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ELECTRA GENERAL QUIZ - RAJARSHI
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• 1. 12 QUESTIONS, DIRECT/PASS – +10/-0 +5/-0
• 2. BLIND SHOT +10/-10
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• In Norse mythology, a/an X (meaning "chooser of the
slain") is one of a host of female figures who decide
which soldiers die in battle and which live. Selecting
among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to
the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the Xs
bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain,
Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin.
• Who are they?
• (pic on the next slide)
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• Agnolo Firenzoula was an Italian poet. In Della
perfetta (Of the Perfect beauty of a woman) he
advised the following to noble women:
• Close the mouth at the right corner with a suave and
nimble movement, and open it at the left side, as if
you were smiling secretly - not in an artificial manner,
but as though unconsciously - this is not affectation,
if it is done in moderation and in a restrained and
graceful manner and accompanied by innocent
coquetry and certain movements of the eyes.
• What was he advising noble women on?
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• ________ came to India with the British Army; end of World
War I saw Indian soldiers of British Indian Army bringing it
back with them as a diet supplement. A lot of well-to-do Indian
families took to drinking ________ in early 1940s and 1950s
and it became a sort of status symbol in upper middle class
and the rich classes.
• It is currently the most widely consumed packaged beverage
in India, after bottled water.
• William ________, the patent holder of the drink, has a
mountain range in Antarctica named after him because not
only did he support the expeditions financially, but his product
also provided a non-perishable source of nutrition to the
explorers.
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• Yen Sid Retlaw is the name
of a powerful wizard in the
sequence ‘Sorceror’s
Apprentice’ from ‘Fantasia’
• Mickey Mouse is a student of
Yen sid in the show.
• Who was the inspiration
behind the name and facial
characteristics of Yen Sid
Retlaw ?
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• Walter Disney spelled backwards is Yensid Retlaw.
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• Until the beginning of the 20th century, the practice of
cremation was illegal in England because of the
perception that it was an “un-christian” act. In 1874, the
editor of the Punch magazine and several others
notables formed the “Cremation Society of England” to
campaign for legalization. The editor died soon
afterwards, but his body couldn’t be cremated despite his
wishes. His son was very disappointed with the
government’s refusal to grant permission. The son’s most
famous work is now regarded as a subtle effort to support
the cause. The work came out around the same time that
another petition for the right of cremationhad been
submitted to the government. Although this famous effort
did not help the legalization struggle too much, it is an
enduring image in a different field.ELECTRA GENERAL QUIZ - RAJARSHI
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• The Silk Road is a online black market which was
launched in Feb’11. It can be accessed only via the
anonymizing network TOR. Users can browse it
anonymously and securely without potential traffic
monitoring. All transactions happen through bitcoins.
• The site’s terms of service say that they prohibit the sale
of “anything who’s purpose is to harm or defraud.” This
includes child pornography, stolen credit cards,
assassinations and weapons of mass destruction.
• What is this online market for?
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• This famous book starts off thus :
• “ Proxility is not alien to us in India. We are able
• to talk at some length. Krishna Menon’s record
• of the longest speech ever delivered at the
• United Nations (nine hours non-stop), has not
• been equaled by anyone from anywhere.
• Other peaks of loquaciousness have been
• scaled by other Indians. We do like to speak.’’
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• In London’s Hyde Park there is a war monument with the
inscription- ‘They had no choice’
• What/Who is this memorial dedicated to?
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• In latin this word means an animal used for breeding.
• In geology it is the natural material surrounding a metal
or gem.
• The most common use of the word, however is in
mathematics.
• Also appearing in the title of a film with unique special
effects, which word?
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• HARRY POTTER FOOD
• 18+ CRICKET
• AALBAAL SPORTS &
GAMES
• CARS BIZ
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• Popular swear word. Non
derogatory a multipurpose word
that can be used to express ones
feelings of different sort, in
different moments to increase the
gravity of the situation. What is
being spoken about in
samosapedia?
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• KELA, the most versatile Assamese word
• Usage
• 1. To address a buddy: Oi kela (means: hey buddy?)
2. Anger: toi ki korili kela (What would u do Kela?)
3. Exclamation: Oye Kela !!
4. Fear: Etia ki koru kela? (What will i do now kela?)
5. Love and emotions: I love you Kela ! you are my best
friend Kela.
