Surprise quiz Mains Elixir 2014

Surprise Quiz

By Hemank Sabharwal

Special Powers

1. Felix Felicis

2. Portkey

3. Pensieve

4. The Imperio Curse

4 Teams

Round 1 -5 ( 10 questions each )

Each team has to tell what number of questions it will answer .

a-2b-3c-2d-2 (Cannot say 3)

Each right answer is +20 ; -0.

The sum cannot be exactly the number of Questions, because someone has to loose.

Now if a team answers exactly that many number of questions that they said A for ex does thatthen 2x5 = 10 points added to them

if less answered then -5

If more answered like 4 by b team then its like +1x5

1. Funda ? In news recently 2014 start

Removed “surveillance by secret agents”

• The complaint by various users was that the implied humour was “insulting’” and it trivialized real issues such as NSA’s offensive hacks.

• The newer version reads as:– “Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around

in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior of other people, servers, software, or people standing behind you.”

2.

• In the card game Texas Hold ‘em Poker, the

combination of an Ace and a King is named after a sportsperson because it “looks great but never wins”.

• Who?

• Anna Kournikova

3.

• X was born on May 22, 1987. Father Srdjan and mother Dijanaowned the company Family Sports, which had three restaurants and a tennis academy. X's father, uncle and aunt were all professional skiers, and his father also excelled at soccer

• In the summer of 1993, at 6 years old, X was spotted by Yugoslavian tennis legend Jelena Gencic at his parents' sports complex empty indoor swimming pool. Growing up in war-torn Belgrade, the seven-time Grand Slam champion sometimes practiced in the swimming pool.

• During this time, the war in former Yugoslavia and the bombing of Belgrade meant that, for almost three months, X and his family would spend a few hours in the middle of each night in the pool. X has said that the hardships of war drove him to pursue tennis with even greater determination.

Novak Djokovic

4.

• X (County Clerk Office) Texas ISS

• X (ISS) is utilized for its purpose County Clerk Office in 1 day.

• The County Clerk Office is the only place on earth capable of sending X.

• X is usually sent once in 4 years.

• In order that the astronauts can vote in the presidential elections, the ballot sheet is sent to the International Space Station!

5.

• X is a restaurant company. The company operates 175 full service dining restaurants: of which 13 are under the Grand Lux Cafe marque and 1 under the Rock Sugar Pan Asian Kitchen marque. It also operates two bakery production facilities - one in Calabasas, California and the other in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. David Overton, the company's founder, established the future chain's pattern of offering an eclectic menu and signature product. According to him, it "does not have any sort of arrangements with the TV show is and really pleased to be featured in such a funny and wildly popular TV show." Identify X.

The cheese cake factory

6

• bill ngyuyen - selling lala.com to apple

7.

• Paris Hilton• Alison Brie• Joy Corrigan• Hope Solo• Kim Kardashian• Vanessa Hudgens• Aly Michalka & AJ Michalka• Emily Ratajkowski• Kate Bosworth• Jennifer Lawrence• Ariana Grande• Avril Lavigne• Aubrey Plaza• Bar Rafaeli• Becca Tobin• Brie Larson• Hillary Duff• Jannette McCurdy

Fappening

8.

Days of future past xmen

9.

• Cetology is a branch of marine mammal science that studies the approx eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoise in the sceintific order Cetacea.

• A Literary Classic explores this field through the narrator of the book who provides a zoological classification of whales.

• Although a qork of fiction, author included sequences of chapters concerned largely with a pseudo- objective discussion of the properties of whales.

• Which literary classic ?

Moby dick or The whale

10.

• Kumar Sangakara and Mahela Jayawardena

Round 2

11.

• X is derived from the Turkish word cevirmemeaning ‘turning’.

• It’s main ingredients are lamb, chicken, turkey, beef, veal or mixed meats.

• X is usually eaten with tabbouleh, fattoush, taboon bread, tomato, and cucumber.

• Dressings include: tahini (or tahina), amba sauce (pickled mango with chili), hummus, or flavored with vinegar and spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Hint Avenger

Shawarma

12.

