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QUIZTOPHER COLUMBUS

Infinite Bounce

+ 10 for direct answer as well as passes

+5 for partial answers (Infinite Bounce will continue from where the last part of the question was answered)

The first answer by any team-member will be considered as final

If no team is able to answer a question, the next question will start with (n+1)th team, if we started current question with nth team

Direction of quiz reverses mid-way. After reversing, we will start from the team with the lowest total, irrespective of where the last question finished

- 20 for speaking out of turn

The past quizzes have seen almost all the questions being answered by the first team itself

It was surprising to see people attempting the 20 pointers in the last quiz like it was childs play

So, please dont complain, if this one is a little bit on the difficult side

1. AbracadabraWho has authored the following books?Break with a BansheeGadding with GhoulsHolidays with HagsMarauding with MonstersTravels with TrollsVoyages with VampiresWanderings with WerewolvesYear with the Yeti

AnswerGilderoy LockhartThe professor for Defense against dark arts in Harry Potter 2

2. A _______, also known as an outtake or boner is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew.

It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or news report, usually in terms of misspoken words or technical errors.

The term was popularized in the 1950s in a series of record albums entitled Pardon My _______, in which the definition is given thusly by the record series' narrator: "Unintended indiscretions before microphone and camera.

Fill in the blanks

AnswerBlooper

3. 24 | SarcomaPazuzu is often depicted as a combination of animal and human parts with its right hand pointing upwards and its left hand downwards. It has the body of a man, the head of a lion or dog, eagle-like taloned feet, two pairs of wings, and a scorpion's tail.He was made famous in 1971 by William Peter Blatty and in 1973 by William Friedkin. How?

AnswerExorcist

4. Espanol!The word X originated from the Mayan-Indian word for smoking. However, the word itself, and variations on it, did not come into general use until 1730. Two of the largest producers of X are Atladis, a company based in Spain and Swedish Match.Xs outermost leaves come from the widest part of the plant and the color is often used to describe X ranging from Double Claro, Claro, Colorado, Maduro, Oscuro etc.

What is X?

AnswerCigar

5. A _______ provides information which is needed to manage organizations effectively and efficiently. It involves three primary resources: people, technology and information. It is used to analyze operational activities in the organization.

Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes (but is not limited to): decision support systems, resource and people management applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), project management and database retrieval applications.

FITB with the name of a software which you are forced to use daily.

AnswerMIS (iRunway specific question)

7. Name the device whose working is explained below.a) Any detected ethanol is oxidized into acetic acid at AnodeCH3CH2OH(g) + H2O(l) CH3CO2H(l) + 4H+(aq) + 4e-b) At the cathode, oxygen is reducedO2(g) + 4H+(aq) + 4e- 2H2O(l)c) The overall reaction is the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid and waterCH3CH2OH(l) + O2(g) CH3COOH(l) + H2O(l)The electrical current produced by this reaction is measured by a microprocessor, and displayed as an approximation of overall BAC.

AnswerBreath Analyzer

8. X is a famous novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbours, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers.

X was made into a successful movie, which currently figures in the IMDB Top 250.

What is X?

AnswerTo kill a mockingbird

9. When Indian forces drove away the Portuguese from this colony, it became in the eyes of international law, an independent country.

The residents of the colony requested the Government of India for administrative help. Mr. K.G. Badlani, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) was sent as the administrator. In 1961, Mr. Badlani was, for one day, designated the Prime Minister of the country, so that, as Head of State, he could sign an agreement with the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally merge the country with the Republic of India.

Identify this former Portuguese colony.

AnswerDadar and Nagar Haveli

10. One of the major objectives of LHC experiment at CERN is to demonstrate the existence of an elementary particle, the Wikipedia summary of which is shown here. What are we talking about?

AnswerHiggs Boson

11. A ______ is a batter or dough-based cake cooked in a ______ iron patterned to give a distinctive and characteristic shape. There are many variations based on the type and shape of the iron and the recipe used._______ are eaten throughout the world, particularly in Belgium and the United States.Common toppings are strawberries, chocolate, sugar, honey, syrups, ice cream, and more.

