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3. 20 Questions
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7. QM’s decision is final and binding
5. Q. What phrase ?
• In later Vedic texts and modern literature dedicated to Indian
traditions, X connotes a "magic show, an illusion where things appear
to be present but are not what they seem”. X is also a spiritual
concept connoting "that which exists, but is constantly changing and
thus is spiritually unreal", and the "power or the principle that
conceals the true character of spiritual reality".
• It has given birth to a popular phrase ___ ___ X ___ .
This phrase is often heard after exams and placements
8. Q. Connect & FITB
• American Cotton Oil Company
• American Sugar Company,
• American Tobacco Company
• Chicago Gas Company
• Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company
• Laclede Gas Company
• National Lead Company
• North American Company
• Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
• U.S. Leather Company
• United States Rubber Company
• _______ ________
9.
10. ANSWER
• Connect : Original 12 companies of the Dow
• Blank : General Electric , only company to remain till date
11. Q. Why is she famous ?
• Margarete Zimmer was born on June 5, 1924 to a Jewish family in Wiener
Neustadt, Austria. At age 15, Zimmer emigrated from Nazi-controlled Austria in
1939 with her sisters. Zimmer took classes at the Fashion Institute of
Technology (FIT) and did some work in toy design and dolls' clothes as well as
maintaining an interest in the theater while still doing her dental assistant work.
• She is famous for something she did on 14th August 1945 in New York City.
Numerous forensic anthropologists and facial recognition experts were required
to verify her identity on that Very Joyous Day.
• Friedman died at age 92 on September 8, 2016, in Richmond, Virginia. She is
buried beside her late husband infantryman Mischa Elliott Friedman at Arlington
National Cemetery.
14. Q. Which idiom ?
• ___ _____ ___ (1714) (1 Geo.1 St.2 c.5) was an Act of the Parliament of
Great Britain that authorized local authorities to declare any group of
twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to
disperse or face punitive action.
• To this day many jurisdictions that have inherited the tradition of English
common law and Scots law still employ statutes that require police or
other executive agents to deliver an oral warning, much like ___ ____ ___,
before an unlawful public assembly may be forcibly dispersed.
• This gave rise to an English idiom.
17. Q. Name the tune/FITB
• This quick march was composed by L.B.Gurung as a tribute to X the
hero of the 1971 war. X had commanded a few Gorkha units, and was
affectionatley called ___ _______ by them. X was a General for a brief
period of time.
23. Q. Who is X?
• X is a Japanese comedian, television personality,
director, actor, author, and screenwriter.
• He has received critical acclaim for his idiosyncratic
cinematic work, winning numerous awards with
Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa having once
dubbed him "the true successor" to influential
filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
• While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV
host in his native Japan, abroad he is known
exclusively for his film work.
• In India we’ve encountered him during our childhood
26. Q. X & Y ?
• Kenji is a song written by artist X (musician, rapper, singer,
songwriter) that details his fathers experiences during WWII in the
United States.
• The song focus on the events of Y , a period of extreme "race
prejudice , war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership” in the
United States. Y was such a despicable event that Ronald Regan
signed into law The Civil Liberties Act (1988) that apologized for this
period.
27.
28. ANSWER
• X : Mike Shinoda /Fort Minor
Y : Internment of Japanese Americans
29. Q. FITB
• _______ is an ancient prayer in Aramaic.
• The literal translation of this word may be Holy/ Holy Praise / Divine Praise.
• This prayer is chanted even to this day in the Syro-Malabar Catholic
Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Syrian Malabar
Nasrani people from Kerala, South India.
• It was brought back into the mainstream of India in 2000 by a certain group
of people.
32. Q. What were the gifts ?
• Sir Henry Mortimer ______ was a British diplomat and civil servant of
colonial British India. He gave the Indian subcontinent two very different
gifts.
• The first gift came in 1888 out of a realization he had while recovering from
illness in Shimla. He realized that sports helps maintain ones health and
instituted a prize to encourage sports in India. Originally limited to the
Army ,it was soon expanded to civilians and its present winners are
Salgaocar.
• The second gift , given in 1893 greatly divided Pashto tribes and was made
a commitment by Britian to limit its interference in the region. This gift
was inherited by Pakistan later in the 20th century.
