1. Who, referring to what?

“Everyone is praising the robes but the emperor is naked. Tune ordinary, singing substandard, words an insult to sensibility”

Javed Akhtar, Kolaveri Di

2. Which country?

• India’s motto is 'Satyameva Jayate' which literally translates to 'Truth alone triumphs'. Country X has a slightly more colourful mottos:

• It is a Latin phrase 'Nemo me impune lacessit', meaning 'No one provokes me with impunity!’

• In the native language of X it is 'Wha daur meddle wi‘ me?‘.

• Uncyclopedia parodies it as 'Dinnae fuck wi' me!'

Scotland

3*. Who is X?

• Les internationaux de France de X, an annual event is named for X, a pioneer aviator who completed the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea), engineer (inventor of the first forward-firing aircraft machine gun), and World War I hero (the first pilot to shoot down five enemy aircraft, and to be called an "ace" for doing so), who was killed in aerial combat in 1918.

Roland Garros

4. Whose tweets are these? What is he ranting about? Be specific.

Salman Rushdie, middle name controversy

5*. Which company?• This American company, started in 1882 by 3 reporters, was

owned by the Bancroft family for 105 years before being acquired by News Corporation in Dec 2007.

• The firm is known for several of its publications, including the Wall Street Journal.

• It also produces over 13,000 economic indices in over 60 countries worldwide, including commodity-based, sector-based, region- based and even religion-based indices of economic development.

Dow Jones!

6.*

Who is this lady and why does she have no name?

Census 2011 Mascot

7*. Who is this man, and what did he discover thus?

“I was sitting writing at my textbook but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire and dozed. Again the atoms were gambolling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by the repeated visions of the kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold confirmation: long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together all twining and twisting in snake like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I awoke; and this time also I spent the rest of the night in working out the rest of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find the truth... But let us beware of publishing our dreams till they have been tested by waking understanding. ”

Kekule, Benzene Rings

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• Ms. Germanotta is known to the world for her bad romance and for calling herself the mother monster, but yet, when a certain Ms. Ciccone, no stranger to controversy herself, was asked about her, she replied that she had no idea who Ms. Germanotta is.

• That’s a bit odd, considering Ms. G idolizes Ms. C.

• How do we better know these two ladies?

Lady Gaga, Madonna

9. FITB

• Many of the ________ family members are said to have been named after mythological characters from the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, such as Sir Percival, Queen Guinevere, Rhongomyniad (Arthur’s famous spear).

Weasleys

10. Google Doodle on whose birth anniversery?

Answer

11. From who to whom?

Gandhi to Hitler

On the morning of 28th April 1986, workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden, were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes. 

It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that led to the first news of _________________ to the outside world.

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Chernobyl Meltdown

13*. Context?

"Vada a bordo, cazzo!" or "Get on _____, for f**k's sake!" has been printed on T-shirts, mugs, etc and is being sold virally on the internet.

It has also been a top trending topic on Twitter in Europe in January.

Costa Concordia Capsizes, Capt Schettino jumps ship.

14. Whose Grave site?

Ludwig Boltzmann

• “And even "X" likes India now. I  really enjoyed played alongside him at Rajasthan last season and can confidently report to you that he is not eating imported baked beans any more. In fact, looking at him, it seems, he is not eating anything.”

• Who said this and when?• Who is X?

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Rahul Dravid, speaking at the Bradman OrationX is Shane Warne

16.*

A letter from X to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, asking them NOT to consider his film for and Oscar.

X=?

Ingmar Bergman

17. Identify the artist

John Lennon

18. Which Font?

• The name of this font was inspired by a puzzle question that Vincent Connare, the designer, heard at Microsoft headquarters. According to Connare:

The name originated from a lunch conversation with someone from my type group. An engineer told a story about a question posted to an internal puzzle email list. The question was "can you make a _________ that could launch a person from main campus to the new consumer campus about a mile away? Mathematically is it possible and how?”