Fill in the blanks

AnswerWaffles

12. Connect (5 clue groups in all)

AnswerIndian currency notes

13. Traveler's diarrhea or traveller's diarrhoea (TD) is the most common illness affecting travelers. An estimated 10 million people20% to 50% of international travelersdevelop it annually. TD is defined as three or more unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a traveler, commonly accompanied by abdominal cramps, nausea, and bloating.

There are a number of colloquialisms for travelers' diarrhea contracted in various localities, such as "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; and "mummy's tummy" in Egypt.

In India, it is known as _____, which is also the name of a successful Bollywood movie.

Fill in the blanks

AnswerDelhi Belly

14. Identify the speaker of this historic speech and the event he is talking about? (5 marks for each)

AnswerJohn F Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis

15. Identify this famous rockstarBorn: November 27, 1942 in Seattle, WashingtonAncestry: Mostly African American, part CherokeeDied: Kensington, London at the age of 27Occupations: Singer, Songwriter, GuitaristLabels: RSVP, Track, Barclay, Polydor, Repsrise, Capitol, MCA

AnswerJimi Hendrix

16. On September 16, 2009, Google acquired a system that is currently digitizing the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books.

The system was developed by a Carnegie Mellon University professor, Luis von Ahn, who realized "he had unwittingly created a system that was frittering away, in ten-second increments, millions of hours of a most precious resource: human brain cycles.

Name this public Turing test system whose primary purpose is to prevent automated access to a system by computer bots.

AnswerreCaptcha

17. Originally developed by a Russian programmer, Alexey Pajitnov, X was first released on June 6, 1984. He derived the name from a Greek numerical prefix and the name of his favorite sport.

X is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes.

Name the product X which has sold over 70 million copies till date.

AnswerTetris

18. Connect

Answer26/11 attacksClockwise from top left Oberoi, Taj, Nariman house, Leopold caf, Mumbai CST

19. A specialized agency of the United Nations came into being on July 14, 1967. It's goals are to administer the acts of the Berne Convention and the Paris Convention.

It currently has 184 member states, administers 24 international treaties, and is headquartered in Geneva. On October 1, 2008, the helm of this agency was passed to Francis Gurry.

Name this famous UN agency.

AnswerWIPO

20. What are the following the variants of?DrawStudOmahaLowballHigh-low splitAnacondaTwistRazz

AnswerPoker

21. Identify this flower

AnswerRafflesia

22. Give the most famous of these famous group of surnames.

McCormick, Marsh, Broflovsky and _______ ?

AnswerCartman

23. This famous electronic instrumental theme from the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop performed by Harold Faltermeyer is named after the lead characters name (played by Eddie Murphy). It topped musical charts in 1985 and remains a popular remix track. Mixes of this song topped European pop charts in 2003, and again in 2005 as the Crazy Frog song. What is this song known as?

AnswerAxel F

24. Whose discography is show below?YearAlbum1990MCMXC a.D.1993The Cross of Changes1996Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!2000The Screen Behind the Mirror2003Voyageur2006A posteriori2008Seven Lives Many Faces

AnswerEnigma

25. Originally titled 'Insomnia Cafe', this television show created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman has garnered fans round the world.

The series finale (the 236th episode), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51.1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.

Name this famous series.

AnswerFriends

26. Zyklon B is a cyanide-based pesticide consisting of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), a stabilizer, a warning odorant methyl 2-bromoacetate, and one of several adsorbents.

IG Farben held the patent for this pesticide and owned 42.2 % shares of Degesch, the company which manufactured it.

This pesticide is very famous in human history because of a certain usage on a mass scale. What usage is being talked about here?

AnswerGas used in gas chambers by Nazis

27. Connect

20042005

2006, 2007

20082009

20102011

AnswerICC Player of the year

28. Which tournaments details are shown here?YearWinnerScoreRunners-Up1997Brazil6-0Australia1999Mexico4-3Brazil2001France1-0Japan2003France1-0Cameroon2005Brazil4-1Argentina2009Brazil3-2USA

AnswerConfederation cup

29. The NATO phonetic alphabet is the most widely used spelling alphabet. It assigns a telephony word to each letter in the English alphabet so that words can be pronounced and understood without any confusion.

