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General Knowledge Trivia Quiz

April 17, 2011
QM: Sumeer
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Rules

Infinite Bounce

Each question carries 6 points.

Some questions have 2 parts and some are 3 parts.

For 2 part answers - each part carries 3 points
For 3 part answers - each part carries 2 points.

No negatives ! So feel free to Guess, Guess and Guess.

Only one answer per team per question.

In case of multiple answers, ONLY the first answer will be accepted.

The Quiz Master's decision is FINAL !

Disclaimer :
Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely intentional.

About Clues
Most questions carry some clue(s).
Clue(s) will be provided only as long as no
team has an objection .
If any team does NOT want a clue they
can use their veto power to say so, and no
clue shall be provided to anyone.
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Lets go folks !

GOOGLE DOODLES
Id the event/person that each of these
Google Doodle commemorates.
2 points for each correct answer in this
round.

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Commemorating discovery of
X-Rays.

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Jun 11, 2010

Jacques Cousteau's 100th
Birthday

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Mar 06, 2003

Michelangelo's Birthday

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May 21, 2010

PACMAN 30th Anniversary

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Nov 13, 2010

Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th
Birthday

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Feb 11, 2011

Thomas Edison's Birthday

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May 07, 2010

170th Birthday of Tchaikovsky

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Feb 08, 2011

Jules Verne's 183rd Birthday

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Apr 24, 2010

Hubble Space Telescope's 20th
Anniversary

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May 09, 2010

150th Birthday of J.M. Barrie

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Mar 30, 2005

Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday

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Apr 01, 2010

April Fools!
Topeka,Kansas

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Jan 04, 2006

Louis Braille's Birthday

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Mar 14, 2010

Pi Day

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Sep 21, 2009

H.G. Wells' Birthday

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Aug 29, 2009

Michael Jackson's Birthday

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Jul 10, 2009

Birthday of Nikola Tesla

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Jun 06, 2009

25th Anniversary of Tetris

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Warning !
The following presentation is for mature
audiences only due to depiction of illegal
drugs, violence, swearing and nudity.

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Q 1 Auspicious beginnings
In Hinduism, whenever fire sacrifices are
made, svh is chanted especially after
every mantra and offering to the fire.

It is said that the Gods to whom offerings

are being made through yagna refuse the
offerings unless the word 'svaha' is
uttered during the sacrifice.
Why?

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ANSWER

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Svh is the wife of Agni, the God of
fire.
She is thought to preside over burnt
offerings. Her body is said to consist of the
four Vedas and her six limbs are the six
Angas of the Vedas.
Etymologically,the term is probably from
su "well" and the root ah "to call".
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(here comes the pre-warned violence)

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Q 2 My name is Kong
X's first appearance in a video game was in 1981's Donkey Kong.
In the original Donkey Kong game, Donkey Kong was the villain who
kidnapped a damsel in distress.
X,whose name was "Jumpman" back then, had to rescue the
damsel by jumping over barrels that Donkey Kong would throw at
him.

Back then, not only did X have a different name,but a different job as
well. "Jumpman" was originally supposed to be a carpenter.
Also, X's signature cap and mustache were added in because it
made him easier to draw. The original Donkey Kong didn't have very
good graphics, and it was easier for Jumpman to have a hat and a
mustache than have hair and a mouth.
Which videogame character? (see next slide)
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Mario.

Created by Japanese video game designer

Shigeru Miyamoto,Mario serves as Nintendo's
mascot and the main protagonist of the Mario
series.
He has appeared in over 200 video games since
his creation.

Mario is depicted as a short, pudgy, ItalianAmerican plumber who lives in the Mushroom
Kingdom.
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Q 3 life is a prison

During India's freedom struggle,the British could not accommodate large

numbers of those who participated in the armed struggle or the noncooperation movement in ordinary jails.
So the British decided to establish a few detention camps; the first one was
located in Buxar Fort followed by the creation of the Hijli Detention Camp in
1930.

In Sept 1931 two unarmed detainees were shot dead by the British Police
and Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their bodies.National
leaders, including Rabindranath Tagore,voiced strong protests against the
British Raj over this incident.

The Hijli Detention Camp was closed in 1937 and was reopened in 1940.In
1942 the camp was again closed and the detainees were transferred
elsewhere.

