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1. Name the carpenter who created Pinocchio.
2. What is the city of Constantinople today known as?
3. What is herpetology?
4. Who would you find at 221 B Baker Street?
5. Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? By what name do we know him better?
6. Who was known as the Iron Chancellor of Germany?
7. Which company bought BlackBerry Mobility recently?
8*. Identify the person.
9. What are up, charm, top, down, strange and bottom types of?
10. Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson Les Paul guitar, the Bible opened to Psalm 23, and what else?
11*. Who was signed as the Brand Ambassador of Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo on 7 April 2013?
12. This weapons manufacturing company was founded and run by Norman Osborn. Name it.
13. What number connects the following?
-Number of stripes in the American Flag,-Number of Archimedean Solids,-Johnny Cash’s first released song.
14. Who is the author of Inferno and Divine Comedy?
15*. Identify the statue.
16. Who was voted the best DJ of 2013 by Djmag.com?
17. What is the capital of Somalia?
18. With its origin somewhere off coast Thailand, it means ‘Sapphire’ in Thai.Recently it hit Odisha. What is being talked about?
19*. What is the top level country code domain for the Federation of Micronesia?
20. Which countries form Scandinavia?
21*. Identify the model of the car.
22.Who is a pluviophile?
23. Who holds the record for the maximum goals in a single World Cup?(Football, of course)
24. Eight of the “Busby Babes” died, Sir Bobby Charlton, then 20, survived. The incident happened at the Munich Riem Airport.
Which team is being referred to?
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Round 1
What is hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia?
In which book would you find the life and problems of Captain John Yossarian?
Which country is called the Land of the Morning Calm?
What is the official residence of the British Prime Minister?
India’s latest UNESCO World Heritage location, this place is one of the eight hottest biodiversity hotspot, with over 5000 species of flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species and 179 amphibian species. Which place are we talking about?
What product, recently launched, managed to achieve a $1 Billion from sales in 3 days, the fastest by any entertainment property, including films?
Which famous Billionaire is also known by the names “Sage of Omaha,” “Wizard of Omaha” and “Oracle of Omaha”?
Which product of J & J didn't find widespread acceptance, till it was distributed to the Boy Scouts army?
Round 2
Shenzi, Banzai and Ed were a trio of ___________, who helped _______ in overthrowing the ruler of "the lands that the light touched”.
What was the distinction of the FIFA world cup held in 1950 in Brazil?
Which calendric event took place on 21st December 2012?
Who plays the role of Mystique Darkholme in X-Men: First Class
(2011)?
What was originally written for Julian or “Jule”, to console him during his parents' divorce?
Music composer X, for composing the music of Y, indulged in a technique called Crowdsourcing, in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world recorded the Moroccan chant, ‘Z’ online, which was then used in the movie score. Identify X and Y.
Karnataka Y Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha is the only unit authorised in India to manufacture this item X by the Bureau of Indian Standards. X's dimension has to be in the particular ratio of 2:3. What is X?
Whose record did Michael Phelps break to become the sportsperson with the most number of Olympic medals?
Round 3
In 1274, the Mongol and Korean army with a strength of 23,000 and later in 1281 with a strength of 140,000 both under Kublai Khan were almost wiped out due to the same cause X, saving the Japanese shogunates from Mongolian control. Hence, the Japanese have a name Y for X, which was popularized after a 1945 incident against the US defense. Identify Y.
Which geographical feature is locally known as Mosi-oa-Tunya, which translates as 'Smoke that thunders'?
This person who was conferred with the Liberation War Honour Award by the President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman. Who is he?
What is the title of Camilla, wife of Prince Charles?
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to meI lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," 1883
The above quote is inscribed on the foot of which structure?
1. Renegade. Rosebud. Radiance. Renaissance.
2. Secret Service.
Connect.
What did the nobleman John Montagu invent so that he could eat with one hand while playing cards with the other?
