Kartik Madan (17-10-2016)

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ROUND 1THE GENERAL

1. What is being talked about?

Apple AirPods

2.What does the logo of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited convey about Reliance India’s earlier endeavors?

For Reliance, Data Is The New Oil, Says Mukesh Ambani About Jio

3.The name of the country X means ‘The Lion City’ is a misnomer as recent studies indicate that lions have never lived there; the beast seen by X's 13th century founder, the Srivijayan Sang Nila Utama, was most likely a tiger, probably the Malayan tiger.

Singapore

4.X was born in 1833 and has an element in the periodic

table named after him. In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig caused several

newspapers to publish obituaries of X in error. A French obituary stated "Le marchand de la mort est mort" ("The merchant of death is dead").

As the popular legend goes, after reading this news, X unbeknownst to his family, friends or colleagues, left most of his wealth in trust, in order to fund a popular award. He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

Alfred Nobel

5.

X in an interview defended the fair play for Cuba Committee for which he was a member. He said:

“The fact that I did, ah, live for a time in the Soviet Union, gives me excellent qualifications to ah, repudiate charges that Cuba [and the Fair Play For Cuba] committee is communist controlled.”

The words “and the Fair Play For Cuba” when reversed describe an act, Y, that he actually did commit on 22nd November, 1963.

Who is being talked about and what was the act?

X – Lee Harvey OswaldY – Assassination of JFK. “and the Fair Play For

Cuba” when reversed sounds like “I wish to Kill President”.

6. The X warning, which can also be referred to as the X rights, is a

right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.

However, media in the US have always propagated myths about the same. One typical example is Y released in 2012. In the movie, the lead pair catch a break when they arrest Domingo (DeRay Davis), the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they failed to read him his X rights.

X - Miranda RightsY - 21 Jump Street

7. For publicity, many Indian movies have tried attempting to

break the world record for making the largest ever poster. Many movies achieved this feat like Boss in 2013. X released in 2015 as a sequel for a movie released the

same year. It broke the record of Bahubali’s poster (4645.152 sq. meters ) at 5969 sq. meter but it was short-lived as it was eventually broken.

Now the record is held by Generation Grundeinkommen (which means ‘Generation Basic Income’) which created the Largest poster ever in Geneva, Switzerland, measuring a staggering 8,115.53 m² (87,354.84 ft²). 

MSG 2 Poster

8. X was born in 1889 and was an American mechanical engineer

and chemist who is said to be the worst inventor of all times. He synthesized the first CFC for which he awarded the Perkin Medal which was eventually shown to harmful to ozone.

X working along with General Motors patented a process Y that prevented "knocking" in internal combustion engines. X was awarded Nichols Medal for this invention. This invention proved consequential.

J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, opined that X "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history.“

Identify X and Y.

X – Thomas Midgely Jr. Y – Addition of Tetraethyl lead to

gasoline

9.X is a practice that is followed primarily in the

Indian subcontinent and its origins and reasons for its existence are debated.

However, the most commonly accepted reason might be that this form of punishment started in ancient times by teachers and doing so is a way of expressing guilt.

Another reason might be that mutilation was practiced by ancient rulers and practicing that on oneself followed.

Holding one’s ears apologetically.

Dahala Khagrabari (#51) was an Indian enclave belonging to the District of Cooch Behar in the State of West Bengal. It was the only third-order enclave in the world until 1 August 2015, when it was ceded to Bangladesh. What does third-order enclave mean? Give Funda.

10.

It was a piece of land of India within Bangladesh, within India, within Bangladesh.

ROUND 2THE SPORTING FUNDA

CONNECT

Sports in which India has won Olympic Medals in. Since 1900 to Rio, 2016.

Whenever the footballer X plays, the crime rates for crimes like Carjacking, mugging and robberies in his home country are said to be at record lows and many have said that this might be because the criminals take a break to watch the national hero play.

Not only that, but during the times he’s playing, there is also an increase in birthrates.

