i couldn't come up with a name - gen quiz (finals)

Post on 06-May-2015

588 Views

Category:

Education

0 Downloads

Preview:

Click to see full reader

TRANSCRIPT

Finals

Zeroth round

1 question

Written

10 points at stake

Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five

2 points for each

1 Obstructing the field

2 Handling the ball

3 Retired

4 Hit the ball twice

5 Timed out

Zeroth pointh oneth round

4 questions

20 points at stake this time

Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons

Simply name them 5 points for each

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Zeroth round

1 question

Written

10 points at stake

Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five

2 points for each

1 Obstructing the field

2 Handling the ball

3 Retired

4 Hit the ball twice

5 Timed out

Zeroth pointh oneth round

4 questions

20 points at stake this time

Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons

Simply name them 5 points for each

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Therersquore totally 11 ways a batsman can be dismissed in Cricket Caught Bowled Run out Hit wicket Stumped and LBW are the six most common ones Name the other five

2 points for each

1 Obstructing the field

2 Handling the ball

3 Retired

4 Hit the ball twice

5 Timed out

Zeroth pointh oneth round

4 questions

20 points at stake this time

Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons

Simply name them 5 points for each

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

1 Obstructing the field

2 Handling the ball

3 Retired

4 Hit the ball twice

5 Timed out

Zeroth pointh oneth round

4 questions

20 points at stake this time

Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons

Simply name them 5 points for each

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Zeroth pointh oneth round

4 questions

20 points at stake this time

Shown will be re-enactments of famous ldquophotographsrdquo on The Simpsons

Simply name them 5 points for each

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(iii)

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(iv)

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answers

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the JFK assasination

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

ldquoDewey Defeats Trumanrdquo

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Fall of Saigon

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Raising of the flag at Iwo Jima

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Zeroth pointh twoth round

Still written

3 QuestionsClues ndash One single answer

Get in on first clue 30 points Second ndash 20 Third ndash 10

No points for the individual answers

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Clue 1 ndash 30 points

In a discussion with Anupama Chopra on The Front Row X narrates an incident in a party Where ldquoOne of them was drunk and said lsquoSir Ye ABC kya hai Isme na A hai na B hai sirf C hairdquo

ABC will should give you the connect

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Clue 2 ndash 20 points

He wrote the introduction to Swami Prabhavanandarsquos 1944 translation of The Bhagvad Gita From 1941 through 1960 he contributed around 48 articles to Vedanta and the West published by The Vedanta Society

One of the reasons stated for why the relationship between Swami Prabhavanada and X cooled was that the Swami disapproved of Xrsquos continued defence of Y

The connect lies in Y

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Clue 3 ndash 10 points

In February 2004 Astronomers in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a planet about 50 light years away and 4000 km across about entirely made of diamond What name has was given to it

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Lysergic Diethylamdie

1 ndash Love Sex aur Dhoka

Sir Love Sex aur Dhoka mein kya hai ndash Isme na Love hai na Sex hai sirf Dhoka hai 2 - Aldous Huxley LSD 3 ndash Lucy ndash Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Scores

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles

Shown will be 10 book covers taken from betterbooktitlescom

The cover remains the same only the title is altered

Try to guess the real name of the book

5 points for direct answers

Infinite Pounce Differential scoring (+5 +4 +3 +2)

Herersquos an example

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer - Dracula

Sometimes the name of the author will be blocked if it is deemed too obvious Otherwise this is pretty much it You need to guess the original title

First five questions go clockwise the next five anti-clockwise

Ready

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

1

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

2 -

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

3

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

3

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

4

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

4

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

5

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

5

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

6

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

6

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

7

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

7

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

8

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

8

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

9

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

9

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

10

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

10

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Scores

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Round 2

20 Questions

10 points each

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

1

In the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate factory Willy Wonka takes Mike and Charlie to show them his new invention the Wonkavision a teleporter Any real thing vaporised by a Wonkavision ends up lsquoinrsquo a TV screen on the other end of the room

To demonstrate Wonka first uses one of his own chocolates and it materializes into one of the channels an Oompaloompa is watching

What does the chocolate end up as or what is the oompaloompa watching when the chocolate appears

