamous wizards (no longer the fresh-
faced teenagers they were in their heyday, but nevertheless
recognisable) had arrived for the final, excitement was beyond
anything yet seen. As the crowd stampeded, tents were
flattened and small children mown down. Fans from all corners
of the globe stormed towards the area where they were
rumoured to have been sighted, desperate above all else for a
glimpse of the man they still call the Chosen One.

 Quidditch World Cup
 J.K. Rowling

 X is a famous locality in Delhi. The Mela restaurant in the UK has
imitated this place and a popular restaurant group is also trying to copy
the ambience of this place in Bombay. Of the 20 shops present in the
late 1960s (all belonging to branches of the same family), three remain:

 Pt Kanhaiyalal Durgaprasad Dixit (estd 1875),

 Dayanand Shivcharan (estd 1882),

 Pt Baburam Devidayal (estd 1886).
 X derives its name from the one food item it is particularly famous for.
Identify X

Paranthe wali gali
 X was born in Pilani, Rajasthan. Her father worked with the Indian
Army, so she also lived and studied in Bathinda and Patiala.
• In 1994, her father was killed in a terrorist attack in Kashmir. Thereafter,
her mother started living in Delhi-suburb, Noida, where she grew up and
did her schooling from Delhi Public School, Noida.
• After that she studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
University, and started taking part in local theatre.
• Her Cannes' first was with Anurag Kashyap's production Peddlers in
2012, followed by “Y” which was screened at 2013 Cannes Film
Festival.
• X has also appeared in one of Cadbury’s advertisements. She is shown
as eating a Diary Milk Silk while she is stuck in a Traffic Jam.
• Identify X or Y or Both.

 Approximately 80 are randomly selected "at birth"
from thousands and are trained to handle loud
noises, flash photography and large crowds. From
the 80, the 20 largest and best-behaved are chosen
and eventually narrowed down to two finalists.
Because most of these are bred and raised for size
at the expense of longer life, they are prone to health
problems associated with obesity such as heart
disease, respiratory failure and joint damage.
 The finalists for 2013 were named Popcorn and
Caramel, for 2012 were named Cobbler and Gobbler
and for 2011 were named Liberty and Peace.

National Thanksgiving Turkey
Presentation

 The company X had set up a stand at the American
exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Nearby, Nikita
Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon got
into a famous debate. During the heated debate, an
X employee offered Khrushchev their product. Later,
X got exclusive rights to the Soviet market in return
for exclusive distribution rights for Stolichnaya vodka
in the U.S.
 However, due to the limitations of vodka market in
US, Soviet Government gave X 17 submarines, a
cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer which was resold
for scrap.
 Id X.

Life magazine issue of 21 April 1947 carried an article titled
'Princes of India' in which it says:
A few statistics about princes in order. On the average,
each prince
has 11 titles
can wear 3 uniforms
has 5.8 wives (or concubines)
procreates 12.6 children
lives in 5 palaces
dies at the age of 54
owns 9.2 elephants
kills 22.5 Tigers during lifetime
possesses 2.8 specially fitted railway carriages
owns 3.4 Y.
Id Y.

 Kotla Dahar is an ancient lake in Haryana
that seasonally floods. Kotla Dahar is a
closed basin, filled only by rain and runoff
and without outlets. Thus precipitation and
evaporation alone determine its water
volume. During drought, oxygen-16, which
is lighter than oxygen-18, evaporates
faster, so that the remaining water in the
lake and, consequently, the snails' shells,
become enriched with oxygen-18.
 Why was this in news recently?

 A University of Cambridge team found a
spike in Oxygen 18 levels between 4000
– 4200 years ago. This is believed to be
one of the reason behind the doom of
Indus Valley Civilization

 European countries X and Y were created in 90’s.
However, with their similar names often leads to
confusion.
 George W. Bush: “The only thing I know about X is
what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister,
who came to Texas.” – He actually met the Foreign
Minister of Y
 At a news conference in Rome, Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi, introduced Y Prime Minister to the
crowd of journalists. “I’m very happy to be here today
with the Prime Minister of X.”
 Staff of X and Y embassies meet once a month to
exchange wrongly-addressed mail.

