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Shrinidhi KulkarniSamarth M

September 10, 2015

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About the Oldest Club in college and a few other things...


Prelims


Prelims Questions


1*

Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June, 1631 and died in 1706, at areasonably old age of 75. We may not find her death interesting, butwhy would her birth be significant?


2*

X- Lead Vocals

Paresh Kamath — Lead guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Naresh Kamath — Bass guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Kurt Peters — Drums

Samuel Shetty — Drums

Naitik Nagda — Indian & Western Percussions

Jose Neil Gomes - Saxophone, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Flute

Sameer Chiplunkar - Keyboard

Jovian Soans

Tapas Roy - Mandolin, Dulcimer


3

Where in the world will you see the following verse?

"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn ;

Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,

The great crowd will feel proud,

Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn ;

And the rest coming home with the urn."


4

X was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. By applyingLouis Pasteur’s advances in microbiology, he promoted the idea ofsterile surgery.Y is a product which is promoted with the slogan “Kills germs . . . ”. Itwas invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.However, it found success later when it was pitched as a solution forsomething else.


5*

Dr Elena Basner, an art curator, worked with scientists to create amuch better way to detect forged oil paintings. It is based on presenceof strontium-90 and cesium-137 in the paintings. The isotopes arefound in the types of crops that are used to produce oil based paints.How is this used to detect forgery?


6

X literally means The Island (though I have no idea why this would benamed this way) and is owned by the the Qatari House of Thani. Dueto the ownership by the Qatari Govt, it’s credibility has often beendoubted and back in 2011 resulted in a controversy that saw UAE,Bahrain, Saudi Arabia withdraw it’s diplomats from Doha. The logomight help.


7

X also referred to as motor neuron disease (MND), Charcot disease(in France ”maladie de Charcot”), and, in the United States, Y’s dis-ease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is charac-terised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to mus-cle atrophy, difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia),and breathing (dyspnea). X is the most common of the five motorneuron diseases. One of the famous victims of this disease is StephenHawking. Last year, this disease had somehow accumulated the Inter-net’s attention. How so? -Also give X & Y.


8*

X is word that shall always be associated with a certain TV series, anessential part of our childhood. Although to the minority of scholars,X is actually a certain Hawaiian King who was the first to unite theislands of Hawaii and laid down a set of laws. How Akira Toriyamadecided to use this name to describe the release of latent energy all atonce from the protagonists body is for us to speculate. The word Xplease.


9

For what specific thing did Facebook pay the The American FarmBureau Federation 8.5 million dollars?


10


11


12

Explain the incident


14

Put funda


15

Put funda.


16*

Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a house in the 90’s.The address of the house, still in rent, reads:House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur,Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006Who is the famous resident?


17

An Interesting Exchange between Two Geniuses:X to Y: What I most admire about your art. You don’t say a word,and the rest of the world understands you.Y to X: It is true. But your glory is even greater! The whole worldAdmires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what yousay!ID X and Y.


18

Their slogan is: ”We open government”. Their headquarters is inSweden, which even a nuclear bomb cant destroy. Name them.


19

From 1884 these were officially two: Bombay X and Kolkata X.In the 20th century it was unofficially used by Railways according toMadras X .Many years back there was 1 more of this kind at Port Blair.Few years back it was again in news for some reasons and debate isstill going on.What am I talking about ?


20

His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member of the Assam Leg-islative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, afterleaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a fewmonths hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal,Assam.On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achievedthis feat.In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at theage of 35.Who?


21*

Who is the lyricist for this album? A very ”special” person debuted inthe Bollywood with this.


22

In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character by Forbes Mag-azine. But later X was dropped from the list because of angry lettersfrom children claiming X was real. Identify X


23

Put funda.

1 Coca-Cola

2 Lays

3 Playstation

4 Toyota Corolla

5 iPads

6 Angry Birds

7 Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album

8 Harry Potter Books

9 iPhones

10 Rubiks Cube


Answers to Prelims


1

Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June, 1631 and died in 1706, at areasonably old age of 75. We may not find her death interesting, butwhy would her birth be significant?


Answer

Her mother Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth while delivering her. Herfather Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in Mumtaz’s memory.


2

X- Lead Vocals

Paresh Kamath — Lead guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Naresh Kamath — Bass guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals

Kurt Peters — Drums

Samuel Shetty — Drums

Naitik Nagda — Indian & Western Percussions

Jose Neil Gomes - Saxophone, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Flute

Sameer Chiplunkar - Keyboard

Jovian Soans

Tapas Roy - Mandolin, Dulcimer


Answer

Kailash Kher.This is the list of the band members of his band, Kailasa.