Over 300,000 extras were used to shoot this scene, the most for any film according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Name the movie and the scene.
Round 4 (Bounce and Pounce)
Let’s say team A is to be asked the question. Team A can either bounce or pounce, and A decides from either option
before the question is shown. Bounce: Team A decides which team the question is to be directed. Let’s say
team A bounces off the question to D. If team D gets the answer correct, they get 20, and team A -10. If they get it wrong, D gets -10.
Pounce: Team A gets the question for themselves. For a correct answer, 10, for incorrect, -10.
Which football team started out as the Dial Square 127 years back?
The Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter) had an important role in the development of the constitution of England. Under whose reign was it written?
These two ancient Roman city was buried under ash and pumice after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, in 79 AD. One is of course Pompeii, the other is?
Which movie is inspired by the following letter?Executive Mansion,Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,A. Lincoln
What is a semordnilap?
Each week, Pierre and his friends organise what is called as ‘un diner de Cons’. He brings a ‘special guest’ Francois Pignon for their humor, but everything instead goes haywire. This particular 1998 movie was remade into which Bollywood movie in 2007? Also name the original movie.
An test that uses ink to determine a person's personality, Sheldon Cooper's standard answers are "A, a bat, B, a bat, C, a bat, and D, my father killing my mother with a hypodermic needle”.
Statistics are enough to argue with that X was the greatest achieving sportsman in any major sport. Folklore says that he used to practice with a stump and a golf ball. Part of the 1948 team against England called “The Invincibles”, he used to work as a stockbroker. He ended his career with a 0. Identify X.
The Urban Dictionary defines the word as “When you can't stop buying shoes. When you need 2,000 pairs of shoes for just 2 feet!”.
What is the word?
Before the more famous universal name was thought of, the prototypes were originally named "Rocky" (marine/soldier) "Skip" (sailor) and "Ace" (pilot).What is being indicated?
Z, ruler of what is now called India, was the descendant of two of great warriors and rulers ever in the Asian history. He was a direct descendant of X through his father, and a descendant also of Y through his mother. Identify Z.X was a great Mongol ruler, best known for his sieges against Japan. Y was a Turko-Mongol ruler, known for having ruled almost the whole of Asia.
The X disaster occurred in 1937, resulting in the death of 36 people while X was trying to dock. X is the name of a Y. After the incident, Y’s were discontinued from usage for the safety of passengers. Identify X and Y.Y is a method of transportation.
In 1791 a Dublin theatre owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the English language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word “X", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin.Identify X.
Eva married Adolph on April 29, 1945 at around 00.30 hours. For a short while she became the First Lady of the Third Reich till she and her husband ended their lives the next day at around 13:30 hours. Till then who played the role of First Lady when Hitler was unmarried?
This city is associated with motorsport and gave its name to a unique type of race start where racers lined up across the street from their cars and ran across the street and jumped into their cars, get in, start the engines, reverse and begin the race, all without any assistance. This mad scramble in the beginning of each race became an iconic aspect of this race, which, however, was later discarded. Name this city.
1. Nissan Micra = Renault Pulse2. Volkswagen Vento = Skoda Rapid
Nissan Sunny = ?
Visual Round
Which famous Irish novelist does Google Doodle pay tribute to?
Identify the group, the attire belongs to.
The painting holds the record for being onw of the most expensive auction at $120 million. The painting is called “The Scream”. Name the painter.
Identify the personality, apoet laureate and the poet of “The Charge of The Light Brigade”.
Commonly known as the Michelin Man, give the original name of the mascot of the tyre manufacturing company.
Baikal. Grey, elephant, monk, leopard, harp and Caspian are all types of what?
One of the finest romantic poets of his time, his poetry is characterised by ‘odes’. The most notable ones, are ‘to Autumn’, ‘on Melancholy’ and ‘on a Nightingale’.
Name the poet, who was incidentally born on this very day of the month in 1795.
Identify the flag.