Hint

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

It takes place of the monolith of 2001 A Space Odyssey

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins in their book lsquoFreedom at Midnightrsquo talk about this one secret ldquoguarded so cautiously that even the British CID were unaware of its existencerdquo

ldquoIt was a grey piece of film at whose heart were two dark circles no bigger than a pair of ping-pong balls Each was ringed by an irregular white border like the corona of the sun eclipsed by the moon Above them a galaxy of little white spots stretched up the filmrsquos grey surface towards the toprdquo

They go so far as to say that the knowledge of this film could have changed the course of Asian History

This is mostly a myth as there is no conclusive evidence about whether this actually was the case But in the spirit of curiosity what was supposed to be on that film

2

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

The film was supposedly an X-ray the black circles were pulmonary cavities indicating tuberculosis They belonged to Mohammed Ali Jinnah

According to Lapierre and Collins Jinnahrsquos illness was a closely guarded secret and if the congress knew all theyrsquod have to do to avoid partition was wait for him to die

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

3

Shown here is the lsquounofficialrsquo flag of something

The colours are supposed to represent the ldquoFuture historyrdquo of the organizationterritory (or any such thing which can have a flag)

Identify the flag Why is it lsquounofficialrsquo

(Image on the next slide)

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

4

Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture dramacomedy directed by Nicolas Roeg adapted by Terry Johnson from his play of the same name The film is set in 1954 with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joseph McCarthy Joe DiMaggio and X and Y called The Senator The Ballplayer and The Actress and The Professor respectively

Id X and Y

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically incorrect

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Lord Ayyappa

Vishnu had taken the form of Mohini when this took place

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

6

Somewhere in late 2005 X along with his friends Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman developed an XSS based worm as a prank The worm would spread through FB profiles virally through friends viewing each othersrsquo profiles Each infected profile would start looking like a Myspace profile amp automatically send a friend request to Xrsquos own profile enabling him to keep track of the no of infected profiles

However the reason we know his today is because of a joke his friend Mark Cahill decided to play on him Who

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Chris Putnam putnam

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

7 Put funda

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess

Advocated by Bobby Fischer

It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess however the starting position of the pieces on the players home ranks is randomized The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

8

Tanith Lee is a British writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shown is the cover of one of her anthologies Red as Blood or X The title story happens to be a retelling of Snow White Some other stories include The Golden Rope (Rapunzel) and When The Clock Strikes (Cinderella) All these stories have been rewritten to show things from a feminist perspective By what other title (X) is this book known

(Image in next slide)

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Tales from Sisters Grimmer

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

9

While talking about how cultures sub-consciously borrow from each other Michigan University professor Eric Rabkin gives the example of the Spanish word Ojala which is used to mean hopefully or I hope that From which rather unlikely source does the word borrow its origin

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Arabic Inshallah

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

10

He is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that a blogger created Spot the Pretentious _______Reference a game to seek out the name-droppings in the New York Times Indeed if you search him on the NYT website youll find 1688 references since 1981 almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years

Frank Do you know who ___________is

Dwayne Hes the guy you teach

Frank Yeah French writer Total loser Never had a real job Unrequited love affairs Gay Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads But hes also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare

FITB and identify the movie the quote comes from

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Proust Little Miss Sunshine

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy around their necks Mainly found in ItalySwitzerlandIdentify the breed

>

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

St Bernards

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

12

Ars Technica published an article in July 2009 in which Stephen Hawking claimed that he ldquohad experimental evidence that Time Travel was not possiblerdquo

This experiment also features in the series lsquoInto the Universe with Stephen Hawkingrsquo

What did he do

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

He threw a party announced it one day late

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

13

What word has been blocked out By what name would you identify whateverrsquos there at that point

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

The Ericsson Globe

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

14

Roughly the main Cast

Orson BeanCatherine KeenerCameron DiazCharlie SheenJohn Cusack

Whos missing or Which movie

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

John Malkovich Being John Malkovich

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

15

The Omphalos hypothesis is named after the 1857 book Omphalos (no surprises there) by Philip Henry Gosse an English naturalist The idea is sometimes mockingly referred to as ldquoLast Thursdayismrdquo And herersquos your only clue Omphalos is Greek for Navel

