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Finals
4 rounds.
2 Infinite pounce rounds of 10 questions each.
2 Written rounds of 8 questions each, one on the
theme India and the other on Amul ads.

Round 1
•Infinite Pounce.
•Clockwise.
•10 Questions.
•+10/-5 on the pounce.
•+10 and no negative on the
bounce.

1.
• One of the world's earliest instance of X was a
1575 Roman Catholic church regulation in
Mexico. The Portuguese had introduced _____
to India, and Jahangir commissioned it in 1618
convinced that it’s consumption created
“disturbance in most temperaments”. The first
modern attempt at X was imposed by the then
German government in every university, post
office, military hospital, and Nazi Party office,
citing health issues. What is being talked about?

2.
• Il Postino (The Postman) is a 1994 Italian movie.
The film tells a fictional story in which the real
life poet X, in about 1950, is exiled to a small
island in Italy for political reasons, forms a
relationship with a simple postman who learns
to love poetry. Name this famous Nobel laureate.

3. Picture on next slide.
• Threadneedle Street is a street in the City of
London, famous as the site of X. X itself is often
called 'the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street' and
the street has been based at its current location
since 1734. The name is taken from the legend
of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to
haunt the X's garden. Id X.

4.
The following conversation is in a clever code
about a certain WWII project. Which Italian is
being talked about? Name the project.
Compton: The Italian navigator has landed in the
New World.
Conant: How were the natives?
Compton: Very friendly.

Enrico Fermi and the Manhattan
Project.

5.
• X is regarded as the sequel to the French
Revolution of 1789. At the height of this
movement, which was sparked by radical action
by youth and students, an estimated 10 million
workers were on strike and 600,000 students
were on strike and occupying their schools and
universities. The movement was against the class
discrimination in French society and the political
bureaucracy that controlled the Paris university's
funding. Name this uprising.

6. Xckd comic on which
company?

Cernan and Stafford, both are wearing
the snoopy cap. Snoopy is the official
Safety Mascot of NASA.

8. Identify this non-exhaustive list.
• Galacidalaicideoxyribonucleicacid
• The Discovery of America by Christopher
Columbus
• The Great Masturbator
• Basket of Bread
• Landscape near Figueras
• Cruxification
• The Swallow’s Tail

9.Id X.
• After making his first pair of shoes at age nine, for
his sisters to wear at their confirmation, young X, a
famous Italian shoe designer, decided that he had
found his calling. His scientific and creative approach
to shoes spawned many innovations such as the
wedge heel and cage heel, the latter being his most
famous invention. Known as the 'shoemaker of
dreams’, he fashioned shoes for the wealthiest and
most powerful women of the century, from the
Maharani of Cooch Behar to Eva Peron to Marilyn
Monroe. A museum dedicated to X's life and work
opened in the Palazzo Spini Feroni in 1995.

10. Id X
• The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed
by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,
to use ground-based and space-based systems to
protect the United States from attack by strategic
nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on
strategic defense rather than the prior strategic
offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction
(MAD).The ambitious initiative was widely criticized
as being unrealistic, even unscientific, as well as for
threatening to destabilize MAD and re-ignite "an
offensive arms race" and hence was derided, largely
in the mainstream media, as X.

Round 2-India
•Written round.
•8 questions.
•+5 for each right answer
•+10 if all the answers are right.

1.
• X is a 1976 Hindi film made by Y, based on a
story written jointly by Z.X literally means deep
contemplation, churning of facts, analysis aimed
at solution or conclusion. It is set amidst the
backdrop of the Operation Flood. To give you a
little more-- It was the 1st film in the world to be
produced not by a single production house. Over
five lakh farmers, contributed 2 each and thus
became the film's producers. Upon its release,
truckloads of farmers came to see "their" film,
making it a success at the box office.