Into what did the Indian Government convert the Hijli camp in Sep
1950?
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ANSWER

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The first IIT viz. IIT Kharagpur.
In 1990, the former detention camp buildings were converted to
house the Nehru Museum of Science and Technology.
The class rooms,labs and the administrative office were housed in
the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp (now known as
Shaheed Bhawan), where political revolutionaries were imprisoned
and executed during the British rule.
The office building had served as the HQ of the Bomber Command
of the U.S. 20th Air Force during World War II.
PM Nehru, in the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956,
said:
Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine
monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the
making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that
are coming to India."
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Q 4 Of promises and men

X Chocolatier is a manufacturer of premium chocolates and related
products.

Founded in Belgium in 1926,X owns and operates more than 450

retail boutiques and shops in the USA,Canada,Europe and Asia and
is available via over 10,000 speciality retailers.
Shown here is the logo of the company inspired by a famous legend.
Supposedly, this legend gave rise to a rather common phrase for a
voyeur.
Name company X.
What is the legend?
What is the phrase?
(see next slide) + (clue slide)
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Clue?

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ANSWER
(and the nudity)

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Godiva Chocolatier
Named in honour of the legend of Lady Godiva - an Anglo-Saxon
noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of
Coventry,England,in order to gain a remission of the oppressive
taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants.
After issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and
shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her
long hair.
Only one person in the town,the tailor Tom, disobeyed her.
Tom bore a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass,
and is struck blind.
The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from this legend.
In the end, Godiva's husband keeps his word and abolishes the
onerous taxes.
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Q 5 C-list
What does this non-exhaustive list represent?

Darjeeling Tea
Tirupathi Laddu
Mysore Silk
Kullu Shawls
Bidriware
Bikaner Bhujia
Channapatna Toys
Coorg Orange
Thanjavur Paintings
Katputlis of Rajasthan
Lucknow Chikan work
Malabar Pepper
Chanderi Fabric
Madhubani Paintings
Kutch Embroidery

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ANSWER

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GI - Geographical Indication

It is a name or sign used on certain

products which corresponds to a specific
geographical location or origin (e.g. a
town, region, or country).
The use of a GI may act as a certification
that the product possesses certain
qualities, or enjoys a certain reputation,
due to its geographical origin.

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Q 6 - greetings
At The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 AD, the French, who
were overwhelmingly favored to win the battle,
threatened to do something to all captured English
soldiers so that they could never fight again.

The English won in a major upset and waved something

at the French in defiance.
This mostly urban legend is supposed to be the
origin of what practice and its associated verbal
form?

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ANSWER
(.and the swearing)

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The finger, the middle finger, the highway
salute, the Bronx salute, the one-finger
salute, the bird (as in giving, flipping, or
flying the bird), or flipping off someone.

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 The French proposed to cut off the middle

finger without which it is impossible to draw the
English longbow.
This famous weapon was made of the native
English yew tree, and so the act of drawing the
longbow was known as "plucking yew".
Thus, when the victorious English waved their
middle fingers at the defeated French, they said,
"See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!
Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say it has
gradually changed to F*** You !
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Q 7 - bazaar

X bazaar is a famous market in Lahore,Pakistan.

It is the oldest bazaar of Lahore and is considered as one of the best

business centres of Pakistan.
The market derives its name from a nearby tomb - an octagonal building
covered with a dome.
At each corner of the building is an octagonal turret surmounted with a
kiosk.
The building houses a monolithic sarcophagus on which are inscribed 99
names of Allah and the Persian couplet translated as :

"I would give thanks unto my God unto the day of resurrection
Ah! could I behold the face of my beloved once more.

Incidentally,the mausoleum of Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aybak of Mamluk

Sultanate,who built the Qutab Minar in Delhi,is also located at X Bazaar.
After whom is this market named?
( see next slide) + (clue slide)
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Anarkali

Anarkali was a legendary slave girl who was

buried alive between two walls by order of the
Mughal Emperor Akbar for having an illicit
relationship with the Emperor's son, Prince
Salim,later to become Emperor Jahangir.
Anarkali has been the subject of a number of
Indian and Pakistani films. The most famous
being the 1960 magnum opus Mughal-e-Azam
with Madhubala in the role of Anarkali.
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Q8 Watts in a name
According to some interpretations:
X is a Northern and Western Aryan family name
from India indicating that the title bearer's
forefathers were proficient in all of the four
Vedas.
Y is an Indian Brahmin family name reflecting
the mastery of a Brahmin over three of the four
vedas.
Z is an Indian Brahmin family name reflecting
the knowledge of 2 Vedas.
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ANSWER

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X Chaturvedi
Y - Trivedi
Z - Dwivedi

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 Chaturvedi from chatur = four, vedi = one who has learned the four
Vedas.
Trivedi

from tri three + veda/vedi.