X is a smooth progressive ballroom dance form characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It was invented by Henry Fox in the United States in 1914.

X is also the telephony code for the letter 'F' in the standard NATO phonetic alphabet.

What is X?

AnswerFoxtrot

30. A French harp or a blues harp is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate creating sound. Each chamber has multiple, variable-tuned brass or bronze reeds, which are secured at one end only, leaving the other free to vibrate.Its various types include Chromatic, Diatonic, Tremolo, Orchestral, Chord and ChengGong.

How do we better know this musical instrument?

AnswerHarmonica

REVERSE THE DIRECTIONThe quiz will proceed in the reverse direction nowInfinite Bounce rules still persistWe will start with the team with the lowest total now (Irrespective of where the last question finished)

31. Known as Operation Al, this military exercise conducted by the Japanese Navy on the morning of December 7, 1941 involved 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves.The major aim of this exercise was to prevent the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya. The second aim was to buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength. The exercise resulted in 2,896 casualties including 2,117 deaths.How do we better know Operation Al?

AnswerAttack on Pearl harbor

32. Which television show, whose name literally means 'a garland of pictures' airs for half an hour every Friday on prime-time where the videos of the latest film songs are televised? It's the longest-running film-based programme in TV history, having started in the 1960s.

Lately, the show has started using Same Language Subtitling (SLS), where subtitles of the song's lyrics scroll across the screen. The idea behind SLS is to promote literacy, especially in villages.

AnswerChitrahar

33. Connect

AnswerRooms in iRunwayClockwise from top left Orion, Athena, Tethys, Poseidon, Ulysses

35. Originally published as, "Ten Little Niggers", this famous fiction novel was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939. The title was later changed to the current more famous version, because of the presence of a racial epithet. The original title of the poem was chosen because the plot of the novel parallels the old nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers".How do we better know this best-selling novel which has sold more than 100 million copies till date?

AnswerAnd then there were none

36. Shown here is the logo a company that merged to form one of the biggest multinationals on the planet today. The current company

logo, very similar to one shown above, modeled after a 15th century Norse woodcut, is a mixoparthenos, or twin-tailed mermaid, or siren as shes known in Greek mythology. The original logo raised some controversies because it featured the siren with bare chest, which was covered later with flowing hair to hide the chest and her navel. Which company are we talking about?

AnswerStarbucks

37. The name of this American multinational IT giant came from the name of the creek that ran behind the house of the founder John Warnock.

He founded this company with Charles Geschke, after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language.

Which company are we talking about?

AnswerAdobe

38. The following pictures relate to the names of the three main characters from a famous Cartoon show. What is the name of this show?

Character 1Character 3

Character 2

AnswerPowerpuff girlsBubbles, Blosson, Buttercup

39. The following cricketers share a unique distinction in test cricketHugh TrumbleJimmy MathewsWasim Akram

The following cricketers share the same unique distinction in ODI cricketLasith Malinga*Saqlain MushtaqChaminda VaasWasim Akram

What distinction are we talking about?

AnswerMore than one hatricks (Everybody has two has except for Malinga who has three)

40. What is this group collectively known as? (5 marks if you can give me the concept and not the name)

AnswerAdvance GuardResuced Harry Potter at start of HP 5

41. Shown above is the picture of X, a Levantine Arab food dip made from cooked, mashed chickpeas, blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic. It is popular throughout the Middle East and in Middle Eastern cuisine around the globe.

The name X comes from an Arabic word meaning chickpeas. The spelling of X in English can be inconsistent.

What is X?

AnswerHumus

42. Originally the name of this software was chosen by an author just because it was a catchy name. Soon enough, it was suggested that the name was indeed appropriate, because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was a software that was patchy

What are we talking about?