Who is X? Bonus for X’s nickname.

Javier Hernández, Chicharito

In 1998, a football match was played in in the eastern province of Kasai Democratic Rupublic of Congo was suddenly disrupted when a lightening strike killed some of the players.

Bena Tshadi were drawing 1-1 with visitors Basanga when the lightening struck.

Although lightemimg strikes during football matches are common, this one was of particularly unique. Immediately after, accusations of witchcraft arose. What was so unique about this event?

All 11 players killed were from the same team and the other team members returned unhurt.

Why is the game of cricket depicted in this poster of importance?

The only match of cricket ever played in Olympics at the 1900 Summer Games between Great Britain and France.

ROUND 3THE ‘ENT’ MAN

Where would you find the following characters?

Pavitr PrabhakarMeera JainAuntie MayaUncle Bhim

Marvel Comics’ Spider Man India released in 2004.

CONNECT Richard Rodgers Helen Hayes Rita Moreno John Gielgud Audrey Hepburn Marvin Hamlisch Jonathan Tunick Mel Brooks Mike Nichols Whoopi Goldberg Scott Rudin Robert Lopez

People who have won the ETOG, i.e. having won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony and an Emmy.

For the first time in its history, The Oscars in 2016 cut short the time taken in acceptance speeches by displaying dedications on an on-screen ticker, rather than read by the winner. This was done as the show is telecasted live.

But the record for the longest acceptance speech is held by X at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes. It was shortly after this incident that the Academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit.

Greer Garson winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942).

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on 13th October, 2016. But he is among the two people who have won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. This feat is shared by X.

X born in 1856 was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, X became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

George Bernard Shaw

CONNECT :Man with a PlanWeb TherapyThe People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime StoryCougar TownThe Odd Couple30 Rock

TV Shows where the Friends’ Stars have appeared

Man with a Plan – Matt LeBlanc Web Therapy – Lisa Kudrow The People v. OJ Simpson American: Crime Story – David

Schwimmer Cougar Town – Courtney Cox The Odd Couple – Matthew Perry 30 Rock – Jennifer Aniston

Connect

Hulk Mr. Fantastic Invisible Woman Doctor Strange Spider Man Lizard Cyclops

Characters from Marvel Universe having first and last name starting with the same letter.

ROUND 4THE BIZ FIX

X owns the copyrights to “Happy Birthday,” so it’s technically owed royalties every time a person sings it to someone on their big day.

Identify X.

Warner Bros

Fredric John Baur (June 14, 1918 – May 4, 2008) was an American chemist and food storage technician notable for designing and patenting the Pringles packaging.

When he passed away in 2008, he achieved perfect closure by his own invention as stated in his will. What was done that was stated in his will?

His ashes were buried in a Pringles Can.

X is a product whose name represents the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate's president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product.

Y is one of the variants of X and was banned in 1976 citing health concerns over its ingredients.

Paul Hethmon, then a student at University of Tennessee, started the campaign to bring back Y as a joke that would eventually become a worldwide phenomenon.

Eventually, Y did return in 1987 after a span of 11 years and still remains in market.

X – M&M CandiesY – Red M&Ms

ROUND 5THE ‘PIC’NIC

This image circulates every year during Diwali as the satellite image of India during Diwali by NASA. Many large tabloids fell for the false image the first time.

What does the image actually convey?

That image, based on data from the Operational Linescan System flown on US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites, is a colour—composite created in 2003 by NOAA scientist Chris Elvidge to highlight population growth over time,” NASA said.

Who is asking this question?

This is APJ Abdul Kalam and was the President of India at the time.

The Film Kissa Kursi Kawas released in 1977. This movie satirized the Indian Political Scene during that time and consequently X along with V.C. Shukla was arrested and jailed for destroying all the prints of a movie that satirized him. Identify X.

Sanjay Gandhi

The picture in question was that of Mahatma Gandhi standing next to Lord Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence. Why is this photo of importance now?

The photo appears in the Indian currency notes

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