Dwivedi is a combination of Dwi(two in Sanskrit)+vedi(from vedas).

A 'Chaturvedi', was considered to be the most learned of all
Brahmins, and hence enjoyed a very high social status in ancient
times.
Chaubey is a related surname.
Tiwary,Tewaree and Tewarey is derived from Trivedi.
Dube,Dubey or Dubedi is also used for Dwivedi.

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Q9 - skeletons
Connect the two pictures with the song and the text
below.

BPM 37093 is a variable white dwarf star with a

hydrogen atmosphere and an unusually high mass of
approximately 1.1 times the Sun's.
It is about 50 light-years from Earth,in the constellation
Centaurus.
It is thought to be composed primarily of carbon and
oxygen, which are created by thermonuclear fusion of
helium nuclei.
Full fundas please.
(see next slide)
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(the illegal drugs)

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A9
LUCY

Song is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

by the Beatles !
John Lennon's son, Julian, inspired the
song with a nursery school drawing he
called "Lucy - in the sky with diamonds".
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 Two science milestones get their name from the same

song.
One is an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton.
She was found in Ethiopia by Donald Johnson, who
named her for the song heard during the party
celebrating her discovery.
BPM 37093 happens to be a 10 billion trillion trillion carat
cosmic diamond !
The star is technically a chunk of crystallised carbon,
4,000 km across.
LSD
Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that
the first letter of each of the title's nouns intentionally
spelled LSD.Although Lennon denied and mocked the
idea of a hidden LSD reference, the BBC banned the
song.
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Q10 - suffragette
On March 10, 1914, the militant suffragette Mary Richardson
walked into the National Gallery,London and did something
provoked by the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst the previous day.

Richardson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, the

maximum allowed for this crime.
In a statement given to the Women's Social and Political Union
shortly afterwards, Richardson explained, "I have tried to
___________ as a protest against the Government for destroying
Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern
history".
She added in a 1952 interview that she "didn't like the way men
visitors gaped at it all day long".
What did she do?

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She entered the National Gallery, London and
slashed Velzquez's canvas of the Rokeby Venus
with a meat cleaver !
Richardson left seven slashes on the painting, all of
which were successfully repaired by the National
Gallery's chief restorer.

The complete quote was:

"I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful
woman in mythological history as a protest against the
Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the
most beautiful character in modern history".
Her Crime ? Destruction of an artwork.
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Q11 - phobos
In Greek myth, Phobos (Fear) and
Deimos (Dread) were the children of what
two deities ?
The Roman equivalents of both have
planets named for them.
Which two planets ?

Looking for four answers here!

(clue slide)
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CLUE?

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Roman VENUS

MARS and

Greek - ARES and

APHRODITE
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 One was the god of war; the other the god

of love - both seem to go together.
Asaph Hall named the two moons of
Mars,Phobos and Deimos, for these minor
deities after he found the moons in 1877.

Interestingly,back in 1726, Jonathan Swift

had also predicted two Martian
moons,during Gullivers voyage to
Laputa,the flying island where the
intellectuals lived. Swift even guessed
correctly where theyd be.
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Q12 - chemical
X was proposed as a distinct chemical substance by Christian
Friedrich Schnbein in 1840,who named it after the Greek verb "to
smell", from the peculiar odor in lightning storms.

In its natural state it is pale blue, slightly soluble in water.

At 112 C, it condenses to form a dark blue liquid. It is dangerous to
allow this liquid to warm to its boiling point, because both
concentrated gaseous X and liquid X can detonate. At temperatures
below 193 C, it forms a violet-black solid.
Most people can detect about 0.01 ppm of X in air where it has a
very specific sharp odor somewhat resembling chlorine bleach.
Exposure of 0.1 to 1 ppm produces headaches, burning eyes, and
irritation to the respiratory passages.