• The sport of X was one of the sports held during the original Olympics.

• When the modern Olympics started, X happened 5 times between 1900 and 1920 before being put to rest by the IOC because their were too many sports and too many participants competing.

• Surprisingly the winners during those editions of the games were teams comprising of police forces, eg, Liverpool police and Metropolitan Police of Great Britain.

• In the Oxford dictionary X meant: the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy

Tug of War

13.

• Commonly remembered as XY, where X refers to a learned man and Y was a pen name(meaning free) he chose, XY was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992 posthumously.

• There is also a theory which suggests that earlier when he was offered Bharat Ratna he promptly declined it saying that it should not be given to those who have been on the selection committee.

• He has also been referred as Mir-i-Karawan and has been called as "a person of the calibre of Plato, Aristotle and Pythagorus".

• Litsoc recently conducted a debate on the day !!• ID him and significance in this quiz?

Maulana Azad

• Happy National Education Day

14.

• The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing ofJanOpletal and worker Václav Sedláček as well as against the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and the execution of nine student leaders, over 1,200 students sent to concentration camps (mainly Sachsenhausenconcentration camp) and the closure of all Czech universities and colleges. By this time Czechoslovakia no longer existed, as it was divided by the Nazi Germany into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak Republic with puppet Catholic-fascist government.

• During late 1939 the Nazi authorities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia suppressed a demonstration in Prague held by students of the Medical Faculty of Charles University. The demonstration was held on the 28th of October to commemorate the anniversary of the independence of the Czechoslovak Republic (1918).

• Significance in todays quiz ?

International Students day

15.

• The Academie Zubrowska offers an in-depth course started in• 2013 to enable the enthusiast to seek information about the• political and cultural world of Zubrowska. It features a case study• which analyses the trends in tourism, includes a chapter on the• war, and a component offered by the Lutz School: Beaux Arts,• Literature and Culinary Evolution. About itself the latter says, “The• Lutz School included the most influential writers and thinkers on• the continent, with a particular predilection for the artist with a• gambler’s spirit, whether his currency was oil, ink or baked good”.• It thanks the patronage of the Zubrowkian 100 during the twenty• war-less years.• Why am I talking about this?

Fictional Country inGrand Budapest Hotel

16.

• This was composed by Ilayaraja in 1983 for Mani Ratnam’s directorial debut PallaviAnupallavi which also featured Anil Kapoor in first leading role

• Heard it where recently ?

Add audio

Idea Cellular tune

17.

• X is used for calculating the relative skill levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor games.

• The difference in the ratings between two players serves as a predictor of the outcome of a match. Two players with equal ratings who play against each other multiple times are expected to score an equal number of wins. A player whose rating is 100 points greater than their opponent's is expected to win 64% of the time; if the difference is 200 points, then the expected win proportion for the stronger player is 76%.

• Named afterd it’s creater Arpad X, id X and where is it used majorly.

Elo Rating System Chess

18.

• Malana is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh.• Malana has a history and it goes back to Jamlu rishi (sage) who inhabited

this place and made rules and regulations.• It is one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well organized

parliamentary system.• People in Malana consider all non-Malani to be inferior and consequently

untouchable. Visitors to Malana town must pay particular attention to stick to the prescribed paths and not to touch any of the walls, houses or people there. If this does occur, visitors are expected to pay a forfeit sum, that will cover the sacrificial slaughter of a lamb in order purify the object that has been made impure.

• This is due to the supposed superiority of the people of Malana is because according to legends they are either the descendants of Aryans or even more legendary they are X?

• What is X?• Hint: think foreign invasions

• Descendants of Greek Soldiers of Alexander’s Army

19. Funda ?

• Lonar Lake, created by a meteor impact.

• Lonar Lake saline soda lake located in Buldanadistrict, Maharashtra, India. It has a radius of 2 Kms and a depth of 100m.

20.