3

Where in the world will you see the following verse?

"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn ;

Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;

The welkin will ring loud,

The great crowd will feel proud,

Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn ;

And the rest coming home with the urn."


Answer

The Ashes Urn.


4

X was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. By applyingLouis Pasteur’s advances in microbiology, he promoted the idea ofsterile surgery.Y is a product which is promoted with the slogan “Kills germs . . . ”. Itwas invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.However, it found success later when it was pitched as a solution forsomething else.


Answer

Joseph Lister, Listerine


5

Dr Elena Basner, an art curator, worked with scientists to create amuch better way to detect forged oil paintings. It is based on presenceof strontium-90 and cesium-137 in the paintings. The isotopes arefound in the types of crops that are used to produce oil based paints.How is this used to detect forgery?


Answer

Painting made prior to 1945 do not have the isotopes as these isotopesare not naturally found. These came into existence after 1945, sincethe nuclear explosions.


6

X literally means The Island (though I have no idea why this would benamed this way) and is owned by the the Qatari House of Thani. Dueto the ownership by the Qatari Govt, it’s credibility has often beendoubted and back in 2011 resulted in a controversy that saw UAE,Bahrain, Saudi Arabia withdraw it’s diplomats from Doha. The logomight help.


Answer

Al Jazeera


7

X also referred to as motor neuron disease (MND), Charcot disease(in France ”maladie de Charcot”), and, in the United States, Y’s dis-ease—is a neurodegenerative disease with various causes. It is charac-terised by muscle spasticity, rapidly progressive weakness due to mus-cle atrophy, difficulty in speaking (dysarthria), swallowing (dysphagia),and breathing (dyspnea). ALS is the most common of the five motorneuron diseases. One of the famous victims of this disease is StephenHawking. In recent times this disease has somehow accumulated theInternet’s attention. How so ? -Also give me X & Y.


Answer

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge X- ALS. Y- Lou Gehrig


8

X is word that shall always be associated with a certain TV series, anessential part of our childhood. Although to the minority of scholars,X is actually a certain Hawaiian King who was the first to unite theislands of Hawaii and laid down a set of laws. How Akira Toriyamadecided to use this name to describe the release of latent energy all atonce from the protagonists body is for us to speculate. The word Xplease.


Answer

Kamehameha


9

For what specific thing did Facebook pay the The American FarmBureau Federation 8.5 million dollars?


Answer

The domain

www.fb.me


10


Answer

McDonalds Fries.


11


Answer


12

Explain the incident


Answer

Shortage of Amul butter in Bengal.


14

Put funda


Answer

This is the first clear picture of the planet Pluto, taken recently by theNew Horizons probe.


15

Put funda.


Answer

May Day/ Labors day


16

Hiteswar Saikia, former CM of Assam, rented out a house in the 90’s.The address of the house, still in rent, reads:House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar, Ward No. 51, Sarumataria, Dispur,Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup, (Assam) - 781006Who is the famous resident?


Answer

Dr. Manmohan Singh.


17

An Interesting Exchange between Two Geniuses: X to Y: What I mostadmire about your art. You don’t say a word, and the rest of the worldunderstands you.Y to X: It is true. But your glory is even greater! The whole worldAdmires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what yousay!ID X and Y.


Answer

X - Charlie ChaplinY- Albert Einstein


18

Their slogan is: ”We open government”. Their headquarters is inSweden which even nuclear bomb cant destroy. Name them.


Answer

WikileaksCurrently, WikiLeaks is hosted mainly by the Swedish internet serviceprovider Bahnhof in the Pionen facility, a former nuclear bunker inSweden.


19

From 1884 these were officially two : Bombay X and Kolkata X.In the 20th century it was unofficially used by Railways according toMadras X .Many years back there was 1 more of this kind at Port Blair.Few days back it was again in news for some reasons and debate is stillgoing on.What am I talking about ? (source-The Tribune)


Answer

Indian Standard Time


20

His great-grandfather W. D. Smiles was a member of the Assam Leg-islative Council. Though he was born and brought up in UK, afterleaving school, he considered joining the Indian Army and spent a fewmonths hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim, West Bengal,Assam.On 16 May 1998, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, 18months after breaking three vertebrae in a parachuting accident. At23, he was at the time among the youngest people to have achievedthis feat.In July 2009, he was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout at theage of 35.Who?