Even low concentrations of X in air are very destructive to organic

materials such as latex, plastics, and animal lung tissue.
What substance?
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ANSWER

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Ozone

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Q 13 - achanak
What is the story behind the man and
the woman?
Connect with the two movies shown.
What very significant change in the
Indian justice system did it bring
about ?
(see next 2 slides)
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In 1959 K. M. Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the
murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife Sylvia's lover in Bombay.
The incident received unprecedented media coverage and inspired
several books and movies.
Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke, a 1963 suspense thriller, directed by
R.K. Nayyar with Sunil Dutt, Leela Naidu, and Rehman, was the first
Bollywood film to exploit the case.
Achanak, a 1973 crime drama, written and directed by Gulzar,
starring Vinod Khanna, Lily Chakravarty, and Om Shivpuri, was
inspired by the case and was a box-office hit.
Nanavati was initially declared not guilty by a jury, but the verdict
was dismissed by the Bombay High Court and the case was retried
as a bench trial.
The case was the last to be heard as a jury trial in India, as the
government abolished jury trials as a result of the case.

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Q 14 Ig noble
This invention won its inventor the 2005 Ig Nobel
Prize in Economics.
Name the invention and the inventor.
Extra points if you tell me what the invention
is and why the prize for economics ?
(see next 2 slides)
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Clocky
Gauri Nanda

Clocky is a brand of alarm clock outfitted with

wheels,allowing it to hide itself in order to force the
owner awake in an attempt to find it.
Invented for an industrial design class by Gauri as a
graduate student at MIT Media Lab.
After earning her undergraduate degree from the
University of Michigan and her Masters Degree
from MIT, she founded a company, Nanda Home, to
commercialize Clocky and other home products.
Won the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics as it improves
individual productivity.

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Q 15 animal

The name XY of this animal has several theories.

One theory is that the animals were brought to Europe by way of X,leading
people to think they had originated there.
X was also frequently used in English to refer generally to any faroff,unknown country,and so the name may simply be a colorful reference to
the animal's foreignness.

Another theory suggests the X in the name is a corruption of an area in

South America,though the animals are not native to that region.

How the animals came to be called Y is not clear.

They are built somewhat like Y,with large heads relative to their bodies,
stout necks, and rounded rumps with no tail of any consequence; some of
the sounds they emit are very similar to those made by Y, and they also
spend a large amount of time eating.
They can survive for long periods in small quarters, and were thus easily
transported on ships to Europe.

Which animal?
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ANSWER

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The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also
called the cavy,is a species of rodent
belonging to the family Caviidae and the
genus Cavia.
Despite their common name, these
animals are not in the pig family, nor are
they from Guinea.
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Q 16 - finns
The XY is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War
(1939-1940), as a generic name used for a variety of improvised
incendiary weapons.
During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use
of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and
fortifications.
When X claimed in radio broadcasts that they were not
bombing, but rather delivering food to the starving Finns, the
Finns started to call the air bombs X bread baskets.

Soon they responded by attacking advancing tanks with "X Y"

which were "a drink to go with the food".
What is XY?
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Molotov cocktails
Also known as the petrol bomb,gasoline
bomb,Molotov bomb,fire bottle,fire bomb,or
simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a
variety of improvised incendiary weapons.
The name was coined by the Finns during
Winter War to mock Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Molotov,the Soviet Prime Minister equivalent
at the time.
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Q 17 wild ones
The American rock group Black Rebel
Motorcycle Club got its name from the name of
Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953
outlaw biker film The Wild One.
Apparently,another Rock/Pop band took their
name from the other motorcycle club (in the
same movie) led by Lee Marvin,after making a
minor modification to the spelling so that it
sounded more like a musical term.
Which band?
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The BEATLES
The motorcycle club led by Lee Marvin in
the movie is called The Beetles.The band
changed the 'ee' to 'ea'.

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Q 18 - Inglis
Mark Joseph Inglis is a researcher, winemaker,
mountaineer, cyclist, and motivational speaker
from New Zealand.
He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from
Lincoln University,NZ, and has conducted
research in Leukemia.
He has also created a range of sports drinks and
energy gels named PeakFuel
In May 2006,Inglis accomplished what feat
unparalleled in human achievement ?
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On May 15,2006, after forty days of climbing,Inglis became the first

ever double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In November 1982, Inglis and climbing partner Philip Doole were stuck in an
ice cave on Mount Cook,NZ for thirteen days due to an intense blizzard.
Both men's legs became badly frost bitten while awaiting rescue and both of
Inglis' legs were amputated below the knee.
He returned to Mt. Cook in 2002 and reached the summit successfully on
January 7 of that year.

