Finals

Finals

• 46 questions• The entire quiz shall function on the “bounce-bounce-

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• Since the QM stinks at math, all scores will be multiples of 5 or 10

• Since the QM suffers from “Answer-Jaldi-De” syndrome, time limit for every question will ideally be 20 secs.

1• The phrase “_____ ___" meant only one thing: a metaphor for

the lost postwar dream, a requiem for the teenage world of innocence, abundance, and supposed unity that accompanied the rock and roll movement of the Fifties. Which is exactly what was intended when the epic 1972 hit was written that bears its name. On one level, it's just a eulogy for three rock stars who happened to crash in a plane back in 1959 (Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper), but it's much more than that: The composer actually spends most of the song's 8:38 length talking about what happened in the decade following the crash; the loss of national identity, the triumph of rock excess and hubris, the gradual unraveling of beliefs. It's a eulogy, but not just for those three men.

A1

• American Pie

2

• What comes next?

A2

• HIMYM title track

3.• No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be

a third person to do it. • Never look at the wives of friends. • Never be seen with cops. • Don't go to pubs and clubs. • Always being available for ______ is a duty - even if your wife's about to give

birth. • Appointments must absolutely be respected. • Wives must be treated with respect. • When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth. • Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families. • People who can't be part of ______: anyone who has a close relative in the

police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

A3

• 10 commandments of the mafia

4

• Whose theme song?

A4

• Cheers

5

– A. Player selects piece and places it in the deepest jungle.

– B. Player rolls dice and moves piece ahead that many spaces.

– C. The first player to reach X and call out its name wins.

– D. Once a game of X has been started, it will not be over until a player has reached The Golden City.

A5

A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles get another turn. The first player to reach the end wins.

Jumanji.

6

• He claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun. He inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass, with three wives for company. In his youth, he studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu and became proficient in alchemy and magic. Later he took up a military profession, combating the Turks across the Danube. He exudes a veneer of aristocratic charm which masks his unfathomable evil.. Who am I talking about?

A6

Count Dracula.

7

• In island countries it is an all purpose boat built by using very few tools. It is used in fishing , inter-island transport, movement of cargo, diving boats, live-aboard cruise vessels, passenger ferry boats and deep-sea fishing craft complete with outriggers and fighting chairs. In India, the "name" is a phenomenon. What is the boat called?

A7

• Dhoni

8• For centuries, Burkittsville has been home to the enduring legend of

the_____ _____. Whenever terrible things happen in the community there is a tendency to blame the ____ _____.

• At the first annual Wheat Harvest Picnic in 1825, ten-year-old Eileen Treacle was seen being pulled into Tappy East Creek by a ghostly white hand reaching out of the water. Her body was never found, and afterwards the creek became contaminated with oily bundles of sticks for thirteen days.

• In 1886, young Robin Weaver alledgedly followed a woman who's feet didn't touch the ground into a house in the woods. A search party was dispatched, but while Robin later returned, the search party didn't. A second search party found the group disemboweled at Coffin Rock. When they returned to the site with help, the bodies had vanished without a trace.

A8

• Blair witch

9

The word was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read, "It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of _____: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand____? One of the most remarkable instances of this was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.“

A9

Serendipity

10

• Dr. Harry Coover said 'If somebody had a chest wound or open wound that was bleeding, the biggest problem they had was stopping the bleeding so they could get the patient back to the hospital. And the consequence was—many of them bled to death. So the medics used the spray, stopped the bleeding, and were able to get the wounded back to the base hospital. And many, many lives were saved.' It was used in the Vietnam War. What was he talking about?

A10

• Superglue

11

• In 1999, AT&T wanted to increase its public awareness. So, their advertising consultants came up with an idea to place their product into a TV programme. What idea and which programme?

A11

• The phone-a-friend in “Who wants to be a millionaire”

12

• In a landmark agreement between US trade Representative Susan Schwab and Minister of Commerce Kamal Nath on April 12 th ,2007,what was allowed access to the Indian Market in exchange for the export of Indian Mangoes to the USA?

A12

• Harley Davidson bikes

13

• Which Hans christina Anderson tale begins with thus “there once was a woman who wanted so very much to have a tiny child,but she did not know where to find one”

A13

• Thumbelina

14

• Whose picture is depicted on a New Zealand 5 dollar note

A14

• Sir Edmund hillary

15

• The name Olympic Goal is used to describe a particular type of goal in football. The name is derived from a goal by the Argentine player Cesáreo Onzari against the then Olympic champions Uruguay at Buenos Aires on October 2, 1924. The legality of this type of goal has been questioned. The most famous instance of this was Celtic's 1950's midfielder Charlie Tully whose goal was disallowed by the referee. However he scored again almost immediately and this time the goal was allowed. How is the goal scored?