6. Sadness: I failed Kela.
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• This is Mark Felt, an ex-FBI
Agent. After denying his
involvement with reporters
Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein for 30 years, Felt
revealed himself to be the
Watergate Scandal’s
whistleblower, “____ ____,”
on May 31, 2005.
• What was the nickname
given to the famous
whistleblower, named after a
famous 1972 pornographic
movie?
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• The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled
surface shaped like a saddle. In a suitable coordinate
system, a hyperbolic paraboloid can be represented by
the equation below.
• For c>0, this is a hyperbolic paraboloid that opens down
along the x-axis and up along the y-axis (i.e., the
parabola in the plane x=0 opens upward and the
parabola in the plane y=0 opens downward).
• The shape allows product to be securely stacked in a
canister to prevent breakage during packaging and
transport(pic next slide)
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• Next time you watch "The Deathly Hallows", be aware of
the scene following the Battle of Little Whinging as
people come together following the death of Alastor
Moody. There are 13 who gather in the borrow. The first
to rise and offer to find the body is Remus Lupin.
• Later, Lupin is killed by Dolohov during the Battle of
Hogwarts.
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• Prof. Trelawney's prophesies where she stated in the
third book. “when 13 dine together, the first to rise will be
the first to die”
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• Richard St John Harris (1 October 1930
– 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor,
singer, theatrical producer, film director
and writer. He appeared on stage and in
many films, and is perhaps best known for
his role as Frank Machin in This Sporting
Life. He is also known for playing King
Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot and the
subsequent 1981 revival of the show.
• Harris was a member of the Roman
Catholic Knights of Malta, and was also
dubbed a knight by the Queen of
Denmark in 1985.
• Why is he being talked about in a hp
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When this famous billionaire appeared for a
job interview with the Dunder Mufflin Paper
Company this year, these were lines spoken
by him-
"Can you do any better on salary? What
about mileage when I use my car? I mean,
gas ain't cheap you know. [They offer him
$0.25 per gallon.] How about 27 cents per
gallon?" "And when I make long distance
calls, will they be monitored? Or is it on the
honor system?"
Who was this billionaire?
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• Sometime in the 80s. X, Vinay Badami and
B.R.Srikanth were playing a cricket match at
Mandya (Near Mysore) when X was almost
assaulted by some spectators becoz a local
batsman was struck in face by a bouncer he
had bowled.
• As concerned friends following this incident,
Badami and srikanth gave X an advice.
However X payed heed to that advice only
after he was called for chucking in a local
match. X came home seething with rage, and
was given the same advice by his Dad and
elder brother.
• And the rest they say is history…
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• Left is a comic strip about the game
Tetris. It is titled ‘A’.
• Right is an actual game made by a fan,
titled ‘B’.
• Seeing what’s happening in the two
images, deduce the two names.
• No part points.
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• Fears concerning the potential of the Large Hadron Collider to end
the Earth -- once dismissed as naive -- were nearly made manifest,
when a crowbar-wielding hero was forced to repel an alien invasion
brought through a temporal vortex that was accidentally opened by
the mammoth doomsday machine.
• Ok, that actually didn’t happen. Since there was some concern at
the time about the potential of the Large Hadron Collider to explode
the world, the bloggers at Reddit took the necessary precautions by
sending this researcher a few safety tools: a crowbar, a headcrab
hat, and a _______ strategy guide. Not only did he receive this
survival package, but it seems he put it to fantastic use.
• So, why was this CERN researcher made famous by the Internet?
Looking for specific keywords
• (Image in next slide)
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• There are many companies that would love to
hate Microsoft.
• The principal enemies of Microsoft are
commonly referred to as NOISE.
• If N stands for Netscape, O for Oracle, I for
IBM, S for Sun Microsystems, what does E
stand for?
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• A Facebook/Twitter chatwala, the
famous Google Gola and ________ has
trumped them all with a real _______
nagar in UP. That is, ________ has
adopted a village called Shiv Nagar, in
Uttar Pradesh. In appreciation of
__________’s efforts for Shiv Nagar, the
residents have decided to rename the
village to “____________ Nagar”. Pic in
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• 1. Direct +10/-0
• 2. Pass +5/-0
• 3. Blind shot : +10/-10
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• In India, the construction of the extraordinarily beautiful
skyscraper, scheduled for completion in 2014 year. Tower “X ",
which will combine the business center, a hotel and a
shopping and entertainment complex, graced the fifth largest
metropolis of the world - the city of Mumbai According to the
architects who worked on the design of the building, the
majestic skyscraper symbolizes the traditional Indian culture. A
flowery patterns that adorn the exterior of a building, borrowed
from the tradition of mehndi, which is very common in India,
the Arab world and North Africa. As expected, the Royal and
Presidential suites will be among some of the most luxurious
of all of the world. When developing unusual relief of the future
skyscraper experts relied on the prospects of the flow of the
windGo preparatory work before construction of the foundation
of the future skyscraper “X", Mumbai, India. (pic on next slide)
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• Ahsanullah Moni, a bangladeshi filmmaker spent $58
million to build this near Dhaka. It was completed in 2009
and Indian officials threatened to sue for copyright
infringement of the original 350 year old building.
