ZiryabThe Slave Who Changed SocietyZiryab (789-857 AD) was a Persian polymath: a poet, musician, singer, cosmetologist, fashion designer, celebrity, trendsetter, strategist, astronomer, botanist, geographer and former slave. Most people have never heard of Ziryab, yet at least two of his innovations remain to this day: he introduced the idea of a three course meal (soup, main course, pudding) and he introduced the use of crystal for drinking glasses (previously metal was the primary material). He introduced asparagus and other vegetables into society, and made significant changes and additions to the music world. He had numerous children, all of whom became musicians, and spread his legacy throughout Europe. He could perhaps be considered an ancient Bach. The list of societal changes Ziryab made is immense – he popularized short hair and shaving for men, and wore different clothes based on the seasons. He created a pleasant tasting toothpaste which helped personal hygeine (and longevity) in the region, and also invented an underarm deodorant. He also promoted bathing twice daily.

Round 1Infinite Bounce

Rules :

• Each question gets you +10.• No negatives on wrong answer• Passed question also gets +10

Identify X

X comes from a Late Latin word which meant "farmland", in the sense of someone who is bound to the soil of a villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in Late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. It referred to a person of less than knightly status and so came to mean a person who was not chivalrous. As a result of many unchivalrous acts, such as treachery or rape, this word took on its modern meaning.

1)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

VILLAIN from the “villa”

The first record of use of X appears to be in 1836 (in Smart's "Walker Remodelled") :“The word X is a sort of a kind of a word That people apply to some being absurd; One who seems, as t'were oddly your fancy to strike In a sort of a fashion you somehow don't like A mixture of odd, and of queer, and all that Which one hates, just, you know, as some folks hate a cat; A comical, whimsical, strange, droll -- that is, You know what I mean; 'tis -- in short, -- 'tis a X! ”

[from "Etymology of X," Charles Dibdin, 1842]

Give out X, which has something to with our event2)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

“QUIZ”

Recently on 15 February 2013, an asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere as “Chelyabinsk meteor” whose air burst resulted in considerable injuries in the Russian town. A similar explosion occurred near present day Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia on June 30 1908 ,but more powerful. It is the largest impact event on or near Earth in recorded history. Since the explosion, there have been an estimated 1,000 scholarly papers (mainly in Russian) published on it. The energy of the explosion was about 1,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. What was the name of that event ?

3)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Tunguska Explosion

_____ Gosavi was a prominent saint of the Hindu Ganapatya sect, which considers the god Ganesha as the Supreme Being. He is considered the chief spiritual progenitor of the Ganapatyas and has been described as the "most famous devotee" of Ganesha. What is his largest contribution to the 10 day Ganpati festival which depicts the inseparable relationship between devotee & God?

4)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

“Morya” GosaviGanpati Bappa Morya

According to the record books this legendary Greek ultra-marathon runner holds more world records than any athlete in the history of any popular sport with 134 world records. Also known as "Running God" or "Pheidippides Successor“ , he holds every men's outdoor road world record from 100 to 1,000 miles and every road and track record from 12 hours to 6 days. It’s recorded officially that he’s the man who has run the most hours, days, weeks, months, years and miles than any other man in the history of mankind. He’s the athlete with the most records in the Guinness Book of World Records (31) from any sport, he has won 71 ultra marathons in every continent, more than anyone in history. Identify him.

5)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Yiannis Kouros

Connected the Highlighted6)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

All these were born in India

George Orwell – Motihari , BiharRudyard Kipling – MumbaiVivien Leigh – Darjeeling , West BengalJim Corbett – Nainital , UttarakhandNasser Hussain – ChennaiBob Woolmer - Kanpur , U.P

Which film is being talked about?

• It is the most successful independent animated feature of all time, grossing over $100 million worldwide.

• Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.

7)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Fritz the Cat

Sorry! This was the most decent poster I could find :P

Identify X

In 1835 Francis Pettit Smith discovered a new way of building X. Up to that time, they were literally screws, of considerable length. But during the testing of one boat, the screw snapped off, leaving a fragment shaped much like a modern X. The boat moved faster. At about the same time, Frédéric Sauvage and John Ericsson applied for patents on vaguely similar, although less efficient shortened-screw X , leading to an apparently permanent controversy as to who the official inventor is among those three men.

8)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

The Boat Propeller

He is also known as Bobby or Simmo. In 1986 he was appointed coach of the Australian team. Some of the team's greatest achievements in his time as coach were winning the 1987 World Cup, regaining The Ashes in England in 1989, and overcoming the previously dominant West Indies on their home grounds in 1995. He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1965. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2007. He is the only person to be involved in all the Tied Tests that happened in the history of cricket (only two such instances) — as a player for Australia in the first, and as the Australian team coach in the second. Identify him.