In 2003,Inglis received the New Zealand Order of Merit as an Officer in

recognition of his services to disabled people.
He is also an accomplished cyclist and won a silver medal in the 1 km time
trial event at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

In addition to being a goodwill ambassador for the Everest Rescue Trust,

Inglis has created a New Zealand based charitable trust Limbs4All.

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Q 19 - Lapierre
X is a novel written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
Set in 1980,its a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat wherein,Y (a
real life personality),holds New York City hostage with the threat of
setting off a hidden nuclear bomb.
The book had such a shocking effect that the French President
cancelled the sale of nuclear reactors to country Z ,even though it
was meant for peaceful purposes.
Paramount Pictures, which was planning to make a film based on
the book, dropped the idea in the fear that some fanatics would try
to emulate the scenario in real life. However,the authors feel that the
events could eventually happen.
X,Y and Z ?
Note-They came out with another book with a similar plot set in
2005 with a different US president and villain.
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X - The Fifth Horseman
Y - Libyan leader Qaddafi

Z - Libya

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Q 20 - hackers

X in computing slang refers to an ethical hacker, penetration tester, cracker or

security consolidator.
X hackers are computer security experts, who specialize in penetration testing, and
other testing methodologies, to ensure that a company's information systems are
secure. X hackers are also called "sneakers",red teams, or tiger teams.

Y is often used figuratively, especially in computing slang, where it refers to a

computer security hacker that breaks into networks or computers, or creates
computer viruses.

In Western movies, Y is the villain or bad guy, in which such a character would wear
a Y in contrast to the hero's X.

Z in the hacking community, refers to a skilled hacker whose activities fall somewhere
between X and Y hackers on a variety of spectrums.
It may relate to whether they sometimes arguably act illegally, though in good will, or
to how they disclose vulnerabilities. They usually do not hack for personal gain or
have malicious intentions, but may be prepared to technically commit crimes during
the course of their technological exploits in order to achieve better security.

X,Y and Z ?
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X - White hat

Y - Black hat
Z - Grey hat

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Q 21 stars stripes
Whose flag is this ?
What is the significance of the words on
the flag and the displaced stars ?
(the words translate to "Everything is in the
hands of God.)
(see next slide)
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A 21
The flag of Bikini Atoll,a member of the Marshall
Islands.
It resembles the US flag and was adopted in
1987.
The flag is symbolic of the islanders' belief that a
great debt is still owed by the US to the people
of Bikini because in 1954 the US govt. detonated
the Castle Bravo H-bomb on the island,
poisoning islanders and others with nuclear
fallout.
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 The 23 white stars in the canton of the flag represent the 23 islands
of Bikini Atoll.
The three black stars in the upper right represent the three islands
that were disfigured in March 1954 during 15-megaton Bravo test.
The two black stars in the lower right corner represent where the
Bikinians live now - Kili Island,425 miles to the south of Bikini Atoll,
and Ejit Island of Majuro Atoll.
These two stars are symbolically far away from Bikini's stars on the
flag as the islands are in real life (both in distance and quality of life).
The Marshallese language words on the bottom of the flag, "MEN
OTEMJEJ REJ ILO BEIN ANIJ," reportedly represent the words
spoken in 1946 by the Bikinian leader, Juda, to U.S. Commodore
Ben Wyatt when the American went to Bikini to ask the islanders to
give up their islands for the 'good of all mankind' for nuclear
weapons testing.

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Q 22 - alamut
The term X derives from the Persian word Y,a militant
Ismailite Persian sect,active in the Northern parts of Iran
(Alamut) from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries. This
mystic secret society killed members of the Abbasid and
Seljuq lite for political and religious reasons.

It is believed that the Y were under the influence of

opium and hashish during their killings or during their
indoctrination, and that the word X derives from a word
meaning the influence of the drugs.
The earliest known literary use of the term X is in The
Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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ANSWER

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X - Assassin / Assassination
Y - Hashshashin

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 At the time of their existence "Hashashins"

were people who sold medicine. The region of
Alamut was filled with plants rich with natural
medicine and many of the residents of that
region made a living by selling those plants at
Bazaars (Marketplaces) that were called Bazare
Hashashin (The medicine market).

Due to their advanced medicine during that

period, they were able to offer free health care to
their citizens. Also many people in Iran would
travel to the region of Alamut to get cured for
unknown illnesses.
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Q23 dam head

Literally meaning "damaged head" from Turkish; in turn meaning
"leaderless" or "disorderly", X was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman
army.
They were armed and maintained by the government, but did not receive
regular salary and lived off loot.
They did not wear uniforms or distinctive badges. They could fight either
mounted or dismounted, but were incapable of undertaking major military
operations.
Their uncertain temper occasionally made it necessary for the Turkish
regular troops to disarm them by force, but they were often useful in the
work of reconnaissance and in outpost duty.