A15

• Directly from a corner kick

16

• This term was originally used to refer to galvanized iron in US army inventories and supply records during the First World War. The phrase ‘____ can’ was used to refer to German artillery shells. It was later assumed that it stood for “Government Issue”. The term was later extended to all military equipment and finally to the soldiers themselves. Sometimes its origin has been suggested from “General Infantry” which is incorrect.

A16

• G.I. used as an equivalent of an American Soldier.

17.

A17

• All these guys got Sachin Tendulkar out as their first test victims.Jacob Oram(NZ), Monty Panesar(Eng), Hansie Cronje(SA),Cameron White(Aus), Mark Elham(Eng),Neil Johnson,(Zim),Ruwan Kalpage(SL)

18

• ID the singer

A18

• Rabbi Shergill

19

• Time Cover of which unfortunate catastrophic event?

A19

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine

20

• At Cambridge University, a coffee dispenser used to be kept in a corridor just beside the Trojan Room and people from all over the building used to come and consume coffee at that point. The Trojan room housed the notorious Computer Science Hackers who used to guzzle coffee like there's no tomorrow and so most of the time the other people had to return back disappointed from the dispensing machine after having walked an exhausting floor or two. To put the other guys out of their discomfort, what innovation/first did the Trojan Room inmates come up with in 1991, thereby giving rise to a widespread internet phenomenon today??

A20

• Webcam

21

• What are they doing?

A21

• Drone control

22

• How is this author better known as?

A22

• George Orwell

23

• Statistically, X is the world's most popular transportation company. It is estimated that the equivalent of the world's population travel in X every three days. According to United Technologies, X carry the equivalent of the world's population every nine days.

What are we talking about?

A23

• OTIS elevators

24

• Ad for?• Look at the date.

A24

Gillete,sponsoring the FIFA world cup since 1982

25

• What?

A25

• PlayBoy in Braille for Blind.

26• X is depicted as a young, athletic woman of white British descent.

She has brown eyes and long brown hair that is often in a plait and sometimes in a ponytail.

• She is rumored to have been born on February 14, 1968. However, Eric Lindstrom stated in a BBC interview that she is "6 months younger than James Bond", she "transcends time [and] space", and "has her own world".

• X's classic costume consists of a blue/green sleeveless shirt, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, long white socks, fingerless gloves, a small backpack, and a utility belt with two holsters.

• Who is X?

A26

• Lara Croft

27.

Inspiration for what?

A27

• Division bell,Pink Floyds album

28.

• Claim to fame

A28

• Smoke on the water was inspired from this.

29

• Advertiser

A29

30.

• Connection?

A30.

• The Twilight SeriesEach book in the series was inspired specifically by a literary classic: Twilight by Jane Austen's (pic1) Pride and Prejudice; New Moon by Shakespeare's (pic3) Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse by Emily Brontë's (pic2) Wuthering Heights; and Breaking Dawn's theme by two further plays of Shakespeare's, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

• Yes,there is more to that series than that pale Vampire :P

31

What is this drawing called?

A31

• The Vitruvian dude

32

• The album artwork process was led by Chris Bilheimer and is based on a work from artist Sixten, who confirmed that the couple on the

cover were "just friends of a friend at a party in Eskilstuna, Sweden" and explained that a mutual

friend snapped a picture of the pair kissing. He added, "I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to spread the love."

• Which album am I talking about?

A32

33

• Vikram – Salman Khan• R. Madhavan – R. Madhavan• Joseph Vijay – Salman Khan• Kamal Hasan – Anil Kapoor• Kamal Hasan – Govinda• Rajnikanth – Jeetendra• Kamal hasan – amitabh bachchan• Rajkumar – Anil Kapoor• Surya - ___________PS list not exhaustive..and not in order either. Try connecting

the names individually.