9)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Bob Simpson

Identify XOn 28 June 2012 X was kidnapped from the back of a car while it was parked on a private drive. The theft caused a "global outcry" with significant coverage in the media leading to X being named "the world's most notable Y" and "one of Britain's best-known Y". X has accounts on Twitter and Facebook and his own Wimbledon security photocard pass with the job title of “Y Scarer”. He is popular amongst Wimbledon fans who often ask to have their photograph taken with him. X is a used by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to keep Y away from their venue. Described as an "important member of the Wimbledon family", X has been scaring away the Y for five years.

10)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

X : Rufus the Hawk

Who coined the term “WIKIPEDIA”?

• The first name of this individual is shared by the first names of founders of Oracle and Google.

• The surname of the individual is the surname of another individual who has the distinction of winning the two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry – only one to do so till date.

11)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Larry Sanger

The unique, noncommercial economy of this country is supported financially by contributions from Roman Catholics throughout the world, the sale of postage stamps and tourist mementos, fees for admission to museums, and the sale of publications.It also conducts worldwide financial activities through the Istituto per le Opere di Religione. This country has an ATM with instructions in Latin, possibly the only such ATM in the world.

Which country ?12)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

39

Vatican City State

Round 23 Slide Questions

Rules:• Each question consists of 3 clues • Ist clue gets you +30 points on right answer with -15 on

wrong answer• IInd clue gets you +20 points on right answer with -10 on

wrong answer • IIIrd clue gets you +10 points on right answer with no

negatives

Q 1

Satellite named after the person+30/-15

Supercomputer named after?+20/-10

Fill in the Blank +10/0

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Kalpana Chawla

Q 2

Identify X

X ‘s brother is presently the Vice–Chancellor of AMU and has also fought in Battle of Longewala which was portrayed in the movie BORDER.

X ‘s brother

+30/-15

• In 1998, X played the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the play Mahatma Vs. Gandhi, (which looked at the Mahatma's relation with Harilal Gandhi, his first son).

With this, he achieved his objective of portraying Mahatma Gandhi, a role he had auditioned for in Richard Attenborough's GANDHI.

• The Government of India has honoured X with both the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan civilian awards for his contributions to Indian cinema.

+20/-10

• X has appeared in international films, notably playing Captain Nemo in the Hollywood comic book adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

• He is a graduate from National School of Drama.

+10/0

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Naseeruddin Shah

Q 3

X is a multinational alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, England.It has an invented name which was created by the branding consultancy Wolff Olins in 1997. The name is composed of the Latin word "dies", meaning day, and the Greek root "geo", meaning world, and is meant to reference the company giving pleasure every day, everywhere.

Identify X +30/-15

• In November 2012, X agreed to acquire a 53.4% stake in the Indian spirits company United Spirits (owner of Kingfisher brand) for £1.28 billion.

• Its CEO is Ivan Menezes who has graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad.

Ivan Menezes

+20/-10

X is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine.Its brands include Smirnoff (the world's best-selling vodka), Johnnie Walker (the world's best-selling blended Scotch whisky), Baileys (the world's best-selling liqueur), and Guinness (the world's best-selling stout). It also owns 34% of Moët Hennessy, which owns brands including Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot and Hennessy. It sells its products in over 180 countries and has offices in around 80 countries.

+10/0

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Q 4

The origin of this word is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. It is said to be a variation of the word "jism," because it was originally performed by horn players to entertain johns in the whorehouses of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans. It was started to be applied to music in Chicago around 1915. Which word ?

+30/-15

This was the first talkie in the world.

An NBA Team

Some popular uses of the word are shown :

Honda ______

+20/-10

It is also a name of a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century, arguably earlier, within the African-American communities of the Southern United States. Its roots lie in the combining by African-Americans of certain European harmony and form elements, with their existing African-based music. Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous musicians of it.

+10/0

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Jazz

Q 5

This logo was originally designed in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom. Holtom, an artist and designer, made it for a march from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England, organised by the Direct Action Committee to take place in April and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). This remained the logo for CND until a decade after which it was generalized to be the symbol for X.

+30/-15

The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament". In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an inverted "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. Superimposing these two signs forms the shape of the centre of the X symbol.

Semaphore for “D”Semaphore for “N”

+20/-10

This is the symbol for X+10/0

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Peace

Round 3Guess the Image!

Rules:• Identify the entity shown in the

specific image• 10 points for the correct answer• NO negatives

The Onset of which phenomenon ?1)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

The Great Depression

“King of Rock and Roll”2)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Elvis Presley

A Naval Aviator from US is captured during Vietnam War in 1967. He will get quite popular in Google searches around 2008.

P.M.O

3)

His Google Trends stats:

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

John McCain

A scientist marries Jane Wilde in 1965?4)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Stephen Hawking

A future President played rugby for Yale in 1966 in this photo?

5)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

George W. Bush

An Extremist

Identify the individual on the far right

6)

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

Osama bin Laden

Round 4Long Visual Connect

• Total 12 slides connecting to a common theme• No points for individual answers• +30 points for guessing the theme

The First Ship to successfully circumnavigate the world.

और सही� उत्तर ही यही :

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