They were notorious for being brutal and undisciplined, thus giving the term
its second, colloquial meaning of "undisciplined bandit" in many
languages.
X? (see pic + clue)
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A bashi-bazouk or bashibazouk from
Turkish basibozuk.
The word(s) that Captain Haddock
'swears by in Tintin comics !

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Q 24 - jetset
All corporate honchos are familiar with jetsetting - traveling from one place to
another by plane usually for pleasure or
for work.
What then is Set-jetting?

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A24
Set-jetting is the trend of traveling to destinations that are first seen
in movies.
For instance, touring London in a high-speed boat like James Bond,
or visiting the stately homes that are seen in the Jane Austen films.
Corporations, convention and tourism boards are exploiting the
trend, creating their own set-jetting travel maps, like the Elizabeth:
The Golden Age movie map published by VisitBritain.
Other recent movie tie-ins done by tourism boards include France
(The Da Vinci Code), Belgium (In Bruges) and Ireland (P.S., I Love
You).

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Q 25 - Blahyi

Joshua Milton Blahyi was originally a tribal priest before becoming a

Liberian warlord-turned-preacher. He was a fiercely violent and eccentric
leader on the side of Roosevelt Johnson in the First Liberian Civil War in the
first half of the 1990s.

Blahyi got his nickname, from his __________ which was supposedly
demanded by the Devil.

He claimed to a reporter that he "met Satan regularly and talked to him" and
that from the age of 11 to 25 he took part in monthly human sacrifice.
"Usually it was a small child, someone whose fresh blood would satisfy the
devil."

But he attained his colorful nickname from the manner in which he fought
his battles.

What nickname?
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General Butt Naked!
Blahyi led his troops naked except for
shoes and a gun.
Apparently, he believed that his
nakedness was a source of protection
from bullets.
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Q 26 - hamid
Give me a 2 word connect to a
place/institute.

(2 slides 4 pics)

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Princeton University

A
F.Scott Fitzgerald's literary debut,This Side of Paradise,is a loosely
autobiographical story of his years at Princeton.

B
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is partly set at Princeton
and the characters Changez and Erica are fictional members of the
Princeton Class of 2001. Hamid was an actual member of the Princeton
Class of 1993.

C
The book The Rule of Four is set on Princeton's campus and the campus
of neighboring Princeton Theological Seminary.
Written by American authors Ian Caldwell,a Princeton University
graduate,and Dustin Thomason,a Harvard College graduate.

D
In A Beautiful Mind, the Academy Award-winning film about the famous
mathematician John Forbes Nash, the depiction of Nash's initial days at
Princeton were filmed on campus.
Although the film is a fictionalized biography, in real life Nash did receive his
doctorate from Princeton and is currently a Senior Research
Mathematician at the university's mathematics department.

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Q 27 - geo
According to some studies,this geographical entity's name literally
translates into "Hindu Killer."
The name could be referring to the dead Hindus that were
transported through the mountains or it could just mean an attrition
of the term X that separated the Hindu parts of Southern
Afghanistan from the non-Hindu parts of Northern Afghanistan.
Greek historians adapted the Persian expression which was in
vogue in that age and called this area "Paropanisadae". Hindu
books in Sanskrit refer to this area as Pariyatra Mountains.
Which place?

Note: The word Hindu originally referred to any inhabitant of

the Indian subcontinent, or Hind, not followers of the religion
as it does now.
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ANSWER

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The Hindu Kush mountains.
It is a 500-mile mountain range that stretches between
central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
One claim is that it's origins relate to Mahmud of
Ghazni's invasion of India.
He invaded Mathura and Sourashtra, amongst other
places in India, destroyed the Somnath temple and took
thousands of Hindus as captives and then went back to
Gaznavi.
On the way back due to adverse climatic conditions
thousand of Hindu captives died in the mountains.

Blanked out term X is "Hindu Koh".