A33

List of Tamil movies remade into Hindi• Vikram – Salman Khan (Tere Naam)• R. Madhavan – R. Madhavan (Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein)• Joseph Vijay – Salman Khan (Wanted)• Kamal Hasan – Anil Kapoor (Virasat)• Kamal Hasan – Govinda (Biwi No.1)• Rajnikanth – Jeetendra (khudgarz)• Kamal hasan – amitabh bachchan (Akhree Raasta)• Rajkumar – Anil Kapoor (Beta) • Surya – Aamir Khan (Ghajini)

34

X was born in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania on December 13. When in fourth grade,X won a national poetry contest with a three-page poem titled "Monster In My Closet". Forbes ranked X as 2009's 69th-most powerful celebrity with earnings of $18 million. In January 2010 Nielsen SoundScan lists X as the top-selling digital artist in music history with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold to date. X is also ranked in the Top 10 for the most MySpace visits for all genres of music.

ID X.

A34

• Taylor Swift

35.

• X is an Ayurvedic herbal preparation, whose formula is found in the Charaka Samhita.

• X is called an avaleha in Sanskrit, and has the consistency of jam, with a sweet, sour and mildly pungent taste.

• X, when prepared properly does not have an expiry date.

• X originally contained 48 ingredients including Ghee, sesame oil, sugar, honey, Indian Gooseberry and medicinal herbs like Bamboo manna, Pippali, Haritaki, Guduchi, Punarnava, Musta and Bilva.

A35

• Chyawanprash

36

• In Spain, the church used to commission architects to make statues. The statues often carried mistakes by artists in the form of cracks, dents etc... the artists used to cover these mistakes up by using wax, or _____ as the Spaniards used to call it... now here comes the catch. the statues which were blemish less was not treated with wax. What was the name given to this class of statues? The name went on to English with similar implications.

A36

• Sincere• Sin cerameans without wax

37

• The Assize of Bread and Ale was a 13th-century statute instituted during the reign of Henry III that set standards of quality, measurement, and pricing for bakers and brewers. It was the first law in British history to regulate the production and sale of food. Those who were found to have shortchanged customers were liable to severe punishment like losing a hand to an axe. What practice began as a guard against this punishment?

A37

• Baker's dozen. The practice of baking 13 items for an intended dozen was to prevent "short measure", on the basis that one of the 13 could be lost, eaten, burnt, or ruined in some way, leaving the baker with the original dozen.

38

• The term found art or _______ describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Marcel Duchamp coined the term _______ in 1915 to describe his found art. In 1936 André Breton, defined _______ as "manufactured objects raised to the dignity of works of art through the choice of the artist.“ Which term now used in the garment industry?

A38

• Ready mades

39

• This is the only Shakespearean play to bear a subtitle. The full title is _______, or What You Will. It is a reference to the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany (January 6), formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking. Servants often dressed up as their masters, men as women and so forth. This is the cultural origin of the twin-based comedy of cross-dressing and mistaken identity.

A39

• Twelfth Night. January 6 is the twelfth day after Christmas

40.

• Comic on what?

A40

• Wikipedia

41

• Oxford dictionary meaning : Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derogatory): implying that another person has said or done something foolish. X utters it when he injures himself, realizes that he has done something stupid, or when something bad has happened or is about to happen to him. During the voice recording session for a Tracey Ullman Show short, X was required to utter what was written in the script as an "annoyed grunt.” X and the word..

A41

• Doh!! Homer Simpson

42.

• _______ is a colloquial term for a planet that falls within a star's habitable zone, often specifically used for planets close to the size of Earth. They are of key interest to researchers looking either for existing (and possibly intelligent) life or for future homes for the human race, one that is neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out life. The name arises from the fact that they’re not extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is "just right".

A42

• Goldilocks planet

43

• The ______ family were prominent members of Quakers. As nonconformists they were not permitted to enter Universities, hence they concentrated on Business and Social reforms. In 1831 a small factory, an old malt house in Crooked Lane, Birmingham, was rented by John ______ and he started manufacturing Cocoa as an alternative to Alcohol, as he thought that it was one of the causes of poverty and misery among the working classes

A43

• Cadbury

44

A44

• Playboy centerfolds

45

Farokh Bulsara, son of Bomi and Jer Bulsara,Parsis from the Gujarat region of

the then province of Bombay Presidency in British India, was born in Zanzibar

on 5 September 1946. However he became more famous by a nickname he

got at school. Infact there is now a rose named after the nickname who??

A45

• Freddie Mercury

46

• I have many stories written about me. There are many versions of the same story, but all of them tell about how I trapped the devil though no one knows the real version. My name comes from the terms “Ignis Fatuus”(The phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs) and “Will of the wisp”. Who am I?

A46

• Jack-o-lantern