• Now there is one being built in Dubai, by Link Global Ltd.
Spread across 200,000 sq mt, it will be designed based
on era of original but include a 300 room luxury hotel,
mall and cocktail bars. Will open by 2016.
• Indian officials have dismissed the fact that this
development will have any economic impact on India.
• What is all this about?
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• One of the founders of the company was
Padmshree recipient N.N Mohan. His son Col.
V.R. Mohan took over the company in 1969.
• While on a trip to Europe, Col. Mohan
discovered that the monasteries there had
perfected the art of making __________.
• Hence, on his return to India, he launched the
brand X, and named it in honor of the priests
in those monasteries.
• The rest, as they say, is history…
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. is an
American astrophysicist and science
communicator. In 2006, he started
receiving lots of angry letters from third
graders, for a decision that he took.
Some of those letters are reproduced in
the book “The_____ Files: The Rise and
Fall of America’s Favourite __________”
• What was this controversial decision
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• The term __X__ was coined by the American writer O.
Henry to describe the fictional "Republic of Anchuria" in
the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), a collection of
thematically related short stories inspired by his
experiences in Honduras.
• __X__ is a political science term for a politically unstable
country whose economy is largely dependent on the
export of a single limited-resource product, such as fruits
or minerals.
• The history of the first __X__ begins with the introduction
of the ____ to the USA in 1870, by Lorenzo D. Baker,
captain of the ship, The Telegraph. He initially bought __
in Jamaica and sold them in Boston at a 1,000 percent
profit.
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• Other kids' games are all such a
bore!
They've gotta have rules and they
gotta keep score!
__X__ is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always
bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it'sELECTRA GENERAL QUIZ - RAJARSHI
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• No one knows what he looks like,
because not a single portrait of him
exists.
• His marriage to Anne Hathaway was
probably forced, as she was 3 months
pregnant when they got married.
• Many authorities believe he wasn’t even
the creator of his own works, and no
proof exists to prove otherwise.
• Who am I talking about?
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• The site was identified by Soviet scientists in
1971. While drilling, large quantities of
methane gas were released, creating an
environmental problem and posing a
potential danger to the people of the nearby
villages.
• Fearing the release of further poisonous
gases from the cavern, the scientists decided
to burn it off. At that time, expectations were
that the gas would burn within days, but it is
still burning, four decades after it was set on
fire.
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The OLD magazines renewed :P
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RULES:
1. For each right answer, +5/-0
2. For connect in 1st clue, +30/-15
3. For connect in 2nd clue, +25/-12.5
4. For connect in 3rd clue, +20/-10
5. For connect in 4th clue, +15/-7.5

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• This is one in a series of vintage ads for current websites
as imagined by Brazilian advertising agency Moma.
• the ads were designed for an upcoming media seminar
with the overall theme of "what's new today, is old
tomorrow", so they retro stylized Facebook, Youtube and
Skype (and Twitter, not in English).
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• Maximum 3
tries
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RULES:
1. For each right answer, +5/-0
2. For connect in 1st clue, +60/-30
3. For connect in 2nd clue, +55/-30
4. For connect in 3rd clue, +50/-25
5. For connect in 4th clue, +45/-25

• 1. Hu Jintao- Paramount Leader(China)
• 2. Nicolas Sarkozy- President(France)
• 3. Benjamin Netanyahu- PM(Israel)
• 4. Lee Myung Bak- President(S.Korea)
• 5. Ahmed Al Tayeb- Grand Imam
• 6. Mahmoud Abbas- President(Palestine)
• 7. Pope Benedict XIV
• 8. Kim Jong Il- Supreme Leader(N.Korea)
• 9. Angela Merkel- Chancellor(Germany)
• 10. Hugo Chavez- President(Venezuela)
• 111. Barack Obama- President(USA)
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