35. Q. ID X
• X an Indian parliamentarian, social
reformer of the country who served as the
chairman of the Second Backward Classes
Commission.
• He was a big landlord from Saharsa from
Bihar and also served as the Chief Minister
of the state for 30 days in 1968.
• His committees findings brought about a
general change in India’s socio-political
climate.
38. Q. Funda ?
• The algebra has a devil for a sidekick eeeeeeeeee....
• Donald Duck took my chances
• Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Kat
• Here we are now, in containers.
• Got my first real sex dream, I was 5 at the time.
39.
40. ANSWER
• Misheard Lyrics
1. The algebra has a devil for a sidekick eeeeeeeeee
-> Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me. ( Bohemian Rhapsody )
2. Donald Duck took my chances
-> Did my time , took my chances . ( Eye of the Tiger )
3. Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Gotta Kit-Kat Kat
-> Gotta get that Gotta get that Gotta get that Gotta get that that that (Boom Boom Pow )
4. Here we are now , in containers
-> Here we are now , entertain us. (Smells like Teen Spirit)
5. Got my first real sex dream, I was 5 at the time.
-> Got my first real six string , bought it at the five-and-dime ( Summer of 69 )
41. Q. ID X
• The biochemical mechanism of action of X is not well understood. To induce
_________, X have myriad sites of action and affect the central nervous
system (CNS) at multiple levels. Common areas of the central nervous system
whose functions are interrupted or changed during general anesthesia include
the cerebral cortex, thalamus, reticular activating system, and spinal cord.
• X has many purposes, including:
Analgesia (loss of response to pain)
Amnesia (loss of memory)
Immobility (loss of motor reflexes)
Hypnosis (unconsciousness)
Paralysis (skeletal muscle relaxation)
44. Q. Identify the social experiment
• X is a "social experiment" and channel on the video streaming website Twitch, consisting of
a crowdsourced attempt to play Y by parsing commands sent by users through the channel's chat room.
• Users could also append their movements with numbers to specify the length of the motion, such as "right3"
to mean three consecutive "right" inputs. Many people were outraged over this new system and protest
broke out in the Twitch chat, many of them using the command "start9" (which would open and close the
pause menu nine times to slow down progress) to fight the system.
• The broadcaster later reworked the mechanic so that users could vote to switch between two modes:
"Anarchy", the previous default, and this new mode "Democracy.” However, a change to Democracy mode
requires a supermajority vote, while a change to Anarchy mode requires only a majority vote, as indicated by
an on-screen meter.
• The game Y was completed after 16 days of continuous gameplay with a concurrent viewership of 80,000
reaching a peak of 1.6 million people.
47. Q. Identify this personality
• She is widely known due to a
particular director and a tribute
he gave to her.
• The director won the Filmfare
Award for Best Feature Film in
2005 and has judged the TV
Show Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa.
• He is also an alumnus of the Film
and Television Institute of India
56. Q. ID X
• There are several legends about how X came into being.
• Chapters 11–14 of the Skanda purana (also known as the Kaveri purana) relate many of them.
According to the most well known version, when the great ocean was churned by the devas and
the asuras in order to obtain amrita, the elixir of life, Lord Vishnu turned into Mohini, a non-pareil
of infinite charm and appeal, to distract the asuras and restore the elixir to the devas. Goddess
lakshmi also sent along Lopamudre, an apsara to assist Mohini.
• After the elixir was successfully restored to the devas Lopamudre was brought up by Brahma as
his daughter.
• After some time Y, a sage of renown, came to the Brahmagiri to meditate. Y was lonely and
prayed to Lord Brahma that he might bless him with a child. Brahma was pleased by his devotion
and gave him Lopamudre for a daughter. Lopamudre was renamed X after the sage.
59. Q. FITB
• ______ _______ (born 12 July 1952) is a Criminal lawyer practising in New
Delhi. He was designated Senior Advocate by Supreme Court of India at 34.
He has the distinction of being India's youngest ever Advocate General at
34 and Governor of a State at 37 years of age.
• During emergency, he defended George Fernandes in the famous Baroda
dynamite case along with his future wife.
• Although he has been a Member of Parliament , his wifes tenure as a
Member of Parliament and as India’s youngest cabinet minister is more
widely known.
