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About Me I am Sunil Rinald. Finished my “degree” at PSG Tech this year.. QM’s decision is final and binding.. No protests!! Infi bounce pattern…. And….. The Rules

1 Sappa question…. In the movie Goldfinger, James Bond defuses the bomb intended to blow up Fort Knox, just in the nick of time. How many seconds are left on the counter on the bomb?

3 Greek Myth : The only way to find one's way out of the labyrinth built by Daedalus was by using a skein of thread. The name for this ball of thread is now a commonly used word in the English language.

4 Officially known as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks, it was founded in 1951. Shrouded in secrecy, the identity of its director was traditionally a state secret, and it was not until 1996 that it was announced that Danny Yatom would lead this organization, replacing a man known previously as “S.”

5 Till a few years ago, the sub collectorate at Dindigul, Tamil Nadu would, once a year, write "nil" on a form and forward it on. They had been filling in this form for over forty years before it was scrapped in a drive to cut down useless paperwork. What was this form for?

Cigars for Winston Churchill. Churchill, as an army officer posted in India (briefly in Bangalore), developed his well known taste for Dindigul cheroots. The local officials considered his annual cigar supply so important that a special form was printed for it. After India's independence, and Churchill's death, the export of cigars stopped, but the form still existed and had to be filled out.

7 Time magazine introduced a unique linguistic usage starting from its January 94 issue. It caught on and became a standard usage. What? Otherwise there would be two forms of usage of this word, depending on what the sentence is aimed at or comprises of .

Started calling women 'Ms' instead of MRS / MISS

8 This company in its latest advertisement listed 101 ways to use its product, including warming one’s hands and de-icing car locks. Which company and which was the most significant omission in these 101 ways

ZIPPO LIGHTERS. THE OMISSION WAS LIGHTING A CIGARETTE

9 What is significant about this particular issue of this newspaper ?

The first time 158 year history the New York Times ran an advertisement on its first page. (For CBS) The effects of global recession…

10 At a certain Christie's auction, it had to install video links and additional telephone lines to accommodate the enormous crowds. The ‘nose’ went to an anonymous French bidder, who paid nearly $500,000. The $4 million raised that day was given to children's charities. What did the auction sell?

11 In 1911, after a United States Supreme Court ruling which upheld a federal court order to dissolve it, the _______Trust was split into 34 companies. Two of these companies were Jersey Standard and Socony. By what name do we know them today. And name the company that was initially split! The two merged in 1998.

12 __________ is a term that revived in the 19th century in the United States as a reference to businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various anti-competitive or unfair business practices.

13 Boston Snow theory says if there is good snowfall in Boston, _______ is going to be bullish. Skirt length theory says skirt length goes short when the ____________ is strong Superbowl theory connects win of NFL team to higher _________ and vice versa for AFL teams.

There are theories connecting the above regarding up / down movement of us stockmarket indices. Lipstick theory says lipstick consumption goes high in a dull market as people do not spend on costlier alternatives.

14 They all belong to another “Group” What ?

15 A poll in the late 90’s had her starring in four of the America’s ten hottest computer games: one as a detective,another in a riding club, a third as a photo designer, and a fourth as a nail designer. Who ?

Sir Richard Branson at the launch of Virgin Blonde

17 Back in the 1890s,Three Englishmen – employees from a lace factory (Kilpin), a travel agency (Allison) and a cobbler (Davies) put their proposal to two businessmen - Edwards and Nathan.to start a sports team. Edwards,president designate, accepted only because Davies, the cobbler, offered a free workforce and leather to make the players'boots. They named it the _______ Cricket and Football club. Name the club

19 Before 1947, when India was fighting against British occupation, companies and individuals often included Contribution to Freedom movement as an item in accounting statements. Most often accounting statements would not tally because management funneled money out. Contribution to X's freedom movement provided an excellent means to account for the missing money. Name the term that arised from this.

X is Gandhi Hence the term Gandhi Kanakku.

20 This was the first product of a company that later became successful in a totally different field… Name the company

21 Easy one… Name the movie!!!

23 In British times people were given different coloured caps based on their status in work. The guy who changes the cap is a traitor/thief hence the word _______

mathurdu in Tamil) is a traitor/thief hence the word kepmaari (cap-maari).

24 The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person. She's getting her award. What's he doing up there? He's a jackass

Obama/Kanye West/Taylor Swift @ MTV music awards

25 Identify this person who had a significant role on Tamil journalism

26 A very familiar tune on Indian TV - always associated with a bunch of cute(or wannabe cute) kids - is Teresa Brewer's "Music Music Music" - a song thatwas on the flip side of an album "Copenhagen" that she recorded in 1949 withthe Dixieland All Stars. That song topped the charts in 1950 and went gold,with over a million copies sold. Where do v find the tune??

a. The "Maggi Noodles" jingle, the one that ends with "Maggi Maggi Maggi"

27 Self portrait of Which artist ?

28 Identify the song or the movie….

Kurukuru Nan---- Couples Retreat.. ARR is the music composer for the movie!

29 This famous photograph that appeared on LIFE magazine was shot on a particular day. Name the day or the event.

32 This over is termed as the greatest over in the modern cricket history. This happened in the opening over in 1981 at Kensington Oval, when X faced Y . Identify both.

Goeff Boycott.. And Micheal Holding

33 The following image shows an organism of great historic significance, reportedly first identified and named by Lieutenant Grace Murray Hopper while she was on Navy active duty in 1945. Though this individual passed on abruptly, its progeny are alive, well and thriving in today's World.

35 Meaning a weaker person who lives in the shadow of a stronger person or one who has no got no guts to say wrong about a stronger one. ________ actually came from the word _____ meaning the person will even clean any shit of a stronger person. Typically meaning a weaselly acquaintance

They are “Fictional” TIME magazine covers.. Used in movies…

38 This movie is very significant in some way. What ?

This will be the last movie that will be released starring Heath Ledger “Respect”….

39 Name the person on the right

40 1. Al Capone 2. Ralph Capone 3. Franklin Rio 4. Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn 5. Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik 6. George "Bugs" Moran 7. Joe Aiello 8. Edward "Spike" O'Donnell 9. "Polack" Joe Saltis 10. Myles O'Donnell

41 This is a rather odd list. Or to say this is something hard to achieve by players of the same category. How or Why ? Name Nationality Teams Goals Scored Rogério Ceni Brazilian Sao Paulo 83 José Luis Chilavert Paraguayan Paraguay , Real Zaragoza , Vélez Sársfield , Peñarol 62 René Higuita Colombian Colombia 41 Jorge Campos Mexican UNAM Pumas , Atlante 40 Dimitar Ivankov Bulgarian Levski Sofia , Kayserispor , Bursaspor 37

These players are Goalkeepers.

Final Question A survey conducted by Microsoft in 2004 has concluded that it amounts to a waste of at least 15 million person-hours per day and a staggering amount of $252 million a day! What is being talked about?

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