What does the Omphalos hypothesis hypothesize Chimp away

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

The argument that God created the world recently (in the last ten thousand years in keeping with Flood geology) but complete with signs of great age like with mountains and canyons trees with growth rings Adam and Eve with hair fingernails and navels (in response to the argument of ldquoIf God created Adam and Eve out of nothing howwhy do they have navelsrdquo)

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

16

An accomplished singer and dancer he won the tony award for Best Leading Actor in a musical Jerome Robbins Broadway in 1989 Clip 1 is him singing on David Letterman Clip 2 is an ad his first commercial success Identify this person

>

4350904

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Jason Alexander

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

17

Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan founded X in May 2008 They named it so because according to them everything which existed before X was simply pre-X

It was recognized as one of lsquo2010 Hottest Silicon valley Companiesrsquo by Leadhill and nominated for a webby award in 2011

Twitter acquired it on March 12 2012 It was shut down on 30 April 2013

Id X

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Posterous

Everything before that was simply ldquopreposterousrdquo

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three are missing Identify all three

httpyoutubenrOv6NgRKNU

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

LOTR triology Peter Jackson

httpyoutubed_mGBcDiHjg

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

19

The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is a lizard of the family Agamidae mostly found in the semi-deserts of Tanzania Rwanda and Kenya

The female is mostly brown and is difficult to distinguish from female agamas of other species The male stands out more with itrsquos bright redviolet head neck and shoulders and a dark blue body This particular appearance has led to it becoming a fashionable pet of late

How has popular media dubbed this lizard or how is it better known

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Spider-Man Lizard

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

20

ldquoThe Newrdquo

ldquoThe Inactiverdquo

ldquoThe Hiddenrdquo

ldquoThe Alienrdquo

Two are missing from this exhaustive list Id both

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Helium and Radon

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Set of two questions for each team

One Direct One Challenge

Bet a certain number of points( Max half your current total)

For first get it correct you gain those many points Get it wrong you lose half as many

For second bet again If the team you challenge answers correctly they gain those points If they donrsquot you do

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Round 3 ndash Last Round

Troll Bollywood Songs ldquoArtrdquo

Troll Bollywood Song-Lyrics IT

Last slide

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i) Identify the movie

Audio httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=m-4qcU86P0w

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii) Identify the song

ldquoInitially we wanted to buy the rights of the song but since the process is too complex we decided to make our own version of it which is grammatically different from the original one We wanted to create our own melody with the same theme in mind so that it gives a similar feel It is also aimed at children But the notation scanning chromatic scale is completely different

It may be sounding similar but in musical grammar it is not a copy Music just has 12 notes and we are churning our songs everyday So there is bound to be similarities Songs lyrics compositions might have copyright but rhythm has no copyright Ek jaisi rhythm ki hazaron gaanein banti hai So is every song a copyldquo

Video of the original httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=4xmV5uHWNag

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Bum Pe Laat

Back

httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=SHAKW-lgBfs

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i) Who

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii)

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Back

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i)

Tumko jo dekha maineToh maine ye jaan liya haiPardesi babu neIss desi dil ko maan liya hai

Lyrics from a popular song Who is the Pardesi Babu being alluded to here

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Pitbull

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii)

I dont want to use lampblackI dont want to show my beautyIf the eyes are alcoholicWhats the need of kohl

___________ boy donrsquot pluck bud

Your mother has said me very hot words

The bollymeanings translation of which recent song

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Back

httpyoutube9UDkYz64ehAt=1m40s

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i) Non-exhaustive list of what

Art

Used clothing

Alcohol

Nazi Paraphernalia

Catalytic converters and test pipes

Tobacco

Plants and seeds And pesticides

Real estate

Lottery tickets

Gift cards

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Items which cannot be sold on e-bay

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii)

These are private telephone numbers that are handled at a higher priority than a public line They often have the following features Get answered outside of working hours Do not make the caller wait on hold or navigate through

cumbersome voice menus Line rings straight through to high-level management or

technicians without having to be transferred from front lines

Shield technical personnel from receiving irrelevant calls The number is only given to selected people

What

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

The Batphone

Back

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(i)

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxterrsquos The Long Earth is about a series of parallel worlds (possibly infinite) that are similar to Earth which can be reached by using an inexpensive device called a Stepperrdquo The circuit for the stepper is uploaded on the web an anonymous person and the assembly turns out to be so simple that kids everywhere start assembling it The ones who get it right ndash disappear into an alternate universe)