 Slovakia rose from the
Czechoslovakia, Slovenia from
Yugoslavia

 Lucky Dragon 5 was a tuna fishing boat,
which was exposed to and contaminated
by nuclear fallout from the United States'
Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on
Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954. Aikichi
Kuboyama, the boat's chief radioman, died
less than seven months later, on
September 23, 1954, suffering from acute
radiation syndrome.
 What, which came out on November 3
1954 and has been around since then, was
partly inspired from the above event?

Godzilla movie`s opening scene

 X was a British surgeon and a pioneer of
antiseptic surgery. By applying Louis
Pasteur's advances in microbiology, he
promoted the idea of sterile surgery.
 Y is a product which is promoted with
the slogan “Kills germs …”. It was
invented in the nineteenth century as
powerful surgical antiseptic. However, it
found success later when it was pitched
as a solution for something else.

X – Joseph Lister , Y - Listerine

 The author described this character as the
way in which Jesus Christ may have
appeared in a fantasy world – mysterious,
benevolent, compassionate and magical.
 The name of this character is the Turkish
word for lion.
 Which character?

Aslan, the lion from Chronicles
of Narnia

 A best-selling author, this
nervous mild mannered
mouse is a resident of New
Mouse City on Mouse Island.
 He is also the journalist and
editor for the fictional
newspaper The Rodent’s
Gazette and keeps getting
involved in adventures with
his sister Thea, cousin Trap
and nephew Benjamin.
 Who?

This is called the Bosphorus Bridge. It is
found in a world capital city and connects
two regions.
Where can you find it OR which regions
does it connect?

Istanbul;it connects Asia and
Europe

What is this dish called?? Use
this movie as a clue..

 This animal of the family Equidae is said to
have directly evolved from the late Eocene
era animal, Mesohippus. This is now a
domesticated animal, and some of its well
known breeds include Mustang,
Appaloosa, Palomino and Clydesdale. The
only wild breed known in existence is the
endangered Przewalski(or Dzungarian),
which is native to the Steppes of Central
Asia. What is the animal?

Horse. Equus is the latin for
horse and hence horse riding is
called Equestrian.

 While still studying at the University of
Austin this man founded ‘PC’s Limited’
with a capital of $1000, operating from
his dorm room at Dobie Center. In 1988
the company changed its name to its
present one. It is currently based at
Round Rock, Texas, USA. Name this
man or tell the current name of this
company.

 Ensemble Studios was the company
that made the popular real time strategy
game Age of Empires. However, in
January 2009 the parent company
disbanded Ensemble Studios. Name this
parent company, whose old logo is
shown below.

 If it’s Jimmy Donal Wales and Lawrence
Mark Sanger for Wikipedia, who is it for
Nupedia?

Jimmy Wales. Nupedia was
Wales’ original concept of free
encyclopedia.

 In 1888, a French publication
erroneously ran the obituary stating that
‘Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The
merchant of death is dead") and went on
to say that he, “…who became rich by
finding ways to kill more people faster
than ever before, died yesterday.“ Which
famous personality am I talking about
here?

Alfred Nobel.
It is believed that this
probably made him to
establish the Nobel Prize.

 This product was designed by a team
headed by Jon Rubinstein. The name of
the product was proposed by Vinnie
Chieco, who was called by the company
to figure out how to introduce the new
product to the public. After Chieco saw a
prototype, he was reminded of a phrase
from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
. The product subsequently derived its
name from the phrase. What’s this now
popular product?

iPod
The phrase is “Open the pod
bay door, Hal!", which refers to
the white EVA Pods of the
Discovery One spaceship.

 According to which comic character did
America gain her independence in
200BC? And in what context did the
character say that?

 Calvin of ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. Here
B.C. stands for Before Calvin. Calvin is
supposed to have born in 1979, while
America got her independence in 1779,
thus 200 B.C.

 When this company lost a patent
infringement suit to a competitor to use
the number ‘5’ on its product in
continuation of a series that had the
numbers 2, 3 and 4 associated with
earlier models, it went on to use the
equivalent Greek number prefixto derive
a word that also stands for strength.
 What company and word?