• Connare thought that would be a great name for a font that “launches words across the Internet”. (It was specifically meant to be a screen-readable web design font)

Trebhuchet MS

19. What company is this? Certain keywords required.

• It is a Peruvian multinational company, operating in 22 countries and having ~10,000 employees.

• It started operation in India in December 2010, and has recently become very visibly here, on campus.

• From the company website:

As a company with a "Think Big" philosophy we aim to break down barriers and maintain our ethos of working hard in order to reach our main objective and become one of the top 20 most important multinational companies in the world by 2020.

AJE

20. FITB

• _____ did not realize the practical importance of his experiments. He stated that,

"It's of no use whatsoever[...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right—we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there.”

• Asked about the ramifications of his discoveries, he replied, "Nothing, I guess.“

• Little did he know than his discoveries would usher in a new era of scientific advancement.

Hertz

21. Name the device

• A __________ is a type of photometer used on reconnaissance satellites that is intended to detect atmospheric nuclear detonations.

• The name of the detector is a playful pun, which was bestowed upon it by Fred Reines, one of the scientists working on the project, the joke being that one would have to be on drugs to believe the ________ detectors would work properly.

• This is in contrast to a "bangmeter" one might associate with detection of nuclear explosions.

Bhangmeter

• Diogenes of Sinope was an ancient Greek philosopher, and one of the founders of Cynic school of philosophy. He begged for a living and slept in a tub in the marketplace. He became notorious for his philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man.

• He even publicly mocked Alexander the Great; Alexander once found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

• He also urinated on some people who insulted him, defecated in the theatre, masturbated in public etc.

• He is also credited for popularizing what the Ancient Romans called the digitus impudicus, which he used while arguing with Demosthenes. What is this?

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Middle finger

23*• Movie star X started his career in a 1975 pornographic movie called

All in the Family.

• He later defended this with: “I had to do anything I could to make a living 31 years ago, but I don't think it's a big deal, even Marlon Brando used to be exposed in his movies," X said. "The porn movie at that time was more conservative than the current films“

• The film was directed by Mu Zhu, and was euphemistically called, an “adult comedy”.

• It is the only movie that he has starred in where starred in where there isn't a single fight or stunt sequence.

Jackie Chan

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This is an early prototype of which invention?It was used by medical practitioners as a treatment for

“hysteria”.

Vibrators

25*

• The original etymology of _____ _____ is related to the Dreadnought hoax: in 1910 a group of English friends (including Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves with skin darkeners and turbans and pretending to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage obtained the permission to visit the HMS Dreadnought in Weymouth. Each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase '_____ ______!

• In Europe, the term _____ ______ has become an instant, supposedly hilarious, household expression.

Bunga Bunga!

26. :-/

• Which book (name author as well) begins with this dedication:

“This may be the first time in the history of books, but here goes:

Dedicated to my in-laws, Which does not mean I am henpecked, under her thumb or not man enough.”

Two States, Chetan Bhagat

27*. Identify the facility

• Located deep in the icy mountainside of Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard Archipelago, north of Norway, this facility was built in the hope of averting and alleviating future global crises, and post apocalyptic scenarios.

• Pics on Next slide

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

28*. What?

• Set in a rounded slab serif typeface called American Typewriter, it is one of the most popular rebuses seen in the world.

• It was part of a campaign to give residents some hope to cling onto, amidst the billion dollar deficit, piles of rubbish on the roads and spiraling crime rates.

• In a moment of forgetfulness, it wasn’t copyrighted, and as a result has now become the most widely used (and abused) piece of branding ever and is a part of the American pop cultural canon.

• Keep Talking is an amazing song off Pink Floyd’s Division Bell album. Like other songs on this album, it deals with communication, and the the idea that talking can solve more of life's problems.

• The song contains audio samples of X, taken from a British TV advertisement. When David Gilmour first saw the advertisement, he was so moved by the X’s sentiment, that he immediately got permission to use the recordings on the album.

• Listen to the audio and identify X.

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Stephen Hawking

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