W5 h qrious

W5H- The Quizzing Club of MDI

Q-Rious 3.0

Rules

• Will be given on fly• QM is always right.

Small quiz … about 25 Q’s

Question 1

Six Degrees of _______is a parlour game based on the "six degrees of separation" concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart. That idea eventually morphed into this parlour game wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and prolific Hollywood character actor _______. It rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California, film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to Kevin Bacon within six steps. The game requires a group of players to try to connect any such individual to _______ as quickly as possible and in as few links as possible. It can also be described as a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon.

Question 2

According to Wang himself, he was a cook at the Cricket Club of India when, in 1975, a customer asked him to create a new dish, different from what was available on the menu. He started by taking the basic ingredients of an Indian dish, namely chopped garlic, ginger, and green chilis, but next, instead of adding garam masala, he put in soy sauce instead, followed by cornstarch and the chicken itself; the result was the now-famous indo Chinese dish..name the dish?

Question 3

Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in which several bank employees were held hostage in a bank vault from August 23 to 28, 1973, while their captors negotiated with police.What am i talking about?

Question 4

This paper will be presented on 4th Jan 2015 as a part of the American Economics Association's 7th Annual Economics Humor Session. The paper is on collaboration between people who share the same surnames. The paper also analyses the most prolific surnames, alphabetical discrimination of publications and so on. The first three words in the name of the paper have been blanked out. They have a popular reference (with a minor word-count adjustment).Fill in the blanks.

Few Good Men

Question 6

The Booker Prize is given to one writer in a year. However, the 1970 Prize was awarded to two writers, Bernice Rubens and J. G. Farrell. What was the reason?

JG Farrell, widely believed to be one of the most talented writers of his generation, was posthumously awarded the 'lost' Booker Prize for 1970 for his novel Troubles in 2010. A rule change which awarded the booker for the year in which novel was written skipped the year 1970 novels so this was done.

Question 7

• "You've come, have you? ... You've come, you source of tears to many mothers, you evil. I hate you! It is long since I saw you; but as I see you now you are much more terrible, for I see you brandishing the downfall of my country. I hate you!

• The above words by Eilmer of Malmesbury refer to the reappearance of X.

• X had appeared in 1066 and was seen as an ill omen as King Harold II of England died an year later, thus provoking Eilmer to say the above lines.

• What is X?

Haley’s Comet

Question 8

X is derived from the Turkish word cevirme meaning ‘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. ID X, which has now become quite well known due to a particular movie.

Shawarma !!

Question 9

His recent claim to fame?

Broke Felix Baumgartner’s record of highest altitude of free fall jump

• Alan Eustace, Senior VP of Knowledge at Google

Question 10

The recent Indian Angle

Ho gya chutzpah !! :D

Question 11

• The first is not a word as people normally think but perhaps a way to represent Saturn.

• The second comes from Rudolf Koch’s Book of Signs, and it is intended to symbolize a person who possesses both confidence and competence.

• The third is from the same book and represents the triad of mother, father and child, but, inverted, it also happens to be the logo for Ballantine beer.

• The forth is an original creation , being supposedly based on the sign of the Mu Civilization

Question 12

Very Recently in news why ??

Madhu Bai Kinnar first transgender to be elected as Mayor of Raigarh in Municipal Elections in Chattisgarh

Question 13

Liechtenstein is the only UEFA member nation that does not have any spot in the UEFA Champions league.

Why this lack of love for this small landlocked country?

• According to the UEFA regulations a National League needs to consist of at least eight clubs to be considered valid, otherwise no participants of such a league will be allowed to enter European competitions.

• There are only seven clubs that are active in Liechtenstein.

Question 14

Linked in Profile of ??

Question 15

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

Question 16

Long Visual Connect4 questions theme connect only.Theme points will be displayed on slides.

+40/-20

+30/-10

+20/-10

+10/-0

Andy Serkis roles via Motion Capture

Question 17

The following three countries are the only ones who don’t use X, even though USA has been sanctioned to use it since 1866.

The Metric System

Question 18

Segments of the Berlin Wall

Question 19

"X: the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns". Introductory quote of which book [X=name of the book]?. Also ID author.

Farhenhit 451 , Ray Bradbury

Question 20

Long Connect next 5 slides

• Trevor Delgome - Icelandic • 25 pts

• Tom Elvis Jedusor French• 20 pts

• Tom Lomen Valedro Finnish• 15 pts

• Anton Marvolo Hurt Greek• 10 pts

• Tom Marvolo Riddle English• 0 pts