2.
• The idea behind starting X came to Y from a quiz
contest aired on Doordarshan in February
1967,in which participants could easily answer
questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but
not Indian mythology. However, Outlook
Magazine has this article about the genesis of X
:The idea and proposal for X was made by a
Bangalore book salesman called G.K. Ananthram
which led to the first X being produced in 1965—
in Kannada, not English. Y is also the creator of
the famous Rang Rekha features. Name X and Y.

3. Id X
Pran Kumar Sharma (born August 15, 1938),
better known as Pran, is an Indian cartoonist best
known as the creator of X. Born in Kasur, now in
Pakistan, Pran graduated with a Master of Arts
(Political Science) degree. Pran has been given the
title of "Walt Disney of India" in The World
Encyclopedia of Comics. The X strips find
permanent place in International Museum of
Cartoon Art, USA. In 1969, Pran sketched X for the
Hindi magazine Lotpot, which made him famous.

4. Id X and Y.
• The Beating Retreat ceremony officially denotes the
end of Republic Day festivities. It is conducted on the
evening of 29 January, the third day after the
Republic Day. It is performed by the bands of the
three wings of the military, the Indian Army, Indian
Navy and Indian Air Force. It starts with the National
Salute, which is followed by the playing of the Indian
National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana. The ceremony
starts by the massed bands of the three services
marching in unison, playing popular marching tunes
like Colonel Bogey March, Sons of the Brave and
Qadam Qadam Badaye Ja.

• But a regular feature of this pageant is the last
tune played before the Retreat, when the
National Flag is lowered. It is the famous
Christian Hymn X written by Henry Francis Lyte
set to music by W. M. Monk and one of
Mahatma Gandhi's personal favorite hymns.
During the Retreat bands march back playing a
popular martial tune during the official march of
the Armed Forces, Y.

5.
In 1952, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was
concerned that Indian women were spending
precious foreign exchange money on beauty
products. He then initiated JRD Tata to launch an
Indian beauty product company.
• Which company?

6.
• IS (Indian Standards) provides
specifications for different products in
India.
• IS:1 (1968) is the specification of which
‘product’?

7. Id the list.
• C Rajagopalachari, CV Raman and Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan.
• Satyendra Nath Bose, Zakir Hussain, Balasaheb
Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, Nand Lal
Bose and V. K. Krishna Menon.

8.
• Purushottam Express is a daily train which runs
between Puri in Odisha and New Delhi. It is one
of the oldest train that connects Puri to New
Delhi. Recently it was in news for a very good
reason and first of its kind at least in India. What
was the reason?

•X- Manthan
•Y-Shyam Benegal
•Z- Varghese Kurien

X-Amar Chitra Katha
Y-Anant Pai

•X- Abide with me
•Y- Sare Jahan Se Acha

•The first recipients of the Bharat
Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan
in 1954 respectively.

It is the first train to have Braille
embedded AC coaches for visually
challenged passengers.

Round 3
•Infinite pounce.
•Counterclockwise.
•10 Questions.
•+10/-5 on the pounce.
•+10/-0 on the bounce.

1.
• The names "John Doe" for males, "Jane Doe" or
"Jane Roe" for females, or "Jonnie Doe" and
"Janie Doe" for children, or just "Doe" non-
gender-specifically are used as placeholder
names for a party whose true identity is
unknown or must be withheld in a legal action,
case, or discussion. The names are also used to
refer to a corpse or hospital patient whose
identity is unknown. The names Joe Bloggs or
John Smith are used in the UK . In India what
name is used as an alternative?

2. Connect.
• Apple
• National Geographic
• Toyota
• Pepsi
• iCloud
• BP

Companies whose logo is designed
based on the Golden ratio.

3.
When X was born it was foretold that he would die
young. To prevent his death, his mother Thetis
took X to the River Styx, which was supposed to
offer powers of invulnerability, and dipped his
body into the water. X grew up to be a man of war
who survived many great battles. The death of X
was not mentioned in Homer's Iliad, but appeared
in later Greek and Roman poetry and drama
concerning events after the Iliad, later in the
Trojan War. In the myths surrounding the war, X
was said to have died after being shot by Paris.