What is the Stepperrsquos source of power supply which the kids are so familiar with which is at the heart of the circuit

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

A Potato

Havenrsquot we all done the bulb powered with a potato experiment sometime in school

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

(ii)

There have only been 3 science fiction novels so far which have won the Hugo Nebula and John W Campbell Memorial Awards considered by some to be the ldquotriple crownrdquo of science fiction Gateway by Fredrick Pohl and Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman are two

Which is the third

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Answer

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Back

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Scores

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

Thank you for coming

  • Finals
  • Zeroth round
  • Slide 3
  • Slide 4
  • Zeroth pointh oneth round
  • (i)
  • (ii)
  • (iii)
  • (iv)
  • Answers
  • Slide 11
  • Slide 12
  • Slide 13
  • Slide 14
  • Zeroth pointh twoth round
  • Clue 1 ndash 30 points
  • Clue 2 ndash 20 points
  • Clue 3 ndash 10 points
  • Answer
  • Lysergic Diethylamdie
  • Scores
  • Round 1 ndash Better Book Titles
  • Slide 23
  • Answer - Dracula
  • 1
  • Answer (2)
  • Slide 27
  • 2 -
  • Answer (3)
  • Slide 30
  • 3
  • Answer (4)
  • 3 (2)
  • 4
  • Answer (5)
  • 4 (2)
  • 5
  • Answer (6)
  • 5 (2)
  • 6
  • Answer (7)
  • 6
  • 7
  • Answer (8)
  • 7 (2)
  • 8
  • Answer (9)
  • 8
  • 9
  • Answer (10)
  • 9 (2)
  • 10
  • Answer (11)
  • 10 (2)
  • Scores (2)
  • Round 2
  • 1 (2)
  • Answer (12)
  • Slide 59
  • Slide 60
  • Answer (13)
  • Slide 62
  • 3 (3)
  • Slide 64
  • Answer (14)
  • Flag of Mars Outer Space Treaty
  • 4 (3)
  • Answer (15)
  • Marilyn Monroe Albert Einstein
  • 5 What has been blanked out Also why is this technically in
  • Answer (16)
  • Lord Ayyappa
  • 6 (2)
  • Answer (17)
  • Chris Putnam putnam
  • 7 Put funda
  • Answer (18)
  • Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess
  • 8 (2)
  • Slide 80
  • Answer (19)
  • Tales from Sisters Grimmer
  • 9 (3)
  • Answer (20)
  • Arabic Inshallah
  • 10 (3)
  • Answer (21)
  • Proust Little Miss Sunshine
  • Theyrsquore often depicted in Media as carrying bottles of brandy
  • Answer (22)
  • St Bernards
  • 12
  • Answer (23)
  • Answer (24)
  • 13 What word has been blocked out By what name would you ide
  • Answer (25)
  • The Ericsson Globe
  • 14
  • Answer (26)
  • John Malkovich Being John Malkovich
  • 15
  • Answer (27)
  • Slide 103
  • 16
  • Answer (28)
  • Jason Alexander
  • 17
  • Answer (29)
  • Posterous
  • 18 Shown are the cameos of a person in various movies Three a
  • Answer (30)
  • LOTR triology Peter Jackson
  • 19
  • Answer (31)
  • Spider-Man Lizard
  • 20
  • Answer (32)
  • Slide 118
  • Slide 119
  • Round 3 ndash Last Round
  • (i) Identify the movie
  • Answer (33)
  • The ldquoKalirdquo being referred to ndash Anaarkali
  • (ii) Identify the song
  • Answer (34)
  • Bum Pe Laat
  • (i) Who
  • Answer (35)
  • Marcel Duchamp ldquoNude descending a staircaserdquo
  • (ii) (2)
  • Answer (36)
  • Slide 132
  • (i) (2)
  • Answer (37)
  • Pitbull
  • (ii) (3)
  • Answer (38)
  • Answer
  • (i) Non-exhaustive list of what
  • Answer (39)
  • Items which cannot be sold on e-bay
  • (ii) (4)
  • Answer (40)
  • The Batphone
  • (i) (3)
  • Answer (41)
  • A Potato
  • (ii) (5)
  • Answer (42)
  • Slide 150
  • Scores (3)
  • Thank you for coming

top related