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Q 28 - athlete

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 This is "Ben" Johnson,the infamous 1980s Canadian sprinter who

won 2 Olympic bronze medals and an Olympic gold (revoked).
He set consecutive 100 m world records at the 1987 World Athletics
Championships and the 1988 Summer Olympics,but was
disqualified for doping,losing the Olympic title and both records.
In 1999,Johnson made headlines again when it was revealed that
he had been hired by a political figure X to act as a football coach for
his son Y who aspired to join an Italian football club.
Y ultimately did join an Italian team but ironically (or naturally) was
sacked after one game when he failed a drug test.
Johnson's publicist in Canada had predicted in The Globe and Mail
that his training of Y would earn Johnson a Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1997,Johnson briefly acted as trainer for a controversial sportstar
Z.
X,Y and Z?

(clue)

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X - Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
Y - Al-Saadi Qadhafi
Z - Diego Maradona
Al-Saadi is the third son of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
He is currently the commander of Libya's Special Forces
and is involved in the 2011 Libyan uprising.An Interpol
notice (orange notice) has been issued against him.
He signed for Italian Serie A team Perugia in 2003,
playing only one match before failing a drug test.
He was formerly on the board of the Italian team
Juventus but stepped down to join Perugia.
He was also captain of the Libya national football team,
captain of his home club in Tripoli, and president of the 191
Libyan Football Federation.

Q 29 redmars
The key concept for this appeared in 1895 when
Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was
inspired by the Eiffel Tower.
It also appears in the 1979 Arthur C. Clarke
novel The Fountains of Paradise ; in the 1982
Robert A. Heinlein's novel Friday ; in Kim
Stanley Robinson's 1993 novel Red Mars.
What is this commonly called?
And what is the concept?
(see pic)
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ANSWER

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A29
Space Elevator
Also referred to as beanstalks, space bridges, space
lifts, space ladders, skyhooks, orbital towers, or orbital
elevators.
Space Elevator is a proposed non-rocket
spacelaunch structure designed to transport
material from Earth's surface into space.
It involves travelling along a fixed structure instead of
using rocket powered space launch, most often a cable
that reaches from the surface of the Earth on or near the
equator to geostationary orbit (GSO) and a
counterweight outside of the geostationary orbit.
This structure is held in tension between Earth and the
counterweight like a guitar string held taut.
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Q 30 - flags
Id the two flags and what
unique distinction do the flags
(per se) have ?

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ANSWER

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A30
Flags of Switzerland and
Vatican City.
These two are the only square
sovereign-state flags!

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Q 31 - planetX
In the 19th-century,in an attempt to explain peculiarities in Mercury's
orbit,French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier
hypothesized that they were the result of a planet X between
Mercury and the Sun.
In 1915,when Einstein successfully explained the apparent anomaly
in Mercury's orbit, most astronomers abandoned the search for X.
However some still believed that an intra-Mercurial planetoid
between 130 and 800 kms in diameter was orbiting the Sun at a
distance of about 0.1 astronomical unit.
Today,the search continues for these so-called X asteroids,which
are thought to exist in the region where X was once sought.
What was the name given to this hypothetical planet?

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Vulcan
If they do exist,the vulcanoids could easily evade
detection because they would be very small and
drowned out by the bright glare of the nearby Sun.
Due to their proximity to the Sun,searches from the
ground can only be carried out during twilight or solar
eclipses.
Any vulcanoids must be between about 100 metres (330
ft) and 60 kilometres (37 mi) in diameter and are
probably located in nearly circular orbits near the outer
edge of the gravitationally stable zone.
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Q 32 basu

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 Ek Ruka Hua Faisla is a 1986 Hindi film, a

remake of a famous 1957 American drama film.
Directed by Basu Chatterjee, almost the entire
movie takes place within a single room.
It tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as
they deliberate the guilt or innocence of a
defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt.
What was the original film and who was its
luminous director who passed away last
week?
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ANSWER

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12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet.
With over 50 films to his name,he was
nominated for the Academy Award as Best
Director for 12 Angry Men,Dog Day Afternoon,
Network and The Verdict.
He received an Honorary Academy Award and
14 of his films were nominated for various
Oscars.
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Q 33 - northik
Developed by the U.S. in World War II by a team
of Harvard chemists led by Louis Fieser,
these were first used in the Pacific Theatre
during the Battle of Tinian by Marine aviators.
In the early 1950s, Norway developed its own
version Northick II - based on fatty acids in
whale oil as the American-produced version
performed rather poorly in the cold Norwegian
climate.
Modern versions of this is composed primarily of
benzene and polystyrene.
What? (clue slide)

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CLUE?