• Mohammadpur Umri is a small village close to the Indian Air Force base of Bamrauli, near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh State, India

• The village has a large number of X and therefore sometimes labeled as the X capital of the world. Out of a total population of 600, there are almost 33 occurrences of X here. The village boasts a monozygotic (MZ) rate that is 300 times the national average and maybe one of the highest in the world.

The Twin Village

21.

• Andy Serkis roles via Motion Capture

22.

• Video Here

Hint

• A famous yesteryear star reciting a close friend and co-star’s favorite poem at the event of her death. The poem is by an Indian poet. Name me all 3.

• Gregory Peck

• Audrey Hepburn

• Rabindranath Tagore

23.

• In October last year, Bhanwad in Jamnagar, Gujarat to a very strange and rare weather phenomenon. Local reports say that similar incidents happened in Bantiya village in Junagadhdistrict.

• However, this phenomenon has been happening in Honduras yearly for the past century and is known there by the name Lluvia de Peces.

• What are we talking of ?

Fish Rain

24.• Shiitake mushrooms ( yeah, the ones that

made life hell at Megawhats), apart from tasting well when taken from oak trees, have been used to model one of the most memorable villains In gaming history. Who ?

Super Mario’s Goombas

25.

The website X is a user-edited database of some 4,500 films classified by whether or not they pass the X test, with the added requirement that the women must be-named characters. As of November 2013, it listed 56% of these films as passing all three of the test's requirements, 11% as failing one (the women's conversations are about men), 23% as failing two (the women do not talk to each other), and 10% as failing all three (there are not two named female characters).[21]

According to Mark Harris of Entertainment Weekly, if passing the test were mandatory, it would have jeopardized half of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture nominees.

Bechdel Test

26. Connect

• Animal Farm

• Apple

• Big Boss

• War is Peace,

Freedom is Slavery,

Ignorance is Strength

1984 Book

27. Funda ?

• It is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe all prisoners without the incarcerated being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience.

Panopticon

28. Funda ?

• The famed ‘Oompa-loompas’ created by Roald Dahl, were a pygmy race rescued from Africa. This naturally created a race controversy, and were changed to rosy-pink hippies in the next version”

29.

• Rufus the Hawk is a Harris Hawk used by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to keep pigeons away from their venue. Described as an "important member of the Wimbledon family",[1] Rufus has been scaring away the birds for five years,[2] taking over from the previous hawk, Hamish.[3]

30.Funda ?

Khajjiar-mini switzerland

31.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

32.

• They first appeared in USA in 1919, made with muslin. The idea was introduced by Joseph Kreiger in San Francisco. They were initially intended for caterers, but later most were being brought for the home. They were introduced in Britain in 1952 & soon became an integral part of the British daily life. They have also been used as a variation of the moistening effect of placing cucumber slices over the eyes in attempts to stave off the inevitable effects of ageing. What?

Tea Bags

33.Inklings

• The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings’s were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy.

• J. R. R. Tolkien• C. S. Lewis• Owen Barfield• Charles Williams• Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien• Lewis's elder brother, Warren Lewis• Roger Lancelyn Green• Adam Fox• Hugo Dyson• Robert Havard

• J.R .T Tolkien

• CS Lewis

34.

• Keep fighting Michael Schumacher

35.The black Blank ?

Baidu

• Chinese search engine and wiki

36.

• Originally one of the White Towns of Andalusia, using 4000 litres of paint, the entire town of Juzcar was painted by Sony in a promotional stunt in 2011.Although, the company offered to repaint the town, citizens decided to let it be after it saw a tourist surge from 300 per year to 80,000 in six months

• What was the promotion by Sony ?

Smurfs

37.

• I is a 2002 film directed by David DeCoteau, starring Jeff Branson, Louis Lasser and William Gregory Lee

• Plot Summary: On the advice of a bartender familiar with _______crowd, Jeff applies to the ________Brothers brokerage firm for his dream job as a stock broker. He is forced to abandon his love and values for cunning and instinct.After a change of heart, he finds that leaving the brotherhood is harder than joining.

• The name X is very similar to a 2014 release

• X all about ?