4. Id X and the manufacturing
company.
• If Neil Armstrong wanted to check the time before he
took the first human steps on the moon, his eyes would
have turned to an X. The U.S. National Aeronautics and
Space Administration chose the X after a barrage of tests,
including immersing the watch for hours in liquid heated
to 93 degrees Celsius then frozen to -18 degrees Celsius.
The X beat a number of competitors to be the first watch
on the moon, and in 1965 was declared NASA's official
watch for all manned space flights. The manufacturing
company of X is also the official timekeeper of the
American Army and Britain’s Royal Flying Corps and has
been associated with James Bond movies since 1995.

5.
• A group of Greek philosophers derive their name
from their founder Diogenes who is said to have
lived in a dog’s hut. The term/name means “the
dog-like ones”. For them, the purpose of life was
to live in virtue, in agreement with nature. As
reasoning creatures, people could gain
happiness by rigorous training and by living in a
way which was natural for humans, rejecting all
conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and
fame. Instead, they were to lead a simple life
free from all possessions. What is the
term/name?

6.
• It was the spirit of competition and advancement
that brought the original TT competition to the X as
racing on the highways and byways of Y was
impossible, forbidden by Act of Parliament and by
the introduction in 1903 of a 20mph speed limit. The
Secretary of the Automobile Club of Y, Sir Julian
Orde, set off in February 1904 for the X because he
had a fairly shrewd idea that the Manx authorities
would adopt a more conciliatory attitude
automobile racing on public roads. And he was right.
What prestigious competition I am talking about
which is more famous for its crashes?

International Isle of Man TT
(Tourist Trophy) Race

7.
A Rosewater dish is a ceremonial platter used after
eating to catch rosewater poured from warm or cold
ewers over the hands to wash them, a daily ceremony
in England. Later, such dishes were used for display
only. This particular one includes an image of the
goddess Venus. A salver (Latin salva, save from risk)
was originally used by food tasters who tested food
for poison. A rosewater dish was considered a salver
by extension. These dishes were made of pewter,
silver, or gold. It is an 18 3/4 inch diameter, partially
gilded, sterling silver salver made in 1864 by Elkington
& Co. of Birmingham, and is a copy of an electrotype
by Caspar Enderlein from a pewter original in the
Louvre. What am I talking about?

LadiesWimbledonChampionshipTrophy.

8.
• Clepsydra in Greek means to steal water. It is a
timepiece in which time is measured by the
regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out
from (outflow type) a vessel where the amount
is then measured. Water clocks, along with
sundials, are likely to be the oldest time-
measuring instruments. This device has given
rise to a famous phrase. Which phrase?

9.
Due to the wartime needs of copper for
ammunition and the Manhattan Project, X
was made in zinc coated steel to reduce the
dependence on copper. This however
resulted in problems of rusting as the
galvanisation process wasn’t efficient. After
a public outcry X was made from salvaged
shell casings. What is X?

10. Picture on next slide.
• This parody video game portrays a ___________
floating on a log down the river. The ________
presents with bangs, a lance, and a purple
sweater. It knocks “photo-hogs” that are
attempting to take its photograph into the river
with his lance. The ________ also signs “otter-
graphs”. The ______ also must dodge the
‘whirlpool of success’ which will lead him out of
control, while navigating the river. Name the
video game. Who was it named after?

Round 4-Amul ads.
•Written round.
•8 Questions.
•+5 for each right answer.

The ‘God Particle’ discovery

Tribute to 160 years of
telegram service.

Eastwood’scommentonObamabeingthe greatest
hoaxeverperpetratedontheAmericanpeople.

•The ‘cattle class’ controversy
that gave way to many jokes
and gags in 2009.

When Indian government
goofed up on the "most
wanted" terrorists list in 2011.

•It was all about women power
in 2003 when Sheila Dikshit,
Vasundhara Raje Scindia and
Uma Bharati became Chief
Ministers in Delhi, Rajasthan
and Madhya Pradesh
respectively.

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