AnswerApache server

43. By what name does Google call its new employees, and even gives them propeller beanie hats to wear at their first TGIF?

AnswerNooglers

44. Identify the advertiser

AnswerDurex

45. X is a working group of experts that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda and Leonardo Chiariglione.

X's official designation is ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG11 - Coding of moving pictures and audio (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 11).

What is X?

AnswerMPEG

47. A ___________ is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall or window, or at a wicket.

These days, the term is most popularly used in another context - that of the film industry.

Fill in the blanks

AnswerBox office

48. Connect

AnswerYojimbo was remade as A fistful of dollarsYojimbo means Bodyguard

49. The tuberose ( Polianthes tuberosa ) is a perennial plant related to the agaves, extracts of which are used as a middle note in perfumery. Its common name in Hindi means fragrant at night and was used as the title of an acclaimed 1974 movie. Identify its Hindi name . (Visual follows.)

AnswerRajnigandha

50. Which art form , tracing its origins to wandering minstrels and storytellers, has three major schools: Benares, Jaipur and Lucknow? A less prominent school, Raigarh, combines techniques from the major schools. Originally, these performers entertained audiences in village squares and temple courtyards, by recounting mythological and moral tales from the scriptures, and embellishing their recitals with hand gestures and facial expressions.

AnswerKathak

51. The original purpose of this scientific discipline was data to be used by governmental and administrative bodies. The term, in the current sense, was introduced in German by Gottfried Achenwall in 1749. It was introduced into English in 1791 by Sir John Sinclair when he published the first of 21 volumes titled _____ Account of Scotland . What?

AnswerStatistics

52. Connect

AnswerKiran BediShe was IPS officer, won the Ramon Magasasay Award, hosted Aap ki Kachahri and did her PhD from IIT Delhi

53. In Latin, it means image or apparition. The word was strictly used to designate a ghostly optical afterimage by Goethe in his Theory of Colours and Schopenhauer in On Vision and Colours . From 17th century optics, it started getting used in other contexts also.

Identify this much-maligned term .

AnswerSpectrum

54. Which revolutionary mathematicians 410th birthday is being commemorated by the Google Doodle shown below?

AnswerFermat

55. According to an apocryphal story, it owes its existence to a section of tightly packed seats behind the home plate at Fenway Park in Boston. These seats were so close together that whenever a fan had to stand up to get a beer, everyone else in the row also had to stand. The fans in the next row, frustrated that they couldnt see the game anymore, also got up. This created a domino effect. It caught worldwide attention in 1986. What phenomenon are we talking about?

AnswerMexican Wave

56. Once, Steve Waugh was reading his team's batting line up. The list went: Shane Lee, Ian Harvey, Brett Lee. What followed, gave Brett Lee his nickname. What nickname did Steve Waugh give Brett Lee and why?May be this guy can be of some help.

AnswerOswaldLee Harvey Oswald killed JFK

57. Formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, this company produces more than 55,000 products, including: adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, dental products, electronic materials, medical products, car care products , electronic circuits and optical films. Two of its products which you might have used most are Magic Tape and Scotch Brite.

Name this American multinational conglomerate

Answer3M

58. Maurice Tillet is a French wrestler who suffered from a problem called acromelagy which leads to uncontrolled bone growth. So, he basically grew into a disfigured giant. He was the inspiration behind one of the most famous cartoon characters of all time. Which cartoon character?

AnswerShrek

59. One of the theories suggests that this phrase originated from early radio commentaries of football matches by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The first live radio commentary featured a Division One match between Arsenal and Sheffield United, broadcast on January 22, 1927. A grid of a football pitch divided into eight numbered squares had been printed in the previous week's Radio Times so the commentator could describe the ball's location.The phrase came into existence, whenever a game was restarted from a goal kick. Which phrase?

AnswerBack to square one

60. Which Roman Catholic saint born in Eastern France claimed divine guidance, led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War and paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII?

This saint was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake at the age of 19 - later only to be pronounced innocent and declared a martyr by Pope Callixtus III.

AnswerJoan of Arc

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