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ANSWER

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A33
Napalm
Modern napalm is known as napalm-B.

Its name is a portmanteau of its original

ingredients, co-precipitated aluminum salts of
naphthenic and palmitic acids.
Most (in)famous use was during the Vietnam
war.
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Q 34 WW1

X is a phrase popularly used to describe the British infantry of WW 1 and to

condemn the generals who commanded them.
The contention is that the brave soldiers were sent to their deaths by
incompetent and indifferent leaders.

The phrase was the source of the title of one of the most scathing
examinations of British First World War generals, by British historian Alan
Clark who attributed the phrase to a conversation between German
generals Erich Ludendorff and Max Hoffmann.

Ludendorff: The English soldiers fight like _________.

Hoffmann: True. But don't we know that they are _______ led by
__________.
The title of a 2007 film, takes off from this.

Phrase please? (see next slide for poster)

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A34
"Lions led by donkeys"

2007 Movie was Lions For Lambs that

conveys the same meaning.

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Q 35 - astro

In astrophysics,
X are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. These
particles interact through the weak force and gravity, and possibly through other interactions no
stronger than the weak force.
This combination of properties gives X many of the properties of neutrinos, save for being far
more massive and therefore slower.

Y is a general name for any kind of astronomical body that might explain the apparent presence of
dark matter in galaxy halos.
Y is a body composed of normal baryonic matter, which emits little or no radiation and drifts
through interstellar space unassociated with any solar system. Since Y would not emit any light of
their own, they would be very hard to detect. Y may sometimes be black holes or neutron stars as
well as brown dwarfs or unassociated planets.

The term Y was chosen whimsically by contrast with X.

Z is a dark cluster made of brown dwarfs or white dwarfs.

The dynamics of these objects,must be quite different from that of standard star clusters.
With a very narrow mass range,the evaporation rate of Z should be very slow as predicted by the
evolution of simulated mono-component cluster models.

X,Y and Z ?

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ANSWER

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A35
X - WIMPs - Weakly Interacting Massive
Particles
Y - MACHO - Massive Astrophysical
Compact Halo Object
Z - RAMBO or Robust Association of
Massive Baryonic Objects
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Q 36 - broadcast
The pseudonymous radio critic Jonah Barrington of the
Daily Express was the first to use the epithet to describe
a German broadcaster, in an attempt to reduce his
possible impact: "He speaks English of the _______,
dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety".
However, the history of the name is somewhat confused;
it was actually applied to a number of different
announcers.
Even soon after Barrington coined the nickname, it was
uncertain exactly which German broadcaster he was
describing. Some people just used _________ as a
generic term to describe all English-language German
broadcasters. Poor reception may have added to some
people's difficulties distinguishing between broadcasters.

What term?

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Lord Haw-Haw

Lord Haw-Haw was the nickname of several announcers

on the English language propaganda radio program
Germany Calling,broadcast by Nazi German radio to
audiences in Great Britain on medium wave and by
shortwave to the US.
The program started on 18 September 1939 and
continued until 30 April 1945, when Hamburg was overrun
by the British Army.
The nickname generally refers to William Joyce, who was
German radio's most prominent English language speaker
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SVC Short Visual Connect

Connect all the pictures to the same
theme.
6 pairs of pictures

Points :
12,10,8,6,4,2 on progressive sets.
No negatives.
1 guess per team per set.
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All these words have their etymological
roots in Sanskrit.

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Meerkat from Sanskrit markata meaning "an ape".

Krait ultimately from Sanskrit Karait - a kind of snake.

Atoll ultimately from Sanskrit antala.

Dinghy from Hindi dingi "a tiny boat", from Sanskrit drona-m.

Bandana from Sanskrit bandhan, "a bond".

Shawl from Persian shal,finally from Sanskrit satl, which means "a strip of cloth".

Candy from Sanskrit khanda "piece of sugar".

Shampoo probably from Sanskrit champna which means "kneads".

Avatar from Sanskrit avatara, which means "descent" ; refers to the human incarnation of God
during times of distress on earth.

Guru ultimately from Sanskrit guru-s, which means "a teacher".

Jute via Bengali jhuto ultimately from Sanskrit jutas, which means "twisted hair".

Banyan from Hindi baniyaa ultimately from Sanskrit vanij, which means "a merchant".
Early travellers observed that the shade of the tree was frequented by banias or Indian traders.
Banyan meaning vest or undershirt also has the same origins as it used to be worn by Banias.

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