 Plato is said to have possessed one of
these and used it for signalling the
beginning of his lectures at dawn. The
Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria also
had one, which was water powered, to
announce prayer times. Italian writer Dante
Alighieri described one in 1319. In modern
times, the French inventor Antoine Redier
was the first to patent one in 1847. What
irritating but necessary device, the function
of which is today fulfilled by the mobile
phone?

 Two great players from the 1980s, who
had a fierce rivalry, especially at
Wimbledon. At the 2014 and 2015
Wimbledon finals, both of them again
competed against each other, in a way.
Explain. ( Picture on the next slide)

 Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, were
the coaches of Novak Djokovic and
Roger Federer respectively

 The BJP won the maximum seats in the
2014 Lok Sabha Elections (282),
followed a long way behind by the
Congress (44).
 Which two parties came 3rd and 4th with
37 and 34 seats, and apart from the fact
that they are regional, what is common
to these two parties?

AIADMK AND AITMC
Both led by women

 An actor named Brad Lennon currently
plays the role of ______ ________ in
advertisements worldwide, a role which
was originated in 1963 by Willard Scott. In
2010, the company which owns the ______
________ trademark has been pressured
to retire the character, in order to combat
childhood obesity worldwide. However, the
company stood firm and the ______
________ mascot continues to be used in
advertisements worldwide, including India.
Name the character.

 Over the years, there has been a repeated debate in
Germany as to whether November 9 would make a
suitable national holiday. The reasons given by
proponents of the idea include that the 9th of
November is the date of the end of the Revolution of
1848 and the date of the 1918 abdication of Kaiser
Wilhelm II and declaration of the Weimar Republic,
the first German republic. However, the 9th of
November is also the anniversary of the 1923 Beer
Hall Putsch and the infamous Kristallnacht attacks of
the Nazis in 1938. Finally, as a compromise, the 3rd
of October was finally chosen as a national holiday.
What was the major reason given by those who
wanted the 9th of November to be made a national
holiday?

 This type of construction equipment,
used to lay the foundations to provide
support for buildings and other
structures, has a name that is familiar to
fans of a particular ‘sport’. Which sport
or just give me the name of this
equipment.

This geographical entity is one of the
three largest of its kind along with the
Iberian and the Balkan. Because it is
shaped as such, it is often called Lo
Stivale (The Boot) by local residents.
What are we talking about?

In 1944, when an Axis power favoring committee
won him the Nobel in Chemistry, he did not
acknowledge the contribution of his female
protégé.
However, justice was poetic when the Russians
rejected naming transuranic element 105 after
him and instead named it dubnium, thus ensuring
he’d never have an element named after him,
ever.
His protégé is now immortalized as element 109.
Name this mentor-protégé duo.

Unveiled in 1904, this was erected in the
Andes mountains on the border between
Argentina and Chile to peacefully resolve a
territorial dispute and shares part of its name
with a much larger, more famous monument
in a neighbouring country.
Name the more famous monument.
Image on next slide

Christ the Redeemer at Rio de
Janeiro

5. The winning entry to a 2003 essay writing
competition in USA was by a 9 year old
Arizona resident Sofi Collis. :
“I used to live in an orphanage. It was dark
and cold and lonely. At night, I looked up at
the sparkly sky and felt better. I dreamed I
could fly there. In America, I can make all my
dreams come true. Thank you for the spirit
and the opportunity.”
How was her entry used?

To name the Mars Rovers –
Spirit and Opportunity

7. David Bowie turned it down because it
did not represent what he had been doing
all his life, while John Lennon did the same
since Britain supported America in
Vietnam. Others in the list who followed
suit include Henry Moore, Vanessa
Redgrave and Aldous Huxley.
Which Indian did it in 1919 and what was
his reason?

 TAGORE!
Turned down knighthood protesting
Jallianwallah Bagh massacre

 This place was originally a large swamp
settled by fishermen. In the 14th century
it was known as the "sea town" and the
East India Company laid a claim for it in
1819.
 The present day name came about
when a visiting prince encountered a
strange looking animal, which he
mistook for a lion.
 How do we know this place today?

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