Answer

This is Bear Grylls of Man vs Wild fame.


21

Who is the lyricist for this album? A very ”special” person debuted inthe Bollywood with this.


Answer

Former Union minister Kapil Sibal.


22

In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character by Forbes Mag-azine. But later X was dropped from the list because of angry lettersfrom children claiming X was real. Identify X


Answer

Santa Claus


23

Put funda.

1 Coca-Cola

2 Lays

3 Playstation

4 Toyota Corolla

5 iPads

6 Angry Birds

7 Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album

8 Harry Potter Books

9 iPhones

10 Rubiks Cube


Answer

World’s best selling products of all time.


Finals


Dry Humping


1

X was written by Hans Christian Anderson as a love letter to one EdvardCollin. Anderson, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a youngwoman, proclaimed his true love to him. Edvard turned Andersondown, disgusted. He then wrote X to symbolize his inability to haveCollin just as the lead character cannot be with a human. X, as it wasoriginally written, did not have a happy ending.


Answer

The Little Mermaid


2

Identify.

Figure: Id the kid


Answer

Sebastian Vettel


3

This is the record for the longest clocked standing ovation given to anAcademy Award winner. Identify the recipient.


Answer

Charlie ChaplinThe longest standing ovation to an Academy Award recipient was givento Charles Chaplin when he received the academy honorary Award forachievement in film. It was presented to him by Jack Lemmon.


4

Mobile phone throwing is an international sport that started in X in theyear 2000. It is a sport in which participants throw mobile phones andare judged on distance or technique. There are usually four categoriesin the sport:

Original (also called ”Traditional”): an over-the-shoulder throwwith the farthest distance winning (best of three)

Freestyle: contestants get points for aesthetics and creativechoreography

Team original: up to three competitors have one throw eachwith their scores added together

Junior: for children aged twelve or younger.

Which country are we talking about?


Answer

Of course, which other country than Finland?


5

The painting is titled ’The courtyard at the residency in Munich’. Iden-tify the artist.


Answer

This was painted by Adolf Hitler.


6

The book is divided in 5 parts:

Mitra-bheda

Mitra-labha or Mitra-samprapti

Kakolukiyam

Labdhapranasam

Apariksitakarakam

Name of the book?


Answer

The Panchtantra


7

Identify


Answer

Jawaharlal Nehru, his wife Kamala Nehru and daughter Indira Gandhiin 1918.


8

In 1712, the British imposed a newspaper tax that was solely based onthe number of pages in the publication. What resulted due to this?


Answer

BroadsheetOther newspaper sizes then were Tabloid, Berliner and Compact.


List Its


List It

List all the Nobel laureates with multiple Nobel awards.


List It

List the teams of Pro Kabbaddi League


1. Answer

John Bardeen

Marie Curie

International Committee of the Red Cross

Linus Pauling

Frederick Sanger

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees


2. Answer

Bengal Warriors

Jaipur Pink Panthers

Bengaluru Bulls

Puneri Palthan

Patna Pirates

U Mumba

Telugu Titans

Dabang Delhi


Arbitrarium


1


1.1

Dolphin - ?


2


2.1

Why?


3


3.1

Put funda.


4


4.1

So?


5


5.1

What’s happening here?


6


6.1


1


1.1

Dolphin - Dolphout


2


2.1

Because Neil died of cancer due to smoking xD


3


3.1

Victoria’s Secret


4


4.1

Bear Grylls. Seriously, stop laughing.


5


5.1

Carbon Dating


6


6.1

Hi, I’m your Bucket List.


Stage II


1

This man was a tribal leader and a folk hero, was behind the Mil-lenarian movement that rose in the tribal belt of modern day Biharand Jharkhand during the British Raj, in the late 19th century mak-ing him an important figure in the history of the Indian independencemovement.


2


3

A legal luminary, he has also authored the book- “Problem of theRupee” while studying at LSE.


4


5


6


Indian Airports

Birsa Munda - Ranchi

Kempegowda - Bengaluru

B.R Ambedkar - Nagpur

Veer Savarkar - Port Blair

Chaudhary Charan Singh - Lucknow

Indira Gandhi - Delhi


Short Visual Connect - Audience


1


2


3


4


5

Hyderabad

Noida

Mumbai

Kolkata


SVC

1 Harshaali Malhotra (Munni)

2 Regional Broadcasters of World Cup 2015

3 Players from Indian origin playing for different countries

4 UN Security Council’s permanent members

5 Indian Coint Mints


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