• Wolves of Wolf Street

38.

• X was initially started after It was concluded that Y is not ever going to support Nokia N9.As a result, a community application emerged under the name “Z”, allowing N9 and N950 users to utilize basic features of Y service.Because Z was open source, it quickly develped by the awesome communicty work to become the world’s first full fledged unofficial Y client, connecting more than 200,000 N9 users to the service.

• Z was awarded Hack of the Month at Berlin Hack and Tell June 2012 and was one of the wiiners in the Qt Projects app contest in Linux Tag 2012

• Z for BB10 became and interest when Y initially stated they have no plans to support the platform.So it was decided to port Z to BB10, though not under the name Z, but X.Main reason for this change was because of the existence of another chat application which already holds the name Z.

• The reson is that name X serves more the new aim of the project.

• X-OpenWhatsapp

• Y-Whatsapp

• Z-Wazapp

39.

Dumbeldore and Grindelvald

• The short film showcase the freindshipbetween the harry potter series –Dumberldore and Grindelwald when ariana is aciidentally killed not actually shown in HP7

40.

• In greek mythology Cassandra was one of the princess of Troy, daughter of Priam and Hecuba.According to the myth, Cassandra was astonishingly beautiful and blessed with the gift of foreseeing the future.Her curse was that no one believed her, a fact that weighed heavily on the destruction of Troy during the Trojan War.

• Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy.She warned the Trojans about the Geeks hiding inside the Trojan Horse, Agamemnon’s death and her own demise.

• Why would id tell you this ?

• Cassandra Trelawney was a famous celebrated witch and Seer

• She was the great great grandmother to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and WizardyDivination Professor Sybill Trelawnet (whose precitions no one beieves)

41.

• Kip Stephern Thorne is an American theoritical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A long time friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoritical Physics at the Caltech until 2009.

• He is one of the worlds leading experts on relativity and continues to do scientific research and in news for a new ‘project’ done recently.

• What ?

Interstellar

42.

• Hakkasan

• Yauatcha

• Akira Back

• Arola

• Megu

• Exhaustivev list of what (till date ?)

• Hint : 100 foot journey

• India’s Michelin Starred Restaurants

43.

Fargo

44. Connect

• Hike

• TinyMogul

• Hoopr

• BSB- Bhartiya Softbank

45.

Google Books

46.

• All of the reasons that _________has outlined in public are true. I know it sounds somewhat unbelievable because it's so weird, but if it was made up, I think any PR person would have come up with a better made-up story.

If there is a deeper reason, it is this:

The job as CEO of X is incredibly stressful and draining. After two and a half years, I'm basically completely worn out, and it was having significantly detrimental effects on my personal life. If anything, I probably pushed myself way too far - as a first-time CEO, all I knew was that such jobs are supposed to be stressful, so I never really had a good baseline, i.e. how stressful is too stressful, until multiple outside people and coaches I was working with remarked to me that I looked incredibly worn down for months on end and it wasn't supposed to be this hard.On the office location issue: it's probably something we could have worked out.

Finally, I look forward to being able to go back to using X again as a regular user.

Reddit Ceo resigns

• Yishan Wong

47.

• X is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex group, the world's largest apparel retailer.

• It is claimed that X needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared to the six-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year.

• Amancio Ortega opened the first X store in 1975 in a central street in downtown La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. Ortega named his store Zorba after watching the classic filmZorba the Greek, but apparently there was a bar that was called the same, Zorba, two blocks away, and the owner of the bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Zorbas." They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found X, which leaves fans wondering where the additional ___ came from, but there is speculation that they had more than one set of letters.

• X is a company which has stores in India with Tata’s Trent ?

Zara

48.Connect

Silence Of the Lambs

Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on October 12, 1810. The citizens of ________ were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields were named Theresienwiese ("Theresa's meadow") in honor of the Crown Princess, and have kept that name ever since, although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the "Wiesn".

What is “Wiesn” more commonly known as?

Oktoberfest

49. Identify the hidden part..

Didn’t miss MARS